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Actress Juliet Landau is ready for a mani and pedi as she is set to recur on the TNT series Claws alongside Niecy Nash, Carrie Preston, Judy Reyes, Karrueche Tran, Jenn Lyon, Kevin Rankin, Jason Antoon, Harold Perrineau and Dean Norris. Best known for her role as Drusilla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the spinoff Ang…

The state of California is putting some serious money into trying to get a President out of office, but not that POTUS. FX's Clive Owen as Bill Clinton's Impeachment: American Crime Story joins 15 other small screen offerings today as the latest recipients of the Golden State's lucrative tax incentives. Just over a…

Netflix has ordered an eight-episode second season of Emmy-nominated comedy series Special, created by and starring Ryan O’Connell. Warner Horizon Scripted Television will join Warner Bros. Digital Networks' Stage 13 and That's Wonderful Productions as producers of the series for season 2. Based on O'Connell's…

As he set out to develop Special, a short-form series that eventually wound up at Netflix, creator/star Ryan O'Connell was faced with a seemingly impossible task, encapsulated within a simple question: How does one sell a show centered on a gay, disabled lead? Based on a memoir by O'Connell, who began his career as a…

“We chase our discomfort a lot,” revealed GLOW co-creator Carly Mensch on the Change in Focus: Flipping the Script panel last week of the creative process she and Liv Flahive go through for the Netflix female wrestling series. If that’s the case for the Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin-led GLOW, the other creatives all…

Netflix has ordered eight episodes of Special, a comedy series based on Ryan O’Connell’s part-memoir, part-manifesto I’m Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves. Starring, written by and executive produced by O’Connell, it hails from Jim Parson’s That’s Wonderful Productions and Warner Bros’ Digital Networks’ Stage…