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Exclusive: Kelli Giddish’s Amanda Rollins will be back on Law & Order: Svu. After making a guest appearance in the Season 25 premiere, Giddish will reprise her fan-favorite role in the upcoming Episode 11, Deadline has learned.

In the Season 25 opener, which aired in January, Amanda returned to celebrate the christening of her and Carisi’s (Peter Scanavino) baby. But the happy occasion was marred by the disappearance of a teenage girl. Olivia (Mariska Hargitay) realizes she saw the girl in a van as she was returning from the baptism and becomes obsessed with finding her.

Giddish exited the venerable series midway through Season 24 and then returned as a guest star in the Season 24 finale, which was part of a three-way crossover among Law & Order, Svu and Organized Crime. In her exit episode, Giddish’s character Rollins married Ada Sonny Carisi Jr (Scanavino). Rollins also revealed she was on...

David Graziano has been named the new showrunner of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” ahead of its record-setting 24th season, NBC confirmed to TheWrap on Wednesday.

Longtime showrunner Warren Leight announced he was leaving after Season 23 wrapped, citing a stressful year dealing with Covid-related production issues.

Graziano’s career began when he was invited by J.J. Abrams to join the writing staff on ’90s hit “Felicity.” He has since written for numerous broadcast and cable dramas, including “In Plain Sight,” “Lie to Me,” “Southland,” “American Gods” and “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” as an executive producer.

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Most recently, he was the co-creator, executive producer and showrunner of the border patrol drama “Coyote” starring Michael Chiklis, which debuted on CBS All Access in 2021. The streaming platform has since rebranded as Paramount+.

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Stars: Adrian Digiovanni, Jeffrey Combs, Danielle Doetsch, Pete Giovagnoli, Ken Brown, Robert Kramer, Hannah Stevenson, Laura Carlson | Written and Directed by Don Thacker

Ian Folivor , a depressed and reclusive 30-something, finds himself taking advice from a growth in his bathroom after a failed suicide attempt. The Mold, a smooth talking fungus who was born of the filth collecting in a corner of Ian’s neglected bathroom, works to win Ian’s trust by helping him clean himself up and remodel his lifestyle. With The Mold’s help, Ian attracts the attention of a neighbor he’s been ogling through his peephole, Leah, and he manages to find a slice of happiness despite his unnatural circumstances. But is all as it seems? Or does the Mold have ulterior motives to all the good it preaches?

Ever so often, you stumble across a film that is just so out there that you...

Deals are being made at the American Film Market. Director Don Thacker's Motivational Growth has just been picked up by Indiecan Entertainment, for distribution in Canada. This award winning film involves a strange mold, which gives advice to a depressed young man. Motivational Growth stars Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator) and Adrian Digiovanni. This film is slated for a release in 2014. This film was shot in Chicago, Illinois over the course of twenty-eight days. A warehouse was used as a soundstage and the film was shot in the dead of Winter. Truly an indie film, the official trailer for Motivational Growth is below and the film's poster is hosted above. Release Date: 2014. Director/writer: Don Thacker. Cast: Jeffrey Combs, Adrian Digiovanni, Danielle Doetsch, Pete Giovagnoli and Ken Brown. The official trailer for the film is here: The film's homepage is here: Motivational Growth's Official Website Source: Indiecan Ent. 12 November 2013. Press.

Jeffrey Combs. You can put this man in Anything and we'll watch it. Especially if he's portraying a nasty giant talking creature with a penchant for getting its victims off of their asses before taking a bite out of them!

From Imagos Films and director Don Thacker comes Motivational Growth starring Adrian Digiovanni, Jeffrey Combs, Danielle Doetsch, Ken Brown, Pete Giovagnoli, Robert Kramer, and Erica Highberg.

Synopsis

Ian Folivor (Adrian Digiovanni), depressed and reclusive, finds himself taking advice from a fungal growth after a failed suicide attempt. The Mold (Jeffrey Combs), a smooth talking chunk of Aspergillus born from the filth collecting in Ian's neglected bathroom, works to win Ian's trust by helping him clean himself up and remodel his lifestyle. Ian attracts the attention of a neighbor, Leah, and begins to receive strange messages from his broken TV that make him realize that The Mold may not be as...