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The power may be out on Revolution, but NBC hasn't turned the show's lights off just yet! Ryan King's wife may be dead on Go On, but his show is still kickin'! And The New Normal may feature one of television's worst new characters and exist mainly as a vessel for creator Ryan Murphy's personal views, but... it got picked up for a full season!

NBC, the network that started its 2012-2013 TV season early by premiering some of its new shows in August, made the first decisions regarding the fates of its freshman today by handing out full-season orders to three fast-starters: Revolution, Go On, and The New Normal. That means all three series will add nine episodes to their original 13-episode orders for a total of 22 episodes each.

Revolution, despite some pretty crummy reviews from yours truly, is a ratings hit in its timeslot behind The Voice, averaging a 3.6 rating in the adult demo and 9.8 million viewers. Go On is almost as beefy, with a 3.2 rating average and 8.6 million viewers per week. More confusing is the pickup of The New Normal, which is pulling in an average rating of 2.2 and 6 million viewers. Those aren't horrible numbers, but are they early pickup numbers? Nope. Look, I don't want to spread rumors, but I'm going to: That's the power of Ryan Murphy, who NBC probably doesn't want to upset in the name of keeping its options open for the future.

I'm guessing Revolution will start to fall dramatically in the ratings pretty quickly as the internet chatter has turned to groans, but the early numbers are no surprise for a mysterious genre show. Go On has exceeded my expectations in both ratings and quality, so I'm all for that. But The New Normal? What I've seen needs a lot of work.

Let's hear your thoughts on these pickups! What do you like? What do you hate?

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YOUR NEXT FAVORITE NEW SHOW NEWS

... FX has ordered 13 episodes of The Bridge, a great-looking new series from Homeland writer Meredith Stiehm. The drama stars Diane Kruger and Demian Bichir as detectives on opposite sides of the U.S.-Mexico border who work together to stop a serial killer. The order means that Stiehm is leaving the Homeland writers room, where she penned the excellent episodes "The Weekend," "The Vest," and "The Choice," among others. Look for The Bridge to debut in July. [FX via press release]

BUSINESS TIME

... The BBC has canceled its critically acclaimed drama The Hour after two seasons. The Emmy-nominated show starred Ben Whishaw, Romala Garai, and Dominic West (McNulty!) as members of a news team in 1950s England and aired in the U.S. on BBC America. [Deadline Hollywood]

... After a solid start, Fox's The Following is starting to lose some of its audience. Last night's episode suffered the biggest drop the series has seen yet, with 17 percent of last week's audience opting to watch something else and leaving 7.7 million viewers and a 2.4 rating. Those are still solid numbers, however, and The Following is performing well once DVR numbers are factored in. No panic-button pressing yet! [EW]

... There's something about FX's The Americans that causes viewers to take their sweet time watching it. The second episode of the season, which saw a dramatic, 39 percent decrease in viewers compared to the pilot, rebounded in a big way when DVR numbers were factored in. The Episode 2 audience increased 58 percent with delayed viewing, according to FX, adding 1.15 million viewers for a total of 3.11 million viewers. Phew. [FX via press release]

CASTING NEWS

... Last Resort's Andre Braugher has a new job. He'll star alongside Andy Samberg in Fox's untitled comedy pilot about a motley crew of New York detectives. Braugher and his commanding presence will obviously play the captain of the precinct. More Braugher on television is always a good thing. [Deadline Hollywood]

... Arrow's Felicity has been given a raise. Emily Bett Rickards, who plays the computer geek, will be a series regular when the show returns for Season 2. [E! Online]

... Billy Campbell (The Killing) has joined Fox's pilot Delirium, a dystopian future drama set in a world where love is outlawed and a procedure can make it disappear. Yeah, it's called marriage! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha okay I'm going home now. [TV Line]

... Breaking Bad's Badger, real name Matt Jones, has joined CBS's comedy pilot Mom. The multi-camera comedy stars Anna Faris as a single mom kicking an alcohol dependency in Napa Valley. Badger will play her ex-husband. [TV Line]

SAD NEWS

... Storage Wars participant Mark Balelo committed suicide today following a drug arrest on Saturday. Balelo, who appeared in a few episodes of the A & E show as an auction house owner, was found dead in his car. The apparent cause was carbon-monoxide poisoning. [TMZ]

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FOX WANTS MORE OF ITS OTHER NEW GIRL NEWS

... The back-nine order Fox awarded to The Mindy Project earlier this month apparently wasn't enough. Fox is asking for an additional two episodes of the Mindy Kaling comedy to bring its first-season order up to 24 episodes. Now if only Fox would actually air an episode of The Mindy Project; the show has been preempted due to presidential debates, might miss time due to baseball, and will also make way for some silly election coverage in the first week of November. [Deadline Hollywood]

GOOD SIGNS FOR THREE NEW SHOWS NEWS

... ABC has ordered a pair of scripts for both Last Resort and 666 Park Avenue, two bubble shows that are fighting for full-season pickups. This is far from a guarantee that the shows will survive, but it at least means ABC is considering keeping them. I mean, hey, ABC didn't ask for more scripts of The Neighbors, right? Oh wait... [Deadline Hollywood]

... Fox sent out its November schedule today, and normally this wouldn't be news, but The Mob Doctor is on it. We all figured the freshman drama—which has been getting killed in the ratings—would be canceled by now, and that Fox maybe wouldn't make an announcement because it was hoping we'd all forget The Mob Doctor existed while the World Series took over its schedule. But nope, it's still coming back on November 5 as planned. [Fox via press release]

IN DEVELOPMENT

... Craig Robinson (The Office, that time-traveling hot-tub movie) has signed on to star in a potential comedy from The Office's executive producer Greg Daniels. The untitled project centers on a musician who takes over the music department at a middle school. [Deadline Hollywood]

... Memphis Beat creators Liz Garcia and Josh Harto have sold a supernatural drama idea to CBS. The Big Easy follows a trumpet player who also happens to investigate paranormal mysteries in New Orleans. [Deadline Hollywood]

... Rules of Engagement creator Tom Hertz has another comedy cooking at CBS. And it sounds just as awesome as Rules of Engagement! The new project is a multi-camera (duh) comedy about a young couple that moves in together and next thing you know she's all like, "Why is the toilet seat up?" and he's all like, "Yo I just want to watch football and drink my beer!" [Deadline Hollywood]

SCHEDULE-STRAIGHTENING NEWS

... Next Tuesday will be a bit of a mess on Fox as the network tries to clean things up after this week's baseball rain delays. An hour-long The X Factor will start at 9:30pm and air the portion of this week's episode that was lopped off due to baseball overrun. That means The Mindy Project will miss another week! [TV Guide]

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DONE DEALS AND DEVELOPMENT

... TNT has finally given the green light to L.A. Noir, the period drama that was announced like 67 years ago or maybe 18 months ago. It's the project Frank Darabont created after he was kicked off of The Walking Dead and it centers on the world of cops and crimes in 1940s and 1950s Los Angeles. However, TNT has ordered six episodes to start. That could have something to do with Darabont's notorious attention to detail, which is a euphemism for TOTAL CONTROL. Anyway, the drama stars The Walking Dead's Jon Bernthal and Jeffrey DeMunn, as well as Milo Ventimiglia, Neal McDonough, and Simon Pegg. [TNT via press release]

... TNT has also put an adaptation of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein book series into development. This twist on the classic centers on a new version of Doctor Frankenstein, Victor Helios, living in New Orleans 200 years after he thought he killed his beast creation (Victor is staying alive with some tricky science), but the monster is alive and well and living in New Orleans too. So they both get an apartment together and hilarity ensues! Oh wait, that's not right. They battle each other to the death. Was the original Frankenstein story that boring, Mr. Koontz? [Deadline Hollywood]

... CBS has ordered a show called Bake Off to series. It's based on the British series The Great British Bake Off. It's a reality competition program featuring contestants seeing how high they can get I WISH!!!! It's a reality competition featuring Americans baking things. Apparently it's a huge hit in England, but then again, so are baked beans for breakfast. [CBS via press release]

... ABC is adapting the Dutch series Vuurzee under the name of Sea of Fire. The would-be series would follow murders, kidnappings, and teen porn movies that tear apart a small town. Apparently the series drew comparisons to Twin Peaks, which these days means it would probably be a better fit for cable. [Deadline Hollywood]

RATINGS RATINGS RATINGS

... More debatings for the ratings! President Barack Obama and Businessman Mitt Romney got on stage and pointed fingers at each other again last night, and 65.6 million people watched. That's a couple million below the last presidential debate, so maybe they'll get renewed for another debate! NBC beat all other networks with 13.8 million total viewers. [EW]

... Maybe those two million fewer people were watching Emily Owens M.D.? The CW's new medical drama debuted last night against the debates and drew 1.7 million viewers for a 0.5 adult demo rating. That's not that great. [EW]

DIDN'T FIT ANYWHERE ELSE NEWS

... There will be a bit of a crossover episode between Happy Endings and Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 on October 30. DTTBIA23 will host, when June makes a video—think fan-made YouTube tribute video—of Chloe in a fake relationship with one of the Happy Endings guys. But which one? [TV Guide]

CASTING NEWS

... Dylan McDermott is joining the rest of his old buddies and guesting on American Horror Story: Asylum. McDermott famously and furiously masturbated in the first season as the cheating husband of the haunted house. He joins fellow returnees Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, and Zachary Quinto in Season 2. [EW]

... Terriers' Donal Logue will guest-star on Sons of Anarchy as a U.S. Marshal. Look for him in the final three episodes of Season 5. [EW]

LOVE IS AN ILLUSION NEWS

... Emily Maynard and Jef Holm, the "winners" of last season's The Bachelorette, have called off their engagement, which means there are two more lunatics out there in the dating pool SO LOOK OUT! [EW]

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In what universe does a show that scored a 1.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic and just over 3 million viewers in its second episode get a full-season pickup? The wacky, crazy universe that we call this one, apparently! Fox is apparently putting numbers aside, as it has ordered full seasons of its new comedies Ben and Kate and The Mindy Project, just two episodes into both of their infancies.

The Mindy Project gets a full back-nine order, bringing its Season 1 episode count to the standard 22 episodes. But Ben and Kate will be a little shorter, with just six more episodes added to its count.

The new shows have been boosted by Fox's live-action Tuesday comedy block, where they're paired with Raising Hope and New Girl. Last season, New Girl was the beneficiary of a quick full-season pickup after two episodes, but it filled out the stat sheet nicely as an instant megahit to the tune of a 4.4 rating in the adult demo and 9.26 million viewers. The same can't be said about Ben and Kate and The Mindy Project, which tallied 3.32 million viewers with a 1.6 rating and 3.68 million viewers with a 1.9 rating, respectively, in their second episodes. Do ratings even matter anymore? In case you're wondering, last week's New Girl, the third episode of the show's second season, drew 4.99 million viewers and a 2.8 rating.

With few series waiting in the wings as possible replacements, it looks like Fox is going to ride this one out instead of taking drastic measures. The Mindy Project and Ben and Kate join NBC's Revolution, Go On, and The New Normal as the only new series picked up for full seasons so far.

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There was good news all around at ABC Family today unless your name is Jane By Design. The teen version of ABC renewed Melissa & Joey, Baby Daddy, and Switched at Birth for new seasons, and ordered more episodes of its new charmer Bunheads. As for Jane By Design? More like Jane Bye Bye. It's been canceled, says TV Line.

Melissa & Joey, starring Melissa and Joey, will be back for Season 3 in the spring, Baby Daddy's second season will also premiere in the spring, and Switched at Birth will enter its sophomore season this winter. Bunheads, the fast-talking freshman drama from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, will extend its first-season run with more episodes starting this winter. I think. The press release was a little confusing.

Jane By Design was given a chance to improve on its initial ratings with an order of additional episodes for its first season, but the show didn't deliver. The series ended its season with a disappointing audience of 1.18 million viewers.

Yes, we live in a world where Babby Daddy gets renewed. But hey, more Bunheads! Yay!

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