Making the Cut

From Zap2it.com:

What's Been Renewed/Canceled/In Limbo


NBC
Renewed: "The Blacklist," "Celebrity Apprentice," "Chicago Fire," "Chicago PD," "Grimm," "Parks and Recreation," "The Voice," "Law & Order: SVU"

Canceled/ended: "The Michael J. Fox Show," "Sean Saves the World"

In limbo: "About a Boy,"  "The Biggest Loser," "Community,"  "Hannibal," "Parenthood," "Revolution"




FOX
Renewed: "Bones," "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," "Family Guy," "The Following," "Glee," "Hell's Kitchen," "The Mindy Project," "New Girl," "The Simpsons," "Sleepy Hollow," "American Idol"

Canceled/ended: "American Dad" (moving to TBS), "Raising Hope," "The X Factor," "Almost Human," "Dads"

ABC
Renewed: "Castle," "The Goldbergs," "Grey's Anatomy," "Marvel's Agents of SHIELD," "The Middle," "Modern Family," "Once Upon a Time," "Resurrection," "Revenge," "Scandal"

Canceled/ended: "The Assets," "Killer Women," "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland," "Mixology"

In limbo: "The Bachelor," "Dancing With the Stars," "Nashville," "Suburgatory"



CBS
Renewed: "2 Broke Girls," "48 Hours," "60 Minutes," "The Amazing Race," "The Big Bang Theory," "Blue Bloods," "Criminal Minds," "CSI," "Elementary," "The Good Wife," "Hawaii Five-0," "Mike & Molly," "The Millers," "Mom," "NCIS," "NCIS: Los Angeles," "Person of Interest," "Survivor," "Two and a Half Men," "Undercover Boss"

Canceled/ended: "How I Met Your Mother"

In limbo: "Bad Teacher," "The Crazy Ones," "Friends With Better Lives," "Intelligence," "The Mentalist"


The CW
Renewed: "America's Next Top Model," "Arrow," "The Originals," "Reign," "Supernatural," "The Vampire Diaries," "The 100," "Beauty and the Beast," "Hart of Dixie"

Canceled/ended: "Nikita," "The Carrie Diaries," "Star-Crossed," "The Tomorrow People"

Draft

Football season is going to be so very, very hard, y'all.  I ache just seeing the freaking NEWS!

We've had the exact same season seats at the stadium for twenty years now.  My nephew wants to swap seats with Mom, picking up Dad's seat for his girlfriend so that Mom won't have to sit there without Dad.  But as it's only swapping up one row...  Even switching won't help.  (Mom is currently swearing she cannot possibly go, and I can understand not going at first.  But it's an extended family thing with everyone in the extended family there for the games and the idea of her staying in B'ham alone every game day is even worse.)

{And to explain the seat situation, it's a lot like that movie Fever Pitch.  You can't give up these seats because you'll never, ever get them again.  Ours are grandfathered in to an earlier era.  If you ever give them up, they'll sell for much higher price to a new person. And, yeah, I'm resentful that two years ago they nixed the ability to bequeath your seats to a relative.  Mom will have to continue buying those seats in her own name and letting Jonny pay her for them because the ownership cannot officially be swapped. Profit margins rule everywhere. *sigh* }

Every game the usher comes up to me and talks to me  for a while.  (It's the same usher every year)   He always comes over and asks where my parents are (because of my Dad's knees they always rode the elevator which ended up with their always being signficantly later than me to the seats and I'd have to wait so that the usher and I could help Dad to his seat.)  When the usher asks this year, I don't know how I won't burst into tears.

And last night was the beginning of the NFL draft.  Dad would've loved to have watched that.  (We always teased him about how much he rooted for AJ McCarron).  He would have been bubbling over today debating whether AJ will or won't go in the fourth round. And perhaps a bit of shadenfreude over this:

Johnny Manziel, the spectacular Texas A&M quarterback and 2012 Heisman Trophy winner, was drafted by the Cleveland Browns — but only after sliding to the No. 22 pick in the NFL Draft. Manziel, who quickly became a Texas folk hero nicknamed Johnny Football in his freshman year at Texas A&M in 2012, was regarded as the draft’s top quarterback prospect and considered one of the frontrunners for the Houston Texans No. 1 pick. But the Texans went with sure-thing defensive superstar Jadeveon Clowney of South Carolina instead...

Johnny Football is undeniably talented... but he still irks.    So :P

From Bama CJ Mosely and Haha Clinton-Dix (yeah, I wrote Haha) were drafted in the first round.

Propity Prop

As a Spuffy it feels really, really weird to have producers actually encourage a ship between a heroine and leather clad anti-hero rather than repeatedly stomping on your every positive vibe while simulateously insulting you for shipping it to begin with.

But, boy, are Once's producers promoting Captain Hook/Emma Swan at the moment.

From Season Finale promotion interviews:

Did you always intended to have Hook in love with Emma? Was that something you planned out or was it something that developed?

Eddy: Always.

Adam: Always. I mean, listen... You go into these things with the best intentions. That is to say we loved the idea that Hook and Emma would be kindred spirits and that is why we kind of wrote that in the beanstalk episode of season 2. But of course, you know, there's always the chance that there isn't any chemistry. We were very lucky that we feel that Hook and Emma have an enormous amount of chemistry so that kind of allowed us to stick to the plan that we wanted.

*****

Emma and Hook are going to end up in the past in the finale. Could they affect the future?
Edward Kitsis: Absolutely. The biggest threat they're going to face in these two hours is not ruining their past.
Adam Horowitz: They've got to figure out a lot of things, not the least of which is getting home, but also how to make sure there's a home to get home to.

*****

Is there a part of Emma that grapples with whether or not she could change things and end up being raised by her family?
Kitsis: At the beginning of the year in Neverland, we set up that Emma said to her mom Snow White, "I still feel like an orphan." Then we saw that her happiest time in life is a fake memory that Regina gave her, which was New York. She's trying to get back to that with her son, Henry. She's rejecting her other life. Emma is a character that's looking for home, but because she's never had one, she doesn't know what it is. These two hours are really going to answer that question, which is why it's titled "There's No Place Like Home."

*****

When you first envisioned the pilot, you guys considered killing off Prince Charming, but then feared you would rob Snow White of her happy ending. What does that mean for Emma when it comes to her happy ending?
Kitsis: What we said in Episode 11 this year, "Going Home," which was the winter finale, is that happy endings aren't always what we think they are. That is an important thing because at the end of the day, our show at its core is about hope. That is, in a lot of ways, what the theme of the season is, that happy endings aren't always what we think they are.
Horowitz: Happy endings aren't always about other people. They're not about whether you're going to wind up with this person or that person. Happy endings are about yourself. The show has been about Emma's journey over three seasons so far; about who she is, who she was and who she's going to become.