HBO Cancels ‘The Brink’ after Renewing it for a 2nd Season

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HBO cancels The Brink after renewing it for a 2nd season

The Tim Robbins-Jack Black comedy won’t return for a second season after all, HBO says, citing its busy schedule. HBO renewed the bubble series for Season 2 back in July two weeks after its executive producer, Jerry Weintraub, died at 77. It was Weintraub who got the show made.

Adam Levine blames record label mismanagement for The Voice’s failure to create a singing star

Levine tells Howard Stern (his former NBC reality TV judging colleague): “When the baton is passed post-Voice, there’s some problems. People take over after we do this great job of building these people up on the show. There’s some real issues there.”


Nat Geo’s Brain Surgery Live was a ratings disappointment

About 445,000 people watched a Parkinson’s Disease sufferer successfully undergo brain surgery on Sunday night.


Ryan Murphy would be willing to reboot Nip/Tuck with female leads

“I loved the weird cases-of-the-week that were 99.9 percent of the time based on a real stuff. I love that. I miss that,” says Murphy of his FX series that ran for six seasons from 2003 to 2010.