‘NCIS’ Star Wilmer Valderrama Signs First-Look Deal With CBS TV Studios to Focus on Diversity
He also scored a new deal to continue on the drama
Ashley Boucher | June 22, 2018 @ 1:47 PM
Last Updated: June 22, 2018 @ 2:07 PM
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“NCIS” star Wilmer Valderrama has signed a new deal with CBS TV Studios to continue as Special Agent Nick Torres on the drama. He also signed a two-year first-look deal between the studio and his WV Entertainment company.
Valderrama entered “NCIS” in the drama’s 14th season, and his contract expired at the end of the latest season. His new deal puts him on the show through a potential 17th season.
The deal between CBS and WV Entertainment will cover unscripted and scripted projects with a focus on diversity.
“As someone who immigrated to the United States at 14 years old, I am immensely passionate about this opportunity to create engaging and culturally relevant projects with CBS Television Studios,” Valderrama said in a statement.
WV Entertainment has produced “The Hollywood Puppet Show,” “Handy Manny,” and “Douglas Family Gold.” He’ll lend his voice to the upcoming animated movie “Charming.”
He is represented by UTA and Silver Lining Entertainment.
8 Stars Who Couldn't Cut It as Murphy Brown's Secretary, From Rosie to JFK Jr. (Photos)
"Murphy Brown" is returning to television on CBS for 13 episodes during the 2018-19 season -- and on May 18 it will have been 20 years since its finale episode aired. While a lot has changed in media since Candice Bergen's Brown hosted the fictional news broadcast "FYI," one thing that hasn't changed is how hard it is to find good help. One of the show's longest recurring gags was how nearly every week Brown had a wacky and incompetent new secretary, everyone from a man with a Hitler mustache to a pleasant looking woman who worshiped Satan. More than 90 people sat in that assistant's chair over the show's 10 seasons, including some celebrity cameos, but not one of them lasted.
Paul Reubens
Pee-Wee Herman himself helped out Murphy Brown, appearing in six episodes of the show as Stan Lansing's nephew.
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Marcia Wallace
Before Marcia Wallace was Edna Krabappel on "The Simpsons," Wallace had a part on "The Bob Newhart Show" as Bob Hartley's dynamo of a receptionist Carol Bondurant. During a special crossover episode of "Murphy Brown," Carol proved to be Brown's best secretary ever, a real keeper. But at the end of the episode, Bob rushes into the office and begs for Carol to come back and work for him, despite Brown's pleading.
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John Kennedy Jr.
You can hear the women in the live audience swooning when it's revealed that John John is Brown's latest secretary. "I guess the lawyer thing didn't work out," Brown jokes. He wasn't there to work, but to drop off a "wedding present" that was just a fake cover of the magazine he edited, "George."
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Kramer
When Kramer (Michael Richards) heads out to Los Angeles on an episode of "Seinfeld," Jerry and Elaine spot him on an episode of "Murphy Brown" as another new secretary. His rapid-fire typing is hysterical, and the show even teases that she has "a good feeling" about him.
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Sally Field
Murphy Brown would've been lucky to have fellow single-mother Norma Rae as her secretary, or better yet her "Absence of Malice" journalist Megan Carter, but instead she got Kathleen Dubek, secretary 91.
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Rosie O'Donnell
The final season of "Murphy Brown" featured a cavalcade of celebrity cameos, including Rosie O'Donnell as a particularly annoying singing secretary.
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Don Rickles
Rickles would've been in his 70s by the time he stepped into the secretary job during the show's final season.
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Bette Midler
In the show's stellar finale, Bette Midler took charge as secretary Caprice Feldman. "Caprice! With two Cs, interlocking like Chanel!" Her wealthy socialite type was always told by her (dead) husband that she could never hold down a job. Well she picked one with quite the track record.
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Series finale 20th anniversary: No matter how famous, no secretary lasted long on the original CBS sitcom
"Murphy Brown" is returning to television on CBS for 13 episodes during the 2018-19 season -- and on May 18 it will have been 20 years since its finale episode aired. While a lot has changed in media since Candice Bergen's Brown hosted the fictional news broadcast "FYI," one thing that hasn't changed is how hard it is to find good help. One of the show's longest recurring gags was how nearly every week Brown had a wacky and incompetent new secretary, everyone from a man with a Hitler mustache to a pleasant looking woman who worshiped Satan. More than 90 people sat in that assistant's chair over the show's 10 seasons, including some celebrity cameos, but not one of them lasted.
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