ABC Summer Pilot Buzz Update: ‘Will Trent’, ‘The Company You Keep’ Heating Up

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterWhen veteran TV writer and producer Jessica Gao (“Rick and Morty”) first came into Marvel Studios to pitch about She-Hulk — i.e.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorOne of the commercials running on the streaming-video site Pluto is big enough to look just like one of its many content selections.Rather than break up a streaming show with a selection of traditional commercials, Ancestry decided to create a short film that its executives hoped would be as enticing as anything else consumers tried to binge. As part of a pact with Paramount Global, the vignette streamed on Pluto as well as CBS News’ streaming-video properties.Before Juneteenth, the online genealogy service released “A Dream Delivered: The Lost Letters of Hawkins Wilson,” which follows one family’s effort to find relatives of an ancestor, Hawkins Wilson, who was born into slavery.

Billy Brown and Dami Hope have been reunited following their time on the hit ITV dating show Love Island.The 23 year old roofing company director, who recently shared a peak inside his Surrey home, was seen looking suave in a white, open-buttoned shirt, dark coloured shorts, trainers, with a pair of tinted, yet retro looking sunglasses. Dami, 26, however, opted for cream shorts, a T-shirt, dunk low off white sneakers in green, a brown snapback, and a crossbody messenger bag.

EXCLUSIVE: Rex Linn (Young Sheldon, Better Call Saul) has joined the Season 3 cast of ABC’s Big Sky: Deadly Trails reuniting him on the small screen with girlfriend Reba McEntire.

EXCLUSIVE: Superstore alumna Lauren Ash is joining another single-camera broadcast workplace comedy as a series regular: she has been cast as a lead opposite Gina Rodriguez on ABC’s Not Dead Yet.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticTaylor Swift clearly believes she’s being played in court, as a declaration she filed to the judge in a “Shake It Off” plagiarism lawsuit laid out her contention that she never heard the song she’s accused of lifting, “Playas Gon’ Play,” until after she was made aware of the legal action.“The lyrics to ‘Shake It Off’ were written entirely by me,” Swift said in paperwork filed in response to the allegation from two songwriters that her 2014 smash infringed upon a single from the group 3LW that peaked at No. 81 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2001.“Until learning about Plaintiffs’ claim in 2017, I had never heard the song ‘Playas Gon’ Play’ and had never heard of that song or the group 3LW,” Swift wrote in a filing first reported on by Billboard.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe drama series “Will Trent” has officially been ordered at ABC, Variety has learned.The show was originally ordered to pilot at ABC in February as past of the broadcaster’s 2022 pilot season slate. The show will debut at midseason for ABC during the 2022-2023 broadcast season.Based on Karin Slaughter’s “Will Trent” novel series, the show follows Special Agent Will Trent (Ramón Rodríguez) of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI).

ABC has picked up drama pilot Will Trent (working title) to series for a midseason launch. Will Trent, starring Ramón Rodríguez, is one of four 2022 ABC drama pilots whose production was pushed to off-cycle and the first of the bunch to land a series order.

Love Island 2022 finished last week and saw Ekin-Su Cülcüloglu and Davide Sanclimenti named as winners. However, that wasn’t the end of the cast for this year as a special reunion episode of the ITV2 dating show aired on Sunday. Viewers were in for a treat as the group showed there was still plenty of drama outside of the villa, including the moment where Davide was shown Ekin-Su’s now famous kiss with Jay Younger.The moment where Ekin-Su crawled across the terrace to lock lips with Jay was one that kept viewers amused and host Laura Whitmore questioned whether Davide had seen the moment.

A former anchor at CNN has found herself in some legal trouble…

After two months on our screens, Love Island may be over but that doesn’t mean that the drama and romance from inside the villa has come to a close. As any fan of the hit ITV2 show will know, soon after leaving the show, the contestants reunite for one last reunion where they revisit the highs and lows of their time in the villa.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJohnny Depp and Jeff Beck have been accused of lifting lyrics for their song “Sad Motherfuckin’ Parade” from an obscure “toast” sung by an incarcerated man and documented and released by a folklorist in 1974, according to a report in Rolling Stone.A large number of lyrics of the Depp/Beck song “18” are strikingly similar to lines from a toast — an often-profane form of Black folk poetry from years past — called “Hobo Ben” and apparently written by a man named Slim Wilson who was serving an armed-robbery sentence at Missouri State Penitentiary and documented by Bruce Jackson in his 1974 book about toasts, “Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me,” and a companion album. Wilson — whose name is a pseudonym — is not listed in the song’s credits.

EXCLUSIVE: New Girl alumna Hannah Simone has been tapped as a series regular opposite Gina Rodriguez on ABC’s new comedy series Not Dead Yet, from Casey Johnson and David Windsor, McG and 20th Television.

Alana Hadid is the go-to girl when it comes to blending fashion and comfort.

Extra, read all about it: Lisa Gregorisch-Dempsey is leaving EXTRA after 22 years.

Lola Tung (Belly) and writer-producer-showrunner Jenny Han smiling as they sat on set was captioned on Tuesday. The comments section was quickly flooded with fans going wild for the snap.«Yayy the pic we've all been waiting for,» one wrote.

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