TNT has ordered a fourth season of Franklin & Bash, the popular buddy drama starring Breckin Meyer (Heroes) and Mark-Paul Gosselaar (NYPD Blue). Produced by Four Sycamore Productions, Left Coast Productions and FanFare Productions in association with Sony Pictures Television, Franklin & Bash also stars Malcolm McDowell (Entourage) and Reed Diamond (24). TNT has ordered 10 episodes for season four, which is slated to air in summer 2014.
Franklin & Bash centers on Jared Franklin (Meyer) and Peter Bash (Gosselaar), two young, fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants street lawyers who caused a seismic culture clash when they joined Infeld-Daniels, a legendary, button-down law firm. The patriarch of the firm – the brilliant and eccentrically spontaneous Renaissance man Stanton Infeld (McDowell) – hired them because he admires how Jared sticks it to authority every chance he gets and how Peter is able to forge a personal connect with both judge and jury.
Since hanging their shingle at Infeld-Daniels, Peter and Jared have repeatedly butted heads with fellow lawyers, especially Damien Karp (Diamond), who disapproves of their casual style and law-skirting methods. Karp also happens to be Stanton Infeld’s nephew.
Franklin & Bash is executive-produced by Jamie Tarses (Happy Endings, My Boys), Kevin Falls (The West Wing, Sports Night) and Bill Chais (Shark, Dirty Sexy Money). The show launched on TNT in 2011 and went on to rank as one of basic cable’s Top 5 new series that summer. The third season, which aired this past summer, averaged 3.4 million viewers, with 1.5 million adults 25-54. In January, Franklin & Bash earned a GLAAD Media Award nomination for its second-season episode “L’affaire Du Coeur,” in which Karp represents a college buddy accused of cheating in a gay softball tournament.
Source: TNT
Franklin & Bash centers on Jared Franklin (Meyer) and Peter Bash (Gosselaar), two young, fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants street lawyers who caused a seismic culture clash when they joined Infeld-Daniels, a legendary, button-down law firm. The patriarch of the firm – the brilliant and eccentrically spontaneous Renaissance man Stanton Infeld (McDowell) – hired them because he admires how Jared sticks it to authority every chance he gets and how Peter is able to forge a personal connect with both judge and jury.
Since hanging their shingle at Infeld-Daniels, Peter and Jared have repeatedly butted heads with fellow lawyers, especially Damien Karp (Diamond), who disapproves of their casual style and law-skirting methods. Karp also happens to be Stanton Infeld’s nephew.
Franklin & Bash is executive-produced by Jamie Tarses (Happy Endings, My Boys), Kevin Falls (The West Wing, Sports Night) and Bill Chais (Shark, Dirty Sexy Money). The show launched on TNT in 2011 and went on to rank as one of basic cable’s Top 5 new series that summer. The third season, which aired this past summer, averaged 3.4 million viewers, with 1.5 million adults 25-54. In January, Franklin & Bash earned a GLAAD Media Award nomination for its second-season episode “L’affaire Du Coeur,” in which Karp represents a college buddy accused of cheating in a gay softball tournament.
Source: TNT
Holy shit. I love the show, but I was absolutely convinced TNT was going to cancel it. Yay!
ReplyDeleteGreat news , hilarious show
ReplyDeleteYAY!!!!!
ReplyDeleteReally quite surprised. I wouldn't say it's a great show, but I always enjoy watching it. Glad to hear it will be back.
ReplyDeleteWOW
ReplyDeletekinda relieved here, they left us hanging for a while there.
Glad it's renewed, one of the few TNT series that I actually like ^^
TNT suits must have been back and forth on this one. I'm guessing budget and maybe some cast salaries were cut a tiny bit.
ReplyDeleteThey already cut down on the cast this past season to make room for Heather Locklear's paycheck... If they need to cut some things this year, I know where I'd like them to start...
ReplyDeleteWOW! I thought that in no way it would get renewed but I am really happy with this! Now I have Falling Skies and Franklin & Bash on TNT + The Last Ship debuts next year :) Franklin & Bash has always good finales but I'd hope they would have (ever) been stable enough to do a cliffhanger finale... Oh well funny and clever show. though :)
ReplyDeleteyeah, her character brought nothing new or amusing to the table. The joke of the show used to be that while everybody expected a hard ass boss we got Stanton who was the exact difference. A funny, relaxed, flaky but still highly competent boss that supported our main characters.
ReplyDeleteLocklears character was only there to lash out over F&B and.....and....did she have another purpose ?
I could easily watch this show without her. Jared, Peter, Damien, Stanton, Carmen and Pindy are awesome