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Justin Pierce was a British and American actor and skateboarder, known for his role as Casper in the highly controversial 1995 film Kids and the 2000 film Next Friday, He was discovered hanging in his room in a hotel. He died July 10, 2000 at the age of 25. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here Click here to view the article
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TNT has cancelled Leverage after five seasons. The drama, which has been on the air since 2008, will leave fans with a present in the form of its final episode. The producers filmed it to work as a series finale in the event the show was not picked up for next season - which it turns out was a smart move and will give longtime fans some proper closure. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article
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Lee Thompson Young was an American actor. He was known for his teenage role as the title character on the Disney Channel television series The Famous Jett Jackson. His death is considered one of the most recent and tragic child star deaths and died by a gunshot to the head and was ruled a suicide. He died on August 19, 2003 at the age of 29. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here Click here to view the article
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USA Network announced today that Necessary Roughness has been renewed for a third season. The show is one of six summer original series pickups recently issued by the network - the others include SUITS, BurnNotice, Royal Pains, White Collar, and Covert Affairs. USA has ordered 10 new episodes for Season 3 of Necessary Roughness. A premiere date is not known at this time, but the show still has the back half of its second season set to resume later this month on January 23, 2013. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article
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Lucille Ricksen was an American motion picture actress during the silent film era. She was known for Edgar, the Explorer in1920, Edgar's Little Saw in1920 and Behind the Curtain in1924. She fell extremely sick during a filming and was subsequently diagnosed with tuberculosis. She died two weeks after her mother, who had kept vigil on her ailing daughter, suffered a fatal heart attack at her daughter's bedside. She died March 13, 1925 at the age of 14. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here Click here to view the article
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Science fiction drama Alphas will not be returning for a third season. Syfy has decided not to continue with the low-rated series, ending it after 24 episodes and with an unresolved cliffhanger from its last episode on October 22, 2012. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article
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Matthew Garber was a British child actor, best known for his role as Michael Banks in the 1964 film Mary Poppins. He also starred in two other Disney films, The Three Lives of Thomasina and The Gnome-Mobile. He contracted hepatitis whilst in India in 1976/77 he said he had eaten "bad meat" there and died from Haemorrhagic Necrotising Pancreatitis on June 13, 1977 at the age of 21. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here Click here to view the article
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ABC has pulled sophomore comedy Don't Trust The B---- In Apartment 23from its schedule, effectively canceling the series. The show has eight un-aired episodes that have already been filmed, but there is no word on when - or if - the network will air them. Beginning Tuesday, January 29, two back-to-back episodes of Happy Endings will air in the 9:00-10:00pm time slot until March, when the next season of Dancing with the Stars kicks off. (Source: Twitter) Click here to view the article
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Michael Cuccione was a Canadian child actor, singer, dancer, author, and cancer research activist. When he was only 9 years old, he was diagnosed with 2A Hodgkin's Disease. He recovered from two bouts of the cancer, but was left with permanent damage to and around his heart and lungs due to the massive doses of treatment he received. He later co-wrote a book with his grandmother, "There Are Survivors". He stared of the popular made for TV movie "2ge+her". He died January 13, 2001 at the age of 16. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here Click here to view the article
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Fox has effectively cancelled new comedy Ben and Kate. The network has taken the series off its schedule effective immediately. 13 episodes have aired since the show premiered last September, but it is unclear when, or if, the remaining installments will air. In the 8:00-9:00pm time slot starting this coming Tuesday, Fox will air back-to-back episodes of Raising Hope through February. (Source: TV Line) Click here to view the article
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Michelle Thomas was an American actress and comedian. She played Justine Phillips in The Cosby Show and Myra Monkhouse in Family Matters. She succumbed to a rare form of stomach cancer in a New York hospital. She died December 22, 1998 at the age of 30. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here Click here to view the article
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Cinemax announced today that it has renewed freshman action seriesBanshee for a second season. The show premiered earlier this month and will air 10 episodes in its first season. Season 2 is not scheduled to return until 2014. No exact date has been announced thus far. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article
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Norman 'Chubby' Chaney was an American child actor, notable for appearing in 19 Our Gang comedies as "Chubby" from 1929 to 1931, and the films Pups Is Pups, Bear Shooters and School's Out in 1930. He died from complications that arose from a surgery to correct a glandular disorder on May 29, 1936 at the age of 21. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here Click here to view the article
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Showtime announced today that Californication has been renewed for a seventh season. The long-running dramedy has continued to perform strongly for the network since debuting in 2007, displaying an impressive year-to-year audience growth. Production on the show's next season will begin later this year, with a return set for 2014. No exact date is known at this time. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article
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River Phoenix was an American actor, musician and activist. He was the older brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Summer Phoenix and Liberty Phoenix. His work encompassed 24 films and television appearances, including the science fiction adventure film Explorers in 1985.His death occurred after speed-balling cocaine and morphine. He collapsed outside of The Viper Room nightclub, while then owner Johnny Depp was performing onstage with the Red Hot Chili Peppers's Flea, and the Butthole Surfer’s Gibby Haynes. As news circulated through the club about Phoenix's collapse outside, the show stopped, but he was never revived. With him at the time were his brother, Joaquin P…
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Showtime announced today that Shameless has been renewed for a fourth season. The drama, which began its third season earlier this month, has been a steady performer for the network since premiering in 2011, displaying an impressive year-to-year audience growth. Production on the show's next season will begin later this year, with a return set for 2014. No exact date is known at this time. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article
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Rob Knox was an English actor who portrayed the character of Marcus Belby in the film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in 2009 and had signed to appear in the planned film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2010. He died while defending his brother from an attacker. His death was caused by stab wounds from a knife during an attack outside a bar in southeast London. He died May 24, 2008 at the age of 18. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here Click here to view the article
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Showtime announced today that House of Lies has been renewed for a third season. The sophomore comedy premiered last January, and so far in its second season has been showing year-to-year audience growth with 10% more weekly viewers than its first season. Production on the show's next season will begin later this year, with a return set for 2014. No exact date is known at this time. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article
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Rusty Hamer was an American actor best known for his role as Rusty Williams in the popular ABC/CBS situation comedy Make Room for Daddy. A deadpan, freckle-faced, curly-haired child actor of the late 50s, Rusty Hamer entered films at age 5 and became a precocious TV celebrity the very next year, trading quips with top comedian Danny Thomas as his lippy, obnoxious son. The talented kid had become an awkward teen and the offers dried up, immediately. He left Hollywood and came back only once, for Make Room for Granddaddy in 1971. The show was not successful, and nothing else came his way. The aimless, embittered man left for good this time and his life quickly fell apart. L…
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BBC America has announced that freshman drama Ripper Street has been renewed for a second season. The network has ordered eight additional episodes which will premiere in 2014. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article
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Sammi Kane Kraft was an American recording artist, child actress and baseball player. She stared in the "Bad News Bears "remake, and was featured in an ESPN.com Page 2 story about her athletic skills, and competed in the Junior Olympics. While in a car as a passenger, it was rear ended by a semi truck and subsequently crushed into another vehicle. She died from injuries sustained in the accident on October 9, 2012 at the age of 20. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here Click here to view the article
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The CW announced today that long-running series Supernatural has been renewed for a ninth season. On the air since 2005, the show has amassed a loyal following that has kept its ratings strong over the years. Since being paired with new series Arrow on Wednesday nights this season,Supernatural has seen an improvement of 15% in total viewers and similar gains in key demographics. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article
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Scotty Beckett was an American actor. He began his career as a child actor in the Our Gang shorts and later co-starred on Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. His descent into a life of alcoholism, drugs, and crime remains one of the most tragic of Hollywood stories. He was discovered after his father was hospitalized and Scotty would frequently entertain his dad by singing songs. During one such visit, a Hollywood casting director happened to notice the cherubic youngster and told his parents he had movie potential. After a momentous career he began to gain notoriety not only for his acting, but also for his nocturnal activities, part of the young Hollywood jet set. Eventually his…
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The CW announced today that The Vampire Diaries has been renewed for a fifth season. Since premiering in 2009, the series has been one of the network's most consistent shows, where it has continued to be the highest rated in target demographics of adults 18-34 and women 18-34. Season 5 of The Vampire Diaries will return in the fall of 2013. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article
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Skye McCole Bartusiak was an American film and television actress. She appeared in The Patriot in 2000, Don't Say a Word in 2001, as Rose Wilder in Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder in 2002, 24 in 2002 & 2003, Boogeyman in 2005 and Kill Your Darlings in 2006. Died of a drug overdose, the Harris Texas County Institute of Forensic Sciences said, "The exact cause of death is an accident due to the combined effects of hydrocodone and difluoroethane with carisoprodol”. She died July 19, 2014 at the age of 21. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here Click here to view the article
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