EXCLUSIVE: CBS may have found the cooking competition series that it’s been looking for – from Padma Lakshmi and former NBCU content chief Susan Rovner. The network has struck a development deal with the pair for a new food format that marks the first project to be baked up by Rovner’s new production company Aha Studios. […]
Saturday Night Live will celebrate 50 years of airtime with its upcoming season, which will surely make way for high-profile guest stars, retrospectives on skits and more. With Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night arriving in October, the show’s beginnings will become memorialized in another way. New cast members have been added ahead of SNL Season 50, […]
Veteran media strategist and journalist Debra Birnbaum has been named Editor-In-Chief for awards prediction platform Gold Derby. She succeeds in the role Tom O’Neil, Gold Derby’s Founder and President, who will step into the role of President Emeritus. Birnbaum, who starts Sept. 16, joins Gold Derby form Amazon MGM Studios where she was global […]
Jon Bernthal (The Bear) and Pablo Schreiber (Halo, Orange is the New Black) are joining star/executive producer Tessa Thompson in Netflix’s upcoming series, His & Hers, in series regular roles. Production is set to begin this fall. The six-episode limited series from William Oldroyd and adapted from Alice Feeney’s novel is set in the sweltering […]
Jack Huston (Expats, Boardwalk Empire) will star as a series regular opposite Nicolas Cage in Spider-Noir, the upcoming MGM+ and Prime Video live-action series based on the Marvel comic Spider-Man Noir. From executive producers/co-showrunners Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot and Sony Pictures TV, Spider-Noir tells the story of an aging and down on his luck private investigator (Cage) in 1930s New […]
Global music superstar Bad Bunny has continued to fill out his acting slate with a role in Netflix’s Happy Gilmore 2, Deadline has confirmed. Details as to his role is under wraps, as is the sequel’s plot. Others on board include Julie Bowen and Christopher McDonald, who reprise their respective roles as Virginia Venit and […]
The 2024 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) fall on the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks Wednesday. In observance of the occasion, MTV will support the nonprofit, 9/11 Day, which organizes the National Day of Service and Remembrance as well as Tuesday’s Children, which serves the families affected by the event. Those wondering how […]
EXCLUSIVE: Gunpowder & Sky, the production company behind Sabrina Carpenter: A VR Concert and Showtime’s Sheryl is teaming with pop and reality TV star Jessica Simpson on a multi-part documentary about the musician, entrepreneur, philanthropist and best-selling author. Production is currently underway on the documentary, which is described as a raw, intimate and unprecedented look […]
Paramount+’s limited series JonBenét Ramsey (w/t), from MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios, has tapped Emily Mitchell (The Apprentice) for its title role, also bringing aboard Garrett Hedlund (Tulsa King), Alison Pill (Trap) and Owen Teague (The Friend) for parts. Mitchell’s JonBenét is a girl from an affluent family and child beauty queen, whose murder […]
EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Dynamics, the world’s largest independent stand-up comedy production and distribution company, has launched a 24/7 free ad-supported TV channel dedicated to stand-up on Amazon Freevee. The Stand Up Channel will be carefully curated by the Comedy Dynamics team, and feature new and classic stand-up comedy specials, Amazon original specials, and new acquisitions as […]