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UPDATE: Lucy Hale has finally posted her reaction to the cancellation of her show. Dressed in a white hoodie and smiling wanly, Hale posted to Instagram and gave a shout-out to the cast, crew “and all involved,” acknowledging, “I love the show.” “Sad to deliver this news ! But I love the show. I love what it stands…

The CW has opted not to proceed with a second season of Katy Keene. Warner Bros. Television, the studio behind The Riverdale spinoff headlined by Lucy Hale, is planning to explore options for keeping the show going. The CW Chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz in May revealed that the options on the cast, which originally…

ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder ended its six-season run Thursday answering lots of pressing questions and scoring in the ratings as well. The Viola Davis-toplined legal drama drew a 0.7 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 3.24 million viewers last night, growing two-tenths in the demo and almost a…

The CW is set to make a decision on the future on Katy Keene “in a few weeks” and the network hopes that more streaming numbers will make up for “soft” linear ratings. The network will take into account streaming figures for the show, which will have all episodes stacked on The CW’s digital platform and will launch on…

Lucy Hale has gone from the murder mystery thrills of Pretty Little Liars to the fashionable fantasy frills of Katy Keene — but the freshman Riverdale spinoff was based on the Katy Keene comic that was first published in the ’40s and focused on multihyphenate model-actress-singer who was dubbed as “America’s Queen of…

The one-two punch of Station 19 and Grey’s Anatomy made ABC the top-rated network in primetime Thursday, a night that saw the second week of midseason offerings Indebted on NBC and Katy Keene on the CW fall from their premieres, and CBS’ Tommy starring Edie Falco hold steady. It was CBS with the night’s most-watched…

NBC’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine returned Thursday for its Season 7 premiere, topping a slew of newcomers to the midseason landscape including the series debuts of CBS’ Edie Falco cop drama Tommy, NBC’s Fran Drescher comedy Indebted and the CW’s Riverdale spinoff Katy Keene. Overall, Grey’s Anatomy was the night’s top-rated…

In advance of Katy Keene‘s series premiere next month, the CW has ordered 13 additional scripts of the Riverdale spinoff headlined by Lucy Hale. The script order joins early renewals for next season of all 13 of the CW’s current scripted series that are not ending this season: All American, Batwoman, Black Lightning, C…

The CW has set midseason premiere dates for its new series Katy Keene, along with the returns of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Roswell, New Mexico. Midseason also sees a move to Monday nights for remainder of the 15th and final season of Supernatural. Riverdale spinoff Katy Keene, starring Lucy Hale, Ashleigh Murray…

When HBO Max’s name was unveiled in July, WarnerMedia announced that the upcoming streamer will be the exclusive SVOD home to “a string” of new Warner Bros.- produced dramas for The CW, beginning with the 2019-20 freshmen, DC Entertainment’s Batwoman and Riverdale spinoff Katy Keene. During the HBO Max-focused…

EXCLUSIVE: The CW’s upcoming Katy Keene is once again expanding its family: Broadway legend Bernadette Peters has been cast as a mother figure to Julia Chan’s Pepper Smith, one of Katy’s close friends and inner circle. Peters will play “Ms. Freesia,” described as “Pepper Smith’s eccentrically elegant surrogate mother…

EXCLUSIVE: Daphne Rubin-Vega, the original Mimi in both the Off Broadway and Broadway landmark productions of Rent and coming off the Lin Manuel/Warner Bros. feature In The Heights, will appear in a major recurring role on the CW’s upcoming Riverdale off-shoot Katy Keene. She’ll play Luisa, the mother of a central…