EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has ordered two new original movies for the network's Ripped From The Headlines fall slate, centered on true life events. They are 53 Days: The Abduction of Mary Stauffer (working title) starring Alyson Hannigan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Daphne Hoskins (The Detour); and Saving Alex (working…

WGN America’s Pure will return for Season 2 on Tuesday, May 28. The cable network unveiled the date as well as key art and a teaser trailer for the upcoming season of the Mennonite drug drama, and said that Alyson Hannigan (How I Met Your Mother) will join the cast as a recurring guest star. Season 2 of the series…

The scoobies are back! Well, most of them are. The cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer had a mini-reunion at Wizard World Portland on Sunday and it brought back fond memories of their days at Sunnydale High School and the Hellmouth. The titular slayer was not on hand, unfortunately, but her fellow supernatural-hunting…

Former How I Met Your Mother star Alyson Hannigan is set for a recurring role opposite Ryan Robbins and Alex Paxton-Beesley on the second season of WGN America’s Mennonite crime drama Pure. Inspired by true events, the series goes deep inside a closed, secretive subculture through the eyes of Noah Funk (Robbins), a…

ABC has given a pilot green light to Man of the House, a multi-camera hybrid family comedy starring How I Met Your Mother alumna Alyson Hannigan, from Gail Berman's The Jackal Group, ABC Studios and Scandal star Kerry Washington's studio-based Simpson Street. The project had a cast-contingent pilot order, and Hannigan…

A pair of comedy veterans are lending their voices to a new Disney Junior toon series. Alyson Hannigan and Rob Riggle will voice the parents of the title character in Fancy Nancy, which is based on the bestselling books by Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser. Mia Sinclair Jenness, who appeared in Les Miserables on…

EXCLUSIVE: Alyson Hannigan and Megan Hilty have been tapped as leads in the TV Land pilot The First Wives Club, a reboot of the 1996 feature, from Paramount Television and Sex and the…

The CW’s Penn & Teller: Fool Us has pulled a new host out of its hat. The network announced today that How I Met Your Mother and Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-star Alyson Hannigan will be taking over as host for the competition reality show’s upcoming third season. The series sees aspiring magicians performing his or…

With How I Met Your Mother set to tape its final episode in less than two weeks, co-star Alyson Hannigan has been tapped for another CBS multi-camera comedy. Hannigan is set as the female lead opposite Tom Papa in the network’s high-profile pilot More Time With Family, executive produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon…

Cari Ross, the New York-based publicist who just left ID-PR after eight years as senior vice president, has established her new company. It will be called Balance Public Relations, and her clients include Jennifer Connelly, Alyson Hannigan, Salma Hayek, Julianna Margulies, Dylan McDermott, Arian Moayed, Sarah Paulson…

Alyson Hannigan has signed to reprise her role in American Reunion, the Universal film that brings back the cast of the raunchy  American Pie franchise. Hannigan was the question mark among the original cast when stories about the sequel began popping up. She had the leverage for a nice piece of the pie because the…

From Ray Richmond, who is contributing to Deadline Hollywood’s TCA coverage: It's amazing how even when he isn't present or even mentioned by name, any discussion of the late-night talk show landscape finds Jay Leno having to absorb a shot or two. Or three. It happened again today during a lunchtime Funny Women of…