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EXCLUSIVE: CBS has passed on another high-profile project targeted for next season, comedy Fun, starring Ugly Betty standouts Becki Newton and Michael Urie. It had a pilot production commitment. The multi-camera funeral home comedy hailed from 2 Broke Girls co-creator/executive producer Michael Patrick King, former Ugl…

The official trailer for the new Netflix buddy series AJ and the Queen bowed today, featuring RuPaul and a precocious 10-year-old hitting the road in an RV. The series debuts January 10. Created by Michael Patrick King (Sex and the City) and RuPaul, and featuring performances by RuPaul in each episode, AJ and the Queen…

RuPaul is heading to Netflix as the star of AJ and the Queen, a new original comedy series. RuPaul Charles has teamed with 2 Broke Girls co-creator and former Sex and the City showrunner Michael Patrick King on the project, which has received a 10-episode order form the Internet network. Warner Bros. TV where King is…

E! has given a pilot order to Juicy Stories, an hourlong dramedy inspired by Juicy Couture founders Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor, from Sex and the City alums Michael Patrick King and Amy B. Harris, Warner Horizon Scripted TV and Universal Cable Productions. The high-profile project originally landed at E!…

EXCLUSIVE: E! has given a pilot commitment to Juicy Stories, an hourlong inspired by Juicy Couture founders Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor, from Sex and the City alums Michael Patrick King and Amy B. Harris, Warner Horizon Scripted TV and Universal Cable Productions. Juicy Stories is the story of how two…

Robert Michael Morris' passing on May 30 was a blow to the cast and crew of The Comeback – the show on which the 77-year-old actor played best friend and hairdresser to Lisa Kudrow’s Valerie Cherish.  During a panel discussion today at the ATX fest in Austin, Kudrow paid tribute to the actor, as did EPs Dan Bucatinsky…

EXCLUSIVE: I hear Amazon Studios is finalizing deals for pilot orders to three single-camera comedy projects, Love You More, from former Sex and the City showrunner Michael Patrick King, which stars Bridget Everett; the genre-bending Sea Oak, from short-story writer George Saunders; and the Detroit-set The Climb…

At the tail end of The Comeback's triumphant second season return—after nine years off the air—Lisa Kudrow's Valerie Cherish, a fading former sitcom star desperate to return to the limelight, gets what she really wants: an Emmy award. As votes start to come in for this year's accolades, Kudrow surely deserves…

Various parties have different versions of why HBO is bringing back its one-season comedy series The Comeback, whose last season in original episodes was 2005. Co-creator Michael Patrick King said he and co-creator/star Lisa Kudrow used to talk about lead character Valerie over the years and wondered what she was up…

HBO's The Comeback is set for a comeback. HBO has completed deals for a second installment of the cult 2005 comedy starring Lisa Kudrow, which will run as a six-episode limited series this fall. Production is set to begin in LA this month. Related: HBO Eyes Return Of Michael Patrick King/Lisa Kudrow Comedy 'The Comebac…

After Netflix resurrected Arrested Development, another cult 2000s comedy, HBO‘s The Comeback, is eyeing a comeback. I’ve learned that HBO is in discussions with the series creators/executive producers Michael Partick King, who also served as director, and Lisa Kudrow, who toplined the show, about doing a new…

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage. At today's contentious TCA panel on 2 Broke Girls, creator/executive producer Michael Patrick King defended the comedy against continuing criticism that it traffics in ethnic stereotypes. The heated exchanges left King disappointed by the end of the session…