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Following the news that Starz was cancelingShining Vale after two seasons, the reactions have been coming in.

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winner Jeff Blitz (The Office, Review) is set to directand executive produce Stumble, a single-camera comedy pilot from writers/executive producers Liz Astrof (Pivoting) and Jeff Astrof (Shining Vale) and executive producers Monica Aldama and Dana Honor.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter NBC has given out a pilot order to the single-cam project “Stumble.” The show is described as “A mockumentary about the ridiculously high stakes competitive world of junior college cheer.” The project was originally set up with a put pilot commitment at NBC in late 2024. Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof are writing and executive producing the pilot.

A year after Shining Vale was canceled by Starz and removed from the streamer’s library, the existing two seasons of the series, starring Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear, are available for streaming again, this time on Max.

Shining Vale, will be removed from its streaming service soon.The show stars the Friends actor as a novelist who moves her family into a haunted house. It was created by Sharon Horgan and Jeff Astrof, and also starred Greg Kinnear and Mira Sorvino.

Starz has canceled Shining Vale after two seasons, Deadline has confirmed. Sources close to production revealed that the Courteney Cox- and Greg Kinnear-led series “did not find a large enough audience” to continue.

Emily Longeretta The second season of “Shining Vale” will serve as the final season on Starz — though co-creator Jeff Astrof has begun writing a third season and is holding onto hope that the series will find another home. The Season 2 finale of the horror comedy, produced by Warner Bros. TV, aired on Dec.

Emily Longeretta Mira Sorvino wasn’t about to start conjuring up any spirits on the set of “Shining Vale.” When she learned she’d be playing three characters — Rosemary Wellington, Ruth Levin and Nellie Burke — in the second season of the Starz comedy, the actor immediately asked showrunner Jeff Astrof for details so she could start prepping. “It was very ambitious,” Astroff told Variety on the Los Angeles set of the second season about his big ideas for the new episodes.

Sophia Scorziello editor Smile! Starz’s “Shining Vale,” starring Courteney Cox, Greg Kinnear and Mira Sorvino, is back for Season 2. The horror comedy picks up from last season after Pat (Cox) checks herself into a psychiatric hospital following her attempt at murdering her own family with an ax. The new season debuts on Friday, Oct.

Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear will return for Season 2 of Starz’s Shining Vale on October 13 at midnight ET on the Starz app, all Starz streaming and on-demand platforms and on Lionsgate+ streaming platform in the U.K. and Ireland; on linear at 9 p.m. ET/PT in the U.S. and Canada. New episodes will drop weekly on Fridays at midnight.

EXCLUSIVE: Starz has renewed breakout freshman series Shining Vale. Stars Courteney Cox, Greg Kinnear and Mira Sorvino are slated to return for the second season of the horror comedy from Trial & Error co-creator Jeff Astrof, Divorce creator Sharon Horgan, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television and Lionsgate TV. Season 2’s eight-episode order matches the size of Season 1, which wrapped its run on the Lionsgate network April 17.

Shining Vale co-creator Jeff Astrof said he was looking to squeeze comedy out of the horror genre when he joined stars Courteney Cox, Greg Kinnear and Mira Sorvino for a panel about the Starz series at Deadline’s Contenders TV event Sunday at the Paramount Theatre.

EXCLUSIVE: TBS has put in development Stubs, a half-hour comedy from writer Lindsay Golder and The Mick creators Dave Chernin and John Chernin.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorCourteney Cox knows a thing or two about sitcoms. She shot to fame as Monica Geller on the iconic “Friends” and starred for six seasons on “Cougar Town.”It’s no surprise she gets pitched a lot of half-hour comedies.

Courteney Cox thinks women go through 'a lot more than people realise'.The 57-year-old actress - who has Coco, 17, with her ex-husband David Arquette - believes that women of a certain age 'go through a lot'.She told Sky News' Backstage podcast: 'I think that women probably go through a lot more than people realise - I mean, between menopause, depression, being a mom to teenagers. 'Between menopause, depression':Courteney Cox thinks women go through 'a lot more than people realise''I think that, yeah, I think that we do go through a lot.'Courtney remains best-known for playing Monica Geller in the hit TV sitcom Friends.

Courteney Cox believes that women “go through a lot” once they reach a certain age.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticThe blunt opening title card of “Shining Vale” feels like a test: “Women are twice as likely as men to suffer from depression,” it reads, seeming to signal the beginning of a clunky show about Women and Depression — at least until the next sentence appears onscreen. “Women are also twice as likely to be possessed by a demon,” it says, a immediate and deliberate wink of self-awareness at an audience that might’ve already tried to write the show off.

Shining Vale, Starz’ new horror comedy co-created by Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe) and Jeff Astrof (Trial & Error), that’s the point. Leaning into clichés in order to answer the question “What if The Shining was a sitcom starring Courteney Cox?”, this eight-part series (served in bingeable, thirty-minute morsels) juggles jump scares and jokes at a rate of knots, whilst trying to dissect the ways in which women’s trauma is so often either demonised or dismissed out of hand.

Courteney Cox was spotted blowing through two glamorous ensembles while dashing about New York City this Wednesday.The 57-year-old Friends icon is anticipating the premiere this Sunday of her new horror comedy series Shining Vale.Early in the day Courteney could be spotted wrapped in a sleek beige coat over a bronze blouse that glinted in the sunlight. Stepping out:Courteney Cox was spotted blowing through two glamorous ensembles while dashing about New York City this WednesdayShe teamed the fashionable top with a pair of flared khaki trousers, slinging on a black cross-body bag that matched her leather shoes.As the day wore on she switched into another ensemble, this one more suited to an appearance on late-night television.

Scott Huver Between “Friends” and the “Scream” franchise, Courteney Cox knew that playing both comedy and horror were well within her wheelhouse — but something told her that the new Starz series “Shining Vale” would test her skills in unprecedented ways.“Such a dramatic role that also was comedic was a balance that I hadn’t played in quite this way,” Cox said at Monday’s series premiere at TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, where she was joined by co-stars Greg Kinnear, Mira Sorvino, Judith Light and Rob Morrow, as well as a familiar face from her TV past, Lisa Kudrow. “It’s a part that I’m just not used to being able to challenge, and it got me really excited about acting again.” “Shining Vale” was conceived by co-creators Sharon Horgan (”Catastrophe”) and former “Friends” writer Jeff Astrof as a comedic riff on “The Shining.” Cox plays Pat, a “lady porn” novelist struggling with writers’ block and depression who, after cheating on her husband (Kinnear), seeks a fresh start by moving her dysfunctional family into a new home with an increasingly unsettling vibes – and some unexpected ethereal occupants, like Sorvino’s perfectly put-together 50s-era spirit.Astrof said he immediately fell for the concept floated by Horgan.

Starz has released the official trailer for Shining Vale, its upcoming horror comedy starring Courteney Cox, Greg Kinnear and Mira Sorvino.