NBC Adds 3 More Shows, Including an Updated ‘Ironside’

The busy rounds of television shows coming and going continued on Friday as NBC added new series to a growing list for fall, while others found themselves facing a last roundup.

NBC announced three more new shows to add to the five released on Thursday. These include a new comedy from Bill Lawrence (“Scrubs”), who will be especially busy in the fall because Fox has already ordered a comedy from him. His NBC show is called “Undateable.” It stars Chris D’Elia (the best thing in “Whitney”) as a hip guy who suddenly has to teach the unsophisticated friends of his roommate the ways of women.

NBC is also bringing back a blast from its distant past with the return of “Ironside,” the old Raymond Burr series, with Blair Underwood now the tough cop running a special unit and proving he really has no handicap.

The third new NBC show is a spinoff of the somewhat successful new drama “Chicago Fire.” This one, “Chicago P.D.,” takes the creator Dick Wolf back to his crime-oriented turf with stories about the many units of the city’s department, like street cops or the intelligence unit.

On the other hand, NBC announced that its comedy “Go On,” which stars Matthew Perry, had been canceled. And one of NBCUniversal’s cable units, USA Network, announced on Friday that its hit drama “Burn Notice” would end after its latest season, which begins on June 6.

However, the NBC comedy “Community,” long thought to be headed for cancellation, is now in negotiations to continue, after posting a much improved rating on Thursday night.

DealBook: Judge Approves Sale of Rights to Hostess Brands, Including Twinkies

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A federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved the sales of several major Hostess Brands product lines, including Twinkies, fetching about $800 million for the various pieces of the bankrupt baking company and clearing the way for it to be eventually wound down.

Chief among the deals cleared was the $410 million sale of Hostess’s snack cake brands, including Twinkies and Ho Hos, to Apollo Global Management and Metropoulos & Company. That transaction could lead to the return of the cream-filled treats to store shelves as soon as this summer.

Also approved were the sales of most of Hostess’s bread brands, including Wonder Bread, to Flowers Foods for about $360 million. Grupo Bimbo of Mexico won control of the Beefsteak bread line for $31.9 million after beating Flowers in an auction.

No rival bidders emerged for the snack cakes or the other bread products.

Judge Robert D. Drain of the Federal Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York gave swift approval of the sales, before moving onto more prosaic matters like the review of fee payments to Hostess advisers.

Hostess is also set to sell its Drakes line of snack cakes to McKee Foods, which bid $27.5 million.