EXCLUSIVE: Scott Foley (Scandal) has signed on to star in La Dolce Villa, a new romantic comedy for Netflix. Others cast in the film, from director Mark Waters (Mean Girls), include Violante Placido (The American), Maia Reficco (Do Revenge) and Giuseppe Futia. La Dolce Villa follows successful businessman Eric (Foley) as he travels to Italy […]
EXCLUSIVE: The annual NBC TV Writers Program from NBCU Launch is welcoming its 2024-25 class selected from a pool of 2,100 applicants: Bryce Cracknell, Domonic Diaz-Smith, Bixby Elliott, Helen Fernandez, Maia Henkin, Neda Jebelli, David Loong and Sebastián Rea. NBCU Launch is the umbrella brand that houses the comprehensive inclusion efforts across NBCUniversal’s entertainment TV […]
EXCLUSIVE: Show Kasamatsu, one of the stars of Max’s acclaimed crime drama Tokyo Vice, has taken on new representatives at Brookside Artist Management and CAA. Currently in its second season, Tokyo Vice follows Jake Adelstein (Ansel Elgort), a Western journalist working for a publication in Tokyo who takes on one of the city’s most powerful […]
Oprah Winfrey is leaving the board of directors of WeightWatchers after a 9-year run and donating her stock in the company in order to avoid any potential conflict of interest over her use of weight-loss medication. Shares in the company fell almost 20% on the news. In addition to not standing for re-election in May […]
Coyote vs. Acme star Will Forte has spoken out for the first time since the movie was killed by Warner Bros back in November, telling fans in a social media post this AM, “I know that a lot of you haven’t gotten a chance to see our movie. And sadly, it’s a looking like you […]
Searchlight movie The Greatest Hits following its March 14 world premiere at SXSW will hit select theaters on April 5 and stream on Hulu on April 12. The Ned Benson written and directed title follows Harriet (Lucy Boynton) who finds art imitating life when she discovers certain songs can transport her back in time – […]
Actress Ally Maki has demonstrated her comedy chops on TV’s Hacks, 10 Things I Hate About You, Wrecked, and as the voice of “Giggle McDimples” in the Pixar film Toy Story 4. But lately, her work has taken a dramatic turn – in the serio-comic Apple TV+ show The Big Door Prize, and especially in […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Gotham Film & Media Institute announced on Thursday that Gotham Week will return to Brooklyn from September 30 – October 4. The third annual Gotham Week Expo, an initiative of the Gotham’s Expanding Communities program, will showcase thought leadership on the advancement of the film and media industries while amplifying Gotham’s partner organizations, […]
Showtime announced director Daniel Peddle’s Beyond The Aggressives: 25 Years Later documentary will debut on streaming and on-air for Paramount+ subscribers with the Paramount+ with Showtime plan on Saturday, March 30 and premiere that day at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime. The film, which was nominated for the Outstanding Documentary Feature at the GLAAD Media […]
Big change on Masterpiece’s popular drama Miss Scarlet and the Duke. Stuart Martin, who played William “The Duke” Wellington in the previous four seasons, will not return for season 5. Kate Phillips (Wolf Hall, The Crown) will return as Miss Eliza Scarlet for a fifth season of investigations, and the series will be retitled Miss Scarlet. […]
The end is in sight for Alex Rider. The Anthony Horowitz spy thriller will wrap its run with the upcoming third season. All eight episodes will be released on April 5 on Amazon Freevee in the UK, U.S. and Germany, bringing the final chapter of Alex’s journey of self-discovery to a close. “It’s been such […]
Canada’s eOne division is rejigging following the Lionsgate buy, with Orphan Black EP Kerry Appleyard set to replace Tecca Crosby at the creative helm. From April, Appleyard will take on the SVP Scripted and Unscripted role that Crosby has held for the past 12 years and will direct both genre teams creatively. She joins from […]
The good news: the demographic diversity of the Television Academy’s membership has increased and women with historically marginalized racial/ethnic identities reported a 10% increase in “belonging.” Now the bad news: members who hold “multiple marginalized identities still hold less positive sentiments across the board as compared to those with more of a majority” while “representation […]
EXCLUSIVE: CBS is quickly returning to dominance on broadcast TV with the mid-season rollout of its scripted programming. After a strong post-Super Bowl debut, Tracker held onto quite a large audience with 12.9M viewers tuning in for the second episode after seven days of viewing across broadcast and streaming. That’s about double the same-day audience […]
The Sands International Film Festival has set third edition lineup and will feature Joe Russo, Avengers composer Alan Silvestri and casting director Debra Zane. The third year of the Scottish festival that aims to showcase “creative and innovative” people working in the entertainment industries will run from April 19 to 21. Renowned Hollywood director Russo […]
Serial will be back in March with its long-awaited fourth season. The popular podcast will return for a nine-episode fourth season on March 28, with a focus on Guantanamo. The announcement was made today by Serial host Sarah Koenig, Julie Snyder and Dana Chivvis at On Air Fest in Brooklyn, an annual event that explores […]
Roll up, roll up: it’s Cannes prognostication time. With the 77th edition of the great cinema showcase less than three months away, the blurred outline of a lineup is beginning to emerge. At this stage, the process of elimination is as telling as the process of inclusion: hardly any films have been guaranteed a slot […]
The White House is demanding that Fox News retract or revise its coverage of claims that Joe Biden was involved in a multi-million dollar bribery scheme after the key witness in the allegation was indicted for making it all up. In a letter to top executives, Ian Sams, White House spokesman for oversight and investigations, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Few people embody the act of balancing legacy media with the digital frontier quite like Bill Owens. As the executive producer of 60 Minutes, he is the caretaker of a broadcast TV franchise well into its sixth decade, one of the few pieces of programming outside of NFL football capable of drawing mass tune-in. […]
Babylon Berlin has landed a new U.S. home on a newly-merged streaming service created as Kino Lorber’s MHz Choice and Topic combine. The boutique streamer will be named MHz Choice and feature the likes of The Killing, The Bridge, Detective Montalbano, The Sea Beyond and Pagan Peak, alongside the popular Babylon Berlin, which moves over from Netflix after […]
EXCLUSIVE: Tubi is set to premiere the Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton, Derry Girls) and Lydia West (It’s A Sin, Inside Man) comedy series Big Mood exclusively in the U.S. and Canada in April. The six-episode series is written and created by Camilla Whitehill, directed by Rebecca Asher and produced by Fremantle’s Dancing Ledge Productions. Big Mood […]
Blame it all on his roots and how he showed up in boots: Garth Brooks, together with his wife Trisha Yearwood, are launching a new docuseries for Prime Video called Friends in Low Places. The series follows the couple and some “friends” as they set out to build the ultimate oasis — a honky-tonk in the […]
Frameline, the San Francisco-based LGBTQ+ media arts organization and hosts 0f the annual San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, announces the selection of Allegra Madsen as Executive Director, effective immediately. “Allegra’s proven track record of success in leading non-profit organizations, combined with her understanding of the LGBTQ+ landscape and passion for building community through art […]
Netflix’s Indian slate for this year includes a feature film about a group of drunk young men who crash a wedding, and a series about a plane hijacking. Toplining the new titles is Wild Wild Punjab, a Luv Films feature from Simarpreet Singh written by Harman Wadala and Sandeep Jain. According to the longline, it […]
EXCLUSIVE: Sky has acquired UK rights to true-crime documentary series Inheritance: The Jersey Murders, which has been six years in the making. The under-the-radar three-part series is set amidst the 1987 Great Storm on the island of Jersey, where Elizabeth and Nicholas Newall vanish. Suspicion falls on their sons, Roderick and Mark, when blood is found, […]
