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EXCLUSIVE: Life in Pieces alum Betsy Brandt is set as the female lead opposite Jim Jefferies in his NBC comedy pilot Jefferies, from writer-producer Suzanne Martin, Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner's Hazy Mills and Universal TV. Written by Jefferies and Martin, Jefferies stars the veteran comedian as a fictionalized…

Strangers Things' Charlie Heaton, Billions' Malin Akerman, Breaking Bad's Betsy Brandt and Turn's JJ Feild are to star in AMC's anthology series Soulmates. The four actors join Succession's Sarah Snook, Billions' David Costabile and Lodge 49's Sonya Cassidy in the six-part series. The announcement was made at the…

EXCLUSIVE: Strand Releasing has acquired the American Rights to James Sweeney’s feature film debut Straight Up which made its premiere earlier this year at Frameline in San Francisco and screened at Outfest in Los Angeles. Strand Releasing is slating a U.S. theatrical release in the spring. Written, directed and starri…

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is known by the masses as the creator of the CW’s Riverdale and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. He’s also worked on numerous TV shows like Glee, Looking, Big Love and Supergirl. Although he does TV fare and soapy hyper-realistic teen angst well, Aguirre-Sacasa’s storytelling abilities on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Who says you have to touch one another in order to feel love? In James Sweeney’s feature film debut, Straight Up, he questions if love can last when it’s all talk and no touch — and the exclusive clip above shows that there is a lot of talking in this film…a lot. But it’s sharp, witty and funny. The film…

EXCLUSIVE: Ella Balinska (Charlie’s Angels), Pilou Asbaek (Game of Thrones), Clark Gregg (The Avengers), Aml Ameen (The Maze Runner), Dayo Okeniyi (Shades of Blue), Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (Star Trek Beyond) have been set to star in Blumhouse horror-thriller Run Sweetheart Run.  Shoot is…

EXCLUSIVE: Breaking Bad‘s Betsy Brandt, Malcolm in the Middle alum Jane Kaczmarek, Annika Marks (The Affair) and Jenny O’Hara (American Housewife, The Fosters) will star in Killing Eleanor, a dark indie comedy penned by Marks. Rich Newey is directing the pic, which will go into production next month in…

Queen Latifah (Star), Betsy Brandt (Life In Pieces, Breaking Bad), Jill Scott and Marin Ireland (Sneaky Pete) are set to headline Flint, Lifetime's original movie about the water-contamination crisis in Flint, MI, from Sony Pictures TV. Queen Latifah also will serve as an executive producer on the project alongside…

EXCLUSIVE: Breaking Bad alumna Betsy Brandt is set as a lead opposite Colin Hanks in Life in Pieces, CBS’ single-camera comedy pilot from 20th TV and Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment. Written on spec by Justin Adler, the project is about one family as told through the separate stories of its different family…

The Michael J. Fox Show co-star Betsy Brandt has been tapped for one of the leads The Club (formerly known as untitled Susannah Grant), ABC‘s 13-episode upstairs/downstairs drama set at a private country club from CBS TV Studios and ABC Studios. Breaking Bad alumna Brandt, repped by Patty Woo Management and…