ELIZA COUPE News

Network has given a straight-to-series order based on a multiple-script commitment and penalty to horror tale “Dead of Summer” from the dream team of Adam Horowitz & Edward Kitsis, along with “Once Upon a Time” writer Ian Goldberg.

ABC Family, ABC Studios and ABC Signature have inked a two-year deal with McG of Wonderland Sound & Vision.

ABC Family, ABC Studios and ABC Signature have inked a two-year deal with McG of Wonderland Sound & Vision. Under the deal, he will direct and develop scripted drama and comedy series and produce digital content for various platforms. ABC Family is becoming Freeform in January 2016.

Courtroom drama is no laughing matter…until now! USA Network's new original half hour comedy BENCHED will premiere tonight, October 28th (10:30-11 p.m. ET/PT) immediately following USA's laugh-out-loud reality hit CHRISLEY KNOWS BEST.

Courtroom drama is no laughing matter…until now! USA Network's new original half hour comedy BENCHED will premiere Tuesday, October 28th (10:30-11 p.m. ET/PT) immediately following USA's laugh-out-loud reality hit CHRISLEY KNOWS BEST.

USA Network has greenlit the new original Sean Jablonski drama pilot to series with a 10 episode order, including the pilot.

Award winning musician and environmentalist Moby took the stage as headliner at Global Green USA's 11th Annual Pre-Oscar Party on February 26th, 2014, and electronic music duo The Crystal Method DJ'd at the star-studded Oscar Week celebration that drew celebrity attendees Alison Sudol, Ashley Greene, Billy Zane, Ed Begley Jr., Eliza Coupe, Frances Fisher, James Dumont, Jane Seymour, Joan Rivers, Kellan Lutz, Luke Perry, Maggie Grace, Malin Akerman, Matt Walsh, Michelle Branch, Mike Manning, Rob Steinberg, Vanessa Marano and more. Scroll down for photos!

Jolene Purdy has been tapped as a series regular on USA Network's upcoming courtroom comedy BENCHED. Purdy will play Micah, an intern in the public defender's office.

Happy Endings alumna Elisha Cuthbert is taking on another comedy with Happy in the title. After fielding multiple offers, Cuthbert has been tapped as the female lead opposite Nick Zano in NBC's multi-camera pilo tOne Big Happy, from Warner Bros TV and Ellen DeGeneres' A Very Good Production.

SHOWTIME has picked up brand new seasons of its critically-acclaimed hit drama SHAMELESS and comedy series HOUSE OF LIES with a 12-episode order for each to air in 2015.

Oscar Nunez, best known for his role of Oscar Martinez on the long-running NBC comedy 'The Office' has signed on to the cast of USA Network's new series BENCHED.

Fan favorite Eliza Coupe (Happy Endings) will begin her multi-episode guest star turn on the hit SHOWTIME comedy series HOUSE OF LIES this Sunday, February 9th at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Coupe is playing Marissa, the wild child scion of a big-money media empire who gets wooed by old pal Clyde (Ben Schwartz) to sign with Kaan & Associates. But while a struggling Clyde sees a big whale in his sights, he may have bitten off more than he can chew with this hard-partying heiress.

USA Network has picked-up the ABC Signature and The Mark Gordon Company produced courtroom comedy BENCHED.