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Exclusive: Emmy Award winner Julie Bowen (Modern Family) is set to star in the NBC and Universal Television half-hour comedy series Taste, currently in development, from writers and exec producers Justin Shanes (St. Denis Medical) and Nedaa Sweiss (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon). Bowen also executive produces through her Bowen and Sons Production banner alongside the company’s president Rachael Field, and Top Chef EP Gail Simmons.

Taste follows the employees at a legacy food magazine in the Bay Area. When the publication is bought by a Silicon Valley tech mogul, its traditionalist editor (Bowen) is suddenly forced to work with a young, buzzy TikTok chef.

L-r- Justin Shanes, Nedaa Sweiss, and Gail Simmons

Bowen received two Emmy Awards for her portrayal of Claire Dunphy on the hit ABC series Modern Family, which ended its 11-year run in 2020. She can currently be seen in the comedy horror-thriller Hysteria! on Peacock.

The world of streaming can be a scary place for parents trying to find a platform for their youngsters to watch. Thanks to a new deal, not only can they get access to a kid-friendly streaming service that they can feel comfortable with their kids watching, but they can also score big savings on it as well. For a limited time, you can sign up for a subscription to PBS Kids via Prime Video Channels for just $3 per month for two months. The streamer is designed to help the youngest of viewers develop cognitive and social-emotional skills while being introduced to some of the most popular kids’ characters in the world.

How to Sign Up for 2 Months of PBS Kids for $3 Each Click here to get the deal from Prime Video and PBS Kids. Make sure you’re signed into your Prime Video account. Click “Get started.” Make sure the...

Hopefully you’re familiar with Maria Bamford due to her outstanding stand-up comedy. If not, you might have seen her on the most recent episodes of Arrested Development, or heard her voice WordGirl or Adventure Time. Otherwise, she’s also been the star of several Target commercials that have been all over television. But now she’s finally […]

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Writer/director/producer Tyler Perry makes his first foray into family animation with the release of Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Tough Love arriving on DVD (plus Digital) and On Demand January 20, 2015 from Lionsgate. The film will be available on Digital HD one week earlier on January 13.

Having conquered stage and screen, Tyler Perry has now turned his attention to creating entertaining programs specifically for families to enjoy together. In Tyler Perry’s first animated film, fans of Madea can now watch all of their favorite characters including Madea, Uncle Joe and Aunt Bam in a whole new way! The larger than life Madea gets herself into even more over the top and outrageous situations – all in the name of helping children save their youth center.

The comic adventure features the voice talent of Tyler Perry as “Madea” and “Uncle Joe” among others and Cassi Davis (TV’s “House Of Payne...

Not only a show that made an amazing impact on the world of children’s programming, but one that continues to hold up, The Magic School Bus is a show still enjoyed by millions of kids (including my own) around the world.

In the grand tradition of that show (no pressure), Scholastic Media, in a joint announcement with Netflix, has announced The Magic School Bus 360°, created and produced by Scholastic Media, launching exclusively on Netflix as a Netflix Original Series, with Scholastic Media President, Deborah Forte, as Executive Producer.

Unfortunately, you have to wait until 2016, but the news hits a lot of positive notes, from a variety of angles. A return of The Magic School Bus franchise means not only a chance for kids to engage with science in the home, but also opens the door for countless other opportunities in the form of books and other materials to be used in classrooms.

The Young and the Restless tallied 23 nominations as honors were announced this morning for the 40th annual Daytime Emmy Awards. Restless’ impressive take helped CBS lead all networks with 50 overall nominations. PBS and ABC followed, with 44 and 38 nods, respectively.

General Hospital, which earned 19 nominations, joined Restless in the race for Outstanding Drama Series, and Sesame Street received 17 nods, including three for Kevin Clash, the voice of Elmo who faces allegations of sexual misconduct.

Good Morning America and Today will bring their ratings rivalry to the Emmys, where they’ll be joined by CBS Sunday Morning in the Outstanding Morning Program category.

The nominations are in! Ellen DeGeneres, The View and General Hospital lead the pack in the 2013 Daytime Emmy nominations.

Sam Champion read the 2013 Daytime Emmy Nominations on Good Morning America on May 1, and it’s a great list! General Hospital and The Young & The Restless were some of the many shows nominated, while Ellen DeGeneres, Katie Couric and the lovely ladies of The View are some of the hosts nominated. Read on for the full list.

Daytime Emmys 2013 — Full List Of Nominations

Outstanding Drama Series

The Bold and the Beautiful, CBS

Bradley P. Bell, Executive Producer

Rhonda Friedman, Edward J. Scott, SupervisingProducers

Ronald W. Weaver, Senior Producer

Mark Pinciotti, Coordinating Producer

Cynthia J. Popp, Colleen Bell, Casey Kasprzyk, Producers

Days of Our Lives, NBC

Ken Corday, Executive Producer

Lisa de Cazotte, Greg Meng, Co-Executive Producers

Janet Drucker, Tim Stevens, Coordinating Producers

Albert Alarr, Producer

General Hospital , ABC

Frank Valentini, Executive Producer

Mary-Kelly Weir,...

Mackenzie Foy, who plays Bella and Edward Cullen's daughter Renesmee in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, will star in Wish You Well with Josh Lucas ("The Firm," Life As We Know It) and Ellen Burstyn ("Political Animals"). The story follows a brother and sister in the 1940s who move from New York to a Virginia farm to live with their great-grandmother following a family tragedy. Farm life helps the girl to understand her father, herself and appreciate the love of family. Ned Bellamy ("WordGirl"), 14-year old Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick (Moonrise Kingdom), Laura Fraser ("Breaking Bad"), Alano Miller ("Vegas") and Jp Vanderloo also star in the indie drama written, produced and being directed by Darnell Martin ("Gossip Girl," Cadillac Records).

Source: Variety...

The PBS animated series Wordgirl focuses its attention on expanding children's vocabularies and teaching the power of words. The show's protagonist Becky Botsford (Darren Feinglass) is a bright young girl with a Superman-like past. She might look like any other normal girl, but she is actually an alien with superhuman powers from the planet Lexicon. Her super hero alter ego is WordGirl, dedicated to “fighting for truth, justice, and use of the right word,” and she protects her Earth hometown of Fair City from a number of recurring villains including Dr. Two-Brains (Tom Kenny), Toby McCalister III (Patton Oswalt), and Chuck The Evil Sandwich-Making Guy (Fred Stoller).

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Tune in alerts for the June 2010 Highlights from Scholastic Media, the entertainment and media division of Scholastic, which produces award-winning, top-rated kids' television shows for broadcast and cable channels. Included below are highlights for June 2010. Friday, June 4th on PBS Kids Go! Word Girl Worrrd Up! Ten-year-old Becky Botsford's alter-ego defeats villains with superpowers and an awesome vocabulary. A 2009 Emmy Award nominee, WordGirl airs Monday - Friday on PBS Kids Go! (Check local listings.) "Theme Park Wham-page"Becky and Bob are anxiously waiting in line for their chance to ride The Coaster-- the ultimate new roller coaster ride. The Whammer's (voiced by John C. McGinley, TV's "Scrubs") enthusiasm for chocolate hot dogs and hi-striker...

The SNL alums will star with Jon Heder in the new Gary Sanchez Productions' series Comedy Central has cast Chris Parnell and Horatio Sanz in the untitled sitcom starring Jon Heder from Gary Sanchez Productions and Debmar-Mercury, it was announced today by Gary Sanchez Productions, Comedy Central and Debmar-Mercury.

Produced by Gary Sanchez Productions, the production company led by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy, and distributed by Debmar-Mercury, the untitled, multi-camera sitcom for Comedy Central stars Heder (Napoleon Dynamite, Blades of Glory) as a young man who won't let anything get in the way of his big dreams, even if it means losing his job and having to move back in with his parents and sleep on their couch. Heder enlists the help of his friends, an ex-convict, played by Sanz (Saturday Night Live), and a burned-out high-school teacher, played by Parnell (30 Rock), in planning a myriad...

The September 2009 Highlights for Scholastic Media, the entertainment and media division of Scholastic, producers of award-winning, top-rated kids' television shows for broadcast and cable channels are included below for parents: WordGirl All-new Episode!Monday, September 7:On PBS Kids Go! Ten-year-old Becky Botsford's alter-ego defeats villains with superpowers and an awesome vocabulary. A 2009 Emmy Award nominee! (Check local listings.) "Becky And The Bard"Violet (Maria Bamford, TV's "American Dad") and Becky compete for the coveted role of Juliet to play opposite the dreamy Hunter Throbheart (James Adomain, TV's "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson") in the school's production of Romeo & Juliet. Violet is cast as Juliet while Becky is the understudy. When the Energy Monster captures Violet,...

Machinima.com, flush with cash after recently raising $3.85 million in capital, has announced the Machinima Comedy Lab, where the site is bringing on fifteen traditional TV writers, each to develop a comedy web series pilots. The series will be greenlit for up to four episodes each before they decide whether to further produce the series. Amongst the list veteran writers selected are Writers Guild of America West president Patric M. Verrone, Family Guy scribe Mike Rowe and a number of former staffers on The Simpsons. The full list: * Chris Cluess: Mad TV, The Simpsons, Cheers * Bill Freiberger: Drawn Together, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, The Simpsons * Eric Horsted: Boondocks, Knights of Prosperity, Futurama * Ken Keeler: Futurama, The Simpsons, Wings * Stacie Lipp: King of Queens, Roseanne, Married With Children * Christina Lynch: Wildfire, The Dead Zone, Unhappily Ever After * Peggy Nicoll: WordGirl, Daria * Bill Oakley: Mission Hill,...

The U.S. Television Critics Association has named New York advertising drama Mad Men its TV programme of the year.

The show, set in 1960s Manhattan, landed the coveted prize as well as gongs for outstanding new show and outstanding drama.

Other winners at the awards ceremony in Beverly Hills, California on Saturday included Tina Fey's comedy series 30 Rock - which took two awards including a comedy prize for Fey.

The full list of winners is as follows:

Programme Of The Year: Mad Men

Outstanding New Programme: Mad Men

Outstanding Achievement In Drama: Mad Men

Outstanding Achievement In Comedy: 30 Rock

Outstanding Achievement In News + Information: The War: A Film by Ken Burns + Lynn Novick

Outstanding Achievement In Children's Programming: WordGirl

Outstanding Achievement In Movies, Mini-Series + Specials: John Adams

Individual Achievement In Comedy: Tina Fey, 30 Rock

Individual Achievement In Drama: Paul Giamatti, John Adams

Heritage Award: The Wire

Career Achievement: Lorne Michaels.

AMC's Mad Men can't possibly be mad at the Television Critics Assn.

The series tied HBO's The Wire with four nominations in this year's TCA Awards, tops for any series. Both shows got noms for drama, program of the year and individual achievement (Mad Men's Jon Hamm and Wire's David Simon).

In addition, Mad Men is up for new program while Wire was mentioned for the organization's Heritage Award.

Although critics have been bashing HBO for losing its way, the pay cabler led all nets with 10 awards. In addition to Wire, HBO collected three noms for its John Adams miniseries, two for Flight of the Conchords and one for the documentary Alive Day Memories.

PBS came in second with nine noms, including three for Ken Burns' The War, a fall docu series on World War II. Three others went to PBS kids shows (Sesame Street, Word Girl and Curious George).

Among the broadcast nets, NBC and ABC scooped up most of the noms. NBC scored seven, including three for 30 Rock and two for Friday Night Lights. ABC landed five, led by Lost with two.