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EXCLUSIVE:  With cameras set to roll on Thursday, Sony is rounding out the cast for Kay Cannon’s new telling of Cinderella, starring Camila Cabello. Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner Minnie Driver is set to play Queen Beatrice, with Grammy-Award winning musician Missy Elliott in talks to play the role of the Town…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Speechless star Minnie Driver has extended the pod deal for her Huge Fan Productions banner at 20th Century Fox TV, the studio behind the ABC comedy series. She has set up her first project under the new deal — a dramedy series based on the Texas Monthly article “A Tree is Known by Its Fruit,” which…

Minnie Driver says ABC’s cancellation of her series Speechless today “feels rather sad,” but she believes the show made a positive impact on the “conversation about family, disability and love.” “Well now listen,” Driver tweeted this afternoon after ABC announced the show would not be back after Season 3. “Speechless…

ABC has rendered Speechless silent today with the Minnie Driver-led series canceled after three seasons. The cancellation is not a surprise, given that Speechless was ABC’s lowest-rated series. Co-produced by now corporate siblings 20th Century Fox TV and ABC Studios, Speechless starred Driver and John Ross Bowie as…

Good Will Hunting star Minnie Driver has stepped down from her role as an ambassador to charity Oxfam after it became embroiled in a major scandal. It has emerged that a number of people working for the charity paid vulnerable people for sex while working in crisis-hit overseas countries. The charity has been accused…

Minnie Driver and Matt Damon are reconnecting — but it’s under circumstances that could be better. The Oscar-nominated actress recently took to Twitter to slam her Good Will Hunting co-star about his recent comments about sexual assault. In the wake of the deluge of sexual misconduct accusations involving Harvey…

Spoiler alert! This article contains details of tonight's fall season finale of NBC's Will & Grace. Tonight’s Will & Grace fall season finale on NBC followed through on expectations for a returning character – Minnie Driver reprised her original series role as Karen’s nemesis Lorraine Finster – but another hoped-for…

“It’s telling a story that hasn’t been told on television before,” Speechless star Minnie Driver said during 2oth Century Fox’s panel at Deadline’s annual The Contenders Emmys event last month. “You genuinely get the after-school special treatment with disability and that’s not accurate and also annoying…all of those…

Any time you have The Mick star (and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia veteran) Kaitlin Olson and The Last Man On Earth star Will Forte in the same room, you know you’re in for some shenanigans. Add Speechless star Minnie Driver into the mix and you’re really in for a wild ride, as was the case at 20th Century Fox…

“Writers like to work in a little box; this is a fun little puzzle for us,” Speechless creator/EP Scott Silveri told journalists today at TCA of his new ABC comedy about fierce mom Maya DiMeo, whose three children include a non-verbal special needs son. “I have been doing romantic comedies for so many years” – 20…

Former About A Boy star Minnie Driver is set as the female lead in the ABC comedy pilot Speechless, from Scott Silveri and 20th Century Fox TV. In addition, Mason Cook (The Haunting Hour) has been cast as the project’s young lead. Speechless centers on a family with a special-needs child that is good at dealing with…

About A Boy star Minnie Driver is set as the female lead opposite Steven Weber in Happy Life, CBS' multi-camera comedy pilot from former Modern Family executive producer Bill Wrubel and Warner Bros TV. Driver has been cast as a guest star in the pilot as she is in second position to her sophomore NBC comedy series Abou…