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Backstage at the Screen Actors Guild Awards after The White Lotus won the top prize for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, Jennifer Coolidge spoke with ET’s Denny Directo about season 3 of the HBO series.

Screen Actors Guild Awards after won the top prize for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, Jennifer Coolidge spoke with ET's Denny Directo about season 3 of the HBO series. While Coolidge's character, Tanya McQuoid-Hunt, was killed off at the end of season 2, fans are still hoping that she'll somehow return in the third installment of creator Mike White's ongoing social satire about various guests and employees at a luxury hotel. However, when her co-star, Jon Gries, suggested that «Jennifer play Jennifer's sister,» Coolidge quickly shut it down. «I don't think Mike's going to allow that,» she said. But Coolidge seemed more open to the idea that Pamela Anderson joins as Tanya's sister.

It’s official: Jennifer Coolidge is now a Screen Actors Guild Award winner. On Sunday, “The White Lotus” star took home the prize for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for her performance in the second season of the hit HBO series.

Stunning at the SAGs! Jennifer Coolidge turned heads at the 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards in a formfitting black gown with a matching headband.

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Adam DiMarco — best known for his breakout role as Albie in season 2 of Mike White’s Emmy Award-winning HBO series The White Lotus — has signed with UTA. 

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer HBO, HBO Max and Discovery+ added 1.1 million subscribers in Q4 to end 2022 with a total of 96.1 million worldwide. That’s up from the 95 million combined global streaming customers Warner Bros. Discovery hit from July 1-Sept. 30, the quarter during which the highly anticipated “Game of Thrones” prequel “House of the Dragon” debuted. During the Oct. 1-Dec. 31 quarter, “House of the Dragon” concluded its first season the second season of HBO’s hot Mike White drama “White Lotus” premiered. Details about the upcoming combined HBO Max-Discovery+ streamer — which does not yet have a name, launch date or pricing details — will be revealed at an April 12 press day.

could have looked a little different in season 2. Executive producer David Bernad revealed Dahmer star Evan Peters was originally set to play the character of Ethan Spiller, a role that eventually went to 's Will Sharpe. «That part was the last part we cast in the season, and originally it was supposed to be Evan Peters, but for whatever reason — scheduling or timing — it didn’t work out,” Bernad revealed recently at the Berlinale Series Market in Germany, according to Deadline.In the sophomore season of HBO's Emmy-winning series, tech entrepreneur and workaholic Ethan (Spiller) goes on a couples' vacation with his wife, Harper (Aubrey Plaza); and his college friend, Cameron (Theo James), and his wife, Daphne (Meghann Fahy).Even though Peters' casting didn't work out on , Bernad shared that a late-night online search seeking fresh faces led him to Sharpe.“We were really trying to figure how to cast that part so it didn’t feel like familiar casting,” he explained.

, creator Mike White's Emmy-winning social satire, is officially returning with season 3. Like the first two, the new installment will take place at another one of the luxury hotel's exotic locations, where a new group of guests and employees will find their lives clashing in unexpected ways. Although HBO has not officially revealed any new or returning cast members, including Jennifer Coolidge, or where the new episodes will take place, White has shared some of his ideas while members of the sprawling ensemble have weighed in with ET about whether they would return. As anticipation builds for another installment, here's everything we know about the cast and the location of season 3. The biggest question is whether or not Coolidge will return as Tanya McQuiod, the grief-stricken guest who found solace in Greg Hunt (Jon Gries) in season 1 before the two's romance started to fall apart in season 2.

The White Lotus is almost certainly checking into an Asian hotel for its third season — and it’s been revealed Netflix’s Dahmer star Evan Peters nearly starred in the second run.

Marta Balaga Total spend on content will “flatten and slightly decline” this year. This tendency might continue for “at least” the next couple of years, according to Ampere Analysis’ Guy Bisson, a speaker at Monday’s opening panel of the Berlinale Series Market, which runs through Feb. 22. “We are entering a phase of market maturity in streaming: Growth is difficult to come by. We see it across the globe, most drastically in the U.S.,” he observed.  That said, there is one “lockdown trend” that happened to stick around: Unscripted commissioning rose to match scripted, with streaming commissioning currently focusing ever more at documentary, entertainment and reality. 

Vulture on Friday about the cancellation of his sitcom “Reboot,” Knoxville said, “Mike White is a very close friend of mine. He and I had been in Tokyo together.

Emily Longeretta The limited series category is saying goodbye to Tanya and Co. at the 2023 Emmy Awards. The TV Academy is no longer allowing HBO’s “The White Lotus” in the limited/anthology category and Variety has confirmed that the series will move to the drama category. Season 1, starring Jennifer Coolidge, Murray Bartlett, Connie Britton and Sydney Sweeney, earned 10 Emmy Awards. The second season brought back Coolidge as her Season 1 character — new cast members included Aubrey Plaza, Meghann Fahy, Theo James and Michael Imperioli. In 2021, the Television Academy defined what a limited or anthology series is, explaining that the story must be resolved within its season, with no ongoing storylines allowed.

location of ' third season… from none other than Johnny Knoxville?During an interview with, the  star accidentally stirred the internet pot when he hinted at Mike White's anthology series possibly heading to Japan next. «Mike White is a very close friend of mine. He and I had been in Tokyo together,» he told the website.

dramatic Season 2 finale of “The White Lotus,” fans have been anxiously waiting for the location of Season 3 to be announced.Season 1 of the show took fans to Hawaii, filmed at the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea, while Season 2 brought us out of the country to Sicily, filmed at the Four Seasons San Domenico Palace in the town of Taormina.In a new interview with Vulture, Knoxville, 51, might have accidentally let slip where the next season will take place when talking about his friendship with show creator Mike White, 52.“Mike White is a very close friend of mine. He and I had been in Tokyo together,” he shared “I think that’s where the next…Oh, I’m not giving anything away.”“I might call him again as soon as this is over,” Knoxville added.Before TVLine confirmed the renewal of the HBO Max show that follows guests and employees of the fictional hotel chain White Lotus, White was already thinking about where the next location would be — and hinted at Asia.“I think it’d be fun to maybe go to a whole different continent.

A slip of the tongue? Johnny Knoxville potentially revealed the next location for the third season of The White Lotus thanks to his friendship with the show’s creator Mike White.

Expanding his resumé! The White Lotus star Jon Gries made a surprise appearance at New York Fashion Week — by strutting down the runway in his modeling debut.

A woman of many talents.

It’s about damn time! Jennifer Coolidge‘s Hollywood career transformed “in the blink of an eye” as The White Lotus launched her to “superstar” success — and she’s still adjusting.

fans with on their season three fan-cast list are about to be severely disappointed. During her February , the star quickly shut down the question before it could even be asked. “I'm not in it,” she said. “I know what you're insinuating.

EXCLUSIVE: Italian actress Eleonora Romandini, known in the U.S. for her role as Isabella, a concierge in HBO’s The White Lotus, has signed with Stride Management for representation.

EXCLUSIVE: The White Lotus breakout Sabrina Impacciatore has signed with Gersh and MGMT Entertainment for representation.

 “Trying out TikTok!” Coolidge captioned the video, along with a @jlo tag. “This is my first TikTok, and I was trying to think of something cool to do, and I think I'm just gonna do a poem that I like,” says Coolidge, before reciting the lyrics to Lopez's 2002 hit “Jenny From the Block” with the all the earnestness of a first-timer at an open mic night.Cut to Lopez, who is gazing at Coolidge with approval. “I like that,” she says, nodding. “I really like that.”Reactions to the Jennifer x Jennifer content were, in a word, effusive.

The mystery continues! Meghann Fahy finally addressed the rumors about her relationship with White Lotus costar Leo Woodall — but she left fans with more questions than answers.

, which centers on the dark secrets of varying guests and staff at an idyllic resort over a week.One such storyline in the second season, which was , focused on Daphne (Meghann) and her husband Cameron (Theo James) vacationing with their friend Ethan (Will Sharpe) and his wife Harper (Aubrey Plaza).Quickly, things got awkward with Harper's reluctance to warm up to Daphne and Theo—who, on paper, looked like the ultimate picture-perfect couple who have it all. She felt even more uncomfortable following Theo's questionable behavior towards her in private before learning that he and Ethan enjoyed a wild party with two sex workers in her and Daphne's absence.In return, Harper's husband Ethan felt blindsided when Harper accused him of cheating on her when she found a condom in their hotel room following the party.

Jennifer Coolidge has finally been given the recognition she deserves!

A night to remember! The 80th annual Golden Globes delivered Hollywood glamour — and A-list appearances — after the 2022 ceremony was not televised.

. The actress began by setting her award on the ground, joking: “I don’t work out, you know what I mean? I can’t hold it that long.” From there, the comedy icon launched into a tribute to the people who created opportunities and kept her career going over the years.

may not have a lot in common IRL (unless Coolidge is secretly an heiress with a travel bug and an unreliable husband), but when it comes to style, they're both  At the Coolidge proved as much when she hit the red carpet at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles wearing a glittering, off-the-shoulder black gown. In true diva fashion, she paired the look with voluminous blowout and a vampy smoky eye.Coolidge, for her role as Tanya in season one of , reprised her role for season two. Her performance in the second season of Mike White's HBO Max hit earned her a nomination at tonight's awards for best actress in a supporting role in a limited series, anthology series, or motion picture made for TV.

The Directors Guild of America has unveiled the television and documentary nominations for its 75th anniversary DGA Awards, which will be handed out next month.