Television

Lena Headey has joined the HBO series “The White House Plumbers,” which delves into the Watergate scandal, Variety has learned. Headey joins previously announced cast members Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux, and Domhnall Gleeson. The five-episode series tells the story of how President Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds, E. Howard Hunt (Harrelson) and G. Gordon

UPDATE: BAFTA has suspended the membership of actor Noel Clarke, along with his recent Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award, following numerous sexual harassment and bullying allegations made in a Guardian investigation published Thursday. Meanwhile, All3Media, the super-indie backers of Clarke’s production company Unstoppable Film and Television, has told Variety it is conducting its own

Greg Kinnear and Sepideh Moafi have been cast in the upcoming Apple drama series “In With the Devil,” Variety has learned. The pair joins previously announced series leads Taron Egerton and Paul Walter Hauser as well as Ray Liotta. The six-episode series was ordered at Apple in January. It based on the 2010 novel “In With

Amazon recently won the rights to show the NFL’s “Thursday Night Football.” Now all it has to do is get more people used to the fact that the games will stream exclusively on the company’s Prime Video starting in 2023, rather than airing on Fox, NBC or CBS. That’s where Marc Patrick comes in. Patrick,

“Invincible” has been renewed for Seasons 2 and 3 at Amazon. The announcement was made on Thursday on Twitter by Robert Kirkman alongside Steven Yeun, who voices the show’s main character. The news comes ahead of the Season 1 finale, which will debut on Amazon on April 30. “I’m extremely thankful to Amazon for the

As chance would have it, Justin Theroux was filming Apple TV Plus’ new series adaptation of “The Mosquito Coast” when he learned that original star Harrison Ford had just checked into his same hotel. A mutual friend suggested that they meet. “We had this wonderful long tequila-filled night. We did talk about ‘Mosquito Coast,’ but

A genius inventor who found a way to make ice from fire lives off the grid with his wife and two homeschooled children. They don’t have a television, they don’t have cell phones, they scavenge the dump for discarded items they can use, trade or sell because he is concerned about the rampant rate of

The 2020-21 TV season isn’t over yet, but CBS has claimed the crown in total viewers for the 13th consecutive year. The Eye network on Thursday projected it will end the pandemic-battered season with an average of 6.3 million total viewers, with help from the Super Bowl telecast in February, which fell below the 100

Shunsuke Kikuchi, the composer for the popular “Dragon Ball” anime series, died on Saturday at a medical facility in Tokyo, according to the Japanese music industry outlet Oricon News. He was 89. According to Oricon, Kikuchi was undergoing medical treatment for aspirational pneumonia. Kikuchi began his composing career in the 1960s, and the first film

The Weeknd is the leading nominee for the 2021 Billboard Music Awards, with his 16 nods putting him ahead of DaBaby, with 11, the late Pop Smoke, with 10, and country singer Gabby Barrett, who’s up for nine. Meghan Thee Stallion was the second most named female artist in Thursday morning’s announcement, coming in with

“Walker” Season 2 at The CW has upped Odette Annable to series regular status. Annable currently recurs on the series as Geri, an old friend of Walker (Jared Padalecki) and his late wife. Her other credits include “Tell Me A Story,” “Supergirl,” “Pure Genius,” “Banshee,” House, and more. She is repped by UTA and Untitled Entertainment.

HBO will premiere “Revolution Rent,” the 2019 documentary following Andy Señor Jr.’s journey to stage a production of “Rent” in Cuba, on June 15. Señor Jr., who directed the documentary alongside Victor Patrick Alvarez, started his career with “Rent.” In the late 1990s he starred as Angel Dumott Schunard in Jonathan Larson’s Tony and Pulitzer

Ken Jeong will host the special “See Us Unite for Change,” an effort to address the rising tide of hate crimes against Asian Americans that will air May 21 across ViacomCBS channels and on Facebook Watch. The special, which coincides with Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, is produced by MTV Entertainment Studios in

“Dark Side of the Ring” will debut Season 3 on Vice TV on May 6. In an interview with Variety, series narrator Chris Jericho says the show allows non-wrestling fans to learn to appreciate what wrestlers go through in their careers. “I think one of the reasons why the show is very important and very

Despite being nominated six times for this year’s Billboard Music Awards, country star Morgan Wallen will not be invited to participate in the live telecast on March 23, Dick Clark Productions has announced. Since “his recent conduct does not align with our core values, we will not be including him on the show in any

Discovery U.K. is rehashing Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s nuclear interview for a new special. “Meghan and Harry: Recollections May Vary,” which will air on streamer Discovery Plus out of the U.K., will convene body language, linguistics and forensic psychology experts to dissect key moments from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s CBS interview with

“No Limite,” the Brazilian version of Banijay’s hit reality format “Survivor,” will return to Brazil after a 12-year break. Brazilian network Globo and Endemol Shine Brasil will co-produce the show, which has been commissioned for 11 episodes and will be hosted by André Marques. It will feature a cast of previous contestants from “Big Brother

Plans to celebrate PBS’ 50th anniversary last year with programming and events were scuttled by the pandemic. As it turned out, the tough environment of the past 14 months reinforced the value of public TV in more significant ways than any marketing campaign could achieve, as PBS president Paula Kerger tells Variety‘s “Strictly Business” podcast.

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched Season 5 Episode 9 of “The Masked Singer,” which aired April 28 on Fox. The unmaskings took a week off, as Wednesday’s episode of Fox’s “The Masked Singer” was instead a special one-hour sing-a-long edition that doubled as “The Maskys,” an award celebrating some

Chinese authorities are investigating top Chinese actor Zheng Shuang for tax evasion and a sky-high salary exceeding government-approved limits, the Xinhua news agency said Wednesday. This marks the biggest case of suspected celebrity tax fraud since the downfall of A-lister Fan Bingbing. The probe comes after screenshots emerged allegedly indicating that she was paid $24.6

“The Summer I Turned Pretty” series at Amazon has cast Lola Tung, Rachel Blanchard, Jackie Chung, and Christopher Briney, Variety has learned. The series is based on the Jenny Han YA novel of the same name. It is described as a multigenerational drama that hinges on a love triangle between one girl and two brothers, the

When John Mayer took the moderator’s mantle on a Clubhouse talk on Tuesday night (April 27), one got the sense that the seven-time Grammy-winning musician was trying out material. Not shtick, per se, as the charismatic Mayer has no problem holding down a conversation on all manner of topics without prior preparation, but rather, Mayer

“Titans” has cast Vincent Kartheiser as Jonathan Crane, a.k.a Scarecrow, for the upcoming Season 3 on HBO Max. In the show, Crane is an inmate at Arkham Asylum who used to terrorize Gotham City using toxins to exploit his enemies’ phobias. The DC Comics character has appeared a number of times onscreen, including the Fox

Before her notoriety as one of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of New York City,” Bethenny Frankel emerged from a very different style of reality TV. In 2005, she competed on “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart,” a show designed to burnish Stewart’s image just after her release from federal prison, and, after having done that, to choose for

For much of his tenure within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the character of James Buchanan Barnes — a.k.a. Bucky — has been something of a queer icon. As played by Sebastian Stan, Bucky always maintained a powerful emotional bond with his best friend Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), a.k.a. Captain America, which only heightened when Steve risked

Shares of Facebook surged in after-market trading Wednesday, spiking more than 5% after the social networking giant recorded a major earnings and revenue beat for the first quarter of fiscal 2021, a period marked by strong advertising revenue growth and a 10% rise in monthly active users. Facebook logged diluted per-share earnings of $3.30 on

Fox has ordered the dramedy “The Big Leap” to series for the 2021-2022 broadcast season. The one-hour show was originally ordered to pilot last year, but production was shutdown by the pandemic. Inspired by the UK docuseries “Big Ballet,” the show is about a group of diverse, down-on-their-luck characters attempting to change their lives by

NBC’s “Tonight Show” will try a new way to break out of TV’s late-night pack. The Jimmy Fallon-led program is launching a new six-episode miniseries that chronicles how the show maneuvered during the coronavirus pandemic, moving to “at home” broadcasts that featured the host and his family, and its eventual return to NBC’s TV studios

Bo Burnham has announced that he has a new musical comedy special, titled “Inside,” coming to Netflix. “hi. i made a new special,” he tweeted Wednesday. “it was filmed by me, alone, without a crew or an audience, over the course of the past year. it is almost finished. i hope you like it.” A

Longtime Sony Pictures Entertainment executive Keith Le Goy has been named the studio’s chairman of worldwide distribution and networks. Le Goy joins SPE motion picture group’s Tom Rothman and global TV studios and corporate development’s Ravi Ahuja as one of three chairman-level leaders running the studio’s business under Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman and CEO Tony