'WLL & GRACE' RETURN TRAILER! CBS ORDERS '9JKL', 'BY THE BOOK' SITCOMS. FOX ORDERS 'ORVILLE' SF COMEDY SHOW & MEDICAL 'RESIDENT' WITH MANISH DAYAL, MATT CZUCHRY. 'BABY DADDY', 2 BROKE GIRLS' CANCELLED

 'WILL & GRACE'

RETURN THIS AUTUMN TO NBC

NBC is to release the first trailer for the comeback of their WILL & GRACE sitcom, which will return to Thursday nights with This Is Us this Autumn with 12 and possibly even more new episodes. Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, Eric McCormack and Sean Hayes, are all returning in their original roles. I will replace the US only trailer below as soon as the non geoblocked one appears.

CBS ORDERS '9JKL' SITCOM
CBS has ordered new multicamera sitcom 9JKL. Starring Mark Feuerstein it is inspired by the time he lived in apartment 9K in the building he grew up in, right between his doting parents’ apartment 9J, and his brother, sister-in-law and their baby’s apartment 9L, and his attempts to set boundaries with his intrusive but well-meaning family. Linda Lavin, Elliott Gould, David Walton play his parents and his brother.

FOX ORDERS 'ORVILLE' SETH MACFARLANE SF COMEDY

Fox has ordered 13 episodes of Seth MacFarlane's sf comedy  THE ORVILLE in which the story is set 300 years in the future. It follows the adventures of the Orville, a not-so-top-of-the-line exploratory ship in Earth’s interstellar Fleet. Facing cosmic challenges from without and within, this motley crew of space explorers will boldly go where no comedic drama has gone before. MacFarlane stars, writers, creates and executive produces the series which will air on Thursdays this Autumn.

 FOX ORDERS 'THE RESIDENT'

STARRING MANISH DAYAL AND MATT CZUCHRY

Fox has also ordered Manish Dayal's medical series THE RESIDENT which follows a tough, brilliant senior resident who guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine. Matt Czuchry, Emily VanCamp and Bruce Greenwood also star.

LATEST SITCOM CANCELLATIONS!
ABC has put Carol Burnett's sitcom HOUSEHOLD NAME to a 'rework' stage but it did order the return of ROSEANNE after cancelling their six year long, 2nd best watched, sitcom LAST MAN STANDING! CBS has ordered BY THE BOOK (aka Living Biblically) multi camera sitcom while cancelling 2 BROKE GIRLS after 6 years and THE ODD COUPLE! CBS has also passed on DISTEFANO and BROTHERED UP sitcom pilots.  FreeForm has cancelled their own 6 year long sitcom BABY DADDY last weekend to the shock of fans since it was their best watched comedy ever and will end on its 100th episode.

IAIN GLEN JOINS RACHEL WESZ, SAM CLAFLIN IN 'MY COUSIN RACHEL' PERIOD SET ADAPTATION! JOSE MORENO BROOKS JOINS 'BABY DADDY' SITCOM! 'NEW ADVENTURES OF ALADDIN' EPIC TRAILER

  'MY COUSIN RACHEL' 

IAIN GLEN JOINS RACHEL WEISZ AND SAM CLAFLIN

According to 'Deadline' definitely one of our most anticipated future period set adaptations MY COUSIN RACHEL has just added GOT star Iain Glen and Simon Russell Beale to the cast lead by Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin and Holliday Grainger! NOTTING HILL's Roger Michell is directing.

PERIOD SET DRAMA 
Daphne Du Maurier's dark romance revolves around Philip, a young orphan, who believes his mysterious, beautiful cousin Rachel may have been responsible for the murder of his beloved guardian Ambrose, also a cousin of theirs. As Philip plots his revenge, he finds his feelings complicated as he falls under Rachel’s beguiling spell.

  JOSE MORENO BROOKS

JOINS 'BABY DADDY' SITCOM
Not much in today's television news except an info coming from America's favourite and most watched Wednesday sitcom BABY DADDY which will see TELENOVELA's super dashing star Jose Moreno Brooks guest starring in a number of episodes this season! He will be playing Roger, a handsome, enthusiastic though somewhat awkward paralegal who is the assistant to Riley (Chelsea Kane). Jean Luc Bilodeau, Derek Theler and Tahj Mowry star along with Kane in the FreeForm series which follows a young single father raising his baby daughter with his friends, mother and brother.  

   TRAILER AND POSTER FOR 

'NEW ADVENTURES OF ALADDIN'

In the trailer department, here is something currently playing in cinemas around Europe and Asia, a hilarious French epic oriental comedy parody THE NEW ADVENTURES OF ALADDIN starring Kev Adams as Aladin, Jean Paul Rouve as the grand Vizier and Vanessa Guide as princess Shalia Sofia.  It follows a pair of losers working at department store who plan to rob the place after it closes. When a bunch of kids show up begging for a story, the men launch into an improvised version of Aladdin.

DAN STEVENS TO LEAD 'PERMISSION' ROMANTIC MOVIE! 300 TEAM TO MAKE 'ROBIN HOOD 2058' SF MOVIE! 'BABY DADDY' & 'YOUNG & HUNGRY' RETURN FOR NEW SEASONS!

DAN STEVENS TO LEAD 

'PERMISSION' LOVE MOVIE

In today's casting news, one of our favourite television faces, British hunk  DanStevens (who is the Beast in Disney's upcoming BEAUTY AND THE BEAST movie) will star with Rebecca Hall in romantic movie PERMISSION as a couple who decide to sleep with other people for the sake of their relationship. Jason Sudeikis, Gina Gershon and Francois Arnaud are also in the cast.

SF ROBIN HOOD  
Meanwhile, the team standing behind Spartan epic 300 lead by Gianni Nunnari (IMMORTALS) will make a futuristic ROBIN HOOD 2058 movie with the story set in a futuristic, dystopian version of London, following a rogue MI5 agent on a mission to avenge injustice.

FREEFORM'S HIT SITCOMS

'BABY DADDY' & 'YOUNG & HUNGRY' RETURN WITH THE NEW SEASONS

Are you ready for the return of our favourite TV sitcoms? ABC Family, which has been renamed into FreeForm this year, is opening their Wednesday evening comedy block again tomorrow with the return of their most beloved comedies BABY DADDY and YOUNG AND HUNGRY! Both sitcoms have ended their previous episodes with love cliffhangers! BABY DADDY is returning for its fifth season and the audience is awaiting to see if Danny (Derek Theler) will finally get Riley (Chelsea Kane) to whom he proposed crashing his mother Bonnie's (Melissa Peterman) wedding. But it turns out she fainted and doesn't remember the proposal! Meanwhile, his brother and Riley's previous fling Ben (Jean Luc Bilodeau) is getting a new love interest in new neighbour to be played by Jonna Walsh! 

STILL YOUNG & HUNGRY  
Returning for the third season, YOUNG AND HUNGRY also has a love triangle with two brothers after Gaby (Emily Osment) who still loves her boss Josh (Jonathan Sadowski) falls for his gorgeous younger brother (Jayson Blair). She will be in a dilemma while on a desert road trip!

BBC'S 'THE DRESSER' PHOTOS WITH IAN MCKELLEN, ANTHONY HOPKINS! GORGEOUS 'FATHERS & DAUGHTERS' TRAILER WITH RUSSELL CROWE, AARON PAUL, AMANDA SEYFRIED! 'BABY DADDY' GETS 20 EPISODE 5TH SEASON

'THE DRESSER' BBC MOVIE

STARRING IAN MCKELLEN AND ANTHONY HOPKINS

Hallow's Eve is closing up and with it the airing date of BBC Two's new TV movie THE DRESSER with Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins, which will also air later at Starz! The two of them are working together for the first time in the movie based on the famous play which tells the story of one fateful night in a small regional theatre during World War Two as a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Bombs are falling, the sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor Sir who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser Norman must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time and if he does will he be able to perform that night? Emily Watson is also in the cast!

TELEVISION HEADLINES 

'BABY DADDY' GETS 20 EPISODES
ABC Family (which will be renamed into Freeform from January) has ordered ten more episodes of BABY DADDY rounding its upcoming fifth season with usual 20 episodes which means the popular sitcom with its almost 100 episodes is close to syndication! Starring Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Tahj Mowry, Chelsea Kane, Melissa Peterman and Derek Theler BABY DADDY was second most watched TV comedy this summer and the best watched on Wednesday nights!
NBC CUTS DOWN SITCOM ORDERS
But over at NBC things ain't looking so bright, because they've cut both Eva Longoria's HOT & BOTHERED sitcom and Ben Feldman's SUPERSTORE to 11 episodes being trimmed from the original 13 episode order for the upcoming mid/season comedies! It's due to the lack of space in NBC's new schedule.

'FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS' 

 TRAILER WITH RUSSELL CROWE, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AARON PAUL

And a new, gorgeous, trailer has been released for one of our most anticipated movie dramas this year FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS! When the past won't let you go, let love see you through... that is the main motto of deeply touching drama with Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Paul, Jane Fonda, Octavia Spencer and Diane Kruger. In it, Crowe plays a Pulitzer-winning writer who grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own. The movie should arrive to theatres next month around Europe.

JAMIE DORNAN & CILLIAN MURPHY IN WW2 THRILLER 'ANTHROPOID'! KIM RAVER TO LEAD 'ADVOCATE' SHOW! 'BABY DADDY' RENEWED FOR 5TH SEASON, 'YOUNG AND HUNGRY' 2ND SEASON STARTS MARCH

JAMIE DORNAN TO LEAD

'ANTHROPOID' WW2 THRILLER

It seems that Mr. Grey will see us even when the horrid fifty shades of grey start to fade: according to 'Screen Daily' one of our favourite Irish hunks Jamie Dornan will take the lead role in ANTHROPOID WW2 drama together with another fave Irishman of ours Cillian Murphy! The Sean Ellis directed movie will be about the attempted assassination of prominent Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich. ANTHROPOID refers to the code-name for the Allied operation to assassinate Heydrich, the head of the SS who was one of the main architects of the Holocaust and was widely considered number three in the Nazi ranks behind Hitler and Himmler. Operation ANTHROPOID was led by two soldiers from Czechoslovakia’s army-in-exile who were parachuted into their homeland to carry out the mission against the Nazi nicknamed “The Butcher of Prague”.

TELEVISION HEADLINES 

KIM RAVER IS 'THE ADVOCATE'
Meanwhile, when it comes to TV, gorgeous Kim Raver (LIPSTICK JUNGLE, GREY'S ANATOMY) will topline ABC's new drama THE ADVOCATE! She will play Francis “Frankie” Reese a tough, resourceful, type-A businesswoman at the top of her game who has a medical scare, only to be dangerously misdiagnosed, and experiences firsthand the hazards of US healthcare system. Shocking her friends and family, she leaves her career behind, becoming instead a brilliant and relentless advocate for anyone caught in the chaotic and ever-changing maze that is modern medicine.
'BABY DADDY' GETS 5TH SEASON
Two good news coming from ABC Family. They have just renewed their leading sitcom BABY DADDY for the 5th season! The current 4th season, similarly to all previous ones, has been number one comedy series on Wednesday nights in America. As you know, Jean-Luc Bilodeau stars as a young man who suddenly becomes a single father and has to raise his baby daughter with the help of his brother, (Derek Theler), his roomate (Tahj Mowry), his hilarious mother (Melissa Peterman) and his best friend and girlfriend (Chelsea Kane).
'YOUNG & HUNGRY' RETURNS THIS MONTH
Another of ABC Family's hit series, comedy YOUNG & HUNGRY is returning for its second season March 25th after becoming hugely popular among the crowds last summer. Emily Osment stars as a young cook who starts working as the private chef of a young millionaire (Jonathan Sadowski) with whom she accidentally ends up in bed the very first day.  Second season picks up with Gabi surprised by the return of ex-boyfriend Cooper (guest star Jesse McCartney), just as her boss has called off his wedding due to his feelings for her.

NEW 'BEOWULF' EPIC TV SERIES AT ITV! 'UNDATEABLE' 2ND SEASON, 'ONE BIG HAPPY' NBC SITCOMS TO AIR IN MARCH! EDDIE CIBRIAN JOINS 'BABY DADDY' SITCOM!

'BEOWULF' EPIC SERIES

BRITISH DARK AGE WESTERN

Bunch of TV news for you today starting with British ITV which are planning to turn famous epic BEOWULF into a western type epic TV series! The 13-part re-imagining of the Old English epic poem created by James Dormer, Tim Haines and Katie Newman, is set in the mythical Shieldlands, a dangerous place populated by both humans and fantastical creatures. A type of a Western set in the Dark Ages of Britain's mythic past, the story sees Beowulf return to his hometown of Herot following years spent wandering the country as a mercenary warrior. When Herot is attacked by the terrifying monster Grendel, Beowulf is left with no choice but to hunt it down, winning him favour with Herot's new female ruler. Shooting starts next April in UK!

TV SITCOMS UPDATES

EDDIE CIBRIAN IN 'BABY DADDY'

In the realm of our fave comedy series, BABY DADDY, which returns with the fourth season to ABC Family January 14th, will have Eddie Cibrian as the new guest star! He will play Ross, a charming, chivalrous, genuinely good guy who has just been transferred to a prestigious New York office, where he will be the new managing partner. Unfortunately, the night before his first day, he meets Riley (Chelsea Kane) at a bar — and things quickly turn romantic. What will happen once they learn that Ross is actually Riley’s new boss?

'UNDATEABLE' 2ND SEASON & 'ONE BIG HAPPY' TO AIR IN MARCH
NBC has announced their new sitcom block on Tuesdays starting from March which will see the return of beloved comedy UNDATEABLE in the second season on March 17th followed by new sitcom ONE BIG HAPPY! Starring Elisha Cuthbert and Nick Zano, ONE BIG HAPPY, produced by Ellen DeGeneres, centres on a lesbian and her straight male friend deciding to have a baby together. Warm and fun, UNDATEABLE follows a bunch of friends who, unlucky in love, hang  together in a bar owned by one of them. This truly lovely sitcom quickly won the love of the crowd when it aired its first season last spring starring Brent Morin, Chris D'Elia, Bianca Kajlich, David Fynn!

'MAGICIANS' SF SERIES CASTS STELLA MAEVE, HALE APPLEMAN! SAM JAEGER IN 'LUMEN' SF SERIES! MICHAEL GROSS JOINS JANE FONDA, LILY TOMLIN IN 'GRACE & FRANKIE' SITCOM! CHRISTA B.ALLEN IN 'BABY DADDY'

SYFY'S 'THE MAGICIANS' SERIES

STELLA MAEVE AND HALE APPLEMAN TO LEAD THE CAST

I have a bunch of updates for you on upcoming TV projects in next two days! I've recently informed you that SyFy is preparing new fantasy series THE MAGICIANS about young students of magic in New York who discover that the magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real and poses grave danger to humanity. Now, the cast has been assembled: Stella Maeve will play Julia Quentin, a wealthy and brilliant Ivy Leaguer who seems destined for success, but her future plans are forever altered after she is denied admittance to the mysterious Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy. Hale Appleman will play Eliot, a student at the Brakebills who will prove a sometimes frustrating ally in Quentin’s fortunes, and may soon factor into a series of perilous adventures. Arjun Gupta will play Penny, Quentin’s roommate at Brakebills. He is bedevilled by voices that hint at pathways to other worlds.

'LUMEN' FANTASY SERIES

SAM JAEGER LEADS THE CAST
Another sf series, over at TNT, will be LUMEN, which has just hired Sam Jaeger in the lead role. The famous author of fantasy books suddenly disappears, and a family of four finds themselves transported to the mystical alternate world that inspired her work. Jaeger will play Michael Hartman, the stepfather of 16-year-old Charlie whose obsession with finding the author thrusts his family into the surreal world of Lumen.
MICHAEL GROSS IN 'GRACE & FRANKIE' NETFLIX SITCOM
Something that is shaping up to become one of the most hilarious of the future sitcoms, GRACE AND FRANKIE has just added famous Michael Gross! This highly delightful Netflix comedy will follow Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as the title characters, two old rivals whose husbands (Michael Sheen and Sam Waterston) suddenly go gay and decide to get married!  Coming from FRIENDS creator Marta Kauffman, and also starring Barry Bostwick, Brooklyn Decker, Ethan Embry, Geoff Stults, Joe Morton, the sitcom will see Gross playing an enthusiastic gay caterer :)

'BABY DADDY' HIRES

 CHRISTA B. ALLEN  AND SETS CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

Speaking of sitcoms, our absolutely favourite one, ABC Family's BABY DADDY will present us with a Christmas special on December 10th, before the fourth season of the popular comedy starts sometime early next year. While the Christmas episode (see the first picture below) will give us the chance to see the happy family and friends, Ben (Jean Luc Bilodeau), Danny (Derek Theler), Bonnie (Melissa Peterman), Riley (Chelsea Kane) and Tucker (Tahj Mowry) celebrate the holiday with baby Emma,  the upcoming new season will see Christa B. Allen as the new guest star! She will play Robyn, a funny, smart, athletic, corporate attorney who works at the law firm with Riley. When Riley begrudgingly sets Robyn up with best friend Danny, they immediately hit it off. You can check out a short teaser for Christmas episode here!

SEAN BEAN TO TOPLINE 'THE FRANKENSTEIN CHRONICLES' TV SERIES! CLOTHES OF IN 'STRIP OR TREAT' 'BABY DADDY' HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! JAMES DENTON JOINS CATHERINE BELL IN 'GOOD WITCH' TV SHOW! ABC'S 'BOOKCLUB' SITCOM

SEAN BEAN TO TOPLINE

THE FRANKENSTEIN CHRONICLES' TELEVISION SERIES

Still a very slow period in movie news business, people, so we're sticking to the small screens, starting with an interesting info coming over from the United Kingdom, where their ITV Encore will produce a television series on infamous monster Frankenstein. Titled THE FRANKENSTEIN CHRONICLES, this modern reworking of Mary Shelley's 19th century horror story will see Sean Bean play John Marlott, a detective who must battle a creature born of dark science in six one hour episodes! Meanwhile, a number of Frankenstein movies is coming to the big screens, including the one in which James McAvoy is Dr. Frankenstein with Daniel Radcliffe as his hunchback butler Igor!

ABC ORDERS

'BOOKCLUB' TV COMEDY 
In sitcom news, ABC has bought BOOKCLUB comedy series from Eva Longoria and Universal! In the vein of 'Bridesmaids' and 'The Hangover', BOOKCLUB revolves around four female friends who escape the pressures and responsibilities of adult life by pretending to be in a book club.
JAMES DENTON IN 'THE GOOD WITCH'
Another series for my ladies, THE GOOD WITCH, which is in production over at Hallmark, has just cast James Denton! The ten episode show will see Catherine Bell playing the raven haired enchantress Cassie Nightingale. Denton will play Cassie Nightingale’s new nextdoor neighbour, a divorced doctor and single dad who stirs things up in Middleton when he discovers Cassie’s signature charm is more than just a magic touch.

'BABY DADDY'S HALLOWEEN

SPECIAL 'STRIP OR TREAT'

Don't forget to check out the delightful trailer for one of TV's most charming comedy series BABY DADDY's special Halloween episode which airs this Wednesday at ABC Family!  In "Strip or Treat" - Ben (Jean Luc Bilodeau), Danny (Derek Theler) and Tucker (Tahj Mowry) are looking forward to attending the biggest Halloween celebration in the city, despite the fact that Bonnie (Melissa Peterman) thinks they should take baby Emma trick-or-treating instead. When their plans fall through, they decide to crash the party Riley (Chelsea Kane) was talking about, not knowing it’s actually a bachelorette party. But when the guys are mistaken for the strippers, Ben makes a big mistake that results in them being carted off to jail. Meanwhile, Bonnie’s date with Javier goes horribly wrong and she lands in jail alongside Ben, Danny and Tucker. Will Riley be able to work her lawyer magic and bail her friends out of this mess, or will everyone get what they deserve?

MATTHEW MACFADYEN, TIMOTHY SPALL FOR 'ENFIELD HAUNTING' MYSTERY TV SERIES! JOANNA VANDERHAM IN BBC'S 'THE GO BETWEEN' PERIOD MOVIE! MATT CEDENO, KELLY MONACO TO GUEST STAR IN 'BABY DADDY' HIT SITCOM

'THE ENFIELD HAUNTING' 

MATTHEW MACFADYEN AND TIMOTHY SPALL TO EXPLORE GHOSTS

Still no updates from Hollywood, so we're sticking to the TV news today as well, starting with some British ones: a thespian cast consisting of Timothy Spall, Matthew MacFadyen and Juliet Stevenson, will star in Sky Living's new series THE ENFIELD HAUNTING. Envisioned in three episodes, the series will try to explore the unusual events that took place at a house in Enfield back in the 70s. In the story dealing with one of the most talked about recordings of alleged poltergeist activity in UK history, Timothy Spall will play paranormal researcher who is invited into a house after reports of a family being victimised by unseen forces. Juliet Stevenson will play his wife, while Matthew Macfadyen will portray a sceptical investigator who joins him at the house.

JOANNA VANDERHAM CAST

IN BBC'S 'THE GO BETWEEN'
Meanwhile, over at BBC they have hired Joanna Vanderham, who starred in their historical series PARADISE, to play the lead in THE GO BETWEEN TV movie. The adaptation of LP Hartley's classic novel will follow Leo Colston, who as an elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wrote when he was 13 years old. Beside Vanderham, the cast will also include Stephen Campbell Moore (Titanic), Ben Batt (Shameless) and Lesley Manville (Maleficent). This is a part of BBC One's classic 20th century novels season which will also include the adaptation of LADY CHATERLEY'S LOVER with Richard Madden, Holliday Grainger and James Norton!

BABY DADDY HIT SITCOM

MATT CADENO & KELLY MONACO GUEST STAR IN THE 4TH SEASON

Are you in love with ABC Family's hit comedy BABY DADDY like I am? One of the most delightful sitcoms to ever grace the small screens is currently shooting its fourth season which will see some new faces guest starring in the story about a young man Ben (Jean Luc Bilodeau) who has to adjust his bachelor life with being and unexpected BABY DADDY with the help of his brother Danny (Derek Theler), his roomate Tucker (Tahj Mowry), his best friend Riley (Chelsea Kane) and his hilarious mother Bonnie (Melissa Peterman)! Guest starring in the 4th season will be Matt Cedeno (an international philanderer whom Bonnie meets on the internet) and Kelly Monaco (playing herself in an episode in which Danny gets invited to star in GENERAL HOSPITAL)! We shall also see the return of Bonnie's on and of boyfriend Brad (Peter Porte). October 22nd will bring us a special Halloween episode of BABY DADDY and the fourth season should start towards the end of the year.