Facebook is apologizing to its users for aggressively removing Burt Reynolds’s iconic 1970s Cosmopolitan centerfold shot from posts. A spokesperson for the social networking site has apologized via a statement today after several users complained that the photo was taken down from tribute posts honoring Reynolds, who…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox 2000 will tell the story of the trailblazing rise of Helen Gurley Brown, who became one of the first female editors of a national magazine when she took the reins at Cosmopolitan in 1965. The studio has optioned Enter Helen: The Rise And Reign Of The Original Cosmo Girl, the upcoming book by Brooke…

The Bachelorette writer-director Leslye Headland will write a single-camera comedy for NBC, in which a failed political blogger restarts her life in NYC as the "sex" editor for a prestigious and provocative women's magazine. The project counts Joanna Coles, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, and Ruben Fleischer among…

Leonard Roberts has been cast in VH1‘s Drumline 2: A New Beat, co-written by Karen Gist and Regina Hicks. The sequel to the 2002 feature Drumline feature focuses on a new set of characters at a fictional New Orleans university. The story follows Danielle (Dani) Bolton, an upper-class Brooklyn girl who defies her…

Shaun Evans (Endeavour) is set as a male lead in Amazon comedy pilot Cosmopolitan, from The Last Days Of Disco filmmaker Whit Stillman. Cosmopolitan, which Stillman wrote and will direct and executive produce, chronicles the loves and adventures of a group of young expatriates in Paris. Evans will play Hal, a…