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Fifteen-year-old Manuel Sanchez-Paniagua has been battling liver and brain cancer for the past year. And when the cast and crew of Criminal Minds heard the CBS procedural was his favorite show, they jumped at the chance to meet him. Et was behind the scenes of Manuel's day on the set with stars Joe Mantegna and Shemar Moore.

"As we travel around the world some times as we do and to do publicity, we find out we do have an impact all over the world," Mantegna told Et. "It's great to find out in person that someone does."

Watch: Shemar Moore Puts 'Baby Girl' Catchphrase to Good Use

Manuel is a Mexico City native and was diagnosed with a liver tumor in January 2013 at just 13 years old. By September 2014 the cancer had spread to his brain. Despite his illness, he does not need any special assistance or care...

Daniel Mulligan of Ojai, Calif., 5, looks forward to his neighborhood's weekly trash pick-up, watching in fascination as the garbage is picked up by sanitation workers. But his usual Monday routine had a welcome surprise, captured on video, when he got to meet one of his heroes - and got a truck of his own. Mulligan, who has autism, first became interested in garbage trucks after his mother, Robin Newberger, showed him videos of them to help him understand he didn't need to be afraid of their loud noises. "He knows which trash can is going out on which day and...

Comic-Con International announced the programming schedule for the first day of San Diego Comic-Con 2013 on Thursday, July 18. You can clickHere for the full schedule, including comic book-related events, but we have all the movie, DVD, and TV-related panels for you right here. You can also clickHere to check out the TV pilots that will be presented on Preview Night, Wednesday, July 17. Take a look at what panels and events are happening in San Diego, two weeks from today.

Thursday, July 18

10:00 Am - 11:00 Am Intelligence

Stars Josh Holloway (Lost), Meghan Ory (Once Upon a Time), and Marg Helgenberger (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) and executive producers Michael Seitzman (North Country), Ren&#233 Echevarria (Terra Nova, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and Tripp Vinson discuss the new CBS dramatic thriller. Holloway plays Gabriel, a high-tech intelligence operative enhanced with a supercomputer microchip in his brain. With this implant, Gabriel is the first...

We're so close to San Diego Comic-Con 2013 I can taste it! What does it taste like you ask? Ghirardelli ice cream, of course! There's a Ghirardelli ice cream shop in downtown San Diego that the GeekTyrant crew eats at every night after a long day of awesomeness and work.

Comic-Con has released the full schedule for Thursday, July 18th, and there's a ton of great stuff, including Sherlock, Dexter, Ender's Game, Batman: Arkham Origins, Marvel: House of Ideas, Divergent, The Walking Dead 10th Anniversary Panel, The X-Files 20th Anniversary Panel, and more!

To see the full panel and event line-up, click here. Here are a few of the panels that I thought were noteworthy.

Thursday, July 18

Intelligence

Stars Josh Holloway (Lost), Meghan Ory (Once Upon a Time), and Marg Helgenberger (CSI) and executive producers Michael Seitzman (North Country), René Echevarria (Terra Nova, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and Tripp Vinson...

Excitement blends with anticipatory exhaustion as the first TV panels announcement for Comic-Con 2013 has appeared. This year, 20th Century Fox Television gets the nod for First Post, with newbie How I Met Your Mother saying Hi and Bye, and no joy for Glee fans as it didn’t make the 2013 cut. Here’s the press release:

Twentieth Century Fox Television will once again dominate the San Diego Comic-Con convention, with stars and creators of eleven of its highly-coveted, fan favorite shows at the world famous gathering next month. In addition to exclusive sneak peeks of its programs and panel discussions with the stars and creators of its shows, the studio will rotate an incredible line-up of talent through the newly expanded two-story Fox booth on the convention center floor, for star-studded autograph signings and exciting booth activities including distribution of exclusive 2013 Fox Fanfare Poster Tubes, collectible mini-posters, premium giveaways, DVD sales,...

Better late than never! The cast of CBS’ How I Met Your Mother is going to Comic-Con for the first time this summer to help promote the show’s final season. The panel will include a preview of the new season along with actors Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris and Alyson Hannigan and executive producers Carter Bays, Craig Thomas and Pamela Fryman.

The show is one of 11 programs produced by 20th Century Fox TV going to the San Diego event next month. Here’s the full list with official descriptions:

Thursday, July 18:

Murder Police:...

Fox has one of its better slates coming your way with the new season, especially if you take the midseason shows into account. Some of these shows may not jump out at you now as must-see, but some of them are going to take over, if I’m any judge anyway.

Clear showcase offerings Dads, Almost Human, and Us & Them are guaranteed to take off early. Almost Human has J.J. Abrams recognition to pull people in, though it looks to be a show that could flounder after a few episodes, even if I hope it doesn’t. The other two are going to become hits. Unfortunately, we have to wait until mid-season for the Gavin & Stacey remake.

Rake also looks like a winner, as long as the translation can be made to work as an Americanized product, and the show actually delivers what made the Australian original so brilliant.

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Happy birthday to American Horror Story and Nashville star Connie Britton!

Out actress Cynthia Nixon bundled up for the opening night of Broadway’s Cinderella in New York.

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Speaking of Broadway, Emma Stone and Naomi Watts will team up for the film Birdman. In the comedy, “Michael Keaton will play a former actor, famous for playing an iconic superhero, who puts on a Broadway play to regain his former glory. Stone plays his fresh-out-of-rehab daughter/assistant. Watts is his co-star and Zach Galifianakis is the play's producer. “

EW reports that Glee star Jane Lynch will star in the Fox animated series Murder Police, set to debut next season. The comedy, co-starring Wilmer Valderrama, "chronicles the adventures of a neurotic detective named Manuel Sanchez (voiced by Jason Ruiz) and his questionable, unreliable colleagues at a city precinct.

Jane Lynch and Wilmer Valderrama are ready to protect, serve, and play cartoon cops: The Glee star and That ’70s Show vet have been cast in Murder Police, an animated series slated to debut next season on Fox, EW has learned.

The workplace comedy, which was co-created by David A. Goodman (Family Guy) and Jason Ruiz, chronicles the adventures of a neurotic detective named Manuel Sanchez (voiced by Ruiz) and his questionable, unreliable colleagues at a city precinct. Lynch will play Justice, a sanctimonious detective/working mom, while Valderrama will assume the role of envelope-pushing undercover cop Donel.

Fox has ordered 13 episodes of the show,...

Fox has officially picked up the series Murder Police, an animated show from Jason Ruiz and former Family Guy showrunner/executive producer David Goodman. It will riff on the traditional cop show with Ruiz providing the voice of the good cop, Manuel Sanchez, and Will Sasso voicing the bad cop, Tommy Margaretti. Horatio Sanz and Penny Marshall will also voice characters. (Yes, that Penny Marshall.) This is Fox’s first animated series order in two years — they last tried with Allen Gregory and Napoleon Dynamite — and their most recent attempt at animated success beyond patriarchal family comedies. Maybe if the cop stuff fails to gain traction, they can just do a series-long, Family Guy–esque cutaway to a show about the bonehead Sanchez relating to his wife and kids.

"Murder Police," an animated cop comedy from "Family Guy" scribe David A. Goodman and newcomer Jason Ruiz, has been picked up by Fox.

The network has ordered 13 episodes of "Murder," to air in the 2013-14 season.

"David and Jason came to us with a really fresh take on law enforcement that we've never seen before," said Fox Chairman of Entertainment Kevin Reilly in announcing the pickup.

"With 'Murder Police,' these guys are taking a staple genre of television -- the cop show -- and turning it on its head by pushing the warped comedic boundaries that only animation can offer. It's the kind of show our Animation Domination fans will absolutely love, and I can't wait to introduce it next season."

Fox's current Sunday-night Animation Domination lineup includes "The Simpsons," "Family Guy," "American Dad," "The Cleveland Show" and "Bob's Burgers."

Manuel Sanchez (voiced by co-creator Ruiz) is described as...

Fox did a little early Christmas shopping on Tuesday (December 4), picking up the animated comedy "Murder Police" for the 2013-2014 season.   "Murder Police" comes from "Family Guy" veteran David A. Goodman and Jason Ruiz, who was discovered as part of Fox's Inkubation program. The project has received a 13-episode order.   Ruiz also will voice the show's lead character, Manuel Sanchez, a good cop trying to fight crime the right way, but battling his own clumsiness and the ineptitude around him. And speaking of that ineptitude, Will Sasso voices the main character's violence-prone partner Tommy Margaretti.   Other actors...

Fox has ordered 13 episodes of a new animated comedy dubbed Murder Police, which the net says follows a “dedicated, but inept detective and his colleagues – some perverted, some corrupt, some just plain lazy – in a twisted city precinct.” The series from David A. Goodman (Family Guy) and Jason Ruiz will bow sometime during the 2013-14 season.

“David and Jason came to us with a really fresh take on law enforcement that we’ve never seen before,” said Fox Entertainment Chairman Kevin Reilly in a statement. “With Murder Police, these guys are taking a staple genre of television – the cop show...

Fox has announced officially the pickup to series of animated comedy Murder Police, from former Family Guy executive producer/co-showrunner David Goodman and Jason Ruiz. This marks Fox’s first animated series order in more than two years — since the October 2010 pickup of Jonah Hill’s Allen Gregory for 7 episodes (with Goodman as executive producer/showrunner), and Napoleon Dynamite for 6. Related: Fox Orders ‘Murder Police’ Animated Series Set to premiere next season, Murder Police follows a dedicated but inept detective and his colleagues — some perverted, some corrupt, some just plain lazy — in a twisted city precinct. “David and Jason came to us with a really fresh take on law enforcement that we’ve never seen before,” said Fox’s entertainment chairman Kevin Reilly. “With Murder Police, these guys are taking a staple genre of television — the cop show– and turning it on its head by pushing the warped comedic boundaries that only animation can offer.