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Long before she took on the lead role in Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, Emily Osment had a brief appearance in one of the most iconic sitcoms, Friends, where she played the role of a little girl with a hilariously complicated name.

Osment has been pursuing her acting career since a very young age, with breakout roles in major kids’ franchises like Spy Kids and Hannah Montana. Over the years, she’s built a successful TV and film career, but many fans may not realize that one of her earliest on-screen appearances happened in one of the most beloved shows of all time.

Emily Osment Played a Little Girl, Lelani Mayolanofavich, in Friends

Before she would go on to become a household name with her roles in shows like Hannah Montana and most recently Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, Emily Osment made a brief appearance in the popular sitcom Friends...

Acting head of drama Ben Irving, senior commissioner Manda Levin to leave, while development head Tom Lazenby has deparated.

The BBC drama department has been hit with a triple departure: acting director of drama Ben Irving and senior commissioning editor Manda Levin are leaving the corporation, and head of development Tom Lazenby has already departed.

The trio of departures represents a significant change to the team, and will give incoming director of drama Lindsay Salt scope to reshape it after she joins from Netflix UK on Tuesday.

Irving is leaving to join Severance producer Fifth Season (formerly Endeavor Content) in...

Acting head of drama Ben Irving, senior commissioner Manda Levin to leave, while development head Tom Lazenby has deparated.

The BBC drama department has been hit with a triple departure: acting director of drama Ben Irving and senior commissioning editor Manda Levin are leaving the corporation, and head of development Tom Lazenby has already departed.

The trio of departures represents a significant change to the team, and will give incoming director of drama Lindsay Salt scope to reshape it after she joins from Netflix UK on Tuesday.

Irving is leaving to join Severance producer Fifth Season (formerly Endeavor Content) in...

Holliday Grainger and Callum Turner will star in “The Capture,” the upcoming conspiracy drama from Heyday and NBCUniversal for BBC One in the U.K.

Turner (“War and Peace”) plays Shaun Emery, an Afghan war veteran whose conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned due to flawed video evidence. When damning CCTV footage emerges from an incident in London, Shaun finds himself fighting for his freedom once again.

Grainger (“Strike”) is a detective, Rachel Carey, assigned to investigate. She must discover if there is more to the shocking evidence than first meets the eye in a story that poses timely questions about surveillance and video fakery.

Heyday Television and NBCUniversal International Studios are producing and Ben Chanan (“Cyberbully”) wrote the series. “I am thrilled to have Holliday Grainger and Callum Turner leading our cast,” he said. “As detective and suspect respectively, Rachel and Shaun must grapple their way through...

Psychological thriller to be set at the outbreak of the Second World War.

Scott Free London and Film4 are joining forces to develop The German Child, which will mark the feature debut of writer-director Ben Chanan (Cyberbully).

Based on Chanan’s original idea, the project is a psychological period thriller which explores topics including race, identity and community.

The film is set at the outbreak of the Second World War, when evacuees were despatched by train all over Britain. When an unsuspecting couple living in rural Wiltshire take a young boy into their home, little could they foresee the irreparable...

Greenlit means a project is officially a go, so all you have to do is follow these leads to stay up to date. You never know where you’ll find an opportunity to land an audition! “Keeping Faith/Un Bore Mercher 2”Surprise hit series “Keeping Faith/Un Bore Mercher” is returning for a second series, co-produced by S4C and BBC Wales. The crime drama follows lawyer and family woman, Faith, played by Eve Myles, as she seeks to understand the disappearance of her husband. The second series is to start filming for 18 weeks beginning Sept. 24 on location in Wales. Casting director Andy Morgan is attached but please note that the series is shot both in English and Welsh. “The Capture”New primetime BBC One series “The Capture” is the brainchild of writer-director Ben Chanan. A surveillance thriller set in London, it begins with the unjust arrest of an innocent man...

Author Charlaine Harris, whose Sookie Stackhouse novel were the basis of HBO's "True Blood" series, is teaming with Hallmark for a new series of telemovies based on her eight-book "Aurora Teagarden" series which ran from 1990 to 2003.

Candace Cameron Bure ("Full House") is onboard to play the title character of Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden, a librarian who is also a crime buff, a lover of mystery novels and a member of the Real Murders Club who meet to analyze famous crimes and mysteries.

Her insight into true crime ends up putting her at the center of different crimes that happen in her community.

Teena Booth ("Cyberbully") will pen the script for the first telemovie which Bure and Harris will executive produce. It's not presently clear how many movies Hallmark is planning, or which of the books it will adapt first.

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The CW announced its fall 2013-14 slate earlier today, adding five new dramas including a drama about Mary, Queen of Scots called Reign, as well as the highly anticipated Vampire Diaries spinoff titled The Originals, and The Tomorrow People, starring Robbie Amell, brother of Arrow’s Stephen Amell. The network has also released trailers which you can watch below. Let us know which shows you are interested in watching.

The Originals – Family is power. The Original Vampire family swore it to each other a thousand years ago. They pledged to remain together, always and forever. Now, centuries have passed and the bonds of family are broken. Time, tragedy and hunger for power have torn the Original Family apart. When Klaus Mikaelson, the original vampire-werewolf hybrid, receives a mysterious tip that a plot is brewing against him in the supernatural melting pot that is the French Quarter of New Orleans, he...

Chicago – The CW is shaking things up this Fall, perhaps recognizing that their audience doesn’t care as much what night of the week their shows are on as they’re getting increasingly likely to DVR, download, or stream them. 40% of the net’s line-up is switching nights, moving around three new shows in the mid-section of the week.

“Nikita“‘s final season is being held to mid-season.

Full schedule below, followed by new show descriptions.

*-new show

Monday

7pm “Hart of Dixie”

8pm “Beauty & the Beast”

Tuesday

7pm “The Originals”*

8pm “Supernatural”

Wednesday

7pm “Arrow”

8pm “The Tomorrow People”*

Thursday

7pm “The Vampire Diaries”

8pm “Reign”*

Friday

7pm “The Carrie Diaries”

8pm “America’s Next Top Model”

New Show Descriptions

“The Originals”

The Originals

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Family is power. The Original Vampire family swore it to each other a thousand years ago. They pledged to remain together,...

On any given day, Lifetime Movie Network might be airing The Truth About Jane. The 2000 made-for-tv film was about a teenage girl coming to terms with her sexuality, and her mother's struggle to understand it herself. Stockard Channing boosted the film's star power and it was a touching portrait of how a family works together in coming out, acceptance and realizing that unconditional love is what's most important.

So, whatever happened to Stockard and the women of The Truth About Jane?

Stockard Channing (Jane's homophobic-turned-understanding mother)

Although her most famous role will always be Rizzo in Grease, Stockard has worked in both TV and film since 1971. After a starring role on The West Wing, she appeared in Multiple Sarcasms, lent her voice to The Cleveland Show and is now working on a new film (A Fonder Heart) with Daryl Hannah and Rebecca De Mornay.

Ellen Muth (Jane, a 16-year-old lesbian...

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Last night the team at Drop Dead Diva once again tackled asensitive issue with humor and grace. In the episode “Prom” they took the storyof Mississippi teen Constance McMillen straight from the headlines. Thecourageous young woman is known for suing her high school after they barred herfrom going to the prom with her girlfriend. And the Diva episode in her honor attracted a slew of high profile gueststars including Wanda Sykes, Amanda Bearse, LanceBass and Clay Aiken. In a recent conference call interview, Aiken talked aboutwhy he wanted to be a part of the show.

The former American Idol contestant explained why he signed on to Drop Dead Diva’s “Prom” episode, “Let meput it this way, simply because the storyline is something… that resonated withme… Being a part of this episode was exciting for me.”

In addition Aiken said he believesthat beyond this episode,...

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Last week some of the stars of ABC Family's most popular shows gathered to give their support for Delete Digital Drama. The initiative, which was started to spread awareness of the growing epidemic of cyberbullying, was created by the network in partnership with Seventeen magazine. Emily Osment from Cyberbully, Vanessa Marano and Katie LeClere from Switched at Birth, Tyler Blackburn and Shay Mitchell from Pretty Little Liars, Skyler Samuels and Grey Damon from The Nine Lives of Chloe King and Daren Kagasoff from The Secret Life of the American Teenager have joined the campaign to help kids overcome digital abuse. On Thursday, July 14 in Glendale, California, they gathered to greet fans and spread the message the bullying is not okay and that it can be stopped.

Kids have been bullied (probably) since the beginning of time. Most people have experienced it in their lives.

Emily Osment is a talented young actress and singer who is known for her role on Hannah Montana and in films like Spy Kids 2 and The Secret Life of Girls.

On Sunday, July 17, she will be starring in the world premiere of ABC Family’s Original Movie Event, Cyberbully, at 8/7c!!

Cyberbully follows Taylor Hillridge (Osment), a teenage girl who falls victim to online bullying, and the cost it takes on her as well as her friends and family.

We Love Soaps TV recently spoke to Osment about her new film, bullying and her career. Read the transcript below:

We Love Soaps TV: Has your big brother [Haley Joel Osment] ever protected you from bullies or given you advice on dealing with bullies?

Emily Osment: We were typical kids growing up, got into scuffles sometimes. I mean, there was never really a time where he had to protect me from a bully.

In the fight against teen bullying, the very special TV movie is the obvious next step — hence, ABC Family's Cyberbully.

For Emily Osment, playing a tortured teen was emotionally draining. "The hardest thing was being on set every day and having to get into the state of mind where I was crying," Osment tells TVGuide.com. "It was emotionally strenuous."

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In the fight against teen bullying, the very special TV movie is the obvious next step — hence, ABC Family's Cyberbully.

For Emily Osment, playing a tortured teen was emotionally draining. "The hardest thing was being on set every day and having to get into the state of mind where I was crying," Osment tells TVGuide.com. "It was emotionally strenuous."

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On July 17, ABC Family is premiering a very important movie for teens. Cyberbully, starring Emily Osment (Hannah Montana and Spy Kids 2), tells the story of a young girl verbally attacked so viciously on an Internet social networking site that she falls into a deep depression. We spoke with Osment about the film and her anti-bullying efforts in an exclusive interview.

As an actress Emily was drawn to the role for the depth of the part. "Of all the other character's I've ever played, she's the most dramatic, definitely. And she's the most tragic and she takes a journey and she definitely has the biggest character arc I've ever seen. So it was time to jump into that with both feet and hopefully land in a place that helped me gear up for two months of depression and suicidal behavior."

She continued, "I think it's extremely important...

Emily Osment, known for her sunny roles in Hannah Montana and the Spy Kids movies, gets a chance to show her dramatic side in Cyberbully, a hard-hitting drama airing on ABC Family July 17. Osment plays Taylor Hillridge, an easygoing high-schooler who is thrilled when her mom gives her a laptop computer for her birthday. But her joy soon turns to tragedy after Taylor painfully discovers the brutal pitfalls of living online. A social media page she sets up soon becomes host to vicious rumors and comments about her, driving Taylor to the depths of despair. "I saw that it was a really good opportunity to show what I've got," Osment said. "I've wanted to do a dramatic role for a long time." The film is the centerpiece of the "Delete Digital Drama" campaign, a joint venture between ABC Family and Seventeen magazine.

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There's been a lot of talk around here recently about real geek girls and actresses who pretend to be geek girls. Well, I recently had the good fortune to spend some time getting to know a young woman that is both a talented actress and an honest-to-goodness geek. They might be a rare breed, but they do exist.

Meaghan Rath stars in Syfy's hit reimagining of Being Human, the British series about roommates who happen to be a ghost, a vampire and a werewolf. As Sally the spirit, Rath has proven to be, literally and figuratively, the soul of the show. At Comicpalooza, Texas' largest comic-con, in our interview and the panel I hosted with her, Rath revealed herself to be an authentic fangirl, giving all the right answers to all the telling questions.

Arriving sans handler or retinue, Rath was incredibly laid back, more an excited convention-goer than one...