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Vanessa Bell Calloway, Nestor Carbonell The Ringer season finale is here now. Vanessa Bell Calloway remains attracted onto guest-star inside the newcomer series' closer, TVGuide.com knows exclusively. The Going to America actress may have Special Agent Berens, the Regional Director in the FBI who shows leniency to Agent Machado (Nestor Carbonell). Watch full cases of Ringer Calloway's recent credits include HawthoRNe and Shameless. Ringer's season finale will air Tuesday, April 17 at 9/8c round the CW.

9 Classic Tunes from the Late Disney Songwriter Robert Sherman

Over the course of his career, Robert B. Sherman and his brother Richard wrote some of the most endearing and indelible songs tied to the Disney legacy, including their "It's a Small World (After All)" theme park ditty and the music for Mary Poppins that earned them two Academy Awards. In honor of the elder Sherman, who passed away this week at the age of 86, let's traipse down memory lane and revisit some of the Sherman Brothers' most enduring contributions. "Let's Get Together" (The Parent Trap) "It's a Small World (After All)" "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (Mary Poppins) "Chim Chim Cher-ee" (Mary Poppins) "A Spoonful of Sugar" (Mary Poppins) "I Wan'na Be Like You" (The Jungle Book) "Portobello Road" (Bedknobs and Broomsticks) "The Age of Not Believing" (Bedknobs and Broomsticks) "Winnie the Pooh" Theme If you ask me movie music doesn't get much better than the Mary Poppins songbook, though the Sherman Bros. enjoyed long careers that also included composing music for films like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Aristocats, and Charlotte's Web. (For more on Robert and Richard Sherman, check out the 2009 doc The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story.) Leave your favorites in the comments below. 'It's a Small World' Songwriter Robert Sherman Dies at 86 [THR]

Warner Bros Assumes Hugh Hefner Pic, Jerry Weintraub To Create

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is matching an legendary film subject by having an legendary producer. The studio has had over Playboy, a task about Playboy Magazine founder Hugh Hefner, with Jerry Weintraub overtaking the film as producer. The film came from at Universal with Imagine Entertainment, in which the studio attempted for quite some time to inform the storyline of methods Hefner developed from the puritanical upbringing being the godfather from the sexual revolution. Throughout that point, Hefner used playboy to champion civil privileges and freedom of expression, putting James Brown on his show Playboy At Night when nobody put black entertainers on national television. While Universal had filmmakers like Brett Ratner attached at some point and stars like Robert Downey Junior. and Hugh Jackman pointed out as possibles to experience Hef, the project languished. At Warner Bros, this marks a conference of a few old-style legendary men, Hefner and Weintraub. The Sea’s Eleven producer, who cut his teeth marketing Elvis, Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan, put their own colorful existence story in to the memoir After I Stop Speaking, You’ll Know I’m Dead: Helpful Tales from the Persuasive Guy. Cinemax switched it in to the Cinemax documentary His Way. Wentraub wouldn't disclose what a part of Hefner’s existence he'll cover, and that he refused that Harry Potter scribe Steve Kloves has been spoken to like a potential film writer, when i’ve heard may be the conversation happening at this time between your studio and also the scribe. Stay updated.

Yahoo to debut original comedies

Yahoo has introduced the debut of original comedy projects including "First Dates With Toby Harris," featuring Seth Morris (Funny or Die) "Sketchy" (Electus/Principato-Youthful Entertainment) and "7 Minutes in Paradise," with "Saturday Evening Live" author Mike O'Brien (Broadway Video). The comedy slate is similar towards the female-specific selection of programming Yahoo first showed in fall 2011. Yahoo Galleries also produces "Odd News," an every week wrap from the oddest tales from around the world, located by comedian Greg Proops. All of the new comedy shows will air survive the comedy funnel in the company's new movie destination, Yahoo Screen. Additional comedy shows set to produce within the next couple of days including "Hackerazzi" (David Morgasen) and "Burning Love" (Vital Pictures/Red-colored Hour). The comedy funnel on Yahoo Screen was formally released using the live broadcast of "CrazyStupidPolitics: Bill Maher Live From Plastic Valley," a totally free online standup comedy broadcast. The comedy slate may come as 1000's of lay offs might be imminent at the organization, based on a study Monday within the AllThingsD blog. The huge cuts come several weeks after new leadership was installed at Yahoo using the intent of engineering a turnaround at the organization, including new Boss Scott Thompson and multiple new visits one of the board of company directors. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

The CW Casts Its Animal, Adds To First Cut

Within the U.S. debut, Australian actor Jay Ryan has showed up a guys lead opposite Kristin Kreuk inside the CW drama pilot Beauty As Well As The Animal. Loosely using the eighties CBS series, CWs Beauty As Well As The Animal is known to love a contemporary-day romantic love story getting a procedural twist. It concentrates on Catherine (Kreuk), a hard-minded NYPD homicide detective haunted by seeing her moms murder nine in the past as well as the killings quick demise consequently of the Animal. After a period of searching, Catherine finally finds your pet, Vincent Koslow (Ryan), the survivor from the military experiment that went disastrously wrong, and becomes the protector of his secret existence like a hero. Gary Fleder is pointing the pilot, put together by Jennifer Levin and Sherri Cooper. Levin and Cooper are executive creating withthe creator in the original series, Ron Koslow, the first series producers Paul Junger Witt & C. Anthony Thomas, additionally to Bill Haber. Ryan, who spent 3 years on Australia’s popular cleaning cleaning soap Neighbours, did an arc round the first season of Fox’s Terra Nova, which shot Here. Aja Naomi King remains cast inside the CWs Jennie Snyder Urman medical drama pilot also called First Cut, of a lately minted female physician your hospital. King, repped by Gersh as well as the Group, may have a surgical intern.