James Burrows Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias and Ryan McPartlin are set as series regulars in Hungry, NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot, starring and executive produced by Demi Lovato. Additionally, multi-Emmy-winning sitcom director James Burrows will direct the pilot, which comes from Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner’s Hazy Mills, SB Projects and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

Friends star Lisa Kudrow has explained why she was fired from Frasier before landing her breakout role of Phoebe Buffay.The actress was cast as radio producer Roz Doyle in Frasier before the show began in 1993, but she was let go three days into filming the pilot episode.Kudrow appeared on The Howard Stern Show alongside Friends co-stars Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox where she discussed her brief stint, explaining how Frasier director James Burrows believed she wasn’t a good fit.Asked why

Lisa Kudrow spoke about being fired from “Frasier” with Howard Stern in a new interview.

Jennifer Aniston was nearly not Rachel Greene!

EXCLUSIVE: ABC has passed on the untitled Alec Baldwin/Kelsey Grammer multi-camera comedy. The decision was made after the network’s executives saw the finished pilot episode.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Alec Baldwin and Kelsey Grammer’s comedy will not be moving forward at ABC and is being shopped elsewhere. The straight-to-series order, which also had Alec Mapa (“Ugly Betty,” “Doom Patrol”) attached to star, was scrapped after network executives saw the completed pilot episode, directed by James Burrows.

EXCLUSIVE: Venerable sitcom director James Burrows has been tapped to direct and executive produce the pilot episode of ABC’s straight-to-series multi-camera comedy starring Alec Baldwin, Kelsey Grammer and Alec Mapa, from Modern Family co-creator/executive producer Chris Lloyd, executive producer Vali Chandrasekaran and studio 20th Television.

Dr Ali Neeson has had a rocky two years on the Coronation Street cobbles - and his exit could have landed him in serious trouble.

Sam Mendes took home the top prize at the 72nd Annual DGA Awards on Saturday. The filmmaker won for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for .

It's been 15 years since Friends went off the air and the whole cast—Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc—has yet to reunite on camera. The closest viewers got was in 2016 for a TV special honoring sitcom director James Burrows. But that might change.