Apple has renewed comedy series “Ted Lasso” for a second season, Variety has learned. The news comes less than a week after the series premiered on the streamer, with the first three episodes becoming available at that time. The fourth episode will debut on Friday. The second season will consist of 10 episodes like the first
Month: August 2020
Daniella Diaz spent months as Elizabeth Warren’s shadow. The CNN producer crisscrossed the country, following the presidential hopeful as she pressed the flesh in a middle school gymnasium in Muscatine, Iowa, or delivered a blistering rebuke of Donald Trump in a packed auditorium in Lebanon, N.H. Anywhere the candidate looked, while working a rope line, taking a debate stage, or posing
Breaking News Another huge victory in court for Robert Kraft … video allegedly showing the Patriots owner receiving sex acts in a massage spa has been ruled INADMISSIBLE once again. The 79-year-old’s dream team of attorneys had successfully argued last year that Feb. 2019 footage of Kraft inside a Jupiter, Fla. day spa violated his
Comedian Nigel Ng will never forget his family’s reaction to the video that made him go viral in July. In it, Ng, dressed in a bright orange polo shirt and playing a character character named “Uncle Roger,” reacts to BBC Food presenter Hersha Patel making egg fried rice and committing what he deems cardinal sins
When HBO’s marketing teams began crafting the influencer marketing campaign for their sci-fi thriller “Lovecraft Country,” they made sure to keep the blerd community in mind. “It is cool to be a blerd now,” HBO’s senior VP of multicultural marketing Jackie Gagne tells Variety. “It is a very passionate group and we knew that there
Jesse Goins, who appeared in the most recent season of the Discovery series “Gold Rush,” has died, Variety has confirmed with sources. He was 60. Goins was on set for “Gold Rush” in Colorado, when he was discovered unconscious by another crew member on Tuesday night, sources say. He was then rushed to hospital where
Tanya Saracho has signed an overall deal with Universal Content Productions (UCP). Under the deal, Saracho will develop original television projects for UCP as well as podcasts via the studio’s UCP Audio division. She will also establish a lab and incubator program aimed to nurture, amplify, guide, and empower intersectional Latinx voices. She was previously
(SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains spoilers for the season finale of “I May Destroy You,” which airs in the U.S. on Aug. 24 but aired July 13 in the U.K.) Michaela Coel is afraid of spiders, which only makes her more determined to imagine a world in which she’s not. “I’ve fantasized about living in
Phoenix have released their first new song since 2017, “Identical,” which is featured in Sofia Coppola’s forthcoming film “On the Rocks,” which reunites the director with “Lost in Translation” star Bill Murray as well as Rashida Jones and Marlon Wayans. The song, the band’s first release since 2017’s album “Ti Amo,” can also be heard
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have announced that they’re celebrating female empowerment — and also promoting their new single, “WAP” — by giving away $1 million via Twitter and Cash App. “Today through 8/20, women who Tweet with #WAPParty and their $Cashtag will have a chance at receiving a portion of the 1M dollars
The first trillion is the hardest. Apple, after two solid quarters beating Wall Street estimates, has now hit an unprecedented milestone: It’s the first U.S. company with a market cap of $2 trillion. The largely symbolic mark comes just over two years after Apple was the first American corporation to reach a market cap of
Oscar-nominated “City of God” DoP Cesar Charlone, who went on to direct “3%,” South America’s first Netflix series, is set to co-direct and serve as cinematographer on “Graf Spee,” a six-part human drama evolving during the most memorable of World War II naval battles, the Battle of the River Plate. Based on real events and
Fans of “Tiger King” will not be able to visit The Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park as the property has now been closed permanently, according to a Facebook post from owner Jeff Lowe. According to Lowe, he contacted the USDA to voluntarily forfeit his exhibitor’s license which allowed him to buy and sell animals, and
We at Variety try to shine a light on good deeds, and although we can’t say we condone Beggars Group CEO Paul Redding’s ambitious goal of swimming the English Channel in an effort to raise £200,000 for coronavirus relief and Black Lives Matter, we do applaud his intentions (and optimistically assume that he knows what
The lineup of judges for “American Idol” will remain the same next season. Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Ritchie have all agreed deals to come back to the series, alongside host Ryan Seacrest. The news comes around four months after ABC renewed the talent show for a fourth season at the network. Like many
Amos Newman, who has spent the past decade as head of WME’s music for visual media department, is joining sister company Endeavor Content in the newly created role of senior vice president, music. WME agent Bradley Rainey will now lead WME’s Music for Visual Media group, which represents such leading film composers as Hans Zimmer
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Play video content Breaking News DeSean Jackson went OFF on Danny Green during L.A.’s stunning loss to Portland on Tuesday … with the NFL star calling the Lakers wing “weak,” a “bum” and straight-up “trash.” “I don’t care what anybody say,” said the Philadelphia Eagles receiver, who grew up in L.A. “Danny Green, you weak
Sports journos Michael Smith and Michael Holley are co-hosting Peacock’s first original sports talk show, a three-hour weekday show set to debut next month on NBCUniversal’s recently launched streaming service. “Brother From Another” with Smith, a former ESPN “SportsCenter” anchor, and Holley, host and columnist for NBC Sports Boston, will stream live from 3-6 p.m.
As part of the #MC30 campaign celebrating the 30 years since her debut album was released, Mariah Carey will release a two-disc called called “The Rarities” on Oct. 2, a “collection of personal favorites from her vault … celebrating Carey’s exceptional artistry and vision through hidden musical jewels from her personal archives,” according to the
Kenneth Branagh’s “Death on the Nile,” a follow-up to 2017’s hit “Murder on the Orient Express,” released its first trailer — and everyone’s a suspect. The murder mystery, based on the Agatha Christie novel, picks up with Branagh reprising his role as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. This time, he’s vacationing aboard a luxurious river cruise
FilmRise, the New York-based film and TV distribution company and streaming network, has acquired Sabrina Van Tassel’s timely social justice documentary “The State of Texas vs. Melissa” which premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. FilmRise picked up the theatrical and digital rights to the documentary for North America, the U.K. and Ireland. Set in
London’s Notting Hill Carnival, the largest street festival in Europe, which normally attracts 2.5 million visitors over two days, is going digital for the first time in its 54-year history after the coronavirus pandemic forced cancellation of the physical event. Four channels will stream performances and entertainment over Aug. 29-31, the last holiday weekend in
Universal has decided to change the scope of its planned “Jurassic World: Dominion” Malta shooting schedule from a first unit crew to a second unit one, following an outbreak of coronavirus across the nation’s islands. The $200 million movie, based at Pinewood Studios near London, started shooting on Feb. 24, but production was shutdown two
While the murder of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement triggered months of protests in the U.S. and kicked off a roiling debate about institutional racism, much of Europe has struggled to initiate a similar reckoning about race—something European film industries have been particularly slow to grapple with. How that
Former Focus Features executive Luane Gauer has joined sales, production and finance company Protagonist Pictures as head of acquisitions. As vice-president, production and acquisitions at Focus in Los Angeles, Gauer worked on films for worldwide distribution, including Emerald Fennell’s Sundance title “Promising Young Woman”; international acquisitions like Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir,” Asghar Fahradi’s “Everybody Knows”;
It’s not often that an international Netflix Original gets to three seasons. So, logic would dictate that if two first-time creators, whose low-budget underdog comedy had become one of the platforms best-loved cult hits made it to a third season, they might stick with what was working for them in the first place. Standing on
The Australian government has opened the Temporary Interruption Fund that is designed to overcome the problem of production insurance and swiftly get cameras rolling on films and TV shows. The A$50 million fund will be administered by Screen Australia on behalf of the federal government. It was announced in late June, in response to significant
Mainland Chinese streaming giants iQIYI and Tencent are set to be banned from operating in Taiwan from next month, following the revision of an existing law that will bar their local partners from providing services for them. Companies and individuals in Taiwan will be banned from providing services for OTT operators from mainland China, Taiwan’s
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