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…

The Sopranos alum Michael Imperioli has been cast opposite Zach Braff in ABC’s untitled single-camera startup comedy pilot (formerly known as Start Up) toplined and directed by the Scrubs star. It hails from Sony TV and studio-based Davis Entertainment. Written by Tarses, the comedy is based on Alex…

ABC has given pilot orders to two of its highest-profile comedy projects, Start Up, toplined and directed by Scrubs star Zach Braff, which had a put pilot commitment, and an untitled half-hour about a hip-hop artist-turned-mayor from writer Jeremy Bronson (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon) and Hamilton co-star Daveed Diggs…

EXCLUSIVE: Scrubs star Zach Braff is returning to series television and to ABC as the star of Start Up, a single-camera comedy, which has received a put pilot commitment. Braff, who also is set to direct, is reuniting with Scrubs co-executive producer Matt Tarses on the Sony TV/Davis Entertainment project, which ABC…

EXCLUSIVE: Zach Braff has committed to direct Bump, the black comic script by Ori Guendelman and Rob McClelland that made the 2015 Black List. Working Title is backing the project, and WT partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing. WT’s Liza Chasin is exec producer and Johanna Byer will oversee it. Bump tells…

EXCLUSIVE: It will be Matt Dillon who chases the trio of Social Security-aged stick-up men in the Zach Braff-directed Going in Style remake. Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin are playing lifelong pals who become bank robbers. The New Line comedy, based on the 1979 Martin Brest-directed film, was scripted by…