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On the heels of its breakout series premiere, Apple has given an early Season 2 renewal to sports comedy Ted Lasso. The streaming service has ordered a 10-episode second season of the series from Saturday Night Live alum Jason Sudeikis and Bill Lawrence, set to debut next year. Co-written by Sudeikis and Lawrence, Ted…

MTV Studios is reviving another cult MTV animated series, Clone High. Original series’ creators Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Bill Lawrence are re-teaming on a reimagined version of the 2002 TV series. There is no network yet for the new Clone High. It could follow two other MTV Studios animated series based on classic…

Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence said today he’ll consider returning the three recently pulled episodes containing blackface to Hulu but only after the offending scenes have been edited out. Lawrence said on a podcast today, "Twitter is like, 'Why did you pull the whole episodes?' Why didn't you just edit those moments…

Apple has unveiled a first look at Ted Lasso, a new comedy series from Jason Sudeikis and Bill Lawrence that will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on Friday, August 14. Sudeikis plays Ted Lasso, a small-time college football coach from Kansas hired to coach a professional soccer team in England, despite having no…

Apple has given a formal series greenlight to Ted Lasso, a comedy starring, co-written and executive produced by Saturday Night Live alum Jason Sudeikis. Written by Sudeikis and Bill Lawrence (Whiskey Cavalier, Scrubs), Ted Lasso is based on the popular Coach Ted Lasso character Sudeikis played in NBC Sports videos…

David Hemingson came up with idea for ABC’s new Whiskey Cavalier when an FBI pal of his called him at 2 AM after breaking up with his girlfriend. Though he was a “gun out first through the door” kinds of guy” at the end of the day he wanted love and connection like everyone else, Hemingson said. The high-octane…

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Lawrence and his Doozer production company are staying put at Warner Bros. TV with a new rich multi-year overall deal. Under the significant, eight-figure pact, which I hear is for five years, the company has sold a department store comedy to NBC starring and co-written by comedian Brent Morin, who…

It’s been almost nine years since Scrubs aired its finale episode on ABC, following a run that began at NBC way back in 2001. So when the all-star cast reconvened at Vulture Festival in Los Angeles on Saturday, the big question was, would they ever do a reboot? The answer turned out to be both yes and no, with a…

Former Scrubs star Sarah Chalke has reunited with Scrubs creator/executive producer Bill Lawrence for a dramedy series, which has been set at ABC for development. Chalke will star and co-executive produce the untitled project, written by Emily Fox (Girlfriends’ Guide To Divorce), which hails from Lawrence’s Doozer…

For a second consecutive year, the CW has handed out its first two pilot orders to a high-profile reboot of a long-running series from CBS TV Studios and a project from one of Warner Bros. TV’s top producers. Last season, the nods went to Dynasty and the Greg Berlanti-produced Searchers. This time the network has…

"If it weren't my job I might not have stuck with [Life Sentence] long enough to figure out the tone of the show," one TV critic told Bill Lawrence during the TCA Q&A for the CW series. The series is about a young woman [Lucy Hale] who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and decides to “live like she was dying,” and…

CBS has closed a deal for Spaced Out, a multi-camera workplace comedy from Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence and Warner Bros. TV where Lawrence’s  Doozer Prods. is based. Written by Lawrence, the ensemble comedy is set in the world of commercial space travel. Doozer’s Lawrence and Jeff Ingold executive produce. A…