Television

“Fleishman Is in Trouble” — the 2019 novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner and the new television series adaptation Brodesser-Akner has created — operates a bit like a reverse “Gone Girl.” In both cases, the disappearance of a woman from the family home amid marital discord presents the left-behind husband a mystery to solve, and memories to

The unknowability of one’s romantic partner is well-trod ground for art, and for good reason. The contradiction between the idea that love ought to be able to break through anything and the frequent reality of the fundamental mystery of someone else’s mind is rich, juicy, and provocative. Or it can be — later this month,

ABC is turning “Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts’ sitdown with former first lady Michelle Obama into a primetime special. ABC News’ “Michelle Obama: The Light We Carry, A Conversation with Robin Roberts” will air Sunday, Nov. 13 at 10 p.m. ET; scroll down for an exclusive first look. “The Light We Carry” is the

Mariah Carey is back for the holidays. CBS has announced the five-time Grammy winner will host a new two-hour primetime concert special entitled “Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas To All!” The broadcast is scheduled for Dec. 20 at 8 PM ET/PT and will be available to stream live and on demand via Paramount+. MTV will also

“Britain’s Got Talent” judge David Walliams has been accused of making “sexually explicit” and “derogatory” remarks about the show’s contestants. According to The Guardian newspaper, which claims to have reviewed leaked transcripts from three episodes of the show, Walliams called one contestant a “cunt” and said of a different, female contestant “She thinks you want

Landing on Sky’s U.K. arm as England’s cricketers enter the knockout phase of this winter’s T20 World Cup, Ashley Gething’s one-off documentary “The Greatest Game” benefits from innately dramatic raw material. Held at Lord’s in 2019, the one-day World Cup final between England and New Zealand was quickly framed by some experts as the most

“The Office” star Rainn Wilson has changed his name to Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson to protest climate change. The actor made the announcement via a Twitter video on Wednesday (Nov. 9), timed to the United Nations climate change conference COP27 in Egypt this week. Wilson, a board member of Arctic Basecamp, changed his

The BBC has created seven new assistant commissioner roles with a focus on growing representation from the Nations and Regions and candidates who are deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent. Five new assistant commissioner roles in the Nations and Regions will strengthen the BBC’s commissioning footprint outside London — and further into other cities in England, Scotland,

Taiwan’s Central Motion Pictures Corporation has struck a production pact with CJ ENM (Hong Kong), an overseas offshoot of the Korean CJ ENM media group. The deal represents a further expansion of CJ ENM’s Mandarin language production efforts outside of mainland China. The companies said Thursday that they intend to produce “an island-based scripted series

SPOILER WARNING: This post contains spoilers for the reunion episode of “Love Is Blind” Season 3, out now on Netflix.   Things didn’t work out at Raven Ross’ wedding to SK Alagbada on Season 3 of “Love Is Blind.” Alagbada shocked his fiancée by rejecting her at the altar — a decision Ross tells Variety she didn’t see

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched the Season 8, episode 7, of “The Masked Singer,” “Hall of Fame Night,” which aired Nov. 9 on Fox. “The Masked Singer” paid tribute to late actor Leslie Jordan on Wednesday night’s episode, opening with a brief card dedicating the episode “to a beloved

A cooking competition that tasks chefs with making brunch — the No. 1 most dreaded meal in most professional kitchens — at first sounds like a recipe for Sisyphean pain. In the hands of “Schitt’s Creek” co-creator Dan Levy, however, “The Big Brunch” immediately establishes itself as the total opposite of that bleak picture, with

Kate Winslet gives daughter Mia Threapleton a hug in the first image released from their upcoming drama “I Am Ruth.” The real-life mother-daughter duo star as a fictional family in the feature-length special, which is set to air in the U.K. on broadcaster Channel 4 this winter. Winslet plays concerned mother Ruth who grows alarmed

Zahn McClarnon is finally starting to see a change in Native American representation in TV and films. “People are hungry for these unique and different stories,” says McClarnon, actor-turned-executive producer of the recent AMC limited series “Dark Winds.” With shows like “Dark Winds,’ “Rutherford Falls” and “Reservation Dogs,” Native Americans have gotten more diverse roles

A fourth accuser told jurors on Wednesday morning that she fell asleep on the floor of Danny Masterson’s home in 1996, and later awoke to find him on top of her, having sex with her. Masterson, the onetime star of “That ’70s Show,” is on trial in Los Angeles for allegedly raping three women from

Lily Collins is attached to star in a series adaptation of the Lisa Lutz novel “The Accomplice” currently in development at Amazon, Variety has learned exclusively. Per the official logline, the series “tells the story of Luna Grey and Owen Mann, best friends in college, bonded together forever by an unexplained death in their social

Stephen Colbert has a new game that many TV networks might like to play. With pickleball all the rage and the demand for sports programming growing fiercer by the day, CBS has teamed up with Colbert and Funny or Die to produce a celebrity tournament airing Nov. 17. The two-hour event might seem like a

Christina Applegate began acting as a small child, but when “Married … With Children” premiered on Fox on April 5, 1987 as the nascent network’s first primetime show, she officially began her 35-years-and-counting career. After playing the iconic dummy Kelly Bundy for 11 seasons, she went on to other starring roles on television (“Jesse,” “Samantha Who?”

Paramount is moving oversight of VH1 over to the BET Media Group. That means the network behind the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and “Love and Hip Hop” franchises, among others, will now fall under the oversight of BET president/CEO Scott Mills and his team. Paramount president/CEO Bob Bakish made the announcement on Wednesday in a memo

HBO has set the main cast for “The Sympathizer” following a worldwide online open casting call and an extensive search across the United States, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia, and Vietnam. Hoa Xuande (“Cowboy Bebop”) will star in the post-Vietnam war thriller as the series’ main character. Fred Nguyen Khan, Toan Le, Vy Le and Alan

After taking over a fourth hour of MSNBC’s morning schedule, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist are eyeing real estate in primetime. Should “Morning Joe” fans get ready for an occasional jolt of “Evening Joe”? The anchors and network are discussing the idea as rival CNN attempts to jump-start its own morning programming. Scarborough

Few shows these days pack more juicy plot twists into a single hour-long episode than the Paramount hit “Yellowstone” — and fans wouldn’t have it any other way. Unlike many current TV shows, which dole out drama in frugal microdoses, Taylor Sheridan and John Linson’s modern Western saga piles on narrative developments in generous slabs

Shares of Disney fell more than 13% Wednesday — to their lowest levels in more than two years — after the media conglomerate’s quarterly results fell short of Wall Street expectations and the company signaled that its direct-to-streaming losses and linear TV declines for fiscal year 2023 would be higher than expected. Disney reported an

Christina Applegate is a child of Los Angeles, and one of her most salient memories of growing up here is of standing on the Hollywood Walk of Fame while waiting to go into a movie. In a recent interview, she recalls going to see “Star Wars,” which had a line that snaked around the block.

Riot Games is the company best known for the hugely popular “League of Legends” video game series, but it’s also making a name for itself as a TV show producer. The Netflix series “Arcane” is just the first step in Riot’s bid to traverse the risky nexus of entertainment and gaming.  Marc Merrill, co-founder and

U.K. media regulator Ofcom has published a damning assessment of the BBC’s coverage of an antisemitic attack in London, saying the broadcaster committed “significant editorial failings.” Ofcom’s findings are the result of an almost year-long investigation into the BBC’s television news and web coverage of a prolonged antisemitic attack in the heart of central London

Maybe the culture of Hollywood is changing. Over the past decade, we’ve seen a great uncovering of bad behavior such as sexual harassment and abusive conduct. Now, as a new generation — more diverse, more female and more multicultural — assume positions of leadership, the question becomes: Will it be possible to enact positive change?

Iginio Straffi, creator of the magical “Winx Club” TV franchise and founder of its Rainbow S.p.A production company, was a bit surprised that Netflix cancelled the live-action “Fate: The Winx Saga” after two seasons. But he also sees it as an opportunity. “I still have to hear what Netflix has to say officially,” Straffi said

The journey from speculation to information can be a twisty one. Many of the nation’s biggest TV-news outlets started their Tuesday-evening Election Night broadcast under the premise that Republicans were about to take significant share of Congress from their Democratic rivals. Within the first ten minutes of CBS News’ coverage, for example, Major Garrett and

Viaplay Group, Scandinavia’s leading streaming service, has set the dates for its launch in the U.S. and Canada for February and March, respectively. During its 2022 Capital Markets Day in Stockholm, Viaplay also unveiled its deal with Pickbox NOW to make Viaplay Select, its curated subscription-based service, available in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro,