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EXCLUSIVE: Rising actress Jenna Ortega, known for Netflix series You and Disney Channel’s Stuck In The Middle, has been set to lead cast in high-school drama The Fallout, which U.S. outfit Clear Horizon has launched here at the EFM. Actress Megan Park (What If) will write and direct, with David Brown and Giulia Prenna…

EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Ortega has been cast in a lead role in Jennifer Garner’s upcoming Netflix movie Yes Day, in which she stars and also produces. Ortega will play Katie Torres, the daughter of Allison Torres (Garner). Katie is a willful 14-year-old who craves more independence from her parents. With their OK of "Yes…

James Scully (Heathers) and Jenna Ortega (Jane the Virgin) have been cast in key roles opposite Victoria Pedretti on the upcoming second season of breakout hit psychological thriller series You on Netflix. Scully will play Forty Quinn, Love’s (Pedretti) beloved brother, Forty is confident, opinionated and privileged…

EXCLUSIVE: Stuck in the Middle star Jenna Ortega has been cast in a lead role opposite Alyson Hannigan and Leslie Bibb in Man of the House, ABC's multi-camera hybrid family comedy pilot from Gail Berman's The Jackal Group, ABC Studios and Scandal star Kerry Washington's studio-based Simpson Street. Ortega is segueing…

Following a strong start, Disney Channel’s new comedy series Stuck in the Middle has received an early second-season renewal. It comes 11 episodes into the single-camera comedy’s 20-episode first season. Production on Season 2 begins in the fall. Since its launch in February, Stuck in the Middle has been one of TV’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney Junior is ramping up its voice cast for Elena Of Avalor, the spinoff of its popular Sofia The First series that will debut sometime this year. Jane The Virgin‘s Jenna Ortega, Chris Parnell, Yvette Nicole Brown and Carlos Alazraqui are among the new names joining Aimee Carrero, who will portray what…

Cerina Vincent and Joe Nieves are joining Jenna Ortega as series regulars in Disney Channel’s upcoming single camera family comedy series Stuck In The Middle. It’s told from the point-of-view of the middle child, Harley (Ortega), whose overlooked status proves to be both a blessing and a curse as she maneuvers her way…

Disney Channel has ordered family comedy series Stuck In the Middle, starring Jane The Virgin‘s Jenna Ortega. Production begins in November for a spring premiere. Ortega stars as Harley Diaz, an engineering whiz who uses her inventions to navigate life as the middle child in a family of seven kids. Playing her…

Disney Channel is grooming Jenna Ortega to be its next series star. The cable network has greenlighted family comedy pilot Stuck In the Middle toplined by the actress who plays young Jane on the CW’s Jane the Virgin.  Written by Alison Brown (Dog With A Blog) and Linda Videtti Figueiredo (Cougar Town) and directed by…