TVLine recently chatted with Ian Harding, who plays the dreamy Ezra Fitz on Pretty Little Liars.  Ezra is currently involved in an affair with the teenage Aria Montgomery (Lucy Hale), his one-time English student.  The couple, dubbed “Ezria” by fans, recently revealed their secret relationship to her parents. Furious, they have tried to keep the pair apart ever since. 
 
Aria’s dad Byron has been led to believe the couple stopped seeing each other. Still dubious, he arranged for his colleague Mr. Fitz to receive an exciting out-of-state job promotion.  In the interview with TVLine, Harding reveals how the job offer will pan out:

Ezra is such a brainiac, and even though he’s absolutely in love with Aria, he really is mulling this over. Even though the offer came out of a bad place — as in it was set up for him not because of his actual abilities but so Byron could get him out of Rosewood — he still wants it because it’s a really good job. It will move his career eight years ahead of schedule. Of course, this puts Aria off a little bit because she thinks it’s a no-brainer to turn it down, but Ezra is a little like, “Well….” So, problems will arise.  READ MORE

This week’s Pretty Little Liars was stellar, with a mix of funny moments and tons of revelations.  Each storyline progressed, old faces returned, and A stepped up their game.  Plus, Drunk Spencer!  Drunk Spencer might have been the best thing ever.
 
What’s Melissa hiding?  Spencer’s (Troian Bellisario) pregnant sister returns this week.  Spencer informs her Jason is their brother, and she’s equally disgusted at their parents.  This seems to unite the sometimes feuding sisters, and their relationship is in a good place.  Things change after Caleb sends the girls more video from the night Alison died.  It shows Melissa being the one to barge in on the N. A. T. Club in Alison’s room, angrily demanding to know where she is.  READ MORE

The Good Wife has featured a number of brilliant guest stars and it looks like we’re going to be getting another one. According to EW.com, Matthew Perry has signed on as a recurring guest star.  Reportedly, Perry will portray a charming Chicago attorney named Mike, who is investigating a police shooting.  He will share scenes with Julianna Margulies’ Alicia Florrick.

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Kal Penn has been cast to star in a new single-camera comedy pilot for ABC.  From the writers/producers of That 70’s Show, Jackie and Jeff Filgo, Prairie Dogs revolves around a dull cubicle worker (Penn) who enlists the cool conman who stole his identity to help spice up his life.  READ MORE

The proposed Friday Night Lights movie—based on the adored TV show, based on the movie, based on the book by H.G. Bissinger—looks like it might actually happen!
 
MTV recently caught up with executive producer Peter Berg, who says the script is nearly finished, and released details about the cast and plot. 
 

Jason Katims, who was our super talented show-runner, is about done with the script.  […]  You never know. So much of these things become scheduling. Kyle [Chandler] is busy, Adrianne [Palicki] is busy, Taylor [Kitsch] is busy, Connie Britton is busy, but if we can get everyone in the same room at the same time, we all want to do it. We're not done with Friday Night Lights.   READ MORE

You love her as Veronica, the feisty, sexy next door neighbor and best friend to those incorrigible Gallagher's on Showtime's hit dramedy Shameless. The outrageous Shanola Hampton joins Jamey Giddens and Luke Kerr on this episode of the Pop Confidential Podcast!

Tune in to hear the striking, mocha-hued, dreadlocked thespian reveal how she managed to nab the scene-stealing role of V, which is played by a white actress in the original U.K. version of Shameless. Does she think it's getting better for actresses of color in Hollyweird?

Listen as Hampton shares a laugh-out-loud story about what happened when a fan recognized her as the uninhibited Veronica, and decided to admonish her about her character's onscreen sexual antics with hubby Kev, played by Steve Howey! Speaking of Howey, you'll want to hear this funny lady talk about the first time they worked together—on the WB series Reba—and what special memento they brought to their Shameless set from the hit sitcom. How did Howey feel about having Hampton wielding gardening shears at his junk in a recent episode of Shameless? Only one way to find out, and that's to tune in!

The podcast takes a soapy twist when Hampton reveals she grew up watching General Hospital, One Life to Live, The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless with her Southern grandmother. Find out which soap seductress she thinks is a much bigger ho than Hampton's Shameless character!  Hear how she reacted to Sonny and Brenda's latest love meltdown, as well as how she feels about the revolving door of Carlys on General Hospital. Learn the six degrees of soaperation between All My Children supercouple Jesse and Angie and Veronica’s mom on Shameless.

How does Hampton feel about playing essentially the moral center and voice of reason for Fiona and her wild siblings? Are she and Fiona's portrayer Emmy Rossum and the rest of the Shameless cast, as close offscreen as they are on? You'll have to download the interview to find out all of this and much more!

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