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Well, The Goldbergs is giving fans what they want! Or, well, at least it’s giving them the lesser of two evils?

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Wendi McLendon-Covey said during a recent interview with Andy Cohen for SiriusXM that Jeff Garlin’s exit from “The Goldbergs” was “a long time coming.” The two comedians headlined the ABC sitcom from its 2013 debut until December 2021, when Garlin was fired from the show after a series of HR investigations into his alleged misconduct on set. “That was a long time coming,” McLendon-Covey said. “That it finally happened, it was like, ‘Ok, finally someone is listening to us. But that was kind of hard though because we had lost George Segal in real life. To have to go through another loss on a sitcom…you can’t keep asking your audience to mourn people. That’s not why they tune in.”

Jeff Garlin left his hit TV series, and yet somehow Murray Goldberg is still making appearances…

Zack Sharf ‘”The Goldbergs” series regular Wendi McLendon-Covey said on social media that the long-running ABC comedy series is simply trying its best to work around Jeff Garlin’s departure. The show has been heavily criticized for using previously shot footage of Garlin and CGI to insert the actor’s character into episodes, and the results have been bizarre for viewers.

The stars are stepping out for the 2022 Art Directors Guild Awards!

Goldberg wrote. “By pure fate, I ended up casting the perfect person to play Pops.

The “Designing Women” cast reunited for a nostalgic and virtual good cause.

Amazon Studios has picked up Sundance love story Sylvie's Love, starring Tessa Thompson andNnamdi Asomugha,sources familiar with the deal tell The Hollywood Reporter.Eugene Ashe wrote and directed the movie, which follows a saxophone player (Asomugha) and aspiring TV producer (Thompson) as they fall in love and continually cross paths in late 50s/early 60s New York.Eva Longoria, Aja Naomi King, Wendi Mclendon-Covey and Jemima Kirke also star.The movie premiered in the U.S.