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We already know that Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino is working on a new version of “Lord of the Flies.” However, it appears that Showtime might have beat him to the punch with the new series, “Yellowjackets.” READ MORE: Summer TV Preview: Over 40 Series To Watch As seen in the trailer for “Yellowjackets,” the new Showtime series follows the story of a female high school soccer team that finds itself involved in a plane crash.

released the trailer for “Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James” Tuesday and it gives viewers a taste of the music icon’s crazy life.The doc will spill some juicy tea about James’ music career, his journey to Toronto to escape joining the Navy, his drug use, sexual trysts and much more.“There was plenty of dope around,” keyboardist Levi Ruffin Jr. revealed in the doc.

Showtime‘s “Billions” is back with all-new episodes. Bobby Axelrod and Chuck Rhodes have been unscrupulous adversaries and underhanded allies.

A few things to unpack here. Number one, yes, it’s Comic-Con weekend, this weekend, but it’s been something of a non-existent entity thanks to COVID and once has to wonder if that’s it for Comic-Con’s pop-cultural dominance (though they are apparently trying a bigger, in-person version in the fall).

Is it ‘Man Of Easttown,’ ‘True Maretective’? Showtime really looks like it loves the Pennsylvania Rust Belt and troubled cops, the same milieu of HBO’s recently acclaimed “Mare Of Easttown.” But coming off the wake of that series, is it going to look like some rehash of a very similar story? Their latest series is “American Rust,” a family drama starring Jeff Daniels.

Before establishing himself as a Hollywood megastar thanks to leading roles in the likes of “An Officer and a Gentleman” and “The Cotton Club,” Richard Gere set a whole generation’s pulses racing as male escort Julian Kaye in Paul Schrader‘s 1980 noir thriller, “American Gigolo.” Now, Jon Bernthal (“The Punisher,” “Those Who Wish Me Dead“) is set to follow suit as the lead of Showtime’s small-screen adaptation of the classic ’80s thriller.

Otis “Douda” Perry (Curtiss Cook) has walked a fine line since entering “The Chi” universe in Season 2 of Showtime’s gritty, Chicago-based drama.The dapper, civic-minded Perry was camouflaged behind his successful and lucrative pizza business, leading a double life as a drug lord with a vise-like grip on the South Central neighborhood around which “The Chi” orbits.Then, in the show’s Season 3 finale, Perry was elected mayor of Chicago, beating Camille Hallaway (played by series creator Lena

While Showtime hasn’t been able to fully keep up with the likes of HBO in terms of overall quality of original programming or quantity, there are some serious bright spots on the premium network, including the long-running series, “Billions.” And because of that show’s popularity and awards recognition, it appears Showtime is ready to give “Billions” co-creators, Brian Koppelman and David Levien, another series about the business world to bring to the network, titled “Super Pumped.” READ MORE:

such as Alison Roman questions like, “How many black friends do you have?” She takes a similar approach to her Showtime series, which features a mix of interviews and comedy sketches each episode. In the May 9th premiere, for instance, Ziwe asked author Fran Lebowitz if “racism or slow walkers” bothers her more.

The dynamics of life and death surround Showtime’s new series “The End.” Set in Australia, this dark comedy explores how a mother and daughter relate to ever-changing circumstances. Creator and writer Samantha Strauss offers a balanced look at the realities of personal growth, while also delving into what it means to be a part of the modern familial unit.

“Black Monday” may not be the buzziest show on television, but with a cast like Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells (“Girls,” “The Boys in the Band“), Regina Hall (“Support the Girls,” “Girls Trip“), Paul Scheer (“Veep”), Michael James Scott and Eugene Cordero, the Showtime series is proving all you need to survive in TV is have a dedicated audience.

It’s been nearly a decade since “Dexter” ended its 8-season run on Showtime. And much like the more recent “Game of Thrones,” “Dexter” didn’t end in a way that many fans were pleased with.

The last time I was at the movies, some friends of ours in our quarantine pod were kind enough to invite us to a movie theater they had rented for all the families in our pod. The movie showtime was a weekend afternoon, a.k.a the perfect time to take the kiddos to the theater.

Do you know, Ziwe, aka Ziwe Fumudoh, a Brooklyn-based American comedian and writer? She is the creator of the comedy show “Baited With Ziwe,” a writer for “Desus and Mero,” and a co-host on the Hysteria podcast on Crooked Media.

Aldis Hodge), who’s trying to clean up a bureaucracy brimming with corruption and sleazy FBI agent Jackie Rohr (Kevin Bacon), who doesn’t exactly operate by the book. Del Negro, who’s been moved up to series regular for Season 2, plays Chris Caysen, the sergeant of the Youth Violence Strike Force — or gangs.

Sure, you might best know actor David Duchovny as the star of series such as “X-Files” and “Californication.” But did you also know that he’s an accomplished fiction writer that just released his fourth novel, “Truly Like Lightning?” Well, he is, and that latest work is now the source material for a new Showtime series that he’s going to write and star in.

Following their last successful American political show, “The Comey Rule,” Showtime is looking to make a limited series about another big and timely news topic with the same creators. This time they’ll be moving forward with a project about the deadly insurrection at the U.S.

Look, you’re not going to ever see a writer at The Playlist talk about how great it is when international films are given English-language remakes. Obviously, we’re all fans of international cinema.

Typically, when a show does solid ratings, gets awards consideration, and runs for seven years, a network will give the creator and producers a chance to finish their story before outright canceling it. Unfortunately, that was not the courtesy given to the makers of “Ray Donovan,” as the long-running Showtime series was abruptly canceled after its 7th season, which actually left on a bit of a cliffhanger and zero resolution.

If you’re Gillian Anderson and you are coming off an acclaimed role as Margaret Thatcher in “The Crown,” why not cross the Atlantic and take on another political figure next? And apparently, that’s exactly what the actress is set to do, as she is the latest lead to join the upcoming Showtime anthology series, “The First Lady.” According to THR, Anderson is set to play Eleanor Roosevelt in the upcoming political anthology, “The First Lady.” In the first season, Anderson will take on the role of

rollercoaster life of fame and infamy will get a closer look in a new, three-part docuseries on Showtime.“Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine” puts the social media sensation-turned-snitch under the microscope, chronicling his ascent to super stardom and stunning downfall to convicted felon.“Superheroes always die,” the rainbow-haired rapper says in the trailer out Wednesday. “Villains never die.

You have to hand it to Michelle Pfeiffer. First, because the woman seemingly hasn’t aged much at all over the past few decades, which mind-boggling and impressive.

is a look at America through the eyes of various first ladies.

There’s a centerpiece scene in the series premiere of Showtime’s “Your Honor” that’s among the best of the year. A New Orleans judge named Michael Desiato (Bryan Cranston) has returned home to find his son Adam (Hunter Doohan), rattled and apparently injured.

Featuring three comedy heavyweights with John C. Reilly, Fred Armisen, and Tim Heidecker, as well as an intriguing situational set-up, Showtime’s new “Moonbase 8” is an amusing, if slightly empty, workplace comedy.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris has covered a lot of crazy stories in his day and he’s arguably the godfather of the true-crime documentary that we all love and spend watching as docu-series on places like Netflix (see the monumental true-crime doc “The Thin Blue Line“). Whether crafting incisive political docs like “The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S.

Acclaimed crime-drama Dexter is making a return, eight years after it went off air.

has ordered a limited series revival of bloody drama “Dexter” and star Michael C. Hall will return to the title role.

A wickedly industrious joke-machine intellect attached to a pneumatic pair of eyebrows, John Belushi was the king of American comedy in the mid-to-late 1970s. At the peak of his career, he could boast a sinecure at “Saturday Night Live,” blockbuster movies, a hit band, and the best Toshiro Mifune imitation ever to hit American TV.