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“Love Is __” has been renewed for a second season on the Oprah Winfrey Network, the network announced Tuesday.

“Mara and Salim have brought their heart and soul to this passion project working with our friends at Warner Horizon Scripted Television and we couldn’t be more thrilled to renew the show for a second season,” said OWN president Erik Logan. “This series is an important part of OWN’s scripted programming lineup and to see the ratings grow as the Akils’ love story unfolds each week is truly exciting.”

Creators Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil serve as executive producers through their company Akil Productions in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television. Brock Akil is showrunner and directed the pilot and upcoming Season 1 finale.

The series follows Nuri (Michele Weaver

Timeless has miraculously cheated death for a second time. One month after cancelling the cult drama (again), NBC announced Tuesday that it has ordered a two-part finale that will give “closure to the globetrotting series.” The Peacock net did not specify an air date beyond confirming that the two-hour event will premiere during the holidays.

“While we wish we could’ve made another dozen seasons of Timeless, this is the next best thing,” said executive producers Shawn Ryan and Eric Kripke in a joint statement. “We’re thrilled to take the Lifeboat out for one last spin and bring closure to our story.

The “Less Than Zero” is alive at Hulu and found its leading man.

The streaming service has ordered a pilot for the TV reboot and cast “The Walking Dead” alum Austin Abrams in the role originally played by Andrew McCarthy in the 1987 feature film, a person with knowledge of the project tells TheWrap.

In April, TheWrap reported Hulu had a drama in the early stages of development based on Bret Easton Ellis’ 1985 novel and the subsequent 1987 flick of the same name, starring McCarthy, Robert Downey Jr., Jami Gertz and James Spader.

“Lost” writer and producer Craig Wright is set to pen the script and executive produce the adaptation alongside author Ellis.

More to come…

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Diane Guerrero has signed on to the upcoming “Doom Patrol” series at the DC streaming service, DC Universe.

The live-action series is described as a reimagining of one of DC’s strangest group of outcasts: Robotman, Negative Man, Elasti-Woman and Crazy Jane. Led by the mysterious Dr. Niles Caulder, they’re called into action by the ultimate hero for the digital age, Cyborg. Banding together these rejects find themselves on a mission that will take them to the weirdest and most unexpected corners of the DC universe.

Guerrero will play Crazy Jane, an unlikely hero suffering from the world’s

Jack Bauer’s story may not be over at Fox just yet, as the network has a “24” prequel series in the works, an individual with knowledge of the project tells TheWrap.

Longtime “24” showrunner Howard Gordon and the co-creators of the original series, Joel Surnow and Bob Cochran, are working on an idea for a prequel, which would trace the origin story of Jack Bauer, originally played by Kiefer Sutherland.

The trio are writing the story together, but there is currently no word on how soon the project would come to fruition.

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20th Century Fox had no comment when reached by TheWrap.

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After stealing scenes in both The Greatest Showman and Spider-Man: Homecoming, Zendaya's latest project is a lead role in HBO's new series Euphoria. According to Variety, the show is an adaptation of an Israeli series. After ordering the pilot in March, HBO officially picked up the series in July, adding the creators of the Israeli series as executive producers and tapping The Wizard of Lies' Sam Levinson to write all 10 episodes.

The show doesn't have a release date yet, but we do have enough information to know that it's definitely going to be interesting. Keep reading for all the juicy details about the cast, plot, and more, and stay tuned for further updates!

Donald Trump’s border wall is the inspiration for a new unscripted travel-comedy series in development by Sonar Entertainment and comedian and actor Felipe Esparza (Last Comic Standing).

The project is one of the first from Sonar’s Factual side, headed by former Tricon exec Andrea Gorfolova, who came over to Sonar following the company’s acquisition of Tricon Films & Television last year.

As part of the potential series description, Esparza asks, “What’s 2000 miles long, costs over $25 billion to build, and is filled with narcos, deadly terrain, and jokes – lots and lots of jokes?” For Esparza, that’s The Wall, the front line that defines the highly charged debate over the border separating the U.S. and Mexico.

In the multi-part project, Esparza and his band of fellow comics take an up close and personal look at the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing unconventional riffs

Three-time Emmy winner Beau Bridges is set to co-star opposite Rory Scovel in Robbie, Comedy Central’s half-hour scripted comedy pilot. Written by Scovel and Anthony King, Robbie centers around a delusional small town Christian youth league basketball coach (Scovel) living in the shadow of his father until he realizes he has his son of his own that can lead him to greatness. Beau will play Robbie's father, Robbie Walton Sr., known in the community as "Coach." He is…

Welcome to Lohan Beach Club. MTV officially announced its new reality series with Lindsay Lohan, Lohan Beach Club (working title), slated to debate in 2019. The new series, which is executive produced by Lohan in partnership with MTV and Bunim/Murray Productions, started shooting in Mykonos, Greece in late July 2018. Look for Lohan Beach Club to take place at, well, Lohan Beach House. "The exclusive seaside destination will serve as a backdrop for the series, and features luxury spa amenities, a renowned restaurant and a transformative day and nightclub poised to redefine the Mykonos experience," MTV said in a release. Lohan Beach House is Lohan's third business venture in the Greek Islands. She has...

Fiji, you might want to start stocking up on sage and matches.

Trace Lysette (Transparent) will guest-star in Midnight, Texas Season 2 as a dark witch bearing a shocker for the town’s resident good witch, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Celeste is described as stunningly attractive in a too-much-is-never-enough way. She loves designer labels and would fit in nicely with any of Bravo’s Real Housewives, and when she arrives on Fiji’s doorstep in Episode 5, she delivers a huge announcement.

Lysette is best known for playing Shea on Amazon’s Transparent. In November, the actress accused co-star Jeffrey Tambor of

The success of Snapchat inspired a whole range of ephemeral, now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t apps for consumers who’re concerned about their protecting their privacy. These self-destructing messaging apps — Frankly, Blink, Wickr and Confide — are less well known than Snapchat, but offer features such as encrypted messages, disappearing photos and the like. TigerText falls into this broad category of secure messaging apps, which allows users to share encrypted messages that…

Shares of CBS Corp. began to climb back upwards Tuesday, but Wall Street still believes a bizarre soap opera engulfing the company’s legendary CEO threatens to drag them down.

CBS’ board of directors on Monday decided to keep Leslie Moonves, the company’s executive chairman and CEO, in place even as it took steps to investigate allegations that he forced unwanted sexual contact on six different women who made details about their encounters with him known to The New Yorker. Moonves in a statement to the magazine that “I recognize that there were times decades ago when I may

The pitch for “Making It,” NBC’s new foray into reality-competition shows, is pretty simple: Take the structure and — more importantly — the tone of “The Great British Baking Show,” but instead of baking, the challenges all center around craft projects. In the series, former “Parks and Recreation” co-stars Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman guide eight professional crafters through challenges blending paper, fabric, wood, and tons of other unconventional ingredients to create wonderful and unexpected things.

Set in a picturesque wooded glen referred to as “the farm”, the eight crafters represent a variety of disciplines and backgrounds, with their unique styles showcased by the variety of concepts they’re asked to create. In the episodes screened for review, the projects made include quilts, childrens’ play forts, Halloween costumes, and lawn furniture, and the level of skill presented is really impressive (at least to a layperson).

It’s also refreshingly positive. As

After decades of being in near-continual production, bouncing back and forth between box office smash successes and low-budget flops, following transfers of ownership, appearing in everything from movies to comic books and TV series, having been ended and restarted multiple times and, finally, co-starring in a horror crossover unheard of since the demise of the original Universal Monsters, perhaps it was inevitable for the Friday the 13th series to get rebooted. Having been literally to Hell and back (to say nothing of outer space), there just wasn’t much new ground left for Jason Vorhees to cover. Handing the production off

On Second Thought… Reconsidering the ‘Friday the 13th’ Remake

Former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat is once again time-hopping, this time with The Time Traveler’s Wife at HBO.

The cable network has given a series order to Moffat’s adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s novel, which was previously made into a 2009 film starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, our sister site Deadline reports.

The show is described as an intricate and magical love story about Clare and Henry, whose marriage has one major problem: time travel.

“I read Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife many years ago, and I fell in love with it,” Moffat told Deadline.

HBO has ordered a series adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s novel “The Time Traveler’s Wife” from Steven Moffat.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Steven Moffat, Hartswood and Wbtv on The Time Traveler’s Wife,” said HBO programming president Casey Bloys. “Steven’s passion is evident in every project he’s written and we are certain that his love and respect for this mesmerizing and textured novel will make it a quintessential HBO series.”

Originally adapted into a 2009 film starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana, “The Time Traveler’s Wife” tells the story of Clare and Henry, and a marriage with a problem.

Actress Genie Francis and her survived-it-all soap character Laura Spencer is heading back to ABC’s General Hospital. Francis, who has come and gone on the daytime series numerous times over the years since starting in 1977, has been off the show since January, and reportedly will begin taping new episodes in September. The news, first reported by the TV Insider website, was confirmed by exec producer Frank Valentini in a tweet, adding that the show has “an amazing story&#8221…

If Archie Andrews does end up behind bars in Riverdale‘s third season — which is entirely possible, given this show’s history of false convictions — he probably shouldn’t expect any conjugal visits from Veronica.

How do we know this? For starters, Mark Consuelos believes that Hiram, the puppet master behind Archie’s arrest, would “put a stop” to his daughter visiting her jailbird beau. And even if she chooses to defy him yet again, Luke Perry — a surprising font of legal knowledge — insists that you have to be married in order to arrange conjugal visits.

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Updated with a statement from CBS Less than 24 hours after the CBS Board of Directors let Les Moonves stay in his job despite sexual misconduct allegations, the CEO and other executives were accused of destroying evidence in the the media company’s increasingly pitched battle with Shari Redstone and her family run National Amusements for corporate control. In potentially stunning and heavily redacted filing in Delaware that was unsealed this morning, Moonves, CBS COO Joe…

Exclusive: The American Film Institute (AFI) has named veteran indie producer Lianne Halfon to be Producing Discipline Head of the AFI Conservatory. Producing is one of six disciplines in which the AFI Conservatory offers a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree, along with Cinematography, Directing, Editing, Production Design and Screenwriting. That job had been held for 14 years by Neil Canton, who retired from the post in June. “Lianne brings a wealth of experience, taste…