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Carol Goldwasser, a casting director known for her work shaping young talent on shows like “Hannah Montana,” died Dec. 5 at her home in Palm Springs after surgery. She was 67.

Goldwasser’s death was confirmed to Variety by her friend, manager Theodore Gekis.

Goldwasser worked in Los Angeles and New York for over two decades, bringing her expertise in casting to shows like “Hannah Montana,” “Austin & Ally,” “Dog with a Blog” and “Cousins for Life.”

Before landing those jobs, she made the move to Los Angeles in 1991 with no plan but landed a role as a casting associate on “Melrose Place” and the pilot of “My So-Called Life.” From 1994 to 1996, she worked as manager of casting at Disney/Touchstone Television and was promoted to director of casting, a role she held until 1998.

“Carol was a wonderfully talented casting director and a delight to be in the same room with,” Marc Hirscheld,...

Carol Goldwasser, a casting director who found actors for such popular kids-focused TV shows as Hannah Montana, Austin & Ally, Dog With a Blog and Cousins for Life, has died. She was 67.

Goldwasser died unexpectedly Dec. 5 at her home in Palm Springs after minor surgery, her friend and manager, Theodore Gekis, announced.

Known for her signature “Hi, Doll!” greeting and for nurturing such talent as Zac Efron, Khary Payton and Alison Brie, Goldwasser handled castings in Los Angeles and New York for more than two decades.

“Carol was a wonderfully talented casting director and a delight to be in the same room with,” Marc Hirschfeld, former executive vp casting at NBC, said in a statement. “Always positive, enthusiastic and with an annoyingly sunny disposition. The world will be a little less sunny without her.”

Born on Aug. 3, 1957, in Freeport, New York, Goldwasser excelled as a piano student as a youngster,...

Carol Goldwasser, whose expertise in casting helped to shape TV series like Hannah Montana and Dog with a Blog, died unexpectedly December 5 at her home after minor surgery. She was 67.

Her passing was confirmed by her friend, manager Theodore Gekis.

For over two decades, Goldwasser worked in casting in Los Angeles and New York while transforming the television landscape with her keen eye for new and emerging talent. Among her successes were Hannah Montana, Austin & Ally, Dog with a Blog and Cousins for Life, which she cast alongside her former partner Howard Meltzer. She was a champion of young talent such as Zac Efron, Khary Payton and Alison Brie.

Goldwasser was known for her generosity, warmth, sense of humor, and her signature “Hi, doll!” greeting.

“Carol was passionate, caring, and funny, really, really funny,” says Meltzer. “She will be missed by her dear friends, colleagues, and all the many child...

Peyton Meyer has joined the cast of “Days of our Lives” in the newly created role of Doug Williams III, the grandson of the late Doug Williams (played by the late Bill Hayes). His first airdate is set for Tuesday, December 3.

Fans first got a glimpse of Meyer earlier this month when he appeared in the “Day of Days” sneak peek highlighting what’s to come on the daytime drama series this season.

In an interview with TV Insider, Meyer describes his character as a “mischievous” young man, similar to how the first Doug Williams was introduced in 1970. “He’s in and out of trouble. No matter where he goes, chaos comes with him. He’s not purposefully mischievous or purposefully wishes harm on people,” Meyer notes. “I think it’s just how he grew up, that everything he does ends up causing a bad karmic chaos storm behind him.

John Peaslee, the writer and producer who worked alongside his longtime creative partner, Judd Pillot, on such sitcoms as Coach, Just Shoot Me!, According to Jim and Liv and Maddie, has died. He was 73.

Peaslee died Monday of natural causes at his home in Sherman Oaks, Pillot announced. The two had collaborated for 35 years.

“I will be forever thankful to the universe that I was with him for several hours that day, that I was able to hold his hand, recount all the stories — way too many to tell, but not nearly enough to fill the hole in my heart,” Pillot wrote on Instagram.

Peaslee and Pillot teamed on ABC’s Coach from 1989-93, on NBC’s Just Shoot Me! from 2002-03, on ABC’s According to Jim from 2005-09 and on Disney Channel’s Liv and Maddie from 2013-17.

The pair also created ABC’s A Whole New Ballgame,...

Actress Francesca Capaldi gave a review of her latest movie Stinky Summer in her new uInterview.

Capaldi discussed how her character fits into the plot. “I play Emily, who is the eldest sister in the family,” she told uInterview founder Erik Meers. “Emily is a little bit—she’s a rule-follower, she’s by-the-book, she’s a bookworm, and she kind of does her part to keep the family together as they’re all very busy and they all have very chaotic lives. So she definitely takes on the role of mom to her older sister and younger sisters for sure.”

As overview for the movie, Capaldi explained, “It is a super fun one about a girl and…a skunk who kind of crash the party as she’s on the way to summer camp.”

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The Off Broadway world premiere of the new Robert O’Hara play Shit. Meet. Fan. will feature a cast headed by Garret Dillahunt, Billy Magnussen and Debra Messing, McC Theater announced today.

The play, which will also star Tramell Tillman and Constance Wu, begins previews Thursday October 10, at McC Theater’s Newman Mills Theater, with an opening night on Monday October 28. The limited engagement runs through Sunday November 17.

O’Hara will direct his play, which is based on Paolo Genovese’s 2016 Italian comedy-drama Perfect Strangers. The movie holds the Guinness record for most remade film in cinema history, with more than 24 remakes in different languages.

Also in the cast will be Genevieve Hannelius, most recently seen in the Netflix original film Along for the Ride and the Netflix original series American Vandal. She is perhaps best known for starring on the three-time Emmy-nominated Disney Channel series Dog with a Blog.

Additional casting will be announced shortly.

On the first anniversary of Annie Wersching’s far-too-soon passing, the actress’ family shared a beautiful tribute on Instagram.

“We are hit with a sadness that never seems to fade,” the Monday-morning post, shown below, reads. “But, we are also reminded that every cloud, flower, bird, rainbow, sun and moon is filled with all of her love times one million. Forever in our hearts. Forever a bond that’s never broken.”

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Joey Bragg, Tyler Alvarez, Genevieve Hannelius star.

Premiere Entertainment Group has acquired international rights to American High and Ld Entertainment’s teen comedy Sid Is Dead starring Joey Bragg, Tyler Alvarez and Genevieve Hannelius and is kicking off talks in Cannes this week.

Eli Gonda directed the film from Peter Warren’s screenplay based on a novel by Drew Frist and Tom Dolby. The story centres on a high school senior (Bragg) who fears for his life after getting the school bully suspended and creates a bucket list of everything he will miss out on when he expects his life...

Kathryn Newton makes her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. The actor has a huge superhero career ahead of her. But she also has a secret project in the works related to her vintage toy obsession.

Kathryn Newton plays Cassie Lang in ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ Kathryn Newton attends Marvel Studios’ “Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania” at Regency Village Theatre on February 06, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

Newton has been making strides in the entertainment industry for over a decade. She started her career as a child actor, appearing in shows like All My Children, Gary Unmarried, Mad Men, and Dog With a Blog.

Many know her for her roles in Big Little Lies and Supernatural. But she’s also starred in several other popular projects, including Freaky, Little Women, The Society, Bad Teacher, and Paranormal Activity 4. Newton also starred in the award-winning...

Annie Wersching, a veteran TV actress who starred in 24 and Bosch, has died at age 45 after a two-year cancer battle. Stephen Full, Wersching’s husband, paid tribute to his late wife in a statement to Deadline on Sunday, January 29. “There is a cavernous hole in the soul of this family today,” he wrote. “But she left us the tools to fill it. She found wonder in the simplest moment. She didn’t require music to dance. She taught us not to wait for adventure to find you. ‘Go find it. It’s everywhere.’ And find it we shall.” Wersching married Full, a TV actor who had roles on Dog With a Blog and Santa Clarita Diet, at their Los Angeles home in 2009, per People. They later welcomed three children: Freddie, 12, Ozzie, 9, and Archie 4. “As I drove our boys, the true loves of her life, down the winding driveway and street,...

Since 1992, the TV academy has honored the work of voice actors almost annually, beginning with half a dozen cast members from “The Simpsons.” From 2014 onward, the Best Voice-Over Performance award has been bestowed separately from the Best Narrator one, with the inaugural recipient of the former prize having been Harry Shearer of “The Simpsons.” This year’s lineup features seven nominees, including one former winner and two posthumous contenders.

Maya Rudolph, who took this award in 2020 and 2021 for “Big Mouth,” is now seeking her third win for the same show. She is involved in her second consecutive rematches with Julie Andrews (“Bridgerton”), Stanley Tucci (“Central Park”) and Jessica Walter (“Archer”), the last of whom is on her second post-death bid in a row. The remaining three slots are filled by category newcomers F. Murray Abraham (“Moon Knight”) and “What If…?” duo Chadwick Boseman (who died in August 2020) and Jeffrey Wright.

Robin Thede predicted the end of the world in her HBO sketch comedy A Black Lady Sketch Show.

One of the first sketches in the six-part series, which launched in August 2019, features Thede, Ashley Nicole Black, Quinta Brunson and Gabrielle Dennis, dealing with “The Event,” which runs through the series.

“When I brought that idea into our writers room, I had a fever dream, literally like a sweating dream in the middle of the night,” Thede tells Deadline. “I woke up, wrote it on two sides of a paper, single-spaced, in this chicken scratch, and brought it into the writers. I said, ‘This is what the interstitials are going to be. This is what we’re going to do.’ And they all just looked at me like I was insane. They were like, ‘You need more sleep.’ But, it turned out to be prophetic, in so many ways.”

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Exclusive: ABC has bought one of the first projects for the 2020-21 development cycle, and it falls right into the network’s sweet spot on the half-hour side — a family comedy with a unique twist.

The untitled single-camera comedy, from Kapital Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV, is about two parents, Ted and Mandy, trying to navigate parenthood in L.A. raising a non-binary, gender-fluid child.

Chad Gervich is writing the project based on personal experience, with Perfect Harmony creator/executive producer Lesley Wake Webster supervising.

The two will executive produce with Kapital’s Aaron Kaplan and Dana Honor.

Gervich has an extensive background in reality TV, most recently working on MTV’s Double Shot at Love with DJ Pauly D & Vinny. His writing credits include Cake Wars and Dog with a Blog.

Wake Webster previously was a co-executive producer on ABC/20th TV’s family comedy Speechless and on...

Brat TV has unveiled its winter slate, with the Gen Z-focused digital network debuting two new series including Sunnsyide Up, a comedy starring Nia Sioux. The new series, along with the Season 2 return of Crown Lake, hit the service this week.

Sunnyside Up stars Sioux about four households and their teens on the same cul-de-sac. Kaycee Rice and Nina Lu (Bunk’d) co-star. It is joined in the lineup by Crazy Fast, which charts the rise of a new high school track and field team. Kamri Noel and Andrew Swilley star.

Crown Lake, which debuted this summer and is produced by Pretty Little Liars alum Sara Shepard, stars Francesca Capaldi (Dog With a Blog) and Kyla-Drew.

Brat TV, which recently inked a deal with MGM TV to create Ya content, averages...

Exclusive: Sara Shepard, author of book series Pretty Little Liars, which became a Freeform mystery series that ran for seven seasons and spawned the current spinoff Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, has set a new series. Crown Lake will debut this summer on Gen Z streaming service Brat.

Crown Lake is set at an elite boarding school in the 1990s. Its ensemble cast is led by Francesca Capaldi (Dog With a Blog), Kyla-Drew and Emily Skinner (Andi Mack). Lilia Buckingham, from Brat’s original series Dirt, narrates and co-produces. Ollie Waters, Glory Curda, Sophia Lucia and Lucas Stadvec also are in the cast.

Shepard is producing Crown Lake which like all Brat series is written by the streamer’s writers room overseen by co-founder Rob Fishman.

“Brat has really tapped into what teens watch, and how they watch TV,” Shepard said. “It was thrilling to help...

Paul Alan Smith and Lee Rosenbaum’s ESArtists has brought on literary agent Neda Niroumand and manager Sonia Gambaro.

Niroumand brings a strong client roster to ESArtists, including writer Justin Monjo, whose movie Storm Boy, starring Geoffrey Rush, will be released in the U.S. this spring; Philip Stark; Cailan Rose; BAFTA Award-winner Alex Rose; Michele Giannusa (Dead Girls Detective Agency) and award-winning director Vincent Lannoo (Trepalium).

Niroumand was most recently a literary agent at Buchwald, and before that she successfully ran her own management and production company. She previously launched the Literary Department at Vince Cirrincione & Associates, held a position with The Gersh Agency and spent time at Kustom Entertainment and MGM.

Producer/manager Gambaro brings a strong roster of clients from her company Pollinate Entertainment, including publisher Emet Comics; Lorien McKenna; writer/director Vr...

Kuma, a dog who played “Stan” on early episodes of Disney Channel’s Dog With A Blog, and later appeared in Nick Jr.’s Mutt & Stuff, has died. He was 16 years old (just shy of 17) and suffered from complications from a recent stroke.

The original star of Dog With A Blog, Kuma was chosen out of thousands of furry Hollywood hopefuls to play the starring role of Stan, a dog who talked (via the voice of Stephen Full) and maintained a blog that covered the antics of his human family.

Set in Pasadena, the 2012-2015 run of the show centered around the children trying to keep Stan’s secret from their parents, fearing he would be taken away if discovered. However, on-set conflicts between Kuma’s owner, Sarah Clifford, and another animal trainer caused her to pull him from the show. A look-alike was subbed in for Kuma by...

Leo J. Clarke, an Emmy nominated producer who worked on a host of comedy series including “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show,” and “The Steve Harvey Show,” has died. He was 60.

Clarke died Aug. 27 in San Francisco, where he also grew up and attended high school, eventually earning a BA in theater arts at Santa Clara University. He then went on to begin his career in television, starting as a production assistant on “The Redd Foxx Show” before joining “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show“ as a production manager.

From there, he became involved with more than 400 television sitcom episodes, the likes of which include “Cedric the Entertainer Presents,” “All of Us,” Louis C.K.’s show “Lucky Louie,” “Frank TV,” “Pair of Kings,” “I Didn’t Do It” and a 1995 remake of “Get Smart.”

Clarke found his greatest success at the Disney Channel where he worked on the hit show “Dog with a Blog.

Gloria Calderon Kellett, the co-creator of the Netflix reboot of “One Day at a Time,” is producing a comedy in development at CBS that hails from one of the Netflix show’s writers.

“One Day at a Time” writer Debby Wolfe will write and co-executive produce the CBS project, which is a multi-cam comedy titled “Just Like Us.” In the series, a widower takes in his teenage Salvadoran niece while still raising his two grown daughters, retired parents, and running the restaurant he started with his late wife.

Calderon Kellett will executive produce with Marc Provissiero also executive producing. Sony Pictures Television will produce in association with Calderon Kellett’s Glo Nation banner. Calderon Kellett and Glo Nation are currently under an overall deal at the studio, which also produces “One Day at a Time.”

Should the project move forward it would mark the first series creator credit for Wolfe.

Leo J. Clarke, an Emmy-nominated producer who worked on such comedy series as It's Garry Shandling's Show, Moesha and The Steve Harvey Show, has died. He was 60.

Clarke died Aug. 27 in San Francisco of congestive heart failure and complications from several strokes, his wife, Betsy, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Clarke received three Emmy nominations for outstanding children's program in 2014-16 for producing the Disney Channel's Dog With a Blog after working on two other Disney kids shows, Pair of Kings and I Didn't Do It. 

Clarke also produced Lucky Louie, starring Louis C.K. and ...

We are incredibly excited for tonight’s premiere of the highly anticipated season four premiere of AMC’s critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated series “Better Call Saul”! Just wait till you get a load of the first two episodes, as this season is off to an absolutely amazing start!

We had a chance to catch up with the cast and crew of “Better Call Saul” including Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian, Michael Mando, and Giancarlo Esposito for a press conference to discuss some pertinent details for the upcoming season.

By the end of Season 3 of “Better Call Saul”, a near-fatal car crash forces Jimmy and Kim to re-evaluate what’s truly important to them — and how far they’re willing to go to pursue their ambitions. While Kim chooses to take a step back from her fledgling solo practice to recuperate, Jimmy tries to make amends with his brother.

Rosario Dawson is on the hunt for a killer at USA Network: The actress will star in the network’s drama pilot Briarpatch, our sister site Deadline reports.

The project — adapted from Ross Thomas’ novel by Andy Greenwald (Legion) and executive-produced by Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot) — follows Allegra “Pick” Dill (Dawson), a Washington investigator who returns to her corrupt Texas hometown after her homicide-detective sister is killed by a car bomb. Allegra’s search for the murderer turns into a dangerous excavation of her own past.

Dawson has kept busy recently with multiple shows: She plays nurse Claire Temple...

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Freeform is gearing up to bring two more superheroes into our lives with the premiere of Cloak & Dagger, but one face that might already look familiar is the actress playing Tandy Bowen, aka Dagger. While viewers will have to wait a little longer to discover more about her superpowers, here's everything you need to know about Olivia Holt, who plays Tandy on the show.

For starters, she's been making a splash on TV for a while now. Holt first appeared in TV commercials when she was just 10 years old, and she eventually found fame on the Disney Channel. The 20-year-old actress is best known for her roles on shows like Shake It Up, I Didn't Do It, and Dog With a Blog.

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Holt's most notable role, though, would be her stint as Kim in the martial arts inspired comedy series Kickin' It...

Jeremy Apody has joined Buchwald as the new West Coast Head of Emerging Talent Commercial & Branding.

Apody spent the previous 14 years at Abrams Artists Agency where he built and headed a highly successful youth commercial department, having taken over that division in 2007. Some of his best known ad campaign bookings include Geico’s “Peter Pan”, Progressive’s “Young Flo,” Toyota Highlander’s “Nathan James” and Verizon’s “Fios Football Girl”.

Apody has helped develop and groom some of the biggest, up and coming youth actors in the business. Joining him at Buchwald are many of his commercial clientele including Ella Anderson, Thomas Barbusca (The Mick), Nicolas Bechtel (Stuck In The Middle), Lulu Wilson (Annabelle: Creation), Daniel Dimaggio (American Housewife), Trinitee Stokes (K.C. Undercover), Chloe Coleman (Big Little Lies), Caitlin Carmichael (300: Rise of An Empire), Lauren Donzis (Liv & Maddie) and Madeleine McGraw (Outcast), and Francesca Capaldi (Dog With A Blog...

Here’s a sentence you probably never expected to hear from a true-crime docuseries: “This is going to take way more than just ball hairs.”

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That’s probably because American Vandal, a new Netflix series announced Thursday at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, isn’t your typical true-crime doc. In fact, there’s (spoiler alert!) nothing “true” about it.

YouTuber Jimmy Tatro stars as Dylan Maxwell, a “known dick drawer” who stands accused of — what else? — drawing dicks all over his high school. But did he really do it?...

Chicago – From “Mr. Ed” to “Dog with a Blog,” talking animals have had their place on TV. The latest has origins as a web series, with the clever title “Downward Dog.” The show premieres on Wednesday, May 17th, 2017 (9:30pEST/8:30pCST), on ABC TV, and features Ned the Dog as Martin, and human companions portrayed by Allison Tolman and Lucas Neff.

Ned the Dog, Allison Tolman and Lucas Neff of ‘Downward Dog’

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Allison is Nan, a Pittsburgh marketing guru for a retail company, who has just broke up with her on-again/off-again boyfriend Jason (Lucas Neff). Through it all, her loyal dog Martin (Ned, voice of Samm Hodges) narrates her twenty-something adventures, which includes workplace pals Jenn (Kirby Howell-Baptiste) and boss man Kevin (Barry Rothbart). Between her personal life and work life, Nan tries to balance her emotions and romance, all while Martin just wants more attention and love.

“Downward Dog” was born nearly five years ago, and it all started when creators Michael Killen and Samm Hodges came across the Disney Channel series “Dog with a Blog.”

Killen, the owner of a Pittsburgh VFX production house, was aghast. As one of the minds behind Taco Bell’s infamous talking chihuahua, he had been hoping to do a show about talking animals for years. But this wasn’t it.

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“I come in early one morning and my boss Michael looks distraught,” recalled Hodges, who was a commercial director at Killen’s company. “‘They took my idea,’ he says, ‘and they made a mess of it.'”

Killen then suggested that Hodges write it. Later that night, that’s exactly what Hodges did – and so began a wild ride that led from web short to ABC pilot,...

It’s been exactly one week since Girl Meets World aired its (makeshift) series finale, and fans of the former Disney Channel series remain glued to social media, hoping for an 11th hour save from another network or streaming service.

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The odds aren’t looking terrific at the moment — Netflix has confirmed it has no intentions of saving it, while a Hulu pick-up also seems unlikely — but much like the show itself, there’s always hope. Below, lifelong...

It’s been 20 years since the Tanners were on television, and Netflix‘ Fuller House is an effort that had a lot of people wondering if the world really wanted to revisit the family. The theory of the show has a lot going for it, but audiences need to see things through a very specific lens.

In a world with more sequels, reboots, and reimaginings than it needs, and with the popularity (or at least Roi) of several film trips to the 80s, it just isn’t that strange to take another ride with a popular show.

That said, it can’t go unmentioned that Fuller House isn’t a good show. It just isn’t. But, it isn’t a terrible show either, and you’ve got to remember that it isn’t a look back to a good show, so you need to accurately set your bar.

Full House wasn’t a good show,...

A few weeks ago, I was invited to attend an early press day for Jon Favreau’s upcoming adaptation of The Jungle Book. Just to let you know up front where I was coming from in regards to this movie: I didn’t go to D23 last year, so up until this point I hadn’t seen any footage aside from what was in the first trailer — and to be frank, I wasn’t super impressed with that. I recently rewatched the 1967 Disney animated movie for the first time in probably 20 years, and even though I enjoyed it as a kid, I found it to be a lot less engaging than I remembered. So you can understand whey I went into this presentation with incredibly low expectations, and even thinking it might be a waste of time.

But what I saw blew me away.

Favreau came out on stage at...

Jon Favreau’s Jungle Book is part of a big Disney effort to remake several of their animated classics into live action films — though in the case of The Jungle Book, much of the new film is an animated, motion-captured visual effects marvel. To craft a believable CG jungle and the animals that inhabit it, Favreau’s team of VFX artists had to figure out how to make their Bagheera and King Louie and all the other creatures as realistic as possible. Essential to making them look real, they realized, was avoiding having their animals maneuver in a way they wouldn’t in reality — the physics had to be real. The one major exception: These animals talk. Just about everything else about these animals’ physicality aims for reality, except for their ability to speak English words. At a press event for the film last month, I asked Favreau and VFX supervisor Rob Legato about that.

At this rate, it might be easier to list the celebrities who aren’t involved with cable’s upcoming Roots remake.

A+E Networks on Thursday added seven new cast members to the four-night, eight-hour event, including a Good Wife favorite, a Following baddie and a former ER doc.

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The project — which is an adaptation of Alex Haley’s 1976 novel, and a remake of ABC’s 1977 miniseries — centers on slave Kunta Kinte (played by EastEnders‘ Malachi Kirby), from his initial capture in The Gambia...

A+E Networks is building out its cast for eight-hour event miniseries Roots, a remake of the iconic 1977 ABC mini. Tip “T.I.” Harris (Ant-Man, Get Hard, Entourage, The Family Hustle), Mekhi Phifer (ER, House of Lies, Divergent), James Purefoy (The Following, Rome), Matthew Goode (The Imitation Game, The Good Wife), Lane Garrison (Prison Break, Bonnie & Clyde, Camp X-Ray), Emayatzy Corinealdi (Miles Ahead, Hand of God) and G. Hannelius (Dog with a Blog, Surviving Suburbia)…...

Disney Xd star Sophie Reynolds has landed one of the leads in R.L. Stine adaptation “Mostly Ghostly 3: One Night in Doom House,” TheWrap has learned. The “Gamer’s Guide to Pretty Much Everything” star will play Tara in the Ron Oliver-written and directed film, opposite fellow Disney stars Corey Fogelmanis (“Girl Meets World”) and Blake Michael (“Dog With a Blog”). Yvonne Bernard, Arthur Cohen and Steve Stabler are producing the film based on Stine’s series of children’s books. Also Read: The Evolution of Zac Efron: From Squeaky Clean 'High School' Star to Raunchy Frat King...

The Creative Arts Emmy Awards were handed out in Los Angeles last night (September 12), just a week ahead of the Andy Samberg-hosted Primetime Emmy Awards event.

HBO scooped the highest number of awards, with Game of Thrones and Queen Latifah's Bessie among the major winners.

Digital Spy presents a full list of all the winners and nominees below:

Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series

American Masters

Cancer: The Emperor Of All Maladies

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst - Winner

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

The Sixties

Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special

The Case Against 8

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief - Winner

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck

Sinatra: All or Nothing At All

Virunga

Outstanding Variety Special

Bill Maher: Live From D.C.

The Kennedy Centre Honors

Mel Brooks Live At The Geffen

The Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special...

Disney Channel has ordered family comedy series Stuck In the Middle, starring Jane The Virgin‘s Jenna Ortega. Production begins in November for a spring premiere. Ortega stars as Harley Diaz, an engineering whiz who uses her inventions to navigate life as the middle child in a family of seven kids. Playing her siblings are Ronni Hawk as Rachel, Kayla Maisonet (Dog With A Blog) as Georgie, Isaak Presley (Austin & Ally) as Grant, Nicolas Bechtel (General Hospital) as Danny…...

I don't know what it is, but we really start to get a little loopy as these latest episodes run over two hours long. This week Brad, Laremy and Greta are reviewing Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, talking documentaries, film festivals, "True Detective", Ronda Rousey, a trailer talk segment, listener voice mails, we try and call Brad's mom and much, much more. We've also officially launched the Patreon page for the podcast with a variety of award levels for Lizard patrons of varying shapes and sizes. Want to help keep the podcast alive and strong, click here, select a contributor level and join in on the conversation on the official Patreon boards. This is just as new for us as it is for you, we'll figure it out together. Note: New episodes of the podcast are no longer available through the old Libsyn app. All future podcasts will be released on iTunes,...

This Friday on Jessie, someone in the penthouse flips their wig when a hairpiece goes missing, in the show’s contribution to Disney Channel’s “Whodunit?” programming event.

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In the episode “Someone Has Tou-pay” (airing Friday at 8/7c), Bertram buys a hairpiece to wear to his band’s big performance. When the wig goes missing — as seen in the sneak peek above — Jessie interrogates each of the kids in hopes of finding it. (It’s totally gonna be Mrs. Kipling, right??)

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Three-time Emmy nominee Dog With a Blog. That's real thing, thanks to the 2015 Emmy nominations.

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A certain CGI’d gorilla is going bananas this morning, given that he earned The CW’s freshman drama The Flash its first Emmy nomination.

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The speedster series scored a nod in the Outstanding Special Visual Effects for the episode “Grodd Lives,” in which the beast wreaks havoc for Barry Allen & Co.

The other of The CW’s two Emmy noms went to Jane the Virgin‘s Anthony Mendez, who is vying (and rightfully so) in the Outstanding Narrator race.

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In this new Golden Age of TV, where great shows are available in abundance, only no one has time to watch them all — least of all the people who actually work in television, and thus vote for the Emmys — the only way to look at each year's Emmy nominations is to treat them like the theme song from "The Facts of Life." You take the good, you take the bad, you take 'em both, and there you have this year's Emmy nominees list. So there were pleasant surprises, like Tatiana Maslany finally getting into the lead drama actress field, and "Parks and Recreation" making its way back into the comedy series category for its triumphant final season after only being nominated there once before. But there was also the usual rubber stamping of past nominees(*), like "Downton Abbey," "Homeland" and "House of Cards" taking up three of the seven drama...

One of the year’s hugest TV mysteries — within the walls of my home, I should probably note — has been solved. In that we now know what Disney Channel’s Jessie spinoff will be about.

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After all, the offshoot will not involve Debby Ryan, nor will Cameron Boyce (who plays Luke and will front Disney Xd’s new comedy Gamer’s Guide to Pretty Much Everything) or Kevin Chamberlin (Bertram) be along for the ride. So how, how, how do you focus a series on...

Girl Meets World viewers won’t have to wait long for the second coming of Boy Meets World‘s Eric and Mr. Feeny. In fact, the two fan-favorites will be back in less than a month!

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According to a new schedule released Wednesday, Disney Channel is kicking off Girl‘s second season with a week’s worth of new episodes, one each night.

Feeny, who last appeared at the tail end of the pilot — not as a ghost, as many viewers initially thought — will return in the Season 2 premiere,...

Here’s something for that Dog With a Blog to talk about: Stan’s going to be a dad! And TVLine has your first photos of the blogging dog’s new unpaid interns.

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In the Disney Channel series’ special one-hour episode “Stan Has Puppies” — airing Friday, May 8 at 8/7c — Stan (who is voiced by Vampire Diaries matriarch Annie Wersching’s husband, Stephen Full) is both nervous and thrilled to learn that his poodle paramour Princess is poised to pop out puppies.

In the photos below, get your first look at Stan’s expanded family,...

Today is a stacked episode with reviews of Unfriended and Ex Machina before we dive into the new Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens trailer, listening to the fake Dennis Quaid rant, listening to your voice mail, playing some games and bouncing through a few news stories. We hope you enjoy. If you are on Twitter, we have a Twitter account dedicated to the podcast at @bnlpod. Give us a follow won'tchac I want to remind you that you can call in and leave us your comments, thoughts, questions, etc. directly on our Google Voice account, which you can call and leave a message for us at (925) 526-5763, which may be even easier to remember at (925) 5-bnl-pod. Just call, leave us a voice mail and we'll add those to the show and respond directly. An alternative to that option, you can leave us a voicemail directly from your computer.

Girl Meets World meets Let’s Make a Deal when Debby Ryan pays a visit to Jessie‘s sister series this Friday, as seen in our exclusive sneak peek.

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As part of Disney Channel’s “What the What?!” theme weekend, Ryan guest-stars on Gmw (Friday, 8:30/7:30c) as Aubrey, a predatory salesperson who sees dollah billz when Riley brandishes Topanga’s charge card. Can Maya talk her Bff out of engaging in an ill-fated haggling? Press play above to find out.

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Love is in the air on the season finale of Disney Channel’s Girl Meets World (March 27, 8:30/7:30c), as Lucas finally takes Riley on an official date — with Cory’s permission, of course — and TVLine has your exclusive first look.

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But don’t let the below photo fool you; Lucas and Riley are hardly alone on the subway. To ensure that nothing goes awry on his daughter’s big night, Cory asks Farkle and Maya to chaperone. (Gee, what could possibly go wrong?)

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Disney Channel is grooming Jenna Ortega to be its next series star. The cable network has greenlighted family comedy pilot Stuck In the Middle toplined by the actress who plays young Jane on the CW’s Jane the Virgin. Written by Alison Brown (Dog With A Blog) and Linda Videtti Figueiredo (Cougar Town) and directed by Jonathan Judge (Zeke & Luther), Stuck In the Middle centers on 12-year-old Harley (Ortega), the ultimate middle child who lives life in the eye of the…...

[Youtube "fGl27SxsGgo"] Denyse Tontz has fallen in love with a hipster. And we're not talking about Glee actor Mark Salling, whom she briefly dated last summer. Tontz, 20, a singer-songwriter and actress best known for her roles on Nickelodeon's Big Time Rush and on the Disney Channel's Dog with a Blog, is enjoying a burgeoning music career - she just released the single and video for "Mr. Hipster," a tongue-in-cheek ode to the counter-culture guy so many girls seem to end up dating. "I definitely want to try something a little different," she tells People about her music. "I'm getting older now,...