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ABC placed five titles on the chopping block on Friday. Among the five were Kyra Sedgwick-starrer Call Your Mother and the Nicholas Pinnock-fronted legal drama For Life. The two stars shared their reactions on social media Friday following the news. Sedgwick broke the news that the sitcom, from Kari Lizer, will not…

Kari Lizer’s multi-camera comedy Call Your Mother, headlined by Kyra Sedgwick, will not see a second season on ABC. Sedgwick announced the cancellation on Twitter: Before it goes out there in the world I want my fans to be the first to know that next Wednesday will be the last episode of "Call Your Mother". You guys…

ABC is the broadcast network with the most outstanding current scripted series whose fate remains undecided. A number of them are not bubble series and are assured a renewal, including flagship comedies The Conners, which recently re-signed its cast for next season, and The Goldbergs, which are ABC’s highest-rated…

Call Your Mother creator Kari Lizer shared that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has impacted her new ABC sitcom, starring Kyra Sedgwick, in more ways than one. Written and executive produced by the New Adventures Of Old Christine creator, the new ABC comedy takes place in a world that’s survived the fatal Covid-19…

EXCLUSIVE: Leon (The Temptations) is set for a recurring role opposite Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge on Season 2 of Showtime's City On A Hill, currently in production. Created, written and executive produced by Chuck MacLean (Boston Strangler) and based on an original idea by Ben Affleck, City on a Hill is set in early…

ABC has firmed up its midseason schedule, setting up early 2021 premiere dates for its scripted series. That includes ABC’s returning scripted series and new comedy Call Your Mother, starring Kyra Sedgwick. Call Your Mother and The Rookie, which were originally on ABC’s fall schedule before being pushed, are slated in…

EXCLUSIVE: Three series produced at CBS Studio Center in Studio City have suspended production after production team members tested positive for COVID-19, I have learned. Additionally, production on a pilot, which was about to start filming, was delayed, also due to positive tests. None would comment but I hear the…

EXCLUSIVE: Sherri Shepherd (Mr. Iglesias) is set to recur opposite Kyra Sedgwick in ABC’s Kari Lizer comedy series Call Your Mother. Written and executive produced by The New Adventures of Old Christine creator Lizer, Call Your Mother centers on an empty-nester mom, Jean Raines (Sedgwick), who wonders how she ended…

It was once considered the holy grail, landing a comedy series on a broadcast network. But now studios may be walking away from the genre as the decades-old broadcast model is becoming increasingly non-viable in the streaming age. I hear that Sony TV, which is behind the hit ABC comedy series The Goldbergs, has…

ABC is joining CBS and NBC in unveiling a “regular” fall 2020 schedule with a lineup featuring new and returning series that are yet to be filmed when production could resume following months of COVID-19-related shutdown. Like CBS and NBC, ABC is being conservative with few scheduling changes. Still, they are the…

ABC has made its first official new scripted series selections for the 2020-21 season, handing straight-to-series orders to David E. Kelley’s drama Big Sky, starring Kylie Bunbury and Katheryn Winnick, and Kari Lizer’s multi-camera comedy Call Your Mother (fka My Village), headlined by Kyra Sedgwick. They will join 11…

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