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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details from the Feb. 10 episode of NCIS: Origins titled “Monsoon.”

Jack Lilley, whose showbiz career spanned more than seven decades as an actor, stuntman, animal coordinator and other roles and included Little House on the Prairie, Blazing Saddles, John Ford films and TV Westerns, has died. He was 91. His family posted the news on Instagram but did not provide a date or cause of death.

Not to point fingers, but Ella Purnell has an issue with one of her biggest roles yet.

Drew Barrymore credits 1994’s Western action flick Bad Girls with changing her life at 16 years old.

A week after production on Los Angeles-based scripted series resumed after a shutdown related to the Palisades and Eaton fires, one of the impacted series, CBS‘ S.W.A.T., has put filming on pause again Wednesday, this time due to the Hughes fire.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is pitching in and donating money for the relief efforts of all the victims affected by the L.A. wildfires.

Just when the winds seemed to be dying down, a new blaze has erupted in fire-ravaged Los Angeles. Dubbed the Hughes Fire, the wildfire broke out around 10:30 am and went from 50-100 acres to 500-1000 acres at noon to more than 5,000 acres by 1 p.m. That’s according to local TV outlets, all of which preempted regular coverage to focus on the conflagration.

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Wesley, an actor who played a vampire on The Vampire Diaries, is executive producing a series project about a vampire who wants to be an actor. The untitled comedy, which landed at Fox for development in a competitive situation, centers on a determined 25-year-old vampire who struggles with running the family business for his murderous and suffocating vampire parents while trying to chase his dream to become an actor.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Production came to a halt in Los Angeles on Wednesday as fires continue to sweep across the neighborhoods of Pacific Palisades, Altadena and Sylmar. FilmLA, the permitting agency for shoots in Los Angeles, issued a notification that “personnel resources ordinarily available to support film production may not be available during the local State of Emergency.” “The LA County Fire Department has specifically instructed that all permits issued for filming in the communities of Altadena, La Crescenta, La Canada/Flintridge and unincorporated Pasadena are withdrawn. Other permit revocations are possible,” the FilmLA statement said.

UPDATED with more production shutdowns: As the Hollywood community and the rest of Los Angeles are waking up to post-apocalyptic skies, images of utter devastation from the ongoing wind-driven wildfires, more evacuation orders and school closures, scripted TV series are suspending production for the day Wednesday in impacted areas.

The filming schedule has been shifted on Prime Video’s hit post-apocalyptic drama series Fallout due to the powerful Southern California windstorm and the wildfires it has triggered. Season 2 has been slated to resume production after a holiday break tomorrow, Wednesday, I hear. Instead, the restart of production has been tentatively rescheduled for Friday.

Santa Clarita Diet was a much-loved horror comedy series with a dedicated following.The Netflix “zomcom” starred Drew Barrymore as a real estate agent who turns into a zombie, and Timothy Olyphant as her husband, attempting to conceal her appetite for human flesh.Despite having a vocal fanbase and starring one of the biggest stars in the world, Netflix refused to bring the show back for a fourth and final season.The show’s creator, Victor Fresco, who was also responsible for Mad Men, has revealed in a new interview the wild way he found out the show had been axed.It turns out no one at Netflix bothered to tell him, instead he learned of the show’s fate when his assistant told him that the sets from the series were being dismantled.“That’s how I heard it was definitively not coming back.,” he told The Guardian.“Damn, they couldn’t even send a text!” commented one angry fan on Reddit.“Damn that’s cruel, I actually loved that show,” remarked another.Heartbreakingly, the show ended on a huge cliffhanger that was never answered and five years after its cancellation fans are still angry with Netflix as a result.“We had an inkling it might not come into a fourth year,” shared the creator, going on to reveal that they purposefully ended the season with a cliffhanger in a bid to force Netflix’s hand to renew the show.“We didn’t want to make it easier for them to cancel us.

The Boys actor Malcolm Barrett has been accused of sexual assault.According to TMZ, a woman contacted the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department last weekend, claiming that after a night of drinking with the actor, she woke up in bed to find him touching her. She also reportedly alleged that the actor then had sex with her against her will.Barrett’s accuser said to police that she had known the actor for months, and they had been out in Los Angeles drinking ahead of the alleged assault, TMZ also reported.So far no arrests have been made and Barrett is yet to comment publicly on the allegations.

A woman in California has been arrested for one of the strangest crimes we’ve ever heard of… pretending to do a really tough job!

Peacock continues to staff up its new Office. Melvin Gregg (American Vandal, Snowfall), Chelsea Frei (Poker Face, The Cleaning Lady) and Ramona Young (Never Have I Ever, Santa Clarita Diet) have been cast in Peacock’s upcoming Untitled Greg Daniels/Michael Koman mockumentary which is set in the same universe as Daniels’ NBC hit The Office.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The new iteration of “The Office” at Peacock is adding three new cast members. Melvin Gregg (“American Vandal,” “Snowfall”), Chelsea Frei (“Poker Face,” “The Cleaning Lady”) and Ramona Young (“Never Have I Ever,” “Santa Clarita Diet”) will all star in the series alongside previously announced cast members Domhnall Gleeson and Sabrina Impacciatore. The new castings were first reported by the Palisadian-Post in Pacific Palisades, CA, as the actors were shadowing reporters at the publication in preparation for their roles.

EXCLUSIVE: NBC has taken in for development Look What You Made Me Do, a drama from Leila Cohan (Bridgerton), Anna Fricke (Walker) and CBS Studios.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Timothy Olyphant is set to appear in the untitled golf comedy series starring Owen Wilson at Apple TV+, Variety has learned exclusively. The show was originally picked up for 10 episodes at Apple in March. Wilson will star alongside fellow cast members Peter Dager, Marc Maron, Mariana Treviño, Lilli Kay, and Judy Greer.

The popular Emily Henry book Happy Place is being made into a television series at Netflix and producer Jennifer Lopez has found a writer/showrunner to lead the team!

EXCLUSIVE: We understand that Bridgerton Emmy nominee, Leila Cohan, has just closed to co-write and showrun the Netflix series adaptation of Emily Henry‘s bestseller Happy Place. The project remains in development at Netflix.

Jack Kidd, the head grip for The Bold and the Beautiful, died July 25. He was 60.