‘Three Women’: Blair Underwood & Lola Kirke Join Showtime Drama Series

EXCLUSIVE: Former The Magicians star Jason Ralph and Blair Redford (Satisfaction) have booked heavily recurring roles opposite Gabrielle Creevey in Showtime’s upcoming drama series Three Women, an hourlong series based on the nonfiction bestseller by Lisa Taddeo. Shailene Woodley, DeWanda Wise and Betty Gilpin star along with Blair Underwood.

EXCLUSIVE: Callum Kerr (Hulu’s Four Weddings and a Funeral) and Kevin Cahoon (GLOW) are set for heavily recurring roles opposite Susan Sarandon, Anna Friel, Trace Adkins and Beth Ditto in Fox’s upcoming musical drama Monarch.

The next edition of “The Graham Norton Show” promises to be a big one, with a guest list including Dame Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Salma Hayek, singer Jesy Nelson and the dynamic duo of Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen.

A new sports biopic series tells the extraordinary life of a man Gary Lineker described as “one of the greatest footballers of all time” – Diego Maradona.

portraying the late comic and talk show host in the Showtime miniseries “The Comeback Girl.”Now those plans have been scrapped as the network does not have Joan’s life rights, Variety reported.The rights are currently held by the brash funnywoman’s daughter, Melissa. While the project could have gone the unauthorized route, Joan’s jokes and trademark catchphrases could not have been used without rankling Melissa or the estate.

Kate Aurthur editorBecause of issues around the life rights of Joan Rivers, a limited series in which Kathryn Hahn would have played the legendary comedian, isn’t moving forward.The project, called “The Comeback Girl,” was announced last month in Variety. It had been in development at Showtime, and was to be produced by Warner Bros.

EXCLUSIVE: Gabrielle Creevy (In My Skin) rounds out the lead cast, alongside Shailene Woodley, DeWanda Wise and Betty Gilpin, in upcoming Showtime drama Three Women, an hourlong series based on the nonfiction bestseller by Lisa Taddeo.

Starz and Lionsgate are teaming for a new prequel series about the early days of “John Wick” character Winston (played by Ian McShane), titled “The Continental.” The new series focuses on the iconic hotel of the same name, which is a safe haven for assassins. The world of assassins these characters inhabit revolves around a secret group called The High Table, who control criminal syndicates with a violent iron fist, and apparently, everyone has to commit loyalty to them just to operate.

The Continental, a prequel series to the John Wick movies starring Keanu Reeves.The show will be a three-night special event series airing on Starz in the US, where Gibson will play a character named Cormac, according to Deadline.The Continental will delve into the origins behind the hotel-for-assassins through the eyes of a young Winston Scott, the character played by Ian McShane in the films.Scott is dragged into the Hell-scape of a 1975 New York City to face the past he thought he’d left

Hubert Point-Du Jour (The Good Lord Bird), Jessica Allain (The Laundromat), Mishel Prada (Vida), Nhung Kate (The Housemaid) and Ben Robson (Animal Kingdom) are set as leads opposite Colin Woodell and Mel Gibson in Starz’s The Continental, the prequel to the Keanu Reeves film series John Wick. The Continental will be presented as a three-night special-event TV series, produced for Starz by Lionsgate Television.

Colin Woodell (The Flight Attendant) has been tapped as the lead in The Continental, Starz’s TV series prequel to the Keanu Reeves film franchise John Wick. Woodell, who will play Winston Scott, the younger version of Ian McShane’s character from the John Wick films, joins Mel Gibson in the three-night special-event TV series, produced by Lionsgate Television.

Uma Thurman will join the cast of Showtime’s Super Pumped. The Oscar and Emmy-nominated actress is set to appear opposite Jospeh Gordon-Levitt and Kyle Chandler in the first installment of an anthology series from Billions co-creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien.

The Freak Brothers, an animated stoner series starring the voices of Woody Harrelson and John Goodman, is heading to Tubi.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterUma Thurman has been cast as Arianna Huffington in the Showtime series “Super Pumped,” which charts the rise of Uber, Variety has learned exclusively.Planned as an anthology, the first season of “Super Pumped” is based on Mike Isaac’s book of the same name.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAustin Stowell has been cast in the upcoming Showtime drama series “Three Women,” Variety has learned exclusively.The series is based on the book of the same name by Lisa Taddeo. It is described as a portrayal of American female desire, in which three women are on a crash course to radically overturn their lives.

If there’s one franchise that seems to be universally beloved amongst action fans right now, it’s Chad Stahelski’s “John Wick.” Partially, people just love Keanu Reeves, who is carrying the load in the franchise, but also it’s because the action is so amazing and interesting, you could watch John Wick murder guys for two hours with no problems. But now, the “John Wick” franchise is spinning off and without Reeves, there’s a new star in the cast—Mel Gibson.

according to Deadline, and 65-year-old Gibson will portray a character named Cormac.“The Continental” is set to explore the genesis behind the hotel for assassins, through the eyes of a young Winston Scott, who was played by Ian McShane in the film franchise starring Keanu Reeves.

Selome Hailu editorShowtime announced that Blair Underwood and Lola Kirk have been cast in the upcoming drama series “Three Women” based on Lisa Taddeo’s book of the same name.As a series regular, Underwood will play Richard, a popular chef who is blindsided when his wife Sloane (DeWanda Wise) enters a sexual relationship with another man.

EXCLUSIVE: Mel Gibson has been set to star in The Continental, the prequel to the Keanu Reeves film series John Wick. The Continental will be presented as a three night special event TV series, produced for Starz by Lionsgate Television.