The following news is hitting all of the online entertainment news sources this afternoon with the below coming from Michael Ausiello at Entertainment Weekly:
NBC is already tinkering with its fall schedule, bumping the comedy Love Bites to midseason and replacing it in the Thursday at 10 PM timeslot with a regular, non-celebrity edition of The Apprentice.
How come?
Love Bites has been dealt two big setbacks — one happy, the other not so much: Leading lady Becki Newton is pregnant with her first child and showrunner Cindy Chupack has stepped down for personal reasons.
“Launching an anthology series, which breaks the form in so many ways, is a huge undertaking, and I strongly feel that I can be most helpful not showrunning, but writing,” said Chupack in a statement. “It just became clear that for several reasons, some of them personal, this change (and a little more time) is what we need to launch this show properly.”
Additionally, the Peacock is now confirming that Jordana Spiro is out due to her ongoing commitment to the TBS series My Boys. There are no plans at present to recast her role of Frannie.
NBC’s scheduling guru Mitch Metcalf says the decision to hand the plum Thursday at 10 pm slot to The Apprentice was “the simplest option,” adding that the show “was well along into production and will be able to join the [fall lineup] without missing a beat.”
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