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Last month it was announced that The CW has placed a pilot order for a Riverdale spinoff based upon the Archie Comics title Katy Keene, and now we’ve got our first piece of casting news for the potential series.

As reported by Deadline, Riverdale star Ashleigh Murray – who plays Josie McCoy of Josie and the Pussycats fame – will be reprising her role as one of the leads in Katy Keene. The description reads as follows:

Spinning off from her time in the small town of Riverdale, a now 20-something Josie McCoy (Murray) sets off on a new adventure to make it in the big city. More determined than ever to break into the music scene as the next Diana Ross, Josie finds herself forging new friendships, falling into new relationships, and, one day, becoming the star she is destined to be.

The pilot will take place several years after

It’s the end of a comedy era for ABC: “Modern Family” has been renewed for an 11th and final season in 2019-20.

The 20th Century Fox Television series has been an anchor of ABC’s primetime schedule since its premiere in 2009. Created by Steve Levitan and Christopher Lloyd, the domestic comedy revolving around an extended family that won five consecutive Emmy Awards for best comedy series from 2010 to 2014. The show and its stars have picked up countless other awards, from Peabody honors to SAG, DGA, WGA and PGA kudos.

“Modern Family” has seen its seen its audience decline in recent season but it consistently ranks among ABC’s top five scripted series. The show, now in its 10th season, had been expected to wrap its run with season 11.

“Chris and Steve have created one of the most seminal and iconic comedies in television history,” said Karey Burke, president of ABC Entertainment.

ABC has renewed "A Million Little Things" for a second season, "The Good Doctor" for a third, and "Shark Tank" for an 11th run, the network announced Tuesday at the Television Critics Association press tour.

Below are the particulars of each series and their respective coming runs. The rest of this post is all in ABC’s own words.

Freeform has found its “Besties.”

“American Idol” alum Jordin Sparks and “The Real O’Neals” star Matt Shively will headline the Kenya Barris comedy alongside newcomer Brooks Brantly, the network announced on Tuesday.

Co-created by Barris — who also executive produces “Black-ish” spinoff Grown-ish” for the network — and Ranada Shepard, “Besties” is a multi-camera comedy following a pair of newly-discovered half-sisters, as they’re thrown into each other’s lives by an online genetics test and have to figure out how to go from strangers to family.

Sparks will star as Becca, an ambitious overachiever from a hard-working, conservative African-American family, who learns that her birth mother is actually white. Shively will play Matt, a former athlete and current bar manager, who can’t completely let go of his glory days. Brantly will portray Becca’s brother Todd,

Kenya Barris’ “Bewitched” reboot is not moving forward at ABC this pilot season, TheWrap has learned.

The project, which received a pilot production commitment from the network in August, has been rolled off the broadcaster’s current cycle, an individual with knowledge of the decision tells TheWrap. However, it still remains in active development, with the person saying ABC is excited about the reboot and wants to take the time to get it right.

Barris and “Black-ish” writer and co-producer Yamara Taylor were set to write and executive produce the single-camera reboot of the popular 1960s sitcom, which would feature an interracial family formed when Samantha, a black hard working, single mom who happens to be a witch, marries Darren, a white mortal who happens to be a bit of a slacker. They struggle to navigate their differences as she discovers that even when a black girl is literally magic,

Netflix has placed a series order for a new mother-daughter thriller series from some of the creative minds behind Showtime’s “Homeland” and HBO’s “Big Little Lies.”

The streamer has picked up “Pieces of Her,” an eight-episode adaptation of crime author Karin Slaughter’s 2018 New York Times best seller, with an all female creative team behind the show.

“Homeland” director Lesli Linka Glatter (above right) will direct the series and executive produce, with “Homeland” and “House of Cards” writer Charlotte Stoudt penning the scripts, executive producing and acting as showrunner. “Big Little Lies” executive producer Bruna Papandrea will also executive produce the series under her Made Up Stories banner, along with Casey Haver, Jeanne Snow and Steve Hutensky.

Here’s the official logline for the series: When a Saturday afternoon trip to the mall with her mother suddenly explodes into violence, an adrift young woman’s conception of her mother is forever changed. As figures from her mother’s past start to resurface, she is forced to go on the run and on that journey, begins to piece together the truth of her mother’s previous identity and uncovers secrets of her childhood.

Casting announcements for the series will come at a later date.

Freeform has picked up “Good Trouble” for a second season, the network announced Tuesday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour.

The renewal comes after the “Fosters” spinoff has aired only four episodes to date, with the fifth set to air tonight. The show launched in early January on the basic cabler. Last week’s episode delivered new series highs in the women 18-34, women 18-49, and females 12-34 demographics in Live+3. Through its first three episodes, the series is averaging 939,000 viewers per episode across all platforms.

The show follows Callie (Maia Mitchell) and Mariana (Cierra Ramirez) as they

“Grown-ish” has been renewed for a third season, Freeform announced Tuesday.

The series, which comes from Kenya Barris, is a spinoff of ABC family comedy “Black-ish,” centered on eldest Johnson daughter Zoey (Yara Shahidi) as she navigates collegiate life. With stories told through a millennial lens, the show explores a wide berth of social, political and relationship issues facing students in the world of higher education.

“At Freeform, our shows are uncompromising and bullish on what’s possible when young adults are empowered to be themselves and share their voice about the things that define them and their generation,” said Tom Ascheim,

If you watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine then you might very well be familiar with Dirk Blocker since he’s a part of the show that’s hard to miss considering his contribution and his ability to make people laugh. Dirk is one of those folks that’s had a long history of acting but hasn’t quite been able to exist on the same level as a lot of celebrities that have gone on to be known worldwide. He makes do however and has been leading the kind of existence that he’s happy with throughout the years. Having started his career in 1974 he’s been

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In today’s roundup, “The Bachelor in Paradise” is renewed and Freeform releases premiere dates for shows like “The Bold Type” and “Cloak & Dagger.”

Dates

Colton Underwood’s journey to find love culminates with the two-night season finale event on ABC’s “The Bachelor,” which airs March 11 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt and March 12 at 8 p.m. Underwood will join host Chris Harrison and a studio audience on both nights as America watches his arc conclude. On March 4 at 8 p.m., watch for the startling outcome to Underwood’s fantasy suite decision. “The Bachelor: The Women Tell All” will air on March 5 at 8 p.

Legion‘s story is drawing to a close this year… but not before a much-anticipated family reunion.

The upcoming third season of FX’s mind-bending mutant drama will be its last, the network confirmed this week, and creator Noah Hawley says that was his plan all along. “I think endings are what give stories meaning,” he told reporters at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. “I always thought about this as a complete story with a beginning, middle and end, and it felt like a three-act story, and so this just felt like the natural place to end it.

One thing that seems to need to be said when it comes to the evolution of The Magicians is that it hasn’t so much evolved as it’s been on a steady decline throughout each season in terms of how the story has been growing steadily more desperate with each episode. Don’t read it wrong, the show is enticing and alluring all at once, so there’s no reason to think that I’m slamming it or otherwise trying to troll it at all. What is meant is that the fate of the magically gifted individuals within the show has grown more dire

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Petrice Jones has been cast in the Netflix adaptation of “Locke & Key” in a series regular role, Variety has learned exclusively.

Jones has been cast in the role of Scot. Scot is described as a massive horror movie nerd and the ringleader of the “Savini Squad” — a group of teen misfits named for famed special effects artist Tom Savini. He becomes Kinsey Locke’s first friend at the Academy.

He joins previously announced cast members Jackson Robert Scott, Connor Jessup, Emilia Jones, Griffin Gluck, Darby Stanchfield, and Laysla De Oliveira.

Jones currently also stars in the YouTube Premium series “Step Up: High Water,

CBS just dropped one heck of a Mom-shell, renewing the Chuck Lorre comedy for a seventh and eighth season, TVLine has learned.

Mom stars Allison Janney and Anna Faris as Bonnie and Christy Plunkett, a mother-daughter duo battling various addictions, from alcohol to gambling. Janney’s work on the show has twice earned her a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series in 2014 and 2015.

“We’re exceptionally proud to have Mom on our air; a high-quality, signature comedy with characters viewers love, that also brings strength and stability to our lineup,” Kelly Kahl, President of CBS Entertainment,

CBS has picked up another two seasons of the multi-cam sitcom “Mom.”

The show will now run through at least Season 8 on the broadcaster. The two-season pick up comes after series stars Allison Janney and Anna Farris reportedly reached sizable new deals with Warner Bros. Television.

“We’re exceptionally proud to have ‘Mom’ on our air; a high-quality, signature comedy with characters viewers love, that also brings strength and stability to our lineup,” said Kelly Kahl, president of CBS Entertainment. “Under Chuck Lorre’s extraordinary leadership and with his outstanding writing and production team, we look forward to having ‘Mom

Disney will forgo about $150 million in content licensing revenue in its current fiscal year as the company prepares for the launch of Disney Plus later this year.

During Disney’s quarterly earnings conference call on Tuesday, Disney CEO Bob Iger and chief financial officer Christine McCarthy offered a few details about the financial ramifications of Disney’s plan to launch a global streaming service by year’s end. Investors have been pressing for information about how Disney will offset the loss of revenue from movies and TV shows that it would traditionally sell to third-party outlets.

McCarthy cited $150 million as

When I first heard that Arrow‘s 150th episode would be a documentary-style hour, covering Oliver and the team’s transformation from vigilantes to heroes to now, according to Star City standards, outlaws, I was nervous. To be honest, the idea felt both too silly and self-important for Arrow, and I feared that it would be more outrageous and off-brand than a musical episode, which Stephen Amell has always promised would never happen on the series. And although my worst fears aren’t realized in “Emerald Archer,” as it remains a mostly

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Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff met at the airport. The “Moonlight” and “Somewhere” stars were on their way to Arkansas to start production on the much-anticipated, long-awaited third season of “True Detective.” Buzz was already strong; a daunting 120-day shoot was looming, cloaked in secrecy and filmed in remote Arkansas locations far removed from their respective homes. They hopped off the plane and met the drivers who escorted them to their new residence.

“It was funny,” Dorff said. “The drivers thought we were the camera guys. They’re like, ‘Where’s all your camera gear?’ We looked at each other, and we just kind of smirked.”

That, said Dorff and Ali, was when their partnership began. They understood that they weren’t in Hollywood anymore, and were about to embark on a project that could change their careers.

“[‘True Detective’] was one of my favorite shows,” Ali said. “After seeing that first season,

Fox has picked up two more drama pilots for the 2019-2020 season.

First up is “Deputy,” which hails from writer and executive producer Will Beall. In the series, Deputy Bill Hollister is a career lawman who’s very comfortable kicking down doors and utterly lost in a staff meeting. But when the La County Sheriff drops dead, Bill becomes acting sheriff of Los Angeles County, in charge of 10,000 sworn deputies policing a modern Wild West.

Ayer will direct the pilot and executive produce under his Cedar Park banner along with Cedar Park’s Chris Long. eOne will produce, with Cedar

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