Patton Oswalt To Host Amazon Game Show ‘The 1% Club’ As Fox Takes Second Window In New Model

Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury has renewed Game Show Network‘s People Puzzler, hosted by Leah Remini, for a second season in national broadcast syndication.

Quite alarmingly, the fifth entry in the Ghostbusters series — following straight on from the unexpectedly charming Afterlife — starts by quoting all 51 words of Robert Frost’s 1923 poem Fire and Ice, which posits two very different apocalyptic scenarios for the end of the world. Has the franchise suddenly fallen prey to the glum Christopher Nolanization of what we used to think of as bubblegum entertainment? Is Paul Feig’s controversial 2016 all-female iteration about to be frozen out of the canon? Will it be worthy and… boring?

Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons, and Celia Keenan-Bolger are stepping out to promote their new Broadway show!

Travis Kelce could be adding TV game show host to his résumé very soon!

EXCLUSIVE: Kurt Sutter‘s upcoming Netflix Western drama The Abandons is rounding out its recurring cast with 10, including Patton Oswalt (A.P. Bio), Sarah Grace White (The Bastard Executioner), Michael Ornstein (Sons of Anarchy) and Elle-Maija Tailfeathers (Three Pines).

Ratatouille.The actor and comedian starred in the 2007 Oscar-winning film, voicing Remy, a rat who dreams of becoming a chef and forms an unlikely alliance with Linguini, the garbage boy of a fancy French restaurant.While appearing as a guest on Watch What Happens Live with host Andy Cohen, Oswalt opened up about his friendship with the late chef. “I became friends with him because he was a huge fan of Ratatouille,” Oswalt said.

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Rachel Seo When the idea for her upcoming novel “Expiration Dates” began percolating in her head, author Rebecca Serle worried at first that the concept was “gimmicky.” “There was something missing,” she tells Variety over the phone, two weeks before the book’s March 19 launch. The premise — based on the question, “What if a woman got slips of paper that told her how long she’d spend in a relationship?” — felt like it verged on triteness.

Sir Lenny Henry has announced the sad reason why he's quitting Comic Relief as he hosts his last-ever show.The actor and comedian, 65, has become the face of the charity after co-founding it with Love Actually director, Richard Curtis back in 1985.The TV star revealed that he would be stepping down from presenting the show after 39 years during an appearance on BBC Breakfast earlier this year. His last time hosting Comic Relief will be tonight (Friday, 15 March) as he hands it over "to the new generation." Sharing the news he said: "I'm not going to be hosting anymore Comic Reliefs after this but I will make special appearances.

Selome Hailu Mark Duplass was feeling insecure. At one point in his career, he would get greenlight after greenlight for the TV projects he pitched on behalf of Duplass Brothers Productions, the beloved indie banner he founded with Jay Duplass in the late ’90s, when the duo was focused on feature films. But recently, he and company president Mel Eslyn noticed a problem.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. When Colin Jost and Michael Che are together, whether it’s as co-hosts of “SNL’s” Weekend Update or in the real world outside the confines of the famed 30 Rock stage, they are rarely serious. Like the comedic characters they broadcast on NBC, their teasing, banters and pranks are incessant — and their chemistry is palpable.

A "luxurious" pampering gift set from Amazon that has been loved by shoppers has been slashed in price ahead of Mother's Day.

Baywatch is back!

You blink - and it's March already. With spring just around the corner, it's a time to celebrate new beginnings - and, on our streaming services, a fresh batch of TV shows and films.

Well, it didn’t take long for the new “Ghostbusters” to team up with the classic “Ghostbusters,” right? After “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” writer/director Jason Reitman handed off the franchise and seemingly went back to the world of humanistic comedies. But he didn’t leave it in the lurch and remains a co-writer, producer, and executive producer on the project.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM’s Eddie Murphy heist comedy The Pickup has four new additions: Eva Longoria (Land of Women), Ismael Cruz Cordova (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power), Jack Kesy (Hellboy: The Crooked Man), and Marshawn Lynch (Bottoms).

“Wheel of Fortune” contestant won last night’s game but failed to correctly guess the bonus puzzle.After the episode aired, fans of the game show began rallying around the contestant, insisting that she had actually named the right answer to the puzzle but that host Pat Sajak had failed to recognize it.The contestant, a woman named Tamara, chose “What Are You Doing?” for the category for the final puzzle. After co-host Vanna White turned over both the letters the show traditionally provides and the ones Tamara chose, she was left with “___N_NG A B___ _L_B.”“Now pay attention what’s up there,” Sajak advised.

“It’s the issues that New Yorkers are talking about. What it is that you need to know to be an informed New Yorker,” Pergament said of the show, available to Spectrum subscribers on Channel 1, Spectrum News App Xumo, Stream Box, Roku, and Apple TV streaming. Pergament started her career at NY1 in 1994.

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Caroline Brew editor Jay Pharoah, known for “Saturday Night Live” and “The Blackening,” will host “The Quiz with Balls,” a new Fox game show. Each episode will feature two families competing for $100,000 in a “battle of the balls,” combining a high-stakes quiz show with a large-scale physical competition. “When I got hit up about hosting an epic face-off between big brains and even bigger balls, I was like … ’I got this,’” Pharoah said in a statement.