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This week’s 20 Questions On Deadline guest is Rachel Bloom. The multi-hyphenate Bloom first found fame as co-creator and star of the musical comedy series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, for which she won an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a Critics Choice award. In this chat covering how to deal with the pain of rejection, a creepy…

EXCLUSIVE: By the time the Nexstar Media Group’s long-in-the-works 75% acquisition of the CW finally announced earlier this month, it was the height of pitch season, when broadcast networks buy scripted projects to develop as new series for next season. On the morning of the August 15 deal announcement…

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has acquired North American rights to the comedy Bar Fight!, starring Melissa Fumero (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Luka Jones (Shrill) and Julian Gant (Call Me Kat), with plans for a day-and-date release on November 11. The synopsis for the film…

EXCLUSIVE: Sugar23 has signed multi-hyphenate Rachel Bloom. Bloom is an Emmy winner best known as the co-creator and star of The CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. She is currently in production on Steve Levitan's Hulu comedy series Reboot, and it was most recently announced that she will star in Bar Fight, a comedy from…

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creators Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna are reteaming for Badass (And Her Sister), a new comedy project for Hulu and ABC Signature, where Brosh McKenna is under a deal. Like with the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Bloom and Brosh McKenna co-wrote and executive produce Badass. Bloom again is…

Leslie Bibb (Jupiter’s Legacy) has been tapped as the female lead opposite Keegan-Michael Key and Johnny Knoxville in Reboot, Hulu's comedy pilot from Modern Family co-creator Steve Levitan. Also cast in the project are Rachel Bloom, in her return to series television after her starring turn on her CW series Crazy Ex-G…

EXCLUSIVE: Melissa Fumero (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Luka Jones (Shrill), and Julian Gant (Call Me Kat) will star in Bar Fight, a comedy from writer/director Jim Mahoney (Klaus), which wrapped production this week in Los Angeles. Bar Fight follows exes Nina (Fumero) and Allen (Jones)…

EXCLUSIVE: The CW is getting back into business with the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend gang. The network has put in development romantic mystery comedy drama I'm In Love With The Dancer From My Bat Mitzvah. The show was created by Ilana Wolpert, who was an assistant on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. She will write and exec produce with Cr…

Tweeting about his friendship with Ellen DeGeneres, late-night TV legend Jay Leno joined a growing number of industry figures voicing support for the television talk show host. “I don’t discard a 40-year friendship on hearsay. The Ellen I know has raised over $125 million dollars for charity and has always been a kind…

In these unprecedented dark times, it is great to welcome any ray of light, and that certainly is the case with Trolls World Tour. Apart from being a satisfying return to this colorful and happy pixie universe, the sequel to DreamWorks Animation’s 2016 hit Trolls also is making a bit of motion picture history: It was…

For four years, Adam Schlesinger, a Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter and Fountains of Wayne frontman, served as executive music producer for the CW musical dramedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Collaborating with the series’ co-creator/executive producer Rachel Bloom and Jack Dolgen, the trio earned five…

Pop TV has made its first comedy greenlight this cycle, handing a pilot order to comedy Mother Mary. Described as a modern twist on one of the most famous stories ever told, the project hails from writers Casey Feigh (What We Do in the Shadows), Dan Gregor (How I Met Your Mother) and Betsy Sodaro (Disjointed). Sodaro…