Broadcast TV Online saw the decade-long reign of drama series come to an end this year - Entertainment - Television

Broadcast TV online saw the decade-long reign of drama series come to an end this year, while comedy's comeback, foreshadowed by blockbuster hit Modern Family 2 year ago, was in full force. Six new comedy series, Fox's New Girl, ABC's Suburgatory and Last Man Standing, CBS' 2 Broke Girls and NBC's Whitney and Up All Night, received full-season pickups, double the orders last year. On the drama side, only four new series, ABC's Once Upon A Time and Revenge, CBS' Person Of Interest and NBC's Grimm, received full-season orders. CBS' freshman dramas Unforgettable and A Gifted Man got partial back orders, and ABC's Pan Am was given one extra episode. While they're mostly struggling on broadcast and watch live TV online, dramas are thriving on cable, with several strong ones, including HBO's Game Of Thrones, Showtime's Homeland, FX's American Horror Story, AMC's The Killing and USA's Suits, making their debuts this year.

The wave of new comedies brought to an end the domination of male comedy showrunners. Of the 6 new half-hour shows given back-nine orders 5 were co-created or created by women, New Girl (Liz Meriwether), 2 Broke Girls (Whitley Cummings), Suburgatory (Emily Kapnek), Up All Night (Emily Spivey) and Whitney (Cummings). Additionally, Fox's freshman I Hate My Teenage Daughter, which is still awaiting word on its fate, was also created by women, writing team Sherry Bilsing and Ellen Kreamer, as are midseason comedies Are Your There, Chelsea? (Dottie Zicklin, Julie Ann Larson).. For comparison, of the 15 returning broadcast comedy series, only 2 were created by female writers, 30 Rock (Tina Fey) and The Middle (Eileen Heisler, DeAnn Heline).

Two And A Half Men was one of an unusually large number of series that changed leads this year. The Office's Steve Carell, Law & Order's Chris Meloni and CSI's Laurence Fishburne all left, with CSI's Marg Helgenberger also about to depart. Ryan Murphy took cast changes to a whole new level by killing off all leads of his freshman FX series American Horror Story to start from scratch in Season 2.

It was a relatively calm year in the TV networks' executive suites unless the network was OWN. Rocked by a shaky start, Oprah Winfrey's fledgling cable outlet dismissed CEO Christina Norman. Winfrey then named herself CEO, while Peter Liguori, who had overseen OWN, including serving as interim CEO, departed the network's parent company Discovery Communications this month. Elsewhere, the CW transitioned from entertainment president Dawn Ostroff to president Mark Pedowitz. Along with Pedowitz, ABC's Paul Lee and NBC's Bob Greenblatt, in their first year on the job, assembled their executive teams, with the most notable hire being Jennifer Salke's appointment as NBC Entertainment president. In another fallout from the NBC Universal-Comcast merger, Suzanne Kolb was named president of E!, succeeding Ted Harbert, who had moved up. Loaded with funds, Greenblatt and Lee were very aggressive in their first full development seasons, driving up prices in what was one of the most competitive buying seasons ever, full of production and put pilot commitments. In just a week, we will start finding out how many of them will pan out.

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