Fandom Friday 5/8/15

Congratulations to Prince William and Duchess Kate on the birth of their daughter: Her Highness Charlotte Elizabeth Diana of Cambridge

TV News

• Matt LeBlanc sings all of Joey's songs from Friends during his visit to The Graham Norton Show and impresses everyone with how much he remembers!
• A 2-hour E! special of Keeping Up With the Kardashians will have the family address Bruce Jenner and his transition
• Kevin McHale believes that Glee jumped the shark after the tragic death of costar Cory Monteith
• New Girl creator Liz Meriwether addresses what the beginning of Season 5 will be like without Zooey Deschanel
• Fox cancels The Mindy Project, but there's a chance that Hulu will pick it up

• ABC Family’s Shadowhunters casts Katherine McNamara (who can be seen in the upcoming Maze Runner sequel The Scorch Trials) as lead character Clary Fray
• Fan favorite Orlando Jones leaves Sleepy Hollow 
• CBS orders Supergirl to series
• Jennifer Love Hewitt will not return for Season 11 of Criminal Minds
• Disney's Phineas and Ferb will end its run in June with a 73-hour marathon
• The Messengers and Hart of Dixie are cancelled by The CW
• Mark-Paul Gosselaar's sitcom People Are Talking gets picked up to series by NBC
• Amy Schumer scores her own HBO comedy special
• ABC orders a contemporary take on The Muppet Show
  
• Jimmy Kimmel will not air a new episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on the night of David Letterman's last show out of respect of the veteran late-night host and because Kimmel says he'll "probably be crying"
• ABC renews Agent Carter and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. but the idea of a second spinoff dies
• Once Upon A Time will be returning in the fall for its fifth season!
  
• The Arrow/The Flash spinoff entitled Legends of Tomorrow gets picked up to series by The CW
• Surprise! Galavant is picked up for a second season
• Orphan Black is renewed for Season 4
• The Walking Dead spinoff adds NCIS: Los Angeles' Mercedes Mason and Elizabeth Rodriguez of Orange is the New Black as series regulars
• Get ready to say goodbye to Elena Gilbert in the promo for the season finale of The Vampire Diaries
• Jodie Sweetin gets excited about Stephanie Tanner's return to Fuller House

Movie News

• In honor of Star Wars Day (May the 4th), new stills are released of Star Wars - Episode VII: The Force Awakens giving us some amazing first glimpses of what’s to come: the villain Kylo Ren (played by Girls’ Adam Driver), a behind the scenes look at the CGI magic used to create Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o's character Maz Kanata (and her gang of intergalactic riff-raff), and a Luke Skywalker-esque photo of newcomer Oscar Isaac as X-Wing fighter pilot Poe Dameron.
• _David Ayers, director of Suicide Squad, releases the first crazy group shot of the cast and of Will Smith decked out as Deadshot
• Merchandise for Star Wars - Episode VII: The Force Awakens will hit stores in September
• The cast of the newest Star Wars film graces the cover of this month's Vanity Fair
• The Avengers: Age of Ultron takes in $20 million less in its opening weekend than its predecessor The Avengers
• Fantastic Four director Josh Trank bows out of Star Wars Anthology film
• Hemlock Grove's Bill Skarsgard joins the last movie of the Divergent series Allegiant
• Captain America: Civil War begins filming and confirms its huge cast: Captain America (of course), Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), The Vision (Paul Bettany), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), War Machine (Don Cheadle), Falcon (Anthony Mackie), Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), Agent 13 (Emily VanCamp), Crossbones (Frank Grillo), Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross (last seen in Edward Norton's The Hulk played by William Hurt), Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), Spider-Man (Asa Butterfield or Tom Holland), Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), and Sherlock's Martin Freeman
• Harrison Ford is rumored to appear in the next Indiana Jones movie
• X-Men: Days of Future Past - Rogue Cut will be released in July
• The Fifty Shades of Grey Honest Trailer is everything and more
• Joss Whedon quits Twitter amid many rumors
• The second Star Wars Anthology film will be all about Boba Fett
• Nicki Minaj joins the cast of Barbershop 3
• Joss Whedon filmed an alternate ending in which Aaron Taylor-Johnson's Quicksilver survived his wounds in Avengers: Age of Ultron
• Marvel to create a Spider-Man movie for each year of Peter Parker's high school career
• Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely who wrote Captain America: Civil War will also be the brains behind both parts of Avengers: Infinity War
• In a Hollywood first, Avengers: Infinity War will be shot entirely in IMAX
• Self-proclaimed "Disna-phile" Ginnifer Goodwin lends her voice to Disney Animation Studio's next film Zootopia alongside Jason Bateman
  
• Luke Evans posts an Instagram photo of him and Josh Gad in a recording studio presumably recording the song "Gaston" for Beauty and the Beast
• Hugh Jackman confirms that Wolverine 3 (due out in 2017) will be his last run as the beloved mutant
  

Misc News 

• J.K. Rowling commemorates the anniversary of the infamous Battle of Hogwarts on May 2nd by apologizing for Fred Weasley's death
• Noel Gallagher of Oasis calls Zayn Malik  "a f***ing idiot" for leaving One Direction
• Former Bachelor Chris Soules denies rumors of a split from fiancee Whitney Bischoff and explains her absence from this week's Dancing With the Stars
• Britney Spears extends her stay in the world of Las Vegas shows for another three months
• This gif-set of Princess Diana talking about Prince William will give you all the feels
• Adam Levine gets sugar-bombed outside of Jimmy Kimmel Live! studios
• In an interview with Out Magazine, Darren Criss urges fans to look past his five years on Glee as he continues with his career
• Shaquille O'Neal eats it on the set of Inside the NBA and offers $500 cash to the person who creates the best meme