Turning the drama up a notch. After wrapping up their feuds ahead of season 13, it wasn’t long before the Real Housewives of New Jersey cast once again found themselves at odds.
18.10.2022 - 19:10 / variety.com
Angelique Jackson Prepare for more Black lady hilarity as Robin Thede’s Emmy-winning HBO comedy series “A Black Lady Sketch Show” has started production on its fourth season. Created by and starring Thede, “A Black Lady Sketch Show” was renewed in June following a strong third season that netted two Emmys — one for outstanding picture editing for variety programming (a trophy the series has won in back-to-back years, with editors Stephanie Filo, Bradinn French, Taylor Joy Mason and S. Robyn Wilson honored for Season 3) and outstanding directing for a variety series (Bridget Stokes). The first three seasons of the sketch series have garnered 13 Emmy nominations and three wins.
Variety has exclusively learned that production is now underway in Los Angeles, with returning core cast members Thede, Gabrielle Dennis and Skye Townsend teasing a new sketch (directed by Stokes) set at “Brothaby’s” in this first-look image. Season 4 also boasts three new featured players — DaMya Gurley, Tamara Jade and Angel Laketa Moore — who join in the fun as the sketch series continues to feature “Black women living relatable and hilarious experiences in a magical reality that subverts traditional expectations.”
Ashley Nicole Black, who has been a member of the core cast since Season 1, will not return for the new episodes. In addition to her side-splitting work on “A Black Lady Sketch” show, with recurring characters like Trinity the invisible spy and Ruth, one of the disciplettes in “The Last Supp-her” and “The Res-herrection,” Black’s recent resume includes “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee,” “The Amber Ruffin Show” and “Ted Lasso,” for which she won an Emmy earlier this year, and she’s next set to star in “Bad Monkey” for Apple TV+. “We
Turning the drama up a notch. After wrapping up their feuds ahead of season 13, it wasn’t long before the Real Housewives of New Jersey cast once again found themselves at odds.
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A new report is revealing that production on Rust will restart relatively soon.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer “Rust” will resume production in January, more than a year after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed on set. But the production will not return to New Mexico, where a criminal investigation and state workplace safety proceedings remain unresolved. The production is still looking for a new location, but California is a possibility, said Melina Spadone, the attorney for Rust Movie Productions LLC. The production company announced a settlement on Oct. 5 with Matthew Hutchins, the widower of the cinematographer. Under the agreement, the production will be able to resume after a 15-month hiatus. Matthew Hutchins said in a statement that completing the film would be a way “to pay tribute to Halyna’s final work.”
Natalie Morales is the latest star to join the cast of The Morning Show!
CBS has given full season orders to Fire Country, East New York and So Help Me Todd.
EXCLUSIVE: Judge Yodit Tewolde and Judge Rachel Juarez are joining the panel of the nationally syndicated courtroom series Hot Bench. They join six-year Hot Bench veteran Judge Michael Corriero who is returning to the show as it launches its ninths season on Oct. 31.
is getting to work on its upcoming fourth season without a key member of the cast — Ashley Nicole Black. On Tuesday, the star, who served as a writer and performer on the variety series, revealed that she has exited the series ahead of production for season 4.«I am so happy that the fantastic @blackladysketch team will be back for a new season! I love these ladies and the whole team, and I can't wait to see what the new cuties get up to,» Black said on Twitter. «While I made the difficult decision to leave the show, I CANT WAIT to watch what they come up with!»«Well you can’t be on EVERY tv show at once so we remain grateful we had you for three beautiful seasons!!» creator and star Robin Thede responded. Well you can’t be on EVERY tv show at once so we remain grateful we had you for three beautiful seasons!!Black has had her hands in a of pots simultaneously; in addition to , the 37-year-old is just coming off of an Emmy-winning stint as a writer on and will next be seen in Apple TV+’s forthcoming 10-episode comedy , starring Vince Vaughn.Thede also shared a statement on Black's time on the series with, saying the writer would «always be part of our family.»«We are forever indebted to our sister, Emmy winner Ashley Nicole Black, whose contributions as a writer and performer on for three seasons have made an indelible mark on our series and in comedy history,» Thede said.
Bravo is back in the Big Apple!
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Six-time Primetime Emmy award-winner Frank Doelger, whose credits include “Game of Thrones,” “The Swarm,” “John Adams” and “Rome,” and Intaglio Films, a joint venture between Beta Film and ZDF Studios, have started production on surveillance drama thriller “Concordia,” set in an experimental utopian community. ZDF, MBC, France Télévisions and Hulu Japan have signed up as partners for the six-part series, shot in English and directed by Barbara Eder (“The Swarm,” “Barbarians,” “Cop Stories”). Doelger helms as executive producer and showrunner, alongside the executive producers Ute Leonhardt, Rafferty Thwaites, Jan Wünschmann and Robert Franke. Shooting takes place at various locations in Rome, Northern Italy, and Leipzig in Germany.
Frank Doelger is helming a surveillance drama set that counts broadcasters ZDF, MBC and France Télévisions and streamer Hulu Japan as partners.
Jenna Lyons is former President and Executive Creative Director of J.Crew Group, where she was widely recognized as the creative force behind the American retail chain’s phenomenal rise from floundering catalogue chain to one of the most coveted fashion brands in the US. Jenna is now Co-Founder and CEO of direct-to-consumer beauty brand, LoveSeen, and resides in New York City with her son Beckett.Sai De Silva is an Afro-Latina, born and raised in New York. She is the creative director of Scout the City, which originated as a passion project blog and quickly evolved into an online lifestyle destination.
— featuring an entirely new cast!News of the brand new cast first broke during a live taping of with Andy Cohen at BravoCon 2022 on Sunday, when the new housewives walked out onto the stage and surprised fans in attendance.As the upcoming season of the show features an entirely new ensemble of Housewives who fans will be seeing for the first time, Bravo is giving fans an introduction to all the new faces and the worlds of fashion, real estate, entertainment and philanthropy in which they operate.Sai De Silva is the creative director of Scout the City, a lifestyle and fashion blog that «chronicles Sai’s adventures of chic parenting, from her home in Brooklyn where she resides with husband David Craig and their two children, London and Rio,» as Bravo explains.A post shared by UBAH (@ubah)A Somalian model and philanthropist, Ubah Hassan immigrated to Seattle when she was a child, and later moved to Canada, where she was discovered by a photographer in a park, and soon signed to a modeling agency. Later, she moved to New York City, which she now calls home.
Rob Schneider reveals Bill Murray wasn’t a fan of his time on “Saturday Night Live”.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Fargo” Season 5 is rounding out its main cast with five new additions. David Rysdahl (“Oppenheimer,” “Nine Days,” “Dead Pigs”), Sam Spruell (“The North Water,” “Small Axe,” “Outlaw King”), Jessica Pohly (“SMILF,” “Goliath”), and Nick Gomez (“She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,” “The Walking Dead”) have all joined the fifth season of the FX anthology series. They join previously announced cast members Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Joe Keery, Lamorne Morris, and Richa Moorjani. The official description of the fifth season of the show states, “Set in 2019, when is a kidnapping not a kidnapping, and what if your wife isn’t yours?”
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Production is underway in Italy on the Italian instalment of Prime Video’s global “Citadel” spy thriller franchise, produced by the Russo Brothers, with Matilda De Angelis cast as the lead. De Angelis, a rising Italian star, made her international breakthrough in Susanne Bier’s “The Undoing,” alongside Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant. She more recently appeared with Liev Schrieber in the Ernest Hemingway adaptation “Across The River and Into The Trees,” directed by Paula Ortiz. The “Citadel” start-of-production in Italy and casting announcement was made at Rome’s MIA content market during an Amazon Studios panel.
Blake Shelton is ready to call it quits on The Voice.
Michaela Zee editor “Americana Dream” has started production in Louisville, Ky., with all key roles cast in the forthcoming indie musical film. New Orleans-based singer Maggie Koerner will play Billie Carton, starring opposite Nashville-based music artist Sam Varga in the role of Lucky Fontana. “With this amazing cast of real-life Americana music artists, we are on an exciting creative journey that will seem both familiar and completely unsettling to the millions of people around the world who watch reality TV music competitions,” said director and co-writer Ate de Jong. The cast of “Americana Dream” also includes singer-songwriter Stephan Said as Ray Pursell, jazz vocalist Carly Johnson as Precious Blue, AJ Haynes as Lee Post and Michelle Malentina as Gabe. DJ Bombshell, Sylvia Walters, David Domine and Ian McConnell will play supporting roles in the film.