‘The Conners’: Alexandra Billings To Recur On ABC Comedy Series

EXCLUSIVE: Desmin Borges (You’re the Worst, Utopia) is set for a recurring role in Fox’s This Country, Jenny Bicks’ and Paul Feig’s remake of the BBC comedy.

EXCLUSIVE: After an extensive nationwide talent search, young actor Cedric Joe has has landed the role of Emmett Till in ABC’s limited series Women of the Movement, from creator-writer Marissa Jo Cerar and a producing team that includes Jay-Z, Will Smith and Aaron Kaplan.

acclaimed turn on the Amazon series, longtime actress Alexandra Billings has made notable appearances on shows like and as well as on Broadway in and.

Gabrielle Dennis (Rosewood) Page Kennedy (The Meg), Diamond Lyons, Khali Daniya-Renee Spraggins (Empire), Jermelle Simon (Animal Kingdom) and Journey Christine round out the cast of Netflix’s multi-camera family comedy series The Upshaws. The join previously announced leads Wanda Sykes, Mike Epps and Kim Fields.

Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone are teaming up for a new Netflix comedy series!

EXCLUSIVE: As the mystery at the center of Big Sky unfolds, so do the stories of the various characters living in David E. Kelley’s world. Set to join the ABC crime drama’s family are Camille Sullivan, Chad Willett and Patrick Gallagher in recurring roles.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNetflix has ordered a comedy series called “God’s Favorite Idiot” from Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone, Variety has learned.The streamer has commissioned 16 episodes of the series, in which both McCarthy and Falcone will star. Falcone wrote the series, with both he and McCarthy also serving as executive producers via their company On the Day.

Apple TV+ has given a series order to Acapulco, a Spanish and English-language half-hour comedy executive produced and starring Eugenio Derbez. inspired by hit 2017 feature comedy How to Be A Latin Lover, which was headlined by Derbez, Acapulco hails from Lionsgate Television, studio-based The Tannenbaum Company as well as Derbez and Benjamin Odell’s 3Pas Studios.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterEugenio Derbez is set to star in a new comedy series titled “Acapulco” that has been ordered to series at Apple, Variety has learned.The half-hour series, which will be shot in both Spanish and English, is inspired by the film “How to Be a Latin Lover,” in which Derbez starred and produced.In “Acapulco,” a young Mexican man’s dream comes true when he gets the job of a lifetime at the hottest resort in Acapulco.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Plans for a new Lidl in Alexandria must be beneficial for the whole town, a community leader has said.Janice Ross of the Vale of Leven Trust welcomed the budget supermarket’s announcement that they would push ahead with the long-awaited development, however highlighted concerns over the impact on other businesses locally and the potential creation of more residential properties in the town centre.As well as

EXCLUSIVE: Thomas Middleditch, who starred in six seasons of HBO’s Silicon Valley and is currently playing the co-lead in CBS’ B Positive, and Humphrey Ker, writer and actor on Apple TV+’s Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet are prepping a new Canadian historical comedy series.

Will Thorne Staff WriterGabrielle Union is getting into business with Showtime.The actor and her I’ll Have Another Productions banner are developing a comedy series called “New Money” at the premium cabler, Variety has learned. The show hails from Sony Pictures Television where I’ll Have Another has a first look deal.“New Money” was brought to Union by journalists Jemele Hill and Kelley Carter of Lodge Freeway Media, and it represents their company’s first foray into the scripted market.

Peter White Television EditorFormer ESPN star Jemele Hill is moving into scripted television and has teamed with Gabrielle Union to develop a half-hour comedy series about Black women with financial independence.New Money, which is based on a story from Hill and The Undefeated journalist Kelley Carter, who run Lodge Freeway Media, is in development at Showtime.The series is produced by Union’s I’ll Have Another Productions and Sony Pictures TV, where Union’s firm is under a first look deal.Being

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorYoung Rock, the upcoming NBC series inspired by the life of Dwayne Johnson, has started in on production in Queensland, Australia, Universal Television said Monday. The division of Universal Studio Group is producing the series, which will chronicle Johnson’s formative years.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Latin Grammy winner and actress Alejandra Guzman (Una familia con suerte), Laura Leon (Dos mujeres un camino) and Cristián de la Fuente (Amor bravio) have joined the season 2 cast of Pantaya’s hit Spanish-language scripted series El Juego de Las Llaves (The Game of Keys).

US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently weighed in on the discourse surrounding Harry Styles’s recent infamous photoshoot, in which the Watermelon Sugar singer was featured wearing a variety of couture skirts and dresses.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterABC has given a put pilot order to a musical comedy series that boasts Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Mary J. Blige among its executive producers.Titled “Family Affair,” the single-camera series follows A-ron, a faded R&B star and committed bachelor whose life is thrown into a tailspin when he’s saddled with raising his sister’s four kids.

Peter White Television EditorAdam Conover, creator and host of truTV’s Adam Ruins Everything, has teamed with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions to pull back the curtain on government in a new sketch comedy series for Netflix.The streamer has ordered The G Word with Adam Conover, which will go inside the machine of government and introduce viewers to the civil servants who make it work.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Adam Ruins Everything” star Adam Conover and the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions are teaming up for a Netflix comedy series that explores the world of government.“The G Word with Adam Conover” is described as a blend of sketch comedy and documentary that takes viewers inside the complex machinery of the U.S. government.