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For Jess Mariano fans, the upcoming Gilmore Girls reunion just got a lot more enticing.

Milo Ventimiglia, who played Rory’s bad-boy beau on the beloved series, has joined its reunion panel taking place this weekend at Austin’s ATX Festival, EW.com reports.

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The jam-packed panel will also include Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Kelly Bishop, Jared Padalecki, Scott Patterson, Matt Czuchry, Keiko Agena, Liza Weil, Liz Torres, Sean Gunn, Yanic Truesdale, John Cabrera, Danny Strong, Todd Lowe, Jackson Douglas and series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.

The ATX Festival runs June 4-7, with the Gilmore event taking place on Saturday, June 6 at 7 pm.

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* Frances Fisher (Resurrection) and Michael O’Keefe (Homeland) will appear on two episodes of Masters of Sex Season 3, playing the mother and father of Lizzy Caplan’s Virginia. Per EW.com, Virginia’s parents will pay her a surprise visit, and her mother will question Virginia’s professional and personal choices.

* Adult Swim has renewed its live-action medical comedy Childrens Hospital for a seventh season.

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* The 2016 Miss America Competition will air live on Sunday, Sept. 13, at 9/8c on ABC, the network announced Tuesday.

* Comedy Central has greenlit Not Safe With Nikki Glaser, a 10-episode talk show starring the stand-up comedian that will debut in 2016, Deadline reports. Described as a “frank, funny and honest perspective on all things sex,” the show will combine interviews, pre-taped segments and social experiments related to taboo topics.

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