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The flashback episode of a TV show is routinely a low part of the season. Usually, it takes you away from the current storyline and saddles you with a backstory you were doing just fine without. However, on The Righteous Gemstones, each season’s flashback episode has been a banger — not only for presenting interesting, integral stories, but for the younger depictions of the Gemstone children who absolutely nail their older counterparts.

Danny McBride’s character, Jesse Gemstone, is played by J. Gaven Wilde in the various “Interlude” episodes, as they’re called. Edi Patterson’s Judy Gemstone is taken over by Emma Shannon, while Tristan Borders fills in for Adam Devine as Kelvin Gemstone. Every season, these three kids almost-eerily inhabit their older selves while spouting lines just as foul and disgusting as their adult depictions.

I spoke with Young Jesse and Judy via Zoom before Sunday’s series...

Pretty Freekin Scary will not be returning for a second season. TV Line reports that Disney Channel has cancelled the multi-camera comedy horror series. The show, created by Jason P. Hauser and based on the popular book series, aired for one season of 20 episodes between June and August 2023.

Starring Eliana Su'a, Kyan Samuels, Leah Mei Gold, Yonas Kibreab, and Emma Shannon, the comedy series follows Frankie Ripp (Su'a), a 14-year-old girl whose life takes an unusual turn.

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Pretty Freekin Scary will not be returning to the network for a second season, TVLine has confirmed with Disney Channel.

Rumblings about the acquired live-action series’ unfortunate fate first started months ago via streaming analyst Drew Ryan‘s socials, and were recently bolstered by Instagram comments made by cast member Eliana Su’a.

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Pretty Freekin Scary Season 1, which aired its finale in August 2023, followed Frankie...

"Pretty Freekin Scary" is a new comedy TV series, created by Jason P. Hauser, based on the book series by Chris P. Flesh, starring Eliana Su'a, Kyan Samuels, Leah Mei Gold, Yonas Kibreab and Emma Shannon, now streaming on Disney+:

"...'Frankie Ripp' has a great life, until she gets killed in a freak accident. In the 'Underworld', she has a heated debate with the 'Grim Reaper' who lets her return home, as long as her Underworld guardians, 'Pretty' and 'Scary', accompany her. 

"Frankie tries to keep the Grim Reaper a secret from everyone while at the same time, she must work for the Grim Reaper by completing a series of given tasks should she wish to keep her life..."

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Paramount+'s 2023 series "Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies" serves as a prequel to the hit 1978 film. The musical series follows Jane (Marisa Davila), Olivia (Cheyenne Isabel Wells), Cynthia (Ari Notartomaso), and Nancy (Tricia Fukuhara) as they form the girl gang the Pink Ladies in 1954. In "Grease," which is set in 1958, Sandy (played by the late Olivia Newton-John) is befriended by the Pink Ladies clique when she becomes a student at Rydell High, though Betty Rizzo, Frenchy, Jan, and Marty are all different levels of welcoming toward her.

How does "Rise of the Pink Ladies" connect to the original "Grease"? Well, of course, the new Pink Ladies and T-Birds attend the same high school that the original characters do. In the movie, Rydell High is run by Principal McGee, played by the late Eve Arden, but in "Rise of the Pink Ladies," she's Assistant Principal McGee, played pitch-perfectly by comedic icon Jackie Hoffman.

Disney Channel’s resident villains are welcoming some scary new neighbors this summer.

The second season of The Villains of Valley View will kick off with a full-hour premiere on Thursday, June 15 (8/7c), leading into the debut of the new series Pretty Freekin Scary (9/8c), TVLine has learned exclusively.

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Following this special premiere event, both shows...

The following contains spoilers from the premiere of Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies.

Two familiar names (and one very familiar voice) pop up in the premiere of Paramount+’s now-streaming Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, adding a cheeky full-circle element to the musical prequel series.

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Set in 1954, Rise of the Pink Ladies chronicles the...

Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for Air, Renfield, Beef, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and Murder Mystery 2.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves premiere

Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Sophia Lillis, Justice Smith, Hugh Grant, Daisy Head and co-directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley walked the carpet at Sunday’s L.A. premiere of their Dungeons & Dragons flick.

Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Sophia Lillis, Justice Smith, Daisy Head, Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Hugh Grant, Regé-Jean Page and Jeremy Latcham Chris Pine, Paramount Pictures president and CEO Brian Robbins, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein

Air premiere

After first debuting at SXSW, Ben Affleck and his cast of Matt Damon, Viola Davis, Jason Bateman, Chris Messina and Chris Tucker brought their Nike film to Los Angeles on Monday.

Marlon Wayans,...

The Los Angeles premiere of the new Paramount+ original series “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies” was held on Wednesday, March 29 at the Hollywood American Legion Post 43. Gold Derby’s associate editor Latasha Ford interviewed several cast members and behind-the-scenes talent including actors Cheyenne Isabel Wells, Jackie Hoffman, Shanel Bailey, Josette Halpert, Vivian Lomolli, Emma Shannon, Dylan Sloane, Madison Thompson and Niamh Wilson, creator Annabel Oakes, “Grease 2” star Lorna Luft, executive producer Alethea Jones, choreographer and director Jamal Sims and executive music producer Justin Tranter on the red carpet. Watch the video above.

The musical series takes place four years before the original “Grease.” In 1954, before rock ‘n’ roll ruled, before the T-Birds were the coolest in the school, four fed-up outcasts dare to have fun on their own terms, sparking a moral panic that will change Rydell High forever. The show will premiere on Thursday, April 6, exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.

Exclusive: Disney is reuniting with longtime former VP Original Series Kory Lunsford with a new comedy series and a first-look deal. The company has picked up to series Pretty Freekin Scary, a multi-camera sitcom based on the popular books, from CakeStart Entertainment, where Lunsford serves as president and partner, and Cloudco Entertainment. Lunsford left Disney after nearly 20 years in May 2021 to join the newly formed CakeStart.

Production is underway on the series, the first to be greenlit under a first-look development deal between CakeStart and Disney. The 20-episode first season is slated to debut in summer 2023 on Disney Channel and Disney+.

Eliana Su’a, Kyan Samuels, Leah Mei Gold, Yonas Kibreab and Emma Shannon

Created for television by Jason P. Hauser based on the book series, Pretty Freekin Scary follows the adventures of Frankie Ripp, a 14-year-old girl who has a seemingly perfect life – great parents, annoying little brother, lifelong Bff – until she dies.