Bradley Cooper will Recur on CBS’ Limitless

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Bradley Cooper will recur on CBS’ Limitless
Not only is Cooper is producing the remake of his 2011 film, but he’ll appear on the CBS schedule as much as his schedule permits, including the pilot.

CBS’ fall schedule pits Supergirl vs. Gotham on Mondays, sets 2-hour sendoff for CSI
William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger will be back for the CSI movie, while Ted Danson will jump over to CSI: Cyber. Supergirl won’t premiere until November and Person of Interest will return at an unspecified date.

Jason Alexander to play a psychotherapist in an Adult Swim comedy
The 15-minute weekly series will feature the Seinfeld alum as a an award-winning psychotherapist who snaps and becomes wacky, but nobody questions his new unconventional methods.

TNT orders The Alienist and a young William Shakespeare pilot; TBS orders Conan’s alien abductee comedy pilot
The Alienist is an eight-part psychological thriller from True Detective Season 1 director Cary Fukunaga set in NYC’s Gilded Age. Meanwhile, Conan O’Brien is teaming with his old pal Greg Daniels (of The Office) for The Group, about alien abductees.

Amy Schumer mocks female objectification on late-night talk show interviews
Watch Bill Hader on Inside Amy Schumer interview “Amy Lake Blively.”

Stephen Colbert has been meeting with advertisers about potential Late Show tie-ins
“He was very forthcoming in approaching advertisers,” said CBS Entertainment chair Nina Tassler, adding that he’ll be “advertiser funny” on The Late Show.

Watch David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson sing together
Anderson joined her fellow X-Files star on stage at Duchovny’s concert yesterday.

What happened to Simmons on Agents of SHIELD?
Elizabeth Henstridge says of her twist: “I think I’m somewhere.” PLUS: SHIELD ends on a low.

The Strain inspires an online University of California course
The three-week course Fight or Die: The Science Behind FX’s The Strain will be offered by UC Irvine.

Adam Ruins Everything is coming to truTV
The hit CollegeHumor web series is getting a TV remake. TruTV has also ordered navigation-themed The Driver’s Seat.

James Corden and Susan Sarandon created alternate endings for Thelma & Louise
Watch The Late Late Show host impersonate Geena Davis’ Thelma.