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Exclusive: Disney Channel has greenlighted Fast Layne, a live-ation limited series from executive producers Matt Dearborn and Tom Burkhard. Production is under way on the action-comedy from Lakeshore Productions starring The Young and the Restless actress Sophie Pollono. Created by Travis Braun, it’s set for a 2018 launch. Twelve-year-old overachiever Layne (Pollono) finds her orderly life thrown into a tailspin when she discovers a sophisticated talking car named V.I.N…...

Someone at Disney really loves the Love Bug: Herbie is currently in development as a potential series on Disney Xd, a rep for the network confirms to TVLine exclusively.

The iconic, anthropomorphic Volkswagen Beetle first appeared in Disney’s 1968 film The Love Bug and has been the subject of several movies — including the Lindsay Lohan-fronted 2005 movie Herbie: Fully Loaded. He’s also already been the subject of a 1982 television series, the one-season Herbie, the Love Bug, and a made-for-tv movie.

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CBS is pushing into single dad territory. The network has made a script deal for a comedy called Raised by Wolves. The half-hour effort will revolve around a 20-something guy who suddenly becomes a full-time dad to his 7-year-old daughter. As the title suggests, his buddies will band together to help him raise her. The project is being produced by CBS TV Studios, where Wolves' executive producer Fred Savage signed an overall deal when he launched his production company in late 2011. Matt Dearborn (Even Stevens) and Racelle Rosett (Blossom) will co-write and executive

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Back in 1991, Eerie, Indiana premiered on NBC. It was created by Karl Schaefer and Jose Rivera, who had two tracks of mind in creating the series. One, to create a show for children that didn’t pander to children and secondly, to have a fun and scary show. And you know what?

They succeeded.

Eerie, Indiana takes place in the titular town. We first meet Marshall Teller on his paper route. He’s relocated from the dank, rotting Big Apple. He misses it. His father, Edgar is an inventor for a company in Eerie called “Things, Incorporated,” and his mother, Marilyn is a party planner despite having lax organizational skills. His sister, Syndi is a regular, normal teenage girl. Marshall is the odd one out in his family it seems. But he notices that something is amiss in this ‘burb. He sees an older, fatter Elvis on his route. He...

Exclusive: Acting/singing duo Aly Michalka and Aj Michalka may star together in a comedy series next. The two sisters topline a half-hour project, which has sold to Fox. It hails from writers Matt Dearborn and Adam Goldberg, Happy Madison and Sony Pictures TV. On the untitled single-camera comedy, which has received a script commitment, Aly and Aj Michalka will play versions of themselves. Finally out of the house and into their first apartment, Aly and Aj’s exciting new lives are interrupted when their mother unexpectedly moves in with them. Breaking In co-creator Goldberg and Zeke and Luther co-creator Dearborn will write the script and executive produce with Happy Madison’s Doug Robinson. Aly and Aj Michalka will serve as co-producers. The two sisters first hit stardom as pop rock duo Aly & Aj (now 78violet). They made their acting debut as the stars of the Disney original movie Cow Belles,...

Matt Dearborn is co-creator and showrunner (with Tom Burkhard) of the comedy series Zeke & Luther, targeting young males ages 6-14. While Disney Xd’s audience is minuscule compared to the networks’, insiders are saying that this show following the adventures of two goofy teenage guys obsessed with becoming world-class skateboarders is an Emmy contender for Outstanding Children’s Program. Dearborn, who also created the Emmy-nominated hit Even Stevens, talks to Deadline TV contributor Diane Haithman about his backdoor entry into TV writing, working for Disney, and how to think like a kid: Deadline: What sets Zeke & Luther apart from other children’s TV at Emmy time? Matt Dearborn: Because we are the only show in the kids’ space that is executing such a high level of physical comedy. Two people talking to each other might play in primetime, but unless somebody’s going to pick up a banana and...

Exclusive: Disney Xd has renewed its flagship comedy series Zeke and Luther for a third season. Returning are creators and executive producers Matt Dearborn and Tom Burkhard. Production on Season 3 is slated to begin production in the fall in and around Southern California. Set in the mythical Northern California beach community of Pacific Terrace, the series follows best friends Zeke and Luther’s quest to become the world's best skateboarders, while also navigating the ups and downs of teenage life. It stars Hutch Dano, Adam Hicks, Ryan Newman and Daniel Curtis Lee. .

When Miley Cyrus wanted to shift away from the tween roles that have defined her career, Tish Cyrus, her mother and co-manager, started at the top. Rather than look for a pre-existing script, she contacted bestselling author Nicholas Sparks ("The Notebook") and asked him to write something specifically for her daughter. "Sparks is an amazing, faith-based writer and a Christian and he writes about relationships with a family and there is nothing about sex or things I felt were wrong for her," she explains. Cyrus, 16, met with the writer to flesh out her character; she disclosed elements from her own life—like her love for animals—that Sparks incorporated in his work, which started as a screenplay and only later became "The Last Song," a best-selling novel. The movie version, with Cyrus, opens in April."This film is like taking that first baby step away from 'Hannah Montana,' " Tish Cyrus notes.

Disney Xd has renewed its flagship comedy series "Zeke and Luther" for a second season.

"Zeke" launched in June with the highest-rated primetime debut among kid demos in the 10-year history of Disney Xd and its predecessor, Toon Disney: 305,000 in kids 6-14 and 183,000 in tweens 9-14.

" 'Zeke and Luther' is an absolutely iconic series for Disney Xd -- a comic video post card that perfectly captures the friendship and fraternity that embodies the idyllic beach skateboard culture," said Gary Marsh, president entertainment for Disney Channels Worldwide.

The show, starring Hutch Dano and Adam Hicks as lifelong buddies determined to become world-famous skateboarders, ranks as boys-centered Disney Xd's No. 1 program among kids 6-14 and boys 6-14. It also scored big in its sampling airing on Disney Channel.

Daniel Curtis Lee and Ryan Newman also star in the series, created and executive produced by Matt Dearborn and Tom Burkhard.

David Duchovny is making the leap from the adult themes of sex addiction in his new Showtime comedy series Californication to a kids-oriented half-hour for Cartoon Network set in junior high.

As part of its strategy to expand into live-action programming, Cartoon has given a pilot-presentation order to a live-action project from Duchovny, Even Stevens creator Matt Dearborn and Robert Mora.

The untitled project, written by Dearborn, centers on a junior high school student from a long line of newsmen who turns his school AV Club into a hard-hitting citywide broadcast. Duchovny, Dearborn and Mora are executive producing.

Cartoon entered the live-action arena less than a year ago with the December debut of live-action/animated movie Re-Animated. A live-action series spinoff -- Out of Jimmy's Head -- premiered Friday night. Cartoon also recently aired a live-action reality special, Props, that gave kids a chance to meet their celebrity heroes.

Duchovny also executive produces Californication, which recently got picked up for a second season. He is repped by ICM, manager Melanie Greene and attorney Peter Nelson.