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Has ‘Zoey’s Extraordin­ary Playlist’ been renewed?

- BY RICH HELDENFELS Tribune News Service

Q: tell me that my new favorite show, “Zoey’s Extraordin­ary Playlist,” has been renewed. It’s as if you are watching a mini Broadway show each week. The dance scenes are great! The characters are wonderful. It is always very uplifting.

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Q: in the days of “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” there was a weekly series where one of the male actors walked around his home in a bathrobe. He even did this when he had guests. For the life of me, even though I Googled all I could, I cannot locate the name of the show or the actor.

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Q: the ABC show “The Baker and the Beauty” being renewed for a second season?

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I share your enjoyment of the series starring Jane Levy, and enough other people have that

NBC has ordered a second season of the show. “We were overwhelme­d by the number of people who fell in love with ‘Zoey’s Extraordin­ary Playlist’ and how much joy it brought to everyone,” two NBC executives said in a statement announcing the renewal.

interest is understand­able considerin­g how many folks have had to spend recent months in bathrobes or sweatpants. After I sent you a clip to jog your memory, we figured out that you were rememberin­g “Lotsa Luck,” an NBC comedy from 1973-74. Dom DeLuise starred as Stanley Belmont, a harried lost-and-found supervisor for a bus company; the bathrobe wearer was Stanley’s brother-in-law, played by Wynn Irwin. “Mary Hartman,” by the

way, came along in 1975.

ABC decided to end the series based on an Israeli show. But TVLine noted that “Baker” star Nathalie Kelley has hinted the show might land with a different programmer.

next season. ABC has renewed the fact-based drama about a wrongfully imprisoned African American man who becomes a lawyer to try to free himself and other convicts. In reporting the renewal, Variety noted that the show seems especially timely today. Curtis “50

now 83, was indeed older daughter Betty Anderson on “Father Knows Best” before playing Ellie Walker in the first season of “The Andy Griffith Show.” In a 2006 interview for the Archive of American Television, she says she had a threeyear contract with Griffith’s show but asked out of it because “I didn’t feel I was doing my best.” That Archive interview, by the way, lasts about 31⁄2 hours; one listing of her credits after “Andy Griffith” has more than 60 roles in movies and TV, including as a series regular, a recurring player or a guest-star.

Q: back?

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is “For Life” coming

Q: the old “Andy Griffith Show” a young lady named Elinor Donahue played Andy’s girlfriend. I believe she also played a teenager on Robert Young’s sitcom. But I heard nothing about her after “Andy Griffith.”

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 ?? SERGIE BACHLAKOV NBC via TNS ?? From left, Jane Levy plays Zoey and Mary Steenburge­n is Maggie in “Zoey’s Extraordin­ary Playlist.”
SERGIE BACHLAKOV NBC via TNS From left, Jane Levy plays Zoey and Mary Steenburge­n is Maggie in “Zoey’s Extraordin­ary Playlist.”

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