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Friends will not be going the way of Will & Grace or Murphy Brown, say the creators of the classic ’90s sitcom. No reunions. No reboots. "We will not be doing a reunion show, we will not be doing a reboot," co-creator and executive producer Marta Kauffman said Friday night during a Friends 25th anniversary panel at Tri…

Just ahead of the 7th annual ATX Television Festival, which will kick off June 7 in Austin, TX, the organization has launched its inaugural podcast series, The TV Campfire, as a part of its ATX TV Podcast Network. The series will serve as an insider’s perspective into the world of television with special guests…

"They can break our hearts but they can not break our spirit," declares Gloria Allred of the defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election and the continuing fight to break that glass ceiling and for civil rights in America. "That was shocking to millions of people, probably billions around the world," the…

"To be able to be in Sundance in Park City at that rally on the anniversary, to be before this group of women and men, to speak at this Respect Rally at a time when it's so important, is very exciting," says Gloria Allred of today's gathering on the commemoration of Donald Trump's inauguration and last year's…

Grace and Frankie tells the story of two older women (Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin) dealing with the aftermath of their husbands (Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston) falling in love with each other. Creator and showrunner Marta Kauffman said during an ATX Television Festival panel today that season 4 will be "really about…

It was no secret that Grace and Frankie is currently in production on a fourth season, and today Netflix surprised few by making it official that the series starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin aims to be back in 2018 – with the addition of Lisa Kudrow. As the snap above makes clear, the Friends alum will be joining…

"The show isn't about politics, and I don't want it to be topical," says Grace and Frankie co-creator Marta Kauffman about her Jane Fonda- and Lily Tomlin-starring series that launches its third season March 24 on Netflix. "Once you make it topical it gets very, very difficult to have it continue to air at all times…

EXCLUSIVE: Marta Kauffman, whose Grace and Frankie is wrapping production on its third season, is ramping up the slate of her Okay Goodnight, which is behind the popular Netflix comedy series starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Kauffman and Okay Goodnight have miniseries We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves in…

When Marta Kauffman cooked up Grace And Frankie–a show focused on later-life reinvention– she herself was ready for a renewal. As she says, "I knew that we had to come up with something special, and extraordinary, and different." But it was actually her daughter, the show's creative executive Hannah K.S., who came up…

"This is what's known as running lines," Jane Fonda says brightly, flipping through the script on her lap. On the couch opposite in a corner of the set, Fonda's longtime friend Lily Tomlin reads aloud from her own pages. Tomlin and Fonda's tiny dogs curl at their feet, wearing matching doggie sweaters, while the crew…

Jane Fonda said she “kind of fell apart” doing the first season of Netflix’s Grace and Frankie, having never been a regular on episodic television. “It was really hard,” Fonda said this afternoon during Neftlix’s star-studded Rebels an Rule Breakers Luncheon at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, in partnership with Women in…

Friends creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane will receive the WGA West's Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for their outstanding lifetime achievement in television writing. Although best known for Friends, which aired from 1994-2004 on NBC, the longtime writing partners also co-created Veronica's Closet, The Powers That…