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To kick of Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas 2024, ‘Twas The Date Before Christmas is a new, original rom-com, starring Amy Groening and Robert Buckley.

The movie reveals just how far a single woman will go to get her family to continue a holiday tradition. Read on to learn more about the movie’s plot and its cast, and watch a teaser trailer.

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According to TV Insider, ‘Twas The Date Before Christmas tells the story of Jessie (Groening), who wants to stop her family from canceling the Chamberlain Family Christmas Olympics. To do so, she tells the family she is bringing a date to the long-standing family tradition.

Meanwhile, she meets Bryan (Buckley) on...

The highly anticipated New York premiere of Space Cadet took place at the historic Metrograph Theater in New York City, drawing a crowd of excited fans and notable celebrities. Among the attendees were the film’s stars Emma Roberts and Poppy Liu, who graced the blue carpet with their presence, adding star power to the event.

Roberts, known for her roles in American Horror Story and Scream Queens, dazzled in a metallic silver mini dress that showcased her fashion-forward style. The actress was all smiles as she posed for photos and greeted fans. Roberts’ enthusiastic embrace of co-star Liu was a highlight of the evening, reflecting the camaraderie and chemistry that translates on screen.

Liu, recognized for her work in Hacks and Sunnyside, looked stunning in a deep blue velvet gown, exuding elegance and sophistication. Her unique style and charismatic presence were undeniable as she interacted with attendees and the media.

Indie Games, which users and critics acclaim, usually have an incredibly distinctive charm and feel about them. Not to mention, Aaa games have been underwhelming for quite some time.

5 Indie Games You Should Really Give a Try if You Haven’t Already

If one is looking for new games to enjoy and support the indie video game scene, these are our top 5 Indie titles released in June 2024.

#5 Dragon is Dead The game is a must-try if one likes roguelikes. inc. | Team Suneat

At first glance, one can see that Dragon is Dead is inspired by incredible 2-D platformers and roguelikes like Dead Cells and Blasphemous 2. Team Suneat develops the game, and while it doesn’t offer something incredibly novel, many other Indie titles exist. Players step into the boots of a Dragon Slayer and make their way across the world in their quest to slay a dragon.

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Fresh from the awards circuit, where she picked up an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe, Ayo Edebiri is set to host Saturday Night Live for the first time.

The Bear star will host the venerable NBC show February 3 and will be joined by musical guest Jennifer Lopez.

Edebiri started her career in stand-up before going on to write on a number of comedy shows such as The Rundown with Robin Thede, Sunnyside and Big Mouth before working on Apple’s Dickinson and then landing the role of Sydney on The Bear.

She also has SNL connections; she previously hosted a comedy show with Ben Marshall, who is now one of the members of SNL acting and writing troupe Please Don’t Destroy.

Lopez, meanwhile, has appeared on the show numerous times including three appearances as musical guest and three times as host. Her new album, This Is Me… Now,...

After nearly a year and a half of waiting, Max’s pirate rom-com “Our Flag Means Death” will return on Oct. 5.

The first teaser for this new installment picks up right where Season 1 left off. Though the newly-in-love Stede (Rhys Darby) and Blackbeard (Taika Waititi) planned to run away together, a hostile encounter kept Stede away from the man he loves. Stede’s holdup caused Blackbeard to believe he had been abandoned.

The teaser starts with Stede tossing a bottled message into the ocean as his voiceover reads, “Dear Ed, I love everything about you. I love being near you, breathing the same air.”

As Stede waxes poetic about his new love, Blackbeard angrily growls “F–k you, Stede Bonnet.” The rest of the teaser bounces between Stede reading his love letter and defending Blackbeard and his heartbroken lover generally causing havoc in any way he can.

Watch the full teaser in the video above.

This article is presented by Paramount Pictures.

If the Ninja Turtles are out on the town, you can bet that reporter April O’Neil isn’t far behind and she’s ready to get in on the action. Mutant Mayhem’s incarnation of April is a younger version of the classic character who is one of the first humans to closely interact with the mutant teenagers. The Turtles are apprehensive but April surprises them with her acceptance of their differences. In a way, she helps them come out of their shells. April also helps the teens realize how important it is to just be regular teenagers and the fun that comes along with it. Without her, the Turtles’ interaction with the human world would be much different.

Ayo Edebiri is a writer, actor, and stand-up comedian who’s starred in such TV shows as Big Mouth, Dickinson, The Bear, Clone High,...

Designated Survivor stood as a remarkable example among those treasured few television shows that possess an undeniable allure, captivating audiences and cultivating a devoted cult following.

Even when ABC passed on another season after running for two, the unyielding adoration was so fervent that Netflix picked it up for a third and final season.

It's time to embark on a journey, revisiting the stars who illuminated our hearts with their portrayals and what became of them in the years following their presence on this cherished show.

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Tom was the main protagonist who ascended to the highest political seat in the United States by slim luck.

For the period he was the interim president, and after being elected, he fielded threats from all corners, many of which threatened to destroy him and his family.

Renowned for his captivating performances as the quintessential protagonist in political thrillers,...

The writers strike has entered its fifth week and is about to enter its second month and shows no sign of abating.

There were some high-profile reunions on the streets of Burbank today including the cast and crew of Ted Lasso, who were on the picket lines hours ahead of the series finale of their Apple comedy drama, and the team behind hit medical drama ER.

Jason Sudekis, who has been regularly walking the line outside Ted Lasso studio Warner Bros. Discovery, was joined by Brendan Hunt, Hannah Waddingham and Nick Mohammed among others, who were originally in LA to attend a finale event before it was canceled as a result of the standoff.

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Waddingham, on social media, said, “On our final day as Richmond Greyhounds….there’s nowhere else we could be. Thank you so much to our magnificent writers’ room.

Exclusive: Burgeoning Toronto-based indie streaming platform HighballTV has announced five original titles it plans to put into production in 2023, with an overall investment of 15.6M.

The new slate consists of Caden Douglas’ genre comedy Mother Father Sister Brother Frank, music documentary Working On The Radio, anthology film The God Of Frogs, Andre Rehal’s crime drama Jin And The Wild Dog and Alice Moran’s comedy film Bash. (scroll down for more details).

The company has raised the slate financing via private investors and loans with the Royal Bank Of Canada and will also tap into the regional film tax incentives.

“We’re looking at being 50:50 between the two types of financing (private financiers and Rbc),” said HighballTV head of production Matthew Campagna. “They really believe in us and our company with its slow, careful organic growth.

“We’ve got the corporate guarantees and the tax returns to back...

Ayo Edebiri has been cast in “Abbott Elementary” in the guest starring role of Ayesha Teagues, sister of Janine (series creator Quinta Brunson).

Throughout the series, Janine periodically mentions having a complicated relationship with Ayesha, who will appear for the first time in the Feb. 8 episode “Valentine’s Day” via FaceTime before returning for a larger storyline later during Season 2.

Edebiri is best known for starring as Sydney Adamu in “The Bear,” FX’s hit comedy-drama series that debuted in 2022. The role earned her acting nominations from the Gotham Awards, Critics’ Choice, the Indie Spirits and the Screen Actors Guild. She is also a writer, with credits including “Big Mouth” on Netflix and “Dickinson” on Netflix — also playing Missy and Hattie in those shows, respectively — as well as NBC’s “Sunnyside” and FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows.” Up next, she will appear in the upcoming Marvel film...

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Graham Greene is set to star alongside Alice Moran in the comedy mystery Paige Darcy and the Case of the Stoned Cat, from directors Melissa D’Agostino and Matt Campagna for HighballTV.

Greene, who earned an Oscar nomination for playing medicine man Kicking Bird in Kevin Costner’s Dances with Wolves and will also appear in Marvel’s Echo series, joins an ensemble cast that includes Linda Kash, Dan Jeannotte, Andrew Phung and Paloma Nunez.

Paige Darcy and the Case of the Stoned Cat is also written by Second City alum Alice Moran, who has also starred in Sunnyside and Man Seeking Woman. Moran plays a former precious tween sleuth, Paige Darcy, who is dragged into solving both a murder case and the mystery of how to put her life back together.

The movie is shooting in Hamilton, Ontario through August. “We’ve been...

Apple TV+ has released the trailer for its new Maya Rudolph-led comedy series ‘Loot.’

After divorcing her husband of 20 years, Molly Novak must figure out what to do with her 87 billion settlement. She decides to reengage with her charitable foundation and reconnect with the real world—finding herself along the way.

The series’ ensemble cast is led by stars Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (“Pose”), Ron Funches (“Undateable”), Nat Faxon (“Married”) and Joel Kim Booster (“Sunnyside”).

Created, written and executive produced by Yang and Hubbard. Rudolph executive produces, along with Natasha Lyonne and Danielle Renfrew Behrens, through their Animal Pictures. Dave Becky of 3 Arts also serves as executive producer.

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The show hits the service on June 24th with the first three episodes of a ten-episode run.

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George Lopez is returning to primetime: NBC has handed a series order to Lopez vs. Lopez, a new sitcom starring the comedian, TVLine has learned.

Lopez stars opposite his real-life daughter Mayan Lopez in “a working-class family comedy about dysfunction, reconnection and all the pain and joy in between,” per the official description. Selenis Leyva (Orange Is the New Black), Brice Gonzalez and Matt Shively (American Housewife) lead the supporting cast, with Laci Mosley (A Black Lady Sketch Show) and Kiran Deol (Sunnyside) in recurring roles.

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George Lopez and Mayan Lopez’s NBC comedy pilot “Lopez vs. Lopez” has cast Laci Mosley and Kiran Deol in recurring roles and set Kelly Park to direct, Variety has learned exclusively.

The multi-cam pilot starring the Lopezes is described as a working-class family comedy about dysfunction, reconnection and all the pain and joy in between.

Mosley will play Brookie, Mayan’s co-worker and best friend who always knows what’s trending (and sometimes it’s her feet pics). Deol will play Dr. Pocha, the veterinarian who employs Mayan and Brookie and is better at saving pets than talking to people.

Mosley stars in Paramount+’s “iCarly” reboot as Harper, and she was a member of the Season 2 cast of HBO’s “A Black Lady Sketch Show.” Her other screen credits include “Florida Girls” on Pop, “Single Parents” on ABC, “Better Call Saul” on AMC and “Insecure” on HBO, and...

Hacks‘ Deborah Vance and Ava Daniels are going on tour, and in the new Season 2 teaser released Thursday, we finally get our first peek at what’s in store.

When the critically acclaimed comedy returns to HBO Max Thursday, May 12 (its eight-episode run will roll out two episodes weekly), “The dark mentorship between legendary Las Vegas comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and her young, entitled writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder) continues to evolve as the two travel across the country workshopping Deborah’s new stand-up act,” according to the official logline.

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Apple TV+ today announced the premiere date and unveiled a first-look at the new comedy series Loot, starring and executive produced by Emmy Award winner Maya Rudolph.

From Emmy Award-winning creators Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard, the 10-episode workplace comedy will debut globally with the first three episodes on Friday, June 24 on Apple TV+, followed by one new episode weekly, every Friday.

All of the photos below are your first look at the new series.

In addition to Rudolph, the Loot ensemble cast is led by stars Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (Pose), Ron Funches (Undateable), Nat Faxon (Married) and Joel Kim Booster (Sunnyside).

In Loot, billionaire Molly Novak (Rudolph) has a dream life, complete with private jets, a sprawling mansion, and a gigayacht — anything her heart desires.

But when her husband of 20 years betrays her, she spirals publicly, becoming fuel for tabloid fodder.

She's reaching rock bottom when she learns, to her surprise,...

“Loot,” the Maya Rudolph workplace comedy from Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard, will debut globally on Friday, June 24, Apple announced on Tuesday. Rudolph stars and executive produces.

Apple also released first-look photos of the series, which co-stars Michaela Jaé Rodriguez of “Pose,” Ron Funches (“Undateable”), Nat Faxon (“Married”), and Joel Kim Booster (“Sunnyside”).

In “Loot,” Rudolph plays billionaire Molly Novak, whose ultra-rich lifestyle spirals out of control when her husband of 20 years betrays her. She hits rock bottom and becomes tabloid fodder, as she gets the surprising news that she has a charity foundation run by the no-nonsense Sofia Salinas (Rodriguez). Sofia pleads with Molly to stop generating bad press. With help from Sofia, as well as her devoted assistant Nicholas (Kim Booster), mild-mannered accountant Arthur (Faxon) and Sofia’s optimistic, pop-culture-loving cousin Howard (Funches), Molly realizes giving back to others might be what she needs to get back to herself.

Exclusive: Cuban American actress Ana Villafañe has landed the lead role in the indie feature Alina of Cuba: La Hija Rebelde from Mankind Entertainment and Maven Pictures. She will portray Fidel Castro’s daughter and anti-communism activist, Alina Fernandez.

Alina of Cuba is based on the true-life story of Fernandez, a Cuban American immigrant and human rights advocate whose birth was the result of a passionate love affair between Castro and Natalia “Naty” Revuelta. Revuelta, a Cuban-born socialite, sacrificed her and her physician husband’s personal belongings and finances to help fund the revolution.

Fernandez learned of her connection to Castro at the age of 10: when after years of secret visits to her home, she was finally told by her mother that “El Comandante” was her biological father. Fernandez and her mother stayed in Cuba after the former’s stepfather and her sister fled to the U.S. after...

Some brave new souls will go head-to-head with Deborah Vance when HBO Max’s Hacks returns later this year: Laurie Metcalf (The Conners), Ming-Na Wen (The Book of Boba Fett) and Martha Kelly (Baskets) are set to join Season 2 in recurring roles, the streamer announced Friday.

Margaret Cho (The Flight Attendant) is also on board to guest star, albeit, in a non-recurring capacity.

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When the critically acclaimed comedy returns for its...

Exclusive: Kal Penn has been tapped as a lead opposite Tim Allen and Elizabeth Mitchell in The Santa Clause, Disney+’s upcoming limited series, from Last Man Standing creator Jack Burditt.

Allen reprises his role as Scott Calvin from the Walt Disney Pictures holiday franchise. In the sequel series, Scott Calvin (Allen) is on the brink of his 65th birthday and realizing that he can’t be Santa forever. He’s suddenly starting to lose his Santa magic, and more importantly, he’s got a family who could benefit from a life in the normal world, especially his two kids who have grown up at the North Pole. With a lot of elves, children, and family to please, Scott sets out to find a suitable replacement Santa while preparing his family for a new adventure in a life south of the pole.

Penn will play Simon Choksi. An ambitious game inventor and product developer,...

AMC Networks on Wednesday revealed casting for “Tales of the Walking Dead,” the episodic anthology spinoff of “The Walking Dead,” which is set to premiere this summer on AMC and AMC+.

Anthony Edwards, Parker Posey, Terry Crews, Poppy Liu and Jillian Bell will star in standalone episodes featuring both new and established characters set in the world of “The Walking Dead.” Additional cast will be announced later.

“Anthony, Jillian, Terry, Parker, and Poppy are the first wave of singular talents who will further expand the Walking Dead Universe into harrowing, hilarious, heartfelt, and horrifying new realms and we couldn’t be happier to welcome them to the family, along with these terrific directors. More announcements, more wonderful folks to come,” said chief content officer of the Walking Dead Universe and the show’s executive producer, Scott M. Gimple.

Showrunner Channing Powell, who has been a writer and producer on “The...

The initial cast has been announced for Tales of the Walking Dead, AMC’s new spinoff series set in The Walking Dead universe. Anthony Edwards, Parker Posey (Lost In Space), Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Poppy Liu (Dead Ringers) and Jillian Bell (Rough Night) have been tapped to star in the AMC Studios-produced episodic anthology series.

Additionally, Haifaa al-Mansour, Deborah Kampmeier (Star Trek: Picard) and Tara Nicole Weyr have been tapped to direct one episode with series producer Michael Satrazemis set to direct three episodes.

Each one-hour standalone episode of Tales of the Walking Dead will focus on both new and established characters set in the world of the original series. It’s set to premiere this summer on AMC and AMC+.

The series will be executive produced by Scott M. Gimple, chief...

Exclusive: Kal Penn has signed on to produce and star in Stampede Ventures’ biopic Superfan, which will tell the story of Nav Bhatia, a decades long follower of the Toronto Raptors, who last year became the first fan inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall Of Fame. Penn will play the Toronto man whose loyalty to the Raptors saw him honored with a championship ring, and leading the team’s championship parade in 2019.

Bhatia has long used the game of basketball to bring people together and has an inspiring life story. He came to Toronto as a penniless Sikh immigrant, there navigating a tough journey through racism and bigotry, before establishing himself as the most prolific car salesman and dealership owner in all of Canada.

Over the years, basketball became a friend and passion for him, to the extent that he has never missed a Raptors home game.

An elf named Candy Smalls has big, bleepin’ plans to upend the North Pole’s patriarchy in the Nsfw trailer for Santa Inc., HBO Max‘s adult stop-motion animated series.

Premiering Thursday, Dec. 2 (with all eight episodes), Santa Inc. finds Sarah Silverman (Wreck-It Ralph) voicing Candy, an intrepid elf/executive vice president at the North Pole who will do anything to succeed Seth Rogen’s holly-jolly VIP and thus be named the first female Santa — “even if she has to fight like a man to get it.”

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Exclusive: Kal Penn is set as the male lead of Belated, FX’s comedy pilot written, directed and executive produced by Rescue Me and The Job co-creator Peter Tolan, I have learned.

The half-hour comedy follows Owen (Penn), a recently out man in his 40s, and his ex-wife Diana as they attempt to find their new normal and take on new relationships while continuing to co-parent together. The project also follows an unexpected intergenerational friendship between Owen and Clay, a 17-year-old trans teen.

This is a personal project for both Tolan, who came out as gay later in life, and Penn, 44, who came out a couple of weeks ago, announcing his engagement to his partner of 11 years in his memoir “You Can’t Be Serious”, published on Nov. 2.

Penn’s character Owen is intelligent with a dry wit. He seemed to have life all figured out: he had a great wife and family,...

Norm Macdonald, whose laconic delivery of sharp and incisive observations made him one of Saturday Night Live‘s most influential and beloved cast members, died today after a nine-year private battle with cancer. He was 61.

Macdonald’s death was announced to Deadline by his management firm Brillstein Entertainment. The comedian’s longtime producing partner and friend Lori Jo Hoekstra, who was with him when he died, said Macdonald had been battling cancer for nearly a decade but was determined to keep his health struggles private, away from family, friends and fans.

“He was most proud of his comedy,” Hoekstra said. “He never wanted the diagnosis to affect the way the audience or any of his loved ones saw him. Norm was a pure comic. He once wrote that ‘a joke should catch someone by surprise, it should never pander.’ He certainly never pandered. Norm will be missed terribly.”

Norm Macdonald:...

HighballTV, the Canada-based subscription streaming platform that focuses on curated film collections from leading filmmakers and top titles from major film festivals, has unveiled its 2021-2022 slate of original productions. All of the films are directed by women directors and/or people of color, and every writing team is led by a woman or person of color.

Its 2021-2022 slate comprises three new projects, backed with a combined investment of $12 million. The films are Andre Rehal’s drama “Strangers in a Room,” Melissa D’Agostino’s dark musical comedy “Mother of All Shows,” and the mystery-drama “Paige Darcy: Former Teen Detective,” written by Alice Moran.

“Strangers in a Room,” Rehal’s feature directorial debut, follows a veteran actor in a slump who comes face to face with the idea that his dream is dead, following a micro-aggression steeped in industry politics. The cast includes Jonathan Kim (HBO Max’s upcoming series...

HBO will be feeling Insecure this fall: The comedy’s fifth and final season is slated to premiere this October, the premium cabler has announced.

In January, creator/star Issa Rae told our sister site Deadline, “Prentice [Penny] and I are so grateful that HBO believed in our show from the beginning and kept faith in us to see our vision through the end. We always planned to tell this story through five seasons, but we couldn’t have made it this far without the tremendous support of our audience. I feel blessed beyond measure to bring our characters’ stories to an end,...

Yesterday, it was announced by WarnerMedia that they’ve added two more actors to their cast of “Our Flag Means Death,” a pirate comedy series at HBO Max that will be led by New Zealand comedian Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi as history’s most notorious pirate, Blackbeard.

They’ll be joined by Fred Armisen and Samba Schutte (“Sunnyside“)

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“Our Flag Means Death” is loosely based on the true adventures of Stede Bonnet (Darby), a pampered aristocrat who abandoned his life of privilege to become a pirate.

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Fred Armisen & Samba Schutte have boarded HBO Max’s pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death, joining stars Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi. The series hails from writer David Jenkins, Garrett Basch and Dan Halsted.

Created by Jenkins, who also serves as showrunner, Our Flag Means Death is based loosely on the true adventures of Stede Bonnet (Darby), a pampered aristocrat who abandoned his life of privilege to become a pirate.

Armisen and Schutte join the cast in recurring roles. Details about their characters have not been revealed. The ensemble cast also includes Ewen Bremner, David Fane, Nat Faxon, Nathan Foad, Joel Fry, Leslie Jones, Samson Kayo, Guz Khan, Rory Kinnear, Matt Maher, Kristian Nairn, Con O’Neill and Vico Ortiz.

Our Flag Means Death is executive produced by Waititi, Jenkins, Basch and Halsted.

Armisen’s recent credits include Portlandia, Los Espookys and Documentary Now! The Saturday Night Live alum is represented by Brillstein Entertainment Partners,...

The HBO Max pirate comedy series “Our Flag Means Death” has added recurring guest stars Fred Armisen and Samba Schutte. The show hails from writer, showrunner, and executive producer David Jenkins. Garrett Basch and Dan Halsted also serve as executive producers along with Taika Waititi, who will direct the pilot as well in addition to playing Blackbeard, the infamous buccaneer.

“Our Flag Means Death” is loosely based on the true adventures of Stede Bonnet (to be played by “Flight of the Conchords” alum Rhys Darby), a pampered aristocrat who abandoned his life of privilege to become a pirate. The show was originally ordered at HBO Max in September 2020.

Armisen and Schutte join previously announced cast including Ewen Bremner, David Fane, Guz Khan, Matt Maher, Joel Fry (most recently seen in Disney’s “Cruella”), Kristian Nairn, Nathan Foad, Samson Kayo, Rory Kinnear, Con O’Neill and Vico Ortiz.

Armisen is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners,...

Exclusive: Conrad Ricamora (The Resident), James Scully (You), Matt Rogers (I Love This For You), Tomas Matos (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Torian Miller (Goliath), and Nick Adams (The Other Two) have joined the cast of Fire Island, the Searchlight Pictures title from director Andrew Ahn, which has now entered production.

Zane Phillips (Madam Secretary), Michael Graceffa (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Aidan Wharton (I Want Your Love), Peter Smith (Girls5Eva) and Bradley Gibson (Power Book II: Ghost) will round out the ensemble, led by previously announced cast members Joel Kim Booster (Sunnyside), Bowen Yang (Saturday Night Live), and Margaret Cho (All-American Girl).

The film written by Booster is billed as a modern-day romantic comedy inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, which is set in the New York hamlet of Fire Island Pines. The story centers on two best friends who set out to have a legendary,...

Poppy Liu has joined the cast of “Dead Ringers” at Amazon, Variety has learned.

She joins previously announced series lead Rachel Weisz and recently announced cast member Michael Chernus. The series was announced at the streaming service in August 2020 with a straight-to-series order. It is a modern update of the 1988 David Cronenberg film of the same name. The series version will see Weisz playing the double lead role of Elliot and Beverly Mantle, twins who share everything: drugs, lovers, and an unapologetic desire to do whatever it takes, including pushing the boundaries on medical ethics in an effort to challenge antiquated practices and bring women’s healthcare to the forefront.

Liu will play Greta, Beverly and Elliot’s watchful and meticulous house manager who runs their lives with complete efficiency and her own hidden agenda.

Liu broke out on the critically-acclaimed HBO Max series “Hacks,” on which she starred opposite...

Hacks standout Poppy Liu has been tapped as a series regular opposite Rachel Weisz in Amazon’s Dead Ringers series, a reimagining with a gender swap of David Cronenberg’s cult classic 1980s film. The project, which received a straight-to-series order last year, hails from Weisz, Alice Birch, lead writer of Hulu’s acclaimed Normal People series, Annapurna Television and Morgan Creek Entertainment, the company behind the original movie.

Dead Ringers is a modern take on Cronenberg’s thriller starring Jeremy Irons, featuring Weisz playing the double lead role of Elliot and Beverly Mantle, twins who share everything: drugs, lovers, and an unapologetic desire to do whatever it takes, including pushing the boundaries on medical ethics in an effort to challenge antiquated practices and bring women’s healthcare to the forefront.

Liu will play Greta, Beverly and Elliot’s watchful and meticulous house manager who runs their lives with complete...

Joel Kim Booster is set as a lead opposite Maya Rudolph in Apple’s half-hour comedy series from Emmy winners Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard. Mj Rodriguez also stars.

Created and written by Yang and Hubbard, the series follows Molly (Rudolph), a woman whose seemingly perfect life is upended after her husband leaves her with nothing but $87 billion.

Booster will play Nicholas, Molly’s loyal assistant.

Yang and Hubbard executive produce alongside Rudolph through her production company, Animal Pictures, with the company’s Natasha Lyonne and Danielle Renfrew Behrens also executive producing. Additionally, Dave Becky executive produces. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, will serve as the studio.

Booster, who starred as Jun Ho in NBC comedy series Sunnyside, most recently served as consulting producer and voiced the character Charles Lu on Netflix’s animated series Big Mouth. His other recent TV and film credits incude Curb Your Enthusiasm,...

Joel Kim Booster has joined the upcoming Maya Rudolph-led comedy series at Apple.

The untitled series follows Molly (Rudolph), a woman whose seemingly perfect life is upended after her husband leaves her with nothing but 87 billion dollars. Booster will play the role of Nicholas, Molly’s loyal assistant. Along with Booster and Rudolph, “Pose” alum Mj Rodriguez will also star in the series.

The Apple announcement marks the second casting for Booster this week. Variety exclusively reported that he and Bowen Yang will star in the romantic comedy ““Fire Island” from director Andrew Ahn. His other recent credits include “Big Mouth,” “Search Party,” “Sunnyside,” and “Shrill.” He was recently named one of Entertainment Weekly’s “11 Asian American Comics Who Killed It This Year.”

Booster is repped by Omnipop Talent Group, WME, and Felker Toczek.

Created, written and executive produced by Yang and Hubbard, the new series is also executive...

“Sunnyside” star Joel Kim Booster has joined the cast of the untitled Maya Rudolph comedy at Apple TV+, the streamer announced Thursday.

Picked up straight-to-series back in March, the series stars Rudolph as Molly, a woman whose seemingly perfect life is upended after her husband leaves her with nothing but $87 billion.

Booster will play Nicholas, Molly’s loyal assistant. “Pose” alum Michaela Jaé “Mj” Rodriguez also stars.

Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard are co-creators, writers and executive producers on the series.

Rudolph also serves as an executive producer through her production company, Animal Pictures, with partners Natasha Lyonne and Danielle Renfrew Behrens also executive producing. Dave Becky of 3 Arts will executive produce as well. The series hails from Universal Television.

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“Saturday Night Live” actor Bowen Yang and stand-up comedian Joel Kim Booster will star in a modern romantic comedy called “Fire Island” set at Searchlight Pictures.

Andrew Ahn, the director behind the acclaimed indie “Driveways,” is directing the “unapologetic” feature that’s inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.”

“Fire Island” is set in the iconic Fire Island Pines and centers around two best friends who set out to have a legendary week-long summer vacation at the gay mecca with the help of cheap rosé and a cadre of eclectic friends.

Booster also wrote the original screenplay. Filming will begin this summer in both New York City and Fire Island. Searchlight will release the film as a Hulu Original in the U.S. and on Star through Disney+ internationally.

Jax Media, the team behind “Russian Doll” and “Search Party,” is producing the film, with John Hodges, Brooke Posch and Tony Hernandez serving as producers.

Exclusive: Ana Villafañe (Younger) is set as a series regular in NBC’s half-hour pilot Night Court, a follow-up to the classic legal comedy series which is headlined and executive produced by The Big Bang Theory’s Melissa Rauch, with the original series’ John Larroquette reprising his Emmy-winning role.

Written/executive produced by Dan Rubin based on the original series created by Reinhold Weege, the multi-camera Night Court centers on unapologetic optimist judge Abby Stone (Rauch), the daughter of the late Harry Stone, who follows in her father’s footsteps as she presides over the night shift of a Manhattan arraignment court and tries to bring order to its crew of oddballs and cynics, most notably former night court prosecutor Dan Fielding (Larroquette).

Villafañe will play Monica, the court’s assistant district attorney. Type A, superficial and tightly wound. Monica sees the night court as a stepping stone to bigger and better things.

Jeremy Allen White has been cast in the lead role of the FX comedy pilot “The Bear,” Variety has learned.

In addition, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Lionel Boyce, Abby Elliott, and Matty Matheson have also been cast in the project, which was ordered to pilot at FX back in March.

“The Bear” is about a young chef (White) who returns to Chicago to run the family restaurant. Christopher Storer is the writer and director of the pilot. He will also executive produce with Hiro Murai and Mate Matteson of Super Frog and Joanna Calo. FX Productions will produce.

White is best known for playing Lip Gallagher throughout the run of the hit Showtime series “Shameless,” which ended its run in April. His other TV credits include the first season of “Homecoming” at Amazon, while he has also starred in features like “The Rental,” “Afterschool,” “The Time Being,” and “Viena and the Fantomes.

Following the first wave of cancelations since the spread of the deadly 'Covid-19' virus, more TV series have been killed off, including shows from Netflix, Hulu, CBS, ABC, Fox, A&e, USA, Pop TV, Starz, CBS All Access, History, Paramount and a whole lot more:

Canceled Series

ABC

American Housewife

Rebel

Mixed-ish

For Life

The Baker and the Beauty, 1 season

Single Parents, 2 seasons

Bless This Mess, 2 seasons

Emergence, 1 season

Schooled, 2 seasons

Kids Say the Darndest Things, 1 season

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., 7 seasons

Strahan, Sara and Keke, 2 seasons

United We Fall, 1 season

Stumptown, 1 season

Adult Swim

The Venture Bros., 7 seasons

Amazon

Bosch, 7 seasons

Goliath, 4 seasons

Utopia, 1 season

AMC

NOS4A2, 2 seasons

The Walking Dead, 11 seasons

Better Call Saul, 6 seasons

The Walking Dead: World Beyond, 2 seasons

CBS

The Unicorn

All Rise

Criminal Minds, 15 seasons

God Friended Me, 2 seasons

Carol's Second Act, 1 season

Man With a Plan, 4 seasons

Broke, 1 season

Tommy, 1 season

CBS All Access

Interrogation,...

Freeform is rounding out its series regular cast for Everything’s Trash, its half-hour comedy pilot starring, written and executive produced by Phoebe Robinson, inspired by her book Everything’s Trash But It’s Ok. Jordan Carlos (First Wives Club), Toccarra Cash, Nneka Okafor (God Friended Me) and Moses Storm (Sunnyside) will join Robinson in the pilot from ABC Signature. Additionally, Chioke Nassor has been tapped to direct and co-executive produce the pilot.

The series follows Phoebe (Robinson), a 30-something podcast star navigating her messy life, but when her younger brother Jayden emerges as a leading politician, she’s forced to grow up, so she relies on her friends and close-knit family to help her figure out adulthood, since she doesn’t seem to have a clue.

Carlos will play Jayden, Phoebe’s Blerd-y younger brother who was recently elected as a NY State representative.

Jean Smart’s Queen of Sin City refuses to be dethroned in the first trailer for HBO Max’s Hacks (premiering Thursday, May 13).

Created by Broad City trio Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky, the 10-episode comedy centers on “a dark mentorship” that forms between legendary Las Vegas comedian Deborah Vance (Smart) and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old (relative newcomer Hannah Einbinder), according to the official logline. After more than 2,500 shows (“Eat your heart out, Celine!”), Vance’s residency is in jeopardy. That’s when her agent pairs her with a fledging comedy writer (Einbinder) in the hopes of...

Gay dating app Grindr hopes comedy fans will be gagging over its new comedy special.

Debuting today, Gag Reflex, the app’s first comedy event will stream live on YouTube as well as in-app to the millions of daily active users. The lineup features rising queer comedians Joel Kim Booster (Sunnyside), Sydnee Washington (Broad City), Jay Jurden (The Tonight Show) and notable NYC comedians Jaye McBride and Zach Zimmerman. Per the announcement, each set will feature “hilarious insights into modern dating and the queer experience.”

“Comedy is such an integral part of the queer experience and we couldn’t think of ...

Gay dating app Grindr hopes comedy fans will be gagging over its new comedy special.

Debuting today, Gag Reflex, the app’s first comedy event will stream live on YouTube as well as in-app to the millions of daily active users. The lineup features rising queer comedians Joel Kim Booster (Sunnyside), Sydnee Washington (Broad City), Jay Jurden (The Tonight Show), and notable NYC comedians Jaye McBride and Zach Zimmerman. Per the announcement, each set will feature “hilarious insights into modern dating and the queer experience.”

“Comedy is such an integral part of the queer experience and we couldn’t think of ...

Amid a dark time for Asian Americans, Joel Kim Booster’s new radio show looks to be a refuge for the community to laugh through the pain.

The stand-up comedian, who was a regular on NBC’s Sunnyside and consulting producer on Netflix’s Big Mouth, is hosting Joy F*ck Club, a conversation series that will see Booster and his fellow Asian comic luminaries dish on a variety of topics related to the Asian American experience. The show, which premieres tonight, will air Thursdays at 8 p.m. Et on 88rising Radio (SiriusXM channel 305), and will be available to watch 24 hours later ...

Amid a dark time for Asian Americans, Joel Kim Booster’s new radio show looks to be a refuge for the community to laugh through the pain.

The stand-up comedian, who was a regular on NBC’s Sunnyside and consulting producer on Netflix’s Big Mouth, is hosting Joy F*ck Club, a conversation series that will see Booster and his fellow Asian comic luminaries dish on a variety of topics related to the Asian American experience. The show, which premieres tonight, will air Thursdays at 8 p.m. Et on 88rising Radio (SiriusXM channel 305), and will be available to watch 24 hours later ...

HBO Max has added Diana Maria Riva, Juan Javier Cardenas and more to the cast of its upcoming family comedy pilot The Gordita Chronicles, from Josh Berman’s Osprey Productions, Zoe Saldana’s Cinestar Pictures and Sony Pictures TV. Also joining the cast are Savannah Nicole Ruiz, Noah Rico and Cosette Hauer.

They join newcomer Olivia Goncalves, who will lead the comedy written by Claudia Forestieri and directed by Eva Longoria.

The Gordita Chronicles centers on Carlota “Cucu” Castelli (Goncalves), a willful 12-year-old Dominican immigrant with a heart of gold. Cucu leaves her home and her parochial school in Santo Domingo to live in Miami and pursue the American Dream during the hedonistic 1980s after her father, a marketing executive with a large airline, gets transferred there. Cucu meets head-on the challenges of being an immigrant in a strange new world with humor, bravado and some really bad choices.

Riva will appear as Adela,...

Exclusive: Ana Villafañe has joined the cast of Younger as the Paramount+ series heads into its seventh and final season.

The Sunnyside and New Amsterdam actress will recur as KT, a highly organized type-a music manager to Floaty V, a very needy, on-the-go pop star. Always on the call, KT carries two phones and manages to keep the chaotic organized, often at the expense of her personal life. When Floaty V wants an Inkburg tattoo, KT’s interest is piqued by more than just ink.

Younger follows Liza Miller (Sutton Foster), a talented editor navigating the highly competitive world of publishing — while juggling the complications of mixing business with pleasure and facing the lie she created about her age to land her dream job. In the final season, Liza’s personal life is on shaky ground as she tries to stay true to herself. After a setback at work, Kelsey...

Canada-based actor Colm Feore, whose credits include Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy,” “My Salinger Year,” “The Amazing Spiderman 2” and multiple Oscar winner “Chicago,” is to star in post-apocalyptic Western “Six Guns for Hire,” which has just started principal photography in Toronto, Canada. The film also stars Maurice Dean Wint, Oyin Oladejo, and Patrick Kwok-Choon.

“Six Guns for Hire,” the third in a trilogy, is written and directed by Matt Campagna. It follows a vicious group of strangers who gather to divvy up the spoils of a train robbery, while an ace detective pursues hot on their trail. As the bandits realize they may not be strangers after all, the detective unearths a deadly conspiracy at the heart of their crime.

The three stories in the trilogy series, all developed and directed by Campagna, exist within the same post-apocalyptic world, without being traditional sequels or prequels to each other.

Melissa D’Agostino...