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After serving as cinematographer on “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” John Inwood is no stranger to the Tina Fey and Robert Carlock comedy style: dense with jokes and quick cuts to flashbacks, fantasies and parodies, and there was the occasional musical number. But “Girls5eva,” created by former “Kimmy” writer Meredith Scardino and produced by Fey and Carlock, took it to the next level, following the titular girl group that reunites 20 years later for another go.

“It’s a lot of fun with this show because we have a very good TV family that’s been working together for many years,” Inwood tells Gold Derby (watch above). “Season 1 was a lot of fun and very challenging. Every time you do a first season, you’re learning how to make the show, you’re defining what the style of the show and you get better and better at it.”

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Peacock announced the newest slate of guest stars joining its original musical comedy series “Girls5eva” for Season 2.

The guest stars include Amber Ruffin (“The Amber Ruffin Show”), Chad L. Coleman, Drew and Jonathan Scott (“Property Brothers”), Heidi Gardner (“Saturday Night Live”), Hoda Kotb, Tim Meadows, Grey Henson, James Monroe Inglehart (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”), John Lutz, Judy Gold, Mario Cantone, Pat Battle (“NBC New York”) and Piter Marek. Previously announced new guest stars also include Amy Sedaris and Neil Flynn.

The new cast members will be joined by returning guest stars Andrew Rannels, Ashley Park (“Emily in Paris”), Daniel Breaker, Erika Henningsen (“Mean Girls the Musical”), Janine Brito (“Wine Country”), Jeremiah Craft, Jonathan Hadary and Julius Coneicao.

Season 2 of the comedy series follows a one-hit-wonder girl group from the 1990s that gets to give their dreams another shot. “Girls5eva” stars Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Paula Pell and Busy Philipps.

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The guest cast for Girls5eva Season 2 just keeps getting better and better. Peacock has announced that Amber Ruffin (The Amber Ruffin Show), Chad L. Coleman (The Walking Dead), Drew and Jonathan Scott (Property Brothers), Grey Henson (Mean Girls the Musical), Heidi Gardner (Saturday Night Live), Hoda Kotb (Today), James Monroe Iglehart (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), John Lutz (30 Rock), Judy Gold (Better Things), Mario Cantone (And Just Like That), Pat Battle (NBC New York), Piter Marek (Ugly Betty), and Tim Meadows (Mean Girls) will guest star. They join previously announced new guest stars Amy Sedaris and Neil Flynn. Guest stars returning from Season 1 include Andrew Rannells, Ashley Park, Daniel Breaker, Erika Henningsen, Janine Brito, Jeremiah Craft, Jonathan Hadary, and Julius Conceicao. In the Emmy-nominated comedy from Meredith Scardino, the one-hit-wonder group from the 90s that was churned through the pop music machine has reunited to give their dreams another shot,...

Girls5Eva is adding to the band in season two.

The Peacock comedy has unveiled a slew of guest stars as it returns on May 5.

Guest stars will include Amber Ruffin Chad L. Coleman (The Wire), Grey Henson (Mean Girls the Musical), Heidi Gardner (Saturday Night Live), Hoda Kotb (Today), James Monroe Iglehart (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), John Lutz (30 Rock), Judy Gold (Better Things), Mario Cantone (Sex and the City), Pat Battle (NBC New York), Piter Marek (The Blacklist) and Tim Meadows (The Goldbergs) as well as Property Brothers Drew and Jonathan Scott.

They join previously announced guest stars Amy Sedaris and Neil Flynn, who have signed up to play the parents of Busy Phillips’ Summer.

Showrunner and executive producer Meredith Scardino told Deadline recently, “We have so many amazing guest actors that came by to help out this season.”

Girls5Eva stars Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Paula Pell...

Created by Meredith Scardino, Peacock’s Girls5eva follows a group of women 20 years after their late-’90s girl group, Girls5eva, had its one-hit wonder song. They re-form Girls5eva to seek a second chance at pop stardom.

The pilot episode, a nominee in the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Emmy race, begins with Dawn (Sara Bareilles) finding out that a rapper, Lil Stinker (Jeremiah Craft), has sampled the Girls5eva song in his latest hit. She reconnects with the other members — Summer (Busy Phillips), Gloria (Paula Pell) and Wickie (Renée Elise-Goldsberry) — for the first time in 20 years to perform with Lil Stinker on The Tonight Show.

Here, the Emmy-nominated writer of the script Meredith Scardino answers some questions about her work on the pilot as part of Deadline’s It Starts on the Page, a series showcasing scripts from this year’s Emmy-nominated programs and the writers who brought them to life.

Jeff Richmond is no stranger to composing wacky, hilarious songs, but it was as slightly different story when it came to “Girls5eva.” The Peacock series stars Sara Bareilles, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Busy Philipps and Paula Pell as the four surviving members of the the titular ’90s girl group who reunite to give it another go after their one hit, “Famous 5eva,” is sampled by a rapper, Lil Stinker (Jeremiah Craft). Because music is part of the central premise of the show, it was important for Richmond to make Girls5eva’s tunes sound as authentic and authentically ’90s/’00s pop as possible.

“The first thing that I wanted to accomplish was that we were going to be able to hit all those notes, that it sounded legitimate, that there was verisimilitude toward that sound of the ’90s,” Richmond shares at Gold Derby’s Meet the Experts: TV Composers panel (watch...

This Bill & Ted Face the Music review is spoiler-free. Excellent.

Both Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey reside in that unique cinematic grey area somewhere between blockbuster and cult classic. It’s a sweet spot that these characters — created by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, who return to write this third outing — have inhabited for over thirty years, with the second movie hitting theaters way back in 1991. While the height of Bill & Ted-mania was in an era when grunge when was just getting warmed up (and thereby making the leads’ rock/metal-worship feel quaint), the films maintained a not-unsubstantial pop culture footprint that was eventually overshadowed by Keanu Reeves’ ascent into superstardom. To be clear though: Reeves never turned his back on Ted. Over the years he maintained a friendship with Alex Winter — it is beyond satisfying to know that Bill & Ted are close...

Times like these demand cameos, and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl makes an all-too-brief one in the much-anticipated “Bill & Ted Face the Music,” out this weekend.

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are returning for their third outing as Bill and Ted, with a new mission is to find that one song they recorded to unite the world and rescue mankind — all in the space of two time-tripping hours.

As Bill and Ted journey through time, they stop off in 2025, where they meet their future older selves — this time as rock stars who live in a sprawling mansion. Except present-day Bill and Ted soon realize their older selves are con artists, trying to stop them from finding the song, and they realize they’re being conned when Grohl makes an appearance as himself, wondering who these people are at his house.

Grohl isn’t the only musician playing himself: Kid Cudi...

Network: Netflix.

Episodes: 26 (hour).

Seasons: Two.

TV show dates: September 30, 2016 — June 22, 2018.

Series status: Cancelled.

Performers include: Mike Colter, Mahershala Ali, Simone Missick, Theo Rossi, Erik Laray, Rosario Dawson, Alfre Woodard, Mustafa Shakir, Gabrielle Dennis, Jeremiah Craft, Frank Whaley, and Justin Swain.

TV show description:

Based on the classic comics character, Marvel's Luke Cage TV show centers on the superhero with impenetrable skin. When a sabotaged experiment left him with that characteristic and super strength, as well, Luke just tried to live out his life. That's when he met Jessica Jones.

After an explosion blew up his Hell's Kitchen bar, and his apartment, Luke headed uptown, to Harlem -- a whole world apart and just a short train...

Iron Fist isn't the only Marvel series getting the axe. Deadline reports Netflix has cancelled Marvel's Luke Cage after two seasons.

The superhero drama stars Mike Colter as Luke Cage, a Harlem-based superhero who protects his neighborhood with his super strength and impenetrable skin. The cast also includes Mahershala Ali, Simone Missick, Theo Rossi, Erik Laray, Rosario Dawson, Alfre Woodard, Mustafa Shakir, Gabrielle Dennis, Jeremiah Craft, Frank Whaley, and Justin Swain.

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[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for “Luke Cage” Season 2, including the finale.]

“Luke Cage” series creator Cheo Hodari Coker is a longtime comic book fan, and it shows with the number of fun Easter eggs he includes in the show’s first outing. Since then, Netflix’s Marvel world has expanded, and therefore in Season 2, the show doesn’t hold back when it comes to pop culture references and full-blown crossovers. Many are obvious, but some are for diehards or eagle-eyed, pause-button-happy fans.

“Luke Cage” is the type of show that references the Avengers but never names them. It also exists in the present but feels retro thanks to the heavy ‘90s hip-hop influence and nods to the original comics when Luke Cage (Mike Colter) was drafting off the blaxploitation craze. Check out all the Easter eggs and pop-culture references we could find below, and let us know what we’re missing in the comments.

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