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Question: Should they just have canceled Community? NBC's decision to fire Dan Harmon from Community baffles me. Replacing the showrunner on a show with a narrative voice as unique and distinctive as Harmon's seems bound to alienate its cult audience.
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Bunheads
So you think you can dance? Sutton Foster will be the judge of that! The two-time Tony-winning Broadway baby stars in the new ABC Family series Bunheads — premiering ...
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Pretty Little Liars
Pretty Little Liars fans won't have to wait long for more drama after the big "A" reveal: The show's third season will premiere Tuesday, June 5 at 8/7c, ABC Family announced Monday.
The network's summer slate will also include the debuts of three new shows: Bunheads, Baby Daddy and Beverly Hills Nannies.
Pretty Little Liars Boss: A's identity, motivation will all make sense
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Sutton Foster
ABC Family has picked up Bunheads, a dance drama series from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, Deadline reports.
The series stars...
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Make It Or Break It
ABC Family has renewed Make It Or Break It and given a 12-episode back-order to The Lying Game, the network announced Friday. In addition, the network has picked up four new pilots.
However, State of Georgia joins The Nine Lives of Chloe King in the canceled pile, Deadline reports. Make It Or Break It wrapped its second season in May, while The Lying Game is in the middle ...
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Amy Sherman-Palladino
Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino is busy working on a new drama project for ABC. Sherman-Palladino is looking to adapt the 2002 book The Nanny Diaries into a TV series for the network.
ABC is close to ordering a script from Sherman-Palladino through its sister studio, ABC Studios, which is behind the project. The Nanny Diaries centers on a group of nannies who work for upper class Manhattan parents; Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus wrote the book, which was published in 2002. (A sequel, Nanny Returns, was released in 2009.)...
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Amy Sherman-Palladino
Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino is returning to the CW with a new pilot, The Wrap reports.
The untitled project is an hourlong family drama set on a horse farm in the Midwest or Rockies. The pilot reunites the CW with Sherman-Palladino and...
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The Return of Jezebel James by Michael Lavine/Fox
That was quick. Fox has closed the book on Amy Sherman-Palladino's post-Gilmore Girls comeback vehicle, The Return of Jezebel James, after three abysmally rated outings. A Fox spokesperson confirms that the comedy starring Parker Posey and Lauren Ambrose as unlikely sisters has aired its last episode.OK, time for some Monday afternoon quarterbacking: Who deserves the blame here? AS-P? Fox for burying it on Friday night? The person in charge of integrating that horrible laugh track? Posey for failing to be, well, Lauren Graham? Post your theories below.
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The Return of Jezebel James by Michael Lavine/Fox
The creator of Gilmore Girls, Amy Sherman-Palladino, is back on the scene with new series The Return of Jezebel James. The series stars Parker Posey as a psycho kiddie book editor who’s dying to have babies of her own—but physically can’t. So, obviously, the next step in the process would be to ask her sis to borrow her uterus. No, that’s not weird or anything. Watch it now! | More online videosYour take: Think this has potential to be as good as Gilmore Girls?
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Question: I just saw your interview with Amy Sherman-Palladino on the picket line in NYC. Did she mention anything to you about a future Gilmore Girls' reunion movie?
Answer: Sorry, but I thought it was a little tacky to grill her for scoop while she was taking part in a national protest. Besides, I was too busy trying to coax those elusive final four words out of her. Speaking of my visit to the front lines yesterday, I witnessed something really disturbing, and I feel it's my duty to pass the information on to you in the form of a very obvious blind item: Which entertainment-news-show talking head used the work stoppage as an opportunity to, um, strike while the iron's slutty? Said host — who knows a thing or
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