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Simon McKeown Joins Leopard USA; Canada’s Jive Expands To LA – Global Briefs

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New York-based Leopard USA, part of the global Argonon Group, has named Simon McKeown as the production company's first Chief Creative Officer. McKeown has worked in both the U.S. and UK and at Leopard will develop a slate of formatted series and follow docs for the U.S. market. He also will oversee the existing slate, which includes House Hunters International (HGTV), Man Caves (DIY) and The Filthy Rich Guide (CNBC). The exec joins from Eastern Production, where he was… Read

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Brian Bedford, Versatile Actor Of The Old School, Is Dead At 80

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Brian Bedford, a British-born actor of formal elegance, contagious modesty and impish spontaneity, died Wednesday in Santa Barbara after a long battle with cancer. He was 80. In a career spanning more than half a century and traversed stages from Broadway to Stratford, Ontario to Los Angeles, Bedford was revered as an actors’ actor, comfortable in Shakespearean tragedy, French farce and modern comedy from Oscar Wilde and Noël Coward to Tom Stoppard. Although he… Read

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B.J. Britt Gets ‘UnReal’ For Season 2 On Lifetime

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B.J. Britt is suiting up for Lifetime’s fake reality show. On Season 2 of UnReal, he’ll play Darius Hill, a handsome and eligible pro quarterback who is the first African-American suitor on the fictitious dating competition Everlasting. Darius’ casting is a coup for producers Quinn (Constance Zimmer) and Rachel (Shiri Appleby) because the ladies swoon for the athlete with a million-dollar smile, sweetness and swagger. Meanwhile, he’s hoping to charm his way out of a PR… Read

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Barbara Allyne Bennet Dies: Veteran Character Actress Was 76

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Barbara Allyne Bennet, a veteran character actress and former SAG board member, has died January 9. She was 76. A Cleveland native, Bennet moved to New York and landed theater roles in shows including Gorilla Queen and Boy On The Straight-Back Chair. She relocated to Hollywood in the 1970s and went on to amass more than three dozen film and TV credits. She appeared in the 1988 feature Mac And Me and guested on TV series as The West Wing, The Office, Brothers & Sisters, Sha… Read

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‘Pretty Little Liars’ Ratings Rise Over 2015; ‘Shadowhunters’ Debuts Solid

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The newly minted Freeform got off to a good official start on Tuesday with the return of Pretty Little Liars and the debut of Shadowhunters. The top-rated show of the channel formerly known as ABC Family returned from its Season 6 winter break with 2.25 million total viewers and a 1.06 rating among adults 18-49. Up against President Barack Obama's last State of the Union on the Big 4 and cable news, the newbie based on the bestselling young-adult fantasy book series The Mo… Read

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Megan Mullally Joins Bryan Cranston & James Franco In ‘Why Him’

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EXCLUSIVE: Megan Mullally has landed a role opposite Bryan Cranston and James Franco in Why Him, the Fox comedy from director and co-writer John Hamburg. She will play Barb Fleming, the wife of Cranston’s Ned. In the film, a salt-of-the-earth Midwestern dad (Cranston) travels with his family to visit his daughter at college during the holidays only to discover that she’s dating a brash young Internet billionaire (Franco). Competition between the men ensues. Production… Read

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Amy Brenneman, Brad Silberling & Jill Gordon On How NBC’s ‘Heartbeat’ Sprang To Life – TCA

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“I wasn’t looking to produce,” Amy Brenneman said about Heartbeat, the upcoming NBC medical drama she’s executive producing.  “But I know what makes a good role,” said the actress who couldn’t even consider the lead in Heartbeat as a female cardiothoracic surgeon given her obligations to HBO’s The Leftovers. Heartbeat sprang from Dr. Kathy Magliato’s book Heart Matters: A Memoir Of A Female Heart Surgeon. Upon coming away from a meeting with Magliato, Brenneman said to… Read

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Katherine Rowe Launches PR Venture

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Publicist Katherine Rowe has just left Shelter PR to set up her own shop. The new business is called Rowe PR, and all of her clients are joining her. That includes John Crowley, Alan Cumming, David Goyer, Justin Lin, Eli Roth, M Night Shyamalan, Dan Stevens and Kurt Sutter. Rowe joined Shelter after spending five years at Slate PR, where she ran that agency’s Gotham office. Rowe started her career at ID-PR. The split from Shelter is amicable, and Rowe is already up and… Read

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‘Crowded’ Contemplates Why Millennials Won’t Move Out – TCA

LOGLINE: Things backfire on recent empty-nesters when their two adult daughters move back home.

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“Thirty one percent of millennials are living at home now. The most interesting fact: about 80% of them are fine with it – they’re happy to be at home and living with their parents,” says Crowded writer/EP Suzanne Martin, who said the problem is “the core issue” of the new NBC comedy, based on her own experience. “We were so sad when our girls left home, and so happy a month after. After college they moved back in again.” She ticked off more statistics: “In England, it’s… Read

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Colin Hanks & Sean Stuart Huddle With NFL Trio For Movie About Samoan Football

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EXCLUSIVE: Colin Hanks and Sean Stuart’s production outfit Company Name is teaming with current and former NFL players Troy Palomalu, Ryan Kalil and Jordan Gross to make a feature film about football players in American Samoa. The untitled project, a drama to be penned by Jim Burnstein and Garrett Schiff (Love And Honor), is based on true events and centers on an assistant football coach in the ’80s who goes to American Samoa on a fool’s errand to recruit a high school… Read

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Olga Kurylenko Signs With WME

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EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Olga Kurylenko, the former Bond Girl from Quantum of Solace who starred with Russell Crowe in The Water Diviner, with Tom Cruise in Oblivion, and in Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths and Terrence Malick's To the Wonder. She also starred in Magic City for Starz. Kurylenko, who recently wrapped shooting the Giuseppe Tonatore-directed La Corrispondenz, had been repped by CAA. She continues to be repped in the UK by Charles Collier and Camilla de… Read

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‘Angie Tribeca’ Review: TBS Cop Comedy Co-Created By Steve Carell A Goofy Delight

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If you love brash gags, relentless in-jokes, wordplay and un-self-conscious goofiness as I do, then Angie Tribeca is so for you. Created by Steve Carell and Nancy Carell, the mock cop comedy procedural starring Rashida Jones that premieres January 17 on TBS should be, and could be, as I say in my video review above, a breakout for the Kevin Reilly-run new and seemingly improved network. With clear homages to the short-lived Police Squad! from 1982, its Naked Gun spinoff… Read

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