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Development Update: Friday, December 18
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)
LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
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ALL AMERICAN (The CW) - Lamon Archey and G.G. Townson will recur on the show s third season. Archey will return as Superintendent D Angelo Carter who finished last season with a large-scale proposal to convert South Crenshaw to a Magnet School ; while Townson will play Lil Jewel, a singer working on her upcoming album and another one of JP s artists. (Deadline.com)
Al Madrigal, Jaime Camil to Star in Comedy Series Guerrillas in the Works at ABC lmtonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lmtonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
ABC is developing Guerrillas, a single-camera comedy starring comedian Al Madrigal and Jane the Virgin alum Jaime Camil. It comes from Jennie Snyder Urman’s Sutton Street Productions and CBS Studios where the company is based.
In Guerrillas, co-written by Madrigal and Matt Kellard (Night School), when Miles Flores (Madrigal), a lonely efficiency expert for an oil company, gets kidnapped in South America, he ends up working for a disorganized group of guerrilla soldiers to earn back his freedom. Camil plays the “Commandante” (leader) of the soldiers who kidnapped Miles.
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