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Los Angeles video store and non-profit film organization Vidiots officially has a reopening date.

After years-worth of renovations, Vidiots is set to open its doors again June 1. Sneak preview events for the Founding Members program will start in May 2023 leading up to the launch date. Now located at 4884 Eagle Rock Boulevard, Vidiots boasts a 271-seat, state-of-the-art movie theater with 35mm, 16mm, and digital projection capabilities; a beer and wine bar with concessions and a light menu; a flexible micro-cinema and community space, and the legendary signature video store. The nearly 11,000 square-foot venue will provide flexibility for various screenings, special events, workshops, and community gatherings per the official press statement.

The video store, meanwhile, boasts 50,000 titles on DVD, Blu-ray, and VHS.

“We’re overjoyed to finally see our dream of bringing Vidiots back to Los Angeles,” Vidiots founders Patty Polinger and Cathy Tauber said. “We could not have accomplished this incredible...

ABC is developing a youth-skewing workplace comedy from Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. duo Alison Bennett and Melvin Mar.

The network has put XYZ in the works from 20th Television, where Bennett is under an overall deal.

The project is a half-hour, single camera comedy about a Gen Z, a millennial, and a Gen X woman who work together in the marketing department of a huge corporation, and wind up deeply influencing each other’s work and personal lives.

Bennett recently worked as a co-exec producer on the Disney+ reboot of Doogie Howser, which Mar was an exec producer on, and was also a co-exec producer on ABC’s Single Parents as well as a supervising producer on FX’s You’re the Worst.

Mar has also exec produced series including Fresh Off The Boat and Bless This Mess and is working on American Born Chinese, action-comedy series based on the 2006 graphic...

The moviegoing landscape in Los Angeles has been a little sadder without the return of the shuttered Arclight, but two of LA’s savviest cinephiles are hoping to do something about it. Director Rian Johnson and Karina Longworth, author and creator of the beloved “You Must Remember This” podcast, are pledging $100,000 as founding members of Vidiots, the iconic LA video store and nonprofit film organization. Vidiots is currently undergoing a nine-month renovation at the historic Eagle Theatre in the Eagle Rock neighborhood. Their gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $100,000 through September 17.

“Given the recent demise or transformation of some of our most beloved places for moviegoing in Los Angeles, it feels more urgent than ever to celebrate and support the rebirth of Vidiots. We hope you’ll join us in helping the women of Vidiots build an inclusive shrine to movies — both projected in a community setting, and preserved on physical media,...

It's taken a while but the How I Met Your Father TV series is finally being produced. Hulu has given the project a straight-to-series order and it will star Hilary Duff. The show comes from Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger.

How I Met Your Mother creators Craig Thomas & Carter Bays and Emily Spivey wrote a pilot for CBS back in 2014 but the project wasn't picked up. More than two years later, Aptaker and Berger took a try at it but the pair became unavailable when they were hired as This Is Us' showrunners. Alison Bennett wrote another version but it didn't make the cut either. Now, Hulu has revived the project with Aptaker and Berger as creators, writers, and executive producers. Bays and Thomas will also executive produce and Adam Londy will see as co-executive producer.

How I Met Your Father, a spinoff to long-running CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother, is finally set to make it to air.

Hulu has given the project, which will star Hilary Duff, a straight-to-series order from creators Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger.

It is a long road to air for the project. Back in 2014, Himym creators Craig Thomas & Carter Bays and Emily Spivey wrote a pilot for CBS that starred Greta Gerwig and Drew Tarver, but it wasn’t picked up.

Two and a half years later, Aptaker and Berger created a new take, but after the pair were elevated to co-showrunners of NBC’s This Is Us they were no longer available. Studio 20th Television tried again in the 2017-18 development season with You’re the Worst writer Alison Bennett, but again it did not move forward.

Enter Hulu.

The streamer has given the sequel series a 10-episode...

ABC made some cuts today, canceling Single Parents, Bless This Mess, Schooled, Emergence and the reboot of Kids Say the Darndest Things. Many took to social media to express their disappointment and to say goodbye — and this includes the cast and creators of the shows.

Liz Meriwether, who co-created Single Parents and Bless This Mess, posted a picture of her and Bless This Mess co-creator/star Lake Bell on Instagram and jokingly compared the cancellations to one of the most shocking moments in Game of Thrones history.

“Two shows canceled in one day? I get the message, ABC! This is my broadcast Red Wedding,” she wrote. “But seriously, folks, thank you so much for watching these shows. We loved making them. We loved writing them. I feel so grateful to have been given the chance to work with so many incredible people. Thank you, thank you.”

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Alison Bennett, a co-executive producer of ABC's Single Parents, has set up another project at the network.

ABC has given a script commitment with penalty to Other People's Problems, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The single-camera comedy set in the human resources department of a corporate hotel chain comes from 20th Century Fox TV, ABC's Disney corporate sibling and the producer of Single Parents. Bennett has an overall deal at the studio.

Other People's Problems centers on the unlikely friendship between two Hr co-workers: a newly divorced 30-year-old woman and her hard-partying boss, a twice-divorced woman in her 40s....

In Today’s TV News Roundup, Netflix announced the premiere dates for part two of the “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and season five of “Grace and Frankie.”

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The fifth season of Netflix’s hit comedy series “Grace and Frankie” is set to premiere Jan. 18. In “Grace and Frankie,” Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin star as enemies turned friends after their husbands come out as gay and leave them for each other. This season will deal with the fall out of last season’s finale, in which Grace and Frankie lost the beach house where they had lived for the majority of the show.

First Looks

Netflix released a new teaser trailer for part two of Season 1 of its “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” series, premiering April 5. In the new trailer, Sabrina sports a new white hairdo while once again navigating her complicated relationship between the witch world and the human world.

Fox has put in development single camera comedy Eight from writer Alison Bennett (You’re the Worst), Rob Rosell and 20th Century Fox TV, where Bennett is under an overall deal.

Written by Bennett, in Eight, after a whirlwind romance that resulted in a baby and a wedding (in that order), children of divorce Jillian and Trevor attempt to carve out their own family’s identity, with eight grandparents there to offer eight million different opinions.

Bennett and Rosell executive produce. 20th Century Fox TV is the studio.

Bennett is co-executive producer on ABC/20th TV’s freshman comedy Single Parents, and serves as supervising producer on FX’s You’re The Worst which premieres its fifth and final season in 2019.

Rosell served as an executive producer on the first 10 seasons of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, wrote on 20th TV...

Fox is looking to explore divorce in a new comedy.

The network has handed out a script order for the single-camera comedy Eight.

From You're the Worst alum Alison Bennett, the project revolves around children of divorce Jillian and Trevor, who, after a whirlwind romance that resulted in a baby and a wedding (in that order), attempt to carve out their own family's identity — with eight grandparents there to offer 8 million different opinions.

Bennett will pen the script and executive produce the comedy alongside Rob Rosell (New Girl, The Mick, It's Always Sunny). Eight is ...

Alison Bennett of FX's You're The Worst has been tabbed by 20th Century Fox TV to write a spec script for the How I Met Your Mother spinoff.

She also wrote episodes of Hey Girl and The Awesomes

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Exclusive: 20th Century TV has set Alison Bennett (FX's You're the Worst) to write a spinoff from the studio’s long-running comedy series How I Met Your Mother. Three years after 20th TV first tried to launch a Himym spinoff with the CBS pilot How I Met Your Dad, written by Himym creators Carter Bays & Craig Thomas and Emily Spivey, the studio last season took a second stab at the idea with This Is Us co-executive producers Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. But the duo…...

Alison Bennett (FX’s You’re the Worst) has closed an overall deal at 20th Century Fox Television. Under the two-year pact, she will develop new projects for the studio. Bennett, an Upright Citizens Brigade alumna, is a supervising producer on the well received FX/FX Prods. comedy series You’re the Worst, created by Stephen Falk, where she has worked since Season 1. "We're always on the lookout for fresh, new voices and Alison's work on You're the Worst has been…...

A handshake likely would have sufficed. After Mike Pence formally accepted his nomination as vice presidential candidate for the Republican party, Donald Trump greeted his running mate with a very awkward air-kiss. The Gop candidate emerged onstage as Pence finished speaking and the two shook hands. Then Trump pursed his lips and seemed to have his air kiss rejected. Pence's teleprompter displayed the stage direction "embrace" just after his final words. Twitter users were quick to joke about the uncomfortable interaction. The Indiana governor took the stage Wednesday night in Cleveland to support Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump after a full roster of famous Republicans,...

A handshake likely would have sufficed. After Mike Pence formally accepted his nomination as vice presidential candidate for the Republican party, Donald Trump greeted his running mate with a very awkward air-kiss. The Gop candidate emerged onstage as Pence finished speaking and the two shook hands. Then Trump pursed his lips and seemed to have his air kiss rejected. Pence's teleprompter displayed the stage direction "embrace" just after his final words. Twitter users were quick to joke about the uncomfortable interaction. The Indiana governor took the stage Wednesday night in Cleveland to support Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump after a full roster of famous Republicans,...

Get ready for Stephen Falk's universe of narcissists to expand: The You're the Worst showrunner is now developing two more series for FX as part of an overall deal he signed with the network when it renewed Ytw for a third season last week, and he's bringing three of that show's writers along for the ride. One's an untitled semi-autobiographical comedy from Alison Bennett about "an unrelentingly dissatisfied TV writer who returns to her hometown in rural Pennsylvania to live the 'simple life,'" a.k.a. unemployment. Ytw writers Franklin Hardy and Shane Kosakowski are teaming up for Join Me, a comedy based on British writer Danny Wallace's 2003 novel of the same name about unintentionally founding a movement dedicated to random acts of kindness. (In other words, it'll be a spinoff about Edgar's fairy-tale ending.) Falk is set to executive-produce both shows and co-write Bennett's.

FX has put in development a half-hour comedy from You’re The Worst creator/showrunner Stephen Falk and writer Alison Bennett. Written and executive produced by the pair, the untitled project is described as a dirty, female-driven take on the “you can’t go home again” story following Ali, an unrelentingly dissatisfied TV writer who returns to her hometown in rural Pennsylvania to live "the simple life." Upright Citizens Brigade alumna Bennett hails from a town in Central…...

It doesn’t matter that, outside of Kether Donohue‘s trailer on the set of You’re the Worst, it’s Friday afternoon.

Inside, it’s Sunday. (As in, Funday.)

“I wish I could tell you what I’m wearing right now, but I can’t, because it’ll give stuff away,” the actress teasingly tells TVLine, laughing, via phone.

Related Emmys 2015: Outstanding Comedy Series — You’re the Worst and Our Six Other Dream Nominees!

Fans of the show will recall when, in Season 1, Lindsay passionately snorted cocaine off her own chest, a deliciously over-the-top scene that showcased Donohue...