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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 3 of “Severance,” streaming now on Apple TV+. We found love in a hopeless place? In Season 2, Episode 3 of “Severance,” the innies are kind of all doing their own thing. Mark (Adam Scott) and Helly (Britt Lower) are off exploring the goat nursery

Netflix’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s “The Sandman” will end with its upcoming second season. “The Sandman” Season 2 has been a long time coming. The first season debuted in August 2022, and it wasn’t renewed at Netflix until November of that year. At that time, Netflix was also hesitant to label it as a second

Paramount Global and CBS News may have very different views on the journalism produced each week by “60 Minutes.” Staffers at CBS News, the unit that serves as home to the venerable newsmagazine as well as “CBS Evening News” and has ties to the early days of TV news when Edward R. Murrow held sway,

Timothy Olyphant is the latest addition to the cast of the upcoming Apple TV+ limited series “Lucky.” Variety has learned that Olyphant has joined the series alongside previously announced lead Anya Taylor-Joy as well as recently announced cast member Annette Bening. “Lucky” is based on the novel of the same name by Marissa Stapley. The

“The You You Are,” the revolutionary self-help book in “Severance” that motivates the innies to liberate themselves from the confines of Lumon, is now available for your outie to read. Eight chapters of “The You You Are” — penned by Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD — have been released digitally via Apple Books. (Apple TV+

“House of the Dragon” has found its Ormund Hightower. Variety has learned exclusively that James Norton will join the HBO show’s upcoming third season as Ormund. The official description for the character states that he is “Otto’s (Rhys Ifans) nephew, Alicent (Olivia Cooke) and Gwayne’s (Freddie Fox) cousin, and the Lord of Oldtown. He is

Max got plenty of afterglow from the big “Hacks” best comedy Emmy win this fall, but series producer Universal TV would appreciate some of that halo too. “Ted Lasso” is Apple TV+’s biggest hit, but give some credit to the company behind the show, Warner Bros. TV. And yes, “The Boys” was a game changer

In a power move that signals its serious play for India’s streaming wars, Amazon MX Player showcased its ambitious strategy at its inaugural StreamNext event, rolling out plans for over 100 new shows in 2025, including 40 Hindi-language originals. The Mumbai-based event, which drew heavyweight industry figures like Martin Sorrell and Benedict Evans, turned heads

As “The Masked Singer” returns next month for Season 13, the show has revealed some of its weekly theme nights — paying tribute to franchises including “Shrek” and “Ghostbusters,” as well as the Grand Ole Opry as it hits its 100th anniversary. Also on tap are a tribute to the Rat Pack, as well as

Original “Little House on the Prairie” star Melissa Gilbert fired back at Megyn Kelly over a comment the former Fox News host made about Netflix‘s upcoming adaptation of the classic book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Variety confirmed on Jan. 29 that Netflix is developing a new “Little House on the Prairie” series. Gilbert was

Lifestyle TV veterans Maggie Barnes and Brett Stolnick have launched Garden Slate Productions, home of Food Network’s long-running series “The Kitchen” and HGTV’s “The High Low Project.” Barnes and Stolnick previously worked together at BSTV Entertainment, which the pair acquired from producer Beth Burke. BSTV’s roster also included Food Network’s “Trisha’s Southern Kitchen” and “Big

“Married at First Sight” is on the move. After a competitive situation, the relationship show has found a new home at Peacock, where it will stream for at least three seasons — 19, 20 and 21. The series first debuted in 2014 on FYI, also airing on A&E for Season 2. In 2017, it moved

Sophie Thatcher can cry a single tear out of either eye on command. No, it’s not a party trick, but it blew away writer-director Drew Hancock. During a taut scene in the third act of his sci-fi thriller “Companion,” opening in theaters this weekend via Warner Bros., he asked Thatcher to attempt to shed just

Chuck Todd, the former “Meet the Press” moderator, is leaving NBC News, he told colleagues in a memo issued Friday, a move he’s making in order to pursue ventures outside the NBCUniversal empire. Todd had in recent weeks been meeting with other news outlets and potential employers, according to people familiar with the matter. His

One of the best-known characters in modern advertising is returning to work. Actor Paul Marcarelli played a “Test Man” for Verizon, clad in a gray jacket and horn-rimmed glasses for nearly a decade in dozens of commercials that that had him checking on the status of the telecommunications company’s technology and asking aloud, “Can you

Most Super Bowl viewers live nowhere near Shane Gillis, Post Malone and Peyton Manning. On Sunday February 9, the people who help sell Bud Light hope they see the trio as just three more of their friends or neighbors. The popular beer, which has been a staple of Super Bowl advertising for 35 years, will

The first bone-chilling teaser-trailer for Netflix‘s “The Monster of Florence” from Italian genre specialist Stefano Sollima has been unveiled. In an exclusive with Variety, the streamer has released the first footage from the hotly-anticipated serial killer series, about a string of sex-related murders that took place outside Florence from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s.  Sollima,

 The annual SCAD TVfest is back — and kicking off the packed event robustly with one of the biggest shows on television being honored on opening night. The 13th annual festival will begin with Variety honoring Matt and Ross Duffer, the creators of Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” with the Showrunner Award, presented by star Caleb McLaughlin.

“Squid Game” reached 4.6 billion minutes watched on Netflix in Season 2’s first full week of availability, per Nielsen. Even though that’s a small drop from the 4.9 billion minutes the series achieved the week before, which included Season 2’s debut weekend, this is a massive achievement for the South Korean drama. It’s rare that

Matt and Ross Duffer spent most of last year filming the final season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” and they can’t help but feel “mixed emotions” now that production has wrapped. “It was definitely sad,” Ross Duffer says of their last day in December. “We’re not going to tell the story with these characters anymore, with

Vince Vaughn is joining Shane Gillis in his Netflix comedy series “Tires” among other Season 2 guest stars Ron White, Jon Lovitz, Veronika Slowikowska and Steph Tolev. It was previously announced that Thomas Hayden Church would appear in the second season as Gillis’ character’s dad. Details on most of their characters have yet to be

Pick your peaches in the summer! Season 3 of “Ginny & Georgia” will premiere on June 5, Netflix just announced. The drama, which follows mother-daughter duo Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and Georgia (Brianne Howey) as they navigate life together, will pick up shortly after the Season 2 finale. Per Netflix, “Georgia has just been arrested for

Despite a cryptic teaser earlier this week, Jake Paul and Logan Paul will not face off against each other in the ring. Rather, they are launching a reality series on Max, the brothers announced during a livestream event Thursday. Jake and Logan peacocked around one of their mansions for five minutes, pretending to spar, until

ITV has held early talks with the Abu Dhabi-backed investment group RedBird IMI, led by CEO Jeff Zucker, about a potential merger of their production businesses, according to a report. Citing two people with “knowledge of the situation,” Reuters claimed that the discussions had centered on merging ITV Studios with All3Media, which RedBird IMI acquired

Bradley Whitford and Allison Janney are back together in the White House again. It’s a “West Wing” reunion in “The Diplomat” Season 3, as Whitford has joined the cast as Todd Penn, husband to Janney’s Vice President Grace Penn. Netflix has released three first-look images from the upcoming season of the political thriller, which is

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers from the series premiere of Hulu’s “Paradise.” In an overly saturated media market, it’s hard for any show to break through. And it becomes even harder when a network or streamer can’t truthfully answer this simple question regarding new TV series: “What’s it about?” So in the case of “Paradise,”

Before they made history playing a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, “Dimension 20” dungeon master Brennan Lee Mulligan and the intrepid heroes (Lou Wilson, Brian Murphy, Siobhan Thompson, Emily Axford, Ally Beardsley, and Zac Oyama) that star on the Dropout tabletop role-playing game TV series sat down with Variety for a game of “Most

“Forever,” the 1975 coming-of-age novel by Judy Blume, is the inspiration for Netflix‘s newest teen drama. The series is named after Blume’s classic book about two high schoolers losing their virginity, but it isn’t a beat-for-beat adaptation. Instead, “Forever” is described as “an epic love story of two Black teens exploring romance and their identities

Two entertainment organizations will host a new “Breaking In” virtual event in February aimed at providing early career professionals information on how to get their foot in the industry’s door. Presented by the Hollywood Radio and Television Society Foundation and Entertainment Industry College Outreach Program, the event will occur Feb. 25 at 4 p.m. PT

Pantheon Media Group, the studio formerly known as Asylum Entertainment Group, has tapped producer and marketing vet Kelly Mullen to serve as its head of brands. Mullen will report to Pantheon Media Group chairman Steve Michaels, who announced the news on Thursday. At Pantheon, which is part of Endeavor’s nonscripted content group, Mullen will work