Valerie Bertinelli has joined the cast of the Demi Lovato series Hungry on NBC. The single-cam comedy looks at friends who belong to a food issues group and help each other as they look for love, success and “the perfect thing in the fridge that’s going to make it all better,” in NBC’s words. 

Bertinelli will play Lisa, a restaurateur and mother of Teddy, and best friends with Teddy as well. NBC describes Lisa as warm, loving, self-critical and “an emotional mess of a woman” who constantly battles her weight.  

Bertinelli was in the cast of One Day at a Time, which ran from 1975 to 1984. She was also in Hot in Cleveland on TV Land and Valerie's Home Cooking on Food Network, and began hosting “Start Today with Valerie Bertinelli” segments on NBC morning show Today in January 2020.  

Lovato executive produces Hungry with Suzanne Martin, Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner & Scooter Braun, Scott Manson and James Shi. 

Peacock has ordered limited series Unidentified With Demi Lovato (working title), which sees the pop star investigate UFOs. There will be four parts. 

The unscripted series sees Lovato, her sister Dallas and best friend Matthew “attempt to help uncover the truth about the UFO phenomena,” according to Peacock. Consulting with experts, the trio investigates eyewitness encounters, uncovers secret government reports, and conducts tests at UFO hot spots. 

“Demi is a true believer, and during this courageous adventure, she hopes to convince her friends, family and her millions of followers that not only are there intelligent beings beyond Earth but that they are already here!” teased Peacock.

Unidentified With Demi Lovato is produced by GoodStory Entertainment in association with SB Projects. Lovato will executive produce. Scooter Braun, Scott Manson and Allison Kaye will executive produce for SB Projects. JD Roth, Adam Greener and Sara Hansemann exec produce for GoodStory. Andrew Nick also exec produces.

Last month, NBC ordered a Lovato pilot, a comedy called Hungry. 

NBC has ordered a pilot for a project from Demi Lovato called Hungry. The single-cam comedy looks at friends who belong to a food issues group that help each other as they look for love, success and “the perfect thing in the fridge that’s going to make it all better,” goes the description. 

Lovato is a singer and actress. 

The project is produced by UTV, Hazy Mills and SB Projects, which is founded by music manager Scooter Braun. 

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Lovato executive produces with Suzanne Martin, Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner & Scooter Braun, Scott Manson and James Shin. 

SB Projects series include FXX’s Dave, CBS’s Scorpion and YouTube’s Justin Bieber: Seasons. 

NBC also ordered a pilot for single-cam romantic comedy Someone Out There. The series is about two set-in-their-ways adults who are challenged by very unexpected strangers to become the best versions of themselves in order to find love and possibly each other. It is based on the format Pequenas Coincidencias, created by Javier Veiga. 

Veiga executive produces with Josh Siegal & Dylan Morgan, Matt Hubbard, Emiliano Calemzuk & Javier Veiga.

YouTube announced its originals slate during a TCA press tour event. YouTube has projects from Demi Lovato, Alicia Keys and YouTuber Markiplier. 

Special Black Renaissance debuts Feb. 26. A partnership with Google Arts & Culture, the special celebrates those who have made significant contributions to Black history. President Obama, Stacey Abrams and H.E.R. are among the individuals featured. 

Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil premieres March 23. The four-part docuseries explores what led to Lovato’s nearly fatal overdose in 2018. 

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Season two of Glad You Asked starts March 30. YouTube calls it “an ensemble-led exploration of topics driven by our curiosity about the world around us.”

Docuseries K-Pop Evolution debuts March 31. 

Season two of Create Together, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, premieres April 22. 

Season two of Retro Tech, with Marques Brownlee, is on in April. 

A special from rapper Quavo with the working title Supreme Courts, about the role of basketball in the community, premieres in the summer. 

New episodes of Bear Witness, Take Action, designed to promote racial justice, premiere later this year. 

An untitled Alicia Keys docuseries premieres later this year. 

A special featuring YouTube creator Markiplier will stream later this year, as will the four-part U.K. series If I Could Tell You Just One Thing. YouTube star Patricia Bright hosts. 

Susanne Daniels is global head of original content for YouTube. Alex Piper is head of unscripted for YouTube Originals and Nadine Zylstra is head of Family, Learning and Impact.

Singer/songwriter and actress Demi Lovato is arguably one of the top performers in the entertainment industry today. Along with being a Grammy-nominated singer, Lovato is also familiar to television viewers, appearing in such shows as Glee, as well as serving as a judge on the music competition series The X Factor.

As a teen actress, Lovato starred in Disney Channel's successful original movie franchise Camp Rock in the late 2000s. In this 2009 video, a then 17-year old Lovato talked about her preference for music over acting.