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EXCLUSIVE: Audiences seem to have enjoyed 9-1-1 paying homage to The Poseidon Adventure. Bobby and Athena’s three-episode cruise ship disaster came to a dramatic conclusion during the March 28 episode which, after seven days of multi-platform viewing, became the series’ most-watched telecast in more…

EXCLUSIVE: 9-1-1 is getting a visit from Malcolm Jamal Warner. The actor is set to guest star in four upcoming episodes as Amir, a nurse in a hospital burn unit who is connected to Bobby's past. 9-1-1 is currently in its seventh season, the first to air on ABC after the series made the jump from…

9-1-1 has been renewed for an eighth season by ABC. The season seven premiere of 9-1-1 in March delivered a cumulative audience of 11.76 million total viewers within the first seven days, and marked the series' highest-rated multiplatform telecast in nearly two years in Adults 18-49. It paid homage…

Jennifer Love Hewitt is the person to thank for the 9-1-1 and The Bachelor crossover on ABC. The I Know What You Did Last Summer star is a fan of the dating reality series, and when the first-responder series got picked up by ABC after being canceled by Fox, she pitched a crossover to Tim Menear, the…

EXCLUSIVE: 9-1-1 is firing up the airwaves on its new home at ABC. The Season 7 premiere, which paid homage to the disaster thriller The Poseidon Adventure, has now amassed 8.85M viewers after three days of viewing across ABC, Hulu and other digital platforms. That’s nearly an 80% increase from…

ABC is creating synergy between their primetime shows, with 9-1-1 and The Bachelor coming together for a crossover episode. Oliver Stark, who plays Buck on 9-1-1, had recently teased that two shows on the network were about to cross paths. “It’s not a direct crossover, but there’s a feel of it,"…

UPDATE, 5:34 PM: Over two years after Rockmond Dunbar filed a lawsuit against 20th Television and Disney over his pink slipping from 9-1-1 out of his insistence on a religious exemption to Covid vaccine mandates on the show, a federal judge today has said the legal battle can go to trial. Kind of. "The Court…

EXCLUSIVE: Rick Cosnett is joining the upcoming seventh season of 9-1-1 in a key recurring role. In its first season on ABC after its cancellation by Fox, the new season is set on a cruise ship with harrowing experiences ahead. A recently released teaser trailer (you can watch it below) gives us a…

ABC today unveiled premiere dates for its mideason lineup, which features the return of the network’s scripted series post-strike. The announcement includes a slew of scheduling changes. They are led by The Good Doctor‘s move from its longtime Monday 10 PM slot to Tuesdays 10 PM. The popular medical…

ABC has revealed its midseason lineup, which kicks off Monday, January 22 with a two-hour premiere of The Bachelor, as Joey Graziadei begins his journey to find love. It will be followed by an as-yet untitled new eight-episode true-crime series of ABC News’ 20/20. Wednesday comedy night returns…

In one of the biggest twists of the 2023 upfront, Fox opted not to renew its highest rated scripted series, 9-1-1. As Deadline reported first, the drama, produced by 20th Television, was instead picked up for a seventh season by 20th TV sibling ABC. While the announcement came earlier this month…

Fox has renewed 9-1-1: Lone Star, starring Rob Lowe, for a fifth season. It will be the only 9-1-1 series on the network next season as flagship 9-1-1 is not being renewed. (It is moving to ABC.) A spinoff from 9-1-1, Lone Star is Fox’s second-highest-rated and most watched drama behind the…