Television

Jessica Chastain’s Freckle Films, Kristen Campo, and Endeavor Content have acquired the television rights for Alice Feeney’s new novel “His & Hers.” The novel tells the story of DCI Jack Harper and BBC newsreader Anna Andrews, whose paths cross for the first time following their divorce when a woman is found murdered in their hometown.

Welcome back to Tune In: our weekly newsletter offering a guide to the best of the week’s TV. Each week, Variety’s TV team combs through the week’s schedule, selecting our picks of what to watch and when/how to watch them. As many across the country continue to practice self-isolation due to coronavirus, why not while away

ITV’s hit reality show “Love Island” will be absent from U.K. screens for a year due to coronavirus concerns. The U.K. broadcaster confirmed Monday that the show’s highly anticipated second winter edition, which was set to air in January and February, has been canceled, with plans to resume the South Africa-shot show in 2021 with

REinvent, the banner launched by TrustNordisk’s former CEO Rikke Ennis, has come on board “Outlier,” a female-led crime thriller set in Arctic wilderness amid the Sami community. The eight-part series was created by Arne Berggren, the award-winning Norwegian novelist, playwright and rock musician, and Kristine Berg, the duo behind “The River” (“Elven), “The Dead Ones,”

Munich-based TV sales company Beta Film is launching an extended virtual sales pitch, titled Beta Summer Insights, which will stream live on June 18 from 10.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. (CEST). Guests will be able to take a look inside Beta’s upcoming productions, which come from across Europe and cover a variety of genres, from

The mission and shortcomings of “Love, Simon” were laid bare in its very first line. “I’m just like you,” says Simon (Nick Robinson), an affable white high school kid who promptly introduces us to his happily married parents and upper middle-class home. The thing that sets him apart, he continues, is that he’s secretly gay.

The Television Academy has canceled this year’s three post-Emmys Governors Balls and has also announced plans to rethink the Creative Arts Emmys as a series of virtual events. The decision to scrap the trio of Governors Ball dinners (which normally take place after the two Creative Arts Emmys ceremonies, as well as the Primetime Emmys

The bad news for Quibi continues, as the struggling Jeffrey Katzenberg-founded video startup is in danger of massively missing its first-year target for paying subscribers based on slowing app-download figures, according to a Wall Street Journal report. An unflattering piece published Sunday by the Wall Street Journal detailed infighting between Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman

Channel 4’s hit format “The Circle” has been greenlit for a coronavirus protocol-friendly third season, while a celebrity version of the show is also on the way. The Studio Lambert-produced format — which was picked up by Netflix in 2018 — will now be pre-recorded as opposed to airing live on certain days, and the

At a time when Madison Avenue appears to be picking a fight with the nation’s TV networks, NBCUniversal says it won’t take the bait. The Comcast-owned company in a Monday letter to ad buyers and agencies urged advertisers to tackle bigger issues than a shift in TV’s annual “upfront” ad sales marketplace, a move for

U.K. digital channel BBC Three has acquired “Canada’s Drag Race.” Twelve Canadian drag artists will compete for the title of ‘Canada’s First Drag Superstar’ in the 10 x 60′ show that has elements of the popular “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and “Drag Race U.K.” The three permanent judges include Brooke Lynn Hytes, an alumni of “Drag

Multi-territory streaming platform Viu, and regional pay-TV operator HBO Asia Monday begin airing a second localized season of Endemol Shine Group’s crime series “The Bridge.” The Asian adaptation of Nordic noir “The Bridge” (aka “Bron,” aka “Broen”) is produced by Viu in association with HBO Asia. The 10-part Asian second season is directed by returning

Gaumont U.K. — the British operation of the French studio behind “Narcos” and “Arsène Lupin” — has optioned a new biography of wartime Vogue editor Audrey Withers. The project, entitled “Dressed For War: The Story of Audrey Withers, Vogue Editor Extraordinaire From the Blitz to the Swinging Sixties,” is based on a biography by researcher

The ban on British travellers entering the United States is likely to last for months, according to Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s chief expert on infectious diseases. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Fauci warned that the U.K. travel ban would last for “more likely months than weeks”. The ban could last until a

Ben Whishaw has signed on for the lead role of the upcoming BBC Two–AMC co-production “This Is Going to Hurt,” based on the Adam Kay memoir of the same name. In addition, Lucy Forbes has signed on to the series as the lead director and producer. Whishaw is set to play the fictional version of Kay,

Fox News has removed a digitally altered photo that claimed to be from protests in Seattle when it was actually a combination of pictures from different cities. On Friday, Fox News posted a photo of a man holding a rifle in front of a store with broken windows. Another picture showed a burning car and

Dyllón Burnside, who plays Ricky on FX’s hit show “Pose,” is currently quarantining in Georgia and watching the Black Lives Matter protests from afar. In this chat with Variety, he talks about what the movement means to him, especially as a queer Black man. Burnside also touches on his new PBS series “Prideland,” which follows

British comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams have apologized for the use of blackface in their BBC series “Little Britain.” Lucas and Walliams posted identical public apologies on Twitter at the same time on Saturday evening, days after Netflix, BBC on-demand service iPlayer and Britbox removed the series from their platforms. Netflix also dropped the

CNN hosted a second town hall on Saturday in partnership with “Sesame Street.” This time, CNN anchor Erica Hill and CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta taught kids and their families about coronavirus through lessons from beloved “Sesame Street” characters and special guests, including gold medal-winning Olympic gymnasts Simone Biles and Laurie Hernandez and

ABC News said it placed one of its senior executives on administrative leave after a Huffington Post report detailed alleged complaints about her behavior lodged by staffers to the human-resources department. Barbara Fedida joined ABC News for a second stint when Ben Sherwood, the former president of the division, brought her aboard in 2011 as

With the coronavirus pandemic spurring chaos across the U.S. economy, some of the TV networks’ best-known ambassadors to the advertising industry were called upon in recent weeks to speak with members of the Association of National Advertisers, an influential industry group representing 1600 companies that spend more than $400 billion each year on advertising and

Jake Tapper talks to CNN viewers all week, but Sunday is when he knows he can have a longer conversation. In July of 2016, David Brown, the police chief of Dallas, came to Tapper’s weekend program, “State of the Union” for an exchange about five police officers killed during an act of domestic terrorism. Their

BBC America’s “Killing Eve” is facing backlash for what appears to be a stark lack of diversity in its writers room for season four. Eyebrows were raised on Friday night after one of the series’ writers, Kayleigh Llewellyn, tweeted a now-deleted post showing a screenshot of a Zoom call between the show’s writers. “15 weeks

For Jo Koy, filming his latest comedy special in the Philippines was what he calls an item on his bucket list. In “Jo Koy: In His Elements” — his third special on Netflix, out on June 12 — he shares the stage with fellow Filipino American performers and comedians including Joey Guila, Andrew Orolfo and

In today’s TV news roundup, Apple TV Plus released a teaser for drama series “Little Voice,” and HBO’s “Insecure” is releasing a podcast episode called “Looking for LaToya.” FIRST LOOKS Apple TV Plus has released a teaser for its new drama series, “Little Voice,” premiering July 10. In the clip, co-creator and executive producer Sara

ViacomCBS is cutting ties with Big Fish Entertainment, the MGM-owned shingle behind A&E’s recently canceled “Live PD.” A&E is not a ViacomCBS network, but ViacomCBS did run shows from Big Fish including VH1’s “Cartel Crew,” “Black Ink Crew,” “Black Ink Crew: Chicago,” “Love & Hip Hop Miami,” “Love & Hip Hop: New York” and “Love

Comedian and “Saturday Night Live” alum Jay Pharoah revealed he was recently stopped by multiple LAPD officers with their guns drawn while he was walking in Los Angeles. One of the officers knelt down on his neck. Pharoah shared security camera footage of the incident –which took place a week before the death of Ahmaud

By now, most Americans watching late-night TV have gotten used to seeing bands performing in their houses, studios, or even their bathrooms. Needless to say, it hasn’t been the most exciting experience for viewers, but “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” struck socially-distanced gold this week when the Flaming Lips came on to play their

The Writers Guild of America West Committee of Black Writers has challenged Hollywood to revolutionize its hiring practices immediately in the wake of companies asserting support for the Black Lives Matter campaign. “As Black Americans, professional screenwriters, and members of the Writers Guild of America West Committee of Black Writers, we are grieving, we are angry, and we

It’s not HBO Now — it’s just HBO. And say goodbye to HBO Go, which later this summer will be entirely replaced with HBO Max. WarnerMedia is trying to clean up the confusion with the many product names associated with the premium cable brand. On Friday, the company announced upcoming changes to its HBO Now