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A Family Affair’s ending was meant to be a happy one, and why won’t it be? Who in their right mind can handle a climax with such beautiful people leaving us with sad faces? Thankfully, Richard Lagravenese’s Netflix film has a fairytale ending where the boy gets the girl eventually and expresses his feelings without being too cringy. But, you see, the concluding conversation between the two lovebirds, Brooke Harwood (Nicole Kidman) and Chris Cole (Zac Efron), isn’t as simple as it seems. It has a lot of references and a deeper meaning attached to it, which, in a way, define their characters and also hint at their future.

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The Peacock net has ordered a comedy pilot starring the Season 8 champ from its Last Comic Standing franchise — with comic Wanda Sykes and The Game Ep Kenny Smith Jr. set to produce, according to our sister site Deadline.

The untitled project will find Man playing a comedian who moves from Georgia to Los Angeles with his wife and daughter to help take care of his mother — a job he’s better equipped...

New York, NY (March 20, 2012) – Fuse, the national music television network of The Madison Square Garden Company, today announced its development slate featuring a variety of comedy, documentary, animated and scripted series all rooted in music. The slate reflects Fuse’s robust development pipeline, with many more deals to come, as the network furthers its commitment to adding original programming to the existing music-focused lineup. In Development (all titles listed are working titles) “Ambassadors of Rock” “Ambassadors of Rock,” is a reality show which explores the world of music fans who are so devoted, they invite touring bands that they don’t know to crash in their homes, sleep in their beds, drink their beer and eat all of their food. “Ambassadors of Rock” is executive produced by Donita Sparks & Robert Fagan of 2 Way Mirror and Bobby Pura (“Jackass: The Movie,” “The Fabulous Life Presents”). “Blaze Studios” This half-hour scripted musical comedy,...

NBC has found the male lead for its J.J. Abrams pilot "Undercovers" in the form of former "Soul Food" star Boris Kodjoe.

Kodjoe, who starred in the Bruce Willis movie "Surrogates" earlier this year, will play one half of a married couple who work together as spies, according to The Hollywood Reporter. If the show gets picked up, he would become one of only a handful of African-American actors with a lead role on a network series.

The "Undercovers" cast also includes Gerald McRaney, who was cast earlier in the week as the couple's supervisor at the CIA.

Kodjoe played Damon Carter on Showtime's "Soul Food" and also starred in the Upn series "Second Time Around" (with his real-life wife, Nicole Ari Parker). His credits also include "Madea's Family Reunion," "Love & Basketball" and the upcoming "Resident Evil: Afterlife."

Abrams co-wrote "Undercovers" with Josh Reims and may direct the pilot.

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MyNetworkTV is returning to the scripted arena.

The network has ordered 13 episodes of Under One Roof, a new half-hour comedy series starring Flavor Flav from executive producers Claude Brooks (Second Time Around) and Darryl J. Quarles (Big Momma's House).

Flav plays Calvester Hill, a former convict who moves in with his wealthy, conservative brother, Walter (Kelly Perine). Calvester turns the Hill family's life upside down, parading his old prison cronies through the house, teaching his nephew to be a gangsta rapper and butting heads with Walter's snooty wife.

Roof is directed by Brian Roberts and written by Danielle Quarles and Gelila Asres. Brooks' C to the B Prods. and Quarles' Qtopia Entertainment are producing.

"A classic fish-out-of-water story, 'Under One Roof' will be a hilarious addition to the MyNetworkTV lineup," network president Greg Meidel said.

Roof, which has been written by non-WGA writers, is in production in Toronto for a spring debut.

MyNetworkTV launched in September 2006 with a lineup comprising solely scripted drama strips but abandoned that format last year in favor of reality shows and theatrical acquisitions.

UPN's midseason comedy series Cuts will premiere Feb. 14 at 8:30 p.m. To make room for the new addition to the network's Monday night comedy lineup, Half & Half, which airs Mondays at 8:30 p.m., will slide to 9:30 p.m. effective Feb. 7. The current dweller in the Monday 9:30-10 p.m. slot, freshman Second Time Around, was not picked up for a back nine. Cuts, starring Marques Houston and Shannon Elizabeth, is a spinoff of UPN's One on One. Before the debut of the new series, the network will rerun the last season episode of One on One which served as a backdoor pilot for Cuts on Feb. 7.

Soul Food co-stars Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Parker have announced their engagement. Kodjoe, 31, proposed to Parker, 33, on June 20 in his hometown of Freiburg, Germany, says publicist Alejandra Cristina, who adds that they plan to marry next spring. The couple met on the set of hit Showtime series Soul Food, a spin-off of the 1997 movie which starred Vanessa Williams and Vivica A Fox and which recently ended after five seasons. They both appeared alongside Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan and Mos Def in the film Brown Sugar and will next star in the sitcom Second Time Around, which will air in America this autumn.