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ABC Family Adds To Casts Of ‘Countinuing Fred’ And ‘Terminales’ Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 25, 2012 @ 1:10pm PDTTags: ABC Family, Continuing Fred, Terminales
Nellie Andreeva

Comedy veterans Mo Gaffney and Dan Castellaneta as well as Angelique Cabral are set to co-star opposite Mimi Gianopulos in ABC Family’s half-hour comedy pilot Continuing Fred, while I Hate My Teenage Daughter alum Aisha Dee has joined another ABC Family pilot, drama Terminales. Continuing Fred centers on twentysomething Winifred “Fred” Harris (Gianopulos), a newly graduated slacker with an overbearing family who surprisingly finds purpose when she begins to teach at a local elementary school. READ MORE »

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It’s Official: ‘Secret Life Of The American Teenager’ To End After 5 Seasons

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday October 10, 2012 @ 1:44pm PDTTags: ABC Family, The Secret Life Of The American Teenager

Related: ABC Family’s ‘Secret Life Of The American Teenager’ To End Run After Fifth Season

We reported yesterday that the fifth season of ABC Family’s The Secret Life Of The American Teenager will be its last. That was confirmed today. Here’s the release:

Burbank, CA (October 10, 2012) – “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” will premiere its final season in March 2013, closing out five seasons of the groundbreaking drama. The exciting final season will include a proposal and a wedding. Fans will also see Amy, Ricky, Ben, Adrian, Grace and Jack make plans for their lives after Grant High School. Will Amy and Ricky stay together in the end?

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ABC Family’s ‘Secret Life Of The American Teenager’ To End Run After Fifth Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 4:31pm PDTTags: ABC Family, The Secret Life Of The American Teenager
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Secret Life Of The American Teenager CancelledEXCLUSIVE: The current fifth season of ABC Family‘s The Secret Life Of The American Teenager will be the series’ last. The drama from 7th Heaven creator Brenda Hampton was the breakout hit … Read More »

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Italia Ricci Lands The Lead In ABC Family Pilot ‘Terminales’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 2:59pm PDTTags: ABC Family, Terminales
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EXCLUSIVE: Italia Ricci has been cast as the lead of ABC Family‘s drama pilot Terminales. Based on a successful Mexican television format by Miguel Angel Fox, Terminales centers on April (Ricci), an aspiring young journalist who is … Read More »

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ABC Family’s ‘Pretty Little Liars’ Renewed For Fourth Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 4, 2012 @ 9:32am PDTTags: ABC Family, Pretty Little Liars
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ABC Family has renewed Pretty Little Liars for a fourth season with a 24-episode order to start airing in mid-2013. Pretty Little Liars next will air a special Halloween-themed episode on Oct. 23 as part of the network’s 13 Nights of Halloween programming event, before returning with the rest of season three in January. Read More »

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Teri Polo & Sherri Saum To Star In Jennifer Lopez’s ABC Family Pilot ‘The Fosters’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday September 24, 2012 @ 2:44pm PDTTags: ABC Family, Jennifer Lopez, Teri Polo, The Fosters
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Teri Polo (Meet The Parents) and Sherri Saum (In Treatment) will topline ABC Family‘s drama pilot The Fosters, executive produced … Read More »

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It’s Official: ABC Family Orders Three Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday September 17, 2012 @ 10:49am PDTTags: ABC Family, Big Deals TV, Continuing Fred, Phys Ed, Terminales
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Related: ABC Family To Order Drama Pilot ‘Terminales’, Two Comedy Pilots

ABC Family has made its pilot orders, greenlighting drama Terminales and comedies Phys Ed and Continuing Fred. The three pilots will go into production this fall along with the previously announced drama pilots The Fosters (working title), executive produced by Jennifer Lopez, and Socio. “These pilots will further our strength in both the drama and comedy areas,” said ABC Family EVP Kate Juergens, noting that the network is looking to extend its streak of launching a top-rated new series in the young demos every summer, something it has done in the past three years with Pretty Little Liars (2010), Switched at Birth (2011) and Baby Daddy (2012). Here are the new pilots’ official descriptions: Read More »

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ABC Family To Order Drama Pilot ‘Terminales’, Two Comedy Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday September 17, 2012 @ 8:06am PDTTags: ABC Family, Continuing Fred, Phys Ed, Terminales
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EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that ABC Family is finalizing deals for three pilot orders — to drama Terminales and comedies Phys Ed and Continuing Fred. They will join the network’s recently picked up drama pilots: multi-ethnic family show The Fosters, executive produced by Jennifer Lopez, and Socio, about a teen psychopath.

Terminales is an adaptation of the Mexican drama series created and produced by Miguel Angel Fox. Described as “Sex And The City if Carrie Bradshaw was dying of cancer,” Terminales follows a young woman’s life after she is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Lionsgate TV and Kapital Entertainment are producing; Aaron Kaplan is executive producing; Paul Presburger is overseeing for Televisa, which owns the format. Read More »

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Jennifer Lopez-Produced Family Show, 1 Of 2 Drama Pilots Picked Up By ABC Family

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday August 23, 2012 @ 3:19pm PDTTags: ABC Family, Jennifer Lopez, Socio, The Fosters
Nellie Andreeva

Jennifer LopezHaving just done the renewal/cancellation of its summer series, ABC Family is embarking on its next pilot cycle with the pickup of two new drama pilots, multi-ethnic family show The Fosters, executive produced by Jennifer Lopez, and Socio, about a teen psychopath.

Created by Bradley Bredeweg and Peter Paige, who will serve as executive producers, The Fosters is a one-hour drama about a multi-ethnic family mix of foster and biological kids being raised by two moms. Lopez will executive produce with her producing partner at Nuyorican Prods. Simon Fields as well as Greg Gugliotta. Nuyorican is producing with ABC Family’s in-house production arm Prodco, Inc.

Socio is a one-hour drama centered on a charismatic sixteen-year-old alleged sociopath, who recently reconnected with his two female best friends from childhood, and who becomes the prime suspect when a fellow student is murdered. The project, which has Dexter Jr. vibe, was written by Adam Milch (Greek) who will serve as co-executive producer. Read More »

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ABC Family’s ‘Jane By Design’ Cancelled After One Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday August 17, 2012 @ 1:22pm PDTTags: ABC Family, Jane by Design
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In ABC Family’s renewal announcement today, there was one bubble series conspicuously missing — Jane By Design. The cable network will not order more episodes of the comedic drama, which is being cancelled after one season.  Jane By Design … Read More »

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‘Bunheads’ Co-Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino: Q&A

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday July 27, 2012 @ 1:49pm PDTTags: ABC Family, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Bunheads

Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino left that still-in-syndication WB/CW show (along with husband/frequent creative partner Daniel Palladino) in 2006 when contract negotiations ended unsuccessfully. Since then, she has developed several series scripts and/or pilots but none has been a success. Now she has found a home at ABC Family with Bunheads, a summer series about a ballerina-turned-Vegas showgirl (Tony-winner Sutton Foster) who unexpectedly finds herself teaching at her mother-in-law’s small-town dance school. (ABC Family is part of the Disney-ABC Television Group cocktail party at TCA this evening.) After its June 11th premiere, Bunheads immediately ignited controversy when mega-producer Shonda Rhimes, who is black, tweeted: “Hey@abcfbunheads: really? You couldn’t cast even ONE young dancer of color so I could feel good about my kids watching this show? Not ONE?”  The outspoken Bunheads co-creator (with Lamar Damon) and executive producer talks to Deadline TV contributors Diane Haithman and Allison Hope Weiner about the new series, failed projects, what’s next, and her response to Shonda Rhimes.

DEADLINE: Dance insiders know the word “bunheads” describes ballet students who pin their hair up for class. Will the general public get it?
AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO: It’s the term I grew up with. We were called bunheads, and when I threw it out there it seemed to stick and people seemed to like it. I’m sure there was a conversation behind closed doors: “Perhaps we should call it Debbie Dances On Pointe.” And there was one phone call that said: ‘The title is Bunheads???’ ” And that was it. It was not a point of contention… I just like the word.

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Jennifer Lopez Developing New ABC Family Series

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday July 6, 2012 @ 12:33pm PDTTags: ABC Family, Jennifer Lopez, Nuyorican Productions

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Lopez is developing an hour-long drama for ABC Family. The so far untitled series is about a lesbian couple who suddenly have their already child heavy household turned upside down when a wayward teenage … Read More »

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Lynn Stepanian Joins ABC Family As SVP Acquisitions And Scheduling

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday June 20, 2012 @ 12:58pm PDTTags: ABC Family

ABC Family Lynn StepanianLynn Stepanian has been named SVP Acquisitions and Scheduling at ABC Family. Network president Michael Riley says she will be responsible for all off-network series and feature acquisitions as well as overseeing the strategic scheduling of all … Read More »

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Netflix To Stream Warner Bros’ ‘Pretty Little Liars’ And ‘The Lying Game’

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Monday June 11, 2012 @ 8:05am PDTTags: ABC Family, Netflix, Pretty Little Liars, The Lying Game

Netflix says this morning that it has a multi-year exclusive deal with Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution to domestically stream all previous season episodes of ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game. Season 1 of Pretty Little Liars … Read More »

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ABC Family Buys ‘The Keys’ Detective Drama Project Produced By Ashley Tisdale

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday May 8, 2012 @ 4:38pm PDTTags: ABC Family, Ashley Tisdale, Big Deals TV, RelativityReal, Tom Forman

EXCLUSIVE: ABC Family has entered into a development deal with Ashley Tisdale’s Blondie Girl Prods. for The Keys. The High School Musical star, who co-stars in the Louis C.K./Spike Feresten CBS comedy pilot, and her partner Jessica Rhoades will executive produce the … Read More »

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Teri Hatcher Joins ABC Family Series ‘Jane By Design’ As Recurring

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday April 30, 2012 @ 10:30am PDTTags: ABC Family, Jane by Design, Teri Hatcher
Nellie Andreeva

Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher has booked the first acting gig after the end of the ABC dramedy. Hatcher is staying within the ABC family with a recurring role on ABC Family’s Jane By Design. Hatcher will be playing the lead character Jane’s (Erica Dasher) long-lost mother for four episodes, the first of which will air on June 19. Hatcher also will make her directorial debut by directing an episode of Jane By Design, which returns to originals on June 5.\ Jane By Design follows Jane Quimby (Dasher), a quirky teen with an eclectic chic fashion sense, who lands a job at a hip fashion house when they mistake her for an adult, working for demanding, but talented creative director Gray Chandler Murray (Andie MacDowell). Hatcher is the latest Desperate housewife to line up a new gig. Read More »

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ABC Family’s ‘Make It Or Break It’ To End

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday April 26, 2012 @ 10:11am PDTTags: ABC Family
Nellie Andreeva

Make It Or Break It FinaleThe current eight-episode third season of the ABC Family series Make It Or Break It will be its last. The writing has pretty much been on the wall for the gymnastics drama, … Read More »

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ABC Family’s ‘Terminales’ Adaptation Taps New Writers

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday April 25, 2012 @ 6:31pm PDTTags: ABC Family
Nellie Andreeva

Susanna Fogel and Joni Lefkowitz, creators of the HBO comedy pilot Washingtonienne, have come on board to write an adaptation of the Mexican drama series Terminales for ABC Family. The hire seems appropriate as Terminales is sometimes described as “Sex … Read More »

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ABC Family Renews ‘The Lying Game’ For Second Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday April 24, 2012 @ 12:22pm PDTTags: ABC Family, The Lying Game
Nellie Andreeva

ABC Family has closed the deal for a second season pickup of the original drama series The Lying Game. The new season will begin production this summer for a winter premiere. The renewal comes on the heels of a solid … Read More »

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