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Some 778 showrunners and screenwriters have signed a statement saying that they will fire their agents if the WGA fails to reach an agreement with the Association of Talent Agents for a new franchise agreement. Signers include a slew of A-listers, including Greg Berlanti, Alfonso Cuaron, James L. Brooks, Aaron Sorkin, Norman Lear, Shonda Rhimes, Seth MacFarlane, Mike Schur, Tina Fey, Joss Whedon, Kenya Barris, Peter Farrelly, Oliver Stone, John Wells, Matthew Weiner, Noah Hawley, Vince Gilligan, John Singleton, David Chase, Barry Jenkins, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Colin Trevorrow, Eric Roth, David Shore, David Simon, Shawn Ryan, Lena Waithe, Paul Haggis, Mindy Kaling, Drew Goddard, Jenji Kohan, Carlton Cuse, Howard Gordon, Kurt Sutter, Krista Vernoff, Mara Brock Akil, Danny Strong, Rob McElhenney, Jason Katims, Terence Winter, Peter Lenkov, Michelle and Robert King, Al Jean, Robert Towne, Gloria Calderon Kellett, Kevin Williamson, Darren Star, Rashida Jones, Pamela Adlon, WGA West president David A. Goodman...

Disney Channel has ordered a second season of its live-action comedy series Coop & Cami Ask The World for premiere later this year. The series is set to resume production in the coming months.

Created and executive produced by Boyce Bugliari and Jamie McLaughlin, Coop and Cami Ask The World centers on the antics of middle-school siblings Coop and Cami Wrather, co-hosts of a popular online show Would You Wrather. Leading the ensemble cast are Dakota Lotus and Ruby Rose Turner as Coop and Cami Wrather, Olivia Sanabia as older sibling Charlotte, Albert Tsai as best friend Fred, Paxton Booth as younger brother Ollie and Rebecca Metz as their mother Jenna.

New episodes from season one air Saturdays at 10:30 Am on Disney Channel and in the DisneyNow app.

In addition, Turner will be joined by her castmates and her real-life family on Instagram in Disney Channel’s first-ever Igtv series Ruby’s Gems,...

Disney Channel has renewed its live-action comedy series Coop & Cami Ask the World for a second season.

In addition, the network has greenlit its first-ever Igtv series, Ruby's Gems, starring Coop & Cami's Ruby Rose Turner.

Coop & Cami centers on the antics of middle-school siblings Coop (Dakota Lotus) and Cami Wrather (Turner), co-hosts of a popular online show, Would You Wrather. Created and executive produced by Boyce Bugliari and Jamie McLaughlin, the series will resume production in the coming months, with season two scheduled to premiere later this year. 

The ensemble cast also includes Olivia Sanabia as ...

Network: Disney Channel.

Episodes: Ongoing (half-hour).

Seasons: Ongoing.

TV show dates: October 12, 2018 — present.

Series status: Has not been cancelled.

Performers include: Dakota Lotus, Ruby Rose Turner, Olivia Sanabia, Albert Tsai, Paxton Booth, and Rebecca Metz.

TV show description:

From creators Boyce Bugliari and Jamie McLaughlin, the Coop & Cami Ask the World TV show is a live-action comedy for children and families. The series centers on middle-school aged brother and sister Cooper (Lotus) and Cameron (Turner) Wrather, who co-host a web series.

On their show, Would You Wrather, the siblings introduce unusual questions and results to their millions of followers, who go by the fandom name of Wratherheads. Together with their fans, Coop and Cami...

NBC has put in development Say Uncles, a multi-camera comedy from actor-comedian Elon Gold (Stacked), Universal TV and studio-based Aggregate (Growing Up Fisher). Written by Gold, Boyce Bugliari, Jamie McLaughlin, Say Uncles is based on Gold's real life, where he is caught in the middle of his interfering brothers and his impressionable children. Gold is not attached to star in the project, which is executive produced by Aggregate and Thruline’s Willie Mercer. Gold…...

Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" won the Original Screenplay honor at the recently concluded Writers Guild Awards while Morten Tyldum's "The Imitation Game" took home the Adapted Screenplay trophy. "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swarts" written by Brian Knappenberger won Documentary Screenplay award. The film is not nominated for an Academy award.

In TV land, HBO's "True Detective" won the Drama Series award and FX's "Louie" received the Comedy Series trophy.

Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2015 Writers Guild Awards:

Feature Film

Original Screenplay

Boyhood, Written by Richard Linklater; IFC Films

Foxcatcher, Written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman; Sony Pictures Classics

The Grand Budapest Hotel, Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness; Fox Searchlight Winner

Nightcrawler, Written by Dan Gilroy; Open Road Films

Whiplash, Written by Damien Chazelle; Sony Pictures Classics

Adapted Screenplay

American Sniper,...

The Writers Guild of America announced the TV nominees for the 2015 WGA Awards on Thursday (December 4) morning and several new shows broke into the fields in a big way. And, of course, there were a number of big WGA Award nomination head-scratchers. Specifically, where the heck was FX's "Fargo"? The answer is below. Making perhaps the biggest splash was "Transparent," which earned three nominations and, since "Orange Is The New Black" earned two nods and "House of Cards" pick up one, that meant that Amazon Prime and Netflix are, at least for one award-giving organization, on equal footing as creators of original programming. The Jill Soloway-created "Transparent" is nominated for New Series, where it will go against "The Affair," "The Knick," "Silicon Valley" and "True Detective." "Transparent" and "Silicon Valley" are also up for Comedy Series, going against "Louie," "Veep" and "Orange Is The New Black." Lest you panic...

Exclusive: Nickelodeon has ordered a 22-episode second season of promising new comedy series Haunted Hathaways. Additionally, the cable network has extended the second season of Nick at Nite‘s See Dad Run with an order for 13 additionally episodes. In its first season, Haunted Hathaways is drawing 2.3 million total viewers and averages a 4.0/1.3M with kids 2-11 and a 5.0/959K with kids 6-11. The series is posting 13% year-over-year gains with kids 2-11 and 6-11 in the Saturday 8:30 Pm slot. In its second season, See Dad Run is averaging 1.2 million total viewers, up 3% among adults 18-49 in the Sunday 8 Pm period. Related: Nickelodeon Orders Two Animated Series, Four Live-Action Pilots Following a much publicized ratings slump, Nickelodeon has been on a rebound, finishing the recent third quarter up 12% vs. 2012. Since May, Nick has successfully launched five new series: Sam & Cat, Haunted Hathaways, Instant Mom (on Nick at Nite), Sanjay & Craig, and Paw Patrol.

Exclusive: Nickelodeon has ordered 6 more episodes of The Haunted Hathaways, bringing the supernatural comedy’s freshman season to 26 episodes. The Haunted Hathaways will return with originals on September 14 at 8:30 Pm. Since its July 13 launch, which drew solid 3.3 million total viewers, the live-action series has averaged 2.8 million total viewers, 1.5M K2-11 and 1.1M K6-11, improving its time period by double digits. The Haunted Hathaways joins another new Nick comedy series whose freshman season was recently supersized, Nick at Nite/NickMom’s Instant Mom. The Haunted Hathaways, executive produced by Boyce Bugliari & Jamie McLaughlin, follows the adventures of a not-so-typical blended family. When Michelle Hathaway (Ginifer King) relocates to New Orleans to open a bakery with her daughters Taylor (Amber Montana) and Frankie (Breanna Yde), they find out that their new home is already occupied by a ghost family comprised of jazz musician father Ray Preston (Chico Benymon), and...

Whenever I happen to change the channel to Nickelodeon, without fail it will always be airing the latest episode of some bizarre creation that, for whatever reason, has somehow become popular. Please, don’t read that as negativity; weird is a better bet than trying to be plain, vanilla pudding normal. Just look at Adventure Time. That show is without a doubt this generation’s most strange concoction, but it deserves every ounce of popularity it’s managed to scrounge up. I can only hope Nickelodeon’s latest creation finds the same comfort zone of weirdness, especially since they’ve committed to 20 episodes. May I introduce to you Nickelodeon’s The Haunted Hathaways.

Coming from comedy writer-producer Robert Peacock, The Haunted Hathaways is the story of a very unconventionally blended family. No, we aren’t talking about a Scottsman who married a Persian and their wacky adventures – though that might be pretty cool.

Exclusive: Nickelodeon has handed a 20-episode order to The Haunted Hathaways, a half-hour project from veteran comedy writer-producer Robert Peacock. Created by Peacock, The Haunted Hathaways features an unconventional blended family and can be described as The Brady Bunch with a supernatural twist. It centers on a mom (Ginifer King) and her daughters (Amber Montana, Breanna Yde) who move to New Orleans and discover that their new house is already occupied by a dad (Chico Benymon) and his sons (Curtis Harris, Lil’ P-Nut)… who happen to be ghosts. Boyce Bugliari & Jamie McLaughlin, creators of the 2011 Nick series Bucket & Skinner’s Epic Adventures, have come on board as showrunners. The Haunted Hathaways was originally picked up to pilot in August. It joins another recently picked up Nickelodeon series, Dan Schneider’s Sam & Cat, starring iCarly‘s Jennette McCurdy and Victorious‘ Ariana Grande reprising their roles.

Nickelodeon has picked up new comedy series Bucket & Skinner’s Epic Adventures, a multi-camera buddy comedy about two best friends. It hails from comedy veteran Tom Lynch (The Troop), who is executive producing alongside creators Boyce Bugliari and Jamie McLaughlin (Quintuplets) and Jonathan Stark (According to Jim) through The Tom Lynch Co. The series begins production this month in Los Angeles for a February 2011 launch. Bucket & Skinner’s Epic Adventures is one of five new series joining Nickelodeon's line-up in early 2011, along with Power Rangers Samurai; House of Anubis, a comedy-mystery series adapted from the international TV format; Bubble Guppies, a new interactive CG-animated preschool series; and Supah Ninjas, a comic book-style action comedy series. In Supah Ninjas news, comedy veterans Mitchel Katlin and Nat Bernstein have been tapped as executive producers/showrunners. They are with UTA and Inphenate. Meanwhile, Oxygen has put in development Best Ink, a competition reality series for tattoo artists.

Nickelodeon is stepping up its live-action comedy efforts with two pilots.

The cable network has greenlighted an untitled surfing show from producer Tommy Lynch and "Telepathic," from Conan O'Brien's Conaco Prods.

The surf show, written by Boyce Bugliari and Jamie McLaughlin ("Quintuplets"), is a single-camera buddy comedy about two high school surfers who spend their lives in pursuit of the perfect wave and the perfect taco.

Bugliari, McLaughlin and Lynch are executive producing the pilot for the Tom Lynch Co.

Lynch has a long-standing relationship with Nickelodeon, having produced such series as "Romeo!" and "South of Nowhere" for the network.

"Telepathic," from writer Darin Henry ("The War at Home"), is a multicamera comedy about two underdogs and a popular girl who navigate high school with the added benefit, and hindrance, of telepathic superpowers.

While animated series, including the recently premiered "The Penguins of Madagascar" and the upcoming "Glenn Martin,...

Fox, which has been looking to bring back the family comedy genre with a twist, is developing "The New McToms," a hybrid multi- and single-camera half-hour executive produced by Salma Hayek.

Fox has a track record of success with that sort of show, having scored with the multicamera "Married ... With Children" and the single-camera "Malcolm in the Middle."

Written by Boyce Bugliari and Jamie McLaughlin, "McToms" centers on a conservative matriarch who must face the reality of her three children marrying ethnically diverse spouses.

ABC Studios, where Hayek's Ventanarosa has an overall deal, is producing the project. Bugliari, McLaughlin, Hayek and her producing partner Pepe Tamez are executive producing the project, which has received a script commitment from the network.

"McToms" carries the trademark ethnic flavor seen in most projects on Hayek's TV slate, including the ABC dramedy "Ugly Betty," which she executive produces.

On the reality side,...