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Jessica Biel has lined up her next acting gig!

The end has come for Freeform series Cruel Summer and Good Trouble. The Disney-owned cable net has canceled Cruel Summer after two seasons and Good Trouble will end with the second half of its upcoming fifth season, Deadline has confirmed.

BreAnna Bell Freeform will not be moving forward with new seasons of “Cruel Summer” and “Good Trouble,” Variety has confirmed. An anthology series, Season 2 of of “Cruel Summer” followed the rise and fall of an intense teenage friendship. “Approaching the story from three different timelines surrounding Y2K, the season twists and turns as it tracks the early friendship between Megan, Isabella and Megan’s best friend Luke, the love triangle that blossomed, and the mystery that would impact all of their lives going forward,” reads the official description.

Warning: This story contains spoilers from the season 2 finale of Cruel Summer.

EXCLUSIVE: Cruel Summer has made a splashy return to Freeform, with the Season 2 premiere marking the network’s top telecast in two years — since the Season 1 finale of the hit series in June 2021.

Jessica Biel says she doesn’t know how the young generation does it these days.

Jessica Biel is bracing herself for her kids' teenage years. ET's Cassie DiLaura spoke with the actress during a junket for season 2 of , which Biel executive produces, and the mom of two admitted that she worries about what life will be like when her boys are teens like the characters on her show.«I am devastatingly nervous about it,» said 41-year-old Biel, who shares Silas, 8, and Phineas, 2, with her husband, Justin Timberlake.«God, I mean it's terrifying,» she added.

has a new mystery on its hands.Freeform's teen mystery thriller, told through multiple perspectives and set in three different timelines, returns for season 2 this June. The official trailer, which was released Monday, teases a traumatic event that takes place some time around Y2K in a seemingly idyllic town in the Pacific Northwest that begins to unravel the friendship — and love triangle — between Megan (Sadie Sink), Isabella (Lexi Underwood) and Luke (Griffin Gluck) as their friendship is impacted for years to come.The trailer opens with Megan and Isabella being questioned by the sheriff about a missing friend.

Freeform is kicking off its summer slate with the return of its hit series Cruel Summer and the final season of grown-ish.

Freeform‘s breakout anthology series Cruel Summer is set to return for a second season this summer, featuring a new cast and a new mystery. On Wednesday, the network released a first look at the new ensemble.

Emily Longeretta SPOLER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched all five episodes of “Candy,” now streaming on Hulu.“Candy” viewers knew that star Melanie Lynskey’s real-life husband, Jason Ritter, was appearing in the new series — but they didn’t expect to see Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel’s husband pop up as one of the other cops working the case of Betty’s murder.As it turns out, it was Timberlake’s idea to join the true-crime show. While the duo often share scripts and notes with each other, this time was a bit different.“He loved the the episodes too, and said, ‘Who’s playing this guy?’ And I said, ‘Oh, I don’t know. Probably an Atlanta local.

Viewers tuning in to Thursday’s episode of "Candy," starring Jessica Biel, may recognize a familiar face: Biel’s husband Justin Timberlake. The musician and actor portrays a deputy who investigates the murder the show is centered on. Biel, a co-executive producer on the project, says Timberlake first approached her producing partner, Michelle Purple, about wanting to be involved.

NEW YORK -- Viewers tuning in to Thursday's episode of “Candy,” starring Jessica Biel, may recognize a familiar face: Biel’s husband Justin Timberlake.The musician and actor portrays a deputy who investigates the murder the show is centered around.Biel, a co-executive producer on the project, says Timberlake first approached her producing partner, Michelle Purple, about wanting to be involved.“They sort of had this whole plan. I didn’t even know about at first.

EXCLUSIVE: Nile Bullock, Jenna Lamb and Braeden De La Garza have joined the cast of Freeform’s Cruel Summer and will recur in the series’ sophomore season. The will join Lexi Underwood, Sadie Stanley, Griffin Gluck and KaDee Strickland, Lisa Yamada and Sean Blakemore.

EXCLUSIVE: Nile Bullock, Jenna Lamb and Braedan De La Garza have joined the cast of Freeform’s Cruel Summer and will recur in the series’ sophomore season. The will join Lexi Underwood, Sadie Stanley, Griffin Gluck and KaDee Strickland, Lisa Yamada and Sean Blakemore.

There is a change in the Season 2 cast Freeform’s Cruel Summer unveiled last week. Lexi Underwood has been tapped for a role in the second installment of the anthology series, which features a new cast, a new mystery and a new showrunner.

Emily Longeretta Freeform’s “Cruel Summer” will return later this year with a new mystery and cast. The second season, executive produced by Jessica Biel and Michelle Purple, has added Sadie Stanley, Griffin Gluck and Eloise Payet.

Sadie Stanley (“The Goldbergs”) is playing Megan Landry, “a computer coder and honor student from a blue-collar family. Once Megan meets Isabella, she begins to live in the moment and embrace her true self.

Jessica Biel gets herself into deep trouble as Candy Montgomery — who may or may not be involved in the death of her best friend — in the trailer for Hulu’s new true crime series “Candy.”The show follows Biel’s Candy, a 1980s housewife and mother, who is seeking freedom from conformity in her life, taking up an affair with her friend’s husband.But, when Lynskey’s character ends up dead, suspicion falls on Candy.“Candy” stars Biel, Lynskey, Timothy Simons, Pablo Schreiber and Raúl Esparza.It will launch on Hulu Monday May 9, and air across five nights. The finale airs May 13.Three-time Emmy nominee Robin Veith (“Mad Men,” “The Act”) wrote the pilot script.

Wilson Chapman editorJessica Biel is stepping into the shoes of one of true crime’s most notorious killers in the first trailer for Hulu’s “Candy.”Biel stars in the series as Candy Montgomery, a seemingly normal housewife in small town Wylie, Tex., who was convicted in 1980 for the brutal axe murder of her neighbor Betty Gore, played in the show by Melanie Lynskey.The teaser trailer shows Biel transform into Candy, with curly hair and large rimmed-glasses. Footage of her going about her daily life in suburbia is juxtaposed with narration from her trial, as a lawyer played by Raúl Esparza (“Hannibal”) questions her about her relationship with Betty.“I had no angry feelings towards her if that’s what the question is,” Biel says in the trailer.

EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Biel and Michelle Purple’s Iron Ocean Productions is staying in business with Paramount Television Studios. The duo have extended their first-look deal with the studio, which was first signed in December 2019. As part of the new pact, Biel and Purple will continue to create and develop scripted television series for Paramount Television Studios via Iron Ocean, including upcoming project Welcome to Oxhead.

EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Biel is moving into podcast production.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Freeform’s premiere of its new teen thriller series “Cruel Summer” on Thursday was not like any other Hollywood has experienced during the pandemic. Instead of a virtual or drive-in screening, the network booked 80 rooms at the Beverly Hilton for a balcony screening.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor“The Sinner” is adding Frances Fisher to the cast of the fourth season.Producer Michelle Purple told me the news Thursday night at the premiere of her and producing partner Jessica Biel’s latest project “Cruel Summer.” She’s “super excited” about the “Watchmen” actor joining the USA Network anthology series along with new addition Alice Kremelberg (“The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “Orange Is the New Black”) and returning star Bill

Naman Ramachandran Amazon Prime Video has secured the exclusive first window worldwide rights, excluding the U.S., Canada and China, to psychological thriller series “Cruel Summer.”From independent studio Entertainment One (eOne), alongside Jessica Biel and Michelle Purple’s production outfit Iron Ocean Productions, the series will launch on Prime Video following its U.S.

By Denise Petski

Freeform has picked up the drama “Last Summer” to series, it was announced Friday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour.

By Peter White