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EXCLUSIVE: Rita Volk, who starred for three seasons on MTV’s Faking It, will co-star in Summertime, an ensemble coming-of-age film written and directed by Edward Burns. The pic, which Burns will produce with longtime producing partner Aaron Lubin, is scheduled to go in front of the cameras next month in New York. Set…

ABC has put in development an untitled single-camera comedy from Faking It creators Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov. Written and executive produced by Goodman and Wolov, the project follows four close friends at different stages in their lives and explores what it means to be a woman in 2016. ABC Studios is the…

His MTV series was canceled last week, but Gregg Sulkin is making the most of his newfound free time. The former Faking It star has sold a comedy pitch to his former network called F-Unemployment, which Drew Hancock has come aboard to help write. Sulkin also will produce in a nonexclusive deal. The project centers on…

Faking It will be no more. MTV has opted to end the scripted comedy series at the conclusion of the current third season, with the May 17 finale to serve as the series ender. Showrunner Carter Covington took to Twitter to share the news. 140 characters is not enough to express how I feel about this news. I promise #F…

Four episodes into Faking It‘s 10-episode second season, MTV has ordered 10 more episodes of the scripted comedy series, bringing its second season to 20 episodes. Faking it opened its second season with 1.043 million viewers, down slightly from the series premiere of 1.165 million in Live+same day. Created by Dana…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the Faking It season one finale tomorrow night, I’ve learned that MTV has ordered a 10-episode second season of the scripted comedy series. Faking It is the highest-rated new series launch on MTV so far this year, averaging a 1.5 rating among the network’s target demographic of persons 12-34 and…

The fourth season of MTV‘s Awkward returns with a special one-hour episode at 10 PM on April 15. Season 4 picks up with even more complications for Jenna as senior, including more boy trouble, drama with her friends, a new girl in town who has eyes for Matty and even some cat fishing. New coming-of-age comedy series Fa…

EXCLUSIVE: MTV has picked up both of its comedy pilots, Happyland and Faking It, to series with eight-episode orders. These were the first MTV scripted pilots greenlighted by the network’s new regime of president Susanne Daniels and and head of scripted Mina Lefevre. Happyland, written by Ben Epstein and executive…