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Story based on true family tragedy… and a magpie chick.

British star Andrew Lincoln of The Walking Dead has joined Naomi Watts on the family drama Penguin Bloom, which is set to begin production in Sydney, Australia, in August.

Glendyn Ivin (The Cry) will direct the adaptation of the novel by Bradley Trevor Greive and Cameron Bloom from a screenplay by Shaun Grant (Snowtown) and Harry Cripps (The Dry).

Roadshow will distribute in Australia and New Zealand, and Endeavor Content handles worldwide rights on the story about a family that gets through a tragedy with the help of an injured magpie chick they name Pengiun.

In today’s roundup, Jamie Foxx will once again host the Bet Awards and HBO renews “Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas.”

Casting

USA Network announced Elisha Henig will join the second season of “The Sinner” as a series regular. Henig will play Julian, described as a bright but peculiar young boy on the brink of adolescence who is from a sheltered, unconventional background and is now thrust into the outside world.

Renewals

Nickelodeon has renewed the shows “Paw Patrol,” “Blaze and the Monster Machines,” “Rusty Rivets,” and “Top Wing.” The renewals are part of the network’s largest preschool content pipeline ever of more than 300 returning shows and new series for the 2018-2019 season.

HBO has renewed the late-night series “Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas” for a second season. The series covers a wide range of social and cultural issues in its first season, including student loans, mental health, police accountability,...

The scenes you remember from your favorite television shows don’t often start out that way. From conception to the page to the small screen, changes are made for creative, budgetary and/or time constraints that you’re often not aware of. In the From Script to Screen series, we break down a pivotal scene from the current TV season with the people who put pen to paper, to give us an exclusive inside look at how an original idea transforms into a memorable TV moment.

It’s rare when a television show created by women, starring women and written almost entirely by women (only two episodes so far were written by men) makes it to the small screen, much less strikes lightning in a bottle. That’s exactly what Teachers, TV Land’s little-seen comedy about an eclectic, politically incorrect and often Nsfw group of teachers in a Chicago-area elementary school is doing on a weekly...

In its first season, the Teachers TV show drew some very low ratings for TV Land but the comedy was renewed for a second season anyway. Will the numbers improve this time around or, will they drop lower? Will Teachers be cancelled or renewed for season three? Stay tuned.A single-camera comedy, the Teachers TV show is based on a web series of the same name from The Katydids improv group. The series revolves around six elementary school teachers who are trying to mold young minds — but their own lives aren't really together. It stars Caitlin Barlow, Katy Colloton, Cate Freedman, Kate Lambert, Katie O'Brien, and Kathryn Thomas.Read More…...

School is back in session. Recently, TV Land announced season two of Teachers will debut in November.The ensemble comedy "revolves around a group of elementary school teachers who are trying to mold the minds of America's youth, but don't have their own lives together at all." The cast includes Caitlin Barlow, Katy Colloton, Cate Freedman, Kate Lambert, Katie O’Brien, and Kathryn Thomas.Read More…...

Vulture WatchDo those who can't still teach? Has the Teachers TV show been cancelled or renewed for a third season on TV Land? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Teachers season three. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you? What's This TV Show About?Airing on the cable channel, the Teachers TV show is based on a web series of the same name from The Katydids improv group. While the series revolves around six elementary school teachers who are trying to mold young minds — their own lives aren’t really together. Caitlin Barlow, Katy Colloton, Cate Freedman, Kate Lambert, Katie O’Brien, and Kathryn Thomas star. Read More…...

Class — and the new TV season — are officially in session: NBC has handed a series order to new comedy A.P. Bio, TVLine has learned.

The comedy series stars It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia‘s Glenn Howerton as Jack, a philosophy professor who misses out on his dream job and is reduced to teaching high school biology. He’s not really interested in teaching biology, though, and decides to use his class full of brainy honor-roll students for his own purposes. The first-look photo above shows an apathetic-looking Jack in class, munching on an apple and sporting a few...

In its first season, the Teachers TV show drew some very low ratings for TV Land but the comedy was renewed for a second season anyway. Will the numbers improve this time around or, will they drop lower? Will Teachers be cancelled or renewed for season three? Stay tuned.A single-camera comedy, the Teachers TV show is based on a web series of the same name from The Katydids improv group. The series revolves around six elementary school teachers who are trying to mold young minds — but their own lives aren't really together. It stars Caitlin Barlow, Katy Colloton, Cate Freedman, Kate Lambert, Katie O'Brien, and Kathryn Thomas.4/21 Update: Teachers has been renewed for season three on TV Land. Details here.Read More…...

TV Land is going back to school. The Teachers TV show has been renewed for a third season on TV Land. The sitcom is based on The Katydids improv group's web series.A scripted comedy, Teachers stars Caitlin Barlow, Katy Colloton, Cate Freedman, Kate Lambert, Katie O’Brien, and Kathryn Thomas. The TV Land show follows six elementary school teachers who are trying to mold young minds, even though their own lives aren’t really together.Read More…...

This should make the wait for Younger‘s return a little more bearable: TV Land has renewed the comedy for Season 5, the network announced Thursday.

Season 4 of the Sutton Foster-starrer premieres Wednesday, June 28 at 10/9c; the 12-episode fifth season is slated to air in 2018. Foster plays Liza, a 40-year-old divorced mom who lies about her age to score a job in publishing; last season ended with Liza revealing the truth about her age to her younger co-worker Kelsey (Hilary Duff).

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How do you like them apples? TV Land has ordered a second season of the Teachers TV series. The show is written by and stars The Katydids, who wrote and acted in the Teachers web series.

The cast of Teachers includes: Caitlin Barlow, Katy Colloton, Cate Freedman, Kate Lambert, Katie O'Brien and Kathryn Renée Thomas. Along with The Katydids, Alison Brie and showrunners Ian Roberts and Jay Martel executive produce the series. Matt Miller and Cap Gun Collective are also executive producers.​

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“Younger” creator Darren Star has signed an overall deal with TV Land, the network announced Thursday. The deal sees Star staying on as executive producer on the comedy, which stars Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff, and keeps him on board to develop another project for the network. The network also announced that the freshman comedy “Teachers” has been renewed for a second season. Also read: 'Younger' Creator Darren Star Promises 'A Lot of Twists and Turns' in Season 2 Starring and written by the comedy group The Katydids — Caitlin Barlow, Katy Colloton, Cate Freedman, Kate Lambert, Katie O’Brien and Kathryn Renée Thomas.

There have been many TV shows that have been set in public schools -- Awkward, Degrassi, Glee, The White Shadow, Boston Public, Freaks and Geeks, etc. Some have run for many seasons while others have been cancelled after just one season. How will Teachers on TV Land perform in the ratings? Will it earn a second season renewal? Stay tuned.

A single-camera comedy, the Teachers TV show is based on a web series of the same name from The Katydids improv group. The series revolves around six elementary school teachers who are trying to mold young minds — but their own lives aren't really together. It stars Caitlin Barlow, Katy Colloton, Cate Freedman, Kate Lambert, Katie O'Brien, and Kathryn Thomas.

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Community‘s hashtag destiny will be fulfilled, suspects Alison Brie.

While promoting her behind-the-scenes role on TV Land’s upcoming comedy Teachers at Comic-Con on Thursday, the Greendale vet answered the $1 million question: Which is more likely — Community Season 7 or Community: The Movie?

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“If I were gonna be hopeful about something, I would be more hopeful about a movie than a seventh season,” Brie told me in TVLine’s Comic-Con suite at the Hard Rock Hotel.

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Jennifer Falls will not return for a second season, EW has confirmed. TV Land canceled the half-hour, single-camera comedy, starring Jaime Pressly, after its 10-episode season. The show followed Jennifer, a woman who, along with her daughter, moved back in with her mother after losing her job. Matthew Carlson (The Wonder Years) created the series, which also starred Jessica Walter, Missi Pyle, Ethan Suplee, Nora Kirkpatrick, and Dylan Gelula. Michael Hanel and Mindy Schultheis executive produced the show. The network announced it has picked up two more single-camera comedies: Impastor, starring Michael Rosenbaum, and Teachers, which Alison Brie is executive producing.

TV Land has ordered two new sitcoms -- Teachers and Impastor. Both will debut sometime next year with 10 episodes.

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TV Land Orders Two New Comedies, "Impastor" And "Teachers," To Series

Michael Rosenbaum and Sara Rue to Headline "Impastor" from Christopher Vane, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum

Comedy darlings The Katydids to Star in "Teachers," Executive Produced by Alison Brie, Ian Roberts and Jay Martel

New York, NY - October 1, 2014 - TV Land has ordered 10-episode first seasons of two new single-camera comedies, "Impastor" and "Teachers," it was announced today by TV Land President Larry W. Jones. Both series will premiere on TV Land in 2015.

"'Impastor' and 'Teachers' are perfect examples of the type of comedies we're looking for as TV Land evolves its original series -...

TV Land is getting edgier, judging by its two newest comedies. The network announced on Wednesday that it's ordered two new single-camera comedies, Impastor and Teachers, with both 10-episode first seasons slated to premiere in 2015. "Impastor and Teachers are perfect examples of the type of comedies we’re looking for as TV Land evolves its original series – innovative, unconventional, and hilariously funny for an audience that enjoys smart humor with a hint of heart,” said TV Land President Larry W. Jones. Impastor follows Bubby Dobbs (Smallville's Michael Rosenbaum), a gambling pothead who, trying to escape from a loan shark, steals...

TV Land is expanding its single-camera originals, picking up both of its comedy pilots to series. The Viacom-owned cable network has ordered to series single-camera comedies Impastor and Teachers, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Both 10-episode comedies will debut in 2015. Single-camera entry Teachers, from exec producer Alison Brie (Community), is based on the web series that revolves around six elementary-school teachers. Caitlin Barlow, Katy Colloton, Cate Freedman, Kate Lambert, Katie O'Brien and Katie Thomas will all reprise their roles in the comedy from Matt Miller and Cap Gun TV. The group of six, known

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