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23:00 - Life in Pieces - Episode 1.07 - Nanny Tent Earrings Cheeto - Sneak Peek
23:40 - The Muppets - Episode 1.08 - Too Hot To Handler - Promotional Photos
23:40 - The Muppets - Mindy Kaling to Guest
23:40 - Chicago Med - Peter Mark Kendall to Recur
The Americans‘ Peter Mark Kendall has landed a recurring role on NBC’s upcoming drama series Chicago Med. The latest offshoot in Wolf Films/Universal TV’s successful Chicago Fire franchise, Chicago Med is described as an emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city’s most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors who hold it together.
Kendall will play Joey, a nerdy-cute lab tech with a sharp and sarcastic sense of humor.He is a love interest to one of the characters on the show. Kendall’s other credits include HBO’s Girls and The Leftovers and feature Time Out Of Mind. He’s repped by AC Management, Abrams Artists & Jackoway Tyerman. Chicago Med premieres November 17.
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23:40 - Rosewood - Alysia Reiner to Recur
Orange Is The New Black‘s Alysia Reiner has signed on for a recurring role on the Fox drama series Rosewood. Created by Todd Harthan, Rosewood stars Morris Chestnut as Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr., a private pathologist in Miami who partners with Detective Annalise Villa (Jaina Lee Ortiz).
Reiner will play Lilian Izikoff, a former beauty queen who is the unsupportive mother of TMI (Anna Konkle). Reiner also recurred on How To Get Away With Murder. She’s repped by Abrams Artists Agency, Harden Curtis Associates and Affirmative Entertainment.
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23:00 - Life in Pieces - Episode 1.07 - Nanny Tent Earrings Cheeto - Promotional Photos
22:20 - MOVIES: Jem And The Holograms - Pulled From All Theatres - Deemed The Worst Film Flop Since 2000
In what can only be deemed “truly outrageous,” Universal Pictures’ movie rehash of ’80s cartoon Jem has already been pulled from theatres after a mere two-week run.
Jem and the Holograms, a more saccharine and less punky version of the popular classic, pulled in a meagre $1.37 million (all figures USD) in its opening weekend.
As a result, Universal has pulled the movie entirely from theatres, in what industry insiders are calling an unprecedented move.
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22:20 - Arrow - Season 4 - Brandon Routh EW Interview
Thanks to Spindae2 for the heads up.
“Ray is fighting for survival, desperately trying to get somebody to pay attention and trying to get Felicity to respond,” Routh tells EW. “Nobody understands and thinks he’s dead. It’s a complete S.O.S., with drastic measures that he’s unleashed — as much as he can do in his current situation. Damien’s motivation is to understand my technology, and then maybe when he finds out a connection, to bait whoever may be coming after me.”
Despite being MIA for more than six months, Ray doesn’t harbor animosity toward Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) over her failure to find him sooner. “She didn’t even know the experiments that I was doing,” Routh says of Palmer’s miniaturization tests. “It’s safe to say that there’s no reason for anybody to suspect that he might still be alive.”
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19:30 - Star Wars: The Force Awakens + TGIT - Promo
Thanks to Carol for the heads up.
As a big @StarWars fan, I'm excited for Thurs, as #TGITAwakens with a special look at Star Wars: The Force Awakens! pic.twitter.com/gfYKPTfTEq
— shonda rhimes (@shondarhimes) November 10, 2015
17:10 - Da Vinci's Demons - Episode 3.04 - The Labrys - Promo
17:05 - Fresh Off the Boat - Episode 2.08 - Huangsgiving - Promotional Photos
17:05 - Last Man Standing - Episode 5.09 - The Gratitude List - Promotional Photos
17:05 - The Middle - Episode 7.08 - Thanksgiving VII - Promotional Photos
17:05 - Unforgettable - Season 4 - Cast BTS Featurette + Matthew Del Negro to Guest (Can be seen at 1 min 43 secs) [VIDEO]
13:10 - Rosewood - Episode 1.09 - Fashionistas and Fasciitiss - Promotional Photos
13:10 - The Grinder - Episode 1.08 - Giving Thanks, Getting Justice - Promotional Photos
05:00 - El Chiringuito De Pepe - Comedic Drama Based on the Spanish Series in Development at ABC
ABC is is developing El Chiringuito De Pepe, a comedic one-hour based on the popular Spanish series. Written/executive produced by Don Todd (Samantha Who?) and executive produced by Jason Winer, the project has received a script commitment with penalty. 20th Century Fox TV, where Winer’s Small Dob Picture Co. is based, is the studio.
The project is described as a faithful adaptation of Spain’s hit comedy-drama about family, love, culture and class. It centers on a world-famous chef who comes to a small beach town to work his magic on his father’s failing cantina and is surprised to find the town working its own magic on him. Also executive producing are Sergio Aguero and Jaime Davila of Campanario Entertainment.
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05:00 - Texas Soap - In Development at ABC Produced by Eva Longoria
Writer-producer Nikki Toscano has set up an untitled project produced by Eva Longoria and her UnbeliEVAble Entertainment as well as Conde Nast Entertainment. Both shows come from Universal TV where Toscano has an overall deal.
The ABC drama is a Texas-sized soap about an ambitious political family with differing agendas loosely inspired by a 2013 Vogue article Pair Of Aces, which profiled Democratic rising-star twins Julián Castro, mayor of San Antonio, and Joaquin, then-newly elected U.S. congressman. UnbeliEVAble and ABC first took a stab at developing a Texas political family drama using the article as source material last season with a different writer. Toscano is writing and will executive produce with UnveliEVAble’s Longoria and Ben Spector and Conde Nast’s Dawn Ostroff. This marks Toscano’s return to ABC where she worked on another primetime soap, Revenge.
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05:00 - The Clan Of The Cave Bear - Pilot - Not Moving Forward at Lifetime
The Clan Of The Cave Bear will not be moving forward at Lifetime. I hear the cable network has passed on the fantasy drama pilot after not being able to reach an agreement with studio Fox 21 TV Studios over the size of a possible episodic order. I hear the network was looking to do The Clan Of The Cave Bear as a four-hour event series, a proposition that did not work for the studio for economic reasons as Fox 21 has been seeking a regular cable series order. In light of the impasse between the two sides, I hear Fox 21 already had been quietly shopping the project, receiving some preliminary interest.
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05:00 - Vlad - Vladimir Caamano to Topline Dominican Family Comedy at NBC (Put Pilot Commitment)
NBC is looking for a new diverse family comedy.
The network is teaming with Undateable duo Bill Lawrence and Adam Sztykiel for Vlad, a comedy starring Vladimir Caamano.
Vlad — which was picked up with a put-pilot commitment — is inspired by the stand-up comedian's life and explores his family dynamics while living with his Dominican father and older brother in the Bronx.
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05:00 - Left Of Center - Music Driven Workplace Comedy in Development at FOX
On the drama side, Fox has hip-hop drama Empire and pilot Star, about a trio of young female singers, from Empire co-creator Lee Daniels.
The network, which broke ground in the genre with Glee, is now eyeing a half-hour addition to its staple of series with musical elements.
Left Of Center, which has a script commitment, is described as a music-driven, workplace comedy that centers on a group of four backup singers who become an unconventional family, despite the fact that each of them thinks they have what it takes to be the star. The single-camera project, from Gail Berman’s The Jackal Group, is being written by Partners co-creator Robert Horn. He is executive producing with Berman.
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05:00 - Wing Person - The Mindy Project's Ed Weeks Developing Lesbian-Straight Relationship Comedy for ABC
The Mindy Project co-star Ed Weeks has sold a project as a writer, half-hour comedy Wing Person, which has been set up at ABC.
Co-written by Weeks and fellow Brit Hannah Mackay (Peep Show), Wing Person is the story of the co-dependent relationship between a lesbian lothario and her cautious, straight male best friend. Anne Brogan, Val Ames, Melanie Stokes and Siobhan Bachman are executive producing for London-based Kindle Entertainment.
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05:00 - The Out-Law - Marriage Comedy in Development at CBS
CBS has given a script commitment with penalty to multi-camera comedy The Out-Law from writer Christopher Moynihan and Universal TV, where Moynihan is under an overall deal. CBS Television Studios will co-produce.
Written by 100 Questions and Man Up! creator Moynihan, The Out-Law centers on a perpetually positive, Berkeley-born, liberal white-collar doctor and only child, who marries into a loud, cynical, blue-collar Long Island family. Moynihan also exec produces with Kelly Kulchak.
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05:00 - Crystal - June Diane Raphael and Casey Wilson Producing Comedy for ABC
Writing and performing duo and UCB alums June Diane Raphael and Casey Wilson have teamed with comedy writer-podcaster and fellow UCB-er Elizabeth Laime for Crystal, a comedy project for ABC through ABC Television Studios, where Raphael and Wilson have an overall deal.
Written by Laime, with Raphael and Wilson supervising, the comedy centers on Crystal, a hustler from the wrong side of the trailer park who, fresh out of prison, lands a job in the suburbs as an in-home health aide. Despite having no education, experience or vaccinations, she is determined to succeed at her job and change her life. Raphael and Wilson executive produce with Laime serving as supervising producer.
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05:00 - Deep S.I.X. / Donuthead - Adam Scott Producing Comedies from HBO and NBC
Husband-and-wife producing duo Adam and Naomi Scott have sold two comedy projects, one to HBO and one to NBC, through their Gettin’ Rad Productions. Both hail from Universal TV where Gettin’ Rad is under a first-look deal.
HBO has bought Deep S.I.X. with Wet Hot American Summer scribe Anthony King attached to write. Deep S.I.X. follows a rag-tag Homeland security team that no one believes in as they investigate paranormal threats that no one believes in.
NBC has put in development Donuthead, a single-camera comedy set in the world of an anxiety-ridden 11-year old boy and his single mother. The series, written by Irene Mecchi (Brave, The Lion King) and Bridget Terry will feature a unique visual style to illustrate this kid’s one-of-a-kind imagination.
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