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‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Boss Reacts to Vandalized Billboard and Shares Secret About That…

"Larry had to suffer, why shouldn't everyone else!" says Jeff Schaffer, revealing a Max setting forced on viewers, while also explaining how that…

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‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Boss Reacts to Vandalized Billboard and Shares Secret About That End-Credits Text Chain

[This story contains spoilers from Season 12, Episode 7 of Curb Your Enthusiasm, “The Dream Scheme.”] Life imitated art this week in the world of Curb Your Enthusiasm when a real-life Hollywood billboard ended up vandalized, just like the plot of last week’s episode. As viewers will recall, the sixth episode in the final season […]

‘This Is Us,’ ‘Scandal’ Stars Board ‘The Hunting Wives’ at Starz

Starz is adding to the cast of its forthcoming thriller The Hunting Wives. Chrissy Metz, Jaime Ray Newman, Katie Lowes and George Ferrier have joined the ensemble for the drama series, based on May Cobb’s novel. The cast for the series from Lionsgate Television and 3 Arts Entertainment also includes Malin Akerman, Brittany Snow, Dermot […]

Jimmy Kimmel Producing Cannabis Series for Hulu

Hulu plans to celebrate April 20 with Jimmy Kimmel. The Disney-backed streamer has handed out a six-episode series order for High Hopes, a docuseries following two brothers running a cannabis shop in Los Angeles with Kimmel on board to exec produce. Hulu describes High Hopes as a “workplace reality series following Belarus-born brothers Slava and […]

‘Pachinko’ Creator Inks Overall Deal With Apple

Pachinko creator Soo Hugh is expanding her relationship with the teams behind the critical darling. Hugh has signed a multiple-year overall deal with Apple and Pachinko producers Media Res. Hugh, who was previously at Universal Content Productions, will continue to serve as showrunner on Pachinko as well as developing new projects through her Moonslinger Productions […]

MrBeast Strikes Amazon Deal For Biggest Competition Series in TV History

MrBeast is headed to Amazon. The hugely popular YouTube star has struck a deal with Amazon MGM Studios for his first traditional TV series: A competition described as “the biggest reality competition series in television history.” The project is based on his YouTube show and titled Beast Games. It will feature 1,000 contestants competing for […]

How Danai Gurira Pulled Off That Emotional ‘Walking Dead’ Reunion

[This story contains spoilers from The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live episode four.] Nobody knows Rick and Michonne better than Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira, and to back that up, the powers that be wisely installed the iconic zombie-fighting actors as executive producers on The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live. For the fourth […]

Sara Bareilles on “Beautiful Collaboration” Writing Songs for ‘Girls5eva’ Soundtrack

Multi-hyphenate Sara Bareilles brought her talents to the set of Girls5eva, the Tina Fey-produced comedy that launched its Netflix comeback on Thursday. In addition to starring as Dawn in the show’s titular girl group, Bareilles brought her songwriting chops to the writers room, where she penned lyrics for a number in season three’s finale. “What […]

Bill Maher Says Artificial Intelligence Should Be a Bigger Concern Than TikTok

Amid the U.S. House passing a bill this week that would ban TikTok, Bill Maher wasted no time Friday sharing his thoughts on the controversial matter. To kick off the latest episode of HBO’s Real Time, the host joked during his monologue, “China, you know what, you can manufacture everything else that we use, but […]

How ‘Manhunt’ Turned the Hunt for Lincoln’s Killer Into a Pre-Forensics Detective Drama

[This story contains spoilers from the two-part season premiere of Manhunt.] In an era of TV police and crime series like CSI and The Killing, using the forensic investigation of a crime scene, including DNA and fingerprints, to help find a killer and solve a murder is commonplace. So Monica Beletsky, the creator of Apple […]

‘Among Us’ Animated Series at CBS Studios Sets Voice Cast

An animated series based on Among Us has cast several prominent actors to voice the characters inside the multi-colored spacesuits. Randall Park, Ashley Johnson, Yvette Nicole Brown and Elijah Wood will star in the series from CBS Studios and the video game’s developer, Innersloth. The show, which doesn’t have an outlet attached yet, will follow […]

‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 4: Everything to Know About the Next Whodunnit

[This story includes major spoilers for season 3 of Only Murders in the Building.] Only Murders in the Building season 3 went out with a bang — literally. After revealing that the (spoiler alert!) producers of Death Rattle Dazzle, Cliff (Wesley Taylor) and Donna (Linda Emond), were the ones who killed Ben Glenroy (Paul Rudd) […]

‘Masters of the Air’ Star Nate Mann Breaks Down the Finale’s Most Powerful Scene

[This story contains spoilers from the Masters of the Air’s finale, “Part Nine.”] For all his character’s airborne heroics, it was a poignant scene on the ground that hit Masters of the Air star Nate Mann the hardest. Since his debut as Major Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal in “Part Four,” Mann’s hotshot B-17 pilot truly mastered […]

‘The Bear’ Will Film Seasons 3 and 4 Back to Back

Cousin! FX’s The Bear is not turning down the heat anytime soon. Sources confirm to The Hollywood Reporter that the Emmy-winning dark comedy has quietly been renewed for a fourth season. While FX declined comment on the pickup, sources note that seasons three and four will film back to back in a bid to keep […]

‘Snowpiercer’ Lands at AMC for Fourth and Final Season

Snowpiercer’s final season will see the light of day after all. AMC has picked up rights to all four seasons of the post-apocalyptic drama — including the completed but never aired fourth season. The series first aired on TNT, but the Warner Bros. Discovery network canceled the show in January 2023 as it and sister channels […]

Ty Burrell to Lead ABC Comedy ‘Forgive and Forget’

Ty Burrell is returning to ABC. The two-time Emmy-winning Modern Family star has been tapped to star in Forgive and Forget, a multicamera comedy that has been ordered to pilot at the Disney-owned broadcast network. From writer Eugene Garcia-Cross (The Santa Clauses, Peacock’s Punky Brewster), Forgive and Forget revolves around Hank (Burrell), the perennial life of […]

Jason Bateman-Jude Law Drama ‘Black Rabbit’ Gets Netflix Green Light

Netflix has greenlit a limited series starring and executive produced by Jason Bateman and Jude Law. The two actors will play brothers in Black Rabbit, a drama from creators Zach Baylin (King Richard, Bob Marley: One Love) and Kate Susman. Bateman is also set to direct the first two episodes. The series has been in […]