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Some new faces are joining the celebronauts on Stars on Mars in the July 10 episode, and TV Insider has an exclusive sneak peek. Marshawn Lynch checks that Tinashe is holding on (she is) as they head to rescue supplies and their new crewmates. With the “capsule oxygen levels critical,” they have two minutes. Once they load up the supplies, they head to get the four new people joining them. And Ronda Rousey admits that she’s a bit worried about having “to start all over again, getting to know everybody. … There comes my social anxiety again.” Watch the full clip above as everyone (those who have gone to get them and those back at the base) braces to find out who’s joining them: a late-night personality, an NBA champion, a reality star, and a hall of fame chef. In Monday’s episode, titled “Resupply Mission,” an incoming message from...

The celebronauts aren’t going to be too happy with Mission Control William Shatner after what he shares in TV Insider’s exclusive sneak peek of the June 26 episode of Stars on Mars. “There’s been an emergency. We have detected a biological contaminant. That’s right, we’ve discovered life on Mars, and now it’s time for a bunch of celebrities to mercilessly annihilate it,” Shatner says in his newest message for the contestants. “If this mysterious organism gets into the food or water supply, the crew’s chance of survival will be minimal. This mission will test your perseverance and will earn you the mission patch. Lucky you,” he continues. “Because of the fire in the farm and dwindling rations due to overeating, two of your crew members must be extracted from the simulation tonight. Good luck, crew. I hope you know your way around a flamethrower.

Fox has set the 12 fearless celebrities who soon will be packing their bags and preparing for launch to the red planet (sort of) on Stars On Mars, the network’s latest unscripted competition series.

Lance Armstrong, Natasha Leggero, Marshawn Lynch, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Adam Rippon, Ronda Rousey, Tom Schwartz, Richard Sherman, Tinashe, Porsha Williams Guobadia, Tallulah Willis and Ariel Winter are the trailblazers who will colonize, compete and conquer “Mars” until there is one victorious space invader, who will claim the title of “the brightest star in the galaxy.”

With William Shatner serving as Mission Control, the series will see the crew members live, eat, sleep, strategize, and bond with each other in the same space station. During their stay, they will be faced with authentic conditions that simulate life on Mars, and they must use their brains and brawn – or maybe just their stellar social skills – to outlast the competition...

William Shatner has signed on to host Fox’s upcoming reality competition show, “Stars on Mars.” The show, which airs on Fox this summer, will put celebrities to the test as they are “faced with authentic conditions that simulate life on Mars,” Fox announced Wednesday.

“Good news for our celebronauts from Mission Control,” Shatner joked in the release. “Thanks to lower gravity on Mars, you’ll weigh 62% less. Bad news: the air is unbreathable, so if you’re from LA, it’ll remind you of home.”

The 92-year-old icon is no stranger to the final frontier, having played Captain James T. Kirk on “Star Trek,” both on TV and in film. Shatner will serve as “Mission Control” on the series, and “will deliver intergalactic tasks to these shining stars throughout their journey on the red planet.”

“The moment I heard the pitch for Stars on Mars, I knew a show this bold,...

George Clooney has found his next film project and he set it up over on Netflix. He will star in and direct an adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s sci-fi novel Good Morning, Midnight. The screenplay for the film will be written by Mark L. Smith.

The post-apocalyptic tale follows “the parallel stories of Augustine (Clooney), a lonely scientist in the Arctic, and an astronaut on board the Aether spacecraft, which is trying to return home to Earth, as Augustine races to make contact with the spaceship.”

Clooney had this to say in a statement:

“Grant and I couldn’t be more excited to be involved with this incredible project. Mark is a writer we’ve long admired and his script is haunting. We’re thrilled to be working with our friends at Netflix as well.”

Scott Stuber, head of Netflix’s film division, added:

“Having known and worked with George for over two decades,...

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Lily Brooks-Dalton’s "slim but ambitious" novel Good Morning, Midnight will be adapted as a movie for Netflix.

George Clooney has officially decided on a follow-up project to this year's well-received Hulu offering, Catch-22, which will see him stray to rival streaming service Netflix for a feature length adaptation of Good Morning, Midnight.

Mark L. Smith has penned the screenplay for Good Morning, Midnight based on Lily Brooks-Dalton’s critically acclaimed sci-fi tome, and Clooney will direct and also star in the movie.

"Grant and I couldn’t be more excited to be involved with this incredible project," said Clooney in a statement (via Variety). "Mark is a writer we’ve long admired and his script is haunting. We’re thrilled to be working with our friends at Netflix as well."

"Having known and worked with George for over two decades, I can’t think of anyone...

Helmed as “the most perfect movie that will ever be made about its subject”, Apollo 11 takes the public behind-the-scenes of the groundbreaking Nasa space mission and first lunar landing. Showcasing exquisite never-before-seen audio and video footage of key historical events and remarkable moments of camaraderie, the riveting documentary has received five stars from critics and will be available on Blu-rayTM, DVD, Digital, and via the digital movie app Movies Anywhere, as well as On Demand on May 14, 2019 from Neon and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

From director Todd Douglas Miller (Dinosaur 13) comes a cinematic event 50 years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Apollo 11 takes us straight to the heart of Nasa’s most celebrated mission—the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names.

When Todd Douglas Miller was editing his film “Apollo 11,” a sweeping, ambitious documentary about Neil Armstrong and the first moon landing mission, he envisioned building up to Armstrong exiting the lunar module, then silently cutting away into the widescreen, IMAX format to reveal the immense scope of the moon’s surface.

The only problem was, Damien Chazelle had done just that for his own film, “First Man.”

“I told Damien, that was my exact idea! We were editing pretty much around the same time,” Miller said he shared with Chazelle when the two met at Sundance. “I was at first a little angry, but the challenge was to come up with something else because I didn’t want to get into the same thing.”

Also Read: 'Apollo 11' Film Review: You Know How It Comes Out, But It's Still a Hell of a Ride

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The year 2019 is barely two months old, but have we already been treated to a potential Oscar winner for 2020? Just a few months after Damien Chazelle‘s “First Man” dramatized Neil Armstrong‘s historic voyage to the moon, the documentary “Apollo 11” explores the same mission using newly discovered 65mm footage that shows us the event from the point of view of the astronauts, the Mission Control team and the spectators on the ground. And it’s already one of the most critically acclaimed films of the year.

As of this writing the film has a MetaCritic score of 89 based on 20 reviews — all positive. That score makes it the second highest rated film of the year so far, behind only “The Souvenir,” which comes out later this year, but has a 95 score based on rave reviews out of the Sundance Film Festival in January. “Apollo 11” also has 100% freshness on...

Just shy of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, Neon’s Apollo 11 is taking one giant leap into well over a hundred Imax theaters this weekend. The feature film, by Todd Douglas Miller and compiled from extensive very rarely seen large format footage of the mission, is one of the first big 2019 Sundance Film Festival debuts to hit theaters. The title joins a decent number of new Specialty releases Friday, which follows an Oscar-weekend lull. The Crown and Doctor Who’s Matt Smith stars in Mapplethorpe, Ondi Timoner’s biopic being launched by Samuel Goldwyn Films. IFC Films is opening Michael Winterbottom’s latest, The Wedding Guest. The thriller stars Slumdog Millionaire’s Dev Patel and is getting a traditional roll out beginning in New York this weekend. And Music Box Films is rolling out Christian Petzold’s French and German drama Transit also in New York Friday...

In this Oscar season’s top contenders for sound editing and mixing, craftspeople personalized their authentic sounds by linking them to characters or dramatic events. What we hear in “First Man,” “A Quiet Place,” “Roma,” “A Star Is Born,” and “Mary Poppins Returns” emanates from the outside world, but also turns inward. It’s heightened reality at its most creative, especially when mixed in Dolby Atmos, which adds greater accuracy and detail.

Since “First Man” is told from the point of view of a grieving Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling), director Damien Chazelle desired both historical accuracy and subjective intensity in the soundscape overseen by his Oscar-winning “La La Land” team. Fortunately, they got the full cooperation of Nasa to depict the Apollo mission to the moon, capturing authentic sounds of spacecraft and Mission Control.

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A new documentary film about Neil Armstrong will use home videos shot by the man himself and unseen footage from Nasa to tell the celebrated U.S. astronaut’s life story. “Armstrong” is in production and will launch in 2019 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first moon landings.

The producers of “Armstrong,” Tin Goose Films, are well-versed in the subject of space exploration, having made feature documentaries “The Last Man on the Moon” and “Mission Control: The Unseen Heroes of Apollo,” which Variety called “an engrossing behind-the-scenes look at the flight controllers and support crews that helped America win the space race.”

“Armstrong” will deliver next spring. The documentary is one of a number of projects dealing with the 1969 lunar landing. Damien Chazelle’s “First Man,” which also centered on Armstrong, was released this year, and drama series “One Giant Leap,” produced by Mike Medavoy, is expected to...

Ever since NBC killed “Must See TV” on Thursday nights (Rip), the Peacock network has felt only spy/cop dramas (ex. Blacklist, State of Affairs, anything by Dick Wolf) and event programming (The Voice, football, musicals) can be successful. In other words, not comedies. Robert Greenblatt, NBC Entertainment chairman, fixes this problem for the seventh and last season of Parks and Recreation by airing back-to-back episodes on Tuesdays at 8 pm starting January 13. The schedule allows them to “‘eventize’ the final season to maximize the impact of these episodes, which really do take the show to a new level. The highly anticipated one-hour finale will air behind The Voice in order to lead the largest audience possible into what promises to be a very special hour of television.”

To actual Parks and Rec fans, this move feels like a seven-week burnoff of the last successful sitcom NBC had left. Community has a new season on Yahoo,...

In a surprising bit of news, the Tina Fey-produced comedy series "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" is being moved from NBC to Netflix with the streaming service also renewing the show for a second season. Why is this a surprise? Well the Ellie Kemper-led show hasn't actually gone to air yet.

Fey and fellow "30 Rock" executive producer Robert Carlock are behind the project about a woman who escapes from a doomsday cult and starts life over in New York. NBC picked up a thirteen-episode straight to series after multiple networks engaged in an intense bidding war for the project.

They had an inside advantage - the series is also produced by NBC-owned Universal Television. However, several months into the new season and the network still had not scheduled the series which has raised a few eyebrows.

The sale to Netflix and especially the renewal should help quell some of those concerns.

Major Us broadcasters are developing more than 20 TV adaptations of feature films as they follow the example of their cable counterparts.

Us pay-tv networks have recently found success with the likes of Fargo and Teen Wolf, and have lined up further adaptations of Scream (MTV), Twelve Monkeys (Syfy), Shutter Island (HBO) and Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (Starz).

Traditional networks - ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and The CW - are now getting involved and have struck deals for adaptations of well-known films including Big, Minority Report and The Devil’s Advocate, as well as more niche films such as John Ritter’s Problem Child and Val Kilmer’s Real Genius.

The networks have ordered scripts for the 20-plus adaptations and will decide which projects to pilot by January. Those taken to series will likely be ordered in May for an autumn 2015 launch.

UK consultancy firm Tape monitors the Us development process for a number of UK broadcasters...

Since she got her first break while working in a salon—where a customer helped her get a role to get her SAG card—Julie Meyer has appeared on a variety of shows in guest spots, from Southland to How I Met Your Mother to The Middle and The New Normal. Her first real gig was doing sketches with Jay Leno on The Jay Leno Show, so she's had some interesting experiences during the five short years she's been acting in Los Angeles. Add another one to the list: She was cast in a supporting role on NBC's upcoming Adam McKay...

In this week's 10 Stories You Might Have Missed: "Game of Thrones" fandom is going into overdrive with the revelation that the upcoming fifth season will include at least one unprecedented flashback. Also: Scarlett Johansson has been offered a big payday for the lead in live-action "Ghost in the Shell," Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are re-teaming to produce a new Syfy series, NBC drops Krysten Ritter's new comedy "Mission Control," Guillermo del Toro now wants a third "Pacific Rim" movie, new scripts for "Selfie," "Manhattan Love Story," and "Forever" are ordered up, and more.  Catch up here:...

On next Tuesday’s episode of About a Boy (NBC, 9:30/8:30c), Marcus’ adolescent woes begin, er, bubbling to the surface, and TVLine has an exclusive sneak peek at Will’s solution. (Spoiler alert: He’s not very helpful.)

In the clip below, master procrastinator Will spends some time bubble-wrap-sumo-wrestling with Marcus instead of packing up his San Francisco apartment — and Marcus sees a perfect opportunity to get Will’s help in finding a new best friend. (Ideally, a friend that isn’t a total jerk this time.)

Press Play on the video below to see Marcus give Will some serious puppy-dog eyes,...

The Good Wife

Archie Panjabi, who plays investigator Kalinda Sharma in CBS' "The Good Wife," will depart the show at the end of the current sixth season when her contract expores. Panjabi has signed a development/holding deal with 20th Century Fox Television to star in a drama pilot for the studio in the spring.

A frequent scene stealer in early seasons and somewhat adrift in latter ons due to weak subplots, Panjabi's work often stood out even amongst the high calibre of actors on the show. Her role as Kalinda scored her three Emmy nominations, including one win, and a Golden Globe nomination. [Source: The Live Feed]

Moone Boy

ABC has given a put pilot commitment to Sony Pictures TV for an American remake of Chris O'Dowd's autobiographical sitcom "Moone Boy". O'Dowd will write and exec produce the remake.

The coming-of-age story follows a 12-year-old boy and his sarcastic, imaginary friend who helps him navigate childhood challenges.

Rob Lowe‘s vacation from NBC may not last that long, after all.

The Parks and Recreation actor will lead a comedy pilot about a newly sober narcissist whose decision to be a good parent doesn’t come until his kids are teens, our sister site Deadline reports.

The potential NBC comedy follows Lowe’s character, who dries out and returns to his hometown to issue mea culpas to his son and daughter, as well as to his ex-wife and her new family.

The part was written for the West Wing vet, who partnered with the project’s writers/executive...

We have bad news for Krysten Ritter fans. Her latest comedy Mission Control will not make it to the mid-season replacement as originally planned. NBC has pulled the plug on it much like they did with Emerald City. The reasoning given was due to other casting issues and key people leaving the series. The show was to focus on Krysten’s role as a strong female lead fighting up against a big head who is male. The show was set to be a mid-season replacement once NBC picked it up.

We are sad for Krysten. She hasn’t had the best luck as of late. It is a good thing her previous series was picked up for syndication. That is one less thing she needs to worry about while she works hard to perhaps finally land the big break she needs. At least the in the meantime though, we know...

NBC has cancelled plans for one of their new comedies -- Mission Control, reports Deadline. The single-camera sitcom was one of the last shows that the peacock network ordered last spring.

Set in the 1960s, the pilot for Mission Control stars Krysten Ritter as a brilliant and tough aerospace engineer who leads a team of Nasa scientists at the cutting edge of space exploration. Michael Rosenbaum was in the pilot but his role was set to be recast.

The comedy didn't test well but people at the network liked it and they found a way to order six episodes. Now, NBC apparently has many new comedies in the works so they decided they don't want to move forward with Mission Control.

In 2012, NBC cancelled Next Caller before airing but had actually shot a few of those episodes.

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Well, we didn't see this one coming. And NBC is the first network to cancel one of its new series this fall season, but there's a twist: the show hasn't even premiered yet. Mission Control, a sitcom set in the '60s starring Krysten Ritter as an astronaut, has been canceled by the network, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Set to debut at midseason, Will Ferrell served as one of Mission Control's executive producers, along with Adam McKay, and The Mindy Project's Tommy Dewey co-starred. So why was Mission Control scrapped so early? According to THR, recasting issues are to blame for the series' early exit. However, another show was also canceled before it aired: Fox decided...

Kalinda’s boots apparently were made for walking.

Emmy winner Archie Panjabi will exit The Good Wife at the close of Season 6, our sister site Deadline reports, at which time her current pact with the acclaimed CBS series ends.

“Archie is an amazing actress who helped build Kalinda from the ground up as an enigmatic, powerful, and sexy character,” Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King said in a statement. “It’s been a pleasure to write for her, and we’ll be sad to see her go; but we still have her for the rest of Season 6, so let...

Archie Panjabi is leaving “The Good Wife" to star in her own TV show Kalinda will exit at the end of the season so that Panjabi could pursue her own TV series. Panjabi has signed a deal with 20th Century Fox TV to star in her own drama pilot sometime in 2015. NBC scraps “Mission Control” starring Krysten Ritter The ‘60s-set midseason workplace comedy starring Ritter as a strong woman who butts head at Nasa with an astronaut amid the race to the moon won’t air due to casting issues. “Mission Control’s” producers included Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and “It’s Always Sunny’s” David Hornsby. “The Facts of Life” alum Mindy Cohn to visit “Bones” She’ll play Daisy’s "New Age-focused doula." Click Read Full Post For More “Person of Interest” is coming to Netflix The first three seasons of the CBS drama will be available for...

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The network has decided not to continue production on its midseason comedy Mission Control, THR reports, which was to star Krysten Ritter (Don’t Trust the B— in Apartment 23) as a strong ’60s woman who clashes with her egotistical astronaut co-worker (The Mindy Project‘s Tommy Dewey).

According to the report, recasting issues are to blame for the cancellation.

And here’s another bummer: Mission Control would have featured a mini Better Off Ted reunion, with Malcolm Barrett and Jonathan Slavin both among the cast.

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Mission Control won't get off the launchpad. NBC is axing plans for its Krysten Ritter sitcom before its even had a chance to premiere. EW has confirmed THR's report that the network is not moving forward with the high-concept retro-astronaut comedy. Mission Control was from the producer team of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, along with writer-producer David Hornsby (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia). The 1960s-set comedy was described as a "workplace ensemble in the tone of Anchorman that examines what happens when a strong woman (Don't Trust the B---'s Ritter) butts heads with a macho astronaut (The Mindy Project...

NBC's Mission Control has been grounded. The space comedy starring Krysten Ritter has been canceled ahead of its anticipated midseason debut, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. See more Faces of Fall 2014 Mission Control, from Universal Television-based Gary Sanchez Productions, was a female-driven workplace comedy that took place in the 1960s. The single-camera comedy was in the vein of Anchorman and starred the Apartment 23 alum as a strong woman who butts heads with a macho astronaut (The Mindy Project's Tommy Dewey) in the race to land on the moon. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's David Hornsby

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TV’s erstwhile Lex Luthor is up to his old tricks, this time faking it as a clergyman.

Smallville alum Michael Rosenbaum has landed the lead in the TV Land pilot Impastor, our sister site Deadline reports.

The single-camera comedy from Christopher Vane (Suddenly Susan, Bill Engvall) follows a deep-in-debt scalawag who lies low in a small town by passing himself off as the gay pastor the local church recently hired.

Since wrapping his Smallville run, Rosenbaum’s TV credits have included the Fox comedy Breaking In and NBC’s Will Ferrell-produced, 1960s-set midseason comedy Mission Control, opposite Krysten Ritter (though his role,...

Have you noticed how very few recastings there had been this pilot season? If I’m not missing something, CBS’ How I Met Your Dad was the only pilot to recast a major character after the table read this year, with Tiya Sircar joining. I hear the studios implemented pre-table reads and introduced other procedural tweaks that greatly reduced the number of cast changes. That also applies to the newly picked up series. One recasting that is going forward is on NBC‘s midseason comedy series Mission Control. A workplace ensemble set in 1962, Mission Control, from Universal TV and producer Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, examines what happens when a strong woman (Krysten Ritter) butts heads with a macho astronaut in the race to land on the moon. The project is recasting the role of Bus, a handsome, jockish, stubborn and loudly likeable Nasa astronaut. It was played in the pilot by Michael Rosenbaum.

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The TV network upfronts have begun and NBC has released its fall schedule. Katherine Heigl‘s political drama State of Affairs will get that powerful time slot after The Voice while The Biggest Loser bumps what has long been a home to comedy on Thursday nights.

NBC also ordered three new comedies including the gay parenting comedy One Big Happy, which stars Elisha Cuthbert as a lesbian who has a child with her best friend (Nick Zano) when he meets the woman of his dreams. It also ordered Mission Control where Krysten Ritter plays an engineer dealing with sexism in 1960s space race. Mission Control also reunites Jonathan Slavin with his Better Off Ted co-star Malcolm Barrett.

The network also put together a last-minute renewal for Parenthood (They first needed to convince the expensive cast to agree to appear in fewer episodes). Furthermore, NBC announced that this will be...

The final decisions have been made regarding which shows the various networks plan to cancel or renew, and which new ones they intend to pick up.

At NBC the fate of its last two undecideds - "Parenthood" and "Dracula" - have been sealed. "Parenthood" will be getting a sixth and final season which will serve as a proper conclusion. Similarly, the network's long-running comedy "Parks and Recreation" will finish up with a seventh and final season sometime early next year.

Meanwhile "Dracula" has been cancelled. The lavishly produced series scored good reviews for its ambitious reinvention of the story - turning it into something more akin to "The Count of Monte Cristo" meets "The Prestige" but with romanticism and throat ripping.

The series was produced under a lower license fee model and had a passionate fanbase. For its Friday timeslot, ratings were consistent but underwhelming.

Part of the reason for...

A very strange thing happened to NBC this year: for the first time in a decade — a period during which it has mostly been a laughingstock — it will finish a season in first place among the adults 18-49 demographic that advertisers care about most. Ordinarily, a network that wins a season can play things conservatively for the next year, but NBC's success isn't entirely replicable. Yes, the network's buoyed by regular, season-long programming like "The Voice" and hit freshman drama "The Blacklist," but a lot of credit for that win comes from "Sunday Night Football," which always goes away in January (leaving the network's ratings on that night a shambles), and some from the Winter Olympics, which won't be back for another four years. So the schedule that NBC announced for next season seems on the one hand a fairly stable one. "The Blacklist," for instance, will stay in a...

NBC’s two-hour Thursday night comedy block will come to an end this fall. The broadcaster is scaling back its comedy investment on TV’s most lucrative night for advertising. Instead, NBC plans to gives its breakout hit The Blacklist the post-Super Bowl spot next year, then shift it to Thursday nights at 9 p.m. in midseason.

All told, seven new dramas and comedies will join NBC’s lineup next season, along with two event miniseries. Stand-out dramas include the return of former Grey’s Anatomy star Katherine Heigl to prime-time in the thriller State of Affairs (which will receive...

Just keeping busy before its big schedule announcement on Sunday, NBC picked up a trio of comedies on Friday afternoon, including two from executive producer Will Ferrell. The "Anchorman" star and "Anchorman" director Adam McKay's Gary Sanchez Productions is behind "Bad Judge" and "Mission Control," which will be joined by "One Big Happy" on NBC's slate for next season. Sadly, Ferrell has nothing to do with "One Big Happy," but with Ellen DeGeneres executive producing, it doesn't lack for behind-the-scenes starpower. Let's look at the three new NBC comedies and let's try not to resent that they were ordered while "Community" was cancelled... In addition to DeGeneres, "One Big Happy" is executive produced by creator Liz Feldman and pilot director Scott Ellis. The comedy focuses on best friends Lizzy (Elisha Cuthbert) and Luke (Nick Zano). She's a Type-a lesbian! He's a laid-back straight guy! They've decided that they want to have a family together,...

The network that tried and failed to tell a very modern parenting story with A New Normal will try yet again with One Big Happy, a new comedy starring Elisha Cuthbert as a lesbian who’s pregnant with her best friend’s baby.

The executive producers on the comedy are Ellen Degeneres, Liz Feldman and Scott Ellis (2 Broke Girls).

Here’s the official logline for the sitcom that’ll premiere as part of NBC’s midseason lineup: Best friends Lizzy (gay and a bit type-a) and Luke (straight and more laid back) are like family. When they were kids and...

Update: NBC has ordered a pair of Gary Sanchez Productions comedy pilots — the Kate Walsh-starring Bad Judge and the Krysten Ritter-starrer Mission Control – and with a third series order is back in the multi-camera game adding One Big Happy for midseason. I hear Mission Control and One Big Happy orders were for six episodes eyed for midseason. I also hear this will wrap the network’s pickups for the day. Related: NBC Pilots: What Is Still Alive? NBC has been high on the gay-straight relationship sitcom One Big Happy produced by Ellen DeGeneres and starring Elisha Cuthbert and Nick Zano, though there had been questions whether the single-camera-heavy NBC would be open to dabble back into multi-camera sitcoms. (Besides One Big Happy, NBC brass also liked the Jerrod Carmichael multi-camera presentation, though it has not been picked up) Written by Liz Feldman, One Big Happy from Warner Bros...

Singer-songwriter-actress Alison Sudol (A Fine Frenzy) has been tapped as a series regular on USA Network’s six episode event series Dig, an action adventure drama from co-creators and executive producers Tim Kring and Gideon Raff. It centers on Peter (Jason Isaacs), an FBI agent stationed in Jerusalem who, while investigating a murder of a woman archaeologist, uncovers a conspiracy 2000 years in the making that threatens to change the course of history. Sudol, repped by Resolution and Dave Fleming at Mosaic, will play Emma Wilson, an American intern working on a dig site in Jerusalem who befriends Peter (Isaacs). Sudel recurred on Transparent and will be seen in upcoming feature Other People’s Children. Eric Nenninger has joined NBC’s pilot Mission Control, a Universal TV-produced comedy from executive producers Adam McKay and Will Ferrell. A workplace ensemble set in 1962, Mission Control examines what happens when a strong woman...

Vanessa Aspillaga (Law & Order) is set for a guest recurring role on Starz‘s ballet drama Flesh And Bone. The series follows Claire (Sarah Hay), a young dancer with has a distinctly troubled past, as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York. Aspillaga will play Monica, the company’s assistant manager, who is stable, extremely good at her job and at managing her boss. The actress, whose credits include Elementary, The Good Wife and CBS’ Untitled Jim Gaffigan pilot, is repped by Paradigm. Related: 2014 NBC Pilots Leah Renee (The Playboy Club) has booked a role in NBC‘s comedy pilot Mission Control, from exec producers Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. Set in 1962, the workplace ensemble examines what happens when a strong woman (Krysten Ritter) butts heads with a macho astronaut (Tommy Dewey) in the race to land on the moon. Renee will play the Ritter character’s secretary Jessica,...