1) The Neighbors took number 1 in the box office this weekend beating out The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in it's second week. The Neighbors premiered at $51.1 million, which is the fourth largest opening for an R-Rated Comedy ever, trailing The Hangover Part II ($85.9 million), Sex and the City ($57 million), and Ted ($54.4 million). Here's the rest of the Box Office Top 10 estimates from www.boxofficemojo.com.
| 1 | N | Neighbors | Uni. | $51,070,000 | - | 3,279 | - | $15,575 | $51,070,000 | $18 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Sony | $37,200,000 | -59.4% | 4,324 | - | $8,603 | $147,900,000 | - | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | The Other Woman (2014) | Fox | $9,250,000 | -35.8% | 3,306 | +68 | $2,798 | $61,730,000 | $40 | 3 |
| 4 | 3 | Heaven is for Real | TriS | $7,000,000 | -18.6% | 3,048 | +118 | $2,297 | $75,220,000 | $12 | 4 |
| 5 | 4 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | BV | $5,619,000 | -27.7% | 2,701 | -478 | $2,080 | $244,997,000 | $170 | 6 |
| 6 | 5 | Rio 2 | Fox | $5,125,000 | -33.5% | 2,973 | -341 | $1,724 | $113,165,000 | $103 | 5 |
| 7 | N | Moms' Night Out | TriS | $4,200,000 | - | 1,044 | - | $4,023 | $4,200,000 | $5 | 1 |
| 8 | N | Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return | CE | $3,705,000 | - | 2,575 | - | $1,439 | $3,705,000 | - | 1 |
| 9 | 7 | Divergent | LG/S | $1,700,000 | -22.1% | 1,233 | -406 | $1,379 | $145,024,000 | $85 | 8 |
| 10 | 6 | Brick Mansions | Rela. | $1,480,000 | -59.9% | 1,954 | -693 | $757 | $18,328,000 | $28 | 3 |
2) The TBS sitcom Men At Work completed it's third and now final season this March as it was announced today that this show will not be renewed by the network. This show starred Danny Masterson but most importantly to the AB Conversation, Adam Busch who most famously played Warren on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
3) Adult Swim has announced some really cool new series including a live action show starring Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and 30 Rock's Jack Macbrayer as former cast members of a Lassie like series and their lives 15 years after the show has been cancelled. Also announced is Mike Tyson Mysteries, which is an animated series where Mike Tyson, a ghost, his adopted Korean daughter, and a pigeon who was once a man solve, you guessed it, mysteries.
4) Comedy Central announced that Senior Black Correspondent for The Daily Show, Larry Wilmore, will be taking Stephen Colbert's spot in January 2015 with his show, The Minority Report with Larry Wilmore.
5) NBC was the first of the 5 major networks to announce their 2014-2015 TV plans and most importantly their fall schedule. Noticeably absent from the fall schedule is Parks and Recreation which will return mid-season for it's final season. It was also announced that a show that has always been on the bubble Parenthood will return for 13 episodes in it's sixth and last season. The Blacklist which has been NBC's surprise breakout will return in fall but then move to a Thursday nights in February. The Blacklist will also get NBC's post Super Bowl timeslot.
NBC will premiere 6 shows in the fall (in bold below), A to Z, Bad Judge, Constantine, Marry Me, The Mysteries of Laura, and State of Affairs. Trailers for these shows can be seen here.
Here is the line-up for the peacock network with times listed for Central Time Zone:
Monday
7:00: The Voice
9:00: The Blacklist/State of Affairs (Beginning Nov. 17)
Tuesday
7:00: The Voice
8:00: Marry Me
8:30: About a Boy
9:00: Chicago Fire
Wednesday
7:00: The Mysteries of Laura
8:00: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
9:00: Chicago P.D.
Thursday
7:00: The Biggest Loser
8:00: Bad Judge/The Blacklist takes over the timeslot beginning Feb. 5
8:30: A to Z
10 p.m.: Parenthood
Friday
7:00: Dateline NBC
8:00: Grimm
9:00: Constantine
Joining Parks and Recreation at midseason are a bunch of new comedies including Tina Fey and Robert Carlock's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (starring The Office's Ellie Kemper), the Ellen DeGeneres-produced One Big Happy, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's production Mission Control (starring Don't Trust the B's Krysten Ritter), and The Office's Craig Robinson's sitcom Mr. Robinson.
Also unplanned shows premiering sometime in the year are The Bible miniseries sequal A.D., NBC's answer to shows like Homeland and The Americans, Allegiance, Charlie Manson based show starring David Duchovny as a cop trying to hunt him down, Aquarius, a Once Upon a Time-esque take on Wizard of Oz called Emerald City, a conspiracy theory drama Odyssey, and the 13-episode Heroes reboot, Heroes Reborn.
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