Netflix Nabs Darren Star Romantic Comedy Series ‘Uncoupled’

Melissa Barrera is taking on a new role.

Melissa Barrera (Vida, In The Heights) is set as the lead of Breathe, Netflix’s one-hour drama series from Blindspot creator Martin Gero and writer-executive producer Brendan Gall, and Warner Bros. Television.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterMelissa Barrera has been cast in the lead role of the Netflix drama series “Breathe.”Variety exclusively reported that the series had been ordered at the streamer back in February.

The pandemic has changed a lot of things and among them, one of the biggest ones has been that audiences have remained away from theatres for the longest time.

Clayton Davis Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Emmys ceremonies from film awards editor Clayton Davis. Following history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Emmy predictions are updated regularly with the current year's list of contenders in all categories.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterGloria Calderón Kellett has landed her first series order under her overall deal at Amazon, Variety has learned.Amazon has greenlit the one-hour romantic comedy series “With Love.” It follows the Diaz siblings, Lily and Jorge, who are on a mission to find love and purpose. The Diaz siblings cross paths with seemingly unrelated residents during some of the most heightened days of the year –the holidays.

Variety.Her character reportedly then gets amnesia after a skiing accident and “finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter in the days leading up to Christmas.”There is no word on other cast members or a production team behind the film yet.

Kate Aurthur editorLindsay Lohan, who has largely foregone acting in recent years, will soon star in a yet-to-be-titled Netflix holiday rom-com.

Dance of the 41 (★★★★☆), the steamy fictionalized account of a real-life scandal that rocked Mexican high society in 1901.Alfonso Herrera, so good on Sense8 as the lover of a closeted action star, is excellent here as the son-in-law with a secret, Ignacio de la Torre.

announced last summer and co-starring Monica Barbaro (“Top Gun: Maverick,” “Chicago P.D.”) — has been picked up for eight hour-long episodes by Netflix, the streamer announced Wednesday.Created by Nick Santora (“Jack Reacher”), the show follows a dad and offspring, played by Schwarzenegger and Barbaro, who are somehow unaware that they have both been covert CIA operatives for years.

Netflix has hired Jenny Stjernströmer Björk as its Director of Nordics Original Series. She is replacing Tesha Crawford, who is being upped to Director, Global Franchises.

MTV Entertainment Studios’ hit series Younger is in its final season with the story of Liza (Sutton Foster), a woman who lies about her age to get back into the world of publishing after taking a long break to raise her daughter.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorNetflix has given a series order to “Uncoupled,” a comedy from Darren Star and Jeffrey Richman about a newly single gay man whose life changes after his husband walks out on him.Netflix has ordered eight half-hour episodes of the single-camera comedy from MTV Entertainment Studios and Jax Media.

Pose‘s Michaela Jaé (Mj) Rodriguez is set to star alongside Maya Rudolph in Apple TV+’s half-hour comedy series created by Emmy winners Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterMj Rodriguez will star opposite Maya Rudolph in an upcoming Apple comedy series that hails from Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard, Variety has learned.The series was ordered at Apple in March. It follows Molly (Rudolph), a woman whose seemingly perfect life is upended after her husband leaves her with nothing but 87 billion dollars.

EXCLUSIVE: Ken Jeong is set to star in a half-hour dramedy about life failures that is in the works at Amazon with Daniel Dae Kim producing.

Lily Collins looks surprised by something while shooting new scenes for Emily in Paris‘s second season in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France, on Tuesday afternoon (May 4).