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For nine seasons and 182 episodes, John C. McGinley challenged his team at Sacred Heart Hospital in the medical comedy series Scrubsas the acerbic, sarcastic Dr. Perry Cox.Now, the actor, who appeared in the cult classic film, Office Space, is reuniting with Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence for his new HBO comedy series, Deadline reports.

Lawrence, who is also behind such hit series as Ted Lassoand Shrinkingon Apple TV+, is partnering with writer/executive producer Matt Tarseson a new comedy series for HBO. The yet-untitled series is set to be headlined by Steve Carell (The Office),who will also serve as executive producer on the project.

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Exclusive: Scrubs alum John C. McGinley is reuniting with the medical comedy’s creator/executive producer Bill Lawrence and writer/co-executive producer Matt Tarses on their new comedy series for HBO, headlined and executive produced by Steve Carell.

McGinley is joining Carell, Charly Clive, Danielle Deadwyler and Phil Dunster in the cast of the untitled single-camera comedy series, which is set on a college campus and centers on an author’s (Carell) complicated relationship with his daughter (Clive).

McGinley will play Walter Mann, the President of the University.

The first of 10 half-hour episodes was written by Lawrence and Tarses. Lawrence, Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer of Doozer Productions executive produce alongside Tarses and Carell. The series is produced by Doozer in association with Warner Bros. Television, where Lawrence’s Doozer banner and Tarses are under overall deals.

This marks McGinley’s third collaboration with Lawrence. In addition to his signature role as Dr.

“Scrubs” creator and “Ted Lasso” writer Bill Lawrence is set to receive the Writers Guild of America East’s Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence at the 77th annual WGA Awards next month.

Named in honor of legendary “Saturday Night Live” writer and television producer Herb Sargent, who served as Wgae president for 14 years, the WGA East’s Sargent Award is given to a writer who “embodies the spirit, commitment and comic genius of Mr. Sargent, as well as his dedication to mentoring new writers,” per the writers’ union.

Previous recipients of the Sargent Award include writers Paul Simms, Judd Apatow, Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, Steve O’Donnell, Norman Stiles, Lorne Michaels, Paula Pell and James L. Brooks.

The prize will be bestowed upon Lawrence at the 2025 Writers Guild Awards’ New York ceremony for WGA East members on Feb. 15, which is held concurrently with the WGA West’s Los Angeles event.

Exclusive: In a competitive situation with multiple bidders, NBC has landed single-camera comedy Stumble with a put pilot commitment. It is written by Liz Astrof and Jeff Astrof, each a comedy showrunner in their own right teaming up for the first time to create a series together.

Stumble is a mockumentary about the ridiculously high stakes and competitive world of junior college cheer.

Cheerleading coach Monica Aldama, known for her appearance on the Netflix docuseries Cheer, is executive producing the comedy, which is expected to feature a female coach character. Liz Astrof and Jeff Astrof also executive produce alongside producer Dana Honor through her Defining Eve Productions.

With the pitch landing at NBC, Stumble will be produced by sibling Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

The Astrof siblings have worked together, with Liz serving as a consulting producer on two series co-created/executive produced by Jeff, NBC’s...

There are some people in the entertainment industry that have shaped culture profoundly and yet their names might not be known to the average fan. One such person is Bill Lawrence, and if someone's a fan of television at all, they've almost certainly watched at least one Bill Lawrence-created TV show, though they may not know it. Lawrence is one of the most successful and prolific TV creators of all time, and the list of shows he's created is incredible, including Spin City, Scrubs, Clone High, Cougar Town, Ted Lasso, Shrinking and many more. When it comes to bringing excellent TV to the world, Lawrence is truly second to none, and with Ted Lasso wrapped up and Shrinking Season 2 on the way in October, Lawrence has filled the gap with a surprising new hit with Vince Vaughn Apple TV+ dramedy Bad Monkey.

Based on a Carl Hiaasen novel by the same name,...

Back in the day, the ratings for TBS' original shows were low, but the cable channel was committed to airing its own scripted series. Oh, how times have changed. Which will be cancelled, and which will be renewed? Will TBS become a significant player again someday in the future? Stay tuned.

Scripted TBS shows listed: American Dad!, Angie Tribeca, Chad, Clipped, Cougar Town, The Detour, Final Space, Ground Floor, The Guest Book, The Last Og, Miracle Workers, People of Earth, Search Party, Sullivan & Son, Wrecked, and Your Family or Mine.

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Thirteen year old Missy Cooper seemed awfully chill behind the wheel of George’s 1986 Ford F-250 during the latest episode of Young Sheldon — but portrayer Raegan Revord was a ball of nerves.

In an Instagram post marking Missy and Paige’s Thelma & Louise-style adventure, Revord revealed that the episode was shot just hours after she and her mother were in a car accident.

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You can’t fake good chemistry, and these two have it in spades.

Great News’ Briga Heelan guest-stars in tonight’s episode of So Help Me Todd (CBS, 9/8c), reuniting her with Skylar Astin, who played her love interest on the short-lived TBS comedy Ground Floor from 2013 to 2015.

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Wednesday’s Survivor episode is titled “The Third Turd,” and we’ll give you just one guess as to which castaway coined that phrase.

Yes, Carolyn was all sorts of feisty when she returned from Tribal Council, explaining to Yam Yam that the reason Sarah had to go was because she was tired of feeling like Tika’s last turd. And with the tribe down to just three players, tensions were thick, as Carolyn and Yam Yam’s relationship seemed ruined, giving Josh an inside line at becoming the swing vote.

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There's never been a better time to be a fan of television. Streaming platforms have forced network television to step up their game, and the continued competition between said streamers has inspired some of the most creative approaches to both serialized and episodic entertainment. For a time, it used to be that prestige TV was reserved for the creator-driven tragic dramas of the 2000s and 2010s like "The Sopranos," "The Wire," "Lost," "Mad Men," "Breaking Bad," and "Deadwood." But now, prestige TV can encompass everything from the heartwarming adventures of "Only Murders in the Building" to the unflinching realness of "P-Valley."

It's an exciting evolution because the label of "prestige" is no longer solely relegated to shows about complicated men. Sometimes, like in the case of an edgy teen show like "Euphoria" or a cannibalism mystery thriller like "Yellowjackets," even high school girls can be at the center of must-watch TV.

Eight years after co-starring on the TBS sitcom Ground Floor, Briga Heelan and Skylar Astin are set to reunite in an upcoming episode of CBS’ So Help Me Todd, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Heelan will guest-star as Amy, a juror (and former Rose Festival Queen) in the show’s March 30 episode (9/8c), appropriately titled “Twelve Worried Persons.”

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It’s the end of an era for basic cable.

Our sister site Variety is reporting that Warner Bros. Discovery is halting scripted series development at TNT and TBS. The news comes just hours after Deadline confirmed that TBS had scrapped Damon Wayans Jr. comedy Kill the Orange-Faced Bear, which was previously ordered to series and set to commence production on its Season 1 order in a matter of weeks.

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A new doctor’s coming to Grey’s Anatomy as Skylar Astin (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist) joins the long-running ABC drama in a recurring role.

Deadline has confirmed that Astin will appear as Todd Earnes. Charming and handsome with a gentle soul, Eames holds a PhD in environmental sciences and loves a good spreadsheet. He is close with his sister, who is a pregnant patient at Grey Sloan Memorial. He will first appear as Todd in “Put the Squeeze on Me,” which will air on March 24.

News of latest addition to the cast comes nearly a week after the series’ midseason return. Deadline exclusively learned that this week’s upcoming episode will bid farewell to Richard Flood, who appeared Dr. Cormac Hayes for three seasons.

Astin recently starred alongside Jane Levy in NBC’s Emmy-winning Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist as Max. His recent television credits also include Roku’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

Warner Bros. Television Group announced Friday it has renewed a long-standing overall deal with Bill Lawrence, the Emmy-winning executive producer, writer, and showrunner of “Ted Lasso” and his production company, Doozer.

Lawrence, Doozer and Wbtg have been collaborating since 2011. This is his fourth contract with the company. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but company reps confirmed to TheWrap that Lawrence inked a multiyear agreement. His team at Doozer includes president Jeff Ingold and vice president Liza Katzer.

As part of the deal, Lawrence will continue to develop, create, and produce original series exclusively produced by Warner Bros. Television for all platforms, including HBO Max, external streaming services, cable, and the five broadcast networks.

Smash hit “Ted Lasso” is set to begin production next month on its third season for Apple TV+. Lawrence is also adapting and executive producing two new series for the streamer — “Bad Monkey,” based...

Bill Lawrence, the top comedy showrunner at the moment amid the enormous critical and commercial success of Ted Lasso, is staying put at Warner Bros. TV Group through 2028. After lengthy negotiations, Emmy winner Lawrence, who had a little time left on his current overall pact at the studio, has closed a blockbuster new five-year deal for his Doozer production company, I have learned. Noone is commenting but sources value the pact at more than $100 million, catapulting Lawrence in the very top tear of TV showrunners.

Like other overall agreements of that caliber in the era of Peak TV, the path to this one was not straight-forward, with some sources I spoke to calling it a wild ride. I hear Warner Bros. originally balked at Lawrence’s financial ask. Because he is still under an overall arrangement at the studio, the Scrubs creator could not go on the open market and officially test the waters.

Courteney Cox is a romance novelist with writer’s block, who gets a little spiritual help from Mira Sorvino following her family’s move to the country in the official trailer for Starz’s “Shining Vale,” which dropped Wednesday.

The series finds Cox playing Pat opposite Greg Kinnear’s Terry. They’re a couple struggling in their careers and in their marriage who bring their teenage children from Brooklyn to a quiet little town for a fresh start on life.

In the Victorian mansion the couple cashed in their savings to buy, Pat spends her days at home working on her long-long-long awaited follow-up novel to her first bestseller and wondering what’s really going on in the family’s new home, which she believes is haunted. Sorvino stars as Rosemary, a 50s housewife who might — or might not — be trying to take over Pat’s body, or possibly her...

Chicago – When we last talked to author/actor/producer and Chicago native Cindy Caponera in 2017, she was working on the excellent Showtime Network series “I’m Dying Up Here,’ about stand up comics in the 1970s. She’s currently in Chicago and will appear in the ongoing “Messing with a Friend” at the Annoyance Theatre. Click Messing for ticket info.

Cindy Caponera was born on the Southside of Chicago in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. She honed her comic skills with two stints in at The Second City, and began her television writing career with the early Comedy Central series, “Exit 57.” She landed a writing gig on “Saturday Night Live” in 1995, and after three seasons on that show has worked as a freelance TV writer ever since. Her credits includes “Norm,” “My Boys,” “Sherri,” “Ground Floor,” plus Showtime’s “Shameless,” “Nurse Jackie.” And “I’m Dying Up Here.” In 2014, she published her collection of essays,...

Exclusive: Writing/producing duo Bill Martin and Mike Schiff (The Unicorn) have signed with A3 Artists Agency for representation.

Martin and Schiff most recently created and executive produced comedy series The Unicorn, starring Walton Goggins, which aired for two seasons on CBS.

The duo began their television writing careers on In Living Color and soon were staffed on 3rd Rock From the Sun. They served as showrunners for three seasons on 3rd Rock before leaving to create their own series Grounded for Life on Fox. More recently, they reunited with John Lithgow as writers on the murder documentary spoof Trial & Error. Additional credits include Fam, Living Biblically, The Soul Man and Ground Floor.

Martin and Schiff continue to be repped by Michael Gendler and Kevin Kelly at Gendler & Kelly.

Emily Heller has signed an overall deal with CBS Studios, Variety has learned exclusively.

Under the deal, Heller will focus on developing comedy projects. This will come naturally to Heller, who has racked up an impressive resume in the comedy world in recent years.

She has worked as a writer and producer on a number of popular shows, including the hit HBO dark comedy “Barry.” The show has won six Emmy Awards to date, with Heller having received multiple nominations for her contributions behind the camera. She has received Writers’ Guild, Golden Globe, and Producers’ Guild Award nominations for the series as well.

Her other TV writing credits include shows such as “Medical Police,” “Search Party,” “People of Earth,” and “Crowded.” As an actress, she has been on shows like “Maron,” “Inside Amy Schumer,” “You’re the Worst,” “Grace and Frankie,” “Ground Floor,” and the animated series “BoJack Horseman.”

Heller is...

Clone High, the early-2000s era-defining cult-classic animated series, is about to have its story genome extracted and spliced into a new television series vector, with MTV now set for franchise revival plans.

MTV has announced the long-awaited return of Clone High, which will manifest as an all-new small-screen series that will “re-imagine” the 2002-2003 single season original series. Auspiciously, the revival will see the return of creators Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Bill Lawrence, who will develop alongside its appointed showrunner, Erica Rivinoja, who served as a writer on the original series. Thusly, Rivinoja will co-write the pilot with Lord and Miller.

As Chris McCarthy, President of ViacomCBS Entertainment and Youth Group, expresses in a statement:

“We are thrilled to reunite with Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Bill Lawrence to re-imagine this cult classic as we rapidly grow our portfolio of beloved and iconic adult animation series.”

MTV’s...

The countdown to Lauren Graham‘s anticipated TV return continues!

In exactly one month, the Gilmore Girls and Parenthood vet’s new NBC musical dramedy Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist will make its debut — and we have two exclusive new images of her from the premiere episode. (And we also have footage of her singing!)

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NBC is in tune with “Perfect Harmony” executive producer Jason Winer, developing another show from Winer’s 20th Century Fox TV-based Small Dog Picture Company. The Peacock network has bought the script “Forever Family,” a comedy from writers Austen Earl and Joel Church-Cooper.

Winer will serve as a non-writing executive producer on “Forever Family,” which centers on three different families that live “miles away but worlds apart” and who discover that their adopted children all share the same birth father. Earl and Church-Cooper will executive produce the project, along with Winer and Jon Radler, who heads up development at Small Dog.

“Forever Family” is part of a growing slate for Winer, who sealed a new overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV, now a part of Disney, earlier this year. Winer has been based at 20th for 13 years, and his current credits include “Perfect Harmony,” which premiered on NBC last month,...

And now for some truly Extraordinary news: Lauren Graham is returning to TV.

The Gilmore Girls and Parenthood vet is joining the cast of NBC’s forthcoming midseason dramedy Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist as a series regular, TVLine has learned. Graham will play the role of Joan, the boss of Jane Levy’s titular computer coder. She replaces Carmen Cusack, who played the character in the pilot. (I hear Graham inked a one-year deal with the show.)

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Exclusive: Shining Vale, a half-hour horror-comedy from Divorce creator Sharon Horgan, Trial & Error co-creator Jeff Astrof and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, has landed at Starz with a pilot order.

The single-camera project, from Warner Bros. TV, where Astrof is under an overall deal, was originally set up at Showtime with a pilot production commitment. I hear the CBS-owned network greenlighted the script contingent on Catastrophe co-creator/co-lead Horgan starring. She was not available, and the project was put in turnaround with multiple outlets interested. I hear Starz COO Jeffrey Hirsch was instrumental in bringing the comedy to the premium network. Starz’s sibling Lionsgate TV will co-produce with Warner bros. TV.

This is the third pilot for Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s Merman this year, joining the animated Therapy Dog at Fox, starring Lisa Kudrow with Horgan among the voice cast, and Delilah at HBO Max, headlined by Jessica Rothe.

GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (Lgbtq) media advocacy organization, today announced that the nominees for the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards will be announced live from Park City, Utah from the At&T Hello Lounge during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival on Friday, January 25.

The announcement will be hosted by Mj Rodriguez (FX’s Pose) and Nico Santos. GLAAD is an Institute Associate of Sundance and will also host on-the-ground events during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival to raise visibility of Lgbtq-inclusive films and Lgbtq filmmakers.

The nominee announcement for the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, hosted by At&T, will be live-streamed on GLAAD’s Facebook page on Friday, January 25 at 10:00am Et.

The GLAAD Media Awards honor media for fair, accurate and inclusive representations of Lgbtq people and issues. The 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, presented by Delta Air Lines, Gilead, and Ketel One Family-Made Vodka,...

Exclusive: Bill Lawrence and his Doozer production company are staying put at Warner Bros. TV with a new rich multi-year overall deal. Under the significant, eight-figure pact, which I hear is for five years, the company has sold a department store comedy to NBC starring and co-written by comedian Brent Morin, who starred on Doozer’s NBC comedy series Undateable.

This is Lawrence’s third consecutive deal at Wbtv where the Scrubs creator has been since 2011 when former NBC head of comedy Jeff Ingold joined him at Doozer. The two will continue to work together.

Co-written by Morin and former Undateable writer Matt Hausfater, the untitled NBC multi-camera comedy centers on Andy Hewitt (Morin) who, in a desperate attempt to prove himself to his family after losing his dream job, has no choice but to take a retail job at the world’s most fashionable department store.

Hausfater executive produces with Lawrence and Ingold.

Greg is back… but he looks a bit different: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has added Pitch Perfect star Skylar Astin to play the role of Greg in its upcoming fourth and final season.

Astin will be taking over for original cast member Santino Fontana, who played Greg during Crazy Ex‘s first two seasons before exiting the show. (Greg was a main love interest for star Rachel Bloom’s Rebecca Bunch before leaving West Covina to go back to school.) “Rachel and I had always been exploring bringing back that character, and trying to figure out a way to do it that fits with our show,...

Trial & Error co-creator/executive producer Jeff Astrof has signed a new overall deal with the studio behind the NBC comedy series, Warner Bros. Television. Under the multi-year pact, he will continue to serve as executive producer/showrunner on Trial & Error, which is heading into its second season starring Kristin Chenoweth, along with developing new projects for broadcast via Wbtv and cable/streaming via its Warner Horizon division.

Under his previous Wbtv overall agreement, Astrof co-created the serialized NBC comedy Trial & Error with Matt Miller, who is focused on running his other Wbtv series, Lethal Weapon on Fox. Trial & Error was renewed for a second season after a well reviewed first installment starring John Lithgow.

Astrof also has horror comedy Shining Vale in the works at Showtime via Wbtv. The pay cable network landed the project, from Astrof, Divorce creator Sharon Horgan and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, in...

Briga Heelan has no trouble bringing it when it comes to comedy. But the Great News actress and her husband, actor and writer Rene Gube, had some difficulty when it came to choosing the name for their now 6-month-old daughter Bennet Alejandra.

“It was the only name that my husband and I both had really big reactions to, and we were like, ‘Okay, that’s it,’ ” Heelan, 30, told People of the unisex name for their daughter at the People Ones To Watch party at NeueHouse in Hollywood, California, on Wednesday.

“There’s actually a name app for baby names. It...

The ratings may be pretty low for TBS' original scripted TV series but this cable channel seems to be committed to airing them. Of course, they can't keep them all. Which will be cancelled and which will be renewed? Stay tuned.Scripted TBS shows listed: American Dad!, Angie Tribeca, Clipped, Cougar Town, The Detour, Ground Floor, The Guest Book, People of Earth, Search Party, Sullivan & Son, Wrecked, and Your Family or Mine.Last update: Most recent ratings added for The Guest Book.There's lots of data that execs look at when deciding whether to renew or cancel a TV series. The ratings for initial airings don't play as large a role as they do on commercial stations but they are still an indication of how popular a show is. Here's an updated listing of the recent/current primetime scripted shows on...

The humorous and heartwarming award-winning film, Dean, will arrive on DVD, Digital HD and On Demand August 29 from Lionsgate. Comedian and Emmy® nominee Demetri Martin (2004, Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program, TV’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”) stars alongside Academy Award® winner Kevin Kline (1988, Actor in a Supporting Role, A Fish Called Wanda) as a father and son who set out on their own paths to find a new normal following a life-changing event. The film’s all-star cast also includes Gillian Jacobs, Rory Scovel, Ginger Gonzaga, Screen Actors Guild Award® nominee Reid Scott (2012, Ensemble in a Comedy Series, TV’s “Veep”), and Academy Award® winner Mary Steenburgen (1981, Actress in a Supporting Role, Melvin and Howard). Written and directed by Demetri Martin, this comedy about loss, grief and the redemptive power of love won Best Narrative Feature at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. Including two never-before-seen featurettes...

Chicago – One of the great new premium channel TV series, which piggybacked on the “Twin Peaks” return on the Showtime Network, is “I’m Dying Up Here.” Set in the 1970s, it tells the stories of fictional stand up comedians in Los Angeles, and one of the Consulting Producers and series writers is Cindy Caponera.

Ari Graynor as Cassie in ‘I’m Dying Up Here’

Photo credit: Showtime Network

Caponera wrote the latest episode, “Girls Are Funny, Too,” which focused on Cassie (Ari Graynor), as she tries to break new ground in an era where women in comedy had even more obstacles in a man’s show business world. The episode was loose, poignant and funny, and highlighted the excellent cast, which includes Oscar winner Melissa Leo as Goldie, the owner of the club that the stand up comics perform in. Add in Jake Lacy, Al Madrigal, Andrew Santino, Erik Griffin and Rj Cyler,...

Great News — Briga Heelan is a mom!

The actress and her husband Rene Gube have welcomed their first child, daughter Bennet Alejandra Gube, her rep confirms to People exclusively.

The baby girl was born on Thursday, March 23, measuring 21 inches and weighing 7 lbs., 9 oz.

Heelan posted a funny snap to Instagram in early May: a selfie showing a mark her baby girl left near her collarbone. “My lil baby was suckling on my neck and it was so cute until it was weird,” she captioned the pouting pic.

The 30-year-old new mom’s followers got a glimpse of Bennet on Mother’s Day,...

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Great News

Network | NBC

Created By | Tracey Wigfield

Number Of Episodes | 10

Episode Length | 30 mins.

Premise | Katie Wendelson (Ground Floor‘s Briga Heelan) is an up-and-coming cable news producer whose professional and personal lives collide when her mother (Difficult People’s Andrea Martin) scores an internship on her show, The Breakdown.

“The Originals” fans, rest easy: Klaus and krewe will be back for another year, marking the show’s fifth season.

Also renewed by The CW: “iZombie,” for a fourth season.

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New to the network: “Black Lightning,” which was originally developed at Fox but eventually moved to The CW. Cress Williams stars as Jefferson Pierce, “who made his choice: he hung up the suit and his secret identity years ago, but with a daughter hell-bent on justice and a star student being recruited by a local gang, he’ll be pulled back into the fight as the wanted vigilante and DC legend — Black Lightning.”

Then there’s “Life Sentence,” an hour-long dramedy starring Lucy Hale as a a young woman diagnosed with terminal cancer. When she finds out that she’s not dying after all, she has to...

A new superhero and a (former) liar are making their way to The CW.

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The network on Wednesday gave official series orders to Black Lightning, a DC Comics property starring CW vet Cress Williams (Hart of Dixie) in the title role, and Life Sentence, which stars Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars), who also enjoyed a stint on the network via the short-lived Privileged.

Black Lightning stars Williams as a retired superhero named Jefferson Pierce, who finds himself back in vigilante mode thanks to his justice-seeking daughter and the threat of a...

Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler are betting “The House.”

Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for its comedian-studded farce, directed by Andrew Jay Cohen from a script he co-wrote with “Neighbors” collaborator, Brendan O’Brien. The movie stars Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler as a married couple who start an illegal casino in their basement in order to raise money to send their daughter to the college of her dreams.

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The trailer shows Jason Mantzoukas (“The League,” “Enlightened”) promising the desperate couple a way to make “four years’ tuition in one month” with an underground casino. “You wanna make money like Vegas, you’ve gotta look like Vegas,” he says, as he enthusiastically guides the couple through a nail salon, massage parlor, and even a strip club. The trailer features cameos from comedy favorites such as...

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Briga Heelan is pregnant!

The Undateable star and her husband, fellow actor Rene Gube, are expecting their first child, the actress announced on Instagram Monday.

“Happy Halloween from the growing Gube family!!” Heelan, 29, captioned a photo of herself and Gube placing their hands over her baby belly.

“Next Halloween we will be covered in spit up and diapers … and we can’t wait,” she continued, adding three heart emojis.

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NBC is turning to some sketch-comedy MVPs to boost its 2016-2017 schedule.

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The network on Friday gave series orders to Marlon — a family sitcom starring Marlon Wayans (In Living Color, Scary Movie) — and Great News, starring Sctv vet Andrea Martin and produced by Tina Fey (SNL, 30 Rock).

Wayans will star in and executive-produce his eponymous comedy, with the cast also including Essence Atkins (Are We There Yet?, Half & Half), Bresha Webb (Grey’s Anatomy), Diallo Riddle (Silicon Valley) and young newcomers Notlim Taylor and Amir O’Neil. Loosely inspired by Wayans’ own life,...

As the nation’s perennial boomtown, finding a reasonably priced, suitably located home in Austin has become an increasingly arduous task for young artists. Here are five neighborhoods where it’s still possible to make a living if you live to make art. Johnston Terrace/GovalleThe most concerted effort to foster the Austin art scene is in lower East Austin near Springdale Avenue and Bolm Road. The Canopy art complex, a new but instantly vital 40,000 square-foot facility boasting over 50 diverse studios, including multi-use and gallery spaces, anchors this burgeoning creative community. Big Medium, one of Austin’s signature galleries and organizers of the massive East Austin Studio Tour oversees the complex. Other hubs include Ground Floor Theatre, a black box theater whose productions focus on underrepresented communities, and the Museum of Human Achievement, a fiercely strange gallery and performance space that lives its slogan: “Think less nightclub, more cult.” The...

Sarah Davis lives and works in Brooklyn with her husband Millree Hughes and daughter Meriel.

Bradley Rubenstein: What were some of your early experiences, like school, for example, where you decided to become an artist?

Sarah Davis: My radar was, What’s the best thing to be doing when you’re 80? Where are the best-looking old people? And for me, that was obviously painters, or the art world more generally. Maybe I was close to my grandparents, or maybe it came from going to high school in L.A., where the projected end was 30. Still, painting was my identity from about age 8. Every kind of picture book, and there were tons of them, was how I spent my free time. I copied everything and made up my own. Making paintings and drawings was how I socialized, from third grade on.

Br: A lot of your work deals with...

Krysta Rodriguez, please raise your right hand, and solemnly swear to bring the LOLs.

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The Smash alumna is set to co-star in The Trail, NBC’s documentary-style comedy pilot about a high-profile murder trial in a small southern town, TVLine has learned.

Penned by Jeff Astrof (Angie Tribeca, Ground Floor) and Matt Miller (Forever), the potential series follows a young, big-city lawyer (Gotham‘s Nicholas D’Agosto) and his oddball defense team.

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Briga Heelan (Undateable) will play daughter to Andrea Martin (Difficult People) on an NBC comedy pilot being produced by 30 Rock/Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt‘s Tina Fey and Robert Carlock.

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Penned by Tracey Wigfield (30 Rock, Mindy Project), the as-yet-untitled, single-camera project follows an already inseparable mother/daughter relationship that grows complicated when mom accepts an internship at her TV-producer daughter’s workplace.

The cast also includes Adam Campbell (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) and Kimrie Lewis-Davis (Scandal).

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Briga Heelan (Ground Floor, Undateable) has been cast as the lead in NBC's untitled Tracey Wigfield comedy pilot from Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. She joins co-lead Andrea Martin, Kimrie Lewis-Davis and Adam Campbell. Written by Wigfield, the single-camera comedy centers on Katie (Heelan), whose already inseparable relationship with her mother Carol (Martin) becomes more complicated when Carol accepts an internship at Katie's workplace, a news program where Katie is a…...

Love is dumb. Love is irrational. Love defies all logical arguments against it. It can make you act in terribly self-destructive ways. It's not math. It's love, and when you feel it, nothing else matters. Which brings us to Netflix's Love, a romantic comedy series created by Judd Apatow, Lesley Arfin, and Paul Rust, starring Rust and Gillian Jacobs as a pair of Angelenos who meet awkward, date even more awkwardly, and seem determined to make a go of things despite ample evidence warning them not to. (Its 10-episode first season debuts Friday; I've watched the whole thing.) Love is messy. It's shaggy. It takes weird detours that only sometimes work, and on occasion it seems to be daring its audience to not only root against the central couple, but to question how many more episodes they might want to watch. I can see all those issues, and more. I just don't care.

Don’t let the title of Fox’s newest comedy fool you: Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life has little to no idea how to survive much of anything — at least not yet.

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The oddball sitcom, which premiered Sunday, follows a trio of twentysomethings in the uncertain decade following college, and the hijinks that ensue as they attempt to strike out on their own.

The Parker Lewis Can’t Lose/Hangover-inspired hybrid takes place in present day, where our eponymous life guide Cooper (Jack Cutmore-Scott, Kingsman: The Secret Service...

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There are still several weeks left before Fox cracks open Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life, but we’ve already got a sneak peek at some of its wisdom.

Premiering Sunday, Jan. 3 at 8:30/7:30c, the freshman comedy stars Jack Cutmore-Scott (Kingsman: The Secret Service) as the titular sad sack who doesn’t have the job he wants and has accidentally fallen in love with his across-the-hall neighbor Kelly (Being Human‘s Meaghan Rath).

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As Cooper struggles to survive each of life’s many challenges,...

We haven’t met Cooper Barrett yet, but if his pedigree is any indication, he’s probably a hoot.

Fox’s midseason comedy Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life has cast Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle) and Alan Ruck (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Bunheads) to play the title character’s parents, TVLine has learned exclusively.

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Ruck and Kaczmarek will guest-star as Mark and Cindy Barrett, father and mother to Jack Cutmore-Scott’s (Kingsman: The Secret Service) Cooper and Justin Bartha’s (The New Normal) Josh.