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EXCLUSIVE: The holiday season has arrived and Deadline has your exclusive first look at the trailer for Must Love Christmas, starring The Equalizer’s Liza Lapira. The CBS TV movie premieres on December 11. From Mark Amato, Must Love Christmas follows a renowned romance novelist (Lapira) famous for…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS‘ The Equalizer is on break until February, but Deadline has your exclusive first look at scenes from episode 308 introducing Mel’s (Liza Lapira) siblings to be portrayed by Camille Mana and Trevor Salter. In the final beats of Sunday night’s episode titled “Paradise Lost,” Mel is hot…

Liza Lapira (9JKL, Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life) is set as a lead in CBS drama pilot The Equalizer, a re-imagining of the classic 1980s series, with Queen Latifah starring and executive producing. The project hails from Take Two creators Andrew Marlowe & Terri Miller, Davis Entertainment, Flavor Unit…

Liza Lapira (Unbelievable) has joined the cast of Dante Basco feature directorial debut The Fabulous Filipino Brothers. Written by Basco and his brothers Darion Basco and Dionysio Basco, the feature is set in the brothers' hometown of Pittsburg, Calif., a working-class suburb of Oakland. Starring Basco and his…

Liza Lapira (Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life, 9KJL) has been cast as a series regular opposite Heather Graham in ABC’s drama pilot The Hypnotist’s Love Story, based on the bestselling book by Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty. The project hails from Graham, who will play one of the two leads and will…

Homeland’s Elizabeth Marvel and Liza Lapira (9JKL) have joined the recurring cast of Unbelievable, an eight-episode Netflix limited series from Erin Brockovich writer Susannah Grant, CBS TV Studios, studio-based producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly (Masters of Sex, Elementary) and Katie Couric. Co-written by…

Liza Lapira (Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life) has been cast opposite Mark Feuerstein and David Walton in 9J, 9K and 9L, CBS’ multi-camera family comedy pilot from the husband-and-wife team of Feuerstein and Dana Klein, Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios. Written by Friends With Better Live…

The highly anticipated Disney/Marvel Black Panther film has added Forest Whitaker to the cast. Out February 16, 2018, the Ryan Cooler-directed pic stars Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther, who made his debut in Captain America: Civil War.  Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Andy Serkis and…

Liza Lapira has been cast as a regular on Fox’s midseason comedy series The Guide To Surviving Life. Created by Jay Lacopo and executive produced by Gail Berman, the young ensemble comedy revolves around a group of friends living together for the first time and celebrates the mistakes and misadventures of post-college…

Brian Austin Green (The Wedding Band) and Super Fun Night alumna Liza Lapira are set to co-star opposite Jenna Elfman in Fox's untitled Dana Klein comedy pilot, from 20th Century Fox TV and Kapital Entertainment. Written/exec produced by Klein and directed by Pam Fryman, it is told from the point of view of Ellen…

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Liza Lapira has signed a talent deal with ABC and ABC Studios to co-star in a pilot targeted for the 2013-14 season. The pact stems from Lapira’s role on the ABC comedy series Don’t Trust The B—- At Apt. 23. Lapira was a regular on the first season of the show, produced by 20th Century Fox TV…