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‘The Blacklist’ Bids Farewell To A Series Regular In Two-Hour Episode

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NBC’s The Blacklist is losing a series regular, as Friday’s two-hour episode clearly spelled the end for Mozhan Marno, aka Agent Samar Navabi, who has been with the show since Season 2. Her departure has been confirmed by sources, and Marno posted about the decision on Instagram, noting that tonight’s episode was her last on the show. “Five years ago, I got a call from my manager telling me I got the role of Samar on The Blacklist. Almost overnight, my life changed. It… Read

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Anna Kendrick To Headline & EP Quibi Comedy ‘Dummy’ From Cody Heller & Wiip

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EXCLUSIVE: Pitch Perfect star Anna Kendrick is set to topline and executive produce Dummy , a comedy for Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s short-form video platform Quibi from Deadbeat co-creator Cody Heller and independent studio wiip. Tricia Brock (The Walking Dead) has come on board to direct the project, created by Heller. Dummy is a buddy comedy that follows an aspiring writer (Kendrick) and her boyfriend's sex doll. It will be a serialized movie-length story told… Read

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‘Why Women Kill’: Leo Howard & Alicia Coppola To Recur In CBS All Access Series

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Former Freakish star Leo Howard and Alicia Coppola (Empire) are set for recurring roles in CBS All Access' Why Women Kill, a darkly comedic drama from Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, Imagine Television Studios and CBS TV Studios. Created by Cherry, Why Women Kill details the lives of three women living in three different decades: a housewife in the '60s (Ginnifer Goodwin), a socialite in the '80s (Lucy Liu) and a lawyer in 2018 (Kirby Howell-Baptiste), each… Read

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Bo Burnham To Star Opposite Carey Mulligan In ‘Promising Young Woman’; Alison Brie, Adam Brody, Connie Britton + More

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Eighth Grade director Bo Burnham will star alongside Carey Mulligan in FilmNation Entertainment’s Promising Young Woman, a thriller written and directed by Emerald Fennell. Rounding out the cast are Alison Brie (Glow), Connie Britton (Dirty John), Adam Brody (Shazam!), Jennifer Coolidge (Legally Blonde), Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black), Max Greenfield (New Girl), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad), Sam Richardson (Veep), and Molly Shannon (Other People) as… Read

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David James Elliott To Reprise ‘JAG’ Character On ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’

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The NCIS universe will be welcoming a familiar face . David James Elliott is is set to reprise his JAG character, Navy Captain Harmon Rabb Jr. in a multi episode arc on NCIS: Los Angeles. He will make his debut in the May 12 episode, The Guardian. Hit CBS military drama JAG, which ran for 10 seasons, spawned the successful NCIS franchise as the mothership NCIS series originated as a spinoff from JAG. Yet, this is Elliott’s first appearance on any NCIS series. In The Guardi… Read

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Robert Klein, ‘Jane the Virgin’s Andrea Navedo Join ‘God The Worm’; Fangoria Horror Film ‘V.F.W.’ Rounds Cast

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Robert Klein (The Backup Plan), Andrea Navedo (Jane the Virgin), Willie Garson (Sex and the City), Craig Bierko (Unreal), Chris Perfetti (The Night Of), and SHAED lead singer Chelsea Lee have joined previously announced Annabella Sciorra in God The Worm from Mainstay Entertainment. Written and directed by Eric Schaeffer, the project began filming this week in New York City. The story centers on Samantha Miller (Sciorra), a talented singer-songwriter who, questioning… Read

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‘Utopia’: Javon ‘Wanna’ Walton To Star In Amazon Series

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EXCLUSIVE: Javon “Wanna” Walton has been cast as one of the four leads in Utopia, Amazon's adaptation of the British series, written by Gone Girl author and screenwriter Gillian Flynn. Utopia follows a group of young adults who meet online — one of them played by Walton — who are mercilessly hunted by a shadowy deep state organization after they come into possession of Utopia, a near-mythical cult underground graphic novel. Within the comic's pages, they discover the… Read

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Izzy Diaz Cast In CBS Comedy Pilot ‘From Riches’

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Telenovela alum Izzy Diaz is set as a series regular opposite Jaime Camil, Natasha Leggiero and Pauley Perrette in CBS’ multi-camera newly retitled comedy pilot From Riches (fka, Broke, the Untitled Jennie Snyder Urman/Alex Herschlag Project). It hails from Jane the Virgin creator/executive producer Jennie Snyder Urman, Will & Grace executive producer Alex Herschlag, CBS TV Studios and Propagate. Written by Herschlag and directed by Victor Gonzalez, From Riches centers on… Read

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‘Motherland: Fort Salem’: Ashley Nicole Williams To Star In Freeform’s Witches-Themed Drama Series In Recasting

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EXCLUSIVE: Newcomer Ashley Nicole Williams has been cast as one of the three leads in Motherland: Fort Salem, Freeform’s newly picked up hourlong drama series from Claws creator Eliot Laurence and executive producers Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick. Williams takes over the role played by Kelcey Mawema in the pilot in a recasting. Set in an alternate America where witches ended their persecution nearly 300 years ago by cutting a deal with the U.S. government to… Read

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Ilana Glazer, Justin Theroux, Pierce Brosnan Star In ‘False Positive’ Horror Film At A24

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As Broad City comes to an end after its five-season run on Comedy Central, series co-creator and co-star Ilana Glazer has set her next project, a horror film she co-wrote titled False Positive, in which she stars in along with Justin Theroux and Pierce Brosnan. John Lee co-wrote and is directing the project, which is set up at A24. Zainab Jah, Gretchen Mol, Sophia Bush, and Josh Hamilton make up the supporting cast. Plot details are being kept under wraps. Filming is… Read

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‘Super Simple Love Story’: Ronny Chieng & Susan Wokoma Cast In CBS Comedy Pilot

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EXCLUSIVE: Ronny Chieng (The Daily Show) and Susan Wokoma (Year of the Rabbit) are set as series regulars opposite Elizabeth Alderfer and David Walton in the newly retitled Super Simple Love Story (fka The Us Project, The Story of Us), CBS’ hybrid comedy pilot from Mike Royce, Nick Stoller, Sony Pictures TV and CBS TV Studios. Written and executive produced by Royce and directed by Pam Fryman, Super Simple Love Story is a story told through interviews and vignettes… Read

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‘The Emperor Of Malibu’: Taylor Louderman Lands Female Lead In CBS Comedy Pilot

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EXCLUSIVE: Tony nominee Taylor Louderman (Mean Girls) is set as the female lead opposite Ken Jeong and Max Willems in CBS' multi-camera comedy pilot The Emperor of Malibu, from Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan and Warner Bros. TV. In The Emperor of Malibu, written by Kwan and David Sangalli, directed by Andy Ackerman and showrun by Michelle Nader and Christina Lee, when Auggie (Willems), the son of a Chinese billionaire (Ken Jeong), announces his engagement to an… Read

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