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Actress Naya Rivera’s body was recovered at Lake Piru on Monday following a multi-day search after she went missing July 8. She was 33. Watch clips from some of her notable performances below. Her career spanned three decades as both an actress and singer. She got her start in 1991 as a child actor on CBS comedy The Ro…

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has opted not to renew Devious Maids for a fifth season. The decision comes a couple of weeks after the series ended its Season 4 run on the network. Devious Maids, developed by Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry based on a telenovela format, migrated to Lifetime after being developed and…

Lifetime’s UnReal  opened its second season with 497K viewers tuned at 10 PM, off a fourth-season Devious Maids debut lead-in of 1.08 million viewers. In the demo, however, UnReal logged a 0.2 rating which translates to 270K viewers ages 18-49, behind its Devious Maids lead-in (0.3, 439K). For comparison sake, last…

Here’s a first look at Season 4 of Marc Cherry’s Devious Maids, which returns to Lifetime on June 6. The Desperate Housewives patriarch’s series is set in a world where murder and mayhem collide in the mansions of Beverly Hills' wealthiest and most powerful families. Dania Ramírez, Roselyn Sánchez, Judy Reyes, Rebecca…

Ella Thomas (Ballers) has booked a major recurring role on Season 4 of ABC’s summer series Mistresses. Thomas will play Jackie, a fitness instructor who befriends Joss (Jes Macallan). Based on the UK series, Mistresses is executive-produced by Rina Mimoun, KJ Steinberg, Robert Sertner and Douglas Rae. Thomas recently…

Lifetime has booked summer return dates for its flagship drama series. The cable net said today that Season 4 of Devious Maids will premiere at 9 PM June 6, followed by the sophomore bow of UnReal at 10. Marc Cherry created Devious Maids, which was inspired by a hit telenovela and is set in a world where murder and…

Graceland alum, Brandon Jay McLaren has joined Dick Wolf’s hit NBC drama series Chicago Fire in a recurring role. He’ll play a former gangbanger-turned-politician. McLaren played Dale Jakes on all three seasons of USA Network’s Graceland. He also recurred on AMC’s The Killing and Canadian series Being Erica. On the…

It will be a true Desperate Housewives reunion in Season 4 of Devious Maids. Exec producer Eva Longoria is set to guest star in the fourth season premiere of the Lifetime series and will be reuniting with her former Desperate Housewives’ co-star James Denton (The Good Witch), who’s signed on for a recurring role. Also…

A month after Devious Maids finished airing its third season, the soapy mystery drama has been picked for Season 4. It joins recently renewed freshman Unreal as Lifetime’s only current scripted series. The renewal comes after a stable Season 3 performance, which Lifetime EVP Liz Gateley summed up as, "Devious Maids is…

Despite her fame, Eva Longoria considers acting almost an ancillary aspect of her career. “I've always been a producer and I've always been a director,” she said during the final day of the PGA Produced By Conference in a panel moderated by her Desperate Housewives and Devious Maids cohort Marc Cherry. “[B]ut happened…

Lifetime’s soapy mystery Devious Maids will feature fewer full-rime cast members this coming season. I have learned that Edy Ganem and Drew Van Acker will no longer be regulars on the show but will both return for multiple episodes. Meanwhile, Mark Deklin, who joined as a new regular in Season 2, will not be coming…

Days Of Our Lives alum Nathan Owens is making his foray into primetime. He’s been cast as a regular in the upcoming third season of Marc Cherry's Lifetime series Devious Maids. Owens will play Jesse, a handsome military vet who returns stateside to settle back into civilian life. He is repped by TalentWorks, Mosaic…