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The options on the cast of ABC’s backdoor pilot The Good Lawyer were up today, which means that by now, the network would’ve made a decision on The Good Lawyer spinoff starring Kennedy McMann and Felicity Huffman.

Scandal-scarred Felicity Huffman has finally landed an acting job.Huffman, 61, who served 11 days in jail for her involvement in the nationwide 2019 Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, will play a “brilliant biological scientist” on a Season 2 episode of “Criminal Minds: Evolution” on Paramount+.The news comes two months after the former “Desperate Housewives” star said it was hard for her to find acting roles since getting out of the hoosegow in October 2020. She appeared in one episode of ABC’s “The Good Doctor” last year.“I walk into the room with it. I did it.

The season two cast for Criminal Minds: Evolution has added a familiar face: Felicity Huffman.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Felicity Huffman is joining “Criminal Minds: Evolution” Season 2 in a guest star role, Variety has learned. Huffman will appear in the second season of the Paramount+ continuation of the CBS series as a new character named Dr. Jill Gideon, the ex-wife of Jason Gideon.

who was caught up in the 2019 “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal, poked fun at her reputation on Sunday night’s episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” in a guest-starring role opposite series star Larry David.In the episode, Ted Danson asks Larry to help Loughlin, 59, get into Larry’s country club, even though she’s served prison time for paying $500,000 to get her daughters into USC on false pretenses and was being blackballed by other LA country clubs.Her membership to the club is approved by the skeptical board after Larry gives a fiery speech inspired by Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.Larry then sets out on a round of golf with Loughlin, in which she sports a special flag that allows her access to the fairway on a day in which only golf carts are allowed there.When their round of golf is over, Larry notices that Loughlin has a disabled person license plate on her red Porsche.So … the next time Larry and Loughlin play a round of golf, he learns she was able to get a better tee time by tipping the starter $50 — and she later lies about her score on a difficult hole (even though her ball ends up in the woods).When Larry questions her about this, she says, “I had a good lie.”“You had a good lie, all right,” Larry mumbles when she walks away.In real life, Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, agreed to plead guilty in 2020 to conspiracy charges in connection with the admissions scandal at USC.Loughlin, the star of “Full House” and its Netflix reboot “Fuller House,” served two months in prison, paid a $150,000 fine and agreed to two years of supervised release and 100 hours of community service.The college admissions scandal also ensnared former “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman, among others,

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spoke to a local ABC affiliate in her first interview since being convicted of fraud and serving 11 days in jail in 2019, as part of the Operation Varsity Blues scandal. In the scheme, wealthy parents, also including “Full House” actress Lori Loughlin, paid college admissions guru Rick Singer boatloads of cash to side-step standards and get their kids into elite universities, merit be damned.“It felt like I had to give my daughter a chance at a future,” said Huffman, who is married to fellow actor William H.

Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman says she participated in what would become known as the Operation Varsity Blues college admissions scheme because “it felt like I would be a bad mother if I didn’t do it.”

William Earl administrator Felicity Huffman is speaking out for the first time about her role in the high-profile college admissions scandal Operation Varsity Blues which, after being revealed to the public in 2019, resulted in her serving 11 days in prison. Huffman was found guilty of working with college-admission consultant Rick Singer to falsify her daughter’s SAT scores. Singer had created a system of bribery and fraud in order to help wealthy parents get a leg up on their kids’ college admissions chances.

ABC-7 Eyewitness News that aired Thursday, Huffman, 60, broke her silence about her role in the wide ranging criminal conspiracy, which was dubbed “Varsity Blues.”In it, wealthy parents of high school students — including celeb moms Huffman and Lori Loughlin — were charged with using bribery, cheating and fraud to fake their kids’ way into elite colleges. “People assume that I went into this looking for a way to cheat the system and making proverbial criminal deals in back alleys, but that was not the case. I worked with a highly recommended college counselor named Rick Singer,” Huffman said, referring to the ringleader of the scheme, who was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison in January.

Eva Longoria is looking back on the rumors and speculation of a feud between the stars of Desperate Housewives.

Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast released on Monday, Longoria, 48, took a trip down memory lane, to Wisteria Lane. Shepard, 48, asked how much of the on-set feuding was “factual” and how much “We would now see as just, like, this narrative about women, that there’s no way these women could get along.”Longoria denied rumors about feuding with her co-stars Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross and Teri Hatcher while they starred on the show, which ran on ABC for eight seasons, from 2004 to 2012. “They all had such a better handle on fame, on that narrative,” Longoria said.

The Rookie: Feds” after one season and will not move forward with “The Good Doctor” spinoff, “The Good Lawyer.” The spinoff of ABC’s “The Rookie,” which was renewed for a sixth season, stars Niecy Nash-Betts as Simone Clark, the oldest rookie in the FBI Academy. The procedural was introduced as a two-part event during the current fourth season of “The Rookie,” where Officer John Nolan (Nathan Fillion) and the LA division of the FBI enlist the help of Simone when one of her former students is a suspect in a terror attack. Alexi Hawley and Terence Paul Winter are co-creators, co-showrunners and executive producers.

Two spinoff series at ABC have met their fate on the network.

ABC‘s The Rookie: Feds has been canceled after one season.

More fallout from the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. ABC has opted not to proceed with The Good Lawyer, its planned legal spinoff from The Good Doctor, which was going to be toplined by Kennedy McMann and Felicity Huffman.

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Succession has made Emmy history with its final season.

Eva Longoria thinks she is the only star who would be up for a 'Desperate Housewives' return. The 48-year-old actress - who starred as Gabrielle Solis on the show, which ran from 2004 to 2012 - admitted she would be the "first to sign up" if a reboot of the series was proposed, but she doesn't think her co-stars, which included Felicity Huffman, Teri Hatcher, and Marcia Cross, would be as keen. She laughed on 'Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen': "I think I'd be the only one to sign up.

ABC still has some decisions to make on its scripted slate.

Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria has hinted that a spin-off of the classic show is possible. The actress played Gabrielle Solis for eight seasons on the Primetime Emmy award-winning drama series, alongside Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross and Nicollette Sheridan. Nearly 11 years after the show ended, Longoria has reiterated previous comments that she'd love to play Gabrielle again even if a full-on reboot is unlikely.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Happy Emmy season, “you clock-watching fucks” — Logan Roy is still leading the way. Brian Cox has submitted his performance as Logan Roy, the recently departed Waystar Royco CEO on HBO’s “Succession,” into the lead actor (drama) category. Cox’s team exclusively confirmed to Variety that the actor’s iconic turn as the bold father and media mogul will be considered alongside his two co-stars, Jeremy Strong and Kieran Culkin, who opted to switch into the category for the show’s fourth and final season. Cox’s character died in the third episode of this season, “Connor’s Wedding,” which left many pundits speculating the Scottish actor, who received two previous noms in the lead drama actor field, would downgrade to either the supporting actor or guest categories. That won’t be the case, which puts the drama series uniquely positioned to make history in several ways.

No surprise here. ABC has renewed hit medical drama The Good Doctor for a seventh season.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer “The Good Doctor” has been renewed for a seventh season at ABC ahead of its Season 6 finale. The medical drama, which debuted in 2017, stars Freddie Highmore as Dr. Shaun Murphy, a young autistic surgeon who has savant syndrome and works in the surgical unit at the prestigious San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital. Alongside Highmore, the “Good Doctor” cast includes Hill Harper as Dr. Marcus Andrews, Richard Schiff as Dr. Aaron Glassman, Fiona Gubelmann as Dr. Morgan Reznick, Will Yun Lee as Dr. Alex Park, Christina Chang as Dr. Audrey Lim, Paige Spara as Lea Dilallo, Bria Samoné Henderson as Dr. Jordan Allen and Noah Galvin as Dr. Asher Wolke.

William H. Macy’s neighbor is taking legal action after the actor allegedly cut down his trees, Us Weekly can confirm.

William H. Macy is being sued for $600,000, being accused of trespassing on his neighbor’s property and destroying several healthy trees.

Felicity Huffman has questions for .The 60-year-old actress returns for her first television role in the proposed Good Doctor spinoff, since her involvement in the 2019 college admissions scandal, and ET has a new exclusive sneak peek from Monday's episode.In the backdoor pilot, Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) seeks legal representation to help him win a case and puts his faith in promising, young lawyer Joni DeGroot (Kennedy McMann), who has obsessive-compulsive disorder. Described as «brilliant, funny and self-aware,» the young lawyer is relatively new to her prestigious law firm when she takes Shaun’s complicated case.

Felicity Huffman is making her return to TV with ABC released the first look at Huffman's first major acting role, a planted spinoff of , since her involvement in the 2019 college admissions scandal. Huffman plays Janet Stewart, a highly regarded attorney and partner at the law firm with a fierce intellect and dry wit, in the episode airing March 13.In the hour, Dr.

Expanding The Good Doctor universe. ABC is gearing up to introduce a new female-driven law show titled The Good Lawyer.

Almost four years after the FBI swooped in on Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin and other well-heeled parents who tried to bribe their kids’ way into elite colleges, the man who masterminded the whole scheme today finally faced justice.

John Stamos has said surprisingly little about his old friend and co-star Lori Loughlin‘s big scandal. And now we have a better idea why.

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EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Carnes (Desperate Housewives, General Hospital) has signed with Sovereign Talent Group under its theatrical division.

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A change. After the college admissions scandal, many people are asking: where is Lori Loughlin now? The Full House star took to Los Angeles’ KTLA 5 to share what she is doing with the local charity Project Angel Food and how she felt about the scandal.

Andrew Rogers, a 12-year ICM veteran, has joined APA as a new Partner and Global Head Of Talent. Rogers, who also was a partner at ICM, was part of the final wave of agents who departed the company on the eve of its acquisition by CAA.