TYLER RITTER, LUKE YOUNGBLOOD TO RUN A FUNERAL HOME IN 'PLAYING DEAD' SERIES! ETHAN PECK, JON ECKER ARE IN LOVE TRIANGLE IN 'FOR LOVE' SERIES! DELIGHTFUL 'DON'T TALK TO IRENE' TRAILER WITH MICHELLE MCLEOD, GEENA DAVIS

TYLER RITTER TO LEAD

John's son Tyler Ritter takes the lead role

PLAYING DEAD DRAMA PILOT AT CW!

CW continues casting for their new drama pilots. The latest info is that Clara Lago has joined Tyler Ritter and Luke Youngblood in PLAYING DEAD! It is a dramedy about a single dad mortician, Joe (Tyler Ritter), and his son whose lives are turned upside down when Isabel (Clara Lago), the woman who abandoned them 15 years ago, returns and asks them to fake her death.

Luke Youngblood is his best friend and assistant

Isabel is a fiery, self serving con artist with a wicked sense of humour who also happens to be on the run from the mafia. Used to living dangerously, trained in martial arts and with a knack for improvisation, Isabel has come up with a plan to save her own skin and make Joe a whole lot of money. But first Joe has to agree to help her fake her own death.  Galavant young star LukeYoungblood will play Joe’s loyal, long time assistant at the funeral parlour as well as his best friend! He does not like Isabel at all!

ABC'S 'FOR LOVE' DRAMA PILOT

PUTS JON ECKER AND ETHAN PECK IN A LOVE TRIANGLE

Gregory's grandson Ethan Peck is one of the leads

Another blast from the past (it seems to be a new trend with Josh Dallas returning from dead in Manifest at CW too) will be seen in ABC's drama pilot for FOR LOVE which just hired Ethan Peck and Jon Ecker as male leads! The story follows journalist Hope Castille. Five years ago, her fiancé, Charlie Lapree (Jon Ecker) was killed. This morning she received a phone call from him. An epic love triangle set against a grounded, secret world of magic in present day New Orleans. Ethan Peck will play Hope’s current boyfriend, Gabriel Dumaine. Charming, handsome and worldly, Gabriel is a member of the powerful Dumaine family and also a candidate in the upcoming mayoral race. Respectful of Hope’s loss, he’s very much in love with her and hoping to start a life with her, even though he realizes that might expose her to the dangerous secret the Dumaine family hides. Charlie Lapree is, meanwhile,  hard working and delightful, fully in love with Hope and a

Jon Ecker takes one of the two male leads in For Love

journalist himself. After taking a call while remodeling their new apartment, Charlie is found dead after a car accident. Five years later, he reappears.

'DON'T TALK TO IRENE'

 HEART WARMING TRAILER!

Irene is currently out in cinemas around the world

You can also check out a delightful and heart warming trailer for DON'T TALK TO IRENE which is already out in Europe and is out this weekend in USA.  When Irene (Michelle McLeod) - the fattest girl in high school - gets suspended, she must endure two weeks of community service at a retirement home. Following her passion for cheerleading, she secretly signs up the senior residents to audition for a dance-themed reality show to prove that you don't need to be physically "perfect" to be perfectly AWESOME. Geena Davis also stars alongside Bruce Gray and Anastasia Phillips.

STEPHEN FRY JOINS 'GREAT INDOORS' SITCOM, TYLER RITTER 'YOUNG & HUNGRY'! BBC ORDERS 'QUACKS' VICTORIAN MEDICAL COMEDY WITH RUPERT EVERETT! MEDALION RAHIMI JOINS 'STILL STAR CROSSED', SOFIA PERNAS 'TRANSYLVANIA' EPIC SHOWS

'YOUNG AND HUNGRY' 

TYLER RITTER JOINS THE CAST

TV news today, starting with infos from the TV comedy world: FreeForm's YOUNG & HUNGRY sitcom, which has just been renewed for the 5th season will have THE MCCARTHYS star Tyler Ritter guest starring as Adam, a handsome and funny man who is nursing a broken heart after being left at the altar. He and Gabi (Emily Osment) bond over their similar relationship problems and the fact that they are both budding entrepreneurs.

STEPHEN FRY IN 'GREAT INDOORS'

Meanwhile, British legend Stephen Fry will star in NBC's new sitcom THE GREAT INDOORS in which  Joel McHale plays an adventure reporter who must adapt to the times when he becomes boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of their magazine. Fry will be the charismatic founder of  THE GREAT INDOORS magazine, and a world traveller, explorer and adventure! 

BBC ORDERS 'QUACKS' 

VICTORIAN COMEDY SERIES
Over in UK, BBC has ordered 6 half hour episode period series set in the 1840s titled QUACKS about four young pioneers in the daring and wild days of Victorian medicine!  The comedy takes place at a time when doctors were just as likely to kill their patients as cure them, when they experimented on themselves and each other. It was an era when the O.R. — or operating theatre in British parlance — was full of spectacle and showmanship (and screw-ups). Rory Kinnear will play one of those showmen, an arrogant surgeon; Mathew Baynton is a fledgling psychiatrist; Tom Basden a hedonistic dentist turned anaesthetist and Lydia Leonard a headstrong social campaigner. Rupert Everett will guest star.

'STILL STAR CROSSED' 

 CASTS PRINCESS ISABELLA

ABC has cast Medalion Rahimi to play intelligent, outspoken and practical princess Isabella in their upcoming new STILL STAR CROSSED 16th century Verona set series that picks up where William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet left off charting the treachery, palace intrigue and ill-fated romances of the Montagues and Capulets in the wake of the young lovers’ tragic fate. She joins Torrance Coombs in the cast.

SOFIA PERNAS IN 'TRANSYLVANIA'

Over at CW, Sofia Pernas has joined their historical adventure series TRANSYLVANIA replacing Amrita Acharia as Coriander, an exotic gypsy queen of the matriarchal clan that runs the fleshpots of the Old City, the haunted spot where Vlad the Impaler once killed thousands of their tribe. Set in 1880 TRANSYLVANIA centres on Victoria (Laura Brent), a headstrong young woman in search of her missing father who ventures from NYC to Transylvania where she teams up with a wrongfully disgraced Scotland Yard Detective (Luke Allen-Gale), and together they witness the births of the most famous monsters and villains in history.

UPCOMING HEARTWARMING MOVIES: 'SIX DANCE LESSONS IN SIX WEEKS' WITH GENA ROWLANDS, CHEYENNE JACKSON, 'DOUGH' WITH JONATHAN PRYCE, PAULINE COLLINS, 'AN EVERGREEN CHRISTMAS' WITH TYLER RITTER, ROBERT LOGGIA, NAOMI JUDD

6 DANCE LESSONS IN 6 WEEKS

CAN'T LEARN TO DANCE WITHOUT STEPPING ON A FEW TOES

We are having a heartwarming start of the week, people, with me presenting you some of the uplifting movies coming soon to the cinemas. We shall start with a delightful comedy drama SIX DANCE LESSONS IN SIX WEEKS which should dance its way into theatres December 12th with senior actors cast including Gena Rowlands, Rita Moreno, Julian Sands, alongside Jacki Weaver and Cheyenne Jackson! The story follows a retired woman who hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home - one per week for six weeks. What begins as an antagonistic relationship turns into a close friendship as they dance together.

HILARIOUS 'DOUGH'

 IT IS NOT JUST BREAD THAT IS GETTING BAKED!
A rather hilarious story will come to us from England in the form of some DOUGH! Jonathan Pryce, Ian Hart, Philip Davis, Pauline Collins, star in this charming story about an old Jewish baker   who struggles to keep his business afloat until his young Muslim apprentice accidentally drops cannabis in the dough and sends sales sky high.

'AN EVERGREEN CHRISTMAS'

HOME NEVER SOUNDED SO GOOD

If you're into something more festive, family romance AN EVERGREEN CHRISTMAS is already in the cinemas:  Leaving her seemingly glamorous Hollywood life on hold, Evie Lee is forced to return to her small hometown and her family's once thriving Christmas tree farm to attend her father's unexpected funeral. As the eldest sibling, she finds herself executor of an estate that owes a massive inheritance tax, much to her younger brother's dismay. Torn between pursuing her music career and saving her family's legacy, she must decide what it really means to find her place in the world. Charleene Closshey stars amidst a colourful cast including Robert Loggia, Tyler Ritter, Booboo Stewart and Naomi Judd in this heart-warming musical holiday tale about facing your past, rediscovering your voice, and fulfilling your dreams.

TV UPDATES: 'MCCARTHYS' SITCOM WITH TYLER RITTER STARTS AT CBS, 'BENCHED' WITH JAY HARRINGTON AT USA! GEOFF STULTS AS A FIRE FIGHTER IN NEW CBS SITCOM! 'WRECKED' DESERTED ISLAND TV COMEDY

'THE MCCARTHYS' SITCOM

TYLER RITTER AS A VERY IRISH GAY BASKETBALL COACH

We shall have a TV day today, people, and I'm bringing you all the latest updates on upcoming sitcoms! We shall start with the latest television comedy (the genre hasn't had much luck this season since BAD JUDGE and A TO Z have been killed at NBC and MANHATTAN LOVE STORY at ABC) to arrive to the small screens this Fall season: THE MCCARTHYS sitcom started airing this Thursday at CBS! Did you watch it, like it? The series revolves around the McCarthys, a close-knit working class Boston clan whose sports legacy runs deep in the family. But when outspoken father Arthur (Jack McGee), a dedicated high school basketball coach, decides to take his athletically challenged, and openly gay, son Ronny (delightful Tyler Ritter) under his wing as his new assistant, the other siblings (who are more sports passionate) start crying foul over their dad's choice. The first episode was OK, but lacked visual identity.

GEOFF STULTS TO STAR 

IN AND PRODUCE A CBS SITCOM
 Speaking of CBS, they have hired Geoff Stults to both produce, write and star in an untitled sitcom which will follow an ordinary bachelor, a firefighter, who has very little ambition in life. However, he suddenly becomes a national hero and is elected mayor after he is filmed saving two children from a burning building.
WRECKED DESERTED ISLAND SITCOM

TBS has ordered a pilot for WRECKED deserted island comedy chronicling the aftermath of a plane crashing on a remote island. Two best friends, along with an extremely diverse group of survivors, must adjust to life in a dangerous new world that poses unique threats which they mostly bring upon themselves. Danny and Owen, who weren’t quite killing it pre-crash, are given the chance to finally be the kind of men they’ve always wanted to be. No longer plugged in, they become the unexpected leaders of this new society devoid of such comforts as social media, wi-fi, indoor plumbing and fast food restaurants

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'BENCHED' SITCOM

FROM USA NETWORK

Another sitcom which started airing this week, Tuesdays at USA Network, is BENCHED, which stars Eliza Coupe as a high-powered corporate lawyer who falls from grace into the rough and tumble world of a public defender.The 12 episode series also stars always charming Jay Harrington!