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Josie McCoy returns to Riverdale in an upcoming episode for a final appearance before the show ends, showcasing her transition from a musician to a Hollywood movie star. Josie's departure from Riverdale in season 3 was due to Ashleigh Murray taking on a role in the spin-off series Katy Keene, where her character continued her music career in New York. Despite Katy Keene's cancellation, Josie achieved success as a singer and returned to Riverdale due to her father's passing, reuniting temporarily with Josie and the Pussycats and continuing her world tour. Now, her story takes an interesting turn in the 1950s timeline.

The trailer for Riverdale season 7, episode 17, "Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Four: A Different Kind of Cat," reveals the return of Ashleigh Murray's Josie McCoy. Riverdale is currently in its last season on The CW and has been following the gang after they were transported back to the 1950s. The last...

There are several mysteries on the CW drama Riverdale, including what happens to memorable characters Melody Valentine (Asha Bromfield) and Valerie Brown (Hayley Law) as they suddenly disappear from the show. The smart, talented, and passionate characters are members of the band Josie and the Pussycats along with Josie McCoy (Ashleigh Murray). They sing with Archie Andrews (Kj Apa) at times and bond with him over their love of music. While Melody never gets a major storyline, Valerie briefly dates Archie in season 1.

Riverdale has faced controversy for its sidelining of Poc characters, including Valerie and Melody, and actor Vanessa Morgan, who plays one of the best Riverdale characters Toni Topaz, has spoken out against the way Riverdale handles its Black characters. It makes Bromfield and Law's departures from the show even more upsetting, especially considering their great performances in other teen content. Given Bromfield's turn as Zadie Wells on...

Iliza Shlesinger’s latest comedy special with Netflix titled “Hot Forever” — her sixth for the streamer — has set a release date for October 11. The Avalon-produced special was filmed at the Connor Palace in Cleveland this past July.

The special was directed by Steven Paley, with Shlesinger serving as executive producer alongside Avalon’s Kara Baker and David Martin. Her previous specials with Netflix include 2019’s “Unveiled,” 2018’s “Elder Millennial,” 2016’s “Confirmed Kills,” 2015’s “Freezing Hot” and 2013’s “War Paint.”

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Bravo’s “Winter House” is set to premiere its second season on the network on Thursday, October 13 at 9 p.m. Pt/Et.

Returning cast to Stowe, Vt., in the show’s second season include Amanda Batula, Jason Cameron, Craig Conover, Kyle Cooke, Paige DeSorbo, Luke Gulbranson, Austen Kroll and Ciara Miller. New cast members for the new season include Rachel Clark, Kory Keefer and Jessica Stocker.

Exclusive: Asha Bromfield will adapt her 2021 debut novel, Hurricane Summer, into a feature film for Neshama Entertainment of Toronto. The film will be distributed globally (outside of Canada) by MarVista Entertainment, which has a minority stake in Neshama.

Hurricane Summer tells the story of Tilla, a young Jamaican-Canadian woman who experiences a summer of growth and devastation the year she turns 18. Tilla has spent her entire life trying to make her father love her, but every six months, he leaves their family and returns to his original home in Jamaica. When Tilla’s mother tells her she’ll be spending the summer with her estranged father on the island, Tilla dreads the idea of seeing him again, but longs to discover what life in Jamaica has always held for him. In an unexpected turn of events, Tilla is forced to face the storm that unravels in her...

The adventures of the Locke family and Key House are coming to a close.

Locke & Key will conclude with its upcoming third season at Netflix.

“Once we began working on the series, we felt three seasons was the ideal length to bring the story of the Locke family and their Keyhouse adventures to a satisfying conclusion,” showrunners Carlton Cuse and Meredith Averill said in a statement on Wednesday.

“As storytellers, we are grateful that we had the opportunity to tell our version of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s incredible story exactly the way we wanted. We’re keeping the magical keys, though, for our own personal use.”

The series has been a breakout hit for Netflix, landing a third season renewal well ahead of its second season debut.

“[EPs] Carlton [Cuse] and Meredith [Averill] have built an incredible world in Locke & Key, and we’re excited to have the Lockes...

There will be much more trauma for the Locke family before this story comes to a close!

Netflix has dropped the full-length trailer for Locke & Key Season 2, and it teases a lot of big moments for the family.

Dodge is still well and truly a part of the story, taking over bodies and causing a lot of mayhem for everyone concerned.

But Nina Locke has primarily been in the dark about what the kids have been getting up to, and it looks like she'll be getting some answers throughout the second season.

Nina has been none the wiser about many things, but it's clear she can't shake the feeling that more than she's being led to believe is happening.

It also begs the following question:

How will she react to everything that has happened?

"After their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances, the three Locke siblings and their mother move into their ancestral home,...

The demon known as Dodge is looking to finish what it started in Locke & Key Season 2 — and it’s ready to forge some wicked new keys to do it!

Also detailed in the new, full trailer above: mom Nina Locke (played by Darby Stanchfield) wants answers, suspecting that her kids have been hiding very big things from her!

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Hallmark Channel announced that former “Desperate Housewives” stars James Denton and Teri Hatcher are reuniting in the upcoming original film “A Kiss Before Christmas.” The film will premiere during Hallmark Channel’s annual “Countdown to Christmas” programming event. This is the first time the pair has worked together since the “Desperate Housewives” series ended in 2012.

“A Kiss Before Christmas” follows the story of Ethan Holt (Denton), a real estate development executive and married father with two teens, who learns he’s losing out on a promotion on Christmas Eve. Due to his laments paired with some Christmas magic, Holt awakes the next morning to find that his life is entirely different. He’s no longer married to his wife Joyce (Hatcher), doesn’t have his children and is CEO of his company. He has only a day to reclaim his original life.

“A Kiss Before Christmas” is from Crown Media Productions,...

HBO Max announced that Season 2 of “Love Life” will premiere Oct. 28 with its first three episodes.

Then, the second three episodes of the 10-episode season will stream on Nov. 4, with the final four concluding on Nov. 11.

The second season of the romantic dramedy centers on Marcus Watkins (William Jackson Harper), who comes out of a years-long relationship and is forced to once again look for the perfect love he thought he had already found.

The season also stars Jessica Williams, Punkie Johnson and Chris “Comedian Cp” Powell. Arian Moayed, Leslie Bibb and John Earl Jelks are recurring guest stars and Maya Kazan, Ego Nwodim, Kimberly Elise, Blair Underwood, Janet Hubert, Jordan Rock and Steven Boyer are guest stars. Keith David narrates. Season 1’s Anna Kendrick, who also executive produces, Zoë Chao, Peter Vack, Sasha Compére and Nick Thune will appear.

In addition to Kendrick, “Love Life” is executive produced by showrunners Sam Boyd,...

The journey back to Keyhouse is going to be filled with more perils than before.

Netflix on Tuesday shared a first-look teaser for Locke & Key Season 2, premiering October 22, and, well, it's going to be a rough time for everyone involved.

After their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances, the three Locke siblings and their mother move into their ancestral home, Keyhouse, which they discover is full of magical keys that may be connected to their father's death.

As the Locke children explore the different keys and their unique powers, a mysterious demon awakens — and will stop at nothing to steal them.

From Carlton Cuse and Meredith Averill (The Haunting of Hill House), Locke & Key is a coming-of-age mystery about love, loss, and the unshakable bonds that define family.

The cast includes Darby Stanchfield (Nina Locke), Connor Jessup (Tyler Locke), Emilia Jones (Kinsey Locke), Jackson Robert Scott (Bode Locke...

“Locke & Key” Season 2 has finally received a premiere date and a chilling new teaser from Netflix.

The second season of the fantasy series, which will consist of 10 episodes total, will debut Oct. 22 on Netflix, the streaming service revealed in Tuesday’s date announcement video.

Watch the teaser above to see Dodge (Laysla De Oliveira)/Gabe (Griffin Gluck) and new partner Eden Hawkins (Hallea Jones) unlock their big plan for making one big, bad, lethal-looking key, as Bode (Jackson Robert Scott), Tyler (Connor Jessup) and Kinsey (Emilia Jones) try to fight back against the evil coming for the Locke family.

Here’s the logline for “Locke & Key,” which is Carlton Cuse and Meredith Averill’s adaptation of the comic book series by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez for Idw Entertainment: “After their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances, the three Locke siblings and their mother move into their ancestral home,...

“This world had so much potential to be reborn and consumed, to be ruled,” Gabe says in the just-released teaser trailer for Locke & Key‘s second season. “It’s time to finish what I started.”

Netflix on Tuesday announced that Locke & Key — based on Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s graphic novels — will return for Season 2 on Friday, Oct. 22, 2021.

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Locke & Key stars Darby Stanchfield as Nina Locke,...

Riverdale fans have complained for years that Ashleigh Murray’s character Josie needed more screen time, and apparently, the Riverdale writers heard them… and so did Murray.

Murray was a series regular when the CW teen soap debuted in 2017, but Josie was often sidelined in favor of other cast members, and Murray exited the series after Season 3 to play Josie on spinoff Katy Keene — which was then cancelled after just one season. Murray thought she was saying goodbye to the role for good: “After we did Katy Keene, and it unfortunately didn’t go for a second season, I just...

After nearly five months off the air, Riverdale is finally back on The CW this week… but the gang’s problems haven’t gone anywhere.

Season 5 of the teen drama continues this Wednesday (8/7c) with the first of nine new episodes, and last we saw Jughead… well, we didn’t see him, actually. He vanished from the bunker after taking mind-bending psychedelic drugs, and we worried he might’ve been (gulp) abducted by aliens. Now we know from the Season 5B trailer that Jughead is alive and well and safely on planet Earth, but as showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa tells TVLine,...

Are you ready to return to Keyhouse?

Netflix on Tuesday announced Locke & Key Season 2 would finally receive its debut this October.

While the exact date has not been revealed, it's nice to know the series will be back on the air by the end of the year.

The announcement was made as part of the streamer's GeekedWeek event, which features announcements about its genre offerings.

While fans have been waiting a while for updates on the second season, Netflix did announce last year that it had already ordered up a third season.

“[EPs] Carlton [Cuse] and Meredith [Averill] have built an incredible world in Locke & Key, and we’re excited to have the Lockes return for more in the third season,” said Brian Wright, vice president of overall deals at Netflix in December, while Cuse added:

“We have some incredible adventures in store for the Locke family in Season 3 and could...

Exclusive: Aaron Ashmore and Hallea Jones, who recurred on the first season of Netflix’s Locke & Key, have been promoted to series regulars for season 2, and The Tick alum Brendan Hines has joined as a new series regular. Additionally, Liyou Abere has been tapped to guest star. Production on Season 2 recently resumed in Toronto amid strict Covid-19 guidelines.

An adaptation of the bestselling Idw Comics graph novels by writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez, the coming-of-age supernatural drama follows the Locke siblings after their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances. The three siblings and their mother move into their ancestral home, Keyhouse, which they discover is full of magical keys that may be connected to their father’s death. As the Locke children explore the different keys and their unique powers, a mysterious demon awakens — and will stop at nothing to steal them.

Hines will play Josh Bennett,...

This Katy Keene review contains spoilers.

Katy Keene Episode 8

“When a crisis hits, a family comes together…no matter what.”

There’s a great line in Noah Baumbach’s Mr. Jealousy about how a character in that underrated romcom often “knocks on the door of profundity and runs away.” It’s a sentiment that frequently ran through my brain during this latest Katy Keene, an episode that took several moonshots at addressing everything from the importance of chosen families to the necessity of Lgbtq+ acceptance without any actually leaving the stratosphere.

Don’t get me wrong, the series continues to have its heart in the right place. It’s just that last week’s episode felt like such a turning point for the series that to gloss over the aftermath of Jorge and Bernardo’s gay-bashing felt like a cop out. Yes, that storyline provides the impetus for the dramatic...

Exclusive: Deadline has learned that Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press, has acquired Hurricane Summer, a new contemporary Ya novel by Riverdale actress Asha Bromfield which will be tentatively slated for Spring 2021.

Wme brokered the one book deal for North American rights, with Wednesday Books’ Sara Goodman acquiring. Hurricane Summer follows a girl visiting her estranged father in Jamaica in the middle of category five Hurricane Gustav. She finds her life unraveling when family secrets are revealed, alongside dealing with colorism, classism, colonialism, sexism, and what it means to discover your own voice in the center of complete destruction. Bromfield is known for her role as Melody Valentine on Riverdale, the former drummer of Josie and the Pussycats at Riverdale High School. When Valerie and Melody learn that Josie secretly wanted to become a solo diva, they ditch the band. However, Melody and Valerie reform their band with Veronica as the lead singer,...

Refresh for updates Ian Ziering remembered Luke Perry, his former Beverly Hills, 90210 castmate and friend of 30 years, in a poignant statement posted on Instagram, while the producers of Riverdale remembered Perry as a “consummate professional with a giant heart, and a true friend to all.”

“Dearest Luke,” wrote Ziering, “I will forever bask in the loving memories we’ve shared over the last thirty years. May your journey forward be enriched by the magnificent souls who have passed before you, just like you have done here for those you leave behind. God please give him a seat close to to you, he deserves it.”

The following is a statement by Riverdale executive producers Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Jon Goldwater, Warner Bros. Television and the CW:

“We are deeply saddened to learn today about the passing of Luke Perry. A beloved member of the Riverdale, Warner Bros. and CW family,...

Thomas Mitchell Barnet (Saving Hope) is set as a series regular and Asha Bromfield (Riverdale) will recur in Locke & Key, Netflix’s adaptation of Joe Hill’s comic, from Hill, Carlton Cuse and Idw Entertainment.

Locke & Key is a horror-fantasy series that revolves around siblings Kinsey, Tyler and Bode who, after the gruesome murder of their father, move to their ancestral home in Massachusetts only to find the house has magical keys that give them a vast array of powers and abilities. Little do they know, a devious demon also wants the keys, and will stop at nothing to attain them.

Barnet will play Sam Lesser, a troubled, sensitive young man who longs for a connection and will go to desperate lengths to find one. His vulnerability makes him an easy target for Dodge’s manipulation.

Bromfield is Zadie, a spunky,...

If Riverdale‘s recently announced spinoff is ordered to series, it’ll take one of the town’s most iconic residents along with it. Ashleigh Murray (aka Josie McCoy) has been cast in the pilot for Katy Keene, which will relocate the lead Pussycat to the Big Apple in pursuit of her musical dreams, TVLine has learned.

“Katy Keene follows the lives and loves of four iconic Archie Comics characters — including fashion legend-to-be Katy Keene and singer/songwriter Josie McCoy — as they chase their twenty-something dreams in New York City. This musical dramedy chronicles the origins and struggles of four...

If you haven't yet experienced the surreal horrors of Channel Zero, I highly recommend you catch up on the show's first three seasons, and if you're already a fan of the series, then you'll want to clear your schedules on October 26th–31st, because Syfy announced that they're airing all six episodes on consecutive nights, leading up to the season finale on Halloween night. In addition to the Channel Zero air date news, we have key art and images from the next installment of the anthology series, as well as premiere date details for some of the featured shows and movies in Syfy's "31 Days of Halloween."

We have the official Channel Zero: The Dream Door premiere date details, key art, and images below. Horror fans can also look forward to the premieres of Z Nation Season 5 and Van Helsing Season 3 on October 5th, and five Syfy original movies will also...

Whether it’s their cover of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” or one of numerous original recordings, Josie And The Pussycats’ performances on Riverdale are a consistent delight. In the video above, Ashleigh Murray (Josie), Hayley Law (Valerie), and Asha Bromfield (Melody), reveal the songs they’d most like to cover on the…

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(Aotn) The excitement level was at all time high in the press room for the hit CW series “Riverdale” as the cast and crew were eager to discuss what we are in store for in season two, which they promise will be even darker, as well as, the overall development for each of their characters as we delve further and further into their amazing story.

When speaking with actors K.J. Apa (Archie Andrews) and Cole Sprouse (Jughead Jones) about the upcoming season, Apa revealed “With Fred being shot and it being unclear whether he is alive or dead, either way it is going effect Archie forever, so you are going to see a flip-side to his character. We see a side of Archie that really didn’t come out in season one, but I was really excited when I read that first script because I was really happy that we...

Coming to Riverdale in Season 2: A bad-boy ex, a bisexual Serpent and… possibly Sabrina the Teenage Witch?

The cast and producers of the CW drama dropped a lot of scoop during the show’s San Diego Comic-Con panel on Saturday. Here’s the latest on “Bughead’s” upcoming challenges, the “sexiest” scene ever, an even meaner Cheryl Blossom and much more:

* A new trailer for Season 2 gave fans a glimpse of Archie’s anger and fear following Fred’s diner shooting, with Pop ominously calling the shooter “the Angel of Death” — and a devilish Cheryl taunting her mom Penelope,...

Warner Bros. TV has unveiled its Comic-Con 2017 slate, which will feature the first Big Bang Theory cast panel in five years.

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Ahead of Season 11, cast members Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, Kunal Nayyar, Mayim Bialik and Kevin Sussman will be on hand for a Q&A, following four consecutive years of writers’ room panels. (At this time, Jim Parsons, Simon Helberg and Melissa Rauch are not scheduled to appear.)

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Well, this is purrrrfectly entertaining.

This week on The CW’s Riverdale (airing Thursdays at 9/8c), Josie and her Pussycats bring some infectious pop to a pep rally with a cover of the 2009 single “Candy Girl (Sugar Sugar),” which was itself inspired by The Archie Show‘s iconic “Sugar, Sugar” circa 1969.

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Ashleigh Murray’s Josie leads the earworm you’re about to receive, backed by Asha Bromfield and Hayley Law (as Melody and Valerie), while Madelaine Petsch’s Cheryl Blossom fronts the River Vixen cheerleading squad. Everyone involved does their best to...

Riverdale is paying tribute to Archie Comics' past in a big way. The new CW series based on characters from the long-running comic books will feature a new take on "Sugar, Sugar," the 1960s song by The Archies that topped the charts. In Riverdale, Josie (yes, of Josie and the Pussycats), played by Ashleigh Murray, updates "Candy Girl (Sugar Sugar) by Inner Circle featuring Flo Rida. That song was inspired by the original 1969 version of "Sugar, Sugar." The Pussycats, Melody (Asha Bromfield) and Valerie (Hayley Law) provide backup vocals. In the video below, Josie and the Pussycats perform the song at a Riverdale pep rally. "As if stepping into the shoes of a fiery icon like Josie wasn't...

Luke Perry is stepping back into the world of teen drama with The CW's Riverdale. The Beverly Hills, 90210 veteran will play dad to Archie (K.J. Apa) in the series based on the long-running Archie Comics, but he's not exactly dolling out advice to the budding new teen heartthrobs. "That's not my job," he told E! News at The CW Upfronts in May. "Giving advice isn't my job." However, he said he does care about the cast, which includes Cole Sprouse, Camila Mendes, Lili Reinhart, Ashleigh Murray,  Casey Cott, Ashanti Bromfield, Daniel Yang, Irie Hayleau and Ross Butler, and said all he can tell them is "work hard and treat everybody well." Click play on the video below for...