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Some New Girl cast members came together to remind fans to fulfill their civic duty. In an Instagram Reels video, Zoe Lister-Jones’ fictional Los Angeles council member and “the people’s warrior” Fawn Moscato assembles Zooey Deschanel, Lamorne Morris and Jake Johnson to tell voters to cast their votes. “America, you…

Spoiler alert: This article contains details of tonight's two-episode series finale of Fox’s New Girl. Who’s that girl? It’s Jess Day, who is moving on to bigger and better things. Tonight, Fox aired the final two episodes of New Girl, the Elizabeth Meriwether comedy starring Zooey Deschanel, which ran for seven…

UPDATED, April 10, 8:06 PM: On the eve of a scheduled motions hearing in New Girl star Zooey Deschanel’s legal fight with her former managers, the two sides have reached a settlement, Deadline has confirmed. No details of the deal were made public, but the case finally appeared to be headed to trial just two months…

New Girl could have wrapped at the end of Season 6, but producers successfully got the show through its first on-the-bubble situation by lobbying for a final season, shot forward three years “to throw in new storylines and move things forward,” creator Elizabeth Meriwether told TV critics at TCA. The final eight…

The upcoming eight-episode seventh and final season of Fox’s New Girl, which was picked up yesterday, will feature a time jump. But before we get to that and other details about Season 7, let’s look back at the wild past few days when the comedy series went from a shoo-in for a 13-episode final season to the brink of…

Fox offered a look at next week’s crossover episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and New Girl, giving viewers of tonight’s promo a chance to decide for themselves about the wacky chemistry between Andy Samberg and Zooey Deschanel. The special episodes air Tuesday, Oct. 11 (8:00-8:31/8:31-9:01 PM ET/PT). In the Brooklyn Nine…

UPDATE, 7:45 AM: "The lawsuit filed by Seven Summits is completely absurd and meritless and was filed in retaliation by a disgruntled ex-manager," said Zooey Deschanel's lawyer Marty Singer of the complaint filed yesterday in L.A. Superior Court. The New Girl star's former reps sued Monday for unpaid commissions from…

This morning Primetime Emmy Awards executive producer Don Mischer announced 13 presenters for the upcoming 66th telecast on Monday August 25,  and from the bevy of film talent scheduled to appear onstage, one would think it’s a kudo ceremony for cinema. However, it’s just a further indication of how television…

Zooey Deschanel just tweeted this photo from the set of Bill Murray-starrer, Barry Levinson-directed Rock The Kasbah. Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson, Scott Caan and Danny McBride also star in the pic about a a down-on-his-luck rock manager who takes his last remaining client on a USO tour of Afghanistan. After finding…

Anton Yelchin and Zooey Deschanel will star alongside John Hawkes in The Driftless Area, a dark comedy from director and co-writer Zachary Sluser. A resourceful bartender (Yelchin) moves back to his hometown after his parents die, falls for an enigmatic woman (Deschanel) and is unwittingly pitted against a volatile…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has put in development Queen Of Everything, a half-hour animated comedy executive produced by Zooey Deschanel and Sophia Rossi via their Miss Hawkins banner. It hails from 20th Century Fox TV where Miss Hawkins has a first-look deal. Written/executive produced by Ali Waller (American Dad, Late Night With…

EXCLUSIVE: New Girl‘s Zooey Deschanel and her Hello Giggles cohorts are expanding into film with Sister-In-Law, a comedy they’ve just sold to Good Universe. The production company Deschanel formed with partner Rivka Rossi, springboarding off their femme-driven website Hello Giggles, has already been moving fast into…