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Comedy ‘Coup!’, Starring Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Magnussen & Sarah Gadon, Gets North America Deal

The Entertainment 360, Phiphen, and Hemlock Circle production stars Peter Sarsgaard (Dopesick), Billy Magnussen (Roadhouse), Sarah Gadon (Alias Grace) and Skye P. Marshall (Good Sam).

The comedy had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival’s Giornate Degli Autori, and Greenwich will release the film in theaters this summer.

The synopsis reads: “Isolated on a seaside estate, an entitled journalist (Billy Magnussen) and his socialite wife (Sarah Gadon) take in a mysterious grifter as a private cook (Peter Sarsgaard). When a plague descends on the island, the wily cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion. Their employer suspects the cook’s coup is part of a more sinister agenda, and mind games between master and servant escalate into all-out class warfare”.

Supporting cast includes Faran Tahir (Iron Man), Kristine Nielsen (The Gilded Age), and Fisher Stevens (Succession).

Greenwich’s Andy Bohn negotiated the acquisition with WME Independent and Film Constellation on behalf of the filmmakers. Film Constellation is handling international sales.

Schuman and Stark stated: “Coup! was a labor of love, and it’s been an honor to work with Peter, Billy, Sarah and the rest of our incredible cast and crew. The film’s special blend of comedy and suspense deserves a bold and innovative distributor. We couldn’t be more excited to partner with Greenwich to set our baby free in cinemas this summer.”

Pic is produced by Brian Levy for Entertainment 360, Molly Conners, Amanda Bowers, and Jane Sinisi for Phiphen, Harris Gurny for Coup! Media, and Warner Davis for Hemlock Circle Productions.

Executive producers include Fabien Westerhoff for Film Constellation, Billy Magnussen via his HappyBad Bungalow banner, Peter Sarsgaard, Todd M. Friedman, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Olga Kagan and Tyler Peters.r

Mary & George Trailer

Amanda Seyfried To Headline Limited Series ‘Long Bright River’ For Peacock

She’ll also executive produce the series from Sony Pictures Television and UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group.

Word of the project leaked after Seyfried and Moore were spotted taking a ride-along with the 26th District Police in Philadelphia on Tuesday.

Long Bright River is a suspense thriller that tells the story of Mickey (Seyfried), a police officer who patrols a Philadelphia neighborhood hard-hit by the opioid crisis. When a series of murders begins in the neighborhood, Mickey realizes that her personal history might be related to the case.

Nikki Toscano (The Offer, Hunters) and Moore write and executive produce, with Toscano serving as showrunner. Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty and Amanda Lewis will executive produce for Original Film and Amy Pascal will executive produce for Pascal Pictures.

Hagar Ben-Asher (Bad Boy, Dead Women Walking) is directing and executive produce the first episode.

“We are thrilled that Amanda Seyfried will lead this series about how those initially perceived as victims can band together to regain their power,” said Moore and Toscano in a joint statement. “Moore’s family history and her work with harm-reduction and community-service organizations in Philadelphia informed the series, which aims to portray with compassion the lives of those struggling with addiction and the family members who love them.”

Julianne Moore Joins Tilda Swinton In Pedro Almodóvar’s English-Language Debut ‘The Room Next Door’

The dual casting was confirmed by Almodóvar’s production company, El Deseo, this morning with a re-post on its Instagram story following months of speculation and online rumors. John Turturro rounds out the cast announced today.

“The actresses are placed under the command of the director from La Mancha in a drama between mother and daughter that will be filmed in the spring in New York and Madrid and will be his first film shot in English,” the post said.

The Room Next Door will be Almodóvar’s first feature-length project since 2021’s Parallel Mothers, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival. The film starred Penelope Cruz — who won the Best Actress prize at Venice — and Milena Smit as single mothers who became pregnant by accident and meet in a hospital room as they are about to give birth.

Per the plot synopsis released by Pathe, The Room Next Door is the complex story of a flawed mother and her daughter, separated by a massive misunderstanding. At the heart of this conflict, Ingrid (Moore), a friend of Martha’s (Swinton) mother, becomes a witness to each person’s pain and bitterness. Martha is a war reporter, Ingrid is an autofiction novelist. The film addresses the limitless cruelty of wars and highlights the unique approaches of the two writers to depict reality. It explores the themes of death, friendship and sexual pleasure, considered essential allies in the fight against horror. In a house nestled in the heart of a nature reserve in New England, the two friends will experience a situation that is both extreme and surprisingly tender.

The upcoming feature marks the Talk to Her and All About My Mother Oscar winner’s second recent attempt at English-language filmmaking. In 2022, we reported that Almodóvar had dropped out of directing A Manual for Cleaning Women, which had Cate Blanchett set to star and produce under her Dirty Films label. The feature project was announced back in January 2022 and was based on Lucia Berlin’s 43-part collection of short stories that examine the lives of women working a wide variety of demanding jobs.

“It has been a very painful decision for me,” Almodóvar told Deadline at the time. “I have dreamt of working with Cate for such a long time. Dirty Films has been so generous with me this whole time and I was blinded by excitement, but unfortunately, I no longer feel able to fully realize this film.”

Swinton previously teased her involvement in The Room Next Door during an interview with a French culture magazine. She and Almodóvar collaborated on short film The Human Voice.&

‘Road House’ Trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal & Conor McGregor Come Out Swinging In SXSW’s Opening-Night Film

The reveal comes the day after Liman revealed on Deadline that he was boycotting the film’s world premiere at SXSW– it has been slated to be the opening-night film in Austin on March 8. The director, who calls the pic possibly the best work he has done, said distributor Amazon MGM Studios did not fulfill a pledge to give the actioner a theatrical release.

Today, the company said Road House will stream globally on Prime Video only beginning March 21.

Along with Gyllenhaal playing UFC fighter-turned Florida Keys roadhouse bouncer Elwood Dalton, the cast features Daniela Melchior, Billy Magnussen, Jessica Williams, Joaquim de Almedia, McGregor, Lukas Gage, Arturo Castro, B.K. Cannon, Beau Knapp and Darren Barnet.

The plot revolves around a down-on-his-luck UFC fighter hired as the bouncer at a rowdy Keys roadhouse that is being threatened by baddies wanting to shut it down to build a mega-resort, with their own muscle Knox (McGregor) front and center.

Liman directed a script by Anthony Bagarozzi, Charles Mondry based on David Lee Henry and Hilary Henkin’s original screenplay. The story comes from Bagarozzi, Mondry and Henry.

Check out the trailer above.

SANTA BARBARA Co-Creator Bridget Dobson Dead at 85

Dobson had soaps in her blood as the daughter of GENERAL HOSPITAL creators Frank and Doris Hursley. She married Jerome Dobson in 1961 and began working as a team writing scripts for GH in the early ‘70s. In 1975, the Dobsons were made headwriters of CBS sudser GUIDING LIGHT and later AS THE WORLD TURNS.

In 1984 the Dobsons created the iconic NBC soap SANTA BARBARA which became well-known for its wit and humor as well as its creative and dramatic storylines. “We wanted to take risks,” Bridget told the L.A. Times. “Otherwise, we know the show would die in that time slot as other soaps and game shows had. So we created two competitive families, the Capwells and the Lockridges, who were psychologically complicated but also psychologically and emotionally valid. We took the core of our own inner souls and put it on screen, for multifaceted characters with multidimensional personalities. That there was humor made the show unique — each character has a sense of humor.”

Nancy Lee Grahn, who now plays Alexis on GH, became a soap star playing Julia Wainwright Capwell on SANTA BARBARA and paid tribute to the legendary soap creator in a heartfelt Instagram post. “Bridget Dobson and her husband Jerry hired me to play the most curious, absorbing, complex, inspiring character of my career,” she wrote. “Realizing the role of Julia Wainwright, having the privilege of feeling my way through this beautifully constructed character’s relationship with herself and others was life-altering for me. It advanced me as an actress and a woman. It introduced 140 -some countries to me and me to them and it set the path to a career that has so far lasted 38 years. The effect just one person can have on your life is quite extraordinary. Rest in greatness, Bridget, and thank you.”

Our thoughts are with Dobson’s family and friends during this difficult time.

AARP Movies For Grownups Nominations

Best Actor (TV): Brian Cox (Succession), Bryan Cranston (Your Honor), Oliver Platt (The Bear), Rufus Sewell (The Diplomat), Henry Winkler (Barry)

‘The White Lotus’: Leslie Bibb, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Parker Posey, Dom Hetrakul & Tayme Thapthimthong Cast In Season 3

The new installment, set in Thailand, will begin filming in and around Koh Samui, Phuket, and Bangkok in February and will follow a new group of guests at another White Lotus property.

As usual, no character details about the guests are shared but as Deadline reported exclusively in November, revealing the February start of production, the multi-generational group includes a patriarch, a female corporate executive, an actress, a couple of mothers, including a country club wife, a misfit and a yogi.

Rothwell is set to reprise her Season 1 role as Belinda.

The casting of Season 3 began hours after the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike and carried on through the holidays, with several more actor deals currently being negotiated.

On the filming and promotion of the third installment, HBO has partnered with the Tourism Authority of Thailand.

“It’s going to be a supersized White Lotus,” White said of Season 3 back in November. “It’s going to be longer, bigger, crazier. I don’t know what people will think, but I am super excited, so at least for my own barometer, that’s a good thing.”

It is unclear whether this means that the number of episodes would increase again after going up from 6 in Season 1 to 7 in Season 2.

Originally targeted for 2024, Season 3 is “likely moving into 2025” due to the strikes, Casey Bloys, Chairman and CEO, HBO and Max, said in November.

Getting the new seasons of The White Lotus, The Last Of Us and Euphoria — all delayed by the work stoppage – up and running has been a major priority for HBO.

Following the Season 2 finale of The White Lotus last December, White said that Season 3 will be exploring “death in Eastern religion and spirituality.”

Said HBO’s head of drama Francesca Orsi in May, “It’s an exploration about spirituality versus the ego. And it’s set against the Eastern religion.”

The first installment of The White Lotus, which premiered July 2021 and was set in Hawaii, received 20 Emmy nominations across 13 categories and won ten trophies, the most wins of any program that year, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series. The Sicily-set second season, which premiered in December 2022, garnered 23 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series.

Created, written and directed by White, The White Lotus is executive produced by White, David Bernad and Mark Kamine.

Bibb is repped by CAA. Isaacs is repped by Independent Talent Group, Gersh and Silver Lining Entertainment. Monaghan repped by CAA, Anonymous Content and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Posey is repped by CAA.,

Golden Globes Presenters: ‘Suits’ Duo, Angela Bassett, Will Ferrell Among First Names Set

Jo Koy is hosting the Golden Globes, which will honor the year’s best in motion pictures and TV. The ceremony will air beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT live on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.

More presenters will be announced.

Among this year’s Golden Globe nominees in 26 categories, 2023’s box office champ Barbie from Warner Bros leads all films with nine, followed by Universal’s Oppenheimer with eight and Apple’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Searchlight’s Poor Things with seven apiece. In the TV races, HBO’s final go-round with Succession has nine noms, the most-ever for a series, scoring mentions in all categories in which it was eligible.

This year’s Globes — it’s first time back on CBS since 1982 — include two new awards categories: Cinematic and Box Office Achievement in Motion Pictures and Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television.

Longtime Globes producer Dick Clark Productions is planning, hosting and producing this year’s awards after the Globes’ assets, rights and properties were acquired by Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association back in June.

Dcp is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a PMC subsidiary and joint venture between Penske Media Corporation and Eldridge.

Soap opera vet added to the Young and the Restless

Celebrity Jeopardy!: Semifinal #2: Steven Weber, Katie Nolan and Dulé Hill (1/09)

8:00-9:00 p.m. EST – Celebrity Jeopardy!: “Semifinal #2: Steven Weber, Katie Nolan and Dulé Hill” (211)

Logline: Actor Steven Weber (“Wings”), sports commentator Katie Nolan and actor Dulé Hill (ABC’s “The Wonder Years”) compete for a chance to move on to the finals.

London Critics’ Circle Awards Noms

SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Claire Foy – All of Us Strangers
Sandra Hüller – The Zone of Interest
Julianne Moore – May December
Rosamund Pike – Saltburn
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdover

Australia’s AACTA International Awards Nominations

Best Lead Actor
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

Best Supporting Actress
Penélope Cruz – Ferrari
Vanessa Kirby – Napoleon
Julianne Moore – May December
Rosamund Pike – Saltburn
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

Marisa Tomei, Sherry Cola & Ciara Bravo Leading Rom-Com ‘You’re Dating A Narcissist!’

My Cousin Vinny and The Wrestler star Tomei will play an outspoken psychologist, burnt by love, who specializes in toxic relationships. Comedy ensues when she takes an emergency trip to Los Angeles with her best friend (Cola) to talk her smitten daughter (Bravo) out of marrying a man she is convinced is a narcissist.

Also starring are Marco Pigossi (Invisible City) and José María Yazpik (Narcos: Mexico).

Written by Ann Marie Allison (Golden Arm) and Jenna Milly (Golden Arm), the film will serve as Allison’s directorial debut.

Pic will be produced by Allison, Jorge Garcia Castro and The Wonder Company’s (Sacramento) Eric B. Fleischman and Chris Abernathy.

Allison said: “I am beyond thrilled that we’ve assembled a dream team of a cast to breathe life into this story, inspired by the tales of everyday people worldwide. My hope is to craft a film that resonates with anyone who’s danced with a narcissistic partner, offering humor, heart, and healing.”

Tomei is repped by Gersh, Untitled Entertainment and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. Allison and Milly are repped by Verve Talent & Literary Agency, Zero Gravity Management, and Litchter Grossman Nichols Adler Feldman & Clark. Bravo is repped by UTA and Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light. Cola is repped by CAA, Stark Management, and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.

The Critics Choice Awards Nominations

BEST ACTOR
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo – Rustin
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple
America Ferrera – Barbie
Jodie Foster – Nyad
Julianne Moore – May December
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

Tom Pelphrey Boards HBO’s Mark Ruffalo-Led Crime Drama Series From Brad Ingelsby

The series is set in the working-class suburbs outside of Philadelphia and follows an FBI agent who heads a Task Force. His goal is to put an end to a string of drug-house robberies led by an unsuspecting family man. The Untitled Task Force project is based on an original idea by the creator of Mare of Easttown, Brad Ingelsby.

Executive producers include Brad Ingelsby (Writer/EP); Jeremiah Zagar (Director/EP); Salli Richardson-Whitfield (Director/EP); Mark Ruffalo (Star/EP); Paul Lee and Mark Roybal for wiip; David Crockett. Co-executive producers are Nicole Jordan-Webber and Public Record’s Jeremy Yaches.

Pelphrey is currently in production on Season 2 of the Amazon Prime Sci-Fi neo-Western Outer Range in New Mexico alongside Josh Brolin, Imogen Poots, Lili Taylor and Lewis Pullman. Up next, he will lead ?A Man In Full, a Netflix limited series adaptation from Regina King and David E. Kelly of the Tom Wolfe novel of the same name.

Most recently Pelphrey starred in? Max’s? Love And Death, a limited series about the true story of Texas housewife Candy Montgomery’s murder of Betty Gore in 1980. He portrayed Don Crowder, a fellow church member and extremely combative defense attorney.

Pelphrey is represented by Gersh, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Sloane Offer Weber & Dern.

Nominations For The 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
BRADLEY COOPER (MAESTRO)
LEONARDO DICAPRIO (KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON)
COLMAN DOMINGO (RUSTIN)
BARRY KEOGHAN (SALTBURN)
CILLIAN MURPHY (OPPENHEIMER)
ANDREW SCOTT (ALL OF US STRANGERS)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE
EMILY BLUNT (OPPENHEIMER)
DANIELLE BROOKS (THE COLOR PURPLE)
JODIE FOSTER (NYAD)
JULIANNE MOORE (MAY DECEMBER)
ROSAMUND PIKE (SALTBURN)
DA’VINE JOY RANDOLPH (THE HOLDOVERS)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES, ANTHOLOGY SERIES, OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
MATT BOMER (FELLOW TRAVELERS)
SAM CLAFLIN (DAISY JONES & THE SIX)
JON HAMM (FARGO)
WOODY HARRELSON (WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS)
DAVID OYELOWO (LAWMEN: BASS REEVES)
STEVEN YEUN (BEEF)

Even During Cancer Treatment, Christian LeBlanc Keeps His Sense of Humor

On Nov. 30, LeBlanc shared a photo of himself sitting up in a hospital bed with his arms outstretched and a big smile on his face with the caption: “How to get discharged without really trying.” And as the word “Showtime” flashed at the bottom of the image, the audio of Angela Lansbury singing “Open a New Window” from the Broadway show Mame played.

A week later, on Dec. 7, The daytime star shared another pic of himself sitting in a chair under a blanket untethered from the IV stand at his side while eating a little snack after his treatment. On his head is a layered cold cap which is meant to help cool the scalp and prevent hair loss from the chemotherapy. And LeBlanc couldn’t resist quoting Sally Field’s iconic line from the movie Soapdish when she learned her soap character was being dressed in a turban: “Who am I, Gloria ******* Swanson?”

LeBlanc has also been working, sharing photos from the Y&R set throughout November. He made sure to grab selfies with J. Eddie Peck, who recently returned as Cole, as well as one with Colleen Zenk who made her return to daytime as the evil Jordan Howard. (LeBlanc and Zenk were co-stars on AS THE WORLD TURNS back in the ‘80s where he played Kirk McColl and she was Barbara Ryan!)

We’re glad to see that the cancer treatment continues to go well and that LeBlanc is keeping his spirits up throughout the whole thing!

Billy Magnussen, Alexandra Shipp & Nick Stahl To Topline Southern Revenge Thriller ‘Violent Ends’

Actors rounding out the cast of the film from Midnight Road Entertainment include James Badge Dale (Hightown), Emmy winner Kate Burton (Dumb Money), and Academy Award winner Ray McKinnon (Knox Goes Away).

Check out a first look still below.

A tale of star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the Ozark Mountains, Violent Ends chronicles the life of Lucas Frost (Magnussen), an honest man brought up in a crime family whose only legacy is violence. As Lucas tries to make his own life with his fiancée, Emma (Shipp), he is suddenly pulled back into the family business he so despises when his cousin, Eli, perpetrates an armed robbery on a local scrap yard and an innocent life is caught in the crossfire. Stahl portrays Lucas’s quietly jealous and insecure half-brother, Tuck.

Pic was produced by Midnight Road’s Vincent Sieber along with Undine Buka. Alex Kim and Catherine Fegan-Kim, together with Billy Magnussen (via his HappyBad Bungalow banner) exec produced, with HappyBad Bungalow’s Shane Andries and Anne Hollister serving as associate producers. The film is the second from the Arkansas-born Powell on the heels of the indie drama The Send-Off, produced by Buka and Glenn Howerton. Exec produced by Sieber, that film won the Audience Award at Filmland 5 as well as a New Filmmaker Grant from Panavision.

Magnussen was recently seen starring opposite Peter Sarsgaard in Coup!, an indie he produced via HappyBad Bungalow, which premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival. In addition to the action comedy Lift with Kevin Hart, which debuts on Netflix January 12, he’ll be seen next year in Prime Video’s Roadhouse reimagining, directed by Doug Liman and starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Also known for turns in films like No Time to Die and series like Made For Love, the in-demand actor has also been set to star in Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch pic from Marcel the Shell‘s Dean Fleischer Camp and the HBO comedy series The Franchise from Sam Mendes and Armando Iannucci.

Seen over the summer in Greta Gerwig’s record-setting Barbie, Shipp has also appeared in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feature directorial debut, Tick, Tick… BOOM!, Netflix’s romantic drama All the Bright Places, multiple X-Men films, Love, Simon, and Straight Outta Compton, among other titles. Among her other upcoming projects is Anyone But You, Will Gluck’s Sony rom-com out December 22, which has her starring opposite Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney.

Previously seen on Showtime’s series take of Let the Right One In, Fear the Walking Dead and Carnivàle, Stahl’s film credits include The Thin Red Line, Bully, In the Bedroom, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and Sin City, to name a few.

Upcoming projects produced by Midnight Road’s Sieber include Netflix’s feature reboot of The Chronicles of Narnia, the James Ellroy adaptation Blood’s a Rover, penned by Oscar noms Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, and the children’s animated series Boxen, based on the novel by C.S. Lewis.

Magnussen is repped by UTA, Anonymous Content, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern; Shipp by CAA, Neon Kite, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Dale by CAA, MJ Management, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Stahl by Independent Artist Group, Link Entertainment, and BMZ Law; Burton by Lou Coulson Associates in the UK, Gersh, and Principal Entertainment LA; and McKinnon by Anonymous Content and Skrzyniarz & Mallean. (Photo)

Colleen Zenk One-on-One 11/29/23

Colleen is known to daytime audiences for her delicious role of Barbara Ryan which she played for 32 years on As the World Turns.

Colleen was born in Barrington, Illinois and studied drama at The Catholic University of America. In her early career, she appeared in print ads and TV commercials for Kellogg’s and L’eggs.

Colleen has enjoyed a number of roles on stage as well including work on Broadway and off.

Lauryn Hill Postpones 2023 Tour Dates Due To “Serious Vocal Strain”

In an Instagram post today, Hill wrote, “As many of you may know, I’ve been battling serious vocal strain for the past month. I made it through each show by taking prescribed prednisone, but this can be detrimental to the body when taken in large amounts over long periods of time. In order to prevent any long term negative affect on my voice and my body, I need to take time off to allow for real vocal recovery so that I can discontinue the medication completely.”

Hill said that, with the exception of her Philadelphia concert on Nov. 25, all of the remaining 2023 tour dates will be postponed until next year.

Hill is touring with the reunited Fugees to mark the 25th anniversary of her breakthrough album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. The postponed dates were to have included stops in Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte NC, Huntsville Al, Tampa, Miami and Boston. The tour has already played Brooklyn, Chicago and Los Angeles.

“The shows that were cancelled this year will be rescheduled for early 2024 AND because of the overwhelming response, we’ll be adding new cities to the tour, including overseas,” Hill wrote. “We’re working on the new calendar now, and announcing soon.”

Roger Howarth Discharged From ‘General Hospital’

Roger Howarth has officially said goodbye to General Hospital, his on-and-off home since 2012. His character was fatally shot in the Nov. 17 installment of the ABC sudser.

Howarth let fans know via Instagram that his days in Port Charles are over. Fans had been speculating for weeks that his character may be written off the show.

“Three things that I know for sure,” writes Howarth. “1, Daytime fans are lovely and amazing and supportive and dedicated and I am deeply grateful to each sparkly one of them. 2, I enjoyed my time at general hospital and wish the cast and crew the best and continued success. It was a pleasure working with you all. 3, Life is amazing. We just don’t ever know what’s gonna happen. How great! Turn toward the light. Always. Huge thank you to you all.”

In an interview with Soap Opera Digest, Howarth said his contract was up and he was not offered a new one. “Several weeks ago, I got a phone call from somebody I’ve known for a very long time who I love very dearly [Executive Producer Frank Valentini] telling me that when my contract was up at ABC, I would not be offered a new contract and that the character of Austin would be killed, and that this was something that both wanted and needed to do to move story. And it took me a minute to kind of adjust, to kind of hear the news; it took a second for me to let that settle in. And then, immediately, I realized how lucky I was to have been able to do something I really love doing for more than a decade with people who I really enjoyed working with. I’m a lucky guy. I had a great run and this was a decision made by people who make these kinds of decisions for a living.”

Howarth has long been a fixture in daytime. Before joining GH, Howarth played Todd Manning on One Life to Live. Before that, he appeared on As the World Turns, Guiding Light and Loving.

His primetime credits included stints on Californication, The Flash, and Dawson’s Creek.

Matthew Morrison & Kara Wang To Topline Dramatic Thriller ‘From Embers’

Co-starring in the indie, which wrapped production under an interim agreement in October, are Kathryn Morris (Cold Case), Christopher Shyer (The Night Agent), Kayla Bohan (Harper), Alexander J. Lee, London Kim (Barry), and Omi Vaidya (3 Idiots).

The film follows the life of single mother Lily (Wang) as she grapples with the sudden loss of her husband Ron (Kim) while caring for their nine-year-old autistic son, Kevin (Lee), and forming a bond with their new alcoholic neighbor, Marty Baker (Morrison), a painter with a passion for music who works hard to create a future for his 13-year-old daughter, Chloe (Bohan).

Pic was developed and produced by Studio 6688 in partnership with Kayla’s Movies, LLC. Kate Bohan produced, with Kathleen I-Ying Lee co-producing, and Sig De Miguel and Stephen Vincent handling casting.

“From Embers has been a labor of love and a journey into the depths of human emotion and resilience,” writer-director Bohan told Deadline. “Our talented cast, including the incredible Matthew Morrison and the dynamic Kara Wang, have poured their hearts into this project, bringing to life a story that explores the complexities of grief, secrets, and the enduring strength of the human spirit.”

Best known for his Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated performance on Fox’s Glee, Morrison has more recently been seen on series like American Horror Story, Grey’s Anatomy, and The Good Wife. His most recent feature credits include Tulip Fever with Alicia Vikander, What to Expect When You’re Expecting, and the acclaimed rom-com Music and Lyrics with Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant. The actor has also been seen on Broadway with turns in musicals like Hairspray and Finding Neverland, among other projects.

Most recently seen on the film side in Top Gun: Maverick, Wang is also known for a major role on Freeform’s Good Trouble, having also been seen on Amazon’s Goliath. Credits overseas for the Chinese American actress include Chen Kaige’s Caught in the Web and Sony International’s The Calm Beyond.

Past feature credits for Kate Bohan include the indie dramas Kayla and Harper, starring her daughter, Kayla Bohan.

Morrison is repped by A3 Artists Agency and InterTalent Rights Group; Wang by A3, Stride Management, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

THE HIT DRAMA SERIES “BLUE BLOODS” TO CONCLUDE IN FALL 2024 AFTER ITS 14TH SEASON

“BLUE BLOODS will forever be a beloved part of CBS’ legacy. It ruled Friday nights with unprecedented dominance since its premiere and established itself as a pillar of our winning lineup with an exceptionally devoted fan base,” said Amy Reisenbach, president of CBS Entertainment and David Stapf, president of CBS Studios. “We’ll be forever grateful to the legendary Leonard Goldberg for developing this signature series and to the amazing cast led by Tom Selleck, who America embraced as family and watched as welcomed guests at the Reagan dinner table. We also sincerely thank the incredible writing and producing teams guided by executive producer Kevin Wade, for years of compelling episodes as they conceive this final chapter that we expect to be the most satisfying season yet for our loyal viewers.”

“For the past 13 years it has been an honor and a privilege to work on a show that not only celebrates the men and women who protect and serve in New York City, but also displayed the importance of family,” said series star Tom Selleck. “Working alongside these incredible actors, writers, producers, directors and crew has been a dream come true and I’m grateful to have been a part of this extraordinary group for over 275 episodes. Thank you to CBS Studios and CBS Network for their steadfast support and we offer heartfelt gratitude to the fans who gathered with us for dinner every Friday night.”

“It has been a tremendous privilege these past 13 years to fill the huge canvas that Leonard Goldberg imagined: a police procedural told from the point of view of four generations of a close-knit, fiercely loyal family. BLUE BLOODS will leave behind an enduring legacy that was collectively achieved by our extraordinary cast, our talented and tirelessly inventive writers, and the best crew in the business,” said executive producer Kevin Wade. “CBS Studios and the CBS Television Network encouraged us to tell our stories in multi-layered narratives that have gone on to resonate with millions of people, and we thank them for their unwavering partnership and collaboration. We look forward to giving fans an exciting and emotionally satisfying final season, and we are forever grateful for their enthusiasm and loyalty over all these years.”

For the 2022-2023 season, BLUE BLOODS was Friday’s #1 primetime program and the #3 broadcast drama with 9.54 million viewers. With live +35-day multiplatform viewing, BLUE BLOODS scores more than 11 million viewers an episode.** Since the show’s premiere on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010, BLUE BLOODS has maintained its #1 position at 10:00 PM leading the Network’s top rated Friday night lineup.

Currently, BLUE BLOODS also ranks in the top 10 for series on Paramount+ based on minutes viewed, and for viewed channels on Pluto TV.

Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou, Marisa Ramirez and Vanessa Ray star. Kevin Wade, Siobhan Byrne-O’Connor, Ian Biederman and Dan Truly serve as executive producers. BLUE BLOODS is produced by CBS Studios.

Colleen Zenk Joins THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS!

Zenk made her daytime debut playing Barbara Ryan on ATWT back in 1978 and remained with the soap right up until its final episode in 2010. During her time in Oakdale, the actress was nominated for the Outstanding Lead Actress Daytime Emmy Award three times, in 2001, 2002, and 2011.

During her career, Zenk has also appeared on Broadway with Chita Rivera and Donald O’Connor in Bring Back Birdie and on the big screen in the 1982 movie adaptation of Annie directed by John Houston. She has also hit the stage in productions of Hello Dolly! and Stephen Sondheim’s Follies as well as other shows.

Claire was clearly up to something from the minute she set foot in Genoa City, but lured Nikki into a false sense of security so she could lead her right into her trap! And now that Zenk has debuted as Jordan, the tale is only going to get more twisted!

Julianne Moore Series ‘Mary & George’ Moves From AMC To Starz – Watch The New Teaser

The series was originally set to air on AMC in the U.S. and will now move to Starz. It is a co-production with British pay-TV broadcaster Sky. Watch the new teaser trailer above.

AMC Networks was planning to air it in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It’s not clear why AMC dropped the drama series, but it comes as AMC has been cost-cutting and axing shows such as including Demascus, Invitation to a Bonfire and second seasons of Pantheon, Moonhaven and 61st Street.

Enter Starz, which will now air the seven-part series in the U.S. and Canada along its swath of period dramas.

Mary & George stars Moore and Galitzine as a treacherous mother and son who schemed, seduced and killed to conquer the Court of England and the bed of King James I.

Created by D.C. Moore (Killing Eve), Moore plays Mary Villiers, Countess of Buckingham, who in 17th century England molded her beautiful son, George, to seduce King James I and become his all-powerful lover. Through outrageous scheming, the pair rose from humble beginnings to become one of the richest, most titled and influential players the English court had ever seen, and the King’s most trusted advisors. Galitzine plays her son, George Villiers, a naïve romantic who alongside his ruthless mother was prepared to stop at nothing to get to the top.

Tony Curran stars as King James I, the target of Mary & George’s seductive scheming.

The ensemble cast also includes Nicola Walker, Niamh Algar, Trine Dyrholm, Sean Gilder, Adrian Rawlins, Mark O’Halloran, Laurie Davidson, Samuel Blenkin, Jacob McCarthy, Tom Victor, Alice Grant, Amelia Gething, Mirren Mack, Rina Mahoney and Simon Russell Beale.

The series, which is inspired by Benjamin Woolley’s nonfiction book The King’s Assassin, is produced by Hera Pictures. Liza Marshall is executive producer for Hera Pictures alongside D.C. Moore, Oliver Hermanus and Julianne Moore. Hermanus also helms the series as lead director. Sam Hoyle serves as executive producer for Sky Studios.

The deal was brokered by Sky Studios. NBCUniversal Global Distribution handles international sales on behalf of Sky Studios.

“Mary & George is the perfect complement to Starz’s provocative slate and we’re thrilled to partner with Sky Studios to bring this extraordinary series to U.S. audiences,” said Alison Hoffman, President of Domestic Networks for Starz. “We can’t wait for the world to discover the untold story of Mary Villiers, who mastered the art of sexual and political conquests in a male-dominated society. And to have Julianne leading this remarkable cast is a dream.”

Hank Azaria, Jason Biggs & Edie Falco Join Producing Team Of Off Broadway Recovery Comedy ‘The White Chip’

Also announced today was the cast additions of Crystal Dickinson (Clybourne Park) and Jason Tam (A Chorus Line), who join the previously announced Joe Tapper (You Can’t Take It With You).

“We are so happy to welcome new producers and cast members to our production of Sean’s essential, life-saving play,” said producer Annaleigh Ashford in a statement. “Hank, Jason and Edie, all extraordinary artists, have so selflessly shared their stories of recovery with the public, so to have them join us in amplifying this play is a true honor. We are over the moon, too, that Crystal and Jason – both powerhouse talents – will join Joe onstage. We feel so lucky.”

Daniels’ autobiographical play, directed by Sheryl Kaller (Next Fall, Mothers & Sons), will begin performances at The Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater in The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space on January 22, 2024, with an opening night set for February 1.

The official synopsis: “In The White Chip, Steven (Tapper) is on top of the world and steps away from his dream job running one of the most exciting theaters in the country, but also an alcoholic spinning out of control. The play follows his life from first sip to first love and all the way to rock bottom, where he begins his wild – hilarious and heartbreaking – journey to recovery.”

The White Chip is produced by Annaleigh Ashford, John Larroquette, Ryan Hampton, and the nonprofit organization The Recovery Project. Additional new producers announced today are John Beyer, Linda Karns, Nick Mills and Barbara Manocherian.200

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Wednesday, Nov. 15

Julianne Moore

‘Mean Girls’ Trio Reunite For Walmart’s “Fetch” Black Friday Ad

The spot, which dropped today, featured the trio as adult versions of the high schoolers they played in the 2004 movie directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey.

In the spot, Chabert’s Gretchen is still trying to make “Fetch” happen except this time as a mom of a high schooler (spoiler: they’re still not buying it), while Seyfried’s Karen Smith is a news reporter still trying to nail down the facts. Lohan’s Cady, who narrates the ad like she did in the movie, is now a high school guidance counselor.

No sign of Rachel McAdams, who played the mean girls’ leader Regina in the movie, in the ad, which runs about 2 minutes.

The movie earned Fey a WGA Award nom for adapting Rosiland Wiseman’s nonfiction book Queen Bees and Wannabees: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World.

The IP was later turned into a musical that debuted on Broadway in 2018. It scored 12 Tony nominations and ran for more than 800 performances, and now has a national tour.

Watch the Walmart ad above.

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Tuesday, Oct. 31

Marisa Tomei

Morning Show Appearance

Wednesday, November 1

Meg Ryan and David Duchovny on What Happens Later.

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Meg Ryan and David Duchovny

Soap Opera Digest Is Ending Its Weekly Print Edition

Staffers were informed of the decision Friday, according to sources. A spokesperson for a360Media, the company that owns the brand, confirmed that the weekly edition is being discontinued. The company plans to continue publishing special print issues of Soap Opera Digest four times per year.

“Soap Opera Digest, like many other brands, is adjusting its print frequency and shifting more resources to digital to better accommodate its audience,” the a360Media rep said in a statement to Variety.

Soap Opera Digest was first launched in 1975. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp bought the publication in 1989 for $70 million before selling it two years later, per the New York Times, and it has had a succession of different owners ever since.

In its heyday, the magazine had a circulation of 1.5 million in 1991, according to the Times. But the reach of its print edition, as with many magazines, has sharply fallen off in the decades since.

According to its website, Soap Opera Digest is “the leading magazine reporting on the soap opera industry for over 40 years,” serving up “behind-the-scenes scoops and breaking news to passionate soap fans every week.” The mag also has included special editorial features on beauty, fashion, parenting, and health and fitness.

Soap Opera Digest has been available in print and digital subscription plans, priced at $45.97 for six months (26 issues at $1.77 apiece) or $69.97 for one year (52 issues at $1.34 apiece).

A360media houses a media portfolio of celebrity, entertainment and women’s lifestyle brands including Us Weekly, Star, InTouch and Life & Style. The company claims that it is the largest print publisher in the U.S., both in retail sales and units sold, with its titles representing about one-third of all magazines sold at retail.

A360media was formerly known as American Media Inc., which had been the owner of the National Enquirer (involved in the “catch and kill” scandal involving Donald Trump and which Jeff Bezos accused of an extortion attempt). In 2020, AMI was acquired by Atlanta-based logistics firm accelerate360, which sold off the National Enquirer, Globe and National Examiner tabloids earlier this year.

The Young and the Restless Star Christian LeBlanc Reveals Cancer Diagnosis After Months-Long Absence from Show

During an appearance on CBS affiliate 4WWL in New Orleans, the 65-year-old actor revealed for the first time publicly that he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma — a blood cancer that develops in plasma cells in the bone marrow — in June.

"I'd never spent a day in the hospital in my 65 years until this year," he said, recalling the shocking diagnosis. "It's a common cancer but a very fast-moving one."

He described subtle signs leading up to his diagnosis that something wasn't quite right with his health, including rapid weight loss. "I put on [my character] Michael [Baldwin]'s wedding ring and I put my hand down and the ring fell off without friction. I said, 'What an odd thing,'" he recalled, noting he lost 35 pounds in two months.

LeBlanc also began experiencing nosebleeds on set, and he noticed that his eye had begun to droop. "My eye kind of got a little wonky," he explained. After visiting a neurological ophthalmologist, he learned he had a tumor in his sinus cavity that was pressing on his optic nerve.

The star said viewers even noticed the change in his eye's appearance. "The fans caught it," he said, laughing. "I was getting people like, 'Your eye is a little Jim Carrey that way, a little Michael this way."

Following immunotherapy treatment, LeBlanc is now in remission and working on regaining the weight he lost. "[My doctors] said, 'Eat like it's your job,' and I said, 'I was raised to fulfill this promise. Louisiana, New Orleans, easily done,'" recalled LeBlanc, who grew up in New Orleans.

LeBlanc also reflected on how his diagnosis was a life-imitates-art situation, as his TV character experienced his own cancer journey. "It's interesting. You play that scene where you hear the word, just the word, in a doctor's office: cancer. And I got to play that as Michael Baldwin," he said.

In an exciting update for fans of the show, LeBlanc — who first joined the cast in 1991 — teased that he will be returning to the screen for the soap's Thanksgiving episode.

Speaking about his cancer experience, LeBlanc also noted costar Eric Braeden's diagnosis and recovery from prostate cancer. In August, the 82-year-old German actor — who has portrayed Victor Newman on the soap for more than 40 years — shared during a Facebook Live that he is now cancer-free.

"As of three days ago, I am cancer-free,” he said in the video, before expressing his gratitude for his fans' support and well-wishes.

“I thank you for all of your good thoughts, all of your prayers,” Braeden continued. “I can tell you it obviously has helped because I had my last cystoscopy two days ago — that’s when they thread a camera into your bladder — and I am cancer-free.”

“They couldn’t find a damn thing,” he added. “Isn’t that nice?”

Richard Roundtree Dies: ‘Shaft’ Star Was 81

Roundtree’s career spanned five decades and included everything from his most popular blaxploitation role to a very early appearance on As the World Turns in 1956 to being a Season 2 main cast member on Ava DuVernay’s OWN series Cherish the Day last year.

He is best known for playing detective John Shaft in the 1971 action thriller and its sequels, Shaft’s Big Score! (1972) and Shaft in Africa (1973) as well as the short-lived 1973 Shaft TV series.

For his performance in the original film, Roundtree was nominated for a New Star of the Year Golden Globe and hailed as the first Black action hero. More importantly, the films made Shaft a cultural hero, a symbol of Black power onscreen, at the box office and beyond. Even the Academy took notice, as Isaac Hayes’ propulsive “Theme from Shaft” won the Oscar that year for Best Song – Original for the Picture.

Roundtree and his signature role had a profound effect on filmmakers both Black and white.

Decades later, the actor reprised his role in the 2000 John Singleton movie Shaft starring Samuel L. Jackson and the 2019 Tim Story-directed sequel.

Quentin Tarantino’s entire filmography is steeped in his love for blaxploitation. Kerry Washington‘s character Brunhilde von Shaft in Django Unchained not only shares a name with Roundtree’s hero but was written by Tarantino as an ancestor of John Shaft.

In 2000, Shaft was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. It was cited for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” Shortly thereafter, Shaft was named one of the best films ever made by the New York Times.

Roundtree’s many film credits also include the 1981 Inchon, in which he appeared opposite Laurence Olivier and Ben Gazzara, the 1984 City Heat opposite Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds as well as Se7en, George of the Jungle, Body of Influence, Amityville: A New Generation and What Men Want. He was last seen last year in the Paul Weitz comedy Moving On.

On television, Roundtree played slave Sam Bennett in the acclaimed 1977 miniseries Roots. He had major roles on such series as Generations, 413 Hope St., Alias, Diary of a Single Mom, Buddies, Desperate Housewives, Soul Food, Being Mary Jane, and Family Reunion.

Roundtree’s death was confirmed to Deadline by his agency, Artists & Representatives, and his longtime manager, Patrick McMinn.

“Artists & Representatives Agency mourns the loss of our friend and client Richard Roundtree,” the agency said in a statement. “His trailblazing career changed the face of entertainment around the globe and his enduring legacy will be felt for generations to come. Our hearts are with his family and loved ones during this difficult time.”d

Heather Graham Dares Brandy Norwood to Deliver Best. Christmas. Ever! in Netflix Movie Trailer

The Yuletide premise: Every Christmas, Jackie (played by Star‘s Norwood) sends a boastful holiday newsletter that makes her old college friend Charlotte (Californication‘s Graham) feel like a lump of coal. But when a twist of fate lands Charlotte and her family on Jackie’s snowy doorstep just days before Dec. 25, she seizes the opportunity to prove her old friend’s life can’t possibly be that perfect.

Or… is it? [Cue holiday magic]

The holiday flick’s cast also includes Jason Biggs (Orange Is the New Black) and Matt Cedeño (Devious Maids) as the ladies’ significant others, plus child actors Wyatt Hunt (The First Lady), Abby Villasmil and Madison Skye Validum.

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Holiday Movies with Soap Stars on Hallmark, Lifetime, Netflix and Others

SWORN JUSTICE: TAKEN BEFORE CHRISTMAS - BET+
Release Date: Thursday, Nov. 16
Cast: Mishael Morgan, Leland B. Martin, Vivica A. Fox , Melyssa Ford and Preacher Lawson
Premise: On Christmas Eve, a hardened detective and her DA boyfriend are both informed that each other has been kidnapped. As the world closes for the holiday, they are locked out of their computers and phones and must follow the demands of the menacing voice giving them orders. This leads to a snowy night of cat-and-mouse thrills as the two fight for their survival.

SO FLY CHRISTMAS - BET+
Release Date: Thursday, Nov. 23
Cast: Tichina Arnold, Tami Roman, Robert Christopher Riley, Laurissa Romain, Jackee Harry, Tommy Davidson and Michael Colyar
Premise: After being stood up at the altar on Christmas Eve, Wyvetta loses her love on her favorite holiday. To show solidarity, Wyvetta’s best friend, Dione, suggests that the two of them renounce love. Things become complicated when Dione falls for a mild-mannered record store owner and tries to keep it under wraps.

CHRISTMAS RESCUE - BET+
Release Date: Thursday, Dec. 14
Cast: Robin Givens, Raven Goodwin, Donny Carrington, Catfish Jean, Mario Van Peebles, Cameron Bailey and Samantha Neyland Trumbo
Premise: A man abducts the love of his life from her holiday-themed wedding in a desperate last attempt to win her back.

‘TWAS THE TEXT BEFORE CHRISTMAS - Great American Family
Premiere Date: Saturday, Oct. 21 at 8 pm
Cast: Merritt Patterson and Trevor Donovan
Premise: An unexpected text message sent to the wrong number sets into motion a Christmas tradition with a new family over three separate years.

A CHRISTMAS BLESSING - Great American Family
Premiere Date: Sunday, Nov. 12 at 8 pm
Cast: Lori Loughlin, James Tupper and Jesse Hutch
Premise: A TV chef is divinely inspired to take over her late aunt’s charity with help from a new friend and handsome business associate next door.

A PARIS CHRISTMAS WALTZ - Great American Family
Premiere Date: Sunday, Nov. 19 at 8 pm
Cast: Jen Lilley and Matthew Morrison
Premise: In this sequel, a novice dancer pairs with a professional to enter a renowned dance competition… in Paris!

A ROYAL CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY - Great American Family
Premiere Date: Saturday, Dec. 23 at 8 pm
Cast: Brittany Underwood and Jonathan Stoddard
Premise: In search of her big break, a reporter arranges a Christmas interview with a European Prince visiting the States. Will the reporter’s big story become her love story?

CHECKIN’ IT TWICE - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Friday, Oct. 20 at 8 pm
Cast: Kim Matula and Kevin McGarry
Premise: A journeyman hockey player falls for a real estate agent in a career crisis when he’s traded to her hometown, then moves into the cottage in her hockey-loving family’s backyard.

WHERE ARE YOU, CHRISTMAS? - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Saturday, Oct. 21 at 8 pm
Cast: Lyndsy Fonseca, Michael Rady, Jim O’Heir and Julie Warner
Premise: When Addy wishes for a year without Christmas, she wakes up in a world of black and white. She must work together with the town mechanic to restore Christmas.

UNDER THE CHRISTMAS SKY - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Sunday, Oct. 22 at 8 pm
Cast: Jessica Parker Kennedy and Ryan Paevey
Premise: Kat is an esteemed astrophysicist, who is scheduled for her first trip into space next year until an accident grounds her. While on leave, coming to terms with the reality that her dream of being an astronaut is over, she volunteers at the local planetarium. There, she is paired up with by-the-book David to work on an exhibit opening right before Christmas. Will the stars align to bring these two together at the holidays?

MYSTIC CHRISTMAS - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Saturday, Oct. 28 at 8 pm
Cast: Jessy Schram, Chandler Massey, Patti Murin and William R. Moses
Premise: Juniper travels to Mystic, Conn., during the holidays to work at the rehabilitation center and aquarium. She reconnects with Sawyer, the owner of the pizza shop.

JOYEUX NOEL - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Sunday, Oct. 29 at 8 pm
Cast: Jaicy Elliot and Brant Daugherty
Premise: When a romantic painting of a Christmas market captures the imagination of copy editor Lea, she is sent to France with pragmatic reporter Mark to uncover the mystery behind the artist.

THE SANTA SUMMIT - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Sunday, Nov. 5 at 8 pm
Cast: Hunter King and Benjamin Hollingsworth
Premise: It’s time for the annual Santa Summit, in which revelers put on Santa suits and hop around designated locations in town to eat, drink and be merry. Three best friends decide to go together: Jordin, a recently dumped art teacher looking to cut loose; Ava, a shy woman hoping to run into her crush; and Stella, a Christmas cynic with no interest in the Santa Summit whatsoever. At the start of the night, Jordin meets and bonds with Liam, but doesn’t get his name before getting separated and lost in a sea of Santas. As the night progresses and hijinks ensue, amidst the chaos, celebration, and a sea of Santas, they all find what they’re looking for: Christmas spirit, potential romance, and a strengthened bond of friendship.

A MERRY SCOTTISH CHRISTMAS - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Saturday, Nov. 18 at 8 pm
Cast: Lacey Chabert and Scott Wolf
Premise: When estranged siblings Lindsay and Brad Morgan travel to Scotland at Christmas to reunite with their mother Jo, a big family secret is revealed.

HAUL OUT THE HOLLY: LIT UP - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Saturday, Nov. 25 at 8 pm
Cast: Lacey Chabert, Wes Brown, Stephen Tobolowsky, Melissa Peterman, Ellen Travolta, Seth Morris and Jennifer Aspen
Premise: As the holidays approach, Emily and Jared are looking forward to celebrating the holidays together again — this time as a couple. Emily, now embracing Evergreen Lane’s uniquely festive spirit, is ready to work with Jared, Ned, Mary Louise and Pamela to make this year’s Christmas celebrations the best yet… even if being the HOA president’s girlfriend doesn’t stop those dreaded decorating citations. When a house on the block goes up for sale, it causes quite a stir with residents. When the soon-to-be neighbors turn out to be holiday royalty, it looks like this year’s competition is about to heat up. As the welcoming committee prepares for the new arrivals, only one thing is certain – this Christmas, Evergreen Lane is going to sleigh!

A BLITMORE CHRISTMAS - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Sunday, Nov. 26 at 8 pm
Cast: Bethany Joy Lenz, Kristoffer Polaha, Jonathan Frakes and Robert Picardo
Premise: Lucy Hardgrove is a screenwriter who lands the job of a lifetime when she’s hired to pen the script for a remake of the beloved, holiday movie classic, His Merry Wife!, which was filmed in 1947 at beautiful, historic Biltmore House. When the head of the studio isn’t satisfied with the ending Lucy wrote because it deviates from the original’s feel-good conclusion, he sends Lucy to Biltmore Estate for research and inspiration. While there, she unwittingly discovers the ability to travel to the 1947 set of His Merry Wife! through the help of an hourglass. While on set, she and Jack Huston, one of the film’s stars, spend time together and become close. But her sudden appearance has set off a chain of events that put the production in jeopardy. Before she can return to the present, Lucy must make things right or threaten to alter the future forever.

CHRISTMAS WITH A KISS - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Sunday, Dec. 3 at 8 pm
Cast: Mishael Morgan, Ronnie Rowe Jr. and Jaime M. Callica
Premise: A woman returns home to help with her family’s Christmas Carnival and romance ignites. A photo journalist curates a surprise reunion.

CHRISTMAS ON CHERRY LANE - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Saturday, Dec. 9 at 8 pm
Cast: Catherine Bell, James Denton, Jonathan Bennett, John Brotherton, Erin Cahill and Vincent Rodriguez III
Premise: A young couple preparing to welcome their first child; an empty-nester and her fiancé ready to start a new chapter; and a couple who unexpectedly have the chance to expand their family on Christmas Eve celebrate the holiday as they navigate these turning points in their lives.

MYSTERY ON MISTLETOE LANE - Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Premiere Date: Thursday, Nov. 9 at 8 pm
Cast: Erica Cerra and Victor Webster
Premise: New to town, Heidi Wicks and her kids discover a Christmas mystery in their historic home. Local handyman and historian David helps along the way, finding his own surprising connection.

A WORLD RECORD CHRISTMAS - Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Premiere Date: Thursday, Nov. 16 at 8 pm
Cast: Nikki DeLoach, Lucas Bryant and Aias Dalman
Premise: Charlie is an autistic boy determined to set a Guinness World Record by stacking 1400 Jenga blocks. His mother Marissa and stepfather Eric encourage him to reach for his dream and they all celebrate when he gets the good news that he’ll have get his chance on Christmas Eve. In the spirit of the holiday, they organize a fundraiser giving the townspeople an opportunity to donate and decorate a Jenga block, with the proceeds going to benefit kids with autism. Charlie’s journey to setting the Jenga world record gives them all the chance to learn more not just about themselves, but about what family really means.

HEAVEN DOWN HERE
Premiere Date: Thursday, Dec. 14 at 8 pm
Cast: Krystal Joy Brown, Tina Lifford, Juan Riedinger, Richard Harmon and Phylicia Rashad
Premise: Inspired by Mickey Guyton’s song of the same name, Heaven Down Here tells the story of four disparate people who find themselves stranded in a local diner on Christmas Eve when a snowstorm hits the town. Imami is a widowed mother of two who’s having trouble making ends meet and reluctantly agrees to work the Christmas Eve shift, where she clashes with her boss Dan, who doesn’t exactly embody the Christmas spirit. Felix is a local pastor desperately trying to secure food for parishioners while his faith is challenged by his alienation by his son. Clara is a hospice nurse with an obstinate patient and whose daughter is moving away, causing her to question her place in this world. Throughout the evening, these four bicker, bond and unwittingly provide each other with the answer to their respective prayers.

A CHRISTMAS FREQUENCY - Hulu
Premiere Date: Wednesday, Nov. 1
Cast: Denise Richards, James Hyde, Ansley Gordon and Jonathan Stoddard
Premise: Richards stars as morning radio show host Brooke Walkins, who is not only secretly separating from her husband Todd but hemorrhaging ratings on her show. When she finds out the show is being axed, Brooke’s producer Kenzie Parker has the bright idea of setting up the host with a series of blind dates live on air to help Brooke find someone to take to the company’s Christmas party. But things take an unexpected turn when Kenzie finds out Ben, a guy she’s interested in, has applied to date Brooke. As Ben proves a hit with listeners, Kenzie finds herself having to choose between her heart and her job.

LADIES OF THE ’80S: A DIVAS CHRISTMAS - Lifetime
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Loni Anderson, Morgan Fairchild, Linda Gray, Donna Mills and Nicollette Sheridan
Premise: The movie follows five soap opera divas readying for a reunion show who take on playing cupid during Christmas to bring together their director and producer as they all learn the meaning of true Christmas spirit.

BEST. CHRISTMAS. EVER! - Netfilx
Premiere Date: Thursday, Nov. 16
Cast: Heather Graham, Brandy Norwood and Jason Biggs
Premise: Every Christmas, Jackie sends a boastful holiday newsletter that makes her old college friend Charlotte feel like a lump of coal. When a twist of fate lands Charlotte and her family on Jackie’s snowy doorstep just days before Christmas, she seizes the opportunity to prove her old friend’s life can’t possibly be that perfect.

HOW TO FALL IN LOVE BY CHRISTMAS - Roku
Premiere Date: Friday, Nov. 3
Cast: Teri Hatcher
Premise: A beloved writer-turned-CEO must save her company by writing a column on her falling in love by the holidays – which is complicated by the handsome photographer who has been assigned to the piece.

YULETIDE THE KNOT - Uptv
Premiere Date: Sunday, Dec. 3 at 7 pm
Cast: Mary Antonini, Peter Porte, Kelley Jakle, Kelsey Scott and Melissa Peterman
Premise: When small town wedding planner Rachel is faced with planning her biggest Christmas wedding yet for an out-of-town influencer couple, she is thrown an unexpected surprise when the bride’s manager turns out to be Logan, her first love and high school sweetheart. He reminds her what it is to love, and through rediscovering the magic of Christmas, she rediscovers a part of her heart she closed off long ago.

Kaley Cuoco, Tom Pelphrey And Others Join Forces To Raise Money For IATSE Members With ‘Love Kills’, A Night Of One-Act Plays By Don Nigro

Based on the one-act plays by Don Nigro, the event will run November 15-18 at the Colony Theater in Burbank.

Kevin Kittle is directing with Cara Christian producing. Justin Huen will be the technical director, with Dana Schwartz serving as stage manager.

The plays explore all the ways that “love can be deadly,” and they are shared like campfire ghost stories; full of suspense and atmosphere, infused with humor and a few winks at the audience. As with most of Nigro’s plays, they are a celebration of storytelling, and hopefully a reminder of the simple magic that can be created with a writer, a couple actors, a few stools, and a talented crew.

Performing Binorrie will be Francis and Rebecca Mozo; performing Lurker will be Chatwin and Briana Cuoco; and performing Fair Rosamund and her Murderer will be Kaley Cuoco and Pelphrey.

Tickets can be purchased here.

Celebrity Jeopardy!: Quarterfinal #4: Steven Weber, Shane Battier and Melissa Fumero (10/18)

8:00-9:00 p.m. EDT – Celebrity Jeopardy!: “Quarterfinal #4: Steven Weber, Shane Battier and Melissa Fumero ” (204)

Logline:Actor Steven Weber (“Wings”), athlete Shane Battier and actress Melissa Fumero (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) step up to the podium to take their shot at the $1 million grand prize on the fourth quarterfinal game of “Celebrity Jeopardy!”

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AIRING Oct 3, 2023

Marisa Tomei ("She Came to Me")

Morning Show Appearance

AIRING Oct 3, 2023

Marisa Tomei ("She Came to Me")

Soap Alum John Wesley Shipp Shares a Health Update

“Hello out there!” he shared. “Friends and contacts have written recently like, ‘Where are you? Are you OK?’ Well, here’s the deal: I had surgery early this month for a health issue that had to be dealt with immediately. All went well, but I’ve had to postpone a theatre production and personal appearances as the recoup will take some weeks.

“I do read and appreciate what you share with me, that you entrust me with your thoughts and feelings,” he continued. “You are ever on my mind and in my heart, and I look forward to getting active and out there again as soon as possible. Until then, remember to play nice, be kind, and stay engaged! Our futures depend on it!”

Shipp made his daytime debut playing Dr. Kelly Nelson on CBS sudser GUIDING LIGHT from 1980-84. From 1985-86, he moved over to sister soap AS THE WORLD TURNS to portray Douglas Cummings, a role which earned him the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in 1986. In 1987, he won his second Daytime Emmy, this time for Outstanding Guest Star for his stint as Martin Ellis on NBC’s SANTA BARBARA.

The actor also had small roles on ONE LIFE TO LIVE and ALL MY CHILDREN in 1989 and 1992, respectively. Shipp then found primetime fame beginning with his starring role in THE FLASH, then appearing on shows like SISTERS and DAWSON’S CREEK. He returned to daytime in 2010 playing the villainous Eddie Ford on OLTL, and most recently enjoyed multiple roles on THE FLASH and other superhero series in The CW’s “Arrowverse.”

It sounds like Shipp is already on the mend following his surgery, so we’re hoping he’ll be back to full power very soon!

‘May December’ Trailer: First Look At Todd Haynes Film About Scandalous Romance; Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore & Charles Melton Star

Starring Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore and Charles Melton, the film picks up 20 years after an affair between an adult woman (Moore) and a much (much) younger man (Melton) – think Mary Kay Letourneau – made tabloid headlines. In the present day, famous TV star Elizabeth (Portman) visits the now-married couple while researching a film that will be based on the old scandal.

As the official logline puts it, “as Elizabeth attempts to get closer to the family, the uncomfortable facts of their scandal unfurl, causing difficult, long-dormant emotions to resurface.”

Directed by Haynes from a screenplay by Samy Burch and story by Burch and Alex Mechanik, the film had its world premiere in Cannes, with its North American rights were acquired by Netflix for $11 million after an all-night bidding war. Producing are Portman, Sophie Mas, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon, Grant S. Johnson, Tyler W. Konney, Jessica Elbaum and Will Ferrell, with the exec producing team of Madeleine K. Rudin, Thomas K. Richards, Lee Broda, Jeff Rice, Jonathan Montepare, Samy Burch, Alex Brown, Thorsten Schumacher and Claire Taylor.

Haynes, of course, is known for such groundbreaking films as Poison, Safe, Velvet Goldmine, Far from Heaven, I’m Not There, Carol, Wonderstruck and Dark Waters. His documentary The Velvet Underground was an official selection at the 59th New York Film Festival.

May December will be released in select theaters (U.S. and Canada) on November 17 and then December 1 on Netflix.

Check out the trailer above, and the new official poster here.

David McCallum Dies: Beloved ‘NCIS’ Actor Was 90

A fan favorite, McCallum was the last remaining original cast member on CBS’ NCIS, in which he played Chief Medical Examiner Donald “Ducky” Mallard, an eccentric but highly efficient investigator with a knack for psychological profiling, for two decades.

“For over 20 years, David McCallum endeared himself to audiences around the world playing the wise, quirky, and sometimes enigmatic, Dr. Donald ‘Ducky’ Mallard,” said NCIS executive producers Steven D. Binder and David North. “But as much as his fans may have loved him, those who worked side by side with David loved him that much more. He was a scholar and a gentleman, always gracious, a consummate professional, and never one to pass up a joke. From Day 1, it was an honor to work with him and he never let us down. He was, quite simply, a legend. He was also family and will be deeply missed.”

The previously announced 20th anniversary NCIS marathon will now include an “In memoriam” card in remembrance of McCallum.

“We are deeply saddened by the passing of David McCallum and privileged that CBS was his home for so many years,” the network and NCIS studio CBS Studios said in a joint statement. “David was a gifted actor and author, and beloved by many around the world. He led an incredible life, and his legacy will forever live on through his family and the countless hours on film and television that will never go away. We will miss his warmth and endearing sense of humor that lit up any room or soundstage he stepped onto, as well as the brilliant stories he often shared from a life well-lived. Our hearts go out to his wife Katherine and his entire family, and all those who knew and loved David.”

Born in Glasgow, Scotland on Sept. 19, 1933 in a prominent musical family, McCallum studied at the Royal Academy of Music. Following a well received performance from Shakespeare’s King John at a local theater group, he switched his focus to acting while keeping music as a secondary interest. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, he joined Actors’ Equity in 1946 where he began working on BBC Radio and made his debut in a 1946 production of Whom the Gods Love, Die Young. That was followed by several years in repertory theater. His many theater productions include Amadeus, Communicating Doors, The Hunting of the Snark, Comedians, The Lion in Winter and Julius Caesar.

After moving to America in 1961, McCallum was cast in the role of Illya Kuryakin in the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Initially a minor character with two lines. But that was enough for producers to see that McCallum and star Robert Vaughn had considerable chemistry together, and McCallum was boosted to co-star status, with the role earning him two Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe nod. He went on to appear in the movies The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Great Escape, Mosquito Squadron, Billy Budd, Freud and A Night to Remember and in several TV movies, including the 1969 Teacher, Teacher, which landed him his third Emmy nomination.

McCallum found his next hit with NCIS. A close confidante to Mark Harmon’s Jethro Gibbs, his “Ducky” Mallard served as father confessor and paternal figure for the show’s offbeat cast of characters. McCallum remained on the show til the end, working a lighter schedule over the last several years. He showcased his signature sense humor in announcing his return in 2018.

McCallum’s extensive TV series credits also include The Invisible Man, The Education of Max Bickford, Sapphire and Steel, Colditz, Motherlove, Kidnapped, and episodes of The Outer Limits, Law & Order and Sex and the City. He also voiced characters in the animated series The Replacements and Ben 10 and narrated more than 30 books on tape and CD.

In addition to acting, McCallum also orchestrated and conducted a trio of records that put unique spins on some of the period’s more popular songs. In 2016 McCallum published his first novel, Once a Crooked Man.

Callum is survived by his wife of 56 years, Katherine McCallum, his sons Paul McCallum, Valentine McCallum and Peter McCallum, his daughter Sophie McCallum and his eight grandchildren: Julia McCallum, Luca de Sanctis, Iain de Sanctis, Stella McCallum, Gavin McCallum, George McCallum, Alessandro de Sanctis and Whit McCallum.

“He was the kindest, coolest, most patient and loving father,” Peter McCallum said in a statement on behalf of the family. “He always put family before self. He looked forward to any chance to connect with his grandchildren, and had a unique bond with each of them. He and his youngest grandson, Whit, 9, could often be found in the corner of a room at family parties having deep philosophical conversations.

“He was a true renaissance man — he was fascinated by science and culture and would turn those passions into knowledge. For example, he was capable of conducting a symphony orchestra and (if needed) could actually perform an autopsy, based on his decades-long studies for his role on NCIS.

“After returning from the hospital to their apartment, I asked my mother if she was OK before she went to sleep. Her answer was simply, ‘Yes. But I do wish we had had a chance to grow old together.’ She is 79, and dad just turned 90. The honesty in that emotion shows how vibrant their beautiful relationship and daily lives were, and that somehow, even at 90, Daddy never grew old.”

In lieu of flowers, McCallum’s family asks that donations be made to the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation at http://www.mcsf.org.

No immediate memorial service will take place, instead a celebration of life service will be held in the future.Ih

One-on-One with Michael Park

Michael is well-known to daytime audiences for his role as the lovable detective, Jack Snyder on As the World Turns. Michael won back-to-back Emmy’s in 2010 and 2011.

Michael recently starred in the Hulu drama series, Saint X and in 2022 appeared as Philip Abshire in the HBO series The Time Traveler's Wife. He also played reporter Tom Holloway in the third season of the uber popular Netflix series Stranger Things in 2019.

Michael is no stranger to the stage and made his Broadway debut in Smokey Joe’s Café back in 1995. Other Broadway shows include the revival How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, starring Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette in 2011. Michael’s most popular Broadway role is Larry Murphy in the original cast of the Tony Award-winning musical, Dear Evan Hanson in 2016. It was this role that earned Michael and the cast the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

Celebrity Jeopardy!: Stars of Law & Order, Abbott Elementary and Ghosts Among Season 2 Contestants

Hosted by Jeopardy! champ Ken Jennings, Season 2’s upcoming stars include Christopher Meloni (Law & Order: Organized Crime), Lisa Ann Walter (Abbott Elementary), Mark Duplass (The Morning Show), Sherri Shepherd (Sherri), Dulé Hill (The Wonder Years), Mira Sorvino (Shining Vale), Timothy Simons (Veep), Utkarsh Ambudkar (Ghosts), Steven Weber (Chicago Med), Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek) and sports commentator Katie Nolan. The rest of the participating celebrities will be announced in the future.

Mayim Bialik hosted last year’s competition, which included names like Patton Oswalt, Constance Wu, Ray Romano, Michael Cera, Hasan Minhaj, Simu Liu and the season’s eventual winner Ike Barinholtz.

Meanwhile, despite the ongoing writers’ strike, Jeopardy! proper returned to the network Monday, with Jennings commanding the spot behind the podium. The host had been facing pressure to follow co-host Bialik’s lead in not crossing the picket line. As previously reported, Season 40 of the mothership will feature — at least in the early going — both recycled questions and contestants (from Season 37).

‘May December’ Teaser: Natalie Portman & Julianne Moore Lead Cast Of Todd Haynes’ Buzzy Drama

May December refers to the nature of a scandalous romance between a married woman and a 13-year-old that was a tabloid staple when it happened 20 years ago. As happened in the May-December romance between teacher Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau, Moore’s character served time for seducing an underaged teen, but eventually married the youth, and they moved away to raise a family and live quietly. The film’s trigger is the interaction between the couple (Charles Melton plays the husband) and an actress (Portman) who travels to Maine to study the life of the woman she will play in a film. Sparks fly between the three of them as unresolved issues resurface in the romantic drama.

In May December, Portman plays TV star Elizabeth, who is researching a new part by ingratiating herself into the lives of Gracie (Moore), whom she’ll be playing onscreen, and her much-younger husband, Joe (Charles Melton). Per the official logline, as Elizabeth attempts to get closer to the family, the uncomfortable facts of their scandal unfurl, causing difficult, long-dormant emotions to resurface.

The film had its world premiere in Cannes and its North American rights were acquired by Netflix for $11 million after an all-night bidding war. May December will open the New York Film Festival on September 29.

The Black List script was penned by first-time screenwriter Samy Burch. The film will be released domestically in theaters on November 17 and then December 1 on Netflix.

May December is produced by Will Ferrell and Jessica Elbaum of Gloria Sanchez, Killer Films’ Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler, and Portman and Sophie Mas. Grant S. Johnson and Tyler W. Koney also produced and fully financed through their respective companies Project Infinity and Taylor & Dodge.

Watch the teaser above.

Daddy Yankee Welcomes Next Generation of Reggaeton In ‘Neon’ Season 1 Trailer; Genesis Rodriguez & Jhayco Among Guest Stars Revealed In First-Look Photos

From creators Shea Serrano and Max Searle, Neon follows three friends in Miami as they hustle their way to making it big in the world of reggaeton. The eight-episode comedy captures not only the three besties’ larger-than-life dreams but also the harsh realities and funny mishaps of surviving the music industry.

Tyler Dean Flores plays Santi, a rising reggaeton artist who, with the help of his friends Ness (Emma Ferreira), Felix (Jordan Mendoza), and A&R rep Mia (Courtney Taylor), hopes to become the biggest star in reggaeton—or at least pay his rent.

Yankee, a pioneer of the musical genre, executive produces the series and makes an appearance. Genesis Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Jhayco, Santiago Cabrera and Jowell are also among the Season 1 guest stars.

Neon co-creator Max Searle serves as showrunner. In addition to Yankee, the series is executive produced by Shea Serrano and Searle, alongside SB Projects and Anne Clements.

Executive music producers include Tainy, Lex Borrero, Ivan Rodriguez, from Ntertain and Neon16, and collectively known as Tainy & One Six. One Six of Neon16 and Ntertain, and Joe Rodriguez and Javier Nuno of Indice are music producers. Jordan Mendoza served as consulting producer; Miguel Nolla, Wally Baram and Frances Lausell produce.

DAYS’s Arianne Zucker Reveals Wedding Plans

The Locher Room Welcomes Jennifer Ashe

Jennifer is a proud member of Theatre Unleashed, 2Cents Theatre Group, and The Foundry Theatre Works. Some of her favorite credits include Dean Productions’ King Lear, HFF 2Cents’ award winning immersive Unreal City and Vote for Murder. Recent films include, Coming to Terms, honored in the NY International Film Festival, Silhouette of a Ghost and CSI Murder Most Foul. She just completed the film Nowhere Pie and her web series, Struggling will finally air later this year.

Today, Jennifer spends anytime she can on the picket lines and hopes the SAG/AFTRA and WGA strike will prevail in getting fair compensation for all.

Days of Our Lives & General Hospital's Wally Kurth Joins The Locher Room

In addition to his roles on DOOL and GH, he also played Sam Hutchins on As the World Turns. In his spare time, Wally performs and tour with The Day Players featuring his co-stars Eric Martsolf, Brandon Barash, and Carson Boatman. He and Christian Taylor formed the band in 1992 and reunited in 2010.

Dishing with Digest - 8/18/23 - Austin Peck

Tom Pelphrey Talks Love & Death and Life With Kaley Cuoco

When Tom Pelphrey first read David E. Kelley’s script for the true-crime drama Love & Death, he assumed the famed television writer had embellished the story of axe-wielding murderous housewife Candy Montgomery. “I thought, He must be taking liberties. This must be a bit hyperbolic,” Pelphrey recalls. “But not so. Everything he wrote was true.” In the HBO Max show, Pelphrey portrays Don Crowder, the pompous, inexperienced lawyer who defended Montgomery (played by Elizabeth Olsen) in her 1980 trial. For the New Jersey native, who got his start in soap operas (he has two daytime Emmys for his work in Guiding Light) and whose recent credits include Ozark and the Oscar-winning film Mank, playing a litigator was a nice change of pace. “Usually, I’m the one getting arrested,” Pelphrey says with a laugh. Off-screen, he and his partner Kaley Cuoco lead a rather laid-back life at home with their 4-month-old daughter, Matilda, and their growing pack of rescue dogs.

This interview was conducted prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Are you a true-crime fan in general?

I'm somewhat of a true-crime fan. My partner loves Dateline, so sometimes I'm absorbing it just by proximity. The Candy Montgomery story is pretty fascinating because it's one of those stories where truth is stranger than fiction.

How did you prepare for the role?

I didn't get to meet Don Crowder, unfortunately. Don took his own life in the ’90s. I learned a lot about him, though, and I got to talk with one of his friends who was also his law partner, Robert Udashen. He was on set when we were filming the courtroom scenes, and he actually said he thought I defended Elizabeth better than Don defended Candy.

Were you interested in acting from an early age?

I don't know that I always wanted to be an actor, but when I was 14 years old, I had a high school acting teacher, Steve Kazakoff, who changed my life. From the moment I met him, I wanted to be an actor. I went to a public high school in New Jersey, and it just so happened that the school had a magnet performing-arts program. I auditioned for the school musical my freshman year on a whim, even though I couldn't sing or dance. And I still can't.

Did you have crushes on any actors during that time?

I definitely had a crush on Winona Ryder from Beetlejuice, from Heathers, from The Crucible, with Daniel Day-Lewis. I just thought she was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen when I was a kid. But now I have a crush on Kaley Cuoco—a deep and abiding crush, a love crush on Kaley.

Did you ever watch The Big Bang Theory?

Never. Matter of fact, when I first brought Kaley to New Jersey to meet my family and friends, my mom's partner—who apparently was a Big Bang Theory fan—was there, and he kept calling her Penny. I had no clue what was going on. So I pulled Kaley aside, like, "I'm sorry, I don't understand what's happening. Why does he keep calling you Penny?" She's like, "That's my character in The Big Bang Theory." I was completely unaware. I've watched a few episodes with her since, and, obviously, she's fantastic.

So you hadn't seen her in anything?

I hadn't seen Kaley in anything. Look, I live in a cave. Before I met Kaley, I was living in upstate New York, on a dirt road, in the middle of the woods, without much Wi-Fi. She's brought me into modern times.

Well, you still kind of live a wild life, since you have so many animals? How many now?

We're up to six dogs, all rescues. And now we have a beautiful little girl. A human to add to the mix.

Do the dogs accept the human?

The dogs all accept the human. Five of the dogs are over 10 years old. And then, about four weeks before Matilda was going to be born, Kaley said, "I saw another dog that needs to be rescued. Is it crazy to rescue another dog right now?" I said, "It's absolutely crazy, but let's do it."

What is your zodiac sign?

My birthday is July 28. I'm a Leo. I am a Libra rising and a Scorpio moon. My daughter shares two of my three signs. She's not a Leo. She's an Aries sun, but she is Leo moon and Libra rising, just like me.

Do you see yourself in her?

I see myself a little bit in her. She's got one dimple on her left cheek, like I do. Other than that, though, I see Kaley. Kaley says she sees me, but when Matilda's kind of confused or frustrated about something, she makes these faces and I'm like, "Oh my god, there's your mom."

When you were growing up, did you have any posters in your room?

I had a poster of Jack Nicholson coming through the bathroom door in The Shining, when he sticks his face in and says, "Here's Johnny!" and his eyes are kind of crazy. I had that on my wall, which was an interesting choice. And then I had a framed poem—I'm just remembering this—from Shel Silverstein, which my grandfather made for me.

Do you remember what it said?

It read: "Listen to the mustn'ts, Tom. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never-haves, then listen close to me. Anything can happen, Tom. Anything can be."

Kin Shriner and Marcus Coloma Interview - General Hospital, Two D's

Just how did the two guys come up with their hilarious comedy series, "Two Dicks" featuring so many GH favorite? What's the plan as their second season just dropped on their new You Tube channel? Find out!

This coming weekend on Saturday August 19th, the two are hosting a very original 'Murder Mystery' fan event, and they'll give fans a preview of what to expect.

Join them for a very fun and enlightening chat with Kin and Marcus, on Wednesday, August 16th beginning at 8PM ET/5PM PT on the Michael Fairman Channel (Link Above).

Daytime Stars And Strikes Charity Event Returns

Saturday, October 7th 2:00– 4:00 p.m.: Trent Dawson and Friends Play Reading. AS THE WORLD TURNS alums Trent Dawson (ex-Henry), Michael Park (ex-Jack) and Roger Howarth (ex-Paul; Austin, GH) will perform a play reading with an intimate meet and greet, question and answer session to follow.

Saturday, October 7th 8:00–10:00 p.m.: Bradley Cole & Friends Concert – Some of your favorite actors will perform with Bradley Cole (ex-Jeffrey/ex-Richard, GUIDING LIGHT) and his band. All proceeds will go directly to the Jerry verDorn Scholarship Fund.

Sunday, October 8th 12:00—2:00 p.m.: Daytime Stars and Strikes Bowling for Autism. GUIDING LIGHT’s Liz Keifer (ex-Blake) and Ron Raines (ex-Alan) co-host this fan-fave bowling event, with an ’80s dress-up theme and contests for best dressed, strikes, spares, etc. Food and soft drinks included in the ticket price. Numerous soap actors are scheduled to appear and can be found on our website at www.daytimestarsandstrikes under the Events link.

Sunday, October 8th 3:00–5:00 p.m.: The Fifth Annual “Bauer” Barbeque hosted by everyone’s favorite Bauer — Michael O’Leary (ex-Rick, GUIDING LIGHT). Grab a Bauer burger, brush up on your GL trivia and get ready for some handbag bingo, where you have an opportunity to win name brand handbags! Food and soft drinks included in the ticket price.

Over the course of 18 years, Daytime Stars and Strikes have raised over $500,000 for its beneficiaries. This small group of volunteers is thrilled to continue this mission as the landscape of daytime drama and web dramas continues to evolve. Updates are available on the website www.daytimestarsandstrikes.com as well as Twitter (@DStarsNStrikes) and Facebook.

‘Vacation Friends 2’ Trailer: John Cena & Lil Rel Howery Back For More Mayhem In 20th/Hulu Sequel

In the second installment, picking up after the passage of a few months, newly married couple Marcus (Howery) and Emily (Orji) invite their uninhibited besties Ron (Cena) and Kyla (Hagner), who are also newly married and have a baby, to join them for a vacation when Marcus lands an all-expenses-paid trip to a Caribbean resort. His reason for traveling there in the first place is to meet with the owners of the resort to bid on a construction contract for a hotel they own in Chicago. But when Kyla’s incarcerated father Reese (Steve Buscemi) is released from San Quentin and shows up at the resort unannounced at the worst possible moment, things get out of control, upending Marcus’ best laid plans and turning the vacation friends’ perfect trip into total chaos.

20th Century Studios has announced that its new film Vacation Friends 2 (fka Honeymoon Friends) — the sequel to its hit 2021 buddy comedy Vacation Friends starring Lil Rel Howery, Yvonne Orji, Meredith Hagner and John Cena — will premiere exclusively on Hulu in the U.S., Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ under the Star banner in all other territories on August 25th.

Elizabeth Hubbard - A Tribute

As the World Turns fans were mesmerized by Elizabeth’s creation of Lucinda Walsh from the moment she walked on screen in April of 1984. Elizabeth was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award nine times for her role as Lucinda. In addition to Lucinda, Elizabeth portrayed Dr. Althea Davis on The Doctors for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress.

Chris Noth breaks silence on abuse allegations: 'I'm not going to lay down and just say it's over'

Though he’d like people to believe that and to resume his career, Noth knows ugly allegations about him linger.

"I strayed on my wife, and it's devastating to her and not a very pretty picture," he says. "What it isn't is a crime."

The story about two women’s sexual assault accusations against the actor surfaced in December 2021, a week after the premiere of Max's "And Just Like That," the sequel to "Sex and the City," in which his character, Carrie Bradshaw's husband John "Mr. Big" Preston, dies of a heart attack. Another three women came forward, saying he also assaulted them. Stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon issued a statement saying they supported and commended the women for coming forward.

Noth lost a $12 million deal for his tequila brand, was fired from CBS drama "The Equalizer," was dropped from a Peloton ad, was cut from the season finale of "And Just Like That" and was shunned by the industry.

Chris Noth played Mr. Big on "Sex and the City" from 1998 to 2004.

As of today, the actor, 68, has a new venture. He’s the face of Samuelsohn, a bespoke suit company launching a campaign to raise awareness about men’s mental health. This interview stems from his role in the campaign, for which he is being paid in clothes, not cash. Samuelsohn has pledged donations to men's mental health. More than 6 million men in the U.S. suffer from depression, according to Mental Health America.

Noth stands by his initial statement that any sexual encounters he was involved in were consensual and says the worst thing he did was commit adultery.

"You give yourself the same excuses that many men do; it's just a little side dance, and it's fun," he says. "You're not hurting anybody. No one's going to know about this, you know, and sex is just enjoyable. And suddenly, a lot of people want to have sex with you. It's like, 'Well, I'm not going to get this chance again.'"

No criminal charges have been filed. That’s hardly an anomaly: The National Sexual Violence Resource Center estimates that 63% of rapes are not reported to police. Gloria Allred, the lawyer representing some of the women, declined to comment for this story.

Still, this isn’t going away. Noth acknowledges that civil lawsuits remain a distinct possibility.

"That's a money train for a lot of people," he says.

Although Noth initially didn't want to comment beyond repeating his original statement, he elaborates for the first time on the scandal and its effects. The allegations from women in Los Angeles and New York date back to 2004.

"There's nothing I can say to change anyone's mind when you have that kind of a tidal wave," Noth says. "It sounds defensive. I'm not. There's no criminal court. There's no criminal trial. There's nothing for me to get on the stand about and get my story out, get witnesses. And there's even more absurd add-ons that are completely ridiculous, that have absolutely no basis in fact. And I don't like talking about it because as soon as I do, you'll get the Daily Mail or someone grabbing a part of it and doing it, and I don't want my kids seeing that."

Over Zoom from Toronto, Samuelsohn CEO Stephen Granovsky explains the concept behind the mental health campaign and choosing Noth.

"When we embarked on how to celebrate our hundredth birthday, we wanted to do it with purpose," Granovsky says. "We really believe in our people feeling good about what they're doing and our customers feeling good about what they're wearing. And frankly, when it comes to us, it's really about how it fits and making you feel comfortable in your own skin, and that goes a long way to giving you the confidence to do so much."

As for the actor, "there just isn't another character in modern times that looks better, feels better, is more proud to wear a suit than Chris was in 'Sex and the City,'" Granovsky says. "Today, many years later, he looks every bit as good. He wears it with such confidence and such pride that I'm proud to have him wear the suit."

Noth, wearing a blue Samuelsohn suit at a SoHo hotel restaurant this summer, says he has laid low because he's intent on protecting his sons and wife. The 3-year-old is too young to understand what has happened, which Noth describes as "being slimed." He has had heart-to-heart talks with his 15-year-old. Since the allegations and fallout, Noth says, he has tended to his mental health by spending time with his family, hiking and meditating.

Before playing Carrie Bradshaw's Mr. Big and Alicia Florrick's philandering husband on CBS drama "The Good Wife," Noth was Mike Logan, the hard-boiled detective on NBC's "Law & Order." He also appeared on several other shows produced by Dick Wolf, another person Noth says he hasn't heard from since the accusations surfaced.

A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Noth has acted in many plays, including two on Broadway. He's now directing and performing in Ionesco’s "Rhinoceros" at a theater in Massachusetts' Berkshire mountains area.

"I'm not going to lay down and just say it's over," he says. "It's a salacious story, but it's just not a true one. And I can't just say 'Well, OK, that's it for me' because of that. I'm an actor. I have other things that I want to do creatively. And I have children to support. I can't just rest on my laurels. So yeah, I have enough to let a year drift, but I don't know how to gauge or judge getting back into the club, the business, because corporations are frightened.

"People are afraid of all this. Fear is the overriding operative word when it comes to whether they believe it or not. ... I have to just continue on. It's rough, because people are scared, and their fear leads them. And I have to just persevere because I still have a creative life."

Terri Conn and Austin Peck Interview

Terri and Austin celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary last month and will stop by to look back at their time working on As the World turns where they first met. Terri joined the cast in September of 1998 and Austin followed eight years later in December of 2006. The duo played Katie Peretti and Brad Snyder and the two characters married in April of 2008. In addition to their roles on As the World Turns, both actors moved over to Llaneview and One Life to Live shortly after As the World Turns. Austin is also well-known for his role as Austin Reed on Days of Our Lives.

Terri currently serves as a program host for the shopping network QVC, a role she has held since August of 2018.

Shawn Christian Reveals His Exciting New Job!

Christian’s show, TAHOE TONIGHT, airs at 6 p.m., 8 p.m., and 11 p.m. PST on Lake Tahoe Television Channel 12. However, fans who don’t live in the area can still stream the show online. “Watch anywhere in the world on our apps,” he reported. “Outside Watch and Outside+! Create a life of adventures!”

Christian made his television debut playing Mike Kasnoff on AS THE WORLD TURNS in 1994. After leaving the CBS soap in 1997, the actor appeared in numerous episodes of primetime series like PACIFIC PALISADES, ELLEN, CHARMED, BEVERLY HILLS, 90210, FRIENDS, BOSTON LEGAL, LAS VEGAS, FAMOUS IN LOVE, and MAGNUM P.I. throughout his career.

In 2002, Christian returned to daytime to play Ross Rayburn on ABC sudser ONE LIFE TO LIVE, and in 2008, joined the cast of DAYS OF OUR LIVES as Dr. Daniel Jonas, a role he portrayed until the character was killed off in 2017.

Christian is currently engaged to his former DAYS co-star Arianne Zucker (Nicole) and they are planning their wedding. The couple resides in the Lake Tahoe area and Christian is active in all kinds of various outdoor activities, so this job is a natural fit for him!

William Fichtner Joins ‘Free Solo’s Alex Honnold & Other Climbing Elites In Supernatural Horror ‘The Sound’

Written and directed by Brendan Devane (The Canyonlands), the film currently in production in Nevada follows a group of climbers as they embark on the formidable challenge of conquering the Forbidden Wall, a perilous climb that has remained off-limits for years. What initially begins as an audacious expedition swiftly transforms into a harrowing battle for survival against a malevolent force that toys with their minds and tests their resilience.

Intel on the climbers’ roles hasn’t been disclosed, but Fichtner portrays Conner, a father who is faced with losing his son in the same way he lost his father at a young age. Devane and his Sadieland Productions banner are producing, with Sports Emmy-winning producer Mike Negri (The Alpinist, Reel Rock) and second-unit DP Brett Lowell (The Climb) on board to help coordinate stunt sequences. James Iha of Grammy-winning rock Band Smashing Pumpkins is composing the score.

Honnold rose to fame via the Academy Award-winning National Geographic documentary Free Solo, chronicling his jaw-dropping and historic free-solo ascent of Yosemite rock formation, El Capitan. Also known for daring free solo climbs and big wall ascents is Harrington, who was previously spotlighted in the Roadside Attractions documentary The Alpinist. A British-American mountaineer who has summited Mount Everest multiple times, Ballinger was previously seen in an episode of HBO’s Edge of the Earth.

“Working with such monumental figures in the climbing community is nothing short of an honor,” said Devane in a statement to Deadline. “‘The Sound’ benefits greatly from our team’s unparalleled authenticity, coupled with their incredible experiences in pushing the boundaries of what is humanly possible in the climbing world. Their real-life climbing prowess, combined with our talented cast of actors, stunt performers, and the haunting, supernatural elements of the script, will put the audience 1000 feet in the air alongside the climbers, to create a unique and spellbinding experience.”

Continued the filmmaker, “We are all bound by the dedication to bring something spectacular to the screen, and with the natural wonders that serve as our backdrop, the commitment of the cast and crew, and the chilling story we aim to tell, ‘The Sound’ promises to be a groundbreaking addition to the horror genre.”

Known for roles in such films as Armageddon, Crash, Black Hawk Down and The Dark Knight, and on series like Prison Break, Fichtner was most recently seen starring opposite Milo Ventimiglia, Catherine Haena Kim and Sarah Wayne Callies on ABC’s The Company You Keep. He appears in Robert Rodriguez’s recent Ben Affleck starrer Hypnotic and will soon be seen in the comedy French Girl with Zach Braff and Vanessa Hudgens, among other projects.

The actor is repped by Innovative Artists, Principal Entertainment LA, Thruline Entertainment and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.i

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Stars Pay Tribute To Soap Alum Nicolas Coster

Vincent Irizarry (ex-Scott, SB et al): “I’m so saddened to learn of the passing of my friend, this dear, dynamic man, @nicolascoster1 . He was one who was so full of life, so sweet and gracious, and such a wonderful talent as an actor. We worked together in the late ’80s on #santabarbarasoap and stayed in touch from time to time throughout the many subsequent years. I reached out to him several months ago to check in, hoping to get together, but he was leaving the next day on a trip somewhere. I regret that we didn’t reconnect sometime after. Just goes to show that we allow ourselves to be deceived by time in believing that opportunities to reconnect will always be available with those dear to us. Sadly, it’s a lesson I’m too often having to be reminded of: There are no guarantees in this life…Goodbye, my friend. I will always remember your kind, welcoming smile and your heartfelt laugh. It was truly a blessing knowing you, for which I will always be grateful… RIP.”

Mary Beth Evans (Kayla, DAYS et al): “Rest in peace, sweet Nicholas. What a joy it was to work with you. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to be your daughter for the past decade. I will always remember your smile, your love of the work, and most importantly, your love of life! You were a one of a kind, sweet man. ??”

Jon Lindstrom (Kevin, GH; ex-Mark, SB): “#NicolasCoster has left us. One of my favorite people I’ve had the honor and pleasure to work, and become friends, with in this showbiz journey. He taught many of us youngsters how to scuba dive & I think of Nick every time I put on a tank. Got to be with him there night he finally won his Emmy, which made him very proud. R.I.P. @nicolascoster1 #Godspeed #SantaBarbara #AllMyChildren #Reds #AllthePresidentsMen #TheBay #EmmyWinner”

Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis, GH; ex-Julia SB): “So many laughs with this smashing fella. RIP Nicky”

Gregori Martin (Creator, THE BAY): “A brilliant actor. A consummate pro. A real life merman. A film and television icon. A dear friend. We lost a legend yesterday. Nicolas Coster thank you for being a loyal part of The Bay family and always delivering and making my job as a director so much easier. You were a master at your craft and made any material given to you so much better. I truly loved writing and directing scenes for you, especially with our dear sweet @jacklyn.zeman. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, you were a true force to be reckoned with. A charmer and silver-haired-devil in the best sense of those expressions. You always knew what you wanted, and always knew how to get it and I am grateful for the years we worked together and all that I learned from my experience working with you. I will miss seeing you about town Nic, but your legacy shall live on through your enormous and incredible body of award worthy performances. And lastly, thank you for also always reminding all of us to live our lives to the fullest. Sleep in peace, Amazing Man. Sending love and light to your family and loved ones during this difficult time. Godspeed @nicolascoster1.”

A Martinez (Cruz, SANTA BARBARA) “The great Nicolas Coster walked on this week, and may the wind be warm at his back. He was a consummate actor, every bit as skilled on stage as he was before a camera. It was an honor to work in a company with him, and I’ll always hold his friendship and his sterling strengths as a professional close to heart. For 70 years, Mr. Coster practiced the art of acting with great vigor and distinction. There aren’t many people in the history of the world who can match him in that regard.”

Tristan Rogers (Robert, GH et al) “My thoughts go out in the passing of Nick Coster. My time’s working with him on The Bay were special and all to brief. RIP my friend.”

Jane Sibbett (Jane, SANTA BARBARA) “I was so sorry to hear the news of Nicolas Coster passing earlier tonight. I had recently shared the story with Yitzi Weiner’s interview about the actor who quietly saved me from a screaming director on my very first day at work on my first regular gig, and it was Nicky. He was kind, considerate, a consummate professional, and playing the almost-stepfather to my bitch by day/slut by night character on SANTA BARBARA, he was instrumental in helping me not only finding my light, but finding my way and supporting the craft of the good work we were doing. I am forever grateful for his generous heart, his love of great storytelling, and professionalism on and off set, and I wish to send my condolences to his family and all who loved him. Break the last leg, Lionel. May all your sails be full with love and peace to guide you home, Nicky.”r

Dustin Milligan, Brenda Song, Tony Cavalero, Jason Biggs, Doug Jones & Arturo Castro Join Rotten Science’s ‘Operation Taco Gary’s’

Written and directed by Michael Kvamme, the film tells the story of Danny (Rex), an off-the-grid conspiracy theorist takes his estranged brother, Luke (Milligan), on a road trip with a secret agenda. Details as to the characters to be played by our other new cast members haven’t been disclosed.

Matthew Vaughan, Rotten Science and Milligan will produce, with Jimmy Miller and Matt Riley exec producing for Mosaic, along with Brian David Cange. Range Select, a division of Range Media Partners, is repping the film on the sales side.

Said writer-director Kvamme, “We’re so lucky to have Dustin joining our film to play Luke. He’s compelling to watch and someone whom the audience will certainly relate with. We’ve been able to assemble a remarkable ensemble who we think will yield the best possible version of Operation Taco Gary’s.”

Best known for his role as Ted Mullens on the Emmy-winning comedy series Schitt’s Creek, Mulligan has also been seen on shows like Rutherford Falls and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, among others. Recent film credits for the actor include The People We Hate at the Wedding, Mack & Rita and A Simple Favor.

Song has played major roles on series like Dollface, Station 19 and Dads, having broken out earlier in her career on the Disney Channel shows The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and The Suite Life on Deck. Notable film credits for her include The Social Network and Like Mike.

Part of the cast of HBO’s televangelist family comedy series The Righteous Gemstones, which just recently returned for its third season, Calavero has also been seen on The Conners, Miracle Workers and more. His credits in film include The Binge and sequel It’s A Wonderful Binge, as well as Netflix’s Mötley Crüe pic The Dirt, which had him playing Ozzy Osbourne.

Best known for roles in the American Pie franchise and Orange Is the New Black, Biggs has also been seen in films like Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, Who We Are Now and Prozac Nation. Also coming up for him is the romantic comedy Best. Christmas. Ever. in which he stars opposite Heather Graham and more.

Known for his creature work in films like Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water, Jones has most recently gotten into prosthetics as Saru on Paramount+’s Star Trek: Discovery, which will return for its fifth and final season next year. Other recent credits include Hocus Pocus 2 and What We Do in the Shadows.

Castro has appeared on series like Mr. Corman, Broad City and Narcos, and in films like The Menu, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Yes Day and Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, to name a few. He’ll next appear in Prime Video’s Road House reimagining with Jake Gyllenhaal, among other projects.

Milligan is repped by Gersh, Red Management, Anonymous Content and McKuin Frankel Whitehead; Song by Brookside Artist Management, CAA and Felker Toczek Suddleson; Cavalero by Gersh, Nicole Garcia Management and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols; Biggs by CAA and Entertainment 360; Jones by Omnipop Talent Group; and Castro by Mosaic, WME and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.k

Nicolas Coster, Santa Barbara‘s Lionel Lockridge, Dead at 89

“There is great sadness in my heart this evening, my father actor Nicolas Coster has passed on in Florida at 9:01 pm in the hospital,” Coster’s daughter, Dinneen Coster, shared on Facebook. “Please be inspired by his artistic achievements and know he was a real actor’s actor! I will remember him as always doing his best and being a great father. Rest In Peace.”

Coster’s daytime career included stints on the now-defunct soaps Young Doctor Malone, The Secret Storm, Somerset, Another World, As the World Turns, One Life to Live and All My Children.

But it was his turn as the heavily monied Lockridge family patriarch Lionel on Santa Barbara that Coster will be most remembered for. He played the character on and off throughout the beloved series’ 1984-1993 run, earning four Daytime Emmy nominations in the process. He would ultimately pick up his first Daytime Emmy in 2017 for his role as Mayor Jack Madison in the digital soap The Bay.

Coster also guest-starred in dozens of primetime shows, including Wonder Woman, Charlie’s Angels, Buck Rogers, Magnum P.I., T.J. Hooker and Star Trek: The Next Generation. He notably recurred on The Facts of Life as the father of Lisa Whelchel’s Blair Warner.

Coster’s film work included a supporting role in 1976’s All the President’s Men.

“It was an honor to work in a company with him, and I’ll always hold his friendship and his sterling strengths as a professional close to heart,” wrote Coster’s longtime Santa Barbara costar A Martinez on Facebook early Tuesday. “Unsolicited one day, he gave me this profoundly useful advice: ‘What you choose to do with a scene doesn’t have to be the probable thing. You can choose any course imaginable –– no matter how unlikely –– as long as it’s possible.'”

Nicolas Coster Dies: ‘Santa Barbara’, ‘All My Children’, ‘All The President’s Men’ Actor Was 89

His death was announced by his daughter Dinneen Coster on social media. “There is great sadness in my heart this evening, my father actor Nicolas Coster has passed on in Florida at 9:01 pm in the hospital,” Dinneen Coster wrote on Facebook. “Please be inspired by his artistic achievements and know he was a real actor’s actor!”

A cause of death was not given.

A prolific actor whose career spanned decades on television and encompassed both leading and character roles, was born in London to a British mother and a New Zealand father. Raised mostly in California, Coster returned to England to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art then studied acting with Lee Strasberg in New York.

After a few early credited TV roles were in 1950s, Coster landed frequent, if small, roles throughout the ’60s on such series as No Time For Sergeants, Felony Squad, The Green Hornet and N.Y.P.D. In the ’70s he had roles in feature films such as All the President’s Men (1976) and 1776 (1972) but mostly focused on television, with guest roles on The Blue Knight, Charlie’s Angels, Little House on the Prairie, Baretta, Family, The Rockford Files, One Day at a Time, Wonder Woman, The Incredible Hulk and Dallas.

His ’80s work included feature films Stir Crazy and Reds, and TV series Hart to Hart, Police Squad!, Simon & Simon, Knight Rider, L.A. Law, Thirtysomething, Matlock and many others.

His most recent credits included a 2021 episode of American Crime Story and the 2020 feature The Last Exorcist.

But Coster will likely be best remembered for his memorable performances, both long term and short term, on a raft of daytime soaps: Coster had regular or recurring roles on such series Another World, All My Children, As the World Turns, One Life to Live, Another World, and, perhaps most notably, Santa Barbara, in which he played the wealthy patriarch Lionel Lockridge on and off from 1984 to 1993, accumulating four Daytime Emmy nominations.

In 2017, he won his first Daytime Emmy in the Outstanding Supporting or Guest Actor category for his performance in The Bay.

Complete information on survivors was not immediately available.

Maya Hawke & William H. Macy Among Cast Of New Scripted Podcast ‘Supreme: The Battle For Roe’

Supreme: The Battle for Roe is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and will be available on the iHeartRadio app and all major podcast listening platforms beginning June 28 with new episodes available weekly on Wednesdays.

The series follows the journey of Sarah Weddington (Hawke), who at 26, is the youngest woman ever to argue a case in the Supreme Court. Macy will play Justice Harry Blackmun.

Rachel Winter directs and also produces alongside Ben Spector, Aaron Tracy and Eva Longoria.

“Before Roe V. Wade, Sarah Weddington had never worked on a contested case or even been inside a courtroom. Harry Blackmun had never authored a major opinion. They were both new, untested and the least likely vehicles for the abortion controversy you can imagine,” said Tracy. “But their collision at the Supreme Court ended up defining their entire lives and changed the course of history. The moment I stumbled onto the story, I was desperate to write it. I’m thrilled it’s now come to life with such brilliant collaborators and I can’t wait for people to hear this incredible story on iHeart.”

In addition to Hawke and Macy, the series also stars Abigail Breslin (Linda Coffee), Andrea Savage (Deb Margulies), Felicity Huffman (Dottie Blackmun), Laura Benanti (Bea Cuttriss), Garrett Hedlund (Ron Weddington), Josh Hamilton (Reverend Herbert Ragle), Luke Kirby (Roy Lucas) and William Fichtner (Chief Justice Warren Burger).

“I am honored to be a part of this project, alongside such a talented cast and creative team, to share Sarah Weddington’s story of remarkable courage and determination,” said Hawke in a statement. “This podcast will shed light on an important, but largely unknown figure in history, and bring her inspiring legacy to life for a new generation.”

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Kaley Cuoco Shares Sweet Family Photo with Tom Pelphrey and Baby Daughter Matilda: 'Our Girl'

On Tuesday, the Based on a True Story actress, 37, shared an adorable photo of her family of three sitting on their sofa to her Instagram story.

In the picture, Cuoco holds her 10-week-old daughter Matilda's hand up while her daughter holds Tom Pelphrey's pinky.

"Our Girl," the star wrote across the photo, tagging boyfriend Pelphrey, 40.

The couple welcomed their first baby together in March.

Last week, Cuoco shared a sweet photo of Matilda and her dog Opal cuddling. In one photo, Matilda touched noses with Opal as she cuddled up on the couch. Cuoco added a "besties" sticker to the image.

In another close-up picture, Matilda and Opal stared into each other's eyes. "She always gets so excited when Opal comes to give her kissies!" wrote the proud mom.

Since giving birth in March, Cuoco has shared several photos of Matilda on her Instagram. In May, The Big Bang Theory star shared a hilarious video on her Instagram Story where Cuoco wore a black T-shirt and baggy pants while holding her daughter. As music from the Jonas Brothers music played, Cuoco noticed that Matilda's meltdown subsided.

"Not kidding. Was screaming," Cuoco captioned the story. "Turned on @jonasbrothers. Stopped crying lol we have a fan here folks."

In April, Cuoco exclusively told PEOPLE about her life as a first-time mom and how "natural" Pelphrey is as a dad.

"I cannot believe how natural he is, how much he loves it," she said. "I mean, when we were in the hospital, he did everything — every diaper, he's the swaddle king. All the nurses said, 'Oh my God, you're the best guy swaddler we've ever seen."

‘Superman & Lois’: Dylan Walsh & Emmanuelle Chriqui Among 7 Cast Members Not Returning, Michael Cudlitz Promoted To Regular For Season 4

The hope is for the septet to guest star/recur next season, reprising their roles, subject to interest on their part and availability.

Returning for Season 4 are Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch as the title characters, fellow series regulars Michael Bishop and Alex Garfin as their children as well as Michael Cudlitz who plays Lex Luthor, sources tell Deadline. Introduced this season as a guest star, the Southland alum is being promoted to a series regular for Season 4. (Chad L. Coleman had a season-long S3 series regular arc). Warner Bros. Television, which produces Superman & Lois with studio-based Berlanti Productions, declined comment.

As Deadline reported, the renewals of Superman & Lois and All American: Homecoming came with significant budget cuts that included reducing the number of series-regular cast members. For Superman & Lois, the process has been completed. For sophomore All American: Homecoming, it is still ongoing.

A strong linear and digital ratings performer, Superman & Lois is more expensive than other CW homegrown dramas due to extensive special effects. In addition to trimming the cast, the series likely would lean more heavily into its core premise as a family drama going forward while still honoring its superhero roots. Additionally, unlike other renewed legacy CW scripted series which received 13-episode pickups, Superman & Lois got a 10-episode Season 4 order, likely tied to its higher cost.

Cast reductions have become the norm amid industrywide belt-tightening and declining linear ratings. As Deadline reported recently, WBTV only picked up Bob Hearts Abishola leads Billy Gardell and Folake Olowofoyeku as series regulars for next season after the license fee of the CBS comedy series was cut; the rest of the actors were offered to continue as recurring. Most of the actors on Wolf Entertainment NBC drama series are getting their episodic guarantees reduced for next season. And CBS renewed veteran drama Blue Bloods for a 14th season after the cast agreed to a 25% pay cut.

On Superman & Lois, Walsh portrays General Sam Lane. Chriqui plays Lana Lane Cushing. Valdez plays Kyle Cushing. Parks portrays John Henry Irons/Captain Luthor. Navarrette plays the role of Sarah Cushing. Hasmik joined the series at the beginning of Season 2 in the role of Chrissy Beppo. Buck, who plays Natalie Irons, came on board in Season 1 as a recurring, appearing in 2 episodes, and was promoted to series regular for Seasons 2 and 3. e

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‘The Christmas Waltz’ Movie Franchise Moves To Great American Family; Matthew Morrison, Jen Lilley To Star In Sequel

Michael and Janeen Damian, who were responsible for Hallmark’s 2020 film The Christmas Waltz that starred Lacey Chabert and Will Kemp, will produce a sequel for Great American Family’s Great American Christmas programming block. Dubbed Paris Christmas Waltz, the new holiday flick will star Matthew Morrison (Glee) and Jen Lilley (B&B Merry, Days of Our Lives).

It was shot on location in Paris and promises to “sweep viewers into the magic of the city’s most iconic destinations.” In Paris Christmas Waltz, Emma (Lilley) relinquishes her job so a colleague with a family will keep his. Contemplating life’s next steps, Emma meets a professional dancer, Leo (Morrison), whose love for competitive dancing is waning, until a once in a lifetime opportunity arises for the novice to join the pro and sweep all of Paris off of its feet.

Great American Christmas returns Oct. 21 with new holiday movie premieres every Saturday and Sunday and 24/7 Christmas movies through the end of the year.

Michael Damian, who is best known for his role as Danny Romalotti on The Young and the Restless, has collaborated on 17 original movies with his wife Janeen, including the highest-rated holiday film of 2020, The Christmas Waltz. The prolific team wrote all 17 films together with Michael Damian directing all except Falling for Christmas and Irish Wish, which Janeen Damian helmed.

The pair is also behind the Great American Christmas hit of 2021, A Hot Cocoa Christmas.

Paris Christmas Waltz is executive produced by Brad Krevoy, Amy Krell, Jimmy Townsend, and Lorenzo Nardini. Janeen Damian produces. Michael Damian directs from an original screenplay by Janeen Damian.

Walt Willey Heads to General Hospital — as All My Children's Jackson!

Daytime-TV vet Walt Willey is heading to ABC’s General Hospital, Soap Opera Digest reports, reprising no less than his role of All My Children‘s Jackson Montgomery.

Willy’s GH arc is expected to kick off in mid-July.

Willey originated the role of Jackson, an attorney, on AMC back in 1987, and stuck with the Pine Valley, USA-based sudser until the September 2011 end of its run on ABC.

Of note, he previously crossed Jackson over to another ABC soap, The City, for a handful of 1996 episodes.

Willey’s soap career began in 1983 with a gig on The Edge of Night, after which he booked a run on Another World run as Jim LaRusso. His credits also include Ryan’s Hope (as that ABC serial’s fourth Joe Novak), As the World Turns and, most recently, the role of actor Gregory Ashford on the YouTube sudser Tainted Dreams.

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Ming-Na Wen And Compelling Pictures Team For AAPI Food Doc Series ‘The Sweet And The Sour’

In The Sweet and the Sour, Wen (Mulan, The Mandalorian and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) will take a celebrity guest on a deep dive into a subsection of the Asian and Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community through its relationship with food.

By sampling dishes and recipes, they will unpack the history and cultural hardships endured by each immigration story, highlighting heroic characters and dispelling myths. They will also look to unravel cultural stereotypes and reveal of the history of each distinct group fought for their place in American society.

Ming-Na grew up around her family’s Chinese restaurant in Pittsburg, PA and has kept a fascination with Asian-American cuisine into adulthood. She is due to release her first cookbook in 2024.

“My parents were foodies before that label was invented,” said Ming-Na. “Their passion for food became my passion. The incredible meals they made not only nourished my body, their food enriched my understanding and appreciation for my Chinese culture and heritage. Later in life, I became fascinated with the connection food offered to people from different backgrounds.

“Food affects us on every level and generates emotions, memories and lessons about other cultures. I am excited to collaborate with Steven Garcia and his team at Compelling Pictures to explore the vastness of Asian cuisines. We share the same passion to spotlight the histories of these dishes and stories of how they became part of America’s culinary landscape.”

Ming-Na co-created The Sweet and the Sour with Compelling’s Steven Garcia (Hungry For Answers, Max). The pair will be executive producers alongside Jeff Kalligheri, and Denis O’Sullivan.

Garcia said: “Partnering with such an incredible talent as Ming-Na allows us to build the series around her unique, personal experience. Her innate appetite to uncover the culinary history of the AAPI community, will shed light on often forgotten, and sometimes intentionally omitted parts of our shared American history.”

Indie financier and producer Compelling is behind features such as Netflix’s Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody, directed by Kasi Lemmons. Sony/TriStar has worldwide distribution. It also recently produced and co-financed feature film The Collaboration, starring Paul Bettany, Jeremy Pope, Melissa Barrera, and Daniel Bruhl. It is currently in post. Compelling’s O’Sullivan is a producer of the play of the same name which had a sold out run in London at The Young Vic Theater in 2022 and ended in February 2023 on Broadway after several extensions.

On the series side, it is working with MasterClass on Talking Shop, which features cultural important figures such as Gloria Steinhem, Neil Gaiman and Kevin Smith.

Ming-Na Wen is repped by Link Entertainment and Innovative Artists.

Ming-Na Wen gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, calls for more Asian American inductees

What if they spell my name wrong on my star?

“Living in American with a name like mine, trust me, it wasn’t easy — in fact, it sucked,” the film and television actor said before her star was unveiled. “It has been mispronounced and misspelled so many times.

“Mee-nay; Mee-now; Ms. Nah-wen,” she said as she recited the various ways other Americans have fumbled her name. One director told her to Anglicize her name so that it would be easier to remember, but the “Star Wars” and Marvel star rejected his suggestion.

“I guess now that it’s ‘Ming-Na Wen Day,’ I made the right move,” she said in reference to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and Los Angeles City Council resolution that grants star honorees their own day. Wen wiped tears from her eyes as the crowd applauded.

“If they can say ‘Arnold Schwarzenegger,’ they can say ‘Ming-Na Wen,’” she later joked.

When her star was revealed, Wen stared down at it, placing her hand on the coral-pink terrazzo surface with “Ming-Na Wen” etched in brass, taking a moment for herself and initially ignoring calls from the press to look up for photos. She became one of a small list of Asian performers — Anna May Wong, Mako, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu and James Hong — to have their stars on the Walk of Fame..

Her star carries the television symbol, due largely to her work in the soap opera “As the World Turns.” She was the first Asian American actor signed to a contract role in a daytime drama, portraying Lien Hughes for four seasons, starting in 1988, according to Steve Nissen, president and chief executive of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, who spoke at the ceremony. She also played Dr. Jing-Mei “Deb” Chen on the first season of “ER,” alongside George Clooney, and would go on to appear in seven seasons. To children of the 1990s, Wen is the voice of the titular character in Disney’s animated film “Mulan.” And more recent audiences know Wen for her work on Marvel’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” and “Star Wars” shows “The Mandalorian,” “The Bad Batch” and “The Book of Boba Fett.”

Even so, it was her work on the big screen that led to her breakthrough in Hollywood. She was one of the stars of the groundbreaking 1993 film “The Joy Luck Club,” based on Amy Tan’s novel of the same name. It was the first major studio movie with an all Asian American, mostly female, cast.

Wen’s co-stars from the film, Tamlyn Tomita, Lauren Tom and Rosalind Chao, attended Tuesday’s ceremony. In “Joy Luck Club,” the four play second-generation Chinese American immigrants navigating life in white America alongside their mothers. And while on stage to give their own speeches, the four actors looked every bit the part of a close-knit group as the they huddled together, laughing, cracking jokes and crying.

“We came up together in a time when there were very few Asian American actresses, so the presumption was that we were all rivals,” Tomita said during her speech. “But the truth is that we all knew we could only do our best, and that we all win some, we lose some — it was never about competition.”

Tomita, who auditioned for the same “As the World Turns” role as Wen, recalled them seeing each other at auditions and being “so overjoyed at the chance to see each other — to catch up, gossip, and laugh.”

Four women stand at a lectern at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

“We would sometimes laugh so loud that we would be very often shushed —,” Tomita added, with Wen interjecting with a laugh off mic, “Like today!”

“By casting assistants, by our moms on the set, by our real moms, by flight attendants on planes traveling across the country and by each other on stage,” Tomita continued, gesturing to Wen, Tom and Chao.

Wen started her speech by turning to her co-stars and telling them they, and other Asian performers, all deserve their own stars on the Walk of Fame.

“We need to just pave this Hollywood Boulevard with more Asian talents,” Wen said, waving her arm as if to brush the pavement with her hand.

Wen later recognized prominent Asian Americans in Hollywood who attended the ceremony, including Janet Yang, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who executive produced “Joy Luck Club.” She also recognized 94-year-old James Hong, who in May 2022, received his own star on the Walk of Fame after a fan-funded campaign, becoming the oldest star inductee.

Wen recognized Hong’s work in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which broke other barriers with its cast of Asian leads, nearly sweeping major honors during the past awards season, including best picture at the 2023 Oscars.

Hong and Wen, both Chinese Americans, were part of a Walk of Fame class that includes two other Asian American and Pacific Islander performers. Actor Jason Momoa is of native Hawaiian ancestry and music artist Apl.de.ap of the Black Eyed Peas is of Filipino descent.

Ming-Na Wen in a white dress with black accents, stands beside her mom.

Toward the end of her speech, Wen thanked her mother, Lin Chan Wen, who sat in the front row, for immigrating from Hong Kong when Wen was a young child. She then dedicated the star to her mother.

“I want to thank you for my name, because it may not be English, but it is American,” Wen said drawing affirming yeses and applause. “And I hope my star will help all the Americans out there, or anyone else, that they don’t have to be a ‘Tom,’ ‘John’ or ‘Mary’ to feel American — they do belong.”

Wen admitted that she felt she didn’t deserve the Walk of Fame honor and pledged to “work even harder still to earn this star.” She pointed out that she has never been nominated for any major awards during a career that has spanned four decades.

“I’ve endured countless rejections, I’ve dealt with sexism, racism, so many ‘isms,’” Wen said. “And I’m willing to face these struggles because when the jobs come, when the few yeses come, they negate all the nos, and the fun starts all over again.”dSs

Kaley Cuoco: I wanted to have a baby with Tom Pelphrey ‘when we met’

“When we met, it was instantaneous,” the actress gushed to Emmy magazine in an interview published Friday.

”Tom came along, and something changed.”

The “Big Bang Theory” alum remembers realizing, “Oh, my God, I want to have a kid with you.”

The 37-year-old noted that Pelphrey, 40, also wanted to start a family with her “so badly.”

She explained, “We’re not 20, so we felt like we probably couldn’t wait too long. Then we got so blessed — it happened right away.”

The “Based on a True Story” star, who welcomed daughter Matilda in March, admitted that having a child wasn’t on her “radar” prior to their relationship.

“As a young girl I dreamed of it, but I became involved in my career,” Cuoco said. “[This is] not what I thought my life would be. I love my career and wanted to just keep living my life.”

The “Flight Attendant” star explained, “We have the same management team. My manager actually took me as her guest to the ‘Ozark’ premiere, and I met him there.

“It was like the angels started singing,” she continued. “I was like, ‘Hallelujah.’ It was very magical. … It was perfect.”

Cuoco was previously married to tennis pro Ryan Sweeting from 2013 to 2016, as well as equestrian Karl Cook from 2018 to 2022.

While wed to the latter, Cuoco told Entertainment Tonight that she “wasn’t quite” ready to become a mom.

“I’m a worker bee right now — kind of my career is my focus and my husband,” she noted. “But we love kids and we love animals, so we’re meant to have children.”

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Kin Shriner Announces Scott Has Been Written Out of GENERAL HOSPITAL

“I just found out Scotty was written out,” he wrote. “I thank you GH fans for decades of supporting me!”

While some fans wondered if the actor’s Twitter account had been hacked, others noted that he has made these kinds of statements before. In fact, back in December 2021, Shriner tweeted that “Scotty’s run is done, so heading to Florida to ride Vespa around the tropics!” And as we all know, Scott eventually returned to our screens.

The character of Scotty Baldwin first appeared back in the mid-‘60s played by child actor Johnny Whitaker and after a series of young actors was aged to an adult in 1977 when Shriner took over the role. He has come and gone numerous times from GH over the decades, so this could just be another visit to the backburner until Scott’s story heats back up again.

Recently, Scott found himself in a relationship with Liesl Obrecht that has become a fan favorite. Unfortunately, his defending Liz in court upset Obrecht and she has thus far found it difficult to forgive him. While it would seem more in character for Scott to continue trying to win Obrecht back, perhaps he’s going to go lick his wounds and wait for her to come around on her own.

A Tribute for Marnie Schulenburg

Joining Zack and John are Guiding Light’s Bonnie Dennison and her As the World Turns co-stars Tala Ashe, Eric William Morris and Jake Silbermann.

Five months after Marnie and Zack’s daughter Coda was born, Marnie was diagnosed with Stage IV, metastatic, triple negative, inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). Marnie, Zack and their family decided to share Marnie’s diagnosis with their friends on Facebook. They never anticipated the response. Over the next two and a half years, Marnie’s Army Facebook group grew close to 1,000 people. This Army gave Marnie, Zack & Coda the kind of support you usually see from immediate family members who love each other unconditionally. Marnie loved her family, friends, theatre, and music. The few expletives she ever uttered, were when she talked about cancer. Let’s help Marnie’s army grow….and grow to become a force of support for Cape Cod Theatre & Music and an overwhelming enemy of cancer.

I hope you’ll all join the army by donating to the Marnie’s Army Fund via The Cape Cod Foundation. https://marniesarmy.org/

A Mental Health Conversation 5/24/23

Helping to lead this conversation is Dr. Charissa Chamorro who left her career in acting to focus on a career in the mental health profession. Dr. Chamorro specializes in the evaluation and treatment of anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, ADHD, and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

Joining us to share and open up about their own personal journey with mental health are Ryan’s Hope Brian McGovern and Guiding Light’s Michelle Ray Smith.

Famous Soap Opera Star's Family Shares Frustration Over Long-Term Care Policy

The popular soap opera star, who starred in “The Doctors” and “As the World Turns,” had a plan in place for life’s unexpected plot twists, but when she and her son counted on her insurance policy to cover costs of her care before her death, they say it didn’t help them.

NBC CT Responds was invited to her Roxbury home, just 10 days before she died, to see their frustration firsthand.

“This is my mother here. I mean, I, this is all I have. And this has been a situation in which I can't sleep at night,” said her son Jeremy Bennett.

Hubbard’s colon cancer diagnosis became dire at the start of the year.

Bennett says for two decades, his mom paid thousands and thousands of dollars into a long-term care policy since February of 2003.

“She was scared because being a single mother and also having only an only child and having no immediate family, she wanted a policy to take care of her in case something happened in the end,” her son explained.

But when Hubbard needed the help, the policy’s intricacies shocked her son and Hubbard.

“It’s a financial carrot that they're dangling,” said Bennett.

Hubbard’s long-term care claim went into effect January 13, 2023. But $363 of care each day wouldn’t be shelled out for 90 days, a policy deductible of sorts called an “elimination period.”

A term alone that sickened her son, “An elimination period. We’re talking about my mother here.”

Insurance experts say it’s to ensure long, not short-term care is needed.

Hubbard passed away April 8 - five days before the elimination period was set to end.

Every penny she paid into the policy was out of reach.

“The product is not so popular anymore for very obvious reasons. She wasn't tricked. She signed a policy, and the policy isn't paying what one would think it would pay,” said Melissa Hladek, a friend and certified senior care advisor.

She waited on hold with Bennett, after weeks and weeks of trying, to get information about when the elimination period was set to end and begin, among other questions he was having a hard time finding.

“I can’t even begin to explain to you how many times I call. I hold for I don’t know how long,” as they waited with hold music playing on repeat for almost an hour.

Hladek said a lot of the problem is the lack of compassion companies have as loved ones are navigating a loved one’s illness.

“He's seen his mother decline, this invincible person, start to decline, so it's very it's been, it's very heavy to take all of that in,” said Hladek.

“You should not have to learn vocabulary words when you're going through a crisis,” she added.

When someone did pick up, they were working in a noisy call center in the Philippines.

“There's so much background noise in the back of the call center that you feel like you're getting a warranty renewal for your computer. It's just, it's the impersonal part of that is what this is about,” said Hladek.

“You're trying to be strong, while someone is, you know, taking this final journey…and this policy that I thought was going to help us has basically been hindering us,” said Bennett.

“There’s no question it’s complicated and it’s confusing,” said Howard Bedline, the government relations and advocacy principal for The National Council on Aging. “There are lots of different variables and you’re shelling out a lot of money.”

The National Council on Aging says about half the people watching this story who reach their mid-60s or older will eventually need some kind of paid long-term care.

That means help with daily activities that keep you independent, like bathing or getting dressed.

Hladek and other experts NBC CT Responds spoke with commended Hubbard for planning ahead. Unfortunately, it didn’t help when she needed it.

Bennett says while people assume his famous mom was made of money, she was on a fixed income like many her age.

While he says Medicare helped cover some costs, he was left grieving with a pile of bills, too.

“On the one hand you can say, ‘Oh my goodness they paid all these years and got nothing out of it.’ On the other hand, you can make the argument that they paid all of these years that they had the benefit of knowing if they have significant long-term care needs, they had significant protection,” said Marc Cohen, a co-director of the UMass Boston Leading Age LTSS Center.

Not many long-term care policies exist these days as the insurance premiums have skyrocketed over the years. Hubbard received a notice hers would be increasing while she was sick.

So, what other options are there?

Experts say if constant help can’t come free from a loved one, it’s not cheap, and not covered by Medicare.

“Unfortunately, right now, most Americans are going to have to spend down their life savings to receive the care they need and depend upon Medicaid,” said Bedlin.

The National Council on Aging is pushing for policymakers to step up and help solve this aging crisis.

“We could use unbiased assistance with how we navigate this long-term care mess right now because right now, it’s just too expensive and virtually incomprehensible for the average American,” Bedlin said.

Connecticut’s Department of Insurance says it can help loved ones navigate policies.

“And we can oftentimes cut through the red tape and help you get the information that you deserve from the insurance company,” said Gerard O'Sullivan, the department’s director of consumer affairs.

O’Sullivan advises families to look over any insurance policy every year to make sure the coverage still meets your needs.

NBC CT Responds consumer reporter Caitlin Burchill said, “It's hard, you don’t want to talk about your end of life.”

O’Sullivan said, “But it is something that you should have - these conversations with your loved ones, make sure that you're understanding what options there are because a lot of times they may be incapacitated and can't tell you at that time.”

The department shared this shopper’s guide with us to help educate viewers.

Under Connecticut law, a child can receive notifications about a parent’s insurance policy from the company with the consent of the policy holder of course.

The CT Insurance Department says this is one way for a loved one to stay in the loop.

Bennett says the stress of trying to figure out coverage took away precious time that he could have spent with his mom, who spent her life not just acting, but advocating for causes she believed in.

“We want no special treatment at all. We're not expecting that. But if there's a way we can actually show the rest of Connecticut residents, people in America that this happens to everybody. And that the, this indecision and the not knowing what's going on is enough to literally, I don't want to say the words because that's what we're talking about, but to put you in the grave,” said Bennett.

He says his mom wanted to tell her “darlings,” what she called her fans, that she’ll see them on the other side.s

Interview with Bronson Picket

After leaving Oakdale, Bronson spent some time in Bay City on Another World as the malevolent Scott Guthrie. He also spent four years playing Joe Lozano on Any Day Now with Annie Potts and Lorraine Toussaint. In addition to guest starring roles on several other series and films, Bronson was cast as of the leads in the Lifetime series, Wild Card with Joely Fisher and Rae Dawn Chong.

Bronson opted to retire from show business to remain in NYC with his wife and two kids. He started what would be the first of several companies in the telecommunications and technology space.

He made appearances on Hostages and The Mysteries of Laura after his retirement and promised his manager if something small popped up in New York that wouldn’t take him away from his family, he would consider other roles here and there.

‘The Company You Keep’ Canceled By ABC After One Season

The Company You Keep, produced by Disney TV Studios’ 20th Television, did not perform as well as ABC’s two other midseason 2023 entries, fellow drama Will Trent, which has been renewed for a second season, and comedy Not Dead Yet, which is looking good for a renewal.

Still, Disney has longstanding relationship with Ventimiglia, who segued to The Company You Keep following his six-season starring turn on 20th Television’s hit NBC drama This Is Us. Based on that and the fact that The Company You Keep only premiered in midseason, there was talk that ABC may give the series a partial second season order to give it more time to find an audience.

This is one of three series cancellations by ABC today alongside Big Sky and Alaska Daily. The only drama series at the network whose fate has not been decided yet is Rookie: Feds whose chances have likely improved in light of today’s news.

Based on the Korean format My Fellow Citizens that ran for more than 30 episodes on KBS2, The Company You Keep followed con man Charlie (Ventimiglia) and undercover CIA officer Emma (Catherine Haena Kim). A night of passion leads to love between the pair, who unknowingly are on a collision course professionally. While Charlie ramps up the “family business” so he can get out for good, Emma’s closing in on the vengeful criminal who holds Charlie’s family debts in hand — forcing them to reckon with the lies they’ve told so they can save themselves and their families from disastrous consequences.

William Fichtner, Tim Chiou, Freda Foh Shen, James Saito, Sarah Wayne Callies, Felisha Terrell, and Polly Draper also starred.

Julia Cohen and Klemmer served as executive producers and co-showrunners. Ventimiglia and Russ Cundiff executive produced for DiVide Pictures, along with Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu and Caitlin Foito for Electric Somewhere, and Todd Harthan and Lindsay Goffman. Deanna Harris (DiVide Pictures) is a producer. The pilot episode was written by Cohen and directed and executive produced by Ben Younger.

‘Fantasy Island’ Canceled By Fox

Fox greenlit the contemporary version of the classic drama series in 2021. The series, which takes place at a luxury resort, starred Roselyn Sanchez stars as Elena Roarke, a descendant of the original series’ enigmatic Mr. Roarke.

The series was done under a low-cost business model, so its threshold for success was lower. But Fox still decided to have the sun set on its summer series.

“We were very pleased with Fantasy Island’s fun and escapist creative, which we had hoped would gain strong traction among viewers,” according to a network statement. “Sony Pictures Television is an important partner of ours, and we look forward to continuing to work with them on Accused, Alert: Missing Persons Unit, Doc and the upcoming animated series Universal Basic Guys/Hoagie Bros. We’d also like to thank Fantasy Island’s cast, led by Roselyn Sánchez, Kiara Barnes and John Gabriel Rodriquez, crew and executive producers Liz Craft, Sarah Fain and Anne Clements for their partnership on the series.”

The original Fantasy Island debuted in 1977 and starred Ricardo Montalbán as Mr. Roarke and Hervé Villechaize as his assistant Tattoo. There was also a 1998 reboot starring Malcolm McDowell as Mr. Roarke.

Netflix Sets ‘Mech Cadets’ Premiere; Daniel Dae Kim, Ming-Na Wen, Brandon Soo Hoo & Debra Wilson To Star

Hoo stars as Stanford Yu, a scrappy teenage underdog working as a janitor at Sky Corps who dreams of being a Robo Pilot. Kim plays General Aiden Park, the battle-hardened leader of Sky Corps Academy and the Mech Cadet program. As a father of one of the cadets and a General, he expects nothing short of perfection from his daughter and his soldiers.

Wen plays Dolly Yu, Stanford’s loving if a bit overprotective, mother and the calm head of the janitorial team at Sky Corps. Wilson plays Chief Max, a former Robo pilot, head of Engineering at Sky Corps, and mentor to the trainees.

Rounding out the cast are Aparna Brielle as Ava Patel, Victoria Grace as Olivia Park, Josh Sundquist as Frank Olivetti, Anairis Quinones as Maya Sanchez, and James Yaegashi as Captain Tanaka.

Adapted from the bestselling comic series Mech Cadet Yu from Boom! Studios by Greg Pak and Takeshi Miyazawa, the 10-episode series is set 50 years in the future, after a terrifying alien species attacked our planet, and follows teenager Stanford Yu (Brandon Soo Hoo) who works as a janitor at the Sky Corps Military Academy. But he’s only dreamed of one thing his entire life— to pilot a Robo Mech, giant robots from outer space who came to our aid. When he finally gets his shot, Stanford and his classmates must put aside all personal differences and work together as a team in order to defend humanity against a new alien invasion.

Aaron Lam (Ash Vs. The Evil Dead) serves as head writer and executive producer for the series. Tohru Patrick Awa (Super Mario Bros. Movie) is the supervising director. Mech Cadets is executive produced by Shuzo John Shiota and Jack Liang for Polygon Pictures, Inc., and Stephen Christy and Ross Richie for Boom! Studios. Boom!’s Mette Norkjaer is co-executive producer of the series and Polygon’s Bill E. Miller serves as producer.

Talk Show Appearance

Tuesday, May 2

(9-10 a.m.) Catching Up with Parker Posey.

Catch up with As the World Turns Alum Todd Rotondi

Todd is the co-founder of Wellbuilt Company, a vertically integrated real estate development, construction and asset management company based in Portland Maine.

On the acting front Todd has been patiently waiting for the right story before returning to the film business. In 2022, he was urged by a friend to read The Longest Mile, an unbelievable, yet true story about Boston’s Methadone Mile. Todd has partnered up with Director Johnny Hickey to give the film the realism and edge it deserves as Hickey has a niche for the dark collateral damage of drug use in his films. After reading it, Todd signed on to Executive Produce, funded it and will make his return to acting in it.

Todd will join us to look back at his time on As the World Turns, tell us about his film project and talk about his greatest role to date as father to his 12-year-old son, George. Don’t miss the chance to catch up with Todd on Friday, May 5th.

Talk Show Appearance

AIRING Apr 25, 2023

Tom Pelphrey

‘Lilo & Stitch’ Live-Action Disney Movie Adds Billy Magnussen

The studio had no comment, and the roles of both Galifianakis and Magnussen are under wraps, though it’s understood that Kealoha will be playing Lilo in the feature bound for Disney+. And while it’s unclear how the sequel’s plot will compare to the original 2022 animated film, that Hawaii-set story charted the friendship between a lonely girl named Lilo and the alien, Stitch, engineered to be a force of destruction.

Chris Kekaniokalani Bright wrote the forthcoming film, from a previous draft by Mike Van Waes. Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich will produce for Rideback, with Ryan Halprin exec producing for the company.

Magnussen has recently been seen starring alongside Cristin Milioti and Ray Romano in HBO Max’s acclaimed dark comedy series Made for Love, also appearing in Barry Levinson’s Emmy-nominated HBO TV movie The Survivor, which made its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival. The in-demand actor played a young Paulie Walnuts in the Alan Taylor-helmed Sopranos prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark, also appearing in the Cary Fukunuga-directed Bond film No Time to Die, marking Daniel Craig’s final entry in the franchise.

Magnussen is set to exec produce and star alongside Lil Rel Howery and Jillian Bell in the ensemble comedy Reunion and will also soon be seen in F. Gary Gray’s Netflix action-comedy Lift with Kevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Vincent D’Onofrio; Doug Liman’s Prime Video reimagining of the classic 1989 actioner Road House starring Jake Gyllenhaal; the LuckyChap Entertainment thriller Borderline; Netflix’s Spy Kids reboot starring Gina Rodriguez and Zachary Levi; and the darkly comedic thriller Coup!, on which he’s also an EP.

Magnussen has also been cast in HBO’s comedy pilot The Franchise from Armando Iannucci and Sam Mendes, and will make his feature directorial debut with The Ridge for Mandalay Pictures, in association with Bron Studios. The multi-hyphenate is represented by Anonymous Content, UTA and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. .

‘Gremlins: Secrets Of The Mogwai’ Gets Premiere Date On Max; Watch Teaser

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai takes viewers back to 1920s Shanghai where the Wing family first meets the young Mogwai called Gizmo. Sam Wing (future shop owner Mr. Wing in the 1984 “Gremlins” film) accepts the dangerous task to take Gizmo home and embarks on a journey through the Chinese countryside. Sam and Gizmo are joined by a teenage street thief named Elle, and together, they encounter—and sometimes battle—colorful monsters and spirits from Chinese folklore. Along their quest, they are pursued by a power-hungry industrialist and his growing army of evil Gremlins.

It stars Ming-Na Wen, James Hong, BD Wong, Matthew Rhys, Izaac Wang, AJ LoCascio, Gabrielle Nevaeh Green, along with guest stars including Zach Galligan who starred as the hero “Billy Peltzer” in Amblin’s original Gremlins films. Additional guest voices include Sandra Oh, Randall Park, George Takei, and Bowen Yang.

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai is produced by Amblin Television in association with Warner Bros. Animation. Steven Spielberg serves as executive producer, along with Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, Presidents of Amblin Television, and Sam Register, President, Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios. Tze Chun serves as showrunner and executive producer. Brendan Hay serves as executive producer with Dan Krall serving as Supervising Producer. Joe Dante serves as consulting producer.

Elizabeth Hubbard, Soap Star Known for 'As The World Turns' and 'The Doctors', Dead at 89

The soap actress's son shared the news of her death in a Facebook post on Monday morning. "I'm sorry to say with a broken heart mi mum passed over the weekend," Jeremy Bennett wrote alongside a photo of Hubbard.

"Thank you for being an unmovable rock that guided me through life," he connected. "I will try to honour your memory for as long as I live. Love & Prayers. Jeremy"

No immediate cause of death was shared. PEOPLE reached out to Hubbard's team for comment.

In the wake of Hubbard's passing, her TV daughter Martha Byrne shared a heartfelt tribute on Instagram. "As many of you are finding out this morning, Elizabeth Hubbard passed away. First and foremost I want everyone to know I made sure she was aware of how much everyone loved her. I would share your comments from social media, videos and your fond memories of her as Lucinda, Althea, every time I saw her," wrote Byrne, who worked with Hubbard on As the World Turns.

"She loved the audience and fought like HELL to bring truth and honesty to her performances. On a personal level there aren't words to describe how much she meant to me. Only feelings, which override words in so many cases when it comes to love," she continued. "I will be sharing more so we can all grieve together but here are our last words together only just a few days ago. I said, 'Liz, do you know how much you have done for me?' She said, 'You can do more.' Because of what she has done for me over the last 38 years, the strength and fearless nature in how she lived her life, she is right, I can AND WILL do more."

Byrne added, "I look forward to sharing more about her life, which encompasses so much more than her INCREDIBLE career on daytime television. She also said to me when I told her how much the fans loved her… 'I tried.' She more than tried. She left it all on the screen. I'll miss her every day but grateful the universe gifted me with such a force of nature, of which the world will not see the likes of again. ??"

Hubbard was best known for her role as Dr. Althea Davis on the drama series The Doctors, which aired between 1964 and 1982. She appeared in a whopping 2741 episodes of the show.

She's also known for playing Lucinda Walsh in As the World Turns, which aired from 1975 to 2010. She appeared in 1975 episodes of the show.

Her last on-screen appearance was on the soap series Anacostia, playing Eva Montgomery in nine episodes airing between 2015 and 2018.

For her success in the daytime television world, Hubbard garnered 11 Daytime Emmy nominations. She won the Daytime Emmy for Best Actress in Daytime Drama in 1974 for her role as Dr. Althea Davis. She also won the Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Special Emmy in 1967 for her role in First Ladies Diaries: Edith Wilson.

In 2015, Hubbard was awarded a lifetime achievement award by Gold Derby. She also accumulated 11 Soap Opera Digest awards nominations, though she did not win in any categories.

Giving one of her last formal interviews to Soap Opera Digest in 2015, Hubbard spoke lovingly of her dedicated fanbase.

"I love them and I mean that. They're in my heart… let the fans know that I love them and honor them and I still look at the poems I sent them," she said. "I've dated many men in my life, but my secret love affair is with the fans."

Elizabeth Hubbard, Soap Star on ‘As the World Turns’ and ‘The Doctors,’ Dies at 89

Hubbard died Saturday of cancer at her home in Roxbury, Connecticut, her son, Jeremy Bennett, told The Hollywood Reporter.

On the big screen, Hubbard played the gynecologist girlfriend of Gene Hackman’s character in I Never Sang for My Father (1970) and appeared in The Bell Jar (1979), Ordinary People (1980), Cold River (1982) and Center Stage (2000).

She portrayed Dr. Althea on NBC’s The Doctors from 1964-82 and the manipulating mogul Lucinda on CBS’ As the World Turns from 1984 until the show’s conclusion in September 2010. (Lucinda and Larry Bryggman’s John Dixon headed off to Amsterdam at the end.)

“I’ve been so lucky playing Lucinda — a character who could do anything,” she told TV Guide in 2010. “She could lie, break the law, she didn’t have to be good, and she always had that checkbook ready. Always!”

Nominated for 11 Daytime Emmys, Hubbard won in 1974 for her turn as Davis and for playing Edith Wilson, the wife of Woodrow Wilson, on NBC’s First Ladies Diaries in ’76. Her next eight noms came for her work on As the World Turns (all losses), followed by a final one in 2016 for a turn as an American sexologist on the digital soap Anacostia.

One of three kids, Hubbard was born in New York on Dec 22, 1933. Her mother, Elizabeth Wright Hubbard, was a pioneer in homeopathic therapies and one of the first women to receive a medical degree from Columbia University.

Hubbard graduated from Radcliffe College in 1955, studied acting in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made her Broadway debut as a replacement actress in a revival of Threepenny Opera soon after its ’55 bow.

Her Broadway résumé also included Compulsion, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, I Remember Mama and her final credit, 1983’s Dance a Little Closer.

Hubbard started out on the CBS soap Guiding Light in 1962 when it was live and 15 minutes long. “I replaced some actress who had flipped her lid,” she recalled. “They just needed somebody to round out the week, but then they kept me, and the rest is history.”

She and Gerald Gordon as Dr. Nick Bellini made for a popular romantic couple in daytime television on The Doctors.

She appeared on another CBS daytime drama, The Edge of Night, soon after that and on ABC’s One Life to Live as the wealthy Estelle Chadwick in 1983-84 before joining As the World Turns.

Her TV credits also included guest stints on The Virginian, Marcus Welby, M.D., Law & Order, Hope and Faith and Life on Mars.

“I’ve been very lucky in this thing called daytime,” she said, “first with Dr. Althea on The Doctors and then with Lucinda — two smart career women, both of them ladies who made their own way in the world, and I’m very proud to have put that out there.”

Soap Alums Pay Tribute To Elizabeth Hubbard

Mary Beth Evans (ex-Sierra; Kayla, DAYS): “I was so lucky to have had the opportunity to work with Elizabeth Hubbard for six years on As the World Turns, where she played my mother. What an amazing powerhouse this woman was … always striving for spontaneity and keeping it real. My favorite times with her were riding in the car from Manhattan to Brooklyn — the stories she would tell were so much fun. Rest in peace, sweet lady. #RIPLIZ #ATWT”

Michael Park (ex-Jack): “If Liz was involved in a scene I was lucky enough to be in, I could always count on learning a little something and laughing a whole lot. She was a ferocious talent in love with her craft. One of the greats that will certainly be missed.”

Peter Boynton (ex-Tonio): “Rest in peace, Boss! Working with/for you at ‘Walsh Enterprises’ was a highlight of my NYC years! Your encouragement and respect meant the world to me. I’m raising a glass to you and feel so lucky to have worked with you in that great ‘ATWT’ community. On angels wings. – Peter ‘Tonio Reyes’ Boynton.”

Kin Shriner (ex-Keith; Scott, GH): “I had the great pleasure of spending a year on @CBSATWT and spent time with Elizabeth Hubbard and was time well spent a class act!”

Martha Byrne (ex-Lily): “As many of you are finding out this morning, Elizabeth Hubbard passed away. First and foremost I want everyone to know I made sure she was aware of how much everyone loved her. I would share your comments from social media, videos and your fond memories of her as Lucinda, Althea, every time I saw her. She loved the audience and fought like HELL to bring truth and honesty to her performances. On a personal level there aren’t words to describe how much she meant to me. Only feelings, which override words in so many cases when it comes to love. I will be sharing more so we can all grieve together but here are our last words together only just a few days ago. I said, “Liz, do you know how much you have done for me?” She said, “You can do more.” Because of what she has done for me over the last 38 years, the strength and fearless nature in how she lived her life, she is right, I can AND WILL do more. I look forward to sharing more about her life, which encompasses so much more than her INCREDIBLE career on daytime television. She also said to me when I told her how much the fans loved her…”I tried.” She more than tried. She left it all on the screen. I’ll miss her every day but grateful the universe gifted me with such a force of nature, of which the world will not see the likes of again. ”

Alec Baldwin (ex-Billy, THE DOCTORS): “I worked on THE DOCTORS with the great Liz Hubbard. An amazing woman and remarkable actress.”

Terri Conn (ex-Katie): “[She] always fought hard for the truth of her character and the integrity of the story and I was always inspired by that…. She was a force and will be greatly missed!”

Lauren B. Martin (ex-Camille): “An incredible woman. A mentor, an icon. A vocabulary ad a wit, unrivaled.”

Scott Bryce (ex-Craig): “She was astonishing. Liz RIP. Love you woman.”

Elizabeth Hubbard Dies: Emmy-Nominated ‘As The World Turns’ Star Was 89

Her death was announced by son Jeremy Bennett on Facebook. Additional details were not immediately available.

“I’m sorry to say with a broken heart mi mum passed over the weekend,” Bennett wrote. “Thank you for being an unmovable rock that guided me through life. I will try to honour your memory for as long as I live.”

Although best known for her portrayal of the tough-as-nails Lucinda, Hubbard won two Daytime Emmys for other performances: She won her first in 1974 for her role as Dr. Althea Davis on NBC’s The Doctors, and her second in 1976 for the daytime drama TV movie First Ladies Diaries: Edith Wilson.

Born in New York City, Hubbard began her TV career in 1962 as Anne Fletcher on the soap opera Guiding Light, and the following year played Carol Kramer on The Edge of Night. In 1964 she joined The Doctors, beginning a five-year run on the show. She also played the role from 1970 to 1977, and again from 1981-1982.

With the cancellation of The Doctors, Hubbard briefly pivoted to ABC’s One Life To Live in 1983, and the following year joined As The World Turns for what would be her signature daytime role of Lucinda Walsh. Except for a brief period in 1999, Hubbard remained with the show until its final episode in 2010. In 2005 her character was featured prominently in a storyline about Lucinda’s battle with cancer.

Most recently, Hubbard appeared in the digital drama series Anacostia, earning a Daytime Emmy nomination in 2016.

Other credits include the films I Never Sang for My Father (1970), The Bell Jar (1979) and 1980’s Ordinary People.

Dishing with Digest - 4/7/23 - Lynn Herring

Catch up with As the World Turns alum Jaime Dudney

Jaime will be here to look back at her time working with the late Ben Jorgensen, Nathaniel Marston and her Oakdale family.

Jaime is the daughter of legendary country singer Barbara Mandrell and lives in Nashville with her son Jax.

"Soap Night" at White Girl In Danger

Alan I will sit down with two of the stars from the musical, Eric William Morris who played Matt O’Connor on As the World Turns, and Molly Hager on Monday, April 10th at 3 p.m. EST / 12 p.m. PST. Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning writer Michael R. Jackson will sit down for an interview as well as join appear on the red carpet for interviews with cast members from Another World and Guiding Light.

Don’t miss this special on location episode to see some of your favorite Bay City, Llaneview, Oakdale and Springfield residents on Monday, April 10th. White Girl in Danger is currently playing at The Keiser Theater in New York City.

‘The Crowded Room’: Apple TV+ Limited Series Starring Tom Holland, Amanda Seyfried & Emmy Rossum Gets Premiere Date, First-Look Photos

The Crowded Room follows Danny Sullivan (Holland), a man who is arrested following his involvement in a shooting in New York City in 1979. A captivating thriller told through a series of interviews with curious interrogator Rya Goodwin (Seyfried), Danny’s life story unfolds, revealing elements of the mysterious past that shaped him, and the twists and turns that will lead him to a life-altering revelation.

In addition to Holland, Seyfried and Rossum, the series stars Sasha Lane, Will Chase and Lior Raz along with guest stars Jason Isaacs, Christopher Abbott, Thomas Sadoski and Zachary Golinger.

The Crowded Room is a co-production between Apple Studios and New Regency. Goldsman serves as executive producer through his Weed Road Productions banner. The series is also executive produced by Alexandra Milchan for EMJAG Productions; New Regency’s Arnon Milchan, Yariv Milchan and Michael Schaefer and Suzanne Heathcote. Kornel Mundruczo directed several episodes, including the pilot, and executive produces.

Kaley Cuoco Welcomes First Child With Tom Pelphrey

“Introducing, Matilda Carmine Richie Pelphrey, the new light of our lives!” the “Meet Cute” star wrote alongside a slideshow of photos of her newborn daughter on Instagram Saturday.

“We are overjoyed and grateful for this little miracle ?? Thank you to the doctors, nurses, family and friends who have helped us immensely over the last few days. We are blessed beyond belief ??.”

The first-time mom concluded with a message to her boyfriend, saying, “@tommypelphrey didn’t think I could fall even more in love with you, but I did.”

Cuoco also shared in the post that Matilda was born on Thursday.

(Photo1) The actress, 37, first surprised her Instagram followers with a pregnancy announcement in October.

“Baby girl Pelphrey coming 2023,” the then-expectant star captioned a slideshow at the time.

“beyond blessed and over the moon,” she continued. “I ??you @tommypelphrey !!!”

(Photo2) (Photo3) In a post of his own, the 40-year-old “Ozark” alum gushed, “And then it was even MORE BETTER. ??????. Love you more than ever @kaleycuoco ??????.”

The reveal came five months after the couple made their relationship Instagram official.

Cuoco, who was previously married to Ryan Sweeting and Karl Cook, called her bond with Pelphrey “love at first sight.”

(Photo4) The “Flight Attendant” star explained to “Extra” in October that she and the actor met because they have “the same management team.”

She added, “My manager actually took me as her guest to the ‘Ozark’ premiere, and I met him there. It was like the angels started singing. I was like, ‘Hallelujah.’ It was very magical. … It was perfect.”

Cuoco and the “Outer Range” star met after she underwent “a lot of therapy and self-reflection.”

After announcing their expanding family, the duo continued to document the Golden Globe nominee’s pregnancy progress — including her “horribly sick” first trimester.

“We’re so excited,” Pelphrey told “Extra” in an October interview. “It’s the most incredible thing.”

The former soap star concluded by calling himself “very blessed, very fortunate [and] very lucky.”&

CMT NAMES ALL-STAR PRESENTER LINEUP FOR 2023 “CMT MUSIC AWARDS”

Bria Samoné Henderson & Tonya Pinkins Among Cast Set For Indie LA Drama ‘Angel City’

Braham, who is also head of LA’s growing Micheaux Film Festival, penned the screenplay and will direct with Courtney L. Branch producing and Mario Contini set as director of photography. Sherri Martin, Dale Martin, Hadassah McGrew, and Michael Knapp serve as executive producers. Principal photography is set to begin in Los Angeles in April.

The film’s full synopsis reads: Angel City follows the journey of Ace, an optimistic rideshare driver in Los Angeles with big dreams of becoming a star. Obsessed with finding his big break, he grapples with the looming specter of homelessness, struggling to make ends meet, and his determination is put to the ultimate test when he’s suddenly evicted from a hostel.

The pic, which is from LA-based indie Braham Entertainment, is an adaption of Braham’s Emmy-nominated short film Watchtower, which was inspired by a production assistant that he came to learn was living in a tent encampment while working to chase his dream of becoming an actor.

“As a filmmaker, my passion has always been to tell stories that shed light on the unexplored corners of society, stories that offer a voice to those who are often overlooked and neglected,” said Braham. “And I am honored to make my directorial debut with a feature film that centers around the homeless community, a community that has been subjected to stigmatization, stereotypes, and neglect for far too long – and is close to my heart and experience.”

He added that the film is a “love letter to anyone who has dared to chase their dreams” regardless of the obstacles they may face.

“It is a reminder that every person has a story worth telling, that every life is worth living, and that every dream is ultimately worth the sacrifice it takes to fulfill it,” he said.

Pinkins is repped by The Rosenzweig Group. Washington is repped by BRS / Gage Talent Agency and Cultivate Entertainment Partners. Henderson is repped by The Gersh Agency and Vanguard Management Group. Estes is repped by LB Talent Agency and 24/7 Management.

CBS RENEWS HIT DRAMA SERIES “BLUE BLOODS” FOR THE 2023-2024 SEASON

“BLUE BLOODS has dominated Friday nights since its premiere and remained an important anchor for CBS’ winning lineup,” said Amy Reisenbach, president of CBS Entertainment. “Led by the outstanding Tom Selleck and an incredible cast and creative team, viewers continue to embrace the Reagans, their law enforcement family and the series’ dramatic storytelling. We can’t wait to pull a chair up to the Reagan family dinner table for another fantastic season.”

BLUE BLOODS is Friday’s #1 primetime program and the #3 broadcast drama with 9.54 million viewers. With live +35-day multiplatform viewing, BLUE BLOODS scores more than 11 million viewers an episode.* Since the show’s premiere on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010, BLUE BLOODS has always maintained its #1 position at 10:00 PM, leading the Network’s top-rated Friday night lineup. BLUE BLOODS is also a top 10 series on Paramount+, based on total minutes viewed. Year-to-date in 2023, BLUE BLOODS also ranks as the sixth most-viewed channel on Pluto TV.

Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou, Marisa Ramirez and Vanessa Ray star. Kevin Wade, Siobhan Byrne-O’Connor, Ian Biederman and Dan Truly serve as executive producers. BLUE BLOODS is produced by CBS Studios.

BLUE BLOODS airs Fridays, (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network and streams live and on demand on Paramount+. A new episode will be available Friday, March 31.

BLUE BLOODS joins the previously announced renewals of NCIS, 60 MINUTES, CSI: VEGAS, NCIS: HAWAI’I, SURVIVOR, THE AMAZING RACE, TOUGH AS NAILS, LINGO, 48 HOURS, GHOSTS, THE NEIGHBORHOOD, SO HELP ME TODD, BOB ? ABISHOLA, FIRE COUNTRY, YOUNG SHELDON, FBI, FBI: MOST WANTED, FBI: INTERNATIONAL and THE EQUALIZER.

TRACKER, a new drama starring Justin Hartley, received an early series order for the 2023-2024 season. Additional show orders will be announced in the coming weeks.

Hayley Sparks Interview 3/31/23

An actress in NYC for the first decade of her professional life including a successful career on Broadway, in film and T.V., daytime fans will remember Hayley for her role as Courtney Baxter Dixon on As the World Turns. She also filled in for Beth Ehlers as Harley Cooper on Guiding Light.

Today, Hayley is a portrait, fashion and advertising photographer with a career spanning over 15 years working for a variety of national and international clients including Marie Claire, The New York Times, Sunday Life, Camilla, Cotton On, and Westfield. She has a way with connecting with her subjects, storytelling, and creating beautiful, cinematic light. Hayley's focus is youth, she's interested in seeing and empowering young people, in capturing the truth, beauty and magic of childhood.

Hayley interned for Annie Leibovitz at the beginning of her career and holds a bachelor’s degree with distinction from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Gravitas Ventures Acquires Sophie Lane Curtis Drama ‘On Our Way’ Starring Micheál Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave And Jordana Brewster

On Our Way centers a tormented young filmmaker (Richardson) struggling to accept his latest script, which reveals how he lost the love of his life (Curtis). Shuffling between past, present and fantasy, the film explores art’s ability to heal the wounds that inspire it.

On Our Way premiered internationally at Tallinn Black Nights and Ischia Global Film Festival where it was awarded Best Director (Curtis) and Best Actor (Richardson). Shot between New York and the South of France, this non-linear story aims to ignite the will to keep going when all hope seems lost.

The film is produced by Siena Oberman of Artemis Pictures, John Reyes Doyle and Julio Lopez Velasquez of Tomorrowland Productions, Heliya Alam, Andrea Bucko of SugarRush Pictures, and Kyle Stroud of Carte Blanche. Adam G. Simon, Joe Barbagallo of BarBHouse Productions and Alex Safdie of Commonwealth Pictures also produce.

Brady Corbet (Vox Lux), Mona Fastvold (The World to Come), Robert Bricker, Grafton Reyes Doyle, Courtney B. Turke, Jill Matlock Hall of Matlock Entertainment, Melissa Rossaki, and Keanu Mayo serve as executive producers along with Paola Paulin, Liz Cardenas, Jillian Houghton and Rocco Bovo.

Gravitas’ Mackenzie Maguire negotiated the deal with Glen Reynolds of Circus Road Films on behalf of the filmmakers.

Forbes March Responds To Oil Theft Allegation: Ex-Soap Star Says “Poorly Marked” Container Led To Misunderstanding And “Frivolous Charges”

“While not readily apparent to Forbes that day due to the poor markings,” reads the statement released by attorney Jared K. Hart, “one of the containers in fact allegedly belonged to Buffalo Biodiesel. Approximately 90 gallons of oil, only a portion of the oil collected that evening, allegedly came from the Biodiesel container that appeared abandoned and contained mostly dirty rainwater that would later have to be separated out.

“There was never an intent to steal nor permanently deprive another company of their alleged cooking oil,” the statement continues.

March is expected to appear in an Ulster court to formally answer the charge on March 28.

March and another man were arrested in Hudson County, New York, earlier this month and charged with grand larceny in the fourth degree for the alleged theft of used cooking oil from an Ulster, New York, restaurant called Michael’s Diner. (Used cooking oil can be used to manufacture biofuels, and oil theft has been on the rise in recent years.)

According to an Ulster Police Department report, the value of the oil exceeded $1,000, hence the larceny charge.

But March’s lawyer says that the relatively small amount of oil taken from the Buffalo Biodiesel container is worth at most $300, and that March immediately offered to pump the oil back into the container but that the oil was taken into custody by the police.

According to the statement, March, who owns and operates a firewood delivery company based out of his farm in the Catskill Mountains that provides services to restaurants, purchased an existing used oil collection route in early February as a supplement to his existing business.

“Forbes’ existing business had the infrastructure in place to segue into the biodiesel collection market,” the statement reads. “Michaels Diner was on that purchased route.”

“Unbeknownst to Forbes, another company called Buffalo Biodiesel also had a container at Michaels Diner and apparently had not serviced this restaurant in over six (6) months; yet this restaurant had been regularly serviced by the company Forbes bought the route from. At Forbes’ first visit to the location, several containers were present in which Forbes was led to believe were all his containers. The containers were poorly marked and seemingly abandoned but oil had been stored in them. The owner confirmed with Forbes that day that the oil was there for him to collect. All of the containers present, except for one, were properly stored for Forbes to collect.”

March’s attorney writes that the legal case against his client “is nothing more than a civil matter trumped up to be made to look criminal because a competitor in the biodiesel market failed in their obligations to service their customer.”

Deadline has reached out to Buffalo Biodiesel and will update this post with a response. The company routinely tweets near-daily reports of thefts from its oil containers; a retweet of Deadline’s previous article about March is pinned atop the company’s Twitter page.

In the attorney statement, Hart describes March as “a contributing member to society his entire life and has never had any issues with law enforcement. His goal in running this newly formed business was to contribute to the alternate energy resources available and he was in a unique position to be able to do so. We are disappointed that Forbes’ efforts as a volunteer with children, refugees, the arts, as a first responder and more will forever be overshadowed by these frivolous charges.”

The statement concludes with, “We appreciate the privacy the press has extended to Forbes’ family and look forward to putting this matter behind Forbes as he continues with his legitimate business activities and public service.”

As an actor, March had roles on various daytime serials beginning with All My Children in 1999, then One Life to Live from 2005-08 and on As the World Turns in 2009. Other TV credits include the Canadian sci-fi series Mutant X, Degrassi: The Next Generation and the 2010 TV movie Degrassi Takes Manhattan. He retired from acting before starting his restaurant service company in New York’s Catskill Mountain region.

The attorney statement in its entirety is as follows:

In early February, Forbes purchased an existing used oil collection route through a known business listing service to supplement another of Forbes’ existing businesses which also provides goods and services to restaurants. Forbes’ existing business had the infrastructure in place to segway into the biodiesel collection market. Michaels Diner was on that purchased route.

Part of the collection process involves placing specific containers at restaurants for the oil to be stored and then picked up. Containers had been present at Michaels Diner for months preceding the purchase of the route by Forbes. The manager of Michaels Diner has confirmed that his diner was in fact a customer of the business. Unbeknownst to Forbes, another company called Buffalo Biodiesel also had a container at Michaels Diner and apparently had not serviced this restaurant in over six (6) months; yet this restaurant had been regularly serviced by the company Forbes bought the route from. At Forbes’ first visit to the location, several containers were present in which Forbes was led to believe were all his containers. The containers were poorly marked and seemingly abandoned but oil had been stored in them. The owner confirmed with Forbes that day that the oil was there for him to collect. All of the containers present, except for one, were properly stored for Forbes to collect.

While not readily apparent to Forbes that day due to the poor markings, one of the containers in fact allegedly belonged to Buffalo Biodiesel. Approximately 90 gallons of oil, only a portion of the oil collected that evening, allegedly came from the Biodiesel container that appeared abandoned and contained mostly dirty rainwater that would later have to be separated out.

There was never an intent to steal nor permanently deprive another company of their alleged cooking oil. The oil was offered to be pumped back in immediately and is in fact currently being held by law enforcement. The market value of the alleged oil removed from the Buffalo Biodiesel container is at most $300.00. The facts and circumstances are extremely overblown, and this is nothing more than a civil matter trumped up to be made to look criminal because a competitor in the biodiesel market failed in their obligations to service their customer.

Forbes has been a contributing member to society his entire life and has never had any issues with law enforcement. His goal in running this newly formed business was to contribute to the alternate energy resources available and he was in a unique position to be able to do so. We are disappointed that Forbes’ efforts as a volunteer with children, refugees, the arts, as a first responder and more will forever be overshadowed by these frivolous charges.

We appreciate the privacy the press has extended to Forbes’ family and look forward to putting this matter behind Forbes as he continues with his legitimate business activities and public service.o

Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, Rebecca Liddiard & Vinessa Antoine Join Amanda Seyfried In Atom Egoyan’s ‘Seven Veils’

The project wrapped principal photography in Toronto last week.

Seven Veils follows Jeanine (Seyfried), an earnest theatre director, who has been given the daunting task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she re-enters the opera world after so many years away.

Smith and Seyfried previously worked together on HBO series Big Love, playing siblings Ben and Sarah Henrickson.

Pic is written and directed by Egoyan, who also produces alongside Niv Fichman (Enemy), Simone Urdl (The Captive), Fraser Ash (BlackBerry) and Kevin Krikst (BlackBerry).

The project is a Rhombus Media and Ego Film Arts production, produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada, in association with Cinetic Media, IPR.VC, XYZ Films and the Canadian Opera Company.

XYZ’s Aram Tertzakian, Nate Bolotin, Maxime Cottray and Nick Spicer will executive-produce, alongside John Sloss of Cinetic Media, and Noah Segal and Adrian Love of Elevation Pictures. XYZ co-financed and is handling world sales. Elevation will distribute in Canada.

XYZ Films, IPR.VC and Rhombus Media recently produced and co-financed Matt Johnson’s Berlin Film Festival title Blackberry which was acquired by IFC Films last year.

“I couldn’t be more excited about the wonderful actors we have to support Amanda’s complex role,” said Egoyan. “The ensemble we have created around the central role of Jeanine represents some of the finest young talent we have.”

Smith’s recent credits include the upcoming feature film Horizon from director Kevin Costner, Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling, HBO’s Big Little Lies, and TNT’s The Alienist.

O’Brien can be seen as Thomas Milligan on the most recent season of Perry Mason now airing on HBO. Previous feature credits include Justin Chon’s Blue Bayou, Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival, and Searchlight’s Ready or Not.

Liddiard will next appear as Karen Tillman in the upcoming season of FX’s Fargo. Previous credits include Netflix’s Alias Grace, Josh Brandon’s A Thousand Little Cuts, Ricky Tollman’s Run This Town, and CBC’s Frankie Drake Mysteries.

Antoine recently played the lead role of Marcie Diggs in CBC’s ongoing series Diggstown. Her other previous credits include Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia, the Paramount+ series Interrogation, and Fox’s The Resident.

Smith is repped by The Gersh Agency, GGA and More / Medavoy Management. O’Brien is repped by UTA, The Characters Talent Agency and Thruline Entertainment. Liddiard is repped by The Gersh Agency and Noble Caplan Abrams. Antoine is repped by Buchwald and The Characters Talent Agency.

Former Soap actor arrested for stealing used cooking oil

Forbes March, 49, of Jeffersonville and Oscar Guardado, 30, of Liberty, were arrested following the incident at 10:12 p.m. on March 2. Both were charged with grand larceny.

March had starred in “All My Children” and “As the World Turns” before he left acting and formed New York Firewood Company, which supplies wood for restaurants and private residences, according to Wikipedia.

The cooking oil was in a storage container owned by Buffalo Biodiesel and had an estimated value of over $1,000, police said.

Sydney Sweeney And Julianne Moore To Star In Apple Original Films’ ‘Echo Valley’

The pic will star Moore as ‘Kate Garrett,’ who is reeling from a personal tragedy and spends her days boarding and training horses at Echo Valley Farm, twenty-two secluded, picturesque acres in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Late one night, her wayward daughter, ‘Claire’ (played by Sweeney), arrives at her doorstep, frightened, trembling, and covered in someone else’s blood. From that simple premise, Echo Valley becomes a heart-pounding thriller about just how far a mother will go to save her child.

The pic will be produced by Scott Free’s Ridley Scott and Michael Pruss, Ingelsby, and Kevin Walsh produces for The Walsh Company under his multi-year Apple TV+ producing deal. Pruss and Ingelsby developed the script together. The film will be executive produced by Scott Greenberg, Scott Free’s Rebecca Feuer and Nicole Jordan-Webber. Erika Olde and Sam Roseme will also executive produce through Black Bicycle Entertainment. Tanja Tawadjoh will co-produce.

The film marks Ingelsby’s fourth collaboration with Scott Free after Out of the Furnace (2013), American Woman (2015), and most recently Our Friend (2019). It also marks third collaboration for Walsh and Ingelsby, who previously collaborated on American Woman and Our Friend.

Moore is represented by WME and Management 360, Edelstein, Laird & Sobel, Sweeney is represented by Paradigm and Hansen, Jacobsen, Teller, Pearce is represented by WME, Independent Talent Group, Ingelsby is represented by CAA, LBI Entertainment, McKuin Frankel Whitehead LLP, Walsh is represented by Gregory Slewett at Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.

Peter Boynton Interview 3/9/23

Peter’s musical training began in the junior choir of his hometown church. He formed his first band in the sixth grade with an unusually talented group of neighborhood friends. After receiving his degree in music theory / composition from the University of Amherst, he headed to NYC.

Peter’s acting career spanned 20+ years while based in NYC with roles in national tours, regional theatre, Off-and On-Broadway, TV specials, daytime soaps and films. Some of his highlights include the 1995 revival of the Broadway musical, She Loves Me, his juicy tenure on ATWT from 1985 to 1991. Every actor needs at least one turn in a horror film, and he had his with a featured role in HellRaiser III.

From 1996 to 2019, Peter produced, directed and performed in stage musicals he mounted in the 1891 dairy barn he renovated on his property in Vermont. He moved there to raise his young daughter which brought new opportunities as an educator. Peter produced and directed the musicals at the local high school while teaching acting and directing classes at Burlington College.

Lea Salonga Joins Broadway Cast Of David Byrne-Fatboy Slim Musical ‘Here Lies Love’

Producers of the show announced the casting of the Filipina actor today. Salonga is also joining the show as a producer.

Salonga will appear in the show for five weeks from Tuesday, July 11 through Sunday, August 13. She will perform “Just Ask The Flowers,” sung by the character of Aurora Aquino, mother of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, whose assassination ignited the People Power Revolution that ousted Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos from power.

After her five-week run, guest stars from the Philippines will take over the role, showcasing what the producers described as “the abundance of talent” from Salonga’s native country.

This production marks the first time Salonga will serve as a producer on a Broadway show, and the first time she will play a Filipino role on the Broadway stage. Here Lies Love also will mark her return to the Broadway Theatre after making her Broadway debut there in 1991, when she won the Tony Award for her portrayal of Kim in Miss Saigon at age 20.

“I’m so excited to be joining Here Lies Love as both a performer and producer,” Salonga said in a statement. “As an audience member that stood on the dance floor at the National Theatre in London where Here Lies Love ran in 2014, I knew I wanted to be part of it if and when it ever came to Broadway. Now here we are, and at the theater in which I made my Broadway debut.”

“I’m thrilled to be part of this show,” she continued, “as well as part of a company comprised of an abundance of Filipino talent, a first in Broadway history. We’re showing the world what we’re capable of.”

Director Alex Timbers said, “Having Lea join the Here Lies Love family is a pinch-me moment for all of us. I can’t wait to get in the rehearsal room with her and the other talented artists working on this show.”

Here Lies Love features a concept, music and lyrics from Byrne, and music by Fatboy Slim. Salonga joins previously announced cast members Jose Llana and Conrad Ricamora. An international casting search is underway for the remaining company of more than 20 actors.

The immersive musical, which will transform part of the Broadway Theatre into a dance club, tells the story of former Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos’ rise to power and subsequent fall at the hands of the Philippine People Power Revolution.

The musical begins performances Saturday, June 17 ahead of an official opening night on Thursday, July 20.

“Lea Salonga has singularly secured a place for Filipinos on the Broadway stage,” said producer and costume designer Clint Ramos. “That she joins us as both performer and producer, where she creates a pipeline for Filipina actresses, is profoundly historic. Lea continues to be a beacon of light and source of pride for the Philippines. We are thrilled to welcome her to Here Lies Love.”

Meredith Hagner To Star In Dark Comedy ‘Girlshow’ In Works At Hulu From Sally Bradford McKenna & Dakota Johnson

Plot details are being kept under wraps for the project, described as a dark comedy, which will be written and executive produced by McKenna.

Donnelly and Johnson executive produce for TeaTime, along with Oly Obst for 3 Arts.

Hagner is known for her role as Portia Davenport on all five seasons of Search Party. She most recently voiced Mora in Disenchantment and will next be seen starring in Apple TV+’s Bad Monkey. Hagner is repped by UTA, Suskin/Karshan Management and Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson McGinnis Ryan.

McKenna began her writing career on Will and Grace and went on to serve as co-executive producer on Don’t Trust the B—-in Apartment 23, The Goldbergs and The Grinder. She served as executive producer and showrunner on hybrid live-action/animated comedy Son Of Zorn, which aired for one season on Fox. She also recently served as co-executive producer on Ghosted and consulting producer on Reboot.

Jesse Lee Soffer Explains His ‘Chicago P.D.’ Exit and Whether He’ll Ever Return: ‘Halstead’s Always Going to Be in My Blood’

Which is a big deal, considering he started acting when he was 6 and hasn’t stopped since. Before he turned 30, Soffer had more than 500 episodes of “As the World Turns” and three Emmy nominations under his belt — not to mention his memorable role as Bobby Brady in the “Brady Bunch” movies.

Then, in 2013, Soffer began his relationship with Dick Wolf. Soffer’s character, Jay Halstead, was introduced on Wolf’s “Chicago Fire” (the first “Law & Order: SVU” spinoff that would go on to launch the franchise) and then became one of the leads on “Chicago P.D.” when it debuted the following year. Soffer appeared on 189 episodes — every hour of Seasons 1 through 9 and the first three of 10. (The show’s 200th episode airs on Feb. 22.)

So to Soffer, 38, the cast and crew are as close to him as the nose on his face. Which is what made his talk with the producers at the end of Season 9 extra difficult: He felt it was time to leave the show.

Publicly, he didn’t share the reasons for his exit. “I’ve thought so hard about how to answer this question — and there’s no good answer,” he says. “Except I was ready for more.”

Maybe it had to do with the fact that filming a 22-episode procedural in Chicago made it hard to have time for anything else, including playing a new role. “Eventually, you know the character so well, there’s not much that can shift or transform,” says Soffer, adding that he was extremely grateful for the Season 9 storyline showrunner Gwen Sigan gave him — Jay stepping into the No. 2 role in the unit and getting married — which allowed him to take the character on a new adventure for the first time in years.

Still, he yearned for more freedom.

“I really wanted to grow and expand, and we’ve only got this one trip. If I signed up again, it would have been for another three years. I would have turned 40 on the show. I thought, ‘You know what? It’s time to take a risk,’” he says. “It was one of the toughest decisions I’ve ever had to make in my life. Let’s be honest: I love the fans of our show so much, and I love my fans. I know that they’re still grieving this, and to some degree, I am too.”

Soffer agreed, upon his departure, to return for the start of Season 10. He last appeared on the third episode of the season, which aired in October. To exit him from the NBC show, the writers sent Jay to Bolivia on a task with the Army to take down the cartel. In that process, he left his wife, Hailey Upton (Tracy Spiridakos), behind. Despite promising her that they would get through it, she’s since been informed — via a phone call from his boss — that he’s extended his trip.

“Chicago P.D.” viewers are very vocal on social media. And Soffer is well aware of that. In fact, he sees the tweets pop up on his feed every day. “I know the fans are upset be­cause, like, ‘This isn’t the Jay that we know and love! Why isn’t he calling? Why is he doing this?!’ But, you know, the show must go on,” he explains. “I don’t think I really have the right to feel any way about that. The writers have to do what they have to do to service the story and the characters that are still there. Also, our show’s pretty dark, and they love diving into the ugliest, hardest version of life. So for Hailey to have to go through this, it probably just made sense.”

Still, Soffer feels protective about Jay: “He’s deeply flawed, because everybody on ‘Chicago P.D.’ is. But he’s definitely a good person, with really good motives.”

Circling back to that Season 9 discussion, the actor explains that when he agreed to return for the beginning of Season 10 in order to properly exit, he surprised the producers by also asking if he could direct.

He can’t recall when he got the itch to step behind the camera, but did realize about five years into “Chicago P.D.” that it could be something he’d excel at. While on the show, he was working every day with his fellow actors to perfect a scene, and noticed that, in a way, they’d been directing all along.

“I hadn’t really brought it up to anyone, but it was something I was willing to fight for,” he says. So less than two weeks after he wrapped his last episode, he came back to Chicago from Los Angeles — this time to shadow director Bethany Rooney, who has directed everything from “St. Elsewhere” and “The Wonder Years” to “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Arrow.”

At first, coming in “as an observ­­er” felt very strange to Soffer. So he focused on Rooney, studying the ways in which she handled every situation. Then he jumped headfirst into his episode, set to air on March 22, and it felt like coming home: “It was like I never left.”

“Some of it was effortless. Some of it was frustrating. Some of it was super rewarding. Some of it was humbling,” he says. “It was easier than I thought it was gonna be, because we’re storytellers in this industry, and I love telling stories. When I’d get a script that was a Halstead-centric story, I’d break that sucker down so much, calling the producers with suggestions. I’ve been doing that all along, so it was an easy shift.

His episode, titled “Deadlocked,” goes “a little old school,” following the boss, played by Jason Beghe, going off the books (again). After the episode wrapped, Soffer got the ultimate compliment from Beghe. “In his raspy voice, he was like” — here Soffer does the voice — “‘Bro, as far as maiden voyages go, this is effing spectacular.’”

Beghe tells Variety that Soffer is “a wonderfully talented actor.”

“More importantly,” he adds, “he is a fantastic human being. And he has the potential, if he has the interest, to become a world-class director.”

Their partnership has only grown off screen. “Jason and I have become brothers. You’re in the trenches together, making this thing what it is and pouring your heart and soul into it — blood, sweat and tears for a decade,” Soffer says. “So there’s a lot of him in me probably, and a lot of me and him.”

Soffer wrapped up directing his episode just one day before our interview. Now, it’s hard to say what’s next — besides golf. But he knows what he’s hoping for professionally.

“’P.D.’ is an ensemble — Jason’s definitely the lead and the strong patriarch on that show. I definitely think I’m ready to be a lead on a show and to have my own show,” he says. “I’d put all of my heart and soul into it.”

Also on his wish list? Soffer would love to land a role on a Taylor Sheridan drama or a period piece, and hopefully he’ll continue to direct more television. And maybe live somewhere warmer than Chicago.

But he’s not a complainer. Soffer says the tough Chicago conditions only brought the cast and crew closer — and that’s what he misses most. “You have to be a family when it’s zero degrees in the middle of February and you’re working at 2 a.m.,” he says. “It’s such a family. Dysfunctional sometimes, as all families are.”

So is the door to visit “Chicago P.D.” completely closed? “Definitely not,” Soffer says. “Never say never. I feel so bad for the fans that are like, ‘Is he going to come back?’ ‘What’s he going to do?’ ‘What’s going on with him and Hailey?’

“I like to think — and I hope the fans think this too — that he’s just in another country right now, doing what he does best and making the world a safer place. In a family, sometimes somebody moves away or goes to college somewhere else. I still love it. I still love the fans. And I still love Halstead. Halstead’s always going to be in my blood. That’s never going to change.”

‘Mean Girls’ stars may not return for new movie over ‘disrespectful’ money offer: source

Actresses Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried and Lacey Chabert all agreed to return for the new “Mean Girls” movie — but talks have stalled over Paramount’s “disrespectful” money offer, Page Six is told.

The stars of the original 2004 classic have remained friends throughout the years and were willing to return for the new film, which is bringing the Broadway musical version of “Mean Girls” to streamer Paramount +.

“Paramount Pictures doesn’t want to pay the girls what they are worth,” said a highly placed production source. “All four girls were willing to come back, but Paramount has not been respectful of what they are worth.”

We’re told that McAdams, 44, who played queen bee Regina George, was initially offered a larger part to play than the other three, but the deal has not been signed off.

“As of now, the negotiations are stalled.” said the source.

Tina Fey, who wrote both the movie and musical, is reprising her role as math teacher Ms. Norbury. She reportedly has a seven-figure deal for her acting role — she’s also writing and producing the movie — while Lohan & Co. were said to be offered a “fraction” of that.

Page Six has reached out to Paramount Pictures, as well as reps Lohan, Seyfried, Chabert and McAdams, for comment. A rep for Fey declined to comment.

Lohan, 36, has recently made a return to Hollywood, with the top-rated Netflix holiday movie, “Falling For Christmas”, while Seyfried recently scooped a Golden Globe and an Emmy for her role as disgraced tech CEO Elizabeth Holmes in the Hulu miniseries “The Dropout.” She’s also up for a SAG award this weekend for the role.

Chabert, meanwhile, has been dubbed the Queen of Hallmark for her frequent movie roles on the channel, and McAdams has appeared in a string of box office hits and, most recently, in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” alongside Benedict Cumberbatch.

The foursome would not play their original characters, nor is it known what parts they would play, but another Hollywood insider said: “Whether they appear in a cameo appearance or they have six pages of script, it doesn’t matter — [the money offered] is disrespectful.”

Last week, Fey, 52, told Seth Meyers that both she and Tim Meadows, who played Principal Duvall in the original movie, were returning.

“I do want to give you credit, you and Tim had parts in the original film that you couldn’t age out of,” Meyers said on Thursday night’s show.

“Teachers work forever,” Fey joked.

Reneé Rapp from HBO Max show “The Sex Lives of College Girls” is cast as Regina George on screen after already playing the preening blonde on Broadway, while Angourie Rice takes over from Lohan as Cady Heron. The role of Janis Ian, Cady’s best friend, will be played by Auli?i Cravalho of “Moana” fame, while Jaquel Spivey will play Damien. Chris Briney, from the Amazon Prime hit “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” co-stars as Cady’s boyfriend, Aaron Samuels.

Fey told Meyers that production will begin on March 6.

The Flash Brings Back Teddy Sears as Zoom, John Wesley Shipp as Jay Garrick

Series vets John Wesley Shipp and Teddy Sears are both set to appear during Season 9, TVLine has learned exclusive, reprising their respective roles as Jay Garrick and Hunter Zolomon (aka Zoom).

The duo in turn join a final-season guest star slate that already boasts Stephen Amell (as Arrow‘s Oliver Queen/Green Arrow), David Ramsey (as John Diggle/Spartan), Keiyan Lonsdale (as Wally West/Kid Flash) and Sendhil Ramamurthy (as Dr. Ramsey Rosso/Bloodwork), all in Episode 9 directed by Danielle Panabaker; Batwoman‘s Javicia Leslie (as Red Death), Nicole Maines (reprising her Supergirl role of Nia Nal aka Dreamer), Rick Cosnett (as Eddie Thawne), Matt Letscher (as Eobard Thawne) and Jessica Parker Kennedy (as Nora/XS). As for Cisco, time will tell?

Previewing Sears’ encore, The Flash showrunner Eric Wallace says, “As one of our most memorable villains ever, he scared and delighted audiences in Season 2. And now, I’m happy to announce that the brilliant Teddy Sears is coming back as the evil Zoom aka Hunter Zolomon… for one more battle against Team Flash.

“It’s a reunion I’ve been hoping could happen for several seasons,” the EP adds, “and now I’m so excited that we were finally able to bring Teddy and incredible talents back into our Flash Family for our epic and emotional ninth season. So, get ready to be frightened again, Flash fans!”

And as for Shipp’s latest swing by Central City, “Flash fans have loved John Wesley Shipp’s heroic and heartwarming portrayals on our show since its inception,” Wallace notes. “So, it’s a huge honor to have John back as part of our epic final season. This time, John’s lent his incredible talents to an incredibly emotional story — one that sheds new light on Barry Allen’s tragic past.”

HBO Max Limited Series ‘Love & Death’ With Elizabeth Olsen, Jesse Plemons Releases Teaser, Sets Debut Date

The drama starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons will offer three episodes on April 27, followed by one episode each week through May 25.

The series tells the true story of Candy and Pat Montgomery and Betty and Allan Gore – two churchgoing couples enjoying their small-town Texas life, until an extramarital affair leads somebody to pick up an axe.

Plemons and Olsen are joined by Lily Rabe, Patrick Fugit, Krysten Ritter, Tom Pelphrey, Keir Gilchrist and Elizabeth Marvel.

The series is coproduced by Lionsgate. Executive producers are David E. Kelley (who writes the series) through David E. Kelley Productions; Nicole Kidman and Per Saari through Blossom Films; Lesli Linka Glatter (who directs the first four and final episodes); Scott Brown and Megan Creydt through Texas Monthly; Matthew Tinker; Michael Klick and Helen Verno.

The limited series is inspired by the book, Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs, and a collection of articles from Texas Monthly (Love & Death in Silicon Prairie, Part I & II).

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Tuesday, Feb. 14 – Break out the flowers and chocolates for “Live’s Love Show,” a special episode dedicated to fun, games and love galore; featuring celebrity couple JASON BIGGS and JENNY MOLLEN and more surprises.

Amanda Seyfried To Star In Atom Egoyan’s ‘Seven Veils’; XYZ Films To Launch Sales In Berlin

In the pic, Seyfried plays Jeanine, an earnest theatre director, who has been given the task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she re-enters the opera world after so many years away. Elevation Pictures will distribute the film in Canada.

Seven Veils is written and directed by Egoyan, who also produces alongside Niv Fichman (Enemy), Simone Urdl (The Captive), Fraser Ash (BlackBerry), and Kevin Krikst (BlackBerry). The pic is a Rhombus Media and Ego Film Arts production, produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada in association with Cinetic Media, IPR.VC, XYZ Films, and the Canadian Opera Company.

XYZ’s Aram Tertzakian, Nate Bolotin, Maxime Cottray, and Nick Spicer will Executive Produce alongside John Sloss of Cinetic Media with Noah Segal and Adrian Love of Elevation Pictures.

Seyfried and Egoyan previously collaborated on the 2009 feature film Chloe. Seven Veils also reteams XYZ Films, IPR.VC and Rhombus Media, who produced and co-financed Matt Johnson’s Blackberry, which will premiere in competition at Berlin and was acquired by IFC Films for the U.S.

“I first produced Salome for the Canadian Opera Company almost thirty years ago and have been haunted by its themes,” said Egoyan. “This is a project I’ve been dreaming about for years and it’s such a thrill to be reunited with Amanda after the amazing experience we had together making Chloe.”

XYZ’s current sale of projects includes the Sundance Midnight selection Run Rabbit Run, starring Sarah Snook, which recently sold to Netflix, Svalta starring Nick Frost and Lena Heady, and The Wasp starring Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer.

Seyfried is repped by Innovative Artists. Egoyan is repped by WME, Cinetic Media, and Great North Artists Management.

Gun Control Campaigner Julianne Moore Holds A Firearm On Screen For First Time In 15 Years In ‘Sharper’

The Oscar winner takes the role of Madeline in Sharper, a movie she also co-produced. She co-stars with Sebastian Stan and John Lithgow in the thriller, which premieres in selected cinemas on February 10, before launching on Apple TV+ a week later.

It will be novel to see Moore using a weapon, as she has avoided taking such roles for over a decade – in line with her activism for gun control in the US. Her last known role with a firearm was in 2007, in the thriller Next.

She told the Times in London: “It’s not something I feel drawn to at all. I don’t find it appealing."

What made Sharper okay? Apparently, that it offers a kind of morality tale, with everything in the story going wrong as a result of her use of a weapon.

Off-screen, Moore is the co-founder of pressure group Everytown for Gun Safety, whose website explains “10 million everyday Americans who have come together to make their own communities safer.”

Moore was motivated to take action by the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012, which saw the death of twenty children and six adults.

She told the Times: “I’ve been very involved in the gun safety movement because I realised I wasn’t keeping my children safe if I didn’t do my part to change the legislation. I thought, ‘I’m not being the kind of parent I want to be.’ I thought that if something happened to them it would be my fault.”

The Times makes the point that Hollywood actors are in a tricky position talking about gun control, when films including weapons and violence make so much money at the box office.

But Moore reflected:

“It’s really important when you talk about gun safety and people blame entertainment to realise that the entire world consumes the same entertainment as the US, but the US has easy access to weapons. So I am not a big fan of violent movies, but I also don’t blame gun violence on entertainment.”

‘That ’90s Show’ Renewed For Season 2 At Netflix

Season 1 of the That ’70s Show spinoff premiered on January 19, 2023, and immediately reached Netflix’s Top 10 English TV list in 35 countries, with more than 41 million hours viewed, according to the streamer.

In That ’90s Show, it’s 1995 and Leia Forman (Callie Haverda) is desperate for some adventure in her life or at least a best friend who isn’t her dad (Grace). When she arrives in Point Place to visit her grandparents, Red and Kitty, Leia finds what she’s looking for right next door when she meets the dynamic and rebellious Gwen (Ashley Aufderheide).

With the help of Gwen’s friends, including her lovable brother Nate (Maxwell Donovan), his smart, laser-focused girlfriend Nikki (Sam Morelos), the sarcastic and insightful Ozzie (Reyn Doi), and the charming Jay, Leia realizes adventure could happen there just like it did for her parents all those years ago. Excited to reinvent herself, she convinces her parents to let her stay for the summer. With a basement full of teens again, Kitty is happy the Forman house is now a home for a new generation and Red is, well…Red.

Returning stars include Debra Jo Rupp as Kitty Forman and Kurtwood Smith as Red Forman in series regular roles; Topher Grace, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Laura Prepon, Wilmer Valderrama, and Tommy Chong will reprise their roles on the series as special guests.

“All of us at That ‘90s Show were beyond excited by the warm, enthusiastic response to our first season. We can’t wait to return to Point Place for another summer of laughs and surprises. Hello 1996!” said Gregg Mettler, Co-Creator/Showrunner/Executive Producer

“We owe the fans, old and new, for taking the trip with us in the first season – and we can’t wait to be there with them in the second season,” said Lindsey Turner, Co-Creator & Executive Producer.

Season 1 is currently available to stream in its entirety via Netflix.

Lisa Loring, Original Wednesday Actress on ‘The Addams Family,’ Dies at 64

Loring died Saturday night at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank of complications from a stroke caused by high blood pressure, her daughter Vanessa Foumberg told The Hollywood Reporter.

“She went peacefully with both her daughters [Vanessa and Marianne] holding her hands,” she said.

Loring is best known for her turn as the morbid, pigtailed Wednesday on ABC’s black comedy The Addams Family, a role she took on in 1964. She played the character for only two years but set the template for live-action portrayals of Wednesday and was recently praised as an inspiration for Jenna Ortega’s interpretation on the hit Netflix series Wednesday.

She was born Lisa Ann DeCinces on Feb. 16, 1958, in the Marshall Islands; her parents divorced when she was very young, and she came to live in Los Angeles with her mother. She was given the stage name Lisa Loring and started modeling at age 3. Her first television appearance came in 1964 on an episode of the NBC medical drama Dr. Kildare.

After winning the part of Wednesday in ABC’s, MGM-produced live-action television adaptation of Charles Addams’ New Yorker cartoons, Loring began work on the half-hour comedy series at age 5 and a half, revealing in later interviews that she “learned to memorize before I could read” in order to say her lines.

At fan conventions and in several interviews, Loring spoke fondly of her time working on The Addams Family. “It was like a real family — you couldn’t have picked a better cast and crew,” Loring revealed in a 2017 YouTube interview conducted at the convention Monsterpalooza. “Carolyn Jones, John Astin — Gomez and Morticia — were like parents to me. They were great.”

Airing at the same time as CBS’ similarly macabre sitcom The Munsters, The Addams Family ran for two seasons, a total of 64 episodes. Almost all of the original cast was reunited in 1977 for the NBC telefilm Halloween With the New Addams Family.

With Loring’s death, Astin is the last surviving member of the original cast of The Addams Family.

Considered a rising talent, Loring found immediate TV work following the end of The Addams Family, and along with Astin went on to co-star on ABC’s Phyllis Diller-led sitcom The Pruitts of Southampton, playing Susan “Suzy” Pruitt. Both shows shared an executive producer in David Levy. The Pruitts would last only one season, however, following poor reviews. In 1966, Loring also made an appearance on an episode of The Girl From U.N.C.L.E., but her career stalled for a number of years thereafter.

In 1973, Loring was wed for the first time at age 15, marrying her childhood sweetheart Farrell Foumberg. The following year, she had her first child, but tragedy befell her when her mother Judith died of chronic alcoholism at age 34.

Loring returned to acting with Halloween With the New Addams Family and scored appearances on popular network shows Fantasy Island and Barnaby Jones. In the early 1980s, she had a recurring part in CBS soap As the World Turns, playing Cricket Montgomery.

With her television career winding down, Loring appeared in a series of slasher pics in the late 1980s. She starred in Blood Frenzy and Savage Harbor (both in 1987) and Iced (1988), but the push into features was short-lived, and a troubled personal life, including a battle with heroin, effectively ended her acting career.

Loring’s first marriage to Foumberg ended in 1974. She then married Search for Tomorrow actor Doug Stevenson in 1981, with that relationship ending in divorce two years later. In 1987, she married adult film star Jerry Butler, with her new husband committed to quitting pornography. However, Butler’s continued appearances in adult films, in secret without Loring’s knowledge, proved a great strain on the marriage, and they divorced in 1992. She married Graham Rich in 2003 and divorced him in 2014.

In addition to her daughters, survivors include her grandchildren, Emiliana and Charles.

Amanda Seyfried Confirms Broadway Musical Plans With Evan Rachel Wood Amid ‘Thelma & Louise’ Reports

The movie starred Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon as pair of friends on the run from the law.

In a red carpet interview with E! News at the Critics’ Choice Awards, Seyfried said, “I wanna go to Broadway. I wanna sing, and I think I’m finally getting to that point where it’s gonna happen.” She added, “You should hear Evan Rachel Wood sing. My god.”

Deadline’s sister publication Variety first reported the Thelma & Louise project after actor Mo Brings Plenty accepted a Globe on behalf of the absent Seyfried and said she was “deep in the process of creating a new musical.”

Seyfried has appeared in a number of movie musicals, including Mamma Mia!, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again and Les Misérables, and Wood starred in Across the Universe.

A Thelma & Louise musical has been in the works since at least 2021, with screenwriter Callie Khouri and Haley Feiffer attached as book writers, indie singer/songwriter Neko Case composing the score, Trip Cullman directing and Scott Delman producing.

New York Show Tickets, a Broadway discount ticketing firm, lists Thelma and Louise: The Musical as a “future show,” with a projected 2024 opening.

Critics Choice Award Winners

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Amanda Seyfried – The Dropout (Hulu)

Michael Levin, Played Ryan's Hope's Jack Fenelli, Dead at 90

Levin died Jan. 6 of natural causes at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, New York, his son Jason Levin told The Hollywood Reporter.

Levin also appeared on Broadway in 1965 in The Royal Hunt of the Sun opposite David Carradine as well as in three 1970 plays: Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real (with Al Pacino), Sam Shepard’s Operation Sidewinder (with Garrett Morris) and Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Woman of Setzuan (with Colleen Dewhurst).

Ryan’s Hope, which ran from July 1975 to January 1989, starred Helen Gallagher and Bernard Barrow as wife and husband Johnny and Maeve Ryan, who run a New York City tavern called Ryan’s across the street from a hospital.

According to IMDb, Levin appeared on 1,074 episodes of the soap, including the first one and the last one. Only Gallagher, Barrow and Nancy Addison (as Jillian Coleridge) were on more often.

He and Kate Mulgrew (as Johnny and Maeve’s daughter, Mary, a TV news reporter) made for one of the most beloved couples on daytime TV.

Levin was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for outstanding actor in a daytime drama series for three straight years, from 1978-80. And on a list of the 50 Greatest Soap Actors of all time compiled in 2010 by the website We Love Soaps, Levin came in at No. 24.

Born in Minneapolis on Dec. 8, 1932, Levin served with the U.S. Navy for two years, attended the University of Minnesota, took acting classes with Jack Nicholson and Robert Blake in California and improved his craft at Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater, starting there when it opened in 1962. (He was proud to have acted there with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, his son said.)

After moving to New York, Levin did lots of plays for the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center under the direction of Jules Irving and for the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut.

He said a commercial he did in the role of an Italian spokesman for Alitalia Airlines led to him being hired as Italian American reporter Jack on Ryan’s Hope.

In 1976, Jack and Mary got married in a ceremony filmed on location at St. Benedict the Moor Church on Manhattan’s West Side. However, after Mulgrew announced that she was leaving the soap, Mary was written out in 1979, dying in Jack’s arms after a car accident arranged by mobsters.

Later, when Jack was falling in love with another woman but struggling with his grief over Mary’s death, Mulgrew returned as a ghost for an emotional story arc in 1983 to help Jack get on with his life.

Levin also worked on two other daytime soaps, as John Eldridge on CBS’ As the World Turns and as Dr. Tim Gould on ABC’s All My Children. He appeared on primetime episodes of N.Y.P.D., The Equalizer, Law & Order and New York News as well.

In recent years, he enjoyed woodworking.

Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth, sons Jason and Aaron and grandchildren Veronica and Nico.

“In this profession, you don’t have a lot of control over your own life,” he said in 1978. “It’s a silly thing to say, but if I had it all to do over again, and I could change anything I wanted to change, I would pick a profession where I could have a little bit more control. Maybe I’d be an architect or something like that.”

Amanda Seyfried Share Reaction To Golden Globe Win

“Oh boy, I missed a big night out there. I’m in New York. I was on FaceTime with my Dropout team. My wonderful Dropout team who are the reason that I got this award. It is a true honor to be a part of that,” she said.

Seyfried said she missed the gala because she’s filming on “something that is magic and it’s musical.”

She concluded, “So, in lieu of an acceptance speech I’m just here to say, Thanks to all my Dropout family and my family. And thank you Golden Globes.”

Mindy Kaling's Velma Twerks, Solves Murders in HBO Max's More 'Adult' Scooby-Doo Series — Watch Trailer

And wouldn’t you know it, “the bone-chilling events that drove [her] to assemble the greatest team of spooky mystery solvers ever” begins with a murder — one too gory to show in the trailer, apparently.

Kaling, who is also an executive-producer on the series, stars alongside Glenn Howerton as Fred, Sam Richardson as Norville (aka “Shaggy”) and Constance Wu as Daphne.

Velma‘s 10-episode first season kicks off with two episodes on Thursday, Jan. 12. Two episodes will then premiere each week until the finale on Thursday, Feb. 9.

Additional voices to listen for in Season 1 include Jane Lynch, Wanda Sykes, Russell Peters, Melissa Fumero, Stephen Root, Gary Cole, Ken Leung, Cherry Jones, Frank Welker, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Fortune Feimster, Yvonne Orji, Sarayu Blue, Nicole Byer, Ming-Na Wen, Shay Mitchell, Debby Ryan, Kulap Vilaysak and Karl-Anthony Towns.

Velma‘s team of executive producers also includes Charlie Grandy, Howard Klein and Sam Register.

‘the company you keep,’ debuts Sunday, Feb. 19, at 10/9c on ABC

“The Company You Keep” stars Milo Ventimiglia as Charlie, Catherine Haena Kim as Emma, William Fichtner as Leo, Tim Chiou as David, Freda Foh Shen as Grace, James Saito as Joseph, Sarah Wayne Callies as Birdie, Felisha Terrell as Daphne and Polly Draper as Fran.

Executive producers and co-showrunners are Julia Cohen and Phil Klemmer, Milo Ventimiglia and Russ Cundiff (DiVide Pictures), Jon M. Chu and Caitlin Foito (Electric Somewhere), Todd Harthan and Lindsay Goffman (Gratitude Productions). Deanna Harris (DiVide Pictures) is a producer. The series is produced by 20th Television, a part of Disney Television Studios.

SAG Awards Nominations

MOTION PICTURES

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

BABYLON
Jovan Adepo / Sidney Palmer
P.J. Byrne / Max (Ruth’s Asst. Director)
Diego Calva / Manny Torres
Lukas Haas / George Munn
Olivia Hamilton / Ruth Adler
Li Jun Li / Lady Fay Zhu
Tobey Maguire / James McKay
Max Minghella / Irving Thalberg
Brad Pitt / Jack Conrad
Margot Robbie / Nellie LaRoy
Rory Scovel / The Count
Jean Smart / Elinor St. John
Katherine Waterston / Estelle

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
Kerry Condon / Siobhán Súilleabháin
Colin Farrell / Pádraic Súilleabháin
Brendan Gleeson / Colm Doherty
Barry Keoghan / Dominic Kearney

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
Jamie Lee Curtis / Deirdre Beaubeirdra
James Hong / Gong Gong
Stephanie Hsu / Joy Wang/Jobu Tupaki
Ke Huy Quan / Waymond Wang
Harry Shum Jr. / Chad
Jenny Slate / Big Nose
Michelle Yeoh / Evelyn Wang

THE FABELMANS
Jeannie Berlin / Hadassah Fabelman
Paul Dano / Burt Fabelman
Judd Hirsch / Uncle Boris
Gabriel LaBelle / Sammy Fabelman
David Lynch / John Ford
Seth Rogen / Bennie Loewy
Michelle Williams / Mitzi Fabelman

WOMEN TALKING
Jessie Buckley / Mariche
Claire Foy / Salome
Kate Hallett / Autje
Judith Ivey / Agata
Rooney Mara / Ona
Sheila McCarthy / Greta
Frances McDormand / Scarface Janz
Michelle McLeod / Mejal
Liv McNeil / Neitje
Ben Whishaw / August
August Winter / Melvin

TELEVISION

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

BETTER CALL SAUL
Jonathan Banks / Mike Ehrmantraut
Ed Begley Jr. / Clifford Main
Tony Dalton / Lalo Salamanca
Giancarlo Esposito / Gus Fring
Patrick Fabian / Howard Hamlin
Bob Odenkirk / Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman
Rhea Seehorn / Kim Wexler

THE CROWN
Elizabeth Debicki / Princess Diana
Claudia Harrison / Princess Anne
Andrew Havill / Robert Fellowes
Lesley Manville / Princess Margaret
Jonny Lee Miller / John Major
Flora Montgomery / Norma Major
James Murray / Prince Andrew
Jonathan Pryce / Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Ed Sayer / Equerry
Imelda Staunton / Queen Elizabeth II
Marcia Warren / Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Dominic West / Prince Charles
Olivia Williams / Camilla Parker Bowles

OZARK
Jason Bateman / Marty Byrde
Nelson Bonilla / Nelson
Jessica Frances Dukes / Special Agent Maya Miller
Lisa Emery / Darlene Snell
Skylar Gaertner / Jonah Byrde
Julia Garner / Ruth Langmore
Alfonso Herrera / Javi Elizonndro
Sofia Hublitz / Charlotte Byrde
Kevin L. Johnson / Sam Dermody
Katrina Lenk / Clare Shaw
Laura Linney / Wendy Byrde
Adam Rothenberg / Mel Sattem
Felix SolIs / Omar Navarro
Charlie Tahan / Wyatt Langmore
Richard Thomas / Nathan Davis
Damian Young / Jim Rattelsdorf

SEVERANCE
Patricia Arquette / Harmony Cobel
Michael Chernus / Ricken Hale
Zach Cherry / Dylan George
Michael Cumpsty / Mr. Graner
Dichen Lachman / Ms. Casey
Britt Lower / Helly Riggs
Adam Scott / Mark Scout
Tramell Tillman / Seth Milchick
Jen Tullock / Devon Hale
John Turturro / Irving Bailiff
Christopher Walken / Burt Goodman

THE WHITE LOTUS
F. Murray Abraham / Bert Di Grasso
Paolo Camilli / Hugo
Jennifer Coolidge / Tanya McQuoid-Hunt
Adam DiMarco / Albie Di Grasso
Meghann Fahy / Daphne Sullivan
Federico Ferrante / Rocco
Bruno Gouery / Didier
Beatrice Grannò / Mia
Jon Gries / Greg Hunt
Tom Hollander / Quentin
Sabrina Impacciatore / Valentina
Michael Imperioli / Dominic Di Grasso
Theo James / Cameron Sullivan
Aubrey Plaza / Harper Spiller
Haley Lu Richardson / Portia
Eleonora Romandini / Isabella
Federico Scribani / Giuseppe
Will Sharpe / Ethan Spiller
Simona Tabasco / Lucia
Leo Woodall / Jack
Francesco Zecca / Matteo

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

ABBOTT ELEMENTARY
Quinta Brunson / Janine Teagues
William Stanford Davis / Mr. Johnson
Janelle James / Ava Coleman
Chris Perfetti / Jacob Hill
Sheryl Lee Ralph / Barbara Howard
Lisa Ann Walter / Melissa Schemmenti
Tyler James Williams / Gregory Eddie

BARRY
Sarah Burns / Det. Mae Dunn
D’Arcy Carden / Natalie
Anthony Carrigan / Noho Hank
Turhan Troy Caylak / Akhmal
Sarah Goldberg / Sally Reed
Nick Gracer / Yandar
Bill Hader / Barry
Jessy Hodges / Lindsay
Michael Irby / Cristobal
Gary Kraus / Police Chief Krauss
Stephen Root / Monroe Fuches
Henry Winkler / Gene Cousineau

THE BEAR
Lionel Boyce / Marcus
Liza Colón-Zayas / Tina
Ayo Edebiri / Sydney Adamu
Abby Elliott / Natalie “Sugar” Berzatto
Edwin Lee Gibson / Ebraheim
Corey Hendrix / Sweeps
Matty Matheson / Neil Fak
Ebon Moss-Bachrach / Richard “Richie” Jerimovich
Jeremy Allen White / Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto

HACKS
Carl Clemons-Hopkins / Marcus Vaughan
Paul W. Downs / Jimmy LuSaque Jr.
Hannah Einbinder / Ava Daniels
Mark Indelicato / Damien
Jean Smart / Deborah Vance
Megan Stalter / Kayla Schaeffer

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING
Michael Cyril Creighton / Howard Morris
Cara Delevingne / Alice Banks
Selena Gomez / Mabel Mora
Jayne Houdyshell / Bunny
Steve Martin / Charles-Haden Savage
Martin Short / Oliver Putnam
Adina Verson / Poppy White

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

CHRISTINA APPLEGATE / Jen Harding
Dead to Me

RACHEL BROSNAHAN / Miriam “Midge” Maisel
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

QUINTA BRUNSON / Janine Teagues
Abbott Elementary

JENNA ORTEGA / Wednesday Addams
Wednesday

JEAN SMART / Deborah Vance
Hacks

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series

EMILY BLUNT / Cornelia Locke
The English

JESSICA CHASTAIN / Tammy Wynette
George & Tammy

JULIA GARNER / Anna Delvey
Inventing Anna

NIECY NASH-BETTS / Glenda Cleveland
Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

AMANDA SEYFRIED / Elizabeth Holmes
The Dropout

2023 Golden Globe Winner

‘El Patio’ Comedy From Danny Fernandez, Roselyn Sanchez & Eric Winter And Kapital In Works At Fox

Written by Fernandez, El Patio follows a group of mostly Latin neighbors of all ages, races and walks of life, who welcome a new neighbor, Gabriel Suarez, into their small Miami apartment building. Gabriel, a Mexican-American from Texas, always knew that life in Miami would be different, but he never expected that his neighbors’ cultural differences would be an almost-constant source of conflict and comedy.

Fernandez executive produces with Kapital Entertainment’s Kaplan and Melanie Frankel. Sanchez and Winter executive produce via Two For The Road. Manuel Mendoza serves as co-producer. Kapital’s Jessie Abbott serves as creative executive. El Patio is a co-production of Fox Entertainment and Kapital Entertainment.

This marks the latest project to come out of Two For The Road’s producing deal with Kapital Entertainment.

Fernandez is co-creator and executive producer on Keep This To Yourself for Peacock and Telemundo and recently wrote pilot script Home Sweet Gomez for ABC and 20th TV. Prior to that, he was a writer/producer on the iCarly reboot for Paramount+ and also worked on Disney+’s Diary of a Future President, Hulu’s Love, Victor, as well as ABC’s Grand Hotel where he met the series’ star Sanchez, leading to their collaboration on El Patio. Fernandez is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content, and Nelson Davis.

El Patio expands Sanchez and Kapital’s relationship with Fox. Sanchez headlines the network’s series Fantasy Island. Kapital is behind animated comedy series HouseBroken.

Sanchez is repped by APA, Alchemy Entertainment & Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof and Fishman. Winter is repped by Gersh, Brillstein Entertainment & Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof and Fishman.

Allyson Rice Interview 1/13/23

Allyson is well known to daytime audiences for her roles as Connor Walsh on As the World Turns. She is a writer, mixed media artist, and producer currently splitting her time between Los Angeles, CA and Rehoboth Beach, DE. After her time in Oakdale, the next decade was spent running yoga, meditation, creativity, and women's retreats around the country until she pivoted to focus on her own creative work.

The comedic rap music video that she wrote, directed, produced and performed in, "Fine, I'll Write My Own Damn Song," won multiple awards in the film festival circuit. She is also the creator of a line of women's coloring books (The Color of Joy, Dancing with Life, and Wonderland), The Creative Prosperity PlayDeck, an inspirational card deck about utilizing your creative energy in the world, and a handmade jewelry line, available on www.Allyson-Wonderland.com.

Her favorite role to date is being Mom to musical artist Zane Taylor.

John Wesley Shipp Interview

John made his television debut on Guiding Light where he played, “Dr. Kelly Nelson.” John is a two-time Emmy winner, garnering his first award for his incredible performance as the duplicitous Douglas Cummings opposite Julianne Moore on As the World Turns and his second Emmy the following year for his guest turn as Martin Ellis on Santa Barbara - making him the only actor to win consecutive Emmys for two different daytime dramas. Other memorable roles include stints on One Life to Live, and All My Children.

John currently portrays Jay Garrick, the Golden Age Flash and will return to Vancouver soon to shoot the ninth and final season. John has played five different roles across five different shows in the FLASH franchise for over 30 years.

He starred as The Flash when CBS brought the series’ first to television in the 1990’s; he has played Barry Allen, Professor Zoom, Henry Allen, and Jay Garrick. He just appeared in the series finale of STARGIRL on December 7, 2022.

John took on another iconic role after The Flash that of Mitch Leery, James Van der Beek’s father, on the WB’s series Dawson’s Creek. He continued with a memorable turn as boxer Lucky Williams, love interest to Julianne Phillip’s Frankie, on NBC’s hit drama Sisters, and terrified audiences with his haunting arc as Isaac’s abusive father and Beacon Hills gravedigger, Mr. Lahey, opposite Daniel Sharman on MTV’s drama Teen Wolf.

John is a classically trained theater actor who also studied opera. He was featured on Broadway playing the Welsh wastrel, Gerry Evans, in the TONY Award winning production of Dancing at Lughnasa, as well as in Safe Sex at the Lyceum Theatre opposite Harvey Fierstein to name a few. John just played Henry Fonda in a workshop of a new play Hank and Jim Build a Plane written by One Life to Live’s David Gregory.

‘Agatha: Coven Of Chaos’: Debra Jo Rupp Joins ‘WandaVision’ Marvel Spinoff For Disney+

In addition to Hahn, who is reprising her WandaVision role as bad gal Agatha Harkness, Rupp joins male lead Joe Locke, Aubrey Plaza, Ali Ahn, Maria Dizzia, Sasheer Zamata and Patti LuPone. Emma Caulfield Ford also is said to be reprising her character of Dottie from WandaVision.

No details about Rupp’s role are revealed but it’s safe to assume that she may be reprising her WandaVision role as Mrs. Hart, which she played in five episodes of the original series. A rep for Marvel declined comment.

WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer serves as writer and executive producer on the spinoff.

Rupp is best known for her role as beloved mom Kitty Forman on the long-running sitcom That 70s Show. She currently stars and executive produces the spinoff series, That 90s Show, which premieres on Netflix on January 19, reprising her role alongside fellow That ’70s Show alum Kurtwood Smith. She is repped by Artists & Representatives and manager, Wright Entertainment.

Phideaux Xavier Interview - Celebrating 25 Years Directing Daytime Television

Phideaux began his career on Guiding Light (under his original name of Scott Riggs) as a Student Intern and then worked as a PA, Associate Director, Writer and Director. In NYC, Phideaux spent time directing on Another World, One Life To Live, As The World Turns and All My Children before relocating to Los Angeles to direct Sunset Beach, MTV's Spyder Games, Passions, Days Of Our Lives, The Young And The Restless and ultimately General Hospital where he currently resides.

Phideaux has also written two songs for General Hospital's “Nurses Ball” which were performed on the show by Eden McCoy. He also made an on-camera appearance singing an original song on General Hospital.

‘That ’90s Show’: ’70s Gang Welcomes Next Generation in Season 1 Trailer

Returning stars include Debra Jo Rupp as Kitty Forman and Kurtwood Smith as Red Forman in series regular roles; Topher Grace, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Laura Prepon, Wilmer Valderrama, and Tommy Chong will reprise their roles on the series as special guests.

The trailer also reveals the identity of Michael Kelso (Kutcher) and Jackie Burkhart’s (Kunis) son: Jay Kelso, who is played by previously announced regular Mace Coronel.

In That ’90s Show, it’s 1995 and Leia Forman (Callie Haverda) is desperate for some adventure in her life or at least a best friend who isn’t her dad (Grace). When she arrives in Point Place to visit her grandparents, Red and Kitty, Leia finds what she’s looking for right next door when she meets the dynamic and rebellious Gwen (Ashley Aufderheide).

With the help of Gwen’s friends, including her lovable brother Nate (Maxwell Donovan), his smart, laser-focused girlfriend Nikki (Sam Morelos), the sarcastic and insightful Ozzie (Reyn Doi), and the charming Jay, Leia realizes adventure could happen there just like it did for her parents all those years ago. Excited to reinvent herself, she convinces her parents to let her stay for the summer. With a basement full of teens again, Kitty is happy the Forman house is now a home for a new generation and Red is, well…Red.

The multi-cam That ’90s Show was created by That ’70s Show alum Gregg Mettler — who serves as showrunner — That ’70s Show co-creators Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner, and their daughter Lindsay Turner. The quartet executive produces alongside Rupp, Smith as well as Marcy Carsey, and Tom Werner under the Carsey-Werner Company, which produced That ’70s Show and its offshoot That ’80s Show.

Sam Mendes & Armando Iannucci’s HBO Pilot ‘The Franchise’ Sets Cast Including Billy Magnussen, Jessica Hynes & Lolly Adefope

The project from Sam Mendes and Armando Iannucci has cast Billy Magnussen, Jessica Hynes, Darren Goldstein, Lolly Adefope and Isaac Powell as series regulars and Daniel Brühl and Richard E. Grant as recurring guest stars.

The Franchise follows a hopeful crew trapped inside the dysfunctional, nonsensical, joyous hellscape of franchise superhero moviemaking. If and when they finally make the day, there’s a question they must face: Is this Hollywood’s new dawn or cinema’s last stand? Is this a dream factory or a chemical plant?

The series comes from the mind of Mendes and marks the Empire of Light and 1917 helmer’s first U.S. directorial project.

Magnussen (Made for Love) plays Adam, Hynes (W1A) plays Steph, Goldstein (Ozark) plays Pat, Adefope (Ghosts) is Dag, and Powell (West Side Story) plays Peter, while Brühl (Inglourious Basterds) is Eric, and Grant (Withnail and I) is Peter.

The Franchise will be exec produced by Iannucci, via his Dundee Productions banner, and Mendes, via his All3Media-backed production company Neal Street Productions. Mendes, the American Beauty The Oscar winner who hatched the idea, also will direct.

Jon Brown is set as showrunner, wrote the pilot and will exec produce alongside Pippa Harris, Nicolas Brown, Julie Pastor, Keith Akushie, Marina Hyde and Jim Kleverweis.

Golden Globe Nominations

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE

Brendan Gleeson
The Banshees of Inisherin

Barry Keoghan
The Banshees of Inisherin

Brad Pitt
Babylon

Ke Huy Quan
Everything Everywhere All at Once

Eddie Redmayne
The Good Nurse

BEST ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Quinta Brunson
Abbott Elementary

Kaley Cuoco
The Flight Attendant

Selena Gomez
Only Murders in the Building

Jenna Ortega
Wednesday

Jean Smart
Hacks

BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES, ANTHOLOGY SERIES, OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Jessica Chastain
George & Tammy

Julia Garner
Inventing Anna

Lily James
Pam & Tommy

Julia Roberts
Gaslit

Amanda Seyfried
The Dropout

‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2023? Returns to Puerto Rico for Spanish Language Countdown

The new year’s celebration in Puerto Rico will again take place on the grounds of the Puerto Rico Convention Center at DISTRITO T-Mobile, the Caribbean’s premier entertainment and nightlife complex, boasting one of the largest digital display systems in the world. Puerto Rico’s countdown will be the first and occur at 11:00 p.m. EST/12:00 a.m. AST.

“We are very excited to again host Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve on our Island to lead the countdown in welcoming 2023. Puerto Rico’s participation in this high-caliber event celebration will allow us to continue projecting to the world everything we have to offer as we head into our peak tourism season,” said Pedro Pierluisi, Governor of Puerto Rico. “We will again be front and center on national television to promote Puerto Rico’s beauty, culture and attractions and continue driving our booming tourism industry and economic development.”

“I am beyond excited and honored to return to my homeland Puerto Rico to be a part of such an incredible and beloved event,” said co-host Roselyn Sanchez. “We will have an enchanting night and are so very pleased to share our beautiful Island and welcome 2023 with a bang!”

“What a blessing to be a part of the New Year’s Rockin’ Eve tradition from my home island of Puerto Rico that represents and means so much! We are going to give you guys an unforgettable night! You can’t miss it. See you on the 31st!” Farruko said.

Sanchez joins the show’s previously announced star-studded lineup, including 18-time host Ryan Seacrest and co-hosts Liza Koshy, Jessie James Decker, Ciara, Billy Porter, and D-Nice. Farruko will ring in the New Year as the headliner in Puerto Rico, taking the stage to perform a medley of hits. Farruko joins the lineup of previously announced performers, including Aly & AJ, Armani White, Bailey Zimmerman, Ben Platt, Betty Who, Billy Porter, Ciara, Dove Cameron, Finneas, Fitz & The Tantrums, Halle Bailey, Lauren Spencer Smith, Maddie & Tae, Nicky Youre, Shaggy, TXT, and Wiz Khalifa. Additional performers will be announced in the lead-up to show night.‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest’ will air SATURDAY, DEC. 31, live on ABC, beginning at 8:00 p.m. EST/9:00 p.m. AST

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Talk Show Appearance

Tuesday, Dec. 13: Actress TAMARA TUNIE will chat about her role as Cissy Houston in the highly anticipated film “I Wanna Dance with Somebody.”

Critics Choice TV Nominations

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Christine Baranski – The Good Fight (Paramount+)
Sharon Horgan – Bad Sisters (Apple TV+)
Laura Linney – Ozark (Netflix)
Mandy Moore – This Is Us (NBC)
Kelly Reilly – Yellowstone (Paramount Network)
Zendaya – Euphoria (HBO)

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Christina Applegate – Dead to Me (Netflix)
Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Kaley Cuoco – The Flight Attendant (HBO Max)
Renée Elise Goldsberry – Girls5eva (Peacock)
Devery Jacobs – Reservation Dogs (FX)
Jean Smart – Hacks (HBO Max)

BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Julia Garner – Inventing Anna (Netflix)
Lily James – Pam & Tommy (Hulu)
Amber Midthunder – Prey (Hulu)
Julia Roberts – Gaslit (Starz)
Michelle Pfeiffer – The First Lady (Showtime)
Amanda Seyfried – The Dropout (Hulu)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Murray Bartlett – Welcome to Chippendales (Hulu)
Domhnall Gleeson – The Patient (FX)
Matthew Goode – The Offer (Paramount+)
Paul Walter Hauser – Black Bird (Apple TV+)
Ray Liotta – Black Bird (Apple TV+)
Shea Whigham – Gaslit (Starz).

That '90s Show Sets Release Date — Kitty and Red Return in First Teaser

Netflix on Tuesday announced that That ’90s Show, a continuation of Fox’s That ’70s Show, will premiere on Thursday, Jan. 19. What’s more, the streamer released a teaser/trailer featuring first footage from the 10-episode revival, which you can watch below.

The That ’70s Show revival picks up 15 years after the original series finale on Fox. The year is 1995, and Eric and Donna’s daughter Leia (played by Shut Eye‘s Callie Haverda) is “visiting her grandparents for the summer, where she bonds with a new generation of Point Place kids under the watchful eye of Kitty and the stern glare of Red,” according to the official logline.

(Video) As previously reported, original series stars Debra Jo Rupp (Kitty) and Kurtwood Smith (Red) are on board as series regulars and executive producers. Guest stars Topher Grace, Laura Prepon, Wilmer Valderrama, Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher will reprise their respective roles as Eric Forman, Donna Pinciotti, Fez, Jackie Burkhart and Michael Kelso.

In addition to Haverda, franchise newcomers include Ashley Aufderheide (Emergence), Mace Coronel (Colin in Black & White), Maxwell Acee Donovan (Gabby Duran & The Unsittables), Reyn Doi (Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar) and Sam Morelos.

‘When You Finish Saving The World’ Trailer, Release Date: Jesse Eisenberg’s Directorial Debut For A24 Starring Julianne Moore & Finn Wolfhard

Based on Eisenberg’s 2020 Audible Original audio drama of the same name, When You Finish Saving the World watches as Evelyn (Moore) and her oblivious son Ziggy (Wolfhard) seek out replacements for each other as Evelyn desperately tries to parent an unassuming teenager at her shelter, while Ziggy fumbles through his pursuit of a brilliant young woman at school.

The film also starring Alisha Boe (Do Revenge), Jay O. Sanders (Bardo), Billy Bryk (Ghostbusters: Afterlife) and Eleonore Hendricks (The Mountain) made its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival before going on to open Cannes Critics’ Week. Ali Herting, Dave McCary and Emma Stone served as its producers.

2022 has been a banner year for A24, between the release of such acclaimed films as Everything Everywhere All at Once, Men, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Bodies Bodies Bodies, X and its prequel Pearl, Aftersun and Causeway. The first title helmed by Daniels is one of the company’s top awards contenders of the year and its first film to gross over $100 million worldwide.

A24 most recently released the semi-autobiographical military drama The Inspection written and directed by Elegance Bratton, which world premiered at the 2020 Toronto Film Festival. Other titles coming up from the company include Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter, starring Tilda Swinton and Darren Aronofsky’s Brendan Fraser starrer The Whale, which bow in theaters on December 2nd and 9th, respectively.

Watch the trailer for When You Finish Saving the World by clicking above.

‘Coup!’: Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Magnussen, Sarah Gadon & Skye P. Marshall Lead Comedic Thriller

Film Constellation is co-financing and representing international rights and began discussing the project with buyers at the recent AFM.

Entertainment 360, Phiphen Pictures, and Hemlock Circle Productions are behind the film by writer/director team Austin Stark (The God Committee) and Joseph Schuman. Supporting cast also includes Faran Tahir (Iron Man) Kristine Neilsen (The Gilded Age) and Fisher Stevens (Succession). Principal photography is set to wrap next week.

Set on a seaside estate during the Spanish Flu in 1918, the film centers on a rebellious servant (Sarsgaard) who spearheads an uprising against his wealthy employer (Magnussen).

Pic is produced by Brian Levy (Entertainment 360), Warner Davis and Todd Friedman (Hemlock Circle Productions), Molly Conners, Amanda Bowers, Jane Sinisi (Phiphen), and Harris Gurny. Executive producers include Magnussen via his Happy Bad Bungalow banner, Peter Sarsgaard, and Fabien Westerhoff.

Coup! marks the first collaboration between filmmaker team Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman. It is Schuman’s directorial debut and Stark’s third feature as a writer/director. Stark’s last film, The God Committee, debuted at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and was released by Vertical Entertainment. His first feature, The Runner (2015), starred Nicolas Cage and Sarah Paulson. Stark’s credits as a producer include Sony Pictures Classics’ Infinitely Polar Bear, Tony Kaye’s Detachment, and Sundance Audience Award-winner Happythankyoumoreplease.

Sarsgaard was most recently seen in Hulu limited series Dopesick, opposite Michael Keaton, for which he was nominated for an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a limited series in 2022. Additionally, he starred in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut feature The Lost Daughter, alongside Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, and Jessie Buckley. He also starred in Matt Reeves’ The Batman alongside Robert Pattinson.

Magnussen will next star opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in the remake Road House for Amazon/MGM. He recently wrapped shooting the feature Spy Kids for Netflix and the action-thriller feature Lift opposite Kevin Hart and Gugu Mbatha-Raw for Netflix. He was last seen in James Bond film No Time To Die and in David Chase’s Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark.

Next up for Gadon is the STX film Ferrari for director Michael Mann and she recently starred in indie film, North Of Normal.

Sarsgaard is represented by Anonymous Content, WME, and Peikoff Mahan. Magnussen is repped by Anonymous Content, UTA, and Sloane, Offer, and Weber & Dern. Gadon is represented by CAA, Entertainment 360, Creative Drive Artists and attorney Jeff Bernstein. Stark and Schuman are represented by Entertainment 360 and Chris Tricarico (Tricarico Chavez LLP). Marshall is repped by Affirmative Entertainment and Meyer & Downs.

June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, Clark Gregg & Malcolm McDowell Set For Josh Margolin Comedy ‘Thelma’

Margolin’s first feature, based on a real-life experience involving his grandmother, is (half-jokingly) billed as Nebraska meets Mission: Impossible. It centers on 90-year-old grandmother Thelma Post (Squibb), who gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson and sets out on a uniquely treacherous quest to reclaim what was taken from her.

Zoë Worth, a longtime collaborator of Margolin’s, and producing partner Chris Kaye started developing Thelma after reading an early draft in their writer’s group, Rock & Roll Universe. The film will be their first produced together. Invention Studios’ Nicholas Weinstock and Benjamin Simpson are producing alongside Worth and Kaye, as well as Viviana Vezzani and Karl Spoerri of Zurich Avenue, which is fully financing the film. Zurich Avenue’s Tobias Gutzwiller is exec producing along with Squibb and Hechinger, with Kat Barnette (The Listener) co-producing. CAA Media Finance arranged the film’s financing and is repping its distribution rights.

A portion of Thelma‘s budget went directly to the Motion Picture & Television Fund — the more than a century old charitable organization currently facing bankruptcy — following the shooting of key scenes at its Los Angeles-area residential living campus.

Squibb landed her first Oscar nomination in 2014 for her supporting turn in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska. She’s more recently appeared in films including A24’s The Humans, Apple TV+’s Palmer and Neon/Hulu’s Palm Springs, as well as series like Life & Beth.

Hechinger is best known for his work on series like Pam & Tommy and The White Lotus, having also appeared in Netflix’s Fear Street film trilogy and additional big-screen titles including The Woman in the Window and News of the World. He’ll next be seen starring opposite Nicolas Cage in the Western Butcher’s Crossing and in Scott Cooper’s The Pale Blue Eye for Netflix.

Roundtree famously played the title character in Gordon Parks’ Shaft and has most recently appeared on series like Cherish the Day and Family Reunion. Other notable film credits include Speed Racer and Brick.

Posey is a Golden Globe nominee who has recently been seen on series including Tales of the Walking Dead, The Staircase, Lost in Space and High Fidelity. Notable recent film credits include Kogonada’s Columbus and Christopher Guest’s Mascots. Among the actress’s other upcoming projects is Hereditary and Midsommar helmer Ari Aster’s anticipated film Disappointment Blvd. for A24.

Gregg is best known for his long-running Marvel role as Agent Phil Coulson, most recently played on series like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and in films like Captain Marvel. Other recent credits include Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos and TNT’s Snowpiercer. The actor will next be seen on the Netflix series Florida Man created by Donald Todd.

Perhaps best known for starring in Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 classic A Clockwork Orange, McDowell recently starred alongside Mark Wahlberg in the Sony drama Father Stu. Other recent credits for the screen icon include Gossip Girl, Bombshell and Mozart in the Jungle.

Margolin previously co-wrote, edited and acted in the horror-comedy Deep Murder, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Previously, he created and starred in the digital series My Boyfriend is a Robot for Freeform alongside his partner Chloe Searcy, and New Partner alongside Quinn Beswick, which won Best Comedy at the 2015 New York Television Festival.

Margolin is repped by Authentic Talent and Literary Management, Verve and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Invention Studios by CAA and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Worth by UTA, Mosaic, and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols; Squibb by BRS/Gage; Hechinger by A3 Artists Agency, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Roundtree by Artists & Representatives and Patrick McMinn Management; Gregg by Gersh, Anonymous Content and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Posey by CAA; and McDowell by Chris Roe Management.

Black Theatre United Announces New Exec Leadership Committee, With LaChanze As President

Also named to the committee: actor Michael McElroy (Vice President), production stage manager Lisa Dawn Cave (Secretary), actor Norm Lewis (Treasurer) and actor-producer Tamara Tunie (Compliance Officer).

BTU’s outgoing exec committee includes President Audra McDonald, Treasurer Capathia Jenkins and Secretary Schele Williams.

The announcement comes as Black Theatre United celebrates the recent fulfillment of two major pledges promised in its founding New Deal for Broadway agreement with various Broadway theater owners, producers, creatives, and unions to honor Black theatre artists: On September 13, the Shubert Organization officially renamed the Cort Theatre as the James Earl Jones Theatre, and on November 1, the Nederlander Organization rechristened the Brooks Atkinson Theatre as the Lena Horne Theatre.

The Shubert Organization and the Nederlander Organization committed to having at least one of their theaters named after a Black artist as part of Black Theatre United’s New Deal for Broadway released in August 2021. Jujamcyn Theaters owns The August Wilson Theatre, named prior to the New Deal.

In a joint statement, the new BTU Executive Leadership Committee said, “We are proud of the legacy that we are building, and we are grateful for your support as we continue to do the important work to preserve our history and ensure the legacy of Black theatre as American culture.”

The Young and the Restless - James Hyde Interview 11/21/22

James has had a very busy 2022 with appearances on Station 19, four independent features along with his new role on Y&R. He also recurs on the Telemundo series La Reina Del Sur, which premiered last month.

James also starred as Martin Ross in the hit Netflix series Monarca, produced by Salma Hayek's Ventanarosa, as well as the 2021 thriller based on the 2003 novel by Terri Woods. For 10 years, James starred on the NBC Daytime Drama Passions as Sam Bennett. After leaving Passions he went on to produce and star in his own reality series James Hyde Steals the Show, which streamed for two seasons on Crackle.

Mike Starr Guests on East New York 11/27/22

GUEST CAST: Mike Starr (Kurt Walsh), Samantha Soule (Denise Walsh), Lena Kaminsky (Annika).

Kathryn Hays Tribute 11/17/22

Her long-time co-stars and friends Larry Bryggman, Eileen Fulton and Don Hastings will help us celebrate the life of this beloved mom and actress. Joining Larry, Eileen & Don for this tribute are Kathryn’s real-life daughter Sherri Mancusi as well as her on-screen daughters Mary Ellen Stuart and Claire Beckman.

Morning Show Appearance

Friday, November 11 (9-10 a.m.)

Kelsey Grammer and Spencer Grammer on The 12 Days of Christmas Eve.

Zach Braff, Vanessa Hudgens, Evelyne Brochu And William Fichtner To Star In ‘French Girl

Written & directed by James A. Woods & Nicolas Wright, the pic is a fish out of water comedy which follows Gordon Kinski (Braff) a high school teacher living in Brooklyn, who accompanies his girlfriend & chef Sophie Tremblay (Brochu) to her hometown of Quebec City where she is testing for a Michelin 3 star restaurant at the Chateau Frontenac, owned by wunderkind super-chef Ruby Collins (Hudgens.)

The pic is produced by Valerie D’Auteuil, Andre Rouleau through Caramel Films & Anders Bard through aBard Production. Paramount Global & Elevation Pictures are handling distribution worldwide. Production is currently underway in Montreal & Quebec City.

Braff is repped by CAA, Management 360 and attorney Ken Richmond, Hudgens is repped by CAA, Untitled Ent. and Ziffren Brittenham, Brochu is repped by Thruline Entertainment, Agence Goodwin and AS Talents. Fichtner is repped by Principal Entertainment LA, Thruline Entertainment and Innovative Artists. Woods & Wright are repped by attorney James Feldman at Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler, Feldman & Clark.

Interview: Jennifer Landon and Wendy Moniz - Yellowstone Season 5

Jen Landon attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she studied Experimental Theatre but left early when her first audition landed her a three-year contract on the daytime soap opera As The World Turns (for which she subsequently won three consecutive daytime Emmys). Jen has since appeared in Jason Retiman’s feature film The Front Runner, as well as recurred on numerous television shows including Banshee (Cinemax), Animal Kingdom (TNT), FBI: Most Wanted (CBS) and will be seen in season 5 of Yellowstone playing the role of Teeter.

Wendy Moniz made her television debut playing "Dinah Marler" on the CBS daytime drama Guiding Light. Wendy was upped to a series regular as Governor Perry on Yellowstone and can also be seen as ADA Frasier on Law & Order: Organized Crime. Wendy has worked non-stop since leaving Guiding Light in 1999 appearing in Tuesdays with Morrie, Nash Bridges, The Guardian, Big Shot, Damages, 666 Park, The Grief of Others and House of Cards to name a small few of the amazing roles she has had over the years.

‘Saint X’: Michael Park, Betsy Brandt Join Hulu’s Psychological Drama

The series is told via multiple timelines and perspectives, explores and upends the girl-gone-missing genre as it explains how a young woman’s mysterious death during an idyllic Caribbean vacation creates a traumatic ripple effect that eventually pulls her surviving sister into a dangerous pursuit of the truth.

Brandt and Park will play Mia Thomas and Bill Thomas, respectively, in the eight-episode series adapted from Alexis Schaitkin’s novel. The characters are upper middle class parents of two, enjoying a family vacation in a Caribbean resort until one of their daughters goes missing.

They join previously announced talent including Alycia Debnam-Carey, who replaced previous lead Victoria Pedretti after she exited the series due to creative differences. The series also stars Josh Bonzie, West Duchovny and Jayden Elijah.

Leila Gerstein wrote the screenplay and will executive produce with Dee Rees directing and executive producing. Stephen Williams will also executive produce alongside David Levine and Zack Hayden for Anonymous Content. Drake, Adel “Future” Nur, and Jason Shrier will executive produce for Dreamcrew Entertainment. Additional executive producers are Alexis Schaitkin and Steve Pearlman. Saint X hails from ABC Signature.

Brandt is repped by Patty Woo Management, TalentWorks and Del Shaw Moonves. Park is repped by Innovative Artists and Power Entertainment Group.

As the World Turns Interview: Jessica Dunphy & Agim Kaba

In addition to her role as Alison, Jessica portrayed Devin Pillsbury on the HBO hit series, The Sopranos and appeared on film in Storytelling and Pizza. After modeling for three years in NY and Milan, including a major campaign for Guess Jeans, Agim landed his first role on As the World Turns in 2002 and earned an Emmy nomination in 2004. He has made guest appearances on the television series Charmed and CSI: NY. He landed starring roles in the low-budget horror films Haunted Forest and Neowolf and The Last Film Festival. Agim is a father of two and has been spending much of his time putting his painting skills to work.

Chicago P.D. Vet Sets Return To Direct

Soffer will direct Episode 16 of the show’s current 10th season, set to air sometime in 2023, our sister publication Variety reports. This will mark Soffer’s first time as a director.

The actor had been with Chicago P.D. ever since the Dick Wolf series premiered in 2014; he has also crossed over to Chicago Fire and Chicago Med in more than 40 episodes. Soffer’s final episode as a series regular aired on Oct. 5.

John O’Hurley guests on NCIS: Los Angeles 11/13/22

GUEST CAST includes: Duncan Campbell (NCIS Special Agent Castor), John O’Hurley (Navy Rear Admiral Ted Gordon), Bryan Lillis (Jessie Fiore).

A MAPLE VALLEY CHRISTMAS 11/5/22

THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS EVE 11/26/22

SERVING UP THE HOLIDAYS (Lifetime) 12/1/22

FIVE MORE MINUTES: MOMENTS LIKE THESE 12/17/22

THREE WISE MEN AND A BABY 11/19/22

COUNTRY ROADS CHRISTMAS (Fox Nation) 11/27/22

One on One - Cady McClain 10/25/22

Cady will be here to tell us about her work as the Artistic Director of the Axial Theatre. Axial is a twenty-three-year-old not-for-profit institution dedicated to supporting the professional development of the independent voice through audience involvement and a commitment to presenting challenging, intelligent, and culturally relevant theatrical experiences.

Cady is currently directing Axial’s latest production, Never the Sinner by John Logan. The star-studded cast features Broadway actor Trent Dawson, Tuesdays With Morrie star Albi Gorn, Michael Howard Conservatory Members Tom Ryan and Michael M. Alva, and Axial Theatre Members Bruce Apar, Youlim Nam and special guest Najah Imani Muhammad. McClain will be directing and producing alongside Axial Board Members Steven Williford (Emmy© Winning Director), Amanda Quinn Olivar (Editor-in-Chief, Curator.Guide), and Axial Ensemble member Dan Walworth.

Never the Sinner is based on the true story of two young men, Nathan Leopold (Tom Ryan) and Richard Loeb (Michael M. Alva), who murder a local boy to prove their superiority and claim the right to having committed “the crime of the century.” The case is argued by two esteemed lawyers, Clarence Darrow (Albi Gorn) and Robert Crowe (Trent Dawson). While Crowe wants to fulfill the outraged nation’s cry for a hanging, Darrow argues for the rights of all human beings to be shown mercy, no matter how shocking the crime.

The play will be produced at Bethany Arts Community in Ossining (N.Y.), Nov. 10 - 13 and Nov. 17 - 20, 2022. Thursday through Saturday shows are 8 p.m. Sunday performances are 3 p.m. A post-show discussion of the topics of the play will follow each performance, led by Cady along with members of the ensemble and special guests.

An industry trailblazer for more than three decades, Cady was recognized by Deadline.com for being the first woman to win three Emmys© for her acting work on three different daytime shows (All My Children, As the World Turns and Days of Our Lives) in three different categories on three different networks in three different decades. She continues to recur on Days of Our Lives.

Julianne Moore To Lead Sky & AMC Period Drama ‘Mary & George’ About Mary Villiers, Son George & Royal Court Intrigue In Jacobean England

Based on a true story, the eight-part limited series is created by DC Moore, whose credits include Killing Eve, Temple and Not Safe for Work.

Julianne Moore will play Mary Villiers, Countess of Buckingham, who in 17th century England molded her beautiful son, George, to seduce King James I and become his all-powerful lover. Through outrageous scheming, the pair rose from humble beginnings to become one of the richest, most titled and influential mother and sons England had ever seen. The series is due to begin filming in early 2023.

The series will mark only the second time Moore has led a TV drama after 2021 Apple miniseries Lisey’s Story.

Mary & George is produced by Liza Marshall’s Hera Pictures in association with Sky Studios and is written by playwright DC Moore, inspired by Benjamin Woolley’s nonfiction book The King’s Assassin. Lead director is Oliver Hermanus, director of Moffie and Living, which recently screened at Sundance, Venice, Telluride, Toronto and London.

The show is expected to air in 2023 on Sky in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Italy. AMC Networks will release the series in U.S, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India. NBCUniversal Global Distribution is handling international sales on behalf of Sky Studios. Sky Studios CEO Cécile Frot-Coutaz, will tease the show Monday during NBCUniversal’s MIP cocktail party in Cannes.

Mary & George was commissioned by Gabriel Silver, Director of Commissioning, Drama, and Sam Hoyle, Commissioning Editor at Sky Studios, for Zai Bennett, MD of Content at Sky UK. Hoyle will serve as executive producer for Sky Studios. Liza Marshall is the executive producer for Hera Pictures alongside DC Moore and Oliver Hermanus.

Still Alice Oscar winner and The Kids Are Alright star Julianne Moore has won it all: Alongside her Oscar, BAFTA and Emmy, she is the first American actress to be awarded the top acting prizes at the Cannes, Berlin and Venice film festivals.

“Mary Villiers was a woman who through her own actions rose to become a powerful and influential figure in Jacobean London,” she said. “It’s a daunting but exhilarating challenge to bring her to life on screen."

Marshall, executive producer for Hera Pictures, commented: “The incredible Julianne Moore is our dream casting for Mary – a woman who was damned by her contemporaries but was always the smartest person in the room. Indomitable women like Mary have too often been written out of history, but with DC Moore’s brilliant scripts and Oliver Hermanus at the helm, we will reclaim her story to make a truly unique, unmissable show.”

DC Moore added: “Since I first read about Mary Villiers’ life – and all she achieved with her son, George – I’ve been obsessed with bringing this story to the screen. Between King James’ often-overlooked love and lust for men, Mary’s extraordinary rise as a woman in a man’s world, and George’s (many, many) sexual and political conquests, this is a profoundly rich, and, as yet entirely untold on screen, story, about a pair of ‘commoners’ who conquered all before them.”

Meghan Lyvers, Director of Original Drama, UK at Sky Studios, noted: “Mary Villiers is one of the most fascinating, complex, and extraordinary figures in British history and we cannot wait to see Julianne Moore take on this role, bringing Mary’s story to new audiences around the world. We are thrilled to partner with Oliver Hermanus, DC Moore, Liza Marshall and the team at Hera Pictures as we embark on this series which signifies a renewed ambition for Sky Original drama.”

Dan McDermott, President of Original Programming for AMC Networks and AMC Studios, said: “An intriguing, cunning, mastermind of a character such as Mary Villers fits right in with AMC Networks’ most iconic characters. We’re elated to welcome the unmatched Julianne Moore to AMC as she expertly leads us through Mary & George’s captivating journey, and to partner with DC and the teams at Hera Pictures and Sky Studios.”

Tonya Pinkins guests on “EAST NEW YORK” 10/23/22

GUEST CAST includes: KeiLyn Durrel Jones (Isaiah James), Joe Daru (Captain Keith Chen), Tonya Pinkins (Shirley Haywood).

‘The Joy Luck Club’ Sequel In The Works With Amy Tan & Ron Bass Penning; Hyde Park & Jeff Kleeman Producing

Also producing are Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group and The Judge producer Jeff Kleeman.

The original leading cast are in talks to return to their roles, now the mothers and grandmothers of their families. The Wayne Wang-directed movie was a breakout role for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and The Mandalorian actress Ming-Na Wen and also starred Tamlyn Tomita, Rosalind Chao, and Lisa Lu.

The Joy Luck Club, released in 1993, tells the multigenerational saga of Chinese and Chinese-American mothers and daughters, whose histories, stories and lives interweave as they navigate life. The original Disney Touchstone theatrical paved the way for such Asian-led movies as Crazy Rich Asians and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Joy Luck Club was executive produced by Oliver Stone and grossed close to $33M at the domestic box office.

In the sequel, the mothers become grandmothers and the daughters become mothers in their own right, introducing a new generation exploring their own relationships with culture, heritage, love, womanhood and identity.

“We are excited to be teaming with Hyde Park and Jeff Kleeman in bringing to life the next generation of these four families so close to our hearts,” said Tan and Bass.

Amritraj has been a force in Hollywood, promoting both the building of film and cultural bridges between the East and West, and the creation of diverse, inclusive and socially relevant content.

“I am thrilled to work with Amy, Ron and Jeff to bring this special film to the screen,” he said. “Now more than ever it is important to share authentic stories about the Asian-American experience, and we believe this film will speak to wide audiences with its narrative rooted in humanity and connection.”

The film will be produced by Amritraj and Priya Amritraj for Hyde Park Entertainment, alongside Tan, Bass and Kleeman.

Hyde Park’s current slate includes The Man Who Lived Underground, in partnership with Khalabo Ink Society and Paramount Pictures; the New York Times No. 1 Bestseller The Light We Lost directed by Mimi Leder with Apple; Ashe, the biopic of tennis icon and activist Arthur Ashe, written by Academy Award winner Kevin Willmott with Warner Music Group; Proxy, directed by Kornél Mundruczó. Hyde Park Asia’s slate includes the best-selling novel Paradise Towers in partnership with India’s leading filmmaker Zoya Akhtar, and author Suketu Mehta’s Pulitzer Prize-finalist novel Maximum City from writer-director Anurag Kashyap.

Bass, who won an Original Screenplay Oscar for Rain Man, is represented by CAA and The Gotham Group; Tan is represented by Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency; Hyde Park is represented by Felker Toczek Suddleson.

Kaley Cuoco expecting first child with Tom Pelphrey

The 36-year-old actress has confirmed via social media that she’s expecting her first child with boyfriend Tom Pelphrey.

Alongside a photo of herself and Pelphrey holding up a slice of cake, Cuoco wrote on Instagram: “Baby girl Pelphrey coming 2023 [heart emoji] beyond blessed and over the moon. I [heart emoji] you @tommypelphrey!!! (sic)”

The actress, who is best known for playing Penny on The Big Bang Theory, posted some shots of her positive pregnancy tests and her growing baby bump, too.

Pelphrey, 40, has also announced the news on his own Instagram account.

The actor, who plays Ben Davis in Ozark, wrote on the photo-sharing platform: “And then it was even MORE BETTER. [ribbon emojis] Love you more than ever @kaleycuoco [heart and prayer emojis] (sic)”

The loved-up couple were first linked in May, and Cuoco took to social media in July to post a birthday tribute to her boyfriend.

The actress – previously married to Ryan Sweeting and Karl Cook – wrote on Instagram at the time: “To the incredible man that saved me in all the ways..happy birthday, baby! To know you, is to truly adore you … the world lit up the day you were born [heart and cake emojis] I love you!! @tommypelphrey. (sic)”

Meanwhile, Cuoco recently revealed that she had to keep her relationship with Johnny Galecki a secret.

The actress started dating her Big Bang Theory co-star around the same time that their on-screen relationship turned romantic.

She said: “When we were dating, Johnny was very worried about ruining the fans’ outlook on Leonard and Penny, because they weren’t even dating yet at that point in the series. He was so cerebral, and I’m like, ‘What?! Who f— cares?! They’re gonna be fine!'”

Scott Bryce guests on Blue Bloods 10/14/22

GUEST CAST includes: Scott Bryce (Craig Perlmutter), Shane Johnson (Dr. Knight), Kim Director (Arriana).

Chicago P.D.: Read Jesse Lee Soffer's Message to Halstead Fans in Wake of Emotional Final Episode

“For anyone that’s ever been a Halstead fan, I just want you to know that I’m grateful,” Soffer wrote on Twitter. “Thank you for going on this journey with me…. If I could like every single tweet I would, he I appreciate all the love. It means so much to me. Thank you.”

Prior to Soffer’s swan song, the actor shared a series of photos from Wednesday’s episode on his Instagram account, along with the caption, “I left it all out there for this one” (see below). During the Halstead-centric hour, Jay got into a scuffle with a suspect and — spoiler alert! — stabbed the man to death. He refused to go with Voight and Upton’s cover story and turned himself in to Chief Patrick O’Neal instead. He then turned in his badge and took another job in the army leading a squad that tracks down the worst drug cartel targets. He was set to take up post in Bolivia.

P.D.‘s Marina Squerciati (aka Burgess) also marked Soffer’s final episode on Twitter, writing: “Jesse, I love you, dude. I cried a lot IRL so you know it’s not fake social media stuff. SO MANY TEARS.”

Meanwhile, the #OneChicago Twitter account shared a video message from Soffer’s TV brother, Chicago Med‘s Nick Gehlfuss aka Will Halstead. “Do you remember when you welcomed me into this whole franchise? I will never forget that you were so kind, patient, and really helpful,” he said. “It was daunting at the time to me and you made it a lot easier, and from then on we developed this wonderful relationship that we have beyond all of this, but I’m really going to miss you, man.”

James Hyde Joins Y&R

James Earl Jones Signs Over Rights To Voice Of Darth Vader, Signalling Retirement From Legendary Role

Vanity Fair reports that the actor, aged 91, has signed over the rights to his voice to filmmakers using new AI, technology, Matthew Wood of Lucasfilm told the magazine that the actor “wished to keep Vader alive”

“He had mentioned he was looking into winding down this particular character,” Wood told Vanity Fair. “So how do we move forward?”

Jones made his debut as the legendary Star Wars villain in the 1977 film, and followed this up with voicing the same character throughout the franchise up to this point on both the big and small screen. He most recently starred as the character for the new Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+.

While actor David Prowse dressed in the distinctive black uniform of the Sith Lord for the original films, it was Jones who provided the unique deep tones of the complex Vader.

Besides his work on the sci-fi epic, Jones is a celebrated EGOT. He received an honorary Academy Award in 2011, having been nominated for Best Actor in the 1970 The Great White Hope.

Other stars from the franchise have made a return to the franchise in recent years. Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen and Mark Hamill have all reprised their characters, much to the delight of fans. But it seems one of the most distinctive actors of all is finally signing off.

Earlier this month, Broadway’s Cort Theatre was renamed in honor of Jones, and a dedication ceremony was attended by such stage and film stars as Samuel L. Jackson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Norm Lewis and director Kenny Leon. The 91-year-old Jones did not attend but had been given a private tour of the renamed James Earl Jones Theatre days prior.

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18th Annual Stars And Strikes Event To Honor Jerry verDorn

‘May December’ Helmer Todd Haynes Sets Charles Melton To Star With Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore

Melton is coming off The Sun Is Also A Star and, Bad Boys For Life. This role has starmaking potential. It takes place two decades after the scandalized romance between a teacher and her student. Moore plays the wife Gracie, and Melton plays the younger husband Joe. Their twin are about to graduate high school, and a movie is going to be made about their life. The Hollywood actress who’ll be playing the wife comes to spend time with the family to better understand her character. Family dynamics unravel under the pressure of the outside gaze. Joe, never having processed what happened in his youth, starts to confront the reality of life as an empty-nester at 36. And as Elizabeth and Gracie study each other, the similarities and differences between the two women begin to ebb and flow. The film explores truth, storytelling and the difficulties of fully understanding another person.

Samy Burch wrote the screenplay, from a story by Burch and Alex Mechanik. Jessica Elbaum and Will Ferrell of Gloria Sanchez Productions and Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler of Killer Films are producing alongside Portman and Sophie Mas under their MountainA banner. Grant S. Johnson and Tyler W. Konney are producing and fully financing through their respective companies Project Infinity and Taylor and Dodge.

Melton is repped by 111 Media, CAA, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.

CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group are repping U.S. rights; Rocket Science is handling international.

Broadway Theater Officially Renamed For James Earl Jones In Dedication Ceremony

Broadway director Kenny Leon told The Associated Press, “It means everything. You can’t think of an artist that has served America more.”

With the renaming – announced last March – the Shubert Organization venue becomes the second Broadway theater named after a Black artist (Jujamcyn owns the August Wilson Theatre, and the Nederlander Organization has announced plans to rename the Brooks Atkinson Theatre after singer-actress Lena Horne).

The James Earl Jones Theatre recently underwent a $47 million renovation project, which included the restoration and expansion of the 110-year-old building on West 48th Street.

Shubert, which owns the theater, commissioned extensive renovations and construction work on the venue over the course of the Covid pandemic years and under the guidance of Francesca Russo Architect. A new contemporary annex, designed by Kostow Greenwood Architects, expands accessibility, increases public space, adds dressing rooms and rehearsal space.

The venue’s name change to honor the venerable actor was previously announced, and followed a renaming pledge by Shubert and other Broadway theater owners that arose out of the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement.

At Monday’s dedication ceremony, Broadway’s Norm Lewis performed the song “Go the Distance,” the Alan Menken/David Zippel song from Disney’s Hercules, and Brian Stokes Mitchell sang “Make Them Hear You” from Ragtime.

The 91-year-old Jones did not attend the dedication ceremony, but had been given a private tour of the facility on Sept. 8.

Amanda Seyfried Wins First Emmy; Says Playing Elizabeth Holmes In ‘The Dropout’ Was “Best Time Of My Life” But “I Was So Over Her” By End Of Show

“Thanks for recognizing me among these amazing actors,” said an emotional Seyfried. “This is a really nice feeling!”

Working on Hulu’s The Dropout “was the best time of my life,” she added as she accepted her first Emmy, for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

But Seyfried told press later that playing Homes was pretty taxing. “I was so over her by the end of the show. You have to delude yourself to a point. I had to delude myself more than normal. I had to have compassion for her. I have never played anyone that long. Every single day I gave it all. I was just done. I gotta throw her away. I didn’t do her voice for two months until the doorman asked, ‘Can you do the voice?’”

She did discover the two had something in common.

“Elizabeth Holmes and I were both on dance teams in high school. I find that really astounding. She was not great and I was also in third row where they put you when you are not that great. The fact we both had that in our past and how I have seen her dance in a way that was not good …. that was one of the ways I connected with her.”

The photogenic, brilliant and disquieting founder-CEO of now defunct Theranos promised worshipful investors a revolution in blood testing using just a tiny drop with advanced technology that turned out to be fake. Seyfried’s Holmes was complex and not entirely unempathetic.

And what timing. After a widely followed televised trial, a San Jose jury in January found Holmes guilty of four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy. Sentencing is later this fall. Holmes faces up to 20 years in prison and hefty fines plus restitution.

The Dropout hails from Searchlight Television and 20th Television.

This was a tough field — “an abundance of heavyweight names playing other heavyweight names,” as per Deadline’s Pete Hammond — including Lily James as Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson in Pam & Tommy; Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp in Impeachment: American Crime Story; Julia Garner in Inventing Anna; Margaret Qualley in Maid; and Toni Collette in The Staircase.

Kaley Cuoco and Tom Pelphrey make red carpet debut at Emmys 2022

The “Flight Attendant” actress, 36, wore a custom pink Dolce & Gabbana gown with floral embellishments, while the “Ozark” star, 40, looked dapper in a black suit at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

The two posed closely together and flashed each other bright smiles as photographers snapped pics.

The pair’s awards show appearance comes months after Cuoco confirmed her relationship with Pelphrey via Instagram.

“Life lately ‘the sun breaks through the clouds, rays of gold slipping into my eyes and heart, rays of yellow to break the grey,’” she captioned a series of photos, including one where Pelphrey was seen kissing Cuoco on the cheek.

That same day, Pelphrey also went Instagram-official with Cuoco, sharing two polaroids of the couple looking extra cuddly.

Weeks later, the duo engaged in light PDA during their first public appearance together at producer Greg Berlanti’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony.

Cuoco — who’s nominated for an Emmy for her role in the HBO series — and Pelphrey were photographed holding hands, exchanging flirty smiles and laughing. At one point, he was seen lovingly touching Cuoco’s arm.

Pelphrey is Cuoco’s first serious relationship since she broke up with husband Karl Cook in September 2021 after three years of marriage.

“Despite a deep love and respect for one another, we have realized that our current paths have taken us in opposite directions,” they had said in a joint statement at the time.

She was also previously married to tennis player Ryan Sweeting from 2013 to 2016.

Despite her new connection with Pelphrey, Cuoco has no plans to tie the knot again.

“I will never get married again,” the “Big Bang Theory” alum asserted in a Glamour cover story interview for the magazine’s April 2022 issue. “I would love to have a long-lasting relationship or a partnership. But I will never get married again. Absolutely not. You can literally put that on the cover.”

Julianne Moore & Audrey Diwan Lead Venice Red Carpet Protest In Support Of Jafar Panahi

Venice jury member Audrey Diwan joined Moore on the frontlines of the protest alongside filmmaker Sally Potter, Orizzonti Jury President Isabel Coixet, and Venice festival head Antonio Barbera.

The participants held placards depicting Panahi’s face alongside the message: “Release Jafar Panahi!”

The protest took place on the Palazzo Del Cinema red carpet prior to the screening of Pahani’s latest film No Bears, which screens in competition.

Panahi has been in custody since July 12 after going to the prosecutor’s office in Tehran to follow up on the whereabouts of filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Al-Ahmad after they were arrested a few days prior. It later emerged that the Iranian authorities had decided to reactivate a suspended six-year sentence originally handed out to Panahi in 2010 alongside a 20-year filmmaking and travel ban.

His detention comes amid a clampdown on freedom of expression in Iran as the government reins in a wave of popular protests about a raft of issues, including the cost-of-living crisis, the government’s handling of a deadly building collapse, and stricter dress codes for women.

Panahi, who broke out internationally in 1995 with Cannes Caméra d’Or winner The White Balloon, has spent much of his later filmmaking career caught up in the crosshairs of the Iranian authorities.

He was first arrested in July 2009 after attending the funeral of Neda Agha-Soltan, a philosophy student who was shot dead in Tehran by government-backed militiamen, while participating in so-called Green Revolution protests.

Panahi was arrested for a second time in March 2010 while shooting a feature set against the backdrop of the Green Revolution. In December of that year, he was handed a six-year suspended prison sentence, none of which he has served until now.

Panahi has continued to make films clandestinely during this period, including 2011’s This Is Not A Film and the Golden Bear-winning docu-comedy-drama Taxi.

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Jordana Brewster, Mason Morfit marry in California, ride off in ‘Fast & Furious’ car

“Fast & Furious” franchise star Jordana Brewster said “I do” to Mason Morfit in a stunning ceremony in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Saturday.

The blushing bride, 42, stunned in a strapless fishtail gown with a lace embroidered bodice and a satin train.

Brewster completed the bridal look with classic diamond earrings and her hair pulled back into an elegant updo.

She was also pictured carrying a bouquet of roses while wearing a long veil with a floral embroidered trim.

According to an eyewitness, Brewster’s on-screen brother, Vin Diesel, was in attendance but arrived late to the 5 p.m. ceremony.

We’re told that shortly after the nuptials took place, Brewster and Morfit hopped into the famous blue Acura Integra from the “Fast & Furious” franchise.

As fans may recall, the actress previously rode in the now-iconic sports car with her late co-star and on-screen husband, Paul Walker.

The wedding took place nearly one year after Brewster confirmed she said “yes” to Morfit’s proposal, following her split from her first husband, Andrew Form.

“JB soon to be JBM,” she captioned a selfie via Instagram at the time, of her and the tech CEO on the beach.

In September 2021, Page Six exclusively obtained photos of the actress wearing her sparkling diamond ring while out and about with Morfit, who is the CEO of investment firm ValueAct Capital.

The couple were first linked romantically in July 2020, with Brewster later revealing that she flew to see him mere days after filing for divorce from Form.

“Mason and I had met once, while we were both still married, four years ago,” she wrote in a Glamour essay last June.

“I took note of Mason; he was cute, charming. Shortly after that lunch, I started following him on Instagram.”

She continued, “I’m already planning my second wedding in my head. But I stop myself when I get that rushed, buzzy feeling.”

Brewster and Form were married from 2007 until 2021 and share two kids: sons Julian, 8, and Rowan, 6.

James Earl Jones Theatre Gets Official Broadway Opening: Renaming & Dedication Ceremony Announced

The ceremony follows a $47 million restoration and expansion of the 110-year-old building on West 48th Street in Manhattan’s Theater District. The dedication ceremony will be open to invited guests and members of the press, and will include special performances, tours of the venue and the unveiling of a new marquee.

Shubert, which owns the theater, commissioned extensive renovations and construction work on the venue over the course of the Covid pandemic years and under the guidance of Francesca Russo Architect. A new contemporary annex, designed by Kostow Greenwood Architects, expands accessibility, increases public space, adds dressing rooms and rehearsal space.

The venue’s name change to honor the venerable actor was previously announced, and followed a pledge by Shubert and other Broadway theater owners that arose out of the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement.

“The dedication of the James Earl Jones Theatre honors one of the most beloved Broadway and film actors of all time,” said Shubert Chairman and CEO Robert E. Wankel in a statement today. “It’s fitting that the renaming of this beautifully restored building also be a moment in which to recognize the tremendous contribution of BIPOC people to Broadway. Mr. Jones’s name quickly rose to the top of the Shubert Organization’s list due to his illustrious career performing in Shubert houses, his status in the Black community, and his worldwide reputation as one of the most celebrated performers to ever grace the Broadway stage.”

The Cort Theatre opened in 1912 and was designed in the style of an Eighteenth-Century French palace by renowned theatre architect Thomas Lamb. The venue was built to house productions of impresario John Cort and was sold to the Shubert brothers in 1927.

The $47 million restoration project includes refurbishments to the interior and the rehabilitation of the historic landmark’s façade, as well as the creation of a new, modern annex to compliment the historic theater. The new space, designed by Kostow Greenwood Architects, is fully accessible and features lounges and new restrooms for theatre patrons, as well as a rehearsal spaces and offices for theatre staff.

The venue’s dressing room tower has also been relocated to the annex, allowing for the expansion of the stage-left wing and an upgrade of the rigging system. Those renovations, Shubert says, have created an enhanced venue functionality that allows for the presentation of more modern, technically demanding productions with larger casts.

Jones has appeared in 14 Broadway productions at Shubert theaters, including two at the Cort. In all, Jones has performed in 21 Broadway shows, winning Tony Awards for The Great White Hope (1969) and Fences (1987), as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.

Marisa Tomei & Lena Olin Join Carlson Young’s Rom-Com ‘Upgraded’ For Gulfstream Pictures

In the film from actor-director Carlson Young (The Blazing World), aspiring art intern Ana (Mendes) is invited on a last-minute work trip to London by her brilliant but intimidating super boss, meeting the handsome and wealthy William (Renaux) on the plane. Set in both London and New York City, the rom-com chronicles the trials and tribulations of balancing work, romance and following your dreams.

Tomei will take on the role of the formidable auction house executive Claire Dupree, a brilliant and terrifying boss to auction-house trainee Ana. Olin will play the charismatic and charming Catherine Laroche, a wealthy and influential art seller, and the mother of Ana’s love interest, William.

Developed in part by Mendes and her producing partner Rachel Matthews, Upgraded was scripted by Christine Lenig, Justin Matthews and Luke Roberts. The film is the third financed by Gulfstream Pictures this year, following the Josephine Langford-led rom-com The Other Zoey and the motorcycle racing pic One Fast Move, starring KJ Apa, both of which are currently in post-production. Bill Bindley and Mike Karz are producing for Gulfstream, along with Lena Roklin for Luber Roklin Entertainment, Piers Tempest for Tempo Productions, and Karl Hall. Exec producers are Mendes, Rachel Matthews, Josie Rosen and Matt Williams.

“We are so excited to announce Marisa and Lena will be joining the cast,” said Gulfstream’s Karz and Bindley. “They are both enormously talented and iconic, and we are thrilled to be working with them on this project.”

Tomei won an Oscar in 1993 for her supporting turn in Jonathan Lynn’s classic My Cousin Vinny, later scoring additional noms for Todd Field’s In the Bedroom and Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler. The actress has played the MCU’s May Parker in films ranging from Captain America: Civil War through to last year’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, and is otherwise known for her work in such titles as The King of Staten Island, The Big Short, The Ides of March, Crazy, Stupid, Love., The Lincoln Lawyer, Cyrus, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Anger Management and What Women Want, among others. Notable TV credits include Empire and Rescue Me. She can currently be seen in Robert Budreau’s Vertical Entertainment thriller Delia’s Gone, and will next appear in Rebecca Miller’s She Came to Me with Anne Hathaway and Peter Dinklage.

Olin is a Swedish-born actress who received an Oscar nomination in 1990 for her supporting turn in Paul Mazursky’s Enemies, A Love Story, scoring an Emmy nom in 2003 for her performance as Irina Derevko on ABC’s Alias. She currently stars in the Prime Video series Hunters, which has been renewed for a second season, and has also appeared on shows like Vinyl and Welcome to Sweden. Other notable film credits include Remember Me, The Reader, Chocolat, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Fanny and Alexander. Also coming up for the actress is the feature Hilma, directed by Lasse Hallström — a story about the female painter Hilma af Klint, who is now recognized as the inventor of abstract art.

Tomei is represented by UTA, Untitled Entertainment and Paul Hastings; Olin by Paradigm, Sweden’s Agentfirman Planthaber/Kildén/Mandic and Authentic Talent and Literary Management.

Tony Award Winner Tonya Pinkins Signs With The Rosenzweig Group

Pinkins is a Tony Award-winning actress and filmmaker who will next be seen in the Public Theater’s upcoming production of A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Tony nominee Robert O’Hara (Slave Play).

Best known for her work on Broadway, Pinkins has earned three Tony noms in total, winning in 1992 for her performance as Sweet Anita in Jelly’s Last Jam. Over the course of the actress’ career in theater, she has also been recognized with Opie, Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, AUDLECO, Garland, LA Drama Critics Circle, Clarence Derwent and NAACP Theater awards.

Pinkins recently starred opposite Adrienne Warren in the ABC limited series Women of the Movement. The actress has also been seen in recurring roles on such series as God Friended Me, Fear the Walking Dead, Gotham, 24 and J.J. Abrams’ 11.22.63. Notable film credits include Above the Rim, The Book of Henry and Enchanted.

Pinkins made her feature directorial debut with the 2021 horror-comedy Red Pill, which received numerous accolades, including Best Narrative Feature at the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival. A 2019-2022 Fulbright Specialist and published author, she also was the 2020 recipient of the Franky Award and the Rachel Crothers Leadership Award. Her podcast You Can’t Say That! is available for streaming on the Broadway Podcast Network.

The Rosenzweig Group is a management and production company, which was founded by Marni Rosenzweig in 2018. Up next for the company on the production side is the feature Time Alone, starring Clayton Cardenas and Taraji P. Henson, which it will produce alongside Escape Artists and Oakhurst Entertainment.

Chicago P.D. Shocker: Jesse Lee Soffer to Exit as Halstead During Season 10

“I want to thank the incredible fans for their unwavering support during the past 10 years and want to express my deepest gratitude to Dick Wolf and everyone at Wolf Entertainment, Peter Jankowski, Matt Olmstead, Derek Haas, Michael Brandt, Rick Eid, Gwen Sigan, NBC, Universal Television, my fellow castmates and our incredible crew,” he said in a statement to Variety on Monday. “To create this hour drama week after week has been a labor of love by everyone who touches the show. I will always be proud of my time as Det. Jay Halstead.”

Halstead has been at the center of the show since the beginning; over the past two seasons, he’s become Sergeant Hank Voight’s (Jason Beghe) right-hand man and married Det. Hailey Upton (Tracy Spiradakos).

“Chicago P.D.,” one of Wolf’s nine shows currently on the air, has experienced many changes both in front of and behind the camera through recent years. Last October, writer and executive producer Sigan took over as showrunner, as Eid exited to focus on his role as showrunner on both “Law & Order” and “FBI.”

Additionally, Benjamin Levy Aguilar, who guest starred in the Season 9 finale, was upped to series regular over the summer. He will reprise his role of Dante Torres, a rookie in Intelligence coming up from patrol. Marina Squerciati, Patrick Flueger, LaRoyce Hawkins and Amy Morton also star.

Soffer, who has been acting since age six, made his debut as Jay Halstead in the Season 2 premiere of “Chicago Fire,” which led to the first spinoff series. Prior to joining the “One Chicago” world, he had a main role on “As the World Turns,” appearing on 502 episodes and earning three Daytime Emmy nominations.

He is repped by UTA, Ethos Entertainment and Schreck Rose Dapello & Adams.

“Chicago P.D.” is produced by Universal Television, in association with Wolf Entertainment. Wolf, Sigan, Eid, Haas, Jankowski, Brandt, Gavin Harris, Chad Saxton and Arthur W. Forney serve as executive producers.

Season 10 premieres on NBC Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 10 p.m. ET.

‘Yellowstone’ Drops First Season 5 Teaser At MTV Video Music Awards

Season 5 of the mega hit starring Kevin Costner is set for a two-hour premiere Nov. 13 on MTV sibling the Paramount Network. The teaser promises “All will be revealed” in a quick montage of some of the key players in the series, finishing with patriarch John Dutton (Costner).

Fans of the series or those wishing to catch up can see a series marathon starting on Friday of Labor Day weekend on the Paramount Network, beginning at 11 AM each day of that weekend.

The series ensemble cast includes Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley, Cole Hauser, Kelsey Asbille, Brecken Merrill, Jefferson White, Forrie Smith, Denim Richards, Ian Bohen, Finn Little, Ryan Bingham and Gil Birmingham, with Mo Brings Plenty, Wendy Moniz, Jen Landon, and Kathryn Kelly upped to series regulars.

The upcoming season will also feature the return of Josh Lucas as young John Dutton alongside Jacki Weaver, Kylie Rogers and Kyle Red Silverstein with Kai Caster, Lainey Wilson, Lilli Kay and Dawn Olivieri joining the star-studded cast.

Paramount Network’s Yellowstone season four premiere was cable’s highest rated show, bringing in more than 14 million viewers in total. The season four finale drew more than 10 million viewers.

Produced by MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios, Yellowstone chronicles the Dutton family, led by John Dutton (Costner), who controls the largest contiguous cattle ranch in the United States. Amid shifting alliances, unsolved murders, open wounds, and hard-earned respect – the ranch is in constant conflict with those it borders – an expanding town, an Indian reservation, and vicious business rivalries.

Yellowstone is co-created by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Taylor Sheridan (Wind River, Hell or High Water and Sicario) and John Linson. Executive producers include John Linson, Art Linson, Taylor Sheridan, Kevin Costner, David C. Glasser, Bob Yari and Stephen Kay.

Tonya Pinkins, Francois Battiste To Lead Public Theater’s ‘A Raisin In The Sun’ Off Broadway

The production, which marks a Public Theater debut for Hansberry, reunites O’Hara with some of his cast from a 2019 Raisin In The Sun staging at the Williamstown Theater Festival, including Battiste (Ten Days in the Valley, New Amsterdam), who will play Walter Lee Younger, and Mandi Masden, as Ruth Younger. Pinkins, a Tony winner for Jelly’s Last Jam, will play Walter Lee’s mother Lena Younger (played by S. Epatha Merkerson in the Williamstown staging).

The play begins performances at the Public’s Newman Theater Off Broadway with a Joseph Papp Free Performance on Tuesday, Sept. 27. The engagement officially opens on Wednesday, Oct. 19 and runs through Sunday, Nov. 6.

Also in the cast: Paige Gilbert (Beneatha Younger), Toussaint Battiste and Camden McKinnon (Travis Younger alternates), John Clay III (Joseph Asagai), Calvin Dutton (Bobo), Mister Fitzgerald (George Murchison), Jesse Pennington (Karl Lindner), and Perri Gaffney (Mrs. Johnson). Skyler Gallun and N’yomi Stewart are understudies.

“I am filled with curiosity and excitement by what this tremendous cast that The Public has assembled will bring to a play I consider simply the best ever written,” said O’Hara in a statement. “Having them all with me and our brilliant designers in this exploration of this essential classic and doing it at The Public Theater where I debuted as a writer and director is a dream come true. A dream that I didn’t have to defer because there were works like A Raisin in the Sun that I held as my guiding light and which blazed the path for me and countless others.”

The production will feature scenic design by Clint Ramos, costume design by Karen Perry, lighting design by Alex Jainchill, sound design by Elisheba Ittoop, sound system design by Will Pickens, hair and wig design by Nikiya Mathis, and video design by Brittany Bland.

‘Lou’ Trailer, First Look: Allison Janney & Jurnee Smollett Lead Netflix’s Bad Robot-Produced Action-Thriller

The film from cinematographer-turned-director Anna Foerster (Westworld) follows Lou (Janney), a woman who thinks she’s put her dangerous past behind her, but finds her quiet life interrupted when a desperate mother (Smollett) begs her to help save her kidnapped daughter. As a massive storm rages, the two women risk their lives on a rescue mission that will test their limits and expose dark and shocking secrets from their pasts.

Written by Maggie Cohn (The Staircase) and Jack Stanley, from a story by Cohn, Lou also stars Logan Marshall-Green, Ridley Asha Bateman and Matt Craven. Bad Robot’s J.J. Abrams, Hannah Minghella and Jon Cohen produced, with Janney and Smollett exec producing alongside Braden Aftergood, Brendan Ferguson, Cory Bennett Lewis and Lindsey Weber.

Netflix also today debuted first-look images and a December 23rd premiere date for Rian Johnson’s anticipated Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which will be released in select theaters at a date not yet announced, after debuting globally on the streamer. The film sees Daniel Craig reprise his role as Detective Benoit Blanc, who travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of colorful suspects. Pic’s cast also includes Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson and Dave Bautista.

The trailer for Lou can be found above.

‘Ally McBeal’ Sequel With New Lead In Works At ABC From Karin Gist; Calista Flockhart Eyed To Return

Written and executive produced by Karin Gist (Mike), I hear the new show will follow a young Black woman who joins the law firm from the original series (or its current incarnation) straight out of law school. The young woman is believed to be the daughter of Ally McBeal’s (Flockhart) D.A. roommate Renée Raddick, who was played by Lisa Nicole Carson on the mothership series.

I hear Flockhart has been approached to reprise her title role from the original in some capacity and to executive produce the follow-up. A decision on her potential involvement likely won’t be made until a script has been written.

Kelley created and executive produced Ally McBeal through his overall deal at 20th Television that had his David E. Kelley Productions function as a mini studio, giving the prolific producer a bigger say in exploiting existing IP. I hear Kelley has been looped in on the idea and has given his blessing for the follow-up. Given the new show’s focus on a new character who is a Black woman, I hear Kelley felt he was not needed and graciously stepped aside out of respect for Gist being able to tell that character’s story. There are no current plans for Kelley to be involved in the sequel, which Ally McBeal studio 20th Television, part of Disney TV Studios, is producing. Gist serves as showrunner and executive produces through her production banner, The Gist of It, alongside the company’s EVP Claire Brown.

Reps for ABC and 20th TV declined comment.

Executives at 20th TV had been looking to bring back Ally McBeal in some shape or form for years; the efforts were stepped up after the 2019 Disney acquisition of Fox assets, including 20th TV, fueled by how well the series’ DNA fits into ABC’s core brand of female-driven character dramas with levity. I hear Gist’s take was very well received across the board, leading to the pitch’s sale to ABC for development.

The setup of the Ally McBeal follow-up is reminiscent of NBC’s upcoming Night Court sequel series, which also features a new lead character (Melissa Rauch) who is the daughter of a character from the original series and has the original lead, John Larroquette, reprising his role alongside her.

Ally McBeal, which aired on Fox from 1997-2002, starred Flockhart as Ally, a lawyer working in the Boston law firm Cage and Fish along with her ex-lover and his wife, and followed Ally’s trials and tribulations through life as she looked for love and fulfillment. The main focus of the dramedy was the romantic and personal lives of the main characters, often using legal proceedings as plot device.

The series won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series in 1999, one of seven Emmys and a slew of other major awards for its run. Ally McBeal was known for its strong ensemble cast, led by Flockhart and featuring Courtney Thorne-Smith, Greg Germann, Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol, Gil Bellows, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi as well as musician Vonda Shepard who rose to fame on the show. Additionally, the series gave Robert Downey Jr. one of his first big roles following his 1990s legal troubles en route to his blockbuster career comeback in Iron Man.

Ally McBeal transcended television to become a pop culture phenom and generate memes before memes existed with its infamous dancing baby. It remains influential two decades after its end, with She-Hulk‘s creative team recently listing the dramedy as an inspiration for their Marvel series.

Gist is among the top creators/showrunners on 20th TV’s roster of overall deals. Under the pact, she is executive producer and showrunner on the new Mike Tyson limited series Mike for Hulu. She co-created, executive produced and showran the Fox series Our Kind of People and served as executive producer and showrunner on the ABC comedy mixed-ish.

Previously, Gist served as executive producer and showrunner of Fox’s Star for Seasons 2 and 3. Before that, she was a co-executive producer on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy from 2015-17. Additional writing and producing credits include WB/CW’s One Tree Hill, Showtime’s House of Lies and ABC’s Revenge. Her film writing credits include Disney’s Camp Rock and Camp Rock 2, Jump In and VH1’s Drumline: A New Beat. She is repped by Adventure Media, Joel McKuin and ID PR.

‘Feud’: Tom Hollander, Calista Flockhart & Diane Lane To Star In Season 2 Of Ryan Murphy’s FX Series

They join previously announced Naomi Watts and Chloë Sevigny. Hollander will star as Truman Capote, Flockhart as Lee Radziwill and Lane as Slim Keith. As previously announced, Watts stars as Babe Paley, wife of CBS head Bill Paley, and Sevigny portrays C.Z. Guest.

An adaptation of Laurence Leamer’s bestselling book Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era, the miniseries is set in the 1970s and ends with Truman Capote’s death in 1984. It chronicles the tale of the famous wunderkind author as he stabs several of his female friends — whom he called his “swans” — in the back by publishing a roman à clef short story called “La Côte Basque 1965” in Esquire in 1975. The piece was intended to be a chapter in Capote’s infamous unfinished novel Answered Prayers, his follow-up to the blockbuster In Cold Blood.

Two-time Oscar nominee Gus Van Sant is set to direct all eight episodes, with Tony- and Pulitzer-nominated Jon Robin Baitz writing all episodes and serving as showrunner.

Baitz, Van Sant and Watts are executive producing Feud: Capote’s Women alongside Murphy, Plan B’s Dede Gardner, Tim Minear and Alexis Martin Woodall — who all executive produced/produced Season 1, titled Feud: Bette and Joan. 20th Television is the studio, producing with Plan B Entertainment and Ryan Murphy Productions. Filming is slated to begin in New York this fall.

Hollander is known for his roles in The Night Manager and Gosford Park, as well as films Pride & Prejudice and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

Flockhart, best known for her starring role in Ally McBeal, most recently played Cal Grant on the CW’s Supergirl.

Lane next will be seen opposite Jeff Daniels in Netflix limited series A Man in Full. She most recently starred in FX’s adaptation of Y: The Last Man.

Variety was first to report the castings.

Saturn Awards Nominations Featuring Soap Alums

Supporting Actress in a Film
• Awkwafina, Shang-Chi and the Legend Of the Ten Rings (Marvel / Walt Disney Studios)
• Jodie Comer, Free Guy (20th Century Studios)
• Carrie Coon, Ghostbusters: Afterlife (Sony Pictures)
• Viola Davis, The Suicide Squad (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24)
• Diana Rigg, Last Night in Soho (Focus Features)
• Marisa Tomei, Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony Pictures Marvel)

Supporting Actor in a Network / Cable Series
• Jonathan Banks, Better Call Saul (AMC)
• Tony Dalton, Better Call Saul (AMC)
• Patrick Fabian, Better Call Saul (AMC)
• Harvey Guillen, What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
• Michael James Shaw, The Walking Dead (AMC)
• Michael Mando, Better Call Saul (AMC)
• Brandon Scott, Jones Ghosts (CBS)

Actress in a Streaming Series
• Millie Bobby Brown, Stranger Things (Netflix)
• Britt Lower, Severance (Apple TV+)
• Erin Moriarty, The Boys (Amazon)
• Elizabeth Olsen, WandaVision (Disney+ / Marvel)
• Beth Riesgraf, Leverage: Redemption (FreeVee)
• Kate Siegel, Midnight Mass (Netflix)
• Ming-Na Wen, The Book of Boba Fett (Disney+ / Lucasfilm)

Guest Performance in a Streaming Series
• Jensen Ackles, The Boys (Amazon)
• Levar Burton, Leverage: Redemption (FreeVee)
• Hayden Christensen, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Disney+ / Lucasfilm)
• Rosario Dawson, The Mandalorian (Disney+ / Lucasfilm)
• Robert Englund, Stranger Things (Netflix)
• Tony Dalton, Hawkeye (Disney+ / Marvel)
• Jonathan Majors, Loki (Disney+ / Marvel).

Ariana Muenker Interview 8/10/22

Daytime fans will remember Ariana for her roles Christie Rogers and Christine Valere on Guiding Light, Annie Stewart and Melinda Gray Spencer on As the World Turns, Marianne Rudolph on Another World, Amanda Kirkland on Ryan’s Hope and Kimberly Brady on Days of Our Lives.

Jake Gyllenhaal’s ‘Road House’ Movie A Go At Prime Video As Daniela Melchior, Billy Magnussen Among Those Joining Cast

“Road House is a homerun for us. Not only is it a nod to fans of the original, but it is also a big, fun, broad audience movie,” said Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios. “We are thrilled to collaborate with Joel, Doug, and this great cast led by Jake Gyllenhaal, and for them to come together to reimagine the classic MGM film as an action-packed adventure for our global audience.”

The new take follows a former UFC fighter (Gyllenhaal) who takes a job as a bouncer at a rough-and-tumble roadhouse in the Florida Keys, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems in this tropical paradise.

“I’m thrilled to put my own spin on the beloved Road House legacy. And I can’t wait to show audiences what Jake and I are going to do with this iconic role,” said director Doug Liman.

The Amazon Original Movie is set to go into production in the Dominican Republic this month and will stream on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide at release.

“The original Road House has a special place in my heart and I am so excited to bring this newly imagined version to audiences around the world. Doug and I have each made some big, boisterous action movies and are ready to bring everything we have to this one,” said producer Joel Silver.

Gyllenhaal can next be seen in Guy Ritchie’s upcoming film The Interpreter. Gyllenhaal’s work as a producer is equally noteworthy and his production company Nine Stories has established itself as a force, most recently producing Antoine Fuqua’s The Guilty also starring Gyllenhaal, which was Netflix’s #1 film for over three weeks.

Liman is a film and television director and producer, best known for directing beloved and critically acclaimed films such as Swingers, The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, American Made, and Live Die Repeat (Edge Of Tomorrow).

Silver is returning to the beloved classic after serving as the producer on the original 1989 film. Silver has also produced or executive produced over 100 films and television shows including The Book of Eli, The Nice Guys, the Sherlock Holmes films, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, the Lethal Weapon films, the first three Matrix films, Swordfish, Demolition Man, Predator and Predator 2, Die Hard and Die Hard 2, Speed Racer, V for Vendetta, House of Wax, RocknRolla, Project X, Brewster’s Millions and 48 Hrs. He also executive produced the original Veronica Mars series.

From Big Lawyer to Big Daddy: An Interview with Soap Star Christian Jules Le Blanc

These days, the openly gay actor is turning heads for a different reason: his long, snow-white hair. Le Blanc let it grow during lockdown and was completely unbothered by it, joking that “some people actually pay money to get their hair this color.”

It has served him well. These days, he’s been granted a temporary leave from his Los Angeles taping schedule and has taken on the role of Big Daddy Pollitt, the wealthy yet unrefined, plantation owning patriarch in a new and smoldering version of Tennessee Williams’ classic play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

In addition to his performance art, Le Blanc is a visual artist who works with the medium of colored pencil-a hobby he happened to pick up but one that has led him to gallery exhibits and notice from buyers.

Manhattan Digest spoke with the former New Orleans resident about his early years, his acting technique, and why Tennessee Williams still matters.

MD: Talk a bit about your stage debut

CL: My debut on a serious stage was with Julie Harris, during the nineties, along with Eileen Brennan and Laura Esterman in a play called Ladies in Retirement. I’d studied with Charles Nelson Reilly, but I was originally supposed to be medicine.

MD: You were a medical major? What was the point when you went from medicine to acting?

CL: Tulane was my alma mater in New Orleans and I wanted to be a doctor. I volunteered in local hospitals in the area. I was on a leave of absence from the hospital and had a desire to try acting. My mother told me to be safe and my father said to do it while I was young. I booked a little gig in Mississippi and I really liked it.

Ultimately, I quit medicine and went off to LA to seek my fortune. You do what you’re passionate about. And once you get the passion… passion with capital “P”, you find your true love. You do it because there is no other answer and that’s what makes it worth it.

You know, there’s a lot of stuff to learn if you haven’t been on stage and this long, specifically how to get through a matinee and a night performance. I gotta tell you it has been a big chore as far as managing my energy. That’s a craft in itself!

MD: Were you initially contracted on Y&R, or was it just a guest spot?

CL: In those days, they signed actors to a couple of years. I had the sexual harassment storyline of a sleazy lawyer, Michael Baldwin. The actress playing the victim was, in real life, the boss and show creator William Bell’s daughter, Lauralee. I thought it wasn’t a great idea at first, but I ended up having a ball. Then my character redeemed himself and became a hyper genius lawyer who earned his position.

MD: I understand that you’re writing a children’s book?

CL: Yes. My first art exhibit of anything that people commissioned was in the coconut grove theatre. I did these little Wind in the Willows-esque kind of fantasy children’s drawings. When Julie and Charles saw them , they thought I should be drawing all the time. They would send me pictures of animals from newspapers all around the world as inspiration. So now, I have a book but it’s not been published. The artwork took off before the the actual words of this book, and it’s a children’s novel. It’s all in colored pencil.

MD: Have you been stopped or recognized here in New York since you’ve been here for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?

CL: My hair used to be disguised by a hat, but Young and the Restless fans have stopped and have mentioned it because it just gets whiter. I love New York because you can just strike up a conversation with anyone on the street. Plus, it has all the romance of beginnings for me because this is where I moved before I lived in LA.

MD: How did you adopt the Southern accent for the play?

CL: I have no linguistic approach. I just talked like relatives I know who are from Texas, Beaumont, Houston, Dallas, dripping down into South southern Louisiana and going up into Mississippi.

Big Daddy is literally described as a redneck. That’s what Maggie calls him. He’s unapologetic. So mine is a most extreme southern accent. It can veer into parody if if I’m not careful, but I went to a few great linguist sites online which have everyone saying the same couple of lines, from different parts of the south at different ages, professions, races, and lengths of time they stayed there.

MD: What is about Tennessee Williams and his work that is so alluring. Why do we keep coming back to it?

CL: Because this play—and many others he’s written- is about sexuality, humanity, family, dysfunction, alcoholism, and drug addiction.

I read a book called Follies of God by James Grissom about the women who inspired Williams, some of whom would be inspirations for his stories. It covers direction that Tennessee gave the actors. There’s this wonderful one with Jessica Tandy, the original Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. He told her that when he was a little, effeminate, southern gay and he knew he was going to be bullied, he could see it coming. To offset that, he would tell stories, and he knew that if he kept going with his story, he could keep the bullies at bay. He said that Blanche is like that. She’s on the planks and there are sharks underneath and the only thing keeping her alive is to stay on the planks.

I get goosebumps thinking of that because it’s everybody that’s ever lived. That’s the humanity the whole situation, the outsider looking in and feeling alone and desperate to fit in. Oh! it’s just amazing!

I’ve just scratched the surface because things come to you while you’re doing the run. It’s just so thrilling. That’s the excitement of live theater. It’s not just one and done. It evolves, lives and breathes.

Also, on a simpler level, even when we were just hunters and gatherers gathered around a campfire, somebody would tell a good story and it would enrapture us. It calls to something that’s deeper and common to all of us.

MD: What are the things that you like about stage acting that you can’t get from television and vice versa?

CL: I will tell you, there are some of the most amazing actors in the world, as you can tell just from where people started out. To Marisa Tomei, who was pretty damn good even years ago when I met and worked with her. So was Julianne Moore. Good acting is good acting wherever you find it. And it’s rare that I think people know or assume that, even in the entertainment business.

I remember Juliet Mills who was on Passions, and she played a witch who threw spells. She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy because she became it, she didn’t comment on it. In her core, she owned all the preposterous things that became normal, which is the heart of acting. It’s only believable until you yourself, believe it with every fiber of your being and then everybody else will suspend reality. It doesn’t matter if you’re dealing with Tennessee Williams or witches. If you’re doing it, you want it to be real and good.

Letting go of everything in theater is different from film. You can be insulated in a taping studio, and you get your private time and you can prep. When you dive into a live stage theater experience, you just go on instinct until all of a sudden there’s a curtain and you wonder why people are applauding. Because it’s done and hopefully, you’ve lost yourself that way.

The best example of acting is to just take off the parachute and fall. Holding on is the problem. Resisting change because it’s terrifying and not accepting it is the problem. That’s where you make the mistake. It’s not a holding on, it’s a letting go of it all.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof currently runs Off Broadway at St. Clements Church (423 W. 46th Street between 9th/10th) through Aug. 14th, For tickets and information, click here.

‘A Man In Full’: William Jackson Harper, Tom Pelphrey & Aml Ameen Among 6 Cast In Netflix Series

In A Man in Full, when Atlanta real estate mogul Charlie Croker (Daniels) faces sudden bankruptcy, political and business interests collide as he defends his empire from those attempting to capitalize on his fall from grace.

Harper plays Wes Jordan, the incumbent mayor of Atlanta who’s up for re-election. Wes will do whatever it takes to ensure victory over his opponent, who is quickly gaining in the polls.

Pelphrey plays Raymond Peepgrass. Subordinated, libidinous and frustrated, he is an oppressed and lowly loan officer on the verge of personal and professional chaos. He wants respect, but he’ll settle for sex, vengeance and some money.

Ameen plays Roger White, an attorney for Croker Industries. Kind and driven by a deep sense of morality, Roger quickly finds himself entangled in Charlie’s mess.

Jones plays Serena Croker, Charlie’s second wife. She’s an authentic Southern beauty who is both a voice of reason and a steady hand as Charlie’s world tilts off-axis.

Hill plays Conrad Hensley, a humble, hardworking employee of Croker Industries who faces a life-altering decision after a series of unfortunate events.

Adams plays Jill Hensley, Charlie’s beloved executive assistant. Married to Conrad Hensley, the couple is expecting their first child when their personal life suddenly turns.

Kelley serves as writer, executive producer and showrunner, with King directing three episodes and exec producing as part of her first-look deal with Netflix via her Royal Ties production company. Matthew Tinker also executive produces.

Harper, an Emmy nominee for his role on NBC’s The Good Place, can be seen opposite Cristin Milioti in the Peacock series The Resort. He is repped by UTA, AC Management and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

Pelphrey is coming off his acclaimed recurring role in Netflix’s Ozark, which earned him an Emmy nomination last month, and he was appeared in David Fincher’s Mank. He’ll next be seen in the Weinstein investigation pic She Said. Pelphrey is repped by Gersh, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Sloane Offer Weber & Dern.

Ameen’s recent TV credits include I May Destroy You and The Porter and on film in Boxing Day. He’ll next be seen in thriller Borderland. Ameen is repped by The Artists Partnership, UTA, Link Entertainment, The Initiative Group and attorney Dave Feldman.

Jones recently starred in Apple TV+’s For All Mankind. Her TV credits also include Damnation and The Path.

Hill is known for his work on the 2018 feature Widows and on television in 61st Street.

Adams appears in Amazon’s series adaptation of A League of Their Own, and she most recently appeared on the big screen in A Journal for Jordan.

Josh Radnor, Annie Parisse & Nuala Cleary To Topline Period Drama ‘Three Birthdays’ From Writer-Director Jane Weinstock

In the indie set in 1970, Radnor and Parisse star as college professor parents to a rebellious 16-year-old played by Cleary. Against the backdrop of the sexual revolution and increasingly violent demonstrations against the war in Vietnam, each member of this nuclear family struggles to reconcile the political with the personal. The film’s producers are Andrea Miller, Chris Collins and James Welling.

Radnor is an actor and filmmaker who currently stars opposite Al Pacino in the Amazon series Hunters, from executive producer Jordan Peele. He is otherwise best known for his leading role as Ted Mosby on the Emmy-winning sitcom How I Met Your Mother, which ran for nine seasons on CBS. Other upcoming projects for Radnor on the acting side include the FX on Hulu miniseries Fleishman Is in Trouble with Jesse Eisenberg and Lizzy Caplan, and the film All Happy Families from writer-director Haroula Rose, which is currently in production.

Parisse is perhaps best known for turns on the TV side in series like Mrs. America, Friends from College, The First, The Looming Tower, Person of Interest, Vinyl and The Following. She’s also appeared in such films as And So It Goes, Anesthesia, Definitely, Maybe, National Treasure and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, among others. Notable credits on stage include Shakespeare in the Park productions of Measure for Measure and All’s Well That Ends Well.

Cleary, with Three Birthdays, makes her feature film debut. The Carnegie Mellon drama program graduate recently wrapped a recurring role in Apple TV+’s limited series The Crowded Room opposite Tom Holland and has also previously been seen on Law & Order: Organized Crime.

Weinstock is a NYC-based writer-director whose psychological thriller The Moment, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alia Shawkat, and Martin Henderson, premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival in 2013. Her directorial debut Easy, starring Marguerite Moreau, Brían F. O’Byrne and Naveen Andrews, was an official selection at the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals. She is also notably a past participant of the Sundance Directors Lab.

Radnor is represented by UTA, Industry Entertainment and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz; Parisse by Gersh and Door 24; Cleary by Buchwald and Framework Entertainment; Batchelor by BRS/Gage and Liberman-Zerman Management; Schlesinger by Take 3 Talent; Birney by CESD and Suskin/Karshan Management; Burnet by United Agents in the UK, Lasher Group, Range Media Partners and Paul Hastings; McNamara by CESD; and Wells by Independent Talent Group in the UK, UTA and Anonymous Content.

‘Spy Kids’: Billy Magnussen Joins Netflix Reboot

This latest Spy Kids chapter is set after the children of the world’s greatest secret agents unwittingly help a powerful game developer unleash a computer virus that gives him control of all technology, leading them to become spies themselves to save their parents and the world.

Franchise creator Robert Rodriguez will write, direct and produce the film; Racer Max will co-write. David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger will produce for Skydance, which will oversee development and production. Elizabeth Avellan and Max will also produce. Spyglass’ Gary Barber and Peter Oillataguerre will executive produce. Nick Nesbit will be Netflix’s creative lead on the film.

Magnussen stars alongside Cristin Milioti and Ray Ramano in the second season of HBO Max’s hit dark comedy series Made for Love, as well as Barry Levinson’s HBO Original post-World War II biopic, The Survivor, which is nominated for an Emmy Award.

Up next, Magnussen will be seen in Netflix’s Lift, starring Kevin Hart, with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Vincent D’Onofrio, Úrsula Corberó, Yun Jee Kim, Viveik Kalra, and Paul Anderson.

He is also executive producing and starring in the ensemble comedy film Reunion.

Last year, Magnussen starred in The Sopranos prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark and the Cary Fukanuga-directed No Time to Die, the 25th installment in the James Bond film franchise. His credits also include Game Night, Aladdin and TV’s Tell Me a Story and Maniac.

Magnussen is repped by Anonymous Content, UTA, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.

Talk Show Appearance

We 7/27: Amanda Seyfried

Julianne Moore To Preside Over Venice Film Festival Jury

She will be joined by Argentine director Mariano Cohn, Italian director Leonardo Di Costanzo, French director and 2021 Golden Lion winner Audrey Diwan, Iranian actress Leila Hatami, Japanese-UK writer Kazuo Ishiguro and Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen.

The jury awards the Golden Lion for Best Film, Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize, Silver Lion for Best Director, Volpi Cups for Best Actress and Best Actor, Special Jury Prize, Award for Best Screenplay and“Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress.

Moore has long ties with Venice having won its Volpi Cup Best Actress Award for her performance in Far From Heaven in 2002 and the Franca Sozzani Award for Suburbicon in 2017.

Cohn was at Venice last year with Official Competition, starring Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez, which he co-directed with Gastón Duprat

Italy’s Di Costanzo presented his debut feature The Interval in Venice’s Horizons sidebar in 2012 and his The Inner Cage debuted Out of Competition in Venice in 2021.

Diwan won Venice’s Golden Lion in 2021 for the abortion drama The Happening.

Hatami, who has never had a film in Venice, is best known internationally for her role in Asghar Farhadi’s Silver Bear-winning drama A Separation.

Ishiguro is best known in the film world for the award-winning adaptations of his novels The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.

Sorogoyen’s recent credits include The Candidate, which won seven Goya awards in 2019, and Mother, which world premiered in Venice’s Horizons sidebar that same year, winning Marta Nieto best actress.

2022 Emmy Nominations: Soap Alums

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel • Prime Video • Amazon Studios
Rachel Brosnahan as Miriam ‘Midge’ Maisel

Abbott Elementary • ABC • Delicious Non-Sequitur Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television and 20th Television
Quinta Brunson as Janine Teagues

The Flight Attendant • HBO/HBO Max • HBO Max in association with Berlanti Productions, Yes, Norman Productions, and Warner Bros. Television
Kaley Cuoco as Cassie Bowden

The Great • Hulu • Hulu, Civic Center Media, MRC
Elle Fanning as Catherine The Great

Insecure • HBO/HBO Max • HBO in association with Hoorae, A Penny For Your Thoughts Entertainment and 3 Arts Entertainment
Issa Rae as Issa

Hacks • HBO/HBO Max • Universal Television in association with Paulilu, First Thought Productions, Fremulon Productions, 3 Arts Entertainment
Jean Smart as Deborah Vance

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie

The Staircase • HBO/HBO Max • A HBO Max and Annapurna Television co-production in association with EMI Pop and What’s Up Films
Toni Collette as Kathleen

Inventing Anna • Netflix • A Netflix Series in association with shondalandmedia
Julia Garner as Anna Delvey

Pam & Tommy • Hulu • Hulu, Annapurna Television, Point Grey Pictures
Lily James as Pamela Anderson

Impeachment: American Crime Story • FX • 20th Television and FX Productions
Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp

Maid • Netflix • John Wells Productions, LuckyChap Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television for Netflix
Margaret Qualley as Alex

The Dropout • Hulu • Searchlight Television, 20th Television
Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie

The White Lotus • HBO/HBO Max • HBO in association with Rip Cord, The District and Hallogram Inc.
Murray Bartlett as Armond

The White Lotus • HBO/HBO Max • HBO in association with Rip Cord, The District and Hallogram Inc.
Jake Lacy as Shane Patton

Dopesick • Hulu • 20th Television, Danny Strong Productions, John Goldwyn Productions, The Littlefield Company
Will Poulter as Billy Cutler

Pam & Tommy • Hulu • Hulu, Annapurna Television, Point Grey Pictures
Seth Rogen as Rand Gauthier

Dopesick • Hulu • 20th Television, Danny Strong Productions, John Goldwyn Productions, The Littlefield Company
Peter Sarsgaard as Rick Mountcastle

Dopesick • Hulu • 20th Television, Danny Strong Productions, John Goldwyn Productions, The Littlefield Company
Michael Stuhlbarg as Richard Sackler

The White Lotus • HBO/HBO Max • HBO in association with Rip Cord, The District and Hallogram Inc.
Steve Zahn as Mark Mossbacher

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series

Succession • Lion In The Meadow • HBO/HBO Max
HBO in association with Project Zeus, HyperObject Industries, Gary Sanchez Productions
Adrien Brody as Josh Aaronson

Succession • Retired Janitors Of Idaho • HBO/HBO Max
HBO in association with Project Zeus, HyperObject Industries, Gary Sanchez Productions
James Cromwell as Ewan Roy

Euphoria • Ruminations: Big And Little Bullys • HBO/HBO Max
HBO in association with ADD Content Agency | HOT | TCDY Productions, Dreamcrew, Tiny Goat, A24 and The Reasonable Bunch
Colman Domingo as Ali

Succession • Retired Janitors Of Idaho • HBO/HBO Max
HBO in association with Project Zeus, HyperObject Industries, Gary Sanchez Productions
Arian Moayed as Stewy Hosseini

Ozark • You’re The Boss • Netflix
MRC for Netflix
Tom Pelphrey as Ben Davis

Succession • All The Bells Say • HBO/HBO Max
HBO in association with Project Zeus, HyperObject Industries, Gary Sanchez Productions
Alexander Skarsgård as Lukas Matsson

Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance

Moon Knight • The Friendly Type • Disney+
Marvel Studios
F. Murray Abraham as Khonshu

Bridgerton • Capital R Rake • Netflix
A Netflix Original Series in association with shondalandmedia
Julie Andrews as Lady Whistledown

What If…? • What If… T’Challa Became A Star-Lord? • Disney+
Marvel Studios
Chadwick Boseman as Star Lord T’Challa

Big Mouth • A Very Big Mouth Christmas • Netflix
Netflix
Maya Rudolph as Connie The Hormone Monstress

Central Park • Central Dark • Apple TV+
20th Television Animation
Stanley Tucci as Bitsy

Archer • London Time • FX
FX Productions
Jessica Walter as Malory Archer

What If…? • What If… Ultron Won? • Disney+
Marvel Studios
Jeffrey Wright as The Watcher

Queen Sugar Final-Season Castings Include Kaci Walfall, Lamman Rucker and Greg Vaughan returns

The OWN family drama’s end point was announced back in November, when it was renewed for a seventh and final season. “To everything, there is a season,” series creator DuVernay said at the time in a statement. “And my producing partner Paul Garnes and I have had seven gorgeous seasons making Queen Sugar with a remarkable cast and crew, alongside our partners at OWN and Warner Bros. Television.”

Interestingly, details are not yet available for Walfall’s role nor the character being played by Greenleaf vet Lamman Rucker, another of Season 7’s guest stars. Hmm. Perhaps aged-up versions of current characters, for a series-ending flash-forward? (I’m just spitballing here!)

The press release announcing the start of production on Queen Sugar‘s swan song noted that the returning guest stars include Emmy winner Glynn Turman as Ernest, the Bordelon siblings’ late father; Sharon Lawrence as Lorna, Charley Bordelon’s mother; Greg Vaughan as Nova’s former partner, Calvin; Amirah Vann as family nemesis Parker Campbell; and Brian Michael Smith as Ralph Angel’s high school friend/police officer Toine.

Additionally, Tracie Thoms (9-1-1) will guest-star as Nova’s long-lost high-school love.

Returning recurring cast members, meanwhile, include Reagan Gomez as Nova’s former lover Chantal; Ann Nesby as Sandy, the at-home nurse who catches Prosper Denton’s eye; Tanyell Waivers as Micah’s ex-girlfriend Keke; McKinley Freeman as Nova’s anthropologist beau Dominic; and Vivien Ngô as Ralph Angel’s ex-girlfriend Trinh.

The final season — following through on DuVernay’s commitment to exclusively hire women as directors — welcomes the return of seven directors from previous seasons, including Kat Candler, Stacey Muhammad, showrunner Shaz Bennett, Patricia Cardoso, Aurora Guerrero, DeMane Davis and DuVernay herself. In fact, DuVernay, who directed the series pilot, will direct the final episode.

Hollywood Critics Association TV award nominations

Best Supporting Actor in a Broadcast Network or Cable Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Movie

Dan Stevens, Gaslit (Starz)
Josh Charles, We Own This City (HBO)
Josh Duhamel, The Thing About Pam (NBC)
Murray Bartlett, The White Lotus (HBO)
Steve Buscemi, Miracle Workers: Oregon Trail (TBS)
Steve Zahn, The White Lotus (HBO)

Best Supporting Actor in a Broadcast Network or Cable Series, Drama

Eric Dane, Euphoria (HBO)
Giancarlo Esposito, Better Call Saul (AMC)
Jonathan Banks, Better Call Saul (AMC)
Jon Huertas, This is Us (NBC)
Justin Hartley, This is Us (NBC)
Kieran Culkin, Succession (HBO)
Matthew Macfadyen, Succession (HBO)
Michael Mando, Better Call Saul (AMC)

Best Actress in a Streaming Series, Drama

Britt Lower, Severance (Apple TV+)
Jennifer Aniston, The Morning Show (Apple TV+)
Laura Linney, Ozark (Netflix)
Ming-Na Wen, The Book of Boba Fett (Disney+)
Reese Witherspoon, The Morning Show (Apple TV+)
Simone Ashley, Bridgerton (Netflix)
Victoria Pedretti, You (Netflix)
Winona Ryder, Stranger Things (Netflix)

Best Actress in a Streaming Series, Comedy

Elle Fanning, The Great (Hulu)
Hailee Steinfeld, Hawkeye (Disney+)
Jean Smart, Hacks (HBO Max)
Kaley Cuoco, The Flight Attendant (HBO Max)
Kat Dennings, Dollface (Hulu)
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Prime Video)
Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
Tiffany Haddish, The Afterparty (Apple TV+)

Best Actress in a Streaming Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

Amanda Seyfried, The Dropout (Hulu)
Anne Hathaway, WeCrashed (Apple TV+)
Daisy Edgar-Jones, Fresh (Hulu)
Elle Fanning, The Girl from Plainville (Hulu)
Jessica Biel, Candy (Hulu)
Lily James, Pam & Tommy (Hulu)
Margaret Qualley, Maid (Netflix)
Toni Collette, The Staircase (HBO Max).

Dynasty's John James - The Interview

John’s career began with his role Tom Bergman on Search for Tomorrow in the 1970’s. In addition to his role on Search, John appeared as Jeff Martin on All My Children and Dr. Rick Decker on As the World Turns.

NBC Sets ‘Ukraine: Answering The Call’ Fundraising Special With Kristen Bell, Alicia Keys, Julianne Moore, More

The special, said to be an answer to the call from President Volodymyr Zelensky who has challenged Americans to use their voices to reach those who want peace, will air Sunday, July 3 at 7 pm ET/PT on NBC.

Ukraine: Answering The Call will feature appearances by José Andrés, Jon Batiste, Kristen Bell, Brandi Carlile, Brian Cox, Jeff Daniels, Vera Farmiga, Lena Headey, Alicia Keys, Simu Liu, Julianne Moore, Brad Paisley, Rosie Perez, among others. Broadway stars also appearing include Rachel Bay Jones, Brenda Braxton, Liz Callaway, Lilla Crawford, Juwan Crawley, José Llana, Beth Malone, Andrea McArdle, Bonnie Milligan, Orfeh, Krysta Rodriguez, Seth Rudetsky, James Wesley and NaTasha Yvette Williams will come together for a special rendition of “What the World Needs Now is Love.”

Zelensky will address Americans during the special and audiences will also hear remarks from Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian Head of the Presidential Administration. NBC News will share reports on the stories of those who are impacted by the crisis.

During the broadcast, viewers will be able to call in to donate to the International Rescue Committee (IRC), an organization that helps people affected by humanitarian crises. Additionally, viewers will have the opportunity to contribute to relief efforts via fan engagement platform Buzznog.

Ukraine: Answering the Call is produced by Done+Dusted. David Jammy, Elizabeth Kelly, Ian Stewart, Nicolle Wallace and David Wild serve as executive producers.

‘Tulsa King’: Dana Delany Joins Taylor Sheridan Series That Stars Sylvester Stallone

Delany will play Margaret, an affluent and influential equestrian and owner of a sprawling horse farm and animal preserve. She is a formidable presence and a trustee of the Annie Oakley Society.

Tulsa King follows New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi (Stallone), after he is released from prison after 25 years and is unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Okla. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a crew from a group of unlikely characters to help him establish a new criminal empire in a place that to him might as well be another planet.

The series also stars Andrea Savage, Martin Starr, Max Casella, Domenick Lombardozzi, Vincent Piazza, Jay Will, A.C. Peterson and Garrett Hedlund.

Delany won a pair of Lead Actress Emmys and earned two other nominations for China Beach and more recently starred in The Code, The Comedians and Hand of God.

Taylor Sheridan serves as executive producer Terence Winter (The Sopranos), who also will be at the helm as showrunner and writer. Produced by MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios, Tulsa King will premiere with two episodes on Sunday, November 13, on Paramount+, behind the Season 5 premiere of Yellowstone.

Julianne Moore & Oscar Isaac To Lead Spotify Scripted Podcast ‘Case 63’

The pair are leading Case 63, an English-language adaptation of Spotify’s Chilean podcast. The move marks the first time that a podcast series from a non-English speaking market has been adapted into multiple languages.

The series, which launches later this year, follows psychiatrist Eliza Knight (Moore), who records the sessions of an enigmatic patient, registered as Case 63 (Isaac), who claims to be a time traveler. What begins as routine therapeutic sessions, quickly turns into a story that threatens the boundaries of the possible and the real.

Moore and Issac will also exec produce the podcast, which comes from Spotify’s Gimlet, Moore’s production company FortySix and Isaac’s Mad Gene Media. Mimi O’Donnell, who has produced podcasts including Sandra and The Horror of Dolores Roach, exec produces and directs. Katie Pastore produces.

The series was created and originally by Julio Rojas. It became Spotify’s most listened to podcast in Latin America.

Star Wars star Isaac is coming off the back of Marvel’s Moon Knight, while Moore recently starred in A24’s When You Finish Saving The World and next will be in Sharper alongside Sebastian Stan and John Lithgow.

TCA Award Nominees

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA
Lee Jung-jae, “Squid Game” – Netflix
Michael Keaton, “Dopesick” – Hulu
Melanie Lynskey, “Yellowjackets” – Showtime
Mandy Moore, “This Is Us” – NBC
Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul” – AMC
Margaret Qualley, “Maid” – Netflix
Adam Scott, “Severance” – Apple TV+
Rhea Seehorn, “Better Call Saul” – AMC
Amanda Seyfried, “The Dropout” – Hulu
Jeremy Strong, “Succession” – HBO

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY
Pamela Adlon, “Better Things” – FX
Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary” – ABC
Bridget Everett, “Somebody Somewhere” – HBO
Bill Hader, “Barry” – HBO
Janelle James, “Abbott Elementary” – ABC
Steve Martin, “Only Murders in the Building” – Hulu
Jean Smart, “Hacks” – HBO Max (2021 Winner in Category)
Jason Sudeikis – “Ted Lasso” – Apple TV+

PRESENTERS ANNOUNCED FOR THE 49TH ANNUAL DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS

The talented stars scheduled to present at the ceremony include Krista Allen, Camila Banus, Drew Barrymore, Tracey Bregman, Sean Dominic, Scott Evans, Galen Gering, Deidre Hall, Tamron Hall, Tanisha Harper, Christian Le Blanc, Cameron Mathison, Natalie Morales, Deborah Norville, Tanner Novlan, Jerry O’Connell, James Reynolds, Suzanne Rogers, Lawrence Saint-Victor and Laura Wright.

Made for Love Cancelled at HBO Max

“We are tremendously grateful for the truly spectacular journey of these past two seasons, courtesy of Alissa Nutting, Christina Lee, Cristin [Milioti], Billy [Magnussen], Ray [Romano] and the entire Made for Love cast and creative team — especially Zelda the talking dolphin and everyone’s favorite synthetic love interest, Diane,” HBO Max said in a statement to our sister site Variety. “Like a Gogol chip, the series will always be on our minds.”

In the Season 2 finale, Hazel reclaimed her body from the copy of her consciousness that was created and saved by Gogol. Thanks to a little help from Fiffany and Herringbone, Hazel took over as leader of the Hub, when the real Gogol head Byron found himself trapped inside his body and under the control of his duplicate. Meanwhile, Herbert seemingly succumbed to his illness, though a copy of his consciousness (along with his body) remained inside the company’s confines.

‘The Integrity Of Joseph Chambers’ Teaser: Clayne Crawford, Jordana Brewster, Michael Raymond-James & Jeffrey Dean Morgan Lead Tribeca Drama

The film centers on Joseph Chambers (Clayne Crawford), an insurance salesman desperate to acquire the skills necessary to provide for his family in case of an apocalypse, who goes deer hunting for the first time ever, alone, when his experienced buddy is too sick to join him. Crawford produced it, with Jordana Brewster (Fast & Furious franchise), Michael Raymond-James (True Blood) and Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead) rounding out the cast. Bo Clancey, Kris and Sarah Towns, and Nancie and Sammy Plaia served as executive producers.

Crawford tells Deadline that The Integrity of Joseph Chambers was shot entirely in his small Alabama town over the course of 19 days in 2020, by pulling on all of the resources available to him within his community. His in-laws and cousins offered up their homes as locations, with his parents’ vehicles serving as picture cars, and the restaurant that he owns with his wife preparing all meals for cast and crew. A pilot friend flew Morgan into town on a borrowed Jet at the height of Covid, with Crawford’s youngest son Hix (who plays his son in the film) helping to build sets. “I have so many stories of this amazing communal effort that could not have been possible without everyone involved,” says the actor-producer. “Filmmaking is always a gift but the opportunity to tell stories with the people I love, my family, friends and community, that made this experience truly special. Now having a platform like The Tribeca Film Festival to share our labor of love, that is beyond incredible.”

Watch the film’s teaser by clicking above.

Charles Siebert Dies: ‘Trapper John, M.D.’ Actor Was 84

His death was confirmed in a statement on the website of the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, California, where Siebert appeared frequently.

Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Siebert made his Broadway debut in a 1967 production of Brecht’s Galileo and would return to the Broadway stage five more times through the following decade. He began his TV career in the late 1960s on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow. By the mid-1970s he had appeared in such series as Hawk, N.Y.P.D., Another World, The Adams Chronicles, Kojak, Police Woman and The Rockford Files.

In 1977 he recurred on the Norman Lear soap parody Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, later guesting on other Lear series including All in the Family, Good Times, Maude and One Day at a Time.

In 1979 he landed what would become his signature role in the M*A*S*H spinoff Trapper John, M.D., playing opposite stars Pernell Roberts (in the title role) and Gregory Harrison. Siebert’s character served as the persnickety, stuffy but talented foil to the more laid-back doctors played by Roberts and Harrison, following in the M*A*S*H tradition of Larry Linville’s Dr. Frank Burns and David Ogden Stiers’ Dr. Charles Emerson Winchester III.

The show was a hit in its 10 p.m. Sunday slot, where it aired for the first six-plus seasons, consistently ranking in the full-season Top 20 in the three-network universe. Siebert remained with the series throughout its entire 1979-86 run.

He would return to television throughout the 1980s and ’90s, appearing in The Love Boat, The New Mike Hammer, Hotel, Mancuso FBI, Murder, She Wrote and Xena: Warrior Princess.

During his tenure on Trapper John, M.D., Siebert began a directing career that would include seven episodes of that series and, later, episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Silk Stalkings, Pacific Blue, Knots Landing, The Pretender and others.

On the big screen, Siebert appeared in, among others, The Other Side of Midnight (1977), Coma (1978), All Night Long (1981), and White Water Summer (1987). In 1979, he played an assistant district attorney in Norman Jewison’s legal satire … And Justice for All, starring Al Pacino.

On Broadway, Siebert appeared in 1968’s Jimmy Shine opposite Dustin Hoffman; David Rabe’s Sticks and Bones (1972); The Changing Room (1973); and the 1974 revival of Tennessee Williams‘ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof starring Elizabeth Ashley, Fred Gwynne and Keir Dullea.

Siebert would return to the stage throughout his career, often at the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, California, where he played Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, the artist Mark Rothko in the play Red, Big Daddy in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman.

In the tribute posted on the theater’s website by artistic director Jared Sakren and former artistic director Craig A. Miller, Siebert was remembered as “generous to his castmates,” with “an engaging sense of humor, a wealth of experience and pure, unadulterated talent capable of delivering towering, unforgettable performances.”

“Anyone who had the honor and pleasure of sharing the stage with him knows that simply watching him work was a Masterclass in itself: pure heart, fiery passion, terrifying truth, and fearlessness – all on display, every moment he was out there,” the statement continues. “He was not only a consummate artist, he was a mentor to those who worked with him.”

Siebert is survived by wife Kristine Leroux Siebert, daughter Gillian Bozanic, son Christopher, stepdaughter Kristina Harvey, stepsons Max Leroux and Jeremy Leroux, and other extended family. He was predeceased by his first wife, Catherine, and son Charlie Jr., a popular Bay Area musician who died in 2020.

SYTYCD's Matthew Morrison Reveals Text Message That Got Him Fired

In an Instagram video posted Thursday night, Morrison appears to obliquely address a recent People article in which an unnamed source claimed Morrison was let go from the Fox series for sending “flirty direct messages” to a female competitor. After calling the allegations “blatantly untrue,” Morrison reads aloud “the one message” he says he sent to a contestant.

“‘Hey, it’s Matthew. If you don’t mind, would love to get your number and talk you through some things.’ The end,” Morrison recites. “I sent this because this dancer and I both share a mutual respect for a choreographer that I’ve known for over 20 years, and I was trying to help her get a job as a choreographer on the show.

“It’s devastating that we live in this world where gossip rules and people’s lives are being thrown around as clickbait,” he continues. “I think this is much bigger than me and this story. Gossip is toxic and it is destroying our society, and we need to do better.”

Morrison confirmed his exit from the dancing competition on May 27, just a week after making his debut as a judge in the Season 17 premiere. Morrison said in a statement at the time: “I did not follow competition production protocols, preventing me from being able to judge the competition fairly.”

Morrison was part of an all-new SYTYCD judging panel alongside former contestant Stephen “tWitch” Boss and JoJo Siwa for Season 17, the show’s first season in three years. Since the season’s early episodes are all pre-taped, Morrison will continue to appear through mid-June. A replacement for him on the judging panel is still in the works.

“I cannot apologize enough to all involved,” Morrison said in his statement last week, “and I will be watching alongside you all on what I know will be one of the best seasons yet.”

‘Animal Kingdom’ Final Season Trailer Sees The Return Of Two Familiar Faces With The Cody Boys Under Fire

In the final season, the Cody boys discover that as hard as they may try, they can’t outrun their past. “May we all get what we want and never what we deserve,” is a line voiced by one of the brothers in the clip.

The trailer gives us a glimpse of things to come and a couple familiar faces who make a return. One is Deran’s father, Billy, played by Denis Leary, and, presumably in a flashback, Grey’s Anatomy‘s Scott Speedman as the late Baz. Speedman was last seen in Season 3’s season premiere. We also see Moran Atias’ Detective Thompson’s intense efforts to get Pope to confess to Catherine’s murder.

Per the official Season 6 logline: “With their empire expanding, a cold case investigation sets off a series of events that puts the entire family in jeopardy. Revenge, betrayal, and a reckoning with long forgotten violence leads to an explosive conclusion six seasons in the making.”

Original cast members Shawn Hatosy, Finn Cole, Ben Robson and Jake Weary are all back for the final season.

Animal Kingdom is produced by John Wells Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. John Wells, Daniele Nathanson, Erin Jontow, Nick Copus and Bradley Paul serve as executive producers. Animal Kingdom was developed for television by Jonathan Lisco and inspired by the Australian feature film written & directed by David Michôd and produced by Liz Watts, who also serve as executive producers on the series.

Season 6 premieres Sunday, June 19 with back-to-back episodes beginning at 9 pm ET/PT.

Watch the trailer above.

Matthew Morrison Out As Judge On Fox’s ‘So You Think You Can Dance’

“Having the opportunity to be a judge on So You Think You Can Dance was an incredible honor for me. Therefore, it is my deepest regret to inform you that I will be leaving the show,” Morrison said in a statement provided to Deadline. “After filming the audition rounds for the show and completing the selection of the 12 finalists, I did not follow competition production protocols, preventing me from being able to judge the competition fairly. I cannot apologize enough to all involved and I will be watching alongside you all on what I know will be one of the best seasons yet.” Sources tell Deadline a new judge, who will join Siwa and Stephen “tWitch’” Boss on the panel, will be announced soon for the next round of competition episodes that will begin on June 15. Morrison appears in a total of four episodes that have been pre-taped.

Cat Deeley serves as host of the long-running series that features skilled dancers ages 18-30, showcasing their talents in various dance styles, including contemporary, tap, hip-hop, ballroom, animation and breaking.

The series is produced by Industrial Media’s 19 Entertainment and MRC. Rosie Seitchik serves as showrunner and will exec produce alongside co-creator Lythgoe, Jeff Thacker, Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman.

Us Weekly was first to report Morrison’s exit.

PBS’ National Memorial Day Concert Returns With Tributes To Colin Powell, Gold Star Families

The 90-minute broadcast once again will be hosted by Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise and will once again feature a lineup of musical performances along with tribute segments. It will air on PBS and stream on YouTube starting at 8 PM ET.

Dennis Haysbert will be featured in the tribute to Powell, who had regularly spoken at previous concerts. Powell, the former Secretary of State and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, died last year.

Gil Birmingham will appear in Generations of Service, a tribute to the 58,000 lives lost in the Vietnam war and those who served during that era. Among the stories to be featured is that of Francis Whitebird, who served two tours in Vietnam and received a Purple Heart. Whitebird’s Lakota family has generations of military service, including an uncle who fought in World War I, his father who was a Lakota code talker in World War Ii and two sons who served in the Iraq war.

Jean Smart and Mantegna will honor Gold Star families, with the story of Ret. Maj. General Mark Graham and his wife Carol, who lost two of their sons in the span of eight months. Second Lt. Jeff Graham was killed in Iraq by an IED blast and Senior ROTC Cadet Kevin Graham lost his battle with depression.

In addition, Mary McCormack will appear in a segment honoring women in World War II, and Sinise will be featured in a tribute to Medal of Honor recipients. Sinise also will appear in a segment to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln Memorial, which was dedicated a century ago this month.

The concert will return to its live format, having relied on taped performances in the past two years because of the Covid pandemic.

The concert also will feature performances by Lea Salonga, Norm Lewis, Craig Morgan, Rhiannon Giddens, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Pia Toscano and the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Jack Everly. Also appearing will be members from The U.S. Army Herald Trumpets, The U.S. Army Chorus, The Soldiers’ Chorus of the U.S. Army Field Band, The U.S. Navy Band Sea Chanters, The U.S. Air Force Singing Sergeants, the Armed Forces Color Guard and Service Color Teams provided by the Military District of Washington, D.C. The program is a co-production of Michael Colbert of Capital Concerts and WETA-TV in Washington, D.C.

Julianne Moore & Sandra Oh Set For Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Stone Mattress’

The blue-chip revenge thriller, set on a cruise ship in the Arctic, is aiming to shoot in September on location in Greenland and Iceland.

Amazon is already in place for domestic. Producers are Oscar winner John Lesher (Birdman) and Oscar nominee JoAnne Sellar (There Will Be Blood). Studiocanal and Film4 are in final negotiations to join with the former launching sales on the Riviera.

Moore will play Verna, a 60-year-old retired physiotherapist and twice a widow, who embarks on a luxurious cruise into the magnificent and silently thawing Arctic Northwest Passage, populated by a crowd of privileged influencers and wealthy retirees. On the ship, Verna meets the friendly and charming Grace (Oh), and the seemingly ordinary Bob (casting in process), an unaccompanied man in his mid-sixties who inherited a family business. Although he doesn’t have a fraction of Verna’s elegance and wit, Bob tries to seduce her. But he might not be the foolish yet harmless man he initially appears to be, and his presence troubles Verna. As wounds and humiliations from her past resurface, the smooth atmosphere of the cruise will be disturbed by a shocking act.

Ramsay said of the movie: “With the current repeal in women’s rights across the world, particularly regarding the overturning of Roe v Wade in America, this story, with its themes of stolen motherhood and unaccounted sexual abuse, feels more important than ever.”

Script comes from Ramsay and Tom Townend. Dylan Weathered (The Pale Blue Eye) and Daniel Lupi (West Side Story) are exec producers. Studiocanal will hold onto its territories of France, UK, Germany and Aus/NZ.

Ramsay expanded: “I first read Margaret Atwood when I was a teenager, and her work has gripped me ever since. She is simply one of the most intelligent, prophetic and engaging writers around and Stone Mattress is another perfect illustration of that. I was immediately gripped by the way it framed the deeply buried trauma of a post-menopausal woman – an age group we hear from all too rarely – through the dynamic and multifaceted character of Verna.”

She continued: “From its tongue-in-cheek humor to its moments of icy vengeance and delicate portrayal of an emotional repression specific to the boomer generation, it is a story I’ve wanted to materialize on-screen since my first reading. With the current repeal in women’s rights across the world, particularly regarding the overturning of Roe v Wade in America, this story, with its themes of stolen motherhood and unaccounted sexual abuse, feels more important than ever. The opportunity to shoot in the Arctic, on the frontline of the most urgent threat to our world and on the verge of irredeemable transformation, will lend the story another layer of devastation. Just like the icecaps that melt to reveal ancient histories, Stone Mattress sees years of Verna’s pain and fury thaw before our eyes to expose the raw emotion underneath.”

Ramsay is repped by WME and Josh Varney at 42. Moore is represented by WME and Entertainment 360. Oh is repped by UTA and Principal Entertainment.

Marnie Schulenburg, Actress on ‘As the World Turns’ and ‘One Life to Live,’ Dies at 37

Schulenburg died Tuesday in Bloomfield, New Jersey, her rep Kyle Luker at Industry Entertainment told The Hollywood Reporter.

Survivors include her husband, Succession and Sorry for Your Loss actor Zack Robidas — they married in September 2013 — and their daughter, Coda, 2. She was diagnosed five months after Coda’s birth in December 2019.

Schulenburg made her daytime debut as Alison Stewart on CBS’ The Young and the Restless in 2007 after the character was re-introduced in the online production “Digital Daytime: L.A. Diaries,” which also starred Adrienne Frantz (Amber Moore on Y&R).

Schulenburg played Alison Stewart on As the World Turns through the show’s cancellation in 2010 — she received a Daytime Emmy nomination that year — then joined One Life to Live as Jo Sullivan when the ABC stalwart returned as a web series on Hulu and iTunes in 2013.

The daughter of a concert trombonist, Schulenburg was born on May 21, 1984, in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She attended Barnstable High School in Massachusetts and DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, graduating with a degree in theater in 2006.

A onetime gymnast, she appeared in plays for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and for the Dramatists Guild of America in New York City before landing on television.

Schulenburg also guest-starred on such primetime shows as Blue Bloods, Fringe, Elementary, Royal Pains and The Good Fight and will recur next season as Maggie Caysen on the Showtime drama City on a Hill.

She was released from the hospital on Mother’s Day to spend time with her husband and daughter, the website SheKnows Soaps reported.

“I know that me being here for [Coda] is the best gift I can give her,” she wrote recently, “but right now, it feels like settling since she’s getting a half-life version of myself. My mother showed up 100 percent all day every day for me growing up, or at least it seemed that way. I want to give Coda the same, but I must be kind to myself and remember that nothing is permanent.”

‘Fantasy Island’ & ‘Lego Masters’ Move From Summer To In-Season At Fox; Will Arnett-Hosted Series Gets Celebrity Special

The low-cost drama and the Will Arnett-hosted unscripted series were previously set to launch on May 31. However, this morning with the reveal of Fox’s latest slate, the two shows are being pushed to later in the season.

“There’s some great moments where you start to see what you’ve got in the can and they came in so good,” Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier said, speaking on its pre-upfront call. “We’re so blessed to have such a hefty returning slate and great choices to make.”

Michael Thorn, President of Entertainment at Fox, added, “Fantasy Island is really a stand out for us and we’ve lined up some incredible guest stars for this season. It’s really fun and escapist and we can’t wait to have that back on our air.”

Separately, Lego Masters is getting its own celebrity spinoff – Celebrity Lego Masters: Holiday Bricktacular is being launched as a “multiple-night event” on the network.

The move is more surprising for Fantasy Island.

The series, which was created by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain and comes from Sony Pictures Television, Gemstone Studios and Fox Entertainment, launched its first season in August 2021 and was seen as a low cost opportunity for scripted in the summer.

The reboot of the classic series, which ran between 1977 and 1984, was renewed in November following strong ratings.

It stars Roselyn Sanchez and Kiara Barnes and takes place at a luxury resort, where literally any fantasy requested by guests is fulfilled, although they rarely turn out as expected. Delving into the “what if” questions — both big and small — that keep us awake at night, each episode will tell emotional, provocative stories about people who arrive with dreams and desires.

Sanchez plays Elena Roarke, a descendant of the iconic Mr. Roarke, who set aside her own ambitions, and the love of her life, to uphold her family’s legacy. Barnes plays Ruby Akuda, a young woman with an old soul who arrived on Fantasy Island with a terminal illness and was given a new lease on life as Roarke’s right hand.

The series also aired a two-hour holiday special – Welcome to the Snow Globe – in December.

In season two, the transformations continue when two former high school losers come to the Island hoping to make their onetime classmates envious of their new lives. Also, three friends attempt to find out what happened to a fourth companion, who mysteriously vanished decades ago; and an empty-nester couple arrives to determine whether or not to divorce.

Last year, Fox Entertainment President Michael Thorn told Deadline Fantasy Island was its “first real, recent attempt at a cost effective” drama series and said the network was “really high on it”.

The move of Lego Masters, which was renewed for a third season in December, is slightly less surprising given that the Arnett-hosted series has moved around the schedule. The first season aired in February 2020 and the second season premiered in June 2021.

The show sees pairs of Lego enthusiasts facing off in brick-building challenges.

Based on the hit British reality-competition series of the same name, Lego Masters is produced by Endemol Shine North America, Tuesday’s Child and Brad Pitt’s Plan B.

The network said that the second season was summer 2021’s joint number entertainment series among teens and was the number one most co-viewed broadcast unscripted series of the summer, averaging 4.2M total multiplatform viewers.

Executive producers include Arnett, Pip Wells, Endemol Shine North America’s Sharon Levy, DJ Nurre and Michael Heyerman, Tuesday’s Child’s Karen Smith and Steph Harris, Plan B’s Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner and Jill Wilfert and Robert May from the Lego Group.

Fox has a number of other non-scripted series that are still planned for the summer including the return of So You Think You Can Dance, which launches May 18, Don’t Forget The Lyrics! and Beat Shazam on May 23, and MasterChef on May 25.

Bruce MacVittie Dies: ‘The Sopranos’, ‘Law & Order’, ‘American Buffalo’ Actor Was 65

His death was announced by his wife, Carol Ochs, to The New York Times. A cause has not been determined.

MacVittie, a co-founder of the celebrated Off Broadway company Naked Angels, made his Broadway debut in 1983 under trying circumstances: He replaced actor James Hayden in the role of Bobby less than a month into the play’s run, when the up-and-coming Hayden died of a drug overdose. MacVittie would continue in the role on Broadway, in a touring production and on London’s West End.

Acclaimed for his performance in the play (a role Darren Criss plays in the current Broadway staging), MacVittie would go on to be a staple of New York’s Off Broadway scene, including prominent roles in productions at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Naked Angels, the Public Theater, Playwright’s Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature Theatre and the Cherry Lane.

Beginning his TV career with an appearance in 1981 on Barney Miller, MacVittie subsequently had roles on Miami Vice, The Equalize, Spencer For Hire, LA Law, The Stand, Homicide: Life on the Street and Oz, among many others. In 2002, MacVittie began a recurring role on The Sopranos, appearing as Danny Scalercio

He made his first appearance on NBC’s Law & Order in 1991, beginning an association with the franchise that would last for decades. His final appearance with the shows was a 2021 role in Law & Order: SVU.

“We’ve worked together often,” tweeted longtime Law & Order franchise producer Warren Leight today. “He was a beautiful, honest actor and man. The real deal.”

Other television credits include Person of Interest, Blue Bloods, The Deuce, Manifest, Waterfront, One Life to Live, Bull and, most recently, Ava DuVernay’s Netflix series The Way They See Us. Feature film credits include Stonewall, 54, Million Dollar Baby, Born on the Fourth of July and The Doors.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by daughter Sophia Oliva Ochs MacVittie.

2022 MTV Movie & TV Award Nominations

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A SHOW
Amanda Seyfried, The Dropout
Kelly Reilly, Yellowstone
Lily James, Pam & Tommy
Sydney Sweeney, Euphoria
Zendaya, Euphoria

BEST REALITY STAR
Chris “CT” Tamburello, The Challenge
Chrishell Stause, Selling Sunset
Lindsay Hubbard, Summer House
Teresa Giudice, The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Willow Pill, RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 14

BEST FIGHT
Bosco vs. Lady Camden, RuPaul’s Drag Race
Candiace Dillard Bassett vs. Mia Thornton – Salad toss fight, The Real Housewives of Potomac
Christine Quinn vs. Chrishell Stause, Selling Sunset
Danielle Olivera vs. Ciara Miller vs. Lindsay Hubbard, Summer House
Margaret Josephs vs. Teresa Giudice, The Real Housewives of New Jersey.

Flashback: Chicago writer Irna Phillips and the birth of the soap opera

IRENE: I tell you, Sue, it won’t work. I’ve never worn that shade of orchid in my life. I’d look like a perfect washout. Besides that’s your very best special occasion dress. I wouldn’t think of taking it.

SUE: Don’t be silly. A wedding is a special occasion, isn’t it? And as long as I won’t need to wear it, you might just as well. If you are a bridesmaid, you’ve got to look the part, kid.”

The audience had no inkling of what Wicker or Phillips looked like. They were elsewhere, sitting in front of radio sets and listening to the 25th episode of “Painted Dreams.” Phillips’ brainchild was broadcast from the Drake Hotel on Michigan Avenue by WGN, the Chicago Tribune’s radio station.

The previous year, Phillips had been assigned to write the prototype of a dramatic series. In fact, she created brand-new theatrical form that would become the soap opera.

The name was derived from advertisers of laundry products eager to reach housewives taking a break from their chores. ‘Painted Dreams” was sponsored by Lever Brothers, the makers of Super Suds.

The show’s plot lines reflected an advertising executive’s understanding of women’s issues. “Painted Dreams” revolved around Mother Moynihan, a widow who dispenses old-fashioned wisdom to the two young women who live with her:

“Irene is her daughter, frivolous and thoughtless, a cigar counter clerk who has ambitions for a career upon the stage or in radio, and Sue Morton, an orphan, whom life has given some hard knocks,” the Tribune explained on Oct. 4, 1931, the show’s first anniversary.

“What started out as a dialogue between two working girls has become in a year a sketch with seven distinct character parts, and as many more persons who, although they have never entered the story as speaking characters, have become such a vital part of it that listeners regard them as real persons.”

All of the characters were played by Wicker and Phillips, who also created the sound effects. Later in life, Phillips set down her soap-opera philosophy in an unpublished memoir preserved in the Library of Congress.

“The critics say, ‘But why then do soap operas convey such a sense of overwhelming tragedy, of lives gone wrong?’ ” she wrote. “I can only point out that unrelenting bliss can be (in dramatic terms) as tedious as unrelenting misery.”

Like her character Irene, Phillips was raised by a widowed mother. Her writing career began, as it would end, on a melodramatic note.

Upon the initial success of her soap opera, Phillips wanted to take it to a national network, but WGN’s management balked. She sued claiming she owned the rights to “Painted Dreams” and lost a long, bitterly fought courtroom battle.

“The courts have found that she was a salaried employee of WGN and that the idea of the script was conceived by the station manager,” the Tribune reported after the Illinois Supreme Court denied her appeal in 1941. “After a sponsor was found, however, she copyrighted the first 10 scripts without advising her employer.”

She had long since sold a new soap opera to WGN’s rival, WMAQ. The show’s sponsor offered a guide to “Today’s Children.” Thousands of fans sent in a label from Pillsbury Flour to get one.

By the 1940s, Phillips had five shows running simultaneously on various stations. She earned more than $250,000 a year, enabling her to live at 1335 Astor St., in Chicago’s posh Gold Coast neighborhood. Yet Phillips couldn’t type so many scripts.

“Like Scheherazade, I work best before a live audience,” she explained, invoking the putative narrator of the “Arabian Nights,” who told a sultan a tale every night. “And so I dictate to a secretary”

Part of her workday was devoted to keeping tabs on the rivals her success created.

“I often listen to other soap operas, not to imitate but to avoid imitation,” she noted. “In many cases, I have shuffled entire synopses because other programs anticipated a plot line that I was considering.”

Phillips was born in 1901, one of 10 children in a German-Jewish family. Her father died when she was 8 years old, and she grew up wearing hand-me-down clothing. Lonely, she dreamed up stories and enacted them with her dolls, which became the origin of her compositional technique.

“When I dictate, I in fact act out the entire episode,” Phillips recalled. “People who have watched me have commented that when dictating I change my voice to fit each character, that I use certain gestures when speaking the lines intended for this character or that.”

After high school, she enrolled in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She wanted to be an actress, but was discouraged by teachers saying she wasn’t pretty enough for Hollywood or Broadway. So she went on to the University of Wisconsin, where she got a master’s degree in journalism.

For seven years, she taught drama and English at an Ohio teachers college and a Missouri junior college before being hired as a writer on a WGN talk show. Then came the assignment to write a drama, and being among the first to do so for radio, she pioneered the tricks of the trade, such as: an organ to echo a character’s emotion or indicate a change of scene the audience couldn’t see; ending an episode with a cliffhanger, an unresolved twist of plot that entices listeners to tune in the following day; or the use of plot twists such as characters with amnesia.

In her memoir, Phillips specified the essential ingredient of a soap-opera script: “There must be that element of universality in everything — that something that causes the listener to say, ‘Yes, I have felt that way, ' or ‘I have known someone very much like that.’ ”

Her characters were often modeled on people she’d known.

Dr. John Rutledge, the nonjudgmental pastor of “Guiding Light,” resembled Dr. Preston Bradley the nondogmatic Chicago minister in whose radio broadcasts Phillips found comfort when troubled.

Yet Phillips was harshly judgmental of the actors who appeared in her soap operas. When Jane House did a nude scene in the Broadway play “Lenny” in the early 1970s, Phillips tried to kill off her character on “As the World Turns.”

In one instance, Phillips’ art imitated life. “Today’s Children” was the story of a widowed mother trying to keep her family afloat. Upon the death of her own mother, who had similarly struggled, Phillips closed the curtain on “Today’s Children.”

When television leapfrogged over radio she easily made the transition to telling a story with moving images. Her successes continued until 1973, when she drew on a painful chapter of her life for an episode of “As The World Turns.”

At 19, she’d been head over heels in love with an English doctor. When she got pregnant, he turned his back on her and she miscarried. Never married, she adopted two boys.

In the soap opera version, she drew up a character who seduces her brother-in-law and becomes pregnant.

Proctor and Gamble didn’t want their soap associated with a dismal tale of adultery. Phillips stood her ground and was fired. A few months later, she died. The doctor said she had a heart attack.

If soap opera writer were to tell the tale, the script would instruct an organist to play somber chords as a fitting endnote for fans who’d be convinced that Phillips died of a broken heart.

Kaley Cuoco confirms romance with ‘Ozark’ actor Tom Pelphrey

“Life lately... ‘the sun breaks through the clouds, rays of gold slipping into my eyes and heart, rays of yellow to break the grey,’” she captioned a series of photos, including a few where she and Pelphrey were cozying up together.

“The Flight Attendant” actress, 36, shared a few polaroids with her boyfriend as well as a few shots of the pair sitting next to each other at a restaurant. In one photo, Pelphrey is seen sweetly kissing Cuoco on the cheek and she smiles and grabs his jaw.

Pelphrey, 39, also shared the exciting news to his own social media account, posting two polaroids with Cuoco where they looked smitten.

Along with his post he shared a lengthy quote, writing, “’But nothing can save you. Not your friends, not the best Fred Astaire musical you’ve ever seen- the grace of it, not your mother’s beauty, not a line from a letter you find at the bottom of a drawer, not a magazine or the next day. Nothing can save you.

“And you stand in the moonlight and a sweetness comes off the top of the trees, and the fence around the yard seals you off from the dark and you can’t breathe. It is all so familiar and possible. It is too simple that there is this much good in the world and you don’t know how to have it. And it makes you wonder when it was you lost your place. Then you catch a breeze, so warm and ripe, it makes you hope that someone will come who also cannot save you, but who will think you are worth saving.’ – from Noah’s wall- 1/31/04.”

Several of the duo’s friends and fans flooded them with comments about how happy they were to have found each other.

“love this for you!!” Jonathan Van Ness wrote.

“BEAMING with joy for you,” a second person wrote.

“soooo happy for you!!” another added.

Cuoco was previously married to Karl Cook for three years but they split in September 2021.

“Despite a deep love and respect for one another, we have realized that our current paths have taken us in opposite directions,” they said in a joint statement at the time.

She was also previously married to tennis player Ryan Sweeting from 2013 to 2016.

Despite finding love again, Cuoco made clear that she has no plans to marry for a third time.

“I will never get married again,” the “Big Bang Theory” alum told Glamour in the interview for her April 2022 cover shoot. “I would love to have a long-lasting relationship or a partnership. But I will never get married again. Absolutely not. You can literally put that on the cover.”

Ming-Na Wen & Esai Morales Join Brianna Hildebrand In Jeffrey Morris’ Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Persephone’

Morris’ first feature follows refugees from a dying earth, who are traveling aboard an enormous space vessel called Odyssey. Their destination is Proxima b—a planet orbiting the nearest star. When a crew is dispatched to repair a shield designed to protect their colony from deadly solar flares, a computer malfunction causes them to crash-land on the alien planet. The crew then discover that they may not be the only life on this hostile world. A mystery unfolds that may not only derail their mission, but also prevent the colonists from ever setting foot on the planet.

Morris penned the script, also co-authoring a companion novel with New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson (Prelude to Dune). He will also produce via his FutureDude Entertainment, alongside Anne Marie Gillen (Fried Green Tomatoes), Jorge Heredia (Que Pasa Miami?), and the duo of Jane Fleming and Mark Ordesky (The Quest). Cassian Elwes (Dallas Buyers Club) will exec produce, with Anderson serving as co-executive producer, and Jasmin Espada (Free Dead or Alive) as co-producer. Highland Film Group is handling international rights, and will launch sales at the upcoming Cannes Marché du Film.

“I’m tremendously honored and excited to be working with this amazing cast and crew to enact a singular vision of the future,” said Morris. “Through our collaboration, the goal is to create a sense of realism and exploration that is far beyond the typical sci-fi space adventure.”

“We were immediately captivated by the ambition and integrity of Jeffrey’s vision,” said Fleming and Ordesky in a joint statement. “The world building is so rigorously researched and richly imagined, it feels like stepping into a real future. And the struggle for co-existence that animates Persephone could not be more vital or timely.”

“From my very first conversation with writer/director Jeffrey Morris, I knew we had a connection. He had already written an excellent, gritty Sci-Fi script, and our brainstorming brought it even more to life,” added Anderson. “Persephone is filled with incredible ideas, and I love being a part of it.”

Morris previously directed the sci-fi shorts Parallel Man: Infinite Pursuit and Oceanus: Act One, which are available for streaming on Gunpowder & Sky’s genre streaming service, Dust.

Wen has portrayed bounty hunter Fennec Shand on the Star Wars series The Mandalorian and The Bad Batch, and will soon reprise the role on Disney+’s The Book of Boba Fett. The actress will also soon feature in the second season of HBO Max’s hit comedy series Hacks, HBO Max’s animated series Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai and Tom Gustafson’s film Glitter & Doom. She has previously appeared in both animated and live-action versions of Mulan, as well as films including Ralph Breaks the Internet, The Darkness, Push, Prom Night, The Joy Luck Club and Street Fighter. Additional TV credits include Young Sheldon, Yasuke, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Stargate Universe.

Morales will also soon be seen in the seventh and eighth installments of the Mission Impossible franchise, as well as Paul Schrader’s thriller Master Gardener. He’s previously appeared in such films as SuperFly, Gun Hill Road and Fast Food Nation, among many others. His TV credits include How to Get Away with Murder, Titans, Ozark, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, The Brink, Magic City and Jericho.

Hildebrand played Negasonic Teenage Warhead in the first two Deadpool films, and has also been seen in features including Playing with Fire, Tragedy Girls and First Girl I Loved. Her TV credits include Lucifer, Trinkets and The Exorcist.

Wen is represented by Link Entertainment and Innovative Artists; Morales by Link Entertainment, Vault Entertainment, Innovative Artists and Eric Feig Entertainment & Media Law; Hildebrand by ICM Partners; and Heredia by Aquos Entertainment Group.

Meg Ryan To Direct & Star Alongside David Duchovny In Rom-Com ‘What Happens Later’; Bleecker Street Takes U.S.

Bleecker Street has picked up U.S. rights to the title and is planning a 2023 theatrical release while HanWay Films has boarded international sales and is launching the title at Cannes this month.

Story follows ex-lovers Willa (Ryan) and Bill (Duchovny) who are reunited for the first time since their split decades prior when they both find themselves snowed in, in-transit, at an airport overnight. Willa is still the wilful, independent spirt she once was, free of any ties. Bill, recently separated, is reassessing his life and his relationships with his estranged wife and daughter. All each wants is to get home but over the course of the night they find themselves at first reluctantly drawn together yet compelled to revisit their past, along with what could have been and what might be again. When the versions of their shared history don’t quite add up, they wonder where they go from there. The title, which Dietz co-wrote with Kirk Lynn and Ryan, is produced by Independent Spirit Award winners Jonathan Duffy and Kelly Williams through their Ten Acre Films, Independent Spirt Award nominee Laura D. Smith and Kristin Mann. Kerri Elder and Blake Elder of Rockhill Studios are exec producers with Bleecker Street’s Andrew Karpen and Kent Sanderson.

The U.S. deal was negotiated by Sanderson of Bleecker Street, with Avy Eschenasy on behalf of Bleecker Street. Production is slated to begin later this year in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Ryan is repped by The Gersh Agency, Anonymous Content and Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks, P.C. Duchovny is represented by Mosaic and Nelson Davis LLP. Production is repped by Ramo Law P.C.

William Fichtner Joins Milo Ventimiglia & Catherine Haena Kim In ‘The Company You Keep’ ABC Drama Pilot

The project, which is based on Korean format My Fellow Citizens that ran for more than 30 episodes on KBS2, follows con man Charlie (Ventimiglia) and undercover CIA officer Emma (Kim). A night of passion leads to love between the pair, who unknowingly are on a collision course professionally. While Charlie ramps up the “family business” so he can get out for good, Emma’s closing in on the vengeful criminal who holds Charlie’s family debts in-hand — forcing them to reckon with the lies they’ve told so they can save themselves and their families from disastrous consequences.

Fichtner will play Leo. A former steel worker turned grifter, Leo is a master of the sleight of hand. Cards, shell games, pick-pocketing, Leo learned the fine art of the misdirect a long time ago. A proud man who’d do anything for his family, Leo has a lifetime of regrets and soon he won’t remember any of them. In the early stage of Alzheimer’s, Leo is determined to pull off one last big score to make his family financially secure before he loses his faculties.

The pilot will be shot off-cycle to accommodate This Is Us star Ventimiglia’s commitment to the departing NBC family drama series.

The Company You Keep is being written and exec produced by Julia Cohen. Ventimiglia will exec produce via his DiVide Pictures banner alongside Russ Cundiff with Deanna Harris as producer.

Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu also will exec produce via his Electric Somewhere label with his partner Caitlin Foito. The Resident showrunner Todd Harthan and The Good Doctor co-exec producer Lindsay Goffman are also exec producing the project, which comes from studio 20th Television, where Ventimiglia’s DiVide Pictures is based.

Fichtner can currently be seen on the Peacock series Joe vs Carole, opposite Kate McKinnon and John Cameron Mitchell. William played Adam opposite Allison Janney on CBS’ hit sitcom Mom, which recently wrapped its eighth and final season. His other TV credits include series regular roles on the international series Crossing Lines and Fox’s Prison Break. On the film side, he currently stars in The Birthday Cake with Ewan McGregor and Val Kilmer, and The Space Between opposite Kelsey Grammer. He made his directorial debut last year with the feature film Cold Brook, and starred alongside Kim Coates. Fichtner is repped by Principal Entertainment LA, Thruline Entertainment, Innovative Artists, and Sloan, Offer, Weber And Dern, LLP.

Talk Show Appearance

Friday, May 6: Guests include Sophie Turner, Tom Pelphrey and comedian Moses Storm.

Animal Kingdom's Final Season Key Art Drops a Big Hint About Which of the Cody Boys Is Going Down in Flames

Were we the betting sort, we’d wager that the poster is a harbinger of doom for the late Smurf’s unstable oldest son. In addition to the whole Cody family’s habit of getting themselves into dangerous scrapes, Season 5 concluded with the police discovering the body of Catherine, the woman Pope loved and was manipulated by Mommie Dearest into murdering.

Mind you, it will be something of a shock if any of the Codys are left standing when the closing credits roll on the series finale. You’ll recall that Ellen Barkin was killed off as the thieves’ cutthroat matriarch in Season 4’s penultimate episode. Before that, Season 3’s premiere made a casualty of future Grey’s Anatomy doc Scott Speedman’s surrogate Cody, Baz. “This is Animal Kingdom,” EP John Wells reminded TVLine back in 2019. “We don’t expect anybody to be alive by the time we get to the end!”

Per TNT, in the show’s final season, which kicks off on Sunday, June 19, “the Cody boys discover that they can’t outrun their past. With their empire expanding, a cold-case investigation sets off a series of events that puts the entire family in jeopardy. Revenge, betrayal and a reckoning with long-forgotten violence leads to an explosive conclusion six seasons in the making.”

CBS RENEWS HIT DRAMA “BLUE BLOODS” FOR 2022-2023

“America’s favorite first family of law enforcement is back for season 13,” said Kelly Kahl, president of CBS Entertainment. “The Reagans possess an incredible bond with audiences literally everywhere and on every platform. And in its 12th season, with over 250 episodes, BLUE BLOODS not only continues to dominate in the ratings but excels at an exceptionally high creative level. Led by the incomparable Tom Selleck, this amazing cast skillfully brings universal and relatable personal storylines to life week after week, while executive producer Kevin Wade and the skilled writing team craft compelling episodes featuring the show’s trademark mix of family dynamics and police work. We look forward to many more Reagan family dinners next season.”

BLUE BLOODS is the #4 broadcast series, averaging 9.81 million viewers. It’s also Friday’s #1 program and the time-period (10:00-11:00 PM) winner in viewers. BLUE BLOODS has amassed 5.1 billion potential social media impressions so far this season. The series originally premiered Friday, Sept. 24, 2010, and has always maintained its #1 position on Fridays at 10:00 PM.

Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou, Marisa Ramirez and Vanessa Ray star. Kevin Wade, Ian Biederman, Brian Burns, Siobhan Byrne-O’Connor, Dan Truly and Tom Selleck serve as executive producers. BLUE BLOODS is produced by CBS Studios.

BLUE BLOODS joins the previously announced renewals of THE AMAZING RACE, BOB ? ABISHOLA, CSI: VEGAS, GHOSTS, NCIS, NCIS: HAWAI’I, NCIS: LOS ANGELES, THE NEIGHBORHOOD, SECRET CELEBRITY RENOVATION, SURVIVOR, S.W.A.T., TOUGH AS NAILS and YOUNG SHELDON.

Evan Parke recurs on Good Sam 5/4/22

RECURRING CAST includes: Marium Carvell (Nurse Donna Williams), Travis Van Winkle (Dr. Eric Kace), Evan Parke (Byron Kingsley)

Lisa Brown Tribute

Helping to honor Lisa will be her dear friend, co-star and on-screen daughter Martha Byrne along with some of Lisa's co-stars, writers and producers who had the privilege of working with her on both shows. Joining Martha will be Guiding Light's Maeve Kinkead (Vanessa Chamberlin) and John Wesley Shipp (Kelly Nelson), As the World Turns actors William Fichtner (Josh Landry) and Anne Sayre (Mitzi Matters) with Emmy-winning producer Michael Laibson and Emmy-winning writer Patrick Mulcahey.

Please join us as we pay tribute to this beloved mother, wife, actress and friend on April 29th.

'Angelyne’ Trailer: Emmy Rossum Takes On L.A. Icon In Peacock Limited Series

The series, showrun by Allison Miller who executive produces alongside director Lucy Tcherniak, Rossum, Sam Esmail, Chad Hamilton and The Hollywood Reporter, spotlights an original LA icon from the ’80s who infiltrated pop culture and rose to fame when a series of billboards began to appear around town featuring her signature curvier figure.

Martin Freeman, Alex Karpovsky, Hamish Linklater, Charlie Rowe, Lukas Gage, Michael Angarano, Molly Ephraim and David Krumholtz also star.

See the trailer above.

Jennifer Ferrin recurs on The Equalizer 4/24/22

RECURRING CAST: Jennifer Ferrin (D.A. Avery Grafton)

Ben Rappaport & Alexandra Chando To Headline Mike Daniels’ NBC Pilot Based On Dutch Series ‘Adam & Eva’

The project, described as a funny and heartfelt drama, chronicles the epic love and lives of two complete strangers, Adam (Rappaport) and Eva (Chando), whose multiple run-ins begin to defy coincidence, leading both to believe in fate. The show breaks the mold by pairing a serialized, stand-up-and-cheer romantic comedy with the wildly diverse and often unexpected human stories of anyone who finds themselves six degrees from Adam and Eva.

Rappaport’s Adam is a former high school teacher and romantic trying to find his footing in Brooklyn after a devastating breakup. Chando’s Eva is an aspiring artist and force of nature whose relationship and views on fate are put to the test when she meets Adam.

The Dutch series, which drew critical acclaim and ran from 2011-16, starred Teun Luijkx as Adam and Eva van de Wijdeven as Eva.

The adaptation is produced by Universal Television in association with 6107 Productions, David Janollari Entertainment and Willy Waltz International.

Daniels, Laing, David Janollari, Rob Golenberg and Alon Aranya executive produce alongside Robert Alberdingk Thijm and Norbert ter Hall. Chris Markey serves as supervising producer.

For the People and Outsourced alum Rappaport has been recurring on NBC/Uni TV’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. His series credits also include Inventing Anna, Younger, Mr. Robot and The Good Wife. Rappaport currently stars onstage as Jack Paar opposite Sean Hayes in the world premiere of Good Night, Oscar at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, which closes April 24. He is repped by Gersh, Invictus Entertainment and Goodman Genow Schenkman.

Chando received a Daytime Emmy nomination in 2007 for her role on As the World Turns. She starred in Freeform’s (then-ABC Family) The Lying Game and also recurred on Amazon’s Sneaky Pete. Chando is repped by Gersh, Untitled and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.

Made for Love Season 2: Watch Hazel and Byron Team Up in New Trailer

On Wednesday, HBO Max unveiled a new trailer, which you can check out above, that teases the twosome’s reluctant team-up as a crew of investigators works to bring down Byron for his many unsavory deeds.

As perviously announced, Season 2 will debut with two episodes on Thursday, April 28; two new episodes will then be released weekly, until the finale on Thursday, May 19.

Season 1 saw Hazel (played by Cristin Milioti), a thirtysomething woman as smart as her tech billionaire husband Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen) is insufferable, go on the run after a decade of being trapped in a suffocating marriage. After discovering that her husband implanted the Made for Love chip in her brain, allowing him to track her, watch her and know her “emotional data,” Hazel sought refuge with her outcast father Herbert (Ray Romano) and his synthetic partner, Diane, in her desert hometown.

In Season 2, Hazel returns to Byron’s high-tech palace aka The Hub to save her father, who has cancer. But once inside, “she and Byron both become ensnared by Gogol’s newest revolutionary (and dangerous) technology.”

Additional cast includes Dan Bakkendahl (The Goldbergs) as Herringbone, Noma Dumezweni (The Undoing) as Fiffany, Caleb Foote (The Kids Are Alright) as Bennett and Sarunas J. Jackson (Good Trouble, Insecure) as Jay.

Kathryn Hays, Beloved As the World Turns Actress, Dead at 88

Kathryn Hays, who played Kim Sullivan Hughes on As the World Turns for 38 years, has died. She was 88.

The actress died on March 25 in Fairfield, Connecticut, according to TVLine. A cause of death was not made available and a rep for Hays did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.

Her ATWT onscreen husband Don Hastings, who played Bob Hughes on the soap opera, paid tribute to his longtime scene partner in a heartfelt statement.

"Our relationship as Bob and Kim was as close as Kathryn and my relationship, except we were not married," Hastings, 88, said. "We were more like brother and sister and we were great friends. Our biggest squabble was that she always wanted to rehearse and I wanted to take a nap. This is a huge loss to all who knew her."

Hays starred on ATWT from 1972 until the show ended its 54-year run in 2010. "I always say ... it was the longest job I ever had," she said on a 2020 episode of the YouTube talk show The Locher Room.

"Actors never have long jobs like that. I mean, they would play on Broadway a certain amount of times or whatever. But it was the longest job and the best partner I ever had," Hays said of Hastings during the virtual reunion.

Additionally, her soap career also included appearances on Guiding Light and One Life to Live.

Hays' extensive resume also features roles in Bonanza, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Virginian, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Star Trek and Law & Order.

Born Kay Piper on July 26, 1933, in Princeton, Illinois, Hays attended Northwestern University. She worked as a model and acted on Broadway, in addition to her busy work as a TV guest star throughout the '60s and '70s.

Hays is survived by her daughter Sherri and son-in-law Bob Mancusi, her grandchildren Kate, Cameron and Garrett Wells, as well as her great-grandson Jack.

Kathryn Hays, ‘Star Trek’ and ‘As the World Turns’ actress, dead at 87

The cause of death was not available.

She was remembered fondly by her scene partner Don Hastings — who played her husband, Bob Hughes — in a statement, saying that “our relationship as Bob and Kim was as close as Kathryn and my relationship, except we were not married.”

Hastings also shared that the duo’s “biggest squabble was that she always wanted to rehearse and I wanted to take a nap.

“This is a huge loss to all who knew her,” he said.

The Illinois native Hays, who reprised the iconic character for 38 years, also touched the hearts of sci-fi lovers worldwide during a guest appearance in “Star Trek” in 1968. She played the titular, mute hero Gem, in “The Empath.”

Opposite to the more socially dramatic roles Hays was used to playing, in 2010 she recalled the interstellar appearance as one of the most unique experiences of her career.

“I’ve often thought that was an interesting role for me to play. I loved playing that. It was technically very interesting,” Hays told We Love Soaps. “That show was fascinating to work on from a technical point of view. It was so different from a regular show.”

Hays began her career with TV roles in the early 1960s. She appeared in the westerns “Bonanza” and “Route 66,” in addition to the spy series “The Man from U.N.C.L.E” and other shows. She appeared in the television film “Yuma” in 1971.

Her breakout role came in the 1966 pre-Civil War-era western “The Road West,” in which she played Elizabeth Reynolds for all 29 episodes of the show’s running.

A few years later, in 1972, the iconic actress joined “As The World Turns.”

She claimed the role of Kim until the daytime staple went off the air in 2010 following a 54-year run on air.

Hays also guest appeared on more than 40 shows during her life, the most recent being a 2007 episode of “Law & Order: SVU,” according to TV Line.

She had a career on Broadway, as well, appearing in “Ladybug, Ladybug,” “The Irregular Verb to Love” and “Hot September,” in addition to other productions.

ATWT Vet Kathryn Hays Dead at 87

No cause of death has yet been stated.

Hays’ career began in the early 1960s, with roles on series such as Hawaiian Eye, Dr. Kildare, Route 66, Bonanza and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. In 1966, in The Road West, she landed the role of Elizabeth Reynolds, which she played for all 29 episodes of the 1860s-set serial.

Hays is also well remembered for playing the titular Gem in the 1968 Star Trek episode “The Empath.” All told, she made guest appearances on over 40 TV shows, most recently in a 2007 episode of Law & Order: SVU.

It was in August 1972 when Hays originated the role of As the World Turns‘ Kim Sullivan Hughes, whom she would play until September 2010 (when the CBS sudser went off the air after 54 years).

In a statement, ATWT scene partner Don Hastings said, “Our relationship as Bob and Kim was as close as Kathryn and my relationship, except we were not married. We were more like brother and sister and we were great friends. Our biggest squabble was that she always wanted to rehearse and I wanted to take a nap. This is a huge loss to all who knew her.”

Hays’ career also included Broadway productions of Ladybug, Ladybug, The Irregular Verb to Love and Hot September, plus summer stock productions of Showboat, Richard Rogers’ Two By Two, Follies, Dames at Sea and A Little Night Music.

Hays is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Sherri and Bob Mancusi; three grandchildren, Kate, Cameron and Garrett Wells; plus her great-grandson Jack. Those wishing to honor her memory may contribute to The Greater Bridgeport Symphony in Bridgeport, Conn., The First Church of Christ Scientist in Westport, Conn., or your favorite dog rescue organization.

Animal Kingdom Final Season Premiere Date Set at TNT — Plus, See First Trailer

Along with the premiere date, the cable network dropped a trailer that was, as you’d hope and expect from the show, fairly brutal. Shots are fired and blows taken as the Codys decide to tackle a $5M job that’ll allow them to start fresh. In other words, as Craig puts it, “it’s showtime.”

It also may be curtains for Pope, whose Season 1 murder of Catherine was discovered in Season 5’s finale. (Refresh your memory with our recap.) Now he’s got a detective sniffing around a case whose trail should’ve been as cold as the deceased’s body. But “we’ve buried enough family,” J intones. “This needs to end.”

Yeah, yeah, but who will be left standing when it does?

Animal Kingdom premiered back in 2016 with Ellen Barkin tackling the role of Cody matriarch Smurf that Yellowstone’s Jacki Weaver had played in the Australian movie on which the series is based and Grey’s Anatomy’s Scott Speedman as surrogate son Baz. As if to prove that anything could happen on the show, he was killed off in Season 3’s premiere; she, in Season 4’s penultimate episode.

Of the original cast, only Finn Cole (J), Shawn Hatosy (Pope), Ben Robson (Craig) and Jake Weary (Deran) remain. Of course, as EP John Wells told TVLine back in 2019, “This is Animal Kingdom — we don’t expect anybody to be alive by the time we get to the end!”

‘So You Think You Can Dance’: Matthew Morrison & JoJo Siwa Join As Judges Alongside Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss As Cat Deeley Also Returns

Glee star Matthew Morrison and YouTube star JoJo Siwa have joined the judging panel alongside Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, who was a judge on season 15.

Cat Deeley, who has hosted the Fox show since season two in 2006, also returns as host.

It comes after Nigel Lythgoe revealed last month that he had not been invited back on the show, which returns to Fox after a three-year break.

The series will premiere on Wednesday May 18 at 9pm, following the season finale of The Masked Singer.

The series is returning for its 17th season this summer, having previously had production paused in 2020 after being hit by the Covid-19 shutdown.

The show features highly skilled dancers between the ages of 18 and 30, showcasing their talents in various dance styles, including contemporary, tap, hip-hop, ballroom, animation and breaking.

The series is produced by Industrial Media’s 19 Entertainment and MRC. Rosie Seitchik serves as showrunner and will exec produce alongside co-creator Nigel Lythgoe, Jeff Thacker, Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman.

Victoria Rowell & Evan Parke recur on Good Sam 4/20/22

RECURRING CAST includes: Sendhil Ramamurthy (Asher Pyne), Victoria Rowell (Tina Kingsley), Evan Parke (Byron Kingsley).

Gugu Mbatha-Raw To Co-Star Opposite Kevin Hart In Netflix’s ‘Lift’; Vincent D’Onofrio & Billy Magnussen Also On Board

Mbatha-Raw beat out a number of actresses for the role that had become one of the more coveted parts for young female stars in recent weeks. She is coming off strong reviews for her role in the hit Marvel series Loki and has Surface bowing this summer on Apple TV+.

The film is produced by Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon for Genre Pictures, Matt Reeves and Adam Kassan for 6th & Idaho, and Hart and Brian Smiley for HartBeat Productions. 6th & Idaho currently has The Batman in theaters, which has dominated the month of March at the box-office, and Genre’s Invasion just finished it’s first season on Apple TV+.

Gray, Brent O’Connor and Patricia Braga are exec producing.

Hart will play a master thief who is wooed by his ex-girlfriend and the FBI to pull off an impossible heist with his international crew on a 777 flying from London to Zurich.

Lift falls under Hart and HartBeat Productions’ creative partnership with Netflix. They are in production on comedy Me Time, starring Mark Wahlberg and Regina Hall.

Mbatha-Raw is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content and Curtis Brown Group. Magnussen is withj UTA, Anonymous Content and Sloane Offer. D’Onofrio is repped by UTA and Silver Lining Entertainment, Kalra is represented by CAA and in the UK by 42. Anderson is repped by CAA and Kim is managed by Chris S. Lee at B&C Content.

Talk Show Appearance

Tuesday, April 5: Amanda Seyfried

Patricia Bruder Debrovner Interview

Patricia has been married to her childhood sweetheart, Chuck Debrovner, for 63 years. The couple have two daughters Caroline and Diane and two granddaughters Allison and Jane. Patricia and Chuck have been active members of the New York Society for Ethical Culture for many years. Since 2005, Patricia has been producing their Ethics and Theater program, a monthly play reading series that's followed by an audience discussion of the ethical issues in each play. As producer, she is involved in every aspect of the program - choosing the plays, the directors, casting, preparing the scripts, the flyers and programs, arranging the rehearsals - but the best part is that she has gotten to play a host of delicious roles.

Jason Biggs Baking Competition ‘Biggs Ass Bake Off’ From Thinkfactory Warms Up Non-Scripted Marketplace

The star of American Pie, and the infamous warm apple pie scene, has teamed up with ITV America’s Thinkfactory Media to host baking competition series Biggs Ass Bake Off (w/t).

The arced competition series follows the world’s best bakers aim to go big, so they don’t go home.

Rat In The Kitchen producer Thinkfactory is currently taking the project out to unscripted buyers at the broadcasters and streaming services.

Biggs Ass Bake Off will bring together an assortment of baking pros for the ultimate challenge that will literally have them living, breathing and sleeping baked delights. In the premiere, competitors will enter the show’s baking compound, where they must remain for the entire season, sleeping in the kitchen and perfecting their creations day and night.

Each episode will feature a different 24-hour baking challenge in which the competitors – split into small teams – will be tasked with filling separate top-secret rooms with sweet treats, designing edible scenes based around a specific theme.

Only Biggs will have access to every room, checking in on each team’s progress in the leadup to the final reveals. When time is up, Biggs and a panel of guest judges will observe each room and taste test various pieces of the edible set. As the season moves on, the challenges get harder, the top-secret design rooms that must be filled with baked goods get bigger and the amount of teams get smaller – all leading up to a head-to-head finale.

It is Biggs’ latest move in the unscripted space; the actor, who also appeared in Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black, hosted gameshow Cherries Wild for Fox last year

Biggs said, “Over twenty years as the ‘Pie Guy’ has led me to this inevitable place – hosting and producing a baking show of epic proportions. I am incredibly excited to partner with the brilliant folks at Thinkfactory Media to bring audiences a show fit for this self-proclaimed ‘King of Pastry.’ The bakers’ creations will be beyond measure-ing cups and matched only by the drama of the competition. This is gonna be a fun one.”

“We’re really proud of the ridiculous amount of joy contained within this format,” added Thinkfactory CEO Adam Reed. “It’s a series in which each episode can be as wildly funny, awe-inspiring and visually stunning as it is intense. We’re thrilled to have Jason as our ringleader, resident taste tester and guide through the madness, and I couldn’t be more excited to bring this one to viewers.”

‘Chicago Med’: Steven Weber Returning As Series Regular For Season 8

Weber’s Dr. Dean Archer is current head of the E.D., whose colleagues at Gaffney Chicago Medical Center love to hate—though they can’t deny he’s a great surgeon. That dislike stems from three things: playing a role in fan-favorite Dr. Choi (Brian Tee) getting shot in the Season 6 finale which helped him climb the ranks; his tendency to break the rules in order to get the job done; and his antagonistic approach to dealing with patients.

Of late, Archer is proving how coloring outside the lines can also be helpful. Alongside Sharon Goodwin (S. Epatha Merkerson), Archer offered Dr. Hannah Asher (Jessy Schram) a second chance in last week’s episode to rebuild her career after going through recovery from her addictions. A former Naval surgeon who also struggles with PTSD, he offers many patients a unique point of view though it’s an ongoing personal struggle for him—and often, Dr. Charles (Oliver Platt).

From Emmy-winning executive producer Dick Wolf, Chicago Med follows the emotional day-to-day chaos of the city’s newest state-of-the-art trauma center and the lives of the courageous doctors, nurses and staff who hold it all together.

Wolf, Diane Frolov, Andrew Schneider, Stephen Hootstein, Derek Haas, Arthur Forney, Matt Olmstead, Michael Brandt and Peter Jankowski are executive producers.

Chicago Med is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Wolf Entertainment.

Season 8 of Chicago Med premieres later this year on NBC.

‘Best. Christmas. Ever.’: Heather Graham, Brandy Norwood, Jason Biggs & Matt Cedeño To Star In Netflix Holiday Film

The film written by Charles Shyer (Father of the Bride) and Todd Calgi Gallicano (Sam London Adventure book series) centers on Jackie (Norwood), who every Christmas, without fail, sends a boastful holiday newsletter that makes her old college friend Charlotte (Graham) feel like a lump of coal. When a twist of fate lands Charlotte, her husband Rob (Biggs), and their family on Jackie’s and her husband Valentino’s (Cedeño) snowy doorstep just days before Christmas, Charlotte seizes the opportunity to prove her old friend’s “perfect” life can’t possibly be that perfect. But in her overzealous attempt to expose Jackie, Charlotte nearly ruins Christmas for both families and must team up with her old friend to put the pieces back together.

Brad Krevoy is producing, with Amanda Phillips, Eric Jarboe, Steve Berman, David Wulf, Shyer and Gallicano serving as executive producers.

Graham is a Critics’ Choice Award, Independent Spirit Award and SAG Award nominee who will next appear in the Apple series Extrapolations, Daniel di Grado’s horror film Oracle, Seam McNamara’s drama On a Wing and a Prayer, Sara Zandieh’s romantic comedy The Other Zoey, and the film Chosen Family with Julia Stiles, which she also wrote and is directing. She’s also appeared in such films as Half Magic, The Hangover and The Hangover Part III, Bobby, Hope Springs, The Guru, Bowfinger, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Lost in Space, Scream 2, Boogie Nights, Swingers and the Twin Peaks titles Fire Walk with Me and The Missing Pieces, among others. Additional TV credits include The Stand, Get Shorty, Angie Tribeca, Flaked, Californication, Scrubs and Twin Peaks.

Norwood is an actress and Grammy-winning musician, who recently starred in the ABC series Queens, and starred as the title character on UPN’s Moesha between 1996 and 2001. She’s also starred in the films Cinderella, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and Tyler Perry’s Temptation, as well as in such series as Star, The Game, Drop Dead Diva and 90210. The RIAA ranks Norwood as one of the best-selling female artists in American music history, having sold over 40 million records worldwide.

Biggs is a SAG Award winner perhaps best known for his roles as Piper’s (Taylor Schilling) one-time fiancé Larry on Orange Is the New Black, and as Jim Levenstein in Universal’s American Pie films. He also recently starred in the Fox series Outmatched and has previously appeared in multiple Jay and Silent Bob films, as well as such big-screen titles as Jersey Girl, Prozac Nation, Saving Silverman and Loser.

Cedeño is perhaps best known for his turn as drug dealer and former Hermanos Tainos gang leader Cristobal on Starz’s Power, and can currently be seen on BET’s Ruthless. Additional credits include the series Power Book II: Ghost, Promised Land, Truth Be Told, Z Nation and Devious Maids.

Graham is represented by Paradigm, RMS Productions and Yorn, Levine, Barnes; Norwood by CAA; Biggs by ICM Partners and Management 360; Cedeño by Mosaic, Buchwald and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Lambert by APA, Pebble Entertainment and Nochimson Law; and Shyer by Echo Lake Entertainment, A3 Artists Agency and Weintraub Tobin Chediak.

‘Hacks’ Season 2 Adds Laurie Metcalf, Martha Kelly, Ming-Na Wen & Margaret Cho

The critically acclaimed series focuses on the dark mentorship between legendary Las Vegas comedian Deborah Vance (Emmy winner, Jean Smart) and her young, entitled writer Ava (Emmy nominee, Hannah Einbinder) and how it continues to evolve while the pair travel across the country workshopping Deborah’s new stand-up act.

Other returning cast includes Carl Clemons-Hopkins and Jane Adams, both of whom were nominated for Emmy Awards for Season 1. Christopher McDonald, Kaitlin Olson, Paul W. Downs, Poppy Liu, Rose Abdoo, Mark Indelicato, Meg Stalter, Angela E. Gibbs, Luenell, Johnny Sibilly, Joe Mande, Ally Maki, and Lorenza Izzo also star.

Hacks is created and showrun by Emmy winners Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello, and Jen Statsky. It is executive produced by Downs and Aniello via their Paulilu banner, Statsky via First Thought Productions, as well as Emmy winners Michael Schur via Fremulon, David Miner for 3 Arts Entertainment, and Morgan Sackett. The studio is Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

Metcalf is repped by WME. Kelly is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners, UTA, and Morris Yorn. Wen is represented by Link Entertainment and Innovative Artists. Cho is represented by WME and Fox Rothschild LLP.

Matthew Morrison I've Got $4.7 Mil Worth o' Glee!!! Sells H'wood Hills Home

The 'Glee' star purchased the 3 bedroom pad for $1.2 mil, back in 2010 -- right around the time his career took off with the show's success, and he decided to make a smart investment in the property.

Matthew and his wife, Renee Puente, gave the pad some major renovations -- totaling about $1 million -- which included adding a bedroom and an additional 1,000 sq ft. to the home.

The home is now 3,146 sq ft. and completely surrounded by nature, giving it a very charming feel. Inside, it's got French doors, a sunken living room and a chef's kitchen with a doublewide island.

The new owners will also enjoy a built-in barbecue, in-ground infinity spa and smart home technology that controls the security and sound systems.

Matt and his wife previously sold their 2 properties in New York, and they reportedly plan to travel for a while ... before settling down and buying a new home on the East Coast.

Morrison grew up in California before going to NYU and spending 10 years living on the East Coast, and now it looks like he'll be headed back for good.

Heather Boyd of Hilton & Hyland had the listing.

Meg Ryan Teams With Netflix To Direct Movie Adaptation Of Novel ‘A Lady’s Guide To Selling Out’

Sally Franson’s book follows Casey Pendergast, described as a “praise-seeking missile who navigates a tricky Twenty First Century career and the even trickier question of who she wants to be”.

Described by publishers as being in the vein of The Devil Wears Prada and Mad Men, the romantic comedy hones in on the book-loving English major who lands a job at a top ad agency. Her best friend thinks she’s a sellout, but Casey tells herself that she’s just paying the bills and can’t help that she has champagne taste. When she falls in love with one of her authors, she can no longer ignore her own doubts about the human cost of her success.

Jenny Rachel Weiner is scripting the project which is being produced by Gary Foster and Russ Krasnoff for Krasnoff/Foster Ent and Kim Hodgert for Anonymous Content. Executive producers are Todd Shuster and Michelle Brower for Aevitas Creative Management.

Anonymous Content originally acquired the book from Aevitas via the company’s first look deal. Michelle Brower handled the publishing deal with Dial/PRH.

Multiple Golden Globe nominee Ryan is best known for hit rom-coms When Harry Met Sally, You’ve Got Mail and Sleepless In Seattle. The project marks her second directorial outing after 2015 drama Ithaca in which she starred with Sam Shepard.

Weiner is a Juilliard playwright who is also currently developing a series for Amazon based on her original play with Lee Overtree and an original series for Hulu with Prentice Penny producing. She has previously developed at FX, Makeready, and Universal.

Ryan is repped by Gersh and Anonymous Content. Weiner s represented by Kaplan/Perrone, WME, and attorney David Hiller.

Bethany Joy Lenz guest stars and Victoria Rowell & Evan Parke recurs on Good Sam 3/23/22

RECURRING CAST: Sendhil Ramamurthy (Asher Pyne), Victoria Rowell (Tina Kingsley), Marium Carvell (Nurse Donna Williams), Evan Parke (Byron Kingsley)

GUEST CAST: Bethany Joy Lenz (Amy Taylor), Hilarie Burton (Gretchen Taylor), Sylvan Valladares (Vinit Jain), Rong Fu (Dr. Stacey Lee), Ronica Sajnani (Mrs. Jain), Marcus Nance (Dr. Andre Markov)

Kin Shriner Interview 3/21/22

In 1997, Kin joined the cast of the General Hospital spin-off Port Charles bringing the character of Scotty along with him. In addition to Scotty, Kin has played roles on Texas (Jeb Hampton), Rituals (Mike Gallagher), The Bold and the Beautiful (Dr. Brian Carrey), The Young and the Restless (Harrison Bartlett) and As the World Turns (Keith Morrissey).

‘Carl Weber’s The Black Hamptons’ Limited Series Set For BET Bow

The show is a new family drama set in the quaint town of Sag Harbor, known as “The Black Hamptons,” in Long Island, NY. From luxury communities to historic beachfront enclaves, the story will follow the brewing feud between the ‘Brittons’ and the ‘Johnsons,’ where the difference between old and new money is very apparent.

The cast includes Lamman Rucker, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Elise Neal, Brian White, Karon Riley, Mike Merrill, Blac Chyna, Aaron Spears, Daya Vaidya, Cameo Sherrell, Franklin Ojeda Smith, Jordan Smith, Jennifer Freeman, and David Andrews. The series will make its BET debut in Summer 2022.

“We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Tri Destined Studios and Urban Books Media on a new addictive limited series,” said Maureen Guthman, SVP, programming content strategy, BET. “BET’s ongoing commitment to telling compelling dramatic, character-driven original stories, anchored in the Black experience continues to propel our diverse storytelling to new heights.”

“We are honored and grateful to BET and Paramount Global for another opportunity to bring the rich culture, political power, generational wealth, intellect, and global influence of The Black Hamptons to our audience,” said Tri-Destined EP and showrunner Nikaya D. Brown Jones. “With all of the twist and turns of a Carl Weber novel, we share a glimpse into the world of affluent African American families owning companies, inventions, and miles of beachfront real estate and their influence on the world.”

“This may be the funnest project I’ve ever worked on. Every day is fun in the sun. I am very grateful to BET for seeing the vision,” said EP, writer and showrunner Carl Weber.

Trey Haley (The Family Business, Always A Bridesmaid The Man in 3B) will serve as director and co-executive producer for Tri Destined Studios. Grammy award-winning producer Rico Love serves as music supervisor.

Tonya Pinkins Interview 3/18/22

Tonya's recent role as Alma Carthan in ABC’s Women of The Movement has been touted as Emmy worthy. Her award-winning debut feature film Red Pill, which she wrote, directed and starred in, was an official selection at the 2021 Pan African Film Festival and won the Best Black Lives Matter Feature and Best First Feature at The Mykonos International Film Festival, Best First Feature at the Luléa Film Festival. Her web-series The Red Pilling of America can be heard on her podcast "You Can't Say That!" at BPN.fm/ycst. Red Pill is currently available on Amazon, Fandango, Vudu, DirectTV, etc. The audiobook on the making of the Red Pill called Red Pill Unmasked is also available along with the narrative game will be available soon at redpillmovie.com.

Tonya is known to Daytime television audiences for her role as Heather Dalton on As the World Turns and for her portrayal of Livia Frye on the All My Children. She is also known for her numerous Broadway roles as Sweet Anita in Jelly's Last Jam for which she won the Tony Award. She was also nominated for her roles in Play On! and in Caroline, or Change, where she played the title role. Her additional Broadway credits include Merrily We Roll Along, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The Wild Party, House of Flowers, Radio Golf, A Time To Kill, and Holler If Ya Hear Me.

Jen Landon recurs on FBI: Most Wanted

RECURRING CAST: Alana De La Garza (Isobel Castille), Jen Landon (Sarah Allen), Terry O’Quinn (Byron LaCroix)

‘Angelyne’ Teaser: Emmy Rossum Takes On L.A. Icon For Peacock; Limited Series Gets Premiere Dat

Angelyne is about the glow-in-the-dark queen of the universe and LA’s original billboard icon from the ’80s who infiltrated pop culture and rose to fame in the 1980s when a series of billboards began to appear around LA featuring her signature curvier figure. The series also stars Martin Freeman, Alex Karpovsky, Hamish Linklater, Charlie Rowe, Lukas Gage, Michael Angarano, Molly Ephraim and David Krumholtz.

In the brief teaser, Rossum makes her debut in Angelyne’s signature hot pink outfit, updo and Corvette. As she drives she reveals a premiere date for the Peacock series: May 19.

“You really wanna know my story? The story of my life? The truth is, I’m something you have to experience. I’m Angelyne,” she says.

Allison Miller serves as showrunner and executive produces alongside director Lucy Tcherniak. Additional executive producers are Emmy Rossum via her Composition 8 company, Sam Esmail, via his UCP-based Esmail Corp, Chad Hamilton, via Anonymous Content, and The Hollywood Reporter. Matt Spicer also directs. Gary Baum, who wrote The Hollywood. Reporter on which the series is based, serves as consultant. The series is produced by UCP a division of Universal Studio Group.

Jennifer Ferrin recurs on The Equalizer 3/20/22

RECURRING CAST: Jennifer Ferrin (D.A. Avery Grafton)

James Earl Jones Theatre Coming To Broadway As Shubert Organization Renames 110-Year-Old Cort

The Shubert Organization announced today that the venue will become the James Earl Jones Theatre “in recognition of Mr. Jones’s lifetime of immense contributions to Broadway and the entire artistic community.”

The Cort has been closed for extensive renovation and construction work during the Covid pandemic, with the work expected to be finished this summer. The renamed James Earl Jones Theatre will include a newly built wing when it opens for productions following the construction work. Shubert plans to hold a formal dedication ceremony at that time.

In a statement, Jones said, “For me standing in this very building sixty-four years ago at the start of my Broadway career, it would have been inconceivable that my name would be on the building today. Let my journey from then to now be an inspiration for all aspiring actors.”

Though Jones’ first Broadway casting was as an understudy in 1957’s short-lived The Egghead, his breakthrough came the following year at the Cort Theatre in Sunrise at Campobello, Dore Schary’s play about Franklin Delano Roosevelt starring Ralph Bellamy. In all, Jones has appeared in 21 Broadway productions, including his Tony-winning performances in The Great White Hope (1969) and Fences (1987).

Just since the turn of the century, Jones has starred on Broadway in On Golden Pond (2005), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008), Driving Miss Daisy (2010), Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (2012), You Can’t Take It With You (2014) and The Gin Game (2015). In 2017 he was awarded the Tony’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and over the course of his career has received the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honor.

In addition to his Tonys, Jones’ accolades include a 2011 Honorary Award Lifetime Achievement Oscar, two Emmys (1990’s Heat Wave, 1991’s Gabriel’s Fire) and a Grammy (1977’s Great American Documents recording), putting him in the rarefied EGOT community.

“The Shubert Organization is so incredibly honored to put James – an icon in the theatre community, the Black community, and the American community – forever in Broadway’s lights,” said Robert E. Wankel, Shubert CEO and board chair. “That James deserves to have his name immortalized on Broadway is without question.” Though it aligns with a pledge made last summer, the renaming was reportedly already in the planning stages when the Shubert Organization became a signatory, along with such other Broadway owners as Jujamcyn Theaters, the Nederlander Organization and Lincoln Center Theatre, to the New Deal For Broadway. Written by the nonprofit advocacy organization Black Theatre United, the New Deal, designed to make Broadway a more racially inclusive industry, included a pledge by theater owners to have at least one venue named after a Black artist (Jujamcyn owns the August Wilson Theatre).

The Cort, designed by theatre architect Thomas Lamb in the style of an 18th Century French palace and located at 138 W. 48th Street in Manhattan, opened in 1912 to house the productions of stage impresario John Cort. The venue was purchased by the Shuberts in 1927.

‘Sex/Life’: Dylan Bruce, Craig Bierko And Darius Homayoun Among New & Returning Cast For Season 2

Li Jun Li and Jonathan Sadowski will reunite with series stars Sarah Shahi, Margaret Odette, Mike Vogel, and Adam Demos in the roles of Francesca, Devon, and Brad, respectively. Production will again take place in Toronto.

Sex/Life—inspired by the book 44 Chapters About 4 Men by BB Easto— tells the story of a love triangle between a woman, her husband, and her past that takes a provocative new look at female identity and desire.

Shahi stars as Billie Connelly, who wasn’t always a stay-at-home wife and mother. She was a free-spirited wild child with her best friend Sasha (Odette) living in New York City before moving to Connecticut with her reliable partner Cooper (Vogel).

Exhausted from taking care of her two young kids and feeling nostalgic for her past, Billie starts journaling and fantasizing about her passionate exploits with sexy ex-boyfriend Brad (Adam Demos), the big heartbreak she never got over. But the more Billie remembers, the more she wonders how she got here — and then her husband finds her journal. The truth of her past could start a sexual revolution in her marriage or lead her down a path back to the life she thought she left behind with the man who broke her heart.

The series was renewed for a second season in September. Season 1 was viewed by 67 million households in its first four weeks, according to the streamer.

Stacy Rukeyser serves as showrunner, creator, executive producer and writer. Academy Award-winning producer J. Miles Dale and Jordan Hawley also executive produce.

Morning Show Appearance

Thursday, March 3— Actors Amanda Seyfried and Naveen Andrews (“The Dropout”)

Victoria Rowell recurs & Evan Parke guests on Good Sam 3/2/22

RECURRING CAST: Sendhil Ramamurthy (Asher Pyne), Victoria Rowell (Tina Kingsley), Marium Carvell (Nurse Donna Williams)

GUEST CAST includes: Evan Parke (Byron), Douglas E. Hughes, (Bernie), Stephen Tracey (Tim)

Talk Show Appearance

Friday, Feb. 25: Amanda Seyfried (“The Dropout”)

Talk Show Appearance

Tuesday, March 1: Guests Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout)

Emmy Rossum To Play Tom Holland’s Mom In Apple TV+ Anthology Series ‘The Crowded Room’

Written and executive produced by Akiva Goldsman, The Crowded Room is an anthology series that will explore inspirational stories of those who have struggled with mental illness and learned to live successfully with it. The 10-episode first season is based in part on Goldsman’s own life and inspired by Daniel Keyes’ biography The Minds of Billy Milligan.

Holland, who also executive produces alongside Goldman, plays the lead, Danny Sullivan, loosely based on Milligan, who was the first person acquitted of a crime because of multiple-personality disorder, now known as dissociative identity disorder.

Rossum, who is less than 9 years 8.5 months older than Holland, will play Candy, Danny’s mother. Through their struggles in life, she dreams of salvation in the form of someone else. Seyfried plays Rya, a clinical psychologist faced with the most challenging case of her career.

The Crowded Room is a co-production between Apple Studios and New Regency. Goldsman serves as executive producer through his Weed Road Productions banner. The series also will be executive produced by Suzanne Heathcote; Alexandra Milchan for EMJAG Productions; and New Regency’s Arnon Milchan, Yariv Milchan and Michael Schaefer. Kornel Mundruczo will serve as director and executive producer on the first season.

Rossum, who starred as Fiona Gallagher in the first nine seasons of Showtime’s Shameless, plays the title role in Peacock’s upcoming limited series Angelyne. She is repped by MGMT, CAA and Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson.

Talk Show Appearance

Friday, Feb. 25

Amanda Seyfried (“The Dropout”)

Amanda Seyfried To Star Opposite Tom Holland In Apple Anthology Series ‘The Crowded Room’

Kornel Mundruczo, who directed the Vanessa Kirby-Shia LaBeouf feature Pieces of a Woman, has been tapped to direct and executive produce the first season.

Written and executive produced by Oscar winner Goldsman, The Crowded Room is an anthology series that will explore inspirational stories of those who have struggled with mental illness and learned to live successfully with it. The 10-episode first season is based in part on Goldsman’s own life and inspired by Daniel Keyes’ biography The Minds of Billy Milligan. Seyfried will play Rya, a clinical psychologist faced with the most challenging case of her career. She cannot help but put her patients first, all the while trying to balance her life as a single mother.

Holland, who also executive produces alongside Goldman, stars in the lead role of Danny Sullivan, loosely based on Milligan, who was the first person acquitted of a crime because of multiple-personality disorder, now known as dissociative identity disorder.

The Crowded Room is a co-production between Apple Studios and New Regency. Goldsman serves as executive producer through his Weed Road Productions banner. The series also will be executive produced by Suzanne Heathcoate; Alexandra Milchan for EMJAG Productions; and New Regency’s Arnon Milchan, Yariv Milchan and Michael Schaefer.

Seyfried received an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Marion Davies in David Fincher’s Mank. She’ll next be seen starring as Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu’s limited series The Dropout. Her other credits include Les Miserables, Mamma Mia! and Dear John.

Seyfried is repped by Innovative and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.

Kathleen Noone Interview 2/24/22

Shortly after her arrival in Hollywood, she landed a number of guest starring roles on such shows as Quantum Leap, Hunter and Empty Nest before accepting the leading role of Claudia Whittaker on the prime-time soap Knots Landing. After Knots, she moved to recurring roles on LA Law and Party of Five. Soon after she started to tackle comedic roles, in the role of Maris’ kooky aunt on Frasier and guest-starring roles on such sitcoms as Love and War, Ned and Stacy, Murphy Brown and Ellen.

In 1996 Aaron Spelling requested that she play ‘Bette’ on Sunset Beach earning her third Emmy nomination. In addition, she played the role of Edna Wallace on NBC's Passions earning her fourth Emmy nomination. Some of her other film and guest starring television appearances include Don't Mess with the Zohan, About Fifty, United States of Tara and a recurring role on Dexter. She co-starred on stage with Linda Gray in Bette Davis Speaks.

Kathleen earned a master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology and in 2001 she started Kathleen Noone’s Emotional Fitness. She wanted to use the combination of her extensive education, life experience and over 40 years in the entertainment industry to be of service to those already in the business and most importantly to those just coming into it. In addition, she conducts Emotional Fitness seminars for colleges and universities on Creating and Sustaining A Successful Career in Theatre and the Entertainment Industry.

Evan Parke guests on Good Sam 2/23/22

GUEST CAST includes: Evan Parke (Byron), Yanna Mcintosh (Dr. Rhonda Glass), Stephen Tracey (Tim)

Jen Landon recurs & Christian Campbell guests on FBI: Most Wanted

RECURRING CAST: Jen Landon (Sarah Allen)

GUEST CAST includes: Glenn Fleshler (Caleb Walsh), Andrew Kai (Craig Osterholm), Christian Campbell (Daniel Osterholm)

‘Measure Of Revenge’: Vertical Entertainment Acquires Rights To Thriller Starring Melissa Leo, Bella Thorne & Jake Weary

In the debut feature of Malaysian helmer Peyfa, Broadway actress Lillian Cooper (Leo) is making her final on-stage appearance when her famous son, Curtis (Weary), is found dead. When his death is ruled as an accidental overdose, a suspicious Lillian decides to take matters into her own hands. On a quest for answers, she strikes up an unlikely alliance with her son’s drug dealer, Taz (Thorne), setting in motion a bloody warpath to uncover the truth, inspired by the characters she portrayed on stage.

Measure of Revenge also stars Roma Maffia (Disclosure), Adrian Martinez (The Guilty, Focus) and Benedict Samuel (The Walk). Jen Gatien (Midnight Sun, Limelight) produced with Peter Wong (Clemency, Malignant) and Timur Bekbosunov (Color Out of Space, Come Away) for ACE Pictures Entertainment. Johnny Chang, Bronwyn Cornelius and Emma Lee exec produced, with Jay Cannold co-producing.

“Melissa steps into this role of a grieving and relentless mother seeking justice for her son with such ease that it draws the viewer deeply into her journey and keeps you captivated and rooting for her every step of the way,” said Vertical Entertainment Partner Peter Jarowey.

“We are excited to partner up with Vertical Entertainment on Measure of Revenge to release a film that is an emotional and thrilling experience filled with mystery and surprise,” added Gatien, Wong and Bekbosunov in a joint statement. “Melissa Leo delivers a powerful and energetic performance in the role of a mother hellbent on revenge, forming great screen chemistry with the immensely talented Bella Thorne. We can’t wait for audiences to discover the film.”

ACE Pictures Entertainment is a film production and investment company, with a focus on genre fare. Chang leads its team as CEO, with Wong as President, Lee as VP of Business Affairs and Bekbosunov as VP of Creative Affairs. Since its 2017 launch, the company has provided full financing and production services for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Clemency, starring Alfre Woodard, which was released by Neon and Focus Features; the dark Sundance comedy Blush, starring Wendi McLendon-Covey; the documentary M for Magic about the world-renowned Magic Castle; the supernatural thriller Daniel Isn’t Real, starring Patrick Schwarzenegger and Miles Robbins, released by Samuel Goldwyn and sold internationally by Voltage; and the horror cult hit Color Out of Space, directed by Richard Stanley and starring Nicolas Cage, which was released by RLJ Entertainment and sold internationally by XYZ. ACE Pictures also provided partial financing for the fantastical drama Come Away, directed by Brenda Chapman and starring Angelina Jolie, which was released by Relativity Media, and James Wan’s horror film Malignant.

Vertical Entertainment is a global independent distributor, which was founded in 2012. Other upcoming releases from the company include the SXSW & Venice prize winner Topside; the Sundance thriller Emily the Criminal, starring Aubrey Plaza, which it co-acquired with Roadside Attractions; Lyle Mitchell Corbine, Jr.’s Independent Spirit Award-nominated Wild Indian, starring Michael Greyeyes and Chaske Spencer; Krystin Ver Linden’s Alice, starring Keke Palmer, Common, Gaius Charles and Jonny Lee Miller, which premiered at Sundance 2022; and romantic comedy The Hating Game, starring Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell.

Tony Piantedosi negotiated the deal for Measure of Revenge on behalf of Vertical Entertainment, with Bekbosunov and CAA on behalf of ACE Pictures. Leo is represented by APA and The Initiative Group; Thorne by CAA, Thirty Three Management and Strategic Public Relations; and Weary by Gersh, Management 360 and Shafran PR.

Roselyn Sanchez & Eric Winter Ink Producing Deal With Kapital, Set ‘HSI: Puerto Rico’ Drama At CBS

Under the deal, Two for the Road and Kapital have sold their first project, procedural drama HSI: Puerto Rico, to CBS.

Additionally, the companies have optioned the book White Smoke by New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D Jackson for TV development. Published in 2021, the YA psychological thriller is described as The Haunting of Hill House meets Get Out.

In HSI: Puerto Rico, written and executive produced by Lisa Morales (Queen Sugar), a hot-headed Homeland Security agent reluctantly returns home to Puerto Rico where she works with her talented but jaded training officer as part of an elite HSI team working tirelessly as the first line of defense against all manner of threats to the United States.

Puerto Rico-born and raised Sanchez and Winter executive produce via Two for the Road; Kaplan and Brian Morewitz executive produce for Kapital, which serves as the studio. Jessie Abbott is overseeing for Kapital.

Kaplan has known Sanchez and Winter for a while, and Winter has starred in two Kapital series, GCB and Secrets and Lies, both on ABC.

“Ros, Eric and I have been longtime friends, and we have often talked about working together,” Kaplan said. “They have an impeccable eye for content, incredible relationships, and I’m looking forward to our producing partnership.”

Winter is repped by Gersh and Brillstein Entertainment. Sanchez is repped by APA and Alchemy. Both are also repped by attorney Bob Wallerstein.

Morales also served as showrunner of the CW’s Two Sentence Horror Stories anthology horror series.

‘The Dropout’ Trailer: Amanda Seyfried Charts Rise And Fall Of Would-Be Billionaire Elizabeth Holmes In Hulu Limited Series

The Hulu Original Series, based on the podcast of the same name by Rebecca Jarvis and ABC Audio, chronicles the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) and her company, Theranos, which falsely claimed to have developed groundbreaking blood testing technology.

The Dropout also stars Naveen Andrews, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Kate Burton, Michel Gill, LisaGay Hamilton, William H. Macy, Elizabeth Marvel, Laurie Metcalf, Dylan Minnette, Alan Ruck, Sam Waterston and Michaela Watkins, among others. The series marking Searchlight Television’s first production, in concert with 20th Television, was exec produced by Elizabeth Meriwether, Liz Heldens, Liz Hannah, Katherine Pope, Rebecca Jarvis, Victoria Thompson and Taylor Dunn, with Meriwether also serving as showrunner. Michael Showalter, who directed multiple episodes, also exec produced with his Semi-Formal Productions partner Jordana Mollick.

Check out the trailer for The Dropout above.

‘Yellowstone’ Renewed For Season 5 At Paramount Network; Jen Landon & Kathryn Kelly Upped To Series Regulars

Paramount Network has officially handed its crown jewel Yellowstone a fifth season.

The move is unsurprising given that the Kevin Costner-fronted series is a linear ratings smash in a world of declining traditional ratings – the company said that the fourth season premiere was watched by 14M viewers and the finale scored 15M.

In fact, Taylor Sheridan, who co-created the series and arguably is ViacomCBS’ most valuable asset, told Deadline at the end of last year that Season 5 of the western drama will shoot in May. Costner’s John Dutton will be joined more regularly by a couple of characters as guest stars Jen Landon and Kathryn Kelly have been upped to series regulars alongside Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley, Cole Hauser, Kelsey Asbille, Brecken Merrill, Jefferson White, Forrie Smith, Denim Richards, Ian Bohen, Finn Little, Ryan Bingham and Gil Birmingham, who all are returning.

Landon joined the series in Season 3 as Teeter, a tough-talking ranch hand from Texas, while Kelly joined in Season 4 as Emily, the chief vet technician for the 6666 Ranch and fiancé to White’s Jimmy Hurdstrom.

The series, which is produced by 101 Studios and MTV Entertainment Studios, follows the Dutton family, led by John Dutton, who controls the largest contiguous cattle ranch in the United States. Amid shifting alliances, unsolved murders, open wounds, and hard-earned respect – the ranch is in constant conflict with those it borders – an expanding town, an Indian reservation, and America’s first national park.

[SPOILER ALERT] Season 4 saw the family in a precarious position, though Reilly’s Beth Dutton took care of business and got back in her father’s good books.

The series, which streams on NBCUniversal’s Peacock, is exec produced by Sheridan and co-creator John Linson alongside include Costner, Art Linson, David C. Glasser, Bob Yari and Stephen Kay.

“Yellowstone’s record-breaking performance proves we’ve tapped a cultural nerve and unleashed a passionate audience from the center of the country to each of the coasts,” said Chris McCarthy, President and CEO of ViacomCBS Media Networks. “Kevin Costner leads our incredible cast who make the Duttons America’s favorite family and, this new season is sure to be another one fans won’t want to miss.”

Added Glasser: “We are honored to be able to bring audiences another season of Yellowstone. The continued growth in viewership and the recent recognition from the guilds bolsters our commitment to continue to bring groundbreaking entertainment to audiences.”

Wendie Malick recurs & Ming-Na Wen guests on Young Sheldon 2/24/22

RECURRING CAST: Wallace Shawn (Dr. Sturgis), Ed Begley, Jr. (Dr. Linkletter), Wendie Malick (President Hagemeyer), Rex Linn (Principal Petersen).

GUEST CAST: Ming-Na Wen (Dr. Lee), Derrick L. McMillon (Hal).

The Lewis Family - Rebecca Hollen, Robert Newman and Krista Tesreau 2/11/22

Rebecca made her daytime television debut on As the World Turns in the role of Tina Cornell in 1978 before joining Guiding Light in 1981. She played the role of Trish until November of 1985 and returned to the show a few times over the years. In addition to Tina and Trish, she played the part of Peggy Lazarus on Another World. Before working in daytime, Rebecca made a living working on stage and in commercials for Nabisco and Hallmark to name a few.

Robert Newman played Joshua Lewis on and off the canvas for 28 years. Since Guiding Light left the air, he has appeared on stage, in primetime and on film in several high-profile roles. Some of those roles include The Amazing Spider Man 2, Homeland, House of Cards, Criminal Minds and Law and Order: SVU to name a few. He just took over the role of Ashland Locke on CBS' The Young and the Restless and the fans can't wait to see what trouble Robert stirs up in Genoa City. Robert's first airdate on Y&R is February 9th.

Krista Tesreau Strauss played Melinda Sue Lewis for six years before departing Springfield for good in 1989. Fans were always happy to see her return over the years and were thrilled when she came back to the show at the end of the series to bring the "Four Musketeers" together one last time. Krista also returned to daytime television as Andi Klein on Santa Barbara. She assumed the role of the tantalizing Tina Roberts on One Life to Live in 1994, and played that role for three years. In addition to her daytime roles, Krista has appeared in several hit prime-time series.

‘Tales Of The Walking Dead’: Anthony Edwards, Parker Posey, Terry Crews, Poppy Liu, Jillian Bell To Star In ‘TWD’ Spinoff

Additionally, Haifaa al-Mansour (Good Lord Bird, Motherland), Deborah Kampmeier (Star Trek: Picard) and Tara Nicole Weyr (The Wilds, Bosch) have been tapped to direct one episode with series producer Michael Satrazemis (The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead) set to direct three episodes.

Each one-hour standalone episode of Tales of the Walking Dead will focus on both new and established characters set in the world of the original series. It’s set to premiere this summer on AMC and AMC+.

The series will be executive produced by Scott M. Gimple, chief content officer of The Walking Dead Universe, and showrunner Channing Powell, writer-producer on The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead.

“Anthony, Jillian, Terry, Parker, and Poppy are the first wave of singular talents who will further expand the Walking Dead Universe into harrowing, hilarious, heartfelt, and horrifying new realms and we couldn’t be happier to welcome them to the family, along with these terrific directors. More announcements, more wonderful folks to come,” said Gimple.

Moses J. Moseley Dies: ‘The Walking Dead’ Actor Was 31

“We’ve worked hard to create unique, interesting and unexpected characters for both old and new TWD fans, and I’m thrilled that these are the actors who will bring them to life. I can’t wait for you to see the depth, drama, terror and, yes, humor they bring to the screen,” said Powell.

Edwards will next be seen in Shonda Rhimes’ Netflix series Inventing Anna, starring Julia Garner, and Apple TV+’s WeCrashed, starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway. He is repped by Gersh and Lovett management.

Upcoming for Parker is the HBO Max limited The Staircase, and the feature Disappointment Blvd for A24. Repped by Gersh, she was most recently seen in Netflix’s Lost In Space.

Crews is the author of Tough: My Journey to True Power and has appeared in numerous series, including Brooklyn Nine-Nine, among others. He is repped by UTA, 3 Arts and Morris Yorn.

Liu will be seen opposite Rachel Weisz in Amazon’s upcoming series Dead Ringers. She can also be seen as Kiki in the HBO Max series Hacks, opposite Jean Smart. She recently recurred on AMC’s Better Call Saul and starred opposite Kal Penn in NBC’s Sunnyside. Liu is repped by Buchwald, Framework Entertainment and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham.

Bell’s credits include Brittany Runs a Marathon, Rough Night, Idiotsitter and Workaholics, among others. She is repped by 3 Arts, UTA and Chad Christopher.

Julie Pinson & Billy Warlock Interview

Julie made her daytime television debut on Port Charles playing Eve Lambert. In addition to Eve and Billie, Julie went on to play Janet Ciccone on As the World Turns where she earned a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress. She also played the part of Shiloh on The Young and the Restless in and appeared on River Ridge as Kimberly Reeves.

Billy Warlock made his television debut on the 10th season of the ABC hit comedy, Happy Days. He then went on to play the lifeguard Eddie Kramer on the first three seasons of Baywatch. Billy joined the cast of Days of Our Lives in 1986 and in 1988 he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor. In addition to Frankie, Billy played A.J. Quartermaine on General Hospital, Ben Hollander on The Young and the Restless, Ross Rayburn on One Life to Live and as Anthony Blackthorn on As the World Turns working with Julie.

Donald May Dies: ‘The Edge Of Night’, ‘Falcon Crest’ Actor Was 92

His death was announced by his family on a Facebook page devoted to The Edge of Night.

From 1967 to 1977, May played the good-guy attorney Adam Drake, first making his mark on the soap in a notable 1968 episode during which May delivered the episode’s only dialogue: a 22-minute trial summation in which he argued for the innocence of his client, a singer accused of murder. The jury found the client guilty and sentence her to be hanged, but Drake went into detective mode to find the real killer, saving the singer at the last minute.

May joined The Edge of Night following a steady TV career that began in 1956 with a starring role in the short-lived drama series West Point. Guest appearances in episodic TV followed, including roles on Hawaiian Eye, 77 Sunset Strip, Sugarfoot, Colt .45, Surfside 6, Combat, The FBI and others.

Following his 10-year tenure at Edge of Night, May returned to guesting on episodic TV in the late ’70s (Fantasy Island, Barnaby Jones, The Facts of Life, eventually landing a regular role on the early ’80s NBC daytime soap Texas. During his 1981-82 Texas stint, May co-starred with wife Carla Borelli. The two would also appear together on the programs Falcon Crest and O.C. and Stiggs.

In addition to other soap appearances (As the World Turns, All My Children and One Life to Live), May appeared in various stage productions in both New York and Los Angeles over the years.

In addition to Borelli, May is survived by sons Douglas and Christopher, an actor whose credits include The Afterparty, American Crime Story, General Hospital and Selena: The Series.

Ming-Na Wen Visits Sheldon

The actress will play Dr. Carol Lee, the director of experimental cosmology at East Texas Tech University, who butts heads with the titular 11-year-old student.

Young Sheldon‘s mothership series The Big Bang Theory has a history of Star Wars cameos: Mark Hamill officiated Sheldon and Amy’s wedding in the Season 11 finale, while James Earl Jones played a heightened version of himself in the memorable Season 7 episode “The Convention Conundrum,” which saw Jones and Sheldon ding-dong ditch a bat-wielding Carrie Fisher after a wild night out on the town.

In addition to role as Fennec Shand in the Disney+ Star Wars series The Book of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian, Wen’s TV credits include Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Stargate Universe and ER.

Morning Show Appearance

Tuesday, Jan. 25— actress Ming-Na Wen

Talk Show Appearance

Wednesday, Jan. 26

Actress Ming-Na Wen

Talk Show Appearance

Tu 1/18: Jason Biggs

Margaret Colin Interview 1/19/22

Margaret has worked non-stop for the last four decades appearing on film, in primetime and on Broadway. Movie fans will recognize Margaret for her roles in Something Wild, Three Men and a Baby, The Butcher's Wife, Independence Day, The Devil's Own, Unfaithful and First Daughter. Her primetime roles include Foley Square, Leg Work, Chicago Hope, Now and Again, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Chicago Med, Shades of Blue, and HBO's hit series Veep. Gossip Girls fans will remember her for her role as Eleanor Waldorf on the hit CW series which she just reprised in the HBO Max update.

Colin met actor Justin Deas when he played her love interest, Tom Hughes, on As the World Turns. They were married in January 1988 and have two sons.

SAG Awards Nominations

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

BELFAST
CAITRÍONA BALFE / Ma
JUDI DENCH / Granny
JAMIE DORNAN / Pa
JUDE HILL / Buddy
CIARÁN HINDS / Pop
COLIN MORGAN / Billy Clanton

CODA
EUGENIO DERBEZ / Bernardo Villalobos
DANIEL DURANT / Leo Rossi
EMILIA JONES / Ruby Rossi
TROY KOTSUR / Frank Rossi
MARLEE MATLIN / Jackie Rossi
FERDIA WALSH-PEELO / Miles

DON’T LOOK UP
CATE BLANCHETT / Brie Evantee
TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET / Yule
LEONARDO DiCAPRIO / Dr. Randall Mindy
ARIANA GRANDE / Riley Bina
JONAH HILL / Jason Orlean
JENNIFER LAWRENCE / Kate Dibiasky
MELANIE LYNSKEY / June Mindy
SCOTT MESCUDI / DJ Chello
ROB MORGAN / Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe
HIMESH PATEL / Phillip
RON PERLMAN / Benedict Drask
TYLER PERRY / Jack Bremmer
MARK RYLANCE / Peter Isherwell
MERYL STREEP / President Orlean

HOUSE OF GUCCI
ADAM DRIVER / Maurizio Gucci
LADY GAGA / Patrizia Reggiani
SALMA HAYEK / Pina Auriemma
JACK HUSTON / Domenico De Sole
JEREMY IRONS / Rodolfo Gucci
JARED LETO / Paolo Gucci
AL PACINO / Aldo Gucci

KING RICHARD
JON BERNTHAL / Rick Macci
AUNJANUE ELLIS / Oracene “Brandi” Williams
TONY GOLDWYN / Paul Cohen
SANIYYA SIDNEY / Venus Williams
DEMI SINGLETON / Serena Williams
WILL SMITH / Richard Williams

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

THE HANDMAID’S TALE
ALEXIS BLEDEL / Emily Malek
MADELINE BREWER / Janine Lindo
AMANDA BRUGEL / Rita Blue
ANN DOWD / Aunt Lydia Clements
O-T FAGBENLE / Luke Bankole
JOSEPH FIENNES / Commander Fred Waterford
SAM JAEGER / Mark Tuello
MAX MINGHELLA / Commander Nick Blaine
ELISABETH MOSS / June Osborne/Offred
YVONNE STRAHOVSKI / Serena Joy Waterford
BRADLEY WHITFORD / Commander Joseph Lawrence
SAMIRA WILEY / Moira Strand

THE MORNING SHOW
JENNIFER ANISTON / Alex Levy
SHARI BELAFONTE / Julia
ELI BILDNER / Joel Rapkin
NESTOR CARBONELL / Yanko Flores
STEVE CARELL / Mitch Kessler
BILLY CRUDUP / Cory Ellison
MARK DUPLASS / Charlie “Chip” Black
AMBER FRIENDLY / Layla Bell
JANINA GAVANKAR / Alison Namazi
VALERIA GOLINO / Paola Lambruschini
TARA KARSIAN / Gayle Berman
HANNAH LEDER / Isabella
GRETA LEE / Stella Bak
JULIANNA MARGULIES / Laura Peterson
JOE MARINELLI / Donny Spagnoli
MICHELLE MEREDITH / Lindsey Sherman
RUAIRI O’CONNOR / Ty Fitzgerald
JOE PACHECO / Bart Daley
KAREN PITTMAN / Mia Jordan
VICTORIA TATE / Rena Robinson
DESEAN K. TERRY / Daniel Henderson
REESE WITHERSPOON / Bradley Jackson

SQUID GAME
HEO SUNG-TAE / Deok-su
JUN YOUNG-SOO / Game Operator Voice
JUNG HO-YEON / Kang Sae-byeok
KIM JOO-RYOUNG / Mi-nyeo
LEE BYUNG-HUN / Front Man
LEE JUNG-JAE / Seong Gi-hun
OH YOUNG-SOO / Oh Il-nam
PARK HAE-SOO / Cho Sang-woo
ANUPAM TRIPATHI / Ali
WI HA-JUN / Hwang Jun-ho

SUCCESSION
NICHOLAS BRAUN / Greg Hirsch
JULIANA CANFIELD / Jess Jordan
BRIAN COX / Logan Roy
KIERAN CULKIN / Roman Roy
DAGMARA DOMINCZYK / Karolina Novotney
PETER FRIEDMAN / Frank Vernon
JIHAE / Berry Schneider
JUSTINE LUPE / Willa
MATTHEW MACFADYEN / Tom Wambsgans
DASHA NEKRASOVA / Comfrey Pellits
SCOTT NICHOLSON / Colin
DAVID RASCHE / Karl Muller
ALAN RUCK / Connor Roy
J. SMITH-CAMERON / Gerri Kellman
SARAH SNOOK / Shiv Roy
FISHER STEVENS / Hugo Baker
JEREMY STRONG / Kendall Roy
ZOË WINTERS / Kerry Castellabate

YELLOWSTONE
KELSEY ASBILLE / Monica Dutton
WES BENTLEY / Jamie Dutton
RYAN BINGHAM / Walker
GIL BIRMINGHAM / Thomas Rainwater
IAN BOHEN / Ryan
EDEN BROLIN / Mia
KEVIN COSTNER / John Dutton
HUGH DILLON / Sheriff Donnie Haskell
LUKE GRIMES / Kayce Dutton
HASSIE HARRISON / Laramie
COLE HAUSER / Rip Wheeler
JEN LANDON / Teeter
FINN LITTLE / Carter
BRECKEN MERRILL / Tate Dutton
WILL PATTON / Garrett Randle
PIPER PERABO / Summer Higgins
KELLY REILLY / Beth Dutton
DENIM RICHARDS / Colby
TAYLOR SHERIDAN / Travis
FORRIE J. SMITH / Lloyd
JEFFERSON WHITE / Jimmy Hurdstrom

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

THE GREAT
JULIAN BARRATT / Dr. Vinodel
BELINDA BROMILOW / Aunt Elizabeth
SACHA DHAWAN / Orlo
ELLE FANNING / Catherine
PHOEBE FOX / Marial
BAYO GBADAMOSI / Arkady
ADAM GODLEY / Archbishop
DOUGLAS HODGE / Velementov
NICHOLAS HOULT / Peter
FLORENCE KEITH-ROACH / Tatyana
GWILYM LEE / Grigor Dymov
CHARITY WAKEFIELD / Georgina

HACKS
ROSE ABDOO / Josefina
CARL CLEMONS-HOPKINS / Marcus Vaughan
PAUL W. DOWNS / Jimmy Lusaque, Jr.
HANNAH EINBINDER / Ava Daniels
MARK INDELICATO / Damien
POPPY LIU / Kiki
CHRIS McDONALD / Marty Ghilain
JEAN SMART / Deborah Vance
MEGAN STALTER / Kayla Schaeffer

THE KOMINSKY METHOD
JENNA LYNG ADAMS / Darshani
SARAH BAKER / Mindy Kominsky
CASEY THOMAS BROWN / Lane
MICHAEL DOUGLAS / Sandy Kominsky
LISA EDELSTEIN / Phoebe
ASHLEIGH LaTHROP / Breana
EMILY OSMENT / Theresa
HALEY JOEL OSMENT / Robbie
PAUL REISER / Martin
GRAHAM ROGERS / Jude
MELISSA TANG / Margaret
KATHLEEN TURNER / Roz

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING
AARON DOMINGUEZ / Oscar
SELENA GOMEZ / Mabel Mora
JACKIE HOFFMAN / Uma Heller
JAYNE HOUDYSHELL / Bunny
STEVE MARTIN / Charles-Haden Savage
AMY RYAN / Jan
MARTIN SHORT / Oliver Putnam

TED LASSO
ANNETTE BADLAND / Mae
KOLA BOKINNI / Isaac McAdoo
PHIL DUNSTER / Jamie Tartt
CRISTO FERNÁNDEZ / Dani Rojas
BRETT GOLDSTEIN / Roy Kent
BRENDAN HUNT / Coach Beard
TOHEEB JIMOH / Sam Obisanya
NICK MOHAMMED / Nathan Shelley
SARAH NILES / Dr. Sharon Fieldstone
JASON SUDEIKIS / Ted Lasso
JEREMY SWIFT / Leslie Higgins
JUNO TEMPLE / Keeley Jones
HANNAH WADDINGHAM / Rebecca Welton

Gina Rodriguez directs & Evan Parke guests on Good Sam 1/19/22

GUEST CAST includes: Marium Carvell (Nurse Donna Williams), Evan Parke (Byron Kingsley)

WRITTEN BY: Jen Klein

DIRECTED BY: Gina Rodriguez

Morning Show Appearance

Wednesday, Jan. 12— actress Ming-Na Wen (“The Book of Boba Fett”);

Talk Show Appearance

Fr 1/14: Ming-Na Wen

Evan Parke guests on Good Sam 1/12/22

GUEST CAST includes: Marium Carvell (Nurse Donna Williams), Evan Parke (Byron Kingsley), Keira Loughran (Dr. Danielle Hamamura).

Soap Opera Directors Interview - Bruce Barry, Sonia Blangiardo, Scott McKinsey, Phideaux Xavier

These four talented directors have brought to life some of your favorite stories, characters and moments in daytime television history over the last few decades. The shows they have worked on include All My Children, Another World, As the World Turns, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, Guiding Light, Love of Life, Passions, Search for Tomorrow, Sunset Beach, Texas and The Young and the Restless to name a few.

Sarah Joy Brown Interview 1/13/22

Sarah's career began at the prestigious Los Angeles County High School for the Performing Arts and she graduated from both LACHSA’s Theatre Department and Alexander Hamilton’s Academy of Music. Sarah launched her professional career on her nineteenth birthday when she was cast as the series lead on children's series V.R. Troopers which aired in more than thirty countries around the world.

Two years later, Sarah won the lead role of Carly on General Hospital. In five years on GH, Sarah was nominated for four Emmy awards and won three. Since leaving, Sarah has appeared on multiple hit television series and became a series regular on Cold Case. She followed Cold Case with a co-starring role in the blockbuster comedy "Big Mommas House" starring comedy legend Martin Lawrence.

In 2008 Sarah returned to General Hospital in the newly created role of Claudia Zacchara for which she was nominated for another Emmy. In 2015 Sarah was nominated for an Emmy for her starring role in the independent web series Beacon Hill. Sarah currently stars on the Emmy winning series, Studio City, on Amazon Prime, for which she was again nominated for an Emmy in 2021.

Sarah transitioned into directing during the summer of 2021 when she agreed to direct and edit ten episodes of a streaming audio drama from Violet Hour Media, the leading Horror Podcast network. The series is titled Red Ridding Hoods and is currently available across all audio streaming platforms.

Cassandra Creech is joining The Bold and the Beautiful

Joan Copeland Dies: Broadway Actress, Sister Of Playwright Arthur Miller Was 99

One of the original members of the renowned Actors Studio, Copeland also had numerous film credits and recurring roles on such daytime serials as Search for Tomorrow and One Life to Live. Copeland’s death was first reported by the Broadway World website.

Copeland made her Broadway debut in 1948’s Sundown Beach, following it up the next year in Detective Story. She also appeared in Not For Children (1951), Handful of Fire (1958), Tovarich (1963), Something More! (1964), The Price (1968), Coco (1969), Two By Two (1970), Checking Out (1976), and 45 Seconds From Broadway (2001).

She was nominated for Drama Desk Awards for Pal Joey (1976) and The American Clock (1981), winning for the latter. She won an Obie Award in 1991 for her performance in Richard Greenburg’s The American Plan at the Manhattan Theatre Club Off Broadway.

Beginning her TV career with a role on the 1950 series Suspense, Copeland would appear in numerous of the era’s anthology dramas, as well as daytime serials Love of Life and The Edge of Night before taking the role of Search For Tomorrow‘s Andrea Whiting for five years starting in 1967. She also had roles on How To Survive a Marriage, As The World Turns and One Life To Live, and in such episodic programs as The Patty Duke Show, All in The Family, Chicago Hope, NYPD Blue and ER, among others. She recurred as Judge Rebecca Stein from 1991 to 2001 on Law & Order.

Copeland’s film credits The Goddess (1958), Middle of the Night (1959), Roseland (1977), It’s My Turn (1980), A Little Sex (1982), Happy New Year (1987), The Laser Man (1988), Her Alibi (1989), Jungle 2 Jungle (1997), The Peacemaker (1997), The Object of My Affection (1998), The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (1998), Brother Bear (2003), The Last Request (2006), and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009).

Born in New York City to parents Isidore and Augusta Miller, Copeland was the younger sister of Death of a Salesman playwright Arthur Miller and their brother Kermit Miller. She was preceded in death by husband George J. Kupchik and is survived by son Eric Kupchik.

As the World Turns - Anne Sayre Interview

Roselyn Sanchez: ‘It sucks’ COVID is disrupting New Year’s Eve in Puerto Rico

“Listen to me, I’m going to be transparent: It sucks that this is happening during COVID, to be honest with you,” the actress, 48, exclusively told Page Six.

“But I want to keep everything positive,” she continued. “COVID is such a downer, but it’s the reality that we live in. We were going to have 10,000 people — it was a life-changing event. Can you imagine the energy of Daddy Yankee onstage with 10,000 people screaming? Just beautiful. But now we’re not able to do that, so we have to adjust.”

The show’s Spanish concert countdown in San Juan will still have Daddy Yankee perform — but it’ll be virtual with no audience.

Ryan Seacrest is hosting the annual Times Square countdown in New York City with Liza Koshy, while Ciara and Billy Porter will anchor in Los Angeles and New Orleans, respectively.

“The logistics changed for New Orleans, for Times Square, for LA. We all have to adjust,” Sanchez told us. “It is what it is, and we have to accept it, and we have to embrace it. The whole idea is to allow people to have a fantastic five and a half hours of good music and forget about what we’re going through and just [look] forward to 2022 with a smile. That’s all we can do.”

The star of Fox’s “Fantasy Island” reboot admittedly has “a little anxiety” about hosting the New Year’s special, which also marks the 500th anniversary of her native San Juan.

“I want to tell you, ‘No, I’m not fine,’ but it’s OK. It’s good butterflies. You know when you get a little anxiety? But I love it,” she said. “As a performer, it’s like, it’s a good thing when you feel that. I’m nervous, but I’m happy … and I’m honored. I can’t wait to go back home and just have a blast and receive 2022 with a Spanish countdown. It is about time that it happens. I’m happy that they chose me for this responsibility. It is pretty awesome.”

While discussing the much-needed changes in the entertainment industry, Sanchez — who will make her directorial debut with the Puerto Rico-set film “Diario, Mujer y Café” — also addressed the issue of ageism.

“Listen … I’m a testament of older actresses working,” she told us. “I’ve been doing it consistently for many, many, many years. But check out the majority of movies that they have a leading man in their 60s, 50s — and look at the lady beside them for that part. It ain’t going to be somebody the same age, right? You know, out of 10 movies, maybe one will give you that. For the most part, they go with the younger one.”

“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” airs Friday at 8 p.m. on ABC.

Amanda Seyfried isolating from husband after COVID-19 exposure

The “Mean Girls” star celebrated Christmas apart from her husband, Thomas Sadoski, and their 1-year-old son, Thomas, after she and her mini-me daughter, 4-year-old Nina, were exposed to COVID-19.

“It kills me that my girl and I are separated from her dad and brother this Christmas,” Seyfried, 36, wrote on her Instagram Stories on Saturday.

“It’s a s–t time to be in isolation and it’s happening everywhere,” she continued.

Seyfried said she was trying her “very, very best to find the beauty, adjust to the reality, and make incredible memories” of her “barn holiday” with little Nina.

“But it’s f–king hard. And that’s OK too,” she added. “Happy Christmas Eve to all. Hold the people you can hold tighter, even.”

Seyfried revealed that she was exposed to the coronavirus days just “three days before” she was eligible to receive her booster shot.

“I’m left wondering if the six-month rule between shots still holds the same weight,” she inquired on Instagram.

“If I’d been able to get my booster sooner, maybe I would have dodged the virus,” she continued. “Maybe. Should that rule still apply?”

Seyfried wed Sadoski in 2017. They welcomed daughter Nina in March 2017, and she gave birth to son Thomas, named after his father, in September 2020.

Roselyn Sanchez guests on Home Economics 1/5/21

Guest starring is Tetona Jackson as JoJo and Roselyn Sanchez as Sofía Salazar.

“Men’s Water-Resistant Watch, $289” was written by Tucker Cawley and directed by Kimmy Gatewood.

Screen Media Acquires Stephanie Laing’s Comedy ‘Family Squares’ Starring Ann Dowd, Margo Martindale, Henry Winkler, June Squibb & More

The film from writer-director Stephanie Laing (Physical, Made for Love) is a love letter to her family, the South and small-town America based on the passing of her mother, which was for the most part shot remotely during quarantine, with Laing directing actors via video conference. It centers on the members of the divided Worth family, who are forced to come together when Grandma Mabel dies, soon discovering that like everyone else, she had been keeping some secrets from her loved ones.

Laing penned the script for Family Squares with Brad Morris (Bajillion Dollar Propertie$), and produced through her Cake or Death Pictures with Alex Saks (Red Rocket) and Peter Odiorne (The Middle of X). Patrick Somerville (Station 11) exec produced alongside Jonathon Tropper (Sea).

“Stephanie’s unique vision for Family Squares was a perfect fit for Unbounded Media’s ability to produce content within the shifting landscape of independent film production,” said Odiorne. “She called me and my partner Larry Swets (executive producer) and 15 minutes later we green-lit the film, then production began 4 weeks later. Unbounded thinking is how good stories get from talented filmmakers to the world.”

“Family Squares delighted us with its stellar ensemble cast, heartfelt humor, and clever virtual storytelling techniques,” added Screen Media in a statement. “We were blown away by the performances Stephanie elicited from the stellar ensemble cast, all while directing remotely. The result is the kind of uplifting comedy that the entire family can enjoy.”

Screen Media, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment company, also recently acquired Phillip Noyce’s hitman thriller Fast Charlie, starring Pierce Brosnan, along with Benjamin Louis’ horror film, Stoker Hills. It claimed rights to crime thriller La Soga Salvation following its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, picking up Casey Tebo’s Black Friday, starring Devon Sawa and Bruce Campbell, upon its Fantastic Fest debut. Recent releases from the company include Brent Wilson’s documentary Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road; James Nunn’s One Shot, starring Scott Adkins and Ryan Phillippe; Lina Roessler’s Best Sellers, starring Aubrey Plaza and Michael Caine, and Chase Palmer’s Naked Singularity, starring John Boyega and Olivia Cooke.

Katharyn Howe, VP of Global Acquisitions and Co-Productions, negotiated the acquisition deal for Family Squares with WME Independent on behalf of the filmmakers.

Tamara Tunie Interview 12/17/21

Ms. Tunie has starred for 18 seasons as Medical Examiner Dr. Melinda Warner in Wolf Films/Universal Media Studio’s top-rated series “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” She starred as Marie Van Der Veen, the matriarch and the “moral fiber” of a Native American tribe, on Sundance TV’s THE RED ROAD. The role is a marked departure from the sophisticated and powerful women she is known for portraying. Ms. Tunie, also, starred in AMC’s series DIETLAND and the BBC/Netflix political drama Black Earth Rising.

Ms. Tunie has had other memorable roles on television, most notably as the longstanding character Jessica Griffin on the CBS Daytime Drama “As The World Turns,” for which she received two NAACP Image Award nominations and two Soap Opera Digest award nominations. She also appeared in the highly visible role of Alberta Green in Season One of the hit series “24”, as well as recurring roles and guest appearances on “Almost Family” “Emergence”, “Better Call Saul”, “Blue Bloods”, “Billions”, “Alpha House”, “Elementary” “Survivor’s Remorse”, “Zoo”, "The Good Wife”, “Law and Order,” “Sex and the City,” and “NYPD Blue”, to name a handful.

In film, Ms. Tunie worked with legendary director Robert Zemekis, opposite Denzel Washington in “FLIGHT”, and has worked with several other of the most respected directors of the screen, including Taylor Hackford, Brian De Palma, Mimi Leder, Harold Becker and Oliver Stone. She had the unique opportunity to work with the legendary Al Pacino twice; she portrayed the possessed wife of a partner in his law firm in the hit film “The Devil’s Advocate,” and his press secretary in “City Hall.” She also worked with famed director Kasi Lemmons and Samuel L. Jackson on both “Eve’s Bayou” and “The Caveman’s Valentine.” Ms. Tunie was also featured in some wonderful “Indies”, like “Irreplaceable You”, “Fall to Rise” and “Bad Vegan”.

Ms. Tunie is a founding member of Black Theatre United.

For more information on Tamara Tunie: https://www.tamaratunie.com

BLACK THEATRE UNITED https://www.blacktheatreunited.com/.

‘Cowboy Bebop’ Canceled By Netflix After One Season

Based on Shinichir? Watanabe’s cult anime series, Cowboy Bebop followed a group of misfit bounty hunters, led by Spike Spiegel (Cho) as they search for the galaxy’s most valuable criminals. Mustafa Shakir also starred as Spike’s trusted co-pilot Jet Black and Daniella Pineda as the highly-skilled bounty hunter Faye Valentine. The series debuted on November 19.

The highly-anticipated live action adaptation experienced delays over the course of production due to Cho’s on-set injury, which put the show out for seven to nine months. Original anime series director Shinichir? Watanabe was a consultant on the series, and original composer Yoko Kanno returned to score the live-action adaptation.

The live-action take on the anime classic was met with mixed reviews by critics and fans of the original, and the series also didn’t make a lasting impression in the streamer’s Top 10 rankings. Because of how expensive Cowboy Bebop, which filmed in New Zealand, the viewership bar it had to clear in order to secure a renewal was higher. That would explain why the cancellation was swifter than usual for Netflix, which traditionally waits for full 28-day audience data before making pickup decisions.

Cowboy Bebop was executive produced by André Nemec, Jeff Pinkner, Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio, Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Tomorrow Studios, Makoto Asanuma, Shin Sasaki and Masayuki Ozaki of Sunrise Inc., Tim Coddington, Tetsu Fujimura, Michael Katleman, Matthew Weinberg, and Christopher Yost. Nemec served as showrunner.

Tomorrow Studios is already working on another live-action series adaptation of a beloved anime series for Netflix, One Piece.

‘Hello Stranger’: Jordana Brewster & Sam Worthington Join Luke Grimes In Sci-Fi-Thriller

As we revealed in September, April Mullen (Wander) is slated to direct from a screenplay penned by Ryan Christopher Churchill.

In Hello Stranger, Faye (Brewster) attempts to replace her newly deceased husband, Evan (Grimes) with an android simulant (SIM). Although SIM Evan appears like human Evan in everyway, Faye does not feel the same love for SIM Evan as it does for her. SIM Evan tries to win Faye back, while at the same time, on-the-run from a government agent (Worthington) chasing down SIMS who have become “conscious,” and could potentially be a threat to humankind.

The film will mark Mullen’s follow-up to feature Wander, starring Aaron Eckhart, Katheryn Winnick and Tommy Lee Jones, which was released by Saban, and her Toronto Film Festival feature Below Her Mouth, shot by an all-female crew.

Pic is being produced by Tim Doiron (Wander) and James van der Woerd (Wander) in association with their production company Wango Films, with Myriad’s Kirk D’Amico (The Last Word) as an executive producer.

Myriad is repping international sales and will continue to sell the movie at the EFM next year. CAA and Verve Ventures are repping domestic. Mongrel will distribute in Canada.

Said Wango CEO and producer Tim Doiron: “The addition of Sam and Jordana to Hello Stranger takes an already stellar creative team to the next level. We have secured our dream cast for this film and cannot wait to bring this project to life.”

Worthington is represented by CAA, Anonymous Content and Hansen, Jacobsen; Brewster by CAA, Principal Entertainment LA and attorney Marcy Morris; Grimes by CAA and Range Media Partners; Mullen by Verve Talent.

‘Bad Monkey’: Michelle Monaghan, Jodie Turner-Smith & Meredith Hagner Join Vince Vaughn In Bill Lawrence’s Apple TV+ Series

Based on Carl Hiaasen’s popular 2013 novel, Bad Monkey tells the story of Andrew Yancy (Vaughn), a one-time detective demoted to restaurant inspector in Southern Florida. A severed arm found by a tourist out fishing pulls Yancy into the world of greed and corruption that decimates the land and environment in both Florida and the Bahamas. And yes, there’s a monkey.

Monaghan will play Bonnie, a mysterious woman trapped in an abusive, loveless marriage. She complicates Yancy’s life both personally and professionally as a secret from her past resurfaces.

Turner-Smith will portray Dragon Queen/Gracie, she’s both revered and feared on Andros as she practices Obeah alongside her contentious grandmother.

Hagner is Eve, she’s questioned by Yancy about her dead husband and he feels she might know more than she’s saying.

The project hails from Warner Bros. Television, where Lawrence and his Doozer Productions are based. Lawrence executive produces Bad Monkey through Doozer alongside Matt Tarses and Jeff Ingold. Liza Katzer will serve as co-executive producer.

Monaghan starred in Netflix’ geo-political thriller Messiah as well as Hulu’s drama series The Path, alongside Aaron Paul and Hugh Dancy. Prior to that, she co-starred in the HBO drama True Detective opposite Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe. On the film side, Monaghan co-stars opposite Anna Diop in Stay Gold Features and Topic Studios upcoming pic Nanny. Monaghan is repped by ICM Partners, Anonymous Content and attorney Robert Offer.

Turner-Smith, whose breakout role came in the Universal drama Queen & Slim, was most recently seen opposite Michael B. Jordan in Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse. She can be seen next in the title role of the limited series Anne Boleyn. Turner-Smith is repped by 111 Media and UTA.

Hagner stars as Portia on Search Party, which is going into its fifth season on TBS. On the film side, she most recently appeared in the feature Palm Springs opposite Andy Samberg. She’s repped by UTA and Suskin Managment;.

Siega, who directed on the original Dexter, most recently directed and served as executive producer on Dexter: New Blood. He also recently directed episodes of The Flight Attendant. Siega is repped by UTA and Mitch Smelkinson at Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.

Jen Landon recurs on FBI: Most Wanted 1/4/22

RECURRING CAST: Jen Landon (Sarah Allen), Jules Willcox (Louise LaCroix).

Biggs Visits SVU

As the World Turns Reunion Dec 8

Terri Garber's acting career began when she played the part of Allison Linden on Texas. Terri hit it big in 1985, when she landed the role as Ashton Main in the mini-series North and South. In addition, Terri has appeared on Dynasty as Leslie Carrington, General Hospital as Victoria Parker and Santa Barbara as Suzanne Collier to name a small few.

Jen Landon attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she studied Experimental Theatre, but left early when her first audition landed her a three-year contract on the daytime soap opera As The World Turns (for which she subsequently won three consecutive daytime Emmys). Jen has since appeared in Jason Retiman’s feature film The Front Runner, as well as recurred on numerous television shows including Banshee (Cinemax), Animal Kingdom (TNT), and is currently starring in season 4 of Yellowstone (Paramount+) playing the role of Teeter.

Tamara Tunie To Narrate Capitol Riot Documentary ‘Preserving Democracy’ For PBS

Tunie, who also stars in Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop, will lead Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union.

The two-hour doc, which will air on January 6 2022 on The WNET Group’s PBS station Thirteen, will examine the pursuit of democracy, within the U.S. and others, on the anniversary of the 2021 Capitol riot.

It will chronicle the history of the democratic system from its origins to the present and address political divisiveness and threats to democracy around the world, considering global progress as well as regression and offering reflections on lessons learned.

It comes a year after the insurrection, which stands out as one of the most shocking moments in American history. Incited by a sitting president, the riot caused the deaths of five people; 140 Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia officers and numerous civilians were injured; and a hole was torn in the democratic system the nation has nurtured for nearly 250 years.

Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union will also give context, highlighting changes in American ideas of democracy, from the American Revolution and the earliest days of the Republic through Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement and the suppression of the Black and Mexican American vote in the 1960s and 1970s. The film tracks former President Barack Obama’s path to the presidency. It also explores how identity politics and changing ideologies across the country helped pave the way to the election of former President Donald Trump and the events that followed.

It will also look at the formation of the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, and what the committee is seeking to uncover.

The doc will feature interviews with political experts, activists, journalists and historians, including Valerie Jarrett, former Senior Advisor to the President of the United States, Janet Napolitano, former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Fiona Hill, Presidential Advisor and former official at the U.S. National Security Council, Peril author Robert Costa and Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union is exec produced by Dana Roberson with Lesley Norman, Stephen Segaller and Neal Shapiro as executives-in-charge.

“The Capitol insurrection stunned our nation and shook the foundation of our government to its core,” said Roberson. “Through this documentary we encourage people to think critically about the future of our nation and the role we each play in preserving our democracy.”

Broadway and TV actress Lisa Brown, known for roles on ‘Guiding Light’ and ‘As the World Turns,’ dies at 67

Lisa Brown, who starred on “Guiding Light” and “As the World Turns,” died on Nov. 24 after a brief illness. She was 67.

The Kansas City native became a household name as Nola Reardon on “Guiding Light,” playing the role from 1980 through various stings up until the serial’s 2009 finale.

Paired with the late Michael Tylo’s dashing Quinton Chamberlain, the characters would become one of the iconic CBS soap opera’s most popular romantic couples. Tylo died earlier this year.

In 1985, the actress joined the cast of “As The World Turns” originating the role of Iva Snyder, quickly becoming a fan favorite as a character with a dark past in the Midwest town of Oakdale, Ill.

But before becoming nationally recognized on daytime television, Brown trod the boards of Broadway performing in productions of “Hello, Dolly!” “Pal Joey” and “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” during the 1970s.

While starring on “Guiding Light,” Brown starred in “42nd Street” on The Great White Way.

Offstage and off camera, she also worked as an acting coach and directed multiple shows including “Gotham the Series” and “One Life to Live.”

For her television work, Brown garnered three Daytime Emmy Awards.

She is survived by her husband, two children and two grandchildren.

Brown’s death was first announced by Soap Opera Digest and later confirmed through statements and remembrances from former co-stars and loved ones.

Peyton List guests on The Rookie 12/12/21

Guest starring is Zayne Emory as Henry Nolan, Brent Huff as Officer Smitty, Enver Gjokaj as Donovan Town, Dylan Conrique as Tamara Colins, Brandon Jay McLaren as Elijah Stone, and Peyton List as Gennifer “Genny” Bradford.

“Breakdown” was written by Alexi Hawley and directed by Chi-Yoon Chung.

Christian Jules Le Blanc Interview 12/1/21

Christian joined the cast of The Young and the Restless back in October 1991, departing in 1993. He returned to the series in April 1997. A 12-time Emmy Award nominee, Christian Jules Le Blanc received three Emmy Awards for “Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series” for his role.

Le Blanc first appeared on daytime television as Kirk McColl on As the World Turns. Also, he was a series regular on the primetime series “In the Heat of the Night,” opposite Carol O’Connor and Howard Rollins. His guest appearances include “Perry Mason,” “Cheers” and “Gabriel’s Fire.” He produced and starred in his first short film, “Puppy Love,” with Grace Zabriskie, which was honored as the Outstanding Short Film at the Los Angeles and New York International Short Film Festivals.

Le Blanc’s theater credits include “Ladies In Retirement,” with the legendary actresses Julie Harris and Eileen Brennan, “No Orchids for Miss Blandish,” “The Catonsville Nine” and “Appearances to the Contrary.” In 2011, he appeared in “The Tennessee Williams Literary Festival” in New Orleans. Christian is excited to be returning to the stage in January 2022 in Tennessee Williams Cat On A Hot Tin Roof at Theater at St. Clement's in New York City.

Jen Landon recurs on FBI: Most Wanted 12/14/21

RECURRING CAST includes: Terry O’Quinn (Byron LaCroix), Jen Landon (Sarah Allen)

Peyton List guests on The Rookie 12/5/21

Guest starring are Peyton List as Genny Bradford and Tru Valentino as Aaron.

“Hit and Run” was written by Vincent Angell and directed by Bill Roe.

Reid Scott, Jordana Brewster, Adam Pally & Dylan Penn Starring In Comedy ‘Charlie In The Pandemic’

Xavier Manrique (Chronically Metropolitan) and his Blind Bulldog Films has teamed up with Jason Dubin’s (The Babysitters), Perry Street Films and Nicholas Schutt to produce the feature. David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada) is exec producing. Manrique is set to direct a script penned by Schutt (Outer Banks).

In the movie, the Covid bubble is popped when a New York City family hiding out in the Hamptons is surprised by a Bloody Mary-swilling, pot-smoking ‘Charlie’ from their past who brings a lifetime of hurt that might heal them all.

The film is now in pre-production and is set to shoot in New York City and the Hamptons later this month.

Reid Scott is repped by Gersh, Impression Entertainment and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. Jordana Brewster is repped by Liz York at Principal Entertainment and Tracy Brennan and Jamie Feld at CAA. Adam Pally is repped by 3 Arts Entertainment and UTA. Dylan Penn is repped by Heather Nunn at Anonymous Content as well as Tracy Brennan and Andrea Weintraub at CAA. Schutt is repped by LIT Entertainment, Verve and attorney, Stephen Clark.

Jennifer Ferrin recurs on The Equalizer 11/21/21

Richard Thomas Welcomes New Walton Family & The Celebration of Faith In CW’s ‘The Waltons’ Homecoming’

Thomas reflected on what the world was like when the original CBS series about faith and family aired from 1971-82 and why now is the perfect time to bring it back.

“When we did the series originally, this country, we were very split because of all the issues going on.” He said during a press Zoom chat Wednesday. “The line went right down the middle of the dinner table, a lot of the time. It was the beginning of a sort of balkanization where the demographic was split within the household. There were more televisions. So one of the great things about the show was that it brought people together. Young people could see a story about older people, and older people could remember their childhood. And the faith element was just — you can’t really tell the story about people in that part of America in 1933 without a faith element. That was a huge part of people’s lives, and it still is around the country.”

He continued, “Dramaturgically speaking, we had many stories where faith and how people acted their faith out, where their prejudices were, where the benefits were. John had one point of view about going to church, which you didn’t do. Olivia had another [point of view]. Grandpa was a pantheist, basically. It was such a big part of our storytelling and everyone had a different connection to it. So I think it’s completely valid still.”

Executive producer Sam Haskell revealed he was upfront with the CW about the importance of faith remaining an integral part of the new series.

“In my initial conversations with Mark Pedowitz, the chairman of the CW, I told him that there was going to be a faith element in this and he embraced it completely,” Haskell said. “And he feels as I do that putting faith and family and hope and joy front and center, it’s something this world needs right now. And I believe that The Waltons’ Homecoming is going to bring that to families. He and I both know that families watching something together is very rare these days. And this is the kind of program that can bring an entire family together.”

The Waltons: Homecoming is set in the Depression Era and told through the eyes of John Boy, the 17-year-old eldest child of John (Ben Lawson) and Olivia Walton (Bellamy Young). His mother expects him to help her raise his sisters and brothers, and his father expects him to follow in his footsteps to help support the family, but secretly, John Boy wants to be a writer.

Times are hard enough in 1933, but to make matters worse, it looked like it was going to be the Waltons’ first Christmas without John Sr. But then Olivia receives a letter that John Sr. is planning to make it home for Christmas after all, the family is thrilled and races to prepare for his homecoming. But when a storm threatens his arrival on Christmas Eve, and John Sr. is nowhere to be found, Olivia sends John Boy out into the night to find his daddy – a journey that will change his life forever.

“We come out of Covid and we’ve all been in a world for the last few years that was quite distant,” Scandal alum Young shared. “We were in solitude. So getting to tell a story that was about family, that was kind that was gentle, was the balm that we all needed after this time of desperate solitude. But also getting to say out loud that everyone is welcome in God’s house. What a privilege to just literally say the words is the best Christmas gift ever. Really and truly.”

Haskell would love for more members of the original cast to join them if the fans enjoy and the CW greenlights more Waltons fare.

“Absolutely,” he said excitedly. “I want to bring every original cast member in as a guest — to play a teacher or a nurse or a doctor. I want to integrate the original cast into the series and future movies. Yes!”

Y&R’s Christian LeBlanc Announces His Exciting New Role!

“Bucket list stuff!” LeBlanc enthused on Instagram when he was finally able to announce the big news. “When I first moved to New York City as a baby actor, I used to nervously sing the song “New York, New York” from On the Town whenever I had to take the subway in order to remember that the Bronx was uptown and Battery Park was downtown.”

LeBlanc lived in New York City while he appeared as Kirk McColl on AS THE WORLD TURNS, his first daytime role. “Some of the most transformative moments of my life have been sitting in the gods of a NYC theater watching my deepest secrets reflected in the liberating, awful, merciless, joyful, ridiculous mirror of the stage,” he shared. “When you are given a profound gift like this, I can only quote Tennessee’s Big Daddy Pollitt, ‘The sky looks different to me.’”

LeBlanc also made sure to thank producer Matt deRogatis for casting him in this Ruth Stage production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The three-time Daytime Emmy Award winner will be playing Brick’s willful and domineering father, Big Daddy, who was played by Burl Ives in the 1958 film adaptation.

Ruth Stage has already had to reschedule their production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof four times already but it is currently scheduled to hit the stage in January and February 2022 for 35 shows.

‘Fantasy Island’ Renewed For Season 2 By Fox

The renewal announced today follows strong ratings for the contemporary version of the classic 1977-84 series, from writer-producers Liz Craft and Sarah Fain. This past summer, the reboot starring Roselyn Sanchez and Kiara Barnes ranked as the No. 1 new scripted program among adults 18-49 and was Fox’s most streamed new drama series since 9-1-1: Lone Star in January 2020.

Fantasy Island takes place at a luxury resort, where literally any fantasy requested by guests is fulfilled, although they rarely turn out as expected. Delving into the “what if” questions — both big and small — that keep us awake at night, each episode will tell emotional, provocative stories about people who arrive with dreams and desires.

The series stars Sanchez as Elena Roarke, a descendant of the iconic Mr. Roarke, who set aside her own ambitions, and the love of her life, to uphold her family’s legacy. Barnes plays Ruby Akuda, a young woman with an old soul who arrived on Fantasy Island with a terminal illness and was given a new lease on life as Roarke’s right hand.

Fans won’t have to wait until next summer for more Fantasy Island, however. Fox has ordered a special two-hour holiday episode, “Welcome to the Snow Globe,” which will air at 8 p.m. Tuesday, December 21. Lindsay Craft, Eddie Cahill and Mackenzie Astin will guest star. In the episode, a businesswoman’s (Craft) fantasy of a perfect Christmas and meeting “Mr. Right” (Cahill) tests Roarke in unexpected ways. Meanwhile, Mr. Jones (Astin) faces his past, while a new Secret Santa tradition has Ruby and Javier (John Gabriel Rodriguez) looking to the future.

Fox has been a fan of the drama since its premiere, and the renewal is not unexpected. In an interview with Deadline in September, Fox Entertainment President Michael Thorn described Fantasy Island as its “first real, recent attempt at a cost effective” drama series.

Fantasy Island hails from Sony Pictures Television, Gemstone Studios and Fox Entertainment.

“We’re really high on it, and it’s been exciting for us to cross-pollinate some of the stars that we have in other series and do other exciting turns on Fantasy Island,” said Thorn. “We definitely see a potential second season and it’s something that we’re talking about now. We’re very pleased with the show and Liz and Sarah did a very good job,” he said at the time. Said Thorn: “Thanks to the fantastic Roselyn Sanchez and charming Kiara Barnes and the captivating stories that tapped into the core tenets of emotion and aspiration, Fantasy Island was the perfect wish fulfillment and escape we all needed this summer. Liz Craft, Sarah Fain and everyone at Sony and Gemstone did an excellent job on this series and, like all good things, it left us wanting more. We’re so happy to have Elena Roarke, Ruby Akuda and everyone on Fantasy Island open their world again for a brief visit this winter and for a longer stay next year.”

Added Marie Jacobson, EVP of Gemstone Studios: “We are thrilled to be back for a Season 2,” sLiz, Sarah, Roselyn and the whole Fantasy Island family reimagined this storied IP and gave it just the modern female flair it needed to resonate with audiences around the world. We’re so proud of the show and grateful for our stellar partners at Fox.”

The Rookie Casts Peyton List as Tim's Sister, James Remar as Their Father

Heading into Season 4 of the light ABC procedural, showrunner Alexi Hawley had told TVLine that viewers would meet the sister of Sergeant Tim Bradford (played by Eric Winter), adding: “That will shed some light on him in an interesting way….”

Well as it turns out, Winter is getting a TV sister and father.

TVLine can exclusively report that Peyton List (The Tomorrow People, The Flash) has landed the role of Gennifer “Genny” Bradford, who — just like her “baby brother” — is not someone to be trifled with. First appearing in this season’s eighth episode, Genny shows up in L.A. unannounced to try and convince her brother to repair and sell their father’s house. Speaking of dear ol’ dad (aka Tom Bradford), TVLine has also learned that James Remar (Dexter, Black Lightning) will fill that plum role, appearing alongside List and Winter in Episode 9, which is penciled in to air Dec. 12.

To date, Rookie viewers know little about Tim’s family background, other than the fact that, as he once shared with Chen, his dad “would tune me up on the regular” when he was a kid.

‘Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin’ Adds Nine Recurring To Cast Of HBO Max Series

The present-day iteration of the popular 2010-17 series hails from Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Lindsay Calhoon Bring, Alloy Entertainment and Warner Bros TV.

Written by Aguirre-Sacasa and Calhoon Bring, the reboot based on the bestselling books by Sara Shepard will feature a new story and new characters. Twenty years ago, a series of tragic events almost ripped the blue-collar town of Millwood apart. Now, in the present day, a group of disparate teen girls — a brand-new set of Little Liars — find themselves tormented by an unknown Assailant and made to pay for the secret sin their parents committed two decades ago…as well as their own. In the dark, coming-of-age, horror-tinged drama Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, we find ourselves miles away from Rosewood, but within the existing Pretty Little Liars universe — in a brand-new town, with a new generation of Little Liars.

The nine recurring join previously announced series regulars Chandler Kinney, Bailee Madison, Maia Reficco, Malia Pyles, Zaria, Mallory Bechtel, Sharon Leal, Elena Goode, Lea Salonga, Alex Aiono and Eric Johnson.

Klena will play Wes, Tabby’s (Kinney) boss at The Orpheum, Millwood’s second-run local movie theater. A devilishly handsome film school graduate, Wes and Tabby have bonded over their mutual love of film, but Wes’s intentions are anything but pure.

Jennings Grant will portray Madame Giry, the Dance Teacher at Millwood High. A ballerina herself, Madame Giry is exceedingly strict with her students, specifically Faran (Zaria).

Stanton is Marshall Clanton, Millwood High’s complete stress case of a principal. And nothing makes Principal Clanton more uncomfortable than our Little Liars.

Ferrin will play Martha Beasley, the matriarch of the Beasley family. Privately browbeaten by her husband, Mrs. Beasley does whatever she can to keep up appearances.

Crawford will portray Sandy, Karen’s (Bechtel) most ardent admirer. A cringey tagalong, Sandy often boosts Karen’s ego in an effort to stay out of her best friend’s crosshairs.

Altemus is Tyler, a Millwood High jock. No stranger to “locker room talk,” Tyler is the poster child for young, toxic masculinity.

Carter will play Nurse Simmons, the School Nurse at Millwood High. Nurse Simmons is a confidante and safe place to land for our Little Liars.

Ordonez will portray Mr. Gardner, the Computer Science Teacher at Millwood High. Known as Mr. Gee, Mr. Gardner is a mentor and friend to Minnie (Pyles).

Bean is Mr. Smithee, Tabby’s film teacher at Millwood High. Rigid and stern, Mr. Smithee doesn’t take kindly to challenges from his students.

Aguirre-Sacasa executive produces via his Muckle Man Productions, with Alloy’s Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo, as well as Michael Grassi and Caroline Baron. Calhoon Bring will co-executive produce. Muckle Man Productions and Alloy produce in association with WBTV. Lisa Soper will direct the first two episodes.

Klena is repped by Brookside Artist Management and Gersh. Grant is repped by Innovative Artists, Link Entertainment, The Initiative Group, and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham. Stanton is reppd by A3 Artists Agency. Ferrin is repped by The Gersh Agency and Bond Artist Management. Crawford is repped by Innovative Artists, Schachter Entertainment and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham. Altemus is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Innovative Artists. Carter is repped by Boals, Winnett & Associates, and Multi-Ethnic Talent. Ordonez is represented by KMR and The Boothe Group. Bean is repped by Harden Curtis Kirsten Riley Agency.

‘The Book Of Boba Fett’ Disney+ Series Trailer

The Book of Boba Fett—premiering on Dec. 29— will find legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand navigating the galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate.

Temuera Morrison (Boba Fett) and Ming-Na Wen (Fennec Shand) will star in the spinoff, with Robert Rodriguez joining as executive producer, along with The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni.

Fans first got wind of the series after the credits of the Season 2 finale of The Mandalorian, in which we see Return of the Jedi character Bib Fortuna, Jabba’s old right-hand man, sitting on his throne in the old palace. Fennec enters shooting most of the creatures around him and blasting the shackles off the blue dancing girl. Then Boba enters.

Bib exclaims, “Boba, I thought you were dead!” Boba then shoots him dead and takes the throne at Jabba’s palace. Afterward, the title card “THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT…. COMING DECEMBER 2021” appeared on-screen.

Beals is coming off the Showtime series The L Word: Generation Q, which she both stars in and executive produces. She recently wrapped production on the upcoming Netflix film Luckiest Girl Alive opposite Mila Kunis.

Watch The Book of Boba Fett trailer in full here.

Eileen Fulton Interview - 11/5/21

John James to play Joe Biden in film on son Hunter

“Dynasty” actor John James has been tapped to play President Joe Biden in the upcoming Hunter Biden movie “My Son Hunter.”

“The script has it all. Money, power, greed, sex, drugs and alcohol,” the 65-year-old soap opera star told the Daily Mail via a 30-second clip announcing his new role.

For the uninitiated, the controversial biopic is based on allegations by The Post and other outlets made against the Biden clan ahead of the 2020 election. The Post ran a story about emails allegedly retrieved from a laptop belonging to the younger Biden, which reportedly disclosed the family’s business dealings with both China and Ukraine. The exposé was blocked from being shared on Twitter.

“This is a common tale of a father’s ultimate love for his son, despite his major shortcomings. ‘My Son Hunter’ is an inside look at the world of politics,” James said in the clip.

“It kind of reminds me of ‘Dynasty,'” mused the “Axcellerator” actor in a nod to his breakout TV role. James famously played the character Jeff Colby on the ABC series, which ran from 1981 to 1989, as well as the short-lived spinoff “The Colbys” from 1985 to 1987.

“My Son Hunter” director Robert Davi, for one, thought James was the ideal actor to play the 46th president of the United States.

“I saw in him a depth, sincerity and an extreme likability which I wanted for the basis of Joe Biden, a man who has for 40-plus years been at the forefront of American politics,” gushed Davi, known for roles in TV series including “Stargate: Atlantis,” “Profiler” and “Wiseguy” and films like “Die Hard,” “The Goonies” and the camp classic “Showgirls.”

Filling the role of Biden’s controversial progeny, meanwhile, is British actor and politician Laurence Fox. Fox posted a Twitter photo Monday in which he’s seen wearing nothing but a white loincloth, an orange scarf and sunglasses – in an apparent parody of the photos allegedly found on the computer hard drive.

“Everything is fine. I’m in a really good place,” read the snarky caption.

“I’m especially excited to be working with a wonderful actor,” co-star James said of his new castmate. “We have some interesting scenes together.”

Davi added: “With John and Laurence, I think audiences will be riveted by Joe and Hunter’s relationship and come to understand the dynamics between father and son.”

“My Son Hunter” was the brainchild of conservative Irish husband-and-wife filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, who are currently conducting a crowdfunding campaign to amass the film’s $1.8 million budget. So far, the fund-raiser has managed to garner $1.6 million.

McAleer said he hopes that the project will help expose the “partying lifestyle and dodgy business practices” of President Biden’s son, the Daily Mail reported.

“Joe Biden is a complex character,” the filmmaker explained. “At times he mumbles and stumbles but he also is one the longest-serving politicians in Washington who has become very wealthy during his time in public service.”

“My Son Hunter” does not yet have a release date; however, production began in Serbia this week and will reportedly last until November.

Talk Show Appearance

Tu 10/26: Amanda Seyfried

Talk Show Appearance

Th 10/28: Jason Biggs

Rick Dennis & Patrick Howe Interview - The Production Designers Episode 10/28/21

Rick Dennis spent 23 years from 1986 - 2009 as Guiding Light's Production Designer earning seven Daytime Emmy Nominations for his work in Springfield. After Guiding Light went off the air, Rick has worked as an Art Director / Production Designer on a number of prime-time series including The Americans, Homeland, Madame Secretary, The Following to name a small few.

Patrick Howe spent four years as a Production Designer on Another World before moving to Oakdale and As the World Turns where he worked for 11 years. Patrick earned five Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Production Design for his work. Since leaving Oakdale behind, Patrick has worked as a Production Designer on Only Murders in the Building, Godfather of Harlem, Marvel's Iron Fist, The Get Down and Unforgettable to name just a few.

Don't miss the chance to learn from these two incredible designers who helped bring your two favorite daytime dramas to life day after day.

Jennifer Ferrin guests on The Equalizer 10/31/21

GUEST CAST includes: Dominic Fumusa (Detective Mallory), Jennifer Ferrin (D.A. Grafton), Armando Riesco (A.D.A. Raymond Ellis).

‘Women Of The Movement’: ABC Sets Premiere Date, Shares Preview Clip For Limited Series

ABC revealed that the limited series from creator-writer Marissa Jo Cerar will premiere Thursday, Jan. 6 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Inspired by the book Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement by Devery S. Anderson, the six-episode limited series is set in 1955. It centers on Mamie Till-Mobley (Adrienne Warren), who risks her life to find justice after her son Emmett (Cedric Joe) is brutally murdered in the Jim Crow South. Unwilling to let Emmett’s murder disappear from the headlines, Mamie chooses to bear her pain on the world stage, emerging as an activist for justice and igniting the Civil Rights movement as we know it today.

The series also features Glynn Turman, Chris Joy, Julia McDermott, Carter Jenkins, Tonya Pinkins, Ray Fisher and Timothy Hutton.

Women of the Movement is produced by Kapital Entertainment. Cerar serves as executive producer and showrunner. Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr., Dr. Marvel Parker, Ms. Ollie Gordon and Christopher Benson serve as consultants for the series. Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor and Michael Lohmann (Kapital Entertainment) executive produce with Shawn Carter, Jay Brown and Tyran “Ty Ty” Smith (Roc Nation), Will Smith and James Lassiter (Westbrook), Rosanna Grace (Serendipity Group Inc.), Alex Foster and John Powers Middleton (Middleton Media Group), David Clark (Mazo Partners) and Gina Prince-Bythewood.

ABC also shared a new preview clip for the upcoming series, watch it above.

It's a Wonderful Lifetime Movie Schedule with former soap stars

Friday, Nov. 12
An Ice Wine Christmas
Stars: Roselyn Sánchez, Lyriq Bent
Logline: "One of Philadelphia's top sommeliers, Camila (Sánchez) goes home to the magical vineyards of Evergreen, N.Y., to take part in the town's annual Ice Wine Christmas Festival and harvest. While there, Camila spends time with her mother, Sunny (Maria del Mar), and sister, Beth (AnnaMaria Demara), who manages the local winery for Camila's former ice wine mentor, Henry (Richard Fitzpatrick). But Camila discovers changes are coming as Henry plans to retire, scaling down the Christmas festival. Beth also recently hired wine specialist Declan (Bent), who plans to take the operation to full-year production. Believing in the importance of preserving the magic of 'Christmas in a bottle,' Camila shares with Declan her passion for Christmas and what an authentic ice wine harvest can bring."

Saturday, Nov. 13
A Picture Perfect Holiday
Stars: Tatyana Ali, Henderson Wade, Dina Meyer
Logline: "Fashion photographer Gaby Jones (Ali) is eager to make a name for herself and finally gets her chance when she lands a coveted job at a magazine. Encouraged by an editor (Meyer) to attend the annual Christmas photography retreat in the small town of Pine Falls to ramp up her skills, Gaby reluctantly signs up despite not being a huge fan of the holidays. When she arrives, she learns her rental has been double-booked with wildlife photographer Sean (Henderson Wade) but soon discovers there's more to a photo than what you see through the lens. As the two fall for each other, their life choices start to get in the way and the two must decide if they're willing to take a risk in order to share a picture-perfect holiday together."

Friday, Dec. 3
A Christmas Dance Reunion
Stars: Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman
Logline: "Successful attorney Lucy Mortimer (Coleman), along with her mother, Virginia (Kim Roberts), returns to the Winterleigh Resort to help celebrate the hotel's final Christmas season. Once there, Lucy is reunited with the owner's nephew and her childhood Christmas Dance partner, Barrett Brewster (Bleu). Though the resort has fallen on hard times and has stopped most holiday events, Lucy leads the charge in recreating the beloved Christmas traditions, including the popular Christmas Dance, to bring together new families and new hope to the resort. Now, Lucy must decide if she's willing to take a risk on love and partner up once more with Barrett for what could be the last Christmas Dance."

Thursday, Dec. 9
A Fiancé for Christmas
Stars: Marie Osmond, Amanda Payton, Adam Gregory
Logline: "Perpetually single Sawyer (Payton) makes a fake wedding registry, hoping a shopping spree with a scan gun will be the ultimate retail therapy. But when the registry is discovered and the whole town throws her a surprise bridal shower, she's too embarrassed to tell the truth. Instead, she finds a fake fiancé to help her navigate through the lies and holiday festivities. However, as real feelings develop between Sawyer and her fake fiancé, they may turn into the real deal after all."

Friday, Dec. 10
Holiday in Santa Fe
Stars: Mario Lopez, Emeraude Toubia, Aimee Garcia
Logline: "Casa de Milagro is a family-owned business that makes holiday ornaments and décor, inspired by Mexican Christmas traditions. Their award-winning designs, created by matriarch Milagro Ortega, are highly sought after each holiday season. Siblings Tony (Lopez) and Magdalena (Garcia), with help from their dad (Efrain Figueroa), run the shop in Santa Fe, but when their beloved Milagro unexpectedly passes, the family struggles to find its heart. With Milagro gone, Belinda Sawyer (Toubia), an executive at one of the largest greeting card and holiday décor chains, sees an opportunity to acquire the company. When sparks fly between Belinda and Tony, Belinda realizes there is more to Casa de Milagro than meets the eye."

Saturday, Dec. 11
The Holiday Fix-Up
Stars: Jana Kramer, Ryan McPartlin, Maria Menounos
Logline: "When Sam (Kramer), the designer behind a popular home renovation show, returns to her hometown during the holidays to help renovate the Bell Harbor Inn, she gets paired with Coop (McPartlin) as her lead contractor. The only problem -- he's the guy who broke her heart and she's the one who got away. Sparks fly as they work closely to get the renovations done in time for the inn's annual Christmas Eve Harborfest. Will they be able to fix the mistakes of their past to build a future together?"

Hallmark 2021 Christmas Movies With Former Soap Stars

Friday, Nov. 5
Open By Christmas
Time: 8 p.m. ET/PT on The Hallmark Channel
Stars: Alison Sweeney, Erica Durance, Brennan Elliott
Logline: "When Nicky finds an unopened Christmas card from a high school secret admirer, she and her best friend Simone search to find and thank the anonymous author."

Saturday, Nov. 6
Next Stop, Christmas
Time: 8 p.m. ET/PT on The Hallmark Channel
Stars: Lyndsy Fonseca, Chandler Massey, Lea Thompson, Christopher Lloyd
Logline: "Angie wonders what her life would be like if she had married a former boyfriend who became a famous sportscaster. She takes the train home to spend Christmas with her family and inexplicably finds herself 10 years in the past. With the advice of the train's enigmatic conductor, Angie has the chance to revisit that Christmas and learn what -- and who -- is truly important to her."

Date TBD
Christmas at Castle Hart
Stars: Lacey Chabert, Stuart Townsend
Logline: "Brooke Bennett goes to Ireland for Christmas to search for her Irish roots. While there, she meets Aiden Hart, Earl of Glaslough. Mistaken for an elite event planner, she's hired to host his castle's epic Christmas party."

Date TBD
The Christmas Contest (working title)
Stars: Candace Cameron Bure, John Brotherton, Barbara Niven
Logline: "Exes Lara and Ben compete in a Christmas contest to win money for the charity of their choosing. The city watches them battle and choose what is more important, victory or love."

Date TBD
The Christmas House 2: Deck the Halls (working title)
Stars: Robert Buckley, Ana Anyora, Jonathan Bennett, Sharon Lawrence, Treat Williams, Brad Harder
Logline: "The Mitchell brothers compete to see who can create the best Christmas House."

Date TBD
The Nine Kittens of Christmas
Stars: Brandon Routh, Kimberley Sustad, Gregory Harrison
Logline: "Cat lovers Zachary and Marilee are thrown back together at Christmas when they're tasked with finding homes for a litter of adorable kittens."

Judith McConnell Interview 10/22/21

Judith was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and started dance classes at age 6. She has continued with dance for most of her life and today she takes a weekly tap and jazz class. She was accepted and attended the renowned Carnegie Mellon School of Acting.

Upon leaving college, Judith went to New York City and immediately landed a commercial. Shortly thereafter, she was offered a role in a pilot shooting in Los Angeles. In LA she started booking work, doing an original Star Trek, and had recurring roles in Dragnet, Beverly Hillbillies, Mayberry RFD, Green Acres and guest starring in Mannix, The Streets of San Francisco and many others. She also worked in the theatre at The Rocking Chair Playhouse and The Century City Playhouse.

Judith’s first daytime role was in General Hospital, where she played Augusta McLeod. Then New York City came calling her back for roles in As the World Turns (Valerie Conway), Another World (Amanda Bishop), and One Life to Live (Eva Vasquez). She soon returned to Hollywood for the part of Sophia Capwell on Santa Barbara.

Jen Landon recurs on FBI: Most Wanted 11/2/21

RECURRING CAST: Jen Landon (Sarah Allen), Taylor Cooper (Zadie).

Talk Show Appearance

Th 10/14: Meredith Hagner

‘That ’70s Show’ Spinoff ‘That ’90s Show’ With Kurtwood Smith & Debra Jo Rupp Ordered By Netflix

Set in Wisconsin in 1995, That ’90s Show follows Leia Forman, daughter of Eric (Topher Grace) and Donna (Laura Prepon), who is visiting her grandparents for the summer where she bonds with a new generation of Point Place kids under the watchful eye of Kitty and the stern glare of Red. Sex, drugs and rock ’n roll never dies, it just changes clothes.

There are currently no deals in place with other That ’70s cast members for the new series but the expectations is that a number of them, including Grace, Prepon and Ashton Kutcher, will make guest appearances, reprising their roles.

Picked up for 10 episodes, That ’90s Show also is executive produced by Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner under The Carsey-Werner Company which produced That ’70s Show and its offshoot That ’80s Show.

Chatter about a new incarnation of That ’70s Show has been percolating for years. Netflix has been particularly keen on the idea because of the big viewership That ’70s Show drew on the platform before it left in September 2020. The premise by Mettler, Bonnie, Terry and Lindsay Turner started getting traction late last year and the project was quickly set up for development at Netflix.

That ’70s Show aired on Fox for eight seasons from 1998-2006. Topher Grace, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Danny Masterson, Laura Prepon, Wilmer Valderrama and Lisa Robin Kelly starred in the period sitcom which focused on the lives of a group of six teenage friends living in fictional Point Place, Wisconsin, from May 17, 1976, to December 31, 1979. Rupp and Smith led the show’s older cast, often stealing scenes they were in.

Looking to capitalize on the popularity of That ’70s Show, Fox expanded the franchise with That ’80s Show, which could not replicate That ’70s Show’s success and had a brief run from January to May 2002. Set in 1984, it was not a direct spinoff, and the characters and storylines from both shows never crossed, but the main characters of each show, That ’70s Show’s Eric Forman, played by Topher Grace, and That ’80s Show‘s Corey Howard, portrayed by Glenn Howerton, were first cousins.

The franchise is now returning to Wisconsin with That ’90s Show after moving to San Diego for That ’80s Show.

This is the second classic Carsey-Werner sitcom to get a followup, joining Roseanne, which was revived, leading to spinoff The Conners on ABC.

Rupp is repped by Artists & Representatives and manager, Wright Entertainment. Smith is repped by Progressive Artists Agency and Pop Art Management. Mettler, whose most recent work includes Fox’s Call Me Kat, is repped by UTA and Ken Richman. The Turners are with Gendler & Kelly.

Nafessa Williams & Tamara Tunie Joins Whitney Houston Biopic ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’

Also joining the cast are Clarke Peters and Tamara Tunie, who will play John and Cissy Houston. Naomi Ackie will play Whitney Houston in the musical biopic that is being directed by Kasi Lemmons. The screenplay will be penned by Anthony McCarten, and will take audiences on an emotional, energetic journey through Houston’s career and music. Crawford was Houston’s longtime assistant who would later become Houston’s creative director while also remaining one of her closest friends.

Alongside McCarten’s Muse of Fire Productions, the film is being produced by Pat Houston on behalf of the Houston Estate; Grammy-winning music producer Clive Davis; Larry Mestel on behalf of Primary Wave Music; Denis O’Sullivan and Jeff Kalligheri for Compelling Pictures; Matt Jackson of Jackson Pictures; and Molly Smith, Trent and Thad Luckinbill for Black Label Media. Primary Wave Music is a partner of the Whitney Houston estate.

Sony and TriStar Pictures will release the film in theaters on December 23, 2022.

Houston is the most awarded female music artist of all time and is one of the bestselling recording artists of all time, selling more than 200 million records worldwide. Houston won six Grammys, 16 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards and two Emmy Awards, among many others. Houston made her acting debut with the romantic thriller film The Bodyguard, which she recorded six songs for the film’s soundtrack, including “I Will Always Love You.” The song won the Grammy for Record of the Year and became the bestselling physical single by a woman in music history. The soundtrack album won the Grammy for Album of the Year and remains the bestselling soundtrack album in history.

In 2020, Whitney was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and became the first black artist to have three RIAA Diamond Awards.

Williams was recently seen in the Deon Taylor feature Black & Blue alongside Naomie Harris, Frank Grillo and Tyrese Gibson for Screen Gems. Last year she wrapped the fourth and final season Black Lightning. Her other credits include Burning Sands, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews, the CBS series Code Black and Showtime’s Twin Peaks. Up next, she will be seen in Lee Daniels’ pilot for FX The Spook Who Sat By the Door.

Best known for his role as Detective Lester Freamon on The Wire, Peters recently starred in Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods and was also seen in the HBO & BBC One series His Dark Materials. Peters will soon be seen starring in the AMC’s La Fortuna, opposite Stanley Tucci, as well as Showtime’s The Man Who Fell to Earth opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris. He can currently be seen in The Foundation for Apple+ and in the Netflix series The Irregulars.

Tunie will next be seen in A Journal for Jordan starring Michael B. Jordan and directed by Denzel Washington. Her other credits include AMC’s series Dietland, the BBC/Netflix political drama Black Earth Rising, Apple TV+’s See, and Netflix’s November release of the live-action series Cowboy Bebop. She has also starred in Wolf Films/Universal Media Studio’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Williams is repped by ICM Partners and Link Entertainment. Peters is repped by Vanguard Management Group and Conway van Gelder Grant. Tunie is repped by Alta Global Media and Paradigm.

Soap Actor Patrick Horgan Dead at 92

Born in Nottingham, England, Horgan’s career began in the ‘50s with appearances on BBC Sunday Night Theatre and THE GENTLE FALCON. The ‘70s brought his career to soaps, where from 1970-74, he played Dr. John Morrison on THE DOCTORS, and from 1978-79, Thatcher Ross on RYAN’S HOPE. In the ‘80s, he played Neil Blake on GUIDING LIGHT and then Anton Cunningham on AS THE WORLD TURNS. His final daytime role was playing Andrew Berryman and Arthur Vandenburg on ONE LIFE TO LIVE in 1985 and 1995, respectively.

In addition to his daytime roles, Horgan could be found guest-starring in numerous primetime series over his decades-long career in acting. Viewers can see him in episodes of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, GREEN ACRES, STAR TREK, THE WILD WILD WEST, BEWITCHED, THE FACTS OF LIFE, and THE COSBY SHOW. He also appeared in films such as The Thomas Crown Affair, Zelig, and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.

Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones during this difficult time.

Michael Lowry Interview 10/14/21

Jennifer Ferrin guests on The Equalizer 10/24/21

GUEST CAST incxludes: Dominic Fumusa (Detective Mallory), Jennifer Ferrin (D.A. Grafton), Justin Davis (Malik).

Napiera Groves Boykin guests on The Neighborhood 10/11/21

GUEST CAST: Napiera Groves Boykin (Devona), Andree Vermeulen (Delivery Woman).

Robert Rodriguez’s Solstice Studios & Studio 8 Movie ‘Hypnotic’ Sets Dayo Okeniyi & William Fichtner

Hypnotic follows a detective who becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter (Finley) and a secret government program – while investigating a string of impossible high-end crimes. Rodriguez and Max Borenstein wrote. Rodriguez, Studio 8 CEO Jeff Robinov and his colleague John Graham are producing with Solstice Studios.

Fichtner most recently played Adam for five seasons on Chuck Lorre’s CBS sitcom Mom opposite Allison Janney. He will next be seen as Rick Kirkham on Joe Exotic, the TV series based on the real-life events documented in Netflix’s Tiger King as well as The Birthday Cake opposite Shiloh Fernandez, Val Kilmer and Ewan McGregor. His previous features include Black Hawk Down, The Dark Knight, 12 Strong and Blades of Glory.

Okeniyi currently stars in See for Apple TV+ alongside Jason Momoa. His next projects include the Disney+ Giannis Antetokounmpo biopic, Greek Freak directed by Akin Omotoso, Legendary Entertainment’s Fresh directed by Mimi Cave, and Universal Pictures’ Run Sweetheart Run directed by Shana Feste.

Fichtner is repped by Thruline Entertainment, Principal Entertainment LA, Sloan, Offer, Weber And Dern, LLP and Innovative Artists. Okeniyi is represented by UTA, Cultivate Entertainment, and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.

Talk Show Appearance

We 10/6: Jason Biggs

Jen Landon recurs on FBI: Most Wanted 10/12/21

RECURRING CAST: Jen Landon (Sarah Allen).

Ming-Na Wen & Missi Pyle Board Indigo Girls Jukebox Musical Movie ‘Glitter & Doom’

Billed as a fantastical summer romance, the pic follows a musician who wears charisma as camouflage and a carefree kid about to run away with the circus as they fall in love at first sight. But will 29 days be enough time to fall in love forever? International discoveries Alex Diaz stars as Glitter and Alan Cammish as Doom with Orange Is The New Black‘s Lea DeLaria also starring, and cameos by Tig Notaro and Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. Wen will play the role of Ivy in the film.

The film is produced by SPEAK productions (Tom Gustafson and Cory Krueckeberg), TBD Pictures (Broadway Producer Hunter Arnold), Sin Sentido Films (Alejandra Cardenas and Feli Arce) and La Palma de Oro Films (Ale Garcia and Antonio Urdapilleta).

Verve Ventures is representing distribution rights.

Said Gustafson, “We’re so excited to return to Mexico to shoot this story that celebrates young love and to do so with such an amazing international cast and crew and the support of our incredible producing partners in Mexico and New York. And to be on this journey with the support of two of our heroes, Indigo Girls’ Amy and Emily, is humbling and inspiring.”

Ads Krueckeberg, “It’s a story inspired by Tom and I meeting way back when we lived in Chicago – and when I knew I wanted it to be a musical, my first thought was to ask Amy and Emily since their music was such a big part of our relationship. So – we sent my first draft with fingers crossed and they said yes! And then started the real work of combing through their deep, rich catalog for the 20 best songs to weave throughout the fabric of our story.”

The Indigo Girls have recorded 16 studio albums (seven gold, four platinum, one double platinum) and sold over 15M records. Their 35-year career began in clubs around their native Atlanta, GA before taking off with their eponymous major label debut which sold over 2M units under the power of songs “Closer to Fine” and “Kid Fears.” The duo work on issues like immigration reform (El Refugio), LGBTQ advocacy, education (Imagination Library), death penalty reform, and Native American rights. They are co-founders of Honor the Earth, a non-profit dedicated to the survival of sustainable Native communities, Indigenous environmental justice, and green energy solutions.

Wen recently starred as Fennec Shand on Disney+’s Emmy lauded series The Mandalorian and will return in its spinoff The Book of Boba Fett on Dec. 29.

Wen will also be making a special guest appearance in Netflix’s upcoming series Pretty Smart which was created by Jack Dolgen and Doug Mand and premieres in October. She’s also voicing the HBO Max animation series Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai for Amblin Television. She previously played Agent Melinda May on Marvel’s long-running series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and was named a Disney Legend in 2019. Her feature credits include Mulan, Mulan 2, The Joy Luck Club, One Night Stand, and Streetfighter and TV series ER, The Single Guy, SGU: Stargate Universe, among several others.

Pyle starred in such movies as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Ma, The Oscar-winning The Artist, Dodgeball, and Galaxy Quest. Of her several TV series credits there’s Dirty John, Mom, Inside Amy Schumer, Bordertown, Another Period, and recently Star Trek: Lower Decks, Mr. Mayor and Roxanne on FX’s Y: The Last Man.

DeLaria starred in 63 episodes of Orange Is The New Black as Big Boo. Other TV series include AppleTV+’s Physical, Hulu’s Reprisal, and the feature The Edge of Seventeen.

Indigo Girls are managed by Russell Carter Artist Management. Diaz is represented by McKeon/Myones Entertainment and Cornerstone Entertainment. Cammish is represented by Leoni Morris from TTA. Wen is represented by Link Entertainment and Innovative Artists. Pyle is represented by McKeon/Myones Entertainment and UTA. Notaro is repped by ICM Partners, MGMT Entertainment and Ziffren Brittenham. DeLaria is repped by the Katz Company.

17th Annual Daytime Stars and Strikes Virtual Charity event for Autism

We have an incredible line-up of guests to help us raise funds for The Autism Society of America including: Grant Aleksander (Phillip Spaulding), John Bolger (Phillip Spaulding), Jeff Branson (Shayne Lewis), Bryan Buffinton (Bill Lewis), Jean Carol (Nadine Cooper), Beth Chamberlin (Beth Raines), Crystal Chappell (Olivia Spencer), Jan Conklin (Producer), Ritchie Coster (Alfred), Kassie DePaiva (Chelsea Reardon), Mark Derwin (A.C. Mallet), Frank Dicopoulos (Frank Cooper), Aubrey Dollar (Marina Cooper), Beth Ehlers (Harley Cooper), Nicole Forester (Cassie Layne), Stephanie Gatschet (Tammy Winslow), Ricky Paull Goldin (Gus Aitoro), Melissa Hayden (Bridget Reardon), Rick Hearst (Alan-Michael Spaulding), Rebecca Hollen (Trish Lewis), Mart Hulswit (Ed Bauer), Crystal Hunt (Lizzie Spaulding), Maeve Kinkead (Vanessa Chamberlin), Jessica Leccia (Natalia Rivera), Kurt McKinney (Matt Reardon), Fran Myers (Peggy Fletcher), Robert Newman (Josh Lewis), Sonia Satra (Lucy Cooper), Tina Sloan (Littlian Raines), Rebecca Staab (Jessie Matthews), Nancy St. Alban (Michelle Bauer Santos), Paul Anthony Stewart (Danny Santos), Kimberley Simms (Mindy Lewis), Michelle Ray Smith (Ava Peralta), Krista Tesreau (Mindy Lewis), Gina Tognoni (Dinah Marler), Jordi Vilasuso (Tony Santos), Michael Woods (Dr. Jim Reardon) and Kim Zimmer (Reva Shayne Lewis).

All funds donated go directly to The Autism Society of America which is a not-for-profit organization. Donations are tax-deductible as allowed by the law. TO DONATE: daytimestarsandstrikes.com

‘Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin’: Lea Salonga, Sharon Leal Among Five Cast In HBO Max Reboot

Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin is a present-day iteration of the popular 2010-17 series from Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa; Lindsay Calhoon Bring; Alloy Entertainment; and Warner Bros TV. Lisa Soper will direct the first two episodes.

Written by Aguirre-Sacasa and Calhoon Bring, the reboot based on the bestselling books by Sara Shepard will feature a new story and new characters. Twenty years ago, a series of tragic events almost ripped the blue-collar town of Millwood apart. Now, in the present day, a group of disparate teen girls — a brand-new set of Little Liars — find themselves tormented by an unknown Assailant and made to pay for the secret sin their parents committed two decades ago…as well as their own. In the dark, coming-of-age, horror-tinged drama Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, we find ourselves miles away from Rosewood, but within the existing Pretty Little Liars universe — in a brand-new town, with a new generation of Little Liars.

Aguirre-Sacasa executive produces via his Muckle Man Productions, with Alloy’s Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo, as well as Michael Grassi and Caroline Baron. Calhoon Bring will co-executive produce. Muckle Man Productions and Alloy produce in association with WBTV. Lisa Soper will direct the first two episodes.

Salonga will play Elodie, Minnie’s (Pyles) mom. A bit overbearing, Elodie works overtime to keep her daughter safe following a trauma that occurred when Minnie was just a little girl.

Leal joins the cast as Sidney, Tabby’s (Kinney) mother and our main Pretty Little Liar matriarch. Sidney is a real estate agent and single mother, doing her best to provide for her daughter, as well as Imogen (Madison).

Pope will appear as Davie, Imogen’s (Madison) mother. Davie and Imogen have always been two against the world. But a chilling reminder from Davie’s dark past upends both of their lives. Goode will portray Marjorie, Noa’s (Reficco) mother, a nurse at Millwood General. Though she loves her daughter, Marjorie’s hiding a secret that threatens their relationship.

Lastly, Young will take on Corey, Faran’s (Zaria) mother. Once her marriage to Zeke dissolved, Corey sought greener pastures in Pittsburgh, PA, working as a paralegal, though she tells everyone she’s a lawyer.

Salonga is represented by Josh Pultz at Amplified Entertainment and Attorney Robert Perlstein. Leal is repped by Buchwald. Pope is repped by LINK, Gersh and Tyman Stewart of The Characters Agency. Goode is represented by Innovative Artists and Luber Roklin Entertainment. Young’s reps are Kazarian/Measures/Ruskin and Associates.

Jake Weary Interview 10/1/21

Born in Montclair, New Jersey, to an award-winning actress mother (Kim Zimmer) and an actor/director father (A.C. Weary), Jake Weary started following in their successful footsteps in his early teens. After booking a number of guest roles, he took a break from acting to focus on school, including time at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts.

Since then, Weary’s career has been an eclectic mix of memorable characters for prestigious and interesting filmmakers. Weary starred as the lead in Oscar nominated director Juanita Wilson’s Tomato Red. His other notable film credits include Film Independent Spirit nominee David Robert Mitchell's thriller, It Follows, an official selection of the Cannes Film Festival; Jordan Rubin's horror spoof Zombeavers, an official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival; and Message From the King for Fabrice Du Welz, an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival; Smartass for Jena Serbu; Brett Simon's Assassination of a High School President, an official Sundance Film Festival selection; and Kaare Andrews's Altitude.

Weary can be seen in the highly anticipated sequel It: Chapter 2 as well as starring opposite Melissa Leo in the thriller Leave Not One Alive. His film Finding Steve McQueen, for Mark Steven Johnson, was released in March of 2018.

Other recent television credits include multi-episode arcs on NBC's hit drama Chicago Fire and Freeform’s smash Pretty Little Liars, as well as notable turns in the Lifetime movies Escape from Polygamy and A Deadly Adoption with Will Ferrell and Kristin Wiig, both for Rachel Goldenberg. Weary made his television debut opposite his mother on Guiding Light in before joining the cast of As the World Turns as Luke Snyder.

Weary currently lives in Los Angeles, where he continues to pursue his other passion of writing and producing his own music.

Jen Landon recurs on FBI: Most Wanted 10/5/21

RECURRING CAST: Jen Landon (Sarah Allen)

Daniel Cosgrove guests on Bull 10/14/21

GUEST CAST includes: A.J. Shively (Jerry McConnell), Daniel Cosgrove (AUSA Carto), Stephanie Ittleson (Judge Rogers).

Tom Degnan guests on CSI: Las Vegas 10/13/21

GUEST CAST includes: Wally Langham (David Hodges), Paul Guilfoyle (Jim Brass), Tom Degnan (Tyler Clement).

Eva Longoria, Alyssa Milano, Ciara & Dozens More Celebrities Call On World Leaders To End The Covid Pandemic “Now”

The letter, which mentioned the United Nations General Assembly Session specifically, was posted on the website of CARE, an organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. It was signed by a raft of boldfaced names including Eva Longoria, Debra Messing, Alyssa Milano, Anne Hathaway, Malin Akerman, Debbie Allen, Jordana Brewster, Connie Britton, Ciara, Peter Dinklage, Richard Gere, Dolores Huerta, Joel McHale, Iman, Edward James Olmos, Laura Linney, Julianna Margulies, Joel McHale, Idina Menzel, Ana Ortiz, Adam Shankman, Michael Sheen, Adam Shulman and Sarah Silverman. For a full list of signatories, see below.

Specifically, the letter calls Covid “a manmade pandemic of apathy.” It states that “Only 2% of people in low-income countries have received a single dose.” The signatories call on “global leaders to make 7 billion vaccine doses available before the end of 2021, and an additional 7 billion doses by mid-2022 to fully vaccinate 70% of the world by next summer.”

Those are audacious goals given the world’s most highly vaccinated countries, like the U.S., remain well under 70%.

It also asks leaders to “invest in last-mile delivery systems, public education, and frontline healthcare workers to get vaccines from tarmacs into arms.”

Here is the full letter:

An open letter to world leaders on ending the COVID-19 pandemic now.

None of us are safe until all of us are safe.

We call on leaders gathering at the United Nations General Assembly Session to boldly act together to end COVID-19 everywhere.

COVID-19 is now a manmade pandemic of apathy. Only 2% of people in low-income countries have received a single dose, leaving the world’s most vulnerable to face COVID with no protection. This situation also lets new variants, like Delta, emerge and ravage the lives of millions.

We are joining with CARE to call on global leaders to make 7 billion vaccine doses available before the end of 2021, and an additional 7 billion doses by mid-2022 to fully vaccinate 70% of the world by next summer.

To get this done the world community must also invest in last-mile delivery systems, public education, and frontline healthcare workers to get vaccines from tarmacs into arms. Millions of doses could go to waste because low-income countries don’t have the support they need to get vaccines to vulnerable people.

We can save millions of lives — and trillions in further economic damage — by meeting this moment with the resources and political will needed to end COVID-19 for everyone, everywhere. Because none of us are safe until all of us are safe.

Malin Akerman
Debbie Allen
Dorothy Amuah
Morena Baccarin
Adriana Barraza
Troian Bellisario
Bobby Berk
Jordana Brewster
Connie Britton
Karamo Brown
Gloria Calderón Kellett
Ciara
Tena Clark
Kim Coates
Madison Cowan
Alexandra Daddario
Peter Dinklage
Melinda Doolittle
Tan France
Richard Gere
Duff Goldman
Tony Goldwyn
Fiona Gubelmann
Anne Hathaway
Ingrid Hoffmann
Anders Holm
Dolores Huerta
Osas Ighodaro
Joel McHale
Iman
Edward James Olmos
Sonam Kapoor Ahuja
Ellie Krieger
Iskra Lawrence
Annie Lennox
Lola Lennox
Esther Lewis
Laura Linney
Kimberly Locke
Eva Longoria
Anja Manuel
Julianna Margulies
Catherine McCord
Joel McHale
Spike Mendelsohn
Idina Menzel
Debra Messing
Alyssa Milano
Sepideh Moafi
Tamera Mowry-Housley
Yvette Nicole Brown
Christina Ochoa
Ana Ortiz
Helen Pankhurst
Jessica Pimentel
Julie Plec
Adina Porter
Zac Posen
Leven Rambin
April Reign
Holland Roden
Sheila Shah
Adam Shankman
Omar Sharif Jr.
Michael Sheen
Adam Shulman
Sarah Silverman
Hannah Skvarla
Todd Snyder
Kimberly Steward
Curtis Stone
Christy Turlington Burns
Laura Vandervoort
Gabby Williams
Michelle Williams
Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Russell Wilson
Scott Wolf
Kelley Wolf
Bellamy Young
Rachel Zoe.

Christopher Goutman Interview 9/24/21

Chris has spent most of his career working as a director, producer, and writer. He started his career as an actor appearing on The Doctors, Search for Tomorrow, The Edge of Night and Texas. Chris served as the Executive Producer for Another World and As the World Turns as well as directed episodes from nine different daytime dramas.

He created and produced two web series, In Turn and L.A. Diaries, which he also directed, as well as promotional campaigns for network television, commercial movie theater trailers, and an award-winning Presidential campaign ad. For his work in television, he has shot on locations all over the world. He also wrote, produced, and directed two short films, The Square Root of Three and Visions of Joanna, both of which received extensive exposure on the independent film circuit. In theatre, he has directed in New York, Philadelphia and Florida, including productions at EST, NYC Fringe, the Harold Clurman Theatre and the Theatre at Madison Square Garden. His plays have been performed at L.A. Stage and Film Company, the Barrow Group and EST. He has five Emmy Awards for his work as a producer and director and a Directors Guild of America Award.

Chris currently serves as the Artistic Director, Associate Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Roselyn Sanchez guests on Home Economics 9/29/21

Recurring is Nicole Byer as Amanda and guest starring Roselyn Sanchez as Sofía and Anna Akana as Lindsay.

“Chorizo with Mojo Verde and Chicharrón, $45” was written by Tucker Cawley and directed by Randall Winston.

Jen Landon recurs on FBI: Most Wanted 9/28/21

RECURRING CAST: Jen Landon (Sarah Allen)

Jane Powell Dies: Hollywood Golden Age Actress & ‘Royal Wedding’ Star Was 92

Susan Granger, a friend of the actress and spokesperson for her family, told Deadline that Powell died peacefully at the house she shared for many years with her husband, the actor and publicist Dick Moore, who died in 2015.

Powell, one of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, continued to appear on stage well into the 21st Century, making her career among her generation’s sturdiest.

Born Suzanne Lorraine Burce in Portland, Oregon, Powell was already a locally successful singer – she had toured her home state as an “Oregon Victory Girl” to sell World War II war bonds – when she moved to Hollywood, soon signing on as a contract player with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Her film debut came in 1944 with Song of the Open Road, in which she played a fictionalized version of herself – a teenage singer who joins up with such show-biz stars of the day as Edgar Bergen (with Charlie McCarthy), Big Band leader Sammy Kaye and W.C. Fields. (In what is thought to have been a largely improvised exchange, Fields hands a microphone to Powell with the immortal line, “Here you are, my little kumquat.”)

Powell cemented her popularity and growing fame with roles in 1945’s Delightfully Dangers, 1948’s A Date With Judy and, in 1951, a career-defining role opposite Astaire in Royal Wedding, in which the two played a brother-sister dance act (one of the duo’s musical numbers features what is considered the longest song title in any MGM musical: “How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life?”). For the film, Powell had replaced an ailing Judy Garland, who herself had replaced June Allyson.

Several musical films followed, leading to Powell’s second signature role as Milly Pontipee in 1954’s Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Paired with Howard Keel as the primary bride and brother, Powell performed such stand-out musical numbers as “Goin’ Courtin’,” “When You’re In Love” and “Wonderful, Wonderful Day.” She would later appear onstage in the role, partnering again with Keel.

Appearing throughout the rest of the 1950s in such films as Athena, Deep In My Heart and Hit the Deck, Powell soon made her way to television, including a starring role in a TV adaptation of Meet Me in St. Louis (again in a role associated with Garland), an unsold 1961 pilot for her own The Jane Powell Show, and numerous appearances on The Red Skelton Hour and other variety shows. She made various appearances in the late 1970s and early ’80s on The Love Boat and Fantasy Island, and recurred throughout the late ’80s and early ’90s on Growing Pains as the mother of star Alan Thicke’s character Jason Seaver.

Her final credited TV performance was a 2002 episode of Law & Order: SVU, in which she played a nursing home resident suffering from elder abuse.

Among her many stage credits was a starring role in the 1973 Broadway production of Irene, and, in 2000, a role in the Off Broadway production of Bill C. Davis’ comedy-drama Avow. Powell starred in national touring productions of, among others, Marriage-Go-Round, Same Time, Next Year and Chapter Two.

In 2003, Powell appeared in a Chicago production of a musical that would become among theater’s most storied titles: Stephen Sondheim’s Bounce, which had begun life Off Broadway four years earlier as Wise Guys. For the Chicago production at the Goodman Theatre, Bounce was directed by Harold Prince, choreographed by Michael Arnold and starred Richard Kind, Howard McGillin, Powell, Herndon Lackey, Gavin Creel and Michele Pawk.

Powell and the rest of the Chicago cast soon traveled to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where reviews for the show were lukewarm. Bounce never opened in New York, but a much rewritten version, retitled Road Show, was staged Off Broadway by The Public Theater in 2008, with Alma Cuervo filling the role that had been played by Powell.

Beginning in 2007, Powell occasionally performed with the cross-genre orchestral band Pink Martini, appearing with the group in their shared hometown of Portland, Oregon, as well as at New York City’s Lincoln Center and the Hollywood Bowl.

In 1988, Powell married former child star and longtime publicist Moore (known as a young actor on the “Our Gang” shorts as Dickie Moore) in what would be the actress’ fifth, final and longest marriage. Following his death in 2015, Powell permanently relocated from their Manhattan apartment to their second home in Wilton.

She is survived by children Geary Anthony Steffen III, Suzanne Steffen, and Lindsay Cavalli and granddaughters Skye Cavalli and Tia Cavalli.

Louise Shaffer Interview Sept 15

Louise has been an actress since the age of 15 and is a graduate of the Yale Drama School. She has appeared on numerous daytime soaps including The Edge of Night, Search for Tomorrow and on Ryan’s Hope playing Rae Woodard, a role that earned her a Daytime Emmy Award.

Louise returned to her first love of writing and began a successful second career when she found herself as an unemployed actress in her mid-forties. She began writing scripts for daytime soaps, but soon followed her dream and wrote her first novel, The Three Miss Margarets published by Random House. It was followed by The Ladies of Garrison Gardens, Family Acts, Serendipity and Looking For A Love Story.

‘Fantasy Island’: Fox In Talks Over Season 2 Renewal Of Summer Series

The network is considering a second season of the summer drama series, which is a reboot of the 1977 original.

Fox Entertainment President Michael Thorn told Deadline that as its “first real, recent attempt at a cost effective” drama series, the network and producers Sony Pictures Television are “really proud of it”.

Thorn said that the series, which premiered to a 0.4 in 18-49 and 1.97M viewers, “held its own this summer”. “We’re really high on it and it’s been exciting for us to cross pollinate some of the stars that we have in other series and do other exciting turns on Fantasy Island. We definitely see a potential second season and it’s something that we’re talking about now. We’re very pleased with the show and Liz [Craft] and Sarah [Fain] did a very good job,” he said.

Roselyn Sanchez stars as Elena Roarke, a descendant of the original series’ enigmatic Mr. Roarke, in the series, which premiered on August 10.

Set at a luxury resort, where literally any fantasy requested by guests is fulfilled, although they rarely turn out as expected. The resort is run by Elena Roarke (Sanchez) who set aside her own ambitions, and even the love of her life, to uphold her family’s legacy. Sophisticated, insightful and always charming, Elena’s calm exterior masks the challenges of the responsibilities she has assumed as steward of this mysterious island.

Kiara Barnes plays Ruby Okoro, a young woman with an old soul who arrives on Fantasy Island with a terminal illness, and is given a new lease on life there, while heavily recurring John Gabriel Rodriquez plays pilot Javier, who also is the head of island transportation and a jack of all trades.

The reboot keeps the semi-anthological format of the original Fantasy Island with three main characters played by Sanchez, Barnes and Rodriquez, who live/work on the island with new guests arriving in every episode.

From writer-producers Craft and Fain, it is produced by Sony Pictures TV and its Gemstone Studios label, which co-produce with Fox Entertainment.

The original 1977 series, created by Gene Levitt and executive produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, starred Ricardo Montalbán as Mr. Roarke and Hervé Villechaize as his assistant Tattoo as they grant guests so-called “fantasies” on the island for a price.

Talk Show Appearance

We 9/8: Eileen Davidson
Th 9/9: Jason Biggs

‘Trigger Warning’: Netflix Rounds Out Cast With Anthony Michael Hall, Mark Webber, More

The newly added actors join previously announced lead Jessica Alba in her first feature project since 2019’s Killers Anonymous.

Trigger Warning, directed by Mouly Surya, tells the story of Parker (Alba), an active-duty Special Forces officer described as a female John Wick. Parker takes ownership of her grandfather’s bar shortly after he dies, and soon finds herself at odds with the violent gang that killed him.

Filming is set to begin in New Mexico this fall.

Executive producers include Esther Hornstein for Thunder Road Pictures; Jeanette Volturno and Jason Clark for Catchlight Studios; and Alba. Trigger Warning is written by Josh Olson and John Brancato with current revisions by Halley Gross. Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee are producing.

Hall is repped by Untitled Entertainment. Webber is repped by Inphenate and attorney Ira Schreck. De Hoyos is repped by The Marlene Agency and Kontakto. Weary is repped by CAA and Black Box Management. Weary is repped by Gersh and Management 360. Basso is repped by WME and Sugar 23.

‘Vacation Friends’ Sequel In Works After Hulu Movie Lands Biggest 3-Day Weekend Opening For An Original In Streamer’s History

Directed by Tarver and co-written by Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Tim and Tom Mullens, Vacation Friends follows a couple (Lil Rey Howery, Yvonne Orji) who meets up with another couple (John Cena, Meredith Hagner) while on vacation in Mexico, only to see their friendship takes an awkward turn when they get back home.

This is an encouraging sign as the team at 20th Century Studios ramps up its slate of films for the company’s streaming services. The Disney-owned studio led by Steve Asbell has a number of features in the works that will stream as Hulu Originals in the U.S. and as Star Originals on Disney+ internationally including the suspense thriller No Exit, The Princess starring Joey King, and the Shakespeare-inspired romantic comedy Rosaline starring Kaitlyn Dever.

Theatrically, 20th Century is coming off the success of its original comedy Free Guy, which has overachieved pandemic box office trends to become one of the year’s biggest hits of the year for an original piece of IP, with nearly $80 million in domestic box office, more than $180M worldwide and a sequel already in development.

‘The Christmas Promise’: Torrey DeVitto, Dylan Bruce, & Patrick Duffy Leading Hallmark Holiday Film

DeVitto will portray Nicole in the film, a woman who learns to deal with grief with the help of her grandfather (Duffy) and a carpenter named Joe (Bruce), who she hires to renovate the home she was to share with her fiancé.

The Christmas Promise, for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, begins production this week in Vancouver. It will premiere on the network as part of its “Miracles of Christmas” programming though no premiere date has been announced as of yet.

It’s the third film from producing partners Kathy Kloves and Risa Shapiro, following the successes of their previous Hallmark films Love At First Glance and It Was Always You, both scripted by Kloves. The Christmas Promise is also produced by Sunta Izzicupo and Front Street Pictures Inc. Fred Gerber directs from an original script by Kloves.

DeVitto starred as Dr. Natalie Manning in Chicago Med for six seasons before hanging up her scrubs. Prior TV credits include Pretty Little Liars, Army Wives, and The Vampire Diaries. Up next for DeVitto is the film Skelly, opposite Brian Cox and John Palladino. She is repped by Gersh and Insight.

Bruce is most notably known for his portrayal of Chris Hughes in CBS’ As The World Turns and Paul Dierden in the sci-fi hit Orphan Black. He most recently appeared in Magnum P.I. for CBS and the 2020 film Search and Destroy. He is repped by Buchwald, Michael Bruno Group, and Morgan Myers-Cavanagh at Pacific Artists Management.

Duffy is a veteran actor who famously portrayed Bobby Ewing in both the original Dallas and its modern-day adaptation for TNT. His extensive credits include roles in Knots Landing, Step-By-Step, The Bold and the Beautiful, All Rise, and NCIS. He is repped by Pakula/King & Associates and Shelter Entertainment Group.

Matthew Mindler Dies: Former Child Star Who Went Missing Found Dead At 19

The college confirmed his death with an announcement to the student body. “It is with a grieving heart that I let you know of the death of 19-year-old Matthew Mindler from Hellertown, Pennsylvania, a first-year student at Millersville University. A search had been underway for Matthew since Thursday, after he was reported missing. Matthew was found deceased this morning, Saturday, August 28, in Manor Township near campus.”

The official did not disclose the cause of death or whether foul play is suspected.

Mindler costarred with Paul Rudd in 2011’s My Idiot Brother, and had just began his freshman year. He was reported missing on Wednesday Aug. 25, according to a press release from the Millersville University Police Department.

His family alerted authorities that he had left his dorm room and did not return to his room or class the following day.

Mindler’s last acting role was the 2016 TV movie, Chad: An American Boy.

Millersville college reported that Mindler went missing Tuesday evening. “He was last seen walking from his residence hall, West Villages toward the Centennial Dr. parking lot area at 8:11 p.m. Tuesday night. He was wearing a white Millersville University hooded sweatshirt with black stripes on the arm, a black backpack, jeans and white sneakers. Matt attended classes Monday and Tuesday, but did not attend yesterday or this morning,” the campus police noted.

‘Ozark’s Tom Pelphrey Joins Carey Mulligan And Zoe Kazan In Weinstein Investigation Pic ‘She Said’

Based on Twohey and Kantor’s bestseller She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, the film will be directed by Unorthodox director Maria Schrader from a script by Oscar winner Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

In 2018, Annapurna Pictures and Plan B optioned rights to She Said under their co-production deal. Megan Ellison will executive produce for Annapurna with Sue Naegle. Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner will produce for Plan B. Universal’s VP Production Lexi Barta will oversee the project for the studio.

Pelphrey is coming off his acclaimed role in Season 3 of Netflix’s Emmy-winning drama Ozark, on which he portrayed Wendy’s bipolar brother Ben. He was also recently seen in David Fincher’s Mank and just finished shooting the next season of Amazon’s series Outer Range. He was also recently tapped to star in HBO Max’s Love and Death.

He is repped by Gersh and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

Michael Nader Dies: ‘Dynasty’, ‘All My Children’ Actor Was 76

His death was announced by wife Jodi Lister, who released a statement saying, “With heavy heart, I’m sharing the news of the passing of my beloved, Michael. We had 18 wonderful years together with the many dogs we fostered and adopted. Recently, Michael was so thrilled to reconnect with his friends from the cast of Dynasty during Emma Samms virtual event to help raise funds for Long-Covid research. He was a beautiful and fascinating man with many talents and skills. I will miss him forever.”

Born in St. Louis but raised in California, Nader, a nephew of Hollywood actor George Nader, was an early and ardent surfer, getting his start in show business as one of the wave-riding boys in American International’s string of 1960s beach movies: Beach Party, Bikini Beach, Pajama Party, Beach Blanket Bingo and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini. Around the same time, he had a recurring role on TV’s beach-themed Gidget series starring Sally Field.

Subsequent periodic appearances on TV – three years on As The World Turns, a guest shot on Magnum, P.I. – led up to his big primetime break in the recurring role of Alexi Theopolous on NBC’s 1983 series Bare Essence. Popular with viewers, Nader transitioned to an even bigger hit that same year, playing the role of Farnsworth “Dex” Dexter on the hit ABC nighttime soap Dynasty. His character would become the third – and fan favorite – husband of star Joan Collins’ Alexis Colby.

After Dynasty was canceled in 1989, Nader moved to daytime, taking on the role of a wealthy, dashing and brooding count named Dimitri Marick, the on-again off-again romantic partner of the soap’s most popular bad girl, Susan Lucci’s Erica Kane. With the duo quickly reaching Super Couple status, Nader had scored costarring roles with TV’s reigning divas – Alexis and Erica.

Nader appeared on the ABC daytime series from 1991 to 1999, then returned for a brief stint in 2000-2001. Nader would later speak openly about the substance abuse issues that got him fired from the soap, including a drunk driving arrest in 1997 and, most damningly, a 2001 arrest for attempting to sell what was reported as a $20 bag of cocaine to an undercover police officer in an East Village after-hours bar.

The actor later sued ABC, unsuccessfully, claiming that All My Children producers had reneged on their pledge to rehire him if he sought and completed treatment for his addictions. (According to court documents, Nader completed a 28-day in-patient program at Hazelden). Although Nader was never rehired on the ABC serial, he reprised the role in a shortlived online revival for Prospect Park in 2013.

Nader is survived by wife Jodi Lister, daughter Lindsay, stepmother Lillian, sister Stephanie and other family members.

A Zoom memorial will be planned at a later date.

Video Interview: Writers Carolyn and Richard Culliton

Soap Opera Writers Interview: Carolyn and Richard Culliton

This talented duo met when they were both students at Northwestern University. Carolyn grew up watching soaps and Richard had never seen one. Fate intervened in 1978 when a family friend offered to make some introductions to an executive Procter & Gamble Productions. The rest is history.

Carolyn’s first job in the daytime industry was working as Paul Rauch’s assistant at Another World and Richard’s first job was as a script writer on Texas. From that moment forward this duo worked non-stop as breakdown writers, script writers and as head writers on almost every soap opera on the air. Together this duo created the General Hospital spin-off Port Charles while serving as head writers for the first few months of the show’s run.

They are the recipient of numerous Daytime Emmy Awards and Writer’s Guild Awards for their work. They are the proud parents of two daughters, Emily who is an adjunct professor of creative writing at St. Joseph's College in Brooklyn, and Kathleen a journalist. Emily published her first novel In 2017, "The Misfortune of Marion Palm" was published by Knopf.

Looks like the writing gene is a strong one in the Culliton family.

Soap Vets In New Hallmark Films

On September 25, Nikki Deloach (ex-Brenda, DAYS), Scott Porter (ex-Casey, AS THE WORLD TURNS), Corbin Bernsen (ex-Todd, Y&R et al) and Janine Turner (ex-Laura, GH) star in TAKING THE REINS about a writer who returns to the family ranch to write an article about her passion for horses and discovers what ended her marriage and why she stopped riding.

On October 16, Brooks Darnell (ex-Nate, Y&R) and Erinn Westbrook (Tabitha, RIVERDALE) play the leads in FLIRTING WITH ROMANCE about a dating columnist who finds himself attracted to a love advice author.

Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart make rare outing with son in Croatia

The couple, who have been summering in the European country, was spotted sightseeing in Dubrovnik with what appeared to be a tour guide. Their youngest son, Liam Flockhart, 20, joined the notoriously private couple for a rare public outing as a family.

One photo shows Ford, 79, receiving a shoulder massage while shirtless on the balcony of the villa where he and his family are staying. Flockhart — who at 56 is 23 years younger than Ford — and Liam were seated at a nearby table.

Ford is currently on hiatus from filming the fifth “Indiana Jones” film due to a shoulder injury. The actor was hurt while rehearsing a fight scene that left production on the film halted for at least three months, as The Post previously reported.

“The film’s bosses have come together to work out the scheduling and it’s chaos,” a production source told The Sun in June. “The earliest they think they can restart the production is September.”

The fifth installment of the “Indiana Jones” franchise is rumored to be Ford’s last time taking on the role.

Liam is Flockhart’s only child. She adopted him one year before she and Ford began dating in 2002, and Ford later formally adopted him as his own. The couple wed in 2010.

Ford has four more adult children from two previous marriages.

Keir Gilchrist, Elizabeth Marvel & Tom Pelphrey Join ‘Love And Death’ HBO Max True-Crime Limited Series

Written by Kelley and directed by Homeland‘s Lesli Linka Glatter, Love and Death is inspired by the book Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs and a collection of articles from Texas Monthly (“Love & Death in Silicon Prairie,” Part I & II).

The series revolves around two churchgoing couples enjoying small-town family life in Wylie, until somebody picks up an ax. The couples are Candy (Olsen) and Pat Montgomery (Fugit) and Betty (Rabe) and Allan Gore (Plemons).

Gilchrist will play Pastor Ron Adams, Marvel will portray Pastor Jackie Ponder, and Pelphrey is Don Crowder.

Kelley executive produces via his David E. Kelley Productions, with Kidman and Per Saari via Blossom Films; Glatter; Scott Brown and Megan Creydt through Texas Monthly; Matthew Tinker; Michael Klick and Helen Verno. Lionsgate TV is the studio.

Gilchrist recently wrapped the fourth and final season of the Peabody-nominated Netflix dramedy Atypical. His film credits include Castle in the Ground, It’s Kind of a Funny Story from Captain Marvel helmers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, It Follows, and The Stanford Prison Experiment. He’s repped by ICM Partners; Thruline Entertainment; Lichter Grossman Nichols; and ART.

Marvel’s role reunites her with Glatter, with whom she worked on Homeland. Marvel has also booked a guest-starring role on Hulu limited series The Dropout. Her credits also include a starring role on Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories, and she most recently was seen in a recurring role on Law & Order: SVU. She’s repped by Innovative Artists and Viking Entertainment.

Pelphrey was a series regular on Ozark, which is heading into its fourth and final season on Netflix. He’s also known for his role as Ward Meachum on both seasons of Marvel’s Iron Fist on Netflix. On the big screen, he was most recently seen in the Netflix feature Mank. He’s repped by Gersh and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

Roselyn Sanchez & Kiara Barnes debut in Fantasy Island 8/10/21

Cast: Roselyn Sanchez as Elena Roarke; Kiara Barnes as Ruby Okoro

Guest Cast: Bellamy Young as Christine; John Gabriel Rodriquez as Javier; Rick Holmes as Landon; Brittnee Garza as Tanya; Sophie Leonard as Crystal Joe at 10; Brian Tester as Matteo; Maria Gabriela Gonzalez as Isla; Ricardo Laboy as Axel; Ubi Catasus as TV Station Floor Manager; David Moses as Old Mel; Adain Bradley as Mel; Stephanie Berry as Older Ruby; Hiram Delgado as Noah.

'Cherish The Day’: Richard Roundtree & Terri J. Vaughn Join Season 2 Of OWN Anthology Drama Series

Cherish the Day, from DuVernay, ARRAY Filmworks and Warner Bros. Television, is an anthology series that chronicles the relationship of one couple, with each episode spanning a single day. In season two, the rekindling of a romance is told — the love story of Ellis Moran (Simmons) and Sunday St. James (Bryant), who fell in love in high school but find themselves reunited in beautiful New Orleans. Ellis is a former basketball player who is now a single father of two, and Sunday is a vegetarian celebrity chef on the cusp of fame. Each episode of the season-long narrative unfolds in a single day to reveal significant moments in a relationship that compel us to hold true to the ones we love, from the extraordinary to the everyday.

Roundtree will play Mandeville “MV” St. James a proud, loving, wry-humored former judge and widowed father of Sunday (Bryant).

Vaughn will recur as Anastasia, Ellis’ (Simmons) soon-to-be ex-wife and the mother of their children.

The first season of Cherish the Day, which debuted in February 2020, starred Xosha Roquemore, Alano Miller, and Cicely Tyson. On average during its seven-week run, the series ranked #1 in its time period across all of cable with Black women, households, and total viewers.

The DuVernay-led series achieved full gender parity with a production crew of more than 50% women, including 18 female department heads, an initiative DuVernay is continuing in season two.

Created and produced by DuVernay, Cherish the Day is produced for OWN by ARRAY Filmworks and Harpo Films in association with Warner Bros. Television. DuVernay, Paul Garnes, NAACP Image Award winner Raynelle Swilling, Teri Schaffer, and Oprah Winfrey serve as executive producers. Swilling and Schaffer are co-showrunners of season two.

Roundtree, known for his role of John Shaft in the iconic Shaft movie franchise, can currently be seen in the Netflix series Family Reunion. His other previous TV credits include Fox sitcom Roc and Being Mary Jane. Multi-hyphenate director, producer and actor Vaughn is known for her portrayal of Lovita Alizé Jenkins in the long-running series The Steve Harvey Show. She most recently directed an episode of BET’s Tales and recurred in season four of Issa Rae’s HBO comedy Insecure. Additional television acting credits include First Wives Club, Mann and Wife, Greenleaf, Meet the Browns, All of Us and Soul Food. She is repped by Innovative Artists, Kronicle Media and Nancy C. Prager at Prager Law.

Williams’ feature directorial debut Really Love was selected to play in narrative competition at SXSW and won the Special Jury Recognition for Acting for co-stars Kofi Siriboe and Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing. Most recently, Williams directed an episode of Colin in Black & White, the upcoming Netflix limited series from DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick.

Candis’ feature directorial debut LUV was an official selection in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Competition. Candis directed the feature length documentary Baltimore Boys for the ESPN Films banner. Candis has also directed Who Will Survive America for the AMC/Sundance Now Doc Club original series Take 5: Justice in America. Most recently, Sheldon directed an episode of Colin in Black & White, the upcoming Netflix limited series from DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick.

Gerima’s first feature Residue world premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival, and was honored with the festival’s Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and the Acting Award for star Obinna Nwachukwu. The film was also awarded Special Mention at the 77th Venice International Film Festival’s Giornate degli Autori and won the John Cassavetes Award at the 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards. DuVernay’s ARRAY also acquired the film under their ARRAY Releasing banner. Gerima is the son of celebrated Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima, a legendary figure in the L.A. Rebellion film movement.

Talk Show Appearance

Monday, August 9: Actress Roselyn Sanchez discusses her new series

Amber Riley, Bill Bellamy And Loretta Devine Lead BET+ Holiday Film Slate

The full breakdown of the 2021 BET+ holiday films is below.

A Christmas Wish

Roz McKenzie, a single mother, is calling upon a miracle so she and her daughter can survive Christmas.

Starring: Noree Victoria, Nadia Simms, Blue Kimble, Javon Johnson

Written and Directed by: Christopher Nolen

A Rich Christmas

A spoiled and ungrateful socialite learns a valuable lesson one Christmas after her mega-rich father forces her to work at the first property he ever owned – a family homeless center.

Starring: Bill Bellamy, Vanessa A Williams, Tyler Abron, Brandee Evans, Denise Boutte

Directed by: Victoria Rowell

Written by: Shateka “SJ” Johnson

The Business of Christmas 2

For the Franklin family, Christmas will never be the same without their father, Oscar. As their mother hesitates to let love in again, the children struggle to see beyond their own career and relationship problems. They must get outside of themselves and forgive each other for the mistakes of the past in order to remember that there is no Christmas without family.

Starring: Daphne Maxwell Reid, Jennifer Freeman

Directed by: Tim Reid

Written by: Camara Davis

Christmas Déjà Vu

A woman with a downtrodden life who hates Christmas longs for the life she could have had as a singer. She meets an angel who grants her wish.

Starring: Amber Riley, Loretta Devine, Blue Kimble

Written and Directed by: Christel Gibson

Christmas for Sale

A young real estate agent pretends to be a billionaire’s yoga instructor on a holiday ski trip to gain a lucrative real estate listing, but she ends up falling in love with the eccentric and charming gentlemen.

Starring: Nadine Ellis, Aaron Spears, Shanti Lowry

Written by: Camara Davis

Directed by: Michael Mayhall

The Jenkins Family Christmas

After burying their father earlier in the year, Baneatta and Beverly attempt to carry on his Christmas traditions without strangling each other – but when an unknown half-sister arrives at the family festivities, more than just Christmas presents are opened.

Starring: Regina Taylor, Kim Coles, Tammy Townsend, Robert Gossett, Ashley Love Mills, Anthony Chatmon II, Derek Chadwick, Bailey Bass, Thomas Miles (“Nephew Tommy”), Monti Washington

Directed by: Robin Givens

Written by: Christopher Oscar Pena and Joy Kecken

Merry Switchmas

The holidays take a wrong turn when identical twin sisters agree to switch places for one night only at their parents’ Christmas party. With their boyfriends, a feisty great-aunt, and others tangled in their charade, the sisters end up finding out more about their family and themselves before the night ends. But the real question is whether the sisters can eventually make things right with their family and boyfriends when the truth comes out.

Starring: Valarie Pettiford, Thea Camara, Peter Parros, Rachel Aladdin, Rebekah Aladdin, Joseph Harold, Joel Harold

Directed by: Chris Nolen

Written by: Gabrielle Collins

Soul Santa

When an unlucky businessman gambles away the mob’s money, he is forced to go on the run and hide out as a shopping mall Santa Claus.

Starring: David Mann, Tamela Mann, Brooke Monroe Conaway, Christopher Gurr, Ross Fleming

Directed by: Terri Vaughn

Written by: Greg Anderson

BET+ will announce the full schedule at a later date.

‘Chicago Med’ Ups Steven Weber To Series Regular

Additionally, two new doctors are joining Gaffney Chicago Medical Center as Guy Lockard and Kristen Hager have landed series regular roles on the Dick Wolf-produced procedural, which returns for its seventh season this fall. The new cast additions follow the shocking departures of Yaya DaCosta and Torrey DeVitto at the end of last season.

Lockard will portray Dr. Dylan Scott, who left a career as a Chicago police officer to become a doctor. Whether the doctor has any connections to characters in Chicago P.D. is as yet unknown.

Hager plays Dr. Stevie Hammer, a brilliant and scrappy emergency room attending physician.

NBC’s One Chicago Wednesday lineup, anchored by Chicago Med at 8 PM, returns Sep. 22. The franchise is produced by Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, part of Universal Studio Group.

Veteran Weber, who previously did an arc on Wolf’s Law & Order: SVU, is repped by UTA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

Lockard most had recurring roles on NBC’s The Village and The Blacklist. He is repped by A3 Artists Agency, Anthony Calamita of AC Management, and attorney Ryan LeVine.

Hager stars in Condor whose second season will premiere on Epix later this year. She is repped by MGMT. Entertainment, the Kohner Agency, the Characters Talent Agency in Canada, and the Nord Group.

Parker Posey, Stephen McKinley Henderson & Zoe Lister-Jones Among Those Rounding Out Cast Of A24 And Ari Aster’s ‘Disappointment Blvd.’

Nathan Lane, Pattie Lupone, Amy Ryan and Kylie Rogers also are on board.

Aster, whose past two films also were financed by A24, will write and direct, with Aster and Lars Knudsen producing under their Square Peg banner. Access Industries will co-finance with Len Blavatnik and Danny Cohen executive producing. Elisa Alvares and Timo Argillander of IPR.VC will exec produce. Project details are being kept under wraps, but the plot is described as an intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time.

Posey is represented by The Gersh Agency. Henderson is represented by Stewart Talent and EKG Talent Group. Gandolfini is represented by WME, Relevant and Sloane Offer. Squires is represented by Management 360 in the US and B-Side Management in the UK. Lister-Jones is represented by WME and Mosaic.

Bat Boy Tabloid Weekly World News Launches Entertainment Division; Sets Tonya Pinkins Pic ‘The Zombie Wedding’ As First Project

Weekly World News Studios will focus on developing film, TV and podcast projects, based on the company’s library of over 110,000 articles and 300+ original characters.

WWN’s Editor-in-Chief Greg D’Alessandro will oversee the entertainment division as CEO; veteran theater producer Joe Corcoran will serve as its Director of Development.

“There has been an enormous amount of interest in the WWN IP over the last few years. We have a vast library of colorful characters and highly creative stories we are developing with our talented in-house writers and with various production partners, ” said D’Alessandro. “We are excited for what lies ahead and thrilled to finally be able to bring Weekly World News to the world of TV, film, and digital media.”

The first film to emerge from Weekly World News Studios will be an adaptation of The Zombie Wedding, the interactive play penned by D’Alessandro and produced by Corcoran. The project is billed as a horror-comedy with music, falling somewhere between The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Shaun of the Dead.

In it, a young South Carolina couple decides to go through with their long-awaited wedding – during the Zombie Apocalypse. Unfortunately, he’s a zombie and she’s not. Their families are nervous, but the humans prove to be overly judgmental. When the Zombies begin feeling brain deprived, the ceremony takes a turn for the weird. WWN reporters are there to cover this wild wedding, while trying to get out alive.

Tony-award winning actress, writer, and producer Tonya Pinkins (Jelly’s Last Jam, Red Pill) is attached to direct the project, which D’Alessandro and Corcoran will produce. Acclaimed jazz fusion/funk guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly is also on board, to craft its score.

“Our goal is to bring a sense of joy, amazement and surrealist fun to all our projects. Zombie Wedding is the perfect project to launch our studios,” said D’Alessandro. “It’s done extremely well as an interactive theatrical event with audiences of all ages. We know film audiences will have a blast watching the film adaptation.”

“I am ecstatic to bring my two great loves – musicals and zombies – together!”, added Pinkins.

Weekly World News was founded in 1979. In the 40+ years since, it has grown into a global brand followed by millions of fans.

WWN reached a peak circulation of 1.2 million per issue in 2003 and continues to have a strong presence online and on social media, under the leadership of D’Alessandro and President David Collins. The tabloid returned to print with WWN’s Greatest Covers in April of this year.

Video: Susan Marie Snyder Interview

Susan legally changed her name to Suzenne Marie Seradwyn and currently makes her home on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Matthew Morrison welcomes second child with wife Renee Puente

“Glee” alum Morrison, 42, and his wife Renee Puente, 36, welcomed their second daughter Phoenix Monroe on June 28 after years of trying to expand their family of three.

“We rise! Our family is now complete. Welcome, Phoenix Monroe!” the happy parents told People.

The couple first announced they were expecting via an Instagram post in April.

Morrison had previously shared an update with fans in June, admitting the pair had decided to keep their child’s gender a secret and wait. The couple welcomed their first child, Revel James Makai, 3, in October 2017.

“It’s just wild!” Morrison captioned the photo of his wife showing off her baby bump. “Watching this woman whom I love more than anything, growing a human being! I’m in awe of the peace that she embodies with every kick, every cramp … We are weeks away from the big day, when we will complete our family with the birth of our little boy/girl!”

Morrison has been open about the couple’s experience trying for their second child.

The “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” star told People in March 2020 he and Puente were even more “bonded together” after going through a few miscarriages together.

“We’ve had a few miscarriages along the way trying to have a second baby, and it’s not fun stuff,” he said. “But it has really opened us up to having the conversation and talking about things that are taboo or a little difficult to express.”

Morrison and Puente were first linked together in 2011 before tying the knot in 2014. The “American Horror Story: 1984” star told People at the time he was not ready to start planning a family just yet.

“I think we’re on a two-year plan,” the Broadway actor said. “We want to enjoy this moment and enjoy being husband and wife by ourselves because once that happens, it’s kind of not about you anymore.”

HCA TV Awards Nominations

Best Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Television MovieBryan Cranston – Your Honor (Showtime)Chris Rock – Fargo (FX)Colman Domingo – Euphoria Two-Part Special (HBO)Hugh Grant – The Undoing (HBO)Joel Edgerton – The Underground Railroad (Amazon Prime Video)Leslie Odom Jr. – Hamilton (Disney+)Paul Bettany – WandaVision (Disney+)

Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Television MovieJean Smart – Mare of Easttown (HBO)Jessie Buckley – Fargo (FX)Julianne Nicholson – Mare of Easttown (HBO)Kat Dennings – WandaVision (Disney+)Kathryn Hahn – WandaVision (Disney+)Marielle Heller – The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix)Teyonah Parris – WandaVision (Disney+)

Best Actress in a Streaming Series, ComedyKaley Cuoco – The Flight Attendant (HBO Max)Jean Smart – Hacks (HBO Max)Hailee Steinfield – Dickinson (Apple TV+)Cristin Milioti – Made for Love (HBO Max)Renée Elise Goldsberry – Girls5eva (Peacock)

Best Supporting Actress in a Streaming Series, ComedyHannah Einbinder – Hacks (HBO Max)Hannah Waddingham – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)Juno Temple – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)Kaitlin Olson – Hacks (HBO Max)Kathleen Turner – The Kominsky Method (Netflix)Paula Pell – Girls5Eva (Peacock)Rosie Perez – The Flight Attendant (HBO Max)

Best Actor in a Broadcast Network or Cable Series, DramaBilly Porter – Pose (FX)Christopher Meloni – Law & Order: Organized Crime (NBC)Freddie Highmore – The Good Doctor (ABC)Jonathan Majors – Lovecraft Country (HBO)Matthew Rhys – Perry Mason (HBO)Sterling K. Brown – This Is Us (NBC)

Best Supporting Actress in a Streaming Series, DramaAlexis Bledel – The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)Ann Dowd – The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)Gillian Anderson – The Crown (Netflix)Ming-Na Wen – The Mandalorian (Disney+)Samira Wiley – The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)Yvette Nicole Brown – Big Shot (Disney+)Yvonne Strahovski – The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu).

Susan Marie Snyder Interview 7/15/21

Susan just released her first novel, Love: The Harmonizing Essence co-written with her partner Elijah Carter. Susan will be here to discuss her new book, her role of Julie Snyder, and her other daytime roles on Another World, Ryan's Hope, and Santa Barbara.

In addition to her daytime roles, Susan is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and has appeared on screen in a number of movies including the hit film Ruthless People.

Susan legally changed her name to Suzenne Marie Seradwyn and currently makes her home on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Julianne Moore thinks the term ‘aging gracefully’ is ‘totally sexist’

Julianne Moore is often told she’s “aging gracefully” — and she’s had enough.

“There’s so much judgment inherent in the term,” Moore, 60, told As If magazine for her new cover story.

“Is there an ungraceful way to age? We don’t have an option of course. No one has an option about aging, so it’s not a positive or a negative thing, it just is.”

Added Moore, “It’s part of the human condition, so why are we always talking about it as if it is something that we have control over?”

The iconic Hollywood redhead also pointed out that the term is typically directed at women and seems to place value on appearance over talent or life experience, making it “totally sexist.”

“Shouldn’t aging be about inner growth?” Moore asked.

“We have all this life left to live. How do we continue to challenge ourselves, to interest ourselves, learn new things, be more helpful to other people, be the person that your friends and family need or want? How do we continue to evolve? How do we navigate life to have even deeper experiences? That’s what aging should be about.”

Moore has certainly committed to inner growth of her own; on Instagram, the Academy Award winner often posts about gun violence, voting and systemic racism; she even attended a Black Lives Matter protest in Montauk last summer.

Staunchly anti-gun (she even hates handling firearms in films), Moore has hosted live chats and regularly shares infographics connected to the cause.

She’s also spoken out about the sexism and racism pervasive in the entertainment industry, and was among the many women who came forward to accuse filmmaker James Toback of sexual harrassment in 2017.

“I think it’s about time things change,” she told As If. “It’s fantastic that these behaviors are no longer being tolerated. The old hierarchy is being disassembled.”

Soap Writers Chat - Nancy Curlee and Stephen Demorest

Nancy Curlee is a three-time Emmy winner and the recipient of one Writers Guild of America Award for Guiding Light and has written for All My Children and One Life to Live.

Stephen is a six-time Emmy winner and the recipient of two Writers Guild of America Award as a head writer of the CBS daytime dramas As the World Turns and Guiding Light. He has also written for All My Children, General Hospital, One Life to Live, and Another World. Last year Stephen released his first sport book, Larry Miller: The Story of the Lost Legend Who Sparked the Tar Heel Dynasty.

The couple have three daughters and make their home in North Carolina. Please don’t miss the chance to catch up with this talented duo.

‘Joe Exotic’: William Fichtner To Play Rick Kirkham In Recasting In Peacock Limited Series

Fichtner will play Rick Kirkham, Joe’s (Mitchell) reality show producer in a recasting. He takes over for Dennis Quaid, who had to exit the project due to a scheduling conflict.

Joe Exotic (wt) centers on Carole Baskin (McKinnon), a big cat enthusiast, who learns that fellow exotic animal lover Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel (Mitchell) is breeding and using his big cats for profit. She sets out to shut down his venture, inciting a quickly escalating rivalry. But Carole has a checkered past of her own and when the claws come out, Joe will stop at nothing to expose what he sees as her hypocrisy. The results prove dangerous.

In addition to McKinnon and Mitchell, Fichtner joins previously announced Brian Van Holt as John Reinke, Nat Wolff as Travis Maldonado, Sam Keeley as John Finlay, Lex Mayson as Saff, Dean Winters as Jeff Lowe and Joel Marsh Garland as James Garretson.

Etan Frankel writes and executive produces under his overall deal with UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group. McKinnon also executive produces along with Alex Katsnelson and Wondery’s Hernan Lopez, Marshall Lewy, and Aaron Hart.

Fichtner played Adam opposite Allison Janney on CBS’ hit sitcom Mom, which recently wrapped its eighth and final season. His other TV credits include series regular roles on the international series Crossing Lines and Fox’s Prison Break. On the film side, he currently stars in The Birthday Cake with Ewan McGregor and Val Kilmer, and The Space Between opposite Kelsey Grammer. He made his directorial debut last year with the feature film Cold Brook, and starred alongside Kim Coates. Fichtner is repped by Thruline Entertainment, Principal Entertainment LA, Sloan, Offer, Weber And Dern, LLP and Innovative Artists.

As the World Turns Video Chat: The Snyder Kids

Stuart Damon, Longtime Actor on ‘General Hospital,’ Dies at 84

Damon had been struggling with renal failure, KABC reporter George Pennacchio said in a Facebook post about Damon’s death, quoting Damon’s son, Christopher, who said of the elder Damon’s time on the soap, “It was his favorite place to be. He loved playing Alan and was always so appreciative of that role and that job. It was his passion.”

After beginning his career on Broadway, the tall, dark-haired Damon shot to prominence when he portrayed the prince opposite Lesley Ann Warren in a lavish 1965 CBS musical production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella.

He then worked for a dozen or so years in London, where he starred as a secret agent on the 1968-69 ITV series The Champions, appeared on shows including The Saint, Steptoe and Son and The New Avengers and toplined the West End musicals Charlie Girl, a long-running hit, and Man of Magic, as Harry Houdini.

Damon joined General Hospital in May 1977 when Alan Quartermaine, a member of a rich, dysfunctional family, arrived in Port Charles to help Dr. Steve Hardy (John Beradino) raise funds for a new hospital wing. He sticks around and weds Dr. Monica Webber (Leslie Charleson) in 1978, and their marriage is tested by affairs and murder attempts over the years.

“He’s really one of the most interesting characters around,” Damon said in a 2010 interview. “He’s loving one day, but he’s also a failed murderer who wound up in a hospital on two occasions. … I’ve just played some scenes with Monica in which you couldn’t be sure whether I’d kill her or screw her.”

Following six Daytime Emmy nominations without a win, Damon finally took home the prize on his last attempt in 1999 when Alan got addicted to painkillers while attempting to recover from career-threatening hand surgery. (The actor also spent 1997-2001 on the GH spinoff Port Charles.)

Damon was fired from GH in late 2006 — Alan would die of a heart attack after being taken hostage in a hotel — but he occasionally returned as ghostly apparitions or in flashback sequences through 2013. Meanwhile, he worked on two other soaps, CBS’ As the World Turns and NBC’s Days of Our Lives.

The son of Russian immigrants, Stuart Michael Zonis was born in Brooklyn on Feb. 5, 1937. He graduated in 1958 from Brandeis University, where his classmates included Louise Lasser and future advice columnist Margo Howard.

He sang on Broadway in 1959 in the ensemble of First Impressions, a musical comedy version of Pride and Prejudice that was directed by Abe Burrows, then spent more than a year in two roles in the original Broadway production of Irma la Douce.

Damon appeared in a 1963 Obie-winning off-Broadway revival of The Boys From Syracuse, which featured music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, then was back on Broadway in 1965 in a featured part in Do I Hear a Waltz?, from Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim. (He also was heard on that cast album and others as well.)

On The Champions, Damon played spy/pilot Craig Stirling opposite British actors Alexandra Bastedo and William Gaunt. Their characters worked at a Geneva-based law enforcement organization known as Nemesis and used the exceptional powers given to them by an advanced Tibetan civilization to save the world.

Damon later starred for two seasons (1976-77) on the World War II-set ITV comedy Yanks Go Home before returning to the U.S. to work on a soap opera. “I was thinking General Hospital might be a 13-week gig, and 31 years later, I was still there,” he said.

“I tried to make [Alan] as complete as possible,” he added. “I wanted to make sure that this character had an edge, that he wasn’t Mr. Good Guy or Mr. Bad Guy — he wasn’t black or white, he was gray. I wanted to make him someone you didn’t mess with.”

Damon also showed up on other TV shows including Naked City, Fantasy Island, Hotel and Diagnosis Murder and in the 1983 feature Star 80, directed by Bob Fosse.

Survivors include his wife, British-born actress, singer and dancer Deirdre Ottewill, whom he married in 1961, and their children, Jennifer and Christopher.

Stuart Damon Dies: ‘General Hospital’s’ Alan Quartermaine Had 50-Year Career On Stage And Screen

On behalf of everyone at #GH, I want to extend my deepest condolences to Stuart Damon’s family and all who loved him. Stuart was an absolute legend of our industry and he’ll be sorely missed. @GeneralHospital — Frank Valentini (@valentinifrank) June 29, 2021

The actor’s son, Christopher Damon, told Pennacchio that the actor had been dealing with renal failure for the past few years. Of his father’s five-decade run on General Hospital, the younger Damon said: “It was his favorite place to be. He loved playing Alan and was always so appreciative of that role and that job. It was his passion.”

Damon first appeared on the ABC soap as Alan Quartermaine in 1977. He remained in the role even after the good doctor’s death in 2007, appearing occasionally as the character’s ghost.

The actor also appeared as Quartermaine on the spinoff Port Charles, which aired from 1997-2003 on ABC

After his stint as a regular on General Hospital was over, Damon landed multi-episode arcs on Days of Our Lives and As the World Turns. He also appeared on such pre-2000 hits as Diagnosis Murder, Fantasy Island, Mike Hammer and Hotel.

Damon got his start on Broadway, which led to him play the prince opposite Lesley Ann Warren in a 1965 TV movie remake of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella.

In the late ’60s, he appeared on 30 episodes of NBC’s The Champions.

Cady McClain Sets Daytime Emmy Record With Wins For ‘Days Of Our Lives’, ‘As the World Turns’ & ‘All My Children’

Soap veteran Cady McClain this past weekend won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series. She earned it for her recurring role as Jennifer Horton-Deveraux on NBC’s Days of Our Lives. It was McClain’s third Daytime Emmy win, following 2004 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series trophy for her role as Rosanna Cabot on CBS’ As the World Turns and Outstanding Juvenile Female in a Drama Series Emmy in 1990 for playing Dixie Martin on ABC’s All My Children.

With the new win, McClain has become the first female performer to nab Daytime Emmys for three different series — which also happen to be on three different networks and span three decades. McClain’s résumé also includes a major role on CBS’ The Young and the Restless as Kelly Andrews.

‘Made For Love’ Renewed For Second Season On HBO Max

Based on the Alissa Nutting novel and executive produced by Christina Lee and Nutting for Paramount Television Studios, the series follows the tumultuous, suffocating marriage between Hazel Green (Milioti) and her tech billionaire husband Byron Gogol (Magnussen), who has implanted the Made for Love chip, a monitoring device, in her brain. With it, Byron is able to track Havel’s every move and collect her “emotional data” as she tries to regain her independence. Through the chip, he watches her flee to her desert hometown to take refuge with her aging widower father, Herbert (Ray Romano), who lives with his synthetic partner, Diane.

Made for Love also stars Dan Bakkedahl, Noma Dumezweni, Augusto Aguilera and Caleb Foote.

Season 1 was executive produced by Lee, Nutting, Patrick Somerville, Dean Bakopoulos, Liza Chasin and SJ Clarkson. Stephanie Laing was a co-EP and directed six episodes, including the pilot and season finale, and Alethea Jones directed two episodes. Lee served as Season 1 showrunner, and she’ll be joined by Nutting to showrun Season 2.

“Made for Love is funny, dark and entirely unique,” said Suzanna Makkos, EVP Original Comedy and Adult Animation at HBO Max. “We are thrilled to be reuniting with this dream team of talented producers, incredible cast, and CGI dolphins to tell the next chapter of this exciting story.”

Said Lee and Nutting in a joint statement: “We’re thrilled we get the chance to work with our incredible cast and crew again. We would’ve announced the pickup earlier, but it was a beast closing Diane’s deal. Everyone thinks she’s a doll, but she’s a real hard-ass.”

Made for Love is one of many HBO Max series receiving a Season 2, joining Kaley Cuoco comedy series The Flight Attendant and the Ridley Scott’s produced sci-fi series Raised by Wolves.

‘Fantasy Island’: Roselyn Sanchez’s Elena Roarke Grants Guests’ Wishes In Teaser For Fox Reboot

The teaser, which Fox unveiled on Monday, gives fans of the original and new viewers a glimpse at what Fantasy Island has to offer – beautiful scenery, crystal clear waters and life-changing magical powers.

Fantasy Island is set at a luxury resort, where literally any fantasy requested by guests is fulfilled, although they rarely turn out as expected. The resort is run by Elena Roarke (Roselyn Sanchez) who set aside her own ambitions, and even the love of her life, to uphold her family’s legacy. Sophisticated, insightful and always charming, Elena’s calm exterior masks the challenges of the responsibilities she has assumed as steward of this mysterious island. The original 1977 series, created by Gene Levitt and executive produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, starred Ricardo Montalbán as Mr. Roarke and Hervé Villechaize as his assistant Tattoo as they grant guests’ so-called “fantasies” on the island for a price.

The latest reboot comes from writer-producers Liz Craft and Sarah Fain as well as Sony Pictures TV and its Gemstone Studios label, which co-produce with Fox Entertainment. Kiara Barnes and John Gabriel Rodriquez are among the cast for the Fox reboot.

Fantasy Island,from Sony Pictures Television, Gemstone Studios and Fox Entertainment, will debut Tuesday, Aug. 10 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Fox. Watch the latest trailer for the series, which is currently underway on location in Puerto Rico, below.

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Douglas S. Cramer, producer of ‘Love Boat,’ ‘Wonder Woman,’ dies

In an era of comfortable and family-friendly programming, Cramer was the dominant player in ABC, 20th Century Fox, and Paramount TV in the 1960s and 70s. He then teamed up with Aaron Spelling, the then undisputed golden-time television emperor. Together they dominated the rating war with shows such as “Love Boat,” “Heart to Heart,” and “Dynasty.”

Television made Kramer wealthy and gave him the ability to indulge in his almost obsessive hobby of collecting paintings, drawings and sculptures. By the 1990s, Cramer had collected more than 500 works of art worth about $ 100 million, the Architectural Digest reported. His collection was listed 17 times by ARTnews as one of America’s Top 200 Collection.

“I always enjoy seeing and owning things,” he explained.

Kramer, a longtime centerpiece of the LA art scene and former director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, died of renal failure on June 4, at the age of 89, said her husband Hubert Bush.

Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Kramer began his television career with Procter & Gamble, which oversees daytime standards such as “Search for Tomorrow” and “As the World Turns.” Over the next few years, he directed the golden-time soap opera “Payton Place,” and then helped direct a series of long-running television shows, including “The Brady Bunch,” “The Brady Bunch,” and “Dynasty.” .. ..

“We walk a thin line just here on the camp,” he told New York Magazine in 1985, explaining his approach to unraveling the story of a loveless, stinging family in the “dynasty.” Did.

He told the Louisville Courier Journal that his urge to collect art was likely facilitated by his grandmother, who ran an antique store. For reasons he couldn’t explain, he started collecting salt shakers, postcards, and posters. His first big splash was a black print purchased for $ 350 and paid off in monthly installments.

In LA, he grew up and bought the artwork crazy — Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Richard Erschwager, a seemingly endless list. He was so close to Andy Warhol that he persuaded the artist to make a guest appearance on “Love Boat” instead of asking for some of Warhol’s portraits.

The art collected was meditative instead of an enthusiastic work in the studio, Kramer said.

“There is a great freeze on art,” he told The New York Times in 1993. “At work, I spend a couple of hours watching movies and videos, but when I get home, the images stop.”

When Bel Air’s house was filled with art, he bought a 66-acre ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley to store the rest. And when it was full, he added some galleries to the property due to the overflow.

The 420-acre ranch was eventually sold to Firestone Vineyard, where much of the art was donated to MOCA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Kramer was free to roam between his residences in Los Angeles, New York City, Martha’s Vineyard, Connecticut, St. Martin, and Miami, chasing the seasons and whims.

The marriage to Hollywood gossip columnist Joyce Haver divorced in the 1970s, and her two children, Courtney and Douglas, died in 2004 and 2015, respectively. He married Bush in 2006 after a long partnership. Besides his husband, he has survived by his brother, Peyton.

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Natalie Portman And Julianne Moore To Star In Todd Haynes’ ‘May December’

Jessica Elbaum and Will Ferrell of Gloria Sanchez Productions and Christine Vachon (Shirley, Dark Waters) and Pam Koffler (Dark Waters, Colette) of Killer Films will produce alongside Portman and Sophie Mas under their MountainA banner. Principal photography is scheduled to commence next year.

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, Gracie Atherton-Yu and her husband Joe (23 years her junior) brace themselves for their twins to graduate from high school. When Hollywood actress Elizabeth Berry comes to spend time with the family to better understand Gracie, who she will be playing in a film, family dynamics unravel under the pressure of the outside gaze. Joe, never having processed what happened in his youth, starts to confront the reality of life as an empty-nester at 36. And as Elizabeth and Gracie study each other, the similarities and differences between the two women begin to ebb and flow. Set in picturesque and comfortable Camden, ME, May December is an exploration of truth, storytelling and the difficulties (or impossibility) of fully understanding another person.

“What so appealed to me about Samy Burch’s exceptional script was how it navigated potentially volatile subject matter with a kind of observational patience that allowed the characters in the story to be explored with uncommon subtlety,” Haynes said.

May December will see Moore and Haynes reunite for the sixth time, following previous collaborations including Far from Heaven. It comes as Haynes’ documentary The Velvet Underground will have its premiere as part of the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival next month. Portman recently wrapped principal photography on Marvel Studios/Disney’s Thor: Love and Thunder for director Taika Waititi. Moore will next star in Universal’s Dear Evan Hansen which will be released this fall.

Haynes is repped by CAA and Cinetic Media; Portman is represented by CAA and Agence Adequat; Moore by WME and Management 360; Burch is represented by Grandview; and Elbaum, Ferrell and Gloria Sanchez are represented by UTA, Mosaic and attorneys Jackoway Austen.

Rocket Science’ Cannes slate includes Sean Penn’s Flag Day, which screens in Official Competition, and Eva Husson’s Mothering Sunday which screens in the Premiere section. Recently announced projects include: Zach Braff’s A Good Person starring Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman; Robbie Williams biopic Better Man from director Michael Gracey; Sophia Banks’ Black Site starring Jason Clarke, Michelle Monaghan and Jai Courtney; and Oliver Hermanus’ Living starring Bill Nighy and Aimee Lou Wood.

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Anne Hathaway, Tahar Rahim, Marisa Tomei, Joanna Kulig & Matthew Broderick Board Rom-Com ‘She Came To Me’

Film is a multi-generational story set against the backdrop of New York: a composer suffering from writer’s block rediscovers his passion after an adventurous one-night stand, a couple of gifted teenagers fight to prove to the parents that their young love is something that can last forever, and for the woman who seemingly has it all, love arrives in the most unexpected places.

Killer Films’ Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler are producing alongside Miller and Damon Cardasis from Round Films. Oscar winner Alexandre Desplat is composing the score, with Kim Jennings on board as production designer. Pic will shoot in New York in fall.

Global sales agent Protagonist Pictures will introduce the project to buyers at the Cannes Market running June 21-25. CAA Media Finance will handle North American sales.

“After an incredibly difficult period in the world, we couldn’t be more excited to be producing Rebecca’s next film. Rebecca has created a hilarious, timely and uplifting New York story and we are thrilled to have such a uniquely talented cast join us on our journey,” said Producers Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler and Damon Cardasis.

“It is just fantastic to be working with Rebecca again and it is a testament to the strength of her much-revered work that she attracts talent of this calibre. Tahar, Anne, Marisa, Joanna and Matthew depicting these universal experiences of love at all its stages, under different circumstances, gives this special film true global appeal, and we can’t wait to share with our international partners,” added George Hamilton, Head of Sales at Protagonist.

Douglas S. Cramer, Exec Producer on ‘Wonder Woman,’ ‘Dynasty’ and ‘The Love Boat,’ Dies at 89

Cramer died Monday in Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts of heart and kidney failure, his close friend and former The Hollywood Reporter columnist Sue Cameron announced.

“When I was a THR columnist, nobody knew it, but he was my secret ‘legman.’ He was a genius producer with style and taste. We had so much fun together. We were friends for over 45 years,” Cameron said.

A two-time Emmy nominee who was once married to powerful Hollywood columnist Joyce Haber, Cramer also worked for Procter & Gamble, ABC, 20th Century Fox and Screen Gems, where he executive produced Leon Uris’ QB VII, a six-hour-plus “novel for television” that amassed huge ratings for ABC in 1974.

Later, he forged a relationship with prolific author Danielle Steel, and he made more than 20 telefilms and/or miniseries out of her wildly popular novels before he quit show business to concentrate on his enviable art collection and real estate properties around the world.

In 1977, after Spelling and Leonard Goldberg went their separate ways after their producing partnership had fathered such hits as Charlie’s Angels, Fantasy Island, Hart to Hart and T.J. Hooker, each exec took Cramer out to dinner and offered him a job.

Spelling had a contract with ABC that guaranteed a certain number of his pilots had to be picked up, so Cramer went with him. He did so even though Goldberg had been his assistant at ABC and then his boss at Screen Gems.

Cramer would spend 14 years as executive vp of Aaron Spelling Productions, but as part of his deal, he “was not to give any interviews or do any press; that it was all Aaron, his company,” he said in a 2009 conversation for the Television Academy Foundation website The Interviews. “He’d seen other people get the press and the credit.”

Cramer entered the relationship with Spelling with the rights to The Love Boat after reading a newspaper review of a “tacky three-dollar paperback” written by Jeraldine Saunders about “how easy it was to get laid aboard a cruise ship,” he said.

Following two failed Love Boat pilots that were burned off as telefilms, Spelling wooed Gavin MacLeod to play Captain Merrill Stubing for a third pilot, and ABC ordered the series. It ran for nine seasons, from 1977-87.

While working as an ABC exec in 1964, Cramer had helped get the primetime soap opera Peyton Place off the ground. So when “Aaron kept saying to me, ‘What have you done in the past that worked? Let’s do it again,’ I said, ‘Let’s find the grounds to do a serial,'” he recalled.

Dallas was huge for CBS at the time, and Spelling and Cramer hit on the idea of another show about a rich oil family, this one living in Denver. That would be Dynasty, which bowed on ABC in 1981 and also lasted nine seasons.

At Spelling Productions, Cramer executive produced other series, some more successful than others. They included Vega$, starring Robert Urich; Matt Houston, starring Lee Horsley; Hotel — a landlocked version of The Love Boat — starring James Brolin; Life With Lucy, Lucille Ball’s final show; Glitter, starring David Birney; Aloha Paradise, starring Debbie Reynolds; and B.A.D. Cats, starring Michelle Pfeiffer.

In a 1993 interview with The New York Times, Spelling praised Cramer for his creativity and “immaculate taste in art direction and wardrobe.”

“I was very hands-on, there was nothing I wasn’t involved with. I worried about every performer, every extra, every piece of clothing that appeared on the set,” Cramer said in his TV Academy chat. “I [also] was crazed about music. There was always more music on in my shows than anybody else’s. Dynasty in its key days had 42 or 44 minutes of music in each 49 minutes. Dallas, I’ll bet, didn’t have 20.”

Born in 1931 in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in Cincinnati, Douglas Schoolfield Cramer Jr. was the son of a businessman who claimed to have invented the folding bridge table. His mother, Polly, was an interior designer who wrote a syndicated newspaper column, “Polly’s Pointers,” that dispensed helpful tips to housewives.

Cramer had a Variety subscription by age 6 and a half-sister whose stepfather, David E. Rose, was an executive at Paramount, and both of those things nurtured his showbiz dreams throughout childhood. He graduated from Walnut Hills High School and, after a few months as a production assistant at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, the University of Cincinnati.

He earned his master’s degree at Columbia and then, with the help of an agent, Phyllis Anderson, the wife of Tea and Sympathy playwright Robert Anderson, had a couple of plays produced in stock and off-Broadway. Cramer soon realized, however, that he was “too young to have anything to write about.”

Returning to Ohio, he ran the Cincinnati Summer Playhouse for several years, booking touring companies of Broadway shows that starred the likes of Lois Smith, Maureen Stapleton and Ava Gabor, and taught drama and theater at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh.

He got a job at Procter & Gamble as a supervisor in its daytime TV department, where he worked on the Irna Phillips CBS soap operas As the World Turns and The Guiding Light, before moving on to the ad agency Ogilvy & Mather.

In 1962, Cramer shifted to the network side of the business. At ABC in New York, he spearheaded the development of Peyton Place as a primetime soap that starred Mia Farrow, Ryan O’Neal and Dorothy Malone. (Based on Grace Metalious’ novel, it also had been the basis of a hit Lana Turner movie in 1957.)

He hired Phillips as the series’ “secret, uncredited adviser,” and the success of drama — which bowed in September 1964 and ran three times a week at the height of its popularity — helped ABC land a show that would air twice a week, Batman, beginning in 1966.

Cramer headed to Los Angeles to become vp television development for Batman producer 20th Century Fox, and his tenure there included work on Irwin Allen’s The Time Tunnel and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea at ABC and NBC’s ground-breaking Julia, starring Diahann Carroll.

Following three years at Fox, Cramer decided “the time had come to do it on my own. I wanted to do more,” he said. With an assist from Robert Evans, who was a neighbor and good friend, and Barry Diller, whom he had worked with at Fox, Cramer was hired by Paramount Television.

Joining a studio whose output at the time included Mission: Impossible, Star Trek — both of which were money losers, he said — and little else, Cramer cut costs (dumping Barbara Bain and replacing Martin Landau with Leonard Nimoy on the former, for example) and developed Love, American Style, The Brady Bunch and The Odd Couple, among other shows. (Each episode of the anthology series Love, American Style had the three-story format that he would reuse for The Love Boat.)

Cramer relished the control he earned at Paramount. “We had autonomy and authority, which is what always impressed me about television. I wanted to be like a director with final cut,” he said. “Ultimately, I wanted my word on shows that had my name on them to be reflected in what was onscreen.”

Cramer fought for that named credit and got it: At the end of his series, he was listed as “executive vice president in charge of production.”

In three years as an independent producer based at Screen Gems, he got Bridget Loves Bernie, starring Birney and real-life wife Meredith Baxter, on CBS and produced what he called “the thing I was proudest of,” the ABC Holocaust miniseries QB VII, starring Anthony Hopkins, Ben Gazzara and Leslie Caron.

Drawing on his Batman days, Cramer executive produced another series based on a comic book character, Wonder Woman, starring Lynda Carter.

“Doug Cramer was a gentleman and a friend,” Carter said in a statement. “He gave me the part of Wonder Woman, which changed my entire life. His legendary contributions to television will never be forgotten. I am so grateful to him, and I’ll miss him.”

Dynasty‘s first season, Cramer recalled, was “deeply boring” and on the verge of being canceled, but Spelling convinced ABC to renew the show by promising to deliver “either Elizabeth Taylor or Sophia Loren” to the cast.

Taylor said no, and talks with Loren broke down weeks before taping started. With time running out, Joan Collins — who had recently guest-starred on Fantasy Island — agreed to come aboard as Alexis, and Dynasty would top the Nielsen charts in 1984-85.

While at Spelling Productions, Cramer had first worked with Steel on a 1986 miniseries adaptation of her cruise ship-set novel Crossings, starring Cheryl Ladd. After he left, he pitched the idea of a series of Steel telefilms to NBC’s Brandon Tartikoff, who quickly signed on (his mom, it turns out, was a big Steel fan).

Cramer also produced three Family of Cops telefilms starring Charles Bronson before he exited TV in the late ’90s. “I had my flops and I had my hits,” he said. When he decided to retire, “I just stopped. I closed my office, I gave away the deals I had. … It was wonderful to say no.”

After he and Haber completed a bitter divorce in the ’70s, Spelling acquired the rights to her best-selling novel, the Hollywood-set The Users, and asked Cramer to exec produce a 1978 telefilm version adapted by Dominick Dunne. He said a character played by George Hamilton is based on him.

Actress Lucie Arnaz, who said Cramer hired her for her first real dramatic role (in the 1975 telefilm Who Is the Black Dahlia?) called him a “conscientious and classy producer [who] gave some of most warm and elegant parties in Hollywood. He was the consummate host.”

Survivors include his husband, artist Hugh Bush. His two children from his marriage to Haber, Courtney and Douglas III, preceded him in death.

Cramer, whose collection of Roy Lichtenstein paintings inspired the pop-art graphics used on Batman, co-founded the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and was a longtime board member of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Andy Warhol painted a portrait of him as part of the deal that led to the artist guest-starring on The Love Boat in 1985.

‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’: Jaime Ray Newman, Jason David & Michael Park Among 14 Cast In HBO Drama Series

Adapted by former Dr. Who head writer and Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffat, The Time Traveler’s Wife tells the intricate love story of Clare (Leslie) and Henry (James), and a marriage with a problem… time travel.

David Nutter directs and executive produces with Moffat, Sue Vertue,and Brian Minchin through their Hartswood Films. Joseph E. Iberti also executive produces. Hartswood Films produces in association with Warner Bros. Television, which has rights to the title.

New cast and character descriptions below:

THE ABSHIRE FAMILY

Shorey and McDonell as “Young Clare Abshire” – Growing up in a wealthy family, Clare’s world revolves around the mysterious time traveler Henry from a young age. Intelligent and charismatic, she is wise beyond her years.

Park as “Philip Abshire” – Clare’s father. A high-powered Chicago lawyer, he is brisk and orderly, and expects all his children to fall into line.

Newman as “Lucille Abshire” – Clare’s mother. She is sweet but always slightly vague and emotionally aloof. Through most of Clare’s childhood, she has not been an ideal nurturer for Clare or her siblings. Her controlling husband runs the family and she follows along with little fuss.

Richardson as “Alicia Abshire” – Clare’s little sister, who is trying to find her place in the world. She loves her role as younger sibling sister and enjoys pestering and teasing Clare any chance she gets.

Graham as “Mark Abshire” – Clare’s blunt speaking older brother, with whom she has never had a strong relationship. He’s in law school to follow in his father’s footsteps and takes after him in many ways. THE DETAMBLE FAMILY

Altemus and David as “Young Henry DeTamble” – Growing up with a problem – time travel – presents unique challenges for Young Henry. First discovering his ability at age eight, he is mentored by an older time traveler whose true identity will one day come as a surprise to him.

Siegel as “Annette DeTamble” – A talented and world-renowned opera singer, she’s a devoted mother to Henry. She is the heart and soul of the family. Braving torrid winter weather to pick up her husband for Christmas, Annette gets into a freak auto accident, changing young Henry’s life forever.

Stamberg as “Richard DeTamble” – Henry’s father. Played the violin in the Chicago Philharmonic, where he met the love of his life, Annette. When she dies suddenly in a tragic car accident, Richard and Henry are never the same again.

Additional cast:

Frei as “Ingrid” – Emotionally fragile, but more fierce and chilly than weak. She dated Henry for a period of time before he got engaged to Clare. When she finds out about Clare, she’s not afraid to speak her mind and the encounter descends into chaos.

DeBonis as “Nell” – The Abshire’s longtime housekeeper, and friend to Clare. Although she’s patient towards the Abshire’s, there’s a tough side to her.

Brill as “Ben” – A former co-worker of Henry’s at the library, who has since become a “chemist” of sorts.

House as “Jason” – Tall, muscular and good looking, Jason is in school with Clare and becomes embroiled in a heated situation with Henry.

Shorey is represented by Take 3 Talent Agency, Inc. McDonell is represented by Paradigm and Foundation Media Partners. Park is represented by Innovative Artists and Power Entertainment Group. Newman is represented by The Burstein Company and Greene & Associates Talent Agency. Richardson is represented by Paradigm. Graham is represented by Clear Talent Group and Gartner Group Entertainment. Altemus is represented by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Innovative Artists.David is represented by The Osbrink Agency, New Beginnings Entertainment and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham. Siegel is represented by Stride Management, ICM, VanderKloot Law. Stamberg is represented by Innovative Artists and Suskin Management. Frei is represented by Paradigm and Artists First. DeBonis is represented by Innovative Artists. Brill is represented by The Gersh Agency and Authentic Talent and Literary Management. House is represented by The Gersh Agency.

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Robert Hogan Dies: Actor On ‘The Wire’, ‘Peyton Place’, ‘Law & Order’, Dozens Of TV Shows Was 87

Hogan amassed more than 150 credits during a six-decade career, guesting multiple times on such classic shows as Murder, She Wrote, Gunsmoke, The F.B.I., Barnaby Jones, 77 Sunset Strip, The Rockford Files and as Louis Sobotka in four Season 2 episodes of HBO’s The Wire. He also played Greg Stemple in a half-dozen Alice episodes during the early 1980s.

He also played the Rev. Tom Winter — whose affairs certainly were more than clerical — in more than 60 episodes of the New England-set 1960s romantic drama Peyton Place.

During his long TV career, Hogan was a regular on a handful of short-lived series, starring opposite the titluar star of The Don Rickles Show (1972), with Dennis Dugan in the 1978 Steven Bochco-Stephen J. Cannell drama Richie Brockelman, Private Eye — and its follow-up TV movie — and the 1980-81 Midwestern family drama Secrets of Midland Heights. He also was a regular for a handful of Season 2 episodes of sitcom Operation Petticoat in 1979.

He also appeared in episodes of the soap operas One Life to Live, Days of Our Lives, As the World Turns, All My Children, General Hospital and Another World.

On the big screen, his credits include The Lady in Red, Species II, Blue Christmas, The Sleepy Time Gal and Welcome to Academia. He also appeared on Broadway in A Few Good Men (1989-91) and Hamlet (1992). His stage career also included works by Anton Chekhov, Eugene O’Neill and others, including an Outer Critics Circle Award for Never the Sinner in 1998.

But Hogan’s stock in trade was guesting on primetime TV series.

The list is long — starting in the early 1960s on such dramas as Cheyenne, Hawaiian Eye, 77 Sunset Strip, The Fugitivew and the final-season Twilight Zone episode “Spur of the Moment.” He also appeared in comedies of the era including Hazel and The Donna Reed Show.

He would continue to amass credits throughout that decade and the next two, with stops at popular comedy and drama series including Batman, The MAry Tyler Moore Show, Bonanza, I Dream of Jeannie, Hogan’s Heroes, Hawaii Five-O, Gomer Pyle: USMC, McCloud, Love American Style, Mission: Impossible, The Streets of San Francisco, The Six million Dollar Man, The Incredible Hulk, Hill Street Blues, Newhart, St. Elsewhere, One Day at a Time, Magnum P.I. and Spenser: For Hire.

Born on September 28, 1933, in the NYC borough of Queens, Hogan served in the Army in Korea after high school and returned to New York to study engineering at NYU. After taking an aptitude test to determine whether that field indeed was his calling, his family said, the test results produced two words: the arts. “That’s when I gave acting a try,” they quoted him as saying.

Survivors include Mary Hogan, by his wife of 38 years; three children from a previous marriage to fine Shannon Hogan: Chris, Stephen and Jud; and grandchildren Susanna and Liam. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations made to the NYC nonprofit DOROT or the Alzheimer’s Association.

Video Chat: Soap Opera Music Makers

Jill Chastain was the Supervising Music Producer for all Procter & Gamble Production shows starting with the Edge of Night and Search for Tomorrow in the late 70’s / early 80’s. Jill replaced Elliot Lawrence in the role. Jill hired Gary Deinstadt as one of her music directors for As the World Turns where he worked from 1994 through 2000. Gary then moved over to Guiding Light in the same role before being promoted to Audio Post Supervisor for the show.

This talented duo was in charge of selecting and editing the music from a staff of composers. They composed and performed original pieces of works, directed and worked alongside composers and cast members. They created, arranged and recorded tracks for featured vocalists, contracted talent and were in charge of music licensing / archiving / clearance / publishing rights with various composers and their affiliates such as ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, etc.

Parker Posey Joins Michael Peterson Limited Series ‘The Staircase’ At HBO Max

The eight-episode series from Christine director Antonio Campos and American Crime Story writer Maggie Cohn explores the life of Michael Peterson (Firth), his sprawling North Carolina family and the suspicious death of his wife, Kathleen (Collette).

Posey will play Freda Black, assistant district attorney and prosecutor in the Peterson case.

The series is based on the docuseries and various books and reports on the case of Michael Peterson, who was convicted in 2003 of murdering Kathleen two years earlier. The charge was reduced to manslaughter in 2017, and Peterson subsequently was released from prison. He had claimed his wife died after falling down the stairs at their home after consuming alcohol and Valium, but an autopsy concluded she died from multiple injuries, including blows to the back of her head with a blunt object.

Jean-Xavier de Lestrade’s docuseries premiered in 2004 and was released on Netflix as a 13-episode series in 2018.

The Staircase is written and executive produced by Campos and Cohn, who also serve as showrunners. The series is a co-production between HBO Max and Annapurna TV.

On television, Posey was most recently seen as Dr. Harris in Netflix’s Lost in Space and guest-starring in Hulu’s High Fidelity. On the big screen, she recently starred in Hernan Jimenez’s comedy feature Elsewhere alongside Aden Young, Ken Jeong, Jackie Weaver and Beau Bridges. Posey is repped by Gersh.

Talk Show Appearance

Friday, May 28: Guests include Julianne Moore (ex-Sabrina & Frannie, As The World Turns)

Talk Show Appearance

We 6/2: Julianne Moore (ex-Frannie & Sabrina, ATWT)

Video: Real Andrews Interview

Chat with Jill Chastain & Gary Deinstadt - Soap Opera Music Episode

Jill Chastain was the Supervising Music Producer for all Procter & Gamble Production shows starting with the Edge of Night and Search for Tomorrow in the late 70’s / early 80’s. Jill replaced Elliot Lawrence in the role. Jill hired Gary Deinstadt as one of her music directors for As the World Turns where he worked from 1994 through 2000. Gary then moved over to Guiding Light in the same role before being promoted to Audio Post Supervisor for the show.

This talented duo was in charge of selecting and editing the music from a staff of composers. They composed and performed original pieces of works, directed and worked alongside composers and cast members. They created, arranged and recorded tracks for featured vocalists, contracted talent and were in charge of music licensing / archiving / clearance / publishing rights with various composers and their affiliates such as ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, etc.

Animal Kingdom Season 5 Trailer: 'I'm in Charge Now,' Says [Spoiler]

In other words, it’s going to be a fantastically messy penultimate season of the addictive crime-family drama (which kicks off Sunday, July 11). Elsewhere in the pulse-pounding promo, we get our first peek at Pose vet Charlayne Woodard as Pamela, the old accomplice to whom Smurf left the bulk of her ill-gotten gains. “Power can be taken,” she notes, “or it can be earned.”

We can just imagine which one the Cody boys will choose when they finally have a chance to, as they put it, “do things our way.”

Per the show’s official logline, Season 5 will find “Pope, Craig, Deran and J… still dealing with the fallout from the events surrounding Smurf’s death, including family members out for revenge. With their kingdom without a leader, the Cody [crew struggles] to maintain their fragile alliance, and to see which of them will come out on top.

“Meanwhile, they search for more information on Pamela, whom Smurf made the beneficiary of her estate,” it goes on. (Considering that she’s in the trailer, I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that they find more than information.) “And back in 1984, an increasingly volatile 29-year-old Smurf is forging her own path raising Pope and [twin sister] Julia and leading the charge on dangerous jobs with new and old friends.”

Video: Nicolas Coster Chat

Grab a copy of the book here.

Daytime television fans will recognize Nicolas from his popular roles on As the World Turns (Edward Grimaldi), Another World (Robert Delaney) and Santa Barbara (Lionel Lockridge) to name a small number of those roles. In his 70-year career, Nicolas has appeared in over a dozen soap operas, countless primetime television shows and scores of stage and screen productions. This memoir "Another Whole Afternoon" is his first behind the scenes retelling of his life in front of the camera and his adventures beyond it.

Jen Landon recurs on FBI: Most Wanted 5/25/21

RECURRING CAST: Jen Landon (Sarah Allen), James Carpinello (Hugh).

Tonya Pinkins series set for midseason by FOX

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Chat with Nicolas Coster (and order his new memoir)

Daytime television fans will recognize Nicolas from his popular roles on As the World Turns (Edward Grimaldi), Another World (Robert Delaney) and Santa Barbara (Lionel Lockridge) to name a small number of those roles. In his 70-year career, Nicolas has appeared in over a dozen soap operas, countless primetime television shows and scores of stage and screen productions. This memoir "Another Whole Afternoon" is his first behind the scenes retelling of his life in front of the camera and his adventures beyond it.

Jen Landon recurs on FBI: Most Wanted 5/18/21

RECURRING CAST includes: Terry O’Quinn (Byron LaCroix), Jen Landon (Sarah Allen), Rachel York (Marie Smith).

Jennifer Ferrin guests on The Equalizer 5/16/21

GUEST CAST includes: Jennifer Ferrin (D.A. Avery Grafton), Giancarlo Vidrio (Detective Suarez), David Call (Elias Wilson).

Jen Landon recurs on FBI: Most Wanted 5/11/21

RECURRING CAST: Terry O’Quinn (Byron LaCroix), Rachel York (Marie Smith), Jen Landon (Sarah Allen).

Daniel Cosgrove guests on Blue Bloods 5/14/21

“Justifies The Means” – The Reagans band together to prevent Joe Hill from being killed in the line of duty like his father when they fear Joe’s cover has been blown within the gunrunning outfit he’s helping the ATF bring down, in the second part of the two-hour 11th season finale of BLUE BLOODS, Friday, May 14 (10:00-11:00 PM ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

GUEST CAST includes Gloria Reuben (Special Agent Rachel Weber), Annabella Sciorra (M.E. Faith Marconi), Shannon Wallace (Tyce Dickson), Daniel Cosgrove (Det. Felix Evans).

Jordana Brewster on ‘Fast & Furious,’ turning 40 and finding new love

In 2001’s debut, she was a student barely into her second year at Yale. Tick. In 2015’s “Furious 7,” she had just welcomed her first child. Tock. Now the upcoming “F9” will again denote a fresh chapter for Jordana Brewster, marking an era of newfound confidence and independence.

And at an age when notoriously sexist and ageist Hollywood likes to freeze out film veterans, Brewster is just getting warmed up. “Forty has been the best year for me,” she tells Alexa. “I feel like I’m coming into my own.”

The actor, who turned 41 a few days ago, is indeed racing to the next level. She’s reset her romantic life and — perhaps most importantly for fans — is confidently molding her place in one of the biggest film franchises going.

It’s been 20 years since Brewster debuted as Mia Toretto in the very first “Fast & Furious” film. In June she returns for “F9,” her sixth appearance in the biceps-and-bullets franchise and the first of three films expected to conclude the saga.

After sitting out 2017’s “The Fate of the Furious,” Mia joins brother Dom (Vin Diesel) and his usual crew — Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), Roman (Tyrese Gibson) and Tej (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges) — to take down a long-lost Toretto brother (John Cena), who’s trying to acquire a powerful cyber-weapon.

In the previous eight films, much of the butt-kicking has been left to the guys. But with “F9,” the women step into the spotlight (including Charlize Theron, whose bleached bob deserves its own spinoff film, and 75-year-old Helen Mirren, whose UK crime boss character gets to dodge cops on a wild chase through London’s streets).

In one explosive scene, Brewster and Rodriguez team up to track a lead to Tokyo, where they’re forced to punch and kick their way through a room full of evil henchmen. Brewster first started advocating for more action when she guest starred in two 2019 episodes of TV’s “Magnum P.I.” (Justin Lin, director of “F9,” is the executive producer on that series.)

“I got to do a lot of physical stuff on that show,” she says.

“And then I started taking taekwondo lessons and I would just send Justin videos of me training. And then I would send him videos of me on the ‘Magnum’ set wearing a ski mask and holding a gun. I was like, ‘Looks pretty bad[ass], right?’ ”

Brewster then worked with a stunt team for weeks to prep for her big fight scene in “F9.” “I’m the nerd preparing meticulously,” she says. “And once we were on set, Michelle showed up two days before, and she’s like, ‘Yeah, I got it. This is nothing.’”

But Brewster’s confidence on “F9” is still light-years ahead of where it was for the original 2001 film. “I feel like I came onto that set and I was really intimidated by everyone, particularly Michelle, because Michelle is so strong and so comfortable speaking her truth,” Brewster says.

“I was a little bit more shy and timid.”

She wasn’t even particularly confident in the film’s nowiconic title — she preferred its original “Redline” moniker.

“When I heard the title change I didn’t think it was going to work,” she recalls with a laugh. “Now I look back and think, ‘Wow, what a moron.’ ”

The new title indeed proved a solid one, and the franchise has helped make a name for a girl who grew up wanting to act.

Brewster was born in 1980 to a father who worked in finance and a mother who was a model. She spent much of her early childhood in Brazil.

The family moved to New York City when Brewster was 10.

She attended Upper East Side religious school Convent of the Sacred Heart, near her family’s apartment at Fifth Avenue and 102nd Street. “I just felt like a total outsider,” she recalls. “I felt like I brought the wrong lunch to school. I felt like all the other girls were shaving their legs and I wasn’t shaving my legs because my mom didn’t let me.”

When she was 15, she found an identity, in part by pursuing acting more passionately. Brewster, who was by then enrolled at the Upper West Side’s Professional Children’s School, soon landed an agent; one of her first auditions was for the soap “As the World Turns.” She won the role of Nikki Munson in 1995, and played the character for three years.

“It was just like, oh, this is something I can actually do,” Brewster says. “And with my parents’ blessing, I was able to do it.” Brewster admits that she didn’t have a “conventional adolescence.”

Appearing on a soap opera and keeping up with her schoolwork was taxing. “I remember a friend of mine being like, ‘What about when you look back on your life? Jordana, you are going to regret not going to your prom,’” she recalls. “And I was like, ‘No, I’m going to look back, and I’m going to be really proud of the fact that I was on a soap and was in [1998 Robert Rodriguez feature] ‘The Faculty’ at 18. I think I’ll be good.’ ”

But even with work and school, the actor still found time to enjoy New York City. She loved going to Le Bilboquet, an Upper East Side restaurant that pumped music after the dinner hour. She scarfed burgers at Jackson Hole, and hit the high-end clubs that defined NYC nightlife in the late 1990s and early 2000s, such as Moomba and Bungalow 8.

“It’s like now with the internet, we all worry about being spotted doing something that’s a bit naughty,” she says. “But I just remember back then being like, ‘Oh my God, please don’t be in Page Six, please don’t be in Page Six.’ ”

She kept a lower profile while attending Yale, especially after taking a semester off to shoot “The Fast and the Furious.”

“I sort of isolated myself a little,” she says. “I didn’t really get the college experience of having a lot of fun and going to parties. I was just super focused on getting through it.”

Now, she’s most focused on motherhood. Brewster has two sons, ages 7 and 4, with producer and ex-husband Andrew Form, whom she married in 2007 (the two filed for divorce last year).

Despite becoming frustrated trying to ride herd on her eldest during online school sessions, Brewster says being locked down in her LA home during the pandemic has been a blessing.

“This last year has taught everyone to slow down,” she says. “I realized I actually feel much better when my nervous system calms down, and I actually think this is the way we’re meant to be.”

The time at home, she says, helped ground her, leaving her more confident to make her own decisions. She’s also more willing to reveal vulnerabilities. “I’d have a conversation with friends, and I’d be like, ‘Oh my God, you see me as this ice queen,’” she says. “I’m like, ‘Why do you see me that way?’ And then I realized it’s because I’m not willing to be flawed in front of people.”

She still takes a weekly acting class, which she sometimes finds humbling, and is committed to stretching herself, even if it means failing spectacularly. “I realize I’m always going to have to grow,” she says.

“I feel like it’s s much more fun being in front of the camera and using my sexuality and not feeling so self-conscious and so concerned about how I look,” Brewster says. Kurt Iswarienko She has also grown more comfortable with her body, even though she’s been branded as the resident hottie through much of her career. Her Instagram is now stocked with bikini selfies she says radiate a new “fierceness” that wasn’t there in all those beefcake shots once found in Maxim and other magazines.

“It’s such a cliche, but you really do come into your own at 40,” she says. “I feel like it’s so much more fun being in front of the camera and using my sexuality and not feeling so self-conscious and so concerned about how I look.”

She also has a new boyfriend after her split with her husband last year. He is finance executive Mason Morfit.

“Falling deeply in love with someone new at 40 has been wonderful,” Brewster says. “I feel like it affects my work and my outlook on life and the way I parent — every facet of my life. It’s been really positive.”

And, as always, it arrived just on time.

Video: Soap Con Live Presents: As the World Turns "Live from Oakdale!"

Video: Retro TV & Soap Con Live Presents: The Doctors

Video: The Costume Designers - Maggie Delgado and Shawn Reeves

Roselyn Sanchez To Headline ‘Fantasy Island’ As Elena Roarke; Fox Reboot Sets August Premiere Date

Fantasy Island is set at a luxury resort, where literally any fantasy requested by guests is fulfilled, although they rarely turn out as expected. The resort is run by Elena Roarke (Sanchez) who set aside her own ambitions, and even the love of her life, to uphold her family’s legacy. Sophisticated, insightful and always charming, Elena’s calm exterior masks the challenges of the responsibilities she has assumed as steward of this mysterious island.

Sanchez joins previously cast series regular Kiara Barnes and heavily recurring John Gabriel Rodriquez. The reboot is keeping the semi-anthological format of the original Fantasy Island with three main characters played by Sanchez, Barnes and Rodriquez, who live/work on the island and new guests arriving in every episode.

The original series, created by Gene Levitt and executive produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, starred Ricardo Montalbán as Mr. Roarke and Hervé Villechaize as his assistant Tattoo as they grant guests so-called “fantasies” on the island for a price.

Alongside Sanchez’s Elena Roarke, Barnes plays Ruby Okoro, a young woman with an old soul who arrives on Fantasy Island with a terminal illness, and is given a new lease on life there; Rodriquez plays pilot Javier, who also is the head of island transportation and a jack of all trades. There is no direct version of the Tattoo character in the reboot.

The Fantasy Island reimagining, written and executive produced by Craft and Fain, delves into the “what if” questions that keep us awake at night. Each episode will tell emotional, provocative stories about people who walk in with a desire but end up reborn to themselves through the magical realism of Fantasy Island.

Sanchez is repped by APA, Alchemy Entertainment and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum.

The Haves and the Have Nots Returning With Final Episodes in June — First Look

The remaining episodes “will see the wealthy residents of Savannah, Georgia involved in a true-to-life Greek tragedy as Judge Jim Cryer (played by John Schneider) and his rich friends” all find out “what happens when personal flaws go unchecked,” according to the official logline. “Karma has not been kind to the elite one percenters.”

In addition to the above promo, OWN has released the following first look photo featuring Crystal Fox’s Hannah Young and Angela Robinson’s Veronica Harrington. The Haves and the Have Nots Final Season Premiere Date

OWN confirmed in January that HAHN would conclude after eight seasons and 196 episodes. At the time, Oprah Winfrey put out a statement, which read: “The Haves and the Have Nots was the first scripted drama we aired on OWN, and to say it took off from the first day it hit the air is an understatement. It’s all due to one man’s creativity and very vivid imagination, a man I refer to as my ‘big little brother,’ Tyler Perry. I thank Tyler, the incredible cast, the tireless crew and every single viewer who watched with bated breath each week and tweeted along with us these past eight years. I will be watching alongside you all during this final season.”

In addition to HAHN, OWN’s scripted slate includes Cherish the Day (previously renewed for Season 2), David Makes Man (returning Tuesday, June 22), Delilah (which is still awaiting word on a potential Season 2 pickup) and Queen Sugar (renewed for Season 6).

The Costume Designers Chat with Maggie Delgado and Shawn Reeves

Video: Guiding Light Reunion - Ellen Dolan, Harley Jane Kozak and Michael Woods

CBS Renews 5 Series, Including S.W.A.T., Blue Bloods and Bull

George Clooney, Noah Wyle, Julianna Margulies & Anthony Edwards Join ‘ER’ Cast Reunion For ‘Stars In The House’

The ER reunion episode is set for Thursday, April 22 at 8pm ET.

The episode, another in the series’ popular TV cast reunions, will benefit Waterkeeper Alliance, the global clean water nonprofit. The idea for the benefit reunion came from actress Gloria Reuben, who portrayed ER‘s physician assistant Jeanie Boulet and now serves as the President of Waterkeeper Alliance.

Also joining the virtual reunion: Laura Innes (who played Kerry Weaver), Alex Kingston (Elizabeth Corday), Goran Visnjic (Luka Kovac), Paul McCrane (Robert Romano), Ming-Na Wen (Jing-Mei Chen), Laura Cerón (Chuny Marquez), Yvette Freeman (Haleh Adams), Conni Marie Brazelton (Connie Oligario), and CCH Pounder (Angela Hicks).

ER, which ran on NBC from 1994-2009, was a cornerstone of the network’s Must See TV Thursday night programming, scored 22 Emmy Awards out of 124 nominations and launched the careers of Clooney, Wyle, Margulies, Visnjic and others.

Stars in the House, created and hosted by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley, has raised more than $823,630 to benefit The Actors Fund’ Covid relief efforts, and over $203,337 for other charities, since its first show following the Broadway pandemic shutdown in March 2020.

“I am absolutely thrilled to be reuniting with my ER family for a cause that is so close to my heart, and so grateful to Seth and James for allowing us to use their incredible platform to do so,” said Reuben. “I’ve been involved with Waterkeeper Alliance for fifteen years, representing over 350 community-based Waterkeepers around the globe, and the work that they do is beyond comparison. We must continue to fight for clean water not just on Earth Day, but all year round!”

The ER reunion episode will stream exclusively on People’s social platforms Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, as well as on PeopleTV’s Facebook and Twitter, and on the Stars In The House YouTube channel and StarsInTheHouse.com. Viewers will be able to ask questions live, and donate to Waterkeeper Alliance.

Recent Stars in the House TV reunion episodes have brought together the casts of The West Wing, Grey’s Anatomy, Thirtysomething, Little House On The Prairie, The Waltons and many others. The series also reunites film and Broadway casts.

Guiding Light Reunion 4/21/21 - Ellen Dolan, Harley Jane Kozak and Michael Woods

Can’t-Miss Event! Soap Con Live On May 1

AS THE WORLD TURNS “Live from Oakdale!” will begin at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PST featuring Mark Collier (ex-Mike), Terri Conn (ex-Katie), Trent Dawson (ex-Henry), Austin Peck (ex-Brad; ex-Austin, DAYS) and Colleen Zenk (ex-Barbara).

“The Cramer Women” of ONE LIFE TO LIVE will follow at 5:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PST featuring Kristen Alderson (ex-Starr; ex-Kiki, GH), Laura Bonarrigo (ex-Cassie), Kassie DePaiva (ex-Blair; ex-Eve, DAYS) and Gina Tognoni (ex-Kelly et al).

GENERAL HOSPITAL “Love & Tragedy” will round out the evening at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PST featuring Shell Danielson (ex-Dominique), Brad Maule (ex-Tony), Kin Shriner (Scotty) and Jackie Zeman (Bobbie).

All the panels with Q&As will stream LIVE back to back on The Locher Room with surprises in between. Visit SoapConLive.com to sign up for the FREE live panels and keep up with special guest announcements and info on paid fan opportunities. Stay tuned for more chances to visit with your favorite Soap Stars, both virtually and in-person when it’s safe.

Jen Landon recurs on FBI: Most Wanted 4/20/21

RECURRING CAST: Jen Landon (Sarah Allen), James Carpinello (Hugh).

Video: Rosemary Prinz Chat (As The World Turns)

Rosemary, a native New Yorker, has had a long career on stage, film and television. She made her television debut in 1954 on a short-lived soap opera, First Love, as the wife of aviator Chris (Frankie Thomas), but her most famous role to date has been her role as Penny Hughes on As the World Turns. Rosemary played the role from 1956 -1968 and returned many times over the years with her last appearance in Oakdale in 2000. Penny is the daughter of Nancy (Helen Wagner) and Chris Hughes (Dan MacLaughlin) and sister of Dr. Bob (Don Hastings). Penny's relationship with Jeff Baker (Mark Rydell) was daytime television's first teen romance and one of ATWT's most popular couples.

In 1970, Rosemary signed-on to play the role Amy Tyler on the debut of a new ABC soap opera called, All My Children where her character would oppose the Vietnam War, which Prinz herself opposed. She was also the only All My Children performer to ever earn above-the-title billing during her run. She also joined the cast of Ryan's Hope in 1988 where she played Sister Mary Joel.

Video: Agnes Nixon Tribute

Helping to honor Agnes will be her son Robert Nixon along with a list of actors who benefited from the unforgettable characters Agnes created on her shows. Joining Robert will be Daytime Emmy Award-winning actors Susan Lucci (Erica Kane), Erika Slezak (Vicky Lord), Peter Bergman (Dr. Cliff Warner), Debbi Morgan (Angie Baxter-Hubbard) and Darnell Williams (Jesse Hubbard). We will also hear from one of All My Children’s biggest fans, Carol Burnett.

Bob Iger, Disney chairman and CEO, said it best, "“Agnes’ impact on daytime television and pop culture is undeniable. She was the first to champion socially relevant topics, and the towns and characters Agnes brought to life leave an indelible imprint on television that will be remembered forever.”

Throughout her career Agnes Nixon won five Writers’ Guild of America Awards, five Daytime Emmy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2010 and was inducted into Soap Opera Weekly’s Soap Opera Hall of Fame.

Dear Evan Hansen Chat with Michael Park & Castmates 4/2/21

Carlos Bernard directs and Jen Landon recurs on FBI: Most Wanted 4/6/21

RECURRING CAST: Jen Landon (Sarah Allen), Taylor Cooper (Zadie)

WRITTEN BY: Ticona S. Joy & D. Dona Le

DIRECTED BY: Carlos Bernard

Amanda Seyfried To Play Elizabeth Holmes In ‘The Dropout’ Hulu Limited Series About Disgraced Theranos Founder

Seyfried will also serve as a producer on the project, from Disney Television Studios’ 20th Television and Searchlight, which is eying a summer start.

Elizabeth Holmes (Seyfried), the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos, was lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation. Once worth billions of dollars, the myth crumbled when it was revealed that none of the tech actually worked, putting thousands of people’s health in grave danger. The story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos is an unbelievable tale of ambition and fame gone terribly wrong. How did the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire lose it all in the blink of an eye?

Executive producing The Dropout are showrunner Elizabeth Meriwether, who has been driving the project, Liz Heldens, Liz Hannah, Katherine Pope, Rebecca Jarvis, Victoria Thompson and Taylor Dunn.

Seyfried recently received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for her portrayal as Marion Davies in David Fincher’s Netflix movie Mank. She will next be seen starring in Amy Koppelman’s A Mouthful of Air, which she also produced. She also stars in the upcoming Netflix thriller, Things Heard & Seen. Seyfried is repped by Innovative Artists and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein and Selz.

Dylan Bruce guests on Magnum P.I. 4/16/21

GUEST CAST includes: Charlotte Mary Wen (Young Kumu), Peter Navy Tuiasosopo (Manui Vasega), Dylan Bruce (Matt McGrady).

Michael Lowry Joins the Cast of DAYS OF OUR LIVES!

According to Soap Opera Digest, Lowry’s new character will interact with Jan, Belle, and Shawn… but how? During Lindell’s last appearance on DAYS as Shawn’s nutty ex back in November, Jan managed to prevent the love of her life from remarrying Belle by taking the bride-to-be hostage. But she didn’t stop there. The troubled woman forced Shawn to marry her instead, with Marlena presiding! When Shawn refused to kiss his bride, Jan claimed that she’d shot and killed Belle, leading John to snap and choke her unconscious! The character has been in a coma ever since, and since Jan had never actually applied for a marriage license, Shawn was free to reunite with Belle, who had somehow ended up in Philip’s bed that night!

Jan’s name has been dropped here and there in recent weeks, and it’s a safe bet to say that she’s going to have an axe to grind with the Brady and Black families once she awakens from her latest coma! Might Dr. Snyder be another pawn in Jan’s plans to claim Shawn for herself?

As for Lowry, DAYS marks the actor’s fifth soap opera. He’s best known for playing Jake Martin on ALL MY CHILDREN from 1996-2001, and he’s also had stints as Les Sweeney on AS THE WORLD TURNS from 2004-’05, Dr. Hillman on THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL in 2006, and Ross Rayburn on ONE LIFE TO LIVE from 2009-’10.

Stay tuned to see what havoc Jan will unleash on Shawn and Belle this time around, and look for Lowry’s DAYS debut on Friday, April 2.

Rosemary Prinz Video Chat Scheduled

Agnes Nixon - Tribute March 31

Helping to honor Agnes will be her son Robert Nixon along with a list of actors who benefited from the unforgettable characters Agnes created on her shows. Joining Robert will be Daytime Emmy Award-winning actors Susan Lucci (Erica Kane), Erika Slezak (Vicky Lord), Peter Bergman (Dr. Cliff Warner), Debbi Morgan (Angie Baxter-Hubbard) and Darnell Williams (Jesse Hubbard). We will also hear from one of All My Children’s biggest fans, Carol Burnett.

Bob Iger, Disney chairman and CEO, said it best, "“Agnes’ impact on daytime television and pop culture is undeniable. She was the first to champion socially relevant topics, and the towns and characters Agnes brought to life leave an indelible imprint on television that will be remembered forever.”

Throughout her career Agnes Nixon won five Writers’ Guild of America Awards, five Daytime Emmy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2010 and was inducted into Soap Opera Weekly’s Soap Opera Hall of Fame.

When Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

This non-fiction book is released March 23, it’s about four female television pioneers including Irna Phillips (creator/writer GL, ATWT, AW, Days, etc.) and Betty White (Ann, B&B).

Order Your Copy Here.

Must-Read Book of March —Entertainment Weekly
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“Leaps at the throat of television history and takes down the patriarchy with its fervent, inspired prose. When Women Invented Television offers proof that what we watch is a reflection of who we are as a people.” —Nathalia Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls

New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia Jennifer Keishin Armstrong tells the little-known story of four trailblazing women in the early days of television who laid the foundation of the industry we know today.

It was the Golden Age of Radio and powerful men were making millions in advertising dollars reaching thousands of listeners every day. When television arrived, few radio moguls were interested in the upstart industry and its tiny production budgets, and expensive television sets were out of reach for most families. But four women—each an independent visionary— saw an opportunity and carved their own paths, and in so doing invented the way we watch tv today.

Irna Phillips turned real-life tragedy into daytime serials featuring female dominated casts. Gertrude Berg turned her radio show into a Jewish family comedy that spawned a play, a musical, an advice column, a line of house dresses, and other products. Hazel Scott, already a renowned musician, was the first African American to host a national evening variety program. Betty White became a daytime talk show fan favorite and one of the first women to produce, write, and star in her own show.

Together, their stories chronicle a forgotten chapter in the history of television and popular culture.

But as the medium became more popular—and lucrative—in the wake of World War II, the House Un-American Activities Committee arose to threaten entertainers, blacklisting many as communist sympathizers. As politics, sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and money collided, the women who invented television found themselves fighting from the margins, as men took control. But these women were true survivors who never gave up—and thus their legacies remain with us in our television-dominated era. It's time we reclaimed their forgotten histories and the work they did to pioneer the medium that now rules our lives.

This amazing and heartbreaking history, illustrated with photos, tells it all for the first time.

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‘Chicago’ Franchise Adds Hanako Greensmith & Margaret Colin As Recurring, Three More Cast

Colin will play Dr. Manning’s (DeVitto) mother. Greensmith’s Violet Mikami had a previous relationship with Gallo (Alberto Rosende) that may or may not continue.

Also joining in guest roles are Jack Coleman (Dynasty) on Chicago P.D., and Charlie Farrell (American Horror Story, Christmas Again) and Benny Mora (S.H.A.R.P., Neighborhood Buzz) on Chicago Med. All will appear in the series’ current seasons.

Coleman returns to Chicago P.D. as “Disco Bob” Ruzek, Adam Ruzek’s (Patrick Flueger) father. Farrell joins Chicago Med as Mark Barragan, the executive in charge of Dr. Halstead’s (Nick Gehlfuss) drug trial. Mora plays Mike, a blue-collar truck driver in his 30s whose ex-wife brings their baby to the ER.

Chicago Med, in its sixth season, Chicago Fire, in its ninth season, and Chicago P.D. in its eighth season, continue to draw strong ratings for NBC. In Live+7, they are the top three dramas on every Wednesday night of originals in the 2020-21 season-to-date.

Chicago Med airs Wednesdays at 8 pm ET/PT on NBC, followed by Chicago Fire at 9 pm ET/PT and Chicago P.D. at 10 pm ET/PT. All three are produced by Wolf Entertainment in association with Universal Television, a division of the Universal Studio Group.

Chicago Med‘s executive producers are Dick Wolf, Diane Frolov, Andrew Schneider, Michael Pressman, Stephen Hootstein, Derek Haas, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski.

Chicago Fire is executive produced by Dick Wolf, Derek Haas, Todd Arnow, Andrea Newman, Michael Gilvary, Michael Brandt, Reza Tabrizi, Arthur W. Forney, Peter Jankowski.

Chicago P.D.‘s executive producers are Dick Wolf, Rick Eid, Derek Haas, Peter Jankowski, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski.

Colin is repped by Innovative Artists and Framework Entertainment. Greensmith is repped by Nicolosi & Co., Inc. Coleman is repped by Susan Calogerakis and Domain Talent Agency. Farrell is repped by Grossman and Jack Talent (Chicago), JS Represents (LA). Mora is repped by Gray Talent Group.

‘Godfather Of Harlem’: Justin Bartha, Annabella Sciorra & Ronald Guttman To Recur In Season 2

Also coming to the crime drama as guest stars are Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Michael Rispoli, Neal Matarazzo and Grace Porter, who was previously announced to appear as Betty Shabazz. Erik LaRay Harvey and Demi Singleton have also been upped to series regulars for season 2, which will premiere Sunday, April. 18. Godfather of Harlem season 2 sees Bumpy Johnson (Forest Whitaker) battling the New York Crime Families for control of the lucrative and murderous “French Connection,” the pipeline for heroin that runs from Marseilles to New York Harbor. With a distribution syndicate that includes black crime bosses from other major U.S. cities, Bumpy takes a cue from his friend Malcolm X’s (Nigél Thatch) message of black economic nationalism. His ambitious plan will face challenges from not only the Italians but his wife Mayme (Ilfenesh Hadera), daughter Elise (Antoinette Crowe-Legacy), rival Adam Clayton Powell (Giancarlo Esposito), prosecutor Robert Morgenthau (Justin Bartha), and even Malcolm himself.

Produced by ABC Signature Studios, Godfather of Harlem is co-created and executive produced by Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein. Whitaker and Nina Yang Bongiovi, along with James Acheson, Markuann Smith and Joe Chappelle, serve as executive producers. Swizz Beatz serves as executive music producer. Chris Brancato serves as showrunner.

Bartha, who recently acted in Headlock, Sorry for Your Loss and The Good Fight, will appear as Robert Morgenthau. The patrician, unflinching and incorruptible U.S. District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Robert is deeply moral man, and absolute killer in the courtroom. He hopes to use Bumpy as an ally in his pursuit of taking down organized crime in NY. From a long line of public servants who are committed to seeing justice done. Bartha is repped by CAA and MGMT Entertainment.

Sciorra will take on mob wife Fay Bonanno. The wife of mob boss Joe Bonanno, the Truth Be Told and Daredevil actress’ character is deeply entrenched in her husband’s business, unlike most mafia wives. While she has a traditional reliance on catholic ritual, she’s as cold blooded as they come. Sciorra, whose additional credits include Mental and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, is repped by CAA and Mainstay Entertainment.

Guttman’s recently appeared in Amazon’s Hunters and starred on On the Basis of Sex. He will join the Godfathers of Harlem cast as native Frenchman Jean Jehan. He is ruthless, intelligent, cultured and extremely dapper. Responsible for the import of heroin between Marseille and the United States known as ‘The French Connection’ – the main supplier of heroin to the Italian mob. Buchwald and WEG Talent rep Guttman.

Cafarelli will recur as Fat Gino, one of Vincent Chin’ Gigante’s (Vincent D’Onofrio) henchmen. A mobster leading the fruitless hunt for Bumpy Johnson, Fat Gino is a die-hard believer in the supremacy of the Mafia and its rules and regulations. The Paradise City and Irishman actor is repped by Malissa Young Mgmt.

De Bankolé will take on African Frenchman Monsieur 98, a chemist known for producing extremely pure heroin. A man of few words, he is partnered with dope kingpin Jean Jehan to smuggle vast quantities of heroin into the United States. He most recently stared in French Exit, S.W.A.T. and Shaft. MPM Talent represents De Bankolé.

Smith will guest star as Sam Christian, the head of the Philadelphia Black Mafia and longtime friend of Bumpy Johnson’s. A stylish man about town, Sam will be a vital part of Bumpy’s Ten Harlems heroine distribution network. The Power Book II: Ghost and Concrete Cowboy actor is repped by CAA, manager Shauna Garr, and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein Selz.

Rispoli will play Joseph Magliocco, who ascended to the head of the Profaci crime family with the help of his friend Vincent Gigante. The jovial Magliocco will face immediate tests of his loyalty among the battling factions of the New York Mafia. Rispoli, who appeared in Dirty John, The Deuce and Cherry is repped by Principal Entertainment.

Lastly, Matarazzo will take on Captain Mills, a symbol of police culture at the time. Mills is an unrepentant racist but also a pragmatist who puts “green” over black and white. Matarazzo acted in Billions, What Tomorrow Brings and Blindspot. He is repped by HCKR Agency.

Watch the full trailer for Godfather of Harlem season 2 here.

Soap Alum Up For An Oscar

Actress in a Supporting Role

Maria Bakalova
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Glenn Close
Hillbilly Elegy

Olivia Colman
The Father

Amanda Seyfried (ex-All My Children/ex-As The World Turns)
Mank

Yuh-Jung Youn
Minari.

Dishing with Digest - 3/21/21 - Roger Howarth

Steven Weber Teases His 'Complicated' Chicago Med Role, Mulls Wings Revival

The newest member of the hospital staff “is grateful for the opportunity to be in this environment again, because he had a practice before which didn’t survive the economy,” Weber tells TVLine.

But seeing as how Dr. Archer is brought in by Dr. Ethan Choi and now has to answer to his former charge, the reunion of mentor and mentee won’t be all smooth sailing. “That’s an issue for him,” Weber says. “He has a degree of pride and probably some ego that is justifiably earned. He’s very good at what he does. He’s an intuitive surgeon. He can take chances, which pay off quite often.” Despite being extremely skilled, Dr. Archer still has some things to learn, like that “he’s not number one anymore,” Weber continues. “There are a few instances where he oversteps, and this is noticeable and eventually has to be dealt with.”

Below, Weber fills us in on Dr. Archer and Ethan’s history, and previews the tensions to come between the docs. The actor also reminisces about a few of his many past roles, including the character he loved most, and ponders the possibility of a Wings revival.

TVLINE | How did the Chicago Med gig come about? I was scouring your very lengthy IMDb page to see if you had a previous connection to the Dick Wolf universe.

Well, I do have a connection with the universe. I was on two or three Law & Order episodes back in the early 2000s, I think. But how did this job come about? It came my way as jobs often do, and it was offered to me, which I’m still shocked happens, and I leapt on it because it’s such a cool show and a really interesting, complicated character.

TVLINE | We’ve spoken to your co-star Brian Tee about the character, but how would you describe him?

He’s a dedicated, well-meaning surgeon who has served his country and as a result has probably suffered some potentially damaging PTSD. This is something that they may or may not explore. I know Brian’s character, Ethan, has already demonstrated that he has had some issues, and he and I both served. He served under me when we were in the Navy, and now I’m serving under him. He’s eager to be involved, and he’s eager to still matter, but there are some challenges that he is trying to overcome with age and experience, like what actual real people have.

TVLINE | So did they have a good working relationship when they were both in the Navy?

Oh yeah, absolutely! A lot of camaraderie, no competition. In fact, it was kind of gratifying, because I think Ethan looked up to Dean and learned a lot, and so there was a mentor/mentee relationship. But as in all of those relationships, the mentee has to graduate, and the mentor has to reckon with the idea that maybe he or she is not in that position anymore and has to go beyond the identity of being the big honcho and has to humble him or herself and learn more. I think that’s possibly where he is at this time.

TVLINE | When we spoke to Brian, he said that Dr. Archer actually creates some messes that Ethan has to fix. Does that cause some tension between them?

I think it does. They probably haven’t seen each other for a long time, and suddenly they’re thrust together once again, and the dynamic has changed. People change over the years. So yeah, there are some messes… There are little internal struggles that begin to reveal themselves, and little identity issues that are between them that might begin to grow and get in the way of things. But these are two people who have demonstrated their ability and their heroism. They still have to learn how to relate to each other and relate to the world that’s changing in front of them and that constantly hurls challenges at them.

TVLINE | I was looking at your IMDb page ahead of this interview, which is maybe one of the longest IMDb pages out there. When we announced your casting, I wrote, “Steven Weber continues his mission to be on every show ever.”

Exactly. That’s right. I want to be on everything! I want to be on phone calls! I want to be on toilet paper! I want to be on every doorbell that rings!

TVLINE | I’m going to put you on the spot. Do you have a favorite past role?

I had a great time and I really enjoyed the character that I played on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which was the Aaron Sorkin show which ran only one season, sadly. It was a beautifully written role. I had a blast on it, and I feel like I really kind of hit the sweet spot with it. So that was a good one. I’ve done a bunch of theater, too. I did The Producers on Broadway for 10 months. Playing the role of Leo Bloom on Broadway was quite a great time and one of my favorite characters. But I consider myself to be a working actor, a journeyman actor, and I enjoy the variety. They all have a story to tell, they’re all part of my life. Even the ones that I’m not so proud of, those are important, too.

TVLINE | Personally, I have to say I really enjoyed you on iZombie because you really seemed to just be going for it and having so much fun in that role.

I loved that show. Another great show and a hilarious role, Vaughn, and really fun. That was a good time. He was a really funny dude. [Laughs]

TVLINE | They are rebooting and reviving everything these days, so where’s the Wings revival?

I get that question asked all the time! It’s not up to me. You’d think by this time, somebody would have said, “Hey, why don’t we do that?” Unfortunately, we lost [cast member] David Schramm last year, and that notwithstanding, I think it’s a possibility. One of the reasons why the show worked as well as it did for as long as it did was because it’s the perfect platform, it’s the perfect kind of situation. Stories, literally, walk in and fly out every week. Hell, I’d do it. Tim Daly, the handsomest man in North America, I’m sure he’d be up for it. There are ways to do it. Who knows, maybe we could do a darker version of it. I don’t know. Maybe not.

Roger Howarth On GH Status

To book a Cameo with Howarth, use the Cameo app or go to www.cameo.com/rogerhowarth. For more with the actor, look out for an extended interview in an upcoming issue of Soap Opera Digest.

Jason Biggs to serve as virtual Grand Marshal for Cup Series race at Phoenix

Biggs’ previous roles include the Netflix series “Orange is the New Black,” movie “American Pie” and most recently in the FOX comedy “Outmatched.”

Cherries Wild is a fast-paced, half-hour trivia game show by creator and executive producer Wes Kauble. The show features two rounds of pop culture trivia gameplay, during which a team of two contestants will try and “Solve the Slots” in hopes of getting one step closer to winning the life-changing $250,000 jackpot. At the end of each episode, when they spin the reels on the enormous, three-story slot machine, contestants will attempt to capture all five Wild Cherries to win the ultimate cash prize. Kauble is also the executive producer of “Supermarket Sweep” and the co-creator of FOX’s music game show “Beat Shazam.” His first claim to fame was winning the game show “The Weakest Link” in high school.

You can watch Cherries Wild on FOX following Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at 7 p.m. ET.

Cady McClain, Olivia d’Abo & director Julia Verdin Virtual Interview

‘Journal for Jordan’: ‘Law & Order’s Tamara Tunie Joins Denzel Washington-Directed Drama

King kept a journal full of poignant life lessons for their newborn son Jordan while deployed overseas. He was killed in Iraq in 2006 when Jordan was just 7 months old, but his spirit lives on in his messages of love to Dana and Jordan.

Virgil Williams penned the screenplay which is being produced by Todd Black and his Escape Artists partners Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch, as well as Washington, Jordan, through his Outlier Society label, and BRON Studios’ Aaron L. Gilbert. Creative Wealth Media’s Jason Cloth will serve as executive producer.

Tunie is reuniting with Washington after working together in the Robert Zemekis-directed Paramount drama, Flight.

Tunie, repped by Paradigm and Alta Global Media, is best known for playing Dr. Melinda Warner on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, on which she continues to recur. She’ll next be seen in the Netflix series Cowboy Bebop, the live-action adaptation of the cult Japanese animated series.

Michael Park guests on FBI 3/16/21

GUEST CAST includes: Michael Trucco (Ethan Shaw), Michael Park (Senator Walt Hoffman)

Jen Landon recurs on FBI: Most Wanted 3/16/21

RECURRING CAST: Jen Landon (Sarah Allen)

Made for Love: Watch Cristin Milioti and Ray Romano in First Trailer for HBO Max's 'Darkly Absurd' Comedy

In the first trailer released for HBO Max’s “darkly absurd” comedy Made for Love (embedded below), Romano recites lines from Queen Bey’s “Crazy in Love” while we get our first glimpse at the streamer’s upcoming “cynically poignant” love story.

The series, set to debut in April, “follows Hazel Green (How I Met Your Mother‘s Cristin Milioti), a thirty-something woman on the run after 10 years in a suffocating marriage to Byron Gogol (Tell Me a Story‘s Billy Magnussen), a controlling tech billionaire,” reads the official description. “Soon, she discovers that her husband has implanted a monitoring device — the Made for Love chip — in her brain, allowing him to track her, watch her and know her ’emotional data’ as she tries to regain her independence. Through the chip, Byron’s able to watch Hazel’s every move as she flees to her desert hometown to take refuge with her aging widower father Herbert (Everybody Loves Raymond‘s Romano) and his synthetic partner, Diane.”

The dark comedy also stars Dan Bakkedahl (Veep) and Noma Dumezweni (The Undoing). Recurring guest stars include Caleb Foote (The Kids Are Alright), Kym Whitley (Young & Hungry), Nyasha Hatendi (Casual) and Patti Harrison (Shrill), in addition to Ione Skye (Camping), Jon Daly (I’m Dying Up Here), Matty Cardarople (A Series of Unfortuntae Events), Mel Rodriguez (The Last Man on Earth) and Sarunas Jackson (Good Trouble).

Made for Love is executive-produced by Christina Lee (Search Party, Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later), who also serves as showrunner.

Watch the trailer here.

Jen Landon recurs on FBI: Most Wanted 3/9/21

RECURRING CAST: Jen Landon (Sarah Allen)

Video Chat: Jan Conklin & Ritchie Coster

Jan Conklin joined Guiding Light as an intern in 1989; became Paul Rauch's assistant in 1996 and under Ellen Wheeler became a Producer where she worked until the show went off the air in September 2009. After Guiding Light, she spent six-years working at Lululemon before joining New York Relief where she has been working for the past five years as Chief Operating Officer. She's presently serving as the interim CEO.

Ritchie Coster is an English actor best known for playing the roles of Dietrich Banning in The Tuxedo, Chechen in The Dark Knight, Elias Kassar in Blackhat, Mayor Austin Chessani on the second season of the HBO anthology television series True Detective and Francisco Scaramucci / Mr. Blue on the SyFy television series Happy!. He currently can be seen in HBO Max's hit news series, The Flight Attendant. Daytime fans know Ritchie from playing Tom Pelphrey's adoptive father Alfred Randall on Guiding Light and from As the World Turns where he played Gabriel Frank.

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GENERAL HOSPITAL’s Réal Andrews Tested Positive for COVID-19

GH, like all the other daytime soaps and other entertainment productions, have strict COVID guidelines to protect their casts and crews from the dangerous virus. This winter, GH temporarily recast the role of Taggert with actor Asante Jones for a handful of episodes, but Andrews soon returned to the soap. Even with his subsequent negative test result, the positive COVID result still means that Andrews will have to take a short break from work to ensure evryone’s safety. When his castmate, Briana Nicole Henry (Jordan) caught COVID around the Thanksgiving holiday, she was temporarily recast with actress Tiffany Daniels until Henry was cleared to return to the studio. Whether or not GH is planning to recast Taggert again with Jones or another actor has not yet been announced.

“I’ll keep you up to speed,” Andrews promised. “I didn’t come in and tell you about it right away because obviously I was just devastated and frustrated, but I’m going to keep you in the loop, let you know how it goes. But that’s where we’re at right now. Taggert is sitting out on the sidelines.”

In the video, Andrews seems healthy, so hopefully, his initial COVID test result was a false positive. But please join us in wishing him well.

Michael Park & Victor Slezak guest on Bull 2/22/21

GUEST CAST includes: Callie Thorne (Madeline McBride), Victor Slezak (Eric Godford), Michael Park (Keith Watkins)

Stargirl Season 2: John Wesley Shipp to Play Golden Age Flash, Jay Garrick

EW.com reports that Shipp is set to guest-star in the ninth episode of Stargirl‘s sophomore run (exclusively on The CW) as the Golden Age version of the scarlet speedster, “in a pivotal flashback episode” that establishes Garrick as a member of Earth-2’s Justice Society of America.

With Shipp’s appearance as The Flash, Stargirl will formally establish itself as a part of the new multiverse that Spectre fka Oliver Queen created at the close of the 2019-20 “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover event. As was revealed in that montage (embedded below), Stargirl & Co. exist on Earth-2, the Titans team is on Earth-9, Swamp Thing calls Earth-19 home, and Doom Patrol‘s dysfunctional family resides on Earth-21.

In addition to his recurring run on The CW’s The Flash, where over the years has alternately played Henry Allen and Jay Garrick, Shipp’s TV credits include Teen Wolf, One Life to Live, Dawson’s Creek, Sisters and, of course, the OG, early-1990s The Flash series.

Jennifer Ferrin guests on The Equalizer 2/21/21

GUEST CAST includes: Erica Camarano (Detective Paley), Joe Perrino (Dale Aldridge), Jennifer Ferrin (D.A. Avery Grafton)

Scott Holroyd guests on MacGyver 3/12/21

GUEST CAST includes: Deepti Gupta (Priya Chanani), Scott Holroyd (Kevin), Alexandra Grey (Parker)

Australia’s AACTA International Awards Nominations

AACTA International Award for Best Supporting Actress in Film
Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Olivia Colman – The Father
Saoirse Ronan – Ammonite
Amanda Seyfried – Mank
Swankie – Nomadland.

Roselyn Sánchez, Sylvia Sáenz & Jeimy Osorio Join Kate Del Castillo In Peacock’s ‘Armas De Mujer’

Created by José Luis Acosta., in Armas De Mujer, four women suffer their worst nightmare after the police arrest their husbands for being linked to the same criminal organization. Accustomed to a life of abundance, they will now need to join forces in the most unusual manner.

Del Castillo stars as Ángela, the wife of the cartel’s accountant and the fortuitous leader of the group of women who have gone from being care-free wives living in luxurious homes, to using all the weapons at their disposal just to survive.

Sánchez portrays Sofía, the tough wife to the cartel’s assassin. Sáenz plays Viri, wife to one of the top chiefs in the hierarchy of the cartel. Osorio is Esme, the independent and courageous wife to the head of the cartel’s assassins.

Armas De Mujer is produced by Telemundo Global Studios. Showrunner Marcos Santana serves as executive producer alongside Mariana Iskandarani. The series is directed by Enrique Begné and Claudia Pedraza.

Amy Carlson & Jen Landon recur on FBI: Most Wanted

RECURRING CAST: Amy Carlson (Jackie Ward), Jen Landon (Sarah Allen).

Jason Biggs: Turning down ‘How I Met Your Mother’ is my biggest regret

The actor, 42, admits he made a bonehead move by rejecting the offer to play Ted Mosby in the ultra-popular sitcom, which ran from 2005 until 2014. Josh Radnor played the leading role instead.

“I was offered the role, yes,” the “American Pie” star confirmed while appearing on SiriusXM’s “The Covino & Rich Show.” “I was offered the role and it’s probably my biggest regret, you know, on passing. I think I was in a phase of, at the time — it sounds so, so obnoxious to say right now — but at the time it was like, ‘OK, do I want to do TV?’ I don’t know that I was quite ready to go that route.”

He noted that he was still making movies at the time and enjoyed only working “a couple of months on a gig” and taking time off.

“I passed on it and then, you know, two things happened very soon thereafter,” he quipped. “One, that show blew up. We all know what happened with that show. And two, I was like, ‘I want to do TV!'”

While he joked that it took him another four years to see a TV show with him in it — “Orange Is the New Black” — get made, he explained, “Big picture, I have no regrets. Right? I’m very lucky, very fortunate. I’m still here. That’s number one. Great. But yeah, if I had to pick out something I wish I had done differently, I would’ve taken that gig for sure. Absolutely.”

When asked if his “American Pie” co-star Alyson Hannigan, who played Ted’s friend Lily Aldrin on “How I Met Your Mother,” ever gave him a hard time about it, he said, “We’ve never really talked about it. I don’t know that she knows, actually.”

Critics Choice Awards Film Nominations

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Amazon Studios)
Ellen Burstyn – Pieces of a Woman (Netflix)
Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy (Netflix)
Olivia Colman – The Father (Sony Pictures Classics)
Amanda Seyfried – Mank (Netflix)
Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari (A24).

Talk Show Appearance

Fr 2/19: Jason Biggs

Talk Show Appearance

Th 2/11: Jason Biggs

SAG Awards Nominations

Ensemble in a Drama Series

BETTER CALL SAUL
JONATHAN BANKS / Mike Ehrmantraut
TONY DALTON / Lalo Salamanca
GIANCARLO ESPOSITO / Gus Fring
PATRICK FABIAN / Howard Hamlin
MICHAEL MANDO / Nacho Varga
BOB ODENKIRK / Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman
RHEA SEEHORN / Kim Wexler

BRIDGERTON
ADJOA ANDOH / Lady Danbury
JULIE ANDREWS / Lady Whistledown
LORRAINE ASHBOURNE / Mrs. Varley
JONATHAN BAILEY / Anthony Bridgerton
RUBY BARKER / Marina Thompson
JASON BARNETT / Jeffries
SABRINA BARTLETT / Siena Rosso
JOANNA BOBIN / Lady Cowper
HARRIET CAINS / Philipa Featherington
BESSIE CARTER / Prudence Featherington
NICOLA COUGHLAN / Penelope Featherington
KATHRYN DRYSDALE / Genevieve Delacroix
PHOEBE DYNEVOR / Daphne Bridgerton
RUTH GEMMELL / Violet Bridgerton
FLORENCE HUNT / Hyacinth Bridgerton
MARTINS IMHANGBE / Will Mondrich
CLAUDIA JESSIE / Eloise Bridgerton
JESSICA MADSEN / Cressida Cowper
MOLLY McGLYNN / Maid Rose
BEN MILLER / Lord Featherington
LUKE NEWTON / Colin Bridgerton
JULIAN OVENDEN / Sir Henry Granville
REGÉ-JEAN PAGE / Simon Basset
GOLDA ROSHEUVEL / Queen Charlotte
HUGH SACHS / Brimsley
LUKE THOMPSON / Benedict Bridgerton
WILL TILSTON / Gregory Bridgerton
POLLY WALKER / Portia Featherington

THE CROWN
GILLIAN ANDERSON / Margaret Thatcher
MARION BAILEY / Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
HELENA BONHAM CARTER / Princess Margaret
STEPHEN BOXER / Denis Thatcher
OLIVIA COLMAN / Queen Elizabeth II
EMMA CORRIN / Princess Diana
ERIN DOHERTY / Princess Anne
CHARLES EDWARDS / Martin Charteris
EMERALD FENNELL / Camilla Shand
TOBIAS MENZIES / Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
JOSH O’CONNOR / Prince Charles
SAM PHILLIPS / Equerry

LOVECRAFT COUNTRY
JAMIE CHUNG / Ji-Ah
AUNJANUE ELLIS / Hippolyta Freeman
JADA HARRIS / Diana “Dee” Freeman
ABBEY LEE / Christina Braithwhite
JONATHAN MAJORS / Atticus Freeman
WUNMI MOSAKU / Ruby Baptiste
JORDAN PATRICK SMITH / William
JURNEE SMOLLETT / Letitia “Leti” Lewis
MICHAEL KENNETH WILLIAMS / Montrose Freeman

OZARK
JASON BATEMAN / Marty Byrde
McKINLEY BELCHER III / Agent Trevor Evans
JESSICA FRANCES DUKES / Special Agent Maya Miller
LISA EMERY / Darlene Snell
SKYLAR GAERTNER / Jonah Byrde
JULIA GARNER / Ruth Langmore
SOFIA HUBLITZ / Charlotte Byrde
KEVIN L. JOHNSON / Sam Dermody
LAURA LINNEY / Wendy Byrde
JANET McTEER / Helen Pierce
TOM PELPHREY / Ben Davis
JOSEPH SIKORA / Frank Cosgrove Jr.
FELIX SOLIS / Omar Navarro
CHARLIE TAHAN / Wyatt Langmore
MADISON THOMPSON / Erin Pierce

BAFTA Unveils Longlists For 2021 Film Awards

Supporting Actress
Niamh Algar Calm With Horses
Kosar Ali Rocks
Maria Bakalova Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Ellen Burstyn Pieces of a Woman
Priyanka Chopra Jonas The White Tiger
Glenn Close Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman The Father
Jennifer Ehle Saint Maud
Dominique Fishback Judas and the Black Messiah
Jodie Foster The Mauritanian
Ashley Madekwe County Lines
Amanda Seyfried Mank
Saoirse Ronan Ammonite
Yuh-Jung Youn Minari
Helena Zengel News of the World

2021 Golden Globes Nominations

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE
GLENN CLOSE - HILLBILLY ELEGY
OLIVIA COLMAN - THE FATHER
JODIE FOSTER - THE MAURITANIAN
AMANDA SEYFRIED - MANK
HELENA ZENGEL - NEWS OF THE WORLD

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES, ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
BRYAN CRANSTON - YOUR HONOR
JEFF DANIELS - THE COMEY RULE
HUGH GRANT - THE UNDOING
ETHAN HAWKE - THE GOOD LORD BIRD
MARK RUFFALO - I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE

Pinkins, Archer, Williamson, Burton and Wright Added to ABC DAYTIME: BACK ON BROADWAY CONCERT, Virtual Meet and Greets Announced

Among the lineup of stars eager to meet their fans are Kristen Alderson, Bradford Anderson, Melissa Archer, Melissa Claire Egan, BethAnn Fuenmayor, David A. Gregory, Catherine Hickland, Vincent Irizarry, Alicia Minshew, Eden Riegel, Chrishell Stause, Walt Willey and Bree Williamson.

The private video chats, similar to FaceTime calls and handled through the Looped app, will be scheduled throughout the day on February 13. You can learn more about Looped and reserve your chat slots at www.broadwaycares.org/abcdaytime2021.

These favorites of daytime TV will connect with fans just two days after they reunite in the one-night only concert stream ABC Daytime: Back on Broadway, an event with new interviews and select encore performances from the fundraising concert series ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares, which had a celebratory conclusion 10 years ago.

"The View's" Whoopi Goldberg and "General Hospital's" Finola Hughes have just been added to the stream's lineup. Goldberg will welcome the audience to the evening and Hughes will perform an original dance from the set of "General Hospital."

More daytime stars also just added to the evening's roster include Broadway veteran Tonya Pinkins from "All My Children;" Melissa Archer and Bree Williamson from "One Life To Live;" and Steve Burton and Laura Wright from "General Hospital."

They join the previously announced Bobbie Eakes, Melissa Claire Egan, Vincent Irizarry, Eva La Rue, Susan Lucci, Cameron Mathison, Eden Riegel, Chrishell Stause and Walt Willey from "All My Children;" Kristen Alderson, Kathy Brier, Kassie DePaiva, BethAnn Fuenmayor, David Gregory, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Catherine Hickland, Mark Lawson, Hillary B. Smith, Jason Tam and Brittany Underwood from "One Life To Live;" and Bradford Anderson, Brandon Barash and Anthony Geary from "General Hospital."

The benefit concert event began in 2005 at New York City's Town Hall in celebration of "All My Children's" 35 th Anniversary. Due to overwhelming support from fans, the one-night only collection of show stopping numbers and hilarious skits continued on for six more years and included cast members from "One Life to Live," "General Hospital" and co-hosts of "The View." Over its seven-year run, ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares raised $1.85 million.

This free streamed event can be watched beginning at 8 pm Eastern on broadwaycares.org/abcdaytime2021; on Broadway Cares' YouTube channel; across ABC Owned Television Stations' websites around the country, including abc7ny.com in New York; and on Good Morning America's Facebook page.

Talk Show Appearance

We 2/10: Jason Biggs

Jason Biggs hosts Cherries Wild

‘FBI: Most Wanted’: Jen Landon Joins CBS Drama Series As Recurring

Landon will play Sarah Allen, Tali’s (Gosselin) riding instructor.

The FBI spinoff, from Universal Television and Wolf Entertainment, stars Julian McMahon, Kellan Lutz, Roxy Sternberg, Keisha Castle-Hughes and Nathaniel Arcand. It is executive produced by Dick Wolf, David Hudgins, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski.

A three-time Daytime Emmy winner for her work on As The World Turns, Landon’s most recent TV credits include the role of Teeter on Yellowstone and Amy on TNT’s Animal Kingdom. Landon is repped by A3 Artists Agency, Jerico Management and Matthew Wallerstein at Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof and Fishman.

FBI: Most Wanted airs Tuesdays at 10/9c on CBS.

Soap Alums Nominated For Critics Choice Awards

The winners will be announced at 7 p.m. March 7 on the CW, with Taye Diggs is set to return as host for a third time.

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

Christine Baranski – The Good Fight (CBS All Access)
Olivia Colman – The Crown (Netflix)
Emma Corrin – The Crown (Netflix)
Claire Danes – Homeland (Showtime)
Laura Linney – Ozark (Netflix)
Jurnee Smollett – Lovecraft Country (HBO)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Jonathan Banks – Better Call Saul (AMC)
Justin Hartley – This Is Us (NBC)
John Lithgow – Perry Mason (HBO)
Tobias Menzies – The Crown (Netflix)
Tom Pelphrey – Ozark (Netflix)
Michael K. Williams – Lovecraft Country (HBO)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

William Fichtner – Mom (CBS)
Harvey Guillén – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
Daniel Levy – Schitt’s Creek (Pop)
Alex Newell – Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (NBC)
Mark Proksch – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
Andrew Rannells – Black Monday (Showtime).

Kerr Smith guests on The Resident 2/2/21

Cast: Matt Czuchry as Conrad Hawkins, Bruce Greenwood as Dr. Randolph Bell, Manish Dayal as Devon Pravesh, Emily VanCamp as Nicolette Nevin, Shaunette Renée Wilson as Mina Okafor, Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Dr. AJ Austin, Jane Leeves as Dr. Kit Voss and Morris Chestnut as Dr. Barrett Cain.

Guest Cast: Denitra Isler as Nurse Ellen Hundley Kerr Smith as Jacob Yorn, Carlacia Grant as Trinity Jolson, Tijuana Ricks as Clementine Jolson, Taylor Rose as Fiona Myers, Anna Khaja as Himaya Pravesh and Allie McCulloch as Dr. Gabbi Johnson.

Stars Of ABC’s ‘All My Children’, ‘One Life To Live’ & ‘General Hospital’ Reunite For Streaming Concert Benefit

ABC Daytime: Back on Broadway will gather musical performances by soap stars including Susan Lucci, Anthony Geary and Eva La Rue during the seven annual benefit concerts staged in New York from 2005-11. The daytime actors will revisit the performances in new interviews as part of the special.

The special will stream free of charge on February 11. See viewing options below. The lineup of performers includes Bobbie Eakes, Melissa Claire Egan, Vincent Irizarry, Eva La Rue, Susan Lucci, Cameron Mathison, Eden Riegel, Chrishell Stause and Walt Willey (from All My Children); Kristen Alderson, BethAnn Fuenmayor, Kathy Brier, Kassie DePaiva, David Gregory, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Catherine Hickland, Mark Lawson, Hillary B. Smith, Jason Tam and Brittany Underwood (One Life To Live); and Bradford Anderson, Brandon Barash and Anthony Geary (General Hospital).

“There are no fans like ABC Daytime fans,” said Lucci in a statement. “Their love and support continue to astonish us. We can’t wait to share these special performances with them and help raise money for so many in need during this difficult time.”

The concerts were staged at New York City’s Town Hall, and included production numbers, Broadway show tunes, ballads and comedy skits. The concert series began in 2005 as a one-night-only benefit to mark the 35th anniversary of All My Children, but fan support prompted ABC to stage the annual event for another six years. Over its seven-year run, ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares raised $1.85 million.

Tom Viola, Broadway Cares Executive Director, said, “We are so thankful to the stars from ABC Daytime for joining us again as we relive moments from this delightful tradition, while helping to provide lifesaving medication, healthy meals and emergency support to those struggling during this ongoing pandemic.”

This free streamed event can be viewed beginning Feb. 11, 8 pm ET, here, as well as on Broadway Cares’ YouTube channel, across ABC Owned Television Stations’ 32 connected TV apps on Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Roku and each of the eight station’s websites around the country, including abc7ny.com in New York; and on Good Morning America’s Facebook page.

While the stream is free, donations will be accepted for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, with all proceeds to provide people affected by HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 and other critical illnesses with healthy meals, lifesaving medication, emergency financial assistance, housing, counseling and more. The donations also support and champion organizations focused on social justice and anti-racism.

‘Animal Kingdom’ Renewed For Sixth & Final Season By TNT

I hear the cast and crew were notified in November about the pending pickup of Season 6, which is eying a February production start. Season five of the show, which stars Shawn Hatosy, Ben Robson, Jake Weary, Finn Cole, Leila George, Rigo Sanchez and Jon Beavers, will premiere this summer on TNT. (see key art on left)

With Animal Kingdom and Claws both heading toward the end of their runs, Snowpiercer remains the only ongoing scripted series on TNT, which has been shifting its programming focus to unscripted fare to compliment the WarnerMedia network’s sports slate.

A consistent ratings performer and strong younger viewers draw, Animal Kingdom reached 27 million viewers in Season 4 across all platforms, with the premiere retaining its audience from the previous season’s average. The series also ranked among 2019’s top 10 cable dramas (P18-49, L+7, ad-supported cable).

In Animal Kingdom season five, Pope (Hatosy), Craig (Robson), Deran (Weary) and J (Cole) are still dealing with the fallout from the events surrounding Smurf’s death, including family members out for revenge. With their kingdom without a leader, the Codys struggle to maintain their fragile alliance, and to see which of them will come out on top. Meanwhile, they search for more information on Pamela Johnson whom Smurf made the beneficiary of her estate. And back in 1984, an increasingly volatile 29-year-old Smurf is forging her own path raising Pope and Julia and leading the charge on dangerous jobs with new and old friends.

The drama, which was developed for television by Jonathan Lisco based on David Michod’s 2010 Australian feature film, is produced by John Wells Productions in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television. Wells serves as executive producer on the series with Daniele Nathanson and Erin Jontow. Michod and Liz Watts, who produced the feature, also serve as exec producers.

Alexandra Chando Film Holds Virtual Premiere To Benefit Futures Without Violence

The proceeds will benefit Futures Without Violence, which works to end violence against women and children around the world. The event will be presented on The Locher Room’s YouTube channel.

‘Chicago Med’: Steven Weber To Recur On NBC Drama Series

Weber will play Dr. Dean Archer, a wry, blunt, talented physician who has just relocated from a rural hospital to Chicago Med. A former Naval officer who oversaw Dr. Ethan Choi (Brian Tee) during active duty, he’s now struggling to be second -in-command at Gaffney Chicago Medical Center’s Emergency Department.

From Emmy-winning executive producer Dick Wolf, Chicago Med follows the emotional day-to-day chaos of the city’s newest state-of-the-art trauma center and the lives of the courageous doctors, nurses and staff who hold it all together. Gehlfuss, Torrey DeVitto, Oliver Platt, Brian Tee, S. Epatha Merkerson, Yaya DaCosta, Marlyne Barrett, Dominic Rains star.

Chicago Med is a Wolf Entertainment Production in association with Universal Television, a division of the Universal Studio Group. Wolf, Diane Frolov, Andrew Schneider, Michael Pressman, Stephen Hootstein, Derek Haas, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski are Executive Producers.

Weber’s most recent credits include a starring role on NBC’s Indebted and recurring roles on Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why, Get Shorty and Ballers. Weber is repped by UTA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

Chicago Med airs Wednesdays at 8 pm ET/PT on NBC.

Tyler Perry’s ‘The Haves And the Have Nots’ To End With Season 8 On OWN

The Haves and the Have Nots is the last Tyler Perry series on OWN under Perry’s deal, which ended in March 2019. Debuting in May 2013, it was OWN’s first scripted drama and one of the network’s highest-rated series. Along with the other Perry shows, it was a main driving force behind OWN’s ratings ascent after early struggles.

Over the course of the series run, The Haves and the Have Nots averaged nearly 3 million viewers and always ranked among the Top 2 scripted cable series among African American women and total viewers during all seven seasons.

The Haves and the Have Nots follows the complicated dynamic between the rich and powerful Cryer and Harrington families and the hired help who work for them in their opulent mansions. The series stars John Schneider, Tika Sumpter, Angela Robinson, Renee Lawless, Crystal Fox, Peter Parros, Tyler Lepley, Gavin Houston, Aaron O’Connell, Brett Davis and Brock Yurich.

“The Haves and the Have Nots was the first scripted drama we aired on OWN, and to say it took off from the first day it hit the air is an understatement,” said Oprah Winfrey, who is instrumental in bringing Perry to OWN eight years ago. “It’s all due to one man’s creativity and very vivid imagination, a man I refer to as my ‘big little brother,’ Tyler Perry. I thank Tyler, the incredible cast, the tireless crew and every single viewer who watched with bated breath each week and tweeted along with us these past eight years. I will be watching alongside you all during this final season.”

In the dramatic final eight episodes with a finale no one will see coming, the wealthy residents of Savannah, Georgia are involved in a true-to-life Greek tragedy as Judge Jim Cryer (John Schneider) and his rich friends find out what happens when personal flaws go unchecked. Karma has not been kind to the elite one percenters.

“We are so grateful to Tyler Perry, the amazing cast and everyone at Tyler Perry Studios for eight incredible years of making The Haves and the Have Nots one of the biggest hits on cable television of the last decade,” said Tina Perry, president, OWN. “The series will forever hold its place in history as the network’s first ever scripted drama for which we are so proud. We can’t wait for fans to see the juicy storylines Tyler has planned for the final episodes.”

The Haves and the Have Nots is produced for OWN by Tyler Perry Studios and created, written and executive produced by Perry.

‘General Hospital’ to Pay On-Air Tribute to John Reilly

Executive producer Frank Valentini tells Variety that Reilly “was a huge part of the ‘GH’ history and will be honored in an upcoming episode that the writers are working on now.”

Due to COVID-19, the ABC daytime drama has adjusted its schedule slightly, but both the writers’ room and production are still working weeks ahead and are currently prepping content for the end of the first quarter and start of the second quarter of 2021.

Reilly started on “General Hospital” in June 1984, playing Sean Donely consecutively for more than a decade, through February 1995, and then making sporadic appearances as the character in 2008 (for the finale of spinoff “General Hospital: Night Shift”) and in 2013.

The character was first introduced when Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary) needed help while he was on the run from murder charges, but Sean was a force with which to be reckoned: in the 1970s he was the head of the World Security Bureau (WSB), which added an adventure element into the medical soap.

Robert (Tristan Rogers), who worked for Sean, sent Luke to Sean for help. At the time, there was a mystery about Aztec treasure under way, which Sean was looking for, and things got so hairy he ended up kidnapping a few people close to Robert. Eventually, the two made up and Sean became the godfather of Robert’s daughter Robin (Kimberly McCullough).This, along with his romance with Dr. Monica Quartermaine (Leslie Charleson), cemented his place as an important player in Port Charles. He later became the police commissioner, which deepened his ties.

Sean also had a relationships with characters including Dr. Greta Ingstrom (Kristina Wayborn), Jessica Holmes (Starr Andreeff) and, of course, Tiffany Hill Donely (Sharon Wyatt), with whom his character had a daughter named Anna (Courtney Halverson).

The WSB has been a big part of the “General Hospital” storyline of late, through characters including Robert and Anna Devane (Finola Hughes).

When Reilly passed away on Jan. 9, the team behind “General Hospital” paid tribute to him on social media, tweeting, “The entire General Hospital family is heartbroken to hear of John Reilly’s passing. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his loved ones. Rest in peace.”

Daytime Star John Reilly Dead at 84

“I’m so grateful he was mine,” she continued. “I’m so grateful I got to love him. I’m so grateful I made it in time to hold him and say goodbye. I honestly don’t know what I’m going to do, but I know he’ll be with me. I love you forever, Daddy.”

In the comments, GH star Finola Hughes (Anna) mourned the loss of her former co-star and friend. “Oh, Caitlin, I am so sorry,” she wrote. “He was indeed the best. The kindest person, most generous and loving actor. Most supportive man in every way. Please send my love to Liz and to your family.”

Chicago native Reilly began his acting career back in the mid-‘60s with guest roles on DEATH VALLEY DAYS, APPLE’S WAY, AND GUNSMOKE. He made his daytime debut in 1974 as a recast of Dan Stewart on CBS sudser AS THE WORLD TURNS. After numerous television roles in the ‘70s, Reilly landed a recurring role on the primetime soap DALLAS in 1983. And the following year, he was cast as WSB agent Sean Donely on GH, a role he played until 1995.

He returned to daytime as Del on NBC’s SUNSET BEACH in the late ‘90s and in 2005 took over the role of Alistair Crane on PASSIONS. Reilly reprised the role of Sean Donley on GH’s primetime spinoff NIGHT SHIFT in 2008 and then again in 2013 for GH’s 50th anniversary.

Our thoughts are with Reilly’s friends and loved ones during this difficult time.

John Reilly, General Hospital and Passions Vet, Dead at 84

One of Reilly’s daughters, actress and TikTok personality Caitlin Reilly, shared the news via Instagram saying, “John Henry Matthew Reilly AKA Jack. The brightest light in the world has gone out.” A cause of death has not yet been shared.

“Imagine the best person in the world. Now imagine that person being your dad,” Caitlin wrote. “I’m so grateful he was mine. I’m so grateful I got to love him. I’m so grateful I made it in time to hold him and say goodbye. I honestly don’t know what I’m going to do, but I know he’ll be with me. I love you forever Daddy.”

The Chicago-born actor’s early career began with arcs on As the World Turns (as Dr. Dan Stewart), How the West Was Won, Quincy M.E. and Dallas (as Roy Ralston).

In February 1984, he made his GH debut as Sean Donely, Robert Scorpio’s former WSB (World Security Bureau) boss, who proved to be a bit of a foil during Frisco and Felicia’s Aztec Treasure hunt (watch his debut below). Following a redemption arc, superspy Sean was romantically paired with actress Tiffany Hill (played by Sharon Wyatt).

“He was a big brother to me. The kindest man you ever could find,” feellow GH vet Finola Hughes, who plays Anna and Alex Devane, tells TVLine. “I cannot express how sorry I am to hear of his passing.”

Following Reilly’s 11-year GH run, he voiced Hawkeye/Clint Barton on the animated Iron Man series, played Kelly Taylor’s pop on Beverly Hills, 90210, and then had multi-year runs on both Sunset Beach (as Del Douglas) and Passions (replacing the late David Bailey as Alistair Crane).

Reilly’s acting credits also include the short-lived spinoff General Hospital: Night Shift (where he reprised the role of Sean) and the web soap The Bay. And yes, he is the reason Talladega Nights‘ John C. Reilly uses a middle initial professionally.

Reilly is survived by his wife Liz and a total of three daughters.

‘Women Of The Movement’: Tonya Pinkins Joins ABC Limited Series As Niecy Nash Departs

The six-episode limited series, set to premiere in 2021, centers on Mamie Till-Mobley (Warren), who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son Emmett Till. Pinkins will play Alma, Emmett Till’s grandmother. She replaces Niecy Nash, who was originally cast in the role but exited the project for personal reasons.

After Emmett’s murder in Mississippi, Alma, a young grandmother who had been like a second mother to Emmett, fought to protect her family in Chicago while her daughter Mamie travelled the country seeking justice in Emmett’s name. A force of nature, Alma was Mamie’s rock in the face of unbelievable tragedy.

Women of the Movement is inspired by the book Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement by Devery S. Anderson. Cerar serves as showrunner and executive produces with Jay-Z, Jay Brown and Tyran “Ty Ty” Smith via Roc Nation; Smith and James Lassiter for Overbrook; as well as Kaplan, Dana Honor and Michael Lohmann of Kapital Entertainment. Also executive producing are Gina Prince-Bythewood, who will direct the first episode, Rosanna Grace for Serendipity Film Group; Alex Foster and John Powers Middleton of Middleton Media Group; and David Clark via Mazo Partners. Kapital is the studio.

The series today is holding its first table read. Filming is slated to begin Monday in Mississippi where the project has built a quarantine bubble with the essential production team only overseen by EP and Kapital’s head of production Lohmann, who will be on site for the duration of the shoot.

A renowned theater actress, Pinkins is a three-time Tony nominee, winning the award in 1992 for Jelly’s Last Jam. On TV, she is probably best known for her role as Livia Fry on All My Children. She has recurred on such series as 24, Gotham, Madam Secretary, Fear the Walking Dead and God Friended Me as well as limited series 11.22.63.

Pinkins is the 2020 recipient of the Franky Award and the Rachel Crothers Leadership Award. She is 2019-2022 Fulbright Specialist. She is also writer, director and producer of the upcoming feature film Red Pill, which is premiering in February. Described as a scary wake-up call about American politics, the film tackles such themes as the weaponization of whiteness and white supremacy.

A published author, Pinkins teaches privately and at The Atlantic Theater School’s NYU program. Her podcast You Can’t Say That is on the Broadway Podcast Network. She is repped by Megan Lohne & Pete Kaiser at The Talent House New York and Buchwald for directing.

Réal Andrews Reveals He Is Cancer Free

Stars Participate In Charity Holiday Reading

Guiding Light - A Very Special Deck the Zoom

School closures, job disruptions, and health risks are causing millions of Americans to turn to food banks for much-needed support right now. You can help families impacted by COVID-19 in our community by supporting our partner tonight. www.feedingamerica.org/coronavirus.

Joining The Locher Room for this very special holiday show are Grant Aleksander (Phillip), Laura Bell Bundy (Marah), Bryan Buffinton (Bill), Ellen Dolan (Maureen), Jean Carol (Nadine), Beth Chamberlin (Beth), Crystal Chappell (Olivia), Kassie DePaiva (Chelsea), Frank Dicopoulos (Frank), Beth Ehlers (Harley), Judi Evans (Beth), Jamie Goodwin (Johnny), Melissa Hayden (Bridget), Liz Keifer (Blake), Harley Jane Kozak (Annabelle), Jessica Leccia (Natalia), Joy Lenz (Michelle), Rachel Miner (Michelle), Karla Mosley (Christina), Michael O'Leary (Rick), Robert Newman (Josh), Saundra Santiago (Carmen), Peter Simon (Ed), Tina Sloan (Lillian), Nancy St. Alban (Michelle), Paul Anthony Stewart (Danny), Krista Tesreau (Mindy), Jerry verDorn (Ross), Michael Woods (Jim), Yvonna Kopacz-Wright (Mel) and Kim Zimmer (Reva).

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Jason Biggs To Host Pepsi-Funded Game Show ‘Cherries Wild’ For Fox

The American Pie actor will host Cherries Wild, a trivia game that is a collaboration with the soft drinks brand.

Deadline understands a pilot was filmed recently at Television City.

The half-hour show, which will launch at 7 p.m. Sunday, February 14, was created by Beat Shazam co-creator Wes Kauble. It features two rounds of pop culture trivia gameplay – during which a team of two contestants will try and “Solve the Slots” in hopes of getting one step closer to winning the $250,000 jackpot. At the end of each episode, when they spin the reels on the enormous slot machine, contestants will attempt to capture all five Wild Cherries to win the ultimate prize.

It marks the latest show for Biggs on Fox – he starred in Outmatched, the multicamera sitcom that was canceled after one season in May.

The unusual branded content order for Cherries Wild is the latest partnership between the drinks brand and the network, which have worked together on The X Factor and Empire.

The series, which is produced by Fox Alternative Entertainment, will air on Hulu as well as Fox’s streaming platform Tubi after its linear bow.

The deal was put together by The Content Collective, the entertainment and content marketing division of Omnicom Media Group and OMD.

“We are excited to partner with our longtime friends at Pepsi on Cherries Wild,” said Rob Wade, President, Alternative Entertainment & Specials, Fox Entertainment. “This is a bold concept that best illustrates the limitless possibilities that can be accomplished when two great brands join forces to deliver audiences a wildly entertaining program and an equally dazzling product. With the always-charming Jason Biggs at the helm, Cherries Wild is a refreshing twist on the classic trivia game show.”

Said Todd Kaplan, VP Marketing at Pepsi: “Now more than ever, consumers are looking for content that entertains them in new ways and formats, as the media landscape continues to rapidly evolve. I couldn’t be more excited for Pepsi to collaborate with Fox Entertainment on a new, primetime game show that will deliver exciting and engaging content for fans at home,”

Jason is repped by ICM Partners, Management 360 and Steve Burkow.

Days Recasts Vivian

Ryan's Hope - Reunion 12/10/20

Tom Pelphrey, Idina Menzel, Ryan Phillippe, Jacki Weaver Join ‘American Murderer’ Movie From Traveling Picture Show Company & GiGi Films

The pic, which hails from the Traveling Picture Show Company and GiGi Films, is based on the true story of Brown, a charismatic crook who bankrolls his luxurious lifestyle through a series of scams. When his funds run low and his past catches up with him, he plots his most elaborate scheme yet and, in the process, becomes the FBI’s most unlikely — and elusive — top 10 fugitive. Phillippe will play the FBI agent tasked to hunt him down.

Kevin Matusow and Carissa Buffel will produce for TPSC alongside Gia Walsh and Kara Baker under the GiGi Films banner.

Pelphrey, who can be seen in David Fincher’s just-released Netflix feature Mank playing director, screenwriter and producer Joseph Mankiewicz, is repped by Gersh and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Menzel, set to star opposite Camila Cabello in Sony’s retelling of Cinderella, is repped by ICM Partners, Paradigm and One Entertainment.

Phillippe, repped by Gersh and MGMT Entertainment, can be seen on ABC’s new series Big Sky and up next stars in Justin Long’s directorial feature Lady of the Manor. Weaver was most recently seen onscreen in Penguin Bloom, which premiered at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, and Stage Mother, which won Best of the Fest Audience Vote at the Palm Springs Film Festival. She’s repped by ICM Partners and Elevate Entertainment.

TPSC recently wrapped production on Unplugging, a comedy with Eva Longoria and Matt Walsh, while GiGi’s latest film Zola, starring Taylour Paige and Riley Keough, premiered at Sundance this year and is being released by A24.

Video: Daytime Cares: A Live Event

Hosted by Daytime Emmy Award Nominee Arianne Zucker (Days of Our Lives) and daytime actor Shawn Christian (formerly Dr. Daniel Jonas on Days of Our Lives) The event will feature daytime TV talent from NBC, CBS and ABC, as well as Broadway stars, a Celebrity Chef and Grammy-award winning artists Lisa Loeb and Gloria Gaynor. Ari & Shawn will be joined by The Locher Room host Alan Locher.

The following daytime talent is scheduled to appear:

Lamon Archey (Eli DOOL), Peter Bergman (Jack, Y&R), Galen Gering (Rafe, DOOL), Katelyn MacMullen (Willow, GH), Martha Madison (Belle, DOOL), Sofia Mattson (Sasha, GH), Michael Mealor (Kyle, Y&R), Marci Miller (Abigail, DOOL), Wes Ramsey (Peter, GH), Lawrence Saint-Victor (Carter, B&B), Crishell Stause (ex-Jordan DOOL), Sal Stowers (Lani, DOOL), Jason Thompson (Billy, Y&R), Cynthia Watros (Nina, GH) and Laura Wright (Carly, GH)

Daytime Cares is a TV community spotlighting non-profit organizations offering Covid19 support and resources.

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Ryan's Hope - Reunion 12/10/20

Talk Show Appearance

Wednesday, Dec. 9

Actress Amanda Seyfried discusses her new film “Mank” (n)

Imogen Poots To Co-Star With Josh Brolin & Tom Pelphrey In Amazon’s ‘Outer Range’ Series

Outer Range centers on Royal Abbott (Brolin), a rancher fighting for his land and family, who discovers an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming’s wilderness. Poots will portray Autumn, an itinerant woman who charms the Abbotts enough to let her camp on their land. A seeker of cosmic truths with a checkered past, she lives without regrets and embraces the unknown with reckless abandon.

Outer Range comes from creator and executive producer Brian Watkins, with executive producers Zev Borow, Heather Rae and Plan B Entertainment for Amazon Studios. The series falls under Amazon Studios’ overall TV deal with Plan B.

Poots can currently be seen opposite Jesse Eisenberg?in Lorcan Finnegan’s Vivarium. She was also recently seen opposite Mark Ruffalo in the HBO limited series I?Know This Much Is True, based on the 1998 bestselling novel by Wally Lamb, adapted and directed by Derek Cianfrance. Poots will next be seen in Florian Zeller’s The Father alongside Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman, and Azazel Jacobs’ French Exit opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges; Sony Pictures Classics is set to release both and the films are in early awards conversations.

She is repped by CAA and Management 360, Hamilton Hodell and attorney David Krintzman.

Matthew Morrison performs live for VIPs in Pennsylvania

We’re told Morrison, who will next appear in NBC’s musical special “The Grinch,” belted out four songs including “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” for VIP guests at a socially distanced event at the Pennsylvania luxury hotel Nemacolin Resort.

His wife Renee joined him on stage to sing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” says a spy.

The evening also included a light show and a check presentation for $25,000 to the Salvation Army and Pittsburgh’s WTAE-TV’s Project Bundle Up, which hands out winter coats.

We’re told the whole event was outside and guests were required to social distance and wear masks.

Daytime Cares Plans New Virtual Event On December 5

Video: As the World Turns - Reunion 11/20/20

‘Cowboy Bebop’: Six Cast In Netflix Live-Action Remake Of Cult Anime TV Series

The six join previously announced cast members John Cho as Spike Spiegel, Mustafa Shakir as Jet Black, Daniella Pineda as Faye Valentine, Alex Hassell as Vicious and Elena Satine as Julia.

Based on the worldwide phenomenon from Sunrise Inc., Cowboy Bebop is the jazz-inspired, genre-bending story of a rag-tag crew of bounty hunters on the run from their pasts, as they hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals. They’ll even save the world…for the right price.

Stults is Chalmers, the epitome of a Western lawman. He is also Jet Black’s former co-detective in the ISSP’s Homicide Division. He wears a chronic smile that makes you want to punch him square in the face… especially Jet. And that’s only partly because Chalmers is dating his ex-wife these days.

Tunie plays Ana, the proprietor of the hottest underground bluesy jazz club on Mars. And while she acts as a surrogate mom to Spike, there is nothing warm and cuddly about her. Cool and intense, Ana is definitely not a woman to be trifled with.

Park portrays Gren, Ana’s right-hand person. They run the front of the house for Ana’s jazz club. As capable with their wit as a glock, as confident in a dress as a suit, they are a Bowie-esque embodiment of 22nd century handsome and seductive beauty.

House is Mao, the Capo of the Syndicate’s “White Tigers” family. Despite, or perhaps because of, her blue collar background, Mao is more cunning, adept, crafty and deadly than her counterparts.

Truong and Xuande are Shin and Lin. Dressed to kill (because they do), Shin and Lin serve as Vicious’ twin Syndicate henchman. Despite being fearful of their volatile boss, they are fiercely loyal to Vicious in his quest (for reasons we have yet to understand) to take down Spike Spiegel.

Midnight Radio’s André Nemec and Jeff Pinkner executive produce and serve as showrunners. Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio executive produce with Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Tomorrow Studios, Yasuo Miyakawa, Masayuki Ozaki, and Shin Sasaki of Sunrise Inc; along with Tim Coddington, Tetsu Fujimura, Michael Katleman and Matthew Weinberg. Christopher Yost (Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok) will write the first episode and executive produce. Shinichiro Watanabe, director of the original anime, serves as consultant.

Cowboy Bebop is a co-production between Netflix and Tomorrow Studios; with Netflix handling physical production.

Stults is repped by United Talent Agency and 3 Arts Entertainment. Truong is repped by Active Artists Management and A3 Artists Agency. Park is with A3 Artists Agency. House is repped by Colin Moy at Lion Rock Management.

Wyatt Russell expecting first child with wife Meredith Hagner

Kate Hudson, Russell’s half sister, shared the happy news with a photo of herself holding Hanger’s growing baby bump at her baby shower in a new photo posted to Instagram on Sunday.

“Celebrating our next family member today,” the “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” actress captioned the pic. “First for my bro Wy and @merediththeweasel.”

She added, “We are over the moon and can’t wait!!!!”

Russell and Hudson share the same mom, Goldie Hawn. His dad is Kurt Russell and her father is Bill Hudson.

Russell, 34, and Hagner, 33, got married in September 2019. He was previously married to Sanne Hamers from 2012 to 2017.

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OWN Sets Three Holiday Movies Starring Vivica A. Fox, Jackée Harry, Lamman Rucker, Meagan Holder, Idara Victor, Tonea Stewart

A Christmas For Mary, starring Vivica A. Fox and Jackée Harry, will premiere on December 8; followed by Cooking Up Christmas, starring Greenleaf’s Lamman Rucker and Meagan Holder on December 15; and First Christmas, starring Idara Victor and Tonea Stewart, will premiere on December 22. The movies join the previously announced Our OWN Christmas gospel music special hosted by Meagan Good and DeVon Franklin which airs on Tuesday, December 1 at 9 PM ET/PT.

OWN last year made its first foray into original holiday movies, which do well viewership-wise, especially among women who are OWN’s core demographic.

“Following the overwhelming success of our inaugural holiday movie slate last year, we’re excited to announce all-new movies with heartwarming storylines the whole family can enjoy,” said Tina Perry, president, OWN. “We hope that viewers will continue to make watching our movies together a part of their ongoing holiday traditions.”

Here are details about OWN’s holiday movies:

A Christmas For Mary premieres Tuesday, December 8 at 9 p.m. ET/PT

Vivica A. Fox stars with Jackée Harry and Morgan Dixon (Being Mary Jane) in a holiday tale of rediscovery and renewal when up-and-coming journalist Lena Jones (Dixon) is tasked with delivering a story by Christmas that will wow her boss, magazine editor Vivian Vaye (Fox), who is dangling a promotion to head writer over Lena’s head. Intrigued by a portrait of a mysterious woman painted by her late grandfather, Lena journeys to the small town of Pineville, where with her mother, Deborah’s (Harry) blessing and support, Lena uncovers a long-ago forgotten tale of young love that not only uncovers cherished memories of the past, but also inspires Lena to follow her heart and find her own true love … and her perfect Christmas story. A Christmas For Mary is produced for OWN by Hybrid and executive produced by Vivica A. Fox in association with Harpo Films.

Cooking Up Christmas premieres Tuesday, December 15 at 9 p.m. ET/PT

Meagan Holder (Pitch) stars in this family-centric holiday story as Chloe, an Atlanta-based chef at a fine dining restaurant who gets fired just weeks before Christmas and reluctantly takes a job with pro baseball player Donovan Jackson (Rucker), who is a single dad of three needing a live-in-chef to get him through the holidays with the kids. Chloe only takes the job in order to save up enough capital to live out her dream of opening her own restaurant, but soon finds herself caught up in the ups and downs of the Jacksons encounter during her residency. Throughout the holiday season in the Jackson household the importance of family and Chloe’s good Southern cooking are two constants that remain. As Christmas comes to an end, Chloe discovers that her lifelong dream might finally come true… and that her heart has a mind of its own. Cooking Up Christmas also stars Jen Harper and Laparee Young from OWN’s Greenleaf and Lindsey Amani Blackwell from OWN’s David Makes Man. Cooking Up Christmas is produced for OWN by MarVista in association with Harpo Films. Executive produced by Roger M. Bobb, Lamman Rucker, Megan Ellstrom, Larry Grimaldi, Hannah Pillemer and Fernando Szew.

First Christmas premieres Tuesday, December 22 at 9 p.m. ET/PT

Given up for adoption and placed in foster care at a young age, writer Halle Downing (Victor, Alita: Battle Angel) receives the blessing of a lifetime when she is invited to spend Christmas in New Orleans with the biological family she never knew she had – The Moores. Halle’s grandmother “Memaw” (Stewart, A Time to Kill) welcomes the young woman with open arms, completely overwhelming Halle with emotion at the significance of finally finding her family. Extremely excited to meet her twin siblings Tiffany (Samantha Smith, Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins) and Glenn (Mason Beauchamp, NCIS: New Orleans) along with younger brother Drew (Peyton Jackson, Nobody’s Fool) for the first time, Halle soon faces the hard reality that finding her place in this close-knit family is going to take longer than she thought, something that becomes particularly evident when she witnesses Tiffany’s apprehension about introducing her new girlfriend Paris (Amanda Tavarez, Queen Sugar) to the family for the first time. However, as Christmas approaches, Halle begins to gain perspective on the Moore family dynamic and ultimately comes to embrace and celebrate her first family holiday with a special gift that tells her she is right where she is supposed to be. First Christmas is produced for OWN by MarVista in association with Harpo Films. Executive produced by Tia Mowry, Tiegen Kosiak, Todd Y. Murata, Larry Grimaldi, Hannah Pillemer and Fernando Szew.

NBC Sets Matthew Morrison In ‘Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch Musical!’ As Latest Holiday Theatrical Event

“In what has been an extremely challenging year for us all,” Morrison said, “it is an honor to bring some holiday cheer into viewers’ homes this December. My wish is to bring some Who-ville magic to this holiday season and, while the pandemic presents some challenges in bringing a stage production to life, we are excited to present a unique version of this seasonal favorite in a new creative and imaginative way.”

The musical, with book and lyrics by Tim Mason and music by Mel Marvin and featuring the hit songs “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and “Welcome Christmas” (by Albert Hague & Dr. Seuss) played on Broadway during the holiday seasons of 2006 and 2007.

In the NBC version, the Cindy-Lou Who character will be played by young newcomer Amelia Minto. Producers have also assembled an ensemble of musical theater actors from London’s West End to complete the cast.

“Dr. Seuss is an indelible part of all of our lives and we’re thrilled to bring a stage production of The Grinch Musical! to our audience,” said Doug Vaughan, Executive Vice President, Special Programs, NBC Entertainment. “This is a perfect addition to our annual holiday program traditions and a telecast the entire family will enjoy.”

The staging is by director Max Webster, and Julia Knowles directs for television. Additional script material is by Simon Nye, with sets by designer Peter Bingemann.

Previous musicals staged in recent years by NBC The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, The Wiz, Hairspray and Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert.

Though Morrison became a household name on Glee, he has an extensive stage background, including roles in Broadway’s Footloose, Hairspray, and The Light in the Piazza. More recently, Morrison starred as J.M. Barrie in the Broadway musical Finding Neverland. Additional TV credits include The Good Wife, Grey’s Anatomy and American Horror Story: 1984. Morrison is represented by Podwall Entertainment, ICM Partners and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman.

Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch Musical is presented in association with Dr. Seuss Enterprises and Running Subway, produced by Penny Lane Entertainment Television and Simon Friend Entertainment. Lee Connolly, Simon Friend, Joshua Rosenblum and James Sanna serve as executive producers. Morrison also serves as a producer on the telecast.

Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch Musical! will air on NBC Dec. 9 at 8 p.m. ET/PT from the Troubadour Theatre in London.

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Paul directed the action/comedy starring Alec Baldwin, Malin Akerman and Bella Thorne. It is scheduled for release from Quiver in theaters and on demand on November 13, 2020.

Bye Bye Sally - A Short Film starring Malin Akerman. Written/Directed by Paul Leyden

LOGLINE: A suicidal woman finally discovers what makes her feel alive!

Cast: Malin Akerman, Paolo Seganti

Written/Directed/Produced by Paul Leyden

Produced by Anne Clements and Chris Panizzon

Executive Producers: Martha Byrne and Michael Leyden

Director of Photography: Joseph White

Original Score by JP Robinson

Edited by David Gil

SYNOPSIS: Life has been cruel to Sally Grimshaw and she has had enough. It's time to end it all. In a last ditch effort to save herself she calls a suicide hotline and is persuaded to come in and see one of their mental health counselors -- Mr. Vincent.

But Mr. Vincent has no intention of talking her out of killing herself. In fact, he runs a service that matches suicidal clients with potential hits. I mean, if you're going to kill yourself you might as well take out some human scum at the same time. At first she refuses, but life is never going to be kind to Sally and she finally agrees -- she's in.

Sally is faced with the moment of truth when she has to perform the hit. And it is always in such moments that we discover a truth about ourselves. And in such a moment, Sally discovers a reason to live.

Micheàl Richardson, Keith Powers, James Badge Dale And Jordana Brewster To Star In Indie ‘On Our Way’

Paul Ben Victor and Ruby Modine are also on board. The film follows a deeply troubled filmmaker (Richardson) as he battles a voice inside his head while making his first film. When a muse in the form of an aspiring actress (Curtis) enters the picture, he’ll be forced to face a tragic past he is desperate to escape from.

The film is being produced by Siena Oberman of Artemis Pictures, Adam G. Simon and Andrea Bucko of Boxcar Pictures. Heliya Alam, Joe Barbagello, Julio Lopez Velasquez and John Reyes Doyle of Tomorrowland Productions will also produce. Robert Bricker, Grafton Reyes Doyle, Courtney B. Turke, Jill Matlock Hall of Matlock Entertainment and Melissa Rossaki of BarBHouse Productions will executive produce along with Paola Paulin. The pic is shooting in New York City this fall.

Richardson is repped by Gersh; Powers is repped by Paradigm and Megan Silverman Management;Badge Dale is repped by CAA and MJ Management; Brewster is repped by CAA; Ben Victor is with APA and Zero Gravity Management; Modine is repped by APA.

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Lili Taylor, Tamara Podemski & Tom Pelphrey Join ‘Outer Range’ Mystery Drama Series For Amazon

Created by Watkins, Outer Range centers on Royal Abbott (Brolin), a rancher fighting for his land and family, who discovers an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming’s wilderness.

Taylor will portray Cecilia Abbott, the matriarch of the Abbott family. Cecilia is a woman of deep faith, which she finds tested as never before. Podemski will play Deputy Sheriff Joy. A life-long cop, Joy is running for county sheriff, and is the first gay Native American to ever do so in Wyoming. Pelphrey is Perry Abbott, the dutiful, eldest Abbott son, who is torn up inside by the lingering mystery of his missing wife.

Watkins and Brolin executive produce with Zev Borow, Heather Rae, and Plan B Entertainment. The series falls under Amazon Studios’ overall deal with Plan B Entertainment.

Taylor recently appeared in the HBO limited series Perry Mason, and can currently be seen in the independent feature Paper Spiders, as well as the Netflix series Chambers. She’s repped by Untitled Entertainment and APA.

Podemski received the Special Jury Prize for Acting at the Sundance Film Festival for her role in Four Sheets to the Wind. She recently played Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s romantic interest in the HBO comedy Run and starred in the family drama Unsettled. She also recently resumed her role of Alison Trent in the Canadian drama series, Coroner. Podemski is repped by TalentWorks and Edna Talent Management.

Pelphrey will star as Joseph Mankiewicz in David Fincher’s Netflix film, Mank. Most recently, he was seen in season three of the Emmy-winning series Ozark, playing Wendy Byrde’s (Laura Linney) brother Ben. Pelphrey is repped by Gersh and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

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As the World Turns Final Episode Script Reading

The Cast of As the World Turns will reunite virtually for one night on Wednesday, October 28th, 2020, at 8 p.m. EST, to support the non-profit theatre company, Katonah Classic Stage (KCS), founded by their co-star, Trent Dawson. At least 26 veteran cast members, including Larry Bryggman, Don Hastings, Kathryn Hays, Elizabeth Hubbard, Michael Park and some surprise guests will gather online for a virtual and lively reading of the daytime drama’s final episode, which aired 10 years ago this past September. The show will be live-streamed on The Locher Room’s YouTube channel where fans will have the opportunity to comment and ask questions of the cast. Fans interested in watching can make a minimum $15 donation (tax-deductible)* to KCS to receive a link to watch the live event.

ATWT reunion tickets: Click here.

Covid-19 has had a devastating impact on many industries across the globe. The theatre industry has been hit particularly hard and actors, directors, designers, crew, and all of the other businesses that support live events, are struggling to stay afloat. The cast of As the World Turns is coming together to support Katonah Classic Stage (KCS), a professional, nonprofit theatre company an hour north of NYC, which was founded by ATWT alum, Trent Dawson. The goal is to raise funds to hire actors, musicians, and all the crew necessary to produce live performances when it is safe to do so.

KCS is currently being sponsored by The Field* and all donations will be made through their website. Once your donation has been received, a private link to this live event will be sent to your email address just before show-time on October 28th (be sure to check your spam folder!). If you have any questions, please send them to info@katonahclassicstage.com.

Please support KCS by purchasing a ticket to this live, one-time-only event, for a minmum donation of $15. Feeling generous? your donation is 100% tax-deductible so if you love live theatre and you’re looking for a big tax write-off, here’s your opportunity! All donations go through our fiscal sponsor, the field*

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Stephan James, Marisa Tomei, Paul Walter Hauser To Star In ‘Delia’s Gone’ Drama From Robert Budreau

The pic is currently in production in North Bay, Ontario. Based on Michael Hamblin’s short story Caged Bird Sing, the plot follows a convicted man on the spectrum (James) who escapes his care home and embarks on a journey of violence and redemption to find the truth about his sister, Delia.

Budreau is also producing the project under his Lumanity label alongside Jonathan Bronfman of JoBro Productions.

Executive producers are William Santor, Andrew Chang-Sang, John Hills, Adam Moryto, Michael Hamblin, Andrew Bronfman, Jason Jallet, Mark Gingras, John Laing, James, Daniel Baur, Patrick Roy, Anne-Claire Villeneuve, Alastair Burlingham, and Gary Raskin.

The feature is being sold by Radiant Films globally with eOne overseeing distribution in Canada.

James was last seen on the big screen in Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk and 21 Bridges, opposite the late Chadwick Boseman, as well as Amazon’s Homecoming series, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination. He’s repped by CAA, Noble Caplan Abrams, Range Media Partners, and attorney Jeff Bernstein.

Tomei, an Oscar winner for her role in the classic comedy My Cousin Vinny, plays opposite Jason Momoa in Netflix’s upcoming thriller, Sweet Girl, and will reprise her role as May Parker in the next Spider-Man installment. She is a client of Untitled Entertainment and UTA.

Hauser, who took on the title role in Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell, is set to appear in the Michael Bay-produced pandemic-themed thriller Songbird and counterfeiting comedy Queenpins with Vince Vaughn, Leslie Jones, and Kristen Bell. Hauser is repped by CAA and Artists First.

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Ben Jorgensen Dead: ‘All My Children’ Star Dies at 51

According to Jorgensen’s IMDb page, he played the role of Kevin Sheffield on All My Children between 1995 and 1998. In 1995, Jorgensen appeared in the Leonardo DiCaprio movie The Basketball Diaries.

Brian Gaskill, who played the role of Bobby Warner on the now-defunct soap, broke the news late on October 6. Gaskill wrote in his Facebook post, “My understanding is it was suicide. I have heard he suffered from Bipolar disorder but as I have not spoke to him in years I do not know all the details.” Gaskill paid tribute to Jorgensen’s “courage to play a gay teenager” when “it was nowhere near as common to have representation as it is today.” In addition to being part of an award-winning storyline, Gaskill wrote, “mostly we just had some good times back then.”

Another friend said that Jorgensen took his own life in his mother’s home in the United Kingdom, while another said, “His mental suffering is now over and I hope he is at peace.” That friend added, “Ben’s non-stop creativity, excitement, and absurdity never stopped.”

In the same year as The Basketball Diaries, Jorgensen appeared in the movie The Break alongside screen legend Martin Sheen. Jorgensen said in a 2019 interview with Greenpointers.com that the movie was poorly received by critics and as a result was not widely distributed. Jorgensen said, “I flew to Miami for the premiere with Rae Dawn Chong and the movie had limited distribution for one sad weekend.”

AMC Networks-Backed UMC To Launch Thriller ‘Terror Lake Drive’ At Thanksgiving

The AMC Networks-backed streamer will launch the limited series, which was created by Blackout director Jerry LaMothe and Kajuana S. Marie (Data.Love.Repeat), on Thursday November 26.

UMC said that six-part series Terror Lake Drive was the first official series greenlit by SAG-AFTRA and the state of Georgia to commence principal photography following the start of the pandemic. It kicked off production in Atlanta on June 29.

Terror Lake Drive is a suspenseful drama that follows a single mother from Baltimore who – on the heels of a recent pandemic and growing social unrest – relocates to Atlanta in an attempt to dodge her troubled past. As she settles into her new surroundings, she soon discovers that there are some things she can never run away from.

Starring alongside Shannon Kane (The Originals), Donielle T. Hansley Jr. (Charm City Kings) and Lamman Rucker (Greenleaf) star alongside Yoba.

Terror Lake Drive is directed by LaMothe, who also serves as executive producer alongside Marie, and Jumaane Ford under LaMothe’s J. LaMothe Entertainment banner. Samad Davis serves as producer for Visionary Media, Inc. with Dianne Ashford serving as line producer for the series.

“The process of navigating production on our new releases has been challenging but with Jerry’s adaptability and the guidance of SAG-AFTRA, we were able to implement the protections necessary to safely get back to work,” said Nikki Love, UMC’s VP of Production & Development. “Terror Lake Drive introduces a thrilling level of suspense not yet showcased in our original programming. It has been wonderful working with Jerry and his team to execute his vision for this project.”

Jerry Lamothe added, “I’m elated to be working with UMC and am thankful for the opportunity they’ve provided me with the upcoming release of my first series. It’s been quite a journey to complete this project given our new normal, but we made it through thanks to the work of our wonderful cast and crew. I can’t wait for audiences to experience Terror Lake Drive.”

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Great Performances ‘Broadway’s Best’ PBS Lineup To Include Lea Salonga Concert Film World Premiere

The Broadway’s Best programming, running on Fridays from November 6 to Nov. 27, kicks off with the 2011 taping of One Man, Two Guvnors, featuring a Tony Award-winning performance by The Late Late Show‘s James Corden. The play, adapted by playwright Richard Bean from a 1743 Commedia dell’arte farce and set in the British resort town of Brighton during the Swinging ’60s, follows out-of-work musician named Francis Henshall (Corden) who becomes a bodyguard-minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a petty East End crook, who turns out to be closer to Henshall than expected.

Next up will be Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles on Friday, Nov. 13, the 2019 documentary chronicling the history of the classic Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof and featuring rare archival footage and the personal experiences and insights from composer and lyricist Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, former cast members and famous fans, including Joel Grey, Topol, Harvey Fierstein and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

On Friday, Nov. 20, the series continues with Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, Roundabout Theatre Company’s 2016 Tony-nominated Broadway musical starring Bryce Pinkham, Lora Lee Gayer, Megan Lawrence, Danny Rutigliano, Megan Sikora and Corbin Bleu. Directed by Gordon Greenberg, choreographed by Denis Jones, the film, captured live at Roundabout’s Studio 43 venue, features classic songs including “Shaking the Blues Away,” “Heat Wave” and “White Christmas.”

The world premiere of Great Performances: Lea Salonga in Concert closes out the series on Friday, Nov. In concert with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House, Salonga performs songs she made famous throughout her Broadway career, as well as her signature songs from the animated movies Aladdin and Mulan. Salonga won a 1991 Tony Award for her breakthrough performance as Kim in Miss Saigon. She was the first Asian cast member to play Eponine in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway and then returned to the show as Fantine in the 2006 revival. Most recently, Salonga starred in the Tony-winning 2017 revival of Once on This Island.

Great Performances is produced by Thirteen Productions LLC for WNET. Bill O’Donnell is series producer and David Horn is executive producer.

The Broadway’s Best programming airs Fridays in November at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/broadwayonpbs and the PBS Video app.

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Amanda Seyfried secretly gave birth to her second child, a baby boy

Seyfried, 34, secretly gave birth to her second child, a baby boy, with Sadoski.

The couple announced the news in a statement to INARA and War Child USA with the first photo of their son.

“Since the birth of our daughter 3 years ago our commitment to the innocent children that are so brutally affected by conflict and war has been a driving force in our lives,” the couple said in their statement. “With the birth of our son the work of INARA and War Child has become our North Star.”

They didn’t reveal their son’s name.

War Child is a UK organization that helps children in war-affected communities and INARA provides medical care for children in conflict areas.

The “Mean Girls” star and Sadoski, 44, also share daughter Nina. The couple tied the knot in March 2017 at the end of her first pregnancy.

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Days of Our Lives' Melissa Reeves Out, All My Children Vet Cady McClain In as Jennifer — But for How Long?

According to Soap Opera Digest, Reeves — who commutes from Tennessee to Los Angeles to shoot Days — chose not to return to the West Coast when the soap resumed production earlier this month due to the coronavirus pandemic. The recast, which sources stress is not permanent, comes nearly three months after Reeves’ views on Black Lives Matter sparked a backlash among her co-stars and fans.

News of the switcheroo was first reported by Celeb Dirty Laundry.

Back in January it was revealed that Reeves — who has played Jennifer Horton on the NBC sudser on and off for the past three decades — “liked” several anti-BLM posts from right-wing activist Candace Owens on Instagram. Reeves’ Days co-star, Linsey Godfrey, wasted little time responding. After one Twitter user defended Reeves’ right to express her opinion, Godfrey countered, “Nah there is no difference of opinion on racism, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia.”

When another fan noted that she found Reeves to be “completely lovely and non-judgmental” after encountering her at several Days fan events, Godfrey responded, “Yea but even the nicest people can have awful views. Plenty of nice people have awful moral compasses. I can’t associate w/ it because it makes me a hypocrite. I condemn all those hateful & harmful beliefs.”

Days actor Lamon Archey, who is Black, liked Godfrey’s post taking Reeves to task. He then shared a rather pointed gif.

This is not the first time Reeves has come under fire for her controversial views. Several years ago, she incurred the wrath of the LGBTQ community when she expressed support for antigay fast food chain Chick-fil-A, tweeting, “Land of the free and home of the brave. Love that we all appreciate free speech, right?”

Reps for Days, NBC and Sony Pictures Television declined to comment for this story.

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‘The Glorias’ Trailer: Julianne Moore And Alicia Vikander Rise Up In Julie Taymor’s Gloria Steinem Biopic

Based on Steinem’s book Life on the Road, director Taymor co-wrote the film with Sarah Ruhl, a nontraditional biopic that creates a complex tapestry of one of the most inspirational figures of modern history.

From her time in India to creating Ms. magazine to her role in the rise of the women’s rights movement in the 1960s to the historic 1977 National Women’s Conference, Moore, Alicia Vikander, Lulu Wilson and Ryan Keira Armstrong play Steinem in different stages of her journey to prominence.

The Glorias also includes a number of iconic women who made profound contributions to the women’s movement including Dorothy Pitman Hughes (Janelle Monáe), Flo Kennedy (Lorraine Toussaint), Bella Abzug (Bette Midler), Dolores Huerta (Monica Sanchez) and Wilma Mankiller (Kimberly Guerrero).

The film comes from LD Entertainment and Roadside Attractions. Check out the poster below and watch the trailer above to light that fire of social justice in you

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Julianne Moore Joins Universal’s ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Movie

The story follows Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety. He unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who died by suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note. Moore will play the protagonist’s mother.

Steven Levenson, who wrote the book for the stage musical, penned the script, and Benj Pasek and Justin Paul wrote the music and original lyrics for the musical and film. Stephen Chbosky will direct, and Marc Platt and Adam Siegel will produce for their Universal-based Marc Platt Productions.

Universal’s SVP Production Sara Scott and director of development Lexi Barta will oversee production on behalf of the studio.

Moore most recently was seen in the Sony Pictures Classics dramedy After the Wedding and next can be seen as Gloria Steinem in Amazon’s The Glorias. She also appears opposite Amy Adams in the Netflix pic Woman in the Window and has the Apple+ TV series Lisey’s Story.

She is repped by WME, Management 360 and Edelstein, Laird & Sobel.

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‘Social Distance’: Cast For Netflix Quarantine Anthology Series From Jenji Kohan & Hilary Weisman Graham

Set in the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Social Distance is an eight-part anthology series that showcases the power of the human spirit in the face of uncertainty and isolation. Each standalone episode is told through a virtual lens and captures the unique emotional experience of being forced apart by circumstance and having no choice but to communicate remotely and rely on technology to maintain any sense of connection. Through these varied and deeply human stories, Social Distance aims to provide some much-needed catharsis during a tumultuous time while also capturing a snapshot of this singular moment in history.

The project was conceived, cast and executed entirely remotely during quarantine. The writers never meet during the writing process, Diego Velasco directs talent remotely, Weisman Graham runs production from her living room and the cast acts and films themselves from home. Some of the actors’ real-life relatives also guest star in the series.

“Many of these stories required casting actors who were quarantined with other actors. That hurdle seriously hindered our options and so casting non-actors was sometimes essential,” said Weisman Graham on the decision to cast actors’ family members. “It was definitely a roll of the dice, but thankfully, we were thrilled to discover that talent really does breed talent. These family members may not have had aspirations to be in front of the camera when we first started, but they should all quit their day jobs immediately.”

Weisman Graham, who also serves as showrunner, executive produces with Tara Herrmann, Blake McCormick and Kohan. Diego Velasco, who directed an episode of Orange Is the New Black and is working with Kohan on her upcoming series Teenage Bounty Hunters is directing and will co-EP.

Social Distance cast members include (in no particular episodic order):

Danielle Brooks (Orange Is the New Black) with real-life mother LaRita Brooks and brother DJ Brooks; Marsha Stephanie Blake (When They See Us) with real-life daughter Rocco Luna; Misha Brooks; Isabella Ferreira (Love, Victor)

Oscar Nunez (The Office); Daphne Rubin-Vega (In the Heights) with real-life husband Tom Costanzo and son Luca Costanzo; Guillermo Diaz (Scandal); Miguel Sandoval (Station 19); Camila Perez (Gotham); Olli Haaskivi (Manifest); Giana Aragon

Mike Colter (Luke Cage); Okieriete Onaodowan (Hamilton); real-life spouses Heather Burns (Bored to Death) and Ajay Naidu (Office Space); Shakira Barrera (GLOW); Steven Weber (13 Reasons Why) with real-life son Jack Hohnen-Weber; Helena Howard (Don’t Look Back)

Asante Blackk (When They See Us) with real-life father Ayize Ma’at; Lovie Simone (The Craft)

Max Jenkins (Dead to Me); Brian Jordan Alvarez (Will & Grace); Peter Vack (Love Life); Rana Roy (Life Sentence)

Peter Scanavino (Law & Order: SVU) with real-life son Leo Bai-Scanavino (Peter’s son); Ali Ahn (The Path); Tami Sagher (Orange Is the New Black); Barbara Rosenblat (Orange Is the New Black); Michael Mulheren (Rescue Me)

Real-life spouses Becky Ann Baker (Girls) and Dylan Baker (The Good Wife); Sunita Mani (GLOW); real-life spouses Raymond Anthony Thomas (The Hoop Life) and Marcia Debonis (Orange Is the New Black)

Kylie Liya Page (Friends From College); Lachlan Watson (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina); David Iacono (Grand Army); Will Meyers (The Village); Niles Fitch (This Is Us); Ava Demary (FBI).

Live Chat with The Simon Family 9/2/20

Kate Linder Invites You to a Virtual Tea Party With Y&R Stars

Linder will be joined by co-host Christian LeBlanc (Michael) and Y&R co-stars Tracy Bregman (Lauren), Sharon Case (Sharon), Mark Grossman (Adam), Elizabeth Hendrickson (Chloe), Bryton James (Devon), Beth Maitland (Traci), Brytni Sarpy (Elena), and Michelle Stafford (Phyllis). The Q&A session with the stars will be free for everyone to watch but fans can support March of Dimes Canada in two ways. First, you can donate $20 by midnight on Monday, Aug. 31, and submit your question to the actor of your choice. Second, there is an online auction for exclusive items that begins on Monday, Sept. 7, and ends one hour after the event concludes. You can find all the details at the link to the event above.

Originally, this year’s OpportuniTea event was to be held in Calgary in April and rescheduled to the fall due to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. The in-person event has been tentatively moved to Spring 2021, but you can still enjoy this virtual fan event in October… and you don’t have to worry about traveling to Canada! (marchofdimes.akaraisin.com/ui/OpportuniTeaOnline2020)

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'The Haves And The Have Nots’: Return Date & Teaser For Tyler Perry’s OWN Drama

Check out the midseason teaser above.

Summer Premiere Dates 2020: Here’s What’s On As Lockdown Starts To Lift

So what to expect as Season 7 continues after the long hiatus? More revenge, deceit, betrayal, decadence and destruction as the Cryer, Harrington and Young families fight for their very existence, leaving the lives of every character forever changed.

Perry created, writes, directs and executive produces The Haves and the Have Nots, which stars John Schneider, Tika Sumpter, Angela Robinson, Renee Lawless, Crystal Fox, Peter Parros, Tyler Lepley, Gavin Houston and Aaron O’Connell.

Perry’s Sistas and The Oath, which are filmed at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, were among the first to U.S. series to resume production with coronavirus-mandated safeguards in place.

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‘With/In’: Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, Sanaa Lathan, Rebecca Hall, Chris Cooper & More Star In Anthology Movie Inspired By Lockdown; CAA & UTA Rep Sales

Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray’s newly rebranded Maven Screen Media (American Honey) is in production on the two-hour feature, which is a collection of short films made during lockdown by a slew of top actors and directors. Scroll down for the full list of participants.

The project was initiated when Maven and Emmy-winning writer-producer Margaret Nagle (Boardwalk Empire) asked actor-director families and friends to come up with stories about life stuck inside. Storylines include a couple stuck together after a one night stand, kids scheming to run away from their paranoid dad, a divorced couple isolating together for the sake of their dog, and a widow dealing with her grief.

It was filmed using shared equipment, with DP Zach Kuperstein and sound consultant Dan Bricker advising remotely through Zoom. Oscar-nominated editor Tariq Anwar (American Beauty, The King’s Speech) is editing.

Maven partners Rattray and Styler produced with Peter and Michael Sobiloff. Nic Marshall and Jenny Halper oversaw production for Maven. CAA and UTA are handling worldwide sales, with principal photography ending imminently. A portion of the proceeds are earmarked for Feeding America and their response to Covid.

“We wanted to explore what isolation means to different people, and asked a handful of artists whose work we really admire,” Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler said in a joint statement. “What they came up with, to our delight, were stories about human connection that were powerful and funny and very different. Our plan is to continue to tell these stories, and to capture a moment in time that is continuing to change.”

Margaret Nagle added: “This moment is collectively bigger than we are and we wanted to capture that. The stories carry themes of love, loss, redemption, hope and transition told through the lens of these artists. The world has been altered so radically in such a short period of time and we wanted to explore creativity within the barriers of confinement and create new forms of storytelling.”

Maven, which recently wrapped Keira Knightley feature Silent Night and A Mouthful Of Air with Amanda Seyfried and Paul Giamatti, has recently rebranded from Maven Pictures to Maven Screen Media.

Rattray explained the name change to us: “Maven Screen Media is a new chapter for Trudie and myself. We will be producing content across film, TV and digital but with a strong push into TV and digital. We will be working far more with UK writing and directing talent, which we are thrilled about based on the extraordinary talent here, and we will be shooting more in the UK and hiring here.”

The With/In filmmakers and cast include:

– Nuts, Directed by Chris Cooper, Written by Marianne Leone, starring Marianne Leone and Chris Cooper

– Neighborhood Watch, Written and Directed by Sam Nivola, starring Emly Mortimer, Alessandro Nivola, May Nivola and Sam Nivola

– One Night Stand, Written and Directed by Griffin Dunne, starring Griffin Dunne and Zonia Pelensky

– Touching, Directed by Jonathan Cake and Julianne Nicholson, Written by Jonathan Cake, starring Julianne Nicholson, Jonathan Cake, Iggy Cake, Phoebe Cake

– Mother!! Directed by Morgan Spector and Maya Singer, Written by Maya Singer, starring Rebecca Hall, Morgan Spector and Maya Singer

– Coco and Gigi, Written and Directed by Rosie Perez, starring Rosie Perez and Justina Machado

– In the Air, Written and Directed by Bill Camp and Elizabeth Marvel, starring Bill Camp, Elizabeth Marvel and Silas Camp

– Her Own, Written and Directed by Arliss Howard, starring Debra Winger and Arliss Howard

– Twenty Questions, Written and Directed by Sebastian Gutierrez, starring Carla Gugino and Adrianne Palicki

– Shell Game, Written and Directed by Gina Gershon, starring Gina Gershon

– I’m Listening, Directed by Mickey Sumner, Written by Portia Alen-Buckley and Mike Lindley, starring Mickey Sumner and Trudie Styler

– Leap, Directed by Sanaa Lathan, Written by Margaret Nagle, starring Sanaa Lathan and Lucy Punch

– Intersection, Written and Directed by Bart Freundlich, starring Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, Talia Balsam, Taj Swaminathan-Sipp.

Julianne Moore once moved homes after finding a drunken stranger on her couch

East End sources recounted to Page Six that the Oscar winner’s previous Hamptons abode was a humble 1,000-square-foot cottage with three bedrooms, which she bought with director husband Bart Freundlich for just over $1 million in 2007. We hear that Moore didn’t mind that some friendly fans were known for popping by the address to try and spot the star, who eventually put the property on the market in 2015 for about $3.5 million.

Sources said that the last straw was when Moore one morning found a drunken female stranger crashing on her couch, who’d apparently been overserved at one of Montauk’s nearby hot spots. Moore and her family then decamped for a much more private property — complete with a gated driveway surrounded by 10-plus acres of land in a secluded enclave. Her new neighborhood includes Andy Warhol’s former oceanfront estate, Eothen, which quietly was put up for sale in May for $65 million by art collector and dealer Adam Lindemann. The Post reported celebs have been circling.

Moore and Freundlich have been seen out in Montauk at a Black Lives Matter protest, where Moore wore a camo jacket, and the couple held a homemade poster. She also appeared in the cringy, publicly mocked celeb video on white privilege, “I Take Responsibility,” with Sarah Paulson, Aaron Paul, Kesha, Justin Theroux, Debra Messing and Bryce Dallas Howard.

Moore recently starred with Alec Baldwin in a virtual reading of “Same Time, Next Year,” directed by Bob Balaban, to benefit East Hampton venue Guild Hall. She also appeared in another benefit reading, of Peter Hedges’ play “Good as New,” for MCC Theater.

Her rep did not get back to us.

Spencer Grammer Recovering After Slashing Attack In New York City

Grammer is best known for her roles as the voice of Summer Smith in the Adult Swim animated science fiction series Rick and Morty and as Casey Cartwright in the ABC Family college comedy-drama series Greek. She is the daughter of actor Kelsey Grammer and his first wife, Doreen Alderman.

On Friday, she was at The Black Ant, an outdoor cafe in New York City, when trouble found her. A man who appeared intoxicated came to the venue near closing time and demanded to be served. Things escalated when he was refused service.

“My friend and I did what anyone else would do in the same situation,” Grammer said. “Several others, predominantly women, were also attempting to prevent the altercation from escalating,” she said to Us Weekly. The man responded by slashing her with a knife and stabbing one of her friends.

“I sustained a laceration on my arm, and my friend was stabbed in the back, but thankfully he suffered no serious internal injuries. We expect to recover quickly. We want to thank the first responders and the staff at Bellevue Hospital, who provided us with excellent care. They fought an incredible battle this year. It was very moving for us to have the opportunity to thank them in person.”

The man ran away and has not yet been apprehended.

Kelsey Grammer Daughter Spencer Slashed ... By Knife-Wielding Wacko

Law enforcement sources confirmed the scary incident went down late Friday night at a place called The Black Ant in the East Village -- which was about to close up shop right before midnight as some guy -- whom witnesses described to cops as seemingly drunk -- walked up and demanded entry ... only to be turned away by the staff.

We're told that sent the guy into a rage, because he whipped out a blade and started hacking away in a full-on brawl with guests and employees. During the mayhem, we're told Spencer and a friend of hers were 2 of the victims who got slashed as the man raged.

Our sources say Spencer and her friend were actually among some of the people trying to pry the maniac off people, and as a result they suffered gashes ... Spencer to her arm and the friend to her back. They were taken to a hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

We're told the man fled by foot and cops are investigating. BTW, in case you're unfamiliar with Spencer -- you probably know her voice ... she plays Summer Smith on 'Rick & Morty.'

Just another crazy day in the time of 'rona -- and it goes to show ... even celebs and their kin can fall victim to the madness. The New York Post broke the story. Get well, Spence.

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Phyllis Somerville Dies: ‘The Big C’, Broadway’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Actress Was 76

Her death was announced by her manager Paul Hilepo.

Born in Iowa City, Iowa, and soon developing a longstanding desire to move to New York City to become a Radio City Rockette, Somerville was cast in her first Equity job after college when she scored a role at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. The job was the first in a long line of stage credits, including roles in Over Here on Broadway, The Spitfire Grill at Playwrights Horizons Off Broadway, Happiness at Lincoln Center, Night Mother national tour, and various other theater productions.

Most recently, Somerville appeared on Broadway in the original cast of Aaron Sorkin’s 2018 adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird. In a relatively brief but fiercely performed and scene-stealing role, Somerville played Atticus Finch’s elderly, cantankerous and racist neighbor Mrs. DuBose.

Somerville’s film credits began with 1981’s Arthur and would reach into the new century with 2006’s Little Children, 2008’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and 2019’s Poms.

Her television roles likely gave Somerville her greatest exposure as an actress, with memorable performances in Showtime’s The Big C, Netflix’s House of Cards and, most recently, CBS’ Madam Secretary, The Good Wife, Blue Bloods and Elementary, and on NBC’s The Blacklist and Night Shift.

Somerville returned to Netflix playing opposite Vincent D’Onofrio in the first season of Daredevil, and opposite Jane Fonda and Robert Redford on Our Souls At Night. She recurred on the WGN network playing Lady Ray on The Outsiders, and featured in Hulu’s Castle Rock.

Other credits include Lateline, NYPD Blue, Life on Mars, Lucky You, Forgetting the Girl, Stoker, The Double, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Mare of Easttown. She also did stints on soaps Guiding Light, Loving and One Life To Live.

Somerville was a member of Off Broadway’s Labyrinth Theatre Company and, according to manager Hilepo, “loved doing the kids’ plays at the 52nd Street Project,” where “she once got to play a New York Yankee.”

“So she’d been a Yankee and she’d been a New Yorker for over 45 years,” he said, “but Ms. Somerville was never a Rockette.”

Download the Emmys App to Watch Past, Present, and Future Shows!

“Television programming and its underlying technology have each gone through immense change over the more than seven decades the Emmys have recognized excellence in both facets of our industry,” said Adam Sharp, NATAS President & CEO. “Our awards have adapted through each of these transitions. Working with Vimeo, we now bring our celebration of this dynamic community of creators to all of the devices the audience uses to watch the television programming they love.”

The platform will allow fans to watch behind the scenes interviews, clips of memorable moments, and past Emmy ceremonies. Plus, you’ll be able to watch the upcoming shows live as they happen, because this year’s Daytime Emmys were split up into multiple shows to separate out the categories. Here’s what’s coming up:

Sunday, July 19, at 9 p.m. ET: The 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards – Digital Dramas
Sunday, July 26, at 8 p.m. ET: The 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards – Children’s, Lifestyle, and Animation
Tuesday, August 11, at 8 p.m. ET: The 41st Annual Sports Emmy Awards
September 2020: The 41st Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards

The app is completely free and all you have to do is sign up. Watch The Emmys is available on the web, as well as for iOS, Android, Amazon FireTV, and Roku.

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Jordana Brewster Files for Divorce

The "Fast and the Furious" star filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court last week to divorce film producer Andrew Form after more than 13 years of marriage.

Jordana and Andrew tied the knot way back in May 2007 in a super-private wedding ceremony on Nevis Island in the Caribbean. They dated for two months before getting married, meeting on the set of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning." Jordana starred in that movie, which Andrew produced.

It's not clear what led to the split, but Jordana and Andrew reportedly separated earlier this year and it's said to be amicable.

The estranged couple will have to settle child custody and/or support issues --- they have two young sons, 6-year-old Julian and 4-year-old Rowan.

We reached out to reps for Jordana and Andrew ... so far, no word back.

Tonya Pinkins’ Thriller ‘Red Pill’ Puts A Frightening Lens On The 2020 Election

Written, directed, produced and starring Tony award-winning actress Pinkins, Red Pill has nothing to do with The Matrix, where a physical red pill is taken to reveal unpleasant truths. Based on the teaser trailer above for Red Pill, the title refers to someone who infiltrates a group and destroys them from the inside. The political thriller sets itself as a wake-up call as about American politics, putting a haunting spotlight on the weaponization of Whiteness and White Supremacy as well as the waves of “Beckys” and “Karens” calling the police on Black people for simply being Black.

Red Pill is set days before the 2020 election as a group of progressive canvassers of all races drive to Virginia to get out the vote. As soon as they cross the state line it is clear they are not welcome. Distressing clues indicate that they should get out of their rental house while the getting is good. They decide to stay, armed with their heart, humor and naiveté — but what they really need is heavy artillery.

“I wrote my own personal Get Out,” said Pinkins, “#Uprising2020 is White people waking up to the world Black and Brown folks have always known. Black women are intimately familiar with ‘Becky’ and ‘Karen,’ White women, who on the low end of the spectrum treat us as invisible, and on the high end weaponize their whiteness and sometimes cost us our lives. Red Pill‘s #Karengonewild is a dose of what’s coming to America if liberal Whites don’t wake up.”

Pinkins stars in the film alongside Rubén Blades (Fear the Walking Dead), Catherine Curtain (Orange is the New Black, Stranger Things, Homeland), Kathryn Erbe (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Colby Minifie (The Boys, Fear the Walking Dead), Luba Mason (Person of Interest, NYPD Blue), Jake O’Flaherty (Criminal Minds, Shameless) and Adesola Osakalumi.

Watch the teaser for Red Pill above.

Forrest Compton, ‘Gomer Pyle’ Actor, Dies of Coronavirus Complications at 94

Compton died Sunday, according to a report in the Shelter Island Reporter.

As Col. Gray, Compton regularly chewed out Frank Sutton’s Sgt. Vince Carter on Gomer Pyle, which aired on CBS from 1964-69. This, of course, often came after Sutton had abused his favorite private, Gomer (Jim Nabors).

Compton was the third actor to play former cop and crusading Monticello district attorney Mike Karr on The Edge of Night, starring on the CBS-ABC serial from 1971 until the show’s cancellation in 1984. He later appeared on two other soaps, As the World Turns and All My Children.

Raised in Reading, Pennsylvania, Compton served with the 103rd Infantry Division in France during World War II and studied acting at the Yale Drama School, where one of his classmates was Paul Newman.

He went on to work on such shows as Death Valley Days, Route 66, The Twilight Zone, 77 Sunset Strip, My Three Sons, That Girl, Mannix, The F.B.I. and Ed.

Maximilian B. Bryer, Director of Soap Operas and Commercials, Dies at 98

A onetime vice president at advertising agency Benton & Bowles, where he oversaw West Coast television production, Bryer also directed and produced commercials for such products as Charmin (featuring the character Mr. Whipple), Pampers and Canada Dry and other spots featuring the likes of Red Skelton, Angie Dickinson, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Richard Burton and Joan Collins.

After leaving Benton & Bowles in the late 1970s, he started his own company and won a contract with Sanyo home entertainment devices to make commercials starring singer Susan Anton. He also helmed a documentary tied to the 50th anniversary of the Academy Awards.

Born on Jan. 21, 1922, in Flint, Michigan, Bryer served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. He broke into television as a floor manager for the DuMont network in New York and directed at CBS before joining Benton & Bowles in 1952.

Survivors include his wife of 52 years, Judith; daughters Samantha and Victoria; and grandsons Benjamin and Nathan.

A funeral is set for July 17 at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City. Contributions in his memory can be made to St. Baldrick's Foundation, which funds cancer research for children.

Tonya Pinkins Joins Soap Stars for Online Reading of One-Act Plays Presented by The National Arts Club

As a television writer, Sickles has received five consecutive Writers Guild of America Awards for the daytime drama General Hospital, as well as seven Emmy Award nominations for that series and One Life to Live. His plays have been performed across the United States as well as internationally, and his work recognized with numerous awards including the New York Innovative Theater Award and the Beverly Hills Theater Guild/Julie Harris Playwriting Award.

Director Brekeller has worked extensively in the soap opera world on both coasts, winning multiple Daytime Emmy Awards, most recently in May 2019 as part of the directing team at CBS's The Young and the Restless. He received a 2016 New York Innovative Theater award for Outstanding Direction of Sickles' Composure at the Workshop Theater.

The Plays

The Greater and Lesser Edmunds: Gideon is meeting his half-brother Augie. They have met only once before, at their father's funeral...a father who kept two families at the same time. Gideon thinks he knows what Augie wants. Gideon is wrong.

Persephone: Helena gave up her daughter Persephone at birth. Today, they meet for the first time. It is going really well. Or at least it was...

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Apple & A24 Team For Julianne Moore Con Artist Feature ‘Sharper’

Apple scored Sharper, written by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka, in a competitive situation. Moore will produce Sharper with Bart Freundlich, Gatewood, Tanaka and Erik Feig of Picturestart.

Moore’s upcoming Apple TV+ limited series Lisey’s Story reps her first project with Apple. Based on Stephen King’s 2006 bestselling novel, and executive produced by King, Moore and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. TV, Lisey’s Story follows Lisey (Moore) two years after the death of her husband (Clive Owen). A series of events causes Lisey to begin facing certain realities about her husband that she had repressed and forgotten. Joan Allen is playing Amanda, the oldest of Lisey’s sisters. King wrote every episode of the series and Pablo Larraín is directing.

Sharper follows upcoming Apple-A24 releases as Sofia Coppola’s Bill Murray and Rashida Jones dramedy On the Rocks and Josephine Decker’s The Sky Is Everywhere. Deadline broke the news about Apple acquiring Sony’s Tom Hanks WWII movie Greyhound which is set to premiere on July 10. Apple also has the Sundance 2020 Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary Boys State with A24 as the distribution partner on the film.

Gatewood and Tanaka co-wrote the 2011 Jonah Hill comedy The Sitter and co-created the Amazon action comedy series Comrade Detective starring Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as well as the NBC comedy series Animal Practice. Both Gatewood and Tanaka were consulting producers on the NBC comedy series Superstore, and EPs on Showtime’s comedy series Dice.

Moore stars in the upcoming Roadside Attractions feature The Glorias as Gloria Steinem, alongside Alicia Vikander, Bette Midler, Janelle Monae and Lulu Wilson. The feature made its world premiere at Sundance in January. Moore also stars in Joe Wright’s upcoming Amy Adams 20th Century Studios drama The Woman in the Window.

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Mel Winkler Dies: ‘Doc Hollywood’, ‘Oswald’ Actor Was 78

His death was announced by family spokesperson Courtney Benson.

Winkler made his Broadway stage debut in 1968’s The Great White Hope, appearing in several productions thereafter before taking the role of Seth Holly in 1988’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson. His final Broadway role was in 1997’s Proposals, written by Neil Simon and directed by Joe Mantello.

Winkler appeared in such films as Doc Hollywood (1991), All the Right Moves (1983) and Devil in a Blue Dress (1995). After a 1969 stint on daytime’s The Doctors, he appeared steadily in episodic TV roles from the 1970s through the early 2000s, including such series as The Cosby Show, The Young Riders, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Star Trek: Voyager, Touched by an Angel, NYPD Blue, The Hughleys and The Shield.

As a voice actor, Winkler played Lucius Fox in The New Batman Adventures (1997) and Johnny Snowman in Oswald (2001). He voiced the guardian mask Aku Aku in the Crash Bandicoot series of video games in the early 2000s.

Born in St Louis, MO, Winkler is survived by sons Maury and Mark, and four granddaughters.

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Julianne Moore, Kristen Bell, Sarah Paulson And More Encourage White People To Call Out Racism In NAACP’s #ITakeResponsibility Campaign

#ITakeResponsibilty kicked off today with a forward PSA featuring Julianne Moore, Kristen Bell, Sarah Paulson, Aaron Paul, Aly Raisman, Bethany Joy Lenz, Bryce Dallas Howard, Debra Messing, Ilana Glazer, Justin Theroux, Kesha, Mark Duplass, Piper Perabo and Stanley Tucci as they took responsibility for the ways they’ve perpetuated racism through silence or inaction, and their commitment to support organizations that fight for the rights of oppressed communities.

“It’s critical that we understand and accept that racism is a white people problem…a problem that, collectively, we need to look to ourselves to fix,” Platzner, Partner and Vice Chairman, Confluential Content tells Deadline. “I had never seen it quite that way before. Recent events in this country have shown us that we need to take a different approach if we’re to be impactful. That’s what led me to create this effort.”

He adds, “We are in an industry with the power and capability to drive change, internally and externally. This PSA is how we can begin a conversation among ourselves to achieve results, while at the same time standing up for our black friends and family. Each of us need to start taking responsibility for this role in our daily lives. With everything going on it didn’t feel right sitting on the sidelines.”

As the hashtag suggests, the campaign is inviting others to take responsibility and stand in solidarity with the Black community and make their own videos. In addition, the PSA urges people to donate to the NAACP, Black Lives Matter and the Bail Project.

Watch the PSA above.

Jordana Brewster reportedly splits from husband Andrew Form

The pair — who are parents to sons Julian, 6, and 3-year-old Julian — “quietly separated” earlier this year, a source told the outlet, noting the split was “amicable.”

Reps for Brewster, 40, and Form, 48, did not immediately return our request for comment.

Brewster met Form in 2005 while working on “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.” Form served as one of the film’s producers. Two years later, they wed on Nevis Island.

“We started dating in secret — you know, hanging out in my trailer — because it would have been unprofessional otherwise,” Brewster told InStyle Weddings of her relationship. “But every day, Andrew wore these work boots to the set, and if I was lying down in the shot or there was equipment in the way, I’d look for his shoes. It was comfortable just to know he was nearby.”

In 2013, Brewster and Form welcomed son Julian via surrogate. Son Rowan arrived three years later, also via surrogate.

Brewster opened up about surrogacy in 2015 during an interview with Yahoo Parenting.

“I didn’t really have a choice about being open, since it was obvious I wasn’t pregnant. And for me it wasn’t a choice, I needed to use a surrogate. But I didn’t feel judged, it’s more like I felt awkward,” Brewster previously said.

“Sometimes I feel a little left out when other moms talk about what their birth experience was like, and I feel the loss of not having carried or having been able to carry. But luckily I keep my circle tight and close, so I never feel judged,” she continued.

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'Vampire Diaries' Star Arrested for DUI ... Allegedly Peed In Jail Cell!!!

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... Zach was busted Sunday around 2:30 AM in Montpelier, Ohio. Police tell us, officers noticed Zach's pickup truck did not have a front license plate, so they pulled him over.

Our sources say when the officer went up to the driver's side window, cops noticed Zach's slurred speech and bloodshot eyes and say he reeked of booze.

We're told police conducted several field sobriety tests during which Zach told the officer, "This is very hard, I can't do this when I'm f***ing ..." and his voice trailed off. The cop asked what he meant, and we're told Zach replied, "When I can't have a beer."

Cops arrested Zach for misdemeanor DUI. When they took him to the station, our sources say he was placed in a holding cell, where he ended up peeing. Long night.

He was eventually released on his own recognizance, and his arraignment is set for June 4. We've reached out to Zach's camp for comment ... so far, no word back.

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Outmatched Cancelled at Fox

The now-cancelled series followed a blue-collar couple, Jason Biggs’ Mike and Maggie Lawson’s Kay, as they raised their four kids — three of whom are certified geniuses. In Outmatched‘s March finale, which drew an anemic 2.4 million viewers, it was revealed that their youngest daughter Leila — aka the lone “normal” kid out of this uber-brilliant brood — is also secretly a genius.

With Outmatched‘s fate decided, that leaves Prodigal Son as the lone remaining Fox scripted series on the bubble. The rookie drama is widely expected to return for a second season.

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‘Superman & Lois’: Wolé Parks To Play The Stranger In the CW Series Based On DC Characters

Written by Helbing, based on the DC characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Superman & Lois revolves around the world’s most famous superhero and comic books’ most famous journalist, played by Hoechlin and Tulloch, as they deal with all the stress, pressures and complexities that come with being working parents in today’s society.

Parks’ The Stranger is a mysterious visitor hellbent on proving to the world that it no longer needs Superman.

Helbing executive produces with Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Geoff Johns via Berlanti Productions. The drama, which was slated to film the pilot episode during regular pilot season before taking a break and resuming production on the rest of its 13-episode order in the summer, now will go straight into series production after all pilot production was suspended over the COVID-19 pandemic.

Best known for his series regular roles on Devious Maids and Next Caller, Parks recently booked a lead role in the upcoming Netflix feature Single All The Way opposite Michael Urie. He also heavily recurs on Yellowstone for Paramount TV and All American for the CW. Other TV credits include recurring roles on The Crossing, Superstore and Lifeline. On the feature side, he had a strong supporting role in the Weekend at Bernie’s remake as well as the hit movie Premium Rush opposite Joseph Gordon Levitt. Parks is repped by A3 Artists Agency and Luber Roklin Entertainment.

NBC News To Host Virtual Town Hall On Anti-Asian Sentiment During Coronavirus; Margaret Cho, Eugene Lee Yang And Lea Salonga Set To Appear

The town hall will examine the rise of racism against Asian Americans during the pandemic and what can be done on a legislative, nonprofit and individual level. Panelists include Judy Chu (Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Chair and US Representative, CA-27), Manjusha Kulkarni (Director of A3PCON), Grace Meng (CAPAC First Vice-Chair and US Representative, NY-6) and John Yang (Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice). NBC News Investigative and Consumer Correspondent Vicky Nguyen will moderate the discussion.

As of April 23, the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council’s Stop AAPI Hate, an open forum to report discrimination against Asian Americans, has received almost 1,500 incident reports of verbal harassment, shunning and physical assaults from across the country — and that number is growing.

“NBC Asian America has been at the forefront in covering the rise in bias incidents and crimes against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic,” said Jessica Prois, NBC Asian America editor. “This important town hall will focus on the data and offer ways that Americans can help, and our AAPI Frontline editorial series is an example of how we’re focusing on positive ways to counter hate.”

The town hall will be streamed on NBC Asian America’s site as well as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. The stream will also be available on Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new streaming service.

This discussion is even more relevant in May as it is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. In addition, NBC Asian America has published AAPI Frontline, a special editorial series highlighting various members of the Asian community that are fulfilling the role of essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

“United Against Hate” is the latest on a list of campaigns and panels that have been fighting to racism against Asians since Donald Trump said the words “Chinese virus”. Actor and author Maulik Pancholy, co-founder of Act to Change, a nonprofit that works to eradicate bullying in the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, has been holding virtual panels while Define American recently hosted “Building Solidarity For Black And Asian Communities Through COVID-19”. In addition, social media initiatives such as #WashTheHate, #HateIsAVirus, #RacismisaVirus, #becool2asians as well as the recently launched campaigns like #MakeNoiseToday and #UnapologeticallyAsian. have been gaining traction.

ATWT: Don Hastings and Kathryn Hays Reunion

Video: Daytime Cares Live Event

Video: As the World Turns - Reunion 5/8/20

The Ladies of "Loving" Reunion Chat

Daytime Cares: A Live Event Scheduled

The event can be viewed here and in addition to those mentioned above, will feature:

Lamon Archey (Eli, DAYS), Maurice Benard (Sonny, GH), Ian Buchanan (ex-Duke, GH et al), Crystal Chappell (ex-Carly, DAYS et al), James DePaiva (ex-Max, ONE LIFE TO LIVE et al), Kassie DePaiva (ex-Eve, DAYS et al), William deVry (Julian, GH), Chad Duell (Michael, GH), Andrea Evans (ex-Tina, ONE LIFE TO LIVE et al), Linsey Godfrey (Sarah, DAYS), Stacy Haiduk (Kristen, DAYS), Bill Hayes (Doug, DAYS), Susan Seaforth Hayes (Julie, DAYS), Finola Hughes (Anna, GH), Michael E. Knight (Martin, GH), Kyle Lowder (Rex, DAYS), Katelyn MacMullen (Willow, GH), Sofia Mattsson (Sasha, GH), Eric Martsolf (Brady, DAYS), Robert Newman (ex-Josh, GUIDING LIGHT), Wes Ramsey (Peter, GH), James Reynolds (Abe, DAYS), Melissa Reeves (Jennifer, DAYS), Scott Reeves (ex-Steven, GH et al), Emme Rylan (Lulu, GH), Michelle Stafford (Phyllis, Y&R), Paul Telfer (Xander, DAYS), Heather Tom (Katie, B&B), Jordi Vilasuso (Rey, Y&R), Cynthia Watros (Nina, GH), Maura West (Ava, GH), Josh Swickard (Chase, GH), Kim Zimmer (ex-Reva, GUIDING LIGHT)

As the World Turns Chat 5/8/20

Video: As The World Turns Chat 5/1/20

Video: Another World Reunion Chat

Another World Reunion 4/30/20

Video: As the World Turns / All My Children Chat 4/24/20

Don’t Miss a Special AS THE WORLD TURNS Reunion with Elizabeth Hubbard and Martha Byrne

Hubbard had brief stints as Anne on GUIDING LIGHT and Carol on THE EDGE OF NIGHT, then hit it big playing Dr. Althea Davis on THE DOCTORS, earning the very first Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Following that soap’s cancelation, the actress played Estelle on ONE LIFE TO LIVE for a bit before joining ATWT in 1984 as high-powered businesswoman Lucinda Walsh. Hubbard will reminisce about her career in daytime, and will also be joined by TV daughter Martha Byrne (Lily/Rose) for a fun-filled afternoon of memories!

Video: China Beach Reunion Chat

Lachlan Buchanan & Mark Collier guest on Station 19 5/7/20

”Station 19” stars Jaina Lee Ortiz as Andy Herrera, Jason George as Ben Warren, Boris Kodjoe as Captain Robert Sullivan, Grey Damon as Jack Gibson, Barrett Doss as Victoria Hughes, Jay Hayden as Travis Montgomery, Okieriete Onaodowan as Dean Miller, Danielle Savre as Maya Bishop and Miguel Sandoval as Captain Pruitt Herrera.

Guest starring are Chandra Wilson as Miranda Bailey, Jesse Williams as Jackson Avery, Jake Borelli as Levi Schmidt, Pat Healy as Chief Dixon, Lachlan Buchanan as Emmett Dixon, Stefania Spampinato as Carina DeLuca, Drew Rausch as John Finch, Jennifer Kim as Darcie, Peter Paige as Cooper, Rebekah Kennedy as Melly Wyatt, Mark Collier as Gary, Matthew Downs as Officer Reaser, Brenda Arteaga-Walsh as Officer Marinis and Peter Onorati as Snuffy.

”Bad Guy” was written by Kiley Donovan and directed by DeMane Davis.

As the World Turns / All My Children / GH Chat 4/24/20

Video: As The World Turns Chat 4/17/20

Tonya Pinkins guests on God Friended Me 4/26/20

GUEST CAST includes: Lonnie Chavis (C.J.), Carl Lumbly (Alphonse), Tonya Pinkins (Marsha).

New AS THE WORLD TURNS Online Reunion Scheduled

Video: Second AS THE WORLD TURNS Online Reunion!

Julianne Moore & Finn Wolfhard To Star In Jesse Eisenberg-Directed ‘When You Finish Saving The World’ Based On Audible Original; Emma Stone Producing

CAA Media Finance, which is arranging financing for the film, will rep world distribution rights. The mother-son story is inspired by Eisenberg’s upcoming Audible Original of the same name, which we can reveal is debuting this year.

The movie, whose precise plot details are being kept under wraps, will have a slightly different focus than the audiobook, which has been scripted by and stars Eisenberg. Set over three decades, the six-part audio show will follow three members of a family: Nathan, a father learning to connect with his newborn son; Rachel, a young college student seeking to find her place in a relationship and in life; and Ziggy, a teenager hoping to figure out where he came from, and where he’s headed. Wolfhard will also voice the show and Kaitlyn Dever is in talks to join.

The Social Network star Eisenberg most recently fronted wartime biopic Resistance, about the early years of iconic French mime artist Marcel Marceau. When You Finish Saving the World will mark the Oscar nominee’s feature directorial debut.

Moore most recently starred in Gloria Steinem biopic The Glorias and starred in and produced Sundance 2019 title After the Wedding. It star Wolfhard is in post-production on Ghostbusters: Afterlife, while Season 4 of Stranger Things is in production, though halted due to the coronavirus.

Oscar winner Stone stars with Eisenberg in hit comedy-horror franchise Zombieland. She is in post-production on Disney’s Cruella. Comedian and SNL writer-director McCary, Stone’s partner, previously directed Sundance pic Brigsby Bear.

Eisenberg is represented by CAA, Viewpoint and Felker Toczek. Moore is repped by WME and Management 360. Wolfhard is with CAA, manager Ryan Thompson and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Stone is repped by WME and Anonymous Content. McCary is with Mosaic.

Don’t Miss The Second AS THE WORLD TURNS Online Reunion!

This time around, the group is slated to consist of Ellen Dolan (Margo), Colleen Zenk (Barbara), Terri Conn (Katie), and Trent Dawson (Henry). Although as with the first live chat, there could be additional surprise guests, so check back for updates (or just log in on Friday and be surprised!).

Forrest Compton Dies Of COVID-19: ‘The Edge Of Night’, ‘Gomer Pyle’ Actor Was 94

According to the Shelter Island Reporter, close friends of Compton confirmed his death.

Compton was born on September 15, 1925, in Reading, Pennsylvania. He served with the 103rd Infantry Division in France during World War II and then went on to enroll in Swarthmore College where he studied pre-law and Political Science before shifting gears to English. He then started to act in school theater productions before he graduated and made his way to study acting at the Yale Drama School alongside his classmate, actor Paul Newman.

In addition to portraying district attorney Mike Karr on The Edge of Night, Compton appeared on the CBS series Gomer Pyle: USMC alongside Jim Nabors and Frank Sutton as the no-nonsense Lieutenant Colonel Edward Gray.

He went on to appear in popular soap operas As the World Turns, One Lie to Live and All My Children. He recurred on the NBC series The Troubleshooters and was appeared alongside Christopher Walken in the 1991 film McBain.

His other TV credits include The Twilight Zone, That Girl, My Three Sons, 77 Sunset Strip, Mayberry RFD, Mannix, Hogan’s Heroes among others.

Video: AS THE WORLD TURNS Cast Reunion

Don’t Miss a Special Live Chat With the Stars of AS THE WORLD TURNS

Michael Park (Jack), Martha Byrne (Lily/Rose), Maura West (Carly; now Ava on GENERAL HOSPITAL) and Kelley Menighan (Emily) are scheduled to be taking part in a live chat and there may even be some more actors joining in, so you definitely won’t want to miss it! (Naturally, we’ll let you know as more names are added to the list.)

So get your questions ready and check back here for a link to this very special live stream event. It’ll be just like tuning in at 2 in the afternoon to see your old friends in Oakdale!

'Ozark' Season 3: Tom Pelphrey Joins the Cast as Wendy's Brother, Ben

Who is ‘Ozark’ star Tom Pelphrey and what else has he been in?

Tom Pelphrey is an American actor who started his career in 2004 with the recurring role of Jonathan Randall on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light. Around the same time, he appeared on episodes of Numb3rs, Ghost Whisperer, and CSI: Miami.

In 2009, Pelphrey played the recurring role of Mick Dante on one season of As the World Turns. In the following years, the New Jersey native was featured on shows like The Good Wife, Body of Proof, Blue Bloods, The Following, Blindspot, Chicago P.D., and Black Box. in 2015, he portrayed Banshee deputy Kurt Bunker on the Action series, Banshee.

But Pelphrey’s most notable recent role was on Netflix’s Marvel series, Iron Fist. For two seasons, the actor played Danny Rand’s (Finn Jones) childhood friend Ward Meechum.

On ‘Ozark’ Pelphrey play’s Wendy’s brother, Ben

Pelphrey’s character on Ozark, Ben Davis, is a newcomer to the series. In an interview with ET, the actor admitted that he watched the entire first two seasons in one week, and was completely blown away by how “amazing” the show is.

“I really loved the world of it, all the anxiety and the violence and the surprises,” he said. “And yet, I was laughing the entire time as well. I think that’s a very hard balance to strike.”

He also told the outlet that he didn’t know much about his character when he first joined the series. But upon learning he would be playing the role of a bipolar man, he read books about the disorder to prepare.

“It wasn’t until I got down to Georgia to start filming, and a few before my first day of work, Chris Mundy, the showrunner, called me and sort of walked me through what this season would be, what the arc of the season was,” Pelphrey revealed. “He told me that Ben has bipolar disorder, so I thankfully got all that information before we started so I could go and do research and prepare myself and understand where things were going. So, I knew how to play things out.”

What’s in store for Ben and the Byrde’s this season?

On the last season of Ozark, Wendy briefly mentioned that her son, Jonah (Skylar Gaertner), might be like her brother Ben. But other than that, nothing much about the character was revealed.

This season, Ben’s first appears as a substitute teacher who blows up at his class when they share an inappropriate picture of a female classmate. He takes the students’ phones, throws them in a wood chipper, and then attacks its operator.

He later shows up at the Byrde’s casino and announces he’s come to stay with them for a while. But Wendy doesn’t seem thrilled about the unannounced visit. The family’s illegal business isn’t exactly prime for outside eyes, and having Ben in the picture could put them at risk.

Bailey Chase guests on The Rookie 4/12/20

“The Rookie” stars Nathan Fillion as John Nolan, Mekia Cox as Nyla Harper, Alyssa Diaz as Angela Lopez, Richard T. Jones as Sergeant Wade Grey, Titus Makin Jr. as Jackson West, Melissa O’Neil as Lucy Chen and Eric Winter as Tim Bradford.

Guest starring in this episode is Daniel Lissing as Sterling Freeman, Karen David as Det. Rita Calderon, Eve Harlow as Bianca Windle, Devan Chandler Long as Ripper and Bailey Chase as D.E.A. Agent Michael Banks.

“Control” was written by Alexi Hawley and Robert Bella, and directed by Marcus Stokes.

Colleen Zenk & Mark Pinter welcome granddaughter

The TV host said their fourth child arrived on Thursday afternoon as he praised “incredibly brave & selfless” medical staff for working amid the coronavirus pandemic.

He wrote: “Daly Planet Exclusive! Carson & Siri Daly (Hi! That’s us) along with proud siblings Jackson James (11), Etta Jones (7) and London Rose (5) are beyond thrilled to announce the arrival of Goldie Patricia Daly!”

The little girl — whose middle name is after Carson’s beloved late mom Pattie — has already been given the nickname “Go Go,” as Daly said she and mom are “doing great.”

Daly, also the host of NBC hit “The Voice,” added: “The Daly family wants to send a special shout out to the incredibly brave & selfless medical staff at our hospital in New York and also the many courageous people on the front lines of this dreadful virus.”

It appears that Daly was allowed to be with his wife despite strict guidelines over who can be in the room during delivery amid the virus outbreak, and he added: “We thank God not only for the safe birthday of our daughter, but for their tireless work attending to so many in need. It is a bittersweet event for us as we are extremely grateful, but also mindful of this unparalleled time in our history. We appreciate your well wishes and ask that you join us in praying for the many suffering around the world. God bless you all.”

Mom Siri is a regular on “Today” giving her recipe tips.

Bailey Chase guests on S.W.A.T. 4/1/20

GUEST CAST includes: Bailey Chase (Owen Bennett), Angela E. Gibbs (Othella Baker), Kathleen Munro (Alicia Baldwin).

Roselyn Sanchez guests on The Rookie 4/5/20

“The Rookie” stars Nathan Fillion as John Nolan, Mekia Cox as Nyla Harper, Alyssa Diaz as Angela Lopez, Richard T. Jones as Sergeant Wade Grey, Titus Makin Jr. as Jackson West, Melissa O’Neil as Lucy Chen and Eric Winter as Tim Bradford.

Guest starring in this episode is Ryan Seacrest as himself, Katy Perry as herself, Luke Bryan as himself, Lionel Richie as himself and Roselyn Sanchez as Valerie Castillo.

“The Overnight” was written by Rachael Seymour & Corey Miller and directed by Stephanie Marquardt.

Roscoe Born's Family Reveals Cause of Death, Calls For More 'Conversations Around Mental Illness'

“Roscoe has long struggled with bipolar disorder, a shadow that he succumbed to when he took his own life on Tuesday March 3, 2020,” read the family’s statement, which was posted on Facebook. “We are grateful for the outpouring of kind words and memories. We only wish that Roscoe could have seen how much people still carry his daytime villains in their hearts. May his death remind us of the importance of opening up conversations around mental illness. May those who need help seek it. May those who seek help receive it. And may it serve them.”

Born’s myriad daytime-TV roles included Ryan’s Hope‘s Joe Novak, Santa Barbara‘s Robert Barr and Quinn Armitage (for which he earned a Daytime Emmy nod in 1990), All My Children‘s Jim Thomasen, The City‘s Nick Rivers, Passions‘ Warden, The Young and the Restless‘ Tom Fisher and, last but not least, One Life to Life‘s super-nefarious Mitch Laurence.

If you’re thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, or would like emotional support, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline’s toll-free number: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

Soap Vet Roscoe Born Dead at 69

“It is with a heavy heart that I share the news of Roscoe Born’s passing,” friend and business partner Deanna Lynne shared on the Born Roscoe Songs Facebook page. “He was an incredibly talented actor and songwriter. Many who knew him know how dedicated he was to social and political causes. He will be missed forever.” After starting out his acting career with guest spots on series such as Joe Forrester, The Rockford Files and The Incredible Hulk, Born played reporter Mark Bailey on the ABC primetime sudser Paper Dolls.

From there, he dove into a long run of daytime-TV roles, including Ryan’s Hope‘s Joe Novak, Santa Barbara‘s Robert Barr and Quinn Armitage (for which he earned a Daytime Emmy nod in 1990), All My Children‘s Jim Thomasen, The City‘s Nick Rivers, Passions‘ Warden, The Young and the Restless‘ Tom Fisher and, last but not least, One Life to Life‘s super-nefarious Mitch Laurence.

A cause of death has not yet been disclosed.

Cornelius Smith, Jr. & Tonya Pinkins on God Friended Me 3/29/20

RECURRING CAST include: K.K. Moggie (Dr. Chang), Cornelius Smith, Jr. (Corey).

GUEST CAST include: Amy Acker (Tammy), Tonya Pinkins (Marsha).

Talk Show Appearance

Tuesday, March 3

Actor Steven Weber

Talk Show Appearance

Wednesday, March 4 — Jason Biggs

Bailey Chase & Obba Babatundé on S.W.A.T. 3/11/20

RECURRING CAST: Louis Ferreira (Buck Spivey), Obba Babatundé (Daniel Harrelson, Sr.), Deshae Frost (Darryl).

GUEST CAST includes: Laila Ali (Laila Ali), Bill Bellamy (Jackie Shaw), Bailey Chase (Owen Bennett).

Dishing with Digest - 2/21/20 - Martha Byrne

Van Hansis guests on FB! 3/10/20

GUEST CAST includes: Yasmine Aker (Mona Nazari), Roshawn Franklin (Agent Hobbs), Van Hansis (Todd Conroy).

Reach High Media Group Will Celebrate Retro Day 2020 By Releasing Subscriber-Based Interactive Platform For The Doctors

With the new platform launch, WatchTheDoctors and Reach High Media Group television network Retro TV will be the exclusive homes of the beloved daytime drama.

Joel Wertman, president of Reach High Media Group says, “Streaming options give us the opportunity to engage our audience more than ever before.

Our fans have the ability to watch, share and interact with the programming that they love in new, exciting ways.”

Beginning Feb. 27, viewers can subscribe online at WatchTheDoctors.com, through OTT (over-the-top) devices like Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and through their Android or iOS App Store. Subscriptions will include hosted trivia games on Wednesday and Saturday nights that will create opportunities to unlock exclusive original interview content.

Set in the fictional New England city of Madison, The Doctors was known for featuring cutting-edge storylines and received 17 Emmy Award nominations. The series ran for 20 seasons with cast alums including Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), daytime stars Kim Zimmer (Guiding Light) and Anna Stuart (Another World), Ted Danson (Cheers), Kathleen Turner (Peggy Sue Got Married) and Emmy Award-winning actress Elizabeth Hubbard (As the World Turns).

Tonya Pinkins guests on God Friended Me 5/8/20

GUEST CAST includes: Kara Royster (Emily), Tonya Pinkins (Marsha).

Former Head Of CBS Daytime Fred Silverman Dies

Silverman’s knack for identifying hit shows in the making and programming them into memorable primetime nights led Time magazine to crown him “The Man with the Golden Gut” in 1977.

Born on September 13, 1937, in New York City, Silverman’s master’s thesis at Ohio State University examined ABC’s television programming. He started his career at WGN-TV in Chicago and WPIX in New York City. The young Silverman so impressed the top executives at CBS that he was named head of CBS daytime programming at 25.

At CBS, Silverman was responsible for a new wave of highly popular shows, including The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H, The Waltons, Good Times, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, Kojak, Cannon, The Jeffersons, and the animated series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Additionally, he reintroduced game shows to the network’s daytime slate, including The Price is Right, which remains on air today.

After a successful run at CBS, he was named President of ABC Entertainment. He greenlit hit series including The Love Boat, Laverne & Shirley, Family, Donny & Marie, Three’s Company, Eight is Enough, The Bionic Woman, and Good Morning America. He reinvented the television miniseries with the highly rated Peabody and Emmy-award winning Roots. Under his watch, ABC quickly moved from third to first place in the network ratings wars.

In 1978, joined NBC as President. There he greenlit Hill Street Blues, supervised the launch of the miniseries Shogun, and gave David Letterman his first series as a host. He scheduled series including The Facts of Life, Diff’rent Strokes, Gimme a Break!, and Real People, and he also was credited with revitalizing NBC’s news division.

After decades as a television executive, Silverman turned his attention to production. He moved to Los Angeles to begin his own production company, quickly producing multiple hits, including the revival of Perry Mason as a TV movie series, Matlock, Diagnosis: Murder, Jake and the Fatman, and In the Heat of the Night, which won the 1990 NAACP Image Award for Best Dramatic Series.

In 1995, Silverman received the Women in Film Lucy Award, which recognizes excellence and innovation in creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 1999.

Silverman loved television—as a medium and as a profession. At the age of 21, he applied for his first job in television stating: “That an employee in the industry should treat his job, not just as a means of earning a living, but as a challenge, always looking to better that which has been done in the past; most important of all, such an individual must have a sincere interest and love for the profession.”

Silverman is survived by his wife, Cathy, their two children Melissa and Billy, and his daughter-in-law, Anna. A private service will be held for immediate family and a celebration of his life will follow at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions be made in his name to the Motion Picture & Television Fund (https://mptf.com/tributegift/) for emergency medical assistance.

Terri Conn Looks Back at Katie and Simon’s Epic Romance on AS THE WORLD TURNS

As the couple’s relationship evolved, Conn and leading man Paul Leyden got to play a lot of fantasy scenes. “It was so much fun getting to wear wigs and period pieces,” she shared. “Paul and I just loved it and hopped right in!”

Viewers loved the couple together, too, even though the characters didn’t always get along. “He didn’t actually want to be with her at the beginning,” Conn recalled, “but they fit together despite his best efforts not to.” From Katie’s perspective, the bad boy was simply impossible to ignore. “I mean, that accent, you know? You can’t not love that! And it was so much thicker at the beginning or after he would return from visiting Australia.’”

The chemistry between Conn and Leyden fueled the comedy that often accompanied their characters’ action scenes. The actress recalled that “the fans could feel it and wanted to be part of the fun.” Among her favorite memories is when the sparks really flew at a most unexpected time. Speaking in character, Conn reflected, “I was kidnapped in Malta at an opera, and we were both tied together — he had to get the key or something from my bra, and it was a very sensual scene.”

At least until things turned on a dime! “There were bad guys with guns because of Simon’s past [as a con man]… He thought, ‘I never fall in love because I can’t have a weakness’ — he was like a 007 — and that’s why it was so fun to watch him want to give up that life for love.”

At one point, Simon even married Katie to avoid being deported, but as she learned the hard way, he had a habit of going on walkabout. “He was tough to hold down… he was too much of a bird to keep in a cage, and she wasn’t adventurous enough to take off with him,” Conn suggested, adding that being raised on the road with her singer mom made Katie desperate for the comforts of home. “She’d never really had roots, so she was desperate for them.”

For more memories from your favorite ATWT stars, keep reading the CBS edition of Soaps In Depth magazine.

Barbara Garrick guests on Bull 2/10/20

GUEST CAST includes: Babak Tafti (Dr. Samir Shadid), Rebecca Wisocky (AUSA Lambert), Barbara Garrick (Cara Sutherland).

GENERAL HOSPITAL Actor Martin West Dead at 82

During West's run, Phil was presumed dead in a plane crash and returned as "Harold Williamson." Feeling he wasn't good enough for true love Jessie, Phil tried to find comfort with Diana Maynard, which led to quite a bit of back-and-forth as he bounced between the two women and children were born out of wedlock. Phil was killed off and Jessie was charged with his murder, though it was revealed that Augusta McLeod had actually killed him.

Following his time on GH, West moved over to play Don Hughes on CBS sudser AS THE WORLD TURNS in the late '70s. His television career also included roles on shows like PERRY MASON, GUNSMOKE, DALLAS, MATLOCK, and L.A. LAW. On the big screen, West could be seen in films like the cult classic Lord Love a Duck, John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot, and Mac and Me.

Moving to Westport, CT, in 1993, West became a member of the Theater Artists Workshop of Westport, acting and directing numerous productions and produced the documentaries A Gathering of Glory and Years in the Making about the history of arts in Westport and the artists who created it. From 1998, he was the life partner of Ann Chernow and is survived by three children, Jason Weixelbaum, Allie West, and Gabriel West along with his stepson, Paul Mend, and his sister, Gail Britt.

Our thoughts are with West's friends and family during this difficult time.

Judi Evans Thanks Fans For Support After Tragic Loss

Marisa Tomei Joins Jason Momoa In Revenge Film ‘Sweet Girl’

The pic is about a devastated husband (Momoa) who vows to bring justice to the people responsible for his wife’s death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter (Merced).

The screenplay was crafted by Gregg Hurwitz, Philip Eisner, and Will Staples. Brad Peyton and Jeff Fierson of ASAP Entertainment are producing with Momoa, Mendoza ,and Martin Kistler.

Tomei, who was just seen in ABC’s Live In Front Of A Studio Audience ‘All in the Family’ and ‘Good Times, recently completed her run on Broadway in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s The Rose Tattoo and wrapped production on the untitled Judd Apatow comedy with Pete Davidson.

She is repped by Untitled Entertainment and UTA.

Bailey Chase Joins Up With S.W.A.T. — to Lure [Spoiler] Away From the Team?

An alum of series such as Longmire and Saving Grace, Chase is set to recur during the back half of Season 3 as Owen, a well-connected former Army Ranger who is in the process of launching a high-end security firm, our sister site Deadline reports. In that pursuit, he will court Deacon (played by Jay Harrington) — who is seemingly forever-cash strapped (what now, the gutters need replacing??), and whose family has had more than their fill of S.W.A.T.-related drama — to join his firm.

In addition to his runs on Longmire and Saving Grace, Chase’s previous TV credits include Queen of the South, 24: Legacy, Twin Peaks: The Return, Damages, Watch Over Me and, going wayyyy back, a little show called As the World Turns.

S.W.A.T. will resume its third season on Wednesday, Jan. 8 at 10/9c, where for a medium-sized while it will lead out of Criminal Minds‘ farewell season.

New Soap Digital Series Set To Debut

Réal Andrews Undergoes Cancer Surgery

Andrews had turned his life around this year, entering alcoholics anonymous, being diagnosed and treated for bipolar disorder, and getting back in shape. The day before his surgery, the actor posted a selfie from the challenging Pico Stairs admitting it would be "our last workout for a while… 24 hours, 49 minutes 'til it is on. Let's go."

Just one week earlier, Andrews was at the doctor's for routine tests to get ready for the procedure and reported he was in "the best shape ever. Test results don't lie. I am ready for the fight."

We will continue to keep you updated on Andrews' condition as soon as he posts more updates about his recovery, so keep checking back.

Dishing with Digest - 12/13/19 - Wally Kurth

Bailey Chase Guest on S.W.A.T.

GUEST CAST includes: Michael Marc Friedman (Sergeant Becker), Bailey Chase (Owen).

Meg Ryan Sells Island Home for $9 Million!!! So Long Chappaquiddick

Our Massachusetts real estate sources tell us Meg just closed the deal to sell her 6,600-sq-ft crib for $9.125 million. She's been in the home -- which sits on just over 5 acres -- for about 10 years. We're told she bought it for about $6 million.

The spread has 7 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and isn't far from the water to the east and west. Translation: tremendous sunrise and sunset views from inside the home.

We know all you history buffs are wondering, so we Googled for ya. Meg's old place is less than 3 miles from the infamous Chappaquiddick bridge where Ted Kennedy crashed in July 1969.

Meg was repped in the sale by Tom LeClair and Gerrett Conover of Landvest. If those names sound familiar, it's because they're having a helluva week!

They also helped the Obamas close on their new $11.75 million estate on neighboring Martha's Vineyard.

We reached out to Gerrett and Tom about Meg's sale ... but they had no comment.

John Cena, Meredith Hagner, Lil Rel Howery To Star In ‘Vacation Friends’ Comedy From 20th Century Fox & Hulu

Todd Garner is producing the project under his Broken Road Productions label, which produced the recently released family comedy Playing with Fire, which starred Cena.

Vacation Friends is about a straight-laced couple that has fun with a rowdy couple on vacation in Mexico. When they return to the States, they discover that the crazy couple they met in Mexico followed them back home.

This project is a long time in the making as Fox had acquired the spec script from co-writing brothers Tom Mullen and Tim Mullen in a near seven-figure deal back in 2014. The initial plan was for Steve Pink to direct and then-married couple Chris Pratt and Anna Faris to star. At one point, Ice Cube was attached to star as well.

Cena’s upcoming film slate includes Fast & Furious 9, The Suicide Squad, Project X-Traction opposite Jackie Chan. Hagner, who recently appeared in Ike Barenholtz’s The Oath and the James Gunn-produced film Brightburn with Elizabeth Banks, will appear in Dummy, a serialized, movie-length project for Quibi. Howery is coming off the release of his HBO comedy special Lil Rel Howery: Live in Crenshaw and has a slew of films coming out next year including Universal’s The Photograph, Free Guy with Ryan Reynolds, Deep Water with Ben Affleck and Fatherhood opposite Kevin Hart.

Tarver, who co-wrote the 2001 Paul Walker-starring thriller Joy Ride with JJ Abrams, is repped by Artists First and WME.

Cena is repped by ICM Partners, Hagner by UTA and Suskin Management and Howery by UTA and Fourth Wall Management.

AARP Movies For Grownups Awards Nominations

Best Supporting Actor
Jamie Foxx, Just Mercy
Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

‘The Ultimate Playlist Of Noise’: Jake Weary, Ariela Barer, Oliver Cooper & More Board Hulu Movie

The plot, written by Mitchell Winkie, follows Marcus (Johnson), an audio obsessed high school senior who learns he must undergo brain surgery that will render him deaf. He decides to seize control of his fate by recording the Ultimate Playlist of Noise – a bucket list of all his favorite sounds. Once he sets out, he meets Wendy (Brewer), a wildly charming, struggling musician who is trying to escape to New York for her chance at a life-changing opportunity. Together they check off his list as they make their way across the country, until painful revelations force Marcus to face reality and his future without sound.

Skeggs will play Laura, Marcus’ best friend. Cooper is Dennis, a musician who plays at Trolley Studios, a worn-out recording studio in NYC. Barer will portray Sarah, who’s in a relationship with Laura. Weary’s character is Wendy’s manipulative ex-boyfriend, Benjie. Winarick will play Alex, Marcus’ older brother.

American High’s Jeremy Garelick, Will Phelps, Ryan Bennett, and Michael Schade are producing alongside Mickey Liddell and Pete Shilaimon of LD Entertainment.

Skeggs is repped APA and Anonymous Content; Barer by Innovative and Myrna Lieberman Management; Cooper by Grandview and Innovative.

Renée Elise Goldsberry & Jennifer Ferrin on Evil 12/5/19

GUEST CAST includes: Renée Elise Goldsberry (Renée Harris), Jennifer Ferrin (Judith Lemonhead).

Tonya Pinkins on Madam Secretary 11/24/19

GUEST CAST includes: Spencer Garrett (Alan Canning), Tonya Pinkins (Susan Thomas).

Tonya Pinkins on Madam Secretary 12/1/19

GUEST CAST includes: Spencer Garrett (Alan Canning), Tonya Pinkins (Susan Thomas).

Jordana Brewster Joins Jeffrey Dean Morgan In ‘Shrine’ Adaptation From Screen Gems

It’s about a disgraced journalist who discovers a series of seemingly divine miracles in a small New England town and uses them to resurrect his career, but the ‘miracles’ may have a much darker source.

Spiliotopoulos is producing with Ghost House’s Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert producing. Romel Adam will oversee production for Ghost House, while Scott Strauss and Michael Bitar will oversee on behalf of Screen Gems.

Brewster will return as Mia, a role she has filled since the beginning of the franchise, in Universal’s Fast & Furious 9. She also stars in the indie film Bailey & Darla with Brittany Snow and Sam Richardson. Her reps are CAA, Principal Entertainment LA, Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer.

Production will begin on Shrine in February. Romel Adam will oversee for Ghost House. Scott Strauss and Michael Bitar will oversee for Screen Gems.

‘Dash & Lily’: Five Set To Recur In Netflix’s Holiday YA Series From Shawn Levy & Nick Jonas

Based on the YA book series Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, the eight-episode holiday comedy revolves around cynical Dash (Austin Abrams) and optimistic Lily (Midori Francis). Trading dares, dreams and desires in the notebook they pass back and forth at locations all across New York City, they find they have more in common with each other than either expected.

McCuen will play Edgar Thibaud, a popular prep school boy from a privileged upbringing. Confident, flirtatious and sometimes oblivious, he’s a former bully who’s trying to reform.

Park is Gordon, Dash’s father, a world traveler who skis, sails and always manages to make his son feel small.

Emery will portray Adam, Lily’s father, a school administrator and works hard to shelter his children from the harsher realities of the adult world.

Ikeda is set as Grace, Lily’s mother, a poetry scholar who’s taught her daughter to find the beauty in everyday life.

Guevera plays Benny, the boyfriend of Lily’s brother Langston (Troy Iwata). He’s a compassionate romantic who encourages Lily to step out of her comfort zone.

Joe Tracz is writer, executive producer and showrunner for Dash & Lily. Levy and Josh Barry executive produce for 21 Laps and Jonas for Image 32. Cohn and Levithan co-executive produce.

Brad Silberling will direct and executive produce the first two episodes. Fred Savage and Pamela Romanowsky (Riverdale) also will direct.

Tonya Pinkins Guests on Madam Secretary 11/17/19

GUEST CAST includes: Tonya Pinkins (Susan Thompson), Amanda Warren (Olivia Mason)

‘Eastsiders’ Returns To Netflix For Fourth & Final Season; Premiere Date Set

Thanks to a Kickstarter campaign that raised over $140,000 from fans, Eastsiders, a co-production with Wolfe Video, will be back with a fourth season that picks up with the Silver Lake gang one year later. Executive produced by Williamson and his husband John Halbach, who also star, the six-episode Season 4 tackles heavy, adult-world questions like how do two human beings make love last? What does commitment really look like in a long-term relationship? And what unique challenges does a “gay marriage” present?

Cal (Williamson) and Thom (Van Hansis) are back home from Season 3’s cross-country road trip, still a couple but wondering if they are really just best friends with benefits. Douglas (Willam Belli) and Quincy (Stephen Guarino) are engaged to be married, but with very different ideas about what a gay wedding should be. Hillary (Brianna Brown) and Ian (Halbach) are cohabiting peacefully; and Jeremy (Matthew McKelligon) and Derrick (Leith M. Burke) have taken a huge step in their relationship by fostering a child.

New cast additions in Season 4 include Jake Choi (Single Parents) playing Thom’s editor Clifford, who makes him question the trajectory of his relationship; Hailee Sahar (Pose) and Tom Lenk (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as Derrick’s co-workers and confidantes at the hospital; Daniel Newman (The Walking Dead) guest starring as a playboy with a heart of gold; Lin Shaye (Insidious) as Quincy’s conservative mother, who he fears will judge Douglas for performing in drag; and Bryan Batt (Mad Men) making an appearance as Cal’s estranged father Richard, whose sudden return challenges Cal’s relationship with his mother Valerie, played by Traci Lords (Crybaby, Swedish Dicks).

Fall Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming: 2019 Edition

Drag Race alums Manila Luzon and Katya Zomoldova appear as members of Douglas’ all-star bridal party, with social media stars Max Emerson and Chris Salvatore (Eating Out) and Jai Rodriguez (Queer Eye) rounding out his production crew to document the ceremony and amplify his burgeoning Internet celebrity.

Additional guest stars include Brea Grant (Heroes), Satya Bhabha (Sense8), Jolly Abraham (Law & Order: SVU), Seth Daniel (Feral), adult film star Adam Ramzi, drag performers Marta Beatchu and Biqtch Pudding (Dragula), and social media stars Mark Kanemura (So You Think You Can Dance), RJ Aguiar, Andres Camilo, Rick Twombley-King and Griff Twombley-King.

Williamson is repped by Buchwald and More/Medavoy.

Billy Magnussen Boards HBO Max Series ‘Made For Love’ Based On Alissa Nutting Novel

In the 10-episode half-hour series Hazel discovers that her husband has already implanted a revolutionary monitoring device – the “Made for Love” – in her brain, allowing him to track her, watch her, and know her thoughts and feelings as she tries to stay alive. A dark, absurd, and cynically poignant story of divorce and revenge, this series is giving some serious Black Mirror energy, showing how far some will go for love, and how much further others will go to destroy it.

Patrick Somerville (Maniac, The Leftovers) will adapt the best-selling novel for TV and serve as showrunner. Nutting serves as co-creator of Made For Love and will executive produce alongside S.J. Clarkson (Collateral, Jessica Jones, Defenders) who is attached to direct and executive produce. The series will be produced by Paramount Television, Liza Chasin for 3dot Productions, and Dean Bakopoulos also executive producing.

Magnussen received a Tony Award nomination in 2013 for his role as Sigourney Weaver’s love interest in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. He can be seen in a forthcoming trio of high-profile projects including Bond flick No Time to Die, the forthcoming Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark and the historical boxing drama Harry Haft.

He is repped by Anonymous Content, WME, BRS/Gage Talent Agency, Rogers & Cowan and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.

Tamara Tunie on Emergence 11/19/19

“Emergence” stars Allison Tolman as Jo Evans, Alexa Swinton as Piper, Owain Yeoman as Benny Gallagher, Ashley Aufderheide as Mia Evans, Robert Bailey Jr. as Officer Chris Minetto, Zabryna Guevara as Abby Frasier with Donald Faison as Alex Evans and Clancy Brown as Ed Sawyer.

Guest starring is Terry O’Quinn as Richard Kindred, Maria Dizzia as Emily, Seth Barrish as Alan Wilkis and Tamara Tunie as Maria Wilkis.

“Fatal Exception” was written by Lindsey Allen and directed by Jessica Lowrey.

Jennifer Ferrin on GOD FRIENDED ME 11/17/19

GUEST CAST includes: T.R. Knight (Gideon), Jennifer Ferrin (Madeline)

Martin, Sánchez and Vega to host Latin Grammy Awards

Ignacio Serricchio & Tamara Tunie on Emergence 11/5/19

“Emergence” stars Allison Tolman as Jo Evans, Alexa Swinton as Piper, Owain Yeoman as Benny Gallagher, Ashley Aufderheide as Mia Evans, Robert Bailey Jr. as Officer Chris Minetto, Zabryna Guevara as Abby Frasier with Donald Faison as Alex Evans and Clancy Brown as Ed Sawyer.

Guest starring is Terry O’Quinn as Richard Kindred, Maria Dizzia as Emily, Ignacio Serricchio as Chase Knolls, Seth Barrish as Alan Wilkis and Tamara Tunie as Maria Wilkis.

“Mile Marker 14” was written by Nick Parker and directed by Sydney Freeland.

‘Mank’: Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, ‘Downton Abbey’s Tuppence Middleton & More Join David Fincher Pic

Joining previously announced Oscar winner Gary Oldman is Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Tuppence Middleton, Arliss Howard (The Time Traveler’s Wife), Charles Dance (Game Of Thrones), Ferdinand Kingsley (Dracula Untold), Jamie McShane (Gone Girl), Joseph Cross (Milk), Sam Troughton (Chernobyl), Toby Leonard Moore (Billions), Tom Burke (The Souvenir) and Tom Pelphrey (Iron Fist).

The project is a longtime-in-the-making for the two-time Oscar-nominated director, who will shoot the film in black and white with production starting next month. Based on a screenplay by the Gone Girl filmmaker’s late father, Howard “Jack” Fincher, Mank follows famed Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (played by Oldman), who co-wrote Citizen Kane with Welles and shared the Oscar win for best original screenplay.

Douglas Urbanski, Eric Roth, and Cean Chaffin are producing the project.

Mank reps Fincher’s first feature directorial since 2014’s Gone Girl. Fincher was nominated for directing 2010’s The Social Network and 2008’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Rachel Brosnahan, Travis Fimmel, Christina Ricci Among 9 Cast In Quibi Horror Anthology Series ’50 States Of Fright

The first season will explore stories based on urban legends from Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Oregon and Washington taking viewers deeper into the horrors that lurk just beneath the surface of our country.

Raimi and Debbie Liebling (Pen 15, Plus One) executive produce through POD 3 along with Van Toffler, Tony DiSanto, Cody Zwieg, Barry Barclay, Tommy Coriale and Chris Mangano.

Following are details of each episode with cast.

Brosnahan, Fimmel and Jones will star in “The Golden Arm” based on a famous urban legend out of Michigan, co-written by Sam Raimi and Ivan Raimi (Army of Darkness, Drag Me to Hell) and directed by Sam Raimi.

Ricci and Batalon will play lead roles in “Red Rum,” which follows the storyline of Colorado’s scariest story.

Wen will star in “America’s Largest Ball of Twine,” based on Kansas myth.

Farmiga and Livingston will co-star in “Almost There,” Iowa’s frightening folklore, which will be written and directed by Iowa natives Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (A Quiet Place, Haunt).

Butterfield is cast as the male lead in “Grey Cloud Island” a chilling tale from Minnesota.

“The driving force for us as a studio is to foster the careers of emerging talent by marrying them with proven innovators,” said Van Toffler, CEO, Gunpowder & Sky. “With 50 States of Fright we sought out a diverse group of breakthrough performers and fearless horror visionaries and partnered them with Sam Raimi to oversee the creative process. This winning formula ensures we’ll get a s-load of scares.” Additional writers/directors include: Yoko Okumura (Facets, Fed Up) to direct; Sarah Conradt-Kroehler (Out of Her Mind) to write; Mae Catt (Transformers: Cyberverse) to write; Isa Mazzei (CAM) & Daniel Goldhaber (CAM) to write and direct; Cate Devaney (Sinister, Deliver Us From Evil) to write and direct; Greg Hale (Avengers, Iron Man) to write; Ryan Spindell (Two Sentence Horror Series) to write and direct; Adam Schindler (Intruders, Delivery: The Beast With Within) and Brian Netto (Delivery: The Beast Within) to write and direct; Alejandro Brugués (Juan of the Dead, Nightmare Cinema) and Eduardo Sánchez (The Blair Witch Project, Queen of the South) to write and direct.

Audiobooks Narrated Soap Stars

A dazzling debut novel following the lives of three groundbreaking women - Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl - cinema legends who lit up the 20th century.

At a chance encounter at a Berlin soirée in 1928, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures three very different women together in one frame: up-and-coming German actress Marlene Dietrich, who would wend her way into Hollywood as one of its lasting icons; Anna May Wong, the world's first Chinese American star, playing for bit parts while dreaming of breaking away from her father's modest laundry; and Leni Riefenstahl, whose work as a director of propaganda art films would first make her famous - then, infamous.

From this curious point of intersection, Delayed Rays of a Star lets loose the trajectories of these women's lives. From Weimar Berlin to LA's Chinatown, from a bucolic village in the Bavarian Alps to a luxury apartment on the Champs-Élysées, the different settings they inhabit are as richly textured as the roles they play: siren, victim, predator, or lover, each one a carefully calibrated performance. And in the orbit of each star live secondary players - a Chinese immigrant housemaid, a German soldier on leave from North Africa, a pompous Hollywood director - whose voices and viewpoints reveal the legacy each woman left in her own time, as well as in ours.

Amanda Lee Koe's playful, wry prose guides the listener dexterously around murky questions of identity, complicity, desire, and difference. Intimate and clear-eyed, Delayed Rays of a Star is a visceral depiction of womanhood - its particular hungers, its oblique calculations, and its eventual betrayals - and announces a bold new literary voice.

A Walk In The Woods by Lee Blessing, narrated by Alfred Molina and Steven Weber (ex-Kevin, ATWT) (Order here)

An idealistic American diplomat locks horns with a mercurial Soviet negotiator during a series of conversations in the woods outside Geneva. As their mutual friendship and understanding deepens, an awareness that their work may ultimately be pointless casts a shadow over their hopes to achieve a lasting peace.

Includes a post-play discussion with playwright Lee Blessing and UCLA Political Science professor Richard Anderson.

Lead funding for A Walk in the Woods is generously provided by The John Logan Foundation.

Recorded before an audience at UCLA's James Bridges Theater in January 2019.

Directed by Cameron Watson

Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg

Alfred Molina as Andrey Botvinnik

Steven Weber as John Honeyman

Associate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Senior Radio Producer, Ronn Lipkin. Production Manager, Rick V. Moreno. Editor, Julian Nicholson.

Hogan Sheffer Dies: Emmy-Winning ‘As The World Turns’ And ‘Y&R’ Writer Was 61

Sheffer went into cardiac arrest in 2014, and suffered a series of health problems up until his death last week from heart failure.

The veteran writer’s longtime manager, Brad Kramer, told Deadline Sheffer had a “huge heart” and always helped others.

“I met Hogan in 1993. I know I am speaking for countless others when I say Hogan Sheffer will be dearly missed,” Kramer said. “Besides a brilliant creative mind, and the most generous huge heart, Hogan could always and did make you laugh until you were in tears. He would and did do anything to help others.”

Sheffer started out in the industry in the 1980s and worked at DreamWorks as director of screenplay development from 1997 to 2000, under producers Mark Johnson and Elizabeth Cantillon. He was in charge of developing screenplays for films such as My Dog Skip, Galaxy Quest, Home Fries, and What Lies Beneath.

He would later make the transition to daytime TV on As the World Turns, The Young and the Restless, and Days of Our Lives.

While Sheffer loved writing and developing feature films, he thrived on the intensity and year-round schedule of daytime TV, Kramer said.

Sheffer served as head writer on the CBS daytime drama As the World Turns. He led his team to four Emmys for Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team on the program in 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005.

He was also head writer on NBC’s Days of Our Lives from 2006 to 2007, and co-head writer on CBS’ Y&R for several years.

Tonya Pinkins on Madam Secretary 10/20/19

GUEST CAST: Tonya Pinkins (Susan Thompson), Amanda Warren (Olivia Mason).

Pa. soap opera scribe Hogan Sheffer, of ‘As The World Turns’ and ‘Young and the Restless’ fame, dies at 61

His death was confirmed on Facebook by friend and fellow soap opera writer Tom Casiello.

Sheffer, who was born in York as Mark Wayne Sheffer in 1958, is credited as leading the team of writers who turned the floundering “As the World Turns” around in the early 2000s, winning four Daytime Emmy awards for his work.

Sheffer was also head writer for “Days of Our Lives” and would pick up a fifth Daytime Emmy as part of “The Young and the Restless” writing team.

Prior to working for soap operas, Sheffer was Director for Screenplay Development with Dreamworks.

Réal Andrews Opens up About His Bipolar Diagnosis

Today, the soap vet is sober and reprioritizing both his health and his passion for performing. However, he’s also had a revelation that was two decades in the making. “I was having crazy, dark thoughts. Then it hit me one day that for the first time in my life, I’m not masking it with drugs, alcohol or anything like that. It was right there in my face!” he admitted. That’s when he decided to see a physician and “got officially diagnosed with bipolar disorder.”

Now receiving treatment, Andrews feels like a new man and wants to encourage others in the same boat to seek help. “I want to be able to tell you that you’re not alone,” he said. “There’s a big difference between being depressed, sad or having a bad day and suffering from this sickness. When you don’t know where [those feelings] come from, you don’t know how to stop them.”

My ultimate [goal], and kind of what I’ve already started working towards,” he said, “is being on the big stage, talking to hundreds of thousands of people about depression.”

The actor currently plays Dr. Keith Campbell on Amazon’s THE BAY THE SERIES, but as he looks to the future, there’s another kind of character he’s eyeing. “I like to play heavies: bad guys and psychos. I’ve always been drawn to that,” he admitted. “I became an actor because I saw Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.” While he says that he would “absolutely do daytime again,” Andrews remains open to whatever the next leg of his journey brings. “I put a lot of faith in my representation, but my No. 1 representation is God,” he insisted. “So whatever He puts on my plate… my job is to show up with excellence.”

Tonya Pinkins on MADAM SECRETARY 10/13/19

GUEST CAST: Tonya Pinkins (Susan Thompson), Amanda Warren (Olivia Mason), Brian Sutherland (Senator Armstrong)

Amanda Seyfried In Talks To Star In ‘Things Heard & Seen’ Film For Netflix

The pic is an adaptation of the book All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. It follows recent transplants to a small town who find their new home is cursed by the tragic murders of its former owners. As one haunted secret peels away to uncover others, their marriage reveals itself to have a sinister darkness of its own.

Pulcini and Berman will adapt the screenplay, while Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman, Stefanie Azpiazu and Peter Cron will produce with Julie Cohen.

Production is slated to take place Hudson Valley, New York next month.

Tonya Pinkins on Madam Secretary 10/6/19

GUEST CAST includes: Stephen Colbert (Himself), Wentworth Miller (Senator Mark Hanson), Tonya Pinkins (Susan Thompson).

Shipp returns To The Arrowverse

Ming-Na Is Awkwafina's Aunt

Edgecliff pad of late actor Carmen Duncan for sale for $1.1 million

The beloved NIDA graduate is best remembered among small screen viewers for her role on cop shows like Division 4, Matlock Police, Water Rats and Homicide, and classics like Number 96 and The Young Doctors, but was also acknowledged for her role in films like the 1980’s hitmovie Harlequin for which she was nominated for an Australian Film Institute award, and the more recent supporting role on the recently released movie Hotel Mumbai.

Having moved to the US to work in daytime television, playing businesswoman Iris Wheeler in the soap opera Another World, she returned to Australia in the mid-1990s and in 1999 bought the two-bedroom spread in the art deco Cumberland building for $450,000.

Carmen Duncan’s two-bedroom spread in the art deco Cumberland building.

The beloved actor was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000 and later colon cancer, both of which she survived, but suffered thyroid cancer in recent years.

One of 15 in the building and spread over 97 square metres internally, it returns to the market with a guide of $1.1 million ahead of a September 26 auction.

It is exclusively listed with Jane Schumann and Samuel Schumann, of Raine & Horne Double Bay.

There is a $1.1 million guide ahead of the September 26 auction.

‘A Mouthful Of Air’: Amanda Seyfried, Finn Wittrock, Paul Giamatti, Amy Irving & Jennifer Carpenter Set For Maven Pictures Drama

Written and directed by Amy Koppelman (I Smile Back) and based on Koppelman’s novel of the same name, the script is a character piece examining the relationship between the creative process and mental illness. Seyfried will star as Julie, a new mom and children’s book author, who escapes into the bright Crayola colored world of her creation in order to leave behind the darkness caused by her post partum depression.

Wittrock will play Ethan, Julie’s husband. Irving will play Julie’s mother, Carpenter will play her sister in law and Giamatti will play her doctor.

The film is being produced by Mike Harrop, Koppelman, Seyfried, Lee Cohen MD and Maven Pictures’ Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler. Jenny Halper brought the project into Maven. Cinetic arranged financing and is repping North America.

Frankie DeMarco (All Is Lost) is the DP. Mark Samsonovich, who designed the animated segments for We The Animals, is working with Koppelman on the animation.

Maven is heading to TIFF this year the Marc Meyers’ remake Human Capital, scripted by Oren Moverman and starring Liev Schreiber, Marisa Tomei, Peter Sarsgaard, Maya Hawke, Fred Hechinger, Betty Gabriel and Alex Wolff.

Seyfried recently starred alongside Milo Ventimiglia in Simon Curtis’ adaptation of The Art Of Racing In The Rain. Next year, she will star opposite Kevin Bacon in David Koepp’s You Should Have Left. She will also lend her voice to the Warner Bros animated film Scoob. She is repped by Innovative and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein and Selz.

Wittrock will next be seen starring in Judy opposite Renee Zellweger, Semper Fi alongside Jai Courtney and Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Ratched. He is represented by James Weissenbach and CAA.

Michael Park to Star in Footloose at Kennedy Center

The production, part of the Center’s Broadway Center Stage series, will run October 9–14 in the Eisenhower Theater. Original director Walter Bobbie will helm the semi-staged concert presentation, featuring choreography by Spencer Liff and musical direction by Sonny Paladino.

The musical, based on the ‘80s Kevin Bacon–led film, premiered at the Kennedy Center in 1998 before going on to play Broadway. Included are the Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar, Kenny Loggins, and Jim Steinman songs heard in the movie, as well as an original score by Tom Snow and Dean Pitchford. “I am thrilled to bring this show back to the place where it all started in this very exciting revised version,” said Vice President of Theater Producing and Programming Jeffrey Finn.

The staging will also feature sets and projections by Paul Tate dePoo III, costumes by David Woolard, lighting by Cory Pattak, and sound design by Jon Weston.

Following Footloose, the new Center Stage season will continue with Next to Normal led by Tony winner Rachel Bay Jones and Bye Bye Birdie.

A sidewalk star for Kathryn Hays

And the honor goes to longtime soap opera actress, Kathryn Hays, who was born in Princeton in 1933.

From 1972 to 2010, she played Kim Hughes on the CBS daytime soap opera, “As the World Turns.”

“Star Trek” fans will also remember when she played Gem on the episode “The Empath.” Her character was a mute alien who could heal wounds of the injured through her touch. Hays’ compelling performance earned her an Emmy nomination.

Hays, now 86, has moved back to Princeton from Connecticut. She settled into town this past April to be closer to family. While she is still getting reacquainted with the area, she said she was “pleasantly surprised” to see how much it had developed since the last time she had been back.

She was especially impressed with all the downtown shops and restaurants.

“I can’t get over how many restaurants there are. I have yet to have a bad meal,” she said.

She attended Festival 56’s production of “Little Women” last month and said she was blown away with the performance.

“I was dumbfounded at how fascinating it was. They were all so professional and great,” she said.

Hays said Princeton has been nothing but welcoming to her.

“It’s like someone left the door open and said, ‘Come on in,’” she said.

“Princeton has turned into a place that has it all. It’s a wonderful place to call home.”

Hays is especially touched with the honor of having a star on the Walk of Fame.

“They’re very kind to include me. I’m very touched by this,” she said.

Her star will be placed next to Richard Widmark’s. Hays said she remembers crossing paths with Widmark at one point in Hollywood.

“I remember him because I told him I was from Princeton, Illinois,” she said.

A dedication ceremony to honor Hays and her career will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 4, at 4 p.m. outside the Apollo Theater. Hays will be in attendance with her family and close friends.

Hays will also ride in the Homestead Festival parade next Saturday. Fun fact, the parade’s grand marshal, Ted Johnson, is a cousin of Hays.

The festival’s theme, “Journey Home,” fits perfectly with Hays’ story of returning back to the place she has always considered home.

Hays’ father was a farmer

According to a BCR story from 2008, Hays’ father farmed land in Princeton. His family was actually part of the Hampshire Colony that settled the area. Hays’ mother was a bookkeeper at Citizens First National Bank.

Her parents divorced. When Hays was 5 years old, her mother remarried and they moved to Joliet.

That’s where Hays discovered her love for acting. In high school, she became a teacher’s student assistant at a local children’s theater. Later, she attended a summer arts program at Northwestern University and was offered a full scholarship at a junior college.

Hays left college early when she landed a gig as a fashion model and worked on live TV commercials for WGN in Chicago in the 1950s.

Her big break came in 1962, after moving to New York, when she was cast as the lead in an episode of the popular police drama, “The Naked City.”

Hays studied with famed theater director and acting coach, Wynn Handman, who coached big names such as Michael Douglas, Denzel Washington, Mira Sorvino and James Caan.

Throughout the 1960s and ‘70s, Hays appeared on numerous TV shows, including “Route 66,” “Dr. Kildare,” “Bonanza,” “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” and “The High Chaparral.”

In 1966, Hays married one of Hollywood’s most endearing actors, Glenn Ford. They divorced three years later.

Hays has played guest roles on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Law & Order,” “Marcus Welby, M.D.” and “Branded.” Hays also guest-starred with Clint Walker in the 1971 TV film, “Yuma.”

Hays is also respected for her work on stage. She appeared on Broadway several times.

Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn’s son Wyatt to wed in Aspen

Sources say the famous blended fam, including big sister and brother Kate and Oliver Hudson, is expected to descend on the Aspen, Colo., area over the Labor Day week to see Wyatt marry “Search Party” actress Meredith Hagner.

Goldie and Kurt have had their sprawling estate, Home Run Ranch — just outside of Aspen, in Old Snowmass — for some 35 years.

Kurt built much of the log cabin himself, and Kate, Oliver, Wyatt and half brother Boston Russell spent much of their childhoods there.

It appears that Kate has already arrived for the occasion. The “How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days” actress posted a picture of her mom on Instagram on Thursday, which appeared — according to our in-depth analysis of the lampposts — to have been taken in Aspen.

Hagner and Wyatt reportedly met on the set of their 2016 movie “Folk Hero & Funny Guy,” and they were first pictured as a couple at the Maui Film Festival in 2016.

Hagner, 32, who’s appeared in “Ingrid Goes West,” “Veep” and “Royal Pains,” celebrated with a bachelorette party at the end of July.

It’s the second wedding for the 33-year-old actor, who married Dutch stylist Sanne Hamers in March 2014. They split in March 2015 and divorced in 2017.

He appeared in “22 Jump Street” and “Cowboys & Aliens,” among others. He also appeared in some of his dad’s films, including “Escape from LA” in 1996 and “Soldier” in 1998. He also played professional ice hockey for teams including the Chicago Steel and the Groningen Grizzlies in the Netherlands.

Reps for Hagner and Wyatt didn’t get back to us.

Jill Soloway, Julianne Moore Team For ‘Mothertrucker’ At Makeready

Mothertrucker will be published by the Amazon Publishing imprint Little A in early 2022. The film will be released by Focus Features as part of Makeready’s distribution deal with Universal Pictures.

Soloway will also produce with Andrea Sperling through Topple Productions. Moore will also produce with Bart Freundlich executive producing through their fortysixty productions. Makeready partner and Head of Film, Pam Abdy and Natalie Williams will oversee for Brad Weston’s studio.

Mothertrucker chronicles Amy Butcher’s chance friendship with Joy Mothertrucker (Moore) a fifty-year-old Instagram celebrity and America’s one and only female ice road trucker, who spent 13 years driving big rigs through the “the deadliest road in America.” Inspired by Joy’s optimism and bravery in the face of danger, Amy flies to Alaska and joins her on an incredible journey through the heart of the Alaskan wilderness, accompanying her while they navigate the deadliest road in America. The memoir tells the true story of two determined women who find solace and strength in each other, in the unforgiving outdoors. The studio is developing the role of Amy as a starring vehicle for another top actress.

This is the second recent high profile directing project for Soloway, who in June signed to write and direct Red Sonja for Millennium Films, which went back to the drawing board on the project after the exit of Bryan Singer. Soloway also directed the upcoming The Transparent Movie Musicale Finale that this fall will wrap Soloway’s groundbreaking Amazon series creation.

“I’m honored to tell this deeply resonant story about two women finding meaning and strength as they face an epic challenge in one of the most punishing and beautiful landscapes on the planet,” says Soloway. “I’m looking forward to collaborating with Pam Abdy, Brad Weston, Natalie Williams and Bart Freundlich and to bring Julianne Moore’s remarkable talent to the screen in the role of ‘Joy’.”

“This story is a beautiful exploration of the depths of female friendship and the strength of bonds forged in a time of uncertainty,” said Makeready’s Pam Abdy. “Jill has such a unique ability to capture the most profound elements of human relationships and with Julianne starring as the one-of-a-kind Joy, we could not be happier to bring this inspiring story to life on screen.”

Soloway and Sperling are represented by UTA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Moore is CAA, Management 360 and Edelstein, Laird & Sobel; Butcher is UTA and Samantha Shea at Georges Borchardt.

Trent Dawson Joins THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL

The period comedy/drama, created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, centers around Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan), a NYC housewife in 1958 who discovers that she has a talent for stand-up comedy. The supporting cast includes Alex Borstein, Tony Shalhoub, and Kevin Pollack. It premiered in 2017, and the third season will be premiering on Amazon Prime on Friday, Dec. 6.

Dawson is appearing in the seventh episode of season three in the role of Scott, but hasn't revealed any further information about his character or how he'll be involved in the plot of the show. The actor only teased that he'd be in scenes with Midge via a selfie taken on the set with the series' star. "Making memories with Midge in a dark and grainy studio," he joked. "Whew — long day. Gotta get my sea legs back."

Dawson got his big break back in 1998 when he joined the cast of ATWT, where he remained until the soap's cancelation in 2010. He then went on to make appearances in primetime shows like THE GOOD WIFE, HOMELAND, NCIS, and CASTLE before his stint on GH in 2016 and 2017. More recently, Dawson kept busy turning his play, The F, into a short film and appearing on stage in A Man for All Seasons in 2018.

But now you can see Dawson back on TV again when THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL drops its third season on Amazon Prime at the beginning of December. Let's just hope we don't have to wait so long to see him again in the future!

Ming-Na Wen Joins The Mandalorian, Disney+'s Live-Action Star Wars Series

Set to hit Disney+ when the service launched in Tuesday, Nov. 12, The Mandalorian stars Game of Thrones and Narcos vet Pedro Pascal in the title role, with a supporting cast that includes Nick Nolte, Giancarlo Esposito, Carl Weathers, Gina Carano and Werner Herzog.

“I was so excited when [Disney chairman Bob Iger] announced it, because I’ve been waiting to talk about it,” Wen effused to Syfy Wire. “You don’t understand — that is a Star Wars geek girl’s dream come true.” No details were revealed about Wen’s role, though she quipped, “I certainly don’t play a farmer!”

Earlier this month, Wen wrapped filming the seventh and final season of ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (premiering in 2020), where she has played badass Melinda May.

In terms of Star Wars canon, The Mandalorian is set “after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order,” which would place it somewhere between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. In it, “we follow the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic.”

Jon Favreau serves as writer and executive producer on the freshman season, which will consist of eight episodes.

Réal Andrews Books an 'Amazing' New Role!

Andrews also began getting back in shape a couple months ago, dropping the pounds and putting back on the muscle, so it's a full-on transformation for the daytime vet, who has also appeared on AS THE WORLD TURNS as Walker Daniels, ALL MY CHILDREN as Agent Trumbull, and DAYS OF OUR LIVES as Hal Michaels. Of course, GH fans remember him fondly as Detective Marcus Taggart, the role he played from 1998-2003. "So grateful to my amazing agent, Paula Benard at Embrace Real Artists, and my buddy, Maurice Benard (Sonny, GH), for his support and coaching," the actor added. "A special shout out to all of you for support and prayers. Next, on to the next audition."

And sure enough, the following day, the dedicated performer shared a photo of his new script pages from VisionFire Films perched on his workout equipment so he could study his lines while at the gym! "Working on my next two auditions," he revealed.

Naturally, we'll keep you updated as Andrews releases any further details about his upcoming projects, so you can be sure to watch him back in action! And for more on your favorite GH stars — past and present — keep reading the ABC edition of Soaps In Depth magazine.

Netflix Orders New YA Series ‘Ginny & Georgia’, Antonia Gentry and Brianne Howey Topline Main Cast

Anya Adams (GLOW, Black-ish) will direct the first two episodes of the one-hour drama which will follow angsty and awkward fifteen-year-old Ginny Miller who often feels more mature than her thirty-year-old mother, the irresistible and dynamic Georgia Miller. After years on the run, Georgia desperately wants to put down roots in picturesque New England and give her family something they’ve never had… a normal life. For Ginny, that means navigating a prestigious school, rising popularity, and complicated love interests. But it’s not all carpool and Kombucha as Georgia’s past threatens her and her family’s new way of life.

Joining the Howey and Gentry are Diesel La Torraca (Little Monsters), Jennifer Robertson (Schitt’s Creek), Felix Mallard (Happy Together), Sara Waisglass (Degrassi: Next Class), Scott Porter (Friday Night Lights) and Raymond Ablack (Narcos).

Lampert wrote the script while working as the manager of development at Madica Productions, a subsidiary of Sunshine Sachs. Madica then brought it to Critical Content (formerly T Group) as part of their first-look deal with them. It was shared with the independent TV studio Dynamic Television before it landed at Netflix.

Read the full character descriptions below.

Brianne Howey will play “Georgia.” Georgia is shrewd, smart manipulative and steely under her charm. She escaped poverty and had her first child, Ginny, at age 15. A firm believer in retribution, Georgia is a survivor, no matter what life throws at her.

Antonia Gentry will play “Ginny.” Ginny is a very smart, rebellious, and vulnerable teenager beneath an armor of outspokenness and quick wit. Ginny is the bi-racial daughter of Georgia and not quite sure what to make of their new home in an upscale Massachusetts town.

Diesel La Torraca will play “Austin.” Austin is Ginny’s sweet, innocent, perpetually unkempt younger son. He is desperate to hold on to the promise of their new life in Massachusetts.

Jennifer Robertson will play “Ellen.” Ellen is a working mom and more grounded than her preppy upscale neighbors. She is the mother of 15-year-old twins Maxine and Marcus, says what she thinks, and lives across the street from new neighbors Georgia and her two children.

Felix Mallard will play “Marcus.” Marcus is the edgy, bad boy across the street you shouldn’t have a crush on but do. Maxine’s twin brother, he is intrigued with his new neighbor Ginny.

Sara Waisglass will play “Maxine.” Maxine is cool, popular, smart, quirky, confident, and has a huge crush on Georgia. She is impressed with new girl Ginny and immediately befriends her.

Scott Porter will play “Mayor Paul Randolph.” Some would call him a young JFK. As Mayor of Wellsbury, Massachusetts, Paul is focused, driven, and recognizes a formidable force in Georgia.

Raymond Ablack will play “Joe.” Joe is granola in a manly way, not a man bun way. He owns the local farm to table restaurant, Blue Farm Cafe. And can’t help but notice when Georgia moves to town.

Fisher and Adams will serve as Executive Producer along with Jeff Tahler (Madica Productions), Jenny Daly (Critical Content), Holly Hines, and Daniel March (Dynamic Television). Elena Blekhter has signed on as Co-Executive Producer.

That '70s Show Reunion! Debra Jo Rupp to Join Kurtwood Smith in ABC Pilot

The untitled pilot stars stand-up comic Nate Bargatze and follows him and his wife Laura (played by The League‘s Katie Aselton) as they move with their six-year-old daughter from California to Nate’s hometown of Nashville, Tennessee. “They find the pursuit of a simple life to be much more complicated than they imagined,” according to the official description. Rupp and Smith will play Nate’s parents, who still live in Nashville.

Rupp and Smith, of course, already spent eight seasons as TV husband and wife on Fox’s That ’70s Show, playing Eric’s parents Kitty and Red Foreman. The hit sitcom went off the air in 2006.

Since then, Rupp has appeared on This Is Us, The Ranch (reuniting with Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson), NCIS: Los Angeles, Elementary and Hart of Dixie.

Talk Show Appearance

Tu 8/13: Roselyn Sanchez

‘Yellowstone’: Q’orianka Kilcher & Jennifer Landon To Recur On Season 3

Co-created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson, Yellowstone follows the Dutton family, led by John Dutton (Costner), who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, which is under constant attack by those it borders – land developers, an Indian reservation and America’s first National Park.

Kilcher will play Angela Blue Thunder, a Native American and political opponent of Tom Rainwater. Thunder is described as a woman with pain in her past and unadulterated fury in her present. Convinced that Rainwater’s management of the casino has been a catastrophe, she shows up in his office, ready to punish the world (and Tom Rainwater) for all the things it did to her.

Landon will play Teeter, a new wrangler on the Yellowstone Ranch. Teeter is a snuff dipping, sunbaked, expert wrangler.

Yellowstone is co-produced by 101 Studios. Executive producers are John Linson, Art Linson, Taylor Sheridan, Costner, David C. Glasser and Bob Yari.

A ratings juggernaut, Yellowstone continues its run as cable’s most-watched summer series and is up double digits across all key demos compared to season one to-date averages.

Kilcher starred as Mary Palmer in TNT’s Emmy-nominated limited series The Alienist. On the film side, she can currently be seen in Paramount Player’s Dora and the Lost City of Gold, which opens today. She’s repped by APA, Anonymous Content, and attorney Eric Feig.

A three-time Daytime Emmy winner for her work on As The World Turns, Landon’s most recent TV credits include the role of Amy on TNT’s Animal Kingdom and a recurring on Cinemax’s Banshee. She’s repped by Jericho Management and Productions and Abrams Artists Agency.

‘Grand Hotel’: ABC Will Make Renewal Decision After Summer Run Although Karey Burke “Wished” Ratings Were Stronger – TCA

ABC’s President of Entertainment Karey Burke revealed that the network hadn’t made a renewal decision on the Eva Longoria-exec produced show.

Burke did, however, point to the show’s soft ratings, which may not be a great sign for its future.

“We’re going to wait until the end of its run. It’s a show we like a lot. It’s a show that I wish the ratings were a bit stronger but we’ll make that decision after its run,” she said.

Written by Brian Tanen based on a Spanish format, Grand Hotel is a soapy drama set against the backdrop of a Miami Beach hotel, centering on the family who owns the business, the staff who run it and the explosive secrets they hide under the perfect exterior.

The Demian Bichir and Roselyn Sanchez-fronted series is a contemporary adaptation of a “period piece” format from Spain with an Upstairs/Downstairs tone. Katey Sagal is among the celebrity guests who show up to visit the family-owned hotel.

Talk Show Appearance

Wednesday, August 7: Guests Amanda Seyfried

Talk Show Appearance

Thursday, August 8 – EVA LONGORIA and JULIANNE MOORE

Finn Carter in Las Vegas court on felony charges

Records showed that Finn Carter (ex-Sierra, As The World Turns), 59, was arrested Tuesday and booked into the Clark County Detention Center.

Las Vegas Justice Court records listed her under the name Elizebeth Carter and showed that she faces one count of possessing a stolen vehicle and 14 counts of possessing a credit card without the cardholder’s consent. Both charges are felonies.

During her initial court appearance Tuesday, Carter told Justice of the Peace Ann Zimmerman that she has lived in Las Vegas for about a year and a half. When the judge asked if she had a “stable address,” the woman replied, “I have a place I can stay.”

Prosecutors are considering charges against Carter and have 90 days to file a criminal complaint. Zimmerman said she would release her from custody and scheduled her next court appearance for October.

According to imdb.com, Carter played the role of Rhonda LeBeck in “Tremors.” She also has appeared on several TV shows, including “Chicago Hope” and “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”

Dynasty Recast: Daniella Alonso Joins Season 3 as New Cristal Jennings

“Unfortunately, Ana Brenda Contreras will not be returning for the third season of Dynasty due to personal reasons,” executive producer/showrunner Josh Reims tells TVLine. “We’d like to thank her for her contributions to the show and wish her all the best. We’re excited to welcome Daniella Alonso who will step into the role of Cristal.”

Alonso’s small-screen credits include roles on Revolution, The Resident, Criminal Minds, Animal Kingdom, Being Mary Jane, The Night Shift, Friday Night Lights and One Tree Hill.

This swap is the latest in a series of major casting changes for Dynasty during the course of its two-season run. Nathalie Kelley, who played Cristal Flores, was killed off between Seasons 1 and 2; James Mackay, who plays Steven Carrington, transitioned from series regular to recurring in Season 2; and Nicollette Sheridan, who portrayed family matriarch Alexis Carrington, exited midway through Season 2. (Elizabeth Gillies briefly stepped into the role of Alexis via the magic of plastic surgery, but a new actress is expected to play her in the future.)

When last we saw Cristal, her wedding to Blake was being interrupted by the grim discovery of two yet-unidentified corpses, one of which is believed to be a friend of Fallon’s who died at Carrington Manor when the girls were still in high school. (Sloppy work there, Anders!)

Dynasty‘s third season premieres Friday, Oct. 11 at 9/8c.

Catching up With ALL MY CHILDREN's Cady McClain

Being able to successfully do that while also being mindful of the tale being told helped McClain determine that, in the future, she wanted to work behind the camera! “I’ve never been really that satisfied with only being an actor,” she admitted. “I learned things like ‘all glory to the story.’”

Now a director, she’s been touring film festivals while sharing the fruits of her labor. That’s how she connected with Artists For Change founder Julia Verdin and agreed to help turn her short film into a full-length feature. McClain says that Lost Girls: Angie’s Story, the movie she recently produced, is “about a teenager who is kidnapped into the sex-trafficking trade and how she meets other girls and fights her way out.” The goal is to use the gripping picture to help communities raise awareness.

Also coming soon is Paint Made Flesh, a film that McClain directed about a female artist who revisits an old relationship in order to rekindle her passion. “In the process, some very intense truths are revealed that they’ll have to wrangle with,” McClain offered. The twist to the production is that it’s based on a stage show. Explaining her interest, McClain said, “I’m really entranced by the idea of filming theater because it’s not that different from daytime, which we call doing ‘a play a day.’”

Next up is a noir mystery/thriller that the visionary is writing and planning to direct. Additionally, she said, “I’m working with my husband, Jon [Lindstrom, GENERAL HOSPITAL’s Kevin/ Ryan], and Jacob Young (ex-JR, AMC) on a project as a producer.” But is she still interested in acting? “There are a couple things burbling on the horizon,” she teased, “that I might say yes to.”

In the meantime, the Emmy winner has been encouraging the next generation of filmmakers via speaking engagements. “One young woman came up to me and said, ‘I’ve been directing with my friends, but now I’m seeing that I could actually do this for a career!’” she confided. “I said, ‘Yes, you totally could.’”

Animal Kingdom Renewed for Season 5

Of course, the news is as unsurprising as it is good. Thus far this season, the show is averaging 1.2 million total viewers and just over a 0.3 demo rating (in Live+Same Day numbers) — off just eight and 18 percent from its previous cycle, while continuing to be among cable’s Top 10 dramas in both measures.

In the episodes currently airing Tuesdays at 9/8c, the Cody clan’s matriarch, played since Season 1 by Ellen Barkin, has been preparing for her death by planning a final heist with her boys. And though it’s almost impossible to imagine the show going on without her flashing her viperish smile and cooing “baby” like it was a threat, Animal Kingdom is a series that isn’t afraid to take a big swing. You’ll recall that leading man Scott Speedman was killed off as Baz in the Season 3 premiere.

Richard Burgi on Grand Hotel 7/29/19

“Grand Hotel” stars Demián Bichir as Santiago Mendoza, Roselyn Sánchez as Gigi Mendoza, Denyse Tontz as Alicia Mendoza, Bryan Craig as Javi Mendoza, Wendy Raquel Robinson as Mrs. P, Lincoln Younes as Danny, Shalim Ortiz as Mateo, Anne Winters as Ingrid, Chris Warren as Jason, Feliz Ramirez as Carolina and Justina Adorno as Yoli.

Guest stars include Richard Burgi as Michael Flynn and Freddie Stroma as Oliver.

“Where the Sun Don’t Shine” was written by Sara Saedi and directed by David Grossman.

Amanda Seyfried calls out Arielle Charnas for promoting ‘unrealistic’ body expectations

The spat began when Arielle, 32, posted a bikini photo of herself captioned, “Proud of my body after two kids.”

While she received some positive feedback from her followers, others felt she was promoting an unhealthy and unattainable body image goal to her 1.2 million Instagram followers.

An unnamed friend of Seyfried’s commented on the image, “Totally fine that you’re privileged and thin, good for you (I am too-ish!) BUT if you don’t acknowledge how your wealth made your workouts/body possible, you’re just perpetuating the patriarchal (totally unrealistic) notion that mothers should ‘bounce back’ after childbirth, an impossibility for anyone who can’t afford ample childcare (which is almost everyone in this country).”

Seyfried, 33, posted a screenshot of her friend’s comment and added her own commentary, writing, “If we’re ready to get paid for flaunting our lifestyle (and inspiring some in the meantime) we have to be open to the discussions surrounding what we’re promoting.”

“We have to back ourselves up- not run away from the issues it presents. There are gray areas everywhere,” the actress continued. “Each of us has a chance to back ourselves- especially on this platform. If you know who you are- take a second to decide if what you’re throwing out there is worth it- in the big picture.”

In a second Instagram post, Seyfried, a mom herself to 2-year-old Nina, posted a selfie captioned, “INFLUENCE = POWER. And if you’re taking advantage of that- EMPOWER.”

Earlier on Thursday, Charnas’ fiancé, Brandon, defended her on Instagram. He satirically wrote that Charnas’ body is “not attainable” regardless of one’s workout regiment, and that if one does attempt to do so, “you must have at least three nannys [sic] and be sure to not only pay them but also thank them in a minimum of 4 shoutouts a week on Instagram.”

“If you can’t afford a nanny, please do not attempt to have a very successful career in order to do so,” he continued. “Only ages 30 and older are allowed to view this post, youth must be accompanied by a therapist.”

Charnas did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

American Horror Story: 1984 Adds Glee's Matthew Morrison

Morrison has joined the cast of American Horror Story‘s ninth season, titled AHS: 1984, Murphy revealed Thursday in an Instagram video. And he wasted no time in showing us Morrison’s character, who is rocking some ’80s facial hair and, um, seems to enjoy putting his physical assets on display. (You’ll see what we mean after watching the video below.)

Murphy’s post also unveiled several other 1984 cast members, many of them franchise veterans. Emma Roberts (who was previously confirmed to return) makes an appearance in the video, as do Cody Fern, Leslie Grossman and Billie Lourd. John Carroll Lynch, who appeared in AHS: Freak Show as Twisty the Clown, is also back, and it seems he’ll be playing someone else terrifying this time around.

But the teaser — which features each character in 1980s garb, strutting their stuff to Dan Hartman’s “I Can Dream About You” — also includes several AHS newbies, Morrison among them. Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy also makes his debut in the video, along with Pose actress Angelica Ross.

Outside of the 1984 setting, little else is known about Horror Story‘s ninth installment, though this latest teaser (which seems to take place at a summer camp) adds to speculation that it will pay homage to classic slasher movies. As previously announced, AHS staple Evan Peters will not appear in 1984, and our sister site Variety recently reported that Sarah Paulson will not have a significant role in Season 9, though she could pop up occasionally.

AHS: 1984 premieres Wednesday, Sept. 18 at 10/9c on FX.

Meredith Hagner Joins Anna Kendrick & Donal Logue In Quibi Comedy ‘Dummy’

Created by Heller, Dummy is a buddy comedy that follows Cody, an aspiring writer (Kendrick) and her boyfriend’s (Logue) sex doll, Barbara (Hagner). It will be a serialized movie-length story told in chapters of under 10 minutes in length.

Hagner’s Barbara is an inanimate sex doll. Only able to be heard by Cody (Kendrick), Barbara (a self-proclaimed “feminist”) is a spoiled, jealous, and manipulative valley girl who will do whatever it takes to get her way. After she is discarded by her original owner, she convinces Cody to take her home so that she can be the inspiration to help cure Cody’s writers block.

Hagner stars as Portia on Search Party, which is going into its third season on TBS.

On the film side, Hagner recently appeared in Ike Barenholtz’s The Oath opposite Tiffany Haddish and in the James Gunn produced film Brightburn opposite Elizabeth Banks. Additionally, Hagner just wrapped the feature Palm Springs opposite Andy Samberg. Hagner is repped by UTA and Suskin Management.

Roselyn Sanchez on The $100,000 Pyramid 7/7/19

This week’s hour-long episode features two separate celebrity couples. First up, Joe Gatto competes against Sal Vulcano (“Impractical Jokers”). Next up, Roselyn Sanchez of ABC’s “Grand Hotel” and television personality Ross Mathews compete with hopes of making it to the winner’s circle and the ultimate prize of $100,000.

“The $100,000 Pyramid” is the timeless word association game in which two celebrities and their partners face off in a race against the clock to make it to the winner’s circle and take home $100,000. “Good Morning America”’s Michel Strahan hosts “The $100,000 Pyramid.”

‘Ozark’: Tom Pelphrey, Jessica Frances Dukes Among Four Cast; Two Promoted For Season 3 Of Netflix Series

Created by Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams, Season 2, headlined by Bateman and Laura Linney, continues to follow Marty Byrde (Bateman) and his family as they navigate the murky waters of life within a dangerous drug cartel. With Del out, the crime syndicate sends their ruthless attorney Helen Pierce to town to shake things up just as the Byrdes are finally settling in. Marty and Wendy (Linney) struggle to balance their family interests amid the escalating dangers presented by their partnerships with the power-hungry Snells, the cartel and their new deputy, Ruth Langmore (Julia Garner), whose father Cade has been released from prison. The stakes are even higher than before and the Byrdes soon realize they have to go all in before they can get out.

Pelphrey plays Ben Davis, Wendy’s capricious younger brother, Ben, arrives for an unannounced and inopportune visit. He quickly reminds Wendy who she used to be and who she was running from.

Dukes will portray FBI agent and forensic accountant Maya Miller, who comes to the casino with one goal, to take Marty (Bateman) down and do it by the book.

Sikora portrays Frank Cosgrove Jr. The hotheaded son of Kansas City mob boss Frank Cosgrove, Frank Jr. immediately clashes with Ruth when forced to work together in the new casino laundering business.

Solis is Omar Navarro. As the ruthless leader of Mexico’s second largest drug cartel, Navarro attacks his enemies with both brutal violence and psychological warfare — as the Byrdes will personally discover this season.

Bateman directed multiple episodes from the first and second season and serves as an executive producer along with Mundy, Dubuque and Williams. Ozark is produced by Bateman’s Aggregate Films in association with Media Rights Capital.

Pelphrey is known for his role Ward Meachum on both seasons of Marvel’s Iron Fist on Netflix. His other TV credits include Cinemax’s Banshee and he recently appeared in a guest role on Blindspot.

Dukes, most recently seen in the title role of By The Way, Meet Vera Stark at New York’s Signature Theatre, recurs as Grace in multiple episodes of the upcoming third and final season of Marvel’s Jessica Jones on Netflix. Her previous credits include guest-starring roles on New Amsterdam, NCIS: New Orleans and The Good Wife.

Sikora most recently played Tommy Egan on Starz’s Power and recurred on Netflix’s Maniac and WGN America’s Underground. On the big screen, he recently appeared in The Intruder opposite Michael Ealy and Dennis Quaid and next will be seen in Jacob’s Ladder opposite Ealy.

Solis was a series regular on ABC’s Ten Days in the Valley and in CBS pilot History of Them. He was most recently seen on SEAL Team and in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Cost of Living. He’s repped by D2 Management.

Jason Biggs, Vanessa Williams on Match Game 6/26/19

Celebrity panelists for June 26 include the following:
Joel McHale (“Card Sharks”)
Rachael Ray (Cooking and television personality, and best-selling author)
Jason Biggs (“Outmatched,” “American Pie” films; “Orange Is the New Black”)
Caroline Rhea (“Caroline & Friends,” “Sydney to the Max”)
Donald Faison (“Emergence,” “Ray Donovan,” “Scrubs”)
Vanessa Williams (“T.O.T.S.”)

Joining the celebrity panelists are contestants Rutger McKenna (hometown: Brooklyn, New York), Alex Shumway (hometown: Dedham, Massachusetts), Khary Hobbs (hometown: Harper Woods, Michigan) and Rochelle Hall (hometown: Carson, California).

Karlovy Vary To Fete Julianne Moore, Patricia Clarkson

At the Czech festival, Moore and screenwriter-director Bart Freundlich will present U.S. drama remake After the Wedding, which premiered at Sundance. Co-star Billy Crudup will be a special guest at the festival’s opening ceremony.

Patricia Clarkson, who this year won a Golden Globe for her performance in HBO series Sharp Objects (selected episodes of which had their European premiere at last year’s KV), will receive her career prize at the festival’s closing ceremony. During the Euro fest, Clarkson will also present her recent Isabel Coixet feature Learning To Drive.

Meanwhile, Casey Affleck will return to the festival to present his directorial debut Light Of My Life, which premiered in Berlin, and KV also announced today that Sundance comedy Late Night will be the closing film.

This year’s KV grand jury will include Czech screenwriter and author Štepán Hulík (Burning Bush), Palestinian writer-director-producer Annemarie Jacir (Wajib), Ukrainian director-screenwriter-producer Sergei Loznitsa (Donbass), Greek actress Angeliki Papoulia (Dogtooth) and Cannes Critics’ Week curator Charles Tesson.

Serving on the East Of The West jury will be Denis Ivanov, Juho Kuosmanen, Tomáš Pavlícek, Ioanna Stais and Dagne Vildžiunaite. On the documentary jury will be Gastón Solnicki, Aline Schmid and Andreas Horvath.

AS THE WORLD TURNS' Paul Leyden Welcomes a Beautiful Baby Girl

Leyden got his start back in 1999 playing Warren “Wazza” Edwards on the Australian soap HOME AND AWAY, but became a fan-favorite of American soap viewers when he debuted as the sexy rogue Simon Frasier on the much-missed CBS sudser ATWT in 2000. He also had a brief stint as Blake Joseph on THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS in 2010-11 and starred on the short-lived primetime series LAX opposite Heather Locklear. More recently, Leyden has turned his attention to the other side of the camera, writing, directing, and producing the Crackle series CLEANERS as well as other projects and short films.

Barlier and Leyden were married in the summer of 2018 and Raphaêlle is their first child together. Please join us in wishing the entire family all the best for a lifetime of happiness together!

‘After The Wedding’ Trailer: Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup, Secrets & Mystery

In director Bart Freundlich’s film inspired by the 2006 Danish pic by Susanne Bier, Isabel (Williams) has dedicated her life to working with the children in an orphanage in Calcutta. Theresa (Moore) is the multimillionaire head of a media company who lives with her artist husband (Crudup) and their twin boys in New York. When word comes to Isabel of a mysterious and generous grant for the financially struggling orphanage, she must travel to New York to meet the benefactor — Theresa — in person.

Additional plot detail revealed in the trailer: Isabel has a past with Theresa’s husband.

“Was it strange to see Oscar again?” the potential $20 million benefactor tells her guest over drinks. “He’s a good-looking man now, but back then he must have really been something.”

Later there’s this: “I don’t trust your wife,” Isabel says to Oscar. “She’s gonna give you money for your charity, and you’re gonna question her integrity?” he replies. Isabel has one question: “What does she want?”

Which begs some other questions: What’s the big secret? Are there ulterior motives on either side, or both? And won’t somebody think of the children?

Abby Quinn co-stars in After the Wedding, which Sony Pictures Classics acquired in May and will release August 9. Have a look at the trailer, and tell us what you think.

Jennifer Ferrin on Instinct 6/30/19

GUEST CAST includes: Andrew Polk (Doug), John LaVellle (Joel Crowley), Jennifer Ferrin (Dr. Alexandra Becker).

Roselyn Sánchez, Denyse Tontz & Bryan Craig in Grand Hotel 6/17/19 produced by Eva Longoria

“Grand Hotel” stars Demián Bichir as Santiago Mendoza, Roselyn Sánchez as Gigi Mendoza, Denyse Tontz as Alicia Mendoza, Bryan Craig as Javi Mendoza, Wendy Raquel Robinson as Mrs. P, Lincoln Younes as Danny, Shalim Ortiz as Mateo, Anne Winters as Ingrid, Chris Warren as Jason, Feliz Ramirez as Carolina and Justina Adorno as Yoli.

Brian Tanen is the writer and executive producer. Eva Longoria and Ben Spector (UnbeliEVAble) are executive producers, in addition to Bob Daily. Bill D’Elia is a director and an executive producer. Ramón Campos and Teresa Fernández-Valdés are executive producers of the series, as well as executive producers of the original Spanish version. The series is produced by ABC Studios. ABC Studios is a part of Disney Television Studios, a collection of studios comprised of 20th Century Fox Television, ABC Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios.

“Pilot” was written by Brian Tanen and directed by Ken Olin.

Actors Wyatt Russell and Meredith Hagner sell their Sherman Oaks digs

The two-story house displays its 1932 charm with wood-beam ceilings, a wrought-iron staircase and arched doorways and windows. A Juliet balcony-style sitting area off the master suite at the back of the house looks overs the swimming pool.

The 2,105-square-foot main house features a living room with wood floors and a tiled fireplace, an office accessed through glass doors, three bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and an updated eat-in kitchen with stainless-steel appliances.

The 640-square-foot guesthouse includes a kitchen/living area, a bedroom and a bathroom.

Russell, 32, is a former professional hockey player turned actor and the son of box-office veterans Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. He appeared in the films “Overlord” (2018) and "22 Jump Street" (2014).

Hagner, 31, has appeared in the TBS series "Search Party" and the soap opera "As the World Turns."

The pair announced their engagement late last year.

The asking price of the property was $1.829 million, and they paid $1.725 million about a year ago.

Gina Covello of Compass handled the transaction.

Audiobooks Narrated By Soap Stars

Nadia's daily life in south Brooklyn is filled with small indignities: as a senior home attendant, she is always in danger of being fired; as a part-time nanny, she is forced to navigate the demands of her spoiled charge and the preschooler's insecure mother; and as a ethnic Russian, she finds herself feuding with western Ukrainian immigrants who think she is a traitor.

The war back home is always at the forefront of her reality. On television, Vladimir Putin speaks of the "reunification" of Crimea and Russia, the Ukrainian president makes unconvincing promises about a united Ukraine, while American politicians are divided over the fear of immigration. Nadia internalizes notions of "union" all around her, but the one reunion she has been waiting six years for - with her beloved daughter - is being eternally delayed by the Department of Homeland Security. When Nadia finds out that her daughter has lost access to the medicine she needs to survive, she takes matters into her own hands.

Mother Country is Irina Reyn's most emotionally complex, urgent novel yet. It is a story of mothers and daughters and, above all else, resilience.

A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum, narrated by Ariana Delawari, Dahlia Salem (ex-Sofia, AW, ex-Claire, GH), Susan Nezami (Get it here)

Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a week, the naive and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married and is soon living in Brooklyn. There, Isra struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law, Fareeda, and strange new husband, Adam, a pressure that intensifies as she begins to have children - four daughters instead of the sons Fareeda tells Isra she must bear.

Brooklyn, 2008. Eighteen-year-old Deya, Isra's oldest daughter, must meet with potential husbands at her grandmother Fareeda's insistence, though her only desire is to go to college. Deya can't help but wonder if her options would have been different had her parents survived the car crash that killed them when Deya was only eight. But her grandmother is firm on the matter: The only way to secure a worthy future for Deya is through marriage to the right man.

But fate has a will of its own, and soon, Deya will find herself on an unexpected path that leads her to shocking truths about her family - knowledge that will force her to question everything she thought she knew about her parents, the past, and her own future.

Set in an America at once foreign to many and staggeringly close at hand, A Woman Is No Man is a story of culture and honor, secrets and betrayals, love and violence. It is an intimate glimpse into a controlling and closed cultural world and a universal tale about family and the ways silence and shame can destroy those we have sworn to protect.

The American Agent: Maisie Dobbs, Book 15 by Jacqueline Winspear, narrated by Orlagh Cassidy (ex-Doris, GL) (Get it here)

Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, "one of the great fictional heroines" (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a pause-resisting tale of love and war, terror and survival.

When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs, seeking her help. He is accompanied by an agent from the US Department of Justice - Mark Scott, the American who helped Maisie get out of Hitler's Munich in 1938. MacFarlane asks Maisie to work with Scott to uncover the truth about Saxon's death.

As the Germans unleash the full terror of their blitzkrieg upon the British Isles, raining death and destruction from the skies, Maisie must balance the demands of solving this dangerous case with her need to protect Anna, the young evacuee she has grown to love and wants to adopt. Entangled in an investigation linked to the power of wartime propaganda and American political intrigue being played out in Britain, Maisie will face losing her dearest friend - and the possibility she might be falling in love again.

Run Away by Harlan Coben, narrated by Steven Weber (ex-Kevin, ATWT) (Get it here)

A perfect family is shattered in Run Away, the thriller from the master of domestic suspense, Harlan Coben.

You've lost your daughter.

She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found.

Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. But she's not the girl you remember. This woman is living on the edge, frightened, and clearly in trouble.

You don't stop to think. You approach her, beg her to come home.

She runs.

And you do the only thing a parent can do: you follow her into a dark and dangerous world you never knew existed. Before you know it, both your family and your life are on the line. And in order to protect your daughter from the evils of that world, you must face them head on.

Don’t Let Go by Harlan Coben, narrated by Steven Weber (ex-Kevin, ATWT) (Get it here)

Suburban New Jersey Detective Napoleon "Nap" Dumas hasn't been the same since senior year of high school, when his twin brother Leo and Leo's girlfriend Diana were found dead on the railroad tracks - and Maura, the girl Nap considered the love of his life, broke up with him and disappeared without explanation. For fifteen years, Nap has been searching, both for Maura and for the real reason behind his brother's death. And now, it looks as though he may finally find what he's been looking for.

When Maura's fingerprints turn up in the rental car of a suspected murderer, Nap embarks on a quest for answers that only leads to more questions - about the woman he loved, about the childhood friends he thought he knew, about the abandoned military base near where he grew up, and mostly about Leo and Diana - whose deaths are darker and far more sinister than Nap ever dared imagine.

Home by Harlan Coben, narrated by Steven Weber (ex-Kevin, ATWT) (Get it here)

A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced. For 10 years their families have been left with nothing but painful memories and a quiet desperation for the day that has finally, miraculously arrived: Myron Bolitar and his friend Win believe they have located one of the boys, now a teenager. Where has he been for 10 years, and what does he know about the day, more than half a life ago, when he was taken? And most critically: What can he tell Myron and Win about the fate of his missing friend? Drawing on his singular talent, Harlan Coben delivers an explosive and deeply moving thriller about friendship, family, and the meaning of home.

Long Lost by Harlan Coben, narrated by Steven Weber (ex-Kevin, ATWT) (Get it here)

Myron hasn't heard from Terese Collins in years. Not since their affair ended with no explanation. There had been no contact since, so her call catches him off guard. She's in Paris, she says, in trouble, and only Myron can help. She tells him a sad story she's never before revealed: a good marriage, her struggles to get pregnant, the happiest moment of her life when her only child was born, the day everything she'd ever loved was taken from her. In the years since, Terese has had no contact with her ex-husband, until the phone call that brought her to Paris.

When she gets there he's been murdered, and she's a suspect. But then comes a startling piece of evidence that turns the entire case upside down, laying bare Terese's long-buried family secrets in a most shocking way and leaving Myron nowhere to turn for help. Caught in a foreign landscape where nothing is as it seems, he must tear apart the city - and eventually the globe - fighting for answers to unfathomable questions that will take Myron, and millions of Harlan Coben readers, where they have never gone before.

VANESSA RAY AMONG COVER STARS FOR THE SPECIAL “BLUE BLOODS” ISSUE OF WATCH! MAGAZINE, ON NEWSSTANDS NOW THROUGH MID-JULY

It’s been exactly eight years since Watch! featured multiple covers of BLUE BLOODS cast members shortly after the end of the popular show’s freshman season. For the newest BLUE BLOODS issue, Moynahan, Wahlberg and Estes were once again photographed by David Needleman, and Vanessa Ray (who joined the series in season four as Estes’ character’s cop partner, who just became his wife in the high-rated ninth season finale) was a welcome cover addition.

When the cast members gathered for their shoots – Moynahan and Wahlberg one day, and Estes and Ray the next – their kinship was palpable. They were playful and supportive of each other and enjoyed reminiscing about fun/special times they’ve shared with their entire TV family. This fall, BLUE BLOODS’ Reagan clan will return for its 10th season, premiering with its 200th episode – and, as usual, Watch! will be along for the ride!

Wahlberg, styled by Watch! style director Sasha Charnin Morrison, was a bundle of positive energy and cheerful collaboration at the photo studio. While being interviewed by Fred Schruers during a break at the shoot, Wahlberg talked about the evolution of his BLUE BLOODS character, how he and Bridget have had a “parallel journey as friends and have been there for each other,” how Tom Selleck encourages the improvising Wahlberg does during the dinner scenes (“What a great thing that the head of the table trusts me. It means the world to me.”), and his continued appreciation for the role: “I never could understand when an actor would say they got burnt out on a TV show…We fight so hard to get these jobs. I worked for years just to get an acting gig, and I’m hearing of actors quitting shows because they’re bored. And I think, ‘What the hell are you talking about?’”

Moynahan’s modeling background was evident as she posed with a soulful vitality in an array of feminine formal dresses and tailored looks, also selected by Morrison. During her interview with Chip Brown, Moynahan discusses her childhood and early career, the inspiration for her second book, Our Shoes, Our Selves: 40 Women, 40 Stories, 40 Pairs of Shoes, a charity benefitting girls that’s receiving some of the book’s proceeds, and the boots that helped bolster her battered confidence 12 years ago, when she was the subject of a tabloid press frenzy. She also talks warmly of her BLUE BLOODS experience (“The show feels like family now”) and some of the particularly emotional moments the show and actors have tackled this past season. “There’s a level of vulnerability in some performances,” she says. “Vulnerability has a stigma of being weak, but it’s inspiring.”

Estes and Ray, both styled by Christina Pacelli, each got a kick out of the glamorous shoot and offered each other heartfelt compliments about how the other looked in various ensembles. Interviewed together by Jessica Shaw, the TV couple talked about their first auditions for their roles, their initial reactions to hearing their characters would couple up (Estes: “We were nervous about what it was going to mean once we were together”), how their off-camera conversations often make it into the scripts, having some street cred with New York City police officers (Ray: “It is fun to live in New York City and hear cops in a grocery store or something going, ‘Hey, Janko [their characters’ combined name from fans on social media].’ For them to recognize anything that we do is the best thing about this job.”), and how one day in the makeup trailer military veteran Tom Selleck ended up teaching Ray how to salute and stand at attention for her role.

Also, in honor of CBS’ THE 73rd ANNUAL TONY AWARDS® broadcast on June 9, writer Melissa Rose Bernardo provides a nostalgic Tony Awards Viewers Guide, which includes Tony Awards trivia, a look back at the top 10 favorite Tony telecast performances, five sensational song-and-dance moments by Tony hosts, a look at some of the most infamous Tony snubs – and 10 winning looks on past Tony red carpets.

Additional stories in the issue include:

Phil Keoghan, host of THE AMAZING RACE for 18 years, reminiscing about 30 seasons of racers and milestones for the show, which is currently in its 31st season.

ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT co-host Kevin Frazier relaying to Brantley Bardin how he couldn’t help feeling like a regular fan while spending time with a certain legendary musician, how he’s learned to face the fact that not every interview will be perfect nor will every star love chatting with him, and how lucky he feels to be married to someone who balances what he does. “I’m interviewing celebrities while she’s out there defending people [as a Los Angeles public defender] on the worst days of their lives.”

“24 Hours with…Heather Tom,” taking readers through a typical day for THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL star (who is also a rising TV director, interior designer, wife and mom).

A summer fashion guide based on the vastly different signature styles of the four female characters on Pop’s hit series SCHITT’S CREEK, plus separate stories on must-have colors and looks for the season.

CBS SUNDAY MORNING executive producer Rand Morrison talking about creating a blend of news, culture and quirky human interest stories. Says Morrison, “I love this show. It’s like being given a gift…We have 90 minutes. We can do almost anything, in a way that we can be proud of and our audience is happy with. We have 6 million viewers. So how can you complain?”

GOD FRIENDED ME star Suraj Sharma sharing how – and why -- he’s rediscovering the power of martial arts.

Novelist Mary Beth Keane talking about the inspiration for her newest book, Ask Again, Yes, and what she hopes readers will take away from it.

CBS Sports lead play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz and Kerry Haigh, the chief championships officer of the Professional Golfers’ Association of America, recalling highlights of past PGA Championships.

Sofia Pernas, star of CBS’ new globe-trotting adventure series BLOOD & TREASURE, revealing some of her favorites styles, designers, beauty products and accessories.

Also, CBSWatchmagazine.com continues to complement the print magazine’s articles while still showcasing its own unique content, including photos and videos that are original to Watch!

Marisa Tomei Headed To Broadway For Tennessee Williams’ ‘The Rose Tattoo’ Revival

Tomei will play Serafina, the widow “who rekindles her desire for love, lust and life in the arms of a fiery suitor,” in the description by Roundabout. Other casting — including that fiery suitor — hasn’t been announced.

The Rose Tattoo will begin previews on September 19, with an official opening on Tuesday, October 15. The limited engagement will run through December 8 at the nonprofit Roundabout’s Broadway venue American Airlines Theatre.

Cullman and Tomei premiered the revival at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in June 2016.

The play made its Tony-winning Broadway debut in 1951, starring Maureen Stapleton and Eli Wallach. A movie version was released in 1955 starring Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster, and a 1995 Broadway revival at Circle in the Square starred Mercedes Ruehl and Anthony LaPaglia.

The Rose Tattoo will be the latest Roundabout production of a Tennessee Williams work, following including Summer and Smoke (1975 & 1996), The Night of the Iguana (1996), The Glass Menagerie (1994 & 2010), A Streetcar Names Desire (2005), Suddenly Last Summer (2006) and The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (2011).

The Rose Tattoo announcement was made today by Roundabout artistic director/CEO Todd Haimes.

Tomei won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for My Cousin Vinny, and her long roster of stage credits include, most recently, Sarah Ruhl’s 2017 How to Transcend a Happy Marriage at Lincoln Center. She’s in rehearsals as Edith Bunker for the live All in the Family special set for May 22 on ABC.

Ellen Dolan Enters the Writing Life with ‘Ball of Redemption’

“I’m writing, so that’s a whole new way of creating, and I love it,” Dolan says. “I always sort of dabbled in it, and it was never very good. My only training was reading a multitude of scripts.”

After As the World Turns ended, Dolan and her family moved to Boulder, CO, where she admits she struggled to find fulfillment. “When I was living out in Boulder for a couple of years, there was nothing to do, because trust me, I’m not going to do dinner theater—it’s not going to happen,” she says with a laugh. “I started to write a pilot and got the pilot done and 10 episodes out in breakdowns and I’m having my partner proofread as we speak. I’ve got that done and have a film loosely based on my father that I’m just finishing up and I’ve got the play reading at Guild Hall,” she explains.

“It’s all a pu pu platter of things to present to an agent,” Dolan says, noting that moving to Springs has brought about a creative renaissance in her. “I was always sequestered away in my beautiful little utopia of going into a studio and working every day, which was heaven. I’m redefining myself and, oh my God, it’s such a beautiful place to redefine yourself.”

And redefining herself was important. Dolan got her start on Guiding Light from 1982–1986, then briefly moved to Los Angeles before returning to New York to star on As the World Turns, which became her home for more than 20 years. But times changed; when As the World Turns was canceled, Dolan knew that things were different.

“I’m 63 years old. I don’t think there’s any interest coming my way, and there’s nothing in New York anymore. It’s all out in Los Angeles. Daytime is really different now—it’s very quick scenes, fast-paced, and we really had the luxury, all through the ’80s and ’90s, of developing character and scenes and rehearsing with the directors and sort of maturating this wonderful storytelling device we had,” she explains. “That just doesn’t exist anymore and there’s not much call for characters like me. So I’m okay with that. I got to do it for so long and I loved my cast mates and the crew, and had the perfect life. I got to have a baby while I was working in New York City. What more can you ask for?”

Dolan acknowledges that soap operas have a bit of a stigma in show business. “I find in the few times I’ve gotten to go out and pitch, if you mention the two words ‘soap opera,’ people skew, they see it a different way, they suddenly give comments like ‘oh, melodrama.’ It’s always pejorative, they always cut it down and I’m going to tell you, some of the smartest, fastest, brightest writers, directors and actors have come out of daytime.”

After working on Ball of Redemption for years, Dolan is excited to see it come to life at Guild Hall. The play is about three siblings who reunite under interesting circumstances and explores some complex themes. “My quick, pithy little pitch is that it’s about quantum physics, which I know nothing about!” Dolan says. “It started with my question years ago of, ‘What ever happened to the three children of Fátima after the Blessed Virgin Mary stopped showing up?’ How do you top that? Where do you go from there? How do you live day to day after something so extraordinary happens, if you believe it happened or not?”

She notes that while the play explores some heady themes, it’s not a “religious” or moralistic story, but rather about how three people can interpret the same event three very different ways.

Dolan is excited and nervous to present Ball of Redemption. “At some point you have to put your baby up there,” she says. “It’s a play in progress. Will anyone understand it? Will you be entertained? It’s a whole new world out there. It’s like an actor auditioning for the biggest role of their life.”

See Ball of Redemption at Guild Hall on Thursday, May 30. For tickets, visit guildhall.org.

Fox Orders Jason Biggs Family Comedy to Series

The Great North‘s stellar voice cast also includes Jenny Slate (Saturday Night Live), Megan Mullally (Will & Grace), Paul Rust (Love), Aparna Nancherla (BoJack Horseman), Will Forte (The Last Man on Earth) and Dulcé Sloan (The Daily Show). Wendy Molyneux, Lizzie Molyneux and Minty Lewis will serve as executive producers and writers. Loren Bouchard will also executive-produce.

Also ordered to series at Fox is multi-cam comedy Outmatched, which follows a “blue-collar couple in South Jersey trying to get by and raise four kids, three of whom just happen to be certified geniuses.”

Jason Biggs (Orange Is the New Black) and Maggie Lawson (Psych) star as the aforementioned parents, alongside Connor Kalopsis (The Grinder), Ashley Boettcher (Lost in Oz), Jack Stanton (The Mick), newcomer Oakley Bull and Tisha Campbell-Martin (Martin). Outmatched is written by executive producer Lon Zimmet and directed by Jonathan Judge.

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The Good Fight Renewed for Season 4

In addition to The Good Wife alum Christine Baranski, the spinoff’s cast includes Cush Jumbo, Rose Leslie, Audra McDonald, Sarah Steele, Michael Boatman, Nyambi Nyambi, Michael Sheen and Delroy Lindo. Leslie’s future with the acclaimed drama is, however, in question, given her character Maia’s increasingly reduced presence, the actress’ conspicuous absence from Season 3 key art, and an unemployment-related quip Leslie made during husband Kit Harington’s recent Saturday Night Live monologue. (CBS All Access has yet to comment on the original cast member’s future status.)

“The Good Fight is in the middle of an incredible third season and continues to be a flagship original series for the service,” CBS All Access original content EVP Julie McNamara said in announcing the renewal. “Its visionary creators Robert and Michelle King and the extraordinary cast continue to explore the cultural climate with insight, humor and courage, and we can’t wait to see where these indelible characters go next.”

Episode 7 of The Good Fight‘s current season releases this Thursday, April 25, with the season finale set for May 16.

Tom Degnan in The Code 5/13/19

GUEST CAST includes: Nate Miller (James Dale), Joe Carroll (Lance Cpl. Gary Van Horn), Tom Degnan (Lt. Isaac Pfister).

Tonya Pinkins in Bull 5/6/19

GUEST CAST includes: Bobby Moreno (Ralph Kelly), Clara Stack (Hannah Kelly), Tonya Pinkins (Judge Maynard).

Dishing with Digest - 4/19/19 - Kin Shriner

Kin Shriner looks back on 40-plus years as GH’s Scott Baldwin, his roles on other soaps, his daytime pals, favorite memories and so much more with Digest’s Stephanie Sloane and Mara Levinsky. We also debate the pros and cons of ripped-from-the-headlines stories.

Jimmy Kimmel Re-Creates Norman Lear’s ‘All In The Family,’ ‘The Jeffersons’ Episodes For Live ABC Primetime Special

An original episode from each iconic Lear comedy will be re-created; Jimmy Burrows is directing the live special. Live In Front Of A Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All In The Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons’ will air Wednesday, May 22, 8-9:30 PM ET.

Woody Harrelson will play Archie Bunker role; Marisa Tomei will play his wife Edith in the recreation of All In The Family. Jamie Foxx and Wanda Sykes take the roles of George and Louise Jefferson in the All in the Family spinoff, The Jeffersons.

Ellie Kemper will play Gloria Stivic, Will Ferrell will appear as Tom Willis and Justina Machado is set to play Florence Johnston, with more all-casting

Kimmel and Lear host; the project teams them with exec producers Brent Miller, Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Justin Theroux.

“The fact that a group of Oscar winners eagerly agreed to play these iconic characters is testament to the greatness of these shows and their creator, Norman Lear,” Kimmel said, calling the project a “dream come true.”

People have said the two series were of the 70’s and “would not work today,” Lear said of his two TV-landscape-changing comedies.

“We disagree with them and are here to prove, with two great casts depicting of All In The Family and The Jeffersons, the timelessness of human nature,” Lear continued, adding, “I cannot wait to see what these glorious performers make in our time of these indelible characters.”

Last July, SPT announced a new deal with Lear and his Act III Productions, noting it had an “option to re-imagine titles from his extensive library including All In The Family, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Maude and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, to name a few.”

ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke, meanwhile, declared the network “honored” to partner with “our brilliant friend Jimmy Kimmel and trailblazer Norman Lear” in the live TV project, agreeing with Lear that the two series are “as culturally relevant today as they’ve ever been.” She forecast it will be “the can’t-miss television event” of the year, if not the decade, while Sony Pictures Television Studios president Jeff Frost and co-presidents Chris Parnell and Jason Clodfelter called it an “exciting new format.”

All in the Family shaped political and social conversations in American homes in the post-civil rights era. From 1971 through 1979, the series about conservative working class Archie Bunker, his liberal son-in-law and daughter, and his wife Edith tackled such hot-button topics as women’s rights, racism, and homosexuality.

The success of All in the Family led to introduction of The Jeffersons, which ran from 1975 to 1985 – the first television series to feature an interracial couple. It would go on to be one of the longest running African American shows on TV, following George and Louise Jefferson as they moved to the East Side and showcased what it was like to be successful in a predominantly white world. The show is credited with shifting conversations about race and class, paving the way for other African American actors and TV series.

Live In Front Of A Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All In The Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons’ is being produced by Smoking Baby Productions, ACT III Productions, Gary Sanchez Productions and Sony Pictures Television.

Jason Biggs' Wife Jenny Mollen Admits Dropping Son, Suffers Fractured Skull

Jenny made the revelation Wednesday, saying ... "On Saturday evening I dropped my son on his head causing him to fracture his skull and landing him in the ICU." She added, Sid is home now and "recovering nicely."

As for why she decided to tell the world ... "My heart goes out to all parents who have or will ever find themselves in this kind of position. You are not alone."

This is kind of Jenny's thing -- she's pretty open about the ups and downs of parenthood. Back in November, she revealed their 1-year-old, Lazlo, was bitten by a dog.

Despite the seriousness of Sid's injury ... Jenny cracked a bit of humor in her post. After thanking all the nurses, doctors, cafeteria staff and janitors at the NYC hospital where he was treated -- as well as Jason -- she said, "Not sure how this post turned into an Oscars acceptance speech."

Julianne Moore to Headline J.J. Abrams-Stephen King Limited Series at Apple

An adaptation of King’s 2006 horror-romance novel of the same name, the “deeply personal” thriller follows Lisey (Moore) two years after the death of her husband. The show explores a series of events that causes Lisey to begin facing amazing realities about her husband that she had repressed and forgotten.

In addition to exec-producing alongside Abrams, Moore and Ben Stephenson, King will also pen all eight episodes of the drama. The iconic horror writer and Abrams’ current collaboration, the Hulu anthology series Castle Rock, is heading into Season 2. Meanwhile, Abrams also has the Jennifer Garner-starring drama My Glory Was I Had Such Friends and the music-themed Little Voice with EP Sara Bareilles on tap for the tech giant’s forthcoming streaming service Apple TV+.

Moore got her start on the small screen in the now-defunct daytime soap As the World Turns. More recent TV credits include starring as Sarah Palin in the HBO TV movie Game Change and recurring on 30 Rock.

The Hollywood Reporter first reported the news of Moore’s casting.

Jen Lilley, Chris McNally, Dan Jeannotte, Nathan Parsons & More Cast In Hallmark Channel’s ‘Countdown To Summer’ Movie Event

Announced at TCA in February, the channel will premiere A Paris Romance, starring Jen Lilley (Days Of Our Lives) and Dan Jeannotte (The Bold Type, Reign) on Saturday, May 4; Feels Like Home (working title) starring Jonna Walsh (The Fosters, Baby Daddy) and Nathan Parsons (Roswell, New Mexico, The Originals) on Saturday, May 11; Sailing Into Love (fka Four Summer Weddings), starring Leah Renee (Grimm, Satisfaction) and Chris McNally (When Calls The Heart, Altered Carbon) on May 18; and Love in the Sun, starring Emeraude Toubia (Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments), Tom Maden (Scream: The TV Series, Famous In Love) and Shawn Christian (Days Of Our Lives, Famous In Love) on May 25.

“We strive to provide our fans with a viewing experience that immerses them in the sights, sounds and feelings of the seasons that is only available on our network,” said Michelle Vicary, Executive Vice President, Programming and Network Publicity, Crown Media Family Networks. “Viewers have enthusiastically embraced our seasonal event strategy so we’re thrilled to expand on these offerings with the addition of ‘Countdown to Summer’ to the schedule.”

Complete details of the four movies follow below.

A Paris Romance
Premieres: Saturday, May 4 at 8 PM
Stars: Jen Lilley, Dan Jeannotte

Logline: Isabella is the ambitious new owner of her family’s Oregon winery whose dream of becoming world-renowned takes a big step forward when she enters a prestigious wine competition in Paris. Upon arrival, Isabella meets her biggest competitor, Jacques, from one of the world’s foremost winemaking families. Impressed by Isabella and her expertise in wine, a budding romance develops between them. However, as the results as the competition are announced, Isabella believes Jacques badmouthed her wine. Hurt, she returns home. When Jacques discovers what upset her, he seeks to win her back, even if it means leaving behind his beloved winery.

Feels Like Home (wt)
Premieres: Saturday, May 11 at 8 PM
Stars: Jonna Walsh, Nathan Parsons

Logline: Host of a New England web series, Abby is set to launch her own line of home products. All she needs is a few more authentically northeastern webisodes and the deal is done. But Abby’s roots are actually in Texas, and now she must return to her dad’s ranch to help him. Surprised to find her former boyfriend Ryan is the ranch manager, Abby is soon swept up in their old chemistry. Torn between her Texas roots and her New England aspirations, Abby must decide where she belongs – with work in the northeast, or deep in the heart of Texas.

Sailing Into Love (fka Four Summer Weddings)
Premieres: Saturday, May 18 at 8 PM
Stars: Leah Renee, Chris McNally

Logline: Biology teacher Claire is busy juggling her duties as bridesmaid to three friends, as well as teaching a summer enrichment class at her most favorite place in the world, Blue Island. Claire learns that the sailboat used to ferry to her students has been sold to a former Navy man, Captain Tom, with the stipulation that he continues to sail the class to the island. Claire’s life gets complicated when she learns her former boyfriend Jason works for the developer intent on building a resort on Blue Island.

Love in the Sun
Premieres: Saturday, May 25 at 8 PM
Stars: Emeraude Toubia, Tom Maden, Shawn Christian

Logline: When successful dating app creator Alana hesitantly gets engaged, she returns to her hometown in Florida to deliver the news to her dad. Upon returning home, she crosses paths with her former flame, Kai, and finds herself falling in love with the fun and adventurous lifestyle tied to her community. As Alana and Kai work together to help her dad restore his declining property, Alana finds herself conflicted as to whether or not her current way of living makes her happier than the home and community that she always knew and loved.

Tonya Pinkins on Madam Secretary 4/21/19

GUEST CAST includes: Tracee Chimo Pallero (Nina Cummings), Will Chase (Senator Owen Callister), Tonya Pinkins (Susan Thompson)

June Harding Dies: ‘The Trouble With Angels’ Actress Was 81

Harding graduated Virginia Commonwealth University, and moved to New York. She broke into show business in the CBS soap opera As the World Turns and appeared in several off-Broadway plays.

Those roles led Harding to Broadway, where she appeared in the comedy Take Her, She’s Mine in December 1961. She played Art Carney’s younger daughter and was opposite Elizabeth Ashley, who played Harding’s sister and won a Tony Award for her role.

From there, she joined The Richard Boone Show, an NBC-TV anthology that ran from 1963-1964, appearing as several characters. She also appeared in episodes of 1960s TV dramas like The Defenders, Dr. Kildare and The Fugitive, and in the long-running CBS soap opera As The World Turns. But it was the movies that won her greatest attention. The Trouble With Angels (the last film directed by Ida Lupino), brought Harding together with Hayley Mills as mischievous teens getting into trouble at an all-girls Catholic boarding school. The movie was a hit with its target teen audience, briefly making both actresses into fodder for the teen magazines of the day. Both Harding and Mills declined to appear in the sequel, Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows.

Harding retired from acting in 1970, turning her attention to art. Her work, focused on flowers or cats, became a staple attraction in her Blue Hill, Maine hometown.

A memorial will take place on April 13 at Monumental Methodist Church in Emporia, Virginia.

Cassandra Creech on NCIS 4/16/19

GUEST CAST includes: Garrett M. Brown (Retired Marine General James Wallace), Doug Savant (Marine Brigadier General Daniel Kent), Cassandra Creech (Amy Tano).

Kelly AuCoin, Annie Parisse Board Donald Margulies Play ‘Long Lost’ Off Broadway

Long Lost will reunite playwright Margulies with director Dan Sullivan. The two previously collaborated on Margulies’ The Country House, Brooklyn Boy, the Tony Award-nominated Time Stands Still, the Pulitzer Prize finalist Sight Unseen, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends.

Long Lost begins previews Tuesday, May 14 at MTC’s New York City Center Stage 1, with an opening night of June 4. The casting was announced today by artistic director Lynne Meadow and executive producer Barry Grove.

MTC describes Long Lost as “a funny, unsettling, ultimately moving play about the limits of compassion and filial obligation. When troubled Billy appears out-of-the-blue in his estranged brother David’s Wall Street office, he soon tries to re-insert himself into the comfortable life David has built with his philanthropist wife and college-age son. What does Billy really want? Can he be trusted? And how much can family bonds smooth over past rifts?”

Long Lost’s creative team includes John Lee Beatty (scenic design), Toni-Leslie James (costume design), Kenneth Posner (lighting design), and Daniel Kluger (original music and sound design).

In addition to his role as Dollar Bill on Billions, Aucoin (pictured top left) has appeared on Broadway in Julius Caesar, TV’s The Americans, House of Cards and Turn, and films The Post and Drunk Parents, among others.

Wolff (pictured top right), most recently starring in indie horror hit Hereditary, appeared with brother Nat Wolff in their mother Polly Draper’s Stella’s Last Weekend. He’s also appeared in My Friend Dahmer, Jumanji: Welcome to The Jungle and, in 2017, Off Broadway’s All The Fine Boys.

Parisse, on Broadway in Prelude to a Kiss and Clybourne Park, recently was a series lead on Netflix’s Friends From College, and also has appeared in The Looming Tower, The First, Paterno and Vinyl, among others.

Tergesen, in addition to Oz, starred in HBO’s Generation Kill and High Maintenance, as well as The Purge, American Horror Story and The Blacklist, to select a few.

Warner Bros’ Animated Scooby-Doo Finds Its Fred & Daphne In Zac Efron & Amanda Seyfried

Tony Cervone is directing the feature, and Chris Columbus, Pam Coats and Allison Abbate are producing. Executive producers are Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Dan Povenmire and Adam Sztykiel. Pic will open in May 2020.

It’s the first time since Warners’ 2004 live-action take on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, that the Mystery Inc gang have hit the big screen. In the new Scooby-Doo movie they team up with other characters in the Hanna-Barbera universe to save the world from the evil Dick Dastardly. Previously announced for the pic is Will Forte, who will play Shaggy, Gina Rodriguez is Velma, Tracy Morgan is Captain Caveman, and Frank Welker will reprise the voice of Scoob, having been the voice-over for the hound in the 1969-1970 series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!

Seyfried is repped by Innovative Artists and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, and Efron is repped by CAA, Alchemy Entertainment and Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson.

Seyfried recently starred in Paul Schrader’s Oscar-nominated First Reformed, and the near $400M-worldwide grossing Universal sequel Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. She can been seen next in Simon Curtis’ The Art of Racing in the Rain with Kevin Costner and Milo Ventimiglia and David Koepp’s You Should Have Left opposite Kevin Bacon. She has a SAG ensemble nom for her work in Les Misereables in which she played Cosette and a National Board of Review ensemble win for the Tom Hooper feature musical. Overall Seyfried’s canon counts close to $3 billion at the global box office.

Efron counts such hit franchises as The Neighbors and High School Musical series. He recently won great reviews for his turn as serial killer Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile which made its world premiere at Sundance and sold to Netflix for a reported $9M. Efron recently starred in Harmony Korine’s SXSW world premiere The Beach Bum. Last year he starred in the Fox hit musical The Greatest Showman. Efron’s films have racked up close to $2.5B at the worldwide box office.

Steven Weber To Star In NBC Comedy ‘Uninsured’

Additionally, Weber is set to continue to recur on three series: HBO’s Ballers, Epix’s Get Shorty and Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why.

Written by Levy and directed by Andy Ackerman, Uninsured revolves around young parents Dave (Pally) and Rebecca (Elliott), who end up having to take care of Dave’s parents, Elliot (Weber) and Linda (Drescher) who have mishandled their finances and need help to pay down a sizable debt.

Weber will play Elliot, an upbeat salesman who knows too many facts about things you don’t care about. The pilot reunites him with veteran multi-camera helmer Ackerman who was a director-producer on Wings.

Levy executive produces Uninsured with Robinson and Alison Greenspan via Robinson’s Doug Robinson Productions. Pally also will serve as co-executive producer on the pilot.

In addition his ongoing roles 13 Reasons Why, Get Shorty and Ballers, Weber recently did major arcs on Syfy’s drama Channel Zero and CBS’ comedy Mom. He is repped by UTA and Brillstein Entertainment.

Tonya Pinkins & Brian Kerwin on Madam Secretary 4/14/19

GUEST CAST includes: Skipp Sudduth (Peter Harriman), Tonya Pinkins (Susan Thompson), Brian Kerwin (Deputy Secretary Steven Bailey)

General Hospital Q&A: Rebecca Herbst & Roger Howarth

Jordana Brewster, Vivica A. Fox, Anna Akana Join Brittany Snow In ‘Bailey and Darla’

The plot centers on Darla (Snow), a cynical reporter whose sex addiction is getting in the way of her sex column, and her evolving relationship with Bailey, a well-meaning sweetheart who’s been dumped by his fiancé Elizabeth (Akana) and learns he has testicular cancer (again). Together they embark on an impromptu cross country road trip, recreating Darla’s myriad trysts from state to state. She’s looking for a story and he’s looking for a last hurrah; what they find is something neither expected.

Brewster plays Tanya, Darla’s no-nonsense boss, while Fox is Cindy, Bailey’s loving but somewhat overbearing mother.

Snow is producing the pic with Yale Productions’ Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman, and Highland Myst’s Jon Keeyes. Executive producers are Michael J. Rothstein, Matthew Heldermann, Luke Taylor, Shaun Sanghani, Sabine Stener, Martin Sprock, Ryan Johnson, James Sears Bryant, and Gigi Lacks, while Michael Palkovicz, Jackie Palkovicz, Alan Leibowitz, Jesse Murphy, and Kamar Kalpakciyan serve as co-exec producers.

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‘Queen Of The South’: Bailey Chase & David Andrews Join Season 4 Cast Of USA Series

Starring Alice Braga and based on the best-selling book La Reina Del Sur by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Queen of the South tells the powerful story of Teresa Mendoza (Braga), a woman who is forced to run from the Mexican cartel and seek refuge in America. In season four of Queen of the South, Teresa Mendoza expands to the East Coast by taking on the Big Easy. But when new enemies emerge and familial trust is broken, Teresa is forced to make difficult decisions that weigh heavy on her soul.

Chase will play Eddie Brucks, a musician attempting to overcome his personal demons who crosses paths with Teresa.

Andrews portrays Judge Cecil Lafayette, a member of one of the oldest blue blood families in Louisiana who may prove to be one of the most dangerous adversaries Teresa has ever encountered.

Queen of the South is co-produced by Fox 21 Television Studios and Universal Content Production). David T. Friendly serves as executive producer alongside executive producers and co-showrunners, Dailyn Rodriguez and Ben Lobato.

Known for his starring roles in Longmire, Saving Grace and 24: Legacy, Chase can currently be seen in Netflix feature Walk. Ride. Rodeo. His previous TV credits include Chicago P.D., Grimm and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks reboot. He’s repped by McKeon/Myones Management and Bloom Hergott Diemer.

Andrews is best known for his role as Sam Vincent in USA’s Shooter. Other credits include Murder in the First, The Whispers, House Of Cards, Justified and Scandal, and on the big screen in Terminator 3 and World War Z, among others. He’s with Zero Gravity Management.

Jordana Brewster on Magnum P.I. 4/1/19

Julianne Moore reveals the movie that inspired her to act

Jon Lindstrom Reveals How He Fell in Love With Wife Cady McClain

What happened was actually as New York as can be: The castmates fell for each other during their daily commutes from work! “ATWT shot on a stage way out in the middle of Brooklyn, and Cady and I both lived in Manhattan,” he explained. “We would finish our scenes and be done around the same time, so we often ended up taking the hour-long train ride back to Manhattan together and got to know each other that way. We got to be very very good friends before anything else transpired.” In other words, it wasn’t love at first sight — or first love scene! “Not at all,” Lindstrom said. “I just realized I’d met this really amazing person... who was hugely intelligent and creative.”

One of the biggest thrills for Lindstrom in falling for McClain and marrying her in 2014 has been seeing her blossom as a director, producer, writer, artist and activist. The Daytime Emmy winner has earned film-festival awards across the country for projects like her short, Butterflies, and her documentary, Seeing Is Believing: Women Direct. “People have asked me if I ever expected Cady to do something like this, Lindstrom confided. “Yeah, of course! That’s who she is. If she needs to learn it, she will master it and get it done. That’s my wife. It’s pretty cool!”

And Lindstrom, an award-winning filmmaker in his own right, is still keen to work with his leading lady anytime. In fact, after McClain directed him in the series, SWITCH, last summer, she pulled out one of his old scripts. “She said, ‘I think this is going to be timely,’” recounted Lindstrom. “And when Cady says something’s going to be timely, I listen! It’s like real estate. If she says a building is a good investment, I listen. She has incredibly good instincts for things like that. So we pulled that script out, and I’m getting some very good feedback on it. It turns out she’s right! It is very timely. I expect to direct it... I just don’t know when.”

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Geniuses: Jason Biggs to Star Opposite Maggie Lawson in Fox Comedy Pilot

The potential series — from LA to Vegas EP Lon Zimmet — centers on a blue-collar couple (Biggs and Lawson) in South Jersey trying to get by and raise four kids, three of whom just happen to be certified geniuses. Biggs’ character, Mike, is described as affable, enthusiastic and cerebral — but not dumb.

Best known for his work in the American Pie film franchise, Biggs was a series regular in the first two seasons of Orange is the New Black. Additional TV credits include The Good Wife and subsequent spinoff The Good Fight.

Beverley Owen Dies: ‘The Munsters’ Original Marilyn Was 81

Her death was confirmed by her former cast mate Butch Patrick, who played little wolfish boy Eddie Munster on the 1964-66 series.

“Beautiful Beverly [sic] Owen has left us,” Patrick posted on Facebook yesterday. “What a sweet soul. I had the biggest crush on her. RIP Bev and thanks for your 13 memorable Marilyn Munster episodes.”

Owen’s daughter Polly Stone told TMZ that her mother died following a two-year battle with ovarian cancer. The former actress had not publicly disclosed her illness, but was surrounded by friends and family at her Vermont home when she passed, according to Stone.

Stone’s acting career was short-lived. After debuting on As the World Turns and guest starring on a half-dozen other episodic early ’60s series, Stone, in a blonde Marilyn Monroe-style wig, appeared in the first 13 episodes of the The Munsters, the sitcom about a friendly family of monsters – Fred Gwynne as the Frankenstein-like Herman, Yvonne De Carlo as vampire wife Lily, Al Lewis as vampire Grandpa, and Patrick as a sort of hybrid werewolf-vampire kid with a memorable widow’s peak.

As the gorgeous human Marilyn, Stone played the family oddball. In other words, the one Munster who appeared normal to the outside world.

Owen left the series after only one season to marry Jon Stone, a writer, producer and editor who would go on to a long association with Sesame Street. The couple divorced in 1974, with Stone reportedly going back to school to earn a master’s degree in early American history.

The actress was replaced on The Munsters by look-alike Pat Priest.

Owen divorced Stone in 1974 after a decade of marriage and she reportedly went on to earn her master’s degree in early American history in 1989. She is survived by daughters Polly and Kate.

ABC Family’s Greek will reunite at this year’s ATX Television Festival

Marley Shelton, NeNe Leakes & Jennifer Landon Lead Casts Of Pop Comedy Pilots ‘Ride Or Die’ & ‘Best Intentions’

Ride or Die will star Marley Shelton (Rampage, Rise), NeNe Leakes (Glee, The Real Housewives of Atlanta), Molly Sims (Las Vegas, Yes Man), Jennifer Landon (Banshee, Animal Kingdom) and Tawny Newsome (Bajillion Dollar Properties, Brockmire). Set for Best Intentions are David Fynn (Whiskey Cavalier, Undateable), Daniel Rashid (You Can Choose Your Family, Grown-ish), Lindsey Gort (The Carrie Diaries, Lucifer) and Sarah Levy (Schitt’s Creek, Working the Engels).

In Ride or Die, written by Matt McConkey (Heathers), when an elite spin studio is rocked by a strange murder, down-on-her-luck outsider Shauna (Shelton) teams up with true-crime buff Glo (Leakes) to find the killer. Sims plays Jamie, a cunning housewife, resident mean girl and frenemy from Shauna’s past life. Landon is Ali, who is wildly ambitious and threatened by Shauna’s rising popularity. Newsome plays Lindy, the awkward front-desk staffer who is Shauna’s only true ally at work.

The pilot is produced by the Gotham Group, as well as Nomadic Pictures. Michael Rosenberg is the executive producer, and Zoe Cassavetes directs the pilot.

Written by Herz and to be directed by Steve Pink, Best Intentions revolves around Andy Banks (Fynn), a kind-hearted but painfully awkward single father who is the guidance counselor at the high school his teenage son Nate (Rashid) attends. Gort plays Katie Baxter, a teacher who Andy is smitten with and thus, his never-ending hapless efforts to woo her drag Katie headfirst into her own personal misadventures. Levy plays Becky Fistick, a bubbly, cute, pain-in-the-ass micromanager who is the school’s vice principal.

American Pie writer Adam Herz executive produces with Barry Jossen of A+E Studios and Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens and Jay Weisleder of Propagate.

Meg Ryan 'free to have fun' with John Mellencamp

The 57-year-old actress dated the Jack & Diane singer for three years until 2014, and the pair reconciled in early 2017.

Meg announced their engagement back in November with a sweet illustration of herself and the musician, 67, on Instagram, and simply captioned it: “ENGAGED!”

And the When Harry Met Sally actress has now confessed she feels liberated when it comes to her relationship.

“What’s great about now is that John and I are so free to have fun,” Meg told The New York Times Magazine. “Maybe that freedom is about being a million years old. But I sometimes think relationships are for aliens. Who does it? Who can do it? I don’t know how any of us ever do.”

The actress and director, who was previously married to actor Dennis Quaid, also revealed she’s back working on a new romantic comedy, following her self-imposed retirement from Hollywood.

“(Rom-coms were) probably (my strong suit),” Meg shared. “I liked doing the alcoholic in When a Man Loves a Woman; I liked doing In The Cut; but I was very happy going to a set that was about: How do you find the funny thing? I like that again now, working on a romantic comedy.”

However, the Sleepless in Seattle star will be behind the camera for her next rom-com, not in front of it.

“It’s at Working Title Films. I’ll just leave it at that. You feel like you’re jinxing it if you’re talking about it. Hopefully it’s for me to direct,” she explained.

“I’m aware now that romantic comedies are confections, but they have construction. There’s architecture,” Meg added, before admitting that Hollywood has changed. “It’s not something I was aware of back then.”

Zach Roerig on God Friended Me 3/3/19

GUEST CAST includes: Ella Rae Peck (Vivian), Zach Roerig (Aiden).

Jordana Brewster on Magnum 2/18/19

Gen-Z Studio Brat Hires ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ Alum Jessica Klein As VP Programming

The move is an interesting one for Brat, which has been ramping up its original film and TV content on its digital platforms. The company focuses on using social media stars to build teen-based programming; nearly 3 billion minutes of Brat content were consumed across YouTube, Facebook and Instagram in 2018, Brat says. It has 2.7 million subscribers to its YouTube channel.

“I’ve spent the majority of my career writing serialized dramas for and about teenagers,” Klein said. “Kids haven’t changed, but Brat has figured out how to reach them. I can’t wait to help this incredibly exciting company create dramatic and engaging stories for a whole new generation of viewers.”

Klein, who most recently oversaw production for Nickelodeon series Make it Pop and The Other Kingdom, will oversee creative development and original programming as one of Brat’s most senior execs.

“We’ve always aspired to make television shows that happen to air online, and not commoditized ‘digital’ media,” said Brat co-founder Rob Fishman, to whom Klein will report. “Bringing on Jessica is a tremendous step forward in becoming this generation’s must-see TV.”

Klein wrote and produced seven seasons of Aaron Spelling’s iconic teen hit Beverly Hills, 90210, eventually rising to executive producer. She also worked as creative VP of The Tom Lynch Co., which produced series for NBC, the Disney Channel, Nickelodeon and Fox Kids.

Brat, meanwhile, has raised nearly $50 million to date from investors like MGM owner Anchorage Capital and Shari Redstone’s Advancit Capital. It most recently renewed and set release dates for five original series and ordered two new series, one featuring Anna Cathcart from To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before and Odd Squad and another starring up-and-coming pro boxer Ryan “Kingry” Garcia.

Lethal Vet Is Magnum's Ex

Brewster’s Hannah was responsible for embedding Magnum and his team in Afghanistan. She also had a relationship with Magnum, but it was all an act that eventually led to his capture and time spent as a P.O.W.

Brewster makes her debut in the Feb. 15 episode.

Scott Bryce on FBI 2/19/19

GUEST CAST includes: Daoud Heidami (Edgar Santos), Jared Johnston (Frank Cutler), Scott Bryce (Paul Garett)

As The World Turns: Marisa Tomei, Julianne Moore find out they're distant relatives

The two actresses, who both attended Boston University in Massachusetts during the early 1980s, have been friends for years, but they had no idea they were related until Tomei dug deep into her background for an appearance on U.S. genealogy show Finding Your Roots, which aired this week.

The Spider-Man: Homecoming star recently sat down with host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to research her ancestry, and was stunned when she learned she shared “an identical stretch of DNA” with Moore.

“Julianne? Julie?” she gasped. “You know we went to school together? Jules! Oh, I can’t wait to tell her!”

The findings are particularly stunning because Tomei’s ancestors all had their roots traced back to Italy, while Moore has no Italian heritage that Finding Your Roots producers could find.

However, the fact that they are genetic cousins means their common ancestor could date back hundreds of years.

Moore first shared the footage of Tomei and Gates discussing the discovery on her Instagram page on Wednesday, and shared her joy in the accompanying caption.

“I KNEW WE WERE ALIKE!” she wrote. “@marisatomei is my COUSIN!! OMG (oh my God) I’m so excited, thank you @henrylouisgates for letting us know we have identical segments of DNA – #FindingYourRoots #twinning”.

Shortly afterwards, Tomei uploaded part of the same clip on her social media account, and added a pair of old photos of herself and the Kingsman: The Golden Circle actress.

“What an incredible gift to find out about my family’s roots with @HenryLouisGates!” she posted. “Eternally grateful for this generation and generations to come…. and the big surprise – discovering my friend is my REAL cousin! Hey cuz (sic) @juliannemoore!!!! Love”.

They are not the first famous faces to find a familial link through the show – in 2017, funnyman Larry David was tickled to learn that he was actually related to former U.S. presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, after portraying the Vermont Senator on comedy show Saturday Night Live.

Tune-In Alert! Soap Alums On THE BLACKLIST

Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen Join ‘Sopranos’ Movie Prequel

They join Alessandro Nivola, Jon Bernthal, and Vera Farmiga, who had previously been added to the cast. More players from the “Sopranos” lore are expected to be coming on board.

New Line could not be reached for comment on the casting.

The film is set during the Newark riots in the ’60s.

Series creator David Chase co-wrote the script with producer Lawrence Konner. Alan Taylor is directing “The Many Saints of Newark,” while Nicole Lambert and Marcus Viscidi are executive producing. Chase has been hands on from the get-go in the casting process, hand-picking Nivola to play Dickie Moltisanti, along with Stoll and Magnussen in their mystery roles.

Stoll has been busy on both the big and small screens, most recently appearing as Buzz Aldrin in “First Man.” On TV, he had roles in “The Romanoffs” and “The Strain.” Stoll can next be seen in the “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” Netflix series, “Ratched.” He is represented by UTA, Suskin Management, and attorney James S. Adams.

As for Magnussen, he has a busy year ahead with Netflix’s “Velvet Buzzsaw” and Disney’s “Aladdin.” He is repped by WME, BRS/Gage, Anonymous Content, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.

Ming-Na Wen on Fresh Off The Boat 2/1/19

Inspired by a true story, “Fresh Off the Boat” stars Randall Park as Louis Huang, Constance Wu as Jessica Huang, Hudson Yang as Eddie Huang, Forrest Wheeler as Emery Huang, Ian Chen as Evan Huang, Lucille Soong as Grandma Huang, Chelsey Crisp as Honey and Ray Wise as Marvin.

Guest starring is Rachel Cannon as Deidre, Ming-Na Wen as Elaine, Reggie Lee as Julius and Jimmy O. Yang as Horace.

“Grand-Mahjong” was written by Cindy Fang and directed by Kyle Weber.

Dishing with Digest - Linda Dano - 1/4/19

Beloved soap vet Linda Dano looks back on her ANOTHER WORLD years as Felicia Gallant, her friendship with Stephen Schnetzer (ex-Cass), her jump to ABC and more with Digest’s Stephanie Sloane and Mara Levinsky. We also discuss Ingo Rademacher’s upcoming departure from B&B and what it means for the canvas.

Golden Globes Awards: 2019 Presenters

Also included in the second presenters batch are: Antonio Banderas, Kristen Bell, Emily Blunt, Steve Carell, Olivia Colman, Taron Egerton, Richard Gere, Danai Gurira, Nicole Kidman, Lucy Liu, Julianne Moore, Maya Rudolph, Megan Mullally, Chris Pine, Amy Poehler, Gina Rodriguez, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz.

Today’s round of presenters joins those previous announced: Halle Berry, Chadwick Boseman, Sterling K. Brown, Jessica Chastain, Kaley Cuoco, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dick Van Dyke, Idris Elba, Harrison Ford, Johnny Galecki, Justin Hartley, Taraji P. Henson, Felicity Huffman, Allison Janney, Michael B. Jordan, William H. Macy, Chrissy Metz, Mike Myers, Lupita Nyong’o, Gary Oldman, Jim Parsons, Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Octavia Spencer, Ben Stiller, Lena Waithe and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg will host the ceremony airing live coast to coast on Sunday, January 6, from 5-8 p.m. PT/8-11 p.m. ET on NBC from The Beverly Hilton.

Philip Bosco, Tony-Winning Actor and ‘Working Girl’ Star, Dies at 88

Bosco received the first of his six Tony nominations for his Broadway debut, the 1960 drama “Rape of the Belt,” and his last for a 2004 revival of “Twelve Angry Men.” He won in 1989 for playing an outrageous opera company head in the comedy “Lend Me a Tenor.”

He also appeared in more than 50 Broadway productions over his storied career.

Though he told the New York Times in 1986 that he had turned down a seven-year contract with a Hollywood studio early in his career because he did not want to live in California, he did appear in many movies starting in the 1980s.

Bosco had small but crucial roles in films like Mike Nichols’ 1988 comedy “Working Girl,” where he played the corporate honcho who fires Sigourney Weaver’s scheming executive and hires Melanie Griffith’s ambitious secretary instead.

His other big-screen credits included Woody Allen’s 1997 film “Deconstructing Harry,” 1983’s “Trading Places,” the 1986 drama “Children of a Lesser God” and the 1997 rom-com “My Best Friend’s Wedding.”

He also made frequent appearances on TV, from soap operas like “Ryan’s Hope” and “As the World Turns” to “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” in which he had a recurring role as a judge. In 1987, he won a Daytime Emmy for an “ABC Afterschool Special” called “Read Between the Lines.”

Dishing with Digest - 11/30/18 Mary Beth Evans

DAYS's Mary Beth Evans (Kayla) talks to Digest's Stephanie Sloane and Mara Levinsky about 32 years of playing Kayla, her special bond with co-star Stephen Nichols (Steve), how she feels about his exit, her other daytime homes and more. Plus, we examine whether characters can move on from a supercouple pairing.

Alexandra Chando on The Neighborhood 12/3/18

Jon Lindstrom & Tim Lounibos Join ‘Bosch’

Soap opera veteran Jensen Buchanan is ready for a clean break in Brentwood

The single-level Traditional, built in 1955, has an open floor plan, wood floors and vaulted ceilings. A fireplace anchors the living room. The kitchen has a beamed ceiling, stainless-steel appliances and an eat-at center island. There are four bedrooms and three bathrooms.

French doors at the back of the house open to a covered terrace, a pavilion and an outdoor kitchen. A stone bridge with a waterfall overlooks the pool and spa area.

Buchanan, 56, has appeared on such daytime soap operas as "Another World," "As the World Turns," "General Hospital" and "One Life to Live."

She bought the property in 2016 for $1.9 million, public records show.

Jade Mills and Johnny Schell of Coldwell Banker are the listing agents.

Shawn Christian on The Rookie 11/27/18

“The Rookie” stars Nathan Fillion as John Nolan, Alyssa Diaz as Angela Lopez, Richard T. Jones as Sergeant Wade Grey, Titus Makin as Jackson West, Mercedes Mason as Captain Zoe Andersen, Melissa O’Neil as Lucy Chen, Afton Williamson as Talia Bishop and Eric Winter as Tim Bradford.

Guest starring is Danny Nucci as Detective Sanford Motta, Ryan Michelle Bathe as Detective Jennifer Paige and Shawn Christian as Jeremy Hawke.

“The Hawke” was written by Fredrick Kotto and directed by Timothy Busfield.

Marisa Tomei To Star With Liev Schreiber In ‘Human Capital’

The film follows the lives of two families — one middle-class and one privileged — as their lives intertwine across the social divide when two of their children suddenly begin a relationship that leads to a tragic accident.

Tomei will play Carrie in the pic, which previously set Schreiber as Drew and Alex Wolff as Ian in the drama, which is being produced by Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray’s Maven Pictures and Bert Marcus Film’s Bert Marcus alongside Moverman via his Sight Unseen Pictures and Schrieber and Matthew Stillman via their Illuminated Content).

Paolo Virzì adapted Amidon’s book into the 2013 Italian-language film Il Capitale Umano, which won seven awards including best picture at the Donatello Awards, Italy’s version of the Oscars.

Tomei, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for My Cousin Vinny, recently wrapped Spider-Man: Far From Home and Ira Sachs indie A Family Vacation starring alongside Isabelle Huppert. She was recently seen in The First Purge and on Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

She is repped by UTA, Untitled Entertainment and Paul Hastings.

Meg Ryan and John Mellencamp engaged

The When Harry Met Sally star and rock veteran John Mellencamp have made their longtime romance official by becoming engaged.

The actress and director posted an illustration of herself and the Jack & Diane singer on Instagram on Thursday and simply captioned it: “ENGAGED!”

The couple started dating in 2011 but split in 2014, with the musician telling satellite radio shock jock Howard Stern, “Oh, women hate me. I loved Meg Ryan. She hates me to death. I think it’s because I’m a child. I throw fits, I gripe, I complain. I’m moody. Every bad thing that a fella can be, that’s me.”

Shortly after the interview aired in March 2017, Ryan and Mellencamp reconciled and were spotted out in New York City. They were also seen at the Art Cliff Diner in Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, while the actress also made appearances at several of her rocker boyfriend’s shows.

Earlier this year, sources told the New York Post’s Page Six the pair had started planning a wedding celebration, and now it’s official.

On Wednesday, Ryan, 56, was spotted wearing what appeared to be a wedding band on her left ring finger as she ran errands in the Big Apple.

Ryan was previously married to actor Dennis Quaid, the father of her 26-year-old son Jack, while Mellencamp has three ex-wives – Elaine Irwin, Victoria Granucci, and Priscilla Esterline.

Mellencamp’s comments on the Howard Stern Show were rare as neither he nor private Ryan have shared much publicly about their romance.

Jon Lindstrom Lands a Prime Role on Amazon's BOSCH!

Lindstrom had been teasing fans on social media for a couple weeks that he’d landed a new role but had kept details close to the vest until he could finally share the news. Amazon renewed BOSCH for a fifth season even before the fourth premiered, but there is still no premiere date for the series’ fifth season beyond just 2019.

BOSCH stars Titus Welliver as Los Angeles Police detective Harry Bosch, and is based on characters and storylines taken from novels by author Michael Connelly. In the books, Lindstrom’s character of Lance Cronyn is a former district attorney who has moved into private practice. He’s also not entirely on the right side of the law, and willing to do whatever it takes to get the verdict he’s after. Whether or not the TV series will follow the same storyline as the books, you’ll just have to stay tuned to find out!

We’ll let you know when the fifth season of BOSCH is going to premiere so you can check out Lindstrom in his newest role.

Soap Alums’ New Series Debuts

James Karen Dies: ‘Poltergeist’ Actor Was 94

Born in Wikes-Barre, Pennsylvania to Russian immigrant parents, Karen served in the Air Force during World War II and then went on to attend the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. in addition to his popular roles in film, he appeared on television and the stage. He got his break when he was the understudy for Karl Malden in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire. He also appeared in productions of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Cactus Flower.

From there, he appeared on As the World Turns as well as All My Children and Eight is Enough. He starred in the 1979 miniseries Blind Ambition and then made appearances in various iconic sitcoms and television shows including The Golden Girls, The Jeffersons and the final TV movie for Little House on the Prairie.

A lifelong member of the Actors Studio, Karen would go on to appear in a variety of films. He had a role in The China Syndrome opposite Jane Fonda as well as Wall Street, which was one of three collaborations with Oliver Stone. He also appeared as Secretary of State William Rogers in his 1995 pic Nixon as well as the football drama Any Given Sunday in 1999. He had roles in noteworthy movies All the President’s Men (1976), John Cassavetes’ Opening Night (1977), Up Close & Personal (1996), Apt Pupil (1998), and David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive (2001). His other credits include the 2006 drama The Pursuit of Happyness starring Will Smith as well as Bender and Cynthia.

His role in the classic horror pic Poltergeist became a memorable milestone for Karen. Co-written by Steven Spielberg and directed by Tobe Hooper, Karen portrayed the real-estate developer who built community of Cuesta Verde atop a cemetery.

Ming-Na Wen on Fresh Off The Boat 11/9/18

Inspired by a true story, “Fresh Off the Boat” stars Randall Park as Louis Huang, Constance Wu as Jessica Huang, Hudson Yang as Eddie Huang, Forrest Wheeler as Emery Huang, Ian Chen as Evan Huang, Lucille Soong as Grandma Huang, Chelsey Crisp as Honey and Ray Wise as Marvin.

Guest starring is Rachel Cannon as Deidre, Ming-Na Wen as Elaine, Reggie Lee as Julius, Jimmy O. Yang as Horace, Kimberly Crandall as Lisa, Colleen Ryan as Amanda, Rachel Anderson as homeowner and Fred Cross as Bruce.

“Mo’ Chinese Mo’ Problems” was written by Jeff Chiang and directed by Claire Scanlon.

Soaps Stars Michael Park & Murray Bartlett Joins Armistead Maupin’s Tales Of The City

Murray Bartlett (Looking) has been cast as the lovable Michael ‘Mouse’ Tolliver, longtime resident at Barbary Lane and Mary Ann’s best friend; Charlie Barnett (Chicago Fire) plays Mouse’s boyfriend Ben Marshall; newcomers Josiah Victoria Garcia plays Jake Rodriguez, a newer resident on Barbary Lane who is a transgender man and a caregiver for Anna Madrigal (previously announced Olympia Dukakis) and May Hong (High Maintenance) as Jake’s long-term girlfriend Margot Park. Previously announced Barbara Garrick also returns as DeDe Halycon Day.

Recurring cast members include Jen Richards (Her Story, Mrs. Fletcher) playing a young Anna Madrigal, Daniela Vega (A Fantastic Woman) as Ysela, a trans woman who plays a pivotal role in Anna’s life; Michelle Buteau (First Wives Club) as Wren, Brian’s no-nonsense best friend; Ashley Park (Broadway’s Mean Girls) and Christopher Larkin (The 100) as twins Ani and Raven who are newer residents of Barbary Lane; Caldwell Tidicue aka “Bob the Drag Queen” (RuPaul’s Drag Race) as Ida Best the manager of a burlesque club where Shawna and Margot work; Matthew Risch (Modern Family, Looking) as Mouse’s ex-boyfriend Harrison; Michael Park (Dear Evan Hansen) as Mary Ann’s husband Robert; Dickie Hearts (Grace & Frankie) as Mateo, DeDe’s housekeeper; Benjamin Thys (The Meyerowitz Stories) and Samantha Soule (Godless) as a queer polyamorous married couple Eli and Inka; and Juan Castano (The OA, What/If) as Ben’s co-worker Flaco Ramirez.

The series spotlights LGBTQ people both in front of and behind the camera. Showrunner / Executive Producer and writer Lauren Morelli (Co-Executive Producer and writer Orange Is the New Black) and Producing Director and Executive Producer Alan Poul (Tales of the City, Six Feet Under, The Newsroom), who are both part of the LGBTQ community, assembled an entirely queer writing team comprised of Andy Parker, Patricia Resnick, Marcus Gardley, Jen Silverman, Hansol Jung and Thomas Page McBee to create the authentic and multigenerational LGBTQ characters and stories. Talented directors who are also part of the LGBTQ community include Silas Howard, Sydney Freeland, Stacie Passon and Kyle Alvarez. Transgender people involved in the production include: Garcia (“Jake”) a non-binary trans actor who uses they/them pronouns; Richards (young Anna Madrigal) a trans woman who starred in and was a writer and producer on the Emmy-nominated web series Her Story, about dating as a trans woman; Vega (Ysela) a trans woman and the lead of the Oscar-winning film A Fantastic Woman; writer Thomas Page McBee; and directors Silas Howard and Sydney Freeland.

Based on the books by Armistead Maupin, this next chapter – Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City – follows Mary Ann (Linney), who returns home to San Francisco and is reunited with her daughter Shawna (Page) and ex-husband Brian, twenty years after leaving them behind to pursue her career. Fleeing the midlife crisis that her picture perfect Connecticut life created, Mary Ann returns home to her chosen family and will quickly be drawn back into the orbit of Anna Madrigal (Dukakis) and the residents of 28 Barbary Lane.

Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City is a Working Title Television and NBCUniversal International studios production for Netflix. Working Title’s Andrew Stearn, Liza Chasin, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner also executive produce. Michael Cunningham will serve as a consulting producer.

Maupin is the author of eleven novels, including the nine-volume Tales of the City, which led to three Tales of the City limited series starring Linney and Dukakis. Alan Poul served as producer of the first three adaptations (Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City) which earned a Peabody Award and multiple Emmy Award nominations. The first aired in 1993 on PBS in the U.S., and the last two on Showtime in 1998 and 2001.

Dishing with Digest - 10/12/18 - Shawn Christian And Arianne Zucker

Jason Biggs reveals he's clean and sober 1 year after battling booze, drugs

The actor took to Instagram on Thursday to publicly celebrate his anniversary, revealing he had struggled for years to straighten up.

“I first tried to get sober over 5 years ago, when the weight of my obsession with booze and drugs became too heavy for me to handle,” the 40-year-old father-of-two wrote. “Turns out this s**t is hard.”

“After some fits and starts, I’ve managed to put together one year of sobriety. I’m as proud of it as anything in my life,” he added, before offering a little hope to others who are struggling.

“Know there’s help,” he added. “Don’t be ashamed. We can do this.”

Biggs’ wife Jenny Mollen was also celebrating — she posted a photo of the actor planting a kiss on her cheek and wrote the caption: “So proud of my husband today. Congrats baby. I know how hard you work. I see you. I love you. Thank you for your fight.”

It appears Biggs’ sobriety battle began around the birth of his second son, Lazlo, who entered the world on Oct. 2, 2017.

The couple had a tough start after Mollen suffered a miscarriage in 2008, just weeks into her relationship with the actor.

In a candid interview with People magazine months after she first became a mum in 2014, Jenny revealed she was 12 weeks along when she lost the couple’s baby. They eloped two months later and wed in April, 2008.

Michael Park on Blue Bloods 11/2/18

GUEST CAST includes: Yasha Jackson (Maya Thompson), Eric Freeman (Colin), Michael Park (Inspector Keith Sullivan)

Talk Show Appearance

Friday, Oct. 12 - Actor Grant Show discusses his drama on The CW, DYNASTY; actress Skyler Samuels; actress Roselyn Sanchez guest co-hosts

Meg Ryan Eyes Starring Role in NBC Comedy From Lorne Michaels

The single-camera project takes place in a suburban New Jersey town where the facade of peace and civility is disrupted by the shocking death of a longtime Township Council member. Though Ryan is already attached to produce the series, she is in talks to star in it, as well.

Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels will executive-produce alongside Ryan, as will Andrew Singer (Portlandia) and series creator Andrew Gottlieb (Fuller House).

Though Ryan got her start on TV shows, including As the World Turns and the Western series Wildside, she made a name for herself through her work in film. In fact, her performances in When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail each earned her a Golden Globe nomination.

More recently, Ryan has appeared on episodes of Web Therapy and Curb Your Enthusiasm. It was announced in January 2017 that she would lead the EPIX comedy series Picture Paris, but no further news about that project has been reported.

Talk Show Appearance

Thursday, October 4: Meredith Hagner (Liberty, As The World Turns)

Your Complete Guide to Every New Hallmark Christmas Movie This Year

Whether you're into sad veterans, overworked marketing assistants too busy trying to land a promotion to celebrate the holidays or a bah-humbug widower in need of some Christmas spirit, Hallmark has you covered with over 35 festive holiday films that go down smoother than your grandma's hot cocoa with marshmallows. Here is when all the new films premiere!

Saturday, Oct. 27
Film: Christmas at Pemberley Manor
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Jessica Lowndes, Michael Rady
Synopsis: As Christmas approaches, Elizabeth Bennett (Lowndes), a New York event planner, is sent to a quaint, small town to organize their holiday festival. When she arrives, she finds William Darcy (Rady), a high-profile billionaire lacking in holiday spirit, in the process of selling the charming estate she hoped to use as a venue. Determined to make her event a success, Elizabeth persuades the reluctant Darcy to let her hold the festival on the historical estate once known for its holiday cheer. When they wind up working together to arrange the festivities, the unlikely pair begins falling for each other. But when complications arise and the festival is unexpectedly shut down, the couple parts ways and Darcy moves forward with his plans to sell the estate. On the night before Christmas, a wistful Elizabeth hopes for a Christmas miracle to revive the festival, save the estate, and rekindle her holiday romance.

Wednesday, Nov. 3
Film: Christmas Joy
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Danielle Panabaker, Matt Long
Synopsis: Joy Holbrook (Panabaker) is a keenly intelligent market researcher with an eye on her company's top account and garnering a sweet promotion just in time for the holidays. Just as Joy is capturing the attention of the account's CEO, she receives a call from her Aunt Ruby's best friend back home in Crystal Falls. Ruby has broken her ankle and needs surgery. Though the timing couldn't be worse, Joy immediately comes to her aunt's bedside only to be reunited with former crush, now hospital administrator, Ben Andrew (Long), son of Ruby's best friend Shirley. Joy also must reconcile Ruby's stubborn determination to be in control of everything, including the town's legendary baking competition known as the Cookie Crawl. To keep Ruby focused on healing, Joy volunteers to take Ruby's place much to the amusement of Ben who knows Joy has no idea of the Herculean task before her. Though Joy initially refuses Ben's attempts to "co-captain," she begins to soften and let him in, all the while remembering that there truly is no place like home. Based on the best-selling novel by Nancy Naigle.

Thursday, Nov. 4
Film: Road to Christmas
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Jessy Schram, Chad Michael Murray, Teryl Rothery
Synopsis: Los Angeles television producer Maggie Baker (Schram) unwittingly falls for Danny Wise (Murray), the son and former producer of his mother's (Rothery) popular annual Christmas special Julia Wise Lifestyle. When Maggie's secret plan to reunite Danny and his two brothers with Julia during the live broadcast in Vermont goes awry, Maggie is reminded that above all, it is the love for family and friends that makes the merriest of Christmas.

Film: Marrying Father Christmas
Channel: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Stars: Erin Krakow, Niall Matter, Wendie Malick
Synopsis: When Miranda Chester (Krakow) set off to find information on her biological father two Christmases ago, she never imagined her investigation would lead her to both the love of her life, Ian McAndrick (Matter), and the family she had always longed for, including Margaret Whitcomb (Malick) and step-brother Peter Whitcomb (Jim Thorburn). After her romantic engagement last Christmas, Miranda prepares for a Christmas wedding surrounded by this new family. While Miranda finalizes the details of her big day, Margaret forges a surprising romance with a friend from the past. Miranda's wedding plans are quickly complicated when a mysterious visitor who claims to have ties to her late parents reaches out to her just days before her wedding. As Miranda's wedding approaches, she must decide if she wants to spend one of the most momentous days of her life with this new family connection, and must carefully navigate the first steps into the next chapter of her life with Ian.

Wednesday, Nov. 10
Film: It's Christmas, Eve
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: LeAnn Rimes, Tyler Hines
Synopsis: As interim school superintendent, Eve (Rimes) trims budgets and now she's in her hometown where it's personal. Her handsome neighbor Liam (Hines) is a music teacher and Eve feels his program must be cut. But luckily her friend is married to an IT guy, who's created a website for donations directly to save the arts program. Launched during the tree-lighting ceremony where Liam's students will perform, the website could provide the Christmas miracle the town needs. Already the universe is cooperating. Eve is back home and she, Liam, and his daughter look like they might be celebrating many a future Christmas.

Thursday, Nov. 11
Film: Christmas in Love
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Brooke D'Orsay, Daniel Lissing, Mary-Margaret Humes
Synopsis: Ellie Hartman (D'Orsay) is an aspiring crafter working in her small town's bakery making famous Christmas Kringles. When the new, big-city CEO Nick Carlingson (Lissing) visits the bakery, he arrives filled with modernization ideas destined to lay off many employees. During his visit, Ellie is to teach Nick how to make a Kringle, and determined to show him it's the people who make the business a success, not machines. Nick meets more of the employees and townspeople, visits the food bank and begins to see all the kindness that is shared, and he begins to soften — though not convinced automation isn't better. Struggling with chasing her own entrepreneurial dreams, Ellie begins to fall for Nick but not before feeling betrayed when she inadvertently sees Nick's laptop filled with automation plans. When Nick finally tells the employees his future ideas for the company, Ellie must decide if she should trust him, but more importantly, whether to take a leap of faith in making her own dreams come true.

Film: A Soldier's Christmas
Channel: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Stars: Eloise Mumford, Sean Faris
Synopsis: Captain Grace Garland (Mumford), a decorated U.S. veteran, returns home after two tours of Search and Rescue in Afghanistan. After being separated from her beloved K9 partner, Grace must rediscover the magic of Christmas. When she finds herself stranded in the town of River's Crossing a couple weeks before Christmas, the local judge, Joe Peterson (Faris), offers her a place to stay on his property and takes it upon himself to show Grace everything she has been missing; Christmas, family, community, and love.

Wednesday, Nov. 17
Film: Christmas at Graceland
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Kellie Pickler, Wes Brown
Synopsis: Laurel (Pickler), a Chicago-based business executive travels to Memphis to secure one of the city's oldest family-owned banks. While in Memphis, Laurel reunites with old flame Clay (Brown), a local music promoter with loftier aspirations. Though Laurel tries to keep her eye on the prize of the business acquisition, Clay is very persuasive reminding her of the days when they were a performing duo on the brink of stardom. Now Laurel's focus turns to the home of the Blues and dreams of making music again.

Film: A Godwink Christmas
Channel: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Stars: Kimberley Sustad, Paul Campbell, Kathie Lee Gifford
Synopsis: As Christmas approaches, Paula (Sustad), a St. Louis antique appraiser, reluctantly accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Daniel (Giles Panton, Chesapeake Shores), a career-focused attorney. When her Aunt Jane (Gifford) senses she has mixed emotions over the engagement, she invites Paula to her Nantucket home. Upon her arrival, Paula plans a trip to the nearby island of Martha's Vineyard where she meets Gery (Campbell), a charming inn owner. When bad weather prevents her from departing, Paula winds up staying at Gery's inn and enjoying local holiday festivities alongside him. They begin to have feelings for each other, but when the weather clears up, they part ways and Paula returns to Nantucket. Sensing she's fallen for Gery, Aunt Jane shares with Paula her belief that their meeting was God's way of "winking" at her to help determine which direction her life should take. When Daniel surprises her by spontaneously arriving in Nantucket, Paula decides to move forward with their marriage plans. But back in St. Louis, Daniel soon returns to his all-business ways and a fed-up Paula finally realizes they're not compatible. When Jane invites her back to Nantucket for Christmas, Paula accepts, unaware that Jane has devised a plan to bring her and Gery together. From author Squire Rushnell of the God Winks book series.

Thursday, Nov. 18
Film: Mingle All the Way
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Jen Lilley, Brant Daugherty, Lindsay Wagner
Synopsis: Mingle All the Way is a new networking app designed to pair busy professionals together for upcoming events, without long-term romance. Molly (Lilley), founder of the app, is determined to prove to her family that it is a success. Therefore, she joins the app and meets another busy professional, Jeff (Daugherty). When Molly and Jeff are matched, they are both horrified to realize they've already had not one, but two disastrous previous encounters. Nevertheless, they agree to stay matched for all their respective upcoming holiday engagements. As the pair gets closer, perhaps their business arrangement might turn into something more this holiday season.

Film: Return to Christmas Creek
Channel: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Stars: Tori Anderson, Stephen Huszar, Steven Weber, Kari Matchett
Synopsis: As Christmas approaches, Amelia Hughes (Anderson), a career-focused Chicago app developer lacking in holiday spirit, returns to her small hometown of Christmas Creek to rediscover the meaning of Christmas. There, she reunites with her childhood best friend Mike (Huszar) and her estranged uncle Harry (Weber), whose mysterious rift with Amelia's father divided her family during the holiday season when she was a child. As she engages in local holiday festivities — and begins falling for Mike — Amelia finds herself feeling the Christmas spirit and looking forward to Harry's Christmas Eve tradition of delivering toys to needy children in his small, private airplane. Meanwhile, Harry begins repairing his damaged relationship with his ex-girlfriend Pamela (Kari Matchett). But as she helps prep Harry's airplane for the toy delivery, a shocked Amelia learns her parents have unexpectedly shown up in town for the holiday and is crushed when her father and Harry resume their longstanding feud. On Christmas Eve, disappointed by her family's continued fighting, Amelia prepares to return to Chicago and leave behind Christmas Creek and her budding romance with Mike along with it. But just as she's about to leave, she feels a burst of inspiration that just might turn things around and help her finally restore family peace and embrace romance as love prepares to take flight for Christmas.

Friday, Nov. 19
Film: Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane
Channel: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Stars: Alicia Witt, Colin Ferguson
Synopsis: Emma (Witt) returns home to celebrate Christmas for the last time with her siblings in the house they grew up in. After their parents' recent passing, the siblings reluctantly agree to sell the family home on Honeysuckle Lane, leaving Emma in charge of its belongings. While Emma's mother's collection is being appraised, they find a hidden surprise that takes them on a journey to discover the power of love and family during the holidays. Based on the book by Mary Elizabeth McDonough.

Saturday, Nov. 20
Film: Hope at Christmas
Channel: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Stars: Ryan Paevey, Scottie Thompson
Synopsis: Sydney Ragsdale (Thompson), recently divorced, decides to spend Christmas in a house she inherited with her young daughter. As Sydney begins to spend more time at the local bookstore, she meets a teacher, Mac (Paevey), who also fills in for the town Santa. Mac tries to make Christmas wishes come true, and this year Sydney is at the top of his "nice" list. As a new opportunity with the bookstore unfolds, Mac helps Sydney open herself up to life, love, and believing in the spirit of Christmas again.

Sunday, Nov. 21
Film: Christmas at the Palace
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Merritt Patterson, Brittany Bristow
Synopsis: Katie, a former professional ice skater (Patterson), is hired by the king of San Senova, Alexander, to help his daughter in a Christmas ice skating performance. As Katie spends time in the castle and with the king, she and Alex begin to develop feelings for each other and ultimately fall in love. But will the tradition-loving people of San Senova allow their king to make a foreigner their queen?

Monday, Nov. 22
Film: Christmas at Grand Valley
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Danica McKellar, Brennan Elliott
Synopsis: Burned out from the hubbub of the Chicago gallery world, artist Kelly (McKellar) returns home to the picturesque Grand Valley just in time for Christmas. Maybe her favorite town's shining season will reinvigorate her love of art and guide her down her next path. Leo (Elliott), businessman and all-star dad to his children, struggles to balance his time this holiday season. When he is assigned to review a hotel in Grand Valley for its value, he sees this as the perfect opportunity for a Christmas family vacation. It isn't long until Kelly and Leo's worlds collide. As Kelly re-experiences her favorite Grand Valley traditions with Leo and his children, she begins to find her way back to her passion for art.

Tuesday, Nov. 23
Film: Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Lacey Chabert, Brendan Penny
Synopsis: Darcy (Chabert) has always worked hard to prove herself and be successful on her own terms, even choosing to start her own company, rather than work with her father. Returning to her hometown for Christmas, Darcy reconnects with an old rival, restaurant owner Luke (Penny), and they are forced to plan a charity event together. As Darcy spends time with her family and Luke, she starts to realize what matters most in life and sets out to mend her relationship with her father, and possibly fall in love. Based on the book of the same title by Melissa de la Cruz.

Wednesday, Nov. 24
Film: Christmas Everlasting
Channel: Hallmark Channel — Hallmark Hall of Fame
Stars: Tatyana Ali, Dondre T. Whitfield, Patti LaBelle, Dennis Haysbert
Synopsis: Christmas is fast approaching and years of long workdays employed at New York's top corporate law firm are about to pay off now that Lucy Toomey (Ali) will be made partner after the New Year. However, when Alice, her older sister with special needs, unexpectedly passes away, Lucy returns back to Nilson's Bay, Wisconsin, to attend the funeral and handle her estate. While Lucy dreads returning to her childhood home, she also feels real sorrow that she was too busy to take her sister's last call. Once back in Nilson's Bay, Lucy meets Peter (Whitfield), her old high school sweetheart and Alice's former attorney, who informs her of the terms of Alice's eccentric will that states in order for Lucy to inherit the family home, she must live there for 30 days through the holidays.

Thursday, Nov. 25
Film: Welcome to Christmas
Channel: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Stars: Jennifer Finnigan, Eric Mabius
Synopsis: Resort developer Madison Lane (Finnigan) is tasked with finding a location for a new ski resort. While she's prepared to recommend the resort be placed in Mountain Park, her boss tells her to take a trip to Christmas, Colorado, to consider the location and the incentive package they're offering. On her way into town to meet with the mayor, Madison has a minor fender-bender with the town's welcome sign. Town Sheriff Gage McBride (Mabius) gives Madison a ride into town so she can attend the meeting while the car is towed and repaired. Little does Madison know that the town is on a mission to convince Madison that Christmas is the best place for the new ski resort. While stranded, Madison grows to love the community and the spirit of Christmas that runs throughout. Is a resort really the right move for Christmas? Or would the town be better off keeping its charm and traditions intact?

Film: A Shoe Addict's Christmas
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Candace Cameron Bure, Luke Macfarlane
Synopsis: As Christmas approaches, Noelle (Bure) is at a crossroads in her life when it seems that love, a connection with her father, and her dream career are out of reach. When she stays late at her job in a department store on a snowy Christmas Eve, she accidentally gets locked in after closing. She isn't too concerned about the prospect of spending the night in the store... until a quirky woman appears out of nowhere in the shoe department and tells Noelle that she's her guardian angel. Soon, Noelle finds herself revisiting Christmases past, present, and future as she must work with her new neighbor, a handsome, Christmas-loving firefighter, to plan the annual Christmas Charity Gala. Will visiting the holidays of yesterday and tomorrow help Noelle take new chances and discover the true spirit of Christmas? And in realizing that the only thing standing in her way of leading a fulfilling life is herself, will the love she has longed for all her life be the best surprise gift of all?

Wednesday, Dec. 1
Film: Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Jill Wagner, Mark Deklin, Holly Robinson-Peete, Barbara Niven, Andrew Francis, Ashley Williams
Synopsis: When Lisa (Wagner) takes a last-minute Christmas trip to her hometown of Evergreen, she finds that the historic general store has been closed. Using her skills as a professional retail designer, Lisa decides to keep local tradition alive and help the good people of Evergreen bring the store back to life. As Lisa charms a local contractor named Kevin (Deklin) into working with her, the pair find themselves facing one surprise after another as they restore the store to its former glory. When the staff at the Kringle Kitchen temporarily accept the store's beloved "Mailbox to Santa" for safekeeping, the townspeople find and rally around a mysterious 25-year-old letter that never made it to the North Pole. As old traditions are made new again, Lisa finds herself falling for Kevin, the traditions, and the town of Evergreen.

Thursday, Dec. 2
Film: A Majestic Christmas
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Jerrika Hinton, Christian Vincent
Synopsis: Christmas in the charming town of Briar Falls will be bittersweet this year when architect Nell (Hinton) goes back to her hometown having been given the job of turning the historic Majestic Playhouse into a modern multiplex, much to the town's objections. The Playhouse has been home to their annual Christmas tableaux, which will now have to end after a long and historic tradition to the town. This job is Nell's first promotion, and one she wishes she hadn't been chosen for, especially when she meets the new owner of the theater, Connor (Vincent), whose vision and ideas clash with Nell's. Since Connor hasn't had much experience celebrating Christmas, Nell hopes that if she can give him a crash course in Christmas during the town's Twelve Day Festival, that he might just change his mind about modernizing the Majestic.

Film: Northern Lights of Christmas
Channel: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Stars: Ashley Williams, Corey Sevier
Synopsis: Zoey Hathaway (Williams) has been working toward her lifelong goal of being a pilot for years, but everything is thrown off-course when she unexpectedly inherits a reindeer farm, along with the dangerously handsome ranch hand Alec Wynn (Sevier). Now buried in taking care of reindeer and all the Christmas responsibilities, Zoey thinks life has delivered her a strange and cumbersome blow, and she isn't sure about Alec, who has his own ideas how best to run things. Alec, who has never had many people have faith in him, opens up when Zoey invests trust in him, and the two find themselves falling for each other. Could they both find happiness in the most unlikely of circumstances right before Christmas?

Wednesday, Dec. 8
Film: Homegrown Christmas
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Lori Loughlin, Victor Webster
Synopsis: After stepping down as CEO of her dream job, Maddie (Loughlin) heads home for the holidays to gain perspective. She finds herself running into her old high school sweetheart Carter (Webster), and tensions quickly arise. When forced to put together a Christmas dance for the local high school, Carter and Maddie find themselves putting their differences aside and rediscover what made them fall in love all those years ago.

Film: Memories of Christmas
Channel: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Stars: Christina Milian, Mark Taylor
Synopsis: Noelle (Milian) was raised by the queen of Christmas. When she inherits her late mother's house, she finds out that her mother had been hiring someone to decorate it — Dave (Taylor). The deal is off, but Dave convinces Noelle to let him carry on the tradition. As the display goes up, Noelle's defenses start to come down. She embraces the town's Christmas gala that was her mother's legacy, finds unexpected love, and develops a joy for the holidays that she never thought possible.

Thursday, Dec. 9
Film: Once Upon a Christmas Miracle
Channel: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Stars: TBA
Synopsis: Told she would have less than a few months to live without a liver transplant, Heather Krueger's time was running out when a kind stranger, Chris Dempsey, heard of her plight and discovered he was a perfect match. The two met and before long a friendship developed into romance. The movie follows Heather and Chris' journey over three Christmases as his selfless gesture leads to a Christmas miracle for everyone involved. Based on a true story.

Film: Christmas Wonderland
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Emily Osment
Synopsis: Heidi (Osment), who initially left her small town of Pleasant Valley with the dream of one day becoming a successful painter, has put her own art on hold to excel as an art gallery curator. Now, a week before the gallery's big Christmas party, she must return home to watch her niece and nephew. She comes face to face with her high school love, Chris, now a teacher, who is in over his head after he must find a new last-minute location for the Christmas dance. Heidi offers to help him and together they discover a beautiful place for the dance, perfectly capturing the Christmas spirit, called Wonderland Farms. The more time Heidi spends in Pleasant Valley decorating for the Christmas SnowBall, the more she finds herself inspired to start painting again. With Christmas fast approaching, Heidi soon becomes torn between the life she built in the city and the life she is surprisingly charmed by back in Pleasant Valley, embracing her true passion.

Wednesday, Dec. 8
Film: A Gingerbread Romance
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Tia Mowry-Hardrict, Duane Henry
Synopsis: With Christmas just weeks away, the architecture firm Taylor works for enters her in a contest in which the teams will design and build life-sized gingerbread houses. After the contest, Taylor will likely be getting a promotion to a position in another city. The firm teams her up with Isabelle, a renowned French pastry chef with whom Taylor instantly locks horns. When Isabelle backs out, Taylor stumbles into a local bakery and meets Adam, a baker and single dad. In an act of desperation, Taylor convinces Adam to partner with her for the contest, arguing that winning would give the bakery and his designs much-needed exposure. For years Taylor has been resistant to call anywhere 'home' for fear it will only be temporary. But the time she spends with Adam and his daughter in their cozy home, decorating for the holidays and exploring the town at Christmas, fills her with a longing for a place to call home.

Wednesday, Dec. 15
Film: Time for Me to Come Home
Channel: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Stars: TBA
Synopsis: It's the last Friday before Christmas in New York City and a massive storm is brewing. Small-town business woman Cara Hill is meeting with her banker while country music star Heath Sawyer is playing Madison Square Garden. When the flight to Tulsa they're both booked on is canceled, this unlikely pair of strangers winds up traveling together. Each has a secret — Heath hasn't written a song since his father died, and Cara's mother recently passed and her family's jam business is failing. Will Christmas provide a miracle — and a chance at love? Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas is a touching story about finding a way home after a loss — to your family and to your own true self. Based on the song by Blake Shelton and the book by Dorothy Shakleford and Travis Thrasher.

Thursday, Dec. 16
Film: Entertaining Christmas
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Jodie Sweetin
Synopsis: Claire is a cookbook author, crafting expert, and television personality whose name is synonymous with perfection. As she contemplates retirement, her daughter Kara (Sweetin) is poised to become the new face of the Livingston brand. The only trouble is, Kara can't cook. Or sew. Or do any of the signature things her mother is known for. When a young girl posts a video online requesting Claire help welcome her deployed father home for Christmas, Kara is sent in her place in an effort to prove herself a worthy successor to the board of directors and win the job. As Kara does her best to make a good impression, she gets more than she bargained for when the young girl's uncle Joe turns out to be a reporter for the local paper, looking for his next story.

Film: Reunited for Christmas
Channel: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Stars: Nikki Deloach, Mike Faiola
Synopsis: Frazzled and struggling with writer's block, novelist Samantha (Deloach), along with her boyfriend, heads home to her late grandmother's home to spend Christmas. While at home with family, her grandmother's wise words reveal the true meaning of Christmas with Samantha at a time when she most needs encouragement

Wednesday, Dec. 22
Film: Christmas Copy
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: TBA
Synopsis: TBA

Film: Small Town Christmas
Channel: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Stars: TBA
Synopsis: Author Nell Phillips' first book has become a surprise bestseller of the Christmas season. Nell's last stop on a nationwide book tour takes her to the town of Springdale, the hometown of Emmett Turner, a young man she met over five years ago while both were junior copy editors at a New York publishing company. Nell was hurt when Emmett stood her up for a dinner date and then disappeared from New York without any explanation. As Nell is quick to admit, Emmett's colorful, nostalgic anecdotes about Springdale inspired her to write this book that is shaping her life and especially this holiday season.

Thursday, Dec. 23
Film: Christmas Made to Order
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Alexa PenaVega
Synopsis: When architect and Christmas amateur Steven finds himself hosting his family for Christmas, he recruits holiday coordinator Gretchen (PenaVega) to bring holiday joy to his home. Gretchen's expert Christmas spirit brings Steven's family together, but neither expected it to bring them closer to each other. After a great opportunity presents itself to Gretchen, she and Steven must decide what's really important in life.

Film: Christmas Bells Are Ringing
Channel: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Stars: TBA
Synopsis: Samantha, a freelance photographer, is returning to Cape Cod for the first time since the death of her mother years earlier. She's going to celebrate her father's Christmas Eve wedding to the lovely Helen but is anxious to revisit past memories. However, having never been to the Cape during winter, she finds that it is a whole new experience. On deadline for a big Christmas spread that could ignite her career, she enlists the help of her childhood friend, Mike, to show her around. In the time she spends in Cape Cod with her dad, Helen, and Mike, she finds meaning in her creative pursuits, falls in love, and realizes that Christmas is wherever your family is.

Saturday, Dec. 25
Film: When Calls the Heart Christmas
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Erin Krakow, Lori Loughlin, Jack Wagner, Pascale Hutton, Kavan Smith, Paul Greene
Synopsis: When a group of orphans become stranded in Hope Valley for Christmas, their caretakers — sisters who have a mysterious backstory — lead Bill (Wagner) to investigate the circumstances of their arrival. He discovers the sisters and their orphanage are in jeopardy, so Abigail (Loughlin) and the other residents rally to make it a Christmas to remember for the orphans. Elizabeth (Krakow), who is preparing for the birth of her child, organizes her students to engage in selfless gift-giving. That, along with a Christmas miracle, help bring wonder, hope, joy, and love to all this Christmas season.

Wednesday, Dec. 29
Film: Focus on Love
Channel: Hallmark
Stars: Carlos PenaVega
Synopsis: With only one week to prepare, Lisa Patterson and her family of party planners are given the biggest job in their company's history: a New Year's Eve party for tech entrepreneur Megan Clark. But when her brother breaks his leg and her parents head off on a planned vacation, Lisa must reluctantly enlist the help of her brother's visiting college buddy, David Campos (PenaVega), to help her pull off the event which just so happens to fall on her favorite day of the year. But what Lisa didn't plan on was falling in love in the process.

#DearProfessorFord: Actresses Support Christine Balsey Ford As Brett Kavanaugh Hearings Loom

Julianne Moore, Gabrielle Union, Eva Longoria, Marisa Tomei, America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn, and women from all walks of life are featured in a video reading the same letter supporting Professor Ford and protesting Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

“You are strong and you are not alone,” they say in a supportive chorus. “You are a survivor. Millions of us have your back. You and your testimony are credible.”

They end by saying, “We believe you.”

Ford, a 51-year-old research psychologist living in northern California, came forward publicly saying that Kavanaugh allegedly assaulted her back in their 1980s high school days. She said, “I thought he might inadvertently kill me.” Kavanaugh has since denied the claims.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has rejected Democrats calls to delay the hearing in which the Supreme Court nominee was scheduled to debate Ford. Grassley said he will not ask the FBI to investigate the allegations, as Ford has requested. Kavanaugh’s confirmation was originally set for Thursday but has been postponed due to the debate.

Ford has been getting death threats due to the accusations and has moved to an undisclosed location. Kavanaugh, who accepted the committee’s invitation to testify, has been spending time with White House experts, prepping for Monday.

Fresh Off the Boat: Ming-Na Wen, Crazy Rich Asians Star to Recur in Season 5

Ming-Na Wen (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Jimmy O. Yang (Crazy Rich Asians) and Reggie Lee (Grimm) all will recur on Season 5 of the ABC sitcom.

Wen will play Elaine, a Chinese-American woman who is everything Jessica could want in a Chinese best friend. Case in point: She quickly earns the nickname “Chinese Oprah” for her advice-giving abilities.

Lee will appear as Elaine’s husband, Julius, a Chinese-American man who quickly bonds with Randall Park’s Louis, only to have their new friendship tested by one of Louis’ old buddies.

And Yang (pictured right) — who will reunite with Crazy Rich Asians co-star Constance Wu on the comedy — will portray Horace, Elaine and Julius’ talented son who went to Harvard at age 16 on a full scholarship. His impressive resumé will win Wu’s Jessica over… until he reveals some secrets from his past.

The trio will make its first appearance in the November episode “Mo’ Chinese Mo’ Problems,” in which the youngest Huang son Evan meets the family while ringing doorbells for the United States Census Bureau.

Fresh Off the Boat, which will also welcome Family Matters‘ Jaleel White in Season 5, returns Friday, Oct. 5, at 8/7c on ABC.

Reign Edwards & Wole Parks on MacGyver 10/5/18

RECURRING CAST: Reign Edwards (Leanna Martin)

GUEST CAST includes: Jesse C. Boyd (Ryan Thorpe), Wolé Parks (Caleb Worthy), Josh Stamberg (Paul “Deacon” Hern).

‘America 2.0’ Podcast Set With Patrick J. Adams, Kate Walsh, Laurence Fishburne & Others

Capitol Hill rookie Seth McGuire (Adams) comes get entangled in his first real controversy and finds himself ill-equipped to navigate D.C.’s treachery. His only hope comes from a big idea to give every American citizen $1 million. The cast also includes Ming-Na Wen (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Autumn Reeser (Entourage), Jack Coleman (Heroes), CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash, Gregory Itzin (24), Iqbal Theba (Glee), Steven Weber (Ballers) and others. Debuting on September 19 via all major podcast platforms, America 2.0 was co-created, written, directed and produced by J S Mayank. It also was co-created, co-written and produced by David Carlyle. Jeremy Gordon and Spencer Garrett also serve as are producers. Produced by Dax, it is distributed by the UK-based Global.

Here’s the audio trailer for America 2.0: Audio.

Sarah Lancaster Makes Directorial Debut With ‘Josie & Jack’ Starring Olivia DeJonge, Alex Neustaedter, And William Fichter

The movie stars Olivia DeJonge (The Visit ), Alex Neustaedter (A.X.L.), and William Ficthner (12 Strong). The movie follows the dark story of teenage siblings (DeJonge and Neustaedter) who are raised in isolation in a decaying rural Pennsylvania mansion. Homeschooled by their tyrannical professor father (Fichtner), Josie and Jack only have each other to depend as they make their way into the world. Lancaster is currently finishing post-production in anticipation of a winter festival run.

Josie & Jack also stars Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Owen Campbell and Anna Baryshnikov.

The film is a production of Mountain Men Films in association with The Komack Company. The Komack Company’s Jonathon Komack Martin and Blake Goza produced.

Charles Miller, who executive produced last year’s Sundance winner Monsters and Men, serves as Executive Producer alongside Bruce R. Evans from Mountain Men Films.

‘Miss Saigon’ Actresses Lea Salonga And Eva Noblezada To Star In Musical Indie ‘Yellow Rose’

Directed by Diane Paragas, Yellow Rose tells the story of a 17-year old Filipino American girl from Texas who secretly dreams of becoming a country music star of old. When her mom is arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, she runs away and is forced to embark on a journey to forge her own path or face deportation with her mother back to the Philippines.

This will mark Noblezada feature film debut. She will headline the film which also stars the aforementioned Salonga, country music artist Dale Watson, Liam Booth (Ghosts Never Sleep), Gustavo Gomez (Walking Dead, Animal Kingdom), Libby Villari (Boyhood) and Princess Punzalan (Mulawin, Mula sa Puso). The film features original music composed and performed by the cast and director.

Paragas will also serve as a producer with Cecilia Mejia, Orian Williams, Rey Cuerdo, and Co-Producer Jeremiah Abraham (Warner Bros Entertainment, IW Group).

General Hospital Vet Susan Brown Dead at 86, Remembered by Co-Stars

GH vet Kin Shriner, who plays Scotty, shared the news on Twitter, hailing Brown as “one of my best friends and costars…. R.I.P., Susan. I will miss all our laughs.”

Brown first joined GH in 1977, earning a Daytime Emmy nomination two years later. She exited GH in the mid-80s, but recurred now and again, especially when Scotty’s family helped launch the ABC Daytime spinoff Port Charles. Brown last appeared on GH in a 2004 episode honoring the late Anna Lee, who had Lila Quartermaine.

Brown’s previous TV credits included As the World Turns (as Adelaide Fitzgibbon), ABC’s mid-1960s sudser The Young Marrieds, Death Valley Days and Santa Barbara (as Dorothy Lane). Her most recent primetime role was a 1994 episode of Frasier.

“She was so very special, on set and in friendship,” GH vet Jackie Zeman shared on Twitter, offering Shriner her condolences. “I remember all the good times we shared on our lunch breaks and at at her amazing dinner parties at her beautiful home. RIP Susan + God Bless.”

Current GH boss Frank Valentini tweeted, “It’s a very sad day in Port Charles as the wonderful Susan Brown (“Gail Baldwin”) passed away today. My sincerest condolences to her family and to all who knew this amazing woman.”

Brown’s GH husband, Peter Hansen (who played Scotty’s father, Lee Baldwin), passed away in April 2017, at the age of 95.

Emmy Rossum says she's leaving 'Shameless'

The actress announced the surprise news in a lengthy Facebook post on Thursday, revealing she knows she’s going to struggle when her run of the drama ends.

“It’s a hard thing to put into words, feelings,” she writes. “But I’m going to try… Until Shameless came into my life 8 years ago, I led that kind of transient wonderful life of an actor. And I never realized how much I actually craved the kind of continuity that this show has given me. And given all of us in the crew.

“Season after season I’m amazed that our same crew comes back. And it’s not just because it’s a wonderfully written, wonderfully layered show. There are these real connections, real friendships that bring us back season after season after season…”

Emmy explains growing up as an only child made her “dream of” having a large family like the one she has found on the set of the show with her crew and castmates, including TV dad William H. Macy.

“In real life, unlike Fiona, I’m an only child,” she continues. “I never had a big family. Being ensconced in that messy Gallagher family love is something I’d always dreamed of. But even off set, it feels real… This kind of stability, this family, has nurtured me and made feel safe enough to stretch and grow creatively…”

“The opportunity to play Fiona has been a gift,” she adds. “There are few characters – female or otherwise – as layered and dynamic… Quite simply, the last eight years have been the best of my life… I know you will continue on without me, for now. There is much more Gallagher story to be told. I will always be rooting for my family. Try not to think of me as gone, just think of me as moving down the block.”

The series executives have announced she will be leaving at the end of the upcoming season, which begins next month.

A statement from Shameless producer John Wells reads: “Emmy Rossum will forever be part of the Shameless family. She has been integral to the show’s success, from her wonderful portrayal of Fiona to her leadership role on set, as well as directing multiple episodes of the series.

“We are hard at work now creating a season nine finale for Shameless which we hope will provide a Gallagher-worthy sendoff for Fiona that honours the great work Emmy has done. It is always bittersweet when an ensemble member decides to move out of the proverbial house, but our door will always remain open for Fiona to return home for a visit, or to move back in.”

And Showtime Networks president of programming Gary Levine adds: “We were saddened when Emmy Rossum let us know that the upcoming ninth season of Shameless would be her last, but we are filled with an overwhelming sense of joy and gratitude for Emmy’s inspired work on our series, of course in front of the camera but also behind it.

“Fiona Gallagher will always be one of Showtime’s iconic characters, and we applaud Emmy for bringing this character to life in such a natural, touching and fearless performance. On behalf of everyone at Showtime and her millions of fans, we thank you Emmy!”

Tonya Pinkins on Elementary 9/10/18

GUEST CAST includes: Parminder Nagra (Special Agent Mallick), David Pittu (William Bazemore), Tonya Pinkins (Judge Marilyn Whitfield)

Peyton List on Happy Together 10/1/18

Jake, an accountant, and his dream wife, Claire, a restaurant and bar designer, are very comfortably settled into their marriage, enjoying evenings together on the couch watching TV and scheduling time to change their outgoing voicemail message. Their tame routine gets a makeover when Jake’s client, exuberant music superstar Cooper James, arrives on their doorstep looking for refuge from the paparazzi following a high-profile break-up with his girlfriend. Jake and Claire quickly discover there’s no way they can keep up with their world-famous houseguest’s effortlessly cool, fast-paced lifestyle. Cooper, however, enjoys Jake and Claire’s more relaxed way of life, discovering that a touch of ordinary can be extraordinary for all three of them.

GUEST CAST includes: James Corden (Himself), Peyton List (Sierra)

Sharon Horgan Comedy Series In Works At Amazon From John Hamburg, Ian Helfer & Kapital; Billy Magnussen To Co-Star

Co-written by Horgan, Hamburg and Helfer and to be directed by Hamburg, the untitled comedy centers on a socially awkward, broke, single woman (Horgan) who launches a self-help company and recruits a handsome former male gymnast (Magnussen) to be the face of it.

Horgan and Mountford executive produce alongside Kaplan and Dana Honor of Kapital Entertainment, Hamburg and Helfer.

The project stems from the overall deal Horgan and Merman inked with Amazon Studios earlier this year. The pact called for Horgan’s longtime TV collaborator, producer Kaplan and his Kapital Entertainment, to be a partner on all content coming out it.

Separately, writer-director Hamburg and his production company, Particular Pictures, have an exclusive production deal with Kapital. Hamburg and Helfer came up with the idea for the comedy, and Kaplan put them together with Horgan to work on it. Horgan then reached out to Magnussen to star with her on the show after the two appeared together in the feature comedy Game Night. Magnussen also recently was tapped for a lead role in Kapital’s straight-to-series CBS All Access psychological thrillerTell Me a Story, from Kevin Williamson.

Helfer and Hamburg most recently co-wrote the Fox feature Why Him? starring James Franco and Bryan Cranston. Helfer is currently rewriting with Jay Reiss Shrunk, a sequel to Honey I Shrunk the Kids for Disney and David Hoberman; Josh Gad is starring. Helfer is repped by WME and Lighthouse Management & Media.

Horgan is the co-creator of critically praised Catastrophe, which she co-writes and co-stars in with Rob Delaney. It earned the duo an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. The series airs on Channel 4 in the U.K. and is carried by Amazon in the U.S. Horgan is also the creator and executive producer of HBO’s Divorce, which hails from Merman and Kapital, and co-creator of Motherland for BBC Two. Horgan is repped by WME, United Agents and Nelson Davis.

Magnussen, who recently wrapped horror thriller Velvet Buzzsaw directed by Dan Gilroy, will next be seen in a lead role opposite Emma Stone and Jonah Hill in Cary Fukanaga’s Netflix limited series Maniac. He’ll also be seen in Ike Barinholtz’s independent feature The Oath, opposite Tiffany Haddish, and in the live action adaptation of Disney’s Aladdin as Prince Anders, directed by Guy Ritchie. Magnussen, who received a Tony nomination for his role as Sigourney Weaver’s love interest in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike., is repped by WME, BRS/Gage Talent Agency, Anonymous Content and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.

Hamburg’s feature writing credits also include the Zoolander franchise; Along Came Polly; I Love You Man. In TV, he has directed episodes of Judd Apatow’s Undeclared, New Girl and The Grinder. Hamburg is repped by WME and attorneys John Sloss and Jackie Eckhouse.

Celeb Family Feud: Jeff Dunham vs. Ming-Na Wen and Taye Diggs vs. Caroline Rhea (9/6)

Steve Harvey, the highly popular stand-up comedian, actor, author and Emmy® Award-winning game show host, will pit celebrities and their families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey-type question posed to 100 people.

The celebrity teams who will try to guess what the “survey said” are the following:

Jeff Dunham – comedian and ventriloquist; playing for Baby2Baby

Kenna Dunham – daughter
Ashlyn Dunham – daughter
Bree Dunham Hemphill – daughter
Audrey Dunham – wife

VERSUS

Ming-Na Wen – actress known for “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” and “Mulan”; playing for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals

Eric Zee – husband
Michaela Zee – daughter
Lang Yee – brother
Juliet Silva – sister-in-law

In another game of “Celebrity Family Feud,” the two contesting teams are the following:

Taye Diggs – actor; playing for FosterMore

Marcia Berry – mother
Christian Diggs – sister
Gabriel Diggs – brother
Shalom Israel Diggs – sister

VERSUS

Caroline Rhea – actress known for “Caroline and Friends”; playing for Hopeland

Cynthia Rhea – sister
Celia Rhea – sister
William Woods – nephew
Robert Woods – nephew

GH’s Kin Shriner Guest Hosts New Game App

Stephen Schnetzer on Elementary 9/3/18

GUEST CAST includes: Rich Sommer (Harlan Emple), Alia Attallah (Athena), Stephen Schnetzer (Eli)

Dishing With Digest - 8/17/18 - Jon Lindstrom

‘Grey’s Anatomy’s Jesse Williams & ‘Fast & Furious’ Jordana Brewster To Star In Jay Baruchel’s ‘Random Acts Of Violence’

Man Seeking Woman and This Is The End star Baruchel has written and directed the road-trip horror feature and will also star. Baruchel, who wrote Seann William Scott-fronted Goon, is writing with his longtime writing partner Jesse Chabot. Also starring Niamh Wilson (Maps to The Stars), production on the film has just started in Toronto and will run through September.

Based on the eponymous graphic novel, written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, the film follows the story of comic book creator Todd Walkley, played by Williams, along with his girlfriend Kathy, played by Brewster, assistant Aurora, played by Wilson and best friend and Hard Calibre Comics owner Ezra, played by Baruchel as they go on a road-trip. On their way from Toronto to New York for Comic-Con, bad things start to happen and people start getting killed in a fashion eerily similar to the kills portrayed in his Slasherman comic. It becomes clear that a very avid fan is out there following them and hurting people, and using Todd’s comic as inspiration. As the bodies pile up, and Todd’s friends and family become targets and victims themselves, Todd will be forced into taking responsibility for everything his ideas have wrought.

The film is produced by Elevation Pictures, the Canadian distribution company that has released films including The Imitation Game, Room and Moonlight in Canada. Noah Segal (The Hummingbird Project) and Randy Manis (Margin Call) will produce with Jesse Williams, Jesse Chabot, Ricky Tollman, Jonathan Bronfman, Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray serving as exec producers. Ariella Naymark is co-producer and Elevation will distribute in Canada.

‘Dare Me’: Rob Heaps, Zach Roerig & Paul Fitzgerald Among Seven Cast In USA Pilot

Based on the acclaimed novel by Megan Abbott, who serves as writer and executive producer along with Gina Fattore, Dare Me is an unflinching exploration of volatile female friendships, jealousy, loyalty and the dynamics of power in a small Midwestern town. Peering behind the all-American façade, the series dives into the cutthroat world of competitive high school cheerleading, following the fraught relationship between two best friends (Guardiola, Kelly) after a new coach (Fitzgerald) arrives to bring their team to prominence. Part coming-of-age story, part small-town drama, part murder mystery, Dare Me exposes the physical and psychological extremes that some young women are willing to endure in order to get ahead.

Heaps will play Matt French, the hardworking husband of cheerleading coach Colette French (Willa Fitzgerald). After some hard times, his new job working for Burt Cassidy (Paul Fitzgerald) moves his family to Sutton Grove and offers the promise of the tide changing, at least as far as he knows.

Roerig will portray Sarge Will Mosley, the head Marine recruiter stationed in Sutton Grove High School. Although strikingly handsome and intriguingly remote, he’s a haunted man, hiding secrets and a complicated personal history.

Paul Fitzgerald’s Bert Cassidy is a Sutton Grove real estate developer, father of two cheerleaders on the squad, and the number-one cheer booster. A consummate wheeler-dealer, Burt has big plans for both the squad and the town, and intends to see them through, by any means at his disposal.

Drake is Faith Hanlon, Addy’s (Guardiola) grounded and very loving single mother. A hardworking police officer in Sutton Grove, Faith wants her daughter to thrive but is wary of her getting her hopes up. Blanchard is Lana Cassidy, Beth’s (Kelly) world-weary, former beauty queen mother, who spends most of her days in a palatial and lonely McMansion, numbing herself with prescription pills and leaving her daughter to raise herself. Bell will play Michael Slocum. Addy’s friend and neighbor. He dreams of a college football scholarship and a future beyond Sutton Grove, but the Marine recruiters stationed in his school may be his only ticket out. Thornton will portray Tacy Cassidy, a freshman member of Sutton Grove’s dazzling cheerleading squad who’s eager to step out of the shadows and secure a spot at the top of the pyramid.

Peter Berg and Michael Lombardo of Film 44 executive produce along with Sarah Condon and Karen Rosenfelt.

Imposters alum Heaps recently wrapped filming a supporting role on Lydia Dean Pilcher’s Miss Atkins’ Army. He’s repped by Gersh and AHA Talent.

Roerig, known for his role as Matt Donovan on The Vampire Diaries, recently shot a recurring role on The Gifted and wrapped independent feature The Last Full Measure. He’s repped by Innovative Artists and Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer.

Fitzgerald’s recent credits include Glow, Veep and Younger, along with recurring roles in Rectify and The Americans. Fitzgerald is repped by Industry Entertainment, SMS and Leading Artists.

Drake starred in comedy series Let’s Stay Together, produced by Queen Latifah. Her film credits include starring roles in November Rule and Catch Hell. She’s repped by More-Medavoy Management and Abrams Artist Agency.

Tony-nominated Blanchard most recently co-starred opposite Denzel Washington in Broadway’s The Iceman Cometh. She won a Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of young Judy Garland in Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows. Her other credits include features Tallulah and Into the Woods and TV series Hoke and The Big C among others. Blanchard is repped by Gersh and Soffer/Namoff Entertainment.

Bell is best known as the lead Eze in Tribeca Film Fest pic Nigerian Prince. His previous TV credits include a recurring role on OWN’s Greenleaf, Life of the Party and Blood Money. He’s repped by Rothman Andrés Entertainment, People Store and Morris Yorn.

Thornton recurs on Bravo’s Girfriends’ Guide to Divorce. Her other credits include a recurring role on Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, The Colour of Rain and TV movie Let It Snow. She’s repped by Red Management and Industry Entertainment.

Patricia Benoit, Wally Cox's Sweetheart on 'Mister Peepers,' Dies at 91

Patricia Benoit, who played Nancy Remington, the sweetheart and eventual wife of Wally Cox's character on the 1950s NBC sitcom Mister Peepers, has died. She was 91.

Benoit died Monday at her home in Port Chester, New York, her family announced.

NBC's Mister Peepers, broadcast live from a New York theater for three seasons from July 1952 to June 1955, starred Cox (later the voice of the superhero Underdog and a Hollywood Squares regular) as the mild-mannered Robinson Peepers, a science teacher at Jefferson City Junior High. Benoit's Nancy was a nurse and the object of Peepers' awkward affection.

In a highly anticipated television moment, the two were married near the end of the second season, with the new husband and wife on the cover of TV Guide in May 1954.

Born on Feb. 21, 1927, in Fort Worth, Texas, Benoit attended Texas State College before moving to New York City when she was 19. She studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, appeared on a 1950 episode of Believe It or Not and had a career breakthrough when she starred as Melvyn Douglas' long-lost daughter in the 1951-52 Broadway comedy Glad Tidings.

Benoit also appeared on Broadway in 1956 in Time Limit opposite Arthur Kennedy and in Middle of the Night with Edward G. Robinson.

She starred as a divorcee on the short-lived 1958 NBC soap opera Today Is Ours and later worked on CBS' As the World Turns as well.

Benoit moved to Croton-on-Hudson, New York, in 1961 and left acting a few years later to raise her children, her family noted. Survivors include her sons Jeremy and Nicholas; grandchildren Nicholas, Michael and Melissa; great-granddaughter Ella; and sister Doris.

‘Glee’s Matthew Morrison To Star In Simon Cowell’s BBC One Entertainment Format ‘The Greatest Dancer’

The American actor, who has starred in a number of Broadway hits including Finding Neverland, will present the series alongside former Girls Aloud star Cheryl Tweedy and Strictly Come Dancing professional Oti Mabuse. The trio will make up the panel of Dance Captains in the BBC One show, which is hosted by Alesha Dixon and Jordan Banjo.

Auditions for The Greatest Dancer, a co-production between creator Syco Entertainment and FremantleMedia’s Thames, are taking place in Birmingham ahead of its launch in 2019.

The show marks Cowell’s first co-pro for the BBC, having launched a number of shows on rival ITV. The broadcaster has ordered eight episodes of the entertainment format for Saturday night. The series will feature a host of talent from across the world of dance as they give the performances of their lives in the search for the UK’s best dancer. From ballet to jazz; hip hop to Bollywood; the show will feature a number of genres as well as “dramatic” auditions, challenges and live performances.

The Greatest Dancer will be executive produced by Nigel Hall, Global Head of Television, Syco Entertainment, and Amelia Brown, Managing Director, Thames TV. The series was commissioned for BBC One by Charlotte Moore, Director BBC Content, and Kate Phillips, Controller Entertainment Commissioning. The Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Kalpna Patel-Knight.

Morrison said, “This is such a powerful moment for me. It’s wonderful to continue bringing music and dance into peoples’ lives like we did on Glee. Dance is a safe haven that allows us to communicate where words cannot. It’s an expression of love and empowerment, driven by all the emotions that make us human. I love being exposed to people who are pursuing art, and expression, and I look forward to being a moving force for good on their journey. As a Dance Captain, my sincere hope is that I can uplift and encourage all the dancers here reach their greatness.”

‘Bel Canto’ Trailer: Julianne Moore Brings Harmony To A Hostage Crisis In Paul Weitz Drama

Based on the novel by Ann Patchett, the story follows the lengthy standoff and as seen in the trailer above, hostages and captors form unlikely bonds as they overcome their differences and find their shared humanity. And of course, we get some singing from Moore. Actually, it’s not Moore doing the singing — it’s international opera star Renee Fleming. Either way, it’s beautiful.

The film , which was adapted by Weitz and Anthony Weintraub, also stars Sebastian Koch, Christopher Lambert, Ryo Kase, Tenoch Huerta, and María Mercedes Coroy. Patchett’s best-selling novel was inspired by the events of the Japanese embassy hostage crisis (also called the Lima hostage crisis) of 1996-1997 in Lima, Peru. It has received several awards including the Orange Prize for Fiction and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Screen Media Films will release Bel Canto in theaters on Sept. 14.

Tell Me a Story Gets Premiere Date, Trailer With Twisted Red Riding Hood

CBS All Access has announced that Tell Me a Story, its psychological thriller which reunites Wesley with Vampire Diaries EP Kevin Williamson, will launch on Wednesday, Oct. 31 aka Halloween. Season 1’s 10 episodes will be released weekly.

A trailer for the series gives a taste of its sick spins on Little Red Riding Hood, Three Little Pigs and Hansel and Gretel.

Tell Me a Story is a serialized drama that takes classic fairy tales — such as The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel — and spins them into a subversive story of love, loss, greed, revenge and murder in modern-day New York City.

The series boasts an ensemble that includes James Wolk (Zoo), Billy Magnussen (People v. O.J.), Dania Ramirez (Once Upon a Time), Danielle Campbell (The Originals), Dorian Missick (Marvel’s Luke Cage), Michael Raymond-James (Once Upon a Time), Davi Santos (Law & Order True Crime), Sam Jaeger (Parenthood), Zabryna Guevara (Gotham) and Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City).

Tell Me a Story joins CBS All Access’ ever-growing slate of originals, which includes Star Trek: Discovery, The Good Fight, Strange Angel and No Activity. Upcoming series include One Dollar (premiering Thursday, Aug. 30), Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone reboot and another, as-yet-untitled Star Trek series series centered on Sir Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard.

Lauryn Hill snags her first fashion campaign

The 43-year-old Grammy winner teamed up with American outdoor apparel brand Woolrich to not only star in her first clothing campaign, but also design a capsule collection.

According to Woolrich’s press release, Hill has been sewing and designing her own clothing for the past five years. For her collaboration with the brand, Hill sketched more than 30 jacket designs, logos, concepts and materials.

The final product? Two limited-edition coats featuring collages of the musician and the cover of her iconic “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” album, along with plenty of embellishment.

In the accompanying campaign video, Hill pairs her bespoke coats with bold makeup for a stroll through Washington Heights, where she shot her “Doo Wop (That Thing)” music video in 1998.

Hill is currently on tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of her groundbreaking album.

Bailey Chase, Alyvia Alyn Lind & More To Star In Netflix’s ‘Walk Ride Rodeo’ Biopic About Paralyzed Horse Racer Amberley Snyder

Alyvia Alyn Lind (Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors), Corbin Bleu (High School Musical), Max Ehrich (The Path), Raleigh Cain (Only the Brave), Mitchell Hoog (The Spookies) and John-Paul Howard (Hell or High Water) will co-star.

Sean Dwyer and Greg Cope White wrote the screenplay, which is being produced by Poke Prod principals Elizabeth Cullen and Dwyer with White and Snyder serving as co-producers. The pic is currently shooting in New Mexico and will available on Netflix globally in 2019.

Matthew Morrison and Ally Sheedy will guest-star on SMILF

Tonya Pinkins on Fear The Walking Dead

In Season 4B, the changes will continue as Fear the Walking Dead is adding a handful of actors, including 12 Monkeys' Aaron Stanford. This is what we in the business call "good casting." Stanford is a genre star, having also starred in Nikita and X-Men: The Last Stand, and in addition to being a great actor, he just looks like a guy who would be wandering the desert after a zombie apocalypse, right?

Also joining the cast will be Stephen Henderson (Lady Bird), Tonya Pinkins (Gotham), Mo Collins (MadTV) and Daryl "Chill" Mitchell (Galaxy Quest). Collins and Mitchell are interesting choices as they're primarily known for their comedy chops. Collins has a background in sketch comedy and was a scene stealer in Lady Dynamite, while Mitchell played the one and only Tommy in the best sci-fi comedy of all time, Galaxy Quest.

But hey, Elfman — best known for network sitcoms — joined Season 4 and was good, so maybe Collins and Mitchell can show another side of their talent, too. There are no details on their characters, so your guess is as good as ours.

Season 4B will continue the survivors' stories after a creative reboot in the first half that saw two timelines, a time jump, a crossover as The Walking Dead's Morgan (Lennie James) came onboard, new characters, a new Western-themed tone and the loss of two major characters, Madison and Nick.

Fear the Walking Dead returns Sunday, Aug. 12 on AMC.

Legendary Soap Scribe Dead At 96

ATWT Fave Colleen Zenk Returns To The Stage

For tickets and more information, visit www.thelittletheatre.org.

Talk Show Appearance

Thursday, June 28

Jordana Brewster guest co-hosts

Amanda Seyfried wants to have a big wedding after all

“I love the big wedding,” the actress said on an episode of The DEN Meditation’s new podcast, “DENtalks.”

“I mean we’re married so we don’t need to actually get married again, but it’d be nice to have a ceremony. I love the idea of family and friends gathering around to celebrate your love. Beautiful. Amazing.”

The actress, 32, explained that she married 41-year-old Sadoski — who had been married before — just weeks before giving birth to their child so that she would be able to call him her husband when the baby arrived. The couple welcomed their daughter in March 2017.

“It was just for us, we were just, it was, there were two strangers there, this wonderful woman, and in Topanga Canyon and her husband who so sweet, so sweet,” she revealed. “He took pictures with my, with my camera and, and then Finn [her dog] and it was just magic because we were there for an hour and it was just as we were talking to each other. I mean there weren’t even, we didn’t even have vows. We just stared at each other and it was really emotional and cool and it was, it was exactly, it was exactly as it should have been.”

Georgann Johnson, Veteran TV and Broadway Star, Dies at 91

The actress died in Los Angeles on June 4, daughter Carol Prager announced in the obituary section of the Los Angeles Times.

Johnson was born on August 15, 1926, in Decorah, Iowa, and worked as a character actress in more than 115 films and TV series including Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Too Close For Comfort and Archie Bunker’s Place.

It was in the 1953 Broadway revival of Room Service that Johnson met actor and future husband, Stanley Prager. After Prager’s death in 1972, she was married to Honorable Jack Tenner, a Superior Court Judge and civil rights activist, until his death in 2008.

Other notable roles are also 1953’s Life Sentence opposite James Dean, 1956’s Bang the Drum Slowly opposite Paul Newman and 1969’s Midnight Cowboy which won the Oscar for Best Picture

Johnson also starred in Three’s Company as John Ritter’s mother in 1983.

Then in 1970s, she found a career resurgence in soap operas with long-running roles on Another World/Somerset as Ellen Grant and As the World Turns as Jane Spencer.

Johnson is survived by her four daughters — Carol Prager, Annie Prager, Sally Seymour and Molly Boyll — and three grandchildren, Hannah Seymour, Gabriel Seymour, and Caroline Boyll.

Family Feud: Jeff Dunham vs. Ming-Na Wen and Taye Diggs vs. Caroline Rhea (7/8)

Steve Harvey, the highly popular stand-up comedian, actor, author and Emmy® Award-winning game show host, will pit celebrities and their families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey-type question posed to 100 people.

The celebrity teams who will try to guess what the “survey said” are:

Jeff Dunham – comedian and ventriloquist; playing for Baby2Baby

Makenna Paige Dunham – daughter
Ashlyn Evelyn Dunham – daughter
Bree Dunham Hemphill – daughter
Audrey Elena Dunham – wife

VERSUS

Ming-Na Wen – actress known for “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” and “Mulan”; playing for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals

Eric Zee – husband
Michaela Zee – daughter
Lang Yee – brother
Juliet Silva – sister-in-law

In another game of “Celebrity Family Feud,” the two contesting teams are:

Taye Diggs – actor; playing for FosterMore

Marcia Berry – mother
Christian Diggs – sister
Gabriel Diggs – brother
Shalom Israel Diggs – sister

VERSUS

Caroline Rhea – actress known for “Caroline and Friends”; playing for Hopeland

Cynthia Rhea – sister
Celia Rhea – sister
William Woods – nephew
Robert Woods – nephew.

Trailer: The Tenth Year

With Austin Peck & Terri Conn

Official Selection at the 2018 SOHO International Film Festival Screening:

June 17, 2018 at 11:00am

Village Cinema East in New York City

TICKETS: https://tinyurl.com/y7n8s4tg

Meg Ryan: I Never Wanted To Be America’s Sweetheart

Speaking in a one-on-one conversation with Gwyneth Paltrow at her In Goop Health conference in Culver City, California, Ryan claimed the spotlight generated by her Sleepless in Seattle performance was overwhelming and caused her to retreat from show business after a few more film roles.

“You know, I never wanted to be an actress,” Ryan said. “The whole idea of being a famous person, the whole thing, I felt like a witness to. I didn’t feel exactly in it. And I think that was a really good thing. Because I felt like a student of it in a way, that I was watching it (unfold) in an anthropological way.”

Ryan told Paltrow, “When you get labeled anything, like America’s Sweetheart – I didn’t even know what that meant. It doesn’t necessarily imply that you’re smart or sexual or complicated or anything. It’s a label. And what can a label do but guess at you?”

Although Ryan appeared in such films as 1998’s City of Angels and 2000’s Proof of Life, she called that period, “a really reactive time. Which is kind of why I stepped away about 10 years ago.”

Paltrow asked Ryan about the #MeToo movement and whether she experienced harassment in her career. “I don’t have a big, bad story,” Ryan said. “Success, which happened fairly early for me, is like an iron bubble around you. So I was really lucky.”

SECOND ROUND OF ARTISTS ANNOUNCED TO APPEAR ON “THE 72nd ANNUAL TONY AWARDS,” SUNDAY, JUNE 10 ON CBS

Tony Award nominees Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban will host the show for the first time. As previously announced, Uzo Aduba, Matt Bomer, Claire Danes, Armie Hammer, Tatiana Maslany, Leslie Odom Jr., Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto and Andrew Rannells will also take part in Broadway’s biggest night.

This year marks the 72nd anniversary of the Tony Awards, which were first held on April 6, 1947 at the Waldorf Astoria’s Grand Ballroom. The ceremony is presented by Tony Award Productions, which is a joint venture of the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, which founded the Tonys.

Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss of White Cherry Entertainment will return as executive producers. Weiss will also serve as director for the 19th consecutive year.

Meet ATWT Stars All For A Good Cause!

Jon Lindstrom Books Horror Thriller ‘The Great Illusion’

The plot follows a tortured FBI agent suffering from an irrational fear of darkness, as he investigates a mysterious former prostitute in order to catch a vicious serial killer.

Amy Williams (Mothers and Daughters) is producing the project, which also co-stars Trisha Rae Stahl (Fox’s Glee), Rebekah Kennedy (Netflix’s To the Bone), Jaime Gallagher (Know Your Enemy), Bella Shaw, Rob Evors (Project X), as well as Monte Markham (We Are Still Here) and Beverly Todd (The Bucket List). Filming is slated to begin next month in Los Angeles.

Blair can currently be seen in Netflix’s Lost in Space and will recur in Paramount Network’s Heathers series, based on the 1988 cult classic film, which will debut this summer. Greene, an Oscar nominee for his role in Dances with Wolves, was recently seen in Wind River and Molly’s Game.

Blair is repped by Gersh and Wishlab while Greene is repped by Greene & Associates Talent Agency.

Obituary: Morgan J. Pinter, 28

Born February 21, 1990, in Danbury, Connecticut, he was the son of Mark Pinter of San Diego, CA and Colleen Zenk of New York, NY and Naples, FL.

Morgan graduated from Joel Barlow High School in Redding, Connecticut where he was the captain of the cross country and tennis teams. He attended Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania where he received his degree in Philosophy and English. At Lafayette, he was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and was the Music Director of the college’s A Capella group The Lafayette Chorduroys.

He is survived by his longtime girlfriend Becky Mann of Westport, CT, his sisters Georgia Pinter of San Diego, CA, Kelsey Crouch of New York, NY, Hannah Pinter of Los Angeles, CA, and Esmé Pinter of Encinitas, CA. He is also survived by his sister Siri Daly and her husband Carson Daly of Manhasset, NY, his brother Dylan Pinter and his wife Jessica Chazen-Pinter of New York, NY, and his 3 nieces (Etta, London and Ruby) and 2 nephews (Jackson and Henry) who Morgan adored.

A private memorial was held for immediate family.

‘Tell Me A Story’: Billy Magnussen To Star In CBS All Access Thriller Series; Liz Friedlander To Direct

Written by Williamson, Tell Me a Story takes the world’s most beloved fairy tales and reimagines them as a dark and twisted psychological thriller. Set in modern day New York City, the first season of this serialized drama interweaves “The Three Little Pigs,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” and “Hansel and Gretel” into an epic and subversive tale of love, loss, greed, revenge and murder.

Magnussen will play Nick, a young high school teacher who’s handsome, seductive, and quite possibly a wolf in sheep’s clothing. After a wild night with a girl he met at a nightclub results in a hookup but no phone numbers swapped, he thinks his chances with her have gone out the window. But when he runs into her again, he’s sure to take advantage of his second chance, proving he’s sensitive, understanding… and, quite possibly, too good to be true.

Williamson executive produces with Kapital’s Aaron Kaplan and Dana Honor.

Magnussen is currently in production on horror thriller Velvet Buzzsaw directed by Dan Gilroy. He’ll next be seen in a lead role opposite Emma Stone and Jonah Hill in Cary Fukanaga’s Netflix limited series Maniac. He’ll also be seen in Ike Barinholtz’s independent feature The Oath, opposite Tiffany Haddish, and in the live action adaptation of Disney’s Aladdin as Prince Anders, directed by Guy Ritchie. Magnussen, who received a Tony nomination for his role as Sigourney Weaver’s love interest in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Magnussen, is repped by WME, BRS/Gage Talent Agency, Anonymous Content and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.

Friedlander co-created, directed and executive produced Conviction for ABC. She also directed the first episode of ABC’s straight-to-series drama The Rookie and the Las Reinas pilot. Friedlander’s credits also include Jessica Jones, Stalker and The Following. She is repped by CAA and attorney Howard Abramson.

Soap Vets Star In Richard Barclay Tribute

Channel Zero’ Sets Cast, Gets Title For Fourth Installment On Syfy

Based on the “creepypasta” short story Hidden Door by Charlotte Bywater, Channel Zero: The Dream Door follows newlyweds Jillian (Sten) and Tom (Scott), who have each brought secrets into their marriage. When they discover a strange door in their basement, those secrets start to threaten their relationship — and their lives.

Sten’s Jillian Hope Hodgson is a landscape designer who has just married her childhood best friend. They’ve just moved into the house where he grew up — a house they hope to transform, through their combined skills, into their dream home.

Scott’s Tom Hodgson, is Jillian’s husband (and childhood best friend), a capable and thoughtful man who is deeply in love with his wife. But he’s troubled when secrets from their past threaten the marriage.

Robertson will play Ian, Tom and Jillian’s next door neighbor, an open-minded psychology grad student who becomes involved in Tom and Jillian’s bizarre experience with the mysterious door in their basement.

Weber will recur as Abel Carnacki, Jillian’s therapist. He has been listening to Jillian long enough to know about her trust issues and where they stem from. His quiet, controlled, almost hard to read tone is sometimes infuriating for Jillian, especially when she tries to talk to him about what — or who — was behind the door in their basement.

Nick Antosca, who has an overall deal with UCP, will return as executive producer, writer and showrunner for the upcoming installment. Evan Katz (Small Crimes, Cheap Thrills) will direct and co-executive produce.

Scott previously appeared in the third installment of the series, Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block. His other television credits include Guerrilla, Grey’s Anatomy, The Middle, Masters Of Sex, and Stitchers, as well as a recurring role on Loosely Exactly Nicole. Scott recently wrapped a lead role in the indie film Village People. He’s represented by Sweeney Entertainment and Innovative Artists.

Sten appeared in Straight Outta Compton and the digital series Persuasion. Sten debuted her first short film When It Burns, which she wrote, directed, produced and starred in — at Uptown Short Film Festival and LA Shorts Fest 2016. She is repped by Grandview and CAA.

Robertson, a recent Juilliard grad, guest starred on CBS’ Elementary and just wrapped production on the independent feature film Auggie. He is also the front man for NY-based rock band Red Jetty. He is represented by Gersh and Echo Lake Entertainment.

Weber, known for his starring role on Wings, also appeared in the television version of The Shining and in The Kennedys of Massachusetts. In film, Weber can be seen in Single White Female and The Temp, as well as the title character in the gay romantic comedy, Jeffrey. He most recently recurred on NCIS: New Orleans and can be seen in Thirteen Reasons Why and the upcoming season of Ballers. Weber is represented by UTA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

45th Annual Daytime Creative Emmy Red Carpet Show

Presenters for 45th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards Announced

In addition to our previous announced hosts, Mario LOPEZ (EXTRA) and Sheryl Underwood (The Talk), the line-up of presenters for the Sunday, April 29 show include, Marie & David Osmond, Jane Pauley (CBS Sunday Morning), Loretta Swit and Jamie Farr, Tom Bergeron (Dancing with the Stars), Peter Marshall, Larry King (Larry King Now), Chris Harrison (Who Wants to be a Millionaire/The Bachelor), Nancy O'Dell and Kevin Frazier (ET), Valerie Bertinelli (Valerie's Home Cooking), Julie Chen, Eve, Sara Gilbert (The Talk), Adrienne Houghton, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Loni Love, and Jeannie Mae (The Real), Gaby Natale (Super Latina), Mark Steines, Debbie Matanopoulis (Home and Family), A.J. Gibson, Viveca A. Fox, Martha Byrne and Elizabeth Hubbard, and Gloria Allred, plus Brandon McMillan (Lucky Dog), Kellie Pickler and Ben Aaron (Pickler & Ben). Also presenting are cast members from the four daytime soaps, including Deidre Hall, Suzanne Rogers, Sal Stowers and Greg Vaughan (Days of Our Lives), Carolyn Hennesy, Finola Hughes, Michelle Stafford, Chris Van Etten and Laura Wright (General Hospital), Katherine Kelly Lang, Heather Tom and Rena Sofer (The Bold & the Beautiful), and Sharon Case and Kristoff St. John (The Young & the Restless) and from the digital soaps, James Bland (Giants), Molly Burnett (Relationship Status), Anne Marie Cummings (Conversations in LA) and Kristos Andrews (The Bay). A special musical performance by Joely Fisher. Music provided by Caleb Nelson and The Remotes.

The line-up of presenters for the Friday, April 27, show include David Arquette (Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter), David Osmond (Wonderama), Rodrigo Blaas, Marc Guggenheim and Chad Hammes (Trollhunters), Emily Calandrelli (Xploration Outer Space), Steve Spangler (Xploration, DIY), Michael Stevens (Mind Field), Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), Vanessa Lachey, Curtis Stone, and Tiffany Derry (Top Chef Jr.), Michela Luci (Dino Dana), Raven-Symone (Raven's Home), Danny Seo (Naturally Danny Seo), Josh Garcia (The Voyager with Josh Garcia), Alie Ward (The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation), Maureen Fan and EricDarnell (Baobab). In addition, also presenting from the world of daytime soaps, Annika Noelle, Jeremy Ray Valdez (The Bold and the Beautiful), Victoria Konefal, Lamon Archey (Days of Our Lives), Laura Wright and Wes Ramsey (General Hospital), Kate Linder and Christian LeBlanc (The Young & the Restless), Kit Williamson (Eastsiders), Anne Marie Cummings, Gustavo Velasquez (Conversations in LA), Vanessa Baden Kelly (Giants), and Richard Brooks (The Rich and the Ruthless).

The Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards and THE DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS recognize outstanding achievement in all fields of daytime television and are presented to individuals and programs broadcast from 2:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. during the 2017 calendar year.

The 45th Annual Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards and THE DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS is a presentation of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Yangaroo, Inc. is the official provider of the Digital Media Distribution System Awards Management Solution ("DMDS") for the submission, judging and voting of all programs in the 45th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.

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Tamara Tunie on Blue Bloods 5/11/18

GUEST CAST includes: Tamara Tunie (Monica Graham), Sam Simone (Mckenna), Gameela Wright (Helen).

Amanda Seyfried Joins Milo Ventimiglia In ‘The Art of Racing In The Rain’ For Fox 2000

Based on Garth Stein’s 2008 bestselling novel which is about Enzo, a family dog who evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner Denny Swift (Ventimiglia), a professional race-car driver.

Martin Donovan has also been tapped to play Maxwell, Denny’s father.

Neal Moritz, Patrick Dempsey, and Tania Landau are producing the project.

Seyfried will next be seen in A24’s First Reformed with Ethan Hawke, which will be released in June, and is reprising her role as Sophie in Universal’s Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again sequel pic, out July 20.

She’s repped by Innovative and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein and Selz.

Colony: Peyton List, Wayne Brady and 2 Others Join Season 3 Cast

List will play Amy Leonard, a doctor and member of the San Fernando cell, who embarks on a dangerous journey with Eric Broussard (Tory Kittles) to deliver valuable secrets to Resistance fighters combating the Occupation. Brady portrays Everett Kynes, a highly successful tech entrepreneur who has risen in this new world to become the head of the rebuilt Seattle Colony. Kynes’ technology was used — and misused — by the human collaborators before the Arrival, leaving him with a chip on his shoulder and a unique relationship with the invaders.

McTavish, meanwhile, takes on the role of Andrew MacGregor, the leader of the most successful Resistance camp in what used to be the western United States. He’s forced to adjust his plans for the camp once Will (Josh Holloway) and Katie (Sarah Wayne Callies) arrive with vital information. Lastly, Zuaiter will play Vincent, a moral man working for a powerful Resistance group who is forced to choose between supporting the Bowmans and holding on to old loyalties.

Actors Wyatt Russell and Meredith Hagner land a Spanish charmer in Sherman Oaks

Built in 1932, the two-story house retains its original character while incorporating a host of updates. Among features are exposed beams, artistic tilework and arched doorways and windows. The eat-in kitchen has been modernized with stainless steel appliances.

The 2,750-square-foot house has four bedrooms, four bathrooms, an office and a great room with a fireplace. In the master suite, French doors open to a terrace that overlooks the swimming pool and backyard.

Separate guest quarters have their own kitchen and en suite bedroom.

The property came on the market in February at $1.649 million and sold in just under a month, according to the Multiple Listing Service.

Arvin Haddad and Aaron Kirman of Pacific Union International were the listing agents. Nancy Marfisi of Sotheby's International Realty represented the buyers.

Calls made to Haddad and Kirman's office were not returned.

Russell, a former professional hockey player, has followed in his parents' footsteps with film roles in "22 Jump Street" and "Goon: Last of the Enforcers." This year the 31-year-old appeared in the Ethan Hawke-directed music biopic "Blaze," which debuted in January at the Sundance Film Festival.

Hagner, 30, has television credits that include the daytime soap opera "As the World Turns" and the sitcom "Men at Work." More recently she appeared on the shows "Younger" and "Search Party."

From Broadway With Love Benefit Concert Planned For Parkland Victims Fund

From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Parkland, USA, announced today, is set for Monday, April 16 at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida. The benefit follows similar From Broadway With Love concerts held after the Pulse nightclub and Sandy Hook shootings.

This time, though, the concert will include some songs that were written by Stoneman Douglas students in collaboration with such pro composers as Joe Iconis, Bobby Cronin, Zoe Sarnak and Drew Gasparini. Additional songs were written solely by the students.

Also planned is a special performance by the dance troupe that once included Jaime Guttenberg, one of the victims of the February 14 shooting. The performance will be in her memory. Several Stoneman Douglas students will speak at the event. A CD and DVD of the concert is planned.

Approximately 10,000 tickets have been donated to the families of MSD students and staff. With royalties and artist fees waived, net proceeds raised will go to Marjory Stoneman Douglas Vicitims’ Fund and Shine MSD (to benefit arts advocacy in the Parkland community).

The list of performers – which is expected to grow in coming weeks – includes: Matthew Morrison (Glee), Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Deborah Cox (The Bodyguard), Wayne Brady (Chicago cast of Hamilton), Kirsten Maldonado (Pentatonix), Noah Galvin (Dear Evan Hansen), Justin Guarini (In Transit), Vincent Rodriquez III (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Ephraim Sykes (Hamilton), Erich Bergen (Madam Secretary), Christy Altomare (Anastasia), Laura Bell Bundy (Anger Management), Telly Leung (Aladdin), Jordan Donica (My Fair Lady, Hamilton), Donna Lynne Champlin (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Gabrielle Ruiz (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Etai Benson (The Band’s Visit), Carrie Manolakos (Mamma Mia), George Salazar (Godspell), Bryan Fenkhart (Waitress National Tour), Charity Angel Dawson (Waitress), Jessica Vosk (Wicked National Tour), Brandon Shapiro and Jake Wildhorn.

The performers will be accompanied by the South Florida Symphony.

Tickets for the event go on sale today. A crowdrise fundraising page has been set up, and ticket information will be available at http://www.FromBroadwayWithLove.org.

The benefit is being produced by Van Dean and Yael Silver (co-producer Once On This Island), both of Broadway Records, along with Joyce Arbucias, Kenny Howard, Andrea Canny and Chris Yakubchik. The performance will be co-directed by Michael Unger (Producing Artistic Director, NewArts in Newtown, CT) and Kenny Howard. Michael J. Moritz Jr. will music direct, and serves as co-music supervisor with Jeff Saver (Moritz and Saver will conduct with lead orchestrations by Kim Scharnberg).

From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Parkland, USA is presented in partnership with the BB&T Center and is also made possible by the generosity of JetBlue, Broward Center for the Performing Arts and It’s Sugar.

AMC’s Dietland Adds Cast

‘First Reformed’ Trailer: Ethan Hawke & Amanda Seyfried In Paul Schrader’s Crisis-Of-Faith Thriller

Here’s the logline: Reverend Ernst Toller (Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on the cusp of celebrating its 250th anniversary. Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, the church now is a tourist attraction catering to a dwindling congregation, eclipsed by its nearby parent church, Abundant Life, with its state-of-the-art facilities and 5,000-strong flock. When a pregnant parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) asks Toller to counsel her husband, a radical environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own tormented past, and equally despairing future, until he finds redemption in an act of grandiose violence. Also starring Cedric “The Entertainer” Keys, it’s about a crisis of faith that is at once personal, political, and planetary.

A24 acquired the film after its debut at last year’s Venice Film Festival; it went on the screen at Telluride and Toronto. It opens May 18. Check out the trailer above.

Meredith Hagner Joins James Gunn & The H Collective’s Untitled Horror Film

David Yarovesky’s will direct from a script written by Brian and Mark Gunn. The H Collective will fully finance the project and produce alongside Gunn and his company Troll Court Entertainment. The thriller began principal photography last week.

Dunn recently appeared in Showtime’s Shameless and can next be seen in Mark Landre Gould’s upcoming western Gone Are The Days.

Denman’s recent film credits include Steven Soderbergh’s crime dramedy Logan Lucky, Lionsgate’s Power Rangers; and Michael Bay’s 13 Hours.

Hagner can most recently be seen in TBS comedy Search Party as well as the Ike Barinholtz directed comedy thriller The Oath with Tiffany Haddish. Her recent film credits include Matt Spicer’s Ingrid Goes West which earned an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature earlier this month. Hagner can next be seen in Netflix’s ensemble comedy Set It Up alongside Zoey Deutch, Lucy Liu, Taye Diggs and Glen Powell.

Jones can most recently be seen in William H Macy’s The Layover alongside Alexandra Daddario and Kate Upton for Vertical Entertainment as well as the voice of “Kyle” in DreamWorks Animation’s Home. His recent TV credits include Golden Globe Nominated CBS comedy Mom, POP TV’s Let’s Get Physical, and Breaking Bad.

Recently’s Gunn’s sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 landed in Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament earning $154.M in profit off a global gross of $863.8M. His two Guardian of the Galaxy Marvel movies count over $1.6 billion at the worldwide box office. Gunn’s horror films, Slither and Super, both of which he wrote and directed, have garnered cult-like followings and have been named some of the best horror films in the genre. Slither, which marked Gunn’s directorial debut and first united Gunn and Banks, is currently featured on Rotten Tomatoes as one of the “Top Ten All-Time Best Reviewed Horror Films.”

Dunn is represented by Abrams Artists Agency and Snow Entertainment. Denman is represented by UTA and Berwick & Kovacik. Hagner is represented by UTA and Suskin Management. Jones is repped by Paradigm Talent Agency, Ferrantino Entertainment and Felker, Toczek.

The H Collective is a global film finance, production, marketing and distribution company that is producing a diversified slate of four high-quality films per year. They are currently in post-production on Christopher Cantwell’s The Parts You Lose starring Aaron Paul, Scoot McNairy and Mary Elizabeth Winstead with Mark Johnson’s Gran Via Productions.

Law & Order: SVU has recruited Scott Porter

Maura West Shows Off the Musical Talents of Her Amazing Kids

The GH Emmy winner also shared a video of Kate singing “Molly Malone (Cockles & Mussels)” accompanied by her brother on guitar. (He also harmonizes with her on the chorus!)

(Video) And finally, Joe solos on guitar and vocals for the Irish classic “Danny Boy” and it’s just amazing. No surprise, since the young man has already appeared on Broadway in A Christmas Story: The Musical and on TV in the live performance of The Sound of Music!

(Video) Eagle-eyed fans not completely distracted by the beautiful singing voices of West’s children might notice the blueprints for JC Studios on the wall behind them, which are a memento of their parents’ time on ATWT, which was filmed at that studio in Brooklyn back in the day!

Peyton List To Star In Fox Drama Pilot Based On ‘Gone Baby Gone’ Book

Written by Black Sails co-creator Robert Levine and directed by Phillip Noyce, the untitled project centers on private detectives Patrick Kenzie (Joseph Morgan) and Angela Gennaro (List) who, armed with their wits, their street knowledge and an undeniable chemistry, right wrongs the law can’t in the working-class Boston borough of Dorchester.

In the 2007 movie, Angela was played by Michelle Monagham.

De Oliveira will play Patrick’s girlfriend, Grace Cole, an ER doctor. In addition to Morgan, List and De Oliveira join previously cast Christine Lahti who plays Angela’s mother.

Levine is executive producing the pilot with Lehane.

Mad Men alumna List starred in the CW series Frequency and The Tomorrow People and has been recurring on Fox’s DC drama Gotham as Ivy Pepper. She is repped by Innovative and Schreck Rose Dapello.

De Oliveira co-starred in 20th TV’s ABC comedy pilot Jalen Vs. Everybody last season. She has wrapped sci-fi/action film Code 8 opposite Stephen Amell as well as the female lead in indie Acquainted. De Oliveira, who will next be seen in Business Ethics opposite Larenz Tate, is repped by Gersh, The Characters Agency and Wright Entertainment.

‘Get Christie Love’: Steven Weber, Two More Cast In ABC Reboot Drama Pilot

Get Christie Love, a co-production between Lionsgate Television and Universal Television, is inspired by the cult 1974 blaxploitation-themed TV movie and subsequent series.

The new Get Christie Love, written by Kemp and directed by Stephen Williams, is an action-packed, music-driven drama that centers on Christie Love (Bunbury), an African American female CIA agent who leads an elite ops unit. She transforms into whomever she needs to be to get the job done, especially when it’s down to the wire and the stakes are life and death. The high-adrenaline missions of the series are anchored by an emotional mystery about Christie’s first love — unearthing the truth about this relationship will be the biggest mission impossible of her life.

Weber will play Steve, Christie’s law school teacher a decade ago, and now serves as her mentor and day-to-day confidant. He is a father-figure to Christie. Chavez will portray Val. One of the youngest team members, Val is the reality TV-obsessed tech op for Christie’s counter-intelligence field unit. Brilliant, sardonic and quick-thinking, she gets the team in anywhere and everywhere. Oh will play Sang. Not only is Sang a member of Christie’s counter-intelligence unit, he’s Christie’s lover as well. Although they appear to be a happy couple, Sang wants a real relationship while Christie is hesitant. Caring and ambitious, he wants to be the first Asian-American head of the CIA.

In addition to Bunbury, they join previously cast Khandi Alexander, Shea Buckner, Thomas Cocquerel and Camille Guaty.

Weber, known for his starring role as Brian Michael Hackett on Wings, can be seen in the recurring role of Councilman Douglas Hamilton on CBS’ NCIS: New Orleans. He also appears in Netflix’s Thirteen Reasons Why as Principal Gary Bolan and will be seen on this season of HBO’s Ballers. He’s repped by UTA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

Chavez known for her portrayal of Ximena on Freeforms’ The Fosters, also recurs on TNT’s Murder in the First. She’s repped by Osbrink Talent Agency, First Access Entertainment and SGSBC.

Oh was most recently seen on NCIS: New Orleans. His other TV credits include ABC’s The Forgotten, Melrose Place and the HBO documentary East of Main Street: Taking the Lead. He’s repped by Tom Parziale at Visionary Entertainment.

Steven Weber Guests on Mom 4/5/18

Steven Weber on Mom 3/29/18

‘For Love’: Wolé Parks & Chloe Wepper Cast In ABC Drama Pilot

For Love, written by Cooney and directed by John Dahl, centers on journalist Hope Castille. Five years ago, her fiancé, Charlie Lapree (Jon Ecker) was killed. This morning she received a phone call from him. An epic love triangle set against a grounded, secret world of magic in present-day New Orleans.

Parks will play Mateo Silva, who works under the guise of a local tour guide, but in truth is part of the secret Magic World of New Orleans. Wepper will portray Nessa, a museum curator, Charlie’s (Ecker) sister, and Hope’s (Davis) best friend.

Parks was a series regular on Devious Maids and recurred on Vampire Diaries and Superstore. Other recent TV credits include guest roles on The Crossing and 9-1-1. He’s repped by Abrams Artists Agency and managed by Luber Roklin.

Wepper played the series regular role of Chloe on Manhattan Love Story and appeared in feature Office Christmas Party. She’s repped by Primary Wave, Innovative and Ginsburg Daniels.

‘Salvage’: Joelle Carter & Evan Parke Join ABC Drama Pilot

Written and executive produced by Todd and directed by Uta Briesewitz, Salvage centers on ex-cop Jimmy Hill (Kebbell), who just wants to be left alone after moving back home to rural Florida. But when a local murder is linked to the sunken treasure of a lost Spanish galleon, he’s drawn into the investigation by an idealistic deputy (Sandino Moreno) and pitted against the powerful town patriarch (Belushi), outside criminal agents and his own father (Patton).

Carter will play Sunny Daniels, Duke’s (Belushi) second wife. She’s also the town’s mayor. Parke will play Sheriff Ward, a good lawman, except for maybe being on the take to cover up Duke’s crimes.

Carter starred as Ava Crowder on all six seasons of FX’s Justified and played a lead role on Chicago Justice. She’s repped by Innovative and Forward Entertainment.

Parke recently recurred as Detective Norman Singleton on The Blacklist and guest-starred on NCIS: New Orleans, Bull and Blue Bloods. His feature credits include Django Unchained, King Kong and Planet of the Apes. He’s repped by KMR and Leslie Allen Rice Management.

Could John Mellencamp and Meg Ryan finally be tying the knot?

Insiders on the idyllic isle — where Mellencamp owns a mansion — say the famous pair has been spotted all over the island in the past few weeks, and that they appear to be putting together some celebration.

But Ryan’s rep told us that the island folk are wrong, simply spitting, “Not true.”

The pair started dating in 2011, then broke up in 2014, and got back together again in July 2017 — as Page Six first reported.

During their breakup, Mellencamp famously said that Ryan “hates me to death.

But Ryan seems to have a soft spot for the “Jack & Diane” singer’s Daufuskie home.

Mellencamp told Architectural Digest in 2014 that he spent little time at his church-inspired beachfront manse until the “When Harry Met Sally .?.?.” star convinced him to spruce it up.

“Mellencamp’s girlfriend, actress Meg Ryan, however, thought the place had promise,” wrote the glossy magazine, “and asked .?.?. ‘Why don’t you make it as beautiful as it can be?’?”

A rep for Mellencamp didn’t get back to us.

Dana Delany Guests on Bull 3/27/18

Get Shorty Season 2: Steven Weber and Andrew Leeds Join Cast

Weber will play Lawrence Budd, an impossibly powerful film producer in Hollywood who commutes via helicopter and landscapes his yard with fully grown trees. A medical condition has left him hairless, so he glues on a wig and eyebrows. He collaborates in a film with Miles (Chris O’Dowd) and Rick (Ray Romano).

Leeds, meanwhile, will portray FBI special agent Ken Stevenson, the partner of Felicity Huffman’s Agent Dillard. Together, they manage Rick as their CI, and seek to bring down a drug cartel. Like Dillard, Stevenson is an expert at being supportive and upbeat while forcing people to do unsavory things.

Get Shorty, which is loosely based on the Elmore Leonard novel of the same name, was renewed for a 10-episode sophomore season in August. Season 2 is set to bow later this year.

Devious Maids' Roselyn Sanchez Checks Into ABC's Grand Hotel Pilot

Sanchez will fill the role of Gigi Cardenas — the embodiment of “Miami glamour,” she is impossibly stylish with a flare for excess. “Unapologetically fabulous but never frivolous,” Gigi is smart, cunning and fiercely loyal to her twin daughters. She’s the hotel owner’s second wife “but never considers herself ‘second’ at anything.”

Grand Hotel counts among its other executive producers Eva Longoria, who like Tanen hails from Desperate Housewives.

In addition to her employ as a Devious Maid, Sanchez’s previous TV credits include Without a Trace, Fame L.A., episodes of Rizzoli & Isles and Royal Pains, and her first gig on As the World Turns.

Talk Show Appearance

Feb 21, 2018

Billy Magnussen

Mad About You's Louis Zorich Dead at 93

On the NBC sitcom that ran from 1992 to 1999, Zorich's Burt Buchman was a sporting goods store owner whose catchphrase was, "It's me, Burt! Burt Buchman — your father!" whenever he visited his son Paul's (Reiser) apartment.

Zorich also starred in the early-'90s CBS sitcom Brooklyn Bridge, in which he played an immigrant grandfather and husband to Marion Ross' character. In film, he appeared in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Club Paradise and The Muppets Take Manhattan, among others.

Zorich was married to actress Olympia Dukakis and had three children.

Talk Show Appearance

Thursday, Feb. 22

Christine Baranski

Actor Patrick Boll Arrested for Soliciting Prostitute in Undercover Sting

The actor, whose credits include "Gossip Girl," "How to be Single," and "Burn After Reading," was arrested in a Naples hotel. The men arrested range in age from 29 to 70.

Boll allegedly gave the officer posing as a prostitute $150 in cash "and negotiated to have straight sex from Det. F.S.S."

He was booked for soliciting prostitution and has already bailed out.

One of the men arrested -- Judge Jay Rosman -- was also booked for resisting arrest.

The 6 men allegedly made contact with an undercover officer by text. They thought they were meeting a prostitute in a Naples hotel. The undercover officer, posing as a prostitute, negotiated a price with the men and at that point they were busted.

Laurence Lau on Blue Bloods 3/9/18

GUEST CAST includes: Sean Kleier (Bobby Jones), Lauren Patten (Officer Rachel Whitten), Laurence Lau (Wayne Green).

Julianne Moore and Bart Freundlich To Remake Susanne Bier’s ‘After The Wedding’

The Hunger Games star Moore is set to star in the feature, which will be written and directed by Wolves director Freundlich. It will be produced by Joel Michaels (Terminator Salvation) and Silvio Muraglia (Black Butterfly) through Paradox Studios and production will begin this spring. Paradox Studios is also financing, while Cornerstone Films has come on board to handle international sales and distribution and will commence sales at the European Film Market. CAA will oversee the US rights.

The film, which is set in New York, will provide a fresh update to the original by casting the two lead roles as women in the story of motherhood and family. It tells the story of Isabel, who runs a dilapidated orphanage outside of Calcutta, and who travels to New York to meet the New York millionaire, played by Moore, who has provided money for the orphanage. Following the latter’s wedding, a mystery unravels.

The original, Efter Brylluppe, was directed by The Night Manager director Bier and starred Hannibal’s Mads Mikkelsen and Borgen and Westworld star Sidse Babbett Knudsen. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Oscar but lost out to The Lives Of Others.

Joel Michaels and Silvio Muraglia said: “We are overjoyed to have Bart as a partner in this project that has been a long time labour of love. He’s reimagined a brilliant retelling of Susanne Bier’s acclaimed and potent drama. We are further blessed to be working with Julianne Moore whose remarkable talent brings depth and sincerity to every role she portrays.”

Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder added: “Bart has written an emotional powerhouse of a screenplay. It’s compelling and heart-breaking but incredibly human. It’s a stand out piece and we are thrilled to be introducing it to buyers at Berlin”.

Julianne Moore is represented by CAA and Evelyn O’Neil of Management 360 and Bart Freundlich is represented by Ken Stovitz at MGMT entertainment and Paradigm.

Laurence Lau on Blue Bloods 3/2/18

GUEST CAST includes: Sean Kleier (Bobby Jones), Lauren Patten (Officer Rachel Whitten), Laurence Lau (Wayne Green).

Soap Vets Win Grammys

Peter Parros on Scorpion 2/5/18

GUEST CAST includes: Peter Parros (Chief Benavidez), Jennifer Say Gan (Dr. Alicia Miller).

Jane Krakowski & Jason Biggs on Match Game 1/31/18

Celebrity Panelists for Jan. 31:

Jack McBrayer (“30 Rock,” “Wreck-It Ralph,” “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”)
Jane Krakowski (Tony winner, Emmy nominee, “30 Rock,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”)
Ron Huebel (“Do You Want to See a Dead Body?” “Transparent”)
Ana Gasteyer (“Lady Dynamite,” “People of Earth”)
Jason Biggs (“American Pie,” “Orange Is the New Black”)
Tichina Arnold (“Survivor’s Remorse,” “Daytime Divas”)

Joining the celebrity panelists are contestants Jondelle Jardine (hometown: Troy, New York), Joe Schmidt (hometown: Bedminster, New Jersey) Alexis Vitetta (hometown: Nutley, New Jersey) and Barry Rosenblum (hometown: White House Station, New Jersey).

Executive producers include Alec Baldwin, FMNA’s Jennifer Mullin, Scott St. John and Mallory Schwartz.

Handmaid's Tale: Marisa Tomei to Guest Star in Colony-Set Episode

Regarding Season 2’s shift to the colonies (which was made possible by a heftier budget), exec producer Warren Littlefield notes that in Margarent Atwood’s source material Offred (Elisabeth Moss) never actually ventures into the “forbidding” world. “In the narrative of the book, she never goes there,” Littlefield explains. “In Episode 2, we go to the colonies. And it’s an expansion of our world.”

Thematically, the new season — which bows Wednesday, April 25 — is largely “about motherhood,” teased Moss, referring to her alter ego’s pregnancy. “The child growing inside of her is a ticking time bomb. It’s a wonderful thing to have a baby, but she’s having it potentially in a world that she may not want to bring it into. Then if she does have the baby, the baby gets taken away from her and she can’t be its mother. It’s a very big part of the season. And it gets bigger and bigger as the show goes on.”

Tamara Tunie on Blue Bloods 2/2/18

GUEST CAST: Tamara Tunie (Monica Graham), David Zayas (Governor Martin Mendez), Ernie Hudson (Darryl Ward), Raphael Sbarge (Mickey Tate).

Steven Weber on Mom 2/1/18

GUEST CAST includes: Matt Jones (Baxter), Steven Weber (Patrick).

Sarah Joy Brown Speaks Out About Pay Inequality in Hollywood

Brown originated the popular role of Carly on GH back in 1996 and portrayed the character until 2001 when she left the soap. She won Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Younger Actress in 1997 and 1998, and Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2000. And when Brown returned to GH in 2008 as Claudia Zacchara, she was nominated once again, this time in the Lead Actress category. Soap fans have also enjoyed her strong performances as Julia on AS THE WORLD TURNS and Madison on DAYS OF OUR LIVES. Most recently, Brown could be seen playing Katherine on the web soap BEACON HILL, which also earned her another Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Performer in a New Approaches Drama Series.

As more and more inequality between men and women comes to light, both in Hollywood and elsewhere in the world, Brown refuses to back down and continues to fight for her rights and the rights of women like her. “I have been speaking up for a long time and ‘paying the price’ for it,” she tweeted. “I made $1,600 from my union in 2016 and had to sell my house, like Rose, to fight the monsters. They are monsters, corrupt from top to bottom and my hell started from speaking up.”

Hopefully, now that more and more women are also speaking out about the way men are treating them, Brown and her newfound allies will be able to join forces and effect some genuine change, both in Hollywood and everywhere else.

Bethany Joy Lenz & Matthew Morrison on Grey's Anatomy 1/25/18

Guest starring are Matthew Morrison as Paul Stadler, Bethany Joy Lenz as Jenny and Stefania Spampinato as Carina DeLuca.

“Personal Jesus” was written by Zoanne Clack and directed by Kevin Sullivan.

Bethany Joy Lenz & Matthew Morrison on Grey's Anatomy 1/18/18

Guest starring is Matthew Morrison as Paul Stadler, Bethany Joy Lenz as Jenny and Stefania Spampinato as Carina DeLuca.

“Four Seasons in One Day” was written by Andy Reaser and directed by Bill D’Elia.

Matthew Morrison on Being a Father to Son Revel: 'I've Never Known Love Like This'

In the newest edition of The X magazine by TodayTix, the actor reveals that although being a father to his 12-week-old son Revel James Makai can be terrifying, it has opened him up to a new kind of love.

According to the former Glee star’s wife Renee, Morrison is a very hands-on father, changing most of Revel’s diapers when he’s home — and constantly worrying about whether their son is breathing.

“It’s scary. We’re really responsible for this human being,” said Morrison, 39, adding that the price of being a dad is absolutely worth it. “All the things you hear about going into parenting are true. I’ve never known love like this.”

The television and Broadway star goes on to explain that being a father has changed many things about his life, including his “perspective on work.”

“I’m in a business where it’s very selfish. You’re always thinking about yourself, and I just don’t feel that way anymore,” he says. “It’s not about you anymore; it’s about your family unit. For me, that’s the most important thing in my life right now.”

Renee — who costars alongside her husband in The X issue’s photo spread — tells the magazine that she’s “never met anybody who is so concerned and just passionate about being there for his family” as Morrison.

“Seeing him develop that awareness of what it is to be around a child, and to see that beautiful innocence, it’s so powerful,” she praises. “He’s just such an incredible human. I feel so fortunate to be his partner.”

The new dad recently told PEOPLE about his daddy-baby bonding time and the joys of parenting. “I revel in his bravery,” Morrison said about his only child. “It sounds weird, but especially with everything going on right now, he’s so brave to come into this world. He’s teaching me so much.”

“He can’t talk to me yet but he’s forcing me to learn how to communicate with someone who is trying to communicate with me,” the star continued. “It’s a lesson in patience. I’ve never been impatient with my child.”

“I know a lot of parents can be,” Morrison added at the time of impatience. “I’m learning how to communicate with him about him and what every burp and fart means.”

‘Family Guy’ To Air First-Ever Extended Episode In March; Amanda Seyfried To Guest Star Later In Season – TCA

In the episode, Stewie gets sent to the office of his school’s child psychologist, Dr. Cecil Pritchfield (Ian McKellen), after pushing one of his classmates. During the session, Stewie experiences a series of personal and emotional revelations about himself.

The news comes as Fox readies the 300th episode of Seth MacFarlane’s animated flagship, now in its 15th season. That milestone episode, “Dog Bites Bear,” is set to air January 14.

Also today, following a live-read session of the show, it was announced that Amanda Seyfried would guest this season on a future episode. She will voice Ellie, a dog that Brian dates.

Family Guy, from 20th Century Fox Television, airs at 9 PM Sundays.

Chicago P.D.: Jay Halstead Is Headed for Rock Bottom

The winter premiere, titled "Rabbit Hole," will see the Central Intelligence detective headed down the path of self-destruction when his hard-partying with Camila (Anabelle Acosta) inadvertently lands him in the middle of a drug-related homicide. Willing to put his badge on the line in order to solve the case, he'll soon find himself forced to choose between her and his loyalty to his unit.

"His spiraling will definitely continue," showrunner Rick Eid tells TV Guide. "I guess he probably hits rock bottom in that episode, and then we'll see if he can get out of it."

According to Eid, things will quickly "come to a head" in his relationship with Camila, who still doesn't know Halstead's true identity since they met while he was working undercover for a case. However, that could all change very soon, the showrunner teased.

But Halstead isn't the only detective harboring secrets. Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger) may also be forced to come clean about his undercover assignment from Denny Woods (Mykelti Williamson) when Voight (Jason Beghe) finally learns the identity of the mole in his unit. Whether or not Ruzek will be the one to tell him remains to be seen, but it looks like we're in for some major drama in the back half of the season.

Sophia Bush Says Being on Chicago P.D. Was Like Being "Trapped in a Burning Building"

Chicago P.D. returns Wednesday, Jan. 3 at 10/9c on NBC.

Steven Weber Guest On Mom 1/18/18

GUEST CAST: Steven Weber (Patrick), Maxine Penty (Woman O.S.), Lex Lang (Man O.S.).

John Mellencamp and Meg Ryan have Christmas date at the Knicks game

John Mellencamp and Meg Ryan were seen cheering on the New York Knicks on Christmas Day with their sons.

The singer’s 23-year-old son, Hud Mellencamp, from his marriage to Elaine Irwin, and Ryan’s 25-year-old son, Jack Quaid, from her marriage to actor Dennis Quaid, both sported festive shirts for the holiday.

His oldest daughter, Teddi, has joined the cast of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” which is currently airing.

Mellencamp, 66, and Ryan, 56, rekindled their romance earlier this year, following his 2016 split from eternal stunner Christie Brinkley. Things appear to be going well for the couple since they got back together over the summer, and they were spotted seeing “M. Butterfly” in October.

Other stars and their families, including Shakira and Chris Rock, were also spotted at the game.

Unfortunately, the holiday spirit didn’t help the Knicks on the court as they lost in a 105-98 upset against the Philadelphia 76ers.

‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ Trailer: Digging The Dancing Queens

Ten years after Mamma Mia! The Movie grossed $610M worldwide, everybody’s back on the Greek island of Kalokairi for an all-new original musical based on the songs of the Swedish pop sensations.

All of the original cast returns including Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Amanda Seyfried, Dominic Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard. New to the island are Lily James showing off some pipes as Young Donna, along with Andy Garcia, Alexa Davies, Jessica Keenan Wynn, Jeremy Irvine, Josh Dylan and Hugh Skinner.

Cher also turns up in the trailer above as grandmother Ruby Sheridan.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel writer Ol Parker, writes and directs the sequel from a story by Catherine Johnson, Richard Curtis and Parker. Producers are Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman. Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus return to provide music and lyrics and serve as executive producers. Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Phyllida Lloyd, Richard Curtis and Nicky Kentish Barnes also serve as executive producers.

The musical comedy will open domestically on July 20, 2018.

Jon Lindstrom on S.W.A.T. 1/11/18

GUEST CAST includes: Bre Blair (Annie Kay), Aaron Braxton (Katrell), Jon Lindstrom (Ashe).

Daniella Alonso on Seal Team 1/10/18

GUEST CAST includes: Daniella Alonso (Leigh Wheeler), Steve Howey (Danny Cooper), Adi Spektor (Vitali).

ANOTHER WORLD Alum Heading To Sundance Film Festival

Roger Howarth Reveals Why He Loves Playing Bad Boys Like GENERAL HOSPITAL's Franco!

“I’m super appreciative I get to [play these dark roles],” Howarth confided. “If you’re playing the good guy and you make it bigger, he becomes too good. That’s awful. There’s no fun to it. But as the bad guy, you can go big, and you can always be worse. I like that.”

The actor also loves the medium of soaps because the storylines can literally go anywhere! “What’s really fun about daytime is that there really are no limitations,” he mused. “That’s exceptional. You get to do things that are kind of cool… and kind of ridiculous. The job is a dare!”

In fact, the scenes that occasionally catch the Emmy winner off guard often have nothing to do with the dialogue or action. “Sometimes you just read a script cursorily and read the dialogue to get the big strokes of the day,” Howarth admitted. “But you don’t read the big print which says ‘He answers the door in a towel.’ Those are the surprises for me!”

There will likely be plenty of surprises in Franco’s future because his plans to marry Liz could be seriously derailed by the revelation that he helped hide the truth about Jason and Drew’s identities! Stay tuned to see how the story unfolds, and for more on your favorite GH actors, keep reading the ABC edition of Soaps In Depth magazine!

Tom Wiggin & Saundra Santiago on Madam Secretary

GUEST CAST includes: Ephraim Ware (Clifton Davis), Saundra Santiago (Margarita Garcia), Tom Wiggin (Ash Mackey).

TAINTED DREAMS Season 2 Premieres December 21

'Rick and Morty' Star Spencer Grammer's Husband Files for Divorce

Spencer, who also happens to be Kelsey's daughter, was married to James Hesketh for 6 years. James filed Wednesday ... citing irreconcilable differences. The couple has a 6-year-old son, and James says he wants joint physical and legal custody.

Looks like they're trying to avoid a messy court battle -- according to the divorce docs, obtained by TMZ, they are currently in mediation and hope to resolve all property and custody issues there.

Stand down, judge -- and wubba lubba dub dub.

Gammy Nominations

Dear Evan Hansen which features Michael Park (Jack, ATWT) and Krystolyn Lloyd (Dayzee, B&B) was Grammy nominated for Best Musical Theater Album.

Best Musical Theater Album

Come From Away

Dear Evan Hansen

Hello, Dolly!

Ashley Williams And Dermot Mulroney To Star In Hallmark Holiday Films

Steven Weber Guests On Mom Dec 14

GUEST CAST: Steven Weber (Patrick).

Steven Weber Guests on NCIS: New Orleans Dec 12

Supernatural Thriller Produced By Blumhouse Television Gets Pilot Order By NBCUniversal Cable

Run for Your Life is centered on the last night of Dia de Los Muertos (aka Day of the Dead), when a grieving detective is thrust into a deadly game to bring someone back from the dead. Should the pilot be ordered to series, the network on which it would air would be determined at that time.

The series is based on an idea from Emmy-winning producer Lee Metzger (The Voice) and is one of several projects for which he serves as an executive producer through his Universal Television overall deal. The pilot comes from the write-/producer team of Chris Cullari and Jennifer Raite (12 Deadly Days), who will serve as co-executive producers. Patricia Riggen (The 33) is set to direct and co-executive produce the pilot. Jason Blum, Jeremy Gold, Marci Wiseman and Jessica Rhoades will serve as executive producers for Blumhouse.

Josh Segarra (Arrow) is set to star as Julian Silva alongside Andrew Jacobs (Paranormal Activity: Marked Ones) as Victor Macias, Carlos Leal (The Last Ship) as Yellow Skull, Danube Hermosillo (Everything, Everything) as Lia Macias, Angela Alvarado (Kingpin) as Elena Macias, Jennifer Landon (Animal Kingdom) as Detective Rachel Spokes, Kadeem Hardison (K.C. Undercover) as Captain Gilbert “Gil” Barnes and Fernanda Andrade (The Devil Inside Me) as Mariana Silva.

Steven Weber on Mom 12/7/17

Julianne Moore ‘can’t bear’ the thought of President Clooney

The Oscar-winning actress, 56, made that much clear when asked about speculation surrounding George Clooney, 56, potentially running for president in 2020.

“I can’t bear it, this idea of relating leaders with entertainment figures,” Moore told The Mail on Sunday’s You magazine. “What you want is a president who is experienced in government. I don’t even want to joke about movie stars being president of the U.S.”

Moore, who stars in Clooney’s “Suburbicon,” had nicer things to say about his relationship with his wife, Amal Clooney.

“You can see the difference in his personality, how settled he seems,” she said. “He adores Amal.”

PureFlix.com Debuts New Faith-Based Original Series 'Hilton Head Island'

The original, half-hour drama -- created in the tradition of "All My Children", "General Hospital" and "Falcon Crest"-- is available exclusively on PureFlix.com and represents the company's seventh original series since mid-2015.

Unlike most modern-day daytime dramas or soap operas, "Hilton Head Island" avoids language, sex and violence surprises. Instead, it focuses on the power of prayer and faith as the fictional Trisk family deals with a crisis that threatens to destroy their personal and professional lives.

The show's stars include Donna Mills ("General Hospital", "Knots Landing"), Antonio Sabato Jr. ("General Hospital", "The Bold and the Beautiful"), Crystal Hunt ("One Life to Live", "Guiding Light"), Michael Swan ("The Bold and the Beautiful", "As The World Turns") and others.

"We have very high hopes for 'Hilton Head Island' as it represents the next step for us in terms of our original series lineup," said Greg Gudorf, CEO of PureFlix.com. "This 'hope opera' is designed to show that there's a place for strong values and wholesomeness even when dealing with modern-day issues and drama."

"Hilton Head Island" is set in the iconic resort city in South Carolina and follows the Trisk family, which owns the fictional ISLE Television Network. When the family patriarch Daniel Trisk--played by Swan--falls seriously ill, his family begins battling over control of the media empire, while employing the power of prayer and faith to avoid ruining the family's legacy.

The show will be released in three-episode blocks. The first seven episodes will be available November 10, followed by two other episode blocks in subsequent weeks.

About PureFlix.com: PureFlix.com (or Pure Flix Digital) is a subsidiary of Pure Flix Entertainment, LLC, the worldwide leader in faith-based entertainment and a Christian movie studio based in Scottsdale, Ariz. that produces, distributes and acquires Christ-based movies. The company's vision is to positively influence the global culture for Christ through media. Whether it's on your television, laptop, phone, or tablet, PureFlix.com is your trusted destination for the highest quality family-friendly, wholesome entertainment that's now available anytime, anywhere. For more information, please visit PureFlix.com.

Roselyn Sanchez and Eric Winter welcome baby boy

“GRACiAS… Thank you to my beautiful friends for the love! Baby boy is perfect…” the actress, 44, wrote on Instagram.

According to People en Español, the baby’s name is Dylan Gabriel Winter.

The couple has been married since 2008 and are already parents to daughter Sebella Rose Winter. The 5-year-old was also part of her dad’s Instagram announcement about their newest addition.

“This little one had a life changing experience the last two days,” Winter, 41, wrote. “Big sister watching out over the world for her little brother. So proud of her!”

The new dad of two, who starred on “Witches of East End,” also posted a sweet snap of the couple holding their baby’s hand.

“After many years of dreaming about you, you came into our lives in perfect condition!” Sanchez said to People en Español (as translated by People). “Thank you for choosing our family to start your life. We love you.”

Sanchez has previously spoken out about the couple’s struggles to conceive through in-vitro fertilization.

Evan Parke on NCIS: New Orleans

GUEST CAST includes: Jowin Batoon (Tita), Mikelle Wright-Matos (Lil Man) , Evan Parke (Dan Young).

Julianne Moore To Play Gloria Steinem In June Pictures’ ‘My Life On The Road’

June Pictures’ Andrew Duncan and Alex Saks are producing with Taymor and Lynn Hendee. Steinem and Amy Richards will be executive producers. Ruhl’s a Tony-nominated playwright whose work includes In the Next Room and The New World.

Moore is repped by CAA and Management 36o. She can currently be seen starring in the George Clooney-directed Suburbicon, the Todd Haynes-directed Wonderstruck and the Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Golden Circle.

The filmmaker-driven June Pictures has in the awards hunt The Florida Project, the Sean Baker-directed drama that premiered to raves at Cannes.

Gotham Recast Twist: Peyton List Is the New and 'Dangerous' Poison Ivy

TVLine has learned that Fox’s DC drama has tapped Peyton List (Frequency, The Flash) to take over the role of Ivy Pepper/aka Poison Ivy. List is the third actress to play the role, following Maggie Geha and Clare Foley.

“In the continuing evolution of Poison Ivy’s origin story, Ivy Pepper has been transformed once again taking another step toward becoming the Ivy we know from the comics — dangerous [and] a live wire of crazy energy,” the series’ producers said in a statement. “She’ll set her sights on Gotham, intent on making the city her own green paradise.”

List’s new, darker Ivy will debut in early 2018.

Nathan Fillion to Star in ABC Cop Dramedy The Rookie From Castle EP

According to Deadline, The Rookie — which nabbed a straight-to-series order from the network — reunites Fillion with onetime Castle showrunner/EP Alexi Hawley and finds the TV fave playing John Nolan, the oldest rookie in the LAPD. At an age where most are at the peak of their career, Nolan cast aside his comfortable, small town life and moved to L.A. to pursue his dream of being a cop. Now, surrounded by rookies twenty years his junior, Nolan must navigate the dangerous, humorous and unpredictable world of a “young” cop, determined to make his second shot at life count.

Fillion has secured an EP title on the series alongside Hawley (who will serve as showrunner).

Since Castle ended in May 2016, Fillion has appeared on ABC’s Modern Family, Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet. He’ll next be seen in Season 2 of Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Julianne Moore Says That James Toback Tried To Proposition Her During The 1980s

Moore shared on Twitter today with Los Angeles Times reporter Glenn Whipp, “JamesToback approached me in the 80’s on Columbus Ave with the same language – wanted me to audition, come to his apt.”

“I refused. One month later he did it again with the EXACT same language. I said don’t u remember u did this before?”

Soon after sexual harassment allegations broke out against Harvey Weinstein, many women began calling out Toback on Twitter. This culminated in Whipp’s Los Angeles Times expose on Toback whereby 38 women detailed his tactics of using his Hollywood clout to hook aspiring actresses into private encounters with him that he deemed as meetings or auditions. Such situations would result in a number of scenarios, such as Toback engaging in sexually explicit conversations with the the actresses, pleasuring himself in front of them or on them, or having the actresses remove their clothes, Toback, 72, has denied these allegations to the Los Angeles Times, adding that in the last 22 years, it’s been “biologically impossible” for him to engage in the behavior described by the women in the story, saying he had diabetes and a heart condition that required medication.

In the wake of the Los Angeles Times story on Sunday, the Los Angeles Police Department has received numerous phone calls related to Toback. In New York, the Manhattan district attorney’s office has a sex crimes hotline open in relation to Toback.

In addition, Today show host Natalie Morales had a similar experience with Toback akin to Moore’s and now a total of 200 other women are coming out with their accusations against him.

Talk Show Appearance

Tuesday, October 31 – JULIANNE MOORE and WHOOPI GOLDBERG Show 14178

Christopher Cousins on Kevin (Probably) Saves the World

“Kevin (Probably) Saves the World” stars Jason Ritter as Kevin Finn, JoAnna Garcia Swisher as Amy Cabrera, Kimberly Hébert Gregory as Yvette, Chloe East as Reese Cabrera, J. August Richards as Deputy Nate Purcell, Dustin Ybarra as Tyler Medina and India de Beaufort as Kristin Allen.

Guest starring in this episode are Christopher Cousins as Sam Haslett and Sumalee Montano as Tracy Haslett.

“Rocky Road” was written by Jack Kenny and directed by Wendy Stanzler.

Matthew Morrison and Wife Renee Welcome Son Revel James Makai

Matthew Morrison and his wife Renee have welcomed their first child. The couple announced the birth of their son by sharing some adorable photos of the newborn through social media on Sunday.

“To my Newborn Child, Revel James Makai Morrison: Your Mama and Papa got this!! Trust in us to guide and protect you always. To lay the tracks so your choo choo train will run smoothly throughout this world. You will have all the tools to soar! We love you, and are so thankful for your arrival! The adventures are just beginning,” the proud new father wrote on Instagram alongside a black-and-white photo of him and Revel giving each other a fist bump.

Renee also celebrated the moment on Instagram, sharing a photo of the former Glee star holding their baby in his arms.

“I’m in Revel Heaven… my heaven on earth… to give you life, to hold you in my arms, to comfort you, to feed you from my body.. I can’t begin to express my immeasurable gratitude for being the one you chose as your Mama! My Revel James Makai Morrison, I promise to cherish you, to constantly remind you that you are worthy of love and belonging, to teach you compassion and kindness,” she wrote.

“I will respect you and go through every moment with understanding and patience.. I promise to love you unconditionally for ever and ever my little angel baby.. my squeaks.. I see so much of your Papa in you already.. I feel the calm I once felt inside of me.. I cry from the overwhelming joy of finally being able to see your face that is perfection! My little wiggle worm… I hold my belly even now with sweet reminiscence.. I am so proud to finally share you with the world. Here he is ladies & gentleman… Our Revel James!” the new mother added.

PEOPLE confirmed the couple was expecting in May.

“I’m so excited, and I just want to be the best father I possibly can be,” Morrison, 38, told PEOPLE, admitting that he’s “looking forward to everything” about fatherhood.

“The fact that it’s half me and half the person that I love most in this world … I’m so excited to meet our child and to see what he or she looks like, and to see what features of my beautiful wife that he or she has,” he added.

38 women have come forward to accuse director James Toback of sexual harassment

His opening line had a few variations. One went: “My name’s James Toback. I’m a movie director. Have you ever seen ‘Black and White’ or ‘Two Girls and a Guy’?”

Probably not. So he’d start to drop names. He had an Oscar nomination for writing the Warren Beatty movie “Bugsy.” He directed Robert Downey Jr., in three movies. The actor, Toback claimed, was a close friend; he had “invented him.” If you didn’t believe him, he would pull out a business card or an article that had been written about him to prove he had some juice in Hollywood. That he could make you a star.

But first, he’d need to get to know you. Intimately. Trust him, he’d say. It’s all part of his process.

Then, in a hotel room, a movie trailer, a public park, meetings framed as interviews or auditions quickly turned sexual, according to 38 women who, in separate interviews told the Los Angeles Times of similar encounters they had with Toback.

During these meetings, many of the women said, Toback boasted of sexual conquests with the famous and then asked humiliating personal questions. How often do you masturbate? How much pubic hair do you have? He’d tell them, they said, that he couldn’t properly function unless he “jerked off” several times a day. And then he’d dry-hump them or masturbate in front of them, ejaculating into his pants or onto their bodies and then walk away. Meeting over.

The women’s accounts portray James Toback as a man who, for decades, sexually harassed women he hired, women looking for work and women he just saw on the street. The vast majority of these women — 31 of the 38 interviewed — spoke on the record. The Times also interviewed people that the women informed of the incidents when they occurred.

As is often the case, none of them contacted the police at the time. When contacted by The Times, Toback denied the allegations, saying that he had never met any of these women or, if he did, it “was for five minutes and have no recollection.” He also repeatedly claimed that for the last 22 years, it had been “biologically impossible” for him to engage in the behavior described by the women in this story, saying he had diabetes and a heart condition that required medication. Toback declined to offer further details.

The women interviewed during The Times’ investigation offered accounts that differed from Toback’s recollections.

“The way he presented it, it was like, ‘This is how things are done,’” actress Adrienne LaValley said of a 2008 hotel room encounter that ended with Toback trying to rub his crotch against her leg. When she recoiled, he stood up and ejaculated in his pants. “I felt like a prostitute, an utter disappointment to myself, my parents, my friends. And I deserved not to tell anyone.”

“In a weird sense, I thought, ‘This is a test of whether I’m a real artist and serious about acting,’” remembered Starr Rinaldi, who was an aspiring actress when Toback approached her in Central Park about 15 years ago. “He always wanted me to read for him in a hotel or come back to his apartment, like, ‘How serious are you about your craft?’”

“And the horrible thing is, whichever road you choose, whether you sleep with him or walk away, you’re still broken,” Rinaldi continued. “You have been violated.”

Like Harvey Weinstein, Toback, now 72, was a big, hulking man with a reputation, so much so that he titled his 1987 semi-autobiographical movie “The Pick-up Artist.” He has been a writer/director since 1974; his most recent film, “The Private Life of a Modern Woman” starring Sienna Miller, premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival. Media profiles often referred to him as a womanizer. Lurking underneath were darker rumors of creepy behavior, reported in 1989 by Spy magazine and, more recently, by Gawker.

According to the 38 women who spoke to The Times, the scope of Toback’s behavior was far more serious.

“He told me he’d love nothing more than to masturbate while looking into my eyes,” said Louise Post, who met Toback in 1987 while attending Barnard College. Post, now a guitarist and vocalist for the indie rock band Veruca Salt, added: “Going to his apartment has been the source of shame for the past 30 years, that I allowed myself to be so gullible.”

In the wake of Oscar-winning producer Harvey Weinstein being fired after reports revealed decades of sexual misconduct, many women have been coming forward with tales of harassment, abuse and assault. On the Twitter hashtag campaign #MeToo, Toback has his own special universe. The Veruca Salt account tweeted on Monday: “Us too: by bosses, boyfriends, male babysitters, taxi drivers, strangers and movie director/pig #jamestoback #metoo.”

@kelleyraleigh : I have my own story about #jamestoback from when I was 18. It was vile & disgusting. He was around 50 at the time. That's why I believe her https://twitter.com/ambertamblyn/status/909128791359856640 …

“It’s a common thread among many women I know … after someone mentions they were sexually abused by a creepy writer-director, the response is, ‘Oh, no. You got Toback-ed,’” said Karen Sklaire, a New York drama teacher, actor and playwright who said a 1997 meeting with Toback in an office ended with him grinding against her leg. “The numbers are staggering.”

Toback isn’t a household name. That’s why he always kept his credentials handy when he introduced himself to women. But Toback amassed a solid body of work over four decades: His 1974 debut, “The Gambler” starring James Caan, the three movies with Downey Jr., a sympathetic documentary about boxer Mike Tyson and, of course, that Oscar-nominated screenplay for “Bugsy,” the 1991 portrait of gangster Bugsy Siegel, directed by Barry Levinson and starring Beatty and Annette Bening.

Toback’s movies often examine extremes — gambling, drinking, womanizing — that he says overlap with his own demons. "The idea is not to have a separation between my life and my movies," Toback said in a 2002 Salon interview. His characters are often on edge — Harvey Keitel’s pianist in “Fingers,” the teenagers infatuated with hip-hop culture in “Black and White.”

As a writer/director, Toback liked to push the envelope sexually. The widely panned 2004 drama “When Will I Be Loved” opened with a five-minute shot of Neve Campbell masturbating with a shower nozzle.

Off-screen he constantly brought up those provocative scenes, say the majority of the women interviewed by The Times, to see how far they were willing to go, both during the audition process and, should they be cast, in his movies.

“The more time you spend with him, the weirder it gets until it’s like just like one giant red flag,” said Los Angeles radio reporter Anna Scott.

Scott was an 18-year-old senior at Manhattan’s Hunter College High School when Toback approached her at a deli across the street from her campus. He told her he was working on a movie called “Black and White,” that it starred boxer Tyson and he was casting complete unknowns. He asked if Scott was interested in acting. She was about to attend the University of Southern California to study screenwriting. She thought she had made a fortuitous connection.

Toback invited Scott to a taping of the “Charlie Rose” show, where he was part of a panel. After the taping, he told her, they could talk more about the movie. But as they walked the streets of Midtown, the conversation quickly veered into sexual territory, including queries about masturbation and pubic hair.

“It was disgusting and embarrassing,” Scott said. “I tried to extricate myself from it without causing a scene.”

@verucasalt : Us too: by bosses, boyfriends, male babysitters, taxi drivers, strangers and movie director/pig #jamestoback #metoo

Instead, Toback steered her into a restaurant where, she said he told her, “You have to be ready to turn yourself completely over to me.” Finally, she abruptly stood up and fled.

In his trailer on the set of “Black and White,” Toback knelt in front of actress Echo Danon and, she says, put his hands on her thighs, telling her, “If you look into my eyes and pinch my nipples, I’m going to come in my pants right now.” She resisted. She felt helpless. Eventually he backed down.

“Everyone wants to work, so they put up with it,” Danon said. “That’s why I put up with it. Because I was hoping to get another job.”

Toback approached Sari Kamin at a Kinko’s in Manhattan’s Upper West Side in 2003. He pulled out a DVD copy of “Two Girls and a Guy” and told her he’d like to cast her in his next movie. He said he felt an instant connection to her.

After several dinners over the course of a few months, Kamin says, Toback convinced her to accompany him to a hotel room, telling her that he needed to experience a “real connection” with her. Alarms went off, she says. She knew she wouldn’t sleep with him, but she felt like if she could make it through the evening, maybe she’d finally land a part.

Once in the suite, Kamin says, Toback asked her to take off her clothes. She protested. Toback berated her, saying that if she couldn’t reveal herself to him in the hotel room, how would she be able to act in a provocative sex scene in front of a movie crew? She gave in, removed her clothes. After commenting on her body, he knelt down before her and began to vigorously rub his groin against her.

“I felt really paralyzed,” Kamin recalled. “And I asked him, ‘Are you trying to get yourself off?’ And he said, ‘Absolutely.’” She jumped out of her chair, grabbed her clothes and ran.

Not all of the incidents in the women’s accounts occurred in private. Terri Conn was 23 and acting on the soap opera “As the World Turns” when, she says, Toback approached her on the street. She was intrigued by his credentials and dreamed of being in an edgy independent film. Toback asked her to meet him in Central Park to discuss his process. He took her to a somewhat secluded area — there were people yards away — and told her the best way to get to know someone is to see their soul. And the way you can see someone’s soul is to look into their eyes when they’re experiencing orgasm. And he knelt before her and began humping her leg, telling Conn to look into his eyes.

“I was shocked and frozen and didn’t know what to do,” Conn said. “I thought if I resisted, it could get worse. He could overpower me.” He quickly ejaculated into his khakis, got up and asked her to meet for dinner later to continue the process. Conn ignored his subsequent phone calls and never saw him again.

Chantal Cousineau was 19 and living in Toronto when, she says, she was asked to meet Toback for an audition for “Harvard Man” in 2001. The encounter began in a hotel restaurant and ended in his hotel room, with Cousineau prepared to walk away after Toback kept talking about masturbation. When she reached the door, he told her, “Calm down, you’ve got the part,” as though the whole thing had been a test.

Cousineau didn’t believe him, but her modeling agent called shortly afterward to confirm the casting. During a rehearsal for a monologue in which her character — a drug dealer — looks directly into the camera, she heard Toback, 10 feet away, on the other side of a half wall where the set’s portable monitors were located, grunting, his hands rubbing, loud and rapid, against his windbreaker pants as he masturbated. After issuing a pronounced grunt, she said, Toback told the crew to break for 15 minutes.

When he returned to the set, Toback excused the camera man and sat two feet from Cousineau’s face as she delivered her monologue, the first time she had ever been on film.

“I felt so violated,” she said. “And there was my abuser, inches away from me.”

Several of the women The Times interviewed quit acting after their encounters with Toback. Some returned to school. Some got married and buried their incident, never telling their husbands because of a sense of shame. Then the Weinstein scandal hit, and, for many, the news dredged up memories they had long repressed.

“Today, I cried for the first time since then about it,” Post said. “I was crying for the 20-year-old woman who lost something vital that day — her innocence.”

@echodanon : If you were involved in the film business in the '90s you knew that #harveyweinstien was a sexual predator.Another one was #JamesToback

But even as an ever-growing list of high-profile women recount their sexual abuse on social media and in first-person accounts, many women remain afraid. Several women said he told them intimidating stories, some of which verged on the ridiculous, like when he informed flight attendant Ashly McQueen in 1998 that he killed someone at the racetrack with a pencil.

This woman asked to remain anonymous; she still feared for her safety 23 years after Toback humped her leg in his office until he ejaculated in his pants. Others interviewed for this story requested anonymity as well, fearing retaliation. One woman recounted the time when she met Toback at his New York home and he wouldn’t let her leave until she grabbed his nipples and looked into his eyes while he masturbated.

Another well-known actress had a similar experience in 2000 at a Los Angeles hotel during what she thought was to be an audition. As with so many other women, Toback told her he felt a connection with her but that she needed to display the sexual confidence the role required. She needed to remove her clothes. “I am really uncomfortable,” she replied.“That’s the whole point of this exercise,” she says Toback told her.

The young woman, then a rising Hollywood star, wondered why she was so uncomfortable, why she couldn’t just be naked in front of someone. So she took off her sweater, but started to cry. She stumbled through the monologue Toback had given her, thinking, “God, I really am a bad actress. I can’t concentrate. I’m just trying to get through this.”

Toback brought up all the famous people he had worked with, boasting about how he had made their careers and telling her he could do the same for her — if she trusted him. She thought maybe he was right. But she still wanted to leave. She pulled on her sweater. He blocked the hotel room door. He told her he needed to ejaculate and she had to help him.

“People who go against me … I know people that hurt people,” he warned her. Then he asked if she’d have sex with him. No. Would she jerk him off? No.

She went for the door. He told her he couldn’t let her go unless he had sexual release. All she needed to do was pinch his nipples and look into his eyes and he would press himself against her and come in his pants. She felt she had no choice. And while it was happening, she tried to look away, but he grabbed her head and made her stare into his eyes.

Her manager told her not long afterward that he wanted to see her again. Her reply: He’s a vile person. And you shouldn’t ever send another woman to him.

Watch Julianne Moore, Emma Stone and Melissa McCarthy Urge You to Demand Stricter Gun Laws

Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Elizabeth Banks, Melissa McCarthy and more celebs participated in an Everytown PSA that helps citizens get involved by reaching out to their members of Congress. The video urges viewers to call their senators about gun regulation laws.

“The mass shooting in Las Vegas has all of us grieving, scared and angry,” Stone says.

In the video, Bill Hader, Banks and Stone tell people to text the Reject the NRA movement. As they explain in the PSA, the message connects the sender to Everytown for Gun Safety, an organization that aims to prevent future mass shootings.

Adam Scott, Bleachers frontman Jack Antonoff, Sheryl Crow, Anne Deveare Smith, Kathryn Hahn, Sam Harris, Janel Moloney, Zazie Beetz, Cynthia Rowley, Moby, Natalie Morales and Laura Dern also appear in the video.

The Las Vegas shooting was the deadliest mass shooting in America in modern history with 59 dead and over 500 injured.

Talk Show Appearance

Thursday, Oct. 26

Julianne Moore

Real-Life DAYS Duo Teams Up For New Film

Wole Parks on Seal Team 10/25/17

GUEST CAST includes: Gabriel Olds (Crowley), Ben Esler (Erik), Wole Parks (Stefan Bol)

Soap Alum Sarah Brown Reveals Assault

Jon Lindstrom on NCIS: Los Angeles 10/29

GUEST CAST includes: Tembi Locke (Leigha Winters), Costas Mandylor (Abram Sokolov), Jon Lindstrom (Phillip Nelson).

Soap Opera Actress Gets Jail Time for DUI Crash That Caused Severe Injuries

Emotional victim-impact statements were given before the sentencing of Jensen Buchanan, 55, for causing the head-on crash on Highway 154 while driving with a .34 blood alcohol content when the collision happened at 6:20 a.m. May 18, 2016.

Buchanan, who appeared on multiple soap operas, changed her plea to guilty in August after the judge indicated his intent to sentence her to one year in county jail and five years probation, while suspending a 6-year prison term.

The guilty plea came on the day her preliminary hearing had been scheduled to start, and did not involve a deal with the District Attorney’s Office, which had consistently argued for prison time.

On Friday, Arizona residents Bradley Asolas, 57, of Arizona and his wife, Sandy, also urged the judge to impose the maximum sentence.

“Even though I didn’t die that day, in a very real sense she took away my life, because now I am going to die sooner than I probably would have,” Asolas said.

At the time of the crash, Asolas was heading to work in Santa Maria, commuting from his brother’s house in Camarillo.

His active and healthy life before the crash has become one filled with pain and medical appointments as his body recovers from a lengthy list of injuries, he said.

He now walks with a cane, and requires a scooter when they visit their favorite amusement park, Disneyland.

Asolas spent 34 days in Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and rehab facilities after the crash.

“I will list my injuries because it’s insane how broken up my body got,” he said.

A massive heart attack blamed on the crash meant doctors postponed dealing with many of his other injuries, such as not operating on his broken leg for eight days, as they fought to keep him alive.

He said 45 percent of his heart is dead and ultimately may require a heart transplant or simply fail.

“You might give her the max. I have basically been given a death sentence,” he said. “Quite frankly, I didn’t die that day, I very well could have. They kept me alive those doctors. Praise the doctors at Cottage Hospital, they kept me alive.”

He had a broken ribs, a shattered pelvis, fractured spine, and shattered femur repaired with a temporary plate still in place and causing other troubles as his body struggles to heal.

Asolas said he received 17 units of blood and had a lacerated liver, spleen and kidney along with a collapsed lung and a pulmonary embolism

“I’m not even reading all this because they go on and on and on,” he said. “My body is battered from all of this.”

Respiratory failure meant he was intubated four times. Previously active in a men’s choir before the crash, he said he can’t sing any more and suspects the tubes changed his voice.

He can’t work, and efforts to treat his pain made him reliant on opioid medicines daily. They are selling their home since climbing stairs to reach the second floor is painful.

“I’m like an old man,” he said.

His wife also urged the judge to hand down a prison sentence, noting the effects of the crash affected them, their children, their grandchildren and friends.

Both told of having post traumatic stress disorder from the crash and aftermath. While still trapped in the vehicle, Bradley Asolas called to tell his wife what happened before he passed out, a call that replays in her head daily.

“I touch his heart in the middle of the night to make sure he’s breathing,” she said.

After hearing from the husband and wife, Judge James Voysey abruptly called for a break, admitting later that the statements affected him.

Deputy District Attorney Jon Kawashima renewed his argument for a prison sentence, noting that DUIs don’t always involve hardened criminals.

“It requires terrible decisions, terrible consequences, and that’s what we have here,” he said.

But defense attorney Josh Lynn, who represented Jensen along with Dmitry Gorin, said Buchanan has changed her life in the 16 months since the crash, staying sober since.

“The circumstance after this accident was one I have just never seen on either side that I have been on —a defendant doing what she has done,” Lynn said. “And it’s not because she had money or because she was well-known.”

Lynn also noted Asolas received a settlement — $5 million, the attorney said — from Buchanan’s insurance.

Before being led away in handcuffs, Buchanan stood up and faced the audience, addressing the Asolas family

“I’m the drunk driver who caused tremendous emotional pain and suffering to your entire community and family. I made the tragic choice to drink and drive, changing the course of your life forever,” she said. “What I did is wrong.’

“I am deeply and profoundly sorry for all the pain and suffering I have caused all of you,” she added, as crying could be heard throughout the courtroom.

She added that she intends to remain sober, one day at a time, for the rest of her life, and continue to attend Alcoholics Anonymous while embracing the sober network built in the past 16 months

“I promise you there is no incarceration that will be as difficult as living with the knowledge of the damage that I have inflicted on you and your family. I am forever changed by what I have done. I will live, rightly so, with the horror of what I have caused," Buchanan said.

She pleaded guilty to felony driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, and felony driving with a blood-alcohol level of .08 percent or greater.

She also admitted to causing great bodily injury and driving with a blood alcohol level above .15 percent.

The judge noted the difficulty in deciding the punishment for Buchanan, saying she suffered from the disease of alcoholism.

“Ladies, and gentleman, I can tell you this court is greatly affected by what I heard today,” he said, adding that the court often has winners and losers. “There’s no winners in this case. None whatsoever.”

If prison would give back something to the family, Voysey said, he would consider incarceration. But the agreed-upon sentence of one year in county jail and five years probation means she will undergo supervision and must attend programs as instructed.

“Should Ms. Buchanan violate the terms and conditions of her probation, every day of that six-year prison sentence is right there, and I would not hesitate to impose it,” Voysey said.

Jenny Mollen and Jason Biggs welcome baby boy

The couple welcomed their son Lazlo Biggs on Monday at Lenox Hill Hospital, a rep for Mollen confirmed to Page Six.

“Mom, dad, and big brother Sid are doing great!” the rep said.

The quirky actress, 38, posted multiple videos from the hospital on her Instagram account. One shows her gazing lovingly at her deceased dog’s ashes in a pineapple container, while another shows footage of her husband, 39, as she headed in for a C-section.

But while she may have made the most of her hospital stay, Mollen was clearly ready to head home. “I had to break out of the hospital. They wanted to keep me, but I’m leaving. I’m leaving with wires attached,” she said in an Instagram story on Thursday. “I had to. I had to go. it was time.”

She also shared some post-delivery plans with fans. “I’m going to go home and eat my placenta,” she told Instagram. “I’m excited to try it,” her husband, Biggs added.

Mollen and Biggs also have a 3-year-old son together named Sid.

Our history: P&G put the ‘soap’ in 'soap opera'

P&G was prolific, producing several long-running soap operas for radio and television.

The company first dipped into radio in 1927, underwriting NBC’s “Radio Beauty School” to advertise Camay perfumed soap.

Then, in 1930, Chicago radio station WGN hired Irna Phillips of Dayton to write “Painted Dreams,” a domestic serial drama. The format was appealing to P&G, as research suggested women would prefer to be entertained while they did housework.

P&G had a top-notch radio studio in its own backyard with WLW, broadcasting from the Crosley Building in Camp Washington.

After trying out “The Puddle Family Radio Show” in 1932, P&G sponsored “Ma Perkins” at WLW, starting Aug. 14, 1933. The 15-minute serial was picked up for a nationwide rollout on NBC on Dec. 4, 1933, and production moved to Chicago.

“Ma Perkins,” sponsored by Oxydol laundry soap, starred Virginia Payne of Price Hill as the venerable widow who ran a lumberyard in the small Southern town Rushville Center and raised her three children. “The mother of all soap operas” was produced by Anne and Frank Hummert, the leading soap opera creators in the 1930s and ’40s.

The connection to Oxydol was so strong that the show was often called “Oxydol’s Own Ma Perkins.”

Although Oxydol dropped its sponsorship in 1956, “Ma Perkins” continued until Nov. 25, 1960, when all the remaining radio serials were canceled. The date became known as “the day radio drama died.”

Payne played Ma Perkins in all 7,065 episodes over 27 years. She later performed on Broadway, then moved back to Cincinnati and often appeared in productions for Playhouse in the Park. Payne died in her Clifton home in 1977, at age 67.

P&G sponsored numerous radio shows, including “Perry Mason,” “The Red Skelton Show,” “Truth or Consequences,” “The Road of Life,” “Dreft Star Playhouse” and “Against the Storm,” the only radio drama to win a Peabody Award.

Their most successful production was “The Guiding Light,” a soap opera created by Irna Phillips in 1937, and sponsored by P&G White Naphtha Soap. The series transitioned to television in 1952, but continued to also be broadcast on radio until 1956.

Procter & Gamble Productions produced several soap operas for television:

» “Guiding Light” (1952 to 2009) is listed in the “Guinness Book of World Records” as the longest-running TV drama, running 57 years. Including radio, it ran 72 years, a total of 18,262 episodes.

» “Search for Tomorrow” (1951-86) advertised P&G’s Joy dishwashing liquid and Spic and Span household cleaner.

» “The Brighter Day” (1954-62) was created by Phillips for radio in 1948, and was the only soap with an overt religious theme.

» “The Edge of Night” (1956-84) was conceived as a daytime version of “Perry Mason,” but Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner had a fight with CBS and backed out. Instead, “Edge” was a thinly veiled copy with John Larkin, who portrayed Mason on radio. The show was set in the fictional Midwestern town Monticello, but the opening credits showed the Cincinnati skyline.

» “As the World Turns” (1956 to 2010), Phillips’ sister show for “Guiding Light,” debuted the same day as “The Edge of Night” and became the second-longest running show, lasting 54 years.

» “Another World” (1964-99) was supposed to be a spinoff of “As the World Turns,” thus the name, but it was picked up by a different network.

“As the World Turns” ended its run on Sept. 17, 2010, the last P&G-owned soap opera.

Jennifer Landon & John Bedford Lloyd Cast In ‘The Front Runner’

Ion Overman Recurs, Napiera Groves Guests on Wisdon Of The Crowd 10/8/17

CHEAT TWEET: Sophe does double duty decoding new footage of Mia & helping w/ missing teenager case #WisdomoftheCrowd #CBS 10/8 8pm http://bit.ly/2yJSSOM

RECURRING CAST includes: Malachi Weir (Mike Leigh), Ion Overman (Elena Ruiz)

GUEST CAST includes: Jai Rodriguez (David Silva), Napiera Groves (Camille Reddick)

Talk Show Appearance

Wednesday, October 4

Supercouple actors/authors Roselyn Sanchez and Eric Winter show how to make a delicious, savory Squash and Goat Cheese Tart and talk about their new children’s book, “Sebi and the Land of Cha Cha Cha”

Daniel Cosgrove Joins ‘You’

Talk Show Appearance

Wed 9/20

Jordana Brewster

Cady McClain Was an Award Winner at the Burbank Film Festival!

This is a triumphant moment for McClain, who daytime fans remember fondly as ALL MY CHILDREN’s Dixie, AS THE WORLD TURNS’ Rosanna, and THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS’ Kelly. She spent a year interviewing the movers and shakers of the entertainment industry to glean insight about the challenges faced by women directors for her documentary series, a short version of which screened at the Burbank Film Festival this year.

Not only was she seeking to learn something about the career that she’s transitioning into herself, but she also wanted to be of service to young women coming up behind her. “There is a very delicate balance between being strong and being soft,” McClain tells Soaps In Depth of what she’s learned thus far. “You don’t have to give up your femininity to be a leader.

McClain couldn’t be more passionate about the importance of the project. “I think art is really important because it’s where society tends to look for deeper answers,” she offers. “So I hope this documentary will encourage women, in particular, to continue to tell their stories, speak out and know that there are people who want to hear it.”

AMC's Mark La Mura Dead at 68

On Monday, La Mura’s AMC co-star and on-screen sister Susan Lucci posted an elegy to her friend on Instagram.

TVLine confirmed the actor’s passing with his close friend and fellow actor Donnie Kehr (House of Cards).

During his run as Pine Valley’s Mark Dalton, La Mura’s most notable storylines included romancing his (then unknown to him) sibling Erica and undergoing an intervention about his drug addiction. After La Mura left the ABC soap in the late 1980s, he returned for several guest stints, including a storyline revolving around Erica’s intervention for alcoholism. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 1988. Watch a clip of Mark’s intervention here.

La Mura’s other television gigs include Star Trek: The Next Generation, L.A. Law, One Life to Live, The Sopranos, 30 Rock, Law & Order: SVU and Damages.

In a 2012 interview with We Love Soaps, La Mura looked back vividly — if not entirely fondly — on his daytime years. Acting in soaps, he recalled “was like being able to play all 88 keys on a piano and only being allowed to plunk out the same eight every day. To be fair; the writers have to write an hours’ worth of story every day. The director has to shoot it, the actors have learn ‘all them words’ the night before.” Did he love it, though? “Love – No. Thanks for the dough. It was a heavy-like affair.”

Jon Lindstrom Shares a Backstage Peek at His New Primetime Role

LIndstrom also shared a pic from inside his trailer on the show’s set taking a selfie in the mirror while eating some eggs and toast. “Your own trailer and they bring you breakfast,” he wrote. “I love this biz.” He also shared some behind the scenes video of him filming the episode from behind the wheel of a car while a camera perches just outside the window as he drives down the road. “You ever feel like somebody’s watching you?” he teased. (You’ll note that he’s not actually driving the car, so don’t worry!)

NCIS: LA stars LL Cool J and Chris O’Donnell but so far, Lindstrom has only shared a selfie with fellow guest star Costas Mandylor. “Costas thinking he can be taller than me,” he joked. “Awesome guy, amazing actor.” Back in 2013, Mandylor played the character of Tomas Mendez in a couple episodes of parent series NCIS, but at this time it’s unclear if he’s reprising that role or playing an entirely new one.

You can look forward to Lindstrom returning to Port Charles very soon, and as soon as we have more details on when his episode of NCIS: LA is slated to air, we’ll be sure to let you know so you can tune in!

‘Suburbicon’ Trailer: Damon, Moore & Isaac In Clooney-Helmed Dark Satire Written By Coens

Here is an exclusive new trailer for the darkly comic thriller about a family man who’s about to shake things up in his manicured-lawn life. Gardner Lodge (Damon) is in love with his wife’s sister (Moore), which leaves the wife (also Moore) little more than in the way. The lovers plan and stage a home invasion that gets rid of the excess spousal baggage; the scheme is to collect the insurance money and flee to Aruba. Some of it goes as planned, and the plot could work — if it weren’t for that meddling insurance investigator (Oscar Isaac). Noah Jupe and Glenn Fleshler also star.

Not helping matters in supposedly tranquil town of Suburbicon is a violent racist attack on the black family that has just moved in across the street. It’s all enough to send Lodge tearing down the street — on a kid-size bicycle.

Paramount opens the film October 27. Check out the trailer above — and the brand-new poster here.

Talk Show Appearance

Wednesday, September 13: Guests include Julianne Moore

Disney's Live-Action 'Aladdin' Casts Billy Magnussen as New Character

Billy Magnussen is joining Disney's live-action Aladdin as Prince Anders.

The Guy Ritchie-directed movie based on the 1992 animated pic will star relative newcomer Mena Massoud as the street rat turned prince. Power Rangers actress Naomi Scott will play Princess Jasmine, with Marwan Kenzari (Murder on the Orient Express) portraying the villain Jafar and Will Smith playing Genie.

Magnussen will take on the new role created for the movie musical, with all other character details remaining buried in the Cave of Wonders. He joins Saturday Night Live alum Nasim Pedrad, who is set to play the original character Mara, a handmaiden and friend to Jasmine.

John August (Big Fish, Corpse Bride) penned the script. Dan Lin, who worked with Ritchie on Sherlock Holmes, is producing through his Lin Pictures banner.

Magnussen has some experience playing a Disney prince. The Tony nominee appeared in Rob Marshall's Into the Woods as Rapunzel's prince, performing the duet "Agony" with Chris Pine.

The actor was last seen in the Aubrey Plaza indie Ingrid Goes West, and appeared in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies and Adam McKay's The Big Short. Magnussen's small-screen work includes Netflix's Black Mirror, Epix's Get Shorty and FX's The People v. O.J. Simpson, in which he played Kato Kaelin.

Up next, Magnussen will star opposite Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams in the New Line comedy Game Night. He is repped by WME, Anonymous, BRS-Gage and Sloane Offer.

Talk Show Appearance

We 9/13: Julianne Moore

ATWT/OLTL Alum Books New Role

'Friends From College’ Renewed For Season 2 By Netflix

Friends From College stars Keegan-Michael Key, Cobie Smulders, Annie Parisse, Nat Faxon, Fred Savage and Jae Suh Park as a sextet of friends from Harvard in interwoven and oftentimes complicated relationships with one another who face down their forties. The series is described as a comedic exploration of old friendships, former romantic entanglements and balancing adult life with nostalgia for the past.

While Friends From College garnered largely lukewarm reviews from critics, it has been better received by regular viewers and features one of the strongest casts assembled on a comedy series.

Stoller also directs the series, and Delbanco serves as a writer.

Friends From College joins a slew of other new Netflix series to debut in 2017 that have been renewed for a second season, including Orark, 13 Reasons Why, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Marvel’s Iron Fist, One Day At a Time, Santa Clarita Diet, Dear White People and GLOW. Only two so far, Girlboss and Gypsy, did not make it to a sophomore sesh.

Julianne Moore To Be Feted By MOMA

Moore, of course, was the 2015 Best Actress Oscars for Still Alice and has also been nominated for the Best Actress for her roles in The End of the Affair (2000) and Far from Heaven (2003), and Best Supporting Actress for Boogie Nights (1998) and The Hours (2003).

She will next be seen in Wonderstruck, Kingsman: The Golden Circle and Suburbicon. MoMA will also pay tribute to Moore with a film series of her work from Nov. 2 through 12 in the Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. The tribute dinner on Nov. 13 is hosted by Chanel.

Soap opera actress pleads guilty to charges stemming from Highway 154 crash

Jensen Buchanan, 55, pleaded guilty to felony DUI charges in Santa Barbara County District Court on Friday, according to District Attorney Joyce Dudley.

Buchanan was found to have a blood alcohol content that was nearly twice the legal limit when she crashed head-on with another vehicle on State Route 154 near Santa Barbara on May 18, 2016.

The crash caused "great bodily harm" to the driver of the other vehicle.

The crash made national headlines due to Buchanan's notoriety as a soap opera actress who had appeared on a number of different day-time shows including Young and the Restless.

There was no plea agreement in this case against Buchanan.

Buchanan will return for sentencing in front of Judge James Voysey on October 6.

Jessie T. Usher Tapped As Son Of Shaft; Samuel L. Jackson, Richard Roundtree Reprise

The studio and filmmakers searched for months to find the right young actor for the splashy role, before deciding the right guy is Usher. Usher’s biggest role to date came in Independence Day: Resurgence. He returns as the lead of the Starz series Survivor’s Remorse, with the fourth season beginning August 20. He will play the son of the detective, who, after long being estranged from his father, finds himself teamed up with him. The young man is an FBI agent, a cyber expert, and the partnership with dad is an uneasy collision of old school meets new school.

CAA and MGMT Entertainment rep Usher. The new Shaft film is produced by Davis Entertainment’s John Davis and Barris, the black-ish creator. Story is repped by UTA and Barris by CAA and Principato-Young. Jackson is ICM Partners and Anonymous Content and Stone Manners Salsners Agency and Patrick McMinn Management.

Freeform Sets Cast For Christmas Movie ‘Angry Angel’ As Production Begins

Starring Jason Biggs (Orange is the New Black), Brenda Song (Pure Genius), Ricky Mabe (Preacher), Andrew Bachelor (Meet the Blacks) and Andy Favreau (The Mick), the New York City-set Angry Angel follows a young woman turned angel, Allison Pyke (Song), who is stuck on Earth and can’t seem to ring the right bells in order to pass through those pearly gates into heaven. When the love of her life, Patrick (Mabe), shows up in New York City, it complicates Pyke’s journey as well as frustrates her angel mentor Jason Biggs (Biggs). The not-so-merry situation also turns into an unexpected love triangle with her friend with sometimes benefits, Barker (Favreau).

Produced by Olive Bridge Entertainment in association with Sony Pictures Television, Will Gluck and Richard Schwartz will serve as executive producers. Angry Angel will premiere in November 2017.

Favreau also is one of the leads of NBC’s upcoming Mindy Kaling-produced comedy Champions, which will air in 2018.

Shawn Christian, Lou Ferrigno Jr., Sabina Gadecki & More Cast In Indie Film ‘Trapped’

The pic follows Scarlet (Gregory), as she’s sent to a wilderness camp for difficult teenagers, where she meets Dylan (Capri). The pair form a bond that is tested by experiences beyond their perceived realm of existence.

Kevin Balmore, Geffri Maya, Ravi Naidu, Cameron Jebo, Matthew Joel Kranyank, Jason Lott, Alexis Clayton and Jaime Gallagher round out the supporting cast.

Gorshkov is also producing along with Jaime Gallagher (Know Your Enemy). Filming is set to begin in Los Angeles this month. Gabriela Revilla Lugo will exec produce.

Christian is repped by Innovative and Burstein; Ferrigno Jr. by Kind Management; Gadecki by Innovative and LINK; Nielsen by Luber Roklin and HRI Talent; Thomson by Kathy Lymberopoulos Management. Capri by CESD and Concrete Management.

‘The Exorcist’: Christopher Cousins & Cyrus Arnold Set To Recur In Season 2 Of Fox Series

Season 2 picks up with Father Tomas Ortega (Alfonso Herrera) and a newly collarless Marcus Keane (Ben Daniels) out of Chicago and on the road, searching out evil. Across the Atlantic, Father Bennett (Kurt Egyiawan) attempts to weed out those within the Vatican who have turned against God. Ultimately, Tomas and Marcus are led to Andrew Kim (Cho), a former child psychologist who runs a group home for five at-risk foster children on a secluded private island off the coast of Seattle. When one of the children under Andrew’s care is targeted by a powerful force, the two priests head west, setting themselves on a collision course with hell.

Cousins will play Peter Morrow, a local investigator with U.S. Fish and Wildlife and a family friend of Andrew’s (Cho). Arnold will portray David “Truck” Johnson III, one of Andrew’s (Cho) foster kids. He’s big for his size so people treat him like an adult, but he still thinks and acts like a child.

Cousins has recurred on Training Day, UnReal, Bosch, Vampire Diaries, Matador, Glee and for several season as Ted Beneke on Breaking Bad. He’s repped by Stone Manners Salners Agency and DiSante-Frank and Company.

Arnold recently guest-starred on Bones and appeared as Derek Jr. in Zoolander 2. He’s repped by APA, Crackerjack Management and Principato-Young Entertainment.

‘Friday Night Lights’ star Scott Porter welcomes baby girl

The “Friday Night Lights” alum and his wife, Kelsey Mayfield Porter, announced the birth of their baby girl on Friday.

Porter’s first post came Thursday afternoon and featured the 38-year-old actor in scrubs with the apt caption, “Go time…”

Sixteen hours later, the tired papa celebrated with some much needed sleep.

“Sweet Dreams, world,” he captioned an adorable photo of himself holding his new baby.

Porter and his wife — who tied the knot in 2013 — have one son together: 2-year-old McCoy Lee.

The couple announced they were expecting a daughter back in July.

Matthew Morrison To Star In Chinese Pic ‘Crazy Alien’ From ‘Breakup Buddies’ Ning Hao

Production on the Chinese-language movie is just getting underway in Qingdao. Morrison will speak English in the picture with his role subtitled in Chinese.

Co-starring is Ning’s frequent collaborator Huang Bo, who was in the previous Crazy pics as well as the director’s 2014 smash Breakup Buddies. Also aboard are Tom Pelphrey (Iron Fist, Banshee); Kat Nelson (A Girl Is A Gun); and Shen Teng, who appeared in Breakup Buddies and is known for another local box office hit, Goodbye Mr Loser.

A Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, Glee alum Morrison recently starred in the Harvey Weinstein-produced Finding Neverland on Broadway and next will be onscreen in Tulip Fever, which releases domestically on August 25. He’s repped by CAA.

Glee was a popular series in China. Said Ning: “We are expanding the potential audience for Chinese films. This time, we are collaborating with extraordinary Hollywood actors. I believe that all these amazing talents will inspire each other to put on a great performance.”

Breakup Buddies was the No. 2 movie of 2014 in the Middle Kingdom, grossing $188M. Ning’s other credits include 2013’s neo-Western thriller No Man’s Land, which competed in Berlin and has been compared to the work of the Coen brothers.

Huanxi Media and Dirty Monkey are producing Crazy Alien with a China release set for February 5, 2019. Morrison is repped by CAA and management Podwall Entertainment.

Soap star Shawn Christian cleans out of the Fairfax area

The 2,600-square-foot French country-style house, built in 1925, maintains its original charm. Long on character, the three-bedroom main house centers on a courtyard filled with mature trees and flowers.

There’s also a 1,000-square-foot guest house for a total of four bedrooms and two bathrooms. A swimming pool, spa and fire pit complete the backyard, which is surrounded with hedges.

Christian, 51, bought the property in 1999 for $475,000. At the time he was appearing in such shows as “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Charmed.” In addition to “Days” he is currently in the series “Famous in Love.” He’ll be in the upcoming thriller “Last Seen in Idaho.”

Stefan Pommepuy of the Agency was the listing agent. Nathan Stadler of Partners Trust represented the buyer.

Soap Alum In Youtube Series

Grey's: Matthew Morrison Returning as Jo's Hubby for 'Big' Season 14 Stint

Matthew Morrison is confirming what many Grey’s Anatomy fans had suspected: We have not seen the last of Jo’s abusive husband. In an interview with The Argonaut, the Glee alum said his character, Paul Stadler, will play “a big role” in the ABC drama’s upcoming 14th season. An ABC rep declined to comment.

Morrison made his Grey’s debut as Paul in Season 13’s penultimate episode when Alex tracked down the fellow doc at a medical conference and imagined various incendiary scenarios involving his archnemesis. Ultimately, Karev walked away without confronting him, although the two did share an awkward moment jockeying for a cab (during which Paul seemed to recognize Alex).

Grey’s kicks off Season 14 with a two-hour episode on Thursday, Sept. 28.

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Jeremy Irvine, ‘Vampire Diaries’ Actor Zach Roerig & More Set For ‘The Last Full Measure’

Based on the true story of a present-day cover-up investigation, the pic follows young Pentagon investigator Scott Huffman as he battles the political machine in Washington. As we are brought back to what happened in one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War through the eyes of the survivors, Huffman teams with the veterans of Operation Abilene to convince Congress to finally award the Medal of Honor to a courageous Air Force Pararescue Jumper Pitsenbarger, who saved many lives as his own was sacrificed.

Irvine will play Medal of Honor recipient William Pitsenbarger (Grant Gustin was originally attached to the role), while Russell, Roerig, and Walker will play young versions of Hurt, Harris, and Savage’s characters respectively.

Mark Damon, Nicholas Cafritz, Robert Reed Peterson, Timothy Scott Bogart, Shaun Sanghani, Julian Adams, Lauren Selig, Pen Densham, John Watson, Louis Steyn and T.J. Steyn are producing, Habib H. Paracha, Tamara Birkemoe, Jenna Sanz-Agero, and Sidney Sherman have signed on as Executive Producers. Foresight Unlimited is handling international sales and producing in association with Provocator and SSS Entertainment.

Irvine, repped by UTA and Independent Talent Group, will appear in Farhad Safinia’s The Professor and the Madman and James Cox’s Billionaire Boys Club. Russell, most recently seen in A Stand Up Guy with Bob Saget, is with Innovative. Also repped by Innovative, Roerig’s latest debut is Lea Thompson’s The Year of Spectacular Man, which made its world premiere at the LA Film Fest last month. Walker, the late Paul Walker’s youngest brother, has recently starred alongside Nicolas Cage in Mario Van Peebles’ USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage. He’s a client of Paradigm and Luber Roklin.

‘Animal Kingdom’ Renewed For Season Three At TNT — TCA

“The Cody family’s drama keeps bringing more and more viewers back for more,” said Sarah Aubrey, executive vice president of original programming for TNT in a statement. “Animal Kingdom has earned its place among a very select group of cable dramas that continue to grow audiences thanks to superior writing and storytelling.”

Inspired by the 2010 Australian movie of the same name from David Michôd, Animal Kingdom centers on teen Joshua “J” Cody (Cole), who moves in with his freewheeling, criminally inclined relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of a heroin overdose.

Animal Kingdom is executive-produced by Emmy Award winner John Wells, Jonathan Lisco, Christopher Chulack, and Etan Frankel. Megan Martin serves as co-executive producer. Michôd and Liz Watts serve as executive producers on the series. The series ranks as one of basic cable’s Top 10 returning dramas among Adults 18-49 for the year-to-date.

John Mellencamp and Meg Ryan are back together

“They are together. It’s been a few months,” a source told Page Six.

The rocker and the “You’ve Got Mail” star ended their relationship in 2014 after dating for three years.

He told shock jock Howard Stern that Ryan “hated” him in an interview earlier this year.

“I loved Meg Ryan. She hates me to death. I think it’s because I’m a child,” he said.

But the couple remained friends and were spotted hanging out again after the Stern interview. Ryan also continues to be in the stands at his shows.

“Meg was at his recent Forest Hills Stadium concert, dancing on the side of the stage,” a spy said.

‘As the World Turns’ writer Craig Heller is ready for a scene change in Woodland Hills

Owned by the couple for more than a decade, the split-level home sits on a cul-de-sac and has a blue-tiled swimming pool — an amenity likely to appeal to most during record heat waves. A guest/pool house, ample patio space, lawns and mature trees fill out the grounds of more than half an acre.

The 2,333 square feet of living space includes a vaulted-ceiling living room, an updated kitchen, a breakfast nook, three bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms. The step-down family room features a wet bar. In the master suite, sliding doors open to a balcony that overlooks the backyard.

The property last changed hands in 2003 for $785,000, records show.

Lonnie Mintz of Rodeo Realty holds the listing.

Heller has credits that include such shows as “General Hospital,” “Full House” and “Happy Days.” He shared multiple Daytime Emmy Awards for his work on the soap opera “As the World Turns.”

May played the role of Dr. Alana Chertoff on the ABC series “Mistresses” and also has appeared on “The Young and the Restless.” More recently, she guest starred on the series “Scandal.”

Annie Parisse To Co-Star In HBO’s Joe Paterno Movie About Penn State Scandal

Written by Debora Cahn, John C. Richards and David McKenna, the film centers on legendary Joe Paterno (Pacino), who, after becoming the winningest coach in college football history, is embroiled in Penn State’s Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure on behalf of the victims.

Parisse will play Mary Kay Paterno, Joe Paterno’s daughter. In addition to Pacino, she joins previously cast Riley Keough, Greg Grunberg and Kathy Baker.

Levinson, Tom Fontana and Jason Sosnoff executive produce via Levinson/Fontana alongside Wall Street producer Edward R. Pressman and Pacino’s manager Rick Nicita. Lindsay Sloane also is exec producing for HBO Films and Sony Pictures Television.

Parisse next will be seen in Netflix’s upcoming comedy series Friends From College. Her other TV credits include a recurring role on Person of Interest and playing Andrea Zito on HBO’s Vinyl. She’s repped by Gersh and Door 24.

‘Sneaky Pete’: Jennifer Ferrin & Miriam Morales Set To Recur In Season 2

Sneaky Pete revolves around a con man, Marius (Giovanni Ribisi), who gets out of prison only to find himself hunted by the vicious gangster he once robbed. With nowhere else to turn, Marius takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his cellmate, Pete, and then “reunites” with Pete’s estranged family—who have no reason to suspect he’s not their long-lost loved one.

Ferrin will play NYPD Detective Joyce Roby, who is investigating Det. Winslow’s death. She’s cool, smart, attractive and nobody’s fool. Morales is Ellen’s (Jeté Laurence) teacher at a Bridgeport elementary school.

In addition to Ribisi, Ferrin and Morales join Marin Ireland, Peter Gerety, Libe Barer, Shane McRae, Michael Drayer and Margo Martindale.

Ferrin, repped by Gersh and Untitled, also has a role in Fox’s drama pilot The Passage, a recurring on NBC’s Rise and will be seen in Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming HBO miniseries Mosaic.

Morales plays inmate Pidge on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black. She’s repped by Multi-Ethnic Talent and Take 3 Talent Agency.

Roselyn Sánchez Expecting Baby No. 2 With Husband Eric Winter

Roselyn Sánchez is expecting baby no. 2 with husband, Eric Winter. The actress made the adorable pregnancy announcement via social media with a photo of their daughter Sebella Rose and metallic balloons spelling out baby.

"I'm going to be a big sister! Happy Father's Day daddy!" she captioned the snap.

The Devious Maids star married the actor in 2008 in Puerto Rico. In August 2011, Sánchez announced that she and Winter were expecting their first child.

The couple welcomed their daughter Sebella on January 4, 2012.

"I don't want Sebella to be an only child. I come from a big family, and I don't know if it's because I grew up with so many brothers but I do want her to experience with it is to have a sibling. I would love to have one more...I hope it happens!" the actress told People in 2014. "In my heart, I wish I could give Sebella a little brother."

But maybe we should've seen this coming. Just last year on Hollywood Medium, Tyler Henry predicted that Sanchez would have more children.

You were right on, Henry!

When it comes to parenting, these two have a very hands-on, supporting approach. The actress gushed about Winter's excellent parenting.

"He's really, really involved. He cooks, changes diapers, puts her to bed every single night, plays with her—it's so incredible. I knew when I met him and saw how he was with his mom—I knew, 'This guy is going to be a great dad because he just adores his mom,'" the 44-year-old actress explained.

Congratulations to this growing family!

2017 Teen Choice Awards Nominees

Choice Drama TV Actress (#ChoiceDramaTVActress)
Ashley Benson – “Pretty Little Liars”
Bella Thorne – “Famous In Love”
Lucy Hale – “Pretty Little Liars”
Sasha Pieterse – “Pretty Little Liars”
Shay Mitchell – “Pretty Little Liars”
Troian Bellisario – “Pretty Little Liars”

Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actor (#ChoiceSciFiTVActor)
Bob Morley – “The 100”
Dylan O’Brien – “Teen Wolf”
Ian Somerhalder – “The Vampire Diaries”
Jensen Ackles – “Supernatural”
Joseph Morgan – “The Originals”
Matthew Daddario – “Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments”

Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actress (#ChoiceSciFiTVActress)
Abigail Spencer – “Timeless”
Eliza Taylor – “The 100”
Emeraude Toubia – “Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments”
Jennifer Morrison – “Once Upon A Time”
Kat Graham – “The Vampire Diaries”
Lana Parrilla – “Once Upon A Time”

Choice Action TV Actress (#ChoiceActionTVActress)
Caity Lotz – “Legends of Tomorrow”
Candice Patton – “The Flash”
Danielle Panabaker – “The Flash”
Emily Bett Rickards – “Arrow”
Jordana Brewster – “Lethal Weapon”
Melissa Benoist – “Supergirl”

Choice Comedy TV Actress (#ChoiceComedyTVActress)
Candace Cameron Bure – “Fuller House”
Emma Roberts – “Scream Queens”
Gina Rodriguez – “Jane the Virgin”
Rose McIver – “iZombie”
Yara Shahidi – “black-ish”
Zendaya – “K.C. Undercover”.

Talk Show Appearance

Actor Josh Duhamel; actress Marisa Tomei.

Julianne Moore, Tracy Morgan, Kate McKinnon Join Alec Baldwin Tribute

Additional names will be announced shortly, Spike says.

One Night Only: Alec Baldwin, described as part roast, part This Is Your Life, will include comedy, music, “candid personal stories and a few surprises for the superstar,” Spike said in announcing the headliners.

Set for taping at Harlem’s Apollo Theater on Sunday, June 25, the special is produced by Casey Patterson Entertainment and directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller. One Night Only: Alec Baldwin will premiere on Spike TV on Sunday, July 9, 9 pm ET/PT.

Daytime Emmys Agnes Nixon Tribute (Extended Version)

Produced by Michael Fairman, with deep respect, appreciation, and love for Agnes, the cast of AMC and OLTL, and the fans, The Michael Channel brings you this one-of-a-kind special retrospective.

The shorter version of this retrospective appeared on the 44th Annual Daytime Emmys Ceremonies this past April.

Julianne Moore, Zoe Saldana and Sia Team up to Raise Awareness for HIV/AIDS

"This is Kai, an expecting mother, a daughter, a friend," Julianne narrates the beginning of the music video as the screen shows a wide shot of Zoe in a doctor's office. "She's about to learn HIV is taking hold in her body, attacking her immune system and if left untreated will be passed on to the baby growing inside her."

The Guardians of the Galaxy actress breaks into an interpretive dance choreographed by Sia's longtime colleague, Ryan Heffington. The Grammy-nominated choreographer also worked on "Cheap Thrills," "The Greatest" and the iconic music video featuring Maddie Ziegler "Chandelier."

Zoe uses body movement to tell a compelling story as Sia's vocals are overlaid singing, "Peace may come / I hope it won't take long / Just a faith I cannot see / Bring me home / I'm in there all alone / Just me and my melody."

The last 30 seconds of the video shows an emotionally moved Zoe cuddling her newborn baby, as Sia belts out, "Free me / Free me / From this pain I've been running from / I'm tired and I'm free falling / Free me / Free me / From this shame I've been running from / I'm lost and I am calling you."

Text that reads, "HIV/AIDS is the NO. 1 killer of women of reproductive age worldwide," overlays the video as Julianne gives a final statement of solidarity. "Go to ENDHIV.com to support a promising new aids cure. Together we can #endHIV."

All proceeds from "Free Me" will be donated to #endHIV, a campaign put on by the Abzyme Research Foundation to raise awareness and funds to manufacture "effective and low cost therapeutic" HIV vaccinations that are in the process of meeting FDA standards.

To date, #endHIV's current campaign has raised $50,100 of their $1 million goal.

"Free Me" is available for purchase Friday.

William Fichtner To Make Directing Debut On ‘Cold Brook’

Shaak, who’s producing with Fichtner, said that “Cold Brook is a special project for our entire team. The support here in Buffalo for Bill and our project has been fantastic. Bill’s a Buffalo guy, and it’s really rewarding to help him bring his vision for Cold Brook into production in this area that means so much to him.” Fichtner is repped by APA and Primary Wave Entertainment. Coates is repped by Don Buchwald and Mainstay Entertainment. Perrineau is repped by APA.

GH Scribe Jean Passanante On Retirement: ”It’s Just Time."

Legends of Tomorrow Casts Role of Muslim Hacktivist From the Future

Tala Ashe (Smash, As the World Turns) has joined the cast of the CW drama as Zari Adrianna Tomaz, a Muslim-American computer nerd with a wry, combative attitude who hails from the year 2030.

According to the character description, “Zari lives in a world of contradictions. Technology has brought about incredible change in her future — too bad human nature hasn’t kept pace. Fear, prejudice, and a lack of care for the planet have forced Zari to become a ‘grey hat hacktivist.'”

As Zari lives her double life, she has no idea that she possesses secret, latent powers derived from an ancient, mystical source. (In DC Comics lore, Adrianna Tomaz was an Egyptian who inherited special abilities via the Amulet of Isis and then became known as the superhero “Oh-Mighty-Isis!”)

What drives Julianne Moore’s fight for gun violence awareness

Speaking to Page Six Thursday atop the Empire State Building, Moore recalled how she attempted to shield daughter Liv, now 15, from the devastating news of the Sandy Hook massacre, in which 20 children and six school administrators were slain at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut.

“It was such a horrific day, so shocking, and my daughter was 11 years old at the time and she came to work with me that day,” Moore explained. “When I heard the news, I wanted to make sure she didn’t hear it on the radio or on TV or somebody on the crew or a cast member. I talked to everybody and said please don’t mention this to her, I want to wait until we go home tonight.”

As Moore, 56, and her family decorated their Christmas tree, her youngest child discovered the tragic events on her phone.

“She had just gotten the phone, she was only allowed to use sparingly, we had to carefully monitor her Instagram account, and she looked at it and looked up and goes, ‘Mommy, did a bunch of little kids get shot today?'” Moore said. “I was shocked and horrified and I though it’s ridiculous for me to think that I can protect her or shield her from the news. I can’t protect her emotionally or physically from this kind of violence unless I do something about it.”

Joining forces with Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence prevention organization in the United States, Moore launched the Everytown Creative Council in 2015, in which she and 80 fellow entertainers, including Jennifer Aniston and Alec Baldwin, advocate to end gun violence in the country.

“I went to them and said, ‘Listen, I’m an actor and if anything we have communication skills, and I want to get a group of actors who are willing to talk about gun violence in the US,'” she said.

Jennifer Ferrin Joins Fox's Vampire Drama Pilot The Passage

Adapted from Justin Cronin’s popular book series, The Passage envisions a post-apocalyptic future where virus-infected vampires roam the earth, with human colonies banding together to survive. (That book was followed by 2012’s The Twelve and this year’s The City of Mirrors.) Fox bought the film rights to The Passage before it was even published, and a Twilight-like film series was planned for years, but now they’re opting to bring it to the small screen.

Gosselaar will play Brad Wolgast, a federal agent who balks at retrieving 10 year old Amy Bellafonte (played by American Horror Story‘s Saniyya Sidney), who has been targeted for the unholy government experiment. He instead goes on the run with her, with a veritable army of Feds on his heels.

Friday Night Lights writer Liz Heldens penned the pilot, with Dawn of the Planet of the Apes helmer Matt Reeves among the exec-producers.

The cast also includes Genesis Rodriguez (Time After Time), Brianne Howey (The Exorcist), BJ Britt (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and Jennifer Ferrin (Hell on Wheels).

Amanda Seyfried Set For ‘Mama Mia!’ Reprise

Michael Ogiens Dies: Producer & Longtime CBS Programming Exec Was 69

A Los Angeles native, Ogiens began his executive career at CBS, spending 14 years between its New York and Los Angeles offices. As VP Daytime Programs, he supervised production on such soap operas and game shows as The Young and The Restless and The Price Is Right. After a stint as VP Daytime and Children’s Programming, he pivoted to primetime as VP Programs, where he was tasked with boosting East Coast production. Shows launched under his watch included 1984 comedies Kate and Allie and Charles in Charge and the 1985 drama Foley Square.

He then relocated back to Los Angeles to serve as CBS’ VP Comedy Development, working on such series as the movie spinoff Fast Times and pilots for My Sister Sam and Designing Women. The latter sitcom launched in fall 1986 but didn’t gain real traction until the 1989-90 season, when it broke into the year-end primetime top 25. The series starring Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Jean Smart and Annie Potts as Southern women who launch an interior-decorating business in Atlanta went on to finish the 1990-91 season as the No. 11 series in primetime and rose to No. 6 the following season.

Ogiens went on to found the Ogiens/Kane Company with his former CBS colleague Josh Kane. Together they developed and produced series and movies for network, cable and syndication including ABC’s The Young Riders, CBS’ Trenchcoat in Paradise, AMC’s The Lot and USA’s Into the Badlands. During that time, Ogiens also created TNT’s The Lazarus Man, a short-lived 1996 Western starring Urich as a man with amnesia who crawls out of a Southern grave after the Civil War wearing a Confederate uniform but carrying a Union revolver and sets out to finds out why he was buried alive.

Ogiens then was named as president of MTM Productions, where during his tenure it produced such series as The Pretender, Orleans and Good News along with multiple telefilms and game shows. His most recent credits include exec producing the 2015 TV movies All of My Heart and A Country Wedding and last year’s Love You Like Christmas.

Novels Read By Soap Stars

(Amazon: Order here) Calvin Kusek, a WWII pilot and attorney, and his wife, Betsy, escape the 1950s conformity of New York City to relocate to a close-knit town in South Dakota. They settle on a ranch and Betsy becomes a visiting nurse, befriending a quirky assortment of rural characters. Their children, Jo and her brother Lance, grow up caring for animals and riding rodeo. Life isn't easy, but it is full and rewarding. When a seat in the State Assembly becomes available, Cal jumps at the chance to repay the community and serves three popular terms.

Things change when Cal runs for the U.S. Senate. The FBI investigates Betsy, and a youthful dalliance with the Communist Party surfaces to haunt the Kuseks. Mass hysteria takes over, inflamed by Cal's political enemies. Driven by fear and hate, their neighbors turn, condemning them as enemies and spies. The American Dream falls apart overnight as the Kuseks try to protect their children from the nightmare that follows. The family is vindicated in a successful libel lawsuit, but the story doesn't end there: years later, Lance Kusek and his wife and son are brutally attacked, and the mystery then unfolds as to who committed this coldblooded murder, and are they related to the stunning events of decades earlier?

Novels Read By Soap Stars

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A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced. For ten years their families have been left with nothing but painful memories and a quiet desperation for the day that has finally, miraculously arrived: Myron Bolitar and his friend Win believe they have located one of the boys, now a teenager. Where has he been for ten years, and what does he know about the day, more than half a life ago, when he was taken? And most critically: What can he tell Myron and Win about the fate of his missing friend? Drawing on his singular talent, Harlan Coben delivers an explosive and deeply moving thriller about friendship, family, and the meaning of home.

Novels Read By Soap Stars

audiobook read by many actors including Jon Lindstrom (Kevin, GH)

Shawn Christian Opens Up About Leaving and Returning to DAYS — Plus His Exciting New Primetime Series!

On a more serious note, Christian is grateful that he has been able to reprise the role, albeit in a spectral form and only briefly. “When I get on that set, I feel so loved and so grateful to have been in the trenches with these guys and girls who make this show tick,” he confesses. “I always leave with a smile on my face. It’s moving, I have to say.”

The actor is also grateful to have the chance to work with Arianne Zucker (Nicole) again. “It’s always emotional,” Christian admits. “Because I think she was also sad about the departure of the Daniel character because there was so much time invested. And then she’ll start crying and I’ll start welling up and then I’m like, ‘Wait a minute. I’m in heaven. There’s no crying in heaven!’”

While DAYS fans wait to see if Daniel is going to make another ghostly appearance in Salem, they can also catch Christian in the new series FAMOUS IN LOVE, airing on Freeform where he plays Alan Mills. “They really do a nice job of not just painting the glamour but also the heartache that comes with this business,” he says of the show biz drama. “And then how to navigate your own personal relationships and hang on to your integrity.”

While Christian says his character is heavily recurring, he teases that Alan plays a major role as the series goes on. “What’s beautiful about it is the plot just continues to get thicker and thicker and thicker,” he promises. “So I was even surprised every week when I got a chance to read it!”

‘Glee’ alum Matthew Morrison and wife expecting first child

The “Glee” alum and wife Renee Puente confirmed to People they are expecting their first child later this year.

“I just want to be the best father I can be,” the Broadway vet told the publication.

Morrison, 38, and Puente tied the knot in October 2014 after four years of dating. They wed in an intimate Hawaiian ceremony surrounded by 50 of their closest friends and family.

As the couple prepares for parenthood, both Morrison and Puente eagerly await the arrival of their baby-to-be.

“I can’t wait to share experiences and watch life through my kid’s eyes,” he said.

Goldberg & Grammer To Recur On Graves

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Frequency, No Tomorrow Cancelled

The news isn’t really a huge surprise: Neither show got an order for additional episodes last fall, capping their freshman seasons at 13 episodes each. Both shows wrapped up their initial runs in January, but The CW’s president Mark Pedowitz promised that fans of both shows would get closure “on the digital side” if they weren’t renewed.

Frequency, a reboot of the 2000 movie, starred Peyton List as a cop who reconnects with her dead father through a magical radio. (List has since signed on to join the cast of CBS’ NASA pilot Mission Control.) No Tomorrow, a quirky rom-com in the vein of Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, starred Tori Anderson as a straight-laced girl who falls for an impulsive guy (Galavant‘s Joshua Sasse) who believes the apocalypse is coming soon.

The double cancellation leaves Riverdale as the only CW freshman drama to score a Season 2 renewal, which it locked down back in March.

Susan Sarandon, Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines & Peter Gallagher Join ‘A Bad Moms Christmas’

Bad Moms writer-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, producer Suzanne Todd and executive producers Bill Block and Mark Kamine all are rejoined on this one. Also starring are returning cast members Jay Hernandez, David Walton and Wanda Sykes along with the previously reported Justin Hartley.

The logline: “A Bad Moms Christmas follows the under-appreciated and over-burdened young moms as they rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for moms: Christmas. And if creating a more perfect holidays for their families wasn’t hard enough, they have to do all of that while hosting and entertaining their own mothers. By the end of the journey, our moms will redefine how to make the holidays special for all and discover a closer relationship with their mothers.”

Last year’s banked $113.2 million domestic last year and added $70.1 million overseas. Filming on the sequel is already underway in Atlanta. The film will be released by STXfilms on November 3.

James Earl Jones Will Be Honored With Lifetime Achievement Tony Award

Jones made his Broadway debut in 1958’s Sunrise At Campobello and would win two Tony Awards, for The Great White Hope (1969) and Fences (1987). A larger-than-life figure in theater, television and film for over half a century Jones also was Tony nominated for On Golden Pond (2005) and Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (2012). Recent Broadway appearances include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Driving Miss Daisy and You Can’t Take It With You.

“When I came to New York to study acting, my father – the actor Robert Earl Jones – took me on a ‘Grand Tour,’ ” Jones said in announcing the award. “The first night was to the opera Tosca starring Leontyne Price. I loved the singing, but I didn’t understand the format of opera. The second night was Swan Lake starring Margot Fontaine. The movement of the bodies just seemed like magic. The third night was Pal Joey. I was captivated by the warmth of the light on stage. I was not inspired to sing and dance, but I knew I wanted to be in the warmth of the stage light. The fourth night was Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. By contrast, it created a cold world, coldness between human beings, but the ideas that Arthur Miller was able to evoke onstage were blazing hot. I knew I wanted to be a part of this and to explore the stage,” Jones said.

“James Earl Jones has given us a lifetime of unforgettable performances on the stage, and his voice resonates through generations,” Heather Hitchens, President of the American Theatre Wing, and Charlotte St. Martin, President of The Broadway League, which jointly present the awards, said in the announcement. Referring to his renown for both his acting skills and the penetrating bass-baritone rumble he deployed as Darth Vader in the Star Wars films, they added that his “legacy is unmatched and his work has had an impact not only on Broadway but across the entire galaxy!”

The 71st Tony Awards, hosted by Kevin Spacey, will air live from Radio City Music Hall on the CBS Television Network on June 11 beginning at 8 P.M.

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‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ Trailer: Julianne Moore, Channing Tatum & Jeff Bridges Join The Action For Round 2

Picking up where Secret Service left off, Kingsman: The Golden Circle sees Chav-turned-superspy Gary “Eggsy” Unwin (Egerton) and his supervisor Merlin (Strong) heading to the U.S. to join forces with the “Statesman,” the Kingsman agency’s American counterparts, after the destruction of Kingsman HQ at the hands of evil mastermind Poppy (Moore). The two spy agencies must band together to defeat their shared enemy.

Matthew Vaughn returns to direct the 20th Century Fox film from a script he co-wrote with Jane Goldman. Kingsman: The Golden Circle hits theaters June 16. Have a look at the trailer above and tell us what you think. But there’s really only one question: How can they top — or even match — the frantic church massacre or the climatic killing spree from the original?

Steven Weber on NCIS: New Orleans - May 16

Steven Weber on NCIS: New Orleans

Shawn Christian In New Series

Marnie Schulenburg on Elementary

GUEST CAST includes: Chasten Harmon (Chantal Milner), Danny Burstein, (Ted Winthrop), Marnie Schulenburg (Maureen).

Tamara Tunie on Blue Bloods Season Finale

GUEST CAST includes: Tamara Tunie (Monica Graham), Buzz Roddy (Superintendent), Racine Russell (Officer Cosgrove).

Steven Weber on NCIC: New Orleans

Tamara Tunie on Blue Bloods - April 28

GUEST CAST includes: Tamara Tunie (Monica Graham), Stacy Keach (Archbishop Kevin Kearns), Steven Skybell (Gary Falk).

First Look! LADIES OF THE LAKE

Second child on the way for Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen

In her typical comedic fashion, the actress/author announced her pregnancy via Instagram on Wednesday with the caption, “This is how I told my son babies are made. #numbertwo #nosefrida @fridababy#teetsreincarnated.” Teets was Mollen’s beloved dog who died in 2016.

Mollen has always embraced being out-there, so naturally, she used Fridababy’s “snotsucker” to make the announcement.

Mollen, 37, and Biggs, 38, already have a 3-year-old son together named Sid.

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Friday, April 7- actress Sarah Michelle Gellar discusses her new cookbook “Stirring Up Fun with Food”

Emmy Rossum Robbed of Jewelry

Law enforcement sources tell us, Emmy was in NYC last week when the housekeeper showed up on Wednesday and everything was fine. But on Friday, the housekeeper returned to a crime scene.

The housekeeper noticed the power was off and a glass pane on a back door was smashed.

The next thing the housekeeper saw ... the "Shameless" star's 2 safes were wide open with nothing inside.

Our sources say $150,000 in antique jewelry was missing from the safes ... nothing else was taken.

As for how the burglars were able to open them ... we're told Emmy left written combinations next to the safes.

Law enforcement believes the thieves cut the power to deactivate the alarm system.

Emmy is the latest victim in a string of celebrity burglaries. Other 2017 victims include Jaime Pressly, Kendall Jenner, Yasiel Puig, Derek Fisher, Alanis Morissette, Cesar Millan and Nick Young.

LADIES OF THE LAKE Gets Release Date

Grey's Anatomy: Matthew Morrison Checks In as... Jo's Husband?!

ABC has yet to officially confirm the Glee vet’s casting, but photos surfaced Friday on social media showing Morrison shooting a scene with Grey’s regular Justin Chambers (whose Alex is intimately involved with Jo) on location in Los Angeles. That same day Morrison revealed via Instagram that he is playing a character named “Dr. Paul Stadler,” although he stopped short of confirming the project in question is Grey’s Anatomy.

Last month, TVLine broke the news that Shonda Rhimes & Co. were quietly looking for a Caucasian actor in his mid 40s to play a new doctor who is “appealing, charismatic and charming,” but also “manipulative” with a “scary dark side.” The MD in question was poised to turn up at the end of the current 13th season and likely return in the fall.

Check out Morrison’s Instagram tease about his role: https://twitter.com/JChambersOnline/status/845466741656424448

Steven Weber on NCIS: New Orleans - April 18

Amanda Seyfried Gives Birth to First Child With Thomas Sadoski

A rep for the actress confirms the couple welcomed their first child together. The Mamma Mia star gave birth to a baby girl.

We first confirmed Seyfried's pregnancy in November after she stepped out for Givenchy's new fragrance and debuted her baby bump. Then, earlier this month at The Last Word premiere—the couple's first film together—they talked openly with E! News' Marc Malkin about welcoming her first child into the world.

"I'm ready to go," Seyfried admitted at the time. "I'm ready to meet the kid!"

Sadoski quipped, "I'm terrified but I couldn't be more excited." He also noted, "She gets the singing. I do the diaper changing."

Seyfried had been open about wanting a child for several years.

In fact, in August 2015, she opened up in Marie Claire UK and joked that she needed to "get on it."

"I keep feeling like my eggs are dying off. I need to get on it… I want a child. Badly. I want to be a mother, badly," she shared. "That's what I feel. I've been feeling it for like, two years. I'm not ready but nobody's ready. It changes everything… so how you can ever be ready for that?"

Well, it looks like she found someone who's finally ready!

Speaking of, Sadoski and Seyfried tied the knot in a secret ceremony earlier this month.

"We eloped," Sadoski announced on The Late Late Show last week, showing off his wedding band and revealing that the ceremony took place March 12. "We just took off into the country with an officiant and just the two of us, and we did our thing…We had a great day. It was perfect."

According to Sadoski, they both wrote their own vows and recited them in front of Seyfried's dog, Finn, who was in attendance.

"She's the person I love, admire, respect most in the world," he said before describing the ceremony. "It was beautiful. It was everything that it should be. It was just the two of us talking to each other."

The couple first met while working together on the off-Broadway show The Way We Get By, but didn't spark romance rumors until they were spotted walking back to their trailers together in Pasadena, Calif., while working on The Last Word. Then, in September, E! News confirmed they were engaged, and Seyfried was spotted out and about with her minimalist, gold engagement ring.

Sadoski was previously married to Kimberly Hope for eight years before they divorced in 2015. Seyfried, on the other hand, had been linked to Justin Long, but they broke up in September 2015.

Congratulations again to the newlyweds and first-time parents!

ATWT Alum Lamman Rucker Talks Soap

Thomas Gibson’s Claim Against Manager Rejected By State Labor Commission

Gibson fired Craig Dorfman as his manager in June 2014 after Dorfman allegedly refused to cut his commission from 10% to 7.5%. Two months later, Dorfman filed suit against the actor in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming Gibson hadn’t paid him the commission he was owed on the $4.8 million the actor earned from the 10th season of the hit CBS procedural. Two days later, Gibson filed a complaint with the labor commissioner claiming their deal should be nullified because Dorfman had acted illegally as an unlicensed agent in procuring the job for him in the first place.

Dorfman had indeed once been Gibson’s agent, pitching him for the co-starring role on the series Dharma & Greg back in 1997 and negotiating his agreement and closing the deal. But when that show ended in 2002, Dorfman relinquished his talent agent’s license and became his manager. Pursuant to an oral agreement, he would be paid a 10% commission on future earnings.

During a testy hearing before California Labor Commission attorney Barton Jacka, Gibson had claimed Dorfman “took credit” for landing him the role on Criminal Minds, but in his ruling Thursday, Jacka wrote that there was little else to support Gibson’s claim that he’d acted as his agent in procuring the role.

“Accordingly,” Jacka wrote, “we find no basis to nullify the agreement either in its totality or with respect to commissions, if any, owed to (Dorfman) by Mr. Gibson from his work on Criminal Minds. This determination does not contain within its scope any finding about whether Mr. Gibson has other defenses to (Dorfman’s) claims in the Los Angeles lawsuit about the terms of the agreement.”

Inside the life of 'All My Children' creator Agnes Nixon

It was pre-social media, before skyrocketing divorce rates, and before bad behavior was celebrated or rewarded.

All across America, people were glued to their television sets, living vicariously through someone else’s naughty or scandalous lives on the soap operas "All My Children" and "One Life to Live." The muscle and brains behind these shows? A devout Catholic, wife and mother of four: creator Agnes Nixon.

Nixon completed her memoir, "My Life to Live," in September 2016 but it is just being released today. In her heartfelt book, she opened up about her Irish roots and the lessons she learned about working outside the home from the women in her family. Those lessons would help Nixon forge ahead during a time in television when men ruled the airwaves.

Nixon also revealed where many of her characters and plots came from; one in particular came out of the heartbreak of losing her first love in World War II.

Two days after writing the final words in her book, Nixon died peacefully in her sleep. She was 93.

“Agnes lived beyond the boundaries of the norm,” Judith Light, who won two Daytime Emmys for her role on "One Life to Live," told ABC News. “She was one of the relatively few of that era who was leading the way and changing the dynamic in the world for women. When I was in her presence she exuded self-confidence and was the personification of grace and gentility with an unmistakable power surging beneath.”

Before Nixon created "All My Children" and "One Life to Live," she worked as a writer at the soap opera "Guiding Light." According to her memoir, Nixon wrote a storyline in the early-1960s surrounding early detection of uterine cancer with a Pap test after she lost a friend to cancer.

"Guiding Light" executives were outraged, but Nixon stood her ground. She was eventually granted permission to write the storyline, but was forbidden from using the words cancer, uterus or hysterectomy in her scripts. Nixon’s story, one the first involving cancer on television, resonated with millions of women, who, after watching the show, scheduled Pap tests.

“Agnes changed the world for woman although I don’t think she set out to do that,” Light said. “She simply owned herself and knew she was good? She just happened to be a woman in a time when woman were generally not expected to create big things. I will always be grateful to Agnes Nixon for creating this place that changed not only my career, but also my life.”

In 1968, Nixon created her own soap opera, "One Life to Live," and after a year, ABC executives asked Nixon to develop another soap opera. Little did they know, sitting in the bottom drawer of Nixon’s desk was an outline for a show she had already written, she wrote in her memoir.

ABC quickly gave the show the green light, and "All My Children," which became one of the most popular soaps of all time, was born.

As the January 1970 "All My Children" premiere date approached, panic set in for Nixon, she wrote in her memoir. She still did not have an actress to play the determined, teenage bad girl, Erica Kane.

Casting directors went across the country looking for an actress, but were having no success until they met Susan Lucci, then 23. Immediately, a videotape of Lucci’s audition was sent to Nixon’s home. Nixon admitted in her memoir she had failed at conjuring up an image of who Erica Kane was, until she saw Lucci.

“She made such an impression on me because that was the first time I saw a woman with designer clothes on,” Lucci, now 70, told ABC News. “She embodied a successful woman in business in New York. You could clearly see she was the woman in charge, and an artist at the same time.”

After Lucci stepped into the role of Erica Kane, Nixon told a number of important stories through the character. One of those came in 1973, shortly after the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade, affirming a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, when Erica had television's first legal abortion. Audiences were divided, but Nixon didn't mind the criticism.

"There was no preaching," Lucci said of Nixon's stories. "She was too busy to preach. She told stories and told everybody's point of view. She was inclusive."

In addition to abortion, Erica also helped tell stories about rape and addiction. And, when Nixon wanted to tell the story of a lesbian "coming out," she wrote that she knew it had to be Erica's daughter, Bianca.

Nixon was praised for the honest portrayal of how a parent deals with their child's sexuality. The storyline eventually resulted in America’s first lesbian kiss on daytime TV.

Nixon said her storytelling philosophy was "make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait," something she credited to the days of vaudeville. While telling socially relevant stories on "All My Children," Nixon also infused glamour, adventure and a lot of romance.

One of the most popular love stories in the history of “All My Children” was the one of Angie Baxter and Jesse Hubbard, played by Debbi Morgan and Darnell Williams.

Angie and Jesse were African-American teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks who fell in love. The audience rooted for them and could not get enough of their love story. It was another benchmark for Nixon. Angie and Jesse were daytime's first African-American “supercouple.”

The love between Angie and Jesse remained part of the "All My Children” fabric for decades. Through their story, the actor who played Jesse, Darnell Williams, formed a close bond with Nixon. From the time they met, Williams says he remembers Nixon’s being very helpful, supportive and warm.

"She was a perfect blend of corporate, arts and humanity," Williams said. "What I'll miss the most about Agnes is that warm, beautifully embracing Irish smile of hers. It was always like family."

In 1995, after thousands of episodes and countless cliffhangers, new characters captured the attention of daytime viewers: those associated with the O.J. Simpson trial. From January through October, the twists and turns of a real-life murder mystery, involving one of the most celebrated athletes of all time, kept viewers on the edge of their seats and eclipsed the popularity of the scripted soap opera.

In the first three months of 1995, at least a million fewer households tuned in to the soap operas from the previous year. Additionally, new talk shows were debuting at warp speed and an increasingly number of cable channels gave people more options for programming. Soap operas never recovered in the ratings.

Finally, after more than four decades, on April 14, 2011, ABC canceled "All My Children" and "One Life to Live."

Nixon wrote in her memoir that to distract herself from the painful news, she looked at the Lifetime Achievement Emmy statuette given to her in 1992. The base was inscribed: “Agnes Nixon introduced social relevance to Daytime, and at the same time changed traditional storytelling.”

Nixon suffered a stroke a year after the cancellations. While her body failed, Nixon’s son, Bob, a documentary film maker, says her mind was as sharp as ever.

“The shows may have been canceled, but all of those lives and characters were running through her head constantly,” he told ABC News. “Ag was determined to make the most of her time on Earth. She thought she had God-given gifts and worked tirelessly to benefit others. She always said life was like a brief candle.”

Lucci added: “She was an original. What I’m going to miss the most is being able to talk to her.”

It’s hard to believe so much scandal, impropriety and mischief came from a woman who attended mass regularly, lived a conservative life and was married only once for 45 years until her husband’s death in 1996. If Nixon thought life was simply a brief candle, her flame was one of the most illuminating of all.

Agnes Nixon’s memoir, "My Life to Live," is available now.

Peyton List To Co-Star In ‘Mission Control’ CBS Pilot With ‘Frequency’ Fate In Limbo

List’s casting is in second position to the Warner Bros. TV-produced Frequency. The first-year drama did not receive a back order and is unlikely to get a renewal unless its reruns take off on Netflix in the next few weeks. With the Mission Control casting, List is staying in the family as CBS TV Studios is one of the CW’s two studio partners, along with WBTV.

Written by Weir and directed by Jeremy Podeswa, Mission Control revolves around the next generation of NASA astronauts and scientists who juggle their personal and professional lives during a critical mission with no margin for error. List will play Kim, a member of the astronaut training program and CAPCOM for the mission.

The pilot is executive produced by Brian Buckner, who serves as showrunner, Weir, Slingshot’s Courtney Conte & Quan Phung, Simon Kinberg & Aditya Sood and Charles Eglee.

List, who previously starred as Cara on the CW series The Tomorrow People, recurred on five seasons of AMC’s Mad Men, as well as on the CW’s The Flash. She’s repped by Innovative.

Surprise! Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski are married

The actress’ new husband proudly flashed his wedding ring on “The Late Late Show” with James Corden on Thursday night.

He later referred to Seyfried as his “wife,” and revealed the ceremony was “perfect.”

Sadoski added: “We eloped … we just took off into the country with an officiant and just the two of us, and we did our thing.”

The couple wrote their own vows for the ceremony, and Seyfried even ensured her dog Finn was in attendance.

Sadoski then said on the show: “Listen, she’s the person I love, admire, respect most in the world.”

He added to host Corden: “I know that you guys are close friends, and I know that she would want you to know, so don’t tell anyone.”

The couple are expecting their first baby together, announcing their news last November — just six months after they started dating.

They met on the set of “The Last Word,” and although they tried to keep their happy news a secret, in September Us Weekly revealed they were set to wed.

A source told the mag: “Tommy and Amanda recently got engaged and shared the happy news with family and close friends.”

Meanwhile, Seyfried has become the latest star caught up in a nude photo scandal amid reports that intimate pictures of the actress have emerged online.

The pregnant star’s legal team are said to be attempting to remove the snaps from the web just days after fellow actress Emma Watson was caught up in a similar picture row.

Lawyers working for Seyfried, 31, have sent a letter to Celebjihad.com demanding that bosses of the site taken down the pictures.

The letter, obtained by TMZ.com, states the pictures were “wrongfully obtained by a third party or parties without Ms. Seyfried’s knowledge or consent.”

The Sun Online has contacted a representative for Seyfried for comment.

Fellow actress Watson, 26, was hit by a photo leak as private pictures of her at a costume fitting emerged on the dark web.

The Daily Telegraph reports Watson’s team has confirmed the leak but denied the content contains nudity.

A spokesperson for Watson told the publication: “Photos from a clothes fitting Emma had with a stylist a couple of years ago have been stolen. They are not nude photographs.

“Lawyers have been instructed and we are not commenting further.”

DAYS OF OUR LIVES Comings and Goings — Jennifer Landon Joins the Cast!

The casting notice for the character released by DAYS described Hillary as “outgoing and warm. She has recently taken a leave of absence from her job for a few months to recover from an intense case that she solved.” The casting notice called for an 8-10 episode arc, but with an actress as talented as Landon, hopefully that won’t be all viewers see of her.

Soap fans will remember Landon best for her turn as AS THE WORLD TURNS’ Gwen, which won her three consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Younger Actress in 2006, 2007, and 2008. Following that, she played Heather on THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS in 2012. More recently, the actress had roles in the primetime series BANSHEE and ANIMAL KINGDOM.

Eric Martsolf (Brady) is thrilled at the new addition to the cast, tweeting, “Such a pleasure having this lady over at DAYS. You’re going to love her!”

And Landon’s former ATWT castmate Maura West (Carly), who now plays Ava on GENERAL HOSPITAL, tweeted, “Oooh, excellent excellence!” upon hearing the news.

Also making their debut on DAYS that same week is Lucas Adams, who will be playing Steve and Ava’s son, Tripp.

Billy Magnussen Joining ‘Game Night’ Opposite Jason Bateman & Rachel McAdams

Magnussen will play Ryan, a friend to Bateman and McAdams’ characters, Max and Annie. He usually dates hot millennial girls with zero personality. But Ryan brings Sarah, a smart woman of an appropriate age with personality, to game night because he’s tired of being made fun of for being shallow. Ryan is normally very selfish and superficial, but he grows to appreciate Sarah’s humor and intelligence, and falls in love with her. Jesse Plemons, Kylie Bunbury, and Lamorne Morris also star.

The comedy was written by Mark Perez and cameras roll next month in Atlanta with John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein directing. The duo also penned the most recent draft of the script. Bateman will produce with James Garavente of Aggregate Films. John Davis and John Fox are also producing for Davis Entertainment.

Magnussen is repped by WME, BRS-Gage, Anonymous Content and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.

Magnussen was recently seen in Matt Spicer’s Ingrid Goes West which made its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and opens on Aug. 4 from Neon. Pic also stars Aubrey Plaza and Elizabeth Olsen. Magnussen is currently shooting an arc on Davey Holmes’ EPIX series Get Shorty opposite Chris O’Dowd and Ray Romano as well as an episode of Charlie Brooker’s acclaimed Netflix series Black Mirror.

Following his 2013 Tony Award nominated turn in Chris Durang’s Tony-winning play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Magnussen has scored a slew of great roles in prolific TV series and films, many of them also award-winning, including Kato Kaelin in FX’s The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, the prince in Into the Woods, George Nolfi’s Birth of the Dragon, Adam McKay’s The Big Short and Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies.

Wolé Parks on NCIS: New Orleans

GUEST CAST: Chelsea Field (ADA and Reserve Navy CDR JAG Corps Rita Devereaux), Wolé Parks (Jordan Spencer).

Meg Ryan and John Mellencamp still hang out

The rocker appeared on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM show and told the shock jock, “she hates me to death,” but the exes were photographed together in NYC on the same day the interview aired.

“An eagle-eyed fan shot them together. I don’t even think he knows the photo exists. He hasn’t said one word about it,” a source close to Mellencamp told us.

They were dressed in similar dark clothes, but the fan wrote: “They didn’t seem lovey dovey .?.?. chumey [sic] or coupley.”

Mellencamp confessed his love for Ryan to Stern. “I loved Meg Ryan. She hates me to death .?.?. I think it’s because I’m a child. I throw fits, I gripe, I complain. I’m moody. Every bad thing that a fella can be, that’s me,” he said. “She just doesn’t want anything to do with me. And I can’t blame her.”

Ryan and Mellencamp ended their relationship in 2014 after dating for three years.

He later moved on with Christie Brinkley, but they split in 2016.

Mellencamp performed at Brinkley’s ex-husband Billy Joel’s Madison Square Garden concert last week.

Reps for Ryan and Mellencamp didn’t comment.

Steven Weber on NCIS: New Orleans

GUEST CAST: Steven Weber (Mayor Hamilton).

Agnes Nixon’s upcoming memoir describes creation of Erica Kane

Agnes Nixon, the late creator of classic soaps “One Life To Live” and “All My Children,” describes creating the character Erica Kane and says Susan Lucci was born to play the role in an upcoming posthumous book.

She wrote in “My Life to Live: How I Became the Queen of Soaps When Men Ruled the Airwaves” that “Susan Lucci was Erica Kane. It wasn’t just her beauty; it was her ability to transmit to the screen the essence of the character.”

Carol Burnett writes in the foreword, “I became an ‘All My Children’ fan when Erica Kane was on her first marriage ... I was as sad and mad as everyone else when ‘AMC’ was canceled. It could’ve gone on for 42 more years!” The book, published by Crown Archetype, is out March 21.

My Life to Live: How I Became the Queen of Soaps When Men Ruled the Airwaves: Hardcover, Kindle.

From the Emmy-winning creator and writer of All My Children and One Life to Live, a memoir of her trailblazing rise to the top of the television industry, including behind-the-scenes stories from some of the most beloved soaps of all time

Before there was Erica Kane, Adam Chandler, or Victoria Lord, there was Agnes Nixon, a young girl who dreamed up stories for paper dolls. Those tales she imagined--ones filled with ambitions, rivalries, and romances--would soon parallel her own path to success. In a memoir filled with as much drama as the soaps she penned, Nixon shares her journey from Nashville to New York City, as she overcomes the loss of her fiancé in World War II, a father intent on crushing her writing dreams, and the jealousy of her male colleagues on her way to becoming one of the most successful names in television.

While fans will delight in Nixon’s own incredible life, they will also love her behind-the-scenes insight into her most popular shows. Inside, she shares the inspiration for Erica Kane and how she cast Susan Lucci in the role; an excerpt from the never-before-seen All My Children story bible; entertaining anecdotes about her shows’ beloved casts and special guests, including Carol Burnett, Kelly Ripa, Oprah Winfrey, and Warren Buffett; and more.

But My Life to Live is also a portrait of a pioneer. Driven to use her ratings power for good, Nixon fought and broke network taboos by wrestling with controversial social issues ranging from women’s health, interracial relationships, and the Vietnam War to drug addiction, LGBT rights, and AIDS. By infusing her characters with sensitivity, humor, and humanity, she enabled millions to examine an opposite point of view. And long before Shonda Rhimes launched a golden age of female showrunners, Agnes Nixon positioned ABC to become the media giant it is today. She is a true television legend, and her candid and inspiring glimpse behind the curtain of the television industry will charm soap fans and story lovers alike.

“I owe my career to Agnes Nixon, who was not only a brilliant creator and writer, but also my friend. My Life to Live is full of wonderful, evocative stories from her life and career that even I hadn’t heard. And in typical Agnes fashion, her storytelling is full of humanity, social relevance and delicious humor! I know that her legions of fans will treasure it as much as I do.” —Susan Lucci

"Aggie Nixon is the only person I've ever known whom I didn't say awful things about. And much to my dismay, her memoir did nothing to change that. Unforgivable." —Larry David

“[Agnes’s] career wasn’t easy to come by…. We know she won, but the story of her ups and downs make this book a true page-turner.” —Carol Burnett, from the foreword

My Life to Live: How I Became the Queen of Soaps When Men Ruled the Airwaves: Hardcover, Kindle.

Amanda Seyfried Remembers Her 'Father Figure' Bill Paxton as More Stars Honor the Late Big Love Star

“He was an amazing and supportive father-figure to me in my early career,” she tells PEOPLE. “Incredibly inspired and full of life at every turn, he made you feel like everything was possible. This is a terrible loss.”

The actress, 31, starred opposite Paxton, who died at the age of 61, in the polygamy HBO drama Big Love from 2006 to 2011.

Other stars have honored the late actor, including Ginnifer Goodwin, who played one of his three wives in Big Love, as well as Jamie Lee Curtis, director James Cameron, Helen Hunt and Bud Cort.

Cort, who starred with Paxton in the 1990 thriller Brain Dead, released a statement to PEOPLE saying he’s “not letting go” of the actor.

The 68-year-old actor met Paxton in the 1970s when the Twister star was parking cars at the Beverly Hills Hotel, according to Cort’s rep. The two became fast friends and their friendship endured.

“All of the laughs and joyful times and deep conversations we’ve shared for so many years are safe in my heart forever,” Cort’s statement read. “You really did it and with such style, class and soul and intelligence and, of course, your incomparable humor.”

“It was an honor to be your friend and a privilege to act with you, to make music with you and… most of all, just to hang with you,” he continued. “I love you, Bill. All my prayers and deepest sympathy to Louise, James and Lydia and to your mom and brother and your great dad John, who I know for sure you are with now. God bless you brother.”

Paxton died due to complications from surgery. His fame rose in the 1990s thanks to roles such as Morgan Earp in Tombstone(1993), Fred Haise in Apollo 13 (1995), the lead role in the 1996 hit Twister and as treasure hunter Brock Lovett in Titanic (1997).

Ming-Na Wen on Fresh Off The Boat

Inspired by a true story, “Fresh Off the Boat” stars Randall Park as Louis, Constance Wu as Jessica, Hudson Yang as Eddie, Forrest Wheeler as Emery, Ian Chen as Evan, Lucille Soong as Grandma Huang, Chelsey Crisp as Honey and Ray Wise as Marvin.

Guest starring are Prophect Bolden as Walter, Trevor Larcom as Trent, Dash Williams as Brian, Evan Hannemann as Barefoot Dave, Shen Wang as Hank, Jeremy Lin (Brooklyn Nets) as Chau, Ming-Na Wen (“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”) as Stephanie, Ali Wong (“American Housewife”) as Margot and Gary Kraus as Sam.

“The Flush” was written by Keith Heisler and directed by Kevin Bray.

Tom Degnan on NCIS: New Orleans - March 14

GUEST CAST includes: Ed Quinn (Ethan McKinley), Tom Degnan (Matt Aufiero)

Steven Weber on NCIS New Orleans

GUEST CAST includes: Steven Weber (Mayor Douglas Hamilton), Chelsea Field (ADA and Reserve Navy CDR JAG Corps Rita Devereaux)

Jennifer Ferrin on Time After Time

“I Will Catch You” – Presented with the real possibility that Vanessa Anders is in fact Wells’ great granddaughter, H.G. and Jane continue to search for Dr. John Stevenson, but when their final face-to-face meeting goes anything but planned, the doctor is back on the loose, on “Time After Time,” SUNDAY, MARCH 5 (10:00–11:00 p.m. EST), on the ABC Television Network.

“Time After Time” stars Freddie Stroma as H.G. Wells, Josh Bowman as Dr. John Stevenson (Jack the Ripper), Genesis Rodriguez as Jane Walker, Nicole Ari Parker as Vanessa Anders, Will Chase as Griffin and Jennifer Ferrin as Brooke.

“Pilot” teleplay by Nicholas Meyer, story by Karl Alexander & Steve Hayes. “I Will Catch You” was written by Kevin Williamson. Marcos Siega is the director of “Pilot” and “I Will Catch You.”

Tamara Tunie on Blue Bloods

GUEST CAST includes: Tamara Tunie (Monica Graham), Angela Rambourg (Sharyn Sarni).

Meg Ryan is selling her gorgeous Soho loft for $11M

The fifth-floor, full-floor pad in a former button factory at 84 Mercer St. is a roomy 4,100 square feet. It features three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a chef’s eat-in kitchen, a butler’s pantry, a media room, a laundry room, 13 oversized windows and original details including architectural columns — along with a hefty $6,147-a-month in maintenance fees.

The co-op has quite the history.

Ryan bought the home anonymously, through an LLC called “Third World Dog Trust” for $8 million in 2014 from actor Hank Azaria, who is best known for his voice roles on “The Simpsons.” Before Azaria, it was owned by artist Cindy Sherman.

Ryan spearheaded a major renovation. After she hired architect Joel Barkley and designer Monique Gibson, their work on the loft was featured on the cover of Architectural Digest last fall. The issue also contained a profile of Ryan’s space.

The six-story Queene-Anne style co-op at 84 Mercer was built in 1884 on the site of the former St. Nicholas Hotel.

The listing broker is Corcoran’s Barbara Hochhauser.

Jason Biggs Cast As The Lead In ‘Charlie Foxtrot’ ABC Comedy Pilot

Written by Sklaver and directed by Todd Holland, Charlie Foxtrot –– military slang for a clusterf*ck — centers on Captain Charlie Taylor (Biggs), a cautious, lovable dentist stationed at Fort Bragg who promises to look after his brother’s impulsive fiancée and her two misfit teens while his brother is deployed in Iraq.

Sklaver and Holland executive produce alongside Kaplan and Dana Honor.

Biggs, who previously toplined CBS’ comedy series Mad Love, is repped by UTA and Management 360.

Talk Show Appearance

We 2/15: Peter Parros

CBS Is Seeing Stars

Tom Degnan on Bull

GUEST CAST includes: Holly Curran (Lt. Tamsin Dale), Donnie Keshawarz (Major Carl Burkitt), Tom Degnan (Special Agent John Riley).

Former Soap Stars On Broadway Cast Recording

The CD version is available February 24, 2017 at amazon.com.

General Hospital Admits Hillary B. Smith — as OLTL's Nora Buchanan

The video is capped by a fun little wink from Rebecca Budig, who currently plays GH‘s Hayden but who used to work down the street from Smith, when she was All My Children‘s Greenlee.

Though several OLTL actors (including Roger Howarth and Kristen Anderson) migrated to GH after the East Coast-based soap left ABC’s airwaves, Smith’s casting as Nora marks the first time a One Life character has set foot in Port Charles since ABC and Prospect Park, the media group that (briefly) “saved” AMC and OLTL as online-only series, got entangled a legal quagmire, over character rights.

(Video) Smith’s previous daytime-TV credits include The Bold and the Beautiful (as Dr. Stacy Barton), As the World Turns (as Margo) and The Doctors.

Actors, mayors to join inauguration-eve Trump demonstration

Aiming to energize and unite city dwellers concerned about the president-elect's plans, activists and dignitaries planned to gather Thursday evening in front of Trump International Hotel and Tower, about a half-mile from his Trump Tower home. Groups including Greenpeace, Planned Parenthood and MoveOn.org have signed on.

Organizers said they expect thousands of people, including stars Rosie Perez, Marisa Tomei and Alec Baldwin, whose Trump impression on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" has drawn barbs from the president-elect.

"Cities and towns across the country have the power to protect people and the environment by joining together," actor Mark Ruffalo said in a statement, adding that the rally would signal to Washington "that we will fight, at every step, discrimination and harmful policies."

New Yorkers, however, are split on how Mayor Bill de Blasio should deal with Trump, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.

Forty-six percent said the Democratic mayor should try to get along with the Republican president-elect, while 45 percent said de Blasio should be a national leader in opposing the Trump administration's policies, the poll of 1,005 voters found. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

Meanwhile, Trump left New York for Washington on Thursday morning.

Soap Opera Writer Courtney Simon to Be Honored by Writers Guild East

Simon will be honored at the 69th annual Writers Guild Awards at New York’s Edison Ballroom on Feb. 19. The Jablow award was established in 1978 to recognize service and created in honor of Jablow, who helped found the WGA East, authored its constitution, and served as its first counsel.

Simon has been a WGA East member since 1980. She has written for 12 different daytime dramas, including “As the World Turns,” “Santa Barbara,” “Guiding Light,” and “All My Children.” She has won seven Daytime Emmy Awards and seven Writers Guild Awards.

Simon has served on the WGA East Council since 2007 and has been active in lobbying efforts to promote a diversity-based tax credit in the state of New York. She co-chairs the WGAE Diversity Coalition, is a member of the Awards Committee, and has been chair of the Daytime Committee.

“Not only is Courtney Simon a gifted writer who has mastered the intricacies of daytime drama, she has been a dedicated member of the Writers Guild of America East council and a hardworking contributor to a number of union committees, most recently as co-chair of our Diversity Coalition,” said WGA East president Michael Winship. “No one is more deserving of our Jablow Award, presented to someone who has so thoroughly devoted herself to the Writers Guild of America East.”

The 2017 Writers Guild Awards ceremony in New York will be hosted by Lewis Black.

Steven Weber on NCIS: New Orleans

Evan Parke on Bull

GUEST CAST includes: Christina Jackson (Laurel Guthrie), Ed Jewett (Ned Elston), Evan Parke (Lt. Thader).

Soap Alums On PRIDE: THE SERIES Season 2

A-listers set for women’s march on Washington

Actress America Ferrera will chair the march’s “artist table,” organizers said Monday.

Other notables who plan to participate include Katy Perry, Amy Schumer, Scarlett Johansson, Cher, Julianne Moore and Frances McDormand.

“Since the election, so many fear that their voices will go unheard,” Ferrara said in a statement. “As artists, women, and most importantly dedicated Americans, it is critical that we stand together in solidarity for the protection, dignity and rights of our communities.”

Johansson, criticizing the incoming administration for “attacking” reproductive rights, said she would participate to “make my voice heard and stand up for what I believe in.”

Organizers expect more than 100,000 people to turn out for the march on Jan. 21, one day after Trump’s inauguration.

Chelsea Handler will lead a sister march in Park City, Utah, one of more than 150 solidarity marches planned around the country and the world that day.

Others who plan to participate in the Washington march include: Debra Messing, Uzo Aduba, Patricia Arquette, Danielle Brooks, Diane Guerrero, Padma Lakshmi, Olivia Wilde, Constance Wu and Zendaya.

Few in left-leaning Hollywood have expressed an interest in participating in Trump’s inaugural events. Singer Jackie Evancho will perform the national anthem at the swearing-in.

Steven Weber on NCIS: New Orleans

GUEST CAST includes: Steven Weber (Mayor Douglas Hamilton), Derek Webster (FBI Agent Raymond Isler).

Stephen Schnetzer on Blue Bloods

GUEST CAST Includes: Jocelyn Bioh (Anya Barnes), Stephen Schnetzer (Hassan Nasiri), Sharon Lawrence (Christine Sanders).

Meg Ryan to Lead EPIX Comedy Series Picture Paris, Based on 2011 Short Film

The actress, famous for her work in big-screen romantic comedies like You’ve Got Mail and When Harry Met Sally, will star in EPIX’s half-hour comedy series Picture Paris, our sister site Deadline reports.

Based on the 2011 short film of the same name — which originally starred Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Ryan’s role — Picture Paris follows a couple of suburban empty nesters whose trip to the City of Lights doesn’t go exactly as they expected.

Brad Hall, who wrote and directed the original Picture Paris, is also on board; he previously created NBC’s short-lived Watching Ellie, which also starred wife Louis-Dreyfus. Though EPIX is not commenting on the status of Picture Paris, it’s reportedly in development and on the fast track for a straight-to-series order.

Single Mom A Go Go: Episode 14 - CADY McCLAIN

The Lying Game's Alexandra Chando Scrubs Into The Vampire Diaries

Chando, who played multiple roles on ABC Family’s short-lived thriller The Lying Game, will appear in The Vampire Diaries‘ midseason premiere (Jan. 13, 8/7c) as a young doctor named Tara. In the episode, directed by Ian Somerhalder, Tara’s morals will be tested by the Salvatore brothers as they continue to hunt for dark souls.

Here’s the complete description of the episode for your viewing pleasure:

Stefan and Damon attend an anger management support group looking for their next victim. Sybil is still alive and teaching a group of high school students who she’ll later use as leverage to get Caroline to locate a historical artifact that can be used against her. Meanwhile, Stefan and Damon continue their commitment to Cade as they test the morals of a young doctor, Tara.

After The Lying Game ended in 2013, Chando maintained a steady stream of guest appearances on shows like Castle, Hindsight and Outcast.

Talk Show Appeance (Repeat)

Thursday, Dec. 29

In honor of CBS Daytime being #1 for 30 years, THE TALK welcomes stars from THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, including Christel Khalil, Christian LeBlanc, Melody Thomas Scott and Jason Thompson, and THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL with Scott Clifton, Don Diamont, Katherine Kelly Lang and Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, and also reunites actors from legacy series, “Guiding Light” with Grant Aleksander, Beth Chamberlin, Robert Newman and Kim Zimmer, and from “As the World Turns,” Martha Byrne, Ellen Dolan, Elizabeth Hubbard and Collen Zenk (OAD: 10/12/16)

Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen’s hilarious holiday plans

“My plans are to coax my son into a snow suit and throw him on skis,” Mollen 37, author of “I Like You Just the Way I Am,” told Page Six.

But Biggs, 38, is just hoping to survive. “I plan to spend a week trying not to dislocate my shoulders on a ski mountain,” he said.

When it comes to holiday traditions, Mollen told us, “I’m excited to write my sister a check for all the gifts I don’t have to wrap or shop for.”

The “Orange Is the New Black” actor joked, “I always enjoy sending a beautiful pic of our Christmas tree to my wife’s Jewish father.”

The couple’s first time hosting Christmas is a fond memory for Biggs, who married the actress-turned-writer in 2008.

“The first time Jenny and I hosted Christmas ourselves — like real adults — was pretty fantastic,” he said. “It helps that my leg of lamb came out perfectly.”

But Mollen’s favorite memory has nothing to do with food.

“Being in Bonair scuba diving with family, friends and the abs I had pre-pregnancy,” she said.

‘Animal Kingdom’ Adds Jennifer Landon

How Dear Evan Hansen Helped Michael Park Become a Better Parent

Michael Park ponders this question just a few days after he opened in Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, and Steven Levenson's new musical Dear Evan Hansen at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway. Park's role as Larry Murphy, which he originated at Arena Stage in 2015, is his second Broadway role this year. The first was Angus Tuck in Chris Miller, Nathan Tysen, Claudia Shear, and Tim Federle's short-lived musical adaptation of Tuck Everlasting at the Broadhurst.

Despite perhaps being best known for a long-running television gig, Park is a self-described theater guy. "My big break was Hello Again at Lincoln Center in 1993. A couple shows after that led me to Smokey Joe's Café. I want to say it was my honest-to-goodness Broadway debut, but I understudied Billy Bigelow in Carousel prior to that, and I never got to go on, so I don't consider that my debut."

As Park's Broadway theatrical résumé grew, he started expanding his horizons. "I set a goal for myself. I wanted to continue to get better at television auditions and maybe land something." An initial screen test for the soap opera As the World Turns at first resulted in a rejection, but upon a second shot, he got it. In April 1997, he began what ended up being a 13-year run as Jack Snyder on the soap opera, finishing his time with the show when it ended in 2010.

His performance on As the World Turns netted him a pair of back-to-back Daytime Emmy Awards for the show's final seasons. "That was a special gift," Park says. "I'm most proud of the fact that not only did I receive an Emmy for our final season, but that my costar, Maura West, did too."

Not that he disappeared from the theater during his soap tenure. In fact, his experiences working on television, acting in hundreds of episodes in a single year, were just as vital as his theater jobs. "I studied more doing that show than I ever did in high school or college. Take notes, apply the notes, move on, get over yourself, you have another day tomorrow. When I was doing my first year and a half of As the World Turns, I did Little Me at Roundabout. I was amazed by how much they fed each other. It was a completely different rehearsal process, but at the same time, it was a beautiful thing to have them both." When As the World Turns ended, Park returned to the stage in earnest. He appeared in The Burnt Part Boys, written by Tuck scribes Miller and Tysen, at Playwrights Horizons (where he originated the role of Monty in Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley's musical Violet in 1997). He played opposite Daniel Radcliffe, Darren Criss, and Nick Jonas in How to Succeed in Business Without Realy Trying. And he was Gooper to Scarlett Johansson's Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

"I've been blessed," Park notes, but there is perhaps no greater blessing than playing grieving father Larry Murphy in Dear Evan Hansen. It's a role Park performed at the show's first table read, opposite Ben Platt, Jennifer Laura Thompson, and Rachel Bay Jones, and played in Washington, D.C., but missed out on earlier this year when the show ran off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre while he was on Broadway in Tuck Everlasting.

It was a strange experience for him. "There was a part of me that was missing it, knowing that they were doing it without me," he says. But the theater is full of magic. John Dossett, who replaced Park off-Broadway and appeared with him in Hello Again, went on to star in War Paint this past summer and will repeat his work on Broadway in the winter. Park, who attended the Dear Evan Hansen off-Broadway opening as a guest, came back into the company for its Broadway run. Michael Greif directs both musicals.

While in Dear Evan Hansen Larry Murphy is a man accused of taking a blind eye to the struggles of his eldest son, Connor (played by Mike Faist), one can't accuse Park of doing the same thing in the real world. He says that perhaps the most important thing he's learned about himself through this process is how to be a better dad to his own children, ages nineteen, sixteen, and twelve.

"One really heartbreaking thing for me every night is knowing that my sixteen-year-old at one point was having a tough time last year," Park remembers. "And I said, 'Sit down, let's have a conversation.' I said, 'This isn't like you at all. What's going on?' It went on for five minutes with her not having the guts to tell me that sometimes she feels like Connor. That was a big wake-up call for me as a father. That conversation changed my life and it really opened my eyes to what these kids go through on a daily basis, doing anything to get out of bed [and to believe that] today will be a different day than the day before somehow."

That moment has proved to be the biggest reward Park earns from Dear Evan Hansen. "It lets you know in the best possible way, and sometimes in the worst case, that you are not alone in this fight to keep going." It's something he still gets emotional over. "I go home and hug my children every night because of [realizing] what this man goes through. Larry Murphy, as disconnected and aloof and taciturn as he is at times, has made me such a better parent."

TAINTED DREAMS Lands On Amazon Prime

Cady McClain Opens up About Her Exciting New Project!

Not only was she seeking to learn something about the career that she’s transitioning into herself, but she also wanted to be of service to young women coming up behind her. “There is a very delicate balance between being strong and being soft,” McClain tells Soaps In Depth of what she’s learned thus far. “You don’t have to give up your femininity to be a leader.

With the first episode of her series now completed, McClain couldn’t be more passionate about the importance of the project. “I think art is really important because it’s where society tends to look for deeper answers,” she offers. “So I hope this documentary will encourage women, in particular, to continue to tell their stories, speak out and know that there are people who want to hear it.”

To help contribute to the completion of the series, visit her page at The Film Collaberative, and check out McClain’s upcoming feature in Soaps In Depth to learn about the other exciting projects on her plate!

Alice Drummond Dies; Veteran Character Actress Was 88

Born in 1928 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Drummond was a 1950 graduate of Pembroke College (now Brown University). She began her acting career following a move to New York with her husband, Paul Drummond whom she married in 1951. (The couple divorced in 1976). A regular on Broadway in the 1960s and 1970s, Drummond was nominated for a Tony for her performance in Murray Schisgal’s The Chinese.

Drummond also held a slew of memorable and sometimes iconic character roles on film and television. Among them, in the 1960s she appeared on the supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows, in the role of Nurse Jackson; as a New York City librarian in the beginning of the original Ghostbusters; and as a a patient in the 1990 Robin Williams film Awakenings. She was a regular on the CBS soap Where the Heart Is, appearing on the show until it ended its run in 1973, and later appeared briefly on As the World Turns, another CBS soap.

Among many television guest spots, she appeared on Spin City, Boston Legal, Ed, Law & Order, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, and Grace Under Fire.

Her most recent film appearance was in the family comedy Furry Vengeance in 2010.

Hollywood Turns Out To Help Find Cure For Angelman Syndrome

Actors Colin Farrell, Jai Courtney, Josh Peck, Retta, Zachary Levi and Jesse Lee Soffer are among those expected to attend the event benefiting the Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics (FAST). Each of the actors has strong personal ties to an individual with Angelman syndrome and actively works to support FAST. Farrell’s son James was diagnosed with Angelman syndrome at age two. Previous attendees have included Vincent D’Onofrio, Rosie Perez, Wilmer Valderrama, Jesse and Richard Marx.

FAST is led by Paula Evans, the mother of a young girl with Angelman syndrome. Evans is credited with inspiring more than two dozen scientists from multiple universities and pharmaceutical companies to join the effort, all focused on a path to a cure. Evans and the scientific team have begun a two-year plan to bring about human clinical testing of four potential treatments for Angelman syndrome, a rare neuro-genetic disorder that affects roughly one in 15,000 people and about 490,000 people worldwide. FAST is trying to raise $2.5 million by the end of the year to fund the next critical phase of research involving gene therapy. The weekend gala and related two-day FAST Global Summit is expected to draw more than 1,000 people from around the world.

To contribute, go to the FAST website at CureAngelman.org/donate.

Audio Book Read By Cady McLain

(Order here) Release date January 10

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest Room comes a spine-tingling novel of lies, loss, and buried desire—the mesmerizing story of a wife and mother who vanishes from her bed late one night.

When Annalee Ahlberg goes missing, her children fear the worst. Annalee is a sleepwalker whose affliction manifests in ways both bizarre and devastating. Once, she merely destroyed the hydrangeas in front of her Vermont home. More terrifying was the night her older daughter, Lianna, pulled her back from the precipice of the Gale River bridge. The morning of Annalee's disappearance, a search party combs the nearby woods. Annalee's husband, Warren, flies home from a business trip. Lianna is questioned by a young, hazel-eyed detective. And her little sister, Paige, takes to swimming the Gale to look for clues. When the police discover a small swatch of fabric, a nightshirt, ripped and hanging from a tree branch, it seems certain Annalee is dead, but Gavin Rikert, the hazel-eyed detective, continues to call, continues to stop by the Ahlbergs' Victorian home. As Lianna peels back the layers of mystery surrounding Annalee's disappearance, she finds herself drawn to Gavin, but she must ask herself: Why does the detective know so much about her mother? Why did Annalee leave her bed only when her father was away? And if she really died while sleepwalking, where was the body?

Conjuring the strange and mysterious world of parasomnia, a place somewhere between dreaming and wakefulness, The Sleepwalker is a masterful novel from one of our most treasured storytellers.

Scott Porter on Scorpion 12/19

GUEST CAST inlcudes: Scott Porter (Tim Armstrong), Matthew Alan (Sam).

Talk Show Appearance

Mo 12/5: Meredith Hagner

We 12/7: Shemar Moore

Amanda Seyfried Is Pregnant! Actress Expecting First Child With Fiancé Thomas Sadoski

The Hollywood actress is expecting her first child with fiancé Thomas Sadoski, her rep confirms to E! News.

While attending the launch for Givenchy's new Live Irrésistible fragrance Tuesday evening, Amanda debuted her baby bump in a black mini dress. She completed her look with matching heels and her hair pulled back.

Back in September, E! News confirmed that the actress got engaged to her boyfriend and The Last Word co-star.

Although the two stars tried to keep their relationship private, the pair reportedly couldn't help but share their engagement news with family and close friends.

And while they aren't ones to walk countless red carpets together, they recently shared part of their Halloween celebrations on social media. How does a trip to Universal Studios Hollywood sound for Halloween Horror Nights?

"Thanks for the most entertaining Halloween yet @unistudios @horrornights #UniversalHHN," Amanda wrote on Instagram after photoshopping her beloved dog in the photo. "(If @finnsite had actually attended this is how the photo would have looked)."

Back in August 2015, Amanda expressed her interest in wanting to have kids. While talking to Marie Claire UK, the actress joked that she needed to "get on it."

"I keep feeling like my eggs are dying off. I need to get on it… I want a child. Badly. I want to be a mother, badly," she shared with the publication. "That's what I feel. I've been feeling it for like, two years. I'm not ready but nobody's ready. It changes everything… so how you can ever be ready for that?"

Romance rumors sparked between Amanda and Thomas early in the year when they were spotted walking back to their trailers together in Pasadena, Calif. And while they first met after working together on the off-Broadway show The Way We Get By, things didn't heat up until they reunited for the film The Last Word.

Congratulations to the happy couple!

People was first to report the news.

‘Lost In Space’: Parker Posey Joins Netflix Series Remake

Slated for a 2018 premiere, the new Lost in Space takes its cues from the original CBS series, revolving around the Robinson family, who is forced to come together in a time of crisis. Stranded light years from their intended destination, the Robinsons find themselves battling a strange new alien environment and their own personal demons. Posey will play Dr. Smith.

Posey’s recent credits include features Mascot for Christopher Guest and Netflix and Columbus for writer-director Kogonada. She was seen this past summer in Woody Allen’s Café Society. Posey is repped by Gersh, and Authentic Talent and Literary Management.

The Stars of AS THE WORLD TURNS and GUIDING LIGHT Reveal Their Favorite Moments!

Billy Magnussen wasn’t allowed to read his creepy fan mail

“When I was on ‘As the World Turns,’ I would receive a lot of mail from jail saying dirty and aggressive stuff,” he told Page Six. “I would sneak into the office and say, ‘Please can I read it?’ But they would not let me.”

He said today, “The roles that I have played have affected my dating life .?.?. People see me as my demented characters rather than getting to know me. Acting is just my job.”

Frequency, No Tomorrow Not Receiving Back Orders at The CW

Though neither show has been officially cancelled, the network has decided not to order additional Season 1 episodes, our sister Deadline reports. As recently announced, No Tomorrow will wrap its first season on Tuesday, Jan. 17, while Frequency will close out on Wednesday, Jan. 25.

Silver lining: Both shows will make their first seasons available on Netflix eight days after they conclude. As Deadline notes, the series’ streaming success (or lack thereof) could sway the network’s decision to renew them.

People’s Choice Awards Nominees Feature Former Saop Stars

FAVORITE COMEDIC TV ACTRESS
Anna Faris
Gina Rodriguez
Kaley Cuoco
Sofia Vergara
Zooey Deschanel

FAVORITE DRAMATIC TV ACTOR
Jesse Williams
Justin Chambers
Scott Foley
Taylor Kinney
Terrence Howard

FAVORITE CABLE TV ACTRESS
Ashley Benson
Hilary Duff
Keri Russell
Lucy Hale
Vera Farmiga

FAVORITE TV CRIME DRAMA ACTOR
Chris O’Donnell
Donnie Wahlberg
LL Cool J
Mark Harmon
Tom Selleck

FAVORITE PREMIUM SERIES ACTOR
Aziz Ansari
Dwayne Johnson
Joshua Jackson
Kevin Spacey
Nick Jonas

FAVORITE SCI-FI/FANTASY TV ACTOR
Andrew Lincoln
Ian Somerhalder
Jensen Ackles
Sam Heughan
Tyler Posey

FAVORITE DAYTIME TV HOST
Dr. Phil
Ellen DeGeneres
Kelly Ripa
Rachael Ray
Steve Harvey

FAVORITE ACTRESS IN A NEW TV SERIES
Jordana Brewster
Kristen Bell
Mandy Moore
Minnie Driver
Piper Perabo

FAVORITE COMEDIC COLLABORATION
Conan O’Brien’s Ride Along with Ice Cube and Kevin Hart
Ellen DeGeneres and Britney Spears’ Mall Mischief
James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke with Adele
Lip Sync Battle with Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan Tatum
Saturday Night Live with Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon

Critics’ Choice TV Nominations Include Former Soap Stars

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Ellie Kemper – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – Netflix
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Veep – HBO
Kate McKinnon – Saturday Night Live – NBC
Tracee Ellis Ross – Black-ish – ABC
Phoebe Waller-Bridge – Fleabag – Amazon
Constance Wu – Fresh Off the Boat – ABC

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Julie Bowen – Modern Family – ABC
Anna Chlumsky – Veep – HBO
Allison Janney – Mom – CBS
Jane Krakowski – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – Netflix
Judith Light – Transparent – Amazon
Allison Williams – Girls – HBO

BEST GUEST PERFORMER IN A COMEDY SERIES
Alec Baldwin – Saturday Night Live – NBC
Christine Baranski – The Big Bang Theory – CBS
Larry David – Saturday Night Live – NBC
Lisa Kudrow – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – Netflix
Liam Neeson – Inside Amy Schumer – Comedy Central

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Peter Dinklage – Game of Thrones – HBO
Kit Harington – Game of Thrones – HBO
John Lithgow – The Crown – Netflix
Mandy Patinkin – Homeland – Showtime
Christian Slater – Mr. Robot – USA Network
Jon Voight – Ray Donovan – Showtime

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Christine Baranski – The Good Wife – CBS
Emilia Clarke – Game of Thrones – HBO
Lena Headey – Game of Thrones – HBO
Thandie Newton – Westworld – HBO
Maura Tierney – The Affair – Showtime
Constance Zimmer – UnREAL – Lifetime

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Caitriona Balfe – Outlander – Starz
Viola Davis – How to Get Away with Murder – ABC
Tatiana Maslany – Orphan Black – BBC America
Keri Russell – The Americans – FX
Evan Rachel Wood – Westworld – HBO
Robin Wright – House of Cards – Netflix

BEST ACTOR IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Bryan Cranston – All the Way – HBO
Benedict Cumberbatch – Sherlock: The Abominable Bride – PBS
Cuba Gooding Jr. – The People v. O.J. Simpson – FX
Tom Hiddleston – The Night Manager – AMC
Tim Matheson – Killing Reagan – National Geographic
Courtney B. Vance – The People v. O.J. Simpson – FX

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Elizabeth Debicki – The Night Manager – AMC
Regina King – American Crime – ABC
Sarah Lancashire – The Dresser – Starz
Melissa Leo – All the Way – HBO
Anna Paquin – Roots – History
Emily Watson – The Dresser – Starz

Man From U.N.C.L.E.'s Robert Vaughn Dead at 83 After Brief Illness

“Mr. Vaughn passed away with his family around him,” Sullivan said.

Vaughn’s lengthy list of credits includes everything from an uncreditedrole in The Ten Commandments to his angry, shouting audience member on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, but he will no doubt be remembered for Napoleon Solo, television’s answer to James Bond. U.N.C.L.E. aired from 1964-68, and paired Vaughn’s elegant, dark-haired Solo with David McCallum’s blond Russian Illya Kuryakin, an early example of Cold War detente in the battle against global evildoers.

Although the series was not a huge stateside hit — it finished in the primetime top 25 only once — it spawned a short-lived spinoff, The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. starring Stephanie Powers and contributed mightily to the Secret Agent Man craze of the mid-late ’60s. It’s international popularity led to back-to-back of Golden Globe noms for Vaughn as Best TV Star in 1965-66.

Vaughn also had early roles in The Young Philadelphians (1959) — for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor – and played a gunman in The Magnificent Seven (1960), earning another Globe nom for Most Promising Newcomer.

More recently, Vaughn played con man Albert Stroller on British series Hustle (2004-12). During the first two months of 2012, he took on the role of Milton Fanshaw in Britain’s soap opera staple Coronation Street, wooing Stephanie Cole’s Sylvia Goodwin.

Although most closely associated with television, stretching back to appearances on such foundational series as Gunsmoke, Father Knows Best, Wagon Train, The Rifleman and The Dick Van Dyke Show, Vaughn boasted a solid résumé of feature film work — 1958’s Teenage Cave Man notwithstanding. In addition to The Young Philadelphians (1959), The Magnificent Seven (1960), and Steve McQueen car-chase classic Bullitt (1968), Vaughn had memorable parts in such popular pictures as The Towering Inferno (1974), S.O.B. (1981), Superman III (1983) and, as the uncredited voice of Proteus IV, Demon Seed (1977).

Vaughn earned an supporting Emmy for 1977’s Washington: Behind Closed Doors and an Emmy nom for playing Woodrow Wilson in Backstairs at the White House (1979).

Perfectly willing to have some fun with his long-established image of charm and elegance, Vaughn made knowing appearances in cult fare like BASEketball (1998) and Pootie Tang (2001), not to mention his angry, ranting tirades on O’Brien’s late-night show.

Born in New York City, Vaughn moved to Los Angeles, where he earned a master’s degree in theater at Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences, and went on to earn a Ph.D. in communications from USC in 1970. His dissertation, “Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting,” was published in 1972. His memoir, A Fortunate Life, was published in 2009.

Vaughn also appeared onstage, including a 1955 production of The Pilgramage Play in Hollywood, later taking roles in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound, and, more recently, Twelve Angry Men at the U.K.’s Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 2013, continuing with the production when it transferred to the Garrick Theatre in London’s West End.

Vaughn is survived by wife Linda, son Cassidy and daughter Caitlin.

Stars Join ‘Hail Mary’ Movement Attempting To Deny Donald Trump The Presidency

Although it’s allowed under the Constitution, the “Hail Mary” effort has little to no chance of succeeding because actually turning the votes of electors probably is more firmly rooted in fantasy. Still, the effort to keep Trump out of the White House is more evidence of the growing dissatisfaction with the election’s outcome. And though the former Apprentice star won the majority of electors, even though Clinton appears to have won the popular vote, but his election won’t be official until December 19, when the Electoral College meets in each of the 50 states and Washington, D.C., to cast their votes for president and vice president.

Votes still are being counted, but the electoral map suggests that Trump will finish with 306 electors to Clinton’s 232. But that margin of victory could be erased, and the election handed to Clinton, if 38 of those 306 Republican electors switch their votes. And prior to the election, several of them indicated that they just might do so if Trump won.

And it doesn’t matter that Clinton has conceded or that President Obama already has met in the White House to congratulate President-elect Trump. The electors still will meet in state capitals all across the country in five weeks to confirm, or overturn, the voters’ decision. And if 38 Republican electors change their votes, Clinton would be president-elect.

“On December 19, the electors of the Electoral College will cast their ballots,” the petition states. “If they all vote the way their states voted, Donald Trump will win. However, they can vote for Hillary Clinton if they choose. We are calling on the electors to ignore their states’ votes and cast their ballots for Secretary Clinton.”

Long derided as an archaic and undemocratic 18th century throwback, the Electoral College was designed for an election just such as this: a last-chance check-and-balance to undo a vote in which the people might have made elected a popular but unqualified demagogue who threatened to lock up his political opponent.

Unlike Brexit, where the British people weren’t given a second chance to reconsider what they’d done, the Electoral College was designed by the Founding Fathers as a last chance do-over — a second election to make sure the first one wasn’t a gigantic mistake.

The role of the Electoral College was established in Article II, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution, which states: “Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.”

The Founders’ intention was that the Electoral College would serve as a second election, just as valid as the first. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers: “It was equally desirable that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations.”

That “complicated investigation” is now in the hands of the 306 Republican electors, who must decide during the next five weeks whether they really want Trump as Commander in Chief with access to the nuclear codes.

All of the electors were selected long before the election, chosen at state conventions or through votes of the parties’ central committees. They’re all regular folks – nurses and lawyers, real estate agents and teachers – and it’s in their hands that the fate of the country now rests.

There is no federal law that requires electors to cast their votes for their pledged candidate, and 29 states have no laws compelling them to do so. Seventeen of those states that went for Trump, including Texas, Arizona, Missouri and Indiana, have a total of 172 Republican electors. Twelve other states that Trump won – including Florida and Ohio – have laws against what are called “faithless electors,” but no elector has ever been prosecuted for failing to vote as pledged, and it’s happened 67 times since 1796.

Chris Beetem on Bull

GUEST CAST includes: Ben Hollandsworth (Gil Foster), Chris Beetem (John Phillips), John Ventimiglia (Dormit).

Robert De Niro/Julianne Moore Drama Lands at Amazon With 2-Season Deal

The streaming service has given the untitled series from David O. Russell a two-season order, our sister site Deadline is reporting, with a whopping $160 million commitment. Both seasons will run eight episodes each, with Oscar-nominated director Russell (Silver Linings Playbook, The Fighter) writing and directing each episode himself.

Need another reason to get excited about this? The series is reportedly a Mafia crime series — which would bring De Niro back to the glory days of GoodFellas, Casino and The Godfather Part II. (He’s also starred in a number of Russell’s recent films, including last year’s Joy, with Jennifer Lawrence.) Moore, no slouch herself, won an Emmy in 2012 for playing VP candidate Sarah Palin in the HBO movie Game Change.

News of the series first broke in August, with production company The Weinstein Company pitching the unbeatable combo of De Niro, Moore and Russell around Hollywood. This is Amazon’s second big deal with The Weinstein Company in recent weeks, following their acquisition of Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner’s next TV project.

Reiko Aylesworth & Scott Porter on Scorpion

GUEST CAST includes: Scott Porter (Tim Armstrong), Lea Thompson (Veronica), Reiko Aylesworth (Allie).

Steven Weber & Brianna Brown on NCIS: New Orleans

GUEST CAST includes: Christopher Meyer (Danny Malloy), Steven Weber (Mayor Douglas Hamilton), Brianna Brown (Melody James).

Scott Porter on Scorpion 11/14

GUEST CAST includes: Scott Porter (Tim Armstrong), Glenn Keogh (Sean O’Brien).

Amanda Seyfried's ''Amazing Connection'' With Pup Finn Proves Dogs Really Are Man's Best Friend

The known animal activist and pet adoption enthusiast spoke to E! News about her "amazing connection" with her 7-year-old rescue dog, and how the love she has for her pet inspired the actress to work with Best Friends Animal Society.

"The amazing connection I share with Finn has made me appreciate being present and to not take any moment you have with the people and animals you love for granted," Seyfried tells E! News.

"Our special bond initiated my passion to work with Best Friends Animal Society to ensure we find forever homes for as many homeless and shelter animals as possible, and to have them experience the same joy I feel with Finn."

In fact, Finn helped his famous mama for the cause recently. "As part of this year's Strut Your Mutt, we launched the #9000Steps Challenge back in June to signify the almost 9,000 animals killed every day in shelters simply because there isn't enough space.

"Finn and I had an amazing time at Strut Your Mutt in LA this past Saturday! It was an honor to kick off the event, and strut alongside the 2,700 dogs and 3,700 rescue advocates in attendance. I am thrilled that we raised a record-breaking amount that will go towards lifesaving programs to homeless and shelter animals across the country."

Amanda also shares how well-trained her four-legged bestie is, and notes how lovable he can be. "Finn can do 'off' with any food. Which means he won't eat the food until I tell him. Good on paws, nose, head. That's the one everyone seems to love. He also kisses on command. If he sees someone he loves he runs up, jumps up onto them and squeals like a madman. If he doesn't like someone he'll bark and back away slowly hoping they'll take the hint."

With Seyfried's busy schedule shooting at multiple locations, it can be tough taking Finn with her wherever she goes. But, luckily for the duo, they never go a day without some sort of interaction.

"I do my best to have Finn accompany me to wherever I go! He helps me stay active while traveling—any spare time we have will be spent going for walks and hiking, if possible. It is the best way to explore a new place!"

And when he can't come along, she has someone who makes sure her furry friend is A-OK. "I am so lucky to have the best dog sitter. When Finn and I are apart, I get sent at least two videos of him per day on his walks or just snoozing in the sun. I get so envious, but also excited that I'll soon get to snuggle with him."

Dog snuggles? Count us in!

Soaps Alums Boost THE BAY Cast

Tamara Tunie on Blue Bloods - 11/11

GUEST CAST Includes: Roger Cross (James Reed), Jadah Marie (Ashley Reed), Tamara Tunie (Monica Graham).

New Series For Soap Stars

Marisa Tomei In Negotiations To Join Robert De Niro In ‘War With Grandpa’

The story is about a kid who reluctantly gives up his bedroom to accommodate his grandfather (De Niro), whom he loves but wants out of his room. The boy engages in a series of pranks meant to drive his grandpa out, but the old man is pretty wise to it and returns the volleys. Tomei would star as De Niro’s daughter (and the boy’s mother) who brings her father home in the first place before slowly catching onto what is happening. While she struggled to deal with the rivalry she is also trying to manage her rebellious, teenage daughter who is constantly sneaking out of the house.

The comedy is being produced by Marro Films and will distributed by TWC’s Dimension label on April 21, 2017. The War With Grandpa is being produced by Phillip Glasser, Marvin Peart and Rosa Morris-Peart, and Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh are the exec producers. Matt Ember and Tom Astle, the team behind the DreamWorks Animation hit Home and MGM’s Kid Robot did a rewrite; Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse also get credit for the screenplay.

Tomei, who has a recurring role on Empire and also just completed Spider-Man: Homecoming, is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Craig Emanuel at Loeb & Loeb.

Scott Porter on Scorpion

GUEST CAST includes: Scott Porter (Tim Armstrong), Siobhan Fallon Hogan (Joyce Linehan), Todd Williams (Agent Backheim).

MasterChef Celebrity Showdown

New Project For Soap Alumnae

Inside Amanda Seyfried’s 11-year battle with OCD

“I’m on Lexapro, and I’ll never get off it,” Seyfried, 30, told Allure of her condition. “I’ve been on it since I was 19, so 11 years. I’m on the lowest dose. I don’t see the point of getting off it. Whether it’s placebo or not, I don’t want to risk it.”

Seyfried, who is engaged to actor Thomas Sadoski, says mental illness should be taken as seriously as any physical ailment. “You don’t see the mental illness: It’s not a mass; it’s not a cyst,” she explained. “But it’s there. Why do you need to prove it? If you can treat it, you treat it.”

She says her OCD brought on health anxiety, which she’s had to get under control, too. “I had pretty bad health anxiety that came from the OCD and thought I had a tumor in my brain,” she recalled. “I had an MRI, and the neurologist referred me to a psychiatrist.”

Today, things are going much better for the “Big Love” alumna. “As I get older, the compulsive thoughts and fears have diminished a lot,” Seyfried said. “Knowing that a lot of my fears are not reality-based really helps.”

Seyfried hasn’t been shy about seeing a therapist. “[Therapy] is coping with life,” she told Marie Claire UK in 2015. “I just think, ‘You go to the doctor about heart problems, or an eye doctor if you have an infection.’ You have to take care of yourself.”

Daniel Cosgrove & Richard Thomas on Elementary

GUEST CAST includes: Owain Yeoman (Julius Kent), Richard Thomas (Mitch Barrett), Daniel Cosgrove (Len).

Steven Weber & Brianna Brown on NCIS: New Orleans

GUEST CAST includes: Christopher Meyer (Danny Malloy), Steven Weber (Mayor Douglas Hamilton), Brianna Brown (Melody James).

Seeing Is Believing: Women Direct by Cady McClain

Audiences will hear from women who are on the front lines of the field: from major award winners and those in the vanguard of television and feature films, to graduated students and frustrated auteurs. Considering all aspects of the directing experience for women, we will learn how they drive through obstacles creative, cultural, and professional.

The film is also intended to serve as “peer to peer mentorship” for anyone (of any gender) looking for guidance and real world experience as they pursue their dreams of becoming a visual storyteller.

The nearly 50 interviewees include Sarah Gavron (Suffragette, Brick Lane), John Wells (ER, West Wing), Meera Menon (Equity), Lesli Linka Glatter (EP/Director, Homeland), Deborah Del Prete (Producer, Ender’s Game, The Spirit),Betty Thomas (the highest grossing female director, The Brady Bunch Movie, John Tucker Must Die) Bethany Rooney (directed 200+ hours primetime TV & co-author of Directors Tell the Story) and trailblazers like Lizzie Borden (Born In Flames, Working Girls), Oscar-winner Sarah Kernochan (Marjoe), Emmy-winner Anne Makepeace (I. M. Pei: Building China Modern, Robert Capa in Love and War), plus many more.

The film is fiscally sponsored by The Film Collaborative (“Cameraperson,” “Armor of Light,” “Tab Hunter Confidential”) so any donation you feel inspired to give is fully tax deductible through their not-for-profit status.

We’d love to stay in touch! Please fill out the form below and we will keep you in the loop on every step of this project. Meanwhile, join us on Facebook or join director Cady McClain on Twitter!

“Seeing is Believing: Women Direct” is proud to be fighting alongside The Directors List and The Chimaera Project, a not-for-profit offering funding and support for emerging women directors.

Cady is a proud member of the Alliance for Women Directors, Film Fatales, and Women in Film LA. https://seeingisbelievingwomendirect.com/.

Martha Byrne Reunites Co-Stars Elizabeth Hubbard and Paolo Seganti

After walking the red carpet with Colleen Zenk (Barbara) and Elizabeth Hubbard (Lucinda) at the gala opening of the Paley Center exhibit, Byrne enjoyed a day out with her former on-screen mother and lifetime friend.

“Took Liz on an adventure today and found Paolo Seganti, aka Damian Grimaldi, at his restaurant La Pergoletta in Los Feliz,” she tweeted. “Amazing place!”

You’d never see Damian and Lucinda getting along that well on ATWT! But Hubbard looks delighted to be reunited with her former castmate. And Seganti has turned into quite the silver fox!

ATWT Alum To Star In New Production

Talk Show Appearance

Wednesday, Oct. 12

In honor of CBS Daytime being #1 for 30 years, “The Talk” welcomes stars from “The Young and the Restless” including Christel Khalil, Christian LeBlanc, Melody Thomas Scott and Jason Thompson and “The Bold and the Beautiful” with Scott Clifton, Don Diamont, Katherine Kelly Lang and Jacqueline MacInnes Wood and also reunites actors from legacy series, “Guiding Light” with Grant Aleksander, Beth Chamberlin, Robert Newman and Kim Zimmer and from “As the World Turns” Martha Byrne, Ellen Dolan, Elizabeth Hubbard and Collen Zenk (n)

Tonya Pinkins on Madam Secretary

Soap Reunions On CBS

Meg Ryan Opens Up Her SoHo Loft: Go Inside the Actress' Renovated Manhattan Home

After recently giving her SoHo loft a makeover—her ninth home renovation overall—the Ithaca director decided to showcase her sanctuary in Architectural Digest. E! News has the exclusive first look at Ryan's refurbished digs, which will appear in the magazine's November 2016 issue.

"I know it sounds crazy to most people, the idea of renovating that many houses. But I love renovating. I think it's tied to living the actor's life. As an actor, you are so rarely in control. You're always saying words that someone else has given you, standing in a room that someone else has designed, to create a reality that someone else wants to see," the actress explained. "But with decorating I am in control; it's a chance for me to bring my vision into the world."

E! News got a peek at her living room. Rogers & Goffigon fabrics cover the sofas and ottoman, John Rosselli & Assoc. designed a pendant, and Holland & Sherry created a custom rug for Ryan. The You've Got Mail actress also strikes a pose inside her airy kitchen.

Ryan decided to make the loft her permanent home while living in her fifth rental. When she first toured it, she realized she'd been in it years ago at a party. "It was all quite different back then, and the space had been through many eras. At one point Cindy Sherman had used it for her photo studio. In fact, what's now my coatroom was her darkroom," Ryan, 54, revealed. "But even when I had visited all those years ago, I was amazed by the volume. It was like so much of New York: cinematic. That's what attracted me," she said. "That's what I wanted to work with."

To see more of Ryan's loft, buy Architectural Digest's November 2016 issue.

Talk Show Appearance

Maura West Shows Off Son Joe's Musical Talent

“Lucky Momma to have such music in my home,” she wrote about the video of her son with husband Scott DeFreitas (Andy, ATWT)

Such an amazing voice! Of course, to some fans, Joe’s musical talent will come as no surprise, since the young performer was featured as one of the von Trapp children in NBC’s live production of The Sound of Music. Joe also made his Broadway debut back in 2012 as Ralphie in A Christmas Story, The Musical and also appeared in Sleepless In Seattle: The Musical.

We can’t wait to see what Joe does next! An album, perhaps?

Meg Ryan In Wild Soap Spoof

The actress, who got her big break in daytime, joined actor Adam Scott and host James Corden for a hilarious skit titled “The Bold and the Lyrical.” The twist is that all the dialogue is actually lyrics from Beyonce songs!

Watch the hilarity unfold above!

Jon Lindstrom Reads Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Narrated by Jon Lindstrom (Kevin, GH) Excellent characterization and well-crafted tension do much to redeem the outlandish plot of this SF thriller from Crouch (the Wayward Pines trilogy). Jason Dessen, a quantum physicist, once had a brilliant research career ahead of him. But after a girlfriend’s unexpected pregnancy and the birth of a son, this future was derailed. Now Jason is a professor at a small Chicago college, content with his warm and loving family life until he’s abducted into a world in which his quantum many-worlds theory has become a fully realized technology for inter-dimensional transfer. In this world, Jason didn’t marry his girlfriend and never had a son. Jason is determined to get back to his family and his own world, but nefarious powers in the alternate reality conspire to stop him from revealing the criminal lengths they have gone to create the world-hopping technology. Crouch makes little attempt to justify the underlying science fiction MacGuffin, but a rousing and heartfelt ending will leave readers cheering. Agent: David Hale Smith, Inkwell Management.

AMC's Larkin Malloy Dead at 62

Malloy played AMC‘s Travis from 1987 to 1998. Walt Willey, who portrayed his on-screen brother Jack on the ABC soap, posted on Facebook Thursday that Malloy had died of complications from a recent heart attack.

Willey wrote:

Just got word that Larkin Malloy, who played my brother “Travis” on All My Children, died of complications from a heart attack he suffered on Saturday. Larkin Malloy welcomed me like a brother when I joined the cast in 1987. We worked together, did appearances together, partied together, vacationed together. He was an “actor’s actor”, spending many years teaching the craft, and a gentleman in the old world style. We spent many hours together, both on set and off, and truly were “Irish brothers from another mother.” Tommy, you will be missed. Love you, brother. ‘For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come’ Hamlet.

Larkin also appeared on the daytime dramas Loving, The Edge of Night, Guiding Light and As the World Turns and in a Season 13 episode of Law and Order.

His death comes one day after that of Agnes Nixon, the creator of All My Children and One Life to Live.

24: Legacy Casts Bailey Chase as CTU's Head of Field Operations

Premiering in February 2017 after the Super Bowl, 24: Legacy stars Corey Hawkins (The Walking Dead) as Eric Carter, a former Army Ranger who, upon returning to the U.S., turns to the CTU for help in stopping what could potentially be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.

According to our sister site Deadline, Chase will recur as Locke, the CTU’s head of field operations and an “every man for himself” type of guy. The actor’s previous TV credits also include Grimm, Chicago P.D., Saving Grace and As the World Turns.

Additionally, Tiffany Hines (Nikita, Bones) will recur as Aisha, the ambitious girlfriend of Eric’s estranged, drug-dealing brother Isaac (played by Ashley Thomas, The Night Of).

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GUEST CAST inlcudes: Scott Porter (Tim Armstrong), Michael Graziadei (Ronen).

'All My Children' creator Agnes Nixon dies at 93

Nixon died at a Haverford, Pennsylvania, physical rehabilitation facility close to her Rosemont home, said her son, Bob Nixon. She had checked in to gain strength for a planned book tour, he said.

She had just completed her memoir, "My Life to Live," on Sunday, a week before it was due to publisher Penguin Random House for publication in early 2017, her son said.

"She was really a great wife, mother and human being — but above all, a writer. She was writing up until last night," he said, and had called him with a few changes for the book.

The cause of death was not immediately known, he said.

Nixon suffered a stroke four years ago with serious complications, her son said, but she fought to regain her health. He confirmed her birthdate as December 1922, despite media reports that she was 88.

"I am devastated to learn that we have lost Agnes. I adored her and admired her and I am forever grateful to her!" Susan Lucci, who starred as Erica Kane on "All My Children," said in a statement.

Nixon created, wrote and produced the long-running ABC daytime serials, which were canceled in 2011 as the network bowed to the reality that soaps had faded as a daytime TV force. (Both subsequently had short-lived online runs.)

"All My Children" aired for nearly 41 years, while "One Life to Live" made it to 44 years. They were set in the fictional Philadelphia-area towns of Pine Valley and Llanview.

Social issues including child abuse, AIDS, alcoholism and gay rights made their way into the series' story lines. Erica Kane was the first regularly appearing TV character to undergo a legal abortion, in 1973.

In a 2003 episode of "All My Children," Bianca, who was Erica's daughter, and the character Lena shared what was billed as daytime TV's first same-sex kiss.

"The theme of 'All My Children' from the beginning is the belief that, as God's children, we are all bound to each other by our common humanity, despite our many personal differences," Nixon told The Associated Press at the time. "The Bianca story is our latest effort to dramatize that belief."

Nixon, a native of Chicago, was mentored by the grande dame of the soap opera genre, Irna Phillips, back in the radio age.

She was writing for a TV soap, "Search for Tomorrow," as early as 1951. In the late 1960s, while raising a family and serving as head writer for "The Guiding Light," Nixon created a "bible" detailing "All My Children."

The show was rejected by CBS, but after Nixon breathed new life into NBC's flagging "Another World," she was approached by ABC to create a new serial. That was the start of "One Life to Live," which earned such solid ratings in its first year that ABC asked for another.

"I said to my husband, 'I can't think of another one,'" Nixon told the AP in 2013. "He said, 'How about "All My Children"?' So I opened the desk drawer and took out the 'bible' and sent it to ABC. They said, 'Boy, that was fast work!'"

The stories and characters of Nixon's fictional worlds never ended for her, Bob Nixon said: "It might not have been on the air but it was in her head."

Agnes Nixon was married to the late Robert Nixon, and the couple's four children are among her survivors. Services were planned for Saturday in Rosemont, with a private burial to follow.

Agnes Nixon, Creator of All My Children and One Life to Live, Dead at 93

Nixon’s daytime-television writing/producing credits include stints at As the World Turns, Search for Tomorrow, Another World and Guiding Light. The first soap she created, ABC’s One Life to Live, premiered in 1968. Two years later, her All My Children also bowed on ABC. Both AMC and OLTL would run until 2011 on ABC (and then for a brief time after online).

Nixon also co-created Loving and was involved in that series’ spinoff, The City. She was a multiple Daytime Emmy winner and took home the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.

Nixon’s son, Bob Nixon, told the Associated Press that his mother had just finished her memoir, My Life to Live, and had checked into a Philadelphia physical rehabilitation facility in order to gain strength for an upcoming book tour.

As news of Nixon’s death spread Wednesday, those who worked with her her shared their memories.

Susan Lucci played AMC‘s Erica Kane for the soap’s entire ABC run. On Wednesday, via her Instagram account, she said she was “forever grateful” to Nixon.

Cameron Mathison, who played AMC‘s Ryan for the better part of 13 years, tells TVLine, “Most of my memories of her are from when I had the opportunity to travel with her for different events and appearances. I just remember how incredibly sharp and witty she was for being in her 80s. She constantly cracked me up and yet at the same time so elegant and sweet. She will be missed.”

Alicia Minshew portrayed AMC‘s Kendall Hart Slater from 2002 to 2011. “I would like to say that she was always such a beautiful class act when I saw her, with a great sense of humor!” the actress tells TVLine. “I think she put all of that into her stories. I was honored to be able to tell her stories for 10 years and am grateful for the time I got to spend with her.”

Susan Lucci: All My Children Creator Agnes Nixon 'Was All I Hoped to Be'

Lucci just knew the character was good.

“I didn’t know for a long time that the story [Nixon] was telling through Erica was so close to her own,” Lucci told TVLine. “When I found that out, I felt so honored to be doing it. All I knew was that the writing I was seeing on the page was so rich and full of conflict and history and character — and also humor. She had such a great sense of humor, and it was all there.”

In an exclusive interview Wednesday evening, hours after Nixon’s family confirmed the news of her death, Lucci shared some memories of her 40-plus-year friendship with Nixon.

TVLINE | Can you remember your first impression of Agnes?

Absolutely. And actually, I didn’t meet her; I saw her in the distance. It was my final callback audition for Erica Kane and I was put on tape that day. Fra Heflin and I were paired, always, as mother and daughter until that day. Fra was put on tape at a different time. But I was put on tape that day. And when I finished, I saw a very pretty blonde woman in an Yves St. Laurent pantsuit which I recognized from magazines [Laughs]. She was the first woman I ever saw wearing the designer clothes that I had seen in magazines. And she had a beautiful satchel with her, and she was running down the hallway. As she ran down the hallway in the opposite direction from me, into what I think was the control room, the producer at that time Bud Kloss said to me, “Do you know who that was?” I said no. He said, “That’s Agnes Nixon.” I just had been so taken with the appearance of her. She was the first up-close I ever had to a professional woman who was a working, professional, successful woman in New York. She looked like everything I would have imagined such a woman would look like. I learned later that she was so much more than her appearance, which was beautiful and chic and modern. But she, herself, was all these things and more.

TVLINE | Talk to me about how your relationship with Agnes progressed as your time on the show went on.

The first time I was in her company outside of the studio was for an appearance that we were both asked to do early on in my career, early on with All My Children — certainly in the first year — down near where she lived. Her main house was in Rosemont, Penn. We rode the train down from New York, and that was just a thrill to be with her on the train and she told me about her Irish superstitions. I was just all ears. I was so thrilled she spoke to me that way. She asked me to come to her house to have some lunch, so I did… To go to her house, I saw a home. I knew that she had four children and she was also a very successful professional woman. And those were the things — I had no children at the time — but it was what I had always dreamed of. I wanted to be an actress and she was a writer, but I wanted to have it all. I wanted to have the career and raise the children beautifully, as she did. She was a mentor to me, as well. She was a role model. Her house was a home. And she was really part of that home. She had family traditions and love, and you could just feel all of it. And she was also a great success in her chosen field. That was all I had hoped to be, my whole life. She embodies it all.

TVLINE | Do you remember any times that she bucked you up? Or you talked about where Erica was going? Or that you celebrated with her?

Oh sure, we celebrated many times together. You know, I never really spoke to her about the writing of the character. I just felt so lucky. She would say to me, “You’ve got it.” She was so generous in her comments to me about what I brought to Erica. It was an amazing bond, because it was on the page. It was in her writing. Even before I knew Agnes, I would just think when I read it, “My god, how does someone know this?” It just made me fly. Made me soar. It was her writing. We were very much on the same page. [Laughs] I didn’t mean that as a pun, but yes, there it is.

TVLINE | All My Children taped its last ABC scene in 2011. There was a ceremony and cake, and Agnes was there. She was frail, but from all accounts, it seems like she was holding court, telling stories, still very sharp.

Absolutely she was. Our producer who was producing the show at that time in Los Angeles, Julie [Hanan] Carruthers, said that Agnes was the youngest voice in the room. Whatever room. And she was! She was modern. She was forward-thinking. She fought for storyline that was groundbreaking, that had never been done before anywhere on television. And she prevailed. It took a while, but she prevailed. When she had the opportunity and the greenlight to go ahead and write those storylines, they were rich, they were full and they were full of humanity. There are no words. She really was all that.

TVLINE | Were you in communication with her recently?

Oh yes, constantly. I’m so happy for her, and for all of us, that she finished her book. She finished her book. That will be out I don’t know exactly when, but I’m guessing very soon. In fact, last night, her son Bobby was saying that she asked him please to read the book jacket. She was supposed to sign off on it. That was last night.

TVLINE | Oh, wow.

Yeah. Yes, as you mentioned, she had become more fragile, certainly in the last few years. But she still went to speech therapy and physical therapy and was always looking forward and ahead. She would still tell jokes! We would go out to dinner and she would still tell jokes. [Laughs] She was just spunky and fantastic in the best sense of the word… One of the loveliest women, ever.

TVLINE | Is there anything you think I need to know before we go?

Yes, one more thing. Because this is Agnes. When Bobby spoke to me, I wanted to personally put a small tribute to her on my personal [Instagram] account. So I had my autobiography with me today — I was in meetings — and I knew there was a wonderful picture of Agnes and me in there together. During one of those meetings, we had spoken of it… I knew when I got back in the car, I was going to take my phone out and take a picture of the picture so I could post whenever Bobby told me that it would be OK to do that. So I got in the car and I took my book in my hand and it fell open to the picture of Agnes and me. And that is Agnes. That was Agnes smiling on me, Agnes and her Irish superstition and her spirit and the little elf in her. That was Agnes, letting me know she was still with me.

Agnes Nixon Dies: Creator Of ‘All My Children’ & ‘One Life To Live’ Was 88

Born in Chicago in 1927, Nixon started out as a writer in the postwar early days of TV as a protege of legendary writer-producer Irna Phillips, who created many of the earliest American soaps. Nixon became a writer on the Phillips-created shows Woman in White and As the World Turns and would serve as head writer on Phillip’s iconic Guiding Light — then titled The Guiding Light — from 1958-66.

Nixon was highly in-demand early in her career, serving as co-head writer on Search for Tomorrow from 1951-56. She later would serve as sole head writer on Another World for 300 episodes from 1965-69, before creating her first series.

As a writer, she pioneered the use of soap operas to discuss real-world issues, penning what is widely believed to be the first medical-related narrative in the genre’s history. Inspired by a friend who had died of cervical cancer, Nixon wanted to educate women to get regular pap smears and subsequently penned a 1962 storyline in which Guiding Light lead character, Bertha “Bert” Bauer had a cancer scare.

Because of content restructions of the day, Nixon was forced to find creative ways to discuss the topic, as she was forbidden from using the words “cancer,” “uterus” or “pap test.” Despite these limitations, the storyline popularized the pap smear significantly among American women and for this Nixon was recognized as a pioneer in 2002 by Sentinel for Health.

Nixon made the jump from writer to show creator in 1968 with One Life to Live, a series on which she was specifically given the mandate to incorporate a more contemporary tone — not only examining class divisions but also racial and ethnic diversity, among them Jewish and Polish-American characters and most notably the first African-American soap opera leads played by Ellen Holly and Al Freeman Jr.

Thanks to the success of One Life, Nixon then was allowed to bring All My Children to television, premiering the series in 1970. The show was known for frequently incorporating real-life controversies and social issues, including the anti-war movement, the AIDS crisis and abortion. Nixon served as head writer on the series several times throughout its long tenure, and still was shaking things up well into the twilight years of her career. In 2000, notably, Nixon would be personally responsible for the first time the series saw a major character come out, with Bianca Montgomery revealing she was a lesbian.

Nixon also created the series Loving, which ran from 1983-95 on ABC but never managed to catch on like her other series.

In addition to her groundbreaking storylines, Nixon also created some of the most famous and iconic characters in soap opera history, most notably All My Children‘s Erica Kane. Introduced in 1970, Kane was portrayed for more than 40 years by Lucci, whose name became synonymous with consistently being nominated for, but not winning, Daytime Emmys. She earned 18 nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series before finally taking home the statuette in 1999. She was nommed again twice after that.

Nixon’s survivors include her son, Robert Nixon, a conservationist and filmmaker who among his other credits was co-producer on 1988’s Gorillas in the Mist.

'All My Children' creator Agnes Nixon dies at 93

Agnes Nixon, the "Queen of Modern Soap Opera" best known for creating the critically acclaimed soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live, died Wednesday at The Quadrangle, a senior living community in Haverford, Penn. She was 93.

A luminary in the world of daytime serials, Nixon also enjoyed writing credits on a score of other shows, including Studio One in Hollywood; Cameo Theatre; Somerset Maugham TV Theatre; Another World;Guiding Light;Search for Tomorrow; and Loving, which was later rebooted as The City.

Nixon first demonstrated an interest in writing while studying at Northwestern University, a passion which she channeled on One Life to Live and All My Children, which were heralded for their racial and social diversity. Nixon would go on to garner six Daytime Emmy Awards and five Writers Guild of America Awards. She was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Television Hall of Fame in 1993 and took home the Lifetime Achievement honor at the 37th annual Daytime Emmy Awards in June 2010.

Ahead of the 2010 tribute, All My Children star Susan Lucci, who played Erica Kane on the show, said Nixon "helped create the very fabric of the daytime drama. With her vision, words and sensibility, she has created a legacy of characters and socially relevant stories that have made and indelible mark upon the lives of those who have and continue to watch her shows."

Following the news of her passing, Disney CEO and chairman Robert A. Iger also paid homage to the pioneer, telling USA TODAY in an emailed statement: "It is with a heavy heart I mourn the passing of television pioneer Agnes Nixon, someone I was proud to call a friend. Agnes’ impact on daytime television and pop culture is undeniable. She was the first to champion socially relevant topics, and the towns and characters Agnes brought to life leave an indelible imprint on television that will be remembered forever."

Agnes Nixon, Who Injected Social Ills Into Soap Operas, Dies at 93

The cause was pneumonia resulting from Parkinson’s disease, her family said.

In a career that paralleled the rise, enormous popularity and gradual decline of soap operas in the last half of the 20th century, Ms. Nixon fashioned many of television’s most popular daytime shows, drawing on a rich imagination to find the great and small human dramas lurking just below the surface of American life.

To a 1950s audience mostly composed of women who were at home doing housework and raising children, Ms. Nixon’s early scripts for “The Guiding Light” and “Search for Tomorrow” provided an escape: a glimpse of dashing lives, handsome cads, passions run amok, dark secrets and terrible betrayals.

But in the 1960s and ’70s she virtually reinvented soaps, creating for the ABC network “One Life to Live,” “All My Children” and other shows infused with social relevance and politically charged topics like racism, abortion, obscenity, narcotics, the generation gap and protests against the Vietnam War.

Like their predecessors, the new Nixon soaps were disturbing, fascinating and addictive. Because she presented various sides of a controversy, they were more complex. But she tried to avoid preachy dialogue, letting action and plot speak for themselves. The conundrum was no longer simply whether Tara was pregnant, but whether Phil, home from Vietnam and scarred by the horrors of war, could still love her.

Many Nixon stories were based on reality. In 1964, after a friend died of cancer, she created a “Guiding Light” character who was found, after a Pap smear, to have cervical cancer. Despite misgivings by the sponsor, Procter & Gamble, the character appeared onscreen, though the words “cancer,” “uterus” and “hysterectomy” were never uttered. Even so, thousands of women wrote in to express gratitude for the information that a simple test might save their lives.

On “One Life to Live,” which began in 1968 and ran for 43 years, Ms. Nixon created a tale that reflected the nation’s changing social structures and attitudes. It had many ethnic characters, including Jews, Polish-Americans and African-Americans. A woman assumed to be white was revealed after months to be a light-skinned black, turning the story, and the audience, sharply to questions of racial prejudice.

Ms. Nixon’s revolutionary changes were widely copied by other soaps and other networks, and helped capture new audiences at a time when the traditional base of daytime viewers — 20 million to 30 million daily, the vast majority of them homemakers — was being eroded by women entering the work force. Increasingly, men and college students drawn by their topicality were tuning in.

“It was a kind of first,” Lewis Antine, a graduate student at the City University of New York, told The New York Times after watching a 1974 episode of “All My Children” featuring a Vietnam War veteran. “It was a sense of your stuff being on TV for the first time, like, ‘Hey, they’re talking about us on Mom’s show.’”

Ms. Nixon was an unlikely source of tales of infidelity and divorce, let alone racial and antiwar conflicts. The mother of four children, she was married to the same man for 45 years. And she wrote not in the caldron of New York or glitzy Hollywood, but in her suburban home in Rosemont, on the Philadelphia Main Line. (She died in a nursing facility in Rosemont.)

Rosemont and adjoining Bryn Mawr, Pa., were the prototype for Pine Valley, the setting for “All My Children,” which had its premiere in 1970 and ran for 41 years. (For that entire time, its best-known cast member was Susan Lucci, one of daytime TV’s best-known and highest-paid stars, as Erica Kane.) In 1973, a character on the show was the first on television to have a legal abortion after the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. The show also tackled drug addiction, depression, child abuse and AIDS. In 2000, it introduced a lesbian character, who shared the first lesbian kiss on a soap opera. In 2007, a transgender character appeared.

“Life is fascinating,” Ms. Nixon told The Milwaukee Sentinel in 1983, “and if you look at your family and your friends and you have a writer’s viewpoint, you can see each person’s life as a soap opera in itself. The really amazing thing is they are basically similar.”

She was born Agnes Eckhardt in Chicago on Dec. 10, 1922, the only child of Harold and Agnes Dalton Eckhardt. Her parents were separated when she was an infant. She and her mother moved to Nashville, where she attended St. Cecilia Academy, a Roman Catholic prep school. She studied writing at St. Mary’s College in South Bend, Ind., and attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.

Her father, who manufactured burial garments and paid for her education, wanted her to join his firm. He tried to dissuade her from a writing career by arranging a talk with Irna Phillips, a well-known creator of radio soaps and serials. The tactic backfired. After reading a script she had written, Ms. Phillips offered her a job in New York. She began in 1948, writing radio scripts for a hospital drama, “Woman in White.”

In 1951, she married Robert Henry Nixon, an auto dealer who later gave up his business to join his wife in a television production company. He died in 1996.

She is survived by their three daughters, Cathy Chicos, Mary Nixon and Emily Nixon; their son, Robert; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

In the early 1950s, Ms. Nixon wrote for major dramatic programs, including “The Philco Television Playhouse,” “Robert Montgomery Presents” and “The Hallmark Hall of Fame.” She eventually succeeded Ms. Phillips as lead writer for “The Guiding Light.” She was the head writer for the NBC soap opera “Another World” from 1965 to 1967.

For decades, the lucrative advertising revenues of Ms. Nixon’s best-known creations, “One Life to Live” and “All My Children,” helped support ABC’s evening programming. But in the 1990s, the popularity of all soaps fell steadily as cable networks and the internet provided new sources of entertainment, and after 2000 their audiences and revenues went into steep declines.

In 2008, Ms. Nixon appeared on the 40th-anniversary episode of “One Life to Live,” and the 10,000th episode of “All My Children.” Both shows, with only 2.5 million viewers a day each, were canceled in 2011.

Fans bombarded ABC with protests and petitions and picketed network affiliates. An online production company, Prospect Park, offered a reprieve, announcing plans to continue both programs, with Ms. Nixon’s participation, online. The plans were delayed, suspended and revived as union and financing problems arose and were resolved. Both shows went into production in 2013 and were available via Hulu and iTunes, but they lasted only a few months before being canceled last November.

Because of both her success and her longevity, Ms. Nixon was often called the queen of the modern soap opera. From the premiere of “One Life to Live” in 1968 to the finale of “All My Children” in January 2012, shows she had created or had a hand in writing, producing or shaping as a consultant were on the air every weekday for 43 years — more than 11,000 days.

The recipient of many awards, including a Daytime Emmy for lifetime achievement in 2010, Ms. Nixon often spoke of soap operas as ensembles and would share credit with actors, directors, producers, camera crews and other writers. Her own contributions, she said, had no unrealistic objectives.

“On the social issues, whether the Vietnam War or abortion or racism, I never thought I could change the way most people felt,” she told the Catholic magazine America in 2002. “I just wanted to show the unfairness of it, the inequality, the injustice.”

Cady McClain Shares Details of Her Exciting New Project!

To help bring awareness to the issue, as well as hopefully find a solution, McClain is working on a documentary titled Seeing Is Believing: Women Direct, and launched an Indiegogo campaign to help bring it to fruition.

“The bias is systemic,” she wrote, “So there’s no point in blaming or calling out the offenders. Nothing but a revolution is going to change the way things are.”

McClain has conducted many interviews with female directors, including fellow daytime alum Kimberly McCullough (ex-Robin, GENERAL HOSPITAL). “I’m so honored to be a part of this project,” McCullough shared on Twitter. “And so happy to call Cady my friend. This gorgeous human cares about other people’s work as much as her own. I have to say, I know nobody else like her.”

McClain hopes to raise enough money to finish production on her five-hour serialized documentary as well as creating online classes to help other women realize their creative dreams. As rewards to fans who donate to the cause, she’s offering up everything from signed photos to a pair of glitter pumps she wore to the 2010 Daytime Emmys! With two months to go, McClain is already well on her way to achieving her goal.

Martha Byrne Talks About Her Emotional New Role!

“I loved the play the first time I read it,” Byrne tells Soaps In Depth. “My character, Fern, is faced with having to make life-changing decisions for her elderly parents who are dealing with several physical and emotional challenges.

“Having seen my own father struggle in this way,” she continues, “I completely understand how this could affect the family structure. It’s a beautiful and topical story for anyone facing such difficult choices and the play explores this with great truth.”

To see Byrne on stage in this new production of the award-winning play, visit QueensTheatre.org or call 718-760-0064. In the Car With Blossom and Len is running from Friday, Nov. 11 through Sunday, Nov. 20, and tickets start at $25.

For more on what your favorite ATWT stars are up to now, keep reading the CBS edition of Soaps In Depth magazine!

Catching Up With ATWT’s Margaret Colin

Scott Porter on “SCORPION,” MONDAY, OCT. 10

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Criminal Minds' Thomas Gibson Details Kick That Got Him Fired, Hopes 'Good Work Is What People Will Remember'

Aaron “Hotch” Hotchner’s portrayer tells People.com that on July 26, while filming the second episode of the upcoming 12th season, he questioned a line of dialogue, but was overruled by co-executive producer/writer Virgil Williams. Later, when Gibson was relating the differing of opinions to castmates, Williams “came into that room and started coming towards me. As he brushed past me, my foot came up and tapped him on the leg. If I hadn’t moved, he would have run into me,” the actor says.

Following said “kick,” “We had some choice words, for which I apologized the next day, and that was it. It was over,” Gibson says. “We shot the scene, I went home — and I never got to go back,” suspended as he originally was for two episodes, before eventually being fired, as announced on Aug. 12.

As a result, the “temporary” special assignment that was to take Hotch off-screen for two episodes will somehow dovetail into the character’s permanent exit. Paget Brewster, who was already on her way back to the CBS drama as Emily Prentiss, to temporarily cover for Hotch during his absence, was subsequently upgraded to series regular status. CBS isn’t saying how exactly Hotch will be written out.

“It seems like they’re trying to erase me from the show,” Gibson told People.com. “My pride and reputation are hurt, but in the end I know the good work is what people will remember. I just need more opportunities to do good work and be a good guy.”

DAYS Stars Return!

Cady McClain Narrates The Girls

About The Book: Girls - their vulnerability, strength, and passion to belong - are at the heart of this stunning first novel for audiences of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad.

Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie it is exotic, thrilling, charged - a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence - and to that moment in a girl's life when everything can go horribly wrong.

Emma Cline's remarkable debut novel is gorgeously written and spellbinding, with razor-sharp precision and startling psychological insight. The Girls is a brilliant work of fiction - and an indelible portrait of girls and of the women they become.

Devious Maids' Roselyn Sanchez to Star in Lifetime's Death of a Vegas Showgirl

Sanchez star in Death of a Vegas Showgirl, a new movie based on the true story of Debbie Flores, a professional dancer who went missing the night before she was set to make her debut as the lead in a major stage production. She will also executive-produce, along with husband Eric Winter (Witches of East End).

Per Lifetime, “the investigation into [Debbie’s] disappearance reveals the twisted depth of a love story gone wrong that ends in a sordid death that shocked Las Vegas — and the world — with its gruesome and tragic details.” (Hang Time‘s Danso Gordon will play Sanchez’s love interest.)

Additional executive producers include Scott W. Anderson, Howard Braunstein and Brian D. Young. Penelope Buitenhuis directed the film, which was written written by Young.

Amanda Seyfried Engaged to Last Word Costar Thomas Sadoski

The actress is engaged to her Last Word costar Thomas Sadoski, a rep for Seyfried confirms to PEOPLE.

Earlier this month, Seyfried, 30, was pictured wearing a silver band on her left ring finger while out and about with her beloved dog Finn in New York City.

She and Sadoski, 40, first met while working together on the off-Broadway show The Way We Get By last year, and began their romance when they reunited on the set of their upcoming film The Last Word. PEOPLE confirmed their relationship in March.

This will be Seyfried's first marriage and the actor's second. Sadoski was previously married to Kimberly Hope, from whom he divorced in October 2015 after eight years.

The SAG-nominated star previously dated Justin Long and Dominic Cooper.

‘Devious Maids’ Roselyn Sanchez Joins ‘Stranded’

Scott Porter & Spencer Grammer on Scorpion

“More Civil War” – Just as Team Scorpion makes headway against the hackers controlling U.S. naval destroyers, they learn that a U.S. nuclear submarine also has been hacked and has a missile about to launch, on a special two-hour third season premiere of SCORPION, Monday, Oct. 3 (10:00-11:00, ET/PT), on the CBS Television Network.

GUEST CAST: Scott Porter (Tim Armstrong), Michael McGrady (Admiral Pace), Spencer Grammer (Airman Woodrow).

Talk Show Appearance

Tuesday, Sept. 13

Actress Meg Ryan discusses her new film “Ithaca”

Marisa Tomei lands dream role voicing Jane Jacobs

The flick, which includes Jacobs protesting Moses’ plan to build a lower Manhattan expressway, will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday before playing at Doc NYC next month.

Tomei was angling for the part for years. “I just think [Jacobs] is so fascinating,” she said in 2011.

Julianne Moore, Ken Watanabe & Demian Bichir To Star In ‘Bel Canto’ – Toronto

Bel Canto will follow the plotlines of Patchett’s 2001 novel, based on actual events in Peru in the mid-1990s. In the pic, Roxane Coss (Moore), a famous American soprano, travels to a military dictatorship in South America to give a private concert at the birthday party of rich Japanese industrialist Katsumi Hosokawa (Watanabe). The house is taken over by guerrillas, led by General Benjamin (Bichir), demanding the release of their imprisoned comrades. A monthlong standoff ensues in which hostages and captors must overcome their differences and find their shared humanity in the face of impending disaster.

Caroline Baron and Weintraub are producing via their A-Line Pictures alongside Weitz and Andrew Miano and their Depth of Field. Baron and Weitz are teamed together on the Amazon series Mozart In The Jungle, which won the Golden Globe.

Bloom’s slate includes Scott Cooper’s Hostiles; The Outsider starring Jared Leto; Danny Strong’s Rebel In The Rye; and George Clooney’s Suburbicon, which also stars Moore.

Oscar winner Moore, next up in Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck, is repped by CAA, United Agents and Management 360. Watanabe, repped by WME, Roar and K Das, can next be seen in Transformers: The Last Knight. Bichir just wrapped Ridley Scott’s Aliens: Covenant and is with CAA.

Jon Polito -- Dead at 65

We're told Jon was diagnosed with melanoma in 2008 -- he was also suffering from arthritis and had an infection related to a recent surgery. He slipped into a coma last Sunday.

Director John McNaughton broke the news Friday morning -- "Jon was a born actor and will be deeply missed by his legion of friends, fans, family and of course his long time partner, Darryl Armbruster to whom I send my condolences. R.I.P. old pal."

The Philly native was a seasoned Hollywood vet, landing roles in nearly 100 movies. He also has several TV credits, including a recurring role on ABC's "Modern Family."

He was 65.

‘Devious Maids’ Canceled: No Season 5 For Lifetime Series

Devious Maids, developed by Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry based on a telenovela format, migrated to Lifetime after being developed and piloted at ABC. It got off to a strong start, with its freshman season peaking at 3 million Live+same day viewers for the season finale. The ratings have slipped in each consecutive season, with the most recent fourth season averaging 0.923 million viewers (L+SD), but the show has been consistent, with virtually no drop-off throughout Season 4. Its average still was twice the viewership of Lifetime’s other original scripted series, the critically praised UnReal.

Wrapping a respectable four-season run, Devious Maids, from ABC Studios, was the first all-Latina ensemble on English-speaking television. It was Lifetime’s only established returning series the last couple of years, used to help launch UnReal.

Devious Maids also is left over from the old regime at Lifetime. The network has been changing creative direction, signaled by UnReal. In the pipeline, the network has two drama pilots in contention for a series pickup, the supernatural Sea Change and anthology A Midsummer’s Nightmare.

Devious Maids was executive produced by Eva Longoria and starred Ana Ortiz, Dania Ramirez, Roselyn Sanchez and Judy Reyes.

Steven Weber on NCIS: New Orleans

GUEST CAST includes: Steven Weber (Mayor Douglas Hamilton), Derek Webster (FBI Agent Raymond Isler), Jared Day (Michael Buckley)

William Fichtner Joins ‘Finding Steve McQueen’

Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s AMBI Group is Financing and Producing the Film with Silvio Muraglia’s Paradox Studios and Anthony Mastromauro’s Identity Films. Principal photography is slated to begin next month in Atlanta, Georgia, and — one day ago — a casting call went out for locals in Atlanta. AMBI Distribution, the worldwide sales arm of the AMBI Group, is handling global sales and will be introducing the project to buyers in Toronto during TIFF.

Also joining the cast in supporting roles are John Finn (Catch Me If You Can), Rhys Coiro (Entourage), and Louis Lombardi (Jersey Boys).

Finding Steve McQueen, written by Keith Sharon (Showtime) and Ken Hixon (City by the Sea), is about a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio who, in election year 1972, attempt to steal $30 million in illegal contributions and blackmail money from President Richard Nixon’s secret fund.

Producers are Mastromauro, Muraglia, Iervolino Monika Bacardi, and Alexandra Klim. Mikael Wiren will executive produce.

“I’m excited to see this caliber of talent come together on a project that has been near and dear to my heart for some time,” said Identity Films’ Mastromauro. “Mark Steven Johnson has put together a wonderful cast led by Travis Fimmel, who I believe is a movie star in the making, and I’m thrilled to have him lead a truly fantastic cast.”

The director Johnson is repped by Paradigm and The Gotham Group. Whitaker is repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment. Fimmel is repped by Paradigm and Management 360. Bosworth is repped by CAA and Management 360. Fichtner is repped by APA.

Hillary B. Smith Shares Heartfelt Rememberance of Her Late Co-Star, Gene Wilder

“I send my love to Karen, who lost her beloved Gene,” Smith wrote on Twitter. “I shed a tear for me, who lost my beloved Gene. He taught me so much, he gave me so much.”

Smith co-starred as Wilder’s wife in the NBC sitcom SOMETHING WILDER which ran for 15 episodes in the mid ‘90s. She continued to appear sporadically on OLTL while filming, returning full-time to the soap upon the comedy’s cancelation in 1995.

Our thoughts are with Smith and all of Wilder’s friends and family during this difficult time.

Thomas Gibson has been going through a divorce for two years

Gibson, 54, filed for divorce from his wife of more than 20 years, Christine, on June 18, 2014, Extra reports.

In the filing, Gibson claims “the marriage has become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities … that destroys the legitimate ends of the marriage relationship and prevents any reasonable expectation of reconciliation.”

Christine responded with a general denial on June 27, 2014. Gibson responded with a counterpetition reaffirming his initial filing in December 2015. If no further action is taken on either side by October 25 of this year, the divorce petition will be dismissed entirely.

Gibson’s marriage first showed signs of trouble in August 2013, when it was reported that he fell victim to a catfish scheme.

A woman, using photos from X-rated sites, reportedly contacted Gibson and the pair carried on a two-year online romance. When he discovered she wasn’t who she said she was, his attorneys sent her a letter telling her to stop contacting him, TMZ reported.

The woman then sent TMZ a video Gibson had sent her from a hot tub in December 2012. At the time, Gibson insisted the video was heavily edited — and that he and his wife had been separated for more than two years when it was filmed.

A rep for Gibson declined to comment on his personal life.

When Gibson’s on-set fight and subsequent firing from “Criminal Minds” was revealed, a source close to the actor told Page Six, “Thomas is a family man … he arranges his filming schedule around his family in Texas, and he spends as much time with his kids as he can.”

Thomas Gibson Pursuing Legal Action After Criminal Minds Termination

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Gibson has hired Los Angeles-based litigators Skip Miller and Sasha Frid to mull over whether it would be in his best interests to pursue legal action after he was dismissed for allegedly kicking writer Virgil Williams during a heated dispute over creative differences. Williams is said to have filed a complaint with human resources, forcing Gibson, who was directing the episode in question, to be replaced by an alternate director before he was initially suspended and subsequently let go.

Upon his dismissal on Friday, Gibson released a statement to TVLine in which he expressed sorrow for not being able to see Criminal Minds through to the very end, but did not at any point address the supposed conflict:

“I love Criminal Minds and have put my heart and soul into it for the last 12 years,” Gibson said. “I had hoped to see it through to the end, but that won’t be possible now. I would just like to say thank you to the writers, producers, actors, our amazing crew, and, most importantly, the best fans that a show could ever hope to have.”

As reported by our sister site Deadline, this latest incident was the second of its kind for Gibson, who years ago reportedly shoved an assistant director and was in turn assigned mandatory anger management classes.

Criminal Minds Season 12 premieres Wednesday, Sept. 28.

Criminal Minds: Thomas Gibson Fired in Wake of On-Set Altercation

The move comes in the wake of an on-set altercation in which Gibson allegedly kicked a producer. “There were creative differences on the set and a disagreement,” Gibson said earlier this week. “I regret that it occurred. We all want to work together as a team to make the best show possible. We always have and always will.”

As reported by Deadline, this latest incident was the second of its kind for Gibson, who years ago reportedly shoved an assistant director and subsequently was made to attend anger management classes.

“I love Criminal Minds and have put my heart and soul into it for the last 12 years,” Gibson said in a statement to TVLine. “I had hoped to see it through to the end, but that won’t be possible now. I would just like to say thank you to the writers, producers, actors, our amazing crew, and, most importantly, the best fans that a show could ever hope to have.”

Gibson’s character, BAU Special Agent Aaron Hotchner, will likely be sent away on special assignment in Season 12’s third episode. During TVLine’s Season 12 preview Q&A with Erica Messer, the showrunner made mention of a storyline that will take Hotch off the canvas. Setting up the return of Paget Brewster as BAU team member-turned-Interpol agent Emily Prentiss, Messer told Matt Mitovich, “Prentiss is doing essentially temporary duty with us, while Hotch is on temporary duty doing something that the Director tapped him to do.”

Gibson’s Hotch will thus be off-screen “for a couple of episodes,” Messer said at the time, “and then we’ll get to see what that assignment was about. It’s a big thing that will play out.” Or… not.

Criminal Minds Season 12 premieres Wednesday, Sept. 28.

Thomas Gibson -- Ordered To Anger Management For Previous 'Criminal Minds' Outbursts

Our production sources tell us in 2010 Gibson pushed an assistant director in front of cast and crew while filming a scene. At the time, he blamed it on the AD moving too slowly. He wasn't suspended, but it was enough for network honchos to send him to anger management classes.

And that's just one in a string of incidents. We've learned Gibson's been aggressive and verbally abusive for years on set, but no one's said anything about it since he's the show's star.

We broke the story ... the writer Gibson kicked had enough and put in a call to his agent, who then called the network to do something about it.

Gibson's been on suspension for 2 weeks ... so far.

Report: Thomas Gibson Suspended From Criminal Minds In Wake of Physical Altercation With Producer

According to a report by TMZ, and confirmed by our sister site Deadline, Gibson got into argument with an unnamed producer and kicked the individual in the leg.

In a statement to TMZ, Gibson said, “There were creative differences on the set and a disagreement. I regret that it occurred. We all want to work together as a team to make the best show possible. We always have and always will.”

Per Deadline, Gibson’s future with the show as a whole is under review following the incident.

Criminal Minds is currently in production on the fourth episode of Season 12.

Back in 2013, CBS dealt with a similar matter at CSI when co-star George Eads got into an on-set altercation with a writer. The actor was subsequently written off the series for several episodes.

Criminal Minds‘ 12th season is set to premiere on Wednesday, Sept. 28 at 9/8c.

‘Time After Time’: Jennifer Ferrin Joins Kevin Williamson ABC Drama

Using the 1979 novel by Karl Alexander and subsequent movie as a starting point, Time After Time chronicles the epic adventures of young H.G. Wells (Freddie Stroma). Ferrin will play Brooke, a New York City doctor. After a flirtatious encounter with a stranger who turns out to be John Stevenson (aka Jack the Ripper), Brooke soon becomes the infamous serial killer’s next unwitting target. But when Brooke proves herself to be a perfect match for John both romantically and intellectually, she’ll cause the Ripper to question his murderous intentions.

Ferrin is coming off the fifth and final season of AMC’s hit series Hell on Wheels and also appeared on Cinemax’s The Knick. She most recently wrapped production on Steven Soderbergh’s Mosaic for HBO with Sharon Stone and Garrett Hedlund, and will appear on the upcoming USA series Falling Water.

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Gloria DeHaven Dies: Singer-Actress & Star Of MGM Musicals Was 91

Born in 1925, DeHaven was the daughter of actor and director Carter DeHaven and actress Flora Parker DeHaven, former Vaudevillians who transitioned to film in the 1910s. Growing up in Los Angeles and began her career with a bit part in 1936 with Modern Times, playing the younger sister of Paulette Goddard’s Gamin. Her next role came in 1940 with Susan and God, based on the successful play and starring Joan Crawford and Fredric March. She made three more films before being signed as a contract player with MGM, for which she appeared in several films alongside some of the biggest stars of the day.

Her first picture for MGM was the 1943 Lucille Ball musical comedy Best Foot Forward. Other films from her years with MGM include Thousands Cheer (1943) with Gene Kelly; Step Lively (1944) with Frank Sinatra; Summer Holiday (1948) with Mickey Rooney; The Doctor and the Girl (1949) with Glenn Ford and Nancy Reagan; and The Girl Rush (1955) with Rosalind Russell.

DeHaven notably portrayed her mother, Flora, in the 1950 film In Three Little Words, which tells the story of Tin Pan Alley songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. Fred Astaire portrayed Kalmar in the film, with Red Skelton playing Ruby. DeHaven sang “Who’s Sorry Now?” in Three Little Words, which Astaire later said was one of his favorite films.

In addition to her acting career, DeHaven also worked as a singer in her own right, performing with Bob Crosby’s band and at one point hosting her own nightclub act, along with gigs in New York, Las Vegas, and London. In 1955 she debuted on Broadway, starring in the musical version of Seventh Heaven alongside Ricardo Montalban.

Later in her career, DeHaven moved to television, appearing as a regular on the soap operas Ryan’s Hope, As the World Turns, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman as well as the short-lived police drama Nakia. She also guest starred on numerous other shows including Robert Montgomery Presents, Appointment with Adventure, Johnny Ringo, Marcus Welby, M.D., Gunsmoke, Hart to Hart, The Love Boat, Mama’s Family, Highway to Heaven, Murder, She Wrote and Touched by an Angel.

DeHaven continued to work sporadically in television and film through the 1990s with her final film role in the Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau comedy Out To Sea.

She was married four times, first to The Restless Gun star John Payne, from 1944 to 1950. The couple had two children, daughter Kathleen Hope and son Thomas John Payne. Real estate developer Martin Kimmel was her second husband; they married in 1953 and divorced the next year. She was twice married to Richard Fincher, first from 1957 until 1963, and again from 1965 1969. They had two children, son Harry, and daughter Faith.

More than 100 celebrities pledge to work against Trump

The campaign is part of MoveOn.org Political Action's #UnitedAgainstHate campaign.

"We believe it is our responsibility to use our platforms to bring attention to the dangers of a Trump presidency, and to the real and present threats of his candidacy," says an open letter signed by the celebrities.

"Donald Trump wants to take our country back to a time when fear excused violence, when greed fueled discrimination, and when the state wrote prejudice against marginalized communities into law .... Some of us come from the groups Trump has attacked. Some of us don't. But as history has shown, it's often only a matter of time before the 'other' becomes me."

Among the communities it says Trump has attacked are: Mexican and Latino people, black people, LGBTQ people, women and their health care providers, Asians, refugees, people with disabilities, working class people, American prisoners of war, and others.

"We call upon every American to join us," the letter says, "to stand together on the right side of history, to use the power of our voice and the power of our vote to defeat Donald Trump and the hateful ideology he represents."

Roger Howarth Reflects On His Daytime Career

Bethany Joy Lenz & Dylan Bruce on American Gothic - August 10

RECURRING CAST includes: Dylan Bruce (Tom Price), Deirdre Lovejoy (Detective Linda Cutter), Bethany Joy Lenz (April).

Feed the Beast Star Erin Cummings Marries Limitless Actor Tom Degnan

The couple tied the knot on July 2 at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on the campus of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, and became the first celebrity bride and groom to get married at the historic church.

The Feed the Beast star looked beautiful in her white off the shoulder wedding gown custom made by designer and bridesmaid Rochelle Rodriguez. For the reception, Cummings, 39, wore a second dress also created by Rodriguez. Meanwhile, the Limitless actor was dapper in a black tuxedo and color coordinated bowtie.

A total of nine bridesmaids and nine groomsmen were in the couple's wedding party including Cummings' former Astronaut Wives Club costar JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Cummings' manager and bridesman Todd Diener as well as the bride's mother Cheryl, who served as matron of honor. Groomsmen included People v O.J. Simpson star Billy Magnussen and UnREAL actor Josh Kelly.

Cummings shared a sweet wedding photo of the new Mr. and Mrs. Degnan on social media. "Words cannot describe the joy, light, laughter and love that @tomdegnan and I experienced this weekend," she captioned her picture. "I will always cherish the moment I entered the church and saw the smiling faces of everyone we know and love, before looking down the aisle and seeing the man I always dreamed about before I even knew him. This was all worth the wait and now I understand when people said to never, ever settle. For the 150+ people who were still holding strong at the end of the night and were able to be part of that unbelievable Piano Man finale, I cannot even think of that moment without getting choked up."

Adding, "It was truly an unexpected and emotional moment that will fill my heart and spirit for years to come."

The newlyweds celebrated their honeymoon in Rome, Italy and capped off their romantic getaway with a trip to New York City to watch the Broadway sensation Hamilton.

Jon Lindstrom Was Paid Pennies for an Acting Job

“Not the smallest I’ve seen,” Lindstrom wrote on Instagram, “but it’s the smallest I’ve gotten. Beats that one for $6.66 back in the day.”

While that check may look like a complete waste of time, paper, ink, and postage, it does allow Lindstrom to put his two cents in on any subject!

Former Soap Stars on the 2016 Emmys Nominations List

GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Ellen Burstyn, House of Cards
Allison Janney, Masters of Sex

LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY
William H Macy, Shameless

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Allison Janney, Mom
Judith Light, Transparent

GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Christine Baranski, The Big Bang Theory

LEAD ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Kirsten Dunst, Fargo

LEAD ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Bryan Cranston, All The Way

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Melissa Leo, All The Way
Kathy Bates, American Horror Story: Hotel
Jean Smart, Fargo

Tom Pelphrey Celebrates His Brother's Wedding

The actor, best known to soap fans for his roles as Jonathan on GUIDING LIGHT and Mick on AS THE WORLD TURNS, shared a photo of himself and the happy groom. “Me and my handsome, bad-ass, super-tall, little brother,” he wrote. “Yesterday he married his equally-amazing wife, Lauren.”

Pelphrey looks as proud as can be to share in his brother’s special day. All our best to the happy couple for a lifetime of happiness!

Matthew Morrison to Acting Coach -- I Don't Owe You Jack!!!

The former "Glee" star denies ever verbally agreeing to pay Peter Mattaliano 2.5% of his acting salary from any TV or movie roles. Matthew says Peter is demanding "this outrageous figure based upon a purported oral agreement" in May 2011.

Matthew denies ever agreeing to that deal, and says he actually did pay Peter generously in excess of what acting coaches are normally paid ... although he doesn't say a specific amount.

On top of asking the court to wipe out the amount, Matthew's suing Peter for using his name and images on a website.

Jon Lindstrom Stars in New Horror Film, 'Val-En-Tina'!

The actor, who CBS fans remember as Craig on AS THE WORLD TURNS, co-stars with Marisol Sacramento in this chilling story of a controversial politician whose racist views get him in hot water with not only his Mexican-American mistress but a supernatural entity! Val-En-Tina is written by Jaquita Ta’le and Carlton Byrd and directed by Araeia Robinson.

“One of my favorite projects/characters ever,” Lindstrom tweeted. “Enjoy!”

You can watch Val-En-Tina right here… if you think your nerves can handle it!

Spencer Grammer Guests on Rush Hour

GUEST CAST Includes: Gabriel Mann (Reginald Mason), Spencer Grammer (Heather), Greer Grammer (Destiny).

Dylan Bruce Recurs on American Gothic - July 27

RECURRING CAST Includes: Dylan Bruce (Tom Price), Maureen Sebastian (Naomi Flynn), Enrico Colantoni (Mayor Bill Conley).

Julianne Moore Says Her Teenagers Live 'Regular' Lives

"They live a regular life. I make breakfast for them, my husband drives them to school and we all go to basketball games," Moore, 55, said. "Both my kids play a lot of basketball – my son's a really, really good player."

She added: "We have family vacations. We're involved in their lives and they don't have jobs. I don't think it's a good thing for kids to work."

Moore, who has been in a relationship with filmmaker Bart Freundlich since 1996, also spoke about the difficulties of fostering a long-lasting marriage.

"I think it's hard, no matter what. Relationships are challenging. It's important not to be black and white about it," she said.

"Some people make it through and some don't, and some people split up and wish they hadn't. And some people stay together and wish they hadn't," Moore added. "There are so many variables and I am not an expert!"

Austin Peck Shares Hilarious Moment With Daughter Kiera!

The actor was enjoying a meal with three-year-old Kiera, the daughter he shares with wife Terri Conn (Katie, ATWT; Aubrey, OLTL), when he asked if she pooped her pants.

Her reply? “No, that’s my hotness.”

Love it! Kiera is just adorable, and clearly a born comedian. We can’t wait to hear what she says next!

Soap Alum Weds

John McMartin Dies: Broadway Veteran Of ‘Follies’ & ‘Sweet Charity’ Fame Was 86

His last Broadway role was playing conservative Sen. Richard Russell opposite Bryan Cranston in All the Way, which earned Cranston the Best Actor Tony in 2014. Cranston reprised his role in this year’s HBO movie; Frank Langella played Russell on the small screen.

McMartin was a notable character actor on film and TV over six decades, and he reprised his role in Sweet Charity opposite Shirley MacLaine in the 1969 big-screen transfer (Gwen Verdon was the female lead on the stage). He also played the Foreign Editor in those great newsroom scenes in All the President’s Men. His many TV credits included soap opera As the World Turns in the early 1960s; Falcon Crest; opposite fellow Broadway star Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote; and Law & Order. According to IMDb, his last TV credit was as Ellie Kemper’s dashing blind date in Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt last season.

On Broadway, he worked with such icons as Sondheim, Harold Prince and Bob Fosse. His theater credits include the 1973 revival of Moliere’s Don Juan, Prince’s Show Boat, High Society and Into The Woods as the narrator. All earned him Tony noms. He also was in the musical Grey Gardens, played Thomas Jefferson in Free Man of Color, and was in the 1974 revival of The Visit directed by Prince (and later again in the musical version from Kander & Ebb).

TNT's Animal Kingdom Gets Renewed

Fall TV First Impression: Frequency

THE COMPETITION | Fox’s Empire, CBS’ Criminal Minds, ABC’s Modern Family/black-ish and NBC’s Law & Order: SVU

THE CAST | Peyton List (The Tomorrow People), Riley Smith (The Messengers), Mekhi Phifer (ER), Devin Kelley (Resurrection), Anthony Ruivivar (Banshee), Daniel Bonjour (The Walking Dead) and Lenny Jacobson (Nurse Jackie)

THE SET-UP | Akin to the 2000 Jim Caviezel/Dennis Quaid film, this remake stars List as Raimy Sullivan, a NYPD detective whose father died during an undercover op, when she was 8. Raimy gets to know Frank a bit better when they begin communicating over his old ham radio, despite being separated by precisely 20 years in time.

THE FIRST IMPRESSION | This pilot hits a lot of the same beats as the movie, though the plan appears to be to take the multiple instances of timeline tweaking and protract them across an entire series — which just might work, as father and daughter collaborate to catch a serial killer. (Having caught the movie for the first time over the holiday weekend, I’d argue that the premise does lend itself to additional exploration, though it runs the risk of getting repetitive.)Frequency

List grounds the supernatural proceedings quite well, especially during the very tricky scenes where Raimy comes to realize exactly who is on the other end of the radio, while Phifer (succeeding Andre Braugher as Satch, a fellow cop) and Kelley (perfectly cast as List’s mom, in the Elizabeth Mitchell role) have the task of playing younger/older versions of their characters (which, frankly, is just denoted by wisps of gray).

Because of the TV series’ updated timelines, it’s a bit wonky that the Sullivans, diehard Mets fans, would mull over minutia about the ’96 World Series ‘tween the Yankees and Braves, but as in the film, the fall classic serves well as a proving ground for Raimy’s “futuristic” claims.

THE TVLINE BOTTOM LINE | Whereas Supernatural weathered this time slot thanks to a loyal fan base built over 11 seasons, Frequency will have a much tougher row to hoe going up against the mighty Empire, those stalwart Criminal Minds, ABC’s solid sitcombo and the seemingly immortal SVU. (Is it odd The CW didn’t go for a “timey wimey” theme night, slotting this for Thursdays after Legends?)

William Fichtner Targets Shooter

The Prison Break alum will guest-star on USA Network’s upcoming series Shooter, which is based on Stephen Hunter’s novel Point of Impact and the 2007 Mark Wahlberg film of the same name.

Fichtner, who was recently promoted to a series regular on the CBS comedy Mom, will play a former marine that Phillippe’s character seeks out as a mentor in his journey to stop an assassination attempt on the President of the United States.

Shooter is set to premiere Tuesday, July 19 at 10/9c. EW.com was the first to report Fichtner’s casting.

Martha Byrne Announces Her Album is Now Available on iTunes!

“My favorite song is ‘Baby Blue,” that I wrote for my boys,” she wrote on Twitter. “I released it a long time ago but I’m really excited people can download it now.”

At the time of the album's release in 2006, Byrne told Soaps In Depth she was really proud of it. “I feel like it’s a true representation of what I wanted it to be, and you hope people like it,” she said. “It’s like a painting, you just kind of put it out there and people have opinions. It’s really, really exciting.”

You can preview and download The Other Side by clicking here, and the single, “Hold On,” by clicking here.

Lady Gaga, Connie Britton and 47 Other Stars Honor Orlando Shooting Victims in Ryan Murphy-Produced Tribute Video

Amanda Seyfried Opens Up About How Her Rescue Dog Changed Her Life — and Inspired Her to Stand Up for Homeless Pets

They do pretty much everything together: take hikes, cuddle, nap. Whenever Seyfried is feeling scatterbrained, she scratches him behind the ears and looks into his eyes, she tells PEOPLE.

“Finn has made me more present,” she says. “He's always so sensitive and in-the-moment — it's all he has. He feels deeply. I love just randomly going upstairs and falling asleep next to him. It's my favorite thing in the world.”

Seyfried, a lifelong animal lover, has teamed up with Best Friends Animal Society, a no-kill animal welfare organization, to help inspire thousands of animal lovers to participate in Strut Your Mutt. The event encourages pet parents and friends to strut 9,000 steps to raise money and awareness for the more than 9,000 dogs and cats killed every day in America's shelters. Each year, 4 million pets in shelters are killed.

“It doesn't need to be this way,” she says. “We don't need commercial breeding — we just don't.”

The actress recognizes that many misconceptions about rescue animals stand in the way of more people adopting.

“People think that behaviorally, it won't be easy to train them, or that they're emotionally unstable, but that can be true for any animal,” she says. “'People also say, 'But I want a puppy!' You can still rescue puppies. And there's nothing wrong with an adult dog, either — often you don't even have to train them.”

To Seyfried, having a dog in her life is a no-brainer, despite the large responsibility (and having to put shoes on in the morning to run out and walk him.)

“It's so worth it in the grand scheme,” she says. “You have this incredible connection to this beautiful bundle of love. There's nothing like it.”

Mom Promotes William Fichtner to Series Regular for Season 4

The veteran actor, who recurred in Season 3 of the CBS comedy as Bonnie’s suitor — wheelchair-bound former stuntman Adam — has a list of credits a mile long, ranging from Prison Break to Empire. When last seen on Mom, his character was headed off to Croatia for a gig as a movie stunt coordinator.

Mom Season 4 premieres Thursday, Oct. 27 at 9/8c.

Shawn Christian Previews His New Movie, 'Savannah Sunrise'

In the film, Christian plays Phil, whose wife tries to arrange his mom’s trip to a retirement community in Savannah. “She doesn’t really get along with my character’s wife,” he tells Soaps In Depth, “and they end up going on this road trip. And I’m the fixer. I always try to mediate between the two of them just to kind of keep the family flowing. Fixer Phil, we like to call him!”

Shooting Savannah Sunrise was a bit of a reunion for Christian and Shawnee Smith, who plays his wife in the film. “I had worked with Shawnee on BECKER in a recurring role. We were in a long-distance relationship on that show. So it was almost like picking up years later as if we had built this family along the way!”

He was also blown away by on-screen mom, Pamela Reed. “She is just a rock star,” Christian declares. “It was such a pleasure to meet and work with her. She has such amazing, creative insight.”

Check out the trailer for Savannah Sunrise, and be sure to tune in to INSP to watch what Christian calls “a great road trip comedy!”

Dylan Bruce Recurs on AMERICAN GOTHIC, Wednesday, July 13

RECURRING CAST INCLUDES: Dylan Bruce (Tom Price), Enrico Colantoni (Mayor Conley).

ATWT Alum In New Play

Dylan Bruce Recurs on “AMERICAN GOTHIC,” WEDNESDAY, JULY 6

RECURRING CAST INCLUDES: Dylan Bruce (Tom Price), Maureen Sebastian (Naomi Flynn), Enrico Colantoni (Mayor Conley).

Fall TV First Impression: Lethal Weapon

THE COMPETITION | CBS’ Survivor, NBC’s Blindspot, The CW’s Arrow and ABC’s The Goldbergs/Speechless (new)

THE CAST | Damon Wayans, Sr. (My Wife and Kids), Clayne Crawford (Rectify), Keesha Sharp (The People v. O.J. Simpson), Kevin Rahm (Mad Men), Jordana Brewster (Dallas) and Johnathan Fernandez (Good Medicine)

THE SET-UP | Grim Reaper-taunting Martin Riggs (Crawford) transfers to the LAPD, where he is partnered with Roger Murtaugh (Wayans), a family man who in the wake of a recent heart attack just might be getting too old for this… situation. Kinda like the movie, you know?

THE FIRST IMPRESSION | As a child of the ’80s, I had reservations about cuing this pilot up. Believe me. But damn… this small-screen reboot is fun.

Lethal Weapon is not inexpensive — directed by McG (Charlie’s Angels), its thrilling centerpiece chase scene alone likely cost more than most other pilots as a whole — so there may be a bit of “Wow!” factor inflating this early take. But beyond that, the casting really clicks, in large part because Crawford is, not surprisingly, twice as good as he probably needs to be, bringing as much pathos to Riggs’ tragic backstory as he does liveliness to the buddy cop banter or action scenes. Wayans meanwhile avoids TV’s “uptight do-right” stereotype, instead portraying a Murtaugh who isn’t totally averse to some derring-do, as long as he gets home to his defense attorney wife and three kids in one piece. A late scene between Murtaugh, his newborn daughter and Riggs hints at the variety of notes the series will get to play.

As Roger’s Mrs., Sharp lights up the screen but hopefully will be rounded out by the occasional courtroom (versus bedroom/dining room) scene. Coming off of Mad Men, Rahm fills the thankless role of the stuffed-shirt LAPD boss managing the Riggs/Murtaugh partnership, while Brewster (who by the way also has Secrets and Lies Season 2 also airing this fall) plays the cop shop’s in-house shrink and Fernandez is your quirky-ish M.E.

THE TVLINE BOTTOM LINE | Lethal Weapon will need its name recognition to pack some serious firepower, going up as it is against no less than two other action-dramas as well as the resilient Survivor. Will the same “Empire halo effect” that helped keep Rosewood‘s heart beating give it the competitive nudge it needs?

Shades of Blue: Lolita Davidovich Out, Margaret Colin In Ahead of Season 2

Lolita Davidovich — who played Linda, the spouse of Liotta’s Lieutenant Matt Wozniak, in seven Season 1 episodes — has exited the series ahead of Season 2, TVLine has learned exclusively. Gossip Girl vet Margaret Colin has been tapped to assume the recurring role.

According to an NBC rep, Davidovich departed the series due to scheduling conflicts.

This marks the second major piece of Shades of Blue Season 2 casting, following Wednesday’s announcement that Breaking Bad alum Anna Gunn was coming on board as a dirty cop-turned-Machiavellian politician.

Production on Shades of Blue‘s second season began earlier this week in New York. It’s slated to return to NBC’s schedule at midseason.

AS THE WORLD TURNS Stars Trent Dawson and Maura West Reunite on GENERAL HOSPITAL!

Dawson debuted in the June 14 episode as Huxley, a mysterious character who encounters West’s Ava on an airplane leaving town. And that’s just the beginning of the adventure!

“I can’t quite express how fantastically happy I was to be on set (once again) with this gent!” West tweeted.

Dawson responded in kind, posting, “So lucky to work with this brilliant lady!”

ATWT viewers remember the terrific comedic chemistry that West and Dawson shared when Carly and Henry were both working at the Metro nightclub. And clearly the two stars still have it in spades — stay tuned to GH to see where this wild storyline takes them!

Soap Opera Actress Faces Felony Charges Stemming From Highway 154 Head-On Crash

Buchanan is charged with felony driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, and felony driving with a blood alcohol level of 0.08% or greater. District Attorney Joyce Dudley says Buchanan is also being charged with causing great bodily injury to Bradley Asolas.

Asolas is recovering at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and is listed in fair condition.

The formal complaint alleges Buchanan's blood alcohol level was over .15% at the time of the collision.

View the full complaint here.

Dylan Bruce Recurs on American Gothic - June 29

RECURRING CAST Includes: Dylan Bruce (Tom Price), Maureen Sebastian (Naomi Flynn).

Jordana Brewster Welcomes Son Rowan

The Fast and Furious actress and husband Andrew Form welcomed their second child, son Rowan Brewster-Form, via a gestational surrogate on Thursday, June 9, her rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.

Brewster, 36, and Form, 44, are already parents to 2-year-old son Julian, who was also born via surrogacy.

With two shows, Lethal Weapon and Secrets and Lies, in the works and a new baby at home, Brewster will surely have her hands full. But the star previously told PEOPLE she prefers to be busy.

“What’s so wonderful about motherhood is that you’re constantly busy,” she said, adding, “There’s so much to do and I don’t miss idle time at all.”

SOAP ALUMS HEADED TO BROADWAY

Martha Byrne Reunites With AS THE WORLD TURNS Castmates

“Fun in LA!” she wrote with a photo of herself with friends Paul Leyden (Simon), Maura West (Carly; now Ava, GENERAL HOSPITAL) and Kin Shriner (Keith; Scotty, GH).

Byrne has kept mum about exactly why she's traveled to Hollywood, but ATWT fans were delighted to see she’s also taking the time to catch up with old friends! Even though Shriner played a villain on the much-missed CBS soap, you can almost imagine that Lily was hanging out with Carly and Simon in Oakdale!

Dylan Bruce on American Gothic

RECURRING CAST Includes: Jamey Sheridan (Mitchell Hawthorne), Dylan Bruce (Tom Price).

ATWT ALUMS IN NEW SHORT FILM

GH Adds ATWT Vet

The actor has booked a recurring gig on General Hospital, TVLine has confirmed, playing Huxley, a mysterious Brit with questionable motives. He will make his GH debut on Monday, June 13.

Since wrapping his run as Henry Coleman on ATWT, Dawson has appeared on such series as Castle, NCIS and Homeland.

Soap Opera Digest first reported the news of Dawson’s casting.

Fall TV 2016: Trailers for CW’s new show ‘Frequency’.

(Video1, Video2)

Based on the somewhat-well-remembered 2000 Dennis Quaid flick, “Frequency” tells the tale of a detective who can talk to her deceased father via ham radio. Working together to solve crimes and patch over long-held grievances, the duo soon discover that they must also grapple with time-travel-like side effects of helping each other across the decades.

Cast: Peyton List, Riley Smith, Mekhi Phifer

Producers: Toby Emmerich, Jeremy Carver, John Rickard.

Soap Actress Jensen Buchanan Arrested For Alleged DUI Crash That Injured Another Driver

Wednesday morning, around 6:20, Buchanan was reportedly driving her black 2016 Mercedes east on State Route 154, in Buelton, near Santa Barbara.

Officials said her vehicle drifted across a double yellow line and slammed into a white 2014 Ford C-Max which was going west.

Buchanan and the driver of the other vehicle were both taken to Cottage Hospital as a result of their injuries.

The CHP said her injuries were minor but that the 56-year-old Camarillo man in the Ford is being treated for “major injuries.” They did not specify the extent of his injuries.

Buchanan was later arrested for DUI.

The route was closed for nearly 20 minutes as a result of the crash, the CHP said.

Buchanan, now 53, made a name for herself in the daytime world in 1993 playing twins Vicky and Marley, a dual role also played formerly by Anne Heche.

She popularized other roles on “One Life to Live” (playing Sarah Gordon Buchanan, the same last name was just a coincidence) from 1987-90 and “General Hospital” (Melissa Bedford) from 2001-2202.

On “Y&R” she’s appeared a handful of times since November 2015 playing a judge who reveals a shocking conflict of interest in a case she was hearing — the fact she once had an adulterous affair with Victor Newman, the defendant’s grandfather back in the day. She last appeared about a month ago to reveal that revelation led to her marriage ending.

Soap Actress Arrested for Causing DUI Collision

A soap opera actress was arrested for driving under the influence after causing a head-on traffic collision on Highway 154 Wednesday morning that left one man in critical condition.

California Highway Patrol released the names of the individuals involved in the traffic collision earlier today. Jensen Buchanan, 53 of Los Angeles, was driving on Highway 154 after 6:00 a.m. when her black 2016 Mercedes S550 crossed over the yellow lines and crashed head-on into another vehicle driven by a Camarillo man. He was then sent to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in critical condition. Buchanan was transported to the same hospital for minor injuries where she was arrested for a DUI.

Edhat subscribers are reporting that Buchanan is an actress known for several soap opera roles. According to wikipedia, she has previously starred in One Life to Live, Another World, General Hospital, and is currently starring in The Young and the Restless.

May 18, 2016 1:39 p.m.

Vehicle 1: Driver - Jensen Buchanan, 53 of Los Angeles, driving a 2016 Mercedes S550, suffered minor injuries transported to Cottage Hospital

Vehicle 2: Driver - Bradley Asolas, 56 of Camarillo, driving a 2014 Ford CMax, suffered major injuries transported to Cottage Hospital

On 5/18/16, at approximately 0619 hours, the driver of the black Mercedes S550 was traveling E/B on SR-154, west of Live Oak. The driver of the Mercedes allowed her vehicle to drift across the solid double yellow line, directly into the path of the Ford C-Max, which was traveling W/B in the W/B lane.

Both parties were transported by AMR to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, where the driver of the Mercedes was treated for minor injuries and the driver of the Ford was treated for major injuries. The driver of the Mercedes was arrested for DUI.

SR-154 was closed for approximately 17 minutes, as a result of this collision.

May 18, 2016 11:56 a.m.

A man is in critical condition after a head-on traffic collision on Highway 154 near the Live Oak Campground on Wednesday morning.

At 6:20 a.m., Santa Barbara County Firefighters responded with AMR ambulance and California Highway Patrol to Highway 154, just east of the Live Oak Campground entrance, to a two-vehicle head-on collision.

Captain Dave Zaniboni reports there was one person per vehicle and one required extrication. The male driver, approximately in his mid-50's, needed the Jaws of Life to be removed from the vehicle. He suffered major injuries and is reportedly in critical condition. The patient was transported to the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital via AMR ambulance.

The other driver, a female in her 50's, suffered minor injuries and was also transported to the hospital by ambulance.

Highway 154 was closed for a while this morning while CHP investigated the scene.

JOIN DAYS STARS IN LOS ANGELES

Midnight, Texas, From True Blood's Charlaine Harris, Ordered at NBC

The Peacock has handed a 13-episode order to the drama based on True Blood author Charlaine Harris’ three-book saga, TVLine has learned.

The series is described as a journey into a remote Texas town where no one is who they seem. From vampires and witches to psychics and hit men, Midnight is a mysterious safe haven for those who are different. As the town members fight off outside pressures from rowdy biker gangs, ever-suspicious cops and their own dangerous pasts, they band together and form a strong and unlikely family.

The first book in the series, Midnight Crossroad, was released in 2014. The follow-up, Day Shift, arrived in May. The third, Night Shift, is due in 2016.

The cast includes François Arnaud, Dylan Bruce, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Arielle Kebbel, Sarah Ramos, Peter Mensah, Yul Vazquez and Sean Bridgers.

Monica Owusu-Breen (Fringe, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) serves as writer and showrunner.

The CW Orders Frequency to Series

The network on Thursday announced official pick-up for Frequency.

The new series official loglines, as well as casting details, are below:

FREQUENCY | Logline: “In this reimagining of the New Line Cinema film, a female police detective in 2016 discovers she is able to speak via a ham radio with her estranged father (also a detective) who died in 1996. They forge a new relationship while working together on an unresolved murder case, but unintended consequences of the ‘butterfly effect’ wreak havoc in the present day.”

The cast includes Riley Smith (Nashville, True Blood), Mekhi Phifer (ER), Peyton List (The Flash, The Tomorrow People), Lenny Jacobson (Nurse Jackie), Anthony Ruivivar (Third Watch), Devin Kelley (Chernobyl Diaries) and Daniel Bonjour (The Walking Dead).

Julianne Moore marches with hundreds to protest gun violence

The entertainers were sisters in solidarity with the grass-roots group Moms Demand Action, who called for tougher gun laws.

“What do we want? Gun sense! When do we want it? Now!” the protesters chanted as they made their way from Cadman Plaza across the bridge.

Some toted homemade signs, saying, “Hey Congress, do something!” and, “Not one more,” while somber relatives carried photos of slain family members.

Moore said that gun violence is not a Second Amendment issue, it’s a public-safety issue.

Among the participants in the fourth annual march was Barbara Parker, whose 24-year-old daughter, Alison, a reporter, was shot and killed on live TV last August while conducting an interview in Virginia.

Tom Wiggin & Christina Bennett Lind on Persons of Interest

Guest Cast Includes: Purva Bedi (Maggie), Christina Bennett Lind (Karen), Tom Wiggin (Kent).

Daniel Cosgrove Returns to DAYS OF OUR LIVES!

Last seen back in November, Aiden attempted to strangle Hope on their wedding night, and was shot to death when Bo rescued her. How is he alive, and where has he been? Trust us — the mystery is only just beginning!

Parker Posey Among Five Cast In TBS’ Search Party’

Slated to premiere in late 2016, Search Party is a dark comedy about four self-absorbed 20-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance named Chantal suddenly disappears. Led by Alia Shawkat, the cast features an ensemble of young comic actors, including John Early, John Reynolds and Meredith Hagner.

Hall plays Julian, Dory’s journalist ex-boyfriend who seeks the truth no matter who it hurts. Perez is Lorraine, a realtor whose life may be in peril for knowing too much about the missing girl. Livingston plays Keith, a private detective who takes Shawkat’s Dory under his wing in the hunt for the missing Chantal. Posey is Brick, the head of an artisanal boutique which turns out to be much more sinister than expected. And Taylor plays Gail, Dory’s bored and wealthy employer who revels in getting the scoop on her hunt for Chantal.

Search Party is executive-produced by Wet Hot American Summer’s Michael Showalter, along with Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers. Tony Hernandez and Lilly Burns also serve as executive producers. TBS Originals is producing Search Party in association with Jax Media.

Michael Park Stars in New Broadway Musical, 'Tuck Everlasting'

The actor, who has previously starred in shows like Smokey Joe’s Cafe and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, stars as Angus Tuck in the musical adaptation of the classic novel.

The show had its opening night on April 26, but ATWT castmate Martha Byrne (Lily) took in one of the preview performances and gushed about it on Twitter!

@MarthaByrne10: Run to see @park24hrs in #tuckeverlasting Sooo wonderful!! Michael is wonderful on stage!! My brother from another mother xo

Broadway star Lea Salonga, who played Lien on ATWT back in 2001, was in the audience on opening night and raved about the show and Park’s performance.

@MsLeaSalonga: @park24hrs I saw you tonight.. you were so wonderful to watch! Thank you for that brilliant performance. So nice to FINALLY hear you sing.

You can see Park and his co-stars on stage in this special video of highlights from Tuck Everlasting, and you can visit the show’s website for more information and tickets!

LADIES OF THE LAKE POSTER REVEALED

Actress Madeleine Sherwood Dead at 93

Sherwood studied under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York. She made her Broadway debut in 1952 in The Chase,originating the role of the accuser Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's canonical play The Crucible. Sherwood herself was blacklisted during this time, which made the play - The Crucible uses the Salem witch trials as an allegory for the McCarthy hearings - particularly personal. In the '60s, she was active in the civil rights movement and was arrested while protesting in Alabama.

She was also in the original Elia Kazan-directed Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, playing Mae, and reprised the role in the 1958 film adaptation. Her other Broadway credits included Camelot,The Night of the Iguana and All Over.

However, she's probably best known for playing Mother Superior on the kitschy Sally Field-starring sitcom The Flying Nun from 1967-1970. Other TV credits included One Life to Live, Guiding Light and As the World Turns.

Sherwood retired from acting in 1989 and returned to Canada. She was twice nominated for the Order of Canada, the nation's second-highest honor.

FULL CAST FOR TWIN PEAKS REBOOT REVEALED

Annie Parisse on Person Of Interest

RECURRING CAST: Wrenn Schmidt (Iris Campbell), Annie Parisse (Stanton).

Marvel's Iron Fist Casts Jessica Stroup & Tom Pelphrey

They join a cast that includes Finn Jones as Danny Rand/Iron Fist, Jessica Henwick as Colleen Wing, and David Wenham, who will play Joy and Ward's father, Harold Meachum.

"The children of Harold Meachum (Wenham), Joy and Ward have spent their lives building Rand Enterprises to its current standing in the world, only to have all their work put in jeopardy when Danny returns to claim his birthright," reports Variety. "They are childhood acquaintances of Danny Rand’s who now play an important role in Rand Enterprises."

Stroup, 29, is best known for playing Erin Silver on The CW's 90210 reboot and starring in horror films, like Prom Night and The Hills Have Eyes 2.

Tom Pelphrey, 33, made a name for himself with notable roles in the soap opera Guiding Light and As the World Turns. More recently, you might have seen him as former neo-nazi Kurt Bunker on Cinemax's action drama Banshee.

In Marvel’s Iron Fist, Danny Rand returns to New York City after being missing for years. He fights against the criminal element corrupting New York City with his incredible kung-fu mastery and ability to summon the awesome power of the fiery Iron Fist.

Iron Fist is expected to premiere on Netflix in 2017.

‘Snowfall’: John Singleton FX Pilot Undergoes Rewrites, Cast Changes & Reshoots

In its original incarnation, Snowfall focused on a trio of main characters – ambitious dealer Franklin Saint (Damson Idris), Mexican wrestler-turned-gangster Gustavo Zapata (Sergio Peris-Mencheta) and prodigal son Logan Miller (Billy Magnussen). I hear that since the pilot was shot, Magnussen has been released. Idris is staying put, along with other members of the original cast. It is unclear whether the Miller characters has been kept in the new version, which would prompt a recasting. I hear that the options on the remaining actors expire on June 30.

The Snowfall situation is not unusual at FX where some of the biggest drama series have undergone pilot rewrites, reshoots and sometime recastings, including Sons of Anarchy, Justified and Rescue Me.

FX had had high hopes for the Snowfall pilot, last year submitting an application for California tax incentives should it go to series, which was approved in December.

Andron, Singleton and Amadio executive produce alongside Groundswell Productions’ Michael London and Trevor Engelson. Evan Silverberg is a producer. FX Prods. is the studio.

Colleen Zenk Visits THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL Set!

With Zenk’s ATWT character a fashion designer, it would be a fun crossover if they introduced Barbara Ryan over on B&B! Unfortunately, it turns out this was just the East Coast-based actress paying a visit to her friend, Lang, while in California.

“I had never met John before,” Zenk reveals to Soaps In Depth, “but had seen him in The Pajama Game in 1972 when I got my Equity card. We have a million theater friends in common. What a lovely man!

“We sat in John’s dressing room and just shared stories for an hour or so,” she adds. “And then I got on the train to San Diego!”

It’s a shame it was just a friendly personal visit, because we can’t stop imagining Barbara Ryan going to work for Forrester Creations!

Julianne Moore calls for stricter gun laws

On Tuesday, the 55-year-old actress and mother of two wrote a passionate essay for Lena Dunham‘s newsletter, Lenny, inspired by the killings at Newtown, Conn., asking women to join Everytown for Gun Safety, an organization working to close background-check loopholes.

“An average of 91 people a day are killed by gun violence. That includes children killed by random bullets, mass shootings at workplaces and universities, intimate-partner homicides, and suicides. Women in the United States are 11 times more likely to be murdered with a gun than women in any other developed nation. More than half are killed by a boyfriend, husband, or someone else in her family,” Moore wrote.

As a solution, Moore believes in closing loopholes for gun ownership.

“Because our weak gun-safety laws allow guns to end up in the hands of dangerous people. Roughly 40 percent of firearms in the United states are acquired without a background check, so criminals can obtain weapons they shouldn’t have,” she continued.

Eighteen states in America have closed background-check loopholes, which resulted in 46 percent fewer intimate-partner homicides, 48 percent fewer police gun homicides and 48 percent fewer firearm suicides. And this November, voters in Nevada and Maine will decide whether to expand background checks.

She’s now urging the remaining 32 states to take action.

‘Folk Hero & Funny Guy’ Clip: Two Guys, A Girl & A Very Awkward Hook Up

Karpovsky plays Paul, a middling standup comedian recently dumped by his girlfriend. Childhood pal and successful folk rock musician Jason (Russell, real-life son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn) scoops up Paul as a ridealong on the singer’s East Coast tour. The road trip acquires a third when newbie singer Bryn (Hagner) joins the tour, exposing the cracks in the boys’ seemingly affable friendship.

“This is a very personal film for me,” says Grace, who has acted on Mad Men, How I Met Your Mother and the indie comedy It’s a Disaster, among others. “It was inspired in large part by my friendship with musician Adam Ezra. So while I think the audience will be charmed by the strong comedic performance by Alex, Wyatt and the rest of the cast, I also hope they are equally moved by the film’s heartfelt moments as well.” (Ezra’s music is featured in the film.)

Producer Ryland Aldrich added, “It was a total pleasure to help bring to life this dynamic story about the intersection between success and struggle. The friendship between these two characters is so beautifully explored through their own relationships with their chosen artistic pursuits of music and comedy.”

The film is being sold by UTA, which recently signed on to rep actress Hagner. The film includes a supporting cast of Michael Ian Black, Hannah Simone, Heather Morris, Melanie Lynskey, and David Cross.

Folk Hero & Funny Guy has its debut at the Tribeca Fest Saturday, April 16, but you can check out the above clip, exclusive to Deadline.

Morrison & Goldsberry Recur On The Good Wife

RECURRING CAST Includes: Michael J. Fox (Louis Canning), Matthew Morrison (AUSA Connor Fox), Renée Elise Goldsberry (Geneva Pine).

William Fichtner Recurs On Mom - April 28

Tribeca Film Festival Announces Jurors In 11 Categories

The eight juries in the film and experiential storytelling categories will award $155,000 in cash and prizes. As announced last month, 10 of the winners will also receive a work of original art by an acclaimed artist as part of the Tribeca Film Festival Artists Awards program. “The Festival’s goal is to bring diverse minds together to spark conversation,” said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder, Tribeca Film Festival, and Executive Chair, Tribeca Enterprises. “Our jurors are as unique and multi-faceted as the films they will judge.”

In addition to the main competition juries, the Festival announced the five jurors for the new Tribeca X Awardm for “branded storytelling” and recognizes the intersection of advertising and entertainment. Seven jurors will choose the winners of the first ever Tribeca Snapchat Shorts program spotlighting the best Snapchat stories from across the U.S. Those winners will be announced on Sunday, April 17.

Below are the 2016 Festival juries and jurors

U.S. Narrative Competition:
Anne Carey, producer
James Le Gros, actor
Chris Nashawaty, journalist
Mya Taylor, actress
Jennifer Westfeldt, actress and filmmaker.

International Narrative Competition:
Hany Abu-Assad, filmmaker
Jean Reno, actor
Lydia Dean Pilcher, producer
Sam Taylor-Johnson, photographer
Danny Glover, actor and producer

World Documentary Competition:
Laura Poitras, documentary filmmaker
Douglas Tirol, producer and director.
Roger Ross Williams, director.

Best New Narrative Director Competition:
Hill Harper, actor and author
Col Needham, website founder
Ry Russo-Young, filmmaker

Albert Maysles Best New Documentary Director Award:
Jason Biggs, actor
Karen Cooper, film programmer
Sebastian Silva, writer

Narrative Short Film Competition:
Mike Birbiglia, comedian, writer, actor and director.
Chloe Grace Moritz, actress
Sheila Nevins, documentary film producer

Documentary and Student Visionary Competitions:
Maria Cuomo Cole, producer
Mark Consuelos, actor and producer
Jessica Yu, filmmaker
Parker Posey, actress
Alan Yang, writer

Storyscapes Competition:
Jessica Brillhart, virtual reality filmmaker
Jigar Mehta: digital entrepreneur
Saschka Unseld, writer and director

Nora Ephron Prize:
Rachael Leigh Cook, actress
Judy Greer, actress
Mary Stuart Masterson, actress, director and entrepreneur

Tribeca X Award:
Laurie Anderson, multi-media artist
Scott Carlson, storyteller.
Judy McGrath, producer
Live Schreiber, actor and director
Hank Willis Thoma, photo conceptual artist

Tribeca Snapchat Shorts:
Jessica Alba, actress and author
Steve Aoki, music producer and entrepreneur
Steve Buscemi, actor, writer, director and producer
DJ Khaled, record producer, radio personality, DJ and record executive.
David Gordon Green, director
Vashti Kola, music video director
Marc Mathieu, marketing executive
Shay Mitchell, actress, author.

LADIES OF THE LAKE CAST UNVEILED

Jason Biggs and wife star in PETA video about circus animals

The two actors, 37 and 36 respectively, have teamed up for a new PETA video in which they hope to raise awareness about the poor conditions that circus animals can be forced to live in.

In the three-minute clip, a film set is reimagined as the circus, with the couple — as well as actors Sunny Mabrey, Ross McCall and Daniel Maurio — being denied food, chained up and electrically “shocked.”

This isn’t the first time Biggs has lent his support to PETA. He previously starred in an anti-SeaWorld commercial for the organization.

Tony Award Winner Frankie Michaels Has Died at Age 60

Michaels won a Tony Award when he was only ten years old for his performance as Patrick Dennis in the original cast of MAME (1966). He is currently the youngest male performer to win a Tony Award. His other stage credits include A for Adult and Happily Ever After (off-Broadway). Michaels continued his acting career in the soap opera As the World Turns. He continued his musical career by performing in clubs and casinos.

Michaels is survived by his son, Michael Lloyd Chernesky, a sister Felicia Hreschak, companion Lucille Bort and close friend Steven Clark.

William Fichtner on Mom 4/21/16

Benson's James Noble Dead at 94

The stage and screen actor passed away at Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut after suffering a stroke.

Prior to his time on the long-running ABC sitcom, Noble was known for his work on Broadway, including a 1949 staging of The Velvet Glove and a later production of 1776 (which was adapted for film in 1972). His TV credits also included episodes of The Love Boat, Perfect Strangers, Law & Order and the soap operas One Life to Live and Another World.

Per IMDb, his last prominent role came in a 2008 episode of the British medical drama The Royal.

Noble is survived by his daughter, Jessica Katherine Noble Cowan.

William Fichtner on Mom

James Douglas Dies: ‘Peyton Place’, ‘As The World Turns’ Actor Was 86

During the five seasons (1964-69) that Peyton Place set the bar for timely, often risqué TV drama, Douglas played lawyer Steven Cord on some 400 episodes of the half-hour serial based on Grace Matalious’ scandalous 1956 novel. Cord had an intermittently fiery romance with Betty Anderson (played by Barbara Parkins), in which his rival was Ryan O’Neal’s Rodney Harrington, Cord’s half-brother. Having joined the cast early, Douglas stayed with the show until the end and returned for a 1985 reunion telefilm.

Douglas played another lawyer, Grant Colman, on As The World Turns from 1973-81 and a few times after, the last time in 1995.

In Connecticut, the Douglases were befriended by the starlet-turned-Benedictine nun Dolores Hart (famed for being the beneficiary of Elvis Presley’s first on-screen kiss in 1957 Loving You). Mother Dolores founded the Act Association, which performed Shakespeare, musical revues and other works at The Gary-The Olivia, a 200-seat open-air theater on the grounds of her abbey. In 1999, James Douglas appeared opposite another neighbor, Patricia Neal, in Oliver Goldsmith’s 1773 hit comedy of manners, She Stoops to Conquer.

Douglas is survived by three children, Kimberly, Taryn and Cort; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Casts Eric Sheffer Stevens & Rebecca Naomi Jones As Recurring

Created, written by and starring Leary, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll centers on Johnny Rock (Leary). The lead singer of NYC’s legendary early-’90s band The Heathens, Rock is trying to get the both his band and his life back together. Leary also exec produces with Jim Serpico.

Stevens will play Brook Lanley, a hip rock producer. Jones is Davvy, a sexy downtown singer. In addition to Leary, they join returning stars Elizabeth Gillies, John Corbett, Elaine Hendrix, Robert Kelly and John Ales.

Stevens’ previous credits include a recurring role on MTV’s Eye Candy and a series regular role on Fox’s I Hate My Teenage Daughter. He’s repped by Don Buchwald and Associates and Vanguard Management Group. Jones, repped by Gersh and Sweet 180, can also be seen in cyber suspense-thriller Ratter.

Jason Biggs and his wife land radio gig

The couple will host a weekly one-hour show on Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM channel starting Thursday.

We’re told the duo will dish on family life, sex, parenting and their new lives in New York.

They recently moved to Manhattan from LA with their 2-year-old son.

Biggs also currently stars on Chelsea Handler’s new Netflix series, “Chelsea Does.”

Steven Weber on 2 Broke Girls

Scott Porter on Scorpion March 28

Guest Cast Includes: Scott Porter (Tim Armstrong), Brooke Nevin (Linda), Josh Randall (Pandova).

Steven Weber To Co-Star In ABC Drama Pilot ‘Model Woman’

The project, from Sony TV’s TriStar Television and ABC Studios, is a fictionalized family soap inspired by Robert Lacey’s book Model Woman: Eileen Ford And The Business Of Beauty, the biography of the outspoken and controversial woman who started as a model and went on to co-found the famous Ford Modeling Agency with her husband Jerry.

Written by Reality Bites scribe Helen Childress and directed by Richard Shepard, Model Woman is set in the late 1970s during the notorious Model Wars and centers on Bertie Geiss (MacDowell) – a tempestuous matriarch and uncompromising businesswoman at the helm of an internationally renowned modeling agency. Confident, powerful, cunning woman who rarely loses control, Bertie is at the top of her game – and she intends to stay there.

Weber will play Miller, a character inspired by Jerry Ford. Miller is Bertie’s tall, charming, imposing and handsome husband and the father of their three children. A sharp businessman, Miller runs Geiss Agency with his wife, and he’s grown it into the top modeling agency in the world. He genuinely adores Bertie and has tremendous respect for her remarkable talents. Miller smolders without even knowing it.

Weber, who is recurring on iZombie and NCIS: New Orleans, is repped by UTA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Bill Sobel.

Amanda Seyfried Boarding Andrew Niccol & K5’s ‘Anon’ With Clive Owen

In psychological thriller Anon, Owen, so good recently as the drug-addled doctor in Cinemax’s The Knick for director Steven Soderbergh, plays a detective in a world with no privacy, ignorance or anonymity. All our lives are transparent, traceable and recorded by the authorities. It’s the end of crime, it seems. However, when Owen’s character stumbles on a young woman (Seyfried) with no digital footprint and invisible to the police, he discovers it may not be the end of crime but the beginning.

Seyfried also recently received critical praise for her starring role in her play The Way We Get By opposite Thomas Sadoski. She is currently in production on Mark Pellington’s The Last Word opposite Shirley MacLaine.

Owen is next starring in Luc Besson’s sci-fi epic Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets, currently shooting. Anon is produced by Oliver Simon and Daniel Baur at K5 Film. Niccol also produces. K5 Media Group is financing. CAA, which arranged the financing, will rep the film’s domestic rights.

K5 has been ramping up its production activities of late, with Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson starring Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Golshifteh Farahani (About Elly) on its slate. The company also has Chekhov adaptation The Seagull starring Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss and Annette Bening.

Seyfried is repped by Innovative Artists.

Michael Easton and Roger Howarth are Going on Tour — See Their Hilarious Video

The actors, who also worked together on ONE LIFE TO LIVE as John and Todd, prove they’ve still got great chemistry in this video Easton shot and posted to his Facebook page to promote a series of personal appearances they’ll be doing beginning at the end of April.

Check out their hilariously deadpan banter in this video, and visit CoastalEntertainment.com for more information on the upcoming events so you can see them do this in person!

‘Lethal Weapon’ Pilot: Jordana Brewster To Co-Star

In the pilot, written by Matt Miller and directed by McG, when Texas cop and former Navy SEAL Martin Riggs suffers the loss of his wife and baby, he moves to Los Angeles to start anew. There, he is partnered with LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh (Damon Wayans), who, having recently suffered a “minor” heart attack, must avoid stress in his life.

Brewster will play no-nonsense Dr. Maureen “Mo” Cahill, the LAPD’s hostage negotiator as well as its in-house therapist. She helps cops deal with their trauma and occasionally gets stuck with a real hard case like Riggs.

Brewster starred as Mia in Furious 7. She was a series regular on Dallas and most recently recurred on Secrets & Lies. She’s repped by CAA, Principle LA, and attorney Michael A. Auerbach.

Scott Porter on Scorpion

Lawsuit Against Christian Slater by His Father Is Part of a 'Long and Difficult Situation' Says Family Source

Slater's father, 80, acted using the stage name Michael Hawkins. He appeared on the soap opera Ryan's Hope in the 1970s.

The elder Slater claims his son "ruined" his acting career because the Mr. Robot star said his father was "suffering from manic-depressive schizophrenia" in a December 2015 interview — years after the elder Slater's last credited role on IMDB, a small part in the 1988 action film Midnight Run.

But a family source says Slater's father a has long history of personal struggle.

"His father has had his troubles," says the source. "Christian has done what he can for him financially by supporting him for many years, but eventually had to distance himself because of his erratic behavior."

Thomas Knight Slater previously claimed in a Dec. 2015 National Enquirer interview that Slater's mother, his ex-wife Mary Jo Slater, a casting agent, had "poisoned" his son against him.

"It's been a long and difficult situation," says the source. "The lawsuit is baseless."

Christian Slater Sued by His Dad ... I Don't Have Schizophrenia

Thomas Knight Slater -- who's acted under the name Michael Hawkins -- says his son did an interview last year where he described his father as suffering from "manic-depressive schizophrenia."

Hawkins denies the comment and points out his son has no medical creds to make such a diagnosis.

In the suit -- filed Wednesday in L.A. and obtained by TMZ -- Hawkins says the article resulted in him being "blacklisted" in Hollywood. He says he was hoping to land more roles in the "autumn of his life," but that won't be possible after Christian's lies.

Hawkins had roles in soap operas like "Ryan's Hope" and "As the World Turns" in the '70s. He's also had small roles in some big movies -- 'Amityville Horror,' "Midnight Run" and "Mommie Dearest."

Dad is suing for at least $20 million.

Bailey Chase & Jessica Szohr To Star In Kevin Williamson’s Paranormal CW Pilot

Written by Williamson and directed by David Nutter, the CW pilot is about a young woman who seeks help from a parapsychologist (Chase) when she begins to experience paranormal phenomena.

Chase’s Clark Patterson is a once-successful parapsychologist who is now just an attraction at local ghost conventions. But when he meets a mysterious young woman, everything begins to change.

Szohr plays Jasmine Lacroix. The granddaughter of a voodoo priestess, she has turned her heritage into a successful tourist shop in Baton Rouge.

Williamson and Nutter executive produce, and Lauren Wagner is a producer for Warner Bros. TV and Williamson’s Outerbanks Entertainment.

Chase, repped by APA and Untitled, has been recurring on NBC’s Grimm. Szohr, recently seen in the feature Ted 2 and TV series Kingdom, is repped by Atlas Artists and ICM Partners.

‘Frequency’: Peyton List Cast As the Female Lead In CW Reboot

The TV series, written by Supernatural showrunner Jeremy Carver, centers on Raimy (List), a female police detective in 2016 who discovers that she is able to speak via a ham radio with her estranged father, Frank Sullivan (Smith), also a detective, who died in 1996.

Seen in 1996, Frank Sullivan has been undercover for two years. The strain of the assignment effectively destroyed his marriage and separated him from his little girl, Raimy, but he gets a new chance at building a relationship with her when she begins communicating with him from 20 years in the future. The two forge a new relationship while working together on an unresolved murder case, but unintended consequences of the ‘butterfly effect’ wreak havoc in the present day. Mekhi Phifer co-stars as Lt. Satch DeLeon.

Emmerich’s feature took place in New York in 1999 and starred Jim Caviezel as homicide detective John Sullivan who strangely makes contact with his late father Frank Sullivan (Quaid) exactly 30 years in the past on the day before his death.

The CW’s Frequency, from WBTV and Lin Pictures, is executive produced by Carve, Emmerich, John Rickard, and Lin Pictures’ Dan Lin and Jennifer Gwartz.

List, repped by Innovative Artists and Schreck Rose, was a lead on the CW/WBTV’s The Tomorrow People and recurred on the CW/WBTV’s The Flash as well as ABC’s Blood & Oil.

AS THE WORLD TURNS Star Michael Park Shares His Most Beautiful Day

The actor, who is preparing to star in the new Broadway musical Tuck Everlasting, sat down for an interview to help promote the show and was asked to describe the most beautiful day in his life.

“It had to be the birth of my first child, my son, Christopher,” Park says in the video. “I don’t know what happened, but all of a sudden my heart just blew up.”

Park will be playing Angus Tuck in the new musical when Tuck Everlasting begins previews on Thursday, March 31, to prepare for its opening night on Tuesday, April 26. For more information on the show and to purchase tickets for yourself, click here!

Dylan Bruce In ‘Midnight, Texas’

Scorpion: FNL's Scott Porter to Recur — Will He Throw a Wrench in 'Waige'?

The Friday Night Lights vet has been tapped to recur on Scorpion, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Porter will appear as Tim Armstrong, a former prom king, football captain (perhaps as the starting quarterback for the Dillon Panthers?) and Navy SEAL who was injured in action. Tim is Cabe’s new trainee, courtesy of Homeland Security, and Walter’s not quite sure how to process this new, handsome addition to Team Scorpion — especially when he sees that Paige finds Tim intriguing.

In addition to his run as FNL‘s Jason Street, Porter’s TV credits include Hart of Dixie and The Good Wife.

The CBS drama has also recruited Saturday Night Live alum Horatio Sanz, who will recur as Heywood Morris, an underdog attorney with a kind heart.