Jane Curtin has joined the cast of the freshman CBS drama “Unforgettable” as a series regular, the network announced Monday. Yes, it’s unusual for a series to announce a new “regular” cast member halfway into its first season. Often it’s seen as some kind of course correction for a struggling show. When CBS moved “The Good Wife” out of the Tuesday-at-10-p.m. time slot and replaced it with “Unforgettable” in September, the network hoped that the new crime drama would do a better job than “Good Wife” of hanging on to male fans who were watching the lead-ins, “NCIS” and “NCIS: Los Angeles.” These are guys who are apparently constitutionally incapable of watching a show with the word “Wife” in it — unless maybe it’s called “To Kill a Wife,” or “NCIS: Wife Victims Unit.” Read full article > >

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Jane Curtin joins cast of CBS’s ‘Unforgettable’

For reasons that everyone knows entirely too much about, television nearly lost “ Two and a Half Men ” last spring. One of the cast members had personal problems in a broadly public way, the eighth season was halted, and a merciful cancellation seemed possible for the highly rated CBS sitcom. When all is said and done (and former co-star Charlie Sheen is roasted and toasted and given whatever glories await him) — and now that Ashton Kutcher proved Monday night on the show’s ninth-season premiere that almost any sentient being could have easily joined the cast — the thing I’ll remember most about this saga is that no one besides the people who make money off syndication bounties ever seemed terribly distraught about losing “Two and a Half Men.” Read full article > >

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‘Two and a Half Men’ minus 1 Sheen, plus 1 Kutcher, with no net loss