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“Saturday Night Live’s” cold open took aim at the scandal surrounding former Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden, who was forced out last week after revelations of shockingly racist, misogynist and homophobic comments he made in emails while he was an ESPN commentator. The sketch featured “SNL” key players including Colin Jost, Cecily Strong, Kenan

“Pennyworth,” the DC Comics drama revolving around the early years of Bruce Wayne’s butler Alfred, is moving to HBO Max for its third season. The series produced by Warner Bros. Television aired for its first two seasons on Epix, the pay cabler owned by MGM. But now that HBO Max is the center of the

The “Harley Quinn” team gave fans a very quick tease of Season 3 during the DC FanDome event. While there was no finished footage to present, fans still got to see multiple animatics from the new season. The first saw Harley (voiced by Kaley Cuoco) and Poison Ivy (voiced by Lake Bell) embarking on what

“Titans” has been renewed for Season 4 at HBO Max. The announcement was made as part of the DC FanDome event on Oct. 16. The Season 3 finale of “Titans” is set to debut on Oct. 21. The series follows young heroes from across the DC Universe as they come of age and find where

“Doom Patrol” has been renewed for Season 4 at HBO Max. The announcement was made as part of the DC FanDome event on Oct. 16. Season 3 of the DC Entertainment show is currently airing, with new episodes dropping on Thursdays through Nov. 11. Season 3 stars Brendan Fraser, Matt Bomer, Diane Guerrero, April Bowlby,

John Cena strips once again to his skivvies as a homicidally misguided costume vigilante in the first trailer for the HBO Max series “Peacemaker,” which debuted on Saturday as part of the virtual fan event DC Fandome. “Peacemaker,” the spin-off series from the August feature film “The Suicide Squad,” will premiere on the streaming service

Comic-book characters like Static, Icon and Hardware once broke open new opportunities for minorities to gain representation in mainstream super-hero titles. Now the company that published their exploits hopes to bring new creators  — and advertising opportunities — into the mix. WarnerMedia will through its DC comics unit launch the Milestone Initiative, a bid to

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the series premiere of “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” streaming now on Amazon Prime Video. After Alison (Madison Iseman) learns her twin sister Lennon (also Iseman) slept with the guy she has been in love with for years in the premiere episode of

TV writers may soon have to take their own notes as their assistants will be on the picket lines if IATSE calls a strike on Monday morning. Writers assistants and script coordinators provide the essential support functions that keep writers’ rooms operating. They take notes, compile drafts and make sure revisions are distributed to production

Jennifer Coolidge is set to return to HBO’s tropical satire “The White Lotus” for Season 2, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Variety. The first season of the six-episode dramedy, hailing from writer, director and executive producer Mike White, was set at an exclusive high-end resort and followed the exploits of various guests and

Is there anything more terrifying than a teenager? Throw a couple of serial killers and sociopaths in the hallways, werewolves with vendettas in the classroom, vampire slayers in the cafeteria, and you’ve got a ton of young adult TV characters dealing with a high school experience very unlike yours (and you’re oh-so-thankful for that). In

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the third season of “You,” streaming now on Netflix. After working in the futuristic world of “The 100” and the witchy world of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” Tati Gabrielle moves into a new form of the heightened genre landscape in the suburbs of Madre Linde

Jake Cannavale has signed with Buchwald for representation, Variety has learned exclusively. He continues to be repped by Framework Entertainment as well. Cannavale made his television debut with a season-long arc on the critically-acclaimed Showtime series “Nurse Jackie” in the role of Charlie Cruz opposite Edie Falco. He is perhaps best known for his guest role

“America’s Got Talent: Extreme” has paused production after an on-set accident, Variety has confirmed. The accident occurred during a show rehearsal Thursday night and involved escape artist Jonathan Goodwin. According to TMZ, Goodwin was performing a stunt involving escaping from a straitjacket while suspended mid-air between two cars. But the feat went terribly wrong, and the cars

Networks and streaming services are bracing for headaches and disappointed viewers as Monday’s deadline for IATSE and the major studios to reach a deal and avoid a strike draws ever closer. According to insiders across multiple networks who spoke with Variety, the feeling is that a deal will be reached that satisfies both sides before the

Common has joined the cast of the “Wool” series adaptation at Apple. The show is based on the Hugh Howey novel series of the same name. Common will star alongside previously announced cast members Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Robbins, Rashida Jones, and David Oyelowo. “Wool” is a set in a ruined and toxic future where a

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the third season of “You,” streaming now on Netflix. If you thought Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) would fall in love with a woman who was an perfect match for him in terms of how far she’d go for what she loved, marry her, have a

For anyone who entered the Palais during the Cannes Film Festival in July, when a smattering of stands filled one corner of the sprawling complex, arriving at international TV confab Mipcom to find a more abundant supply of colorfully decorated sales booths felt like landing on Mars and discovering life. A willingness to get back

The Television Academy Foundation named two new members to its board of directors: Nne Ebong, vice president of overall deals for series at Netflix, and Jamila Hunter, executive vice president of programming and development at Freeform. Both have been elected to three-year terms. At Netflix, Ebong leads the development of original series under creative partnerships

Bringing a slick slice of Tel Aviv into the Canneseries TV festival on the French Riviera this week, the writer-director duo of Shir Reuven (“The Electrifiers”) and Talya Lavie (“Zero Motivation”) drew on their own coming-of-age experiences to create the TV series “Sad City Girls.” It began with a script by Reuven who spent her

“You” began by reversing the equation of Golden Age TV dramas. And three seasons in, its act is getting tired. The show, starring Penn Badgley as Joe, a stalker and killer to whose internal monologue we have access, is difficult to compare to series like “The Sopranos” and “Breaking Bad” but for one particular. Those

CNN’s coming foray into the streaming wars will send the network searching for customers in both regular haunts and surprising places. The WarnerMedia cable-news outlet typically runs a significant chunk of promotions for its programming on its own air and in other venues owned by its parent company. On Friday, it’s airing an initial ad

An unsolved murder, a detective with a dark past, a bitterly divided island on the edge. For the creators of “Farpoint,” which is being pitched at the co-production forum during Rome’s MIA Market this week, all the elements are there for a riveting “Med Noir” series that marks the first stab at high-end international drama

Ten years in the making, Netflix’s “Squid Game” quickly became a phenomenon that even the streamer couldn’t predict. While the M.C. Escher-like staircase in the game’s deadly arena (pictured above) has been the focus of much discussion already, there was far more to the creative process. The physical sets were built on a massive scale

European pay-TV platform Sky will unveil an Italian adaptation of French hit series “Call My Agent,” and thriller series “Europa,” directed by German filmmaker Oliver Hirschbiegel, who helmed the Oscar-nominated “Downfall,” at an event Friday at the Rome MIA Market. The Italian “Call My Agent” remake is being produced by Palomar, the Rome-based company controlled

ViacomCBS International Studios and Italy’s expanding Minerva Pictures have teamed up on “Miss Fallaci Takes America, a high-profile TV series about the 1958 journey to the U.S. of iconic Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci. The show, which is the first Italian original produced for Paramount Plus, will portray Fallaci’s early years in Hollywood before she became

One of the top winners announced on Wednesday night at Canneseries was the Banijay-Rights-sold “Countrymen,” from Norwegian pubcaster NRK in co-production with Rubicon and Arte France. The show took home two awards, one for performance for its whole cast, and a High-School Best Series Prize, voted by students from local lycées. The long-format TV series was

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched Season 18 Episode 3 of Grey’s Anatomy, “Hotter Than Hell.”  Kate Walsh appeared on “Grey’s Anatomy” as Dr. Addison Montgomery on Thursday for the first time since Season 8. Addison returned to the show with a dose of tough love, telling the new group of residents:

The second memo that Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos issued to Netflix staff about Dave Chappelle and stand-up comedy only proves that he doesn’t understand why people are actually upset about how Chappelle approaches transgender people in his new special “The Closer.” In his first response, Sarandos emphasized that even if “some people find the art

Robert Durst was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday for the first-degree murder of his friend, Susan Berman, 20 years ago. The 78-year-old real estate heir was convicted in September of killing Berman, who was found dead in her home in December 2000. Durst has been accused of killing Berman so that