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EXCLUSIVE: Freeform has picked up to pilot AZNBBGRL, an hourlong drama from Natalie Chaidez (The Flight Attendant), Dinh Thai (Wu-Tang: An American Saga), producer Melvin Mar (Fresh Off the Boat) and 20th Television.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe upcoming “American Born Chinese” series adaptation at Disney Plus has found its main cast, Variety has confirmed.Ben Wang, Michelle Yeoh, Yeo Yann Yann, Daniel Wu, Chin Han, Ke Huy Quan, Jim Liu, and Sydney Taylor will all star in the series, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Gene Luen Yang.The series follows Jin Wang (Ben Wang), a teenager juggling his high school social life with his immigrant home life. When Jin meets a new foreign exchange student (Jim Liu) on the first day of school, their worlds collide as Jin becomes entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods.

EXCLUSIVE: After teaming in the Disney/Marvel film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Michelle Yeoh is set to top an international cast for the Destin Daniel Cretton-directed Disney+ fantastical series American Born Chinese. She will star alongside Ben Wang (MacGyver), Yeo Yann Yann (Wet Season), Chin Han (Mortal Kombat), Daniel Wu (Reminiscence), Ke Huy Quan (Finding Ohana), former Taekwondo champion Jim Liu and Sydney Taylor (Just Add Magic).

EXCLUSIVE: Disney Branded Television has assembled well known Disney talent for Prom Pact (working title), a teen rom-com movie for Disney+. Prom Pact, which I hear is among several original movies DBT will be announcing during their TCA session tomorrow, is toplined by Disney Channel favorites, former Andi Mack star Peyton Elizabeth Lee, who is now the lead of Disney+’s Doogie Kamealoha, M.D., and Zombies‘ Milo Manheim, who also was a runner-up on ABC’s Dancing With the Stars. The film comes from Julie Bowen, star of ABC’s signature comedy Modern Family, and Melvin Mar, producer behind such Disney series as ABC’s Fresh off the Boat and Disney+’s Doogie Kamealoha, M.D., headlined by Lee.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla “Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.,” Disney Plus’ “Doogie Howser” reboot about the adventures of a 16-year-old girl juggling adolescence and a prodigious medical career in Hawai’i, will return to Disney Plus for a second season. The half-hour, family-friendly medical dramedy starring Peyton Elizabeth Lee in the titular role of Lahela “Doogie” Kameāloha, was originally released on the streamer on Nov.

EXCLUSIVE: Doogie’s journey through medicine and adolescence in Hawai’i will continue. Disney+ has picked up a second season of Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. starring Peyton Elizabeth Lee as the titular prodigy. The renewal comes almost three months after the Season 1 finale of the coming-of-age medical half-hour dramedy was released Nov. 10.

Chris Evans is teaming up with Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson to bring a holiday action-comedy to life, reportedly for the 2023 holiday season.The actors will co-star in Red One, which is talked to be an action-comedy 'imagining a whole new universe to explore within the holiday genre.'The director of Jumaji, Jake Kasdan, will take the lead on the upcoming film from Amazon studios. Chris Evans at the 2017 Vanity Fair Oscar party:Chris Evans is teaming up with Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson to bring a holiday action-comedy to life, reportedly for the 2023 holiday season Dwayne Johnson at the People's Choice awards in December:The actors will co-star in Red One, which is talked to be an action-comedy 'imagining a whole new universe to explore within the holiday genre'According to Deadline, 'the project stems from an original story by Seven Bucks Productions’ President of Production Hiram Garcia that Amazon Studios won after a competitive bidding war last year.' Both actors ended 2021 strong with Netflix films.

Chris Evans might have left the Marvel Cinematic Universe behind, but that doesn’t mean the actor is leaving all blockbusters in the past. Not only is the former Captain America working on the upcoming Russo Brothers film, “The Gray Man,” which is Netflix’s biggest, most expensive action film to date.

Angelique Jackson Chris Evans will join Dwayne Johnson in Amazon Studios’ upcoming holiday film, “Red One.”Amazon Studios is developing the feature project, which is based on an original story by Hiram Garcia, president of production at Seven Bucks Productions. The film, which aims to shoot this year, is described as “a globe-trotting, four-quadrant action-adventure comedy, imagining a whole new universe to explore within the holiday genre.”Evans will next be seen starring in the Russo brothers’ Netflix spy film “The Gray Man” and will voice Buzz Lightyear in Pixar’s “Lightyear.” Evans is in development on a biopic about Gene Kelly, in which he’ll star and produce, and he will next star in the Apple’s “Ghosted.” “Red One” will be directed by Jake Kasdan (who previously teamed with Johnson and Seven Bucks on the blockbuster “Jumanji” franchise) and written by Chris Morgan (who collaborated on “Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw,” “The Fate of the Furious,” “Furious 7,” “Fast & Furious 6” and “Fast Five”).Johnson will also produce the movie, alongside Hiram and Dany Garcia on behalf of Seven Bucks Productions.

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Evans (Avengers franchise, Defending Jacob) is set to star opposite Dwayne Johnson in an upcoming holiday event film from Amazon Studios, which is currently titled Red One.

Jo Koy’s single-camera comedy Josep is going to pilot at ABC.

Doogie Howser creator Steven Bochco may not be around to see his story of a medical prodigy find new life with Disney+’s Doogie Kamealoha M.D., but the creative team continues to sing his praises.