EXCLUSIVE: Gracie Lawrence is heading to Essex College as a new series regular for the upcoming third season of Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble‘s The Sex Lives of College Girls.
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EXCLUSIVE: There is a change at the helm of Peacock‘s Based On a True Story, starring Kaley Cuoco and Chris Messina. Physical creator Annie Weisman is joining the upcoming second season of the dark comedy thriller, from Aggregate Films and UCP, as new showrunner. She succeeds series creator Craig Rosenberg who remains an executive producer while pursuing other projects.
Season 2 of Based On a True Story will see Ava (Cuoco) and her husband Nathan (Messina) return for a new true crime adventure. The two stars are executive producing the new installment alongside Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan of Aggregate Films, writer/showrunner Weisman, Alex Buono, Rosenberg and Jaclyn Moore. Roxie Rodriguez of Aggregate Films, Sono Patel and Max Searle co-executive produce. UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group , is the studio.
In the well received first season, the lives of a down-on-their-luck couple Ava (Cuoco) and Nathan (Messina) collide with an infamous serial killer terrorizing Los Angeles. They seize a unique opportunity to capitalize on America’s obsession with true crime by making a podcast with the killer.
Weisman is coming off serving as creator, executive producer and showrunner of Physical, starring Rose Byrne, which wrapped its three-season run on Apple TV+ last fall. Previously, she was under an overall deal at UCP sibling Universal Television where she was an executive producer on Almost Family, which she created and ran at Fox, and on The Path for Hulu. Weisman’s series credits also include Desperate Housewives, Samantha Who and Dead Like Me. She is also a playwright whose work includes Be Aggressive (La Jolla Playhouse, Dallas Theatre Center, TheatreWorks, Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize) and
EXCLUSIVE: Gracie Lawrence is heading to Essex College as a new series regular for the upcoming third season of Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble‘s The Sex Lives of College Girls.
EXCLUSIVE: Craig Zisk (Weeds, The Larry Sanders Show) has been tapped to direct and executive produce Season 2 of Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ original series Tulsa King, starring Sylvester Stallone, which has started production. Now designated as a comedy series, Tulsa King will film in Oklahoma and Atlanta.
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The talk of TV this week has been the delay of “Euphoria” Season 3, and many questions about the HBO series abound.
The third season of Bridgerton is coming up soon, but fans of the book series will be curious about the change coming.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter Netflix has ordered the limited series “The Beast in Me” with Claire Danes set to star, Variety has learned. The series hails from writer Gabe Rotter, with Howard Gordon attached to serve as showrunner. The series reunites Gordon and Danes, as they previously worked together on the hit Showtime series “Homeland.” Danes starred in the series, which Gordon co-created and executive produced.
Annie Weisman, creator of Apple TV+’s Rose Byrne comedy Physical, is heading back to the streamer with her latest project – a series adaptation of Araminta Hall’s novel Imperfect Women that will star Elisabeth Moss and Kerry Washington.
The Bachelorette has found its next leading lady.
Cillian Murphy has booked his next movie role!
EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has rounded out the ensemble cast for Season 3 ofsci-fi series Foundation, adding Emmy winner Cherry Jones (Succession), Pilou Asbæk (Game of Thrones), Synnøve Karlsen (Last Night in Soho), Cody Fern (American Horror Story), Brandon P. Bell (Dear White People), Tómas Lemarquis (Blade Runner 2049), Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing(Really Love) and Leo Bill (Becoming Elizabeth) will join returning stars Lee Pace and Jared Harris as series regulars.
Nicole Kidman will be joined by Henry Golding, Mark Strong and Lena Olin in season two of Nine Perfect Strangers, the Hulu series that’s based on the bestselling book of the same name by Liane Moriarty.
EXCLUSIVE: AGC Television is dropping a hot TV project into this week’s Series Mania market in Lille.
Addie Morfoot Contributor “Ctrl+Alt+Desire,” a three-part docuseries about Grant Amato, a 29-year-old man accused of murdering his own family execution style, will debut April 16 on Paramount+. Amato was found guilty of first-degree premeditated murder in 2019 for the killings of his mother, father, and brother at their Florida home. Veteran docu D.P.
Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.com The last scandalous reveal in Ryan Murphy’s docudrama “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” was far more surprising than any of the gossip-filled tales penned by Truman Capote (played by Tom Hollander). The final twist came 32 years after his death when a longtime confidant, Joanne Carson (played in the drama by Molly Ringwald), decided to auction off the writer’s remains to the highest bidder.
Let me state right out that I am a sucker for dog movies. I still can’t get over My Dog Skip. I learned valuable lifelong lessons from Old Yeller. I consider Lassie a personal friend. I took selfies at the Oscar nominees luncheon with Messi, the French border collie I was pushing for Best Supporting Actor from Anatomy of a Fall. So yes, I am probably the right audience for the latest in the genre, Arthur the King, and its title star.
Amazon Prime Video‘s acclaimed sci-fi Western series “Outer Range” is finally making its return. Today, the streaming service announced the series will debut on May 16 and shared some new first-look images from the show.
EXCLUSIVE: MasterChef judge Aarón Sánchez is returning to Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) U.S. Hispanic for more of his LA restaurant series El Toque de Aarón.
Whatever happened to the ABC talk show host Murray from The Last of Us? Did he get a fungal infection that turned him into a zombie? Granted, he was a character well before the timeline of the show, but still, ya know flashbacks. Plus, Murray was played by Silicon Valley star Josh Brener.
Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey are set to share the screen!
Starz series BMF Season 3 continues on a roll, delivering 5.1 million multiplatform viewers on its premiere weekend.