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Creator Liz Feldman confirms the news, adding that she is ‘beyond grateful’ to Netflix for supporting her hit series from day one and letting it be the show she wanted to make.
Jul 7, 2020
AceShowbiz – Christina Applegate’s acclaimed Netflix series “Dead to Me” has been renewed for a third and final season.
Creator Liz Feldman confirmed the news on Monday (July 06), revealing she is collaborating with bosses at the streaming service as part of an overall development deal.
“From start to finish, ‘Dead to Me’ is exactly the show I wanted to make,” Feldman said in a statement. “And it’s been an incredible gift. Telling a story sprung from grief and loss has stretched me as an artist and healed me as a human.”
“I’ll be forever indebted to my partners in crime, my friends for life, Christina and Linda (Cardellini), and our brilliantly talented writers, cast and crew. I am beyond grateful to Netflix for supporting ‘Dead to Me’ from day one, and I’m thrilled to continue our collaboration.”

Applegate also marked the show’s conclusion with a dedication to the team behind the show – and the fans.
“I will miss these ladies,” she wrote. “But we felt this was the best way to tie up the story of these women. Thank you to all the fans. We will be getting back to work when it is safe to do so. Much love.”

Christina Applegate reacted to the renewal of ‘Dead to Me’ for its third and final season.
The second season of the series, which also stars James Marsden, debuted in May.

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The 12-episode series, titled ‘An Oral History of The Office’, will be hosted and produced by Brian Baumgartner, who played accountant Kevin Malone on the beloved show.
Jul 7, 2020
AceShowbiz – Billie Eilish is set to join Ricky Gervais, Steve Carell and John Krasinski on a new Spotify podcast about iconic U.S. TV comedy “The Office”.
The new 12-episode series, titled “An Oral History of The Office”, will be hosted and produced by Brian Baumgartner, who played accountant Kevin Malone on the beloved show.
Fans can look forward to interviews and memories from his fellow cast members Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson and Angela Kinsey, and other celebrity devotees, like “Bad Guy” hitmaker Billie, according to People.

Baumgartner, who is working with former “The Office” producer Ben Silverman on the new venture, will also chat to Greg Daniels, who created the American version of the hit, and Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, who co-created, wrote, produced and starred on the BBC original, which aired from 2001 to 2003.
The U.S. TV hit, which ran for nine seasons before ending in 2013, has proved a popular podcast subject – Brian’s co-stars Jenna and Angela currently host the top-rated “Office Ladies” audio series.
“An Oral History of The Office” kicks off on 14 July.

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The ‘Maleficent’ actress reveals she has had to keep the secret to herself ever since showrunner Peter Morgan offered her the role as Queen Elizabeth II’s sister in the final season of the hit series.
Jul 6, 2020
AceShowbiz – Lesley Manville can’t wait to start playing “wonderful woman” Princess Margaret in “The Crown”.
The actress confirmed her casting as Queen Elizabeth II’s sister in the fifth and final season of the drama last week (ends July 03), and now she reveals she has had to keep the secret to herself for the past year, ever since showrunner Peter Morgan offered her the role in one of her own favorite TV “treats.”
“It’s mind-blowing television,” the “Maleficent” star tells Deadline. “There was never any doubt that I would say yes. When they said, ‘Margaret’, I hadn’t really thought about it. Then I thought, ‘Yes, Margaret! That’s fabulous!’ She was so avant-garde. So naughty, delightful and funny. What a wonderful woman to play.”
Manville will follow in the footsteps of Vanessa Kirby and Helena Bonham Carter, who took on the role in the first four seasons of the hit show, and she can’t wait to pick up the baton.
“I don’t find that daunting; I find it thrilling,” she adds. “I think, ‘Come on Manville, you’ve got to take that baton, and not let those two actresses think, ‘Oh we were great, shame about Manville’. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.”
Lesley knows she’ll be working with old pal and occasional co-star Imelda Staunton, who will portray Elizabeth in season five, but she has no idea who else will make up the cast.
“Not a single name has been dangled like a carrot to make me even more excited,” she tells Deadline.

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The ‘Happy’ hitmaker makes a return to his Virginia hometown to find undiscovered talent to build ‘one of the world’s most inspiring gospel choirs,’ with the assistance of Bishop Ezekiel Williams.
Jul 6, 2020
AceShowbiz – Superstar Pharrell Williams is bringing gospel music from his Virginia hometown to Netflix on a new TV series.
“Voices of Fire” will chronicle the “Happy” hitmaker’s recent return to the Hampton Roads community, where he teamed up with his uncle, fellow musician Bishop Ezekiel Williams, and other gospel leaders to find undiscovered talent to build “one of the world’s most inspiring gospel choirs.”
Pharrell will co-executive produce the show, which will premiere on the streaming service later this year.
He shared the news of the Netflix collaboration on Sunday (July 05) during an appearance at the virtual Essence Festival.
The musician is also said to be in talks with platform bosses to develop a feature-length musical about the Juneteenth holiday (June 19), which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S., along with “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris.

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Season 1, Episode 3: ‘Chapter Three’Sister Alice is out to sea. Literally. In the shot that ends this week’s episode of “Perry Mason,” the charismatic preacher is shown blissfully adrift in her tiny ship, figuratively kept afloat by her conviction that God has spoken to her.The leaders of her congregation, however, are facing stormier seas. Sister Alice remains involved in the life of Emily Dodson even as District Attorney Maynard Barnes mounts what appears to be an airtight case against her — helped by the distraught woman’s murmur of “guilty” when asked for her plea at an arraignment hearing. To make matters worse, we can add seizures to auditory hallucinations in the tally of neurological conditions that seem to plague the preacher; when she collapses and convulses in the middle of a theatrical church service, the rich and powerful elders ensure that the show goes on around her.Then, to the horror of her mother and handler, Birdy, Sister Alice whispers — loudly enough for a nearby reporter to hear — what God has commanded her to do: raise the slain infant Charlie Dodson from the dead. That final, surrealistic shot of Sister Alice floating alone is belied by the tension and turmoil her faith has wrought in those around her.It’s a bold choice to end the episode this way. But on this show, bold choices abound. There always seems to be some new weirdness around the corner, something stranger or sharper or gorier or more romantic or more unpleasant than what is strictly called for by the standards of a whodunit.Take the plight of E.B. Jonathan, who is Perry’s de facto boss and Emily’s lawyer. Over the course of this episode, we see him suddenly struggling with what ought to come naturally to him. He repeatedly loses his train of thought. He bobbles a statement to the press. He seems perpetually one step behind in court. He notices blood in the sink after he brushes his teeth. He stares at a hummingbird outside his window so fixedly that he doesn’t hear his assistant, Della Street, calling his name.In the end, E.B. gets dumped by his client Herman Baggerly — who is busy planning the construction of a religious community with his son Matthew Dodson, recently cleared in the case — and is reduced to begging an old associate for a loan, unsuccessfully. Thanks to a precise performance by John Lithgow, Jonathan’s dissolution over the course of an hour feels both sudden and inexorable, as if it were bound to happen sooner or later. It adds a tragic dimension to a character who could have remained a stock figure in lesser hands.The same can be said of the Los Angeles police officer Paul Drake, a reluctant participant in the cover-up of key facts in the Dodson case. Followed around by the crooked and murderous Sgt. Ennis — who puts the “offensive” in “charm offensive” when he puts his hand on the belly of Drake’s pregnant wife, Clara (Diarra Kilpatrick), and pays for the couple’s groceries — he beats Perry when the private eye approaches him about his bare-bones crime scene report. When Perry ironically employs a racial slur to describe Drake’s acquiescence, Drake threatens him with the violence that, as a police officer, is his to mete out with impunity, throwing the epithet back in Mason’s face.But when his wife instructs him to go along to get along, despite knowing full well what kind of person Ennis is, it’s too much for Drake to take. (There’s a separate conversation we can have about Clara and other wife characters who, like, just don’t get it, but I’m willing to give the show the benefit of the doubt at this point.) Drake approaches Perry under cover of darkness and admits that he doctored the report, changing the facts to fit the bogus theory that Emily’s lover George Gannon killed his co-conspirators and fled the scene instead of getting killed there as well. As evidence, he proffers a broken set of dentures he recovered in the alley where Gannon fell to his death.So, like grim Prince Charmings searching for their Cinderella, Mason and his wisecracking sidekick, Pete Strickland, race to the morgue to locate Gannon’s body before it gets cremated. After fighting their way through the tangle of corpses, they locate their man and discover that the broken dentures match the fractured partial set still in his mouth. It is perhaps the most disgusting investigative breakthrough TV has seen since Will Graham was out there profiling serial-killing installation artists in “Hannibal.”But for all its darkness, “Perry Mason” still has a lighter side. Sometimes it comes out in the form of humor, like the off-color anecdote that the mortician, Virgil (Jefferson Mays), shares with Perry and Pete while they’re searching for the personal effects of the two other dead kidnappers. (“Never would’ve caught him if it weren’t for the mayonnaise,” goes the punchline. The rest is probably better left unwritten.) Pete’s grousing and grumbling and his own penchant for foul-mouthed tale-telling is another example.At other times, the show’s warmth stems from romantic chemistry. Perry combines business with pleasure when he and his girlfriend, Lupe, travel to a desert casino to investigate one of George Gannon’s old jobs, from before Gannon found Jesus. Lupe smiles when she realizes she has been dragged along on an assignment in lieu of simply having a nice New Year’s Eve date — but that doesn’t stop her from making Perry take off her high-heeled shoes and hop in a fountain with her, finally getting the New Year’s kiss she’d been demanding. The easy, sexy rapport between the actors Matthew Rhys and Veronica Falcón is such that you half expect the fountain’s water to begin steaming.For all its darkness, “Perry Mason” illuminates its world with flashes of the unexpected and the light of human connection. It could skate by as a grim-and-gritty revisionist riff on the “Perry Mason” of yore — and to an extent, that’s exactly what it is — but only to an extent. It’s too smart, too strange and sometimes too sweet for that critique to stand up in court.From the case files:Fans of great character actors take note: That’s the former Max Headroom, Matt Frewer, as the judge at Emily’s arraignment. Personally, I have a soft spot for his portrayal of the pyromaniac Trashcan Man in the old ABC mini-series adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Stand.”As Emily Dodson, Gayle Rankin is really put through her paces in this episode, whether she is screaming “Shut up!” at the top of her lungs as her husband chews her out or reeling from the illegal interrogation to which detectives Holcomb and Ennis subject her.Something to keep an eye on: Perry pays special attention to a photo representing the “Child Adoption” aspect of Sister Alice’s ministry. Combine that with her ambiguous declaration to Emily that “You didn’t kill your baby any more than I did — bad men did that,” and I think it might be time to view the good Sister as a suspect. More

Several couples are indeed born from the franchise, but fans of the series also witness that some of the couples end their romantic relationship in the most brutal way possible.
Jul 5, 2020
AceShowbiz – “The Bachelor” and its spin-offs are TV shows that allow people to find love while being captured on small screen.. Several long-lasting couples were indeed born from the franchise, but fans of the series also witnessed that some of the couple ended their romantic relationship in the most brutal way possible.
Fans of the ABC dating show might remember when authorities were involved in a drama between one couple as one of them physically assaulted the other. Another couple, meanwhile, blasted each other publicly in an infamous sitdown interview with the show’s host Chris Harrison. One nasty breakup that fans could never forget was when a bachelor also heartlessly broke up with his fiancee to be with the runner-up of his season.
Taking a walk down memory lane of these scandalous moments, here are the messiest breakups in “Bachelor” franchise history.

1. Josh Murray and Amanda Stanton
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Josh Murray and Amanda Stanton met in season three of “Bachelor in Paradise” and quickly hit it off as she accepted his proposal at the end of the show. However, their relationship ended in January 2017. They did rekindle in February only to dramatically break up again.
Amanda exposed Josh in an exclusive interview with E! News, talking about the “red flags” she noticed while dating him and how the breakup affected her daughters. In response to that, Josh said in a statement, “I just want Amanda to stop lying about me, stop speaking to the press about me, and for Amanda and her friends to stop trying to cyber bully me.” Their nasty breakup didn’t only get the two of them involved as his personal assistant Hayley Watts spoke out against Amanda in a separate interview in which she claimed that Amanda accused her of stealing her iPad.

2. Michael Stagliano and Holly Durst
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The drama between on-and-off couple Michael Stagliano and Holly Durst, who appeared together in season 2 of “Bachelor Pad” back in 2011, started after Holly was wavered by fellow contestant Blake Julian. While Michael Stagliano won “Bachelor Pad” with his former fiancee Holly, he was left heartbroken when the latter dropped a bombshell revelation in the live finale.
Michael and the viewers were stunned when Holly and Blake announced they were engaged during the episode. “I was caught off guard, humiliated,” Michael admitted to PEOPLE at the time. “I know neither Holly nor Blake wanted it to go down like that. I’m now even more thankful for the talk we had two weeks ago, which provided closure I didn’t have before. If we hadn’t had that, it would have been so much worse tonight. I might have just walked off stage.”

3. Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi
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Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi might think they had the best experience from “The Bachelor” back in 2010. They seemed to think they were for each other with Jake proposing to Vienna at the end of the season. However, their romance was quick to take a nasty turn because they split in June of the same year and things were a downhill from there.
In a special episode of “The Bachelorette”, the former lovers called each other names with Vienna telling Jake, “You are a fame w***e is what you are,” to which he responded, “I’m disgusted with you.” He also accused her of undermining him. Meanwhile, Vienne claimed that he treated her like a child and was mean to her.

4. Jason Mesnick and Melissa Rycroft
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Jason Mesnick and Melissa Rycroft’s dramatic split unsurprisingly was among the messiest breakups in “The Bachelor” franchise history. In his season of “The Bachelor”, Jason decided to pick Melissa over Molly Malaney after asking his family for an input. However, he realized later on that he made the wrong choice.
During the “After the Final Rose” special, he came clean about it. He told Chris that he “can’t stop thinking about Molly” and that he wanted a proposal do-over. Melissa was unsurprisingly pissed over the revelation and called him “a bastard.” The dramatic split aside, it all worked out in the end. Jason and Molly are married with two kids, while Melissa is happily married to Tye Strickland with whom she shares three children.

5. Andi Dorfman and Josh Murray
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His split from Amanda Stanton wasn’t the first time for Josh Murray to experience a bitter breakup in Bachelor Nation. Prior to being with Amanda, Josh was engaged to Andi Dorfman whom he proposed to in season 10 finale of “The Bachelorette”. However, nine months after making it official, the couple called off their engagement.
Andi detailed her split from Josh in her book titled “It’s Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak Into Happily Ever After” in which she said that Josh was sometimes “an emotional abuser.” “That one sexual escapade [with runner-up Nick Viall] would become a power play used by my fiance to justify his mistrust in me. It would be an excuse to call me a whore. And it would eventually lead to the demise of my engagement,” Andi wrote. Josh denied all of her claims when he was on “Bachelor in Paradise”.

6. Byron Velvick and Mary Delgado
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Byron Velvick and Mary Delgado got together in a November 2004 finale of “The Bachelor”, but instead of the moment of Byron proposing to Velvick, it was when Mary was arrested for assaulting Byron that most “Bachelor” fans would remember the most. The altercation took place the night after they appeared in a “Bachelor” reunion episode in November 2007.
According to authorities, she punched Byron in the mouth and was under the influence of alcohol when she was arrested. Despite the assault, they managed to put their differences aside and stay together, but then called it quits for good in 2009.

7. Juan Pablo and Clare Crawley
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Juan Pablo broke Clare Crawley’s heart on “Bachelor Winter Games” with the meanest thing a man could ever say to a woman. In the season, Juan chose Nikki Ferrell over Clare after Andi Dorfman left the show. As if being dumped wasn’t enough to hurt Clare, Juan told him why he didn’t choose her.
Despite basically having sex with him in the ocean, it wasn’t enough to make Juan to say that he loved Clare. However, he did say to her that he “loved f***ing” her.” What a way to crush someone’s heart.

8. Marcus Grodd and Lacy Faddoul
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Marcus Grodd and Lacy Faddoul found love on “Bachelor in Paradise” season one in 2014 and got married in the season two premiere. It might look like a fairy tale, until it was actually revealed that they never legally wed. Marcus said that Lacy “changed” after they came back from the show and “stalled” things when they “were supposed to start the paperwork.”
He then accused Lacy of ghosting him, saying she became “a runaway bride.” He shared in an interview in 2016, “It became a toxic relationship at times. She was very controlling. I was more of an appeasing person. I wouldn’t want to fight. There were a lot of barriers that we couldn’t overcome. I think that that made her change her mind.”

9. Robby Hayes and Amanda Stanton
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Robby Hayes and Amanda Stanton might be loving each other at some points, but they failed to end their relationship nicely. The former “Bachelor in Paradise” couple came at each other’s throat with Robby humiliating his ex by sharing on Twitter her private texts in which he praised Amanda for her “new tits.”
Additionally, Robby dragged Amanda in a lengthy statement on Twitter. “History is repeatedly showing that some people thrive off of using the media and their ‘army’ to manipulate viewers to place one-sided blame, constantly play the ‘victim’ and use their friends to try and assassinate one’s character. Your story-line is getting OLD; at some point it’s just on YOU to stop living a double-life, and at this point, everyone sees through it,” so he wrote in the 2018 tweet.

10. Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Becca Kufrin
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The way Arie Luyendyk Jr. broke up with his then-fiancee Becca Kuffrin was really something else. The leading man of season 22 of “The Bachelor” proposed to Becca after sending runner-up Lauren Burnham home, only to later realize that his heart was actually for Lauren instead of Becca.
Rather unsurpringly, Arie opted to dump Becca on-camera just weeks after filming the finale to pursue his love for Lauren. Becca later confronted the realtor in “After the Final Rose”, asking him why he proposed to her if he wasn’t fully sure of his own feelings. Arie blamed “the pressure of being The Bachelor,” explaining, “[The pressure of] knowing there’s a timeline and having to make the decision on that day.”

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The Dan Humphrey depicter opens up on his experience of experimenting with drugs during his younger years and reveals he didn’t enjoy watching himself on ‘Gossip Girl’.
Jul 5, 2020
AceShowbiz – Actor Penn Badgley has opened up about experimenting with drugs in his youth.
The 33-year-old spoke with his former “Gossip Girl” co-star Chace Crawford for an interview with Variety where, among other topics, the pair touched on dabbling in hallucinogenics.
The topic of conversation arose as the pair talked about the LSD trip taken by Penn’s character in season two of “You”.
“On the LSD trip, did you do some research?” Chace asked. “Your performance was amazing.”
Penn admitted, “In my early 20s, I did plenty of research.”
Despite speaking candidly of his experiences, Penn hinted he wasn’t in the best headspace at the time and called revisiting his classic series, which also starred Blake Lively and Leighton Meester, with his wife, Domino Kirke, “very hard to watch.”
“It must’ve been six months after we met,” he said of the last time he saw the show. “She had never seen it, and that’s the last time I can remember seeing an episode.”
“These snapshots of yourself when you’re 20, 21, 22 years old. Who can enjoy that? Sometimes it’s just uncomfortable,” he added.
The popular teen drama is to be revived for the HBO Max streaming service, with its premiere pushed back to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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The 1993 feature film about the same day happening over and over again is being adapted for the small screen with at least one of its original stars returning.
Jul 4, 2020
AceShowbiz – Classic comedy film “Groundhog Day” will be rehashed in a new TV series.
The beloved 1993 movie starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell about the same day happening over and over again, is now being developed for the small screen, according to Stephen Toblowsky, who played insurance agent Ned Ryerson in the original.
“There’s talk about a Groundhog Day series in the works,” he told The Production Meeting Podcast on Thursday (02Jul20).
Stephen has already accepted his old role in the new show, which will be set 30 years after the original film, noting he only learned about the project by happenstance.
“One of the producers – I was working on The Goldbergs (series) or (the spin-off series) Schooled, one of those shows over on the Sony (studio) lot, and one of the producers saw me and goes, ‘Oh, Stephen! Stephen! We’re working on a Groundhog Day TV show. Could you be Ned for the TV show?,’ ” he recalled. “I go, ‘Sure. Yeah. No problem.’ But it’s Ned thirty years later. What has his life become?”
It has not yet been confirmed whether Bill Murray or Andie MacDowell will also reprise their roles for the new show.

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