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A&E's 'Bates Motel' Adds Max Thieriot as Norman's Brother

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A&E's 'Bates Motel' Adds Max Thieriot as Norman's Brother

A&E's Bates Motel has given Norman Bates an older brother.

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl alum Max Thieriot has joined the network's Psycho prequel playing the older brother to the budding psychopath, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

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'The Finder's' Maddie Hasson, 'Prom's' Kylie Bunbury to Star in Gavin Polone's ABC Family Pilot (Exclusive)

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'The Finder's' Maddie Hasson, 'Prom's' Kylie Bunbury to Star in Gavin Polone's ABC Family Pilot (Exclusive)

ABC Family has found two friends for an alleged murderer.

The Finder's Maddie Hasson and Prom's Kylie Bunbury have been tapped to co-star in the network's Gavin Polone drama pilot Socio, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.

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'New Girl' Finds Zooey Deschanel's Onscreen Parents

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'New Girl' Finds Zooey Deschanel's Onscreen Parents

The New Girl Thanksgiving is getting a big helping of guest casting.

Reps for the Fox comedy confirm to The Hollywood Reporter that Jamie Lee Curtis and Rob Reiner will join the series for one episode this fall, as first reported by TVLine.

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Will Ferrell, Adam McKay to Produce NBC Comedy With 'Bachelorette' Writer

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Will Ferrell, Adam McKay to Produce NBC Comedy With 'Bachelorette' Writer

NBC is looking for a good assistant.

The network has given script orders to Assistance, a single-camera workplace comedy based on the play written and directed by Leslye Headland that was loosely based on her time working as an assistant to the Weinstein Co.'s Harvey Weinstein.

THEATER REVIEW: 'Assistance'

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A&E's 'Psycho' Prequel 'Bates Motel' Finds its Young Norman

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A&E's 'Psycho' Prequel 'Bates Motel' Finds its Young Norman

A&E has found its young Norman Bates.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's Freddie Highmore has been tapped to co-star as a young Norman Bates in the network's Psycho prequel Bates Motel, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

As first reported by TV Guide, Highmore will play the character made famous by Anthony Perkins in the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock feature.

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'Homeland's' Howard Gordon, 'Invasion's' Shaun Cassidy Sell Family Adventure Drama to Fox

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'Homeland's' Howard Gordon, 'Invasion's' Shaun Cassidy Sell Family Adventure Drama to Fox

Homeland's Howard Gordon and Invasion's Shaun Cassidy are on the case for Fox.

The network has given a put-pilot commitment to an untitled drama from the duo exploring the lives of two ex-CIA agents who are tasked with starting over. The project will tell the story of the two operatives who, after leaving the agency, are forced to face their past and start over -- with their spouses and teen kids -- with new identities after their connection to the CIA nearly gets them killed.

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'New Girl' Adds Carla Gugino for 3-Episode Arc

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'New Girl' Adds Carla Gugino for 3-Episode Arc

Schmidt (Max Greenfield) is hopping in bed with another boss during the second season of Fox's New Girl.

PHOTOS: Up Close and Adorkable With the Cast of 'New Girl'

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'Fringe': New PSA Reveals Strict Residency Rules for 2036 (Exclusive Video)

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'Fringe': New PSA Reveals Strict Residency Rules for 2036 (Exclusive Video)

Welcome to 2036.

In the third Fringe PSA featuring the Fedora-loving Observers, exclusive to The Hollywood Reporter, the topic (aka Edict 5) centers on residential protocol for the "natives" and their rights.

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Katie Couric Shrinks, Steve Harvey Steady in First Week of Talk Show Competition

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Katie Couric Shrinks, Steve Harvey Steady in First Week of Talk Show Competition

While veterans Ellen DeGeneres, Dr. Phil and Kelly Ripa may still be the safest ratings bets, talk show additions from Katie Couric and company made for an especially combative daytime landscape this week.

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Jenji Kohan, Mary-Louise Parker Say Farewell to 'Weeds'

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Jenji Kohan, Mary-Louise Parker Say Farewell to 'Weeds'

Weeds comes full circle Sunday when the Showtime comedy that helped put the spotlight on the female anti-hero wraps its eight-season run.

The comedy about a pot-dealing suburban single mother (Mary-Louise Parker) raising a family in suburbia by any means necessary returned to its roots in its penultimate half-hour when in the 100th episode Nancy Botwin came home Agrestic to the town that she burned to the ground. (Now fittingly called Regrestic.)

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'Smash' Books 'Rent' Alum Jesse L. Martin as Recurring Player

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'Smash' Books 'Rent' Alum Jesse L. Martin as Recurring Player

Smash has added another Broadway veteran to its ranks.

Original Rent star Jesse L. Martin has joined the swelling cast of NBC's musical drama for its second season, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

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USA Network Orders Elmore Leonard Adaptation to Pilot

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USA Network Orders Elmore Leonard Adaptation to Pilot

USA Network is getting into the Elmore Leonard business.

The cable network has ordered to pilot an adaptation of Leonard's short story from the anthology When the Women Come Out to Dance from Numb3rs co-creators Cheryl Heuton and Nicolas Falacci, it was announced by Bill McGoldrick, evp, original scripted programming at USA.

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'Scandal': 'Everwood's' Tom Amandes to Reunite With Brenda Strong (Exclusive)

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'Scandal': 'Everwood's' Tom Amandes to Reunite With Brenda Strong (Exclusive)

ABC's Scandal is staging an Everwood reunion.

Tom Amandes, who played the stuffy Dr. Harold Abbott on the WB/CW series, has been tapped to guest star on Shonda Rhimes' Washington, D.C.-set political fixer drama, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.

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'America's Got Talent' Winner Revealed

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'America's Got Talent' Winner Revealed

America's Got Talent has crowned its latest winner.

NBC's talent competition series named the Olate Dogs, a traveling dog act from New Jersey, as the winner of season seven on Thursday's finale, taking the $1 million grand prize and headlining a Las Vegas show. They also performed live on Today on Friday.

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