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Following the death of Stan Rogow this week, Hilary Duff shared a message of gratitude for the producer “who fought for her” to play the lead in the series Lizzie McGuire. Rogow passed away on December 7 at the age of 75.

“Writing this right now is bringing back so many distant memories of what feels like a completely different lifetime…One where I had absolutely no clue where I was heading or how I was getting there, but where I had that eagerness and blind optimism that accompanies youth and your first opportunities to step up,” she posted to Instagram on Saturday.

She continued, “You heavily cherish the people who first believe and see something in you, and for me, there was a special a very special person who fought for me to land a role that would change the entire course of my life…and I’m so sad to hear of his passing today.

Hilary Duff is paying tribute to Stan Rogow, a producer on Disney Channel’s Lizzie McGuire, following the news of his death.

Rogow passed away on Thursday at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, a family spokesperson confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter Saturday. He was 75.

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“Writing this right now is bringing back so many distant memories of what feels like a completely different lifetime…,” Duff, who played...

Stan Rogow, the writer and Emmy-nominated producer who guided the Hilary Duff-starring Lizzie McGuire series and feature that spawned from the Disney Channel hit and partnered with John Sayles on several projects, has died. He was 75.

Rogow died Thursday at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, family spokesperson Scott Fisher told The Hollywood Reporter.

Early in his career, Rogow served as a producer on the pilot of the acclaimed NBC series Fame and shared an Emmy nomination for outstanding drama series in 1982 with William Blinn and two others.

The Brooklyn native was also an exec producer on the 2004-06 Discovery Kids sitcom Darcy’s Wild Life, starring Sara Paxton, and he co-created another show for the network, the 2005-07 adventure series Flight 29 Down, featuring Corbin Bleu.

Rogow produced Sayles-written The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986), starring Daryl Hannah, before they teamed to create the 1990 NBC drama Shannon’s Deal, starring...

Stan Rogow, a veteran writer, producer and music manager who was a key player in such series as “Lizzie McGuire” and “Fame” and the 1986 feature “Clan of the Cave Bear, died Dec. 7 at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 75.

Rogow was most active in television, working on such notable series as “Playing for Time,” “Shannon’s Deal,” “Flight 29 Down,” “Darcy’s Wild Life,” “State of Grace,” “Valemont,” “Woke Up Dead,” and “Afterworld.” His other feature film credits include 1994’s “All I Want For Christmas” and “Men of War” and 2003’s “The Lizzie McGuire Movie.”

Rogow earned three Emmy nominations over his long career, one for the NBC series “Fame” in 1982 and in 2003 and 2004 for Disney Channel’s “Lizzie McGuire.”

Born in 1948 in Brooklyn, Rogow was a graduate of Boston University School of Law. By 1980, Rogow was in Hollywood working as a producer with Gerald Isenberg’s Jozak Co., which...

Miguel Ferrer lost a battle with cancer today. He was 61.

Ferrer, who has starred on NCIS: Los Angeles as Owen Granger since 2012, was also set to reprise his role of FBI Agent Albert Rosenfeld on the upcoming Showtime revival of Twin Peaks.

Ferrer's first credited role was on an episode of Magnum, Pi in 1981 as Ensign Robert 'Bobby' Wickes, Usn.

From there, he had small parts not only in many films, but also more television shows, including CHiPs, Cagney and Lacey, Hill Street Blues Tj Hooker., Trapper John, Mc and Miami Vice.

It was in 1990 when Ferrer became Twin Peaks Agent Rosenfeld, and over the next two years took the lead in three other series, including Shannon's Deal, Broken Badges and On the Air.

Various television and film roles followed, but nothing has yet compared to Dr. Garrett Macy, a character he played opposite of Jill Hennessey on Crossing Jordan...

Elizabeth Peña has passed away. The actress, with a professional career spanning nearly 40 years, left us on the night of October 14 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She had recently wrapped work on the first season of the El Rey Network's action series, Matador, where she played the title character's mother Maritza.

Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and raised by her Cuban immigrant parents, Peña was destined for a career in the arts. Her father, Mario, was a playwright, director, actor, and designer in their native Cuba, who opened up the Latin American Theatre Ensemble after establishing a life for he and his family in New York. As a teen, Peña began making a name for herself as a formidable young actress in the New York theatre scene. She attended, and graduated from, the High School of Performing Arts and began her professional film career in 1978 with León Ichaso's El Super.

As a West Virginian, I am mandated by state law to like John Sayles; he did, after all, make one of the definitive films on West Virginia, "Matewan." Truth be told, I'd like him anyway because he's perfectly willing to script big-budget Hollywood pics and funnel that money into his own personal projects. That's meant stuff like "Alligator" (The definitive giant reptile movie, with a great Robert Forster performance) and "The Howling" led to "Lianna" and "Baby It's You," and uncredited rewrites on things such as "Apollo 13" and "Mimic" gave us "Lone Star" and "Casa de los babys."

So the fact that he's signed on to script "Scar Tissue," the HBO series based on Anthony Kiedis' autobiography, makes me feel better about the project. The series tells the story of Kiedis growing up with his father, Spider, a drug dealer to rock stars, in the 1970s. It's the...

Ok, so maybe that title's a stretch. But the thing is, these are all television writers with solid track records and who could easily and happily fill up those hours of television NBC's handing over to Leno. We're sticking with writer-producers who specialize in drama, that could fill that 10 p.m. slot, and are not currently attached to any series (there's one exception), and a quick glance at IMDb doesn't indicate they have anything in development. There's no reason to believe they couldn't produce a compelling 13 hours of television (remember, we're going with the cable paradigm here -- 13 episodes and you're out.)

1. Lee Goldberg. I'm an unabashed fan of Goldberg's, and it might just be how much he obviously loves television. His post about "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" isn't written by someone who just watches TV, but is passionate about it, about its power and its influence, and...