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Jordan Peele is producing a new Candyman movie and has cast Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as the new Candyman. Monkeypaw Creative Director Ian Cooper was on a Produced By Conference panel The New Age of Producing Horror. Deadline asked Cooper how Candyman would fit in with what Monkeypaw has done with Get Out and Us. His…

Austin’s ATX Television Festival, set for June 6-9, 2019, has announced its first round of panels, including a Blumhouse Television event, a “Cancelled-Too-Soon” retrospective of Men in Trees and a conversation with the presidents of various industry guilds. Panels announced today for the eighth annual festival…

Robert Michael Morris' passing on May 30 was a blow to the cast and crew of The Comeback – the show on which the 77-year-old actor played best friend and hairdresser to Lisa Kudrow’s Valerie Cherish.  During a panel discussion today at the ATX fest in Austin, Kudrow paid tribute to the actor, as did EPs Dan Bucatinsky…

Suits fans got a glimpse of Season 7 at the ATX Television Festival today – but no sign of Gina Torres’ character Jessica Pearson in a short teaser reel. No worries though: “I wedged that door open on the way out,” Torres promised. “I've got a Louboutin in that door at all times.” Torres’ return — albeit occasional…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about the Season 3 premiere of Fear The Walking Dead Day 5 of Austin’s ATX television festival brought together the cast and creatives of AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead as well as an advance screening of tonight’s episode. Afterwards creator/exec producer Dave Erickson, who was…

Grace and Frankie tells the story of two older women (Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin) dealing with the aftermath of their husbands (Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston) falling in love with each other. Creator and showrunner Marta Kauffman said during an ATX Television Festival panel today that season 4 will be "really about…

Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica developer Ronald D. Moore and the cast reunited on the closing night of 2017’s ATX Television festival in a theater packed with adoring fans. Onstage, Moore recalled his initial hesitation in doing a series reboot of the 1978 original. “I had done ten years of [Star] Trek and I wasn't sure…

Sweet/Vicious only enjoyed one season on MTV before it was canceled, much to the chagrin of its fans. At the ATX Television Festival today, EP Stacey Sher explained what happened. "MTV took a really long time," she said. "It killed us slowly and not so kindly, but they said to us, 'If you can find a studio that will…

During an ATX fest panel today, Parenthood exec producer David Hudgins summed up a discussion of “socially impactful” TV in three crucial elements: “authenticity, truth, and point of view…As long as you’re telling the truth,” he said, “then that’s the battle.” The panel was called “Power(ful) TV: A Look at Socially…

Spoiler Alert! This article contains details about the Season 4 premiere of TV Land’s Younger. At the end of Younger‘s Season 3, Liza (Sutton Foster) spilled the beans to her friend and co-worker Kelsey (Hilary Duff) that’s she’s actually 41, not 27. And now things are about to get even crazier. The TV Land show about…

J.J. Abrams created a green screen and put characters "dancing on a margarine can inside a little refrigerator," Alias producer Sarah Caplan said during a panel discussion at the ATX Television Festival. This was the story of the birth of the Alias pilot–a piece of television that would go on to bust through existing…

Following the recently wrapped season 5 of FX’s spy drama The Americans, Creators/Eps Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields hit up Austin’s ATX Television Festival and offered a bit of insight into what’s to come in the sixth and final season. Though no specific plot details were revealed, Weisberg teased that it will be…