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There will be no third season for The Mysterious Benedict Society, the adventure series starring Tony Hale. The news, which comes more than a month after Season 2 ended its run on the streamer, was revealed by co-creator/executive producer Phil Hay on Twitter. “Dear friends- season 2 will mark the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Disney+ series The Mysterious Benedict Society will return with Season 2 on October 26, and Deadline has your first look at the trailer above. Following its two-episode premiere, new episodes will be released weekly on Wednesdays. This season, the four gifted orphans who were recruited by the eccentric…

Meet Mr. Benedict: “He’s one of the pre-eminent scientists of our time.” His brother? Well, he isn’t. Disney+ said today that The Mysterious Benedict Society, starring Tony Hale in a dual role as polar-opposite identical twins, will launch a with a two-episode premiere next week. Based on Trenton Lee Stewart's YA book…

Fox's animated comedy Bless The Harts is adding a number of guest stars to its second season. Ken Jeong, Kristen Schaal and Natasha Lyonne are joining the series ahead of its September 27 return. Schaal, who voices Louise in Bob's Burgers, joins alongside her husband Rich Blomquist, who voices Daniel in Bless The Harts…

EXCLUSIVE: Kristen Schaal (The Last Man on Earth, Bob’s Burgers) is heading north to join Dave Bautista, Ken Jeong, Parisa Fitz-Henley and Chloe Coleman in STXfilms’ action-comedy My Spy, which is now filming in Toronto. Peter Segal is at the helm, directing from a screenplay by Jon and Erich Hoeber. Bautista stars as…

EXCLUSIVE: Man Seeking Woman creator Simon Rich has signed a two-year overall deal with ABC Studios. Under the pact, he has landed a put pilot commitment at ABC for a family comedy headlined and produced by The Last Man on Earth star Kristen Schaal — a match made in cult favorite, off-kilter comedy heaven. Written and…

In the season 2 finale of Fox’s The Last Man on Earth, which played at Awardsline’s Emmy Screening Series, we see that Will Forte’s Phil and his friends aren’t alone as two mysterious snipers in Hazmat suits led by Mark Boone Junior’s Pat Brown, target the group. And while creator/star Forte remained mum about any…

With The Last Man on Earth closing out its second season and renewed for a third, Fox's hit comedy is currently top of the network's game. This past season, the show has evolved through location changes, cast expansion, surprise guest stars and creator Will Forte's decision to stand aside as showrunner—a choice Forte…

It has been something of a mystery since Nikki Finke started Deadline Hollywood nine years ago. Who writes the comments that follow stories about the good and bad things that happen to people in Hollywood? Filmmakers Jim & Brian Kehoe put together a pretty good cast and have made a short film that tries to answer that…

In case you missed it, back on June 11 Deadline hosted a screening of the first two episodes of The Last Man On Earth, followed by a panel discussion moderated by our own Dominic Patten. A fun and frequently funny conversation followed, diving into the lessons star Will Forte learned as sole showrunner during the…

Given a career full of highs and some lows, Will Forte — whose Fox series The Last Man On Earth has received much acclaim and was recently renewed for a second season — has learned a lot of lessons. And during Wednesday night’s screening and panel discussion of the Fox series, moderated by Deadline’s Dominic Patten…

"It is embarrassing the little amount of research" that went into the making of Fox's new single-camera comedy series The Last Man on Earth, creator/EP/star Will Forte admitted this afternoon to TV critics at Winter TV Press Tour 2015. "I watched that show Life After People several years ago and tried to remember what…