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Q: It seems like a long time since new episodes of “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce” have aired. Please tell me it hasn’t been canceled! – Christy R., via email
A: It has not been canceled, Christy – thank goodness. The fifth and final season of the hit Bravo show returns on Thursday, June 14, at 10/9c with six brand-new episodes. This season, Abby (Lisa Edelstein) is torn between an old and new love; Phoebe (Beau Garrett) flirts with a new experience and gets reacquainted with her estranged brother; Delia (Necar Zadegan) decides she wants a baby; Frumpkis returns from rehab, throwing a wrench in Jo’s (Alanna Ubach) new relationship with Albert; and Barbara (Retta) gets cold feet with Darrell. So, yeah, our favorite divorcees are not going quietly into that good night.
Connie Britton (Depositphotos photo)
Q: Is it true that Connie Britton won’t be back for season two of “9-1-1”? – Marie F., Norfolk, Virginia
A: Connie initially signed a one-year deal with the first-responder drama and won’t be a series regular for the second season. However, that doesn’t mean that we’ve seen the last of her. Although no official announcement has been made as of this writing, she could return as a guest star. What I do know, officially, is that Jennifer Love Hewitt is joining the cast as Maddie, firefighter Buck’s sister, who joins as a series regular and will portray a 911 operator. “9-1-1” returns to Fox this fall on Mondays at 9/8c.
Speaking of Connie Britton, she will play opposite Eric Bana in Bravo’s new true-crime series “Dirty John,” which is based on Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard’s popular podcast of the same name. Eric plays the titular character, John Meehan, who romances Connie’s character, Debra Newell, a successful interior designer and single mom, who is later pulled into John’s web of lies. According to Bravo, “Dirty John” follows ”the true story of how a romance with Meehan spiraled into secrets, denial and manipulation.“ Connie also is an executive producer on the series, which has already been greenlighted for two seasons, the second of which will deal with an entirely different case.
READERS: I reported a few months ago that ABC had canceled Tim Allen’s sitcom “Last Man Standing,” and I suggested that another network could possibly pick it up. While my guess that CMT would be said network was incorrect, the popular series has been given new life by Fox. Tim and the rest of the gang will be back for its seventh season this fall, with showrunners promising there will be minimal changes to the show that its fans know and love. Many are speculating that Fox’s snapping up of the politically right-leaning show piggybacks on the recent success of the resurrected “Roseanne” on ABC, whose namesake star is an outspoken Trump supporter.
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