Headlines and announcements from and around the Television Critics’ Association press tour:
* JAG spinoff NCIS will itself get a spinoff. Apparently CBS will keep milking its military-law success until it runs out of alphabet. Also, looks like John Mayer is getting a TV show. (The title Wonderland was already taken.)
* OMG GOSSIP GIRL PREQUEL. No, we’re not talking “Gossip Girl Babies”; the spinoff will follow a teenage Lily.
* Amy Pohler’s sitcom found its star months ago. Now it finally has a premise! Poehler will play an Indiana bureaucrat battling other bureaucrats to build a park. Producers of The Office are behind it, so I’ll give this the benefit of the doubt.
* And speaking of The Office, Idris Elba will get a guest story arc on as a “new no-nonsense hire” at Dunder-Mifflin’s corporate office who will throw Michael Scott’s job “into turmoil.” Which makes sense, because Stringer Bell was a no-nonsense businessman (NSFW language):
