Jeffrey Dean Morgan

The nominees for the 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards were announced today, and with no surprise, HBO took the top spot raking in 22 nominations while ABC and Netflix tied for second with 14 nods. With critically acclaimed shows like The Americans, the new Donald Glover comedy Atlanta, and the uber-successful The People Vs. OJ Simpson FX ranked fourth.

When FBI Special Agent Joe Merriwether is unable to solve a series of homicides, he decides to enlist the help of his former colleague Dr. John Clancy, a retired physician with psychic powers.

Go behind the scenes of The Walking Dead with the show’s producers as they recap Season 6 and its stunning finale – which featured the arrival of the villainous Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Season 7 of the hit AMC series returns on October 23.

Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes leads a group of survivors in a world overrun by the walking dead. Fighting the dead, fearing the living.

Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes leads a group of survivors in a world overrun by the walking dead. Fighting the dead, fearing the living.

Jefferey Dean Morgan, who plays the sinister Negan on the AMC zombie drama, has been upped to series regular for season seven along with Tom Payne, Xander Berkeley, and Austin Amelio.

Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs.

Jeffery Dean Morgan has been cast as the infamous villain Negan on AMC’s The Walking Dead. Morgan is expected to arrive in the sixth season finale, with his character’s role expanding in season seven.

Story follows a retired doctor called in to help the police catch a serial killer with his psychic powers, but he soon discovers that the serial killer has psychic powers as well.

A roundup of the week’s TV casting news!

Logline: Set in Miami in 1962, centers on the most powerful Miami Beach hotel owner who fights to save his family and survive the seedy underground of Magic City.

Dave Bautista and Gina Carano also join Robert De Niro in the action thriller.

Set in 1870s America, a settler in a corrupt community attempts to avenge the murder of his family.

Set in 1870s America, A settler in a corrupt community attempts to avenge the murder of his family.

“Supernatural” star joins thriller.

Logline: A Las Vegas detective must race against time to save a bus full of hostages after a seemingly failed bank robbery that has been masterminded by a man sitting in the detective’s own station, bent on vengeance.

Logline: Two illegal immigrants crossing the border into the U.S. must run for their lives when a drunk American man finds them and decides to take matters into his own hands.

Seven new actors join cast of Mads Mikkelsen western revenge film.

Thriller also stars Anthony Hopkins.

Logline: Set in 1870s America, A settler in a corrupt community attempts to avenge the murder of his family.

A group of small town American teens band together to fight off an invasion and take back the land they love.

Logline: A group of small town American teens band together to fight off an invasion and take back the land they love.

A woman must solve the mysteries of a cursed relic she purchased in order to save her family.

Logline: A man campaigns to become “Supreme Ruler” of his local Buffalo lodge. He soon finds himself challenged by an elder lodge member and travels to the Order’s annual convention where he befriends a more established “Supreme Ruler.”

Logline: Kept under wraps, but based on the 1980s video game in which cities are destroyed by a giant lizard, werewolf and gorilla.

One of the busiest guys in Hollywood tacks on a Clive Owen replacement to his resume.

CBS adds players to two cop dramas, and a laugher, Fox sees a “Wire” regular return to Fringe, Lifetime finds a lead for Carrie-Anne Moss, while Showtime finds one to star opposite Don Cheadle, Starz finds one to star alone, and TV Land finds a few familiar faces to star in recently greenlit pilots!

The Comedian to topline Lionsgate’s new horror pic!

Logline: A recently widowed architect befriends a wisecracking young girl and agrees to help her build a raft to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

Logline: Story centers on a father-daughter relationship built on the desire to teach and learn how to hunt… something that is immediately put to the test as the daughter must learn the tricks of hunting and archery after her father goes missing.