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Exclusive: Manager/producer Brian Sher has signed a first-look deal with Ucp and Wilshire Studios to develop both scripted and unscripted programming. Sher has set his first project under the pact, a scripted comedy Public Figures at Ucp from How To Make It in America creator Ian Edelman starring rapper/actor Lil Yachty (How High 2).

Created by Edelman, Public Figures is inspired by Lil Yachty’s real life experiences, before fame and before music, when he moved from Atlanta to Harlem with five dollars to his name. The series follows a group of late teens/early 20 somethings as they pursue their dreams in New York City.

Sher, Edelman, Yachty and Gregory Jones will executive produce, along with Kevin “Coach K” Lee and Pierre “Pee” Thomas via their Quality Control banner.

NBCUniversal’s scripted-focused Ucp and unscripted-centric Wilshire Studios are both run by President Dawn Olmstead.

“Ucp has become the gold standard in scripted television,...

Five months after abruptly vacating her starring role on Chicago P.D. adieu, Sophia Bush is set to headline a pilot for 20th Century Fox TV as part of an exclusive talent holding and development deal, our sister site Deadline reports.

RelatedDick Wolf on Sophia Bush’s Chicago P.D. Departure: ‘She Wanted to Leave’

The eventual project will either be a drama or comedy — Bush previously flexed her comedic muscles on CBS’ short-lived Partners — for the upcoming pilot season. Additionally, she will develop projects on which she will serve as an executive producer.

“Now more than ever, vital female voices need to be heard,...

'Making Love': Groundbreaking romantic gay drama returns to the big screen As part of its Anniversary Classics series, Laemmle Theaters will be presenting Arthur Hiller's groundbreaking 1982 romantic drama Making Love, the first U.S. movie distributed by a major studio that focused on a romantic gay relationship. Michael Ontkean, Harry Hamlin, and Kate Jackson star. The 35th Anniversary Screening of Making Love will be held on Saturday, June 24 – it's Gay Pride month, after all – at 7:30 p.m. at the Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre on Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills. The movie will be followed by a Q&A session with Harry Hamlin, screenwriter Barry Sandler, and author A. Scott Berg, who wrote the “story” on which the film is based. 'Making Love' & What lies beneath In this 20th Century Fox release – Sherry Lansing was the studio head at the time – Michael Ontkean plays a...

NBC has begun thinning the 2017-18 pilot herd.

TVLine has learned that three comedy projects — Bill Lawrence’s Spaced Out, film-to-tv remake What About Barb? and Max Mutchnick’s sibling sitcom Relatively Happy — will not be ordered to series.

Scroll down to refresh your memory about the ill-fated trio (and head here to see what remains in contention):

Spaced Out

Writer: Adam Sztykiel

Other EPs: Bill Lawrence, Jeff Ingold

Cast: Matt Shively (The Real O’Neals), Christine Woods (Hello Ladies), Donald Faison (Scrubs), Miranda Cosgrove (iCarly), Brett Goldstein, Ken Kirby

A single-cam workplace comedy that centers on a working...

Someone buy Karen a few more bottles pallets of vodka: The Will & Grace revival is going to go on longer than originally planned.

NBC has ordered two additional episodes of the NBC comedy’s continuation, our sister site Deadline reports, bringing the total order to 12.

PhotosWill & Grace Cast Reunites On Set: ‘Just Like Riding a Bike’ — See Photos

In January, the Peacock Net ordered 10 new Will & Grace installments, with all four of the series’ Emmy-winning stars — Debra Messing, Eric McCormack, Megan Mullally and Sean Hayes — reprising their roles of Grace, Will, Karen and Jack. Series creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick...

“Fist Fight” director Richie Keen is set to direct “Partners” for New Line, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. New Line and Keen partnered on “Fist Fight,” which is the director’s first feature film and stars Ice Cube, Charlie Day, Tracy Morgan and Jillian Bell. It opens in theaters this Friday. “Partners” will follow an Lapd detective who falls for a woman after a one-night stand, but soon learns she is an FBI agent and his new boss on a high-profile case. Also Read: Tracy Morgan to Join Ice Cube, Charlie Day in New Line Comedy...

Fist Fight helmer Richie Keen is set to direct New Line's Partners, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The action comedy centers on an Lapd detective who falls for a beautiful woman after a one-night stand but then learns that she is an FBI agent and his new boss on a high-profile case.

Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly wrote the most recent draft of the script, which was originally penned by Evan Turner.

Keen made his directorial debut with the Warner Bros. label's Fist Fight, starring Ice Cube, Charlie Day, Tracy Morgan and Jillian Bell. He previously helmed episodes of Fox's New...

You know you’re in for a good time when a trio of nuns turn to the genial farmer who greets them one morning with the retort, “Don’t fucking talk to us!” That’s the underlying charm of “The Little Hours,” in which every joke stems from people talking the last way you’d expect of them. Matching a crackling wit with the absurd dissonance of time and place found in the best of Monty Python and Mel Brooks, “Little Hours” is so eager to please that its one-note humor lands with ease.

Writer-director Jeff Baena’s improv-laden twist on “The Decameron,” in which wily 13th-century nuns speak in raunchy contemporary dialogue and engage in sexual deviance, milks its premise for as many jokes as possible and then keeps going, with uneven but mostly hilarious results. Overall, it’s a perfectly satisfying snapshot of subversive comedy that delivers where it counts.

Paramount's holiday comedy Office Christmas Party rang in the holiday season with $950,000 Thursday night.

The ensemble film, starring Jason Bateman, Olivia Munn, T.J. Miller, Jillian Bell, Courtney B. Vance, Rob Corddry, Kate McKinnon and Jennifer Aniston, is this weekend's only new release and is tracking to earn in the high-teen millions, although Paramount is being more cautious in suggesting $13 million-$15 million.

Directed by Will Speck and Josh Gordon, the film follows a group of co-workers who try to throw a crazy holiday bash to impress a potential client and save the company. Partners on the $45 million...

The Chicago International Film Festival 2016 announced its full lineup, and it includes Julia Ducournau's Raw, the previously announced 4K restoration of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, The Eyes of My Mother, and The Autopsy of Jane Doe, starring Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch.

Press Release: Chicago (September 13, 2016) ­ The Chicago International Film Festival today announces Opening and Closing Night selections, as well as the full slate of films included in the Festival’s U.S. Indies, Spotlight: Musicals and After Dark categories. Chicago will play host to gala screenings of Damien Chazelle’s La La Land and Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival as respective bookends to the 52nd Festival, opening on October 13th and closing on October 27th. A full list of these newly announced programs is below and at www.chicagofilmfestival.com. Tickets for these events and all film screenings go on sale September 21st for Cinema/Chicago members...

Jon Cryer was on Howard Stern Tuesday morning to promote the paperback edition of his 2015 memoir So That Happened, a book that laid bare a number of juicy details from his life in the Hollywood trenches. After breaking through as the lovable "Duckie" in Pretty in Pink, Cryer's career went into virtual freefall as his next several films -- including the legendary flop Superman IV: The Quest for Peace -- tanked at the box office. His fortunes turned only when he booked the soon-to-be-mega-hit series Two and a Half Men in 2003, but the years in between were filled with major missed opportunities and various other career disappointments -- by his own admission, he worked just three weeks as an actor over a three-year period. So what dirt did he have to spill during the Stern Show sit-down? Below I've rounded up the juiciest portions of the interview, from his Pretty in Pink...

After sixteen films, Pixar might finally be facing one of its first misfires with Variety reporting that the recently released "The Good Dinosaur" is "shaping up to be Pixar's first box office failure."

With a production budget of $200 million and a further $150 million spent on marketing, analysts have indicated the film has to make $500 million at the global box-office to break even theatrically.

At present, the film has made just $131.3 million globally and is already fading faster than Pixar's other fare in the markets it has already opened in. Scoring soft reviews, it also opened to just $39.1 million in its initial weekend before dropping by more than 60% in its second weekend. Most Pixar's fall less than 50% in the same period.

Mkm Partners analyst Erik Handler says: "It's not resonating like a typical Pixar film. It's on a path where they're going to need home entertainment to drive profitability. Usually with Pixar,...

Twins

Showcase Inventory

Created by David Kohan, Max Mutchnick

Produced by KoMut Entertainment, Warner Bros Entertainment

Aired on The WB for 1 season (18 episodes) from September 16, 2005 – March 3, 2006

Cast

Sara Gilbert as Mitchee Arnold

Molly Stanton as Farrah Arnold

Melanie Griffith as Lee Arnold

Mark Linn-Baker as Alan Arnold

Show Premise

Highly successful lingerie company owners and married couple Alan and Lee Arnold decide to retire from their CEO position and name their non identical twin daughters as their successors. The two sisters, Mitchee and Farrah, couldn’t be more different from one another if they tried. Oddly, the two take after their parents almost exactly, with Mitchee taking after her father, who is brainy, uptight, and reserved, while Farrah takes after Lee, an alluring, uninhibited, and seemingly vapid blonde. It would seem that for the parents, the notion of “opposite attracts” is what brought them together, but for the two sisters,...

While David Krumholtz’s most prominent television role to date has been in the CBS show Numb3rs, the performer has also displayed an adeptness in comedic roles, from movies such as Superbad to guest appearances on Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23 and The League, as well as a leading role in the short-lived sitcom Partners. Krumholtz’s next project will see him dive into comedic waters once again, as IFC has given a straight-to-series order for his new show, titled Gigi’s Bucket List.

The first season will consist of eight episodes, each episode being half an hour long, and will make its premiere on IFC later in the year. Krumholtz is slated to play the titular character, a 76 year old woman named Gertrude Rotblum, aka Gigi, who comes across a secret stash of millions and decides to use it to gain experiences she missedo out on previously.

Arclight Films and United Exhibitor Partners are launching 3D sci-fi adventure Lost In The Pacific. Brandon Routh and Zhang YuQi will star in director Vincent Zhou's futuristic project about a group of elite passengers on board an inaugural luxury, transoceanic flight in 2020. Zhou co-wrote the script with Peter Cameron (Carnival Row). The creative team includes VFX supervisor Bruce Jones (The Italian Job, Star Trek), art director Ian Bailie (Atonement, Pride And Prejudice…...

Arclight Films and United Exhibitor Partners are launching 3D sci-fi adventure Lost In The Pacific. Brandon Routh and Zhang YuQi will star in director Vincent Zhou's futuristic project about a group of elite passengers on board an inaugural luxury, transoceanic flight in 2020. Zhou co-wrote the script with Peter Cameron (Carnival Row). The creative team includes VFX supervisor Bruce Jones (The Italian Job, Star Trek), art director Ian Bailie (Atonement, Pride And Prejudice…...

They’ve proven to be among the most popular kids series on Prime Instant Video, and all four of them were recently honored by the Parents’ Choice Foundation. Today Amazon announced that it has greenlit second seasons of its hit kids series: Creative Galaxy, Annedroids, Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street, and recent Annie Award winner Tumble Leaf.

“Tumble Leaf, Creative Galaxy, Annedroids and Gortimer have all experienced a tremendous response from our customers and we’re excited to bring them back for another season,” said Tara Sorensen, Head of Kids Programming for Amazon Studios. “Working with such remarkably talented and impactful creators in both the preschool and kids six to 11 space, it’s exciting to see where the storylines and characters will take us for another season.”

Annecy International Festival and Annie award-winning series Tumble Leaf was created by Drew Hodges (Saturday Night Live, Community) and executive produced...

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has unveiled its 2015 line-up which includes films representing 54 countries, 23 world premieres and 53 U.S. premieres. The U.S. premiere of Niki Caro’s McFarland USA will close out the 30th fest. Based on the 1987 true story and starring Kevin Costner and Maria Bello, the film follows novice runners from McFarland, an economically challenged town in California’s farm-rich Central Valley, as they give their all to build a cross-country team under the direction of Coach Jim White (Costner), a newcomer to their predominantly Latino high school. The unlikely band of runners overcomes the odds to forge not only a championship cross-country team but an enduring legacy as well.

The festival runs from January 27-February 7.

Below is the list of World and U.S. Premiere films followed by the list of titles by sidebar categories.

World Premieres

A Better You, USA

Directed by Matt Walsh

Cast: Brian Huskey,...

Bh5 Group was in a unique position when they presented three films at recent Los Cabos International Film Festival. The burgeoning Mexican production-finance hub which co-produces Atom Egoyan’s upcoming “Remember,” has attached Alonso Ruiz Palacios, director of Güeros,"one of the most notable feature debuts of 2014, to direct “Museum.” The other Mexican production they are are behind is "You'll Know What To Do With Me," which stars Ilse Salas , one of the rising stars of Mexican cinema.

-"You'll Know What To Do With Me" is a part of the Works in Progress Competition starring award winning Spanish actor Pablo Derqui and Ilse Salas, who stars both in this year’s Oscar entry, “Cantinflas,” and big 2014 fest winner, “Güeros.”

-"Museum" is a project in development in the Co-Production Forum with Filmmaker Alfonso Ruizpalacios, whose recent debut film “Güeros” took Best First Feature in Berlin 2014 and Best New Director at Tribeca as well as multiple trophies at San Sebastian and Morelia.

-Atom Egoyan will offer a Master Class, during which the central theme will be about his new film "Remember," now in post-production. The chat will be moderated by Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of Toronto International Film Festival, and the film director will be accompanied by his producer Robert Lantos and Gerardo Gatica, CEO of Bh5 Group, the Mexican company that holds Detalle Films, which participates in the executive production of "Remember." Bh5's head of production Alberto Müffelmann will also attend the festival in search of new projects and ventures as an "Industry Guest."

“You'll Know What To Do With Me" (Sabras Que Hacer Conmigo)

Mexico

Director: Katina Medina Mora

Production: Gerardo Gatica, Alberto Müffelmann, Rodrigo Trujillo, Jacobo Nazar, Moises Cosio

Section: Works in Progress Competition

Synopsis

In a mundane hospital hallway, fine arts photographer Nicolas, epileptic since childhood, falls for the aloof Isabel, unaware she is visiting her suicidal mother. The narrative begins through Nicolas's lens then cuts back to follow Isabel prior to their meeting. Their stories merge as they're suddenly engaged in a highly charged relationship. When the intense getting acquainted period wanes, it seems worth attempting to transcend respective flaws and demons, yet commitment is not something that comes easy to either of these resolutely independent people. Nico and Isabel find the future increasingly less foreseeable and the vivid present ever more deeply affecting.

“Museum" (Museo)

Mexico

Director: Alonso Ruiz Palacios

Production: Gerardo Gatica, Manuel Alcalá, Alberto Müffelman n

Section: Co-Production Forum Competition (Mexico-u.S.A.-Canada)

Synopsis

On December 25, 1985, adding to the chaos of September's earthquake, Mexico awakened with news of the theft of 140+ pieces from the capitol city's National Museum of Anthropology. The heist was perfectly executed, bypassing the guards who were busy celebrating Christmas Eve. No one imagined that the perpetrators of the robbery slept peacefully, nightly, in the suburb of Ciudad Satélite - veterinary students and lifelong friends, Carlos Perches and Ramon Sardina. The magnitude of the theft wildly exceeded the expectations of the thieves. Carlos and Ramon depart their comfortable life for an underworld adventure that drags them into the abyss.

"Remember"

Direcor: Atom Egoyan

"Remember" stars Academy Award Winners Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau, directed by Acadamy Award Nominee Atom Egoyan, produced by Golden Globe Nominee Robert Lantos. See pertinent info on page 31 of Lcff Industry Catalogue: http://issuu.com/cabosfilmfestival/docs/catalogo-industria2014-web

* Please Note: Bh5 has a production company credit on "Remember" is through Detalle Films (a company held by Bh5 Group), which participated in the executive production of "Remember."

Bh5 Company Profile

http://www.bh5group.com/

Bh5 Group is a conglomerate integrated by many production companies specialised in different areas of the entertainment business, including Detalle Films, Balero Films, Cacao Production Services, CoCo, Detalle TV and La Rama de Teatro. These companies have jointly or independently produced dozens of feature films, including "Nos Vemos Papá" by Lucía Carreras (Karlovy Vary 2012), "The Dance of Reality" by Alejandro Jodorowski (Cannes 2013), "Rezeta" by Fernando Frías (Slamdance Winner 2014), feature film "Kite" starring Samuel L. Jackson (2014), "Remember" (2014) by Atom Egoyan, among others.

Filmography

• "La Decisión del Presidente" (2007) - Documentary directed by Lucía Kaplan and Diego Delgado

• "Arresto Domiciliario" (2008) - Feature Film directed by Gabriel Retes

• "Jimigration" (2008) - Documentary directed by Fernando Frías de la Parra

• "Allá y en Tonses" (2010) - Feature Film by Angel Flores

• "Malaventura" (2011) - Feature Film directed by Carlos Rincones

• "Nos Vemos Papá" (2012) - by Lucía Carreras

• "Rezeta" (2013) - Feature Film directed by Fernando Frías de la Parra

• "95'" (2012) - Documentary directed by Renato Ornelas

• "Inner Dragons" (2013) - Short film directed by Fernando Frías de la Parra

• "Buoy" (2013) - Short Film directed by David Higgs

• "LuTo" (2013) - Feature Film directed by Katina Medina Mora

• "Kite" (2014) - Feature Film directed by Ralph Zimman

• "Contraluz" (2014) - Feature Film directed by Katina Medina Mora

• "Remember" (2014) - Feature Film directed by Atom Egoyan

Bh5 Partners: Gerardo Gatica (CEO), Moisés Cosío (Head of Project Development and New Businesses), Alberto Müffelmann (Head of Production - Detalle Films/Production Services), Rodrigo Trujillo (Head of Production - Balero Films/La Rama de Teatro), Jacobo Nazar (CFO). All five partners of Bh5Group come from different backgrounds, ranging from law to economics to industrial engineering.

David Krumholtz is poised to do a real number on us, playing a 72-year-old Jewish grandmother in an IFC pilot.

IFC announced on Wednesday that it has commissioned a presentation (i.e. a whittled-down pilot) for Gigi’s Bucket List, which follows the titular septuagenarian from Boca Raton, Fla. as she pursues everything she deprived herself of throughout her life, after discovering millions in her dead husband’s bank account.

Krumholtz will serve as an executive producer on the project alongside Grandma’s House Entertainment’s Ben Newmark and Dan Newmark, Ricky Mabe and Zach Golden. The presentation will film later this year,...

The Good Wife is recruiting a noted Numb3rs cruncher to (presumably) help Alicia win that coveted State’s Attorney post.

TVLine has learned exclusively that David Krumholtz is joining CBS’ marquee drama in the potentially recurring role of Josh, a top campaign specialist hired by Alicia’s manager, Jonathan (Steven Pasquale).

One part Hollywood and two parts political, Josh is known as a master of negative campaigning (a role first teased in this week’s Ask Ausiello). He also believes candidates should just shut up and do what the professionals say, so his interactions with Alicia should be hysterical.

In Sunday’s Good Wife,...

Arrow Season 3, Episode 1 “The Calm”

Story by Greg Berlanti & Andrew Kreisberg

Teleplay by Marc Guggenheim & Jake Coburn

Directed by Glen Winter

Airs Wednesdays at 8pm Et on The CW

When “The Calm” begins, things are going pretty well for Starling City’s favorite vigilante: The Arrow is winning awards from the city (given by none other than newly-appointed Captain Lance), bad guys are being ticked off one by one with ease; simply put, everything is good for Oliver Queen, even though his family’s company is about to be sold from underneath him. But as the title ominously suggests, peace in Starling City was not built to last: and as Arrow begins to set up shop for the various stories of the season, “The Calm” delivers an unsettling, surprisingly brutal episode about identity and family, an hour that appears to catalyze a number of ambitious stories for Arrow‘s third season.

As we look in the rearview mirror of the summer blockbusters, September heralds the start of the fall movie season. Filled with Hollywood heavyweights and A-listers, here’s our Big list of the most anticipated movies coming to cinemas this autumn and during the holidays.

Our exhaustive list includes films that are playing at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival as well the ones that already have a theatrical release date. With the awards season on the horizon, we also added a few bonus films at the end to keep your eye out for in the months ahead.

Pull up a chair, grab a pen and paper and get ready for Wamg’s Guide to the 100+ Films This Fall And Holiday Season.

We kick it off with what’s showing in Toronto at the film festival that runs September 4 – 14.

Maps To The Stars – September 2014 – Toronto International Film Festival; UK & Ireland September...

In 2012, CBS premiered a new show about two odd-couple male pals. It was called Partners, and on the surface, it seemed to have everything going for it—a prime slot following How I Met Your Mother, a great pedigree courtesy of two ’90s sitcom wizards (it was created by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan of Will & Grace fame), two charismatic stars (Michael Urie and David Krumholtz). Even so, Partners failed to gain traction. Critics griped that its old-fashioned jokes were tired rather than appealingly retro; just a few weeks into the 2012-2013 TV season, it became one of the first shows to get the ax.

According to a recent report from TV Line, the new Arrow season 3 folks have brought on former Superman Returns star ,Brandon Routh (left), to portray a new super hero character, named Ray Palmer aka The Atom. Ray Palmer is described as being an unparalleled scientist and inventor, and will play an unexpected role in the lives of Oliver and (rumored love interest) Felicity as the new owner of Queen Consolidated. Palmer’s plans for Queen Consolidated’s Applied Sciences Division, is going to be shrouded in mystery. Ray's Atom alter ego character can alter the size of his body as well as other objects. Brandon Routh's TV credits include roles in NBC’s late, Chuck, CBS’ short-lived Partners, Crackle’s Chosen ,and Fox’s Enlisted. As previously reported, season 3 is due to debut on Wednesday night, October 8th at 7pm central time on The CW.

Brandon Routh, best known for playing the eponymous superhero in 2006's Superman Returns, is joining the cast of Arrow as fellow DC superhero The Atom.

Brandon Routh Joins 'Arrow'

Routh, 34, will be the upcoming season of Arrow’s main recurring guest star. In his day-to-day, Routh’s superhero character The Atom works as a scientist and inventor known as Ray Palmer. In season three of Arrow, Ray Palmer/ The Atom, becomes the new owner of Queen Consolidated, which causes him to affect the lives of Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) and Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards). He could also become a potential love interest for Felicity, according to Deadline.

The Atom has never before appeared in a live-action series. In the DC Comics, one of the superhero's main powers is shrinking down to subatomic size.

Routh most recently had a recurring role on The Exes and will soon appear...

Brandon Routh is set to play another DC Comics super man — this time on Arrow.

The erstwhile Man of Steel is joining the CW hit’s third season in the recurring role of Ray Palmer, aka DC superhero The Atom, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Related Stephen Amell Addresses Batman V Superman Speculation

An unparalleled scientist and inventor, Ray will play an unexpected role in the lives of Oliver and (rumored love interest) Felicity as the new owner of Queen Consolidated. Palmer’s plans for Queen Consolidated’s Applied Sciences Division will be shrouded in mystery.

In addition to his myriad comic book appearances,...

The first half of 22 Jump Street relies largely on making jokes about how it's a sequel. These "jokes" are wedged directly into the film's plot by way of comments on a bigger budget and how they should do everything the same. It's a level of self-awareness that has become quite regular in today's movies, and worked well on a smaller scale in the first movie, in an attempt to divert your attention from the fact what you're watching isn't only unnecessary, but not really all that good either. The second half of 22 Jump Street attempts to be funny by suggesting this sequel has now gone over budget and they're going to have to think outside the box to complete their movie -- excuse me, complete their investigation. The jokes throughout both halves rely heavily on gay innuendo, playing off the fact police officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are partners.

Today’s film is the 2009 short Big Breaks. The film stars Vanessa Britting and Amanda Young alongside Elizabeth Banks, Martin Starr, Jane Lynch, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lucy Punch. Young and Britting also co-wrote the short with David Krumholtz, who also directs. Krumholtz has been seen in a number of roles over the years, from tv shows such as Numb3rs, Partners, and The Playboy Club to movies such as Serenity, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, and The Santa Clause.

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No less than Superman may bust up a nascent romance on the new Fox comedy Enlisted (premiering Friday at 9:30/8:30c).

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Sources confirm for TVLine that Brandon Routh is set to appear in at least two episodes on the military-themed comedy as Sgt. Brandon Stone, a soldier who until very recently was serving overseas and now will serve as an adversary for Private Practice alum Chris Lowell’s character, Corporal Derrick Hill — having once been wed to his love interest (played by Jessy Hodges of the...

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a really cool guest star! Superman Returns star Brandon Routh is set to make a super guest appearance on The Millers, E! News has exclusively learned. Routh, who recently starred in the short-lived sitcom Partners opposite Michael Urie and Sophia Bush, will stop by Will Arnett's new hit sitcom as Officer Davis, a handsome police officer who is investigating a string of petty thefts in Nathan (Arnett) and his mother Carol's (Margo Martindale) neighborhood. (Um, can we move there, please?) His episode is set to air in 2014. Aside from his time donning the Superman cape before Henry Cavill and scoring laughs on Partners, Routh is known for his work...

Hey look, another TV remake! That's hardly news anymore, but the show being remade -- "The Odd Couple" -- and the star attached to it -- Matthew Perry -- make this one a little more intriguing.

Perry will star as Oscar Madison in the new version, which is in development at CBS. He's also co-writing the pilot script with comedy veteran Danny Jacobson ("Mad About You," "Two Guys and a Girl").

"Ever since seeing the movie 'The Odd Couple' when I was 10 years old, it has been a dream for me to play Oscar Madison," Perry tells Deadline. "To be given the opportunity to develop a modern version of it for CBS has put a permanent smile across my face."

Neil Simon's 1965 play about two divorced guys -- fastidious newsman Felix Ungar and slobbish sportswriter Oscar Madison -- who move in together has birthed a number of previous adaptations,...

Fionnula Flanagan, who starred opposite Nicole Kidman in the 2001 film “The Others,” has been cast in Amazon Studios’ “Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street.’ Also read: Clive Barker to Rewrite ‘Zombies vs. Gladiators’ for Amazon Studios “Partners” alum Sloane Morgan Siegel has also been cast in the title role of Gortimer Gibbon. Drew Justice (“The Little Rascals Save the Day”), Ashley Boettcher (“Aliens in the Attic”) and “Saving Grace” alum Robyn Lively are also among the principal cast. Luke Matheny, who won an Oscar for his 2010 short film “God of Love,” is directing the pilot. The live-action children’s pilot,...

One Tree Hill vet Sophia Bush has snagged a series regular role in NBC’s cop-focused Chicago Fire spin-off Chicago Pd, TVLine has learned.

Additionally, Patrick Flueger (The 4400) is joining the offshoot as a regular.

Related | Chicago Pd Drops Melissa Sagemiller, Adds Jesse Lee Sofer

Bush, who is coming off of CBS’ quickly-cancelled Partners, will portray Erin Lindsay, a member of the Cpd investigative team who has an unexpected past.

Flueger, meanwhile, will play Kyle Ruzek, a hotheaded rookie plucked by Voight (Jason Beghe) from the Academy for dangerous, delicate undercover work for the Intelligence unit.

Fun fact: Bush...

Here is last week’s caption pic winner. This week’s caption pic is at the bottom of the page.

Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is …

“Republicans’ worst marriage nightmare comes true.”

Thanks to Zam for this week’s winning caption!

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Weekend Birthdays! Cam Gigandet (above) is 31, Lesley Ann Warren is 67, Angela Bassett is 55, Steve Carrell is 51, Mark Salling is 31, Madeleine Stowe is 55, Sean Penn is 53, and Belinda Carlisle is 55. Here is my favorite solo Belinda single.

U.S. Olympic Committee Clarifies: Russian Law Is “Inconsistent With” Olympic Principles. Okay, so now what?

Former San Francisco 49ers Quarterback Steve Young (who is a direct descendant of Brigham Young) and his wife will be the keynote speakers in Salt Lake City at next month’s convention of gay Mormons.

Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva: My anti-gay comments have been ‘misunderstood’. Translation: “I’ve got to backtrack at Olympian...

Comedy fave Michael Urie (Partners, Ugly Betty) stops by Hot in Cleveland this Wednesday (TV Land, 10/9c), but he’s not exactly welcome.

In the following exclusive preview, Urie’s wedding planner finds himself in the middle of a farce when he’s covertly invited to Joy’s Indian dinner party, which she’s just hosting to get in the good graces of the best pediatrician in Cleveland, Dr. Kapoor.

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This Thursday, August 1, Michael Urie, star of Buyer and Cellar and formerly on Ugly Betty amp Partners, will be co-hosting the fourth week of 106.7 Lite FM's Broadway in Bryant Park. The event will also feature perfermances from the casts of Let It Be, Spider-man Turn Off The Dark, Big Fish Norbert Leo Butz, Kate Baldwin and Zachary Unger, First Date Zachary Levi, Krysta Rodriguez, Sara Chase, Kristoffer Cusick, Blake Hammond, Kate Loprest and Bryce Ryness and Kinky Boots Timothy Ware, Andy Kelso, Paul Canaan, Kevin Smith Kirkwood, Kyle Taylor Parker, Kyle Post, Nathan Peck and Joey Taranto.

Celebrity presenters will join actress Sophia Bush to celebrate the people who are improving our communities at this year’s Do Something Awards.

Presenters include Malin Akerman, Lucy Hale, Cynthia Nixon, Russell Simmons, Aisha Tyler and VH1′s Jason Dundas.

This year’s celebrity honorees are Patrick Dempsey, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jennifer Hudson, LL Cool J and Kelly Osbourne, with five inspiring young people also being heralded for spearheading initiatives to build stronger societies.

For updates, check our #DSAwards hashtag on Twitter and head to DoSomething.VH1.com.

The fun officially starts at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 31, as Logan Browning from VH1′s Hit The Floor hosts a red carpet livestream at DoSomething.VH1.com.

Then tune in to the Do Something Awards, Wednesday, July 31 at 8/7c on VH1.

New York, NY (July 22, 2013) — DoSomething.org and VH1 today announced that this year’s Do Something Awards (#DSAwards) will...

What a difference a year makes.

Last year at this time, we were excited that actor Michael Urie was going to be back on our televisions in the CBS sitcom, Partners. Unfortuantely the series premiered last fall to not-so-great reviews and low ratings, so CBS pulled it quickly.

Not one to be down and out for long, Urie is busy promoting his directorial film debut, He’s Way More Famous Than You, which was written by Halley Feiffer and Urie’s partner Ryan Spahn and co-stars Jesse Eisenberg, Vanessa Williams, Mamie Gummer, Ben Stiller and Ralph Macchio. The former Ugly Betty star also is wowing audiences off-Broadway with his one-man show Buyer & Cellar. The Jonathan Tollins play about a young man who takes a job at Barbra Streisand‘s underground personal mall (and meets the lady herself) did so well in its initial run that it’s moving to a larger theater beginning next month.

The Fall TV Season presentations for all the new network shows take place this week with the fourth announced today. Here's a full breakdown of which concepts have made the final list over on CBS.

The king of the networks easily remains in charge despite "Elementary" being their only fresh hit of last season's new shows. The network's line-up remains fairly stable with only a few key moves such as Thursday being expanded to include two hours of comedy programming, and "Hawaii Five-0" moving to Fridays.

Several other pilots didn't make the cut this week including the series sequel to the "Beverly Hills Cop" movies, a TV version of the comedy "Bad Teacher", the "NCIS" mobile spin-off "NCIS: Red," a procedural based on Leif G.W. Persson's literary homicide detective Everett Backstrom, the Frank Marshall-produced political thriller "The Ordained" about a priest turned lawyer trying to save his sister from assassination,...

New York — The slow, lingering demise of "Smash" has felt more like a punch to the gut to the folks on Broadway.

The TV series about the making of a big stage musical came with a flurry of attention and some big names: Steven Spielberg, Debra Messing and Anjelica Huston. It was going to be a valentine to Broadway.

Sometimes, though, love letters get sent back.

After a first season with a healthy-sized audience averaging 7.7 million viewers, it returned this year to such dismal ratings it was banished to Saturday night. It won't be back for a third season.

But while TV was finally focusing on Broadway, plenty of stage veterans jumped to TV during the two-year run of "Smash." Some flamed out, some are holding on and some still hope:

_ Three-time Tony winner Sutton Foster's show about ballerinas, "Bunheads," has been picked up for a second season on ABC Family.

It's been a rough end to what started out as a record-breaking season for openly gay characters on the small screen. After a 2012-13 season that featured a record number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender characters on TV, this past week's wave of cancellations may drastically alter those statistics. Gone are shows that featured prominent gay story lines including NBC's The New Normal and CBS' Partners. Both were semi-autobiographical series about the lives of its nearly all openly gay creators -- Ryan Murphy and Ali Adler on the former, David Kohan (who's not) and Max Mutchnik for the

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This TV season started off with two promising gay-centric shows, the CBS broad sitcom throwback Partners, and NBC’s The New Normal. Both shows had a strong pedigree, with Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnik helming the CBS comedy, and juggernaut Ryan Murphy bringing us the NBC show.

Unfortunately, Partners was slow out of the gate, and when ratings didn’t improve, it was cancelled after six episodes. The New Normal (which is frankly, a better show), was given a full season pickup, but also struggled mightily in the ratings, even as it improved in quality over its freshman year.

In sad but unsurprising news, today NBC officially pulled the plug on the show. Unless another network picks it up (which is unlikely), we won’t get to see how new dads Bryan and David cope with newborn Sawyer, and The New Normal will officially become another show that was Gone Too Soon.

When Sophia Bush began dating Dan Fredinburg a few months ago, friends say the actress knew the 31-year-old Google program manager was a keeper. "They're both so passionate about the world," a Bush confidant tells Us Weekly exclusively in its May 6 issue. "It's for real!" Fredinburg, who has photographed some of the planet's tallest peaks for Google Maps, "is super intelligent," says the insider, "and she really likes him." The former Partners star bonds with her beau over social activism, and Bush is already gushing to friends [...]...

CBS’ drama pilot The Surgeon General has enlisted three well known actors for guest starring/potentially recurring roles. The project centers on Dr. John Sherman (Jason Isaacs), the most powerful doctor in the nation, the Surgeon General, who has 315 million patients. Anna Deavere Smith will play the Vice President; Paul McCrane is set as the President’s Chief of Staff and Miguel Sandoval as Sen. Nortega. David Krumholtz is among a quartet of actors who round out the cast of the NBC/Sony comedy pilot Brenda Forever, which blends stories from Brenda Miller’s (Ellie Kemper) past and present to give a unique portrait of how a chubby, awkward but incredibly confident 13-year-old girl grew up to be a 31-year-old who still marches to the beat of her own drum. Krumholtz is set to play Neil, Brenda’s best friend. While the role is a lead one, Krumholtz has signed...

David Krumholtz has found a new onscreen bestie. (Sorry, Louis.)

The actor, last seen on CBS’ short-lived Partners, is joining NBC’s Brenda Forever pilot, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Krumholtz will play a very close pal to Ellie Kemper‘s Brenda, a 31-year-old who does her own thing. He’ll appear as a guest star in the pilot; if the project goes to series, there’s a good chance he’ll be back.

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The potential series would consist of stories from Brenda Miller’s past and present,...

Updated: Comedy TV writer Lester Lewis, who worked on The Office, died last night. He was 46. Lester most recently wrote and executive produced a “shortcom” project for Fox starring Michael Kosta, which the two co-created. It is eyed for the network’s summer Short-Com Comedy Hour series. Earlier this season, Lewis worked as a consulting producer on David Kohan and Max Mutchnick’s CBS comedy series Partners, having previously served as co-executive producer on Kohan and Mutchnick’s NBC series Four Kings. “We are devastated by the loss of this incredible man and brilliant writer,” Kohan and Mutchick said. “We had the privilege of working with him on two shows. They were both joyous experiences. Our hearts and prayers go out to his wife and children at this time.” Lewis was a consulting producer on NBC’s Emmy-winning Office, where he spent four seasons. He started his career on The PJs...

Exclusive: Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick are venturing into cable with half-hour projects at Showtime and TBS. Both shows, which are in development, hail from Kohan and Mutchnick’s KoMut Entertainment and Warner Bros TV/Warner Horizon, where the duo is under and overall deal. At Showtime, Kohan and Mutchnick are in negotiations for an untitled single-camera comedy project — an Upstairs/Downstairs dark comedy that centers on a self-made first generation American billionaire, his family, and the staff that serves them. This marks Kohan and Mutchnick’s first project at Showtime, reuniting them with the cable network’s entertainment president David Nevins. The pair credit Nevis with helping them get Will & Grace on the air as a development executive at NBC where he got behind the duo’s script. At TBS, Kohan and Mutchnick have Clipsters, an ensemble multi-camera workplace comedy set in a hipster barbershop in the not-so-hip town of Worcester,...

Exclusive: Veteran TV comedy writer-producer Max Mutchnick, co-creator of Emmy-winning Will & Grace, has signed with Wme. Since he started his writing career two decades ago, Mutchnick has been partnered with childhood friend David Kohan. For the past 18-plus years, the duo has been represented by Scott Schwartz at Vision Art Management, who signed them in September 1994 after they had been let go from UTA. Schwartz went on to package eight Kohan and Mutchnick series, including Will & Grace and most recently CBS’ Partners. After the end of Partners, Kohan, who remains with Schwartz, and Mutchnick began contemplating their future. While the two continue to work together on several projects, they also will likely be doing projects separately, and Mutchnick’s signing with a new agency reflects that.

Not every new series works out. There are a hundred reasons why a particular sitcom or drama won’t find an audience, but every year many series find themselves canceled early on in their lives. Just such a fate had befallen the CBS comedy Partners, which starred Sophia Bush of One Tree Hill fame. I have to give Bush my acknowledgement for making the move from drama to comedy even if it didn’t work out in her favor. It’s smart for actors and actresses to keep things fresh by jumping around and not getting tied down by a particular genre. Bush is apparently continuing with that train of thought as she has been cast in the Hatfields & McCoys drama pilot.

A modern-day take on an infamous feud, Hatfields & McCoys takes place in Pittsburgh after the death of a McCoy patriarch reignites the decades long fight between families. According to Deadline,...