Hayes MacArthur Joins Lucy Liu In ABC Workplace Comedy Pilot From Shana Goldberg-Meehan

LaToya Ferguson In terms of television trends, 2020 has ended up being something of an unexpected year full of new series about space travel, and Showtime’s “Moonbase 8” (premiering Nov.

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski EXCLUSIVE: My Wife and Kids alumna Tisha Campbell has been tapped as the co-lead opposite Lucy Liu in ABC’s Untitled Workplace Comedy pilot (fka Kids Matter Now) from Better with You creator Shana Goldberg-Meehan.

Eva Longoria is joining “Veep” actor Matt Walsh in a comedy Walsh co-wrote called “Unplugging,” in which the two will play husband and wife.

Eva Longoria is to star alongside Matt Walsh in the road trip comedy Unplugging. Lea Thompson, Keith David, Nicole Byer and Al Madrigal also board the directorial debut from veteran film editor Debra Neil-Fisher now before the cameras in Oklahoma.

Eli Countryman Kingsley Ben-Adir’s version of Malcolm X in “One Night in Miami” is a different take than Denzel Washington’s portrayal of the civil rights leader in Spike Lee’s 1992 biopic, the actor said.“The more I investigated the script, it became pretty clear quite early on that it was a completely different Malcolm and an opportunity to show him in a way that maybe we haven’t seen him before: vulnerable and broken,” Ben-Adir said during a Q&A on Monday night during AFI Fest presented by

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Jamie-Lynn Sigler is set as a series regular opposite Parisa Fitz-Henley and Michael Ealy in Triage, ABC’s second cycle medical drama pilot from David Cornue, Erica Messer, Jon M. Chu and 20th Television.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersCreated by Cornue, Triage is a character-driven medical drama that follows pioneering surgeon Finley Briar (Fitz-Henley) over three distinct decades at the same hospital.

Janet W. Lee In today’s TV news roundup, ABC released a trailer for the fifth season of “American Housewife,” and Apple TV Plus is making the “Helpsters” Halloween special available for free.ABC will debut its five-part docuseries, “Our America: Living While Black,” during the network-owned television stations’ newscasts from Oct. 19 to Oct. 23 and premiere the hourlong documentary on Oct. 24.

Also Read: Ratings: Biden's Town Hall on ABC Tops Trump's Simulcast Across NBC, MSNBC and CNBCTrump’s simulcast tune-in breaks down like this: NBC’s broadcast channel drew 10.9 million total viewers, MSNBC added 1.8 million and CNBC chipped in with 720,000 viewers.Clearly, it was not enough to topple Biden on ABC alone.More to come…

Will Thorne Staff WriterAs the presidential election heats up, ABC is working on a comedy series about a fictional bar in Washington, D.C. where congressional staffers, among others, go to cool off.The network has put into development a multi-cam comedy titled “Nate’s” which hails from 20th Television and  “A Black Lady Sketch Show” writer Akilah Green.“Nate’s” is a half-hour comedy that revolves around Nate’s, a black-owned, Washington, D.C.

like his refusal to distance himself from the extreme right wing conspiracy theory QAnon, Biden’s exchange with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos was a more relaxed affair focused on policy specifics.

It doesn’t matter what a film’s plot is about when it stars such incredible actors such as Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan. Whenever you see actors at that caliber headlining a film, tickets are automatically sold.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Childrens Hospital alum Ken Marino, Milan Carter (Dolemite Is My Name), in a recasting, and Juliet Donenfeld (The Big Show Show) are set as series regulars opposite Julie Bowen and Stephanie Koenig in Wilde Things (fka The Big Bad Wolfes), CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot from Will & Grace creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Lily Sheen has boarded Lionsgate Nicolas Cage action self parody The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Sheen will play Cage’s daughter Addy in the feature and joins Pedro Pascal, Tiffany Haddish and Sharon Horgan who round out the cast.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Michael Ealy (Stumptown) has been tapped as the male lead opposite Parisa Fitz-Henley in Triage, ABC’s second cycle medical drama pilot from David Cornue, Erica Messer, Jon M. Chu and 20th Television.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersCreated by Cornue, Triage is a character-driven medical drama that follows pioneering surgeon Finley Briar (Fitz-Henley) over three distinct decades at the same hospital.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: ABC is developing American Heritage, a drama from writer Matt Lopez (Bedtime Stories).

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Andrew Richardson (The Last O.G.) has been cast as a series regular opposite Parisa Fitz-Henley in Triage, ABC’s second cycle medical drama pilot from Erica Messer, Jon M. Chu and David Cornue.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersCreated by Cornue, Triage is a character-driven medical drama that follows pioneering surgeon Finley Briar (Fitz-Henley) over three distinct decades at the same hospital.

Director Spike Lee is opening up about not knowing that Chadwick Boseman was sick with colon cancer while filming Da 5 Bloods, which was released earlier this year.

Spike Lee still gets recognized on a walk in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.On this sunny September morning, the 63-year-old director and activist is participating in a socially distanced photo shoot on the street outside his production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. As Lee stands on the corner, a dark Subaru screeches to a halt.