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A showrunner change is ahead for Season 5 of Superstore. Creator Justin Spitzer is stepping down as showrunner as he, Gabe Miller and Jonathan Green have re-upped their overall deals with Universal TV, the studio behind NBC’s critically praised comedy series. Spitzer has served as showrunner of Superstore since the…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's Superstore season finale. The Season 2 finale of Superstore shook things up for many of the characters tonight, including fan-favorites Amy (America Ferrera) and Jonah (Ben Feldman) who unexpectedly took their love/hate relationship to the next level. Tonight's…

It only occurred to me in retrospect, but when I signed on to play Amy in Justin Spitzer's Superstore, it was the first part I'd ever been offered that hadn't been written as Latina. I never think of myself as a Latino person; I'm simply a person. And as an actor, I feel capable of inhabiting all kinds of roles and…

The creators of NBC’s freshman series Superstore did not set out to write a show about low-wage labor and corporate America, “but somehow it just ended out coming to the forefront,” showrunner Justin Spitzer said today during a panel of Universal TV showrunners. A number of people have responded to the show as a…

NBC has made it official, giving a series order to the multi-camera empty nesters comedy from the Hot In Cleveland team of Suzanne Martin and Hazy Mills, now titled Crowded, which stars Patrick Warburton and Carrie Preston. I hear the pilot has been a favorite of Comcast brass. Also picked up is another early…

Ruben Fleischer, David Bernad and former The Office writer-producer Justin Spitzer have sold single-camera half-hour comedy The Greatest Love Story Ever Told to NBC via Universal TV, where Fleischer and Spitzer are under overall deals. Fleischer is attached to direct and will exec produce with Bernad and Spitzer. Great…