Backstrom Cancelled at Fox
By Kimberly Roots /
It’s a sad day at the Jeffersonian on Thursday’s Bones (Fox, 8/7c) when the team remembers it’s the late Sweets’ B-day — and a pretty significant one on top of that. READ MORE & WATCH VIDEO
On Thursday’s Backstrom (Fox, 9/8c), Kris Polaha’s Niedermayer acts out the brutal crime no one saw coming — not even the dead psychic! READ MORE & WATCH VIDEO
Backstrom‘s titular police lieutenant had a rough childhood, apparently, as disclosed in this sneak peek from this week’s episode of Fox’s freshman drama (Thursday, 9/8c). READ MORE
Fox’s Backstrom premiered on Thursday night to 8 million total viewers and a 2.0 demo rating, up 14 and 18 percent from Rake‘s year-ago debut out of American Idol.
TVLine readers gave the freshman procedural READ MORE
“I don’t see the worst in everyone. I see the everyone in everyone.”
For Detective Lt. Everett Backstrom, that’s all the justification he needs to act the way he does — that is, crass, blunt and totally rude. READ MORE & GRADE THE PREMIERE
Fox’s newest antihero Backstrom may sound familiar — caustic, sardonic, talented at his job — but he isn’t a House clone, Rainn Wilson asserts.
Bones creator Hart Hanson’s new series (premiering Thursday at 9/8c) READ MORE
Detective Lieutenant Everett Backstrom is good at catching bad guys because of how he puts himself inside their head, as explained in the promo below for Fox’s upcoming crime drama. READ MORE & WATCH PROMO
It’s beginning to look a lot like… New Year’s?
Ready or not, Fox is the latest network to turn its eye to 2015 — with the announcement of premiere dates for Backstrom, The Following, Weird Loners and more, plus the spring return of Bones. READ MORE
Bradley Whitford doesn’t just have a new job — he’s the new boss. READ MORE