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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Happy Mean Girls Day to all who celebrate! In observance of the date, Paramount Pictures launched an official account for “Mean Girls” on TikTok (at this link) — and has made the entire one hour, 47 minute film available for free on the platform, broken up into 23 clips. The bio for the official “Mean Girls” TikTok account says, “Get in loser, we’re going shopping.” Mean Girls Day has become popular among fans of the 2004 film because of a scene where Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett) asks Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) what day it is, and she replies, “It’s Oct.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s ongoing ‘Restless Leg Tour’ just added an additional eight shows extending well into 2024.And this time, they’re finally coming to New York City.The former Weekend Update co-anchors have not one, not two, not three but four (!) gigs at the Beacon Theatre on Wednesday, Feb. 7, Thursday, Feb.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s ‘Restless Leg Tour’ is picking back up on Thursday, Sept. 21 for a 22-show leg that will send the comedic duo all over North America up until mid-January 2024.“When you think about the ways people could be spending their money right now, it’s gratifying and heartwarming that people are like, ‘Yes, that’s the night out that we want,’” Fey told The Hollywood Reporter.“Because, for me, I don’t want to go to anything.

EXCLUSIVE: Julia Fox is getting her own fashion design competition series.

posted to X ( formerly Twitter), was initially covered in Tina Fey’s 2013 autobiography “Bossypants,” and depicted Fallon, 48, yelling at Poehler, 51, during a table read for the NBC variety show. “Amy Poehler was new to SNL and we were all crowded into the seventeenth-floor writers’ room, waiting for the Wednesday night read-through to start,” wrote Fey. “Amy was in the middle of some such nonsense with Seth Meyers across the table, and she did something vulgar as a joke.

Some very big Hollywood stars started off on Saturday Night Live!

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer NBCUniversal Entertainment has tapped Universal Television Alternative Studio exec Christine Cowan as its new senior vice president of casting and talent. In her new role, Cowan will head up casting and talent management for scripted and unscripted shows, with a particular focus on unscripted, across the NBCUniversal Entertainment brands NBC, Bravo, E!, Oxygen True Crime, SYFY, USA Network, Universal Kids and Peacock.

Colin Jost and Michael Che will perform a different kind of live show this fall.The pair have announced three co-headlining gigs — that Che jokingly called the ‘No Lives Matter Tour’ on Instagram — over the next few months.First, they’re set to drop into Washington, D.C.’s DAR Constitution Hall on Friday, Sept. 15.After that, Jost and Che will perform at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre on Saturday, Sept.

The cast of Parks and Recreation reunited on the picket line as the stars and crew members came together to fight for a better contract with the studios.

The Parks & Rec cast is together again!

What are all of the late-night stars up to right now?

Lindsay Lohan is opening up about her changing body since the arrival of her first child.

Lindsay Lohan is not a regular mom. The actress dropped a classic quote while showing off her postpartum body in a new post just weeks after giving birth. The 37-year-old actress gave birth to her first child, a son named Luai, in July.

Tina Fey reportedly has a shot at taking over “Saturday Night Live” for Lorne Michaels.

interview with the New York Times, the producer said, “I have no plans to retire.”A year before that, however, he left the door open to a new phase away from Studio 8H. Michaels told CBS Morning‘s Gayle King, “I think I’m committed to doing the show until its 50th anniversary, which is in three years… I’d like to see that through and I have a feeling that would be a really good time to leave.”The 50th season of “Saturday Night Live” is coming in the fall of 2024, and during that year the all-powerful Michaels will turn 80 years old. When it wraps up, another US presidential election — when “SNL” reliably gets its best ratings — likely featuring Donald Trump will have just ended.

Alan Arkin, the veteran actor known for his work in Argo and Little Miss Sunshine, has died. He was 89.

, more than 300 members of the Screen Actors Guild, including Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence, are threatening to strike should an agreement on a new contract with major Hollywood studios, streamers, and production companies not be reached.The letter, addressed to the SAG-AFTRA Leadership and Negotiating Committee was allegedly sent to leadership expressing their concern with the idea that «SAG-AFTRA members may be ready to make sacrifices that leadership is not.»«We hope you’ve heard the message from us: This is an unprecedented inflection point in our industry, and what might be considered a good deal in any other years is simply not enough,» the letter, obtained by , says. «We feel that our wages, our craft, our creative freedom, and the power of our union have all been undermined in the last decade.

, more than 300 members of the Screen Actors Guild, including Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence, are threatening to strike should an agreement on a new contract with major Hollywood studios, streamers, and production companies not be reached.The letter, addressed to the SAG-AFTRA Leadership and Negotiating Committee was allegedly sent to leadership expressing their concern with the idea that «SAG-AFTRA members may be ready to make sacrifices that leadership is not.»«We hope you’ve heard the message from us: This is an unprecedented inflection point in our industry, and what might be considered a good deal in any other years is simply not enough,» the letter, obtained by , says. «We feel that our wages, our craft, our creative freedom, and the power of our union have all been undermined in the last decade.

Seth Meyers just announced his latest project.

At the start of the writers strike, The Animation Guild, an entirely separate union to the WGA, came out in support of the labor action, pledging to “stand in solidarity” with WGA members.

Hunter Ingram For the 14th season of ABC’s perennial “Shark Tank,” the business moguls were joined by a gold-plated Great White — Gwyneth Paltrow.  The Emmy and Oscar-winning actor is a mogul in her own right, having built the lifestyle brand Goop into a global powerhouse and cultural trendsetter. Even with those credentials, the investment series, which has long anchored ABC’s Friday night and most of CNBC’s primetime, isn’t exactly an inevitable pit stop for Paltrow.  But she is just the latest Emmy-nominated or winning actress to explore the unscripted corner of TV. Just this year, a slew of female actors from nearly every genre either made the jump to the unscripted space or reaffirmed their place in it. 

Disney was the final studio to present here at CineEurope in Barcelona, highlighting 17 upcoming films and bringing A Haunting in Venice star/director Kenneth Branagh to town, as well as a live performance of “This Wish” from animated adventure Wish which releases in November.

co-headlining again.Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s ‘Restless Leg Tour’ just added an additional seven shows to its run from September through January in major cities all over the U.S. including Fey’s hometown Philadelphia on Thursday, Dec.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are continuing to hit the road on their Restless Leg Tour!

Written and directed by Chelsea Peretti, First Time Female Filmmaker lives in the self-deprecating world of meta storytelling. Debuting at the Tribeca Festival in Spotlight Narrative, Peretti put so much of herself into this narrative, it could work as a documentary. It’s also such a comically honest portrayal of what women must endure if they want to get ahead in any career, let alone the theater business. Having to constantly prove to yourself and others that you are capable is so exhausting, but can also be rewarding if you are set up for success. Many are often left to fend for themselves, and the film shows one way of how that can happen.  

A great movie comedy is something of a miracle, a combination of circumstances, personnel, and timing that would seem impossible to replicate, even under the most ideal circumstances.

Roku has picked up the U.S. rights to the new comedy film “First Time Female Director,” which is written, directed and produced by Chelsea Peretti.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor You’d think CBS would have jumped at the chance to snag Carol Burnett’s “90 Years of Laughter + Love” birthday special. Not only did the comedy legend’s variety show run on the network for 11 seasons, but so did its 50th anniversary special in 2017. “We first went to CBS, but they passed,” Burnett told me at an FYC event for the birthday special. “I did my show with them and all my specials, so naturally we went to them.” Fortunately, NBC bought the special, and it went on to score an impressive 7.6 million viewers. It’s now favored to pick up an Emmy nomination. “NBC couldn’t have been greater,” she said. “They’ve been so supportive right from the get-go.”

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. In addition to rapidly growing its star-studded roster of teachers, MasterClass has found another way to attract more customers: lowering its price. The online learning platform announced on Tuesday that it will lower the price of a subscription from $15 to $10 per month. In addition to the price change, the service also unveiled new programming for the coming year, including an improv course taught by Amy Poehler set to release in the fall. In the classes, the Emmy-winning comedian will workshop real life scenarios with a live audience, teaching viewers how to approach flexibility, openness and humor. “By continuing to innovate the approach to our portfolio of content and making the platform more accessible, we’re not only unlocking potential in our members, we’re enabling them to realize it,” David Rogier, the founder and CEO of MasterClass, said in a statement.

Aubrey Plaza has had an incredible year. The beloved actress and comedian starred in “White Lotus,” winning acclaim and award nominations for her performance. In a new interview, she discussed her work and called for Latinx diversity in media.