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06.01.2024 - 02:13 / variety.com
Emily Longeretta No need to place your bets: Chuck Lorre‘s “Bookie” is coming back. The comedy series, starring Sebastian Maniscalco and created by Lorre and Nick Bakay, has been renewed for a second season. The first season’s finale debuted on Max on Dec.
21. “We couldn’t be more excited that Max listened to their gut, paid the juice, and let it ride on Season 2 of ‘Bookie,'” Lorre and Bakay said in a statement. The dark comedy, produced by Warner Bros.
TV, followed Maniscalco’s Danny, an L.A. bookie trying to keep his job amid the possible legalization of sports gambling in California. With the help of his best friend Ray (Omar J.
Dorsey), sister Lorraine (Vanessa Ferlito), and reformed drug dealer Hector (Jorge Garcia), he must try to settle his clients’ debts. “There’s no doubt that Chuck and Nick’s ‘Bookie’ won big this season as they took us on a hilarious ride into the underbelly of illegal sports gambling, featuring a cast led by another dynamic duo: Sebastian Maniscalco and Omar J. Dorsey,” Channing Dungey, Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros.
TV Group, said in a statement. “I’m looking forward to watching more of their antics in Season 2. Congratulations to the entire cast and crew, and thanks to our partners at Max.” The series also stars Andrea Anders, Vanessa Ferlito and Maxim Swinton.
Lorre also staged a bit if of a “Two and a Half Men” reunion with a surprise appearance by Charlie Sheen and Angus T. Jones — a move that shocked longtime fans aware of Sheen and Lorre’s public falling out in 2011. After many years, the producer was able to move forward.
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Single’s Inferno for a fourth season.Today (January 24), the streaming service announced in a press release that Single’s Inferno would be returning for a fourth season, making it the first unscripted series from Netflix Korea to do so.Per Netflix, the third season of Single’s Inferno, which premiered in December 2023 and wrapped up earlier this month, surpassed the popularity of the previous season with over 65million cumulative viewing hours on the streaming platform.“We will continue to do our best and make sure season four is even more entertaining for you by paying closer attention to the fans’ feedback on season four, both positive and negative,” said Single’s Inferno co-producer Kim Jae-won.
Extra will be back for a 31st season. The Emmy-winning entertainment news series has been renewed by Fox Televisions Stations and will return this fall. The renewal marks the sixth season of Extra on the Fox stations.
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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Variety’s annual Showrunners Dinner presented by A+E Studios on Thursday night gathered writers recognized on the publication’s annual TV Producers Impact List, as well as several of this year’s Emmy nominees. In addition, megaproducer Chuck Lorre (“The Big Bang Theory,” “Mom,” “Bookie”) was honored with Variety’s first Norman Lear Award.
Young Sheldon is coming to an end this season but the franchise will live on at CBS. The network is closing in on a straight-to-series order to a multi-camera spinoff of Young Sheldon from the series’ executive producers Steve Holland, Steven Molaro and Chuck Lorre and studio Warner Bros Television, sources tell Deadline. The new series will center on the characters of Georgie Cooper and his fiancée Mandy McAllister, played on the show by Montana Jordan and Emily Osment, respectively.
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BreAnna Bell Brittany Snow, Berto Colon, Louis Herthum, Arienne Mandi, and Teddy Sears have signed on to join the Season 2 cast of Netflix‘s “The Night Agent,” the streamer announced on Thursday. Season 2 begins filming in 2024. They join returning cast Gabriel Basso (Peter), who leads the series, and Luciane Buchanan (Rose), as well as previously announced Amanda Warren (Catherine).
While filmmaker Michael Mann helped “Tokyo Vice” get on its feet and gave the show its cinematic grammar, the series was always the creation of writer/showrunner and Tony Award winner J.T. Rogers.
The sports book is reopening after Max renewed Bookie, starring Sebastian Maniscalco, for a second season.
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K.J. Yossman Gary Oldman’s band of MI5 misfits are set to return for another outing. “Slow Horses,” the hit Apple TV+ series based on Mick Herron’s spy series of the same name, has been renewed for a fifth season, Variety can confirm.
Apple TV+ is returning once again to Slow Horses, with a fifth season greenlit, the first major renewal of 2024.
Wild Men, a black comedy hailing from Denmark, has received a UK release date along with a brand new trailer. The film is set for screens nationwide from 6th May through Blue Finch Films.The feature is described as a razor-sharp meditation on masculinity and mental illness in modern times, and has screened at major film festivals including Tribeca Film Festival, Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival, Fantasia Film Festival and Glasgow Film Festival.Here’s the synopsis:Martin (Rasmus Bjerg, Sons of Denmark) has fled his family and the modern world to head into the woods and live off the land, as his manly ancestors would have done… he even has a homemade Viking costume.
Jake Johnson isn’t very hopeful that his show Minx will be getting another season.