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An unscripted dating show based on author Candace Bushnell’s “Sex and the City” book is in development at Bunim/Murray Productions, Variety has confirmed.

Titled “Is There Still Sex in The City,” the program will follow four friends in their fifties as they navigate the immersive dating experience in a “love do-over” where they trade in their busy city lives for a “dating utopia.” “They’ll live together in a cozy country chateau where they’ll have their pick of a different group of men in each episode. They’ll try the boy toys, sample a senior age player, be romanced by the rich guys and even get to flirt with their fantasy man. But in the end, who will really steal their hearts, and will our ladies be able to bring the sex back to the city?” reads the logline.

Bunim/Murray, a division of Banijay Americas, is...

Actor Julian Sands, whose four-decade career encompassed TV (24) and film (A Room With a View), is confirmed to have died in a January hiking accident. He was 65 years old.

On June 24, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s office announced that human remains had been found by civilian hikers in the same area where the actor had reportedly gone missing. On Tuesday, the office confirmed that the remains belonged to Sands, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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Fans know and love Sex and the City as one of the most iconic shows to ever air on TV. The HBO dramedy aired from 1998 to 2004. The New York City-based series followed best friends Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis). The four women navigated their careers and their personal relationships.

The series was based on Candace Bushnell’s iconic ’90s column, which she turned into a book. However, she was paid very little for her rights to the book.

Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw seen on the set of “And Just Like That…” | James Devaney/Gc Images) ‘Sex and the City’ is loosely based on Candace Bushnell’s life

Bushnell’s book Sex and the City was actually made up in the columns that she wrote from 1994 to 1996. In the New York Observer column, she wrote about her own personal dating life.

Exclusive: Dexter Darden (Chang Can Dunk), Chloe Bridges (Maggie) and Robert Buckley (One Tree Hill) have joined the cast of Amber Ruffin and Kenny Smith NBC comedy pilot, Non-Evil Twin.

Darden plays Marcus, a contemporary nerd and tech developer for exercise equipment. He’s a good guy, but no fan of confrontation, which makes it hard for him to do the right thing at times. Bridges plays Robin, the CEO of Dandee Sports Apparel and Angie’s (Ruffin) corporate nemesis. She’s a self-described woman of faith who’s a shark in the boardroom. Buckley plays Samson, Angie’s not-so-bright lawyer who, in addition to providing legal counsel, provides Angie with anything she needs…be it copious amounts of rosé or sex.

The multi-camera pilot stars Ruffin playing the dual roles of twin sisters Angie and Amber. Angie is the ruthless CEO of AngieCorp, who is as heartless as she is rich.

ABC‘s The Company You Keep has featured a slew of noteworthy guest stars in its first four episodes, from Luke Kirby as Jones to Marin Hinkle as Claire Fox. And the show adds another familiar face in The Company You Keep Season 1 Episode 5 — Paul Blackthorne.

Paul Blackthorne | Photo by: Maarten de Boer/NBCUniversal/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images Paul Blackthorne plays John Baylor in ‘The Company You Keep’ Episode 5

After being slighted by her half-brother Connor Maguire in The Company You Keep Season 1 Episode 4, Daphne Finch is out for revenge. And perhaps she has set her sights on Paul Blackthorne’s character, John Baylor, in The Company You Keep Season 1 Episode 5 as a result.

The synopsis for “The Spy Who Loved Me” reads, “Daphne enlists the Nicolettis to steal a book of blackmail from a DC fixer. Later, Charlie puts his relationship with Emma on the line to ensure her safety.

Candace Bushnell is a popular author, with her books inspiring hit TV shows like Sex and the City, Lipstick Jungle, and The Carrie Diaries. Bushnell is extremely successful, but the writer knows all about rejection — she even thinks it’s a necessary part of her success!

How a newspaper column based on Candace Bushnell’s life inspired ‘Sex and the City’ Candace Bushnell attends Variety’s 2022 Power Of Women at The Glasshouse on May 05, 2022 in New York City. | Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

Bushnell started her career as a freelance journalist, but it wasn’t until a 1993 writing job for The New York Observer that she found success. Bushnell started writing a column called “Sex and the City,” where she wrote about dating, drawing on her own personal stories as well as those of her friends.

In 1997, some of the columns were compiled for a “Sex and the City” anthology. This...

The Writers Guild of America West has penciled in Living Single creator-showrunner Yvette Lee Bowser for its 2023 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement. She will receive the career honor, which is presented to a WGA member who has “advanced the literature of television and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the television writer,” at the 75th annual WGA Awards on March 5.

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A 35-year guild member with more than 600 hours of TV to her credit, Bowser began her career as an apprentice writer on NBC’s Cosby Show spinoff series A Different World,...

Brooke Shields is moving into the podcast space with Now What?, her first podcast that examines pivotal moments in people’s lives. Produced by iHeartMedia, Now What? with Brooke Shields is set to launch Tuesday, October 11 on the iHeartRadio app and major podcast platforms.

Now What? with Brooke Shields is about pivotal moments and the decisions that people make as a result — from career changes and personal missteps to moving through grief (or just plain moving on). In each weekly episode, Shields will chat with experts, authors and celebrity guests “about the things that knocked them off their feet, and what they did to get back up,” according to iHeart. “Every success and every setback is accompanied by a choice, and that choice is the answer to one question – “Now, What?”

Upcoming guest include Selma Blair who will discuss moving through life’s darkest moments; actor Kal Penn to talk...

The Resident has yet to be renewed for Season 6, but the Fox medical drama is already looking ahead to next season.

Per Deadline, Andrew McCarthy has landed a major recurring role on the final episodes of The Resident Season 5, with the option to become a series regular next season.

For now, the actor is set to appear in the final three episodes of the season as pediatric surgeon Ian Sullivan.

Ian is described as a “brilliant” doctor “with endless charm that masks a hidden streak of narcissism.”

While he is idolized by his young patients, Ian has a “complex relationship with his own daughter.”

News of the new addition comes just weeks after it was revealed that Miles Fowler was scrubbing out of the series as Billie's son, Trevor.

If you watch The Resident online, you know Trevor essentially disappeared on-screen, despite Fowler holding a series regular credit.

McCarthy has...

Andrew McCarthy needs to be fitted for a white coat, stat.

The Brat Pack actor has joined The Resident‘s current fifth season in a recurring role, with the potential to become a series regular if the drama is picked up for Season 6. (Fox has yet to make a decision on the series’ fate.)

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According to our sister site Deadline,...

Exclusive: Manager and Oscar-winning producer Michael Sugar’s Sugar 23 has inked Sex and the City bestselling author Candace Bushnell.

Bushnell is fresh off the run of her new one-woman show Is There Still Sex in the City? which she wrote and performs. The show, a New York Times critics’ pick, begins a tour this October.

As an international best-selling author, Bushnell’s novels also include Is There Still Sex in the City?, Killing Monica, One Fifth Avenue, Lipstick Jungle, Trading Up, Four Blondes, The Rules for Being a Girl, Summer in the City and The Carrie Diaries. She retains the film/tv rights to many of her best-selling books.

Sex and the City, published in 1996, spawned an HBO 7x-Emmy winning series and two tentpole movies which drew women around the world en-masse, grossing close to $710M WW. Lipstick Jungle became a popular television series on NBC, as did The Carrie Diaries on the CW.

Brooke Shields is trying her hand at a holiday-themed rom-com on Netflix, and we could not be more excited.

The TV veteran will co-star on A Castle for Christmas on the streamer, opposite Cary Elwes, and if the first trailer is any indication, the movie will be a lot of fun.

The Netflix original movie follows an American author, Sophie (Shields), who makes her way to Scotland, and immediately falls in love with a castle.

Unfortunately, the owner, a Scottish Duke named Myles (Elwes), does not want to sell to a foreigner. The duo butt heads as they try to come to some sort of resolution, but they "just may find more than they bargained for."

The movie was filmed on-location in Scotland, and you can see the awe-inspiring visuals peppered throughout the trailer.

Netflix knows how to do holiday movies, but something tells me A Castle for Chrismas will...

From Modern Family to something more Epic.

Sarah Hyland has joined the cast of the ABC pilot Epic, from Once Upon a Time creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis.

Deadline broke the exciting news.

Hyland is attached to play Rose, a princess who’s about to marry her Prince Charming.

“But her fairy tale gets upended when he has second thoughts, and trying to preserve her dreams opens her up to an unexpected world,” per the official synopsis.

The cast of the potential series is led by Brittany O’Grady (Little Voice), who plays cynical princess Luna, and Eleanor Fanyinka (Holby City), who plays a mysterious character known as The Seer.

Hyland is best known for playing Hayley Dunphy on ABC's comedy series Modern Family.

Her TV credits also include Shadowhunters, Veronica Mars, and Lipstick Jungle.

O'Grady's casting as Luna broke last month, revealing that the character is changed by a broken heart.

Netflix will have another Christmas rom-com on deck during the holidays. 

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Brooke Shields and Cary Elwes will be spreading some holiday cheer from Scotland. 

The duo will lead A Castle for Christmas, which follows an American author, Sophie (Shields), who makes her way to Scotland, and immediately falls in love with a castle. 

Yes, really. 

Unfortunately, the owner, a Scottish Duke named Myles (Elwes), does not want to sell to a foreigner. 

The duo butt heads as they try to come to some sort of resolution, but they "just may find more than they bargained for."

The outlet reports Mary Lambert, who brought Pet Sematary and The In Crowd to viewers, will direct the holiday flick. 

More exciting is that the movie will be filmed on location in Scotland. As a Scotsman myself, I'm excited to see which locations are used, and how the country is portrayed.

Doppelgänger TV shows happen all the time. Series with similar set-ups, themes, or plotlines go head-to-head and, sometimes, only one survives — like in 2006, when two shows about the making of a fictional “SNL” squared off, and “30 Rock” trounced “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.” Other dueling dualities both thrive, like “ER” and “Chicago Hope,” and still more bomb equally, like “Cashmere Mafia” and “Lipstick Jungle” in 2008, or “Do Over” and “That Was Then” in 2002.

Being first to air isn’t always the deciding factor, but when you’re the second somber period drama to revolve around a dead baby — airing amid a global pandemic, no less — then you’re starting in a pretty deep hole. And “The Alienist: Angel of Darkness” just keeps digging, building most of its eight-episode mystery around murdered, kidnapped, or otherwise tormented children. Such a grisly predilection should sound familiar to anyone who caught HBO’s recent “Perry Mason” reboot,...

There’s a ridiculous amount of TV content out there waiting to be streamed during your downtime — and a lot of it won’t cost you one shiny penny.

TVLine already offers a premium streaming guide, which delivers a rundown of subscription rates, original series and select library content offered by established, new and forthcoming streamers. We also publish a monthly list of TV shows and movies coming and going on Netflix.

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In 2009, CBS Television Studios made a bet on an up-and-coming TV writer, Jennie Snyder Urman, who had staffed on a couple of shows. The bet paid off for both sides, with Urman becoming one of the most prolific showrunners on the studio roster, generating multiple series, the award-winning Jane the Virgin, the ongoing Charmed reboot, the underrated Emily Owens, MD and the upcoming Broke.

Now she has re-upped her overall deal with CBS TV Studios through 2025. The massive five-year pact is said to be one of the biggest at CBS TV Studios and well into the eight figures.

Under the new production agreement, Urman will continue to create and develop series for CBS TV Studios through Sutton Street Productions, the company she launched more than two years ago with longtime friend and veteran TV executive Joanna Klein.

Among Sutton Street’s first projects was a multi-camera comedy at CBS from...

Exclusive: Starz has given a pilot green light to half-hour comedy Run the World, which has cast Amber Stevens West (The Carmichael Show) and Bresha Webb (Marlon) as two of its four leads. The project hails from Boomerang writer Leigh Davenport; Dear White People co-showrunner Yvette Lee Bowser; and Lionsgate TV, where Bowser is under an overall deal. Millicent Shelton is set to direct.

Created, written and executive produced by Davenport, Run the World is the story of a group of four black, vibrant, fiercely loyal best friends who work, live and play in Harlem as they strive for world domination. At its core, it’s an unapologetically female show about friendship and not only surviving — but thriving together.

West will play Whitney, the kind of woman who’s so perfect it’s driving her insane. She’s a type-a investment banker who never misses a SoulCycle class...

ABC has given a put pilot order to a drama series inspired by Mandy Moore’s early music career, Variety has learned.

Currently titled “90’s Popstar,” the project hails from writer and executive producer Amanda Lasher, with Moore set to executive produce alongside “This Is Us” showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. Adam Londy of Aptaker and Berger’s The Walk-Up Company will also executive produce along with Regina Lee of Moore’s Roll With The Punches Productions. Marc Webb is also attached to executive produce and direct. 20th Century Fox Television, where both The Walk-Up Company and Roll With the Punches are currently under overall deals, will produce.

In the series, a family from small town Florida must adapt to their extraordinary new reality when their teenage daughter goes from aspiring singer to pop superstar practically overnight.

Moore’s music career took off in the late 1990s with the...

CBS has put in development Good Sam, a family medical drama from writer Katie Wech (BH90210), Jane the Virgin creator Jennie Snyder Urman and her Sutton St. Productions, and CBS Television Studios, where Sutton St. is under a deal.

Written by Wech, Good Sam centers on a talented yet stifled surgeon who embraces her leadership role after her renowned and pompous boss falls into a coma. When he awakens and wants to resume surgery, however, it falls to her to supervise this overbearing blowhard who never acknowledged her talents — and also happens to be her father.

Wech executive produces with Urman and Joanna Klein via Sutton St. Productions. CBS Television Studios is the studio.

Most recently, Wech was a writer on Fox’s summer drama series BH90210. Wech also wrote The Hypnotist’s Love Story, based on the Liane Moriarty book, which received a pilot order earlier at ABC last season.

Exclusive: Sarah Watson, creator of Freeform’s fashion mag dramedy series The Bold Type, has inked with Verve.

The series, which is based on the life of Hearst chief content officer and former Cosmopolitan magazine editor-in-chief Joanna Coles, was renewed for a fourth season back in May, with Wendy Straker Hauser as the new showrunner. The Universal Television/Freeform/The District series follows three friends –Jane (Katie Stevens), Kat (Aisha Dee) and Sutton (Meghann Fahy)–who all work for Scarlet, a global women’s magazine. The show explores their outrageous lives in New York City as they learn to find their own voices and explore their sexualities, identities, love, and fashion.

Previously, Watson was a writer and executive producer on the critically acclaimed NBC drama Parenthood.

Her debut novel, Most Likely, will be published by Poppy/Little Brown in 2020 as part of a two-book deal. The novel follows four friends Ava,...

Paramount Television and Anonymous Content have acquired the rights to develop a series for Candace Bushnell’s follow-up book, Is There Still Sex in the City?. The show is a follow up to HBO’s Sex and the City but focuses on love and dating after 50. Bushnell, the bestselling author behind Sex and the City, Four Blondes, Lipstick Jungle, […]...

“Sex and the City” isn’t getting a new movie, but it is getting a more mature yet equally provocative followup, thanks to Candace Bushnell. Paramount Television and Anonymous Content have acquired the rights to the author’s upcoming novel “Is There Still Sex in the City?” to develop as a TV series, reports Deadline.

In the book, which will be released on Aug. 6, Bushnell will examine what sex, dating, and friendship looks like after 50. It delves into marriage, divorce, children, bereavement, and the pressures on women to remain youthful and still have it all. New York City provides the backdrop for these escapades, set between a country enclave known as The Village and the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

“It didn’t used to be this way. At one time, 50-something meant the beginning of retirement — working less, spending more time on your hobbies, with your friends, who like...

In a competitive situation, Paramount Television has landed the rights to the follow-up novel to “Sex and the City,” Variety has confirmed.

“Is There Still Sex in the City?,” which is set to be released by Grove Press on Aug. 6, hails from “Sex and the City” author Candace Bushnell. The new book take a look at sex, dating, and friendship in New York City after 50. Set between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a country enclave known as The Village, the book looks at love and life, marriage and children, divorce and bereavement, as well as the very real pressures on women to maintain their youth and have it all.

Bushnell will write the pilot script and serve as an executive producer on the project, along with Liza Chasin from 3dot Productions and Robyn Meisinger from Anonymous Content.

“The original ‘Sex and the City’ book and series served as...

“Sex and the City” author Candace Bushnell has a new TV series in the works from Paramount Television and Anonymous Content, which is based on “Is There Still Sex in the City?” — her upcoming book that examines love and dating after 50.

Paramount TV and Anonymous have acquired the rights to the book, which is due out in August and a follow-up to the novel that inspired the iconic HBO comedy series starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristen Davis and Cynthia Nixon.

Per its official description, “Is There Still Sex in the City?” follows Bushnell’s piercing, sly, and sometimes heartbreaking look at sex, dating, and friendship in New York City after 50. Set between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a country enclave known as The Village, the book looks at love and life from all angles–marriage and children, divorce and bereavement, as well as the very real...

Exclusive: One of the most iconic comedy series of the past two decades, HBO’s Sex and the City, is getting a followup, which examines love and dating after 50. In a competitive situation, Paramount Television and Anonymous Content have acquired the rights to Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell’s upcoming book Is There Still Sex in the City? to develop as a TV series. Bushnell will write the pilot script and serve as an executive producer on the project, along with Liza Chasin from 3dot Productions and Robyn Meisinger from Anonymous Content, where Chasin’s 3dot is under a first-look TV production deal.

Is There Still Sex in the City is set to be released by Grove Press on August 6, 2019. It follows Bushnell’s piercing, sly, and sometimes heartbreaking look at sex, dating, and friendship in New York City after 50. Set between the Upper East Side of Manhattan...

Brooke Shields is set to star in the CW’s drama pilot Glamorous. Eva Longoria has been tapped to direct and executive produce in her pilot directing debut. Jade Payton also has been cast in hourlong drama pilot from Damon Wayans Jr. and his Two Shakes Entertainment, writer Jordon Nardino and CBS TV Studios.

Written by Nardino, Glamorous centers on a gender non-conforming recent high school graduate who lands the gig of a lifetime interning at a cosmetics company whose products he panned on YouTube.

Shields, a former model herself, will play Madolyn, a former supermodel who is no stranger to the covers of Vogue or the runways of Milan, Madolyn is the founder and CEO of one of the industry’s most respected and sophisticated cosmetics company. A canny businesswoman and entrepreneur, Madolyn is at the top of the game and will stop at nothing to stay there, including...

HBO’s Divorce is making a big commitment to James Lesure, tapping the actor to join the Season 3 cast as a potential love interest for leading lady Sarah Jessica Parker.

HBO confirmed Lesure’s casting, although the cabler declined to offer additional details about his recurring character.

Divorce was renewed for a third season last fall, but the order was for just six episodes (down from Season 1’s 10 and Season 2’s 8). The series also underwent a big change behind-the-scenes, with Liz Tuccillo (Sex and the City) taking over the showrunner/Ep reins from Season 2 boss Jenny Bicks.

Divorce centers on...

“Jane The Virgin” creator Jennie Snyder Urman and development executive Joanna Klein have partnered to launch their own production company, Sutton St. Productions, Variety has learned.

The duo has multiple projects in development under their new production banner, including the comedies “You’re Killing Me” for streaming service CBS All Access and “Riches to Rags,” which is in development at CBS, and the dramas “Family Emergency,” in development at CBS and the “Jane The Virgin” spinoff in development at the CW.

Jamie Camil has signed on to star in and executive produce “Riches to Rags.”

“Jennie and Joanna are singular talents and a potent combination,” said CBS Television Studios president David Stapf. “Jennie’s writing and producing skill and Joanna’s ability to shepherd a project will place them in a select class of production entities. We are extremely proud of our partnership with them.”

“You’re Killing Me” centers...

1967: Love is a Many Splendored Thing's Iris crashed her car.

1975: As the World Turns expanded to an hour.

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1967: On As the World Turns, after receiving a call from his ex-wife, Lisa (Eileen Fulton), who sounded very sick, Bob Hughes (Don Hastings) prepared to go to her apartment and check on her. He convinced his father, Chris,...

The Emmys’ guest actor and actress category names may have evolved over the years, but ever since the Academy first honored seasoned actor and director Patrick McGoohan for a stint on NBC’s “Columbo” they have had a reputation for celebrating well-known talent.

Some of this is also due to repetition. NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” has been a mainstay in the guest acting comedy categories the past decade. Since 2009, the late-night sketch show has won half the trophies awarded in those categories — nine of 18 — with victors ranging from Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon to Tina Fey and Betty White. Last year, hosts Dave Chappelle and Melissa McCarthy won their respective categories, and a total of five of the 12 nominees were from the show.

Since “SNL” guest hosts use the show’s platform to promote their own work, it’s inevitable that they might also be eligible for other Emmy categories.

The CW’s Arrow is saying good-bye to another series vet, as it makes plans for its recently ordered Season 7.

TVLine has learned that original cast member Paul Blackthorne, who plays Star City lawman-turned-interim mayor Quentin Lance, will not be returning to the CW drama next season as a series regular.

The news comes just weeks after Willa Holland made her final appearance as Thea Queen.

Prior to his six-season Arrow run, Blackthorne’s TV credits included The River, The Dresden Files, Lipstick Jungle, Big Shots, 24 and Presidio Med.

Arrow airs Thursdays at 9/8c, with this season’s finale landing...

A little Bean has been born!

How I Met Your Mother alum Lyndsy Fonseca and her husband, former Nikita costar Noah Bean, welcomed their first child on Friday, Feb. 2. Arriving at 11:36 p.m., daughter Greta Lilia Bean weighed in at 7 lbs., 12 oz., and measured 20¼ inches long.

“Our hearts are bursting. #iamfinallyamom,” Fonseca, 31, wrote on Instagram Wednesday.

The new mom shared three new photos of their newborn, including one of their little girl wearing her hospital beanie and bundled in her receiving blanket with her eyes wide open. Another photo showed the little one resting in a sleeper at the couple’s home.

Looks like Rogelio De La Vega has someone new to complain about on his many social-media channels.

Related Rosario Dawson Joins Jane the Virgin for Multi-Episode Arc In Season 4

Brooke Shields is joining the cast of The CW’s Jane the Virgin for a multi-episode arc, our sister site Variety is reporting. Shields will play River Fields, a famous actress/supermodel who sparks a feud with Jaime Camil’s Rogelio and becomes his new nemesis. (Move over, Britney Spears.)

Shields’ stint as River Fields kicks off in Jane‘s Feb. 9 episode. The award-winning dramedy resumes its fourth season on Jan.

Lyndsy Fonseca may have played Ted Mosby’s daughter on How I Met Your Mother, but now she’s taking the leap into parenthood herself.

The 30-year-old actress and her husband, former Nikita costar Noah Bean, are expecting their first child, her rep confirms to People exclusively. Their baby girl will make her appearance in February.

“We are so thrilled and excited. This is, so far, the best project we’ve ever worked on together!” the couple tell People.

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You want to know what gets between Brooke Shields and NBC’s long-running sex-crimes procedural? Nothing.

The actress has been cast in a recurring role in Law & Order: Svu‘s upcoming Season 19, NBC announced Friday.

RelatedSvu Season 19: Chicago Justice Ep Is Procedural’s New Showrunner

“I play a very different character from any I have ever played,” Shields said via statement, adding, “I’m excited to stir the Svu pot a bit.”

Per the network, which is keeping quiet on most details about the role, Shields’ character will “shake up Benson’s world.” Earlier in August, the series added...

No one loves a great scene more than the person who first dreamed it up -- the writer. We're asking iconic shows' creators and writers to tell Et all about getting to see their most cherished moment on their series make it from script to screen.

For Oliver Goldstick, creator of Amazon’s new period drama, The Collection, it’s his work on an earlier show, Pretty Little Liars, which still haunts him to this day. The scene, from season two, plays on the fears that many of us have while serving as a template for the emotional and suspenseful moments to come in the five seasons to follow. While the story of five girls terrorized by a mysterious villain named “A” is very different from The Collection, which focuses on one Parisian family’s attempt to restore the city’s supremacy as the haute couture capital of the world, the two shows...

With today’s sad news that Mary Tyler Moore has passed, many are looking to remind themselves of her numerous iconic roles and performances. Here’s a brief primer on where to start the search.

Read More: Mary Tyler Moore Dead: Beloved Actress Was 80

“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” is an obvious starting point, of course, and the first three seasons (which, combined, account for 72 of 168 total episodes) are on Hulu; so are all five seasons of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” (158 episodes) and the first season of “Rhoda,” a spinoff of “Tmtms.” For anyone who doesn’t have Hulu (or simply can’t deal with the ads), “Dick Van Dyke” is also available to stream on Netflix. Those more amenable to Hulu can also listen to her voice the character of Marjorie on the “Frasier Crane’s Day Off” episode of “Frasier” or the 1982 movie “Six Weeks.”

Moore made many,...

Mary Tyler Moore, star of The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, died on Wednesday. She was 80.The beloved icon passed away “in the company of friends and her loving husband of over 33 years, Dr. S. Robert Levine,” Moore’s longtime rep, Mara Buxbaum, said in a statement. “A groundbreaking actress, producer, and passionate advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Mary will be remembered as a fearless visionary who turned the world on with her smile.”

It had been reported early Wednesday that the TV icon was in a Connecticut hospital in critical condition. TMZ noted that,...

This Is Us‘ family tree is expanding.

The NBC drama has tapped Elizabeth Perkins (Weeds) to play the mother of Mandy Moore’s character Rebecca, EW.com reports.

RelatedThis Is Us‘ Chrissy Metz Talks Toby Troubles, a ‘Tricky’ Family Thanksgiving

Perkins will be seen in flashbacks, featuring an adult Rebecca.

Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…

* Brooke Shields (Lipstick Jungle) will guest-star in Scream Queens‘ Dec. 13 episode as Dr. Scarlett Lovin, a television doc in the vein of Dr. Oz who is also the Chanels’ idol, EW.com reports.

* Netflix will debut the six-episode drama Frontier,...

Lea Michele has a new man in her life! E! News can confirm that the Scream Queens star is dating fellow actor Robert Buckley. In fact, the pair was recently spotted getting close on a dinner date at Milo & Olive in Santa Monica, Calif.. "They were interlocked the whole time they were sitting at the counter, like arms wrapped around each other at their seats and rubbing each other's backs," an eyewitness shared with Us who first broke the news. "At one point…they had either just kissed or were super close talking." Fans may recognize Robert as the hunky Clay Stevens from One Tree Hill or Kirby Atwood from Lipstick Jungle. Currently, he is starring as Major Lilywhite in The CW...

Lea Michele has a new man in her life!

The former Scream Queens star is dating actor Robert Buckley, People confirms.

"They like each other," a source close to Michele told People. "They're getting to know each other."

Buckley, 35, is best known for his roles on One Tree Hill, Lipstick Jungle and most recently, iZombie.

Prior to her current romance with Buckley, Michele, 29, was in a relationship with Matthew Paetz, who she split with in late February. The relationship, which lasted nearly two years, was her first following the death of her former Glee co-star and boyfriend Cory Monteith in 2013.

Despite the tragedy,...

Lea Michele has a new man in her life! The former Scream Queens star is dating actor Robert Buckley, People confirms. "They like each other," a source close to Michele told People. "They're getting to know each other." Buckley, 35, is best known for his roles on One Tree Hill, Lipstick Jungle and most recently, iZombie. Prior to her current romance with Buckley, Michele, 29, was in a relationship with Matthew Paetz, who she split with in late February. The relationship, which lasted nearly two years, was her first following the death of her former Glee co-star and boyfriend Cory Monteith in 2013. Despite the tragedy,...

Gilmore Girls is getting a dose of Scandal with Dan Bucatinsky. The Emmy winner, who is also an active producer behind the scenes on shows such as Who Do You Think You Are?, Grey's Anatomy, Lipstick Jungle and The Comeback, is heading to Stars Hollow for the Netflix revival of Gilmore Girls. Bucatinsky shared his casting on Instagram with the below image. Later he tweeted an image with Alexis Bledel and indicated he was working with just her. Perhaps he's a coworker of Rory's? "What a blast today on #gilmoregirls with @alexisbledel -- @thelaurengraham missed  the fun," he said. His other acting gigs include Web Therapy, Marry Me, The Comeback, In Plain Sight and the upcoming 24:...

Peter Facinelli (Nurse Jackie) and Kim Raver (24) have joined Zoobiquity, Fox’s unconventional medical procedural pilot, TVLine has learned.

The potential series, based on the book of the same name, follows Dr. Kara Martins (played by White Collar‘s Marsha Thomason), a successful cardiologist at a Boston hospital who decides to partner with a socially challenged veterinarian to pioneer cross-species medicine.

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Facinelli, who is currently recurring on CBS’ Supergirl, will play the vet, Dr. Lucas Court, whose bond with his animal patients verges on the uncanny.

Devious Maids‘ latest addition is described as an “expert manipulator,” so he should fit in pretty well with the schemers and dreamers of the Lifetime dramedy’s twisted Beverly Hills.

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Carlos Ponce (Cristela) will recur in Maids‘ upcoming fourth season as Ben, a “handsome and slick” manager of a major movie star, TVLine has learned exclusively. He’s also described as “charming” and “mysterious,” but hey, who isn’t on this show?

In addition to Cristela, Ponce’s small-screen credits include roles on Hollywood Heights, Lipstick Jungle and 7th Heaven.

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Once Upon a Time, CSI, Masters of Sex and Bones!

1 | How many Hawaii Five-0 fans caught Steve stealing a wedding reception twirl with Danny?

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2 | Would Blue Bloods’ Frank really have covered up the NYPD’s successful thwarting of a terrorist attack?

3 | Did CSI‘s costume designer get a discount on hideous hats for the series finale? Also,...

Fox’s Sleepy Hollow opened Season 3 and christened its new Thursday time slot with 3.5 million total viewers and a 1.0 demo rating (per finals), down sharply from both its Season 2 opener (5.6 mil/2.0) and finale (4.4 mil/1.4), and easily hitting series lows.

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Opening Fox’s night, Bones returned to 6.2 mil/1.4, down from its previous premiere (6.3 mil/1.6) but up from its May June finale (5.1 mil/1.2).

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TVLine readers gave both premieres an average grade of “A-.”

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If you feel the need to take an extra long look at the above picture of Booth’s happy family on Bones, we totally understand. The joyous feeling seen on the clan’s faces stands in opposition to the somber, stressful vibe of Thursday’s Season 11 premiere.

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As the episode opens, we discover that Booth and Brennan stayed put in their home even though they left their old jobs. Since we last saw them in Season 10, she’s written two books already and is helping classify artifacts for the Munich museum,...

Bones‘ latest casting indicates that Booth and Brennan’s big adventure won’t go quite as planned.

Kim Raver (24) will appear in the Fox drama’s 11th season as Grace Miller, a FBI special agent brought in to assist the investigation surrounding Booth’s disappearance, TVLine has learned.

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Raver’s character will be part of the first two episodes of the season.

Bones fans will remember that Brennan and Booth ended Season 10 agreeing to make a fresh start outside the Jeffersonian after indications that their old enemy Pelant might not...