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This week’s 20 Questions on Deadline guest is Martha Plimpton. Currently starring in new Freevee comedy series Sprung, Plimpton plays Barb, mother to a convict released early due to Covid, and the show takes a look at the early days of the pandemic and all the societal idiosyncrasies that showed up during…

Martha Plimpton (Generation) is set for a season-long arc on Sprung, IMDb TV's new single-camera comedy, in a recasting. The series hails from My Name Is Earl, Raising Hope and The Guest Book creator Greg Garcia, 3 Arts and Amazon Studios. Plimpton joins previously cast Garret Dillahunt and Philip Garcia in Sprung,…

EXCLUSIVE: IMDb TV, Amazon's free ad-supported streaming service, has given a formal series green light to Sprung, a single-camera comedy from My Name Is Earl, Raising Hope and The Guest Book creator Greg Garcia, 3 Arts and Amazon Studios. Sprung, centered on an unlikely group of formerly incarcerated people who band…

Television legend Cloris Leachman, who died Tuesday at the age of 94, earned the last of her whopping 22 Emmy nominations for her role as the larger-than-life Maw Maw on Greg Garcia’s 2010 family comedy Raising Hope. Originally conceived as a guest-starring role, Leachman’s Maw Maw, the occasionally lucid, often…

EXCLUSIVE: Raising Hope creator Greg Garcia is returning to Fox. The network has given a script commitment with penalty to Clive Kensington’s America, a documentary-style comedy from writer Chadd Gindin (United We Fall) and Garcia. The duo previously worked together on Garcia’s CBS comedy series The Millers. Written…

Greg Garcia, the creator of My Name Is Earl and TBS show The Guest Book, is giving new meaning to the term pay TV. Garcia will select one of his Twitter followers to receive $10,000 to present to their favorite charity, as well as a collectible copy of Earl's list from My Name is Earl. He also plans on giving up to…

TBS’ The Guest Book has booked three new regular residents for Season 2 along with a slew of guest stars. The Turner-owned cable net also has set an October 23 premiere date for the Greg Garcia comedy and released the first trailer; check it out above. In the small oceanside community of Mabel Beach, vacationers who…

As the debate on immigration has been pushed to the forefront by the policies of the current Trump administration, CBS has put in development Welcome To Maine, a multi-camera family workplace comedy that tackles the hot-button issue. It hails from Austen Earl (The Great Indoors) as well as  My Name is Earl, Raising Hop…

TBS’s The Guest Book, a new anthology-style comedy series from writer and exec producer Greg Garcia (My Name Is Earl) has locked its first-season regular and guest casts. The series, set to premiere in August, will feature Kellie Martin (Army Wives) as Officer Kimberly Leahy of the small mountain town of Mount Trace…

CBS is developing 99 Problems, a hybrid comedy from My Name Is Earl, Raising Hope and The Millers creator Greg Garcia and his CBS TV Studios-based Amigos de Garcia Productions. Written by Austen Earl, 99 Problems revolves around three very different couples from different backgrounds who all have a child in the same…

TBS has given series orders to two comedies: The Guest Book, an anthology from Raising Hope creator Greg Garcia, and the animated Tarantula, from Danny McBride, Jody Hill and David Gordon Green’s Rough House. Both are slated for a 2017 debut. Additionally, the network has given a pilot pickup to World’s End, from Bored…

David Keith has been cast as the male lead in CBS' multi-camera comedy pilot Real Good People written/executive produced by Stephnie Weir, directed/executive produced by James Burrows and executive produced by Greg Garcia. The project centers on a conservative, small-town family forced to reconcile their values when…