South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Sunday)
Has ‘Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist’ been renewed?
Q: Please 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.
A: 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
Jane Levy as Zoey in “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.” A second season is forthcoming.
said in a statement announcing the renewal.
Q: Back 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.
A: Your 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 to 1974. 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.
Q: When is “For Life” coming back?
A: Sometime 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 Cent” Jackson, an executive producer on the show, told Variety, “It’s more than just a show, it’s a fight for justice and we’re keeping the fight going.”
Q: On 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.”
A: Donahue, 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 three-year contract with Griffith’s show but asked out of it because “I didn’t feel I was doing my best.” 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.