Television

“Happy’s Place” has brought on Justina Machado and Christopher Rich as guest stars, Variety has learned exclusively. The role will mark a reunion between Rich and “Happy’s Place” star Reba McEntire, as the two previously starred in McEntire’s hit self-titled sitcom “Reba” across its six-season run. Rich will play Maverick, described as “a local tattoo

Jimmy Kimmel’s powerful return to air in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires earned a spike in viewership last week, according to Nielsen ratings and ABC. The network has revealed that during the week of Jan. 13, “Jimmy Kimmel Live” was up 45% in adults 18-49 vs. the previous week (0.16 vs. 0.11), making

Bradley Whitford is heading back to the White House, with the “West Wing” alum set for a recurring role in “The Diplomat” Season 3. Variety has confirmed with sources that Whitford will appear in the upcoming third season of the Netflix political drama as the husband to fellow “West Wing” star Allison Janney’s character, Vice

Starz has announced the premiere date for “Power Book III: Raising Kanan.” The fourth season of the “Power” spinoff series will debut on March 7. New episodes will be available to stream weekly on Fridays on the Starz app and all Starz streaming and on-demand platforms. “Raising Kanan” was previously renewed for a fifth season

NBCUniversal is suiting up for action. The company has released the first trailer for the “Suits” spinoff “Suits: LA,” led by Stephen Amell as Ted Black, a former federal prosecutor from New York who has reinvented himself and is representing powerful clients in Los Angeles. The new series premieres on NBC on Feb. 23. The

Sterling K. Brown is done crying every week. Two days before Thanksgiving, Brown is sitting at a long table in a photo studio in Culver City, digging into a take-out lunch as he begins to break down the plot of his new Hulu drama series, “Paradise.”  Brown chooses his words deliberately while simultaneously ramping up

“Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” the upcoming Broadway play based on the hit Netflix sci-fi drama, has added 24 performers to its company. Among the new cast members are Ta’Rea Campbell (“The Hills of California”) as Patty’s mom, Juan Carlos (making his Broadway debut) replacing previously announced star Nicholas Eldridge as Bob Newby, Robert T. Cunningham (Broadway debut) as

“Wolf Hall” director Peter Kosminsky is sounding the alarm about the state of U.K. high-end television, writing in evidence submitted to a parliamentary committee that the series’ second part, “The Mirror and the Light,” nearly didn’t get made. In a submission to the culture, media and sport committee’s inquiry into British film and high-end TV,

“The School of Housewives,” a popular Icelandic drama that debuted last year on public broadcaster RÚV, is a major contender for this year’s Göteborg Nordic Series Script Award, the biggest prize for TV screenwriting in Scandinavia. The series turns Hekla, who, after being in and out of rehab since she was a teenager, enrolls in

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Season 3 of “The Traitors” U.K., airing on the BBC and streaming on BBC iPlayer. Put on your fingerless gloves, apply your dark eyeliner and fetch for a raven. Tonight is the finale of “The Traitors,” Britain’s biggest reality show, and right now it feels the most unpredictable

Finland’s Helsinki-filmi is ready to hear “Dead Women Talking” in a new series set to be directed by Jojo Erholtz. Based on the original concept by Johanna Holvikallio – with Tua Harno as head writer – it will see two ambitious reporters, Olivia and Noora, hosting a podcast about crimes against women. But a decades-old

Though “Sex Lives of College Girls” fans know Gracie Lawrence as Kacey, a theater nerd and the new fourth roommate in Season 3, things could have been much different. “She was a finalist to play Kimberly in Season 1,” co-creator and executive producer Justin Noble says, adding that Lawrence was in the final three under

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “10:00 AM,” the fourth episode of the first season of Max’s “The Pitt.” For Noah Wyle, everything old is new again. More than 30 years after rising to global fame as John Carter, a wide-eyed, fresh-faced intern, on the NBC smash-hit medical drama “ER,” Wyle has returned to

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for the Season 3 finale of “The Sex Lives of College Girls.” For once, the sex lives of the college girls in “The Sex Lives of College Girls” are going all right. Bela (Amrit Kaur) has the most surprising evolution of the quartet. After three seasons of maximally obsessing

“The Hills” stars Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, along with other Pacific Palisades property owners, have sued the city of Los Angeles and its Department of Water and Power over damage caused by the Palisades fire. The suit, reviewed by Variety, was filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. It alleges that the city’s

Norah O’Donnell’s exit from “CBS Evening News” Thursday night wasn’t what viewers might have expected. And the successor program that CBS intends to air in its place on Monday will have a similar quality. O’Donnell bid farewell to viewers of the long-running broadcast after a surprise taped cameo from Oprah Winfrey which celebrated the anchor

Don Lemon appeared on the “Hollywood Raw Podcast” with hosts Dax Holt and Adam Glyn (via Entertainment Weekly) and shared his belief that “the public misses” Matt Lauer, who served as the co-anchor of NBC’s “Today” from 1997 to 2017. Lauer was fired in 2017 after an NBC employee accused him of sexual assault. Several more women

“Squid Game” was the most-viewed series in a single week in 2024, with 4.9 billion minutes watched between Dec. 23 and Dec. 29, per Nielsen. Season 2 of the Korean deathmatch drama debuted on Netflix on Dec. 26, so that whopping viewership number includes people catching up on the first season as well as bingeing

Quiz competition series “The 1% Club” has been renewed for a second season, which will air on Fox after previously streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Joel McHale will host Season 2, taking over from Patton Oswalt. Each episode of “The 1% Club” begins with 100 contestants who face elimination as they answer a series of

The North Road Company, a media venture launched in 2022 by mogul Peter Chernin, has made its first acquisition in Latin America with Perro Azul, a major Mexican production company. Perro Azul has produced Netflix’s most watched show ever produced in Mexico and Latin America, “Who Killed Sara? (¿Quién mató a Sara?).” The companies said the acquisition

Bill Bellamy and Rocsi Diaz are set to host this year’s “Super Bowl Soulful Celebration” special, which brings together music and NFL tributes through the theme “Keep Going” during Super Bowl LIX week. Now in its 26th year, the event will be held at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts in New Orleans.

In the opening sequence of Matt Wolf’s HBO documentary series “Pee-wee as Himself,” the late artist and performer Paul Reubens mulls over who should have control of a celebrity documentary. “It turns out that you are not really supposed to direct your own documentary,” he tells the camera. “You are not supposed to control your

After weeks of speculation, Donna Langley — who took on the role as chairman of NBCUniversal Entertainment and Studios after a corporate shuffle in November — unveiled her executive structure on Thursday, while Matt Strauss shared his new setup as the recently named chairman of NBCUniversal Media Group. As long rumored, under Langley’s division (which

Political polarization in America has gotten so bad that librarians — yes, librarians — are under siege across the country. To combat the nationwide censorship efforts made by politicians and conservative parental rights initiatives like Moms for Liberty, a group of librarians formed the FReadom Fighters in 2021. The group boasts members from across the

Lifetime has named Liz Wise Lyall as its senior vice president of scripted programming and development. The role marks a return to the cabler for Lyall. She started off at Lifetime as a manager before being promoted to a director, working on movies like “The Pregnancy Pact” with Thora Birch, “To Be Fat Like Me”

Gersh has signed actor Raymond Lee for representation, Variety has learned exclusively. Lee continues to be repped by Stephanie Nese Entertainment, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Lee previously starred in the NBC reboot of “Quantum Leap.” In the show, he played Dr. Ben Song, who steps into the Quantum Leap accelerator and awakes to find himself

“The Righteous Gemstones” will end its run at HBO with its upcoming fourth season, Variety has learned. The comedy series was renewed for Season 4 at HBO back in July 2023. An exact premiere date has yet to be set, but the final episodes will begin airing in March. “The Lord spoke to me and said it’s time

CNN is shaking up its TV schedule yet again as the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed outlet grapples with significant declines in audience and a need to control costs in an era when more viewers are migrating to streaming media. Under a series of changes unveiled Thursday, Audie Cornish, the former NPR host will take over the

“I’m finding it very, very hard to function,” says Mo Amer. He’s spending the day at Hermann Park in Houston, the city where he’s lived since he was 9 years old. It’s late March and the air is still cool. Young parents guide their toddlers over twisted tree roots. Ducks quack in the distance. Amer,

CBS is taking advantage of a temporarily vacant afternoon timeslot to give its new primetime gamer “Hollywood Squares” some daytime exposure. The rebooted game show, featuring Drew Barrymore in center square, will get a week-long daytime showcase from Monday, Jan. 27, to Friday, Jan. 31, at 2 p.m. ET/1 p.m. CT/PT — the timeslot formerly