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Exclusive: Shirley Jones Gets an ABC Family Reunion with Cassidy Kin

I think I love this: Shirley Jones will guest-star on ABC Family's Ruby & the Rockits, playing mother to David and Patrick Cassidy, her real-life stepson and son, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

Shaun Cassidy, another of the actress' sons with the late actor Jack Cassidy, executive-produces the new comedy. He joked that Jones got the role the old-fashioned way.

"She slept with the producer," he tells TVGuide.com. "Although in her defense, I was two years old at the time and afraid of the dark."

Watch Alexa Vega talk about the Cassidys

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  • document.domain="tvguide.com";window.onerror=function(){return true;}; Great news. Love seeing the whole Cassidy clan together.  
  • @ SBThompson:  Ruby's mother is dead.  I'd like to see Susan Dey come back as Ruby's mother's sister, the Evil Aunt Laurie, trying to take Ruby away from David.  She'd...
  • Matt, you could have mentioned that Shirley won an OSCAR!
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Exclusive: Shirley Jones Gets an ABC Family Reunion with Cassidy Kin

I think I love this: Shirley Jones will guest-star on ABC Family's Ruby & the Rockits, playing mother to David and Patrick Cassidy, her real-life stepson and son, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

Shaun Cassidy, another of the actress' sons with the late actor Jack Cassidy, executive-produces the new comedy. He joked that Jones got the role the old-fashioned way.

"She slept with the producer," he tells TVGuide.com. "Although in her defense, I was two years old at the time and afraid of the dark."

Watch Alexa Vega talk about the Cassidys

Ruby & the Rockits stars David and Patrick as ... read more

Betwitched and Other Announced Releases

New releases announced today, November 14:

Bewitched - The Complete 7th Season will be coming out February 3

Food Paradise will be coming out February 17

Living with the Tribes - Living with the Mek will be coming out February 10

The Partridge Family - The Complete 4th Season will be coming out February 3

Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items.

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The Partridge Family to Sing Again on NBC

Come on, get happy! The Partridge Family is heading back to TV.A month after revealing its upcoming '80s-fied version of The Wonder Years, NBC is now remaking the ABC singing clan classic, The Hollywood Reporter reports.Shot single-camera, the series will be a contemporary take on the '70s hit and will be written by Jeff Rake, who's looking to "turn the premise on its head.""In the original, the kids actually recruited their mom to front the band, which I can't see happening in any family on this planet," he said. "The new version will reflect what seems to me to be the more realistic family band scenario these days: a struggling, sort of well-meaning mom pimping her kids in order to create a wholesome-slash-sexy cash cow."That's all good and fun, but the bigger question is: Will Danny Bonaduce return? — Joyce Eng read more

24, Partridge Family, Firefly and Other Announced Releases

New releases announced today, July 30:10 Items Or Less - The Complete 1st And 2nd Seasons will be coming out January 13 24 - Exile: Special Creator's Cut will be coming out November 25 Breaking Bad - The Complete 1st Season will be coming out January 20 Doctor Who - The Infinite Quest will be coming out November 18 Firefly - The Complete Series (Blu-ray Disc) will be coming out November 11 The Partridge Family - The Complete 3rd Season will be coming out October 14 Quark - The Complete Series will be coming out October 14 'Til Death - The Complete 2nd Season will be coming out January 13 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items. read more

Shirley Jones Is Batty, I Tell Ya!

In Hallmark Channel's Hidden Places (premiering Saturday at 9pm/ET), Sydney Penny (All My Children, The Thorn Birds) plays Eliza, a Depression-era farmer's widow who, when times get very bleak, is offered assistance by a handsome stranger named Gabe (Jason Gedrick). Can she trust this angelic drifter? Helping usher things along is Eliza's Aunt Batty, played with a flourish by Academy Award-winner Shirley Jones. TVGuide.com welcomed the chance to talk with the woman best know as Oklahoma's Miss Laurey — even at the risk of spontaneous warbling. TVGuide.com: I was a stagehand for my high-school's production of Oklahoma, so forgive me if I sudd read more

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Premise: A widow and her five children became a chart-topping singing group in this fan favorite, loosely based on the Cowsills, a popular '60s band. The Partridges were something of a music phenomenon in the early 1970s, with several of their songs becoming hits even though only two of the performers, Shirley Jones and her real-life stepson David Cassidy, actually did their own singing. Cassidy became a teen idol and top-selling recording star in his own right.

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