Puerto Rico’s film industry still is recovering from the effects of Hurricane Maria, and now it’s been hit by a strike. Crew members working on a low-budget film called Selfie have walked off the job to protest what IATSE says is the company's failure to pay crew members "over $100,000." "The IATSE is currently on…

Saudi comedian Nasser Al-Qasabi is hoping laughter succeeds where bombs have failed by taking on extremist group ISIS. Al-Qasabi, one of Saudi Arabia’s most popular figures, is facing down death threats from the terrorist organization after mocking them in his hugely popular Ramadan series Selfie. Aired on pan-Arab TV…

UPDATE: Comedies Selfie and Manhattan Love Story, both recently cancelled by ABC, have a new home on Hulu. Selfie creator and executive producer Emily Kapnek tweeted last night that the un-aired episodes of the cancelled ABC freshman comedy will be available online beginning today. Kapnek, who also created the network…

Selfie just joined its Tuesday companion, fellow new ABC comedy Manhattan Love Story, on the list of cancellations this season. ABC has opted not to order more episodes of Selfie beyond the initial 13. Unlike Manhattan Love Story, which was pulled effective immediately, Selfie will be on this coming Tuesday but its…

The winning streak of the Kansas City Royals was snapped off by the San Francisco Giants in Game 1 of the World Series on Fox last night. And for the broadcaster it was a loss too. In non-time zone adjusted fast nationals, the KC hosted game got a 2.9/9 rating among adults 18-49 between 8 PM and 11 PM. That's down a…

ABC has picked up three scripts each of freshman series Selfie, Manhattan Love Story and Forever. The network has now given some sort of orders to all of its new series after hot drama How To Get Away With Murder and comedy Black-ish received full-season pickups last week. Additional script orders (usually three) are…

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…

UPDATE 3 PM: As expected, given the 3-minute overrun, the premiere of the CW drama The Flash was adjusted up in the finals to a 1.9 in adults 18-49 and 4.8 million viewers to edge 90210 as the No.2 biggest debut ever on the network, only behind The Vampire Diaries. The Flash also outperformed several new series debuts…

The new broadcast season is only 10 days old, and we already have the first ratings controversy. Pundits are scratching their heads over the abnormally big upward adjustments ABC’s series are getting every day in the final Live+Same Day ratings vs. the fast nationals. With the exception of this Monday, when ABC’s fast…

UPDATE 2:40 PM: What is wrong with ABC’s Nielsen fast nationals sample? Once again, there were major upward adjustments for the network’s Tuesday fast nationals — good news for new comedy series Selfie and Manhattan Love Story, each going up two-tenths to a 1.6 and 1.5 Live+Same Day rating among adults 18-49…

Miranda Mayo (The Game) has been cast in a recurring role on ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars, from Warner Horizon and Alloy. Mayo will play Talia, a chef who is new to Rosewood. She gets off on the wrong foot with Emily (Shay Mitchell), and things go downhill from there. Mayo, repped by Abrams Artist Agency and…

Courtney B. Vance and James Remar have booked guest roles on NBC’s fall drama series State Of Affairs. Directed by Joe Carnahan and produced by Universal TV, State Of Affairs stars Katherine Heigl as a key CIA attaché who counsels President Constance Payton (Alfre Woodard) on high-stakes incidents around the world…