ABC Orders Joshua Jackson-Led DR. ODYSSEY to Series

ABC has ordered DR. ODYSSEY, a new drama series co-created by Ryan Murphy, Jon Robin Baitz, and Joe Baken, to series. Joshua Jackson will star and executive produce the show.

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THE POLITICIAN: Netflix Releases Trailer, New Poster

THE POLITICIAN, Ryan Murphy’s new star-studded Netflix series, has a new trailer and poster.

Per Netflix, “Payton Hobart (Ben Platt), a wealthy student from Santa Barbara, California, has known since age seven that he’s going to be the President of the United States. But first he’ll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape of all: Saint Sebastian High School. To get elected Student Body President, secure a spot at Harvard, and stay on his singular path to success, Payton will have to outsmart his ruthless classmates without sacrificing his own morality and carefully crafted image. Full of dark comedy and sly satire, Ryan Murphy’s The Politician offers a rare glimpse into just what it takes to make a politician.”

The series also stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Lange, Zoey Deutch, Lucy Boynton, Julia Schlaepfer, Laura Dreyfuss, Rahne Jones, Theo Germaine, David Corenswet, Bob Balaban, and Benjamin Barrett. The series was created by Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan.

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AMERICAN HORROR STORY: Ryan Murphy and the Cast Preview HOTEL

The AMERICAN HORROR STORY franchise traditionally has a great amount of secrecy pre-premiere, but at the show’s Television Critics Association panel for HOTEL, co-creator Ryan Murphy shared new details about what to expect from the show’s fifth installment.

“It’s set in a hotel…it’s set in Los Angeles, which the first season was as well,” Murphy told reporters. “And what I’ve loved about this season is the hotel is set in Downtown Los Angeles, so we really deal with a lot of the American horrors, which is addiction…and on and on. And we were really inspired by the idea of a hotel; there was a surveillance video that went around two years ago that just showed a girl getting into an elevator in a downtown hotel that is rumored to be haunted, and she was never seen again. So that was around two years ago we started thinking of this idea.”

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SCREAM QUEENS: Fox Releases First Tease

SCREAM QUEENS — the upcoming Fox series from Ryan Murphy — won’t be launching until the 2015-2016 season, but in honor of Friday the 13th, Fox has released the first teaser.

At first, the ad seems to pay a bit of homage to Murphy’s GLEE days…and then it takes a turn…

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Fox Boss Kevin Reilly on GLEE’s Final Season

GLEE will be heading into its final season next year, but when the fall Fox schedule was released, the series was MIA. But there is a bright side to waiting a bit for more GLEE: according to what Kevin Reilly, Chairman, Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX) told reporters on a conference call today, “When it comes back in the second half of the season…[they will] air all their episodes in a row.”

But how many episodes the final season will consist of is slightly up in the air.

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In Case You Missed It…BONES, ALMOST HUMAN, THE CARRIE DIARIES, and More!

Were you too busy this week to keep up with everything that happened in TV news? Give Me My Remote‘s got you covered! We’re catching you up on anything exciting you might have missed here at GMMR!

This week on GMMR:

This week in previews:

• ALMOST HUMAN: Fox Debuts New Trailer with the New Premiere Date
• THE FOLLOWING Season 2: Check Out Two New Promos and Teaser Art
• AMERICAN IDOL: See a New Promo For Season 13

This week in pictures:

• CASTLE: ‘Get A Clue’ Photos
• BONES: ‘The Nazi on the Honeymoon’ Photos
• SLEEPY HOLLOW: ‘The Sin Eater’ Photos — FRINGE’s John Noble Makes His Debut!
• GLEE: ‘A Katy or a Gaga’ Photos
• ONCE UPON A TIME: ‘Good Form’ Photos
• CASTLE: ‘Like Father, Like Daughter’ Photos

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AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN: Ryan Murphy Teases Tonight’s Very Important Episode

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN has gotten off to an insane start thus far, but for co-creator, Ryan Murphy, the best is yet to come.

“There’s a lot of great Jessica Lange (Fiona)-Emma Roberts (Madison) scenes [in tonight’s episode, ‘The Replacements’] that I love,” he told reporters when asked about his favorite hour of AHS’ third installment so far. “There’s some amazing, hilarious Kathy [Bates (Madame LaLaurie) scenes] — I love when Kathy Bates is funny. There’s some really funny Kathy Bates stuff.”

That’s not to say the episode is all fun and games.

“But it’s very poignant,” Murphy continued. “And what Jessica does in that episode — she has an amazing, huge, three minute speech in the very last scene — is what the whole season is about and propels it.”

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN airs Wednesdays at 10 PM on FX.

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GLEE: Ryan Murphy on How the Show Will Handle Finn’s Death

Fox boss Kevin Reilly had initially indicated that GLEE would handle series star Cory Monteith’s death by having his on-screen character, Finn, die in a way that touched on real events (Monteith died due to an accidental overdose), GLEE co-creator Ryan Murphy has shared the series won’t be heading in that direction.

“There were a lot of things that we had to decide — how are we going to deal with his death?” Murphy told Deadline in an interview. “At one point, we were going to have his character die after an accidental drug overdose — that was something we had considered. But we have decided that we’re not going to have him pass from that. Basically, what we’re doing in the episode is we are not telling you yet, or maybe not at all, how that character died. The idea being, how somebody died is interesting and maybe morbid, but we say very early on in the episode, ‘This episode is about a celebration of that character’s life.’ That might be weird for some people, but it felt really exploitative to do it any other way.”

Personally, I’m really, really happy the show is going this way. But what do you think?

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AMERICAN HORROR STORY’s Lily Rabe: ‘I Can’t Imagine a Dreamier Job’

When actors take a role on a television show, that usually means committing to (hopefully) years of playing the same character. But for those who have been a part of FX’s AMERICAN HORROR STORY — which, by its very nature of storytelling, shifts to a brand new tale every season — they get to change up what kind of character they play with every new season.

I spoke with Lily Rabe (who was in the show’s first two seasons and has committed to appearing in the third year) at the PaleyFest Icon about the challenges of working on the show, and what other Ryan Murphy shows she’d like to pop up on…

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PaleyFest 2013: Actors From GLEE, THE NEW NORMAL, AMERICAN HORROR STORY, and POPULAR on What They’ve Learned From Working with Ryan Murphy

Between Ryan Murphy’s three current shows (GLEE, AMERICAN HORROR STORY, and THE NEW NORMAL) and the ones that have been off our air for a while (NIP/TUCK and POPULAR), there’s no question that he’s worked with some incredible talent over the years.

At Wednesday night’s PaleyFest kickoff event honoring Murphy with the inaugural Icon Award, many of the stars of his shows came out to show their support. I spoke with GLEE stars Jane Lynch (Sue), Naya Rivera (Santana), and Jenna Ushkowitz (Tina), THE NEW NORMAL’s Andrew Rannells (Bryan), NeNe Leakes (Rocky), and Jayson Blair (Clay), AMERICAN HORROR STORY’s Lily Rabe (Sister Mary/Nora), and POPULAR’s Christopher Gorham (Harrison) to find out what they learned from their time working with him…

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PaleyFest 2013: Ryan Murphy on Being Honored with the Icon Award

PaleyFest kicked off its annual festivities a bit differently this year: by presenting Ryan Murphy (GLEE, AMERICAN HORROR STORY, and THE NEW NORMAL, to name his current shows) with the inaugural Icon Award for his achievement in television.

I spoke with Murphy before he received the award about what getting the honor meant to him…

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AMERICAN HORROR STORY: Ryan Murphy on ASYLUM and What to Expect in Season 3

Another season of AMERICAN HORROR STORY has come to an end. Did things go down the way you expected? (Personally, I would have loved to have seen Lana explain away what happened in her home, but it’s a little more fun to have that out there and let you imagine that media circus.)

AMERICAN HORROR STORY co-creator Ryan Murphy talked with reporters after a screening of the finale to reveal what he knew had to happen this year, how that memorable Sister Jude number came to be, and what he could say about season 3…

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THE NEW NORMAL: Ali Adler and John Stamos Preview ‘Gaydar’

John Stamos makes his debut on THE NEW NORMAL in tonight’s brand new episode, he brings a whole new complication to the show — just how reliable is “gaydar”?

“[Tonight’s episode is] about the preconceived notions we have about how someone acts or looks gay, and that the new normal is we really don’t have any clue and neither do our gay people in the show have a fair clue,” THE NEW NORMAL executive producer Ali Adler told reporters during a winter press tour set visit. “We’re all just completely at a loss. Everyone is just who they are and that’s the exploration for next week.”

“Gaydar is about what — that gaydar doesn’t work anymore,” Adler added. “That however we set it to in the ’90s and the ’80s and whatever, it’s just not working anymore in this millennium.  And we can go, ‘He’s a florist; he’s gay.’ Well, those notions are going to hang us ultimately, and I think that’s what we explore with John[‘s character] and [fellow guest star] Mark Consuelos as well.”

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