SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you haven’t watched the Season 3 premiere of “Vida.” One scene in the Season 3 premiere of “Vida” struck a personal chord with star Melissa Barrera, who plays Lyn: At a party for her boyfriend Rudy’s mother, the free-spirited Hernandez sister is judged harshly for not speaking Spanish fluently
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Netflix has canceled “Turn Up Charlie” after its first season. The comedy, starring Idris Elba, centered on a struggling DJ and bachelor who becomes a nanny for the daughter of a childhood best friend who has since become much more successful than him. “’Turn Up Charlie’ will not return for a second season,” said a
The best late-night companion for Comedy Central’s long-running “The Daily Show” may just be “The Daily Show.” The ViacomCBS cable outlet will expand Trevor Noah’s late-night showcase to 45 minutes per night during production that takes place during the coronavirus. It’s the first time since the franchise launched in 1996 with Craig Kilborn that it
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
“Betty” looks like how being a teenager feels. Shot during a vibrant New York City summer, the show zips alongside its characters as they weave through traffic, across parks, over bridges on their skateboards. When it slows down, it’s to take in the view, have a laugh, shoot the shit. But within minutes it’s inevitably
SPOILER ALERT: Do not keep reading if you have not watched “The Last Kingdom” Season 4, which dropped April 26 on Netflix. Lady Aelswith finds herself in unfamiliar territory in Season 4 of “The Last Kingdom.” With King Alfred gone and her children forging their own paths, Aelswith is without allies at precisely the time
When the Academy of Country Music moved in mid-March to push its annual April awards show back to September, but left the location for the rescheduled telecast noticeably indeterminate, speculation immediately ensued that the show would not take place in its longtime locale of Las Vegas but be moved to Nashville, so participating country stars
The 2020 NFL Draft was unlike any other. Over seven rounds, league commissioner Roger Goodell, the 32 NFL head coaches and almost 100 NFL prospects were broadcast virtually from home using over 600 camera feeds. Not only was this year’s affair unique in terms of its presentation, but it also smashed previous ratings records for
Following its recent cancelation after two seasons, the series finale of “God Friended Me” on CBS scored less-than-heavenly numbers, as ABC took Sunday night thanks to “American Idol”‘s first at-home edition. The two-hour “God Friended Me” curtain call averaged around a 0.6 rating among adults 18-49 and 6.2 million total viewers, which represents roughly a
The story of how newcomer Maitreyi Ramakrishnan landed the lead role on Mindy Kaling’s new Netflix comedy “Never Have I Ever” is the kind of fairy tale that normally comes from the mind of a TV writer. In April 2019, Kaling posted an announcement on social media seeking South Asian women to audition for her
When Variety played a game of “Never Have I Ever” with the cast of the Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher’s new Netflix comedy, stars Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Ramona Young and Lee Rodriguez revealed whether or not they’ve found themselves in any of the coming of age show’s often relatable (yet sometimes wacky) circumstances in real life.
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Prisoners of War,” the series finale of “Homeland.” Carrie’s fate wasn’t sealed on the page until 24 hours before “Homeland” shot its final scenes. Mandy broke into song on his last day of shooting. And at the last minute, Los Angeles had to double for
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Prisoners of War,” the series finale of “Homeland.” “Homeland” went out on a high note Sunday with a 66-minute final episode that was full of the elements that defined the series. The episode, entitled “Prisoners of War,” (a nod to the Israeli series from Keshet
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the seventh episode of “Westworld” Season 3. The penultimate episode of “Westworld” Season 3 finally gave viewers the Dolores-Maeve showdown that had been teased all season long, and it did not disappoint. But prior to that, Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Caleb (Aaron Paul) arrived
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Mercy Shall Follow Me,” the 10th episode of “Outlander” Season 5. Viewers who are familiar with Diana Gabaldon’s “Outlander” book series were in for quite a surprise in the most recent episode, “Mercy Shall Follow Me,” because the action jumped ahead to the sixth
Gene Dynarski, who appeared as Izzy Mandelbaum Jr. on “Seinfeld” and on the original “Star Trek” television series, has died. He was 86. Dynarski died on Feb. 27 at a rehabilitation center in Studio City, his friend, playwright Ernest Kearney announced. The actor starred in the 1997 “Seinfeld” episode “The English Patient” as the son
In his first interview since abruptly retiring from “Hardball,” Chris Matthews owned up to the allegations of inappropriate behavior against him. In late February, journalist Laura Bassett revealed that Matthews made unprofessional comments to her while she was getting her makeup done to appear on his show. She claimed he said “Why haven’t I fallen
SPOILER ALERT: Do not keep reading if you have not watched “The Last Kingdom” Season 4, which dropped April 26 on Netflix. Alexander Dreymon once again suits up as Uhtred of Bebbanburg in Season 4 of “The Last Kingdom.” This time out though, Uhtred goes through some things that fans of the show haven’t seen
“Saturday Night Live” brought back its infamous political cold open sketch in its second-ever “At Home” edition, and Brad Pitt was along for the ride. Pitt portrayed Dr. Anthony Fauci in a sobering address about coronavirus, acknowledging that “there has been a lot of misinformation out there about the virus” and deciding to clarify “what
“New Girl” actress Zooey Deschanel gave a brief tutorial showing off her seamstress skills as she showed viewers how to make their own masks to stay protected during the coronavirus pandemic. Many cities have begun enforcing the use of face masks if people leave their homes for the essential trips. Deschanel prefaced the tutorial saying,
Season 5 of “Superstore” came to an early ending on Thursday. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the series was one of many productions forced to cease operations in order to adhere to shelter-in-place and social distancing guidelines. The finale, titled “California (Part 1),” leaves the show in a particularly tricky state, as it is only
George Gray, the announcer for “The Price Is Right,” is “recovering well” after suffering three massive heart attacks last week, his representative confirmed to Variety. The 53-year-old was rushed to the hospital last week after having chest pains. After his first heart attack, doctors began to operate and put in a stent to restore blood
“What time is it?” is a question Prince fans have been asking one another, and not just because they’ve got Morris Day on their minds. A re-broadcast of “Let’s Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince” was hastily scheduled for Saturday after the original airing of the special Tuesday won the ratings race for the
In “Bad Education,” which premieres on HBO on April 25, Hugh Jackman plays Frank Tassone, a Roslyn, N.Y., school district superintendent who was a brilliant educator — and also a vain, charming and larcenous criminal. It’s a different type of role for Jackman, one Variety’s chief film critic Peter Debruge described as “a star at
Nickelodeon has announced Victoria Justice will host the “Kids Choice Awards” on Saturday, May 2 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The newly titled and virtually produced show, “Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards 2020: Celebrate Together,” was originally set to air on March 22, but was rescheduled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The event will include celebrity video
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the season finale of “Making The Cut” Season 1. Auf wiedersehen to “making it work.” Now, it’s all about “Making The Cut.” In the season finale, Los Angeles native Jonny Cota managed to win it all over Esther Perbandt, who, in the beginning, seemed
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the Season 1 finale of “Making the Cut.” In this season of “Making the Cut,” designers were whisked from New York to sew, stitch and fix in Paris and Tokyo. For the finale, the contestants went back to the place they began to show
The sky was the limit when it came to voice casting “The Last Kids on Earth.” Based on Max Brallier’s graphic novel, the animated Netflix series follows Jack (Nick Wolfhard) and his teenage friends, who spent much of the first season playing video games and zombie-fighting in a post-apocalyptic world that wiped out most of
SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will commence negotiations for successor agreements to the SAG-AFTRA TV/theatrical contracts on April 27. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and state government stay-at-home orders, talks will be conducted via video teleconference. SAG-AFTRA’s current three-year master contract expires on June 30. The two sides announced the agreement
The current social distancing climate has artists turning to new ways of staying connected to fans, whether through Twitch or Instagram live, releasing cover songs, or in the case of Fall Out Boy’s Joe Trohman, dropping an entire animated series. The FOB guitarist has released all 10 episodes of his animated series “Mondo Trasho 3042,”