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Apr 15 2013 06:30 PM ET

'Crash & Bernstein' picked up for season 2

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Disney XD’s hit comedy series Crash & Bernstein has gotten the okay for a second season. But it shouldn’t come as a surprise. The “bro-comedy,” about a boy named Wyatt Bernstein whose new puppet Crash comes to life and becomes his loud-mouthed line-stepping surrogate brother, is one of the network’s most popular series in total viewers and across target kid and boy demographics. Production will resume in July and season 2 will premiere this fall.

“Disney XD continues to push creative boundaries for a sitcom and Crash & Bernstein delivers on this promise week in, week out. Crash has quickly become an iconic character on the network, and we look forward to a second season of more purple attitude and disruptive fun with this talented cast and creative team,” says Adam Bonnett, Senior Vice President, Original Programming, Disney Channels Worldwide.

The show airs Mondays at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT.

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Apr 12 2013 04:26 PM ET

Happy 30th anniversary, 'Fraggle Rock'! Celebrate with this first look at a new graphic novel -- EXCLUSIVE

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Dance your cares away / Worry’s for another day / Everybody say / Happy birthday, Fraggle Rock!

That’s right: It’s been three whole decades since Jim Henson’s felt-covered musical romp premiered, introducing the world (or at lest those with HBO) to level-headed Gobo, artistic Mokey, athletic Red, nervous Wembley, and worrywart Boober. And happily, the Fraggles (and their human pals) are giving fans plenty of ways to celebrate this momentous occasion.

Namely: The Hub will air a special three-hour marathon of six classic Fraggle episodes on Sunday, April 21. And on May 14, the Jim Henson company and Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment will release a massive, 21-disc 30th Anniversary Collection that includes all four seasons of the show, plus a keychain, and a graphic novel that follows the Fraggles as they set out on an all-new adventure.

Check out a promo for The Hub’s upcoming marathon below — and click onward to get your first look at the graphic novel. Look, Ma — we caught five Fraggles!

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Apr 11 2013 11:23 AM ET

Are your kids ready for the evening news?

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One of the great things about being a parent is sharing the best of the massive pop-culture universe with our own children, vicariously re-experiencing the likes of Dorothy, Harry Potter, or Luke Skywalker through the wide eyes of a child, basking in their first belly-laugh at a Saturday Night Live sketch on Hulu, and looking the other way so they can stay up late one Monday night to watch a little of the NCAA basketball final. But part of parenting is also the constant internal debate about the appropriate time and age to introduce such touchstones: Will Betsy be inconsolable after the opening moments of Finding Nemo? Is Johnny going to have nightmares when the faces melt at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark? Is Scotty going to be confused and then traumatized when Brian Williams discusses the Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal?

See, it’s not just PG-13 movies and provocative pop lyrics — to say nothing of the vast untamed Internet — that present a daily parental dilemma. Sometimes, it’s something as seemingly benign as Brian Williams or one of the other evening-news anchors reporting the news. On one hand, it’s important to me that my 7-year-old be introduced and begin to understand the world he will inherit. On the other, those 22 minutes of reality at 6:30 p.m. every day are a two-way highway that transports a severe world with no absolutes into the protective cocoon of our family room. A parent spends every waking hour trying to shield his children from the ugliness of the outside world — for as long as you possible can — but the evening news can be as unsettling to a child as anything they might consume in popular culture. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 11 2013 10:32 AM ET

Check out ABC's new game show 'Bet On Your Baby,' a 'Minute to Win It' for the toddler set -- EXCLUSIVE

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What if you could translate your parenting skills into cold, hard cash — cash that went straight into your kid’s college fund? That’s the premise of Bet on Your Baby, a new ABC game show premiering Saturday, April 13 that’s sort of a mix of Minute to Win It, Candid Camera, and The Newlywed Game.

The basic gist: Parents are charged with predicting what their children will do when tasked with, say, stacking cookies or kicking a ball. If their prediction is right, they’ll win money to sock away for the little one’s college education. If not… well, the kids are probably too young to remember this experience anyway, right?

Host Melissa Peterman (Baby Daddy, Reba) makes her pitch in the video below, which also includes a clip from the show itself. Can an excitable dad correctly guess how many treats his adorable daughter Piper will be able to stack? Watch and find out.

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Apr 5 2013 04:41 PM ET

'Pretty Little Liars': Roma Maffia cast as the new cop in town -- EXCLUSIVE

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Listen up PLL fans! We’ve got some good news for you — and some not-so-good news for our four Little Liars: Two new investigators are coming to the felony-filled town of Rosewood.

The Rosewood PD must not be doing its job (you think?!), because Sean Faris is joining the cast as state investigator Gabriel Holbrook. And EW exclusively learned that Faris won’t be showing up alone: Roma Maffia — known largely for her role as Dr. Liz Cruz on Nip/Tuck — will play Gabe’s partner, Linda Tanner. Maffia’s character will first appear in the fourth episode of the upcoming fourth season, which premieres June 11, and is another state investigator who ABC Family describes as “smart, patient, and with a military background.”

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Apr 5 2013 09:59 AM ET

'Degrassi': School's out for this year's seniors -- EXCLUSIVE

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Prom. Graduation. Emotionally charged yearbook signings. Wait, do they have yearbooks in Canada? Either way: This is gonna be intense.

This June, Degrassi Community School’s current senior class — a group that includes longstanding characters like Eli, Jake, Fiona, and Imogen — will bid farewell to their drama-filled high school’s hallowed halls. And from this exclusive promo, it looks like the gang’s all set to go out in style. (We know that because the announcer says it’s true.)

Fire up Vitamin C’s “Graduation,” lower the volume, ultimately decide it’s a bad idea to play two videos at once, and steel yourself for a bracing morning shot of Degrassi:

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Apr 4 2013 05:48 PM ET

Victoria Justice to guest on 'Big Time Rush' -- EXCLUSIVE

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Nickelodeon’s bringing some Justice to Big Time Rush.

EW has learned that Victoria Justice, former star of Victorious, will appear as herself on an installment of Nickelodeon’s boy band sitcom this spring. The episode, titled “Big Time Tour Bus,” is notable for another reason as well — it’ll be directed by band member Carlos Pena, who plays jokester Carlos on the show.

In “Big Time Tour Bus,” the boys find themselves caught in traffic while traveling to their next gig. It’s up to Justice to keep the concert’s audience entertained as the guys try to figure out what to do next.

Art, naturally, imitates life; as announced last week, Justice will be joining Big Time Rush on their upcoming Summer Break Tour. Concerts begin in LA June 21st; tickets will go on sale this Saturday, April 6.

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Apr 4 2013 11:05 AM ET

'Degrassi': Maya confronts Zig in Friday's finale -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

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Between breakups, break-ins, and one very tragic death, Degrassi Community School hasn’t had an easy semester. (Then again, when has it?)

This season’s drama really comes to a head in June, with a graduation special that sends off the school’s current seniors in style. In the meantime, here’s a juicy clip from this Friday’s official season finale. Poor Maya is finally starting to deal with her boyfriend Cam’s suicide by acting out — going as far as kissing another guy, then posting a video of the makeout session on her Facerange profile. (Gotta love Degrassi‘s fake technology.)

Here, the ex-good girl gets into a screaming match with her ex-love interest, Zig. Could this be the cathartic moment that helps Maya finally start moving on?

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Apr 3 2013 05:57 PM ET

Tia Mowry-Hardrict to star in NickMom's first original scripted comedy

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Think Sister Sister, minus one sister: The Game‘s Tia Mowry-Hardrict, best known for starring opposite her sister Tamara in a variety of projects including the reality show Tia & Tamara – which returns to the Style Network this summer — is striking out on her own in a new sitcom.

Instant Mom will star Mowry-Hardrict as Stephanie, a party girl who inherits three stepchildren when she marries an older man (Michael Boatman). Moesha‘s Sheryl Lee Ralph also stars as Stephanie’s mother Maggie.

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Apr 3 2013 05:38 PM ET

Kareem Abdul Jabbar gets rid of Big Bird... in a lesson on subtraction, silly -- VIDEO

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Subtraction — don’t say it too loudly — means to take away objects from a group and count how many are left. NBA hall-of-famer Kareem Abdul Jabbar demonstrates this on Sesame Street with the help of five birds and a lot of squawking. There’s just one problem: Big Bird has a hard time figuring out the secret to Jabbar’s lesson. Don’t say subtraction!

Take a look at the clip below.

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