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  • Olsen Twins May Or May Not Return For TV Spin-Off ‘Fuller House’

    More news on the reboot on the beloved 90’s sitcom Full House are popping out as Netflix official Ted Sarandos announced that the Olsen twins’ are contemplating their involvement in the show.

    It’s possible.

    Despite earlier reports and statements, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen may still be able join their former co-stars in this new throwback series, Fuller House.

    “The Olsen twins are teetering whether or not they’ll be around,” said Sarandos. The Netflix head of content acquisition broke the news this Tuesday at the Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills, California.

    The Olsen sisters were playing the same role as Michelle Tanner, the youngest daughter of the San Francisco family best known for her catch phrases such as “you got it, dude!”, “aw, nuts!” and “no way, Jose!”

    However, news broke out months ago that Mary Kate and Ashley will not join the cast of Fuller House. Executive producer Robert L. Boyett also confirmed this piece of information.

    “Although Ashley and Mary-Kate will not be a part of Fuller House, I know how much Full House has meant to them and they are still very much considered family,” said Boyett in a statement.

    The update was no surprise seeing that the Olsens were never really in touch with their former co-stars, being absent in multiple reunions and spin-off rumors.

    The recurring cast in Fuller House includes Bob Saget, John Stamos, Candace Cameron, and Jodie Sweetin. The stars were not shy of posting Instagram photos of their reunions and the shooting of the first episodes.

    John Stamos was particularly affected by the Olsen hiatus news as he tweeted “#heartbroken” immediately after.

    It’s going to be alright, John. In the words of the cute Michelle, “Don’t cry, be a big boy!”

  • Katherine Waterston To Star In ‘Harry Potter’ Spinoff ‘Fantastic Beasts’

    Katherine Waterston has been cast to play the role of Porpentina in the upcoming Harry Potter-inspired movie, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

    Porpentina, also known as Tina, is a witch who operates and works her magic in the United States. While Harry Potter is located in London, the setting for Fantastic Beasts will be in New York.

    Waterston was best known for her role in last year’s Inherent Vice. The British-born American actress also appeared in several episodes of Boardwalk Empire.

    Several actresses including Saoirse Ronan, Lili Simmons and Dakota Fanning were reportedly considered for the role of Porpentina as well.

    The film is still searching for two more cast members to play pivotal roles. The roles are Porpentina’s younger sister, Queenie, and Scamander’s opponent, Jacob.

    The casting team is reported to be searching for established faces for the roles even though they discovered fresh faces for the original Harry Potter movie.

    The director of the last four Harry Potter films David Yates will help with the project. The screenplay for Fantastic Beasts was written by Potter author J.K. Rowling.

    Potter producer David Heyman is also back as the movie’s producer but this time guided by Rowling. Alongside Heyman to produce the film are Steve Kloves and Lionel Wigram.

    Rowling highly emphasized that this upcoming film isn’t going to be a sequel to Harry Potter but a spinoff.

    “Although it will be set in the worldwide community of witches and wizards where I was so happy for 17 years, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series but an extension of the wizarding world,” Rowling explained.

    The film is set to hit theaters November 18 next year.

  • Jill And Jessa Duggar Spinoff Show Might Replace ’19 Kids And Counting’

    TLC might be giving up on 19 Kids and Counting, but the network still seems willing to give a Jill Duggar spin-off show a chance.

    TLC and the Duggar family are still reeling from the fallout surrounding Josh Duggar’s molestation scandal. Major sponsors like Payless, Choice Hotels International, David’s Bridal, General Mills and Walgreens have all pulled out their ads.

    With the network scrambling to appease its advertisers and avoid a major revenue loss, a People article stated that TLC is flirting with the idea of a spinoff show revolving around Jill, her sister Jessa and their husbands.

    The move is seen as a logical alternative, especially since the two Duggar girls new lives as married women and new mothers have captured viewers’ interest.

    When Jessa’s wedding to Ben Seewald was aired on 19 Kids and Counting, it generated a surprisingly large amount of interest.

    The same thing happened when Jill Duggar gave birth to her first child with Derick Dillard. That episode, which was aptly aired before Mother’s Day, garnered a whopping 3.6 million viewers – the highest rating the show has had in years.

    As an insider explains it, “the show had begun to focus more and more on the next generation of Duggars anyway – mainly Jill and Jessa and their marriages and babies.”

    One thing is certain though, if the spinoff series does push through, Josh Duggar won’t be featured in it.

    Whether their parents, Jim Bob and Michelle, will appear is still a big question mark as they too have received their fair share of backlash over how they handled the situation with Josh.

    The embattled couple is set to give an interview to Fox News’ Megyn Kelly on June 3.

    In a statement, Jim Bob and Michelle said they will “share our hearts with you about the pain that we walked through as a family twelve years ago.”

    But will that be enough to stem the tide of public opinion?

  • Caroline Manzo Returning To Bravo With New Series

    If there’s two things Bravo loves it’s reality television and housewives from different cities all over the country.

    After spending five seasons on The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Caroline Manzo left the show in late 2013.

    Fans of Manzo need not be depressed, the mother of three is getting her own series, Manzo’d With Children.

    The show will follow Manzo, her husband Albert, sons Albie and Chris, daughter Lauren and sister Fran.

    In a statement Manzo said, “It is a very exciting time for me and my family. We are grateful for this opportunity from Bravo and our fans. Expect a lot of smiles, laughs and good times.”

    Manzo’d With Children was announced at Bravo’s 2014 upfronts, along with a Kandi Burress spinoff, three new projects in development, and the renewal of 15 shows. Manzo’s series doesn’t have a specific release date yet, but will air later this year.

    Manzo took to Twitter to announce the show and link to a sneak peek of the upcoming show.

    Maybe the show will even enlighten fans on the upcoming nuptials of Manzo’s daughter Lauren to fiance Vito Scalia. Lauren recently celebrated her future with Scalia at an engagement party on Friday at the family-owned Brownstone restaurant.

    Friends and fans alike took to Twitter to congratulate Manzo and the rest of her family for the show’s pickup.

    Image via Caroline Manzo, Twitter.

  • Scott Bakula To Star in “NCIS” Spinoff

    Things continue to look good for Scott Bakula’s career.

    The former star of Quantum Leap and Star Trek: Enterprise has just been cast in the most recent NCIS spinoff, which will be set in New Orleans.

    Bakula will play Special Agent Pride, who is driven to do what is right and works with “warmth, passion, strength, and humor.”

    Behind the newest spinoff of NCIS are executive producer Gary Glasberg and NCIS star Mark Harmon. The idea of the show came when Glasberg approached Harmon with the idea of an episode set in New Orleans.

    “I went to Mark Harmon as I do every year and said, ‘I went through some stories and, hey, I came across this scenario. I’d love to try to do an episode. He turned to me and said, ‘Gary, that’s not a sweeps episode. That’s a new show,’” said Glasberg.

    The show will cover cases from Pensacola through Mississippi and Louisiana all the way to the Texas panhandle. According to CBS, New Orleans was the perfect setting because of “its rich setting of music, fun and debauchery, is a magnet for military personnel on-leave. And with fun comes trouble. It is a natural backdrop for a unique character driven spin-off.”

    The show will begin this spring on CBS as a two-part episode of NCIS.

    It seems that many people on Twitter are happy to see Bakula headline a show again and will be tuning in.

    Bakula can currently be seen in a recurring role on HBO’s new hit Looking, and was recently nominated for an Emmy for his role in HBO’s Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra.

    Bakula also received four Emmy nominations for his role as Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap. He also won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series – Drama for Quantum Leap.

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  • How I Met Your Mother Gets A Spinoff

    How I Met Your Mother Gets A Spinoff

    As any fan of the show that has now lasted for 9 seasons knows, How I Met Your Mother will be coming to an end at the end of the current season.

    As a result, and to some fans delight, CBS has decided to make a spin-off to the series, and it will be called How I Met Your Dad.

    How I Met Your Mother is a wildly succesful comedy that has enjoyed a long run on CBS, and stars Josh Radnor as Ted, along with Alyson Hannigan, Jason Segel, Neil Patrick Harris, and Cobie Smulders.

    In order to keep with the theme of the original show, it seems like How I Met Your Father would make more sense, but in any case, the show has been given the go-ahead by CBS, and they made a deal after only two weeks of negotiations with 20th Century Fox for a pilot order. After 9 years, and a mother finally being revealed in the season 8 finale, the show is finally coming to an end.

    With the title, the new show will of course feature a female’s perspective, and the new show will come from Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, who were the creators and executive producers of How I Met Your Mother. It will still follow a similar plot-line, with a dragged out plot that will one day introduce a couple of kids to their dad, who the audience is never aware of.

    Some people feel that How I Met Your Mother has already went on for too long, and clearly would not support a spinoff, but other fans continue tuning in, making it hard to tell how the spin-off would fare.

    Do you watch How I Met Your Mother? Would you watch a spin-off of the series? Weigh in with your thoughts.

    The new show unfortunately will not have any of the same cast members as How I Met Your Mother, but the show will have a brand new story and narrator. However, the two stories will be linked by the gang’s favorite hang out and bar, McClaren’s that everyone has seen them drinking in for the past 9 seasons.

    Most fans would certainly welcome the new show, since How I Met Your Mother continues to draw in audiences, and remains to be CBS’ highest-rated Monday series, and the second-highest-rated overall behind The Big Bang Theory.

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  • “Walking Dead” Spinoff Announced

    The zombie universe is getting ready to expand, and just in time for Halloween. The early phase of developing a spinoff series from AMC’s popular The Walking Dead is currently underway. Though the series is not set for airtime until 2015, the show will be the product of the same masterminds who brought the world The Walking Dead, which includes Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, and David Alpert.

    According to AMC’s president, Charlie Collier, “Building on the success of the most popular show on television for adults 18-49 is literally a no-brainer. We look forward to working with Robert, Gale, and Dave again as we develop an entirely new story and cast of characters. It’s a big world and we can’t wait to give fans another unforgettable view of the zombie apocalypse.”

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    The new series will take place within the same worldview shown in the current zombie hit; however, a new cast of characters will be introduced instead of relying on shifting characters from the present popular series.

    Fans are looking forward to the new show even though they will have to wait awhile before the first episode airs. Some fans have taken to Twitter in order to share their excitement about the news. Will the new show be able to continue the same fervor and following that The Walking Dead currently holds?

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  • ‘The Walking Dead’ Spinoff Coming to AMC

    With Breaking Bad coming to a close, AMC is now weighing its options and betting on spinoffs. The cable channel last week announced that a Breaking Bad spinoff centered on Bob Odenkirk’s sleazy lawyer character Saul Goodman. Now, AMC’s other hit show is getting its own spinoff.

    AMC today announced that a spinoff for The Walking Dead is in the early stages of development. AMC studios will produce the show, and Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman is on board as a producer. The studio estimates that the show should be released sometime in 2015.

    “After 10 years of writing the comic book series and being so close to the debut of our fourth, and in my opinion, best season of the TV series, I couldn’t be more thrilled about getting the chance to create a new corner of The Walking Dead universe,” said Kirkman over on an AMC blog post about the new show. “The opportunity to make a show that isn’t tethered by the events of the comic book, and is truly a blank page, has set my creativity racing.”

    Little else about the upcoming spinoff was revealed, though AMC president Charlie Collier did say that it will have an “entirely new story and cast of characters.” The setting will be the same as that seen in The Walking Dead, presumably with the undead still wandering around the ruins of society. Breaking away from the story in The Walking Dead comics is not a new idea. The Walking Dead adventure game did just that last year and was lauded by critics as one of the best video games of 2012.

    The fourth season of The Walking Dead is set to premiere next month, on October 13. The show’s third season will also be hitting Netflix on September 29.

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  • Newt Scamander, Star Of Harry Potter Spinoff

    It was just announced today that J.K. Rowling is going to be in charge of a new film franchise. The series is called Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, based on a textbook that Hogwarts students have been seen using throughout the Harry Potter series. This film is not quite a prequel or sequel to the Harry Potter franchise, but will be viewed more as an extension of the series.

    There is a whole series planned that will feature Newt Scamander as the main character and chronicle his adventures. Scamander is the author of the fictional book, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them and has been seen throughout the Harry Potter Franchise, as early as Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone. Scamander is what has been referred to in the books as a magizoologist, someone who studies magical creatures. His book, which features 75 magical species from around the world, was derived from years of research and travel across five continents, according to the LA Times.

    It is said that Newt was born in 1897 and sorted into the Hufflepuff house, after being admitted to Hogwarts. After graduating from Hogwarts, he joined the Ministry Of Magic, the government that exists in the Harry Potter world. He also served as the headmaster of Hogwarts as some point during his life and reportedly wrote the famous book about beasts in 1918. Another interesting fact to not about Scamander is that his grandson ended up marrying Luna Lovegood, a friend to Harry, Ron and Hermoine. She was first mentioned in Harry Potter and The Order Of The Phoenix and has actually been described as Rowling’s favorite character, which says something about Scamander.

    Evanna Lynch, the actress who played Luna Lovegood in the series took to twitter, in order to show her excitement about the new film series, and was one of the first to do so. Several other people involved with the Harry Potter films and many fans did as well.

    John Green, a fellow young adult author was also excited about the news, but hopes for more books as well. Could that be a possibility? Let’s hope so!

    An ebook of the fictional book from the series can also be purchased online for the enjoyment of her dedicated fans at the fan website, Pottermore.

    J.K. Rowling will also serve as the screenwriter for the new project and it will be the first time that she has written a screenplay, which she is excited about. She is excited to introduce fans of the Harry Potter franchise into a new part of the wizarding world. The plot of the film will differ by taking place in New York, unlike England with Harry Potter and the story is also expected to take place roughly 70 years before the story of Harry Potter began. Rowling mentioned in a statement to Entertainment Weekly that “The laws and customs of the hidden magical society will be familiar to anyone who has read the Harry Potter books or seen the films, but Newt’s story will start in New York, 70 years before Harry’s gets underway.”

    Seamus Finnegan is excited too. Are you?

    A release date for the film as unknown at this point, and whether any familiar characters such as Dumbledore will be a part of the plot. The film will be presented by Warner Brothers, who produced each of the Harry Potter films, and has a close relationship with Rowling.

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  • Tyco International Gets Approval For Spinoffs

    Tyco International, a worldwide security company with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, announced this week that its shareholders have approved the spinoff of both its North American ADT Security Services business and its flow control business. The company stated that it has already completed equity intrest distribution to shareholders of record. Tyco shareholders also elected two new directors and approved two cash dividend payments: one for $0.15 per share per quarter paid on November 15, 2012 and February 20, 2013.

    The shareholder vote for the spinoffs came the same day that the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of China’s Ministry of Commerce cleared the merger of Tyco Flow Control and Pentair, a Minnesota-based water technology company. The merger will be a tax-free, all-stock merger.

    As a result of the spinoffs of ADT and Tyco Flow Control, the company updated its fourth quarter guidance. While guidance for its flow control segment remains unchanged, difficulties in its other two business segments have shifted forecasts. Tyco’s fire and security segment now expects an operating margin of 11.2% to 12% due to “certain aged receivables related to security contracts in China” not being collectible. As for the ADT North American residential and small business segment, its operating margin forecast has declines to 23.5% to 23.75% due to settling a law suit “related to” the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.