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President Donald Trump’s advice today – “Don’t be afraid of Covid” – didn’t go down well with some in the Hollywood community, including actor Zach Braff, whose friend, Broadway actor Nick Cordero, died last July of complications from the coronavirus. “You don't have covid for the weekend,” Braff tweeted today. “He…

Nick Cordero was not included in the Emmy Award’s In Memoriam segment Sunday night, and Zach Braff, the late actor’s friend and former Broadway co-star, says it wasn’t for supporters’ lack of trying. “For those wondering: The Emmys chose to leave Nick Cordero out of the memorial montage,” Braff tweeted today. “I had…

Two movie producers who owe money to the mob set up their aging movie star for an insurance scam to try to save themselves. But they wind up getting more than they ever imagined. That’s the plot of The Comeback Trail, which has its official trailer out and a theatrical release scheduled for Friday, November 13. Robert…

Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence said today he’ll consider returning the three recently pulled episodes containing blackface to Hulu but only after the offending scenes have been edited out. Lawrence said on a podcast today, "Twitter is like, 'Why did you pull the whole episodes?' Why didn't you just edit those moments…

Scrubs fans spoke and Zach Braff and Donald Faison listened. The duo has officially launched a Scrubs rewatch podcast titled Fake Doctors, Real Friends With Zach + Donald at iHeartRadio with the first episode available now. The popular NBC comedy kicked off in 2001 and aired for nine seasons. The two will talk about…

EXCLUSIVE: Zach Braff is joining Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones and Morgan Freeman in writer-director George Gallo's action-comedy The Comeback Trail. De Niro will play Max Barber, a man in debt to a mob boss (played by Freeman), who creates an insurance fraud by casting washed-up, suicidal cowboy/movie star Duke…

It’s been almost nine years since Scrubs aired its finale episode on ABC, following a run that began at NBC way back in 2001. So when the all-star cast reconvened at Vulture Festival in Los Angeles on Saturday, the big question was, would they ever do a reboot? The answer turned out to be both yes and no, with a…

EXCLUSIVE: Scrubs alum Zach Braff is set to star opposite Christopher Walken and Christina Ricci in the anti-GMO indie film, Percy, which is being directed by Clark Johnson. The script, based on events from a 1998 lawsuit, is by Hilary Pryor and Garfield L. Miller. It follows small-town Saskatchewan farmer Percy…

Alex, Inc. is out of business. ABC today canceled its freshman midseason comedy starring Zach Braff. The series got off to a respectable start with its March 28 premiere, earning a 1.1 in the demo and 4.6 million viewers and retaining 79% of its The Goldbergs lead-in. Alex Inc. wobbled in its second outing, though…

From Zach Braff and Matt Tarses–the team that brought you Scrubs–comes a new ABC single-camera comedy Alex, Inc. Inspired by the podcast StartUp, it stars Braff in the role of radio journalist Alex Schuman, who quit his job to start his own company and podcast his way through the experience. "This is inspired by a…

ABC has picked up buzzy single-camera comedy pilot Start Up to series, which is untitled at the moment. (Crackle has a drama series titled StartUp). The Untitled Zach Braff/Matt Tarses Project is toplined and directed by Scrubs star Braff. It joins the other half-hour pilot picked up to series by ABC, ABC Studios’ The…

Shark Tank‘s frequent “guest shark” venture capitalist Chris Sacca will make his acting debut in ABC’s untitled Start Up comedy pilot (formerly known as Start Up). Sacca will guest star as himself in the single-camera pilot, based on Alex Blumberg’s Gimlet Media podcast Start Up, whose first season chronicled the…