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SitcomsOnline Digest: Bob Saget Joins Fuller House Cast; Netflix Renews Grace and Frankie; More George Lopez DVDs

• It seems as if there is a new Fuller House update every week, and this week, it was announced that Bob Saget would be part of the new series. (New York Post)
• Netflix has renewed the comedy series Grace and Frankie for a second season. (Entertainment Weekly)
• The Big Bang Theory is now more than just a TV series, as there is now a new scholarship available at UCLA for low-income students studying STEM fields that has been named after the series. The scholarship was mostly funded by Chuck Lorre and cast members, and the first wave of "Big Bang Theory Scholars" will be announced on the set of the series this fall. (Time)
• Reynaldo Rey, best known to sitcom fans from his role of Ray the mailman on 227, died this week at the age of 75. (New York Times) 
• Buzzr TV is set to launch on Monday, and we have the launch schedule for the new network. (SitcomsOnline)

HOME MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS

• It looks like George Lopez is finally moving ahead on DVD again, thanks to Warner Archive. On June 23, the studio will begin shipping George Lopez - The Complete 4th Season.

JUNE 2 HOME MEDIA RELEASES

• Parks and Recreation - Season Seven: The Farewell Season (DVD, $39.98): Leslie Knope and the rest of Pawnee says goodbye in the final season of the NBC series. Complete series also available.
• Soap - The Complete Series (DVD, $44.98): Mill Creek puts together yet another re-release of a complete series that was previously released by Sony.

FOLLOW ME

Who to Follow: Robert Guillaume (Twitter), "Emmy Award-winning actor best known for iconic roles as Benson, Phantom of the Opera and voice of Rafiki in The Lion King. Author, Father, Friend"

Claim to Fame: These days, Robert Guillaume is probably best known to the younger generation for his work as the voice of Rafiki in the Disney classic, The Lion King. But that is far from the only place in life where he has had success. His career started on stage, but in the 1970s, he was all over TV guest starring at least one on almost all of the classic Norman Lear series. It was 1977 when he got a small role on the ABC series Soap, but that small role became larger and larger, and eventually he could no longer be contained as a character on a series that wasn't about him, so he got a spinoff, Benson. In the late 90s, he appeared on the ABC series SportsNight, and even now as he gets closer to age 90, he hasn't quite retired yet.

Pick of the Tweets: "#TBT Robert Guillaume on playing "Benson DuBois" on "Soap" via @emmytvlegends http://buff.ly/1Pm1JGK" (May 6, 2015)

Posted by Skees -- SitcomsOnline.com at 4:00 PM

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