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Get ready for a Reba reunion on the new comedy Happy’s Place that should enthrall fans!

Reba McEntire is the rare case of a performer just as famous for TV shows as the world of country music. After establishing herself as one of the biggest country music stars ever with more number-one hits and awards than can be counted, McEntire decided to give TV a try in 2001 with the WB comedy Reba.

She played Reba Hart, a Houston native who’s thrown when, during a counseling session, she learns her husband Brock (Christopher Rich) has gotten his nutty dental assistant Barbara Jean (Melissa Peterman) pregnant. Before she can recover from that, Reba learns her daughter Cheyenne (JoAnna Garcia) is pregnant by her dimwitted jock boyfriend Van (Steve Howey). Reba has to handle this strange new family dynamic, not helped by how Barbara Jean thinks they’re friends.

The show was a hit,...

Blake Lively got her big break starring in the popular CW series Gossip Girl. But after the show came to an end, she wasn’t sure if she wanted to continue a career in the film industry.

Blake Lively wanted to take a long break from acting after doing ‘Gossip Girl’ Blake Lively | Neil Rasmus/Patrick McMullan / Getty Images

Lively wasn’t exactly new to acting by the time she joined the cast of Gossip Girl. She had a few roles in projects like Accepted and Simon Says. She also came from a family of actors, who exposed her to the arts at a young age. Lively’s father was an actor who appeared in shows like The Dukes of Hazard and Malibu Shores. Her mother worked as an actor as well.

It seemed Lively would follow in her family’s footsteps even further after receiving the role of Serena...

Barry Watson rose to prominence in the 1990s and 2000s for his role as the likable and outgoing Matt Camden in the family drama 7th Heaven. After 7th Heaven, Watson appeared in other television shows and films, including Gossip Girl and Ocean's Eleven. He took a break from acting due to a diagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma but has since returned to acting. Watson's health issues have made him value his health and family more. He is focused on his role as a father and husband and continues to act in recent projects such as Naomi and the Lifetime remake of Highway to Heaven.

Barry Watson was a prominent film and television actor during the 1990s and 2000s known for his appearances in famous works such as 7th Heaven and Ocean's Eleven. Watson rose to prominence with his role as a main cast member of the WB family drama 7th Heaven,...

Hey, "Jimmy Kimmel Live" fans. We are back on here to deliver some more great news to you guys. That good news is that ABC is going to serve up another new episode of your favorite late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight, February 22, 2023, and we've got a little preview for it from ABC's official description. So, we're going to run it by you right now. Let's get to it. You guys are going to see an actor, a comic and a musical performance in tonight's new edition. The first description revealed that 46 year old American actress Keri Russell will show up to talk with Jimmy tonight. Keri is a very accomplished actress. She's been seen in productions like: Star Wars movie, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes movie, Arrested Development TV show, Scrubs TV show, Mission Impossible III movie, Felicity TV show, 7th Heaven TV show, Malibu Shores TV show,...

Blake Lively’s father, Ernie Lively, died at the age of 74 on June 3. He died in Los Angeles from cardiac complications. The actor’s career started in 1975. He worked five decades in Hollywood and was known for making appearances on several television shows including The Dukes of Hazzard, Turner & Hooch, Falcon Crest, Malibu Shores, The X-Files, The […]

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When you’re a teenager, every little crisis feels like the end of the world. And when you’re a teen TV junkie, every cancellation can be just as crushing.

For every One Tree Hill and Beverly Hills, 90210 — two shows that ran long enough to see their high school-aged characters grow into successful, shark-jumping adults — there are countless teen dramas that were tragically (criminally, even!) robbed of that same opportunity. And since you’re probably running out of old shows to binge at this juncture in your quarantine, TVLine has assembled a handy guide to some teen treasures worth excavating.

1981: Another World's Cecile announced she had married Jamie.

1987: One Life to Live's Tina went over a waterfall to her "death" in Argentina.

1987: Another World's Donna & Michael married.

2007: Ashley Abbott arrived on The Bold and the Beautiful."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into d ifferent and unexpected images."

― Anselm Kiefer

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1953: On Love of Life, nine-year-old Ben "Beanie" Harper (Dennis Parnell) and his roommate planned to escape from the boarding school.

1970: On Dark Shadows, Carolyn Stoddard (Nancy Barrett) told Jeb Hawkes (Christopher Pennock) she could not go through with the wedding.

1981: Another World's Cecile announced she had married Jamie.

1987: One Life to Live's Tina went over a waterfall to her "death"

in Argentina. 1987: Another World's Donna & Michael married.

2007: Ashley Abbott arrived on The Bold and the Beautiful."Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results."

― Machiavelli

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1953: On Love of Life, nine-year-old Ben "Beanie" Harper (Dennis Parnell) and...

On May 22, 2002, Felicity ended its four-year run on the now-defunct WB network, a channel hailed for its knack for breeding nuanced teen dramas in the late ‘90s and early aughts. The one-hour series, which debuted four years earlier in the fall of 1998, was an introspective and melancholic take on the trials and tribulations of Felicity Porter (Keri Russell), a wide-eyed, curly-haired California girl who impulsively follows her crush, sensitive jock Ben Covington (Scott Speedman), to the hustle and bustle of New York City for college.

Coincidentally premiering the same year as Sex and the City, another female-driven coming-of-age story set in Manhattan, and fielding welcomed comparisons to Ally McBeal, a popular dramedy at the time, Felicity shied away from the glitz and glamour of living in the big city -- instead focusing on the often uncomfortable and agonizing journey of being a young woman searching for her place and purpose in the world.

But well before...

This Being Mary Jane star recently got engaged to NBA star Dwyane Wade. Here are five things you probably don't know about Gabrielle Union.

1. Born Gabrielle Monique Union on October 29, 1972 in Omabha, Nebraska -- her mom is a former dancer and social worker and her father worked as a phone company manager.

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2. Graduated with honors from UCLA with a degree in sociology.

3. Started her acting career with appearances on TV shows including Family Matters, Moesha, Malibu Shores and Saved by the Bell: The New Class.

Related: Gabrielle Union Engaged to Dwayne Wade

4. Starred as Busta Rhymes' love interest in the rapper's 2006 music video I Love My Chick.

5. In high school was an all-star point guard in basketball and also played on the soccer team and ran track.

Related: Dwyane Wade Fathers Baby Boy...

It’s been 10 long years since Felicity left our lives forever and took Noel Crane (Scott Foley) and Ben Covington (Scott Speedman) with her. Since then, we’ve been secretly — Ok, maybe not so secretly — hoping for Scott Speedman to return to our TV screens on a weekly basis. No offense to the other Scott, but Speedman always had our hearts.

Well, it looks like the TV gods have finally answered our call (now if only they’d bring back Malibu Shores)! Scott Speedman stars in the new drama Last Resort as Xo Sam Kendal, who suddenly finds himself in charge of a submarine after his captain (24‘s Andre Braugher) disobeys a direct order from the U.S. government. And as if that isn’t enough to pique your interest, the creators of Last Resort have stuck our eye candy on a beautiful tropical island with lots of irresistible women,...

I’m starting to think Terrence Malick may be beachside for the entirety of his next film(s). We already saw Christian Bale and Wes Bentley relax on the beach for one of Malick’s next back-to-back features, either Knight of Cups and/or the previously titled Lawless. Now we’ve got official confirmation that Natalie Portman is part of the production, as the first set photos of her and Bale have surfaced, seeing them return to the Malibu shores. This marks the Black Swan actress’ first production since she took a break to deliver her child. For Bale, it’s his first post-Batman role after The Dark Knight Rises, along with the currently shooting Out of the Furnace. There’s no telling if these are just test shoots or something that will actually make it into the film, but it’s nice to see things moving along.

We know...

It’s not easy being a contestant on The Voice. Not only must these fledgling artists show extreme patience at getting upstaged in the midst of their critiques by chants of “I love you Adam!”/”I love you Xtina!” (possibly delivered by Adam’s and Xtina’s assistants, disguised in trench coats and sunglasses) but they also have to endure backstage interviews in the Sprint lounge conducted by a babbling ponytail attached to a stem-cell smoothie. (Sometimes that entity is referred to as a “Christina Milian.”)

This week’s semifinal show, however, proved that sometimes it’s worth putting up...

It’s been a tough couple of weeks for women on The Voice — and not just because social media dingbat Christina Milian’s interview skills make DWTS timeslot competitor/world’s most curvaceous robot Brooke Burke look like Christiane Amanpour. Indeed, from the show’s two most recent results-show telecasts, we’ve seen America vote four consecutive men into the semifinal rounds, leaving eight individual ladies completely dependant on their mentors to help them find their way to the four remaining spots in the semifinals.

Which isn’t to imply that the ladies of Season 2 haven’t been primarily responsible for their own precarious fortunes.

Xtina sat in her boudoir while her team listened up. But girlfriend did not serve magnolia wine. In the Battle Round heat, is where her singers began to freak. Gitchie, gitchie yaya da da. Gitchie gitchie ya ya here.

Oh-whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh, apologies for the unfortunate riff on “Lady Marmalade.” But it was hard not to take the plunge after seeing the Lady Aguilera train her team for The Voice Battle Rounds in a brothel-esque chamber — complete with candelabras, velvet animal-print furniture, 10,000 ornate throw pillows, a taxidermized owl, and yet another “peeka–boobs” blouse from Xtina herself. (Enhancing the bedroom theme, Cee...

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, here are some queries we are going to throw at you, from shows including Smash, The Voice, Gossip Girl, Ringer and Revenge!

1 | How, how, how does Fringe‘s Jasika Nicole pull off the Simultaneous Teardrop Down Each Cheek trick?

2 | Which timeline do Blue Bloods‘ Reagans live in that the Jets were still playing? (Or perhaps they were getting oddly excited for an airing of West Side Story?)

3 | Can the ad community agree to not sneak-leak any Super Bowl commercials next year? What happened...

After the Super Bowl, fans of "The Voice" witnessed an awkward moment between coach Christina Aguilera and her former "Mickey Mouse Club" castmate, Tony Lucca. He auditioned for the show, but even after he said his name, she didn't recognize him until he'd left the stage. She ultimately did go find him and apologize for not remembering him.

Lucca and the other "The Voice" contestants participated in a press call on Monday to discuss their blind auditions. Lucca admitted that because producers played up the history between himself and Aguilera before he took the stage for the auditions, he was a little nervous about how it would play out.

"The reunion was bizarre in a lot of ways," he told us. "Obviously the producers and I had agreed that was an interesting piece of the story, so we covered a lot of ground on that leading to the blind audition.

During last night’s season premiere of The Voice, Christina thought that one of the auditioning singers looked a little familiar. Turns out, Tony Lucca, who sang Ray Lamontagne’s “Trouble,” worked with her on The Mickey Mouse Club. (See his audition embedded after the jump.) But judging by all the Tony Lucca love in the comments section of our recap, many of you readers already knew who he was, and Disney had nothing to do with it.

“The minute I saw Tony Lucca, I screamed like a little girl!” wrote one longtime fan of the singer. “He already has...

The Voice is different from the other 47 reality singing competitions on TV right now “because it puts vocal ability first,” host Carson Daly boasted during Sunday night’s post-Super Bowl season premiere.

Of course, The Voice also stands out for a few other reasons: it puts Carson in a Kia (instead of an ominous 18-wheeler, like X Factor‘s Steve Jones, or turning him into Ford’s plaything, a la Ryan Seacrest); it doesn’t believe in giving airtime to ham sandwiches with no discernable singing talent; and it isn’t afraid to expose seven-eighths of Christina Aguilera’s heaving...

"The Voice" is never shy about the fact that they invite talent to come audition as opposed to holding "American Idol" style open auditions. As a result, a lot of the contestants on the show have enjoyed a modicum of prior success and are using "The Voice" to move toward the mainstream, household-name level.

Tony Lucca, who was on "The Mickey Mouse Club" beginning when he was 14, is one of those contestants. A longtime boyfriend of "Felicity" star Keri Russell, Lucca is now married and has a son. He starred on the short-lived "Malibu Shores" alongside Russell and toured with *Nsync (and former "Mmc" buds Justin Timberlake and Jc Chasez) for a brief period. Recently, his music was prominently featured on "Friday Night Lights" -- very prominently. "Devil Town" was him.

So did Christina Aguilera recognize her old co-star's voice when he began to sing "Trouble" on the show? Nope.

Charisma Carpenter, best known as sharp-tongued Cordelia Chase on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, is still keeping company with people who could kick your ass. Together with Lou Ferrigno and Erik Estrada (pictured), she's now a member of The Butterfinger Defense League, a trio that will teach us how to ward off people who want to lay a finger on our Butterfingers. They do this through individual training videos (Carpenter's alter ego "Sassy" has killer hips) and a group remake of a certain Sir Mix-a-Lot hit ("I Like Big Butterfingers"). Watch her in action after the jump. She also...

This week, EW University takes a look at the people who helped shape the modern TV landscape. Our first class on TV Auteurs takes a look at the illustrious, often licentious oeuvre of Aaron Spelling. Class is now in session! Yes, kids, the late Aaron Spelling gave television more than the future star of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood. Far, far more, in fact. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Spelling holds the record for the most executive producer credits: 218. That alone, of course, does not an auteur make, but from The Mod Squad to Charlie’s Angels, from Beverly Hills, 90210, to Charmed, a distinct and almost incomprehensibly influential vision emerged. Spelling practically invented the modern TV guilty indulgence, a formula tougher to execute than it looks. When you're watching Burn Notice or Gossip Girl or Desperate Housewives and that "zap" hits the pleasure center of your brain,...