Jennifer Lopez and STXfilms are again teaming on a feature. Following 2018’s Second Act and the forthcoming Lopez- and Constance Wu-led drama Hustlers, they are rejoining for the romantic comedy Marry Me. Owen Wilson is in final negotiations to star opposite Lopez. Kat Coiro, known in the TV space for directing pilots…

UPDATED: Out of sight, out of mind. Three months after freshman comedy Marry Me and sophomore About a Boy were pulled off the schedule, they have been officially cancelled by NBC. There are still unaired episodes of both relationship comedies, their fate is unclear. Both About a Boy and Marry Me got off to a solid…

After months of hype and the added juice of an Ant-Man trailer exclusive, ABC’s Marvel's Agent Carter (1.9/6) made its swinging debut last night. Compared to the last Marvel TV debut, Agent Carter was down 60% from the stellar one-hour Tuesday debut of Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. on September 24, 2013. While the…

Sony Pictures Television said it has licensed its new comedy Marry Me to 74 territories on six continents. Canal Sony has acquired the rights to the comedy starring Ken Marino and Casey Wilson across 23 Latin America territories, with a debut slated across the region in early 2015. SPT also has completed several deals…

With the strongest new fall series already given full-season pickups and the weakest cancelled, it’s time for partial back orders to the freshmen in the middle. First off is new NBC comedy Marry Me, which has received a pickup for five more episodes, bringing its first-season order to 18 episodes. The romantic comedy…

Two more comedy series, NBC’s freshman Marry Me and sophomore About A Boy, joined Tuesday to bring the total to six half-hours on the night. Only the NBC pair has a meaningful lead-in, so, not surprisingly, Marry Me and About A Boy‘s ratings equaled those of the other four comedies combined. New romantic comedy Marry M…

“In the pilot, a couple of times, the word ‘f***’ is used," a TV critic said, kicking off the Q&A session for NBC's new comedy Marry Me at Summer TV Press Tour 2014. "Is that it?" series creator David Caspe asked, after waiting in vain for the "question" part of the TV critics’ comment. The critic elaborated: "Are you…

3rd UPDATE 6:10 PM: NBC is wrapping its first day of new series pickups with a order to another frontrunner, drama pilot Odyssey, which already has backup scripts written and is ready to go. That brings the number of new NBC series picked up for next season to six, Russian spy thrilled Allegiance, CIA drama State of Af…

Amanda Detmer (Necessary Roughness) has been cast in ABC's drama pilot Sea Of Fire, which chronicles the fallout from three teenage girls starring in a pornographic film, which tears their families apart and leads to a disappearance and a murder. Detmer will play the mother of the girl who disappeared. Related: 2014 AB…

Actor-comedian-musician Nick Thune is set as the young male lead opposite Natasha Lyonne in NBC's single-camera comedy pilot Old Soul. Co-created by Amy Poehler, Josh Bycel and Jonathan Fener and directed by David Wain, Old Soul centers on a reformed wild child, Nadia (Lyonne), who has a business caring for the…

Steve Talley is set as one of the leads in Lauren Iungerich’s ABC comedy pilot Damaged Goods. Described as a comedy about the sexual politics that have changed between men and women in this post-feminist era, it revolves around three damaged women and two damaged men who explore the minutiae of love and relationships…

Ken Marino is set as the male lead opposite Casey Wilson in Marry Me, NBC's single-camera comedy pilot from Happy Endings creator-showrunner David Caspe, Sony TV and Jamie Tarses' Fanfare. The project, directed by Seth Gordon, is said to be in the vein of Mad About You and revolves around a young couple (Marino and…