Television

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

Netflix has released the first teaser for the murder mystery series “The Residence.” The Shondaland series will premiere on Netflix on March 20. Uzo Aduba stars as detective Cordelia Cupp, who must investigate a murder at the White House. It is inspired by the book of the same name by Kate Andersen Brower. It will

While there have been many scripted adaptations of true-crime podcasts like “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist” and “Dirty John,” far fewer have been transformed into docuseries. But, following the massive success of the audio series “Scamanda,” ABC News Studios and Pilgrim Media Group have teamed up to put the story on the small screen.

NBCUniversal executives offered one statistic during the company’s Q4 earnings call that explains everything about why parent company Comcast is preparing to spin off the bulk of NBCU’s cable channels into a separate company: Some 98% of the viewing of NBCU channels on the Peacock streamer is driven by the NBC broadcast mothership and Bravo.

An American Airlines passenger jet collided with a U.S Army helicopter Wednesday night while landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washinton D.C., causing news outlets like AP, CNN, New York Times, ABC and more to commence wall-to-wall coverage of the tragic accident. According to AP, the crash occurred around 9 p.m. ET as

“All American” may have looked a little different when it returned for Season 7 on Jan. 29 — but it doesn’t feel different. That was the whole goal of creator and executive producer Nkechi Okoro Carroll who made the choice to shake things up in a big way. “Daniel Ezra and I had talked about

How do you follow up the epic 40th season of MTV’s “The Challenge“? Bring back one of the most popular themes for “The Challenge: All Stars.” That’s exactly what the series will do when Season 5 debuts on Wednesday, Jan. 29. Plus, it’s moving back to the original home of “The Challenge,” MTV. (It previously

When Jeff Trammell landed the job of creating Marvel Studios’ animated series “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” (premiering today), he stepped into the most fertile creative period for the web-slinging superhero in his 63-year history. And yet, even between the multibillion-dollar live-action film series starring Tom Holland, the Oscar-winning animated “Spider-Verse” film series and the bestselling

In Netflix‘s new docuseries, “American Manhunt: O.J. Simpson,” director Floyd Russ revisits — once again — the 1994 murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman and the subsequent criminal trial of O.J. Simpson. It’s been 30 years since the “trial of the century,” but time doesn’t seem to matter when it comes to this

After its well-received, highly rated 18th season on Bravo, which concluded in November, “The Real Housewives of Orange County” will once again add Gretchen Rossi to its ranks — she will appear as a “friend” of the cast. Production on the show’s 19th season began this week, with the entire cast returning, except for former “friend”

Netflix has greenlit a new TV adaptation of “Little House on the Prairie,” the beloved book series written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Rebecca Sonnenshine (“The Boys,” “Vampire Diaries,” “Archive 81”) will serve as showrunner and executive producer on the new series. Joy Gorman Wettels of Joy Coalition will also executive produce along with Trip Friendly

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson have reunited for a “True Detective” moment in a new ad directed by series creator Nic Pizzolato. In the video for True to Texas, McConaughey and Harrelson — who embody their “True Detective” characters Detectives Rust Cohle and Marty Hart, respectively — call for the Texas legislature to create new

CBS Studios development executive Bryan Seabury has been promoted to head of content strategy and drama development at the Paramount Global-owned studio. While continuing to lead drama development for CBS Studios, Seabury will now expand his role to include overseeing content strategy for the studio “with an emphasis on franchise building and leveraging and identifying

It’s that time of year again. Season 48 of “Survivor” is set to debut with a two-hour premiere episode on Wednesday, February 26, at 8 p.m., airing on CBS and streaming live on Paramount+. Following the premiere, 90-minute episodes will air weekly beginning March 5. Jeff Probst once again returns as host, while a new

Showdog Studio has optioned “Wunderland,” a new sci-fi thriller series based on an original screenplay by Christopher DeWan, who is attached as the writer for the pilot. Emmy-winning producer James Thorpe will serve as showrunner for “Wunderland,” and will executive produce alongside Showdog Studio founder and veteran producer John Attard. Producers include Robert Harris, Suzanne

Annette Bening is set to star alongside Anya Taylor-Joy in the upcoming Apple TV+ limited series “Lucky,” Variety has learned. It was announced that Taylor-Joy would star in the series back in December. It is based on the novel of the same name by Marissa Stapley. The book was a New York Times bestseller and

Jinkx Monsoon walked the orange carpet at the Season 2 premiere of “Sketchy Queens” Tuesday night in Hollywood. The Broadway star and”Drag Race All Stars” winner responded to Donald Trump’s transgender military ban saying, “This isn’t the first time they’ve tried to make it illegal to be us, and we’re still here.” Late Monday night,

“My Old Ass” writer and director Megan Park has landed a series order at Amazon Prime Video for the drama “Sterling Point,” Variety has learned exclusively. Exact plot details are being kept under wraps, but “Sterling Point” is described as a YA drama. Park is the creator of the series and will also direct, executive

Oscar nominee Lesley Manville and Tim McMullan are set to return in “Marble Hall Murders,” the third and final installment of Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland mystery series, which has been commissioned by Masterpiece on PBS and acquired by the BBC. The new adaptation follows the success of “Moonflower Murders” and “Magpie Murders,” with Eleventh Hour

One of the things about Sally Albright that drives Harry Burns crazy in the 1989 movie “When Harry Met Sally” is her picky food sensibilities. It takes her an hour and a half to make a sandwich, he tells her. In the sequel, she only has 30 seconds. The characters, famously played by Billy Crystal

Banijay Live is expanding with the strategic acquisition of Lotchi, a creator of live immersive experiences whose debut show “Luminiscence” has attracted more than 350,000 spectators across France. Spearheaded by former Banijay France CEO François de Brugada, Banijay Live was launched in 2023 following Banijay Entertainment’s acquisition of Balich Wonder Studio, and investment in The

Bollywood hitmaker Sooraj Barjatya is making his entry into digital entertainment with the series “Bada Naam Karenge,” launching on streaming platform SonyLIV. The move was driven by the platform’s unique request for family-centered content, a genre traditionally seen as counter to contemporary online viewing trends. The filmmaker’s illustrious career includes directing some of Indian cinema’s

Prime Video has set the global launch date for its premium Swedish show “Paradis City,” a fast-paced dystopian actioner, based on “Snabba Cash” scribe Jens Lapidus’ eponymous stand-alone novel. The six-part series, due to launch March 7 exclusively on Prime Video, is being showcased as a works in progress today Jan. 29 at Göteborg’s TV Drama

Super Bowl LIX is still days away, but someone has already scored a key Big Game touchdown. Fox Corp. sold at least 10 of the commercials that will appear in its Feb. 9 telecast of the NFL championship between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles for more than $8 million, according to two

WWE, part of TKO Holdings, is set to make a high-profile return to Europe with its first stadium show in almost three years, officially announcing Clash in Paris, scheduled to take place on Aug. 31 at the Paris La Défense Arena. Clash in Paris will be the first-ever WWE Premium Live Event (PLE) held in

Since Stan Lee and Steve Ditko first created Spider-Man more than six decades ago, the character has been one of the most enduring superheroes in popular culture. From comics to animated series and a slew of live-action films (as well as 2018’s animated, Oscar-winning “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”), Peter Parker and his alter-ego have been

Hudson Thames, who voices the titular web-slinger in the upcoming Disney+ show “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man,” recently shared some worries he had about leading Marvel‘s latest animated series. While speaking with Collider, Thames said his “biggest fear” was that “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” would be “annoying and woke,” but ended up thinking the show was

Season 2 of “The Night Agent” was the most-watched Netflix series of the week of Jan. 20-26, debuting with 13.9 million views in its first four days of availability. The season’s success is unsurprising given how Season 1 performed when it debuted in 2023 — landing at No. 7 on Netflix’s list of its most

Always a frontrunner, “Black Crab” scribe Pelle Rådström has won Göteborg’s Nordic Series Script Award for his screenplay of “Pressure Point,” a tense, involved and compelling three-part miniseries on the build up to murders which shook Sweden to its core.  The winner was announced at an awards ceremony on Jan. 28 during the Göteborg Film