“The Republic of Sarah” has been canceled after one season at The CW. In the series, a small town in New Hampshire discovers that there is a large vein of an incredibly valuable mineral underneath it. A mining company plans to take it all and destroy the town in the process. Local high school teacher
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“Star Trek: Picard” Season 2 will see Jean-Luc squaring off against an old adversary: the Borg Queen. Variety has confirmed that Annie Wersching will play the Borg Queen in the second season of the Paramount Plus series. Wersching will now be the third actress to take on the role after Alice Krige played the leader
Monica Lewinsky stepped out to FX’s champagne toast to “Impeachment: American Crime Story” on Wednesday night at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. Lewinsky, a producer on the latest installment of Ryan Murphy’s Emmy-winning anthology series, posed for photographers on the red, white and blue arrivals carpet for a few minutes before skipping the
Period tragicomedy “Blackport,” backed by Icelandic public broadcaster RUV and European network Arte, won top honors on Thursday at leading European TV festival Series Mania taking its Grand Prize. The biggest plaudit at Lille’s Series Mania represents the festival’s second prize for the series after it awarded it best pitch kudos at the Berlinale Co-Pro
“American Ninja Warrior” host and former NFL player Akbar Gbajabiamila has joined CBS’ “The Talk” for Season 12, mere days after Elaine Welteroth’s exit from the daytime talk show and not long after co-host Carrie Ann Inaba announced she would not be returning following a leave of absence. Gbajabiamila will host alongside Sheryl Underwood, Amanda
The upcoming Netflix drama series “Breathe” has cast Austin Stowell, Variety has learned exclusively. In the series, Melissa Barrera stars as Liv, a razor-sharp Manhattan attorney who finds herself profoundly out of her comfort zone when her small plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness and she must battle for survival. Juan Pablo Espinosa, Florencia Lozano, and Jeff
HBO announced that the final season of “Insecure” will premiere on Oct. 24 and released a first look at the season. “I keep frontin’ everybody like I’m not scared about what’s next for me, but I am terrified,” Issa Rae’s character Issa says in a teaser, which you can watch below. The comedy follows the
Rainn Wilson has joined the cast of the upcoming AMC series “Dark Winds.” He joins previously announced series leads Zahn McClarnon and Kiowa Gordon. “Dark Winds” is based on the Leaphorn & Chee book series by Tony Hillerman. The series is described as a psychological thriller that follows two Navajo police officers in the 1970s
Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix horror anthology series “Cabinet of Curiosities” (originally titled “Guillermo del Toro Presents 10 After Midnight”) has added F. Murray Abraham, Ben Barnes, Elpidia Carrillo, Essie Davis, Hannah Galway, Crispin Glover, Demetrius Grosse, David Hewlett, Andrew Lincoln, Tim Blake Nelson, Luke Roberts, Sebastian Roché, Glynn Turman and Peter Weller to its cast.
TV viewers can watch their favorite programs any way they want. If media executives aren’t careful, the industry will soon be counting those people in equally chaotic fashion. A suspension of Media Rating Council backing for Nielsen’s venerable national and local TV ratings service, announced Wednesday, offers the clearest signal yet of the breakdown of
“Big Shot” has been renewed for Season 2 at Disney Plus. The dramedy series centers around Marvyn Korn (John Stamos) after he is ousted from his position as head coach for an NCAA basketball team. He is given a chance at redemption with a coaching position at Westbrook, an elite private high school for girls
Harvey Guillén plays the lovable familiar Guillermo on “What We Do in the Shadows,” FX’s mockumentary horror-comedy series following a group of vampires living in Staten Island, N.Y. It’s a role he has made his own in many ways. A key scene in the Season 2 finale took viewers inside Guillermo’s family home, a warm
The third season of “Dickinson,” which will premiere Nov. 5, will be its final one, Apple TV Plus announced Thursday. The third and final season welcomes new guest stars Ziwe (who also joined the writing staff this season) as Sojourner Truth, Billy Eichner as Walt Whitman and Chloe Fineman as Syliva Plath. “When I set
Amazon Prime Video has released the first trailer for “The Wheel of Time.” The upcoming fantasy drama series is based on Robert Jordan’s book series of the same name and stars Rosamund Pike as Moiraine, a member of a magical all-female organization who leads five young people on a journey around the world while trying
In its second season, one of the sharpest comedies on television has found a new note: Soulfulness. At least that’s among the takeaways from the fourth episode of the new season of “The Other Two,” currently streaming on HBO Max. The series, in its first airing in 2019 on Comedy Central, endlessly roasted its central
Nkechi Okoro Carroll has renewed her overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group, where she has been based since 2018. In addition, Okoro Carroll has formed a new production company called Rock My Soul Productions. She has brought on former AGBO executive and WME agent Lindsay Dunn to serve as the company’s head of television.
Michal Aviram, one of the writers of global hit series “Fauda,” has created six-part drama thriller series “Munich Match” (working title). The series is set in 2022, 50 years after the Munich Massacre, a terrorist attack on the Israeli Olympic team in 1972. On the anniversary of the attack, Munich is hosting a friendly soccer
Television networks are unveiling slates of Halloween-themed content including new and classic horror films, reality competition shows, live specials and more. Among this year’s programming options is Freeform’s annual “31 Nights of Halloween,” with up to 10 films a day including many family favorites from “Shrek” to “Casper,” plus an in-person event in Los Angeles
Gregg Leakes, NeNe Leakes’ husband who appeared on “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” with her, has died of cancer, his family’s publicist confirmed to Variety. He was 66. “Today the Leakes family is in deep pain with a broken heart. After a long battle with cancer, Gregg Leakes has passed away peacefully in his home
NBC’s “Annie Live!” has booked Jane Krakowski as Lily St. Regis. Krakowski reunites with her “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” co-star Tituss Burgess in this live holiday musical, as she will play the sassy and sticky-fingered partner of his swindler, Rooster Hannigan. The character duo will plot to get rich — and duet on “Easy Street.” The
Arthur Smith has been a prolific producer of unscripted television for 30-plus years. His A. Smith & Co. banner has zigged and zagged through many trends and phases of demand for reality and competition fare. But as Smith details on the latest episode of Variety podcast he’s never seen a bull market like the past
Nielsen’s decades-old track record of measuring the TV business was dealt a serious blow Wednesday after an industry organization decided to suspend its backing of the company’s national ratings service and also cancel an agreed-upon hiatus for its support of Nielsen’s local TV efforts as well. The suspension is the latest salvo in a months-long
Following the historic box office success of Nia DaCosta’s horror flick “Candyman,” Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions banner (behind “Candyman” along with MGM), have inked a new creative TV partnership with Universal Studio Group. The exclusive pact follows Peele’s existing bond with the company, established in 2019 with a Universal Pictures deal to write
Julie Plec and Greg Berlanti’s series “The Girls on the Bus” has moved to The CW from Netflix for development, Variety has confirmed. The series is an adaptation of Amy Chozick’s best-selling book “Chasing Hillary,” with Chozick set to co-write the series. Titled “The Girls on the Bus,” the series is inspired largely by the
Tom Llamas is ready to leap into an increasingly crowded field for evening news. The NBC News anchor, who previously led a streaming evening program at ABC News, is preparing for the launch of a digital evening endeavor for NBC News, a project he vows will have a kinetic feel and range a little further
Screening this week at Series Mania, “Doce” is a seven-part series about Portugal’s first major girl band. It is a musical odyssey in a country that was undergoing radical transformations in the wake of the 1974 revolution. “Doce” represented Portugal in the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest and were glitzy trailblazers of a new world of
WarnerMedia Kids & Family is building out a new family programming block called ACME Night on Cartoon Network, with a Steve Urkel animated musical film among the first projects greenlit. “Did I Do That to the Holidays? A Steve Urkel Story” was announced alongside titles like “Merry Little Batman” and an untitled ”Looney Tunes Cartoons” movie.
The summer of George may have passed them by, but at least “Seinfeld” arrives on Netflix well ahead of Festivus, or television fans may have had a lot of grievances to air this year. All 180 episodes of the classic 1990s sitcom are launching Oct. 1 on the streaming giant. “Larry [David] and I are
The television adaptation of the hit video game series “Life Is Strange” is enlisting music star Shawn Mendes and Anonymous Content. The TV version of the Square Enix games hails from Legendary Television and dj2 Entertainment, with Anonymous Content now also producing. Anonymous and Legendary will serve as co-studios, with Legendary as the lead studio.
Netflix released a trailer for “The Circle” Season 3, which premieres Sept. 8. The four-week reality competition series will begin with eight new players as they compete to become a top social media influencer and win $100,000. Over the course of the season, as original players are eliminated from the titular circle, a few new