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On the surface, making a major motion picture entertainment out of a self-help book would seem not to be an easy task. Woody Allen did it with a sex manual in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask, but then he’s Woody Allen. Taking on author Rhonda Byrne’s 2006 book The Secret would…

UPDATED, 2:05 PM: WGN America has set the Season 2 premiere of its Jerry O’Connell-led comedy Carter for 10 p.m. Wednesday January 20, and released a new trailer. Watch it above, and read details of the show and its sophomore season below. PREVIOUSLY, January 23: WGN America, Sony Pictures Television’s networks, and…

Broadway’s upcoming production of Charles Fullers’ A Soldier’s Play starring David Alan Grier and Blair Underwood has rounded out the 12-member cast, with Jerry O’Connell, Namdi Asomugha and Billy Eugene Jones among the new recruits. The announcement was made by producer The Roundabout Theatre Company. The casting…

Jerry O, a new entertainment talk and comedy series hosted by Jerry O’Connell, has tapped Talking Dead executive producer Brandon Monk as EP/showrunner. Co-produced by Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury and Funny Or Die, Jerry O debuts Monday, August 12, for a three-week preview on Fox Television Stations. "Brandon's…

After subbing for Wendy Williams, Jerry O'Connell is getting a show of his own. Jerry O, a new entertainment talk and comedy series hosted by the actor and TV personality will get a three-week preview this summer. Per Fox stations’ limited-run model, the series from Lionsgate's Debmar-Mercury and Funny Or Die is set…

EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca Romijn (Star Trek: Discovery, the X-Men franchise) is set to star in Fangoria’s Chelsea Stardust-directed film, Satanic Panic, described as an after-hours-esque horror comedy with a healthy dash of imaginative gore. Newcomer Hayley Griffith will co-star opposite Romijn with Ruby Modine (Happy Death D…

Eli Brown (Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists), Peter Facinelli (Twilight Saga, Nurse Jackie), Madison Iseman (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Goosebumps 2), and Jerry O’Connell (Billions) are set for Awesomeness Films’ comedy, currently titled The F*ck It List, which just started production. Michael Duggan is at…

Bravo Media has given the green light to Real Men Watch Bravo, a new late-night talk show executive produced by Andy Cohen and Jerry O'Connell with O’Connell to host, set for premiere this fall. Each episode will feature O'Connell, alongside a panel of male celebrities, comics and tastemakers, discussing the buzziest…

WGN America is adding to its Prime Crime slate with the acquisition of two original series in the detective procedural genre — the comedic Carter, starring Jerry O'Connell (Billions), Sydney Poitier Heartsong (Chicago P.D.) and Kristian Bruun (Orphan Black), which will premiere August 7, and crime drama Gone, starring…

Wendy Williams will return to The Wendy Williams Show on March 19, three weeks after announcing to her large audience that she was taking some doctor-ordered time off to work with treatments for hyperthyroidism and Graves' disease. Williams today also disclosed today that she’s called on her friend, actor Jerry…

Sony Pictures Television Networks has commissioned Carter, a 10-episode comedic detective procedural starring Jerry O'Connell (Billions) and Sydney Poitier (Chicago P.D.), for its international channels, including AXN. The series begins production later this month in North Bay, Ontario. Carter is SPTN's' second global…

Jerry O’Connell is set to star opposite Eddie Izzard and Charity Wakefield in NBC's Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane. The pilot, written by Bryan Fuller and to be directed by Bryan Singer, is described as a reinvention of the 1960s sitcom about The Munsters, a family of "monsters" — vampires, werewolves and…