‘9-1-1: Lone Star’ Actor Sierra McClain and Showrunner Tim Minear on Grace’s Tricky Labor — and Carlos and T.K.’s Future

9-1-1 Lone Star's Rob Lowe inspired President Joe Biden's press secretary to return to politics.MORE: 9-1-1 Lone Star's Natacha Karam talks season three's 'personal drama'Jen Psaki appeared on the actor's podcast Literally! and shared that she binge watched his award-winning drama The West Wing in 2011 after she first left politics for public relations.WATCH: The West Wing: Josh Lyman visits Sam SeabornShe had previously been the deputy press secretary for President Barack Obama before he promoted her in 2009 to deputy communications director, the job Rob's character Sam Seaborn held for the first four years on the show.On the podcast she revealed that the show, created by Aaron Sorkin, "inspired so many people that I know to come here and be a part of this town and work in government."MORE: Rob Lowe delivers heartbreaking family news as famous friends reach out MORE: Everything you need to know about 9-1-1: Lone Star actor Rob Lowe's family "I don't know what prompted me to watch it but I binged the entire thing," she added of the decision to watch the show four years after it ended."In a crazy way, it really brought me back to politics.

Super Bowl: L.A. Rams vs. Cincinnati, NBC, 99.18 million.2.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterMelissa Joan Hart will star in multiple new “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” holiday movies, as well as the made-for-TV hoarder film “Dirty Little Secret” at Lifetime, as part of a new multi-year deal with the cable channel, Variety has learned exclusively.Under her new pact, Hart will star in, direct and executive produce several movies for Lifetime. For the “Ripped From The Headlines” movie “Dirty Little Secret” (working title), which is set to debut this summer, Hart stars as a mother hiding her extreme hoarding tendencies that are destroying her family.Additionally, Hart will star in and executive produce new movies for Lifetime’s 2022 and 2023 Christmas slates, having previously starred in six holiday films for the cabler, including “Mistletoe in Montana,” “Dear Christmas” and “A Very Merry Toy Store.” Hart has previously executive produced eight Lifetime films with her production company Hartbreak Films, including the recent “Christmas in Tune” starring Reba McEntire.

, titled «The ATX-Files,» Owen (Rob Lowe) and Judd (Jim Parrack) take Wyatt (guest star Jackson Pace), Judd's teenage son he only recently found out about, alien hunting. But their search takes a different turn when they find two dead bodies.In the exclusive sneak peek, Judd goes to Owen and breaks the news to him that he has a son. Owen's reaction is of stunned silence as he asks for clarification.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“9-1-1: Lone Star” has already featured guest appearances by two “Angel” alums, Julie Benz and Amy Acker, during the first few episodes of its currently airing third season. And if showrunner Tim Minear — who was a writer and executive producer on “Angel” and brought in Gina Torres, a vet of the WB series, as a lead on “Lone Star” at the start of Season 2 — is down for it, an actress from one of Minear’s other beloved series would love to make another reunion happen: “Firefly” star Morena Baccarin.“Oh, that would be fun! I haven’t seen those guys in forever,” Baccarin told Variety Friday, during an interview for her upcoming NBC drama “The Endgame.” “I love Tim.

Chris Willman Music WriterThe maxim “everything’s bigger in Texas” most definitely applies when it comes to having an outsized per capita concentration of brilliant songwriters. So, it’s almost surprising to realize that it took until 2005 for a Texas Heritage Songwriters Association to be formed, for the purpose of finally founding a Hall of Fame.One key figure in its origins was a beloved Texan not everyone realizes had a reputation as “a lover of the song, and a friend to songwriters”: University of Texas football coach Darrell K.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterAmanda Seyfried doesn’t think she nailed the iconic deep voice of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes for Hulu’s upcoming limited series “The Dropout” — but she did her “best to try to capture the oddness of it.”“The shape of my mouth isn’t the same as hers, but I can make sounds somewhat or pretty close to what she did,” Seyfried, who plays the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire on the Hulu show, said during a virtual panel at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour Tuesday. “And that’s my job as an actor, mimicking and stuff like that.

Olympics (Sunday), NBC, 11 million.2. Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, NBC, 10.76 million.3. Winter Olympics (Saturday), NBC, 10.15 million.4.

Figure skater Nathan Chen brought glory to the United States on the ice during Monday’s primetime coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics, shattering the world record in the men’s short program at the Beijing games. Nabbing 113.97 points, Chen brought in the highest short program score in figure skating history. Monday saw new highs for Chen and the winter sport, not for NBC’s fifth night of coverage, or at least in early numbers.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Child Care,” Monday’s episode of “9-1-1: Lone Star.”Baby made three for Judd (Jim Parrack) and Grace (Sierra McClain) on last week’s “9-1-1: Lone Star” — and on Monday’s episode, an estranged teen son and his mother made five. Totally unbeknownst to Judd and Grace, he had a son Wyatt (Jackson Pace) with Marlene Harris (Robyn Lively), a barrel racer he can hardly remember having met at the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo in 2005.On Monday’s “9-1-1: Lone Star,” that boy comes to find Judd with the help of an online DNA ancestry website and Judd and Grace, just getting the hang of taking care of newborn daughter Charlie following her birth at the tail end of the Fox drama’s weeks-long ice-storm plot.

9-1-1: Lone Star actor Jim Parrack, who plays Judd, broke down the crucial turning point in the firefighter's life, how he moves forward now that he is the father to children and what's next. My first thoughts were, «Man, that's good writing,» mostly because of the timing. Everybody just saw us welcome our daughter into the world and now it's almost immediately time to throw a wrench into all that and come up with some new problems to figure out.Yeah. Judd's first thoughts are of Grace and Charlie.

Former Fox Entertainment Head of Drama Charlie Andrews has joined Disney Branded Television as EVP, Live-Action and Alternative Television. He will be the No.2 on the creative side to Ayo Davis, President, Disney Branded Television, to whom he will report.

Fox Post Production Services has entered into a strategic alliance with the full-service post-production sound company Formosa Group that will broaden the creative talent available to the studio’s producers, leveraging the storied Fox sound facilities and further expanding business opportunities for both companies.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“Lucifer” star Tom Ellis has joined the cast of Hulu’s Sterling K. Brown-led “Washington Black” limited series in the role of steam-punk inventor Christopher “Titch” Wilde.Described as an epic nine-episode adventure series based on Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name, “Washington Black” follows the extraordinary 19th-century adventures of George Washington “Wash” Black, an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“9-1-1” and spinoff “9-1-1: Lone Star” will be reunited on Fox’s Monday primetime lineup when the O.G. show comes back from hiatus in March. When the two are once again airing in the back-to-back 8 and 9 p.m.

After last week’s three-way tie with The Neighborhood and 9-1-1: Lone Star, ABC’s The Bachelor is back at the top of primetime.

9-1-1: Lone Star fans have a lot to be worried about when it comes to the young paramedic's fate after he saved a young boy in the middle of a dangerous ice storm. In ET's exclusive sneak peek from Monday's episode, «Push,» T.K. (Ronen Rubenstein) — whose condition is dire -- finds himself in an eerily cheerful memory with his mother, Gwyn (guest star Lisa Edelstein), when in reality he's staving off death as he lies unconscious in his hospital bed.The scene opens with freshly baked cookies in the pristine (and empty) kitchen as T.K.

“True Blood”), fire captain Owen Strand (Rob Lowe), and EMS captain Tommy Vega (Gina Torres) rush to find her. Meanwhile, by pure unlucky coincidence, Billy Tyson (Billy Burke), Owen’s rival who has had an antagonistic relationship with everyone else, is the only one by her side. “It was really great.

 The previously announced announced single-camera docu-comedy “Welcome to Flatch” debuts on Thursday, March 17, after competitive cooking series “MasterChef Junior” and “Call Me Kat.” Emmy winner Jenny Bicks (“Sex and the City,” “The Greatest Showman”) writes and executive-produces the series set in a fictional midwestern town, with “Bridesmaids” director Paul Feig, who also wrote two episodes, directing and serving as EP. It’s based on BBC Studios’ BAFTA-winning “This Country.”The logline: “When a documentary crew sets out to explore the lives of residents in a small American town – their dreams, their concerns – they stumble upon the midwestern town of Flatch, which is made up of many eccentric personalities.

Fox has set spring premiere dates for the return of several shows including TV’s No. 1 unscripted hit and 9-1-1 and the debuts a domino-themed competition show.