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Alexa and Carlos PenaVega pose atop the Empire State Building on Monday (December 2) in New York City.

The cute couple joined The Salvation Army’s Kenneth and Jolene Hodder at the landmark, celebrating the kickoff of the Red Kettle season amid the holidays.

That same day, the trailer for Alexa and Carlos‘ new Great American Family movie Get Him Back for Christmas debuted, which features The Salvation Army as a central point in the plot.

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Here’s a synopsis: Up-and-coming singer songwriter Bella Harlan (Alexa) comes home for Christmas and enlists her high-school songwriting partner Jack Grayton (Carlos) to craft a song to win back her rockstar boyfriend by Christmas. As the two reunite for the first time in a decade, they embark on a Christmas journey down memory lane, and soon realize true love may be closer than they thought. The...

Network: Apple TV+

Episodes: Nine (hour)

Seasons: One

TV show dates: July 10, 2020 -- August 21, 2020

Series status: Cancelled

Performers include: Brittany O'Grady, Sean Teale, Colton Ryan, Shalini Bathina, Kevin Valdez, and Phillip Johnson Richardson.

TV show description:      

A romantic comedy-drama series, the Little Voice TV show is a coming-of-age story set in the diverse musicality of New York. The show explores the universal journey of finding your authentic voice in your early 20s -- and the courage to use it.

Bess Alice King (O'Grady) is a uniquely talented performer who struggles to fulfill her dreams while handling rejection, dating drama, and family issues.

Sara Bareilles, Jessie Nelson, J.J. Abrams, and Ben Stephenson serve as executive producers on the series.

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Streaming on the Apple TV+ subscription service, the Little Voice TV show stars Brittany O'Grady, Sean Teale, Colton Ryan, Shalini Bathina, Kevin Valdez, and Phillip Johnson Richardson. It is a coming-of-age story set in the diverse musicality of New York. The show explores the universal journey of finding your authentic voice in your early 20s -- and the courage to use it. Bess Alice King (O'Grady) is...

Is the first season of the Little Voice TV show on Apple TV+ music to your ears? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Little Voice is cancelled or renewed for season two. Apple TV+ and other streaming platforms, however, collect their own data. If you've been watching this TV series, we'd love to know how you feel about the first season episodes of Little Voice here.  *Status Update Below.

An Apple TV+ romantic comedy-drama series, the Little Voice TV show stars Brittany O'Grady, Sean Teale, Colton Ryan, Shalini Bathina, Kevin Valdez, and Phillip Johnson Richardson. It is a coming-of-age story set in the diverse musicality of New York. The show explores the universal journey of finding your authentic voice in your early 20s -- and the courage to...

The Sara Bareilles-produced dramedy “Little Voice” has been canceled by Apple TV+, marking the first original series to get the ax at the tech giant’s streaming service.

Described as a “love letter to the diverse musicality of New York,” “Little Voice” explores “the universal journey of finding your authentic voice in your early 20s.” Along with producing “Little Voice,” Bareilles (“Waitress”) provided original music for the series.

“Little Voice” is a half-hour, coming-of-age drama that stars Brittany O’Grady (“Star”) as a talented young singer and songwriter looking to find her confidence on stage and fulfill her dreams while navigating love, rejection and complicated family issues.

“Little Voice” was Bareilles’ first foray into television (she now stars on Peacock’s recently renewed Tina Fey-created comedy “Girls5Eva”) and marked O’Grady’s return to TV after breaking out in “Star.”

Along with O’Grady, “Little Voice” boasted an ensemble cast that includes Sean Teale,...

Little Voice has faded out at Apple TV+.

The streamer has officially canceled Sara Bareilles' songwriting drama, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed Wednesday.

The sad announcement means Little Voice has become the streamer's first cancellation.

"A love letter to the diverse musicality of New York," is how Apple TV+ described the series ahead of its debut.

The series explored the universal journey of finding your authentic voice in your early 20s.

Bareilles (Waitress) provided original music for this fresh, intensely romantic tale of the search to find your true voice … and then the courage to use it.

Brittany O’Grady led the cast that also included Sean Teale, Colton Ryan, Shalini Bathina, Kevin Valdez, Phillip Johnson Richardson, and Chuck Cooper.

The series was produced by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.

J.J. Abrams, Bareilles, Jessie Nelson, and Ben Stephenson (Westworld) served as executive producers.

News of the cancellation is not surprising.

If you've enjoyed the Little Voice TV show, this news won't be music to your ears. The Apple TV+ subscription service has cancelled the romantic comedy-drama series so there won't be a second season.

The Little Voice TV show stars Brittany O'Grady, Sean Teale, Colton Ryan, Shalini Bathina, Kevin Valdez, and Phillip Johnson Richardson. It is a coming-of-age story set in the diverse musicality of New York. The show explores the universal journey of finding your authentic voice in your early 20s -- and the courage to use it. Bess Alice King (O'Grady) is a uniquely talented performer who struggles to fulfill her dreams while handling rejection, dating drama, and family issues.Read More…...

ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” Apple TV Plus’ “Little Voice” and Netflix’s “Locke & Key” and “Away” are the four television series that have just earned the Ruderman Family Foundation’s Seal of Authentic Representation, Variety has learned exclusively.

Additionally, the foundation is awarding the seal, which is given to those projects that demonstrate a commitment toward authentic representation of people with disabilities by featuring actors with disabilities in a speaking role with at least five lines, to two films: “Sam & Mattie Make a Zombie Movie” and “Run.”

“With each and every authentic casting decision, Hollywood takes another crucial step toward fulfilling its true and long-unrealized potential as a beacon of inclusion and diversity in all its forms,” said Jay Ruderman, president of the Ruderman Family Foundation. “The latest recipients of the Seal of Authentic Representation, building off the momentum generated by our previous rounds of honorees, powerfully exhibit the...

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The next big superstar in music is a fusion of Alessia Cara, Carole King and Betty White: That’s how the protagonist, Bess King, describes herself in Little Voice, a musical drama that premiered Friday on Apple TV+.

It’s a fitting characterization for Bess, portrayed by Brittany O’Grady (Star) as a fresh-faced, 20-something with songwriting chops and a (mostly) charming, wide-eyed innocence. O’Grady’s vocal gifts are bolstered by the music, written by Grammy-nominated hitmaker Sara Bareilles, who executive-produced the show with her Waitress collaborator Jessie Nelson, J.J. Abrams and Ben Stephenson (Westworld).

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Finding your voice is difficult enough, but doing so in the city that never sleeps is considerably more difficult. 

Little Voice, the latest offering from Apple TV+, tells the tale of Bess King, a young woman who is struggling to find her voice. 

While that may not sound like a great pitch for a TV series, the series will immediately grab your attention, and won't let go. It's an immersive experience from start to finish. 

Created by Jessie Nelson, who is famous for writing the Broadway musical adaptation of Waitress, the story plays out like a New York fairytale, in a similar vein to The CW's one-and-done Katy Keene. 

Waitress was such a success on Broadway because of the writing, directing, acting, and, of course, the music. Nelson reunites with Sara Bareilles on this series, and the pair continue to make the magic happen. 

From the first scene, it's clear...

Bess (Brittany O’Grady), the singer-songwriter heroine of Apple TV+’s latest series Little Voice, promises her new guitar player Samuel (Colton Ryan) that he’ll learn the origins of one of her songs when she tells it to the crowd at their first gig that night. Samuel warns her against it, explaining, “Everyone in the audience thinks every song is about them, so if you tell them too much, it bursts the bubble. Less is more.”

Bess opts to follow Samuel’s advice, but Little Voice itself remains agnostic about...

Before Bess (Brittany O’Grady) gets up the nerve to play her own songs for an audience, she anticipates the confused feedback she might get. As she explains in the first episode of “Little Voice” with a half-apologetic shrug, her music is “very…earnest.” At another point, forced to put herself in terms the music industry might understand, she describes her work — written for the show by co-creator Sara Bareilles — as “Alessia Cara meets Carole King.” And yet, it’s the “earnest” note that sticks, defining her and “Little Voice” both.

From Bareilles and Jessie Nelson, “Little Voice” is, somewhat paradoxically, a modern update of a throwback, hearkening to a time when TV was rife with earnest dramedies about talented young women trying to protect their bleeding hearts. Nelson’s direction is intimate, the color palette soft, the harshest moments threaded with plaintive piano. Most every moment, in fact, comes with a musical accompaniment,...