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The Tracy Oliver comedy series in the works at Amazon has found its main cast members. Meagan Good, Grace Byers, Jerrie Johnson and Shoniqua Shandai have all been cast in the half-hour comedy series which hails from the “Girls Trip” scribe, Universal Television, and Amy Poehler’s Paper Kite Productions. Additionally, Amazon has announced that “Girls

The CW has ordered both “Superman and Lois,” starring Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch, and its “Walker, Texas Ranger” reboot with Jared Padalecki to series. Both projects are still in the script stage, with their first episodes set to be shot this spring in advance of the network’s upfront presentation in May. “Superman and Lois” will follow

The cast and creators of “Star Trek: Picard” turned out for the show’s premiere at the ArcLight Cinerama Dome on Monday night. In the spirit of the festive atmosphere of the night, Variety asked them which “Star Trek” character, past or present, they’d most like to pound a few Romulan ales with at the local

Lee Eisenberg has inked a mulit-year overall deal with Apple. Eisenberg is the co-creator, executive producer, and co-showrunner on Apple’s “Little America,” which is due to debut on Jan. 17 and has already been picked up for a second season. Under the terms of the deal, Eisenberg will launch a new banner, Piece of Work

Netflix is bringing “You” back for a third season. News of the renewal comes less than three weeks after the release of Season 2, which dropped on the streamer on Dec. 26. Season 3 will consist of 10 episodes and is slated to debut in 2021. Stars Penn Badgley and Victoria Pedretti are confirmed to

The Paley Center for Media announced the lineup for PaleyFest LA 2020 on Tuesday. This year’s festival will open with the cast and creative team from ABC’s “Modern Family,” followed by Pop TV’s “One Day at a Time,” Netflix’s “A Special Evening with Dolly Parton” and “Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings,” CBS’s “NCIS: 400th Episode Celebration,” Amazon

Though the network will not air live coverage during the election cycle, Showtime still very much so intends to have its finger on the political pulse, doubling its dose of “The Circus” during this presidential election year. “Between ‘The Circus,’ ‘Our Cartoon President,’ and ‘Desus & Mero,’ we feel like we’ll have a very steady

Before “Jeopardy!’s” current “The Greatest of All Time” tournament began, I was firmly against it. To be frank, the idea bummed me out; “Jeopardy!,” at its best, strikes me as a profoundly democratic show, one whose appeal is or was its rewarding random folks for their trivia prowess. The elimination of the five-night limit allowed

The organizers of Berlinale Series, part of the European Film Market, have unveiled an eight-strong lineup for 2020 with projects including Damien Chazelle’s “The Eddy,” Cate Blanchett’s “Stateless,” and Jason Segel’s “Dispatches from Elsewhere” set for world premieres in Berlin. Julia Fidel oversees the Berlinale Series screenings and has put together an international selection that

In Super Bowl LII, ad mascot Mr. Peanut scored a few points with a clever ad that featured baseball slugger Alex Rodriguez as well as actor Charlie Sheen. One year later, the anthropomorphic legume intends to gain new ground with another Super Bowl commercial that stars comic actor Matt Walsh. A 30-second spot slated to

ViacomCBS has restructured international operations following the closing of the merger in December, with two brand groups and three pan-regional management hubs reporting into ViacomCBS Networks International CEO David Lynn. Lynn, who was promoted to head international in early 2017 after former global boss Bob Bakish was tapped to lead Viacom, pointed out that consolidating

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched Episode 2 of “The Bachelor” Season 24. It’s Week 2 of Peter Weber’s season of “The Bachelor” and time for the conclusion of the Hannah Brown cliffhanger from the three-hour premiere episode. Last week, fans left Brown and Weber curled up on a couch,

This is it: “One Day at a Time” will move to Pop TV without its catchy theme song. Pop icon Gloria Estefan recorded the updated, Cuban-flavored take on the “One Day at a Time” theme for the remake on Netflix, and it opened the show’s first three seasons. But in moving to commercial TV, where

In today’s TV news roundup, Hulu has released the trailer for “Shrill” Season 2, and Showtime has announced a number of season premiere dates. DATES Showtime announced a number of spring and summer season premiere dates. First up is Season 2 of “Black Monday,” which will launch Mar. 15 with series stars Don Cheadle, Regina Hall, Andrew Rannells and Paul Scheer being joined

“Jimmy Kimmel Live” is getting a brand refresh — including a new opening credits sequence — in time for its 18th season. The newly designed show open will be unveiled at the start of Monday night’s show; scroll down below to get an exclusive first look. The new open comes as ABC has also unveiled

“One Day at a Time” Season 4 will premiere Mar. 24, while “Flack” Season 2 will premiere Mar. 13, Pop TV announced Monday. The new season of “One Day at a Time” will be the first to air on the ViacomCBS network after it picked the show up post-Netflix cancellation. “The enthusiastic response from fans

Responding to the uproar over a clue on Friday’s episode of “Jeopardy!” about the location of a church in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, the show’s producers issued a statement Monday that said the clue had been voided during taping and the uncorrected version of the game was mistakenly broadcast due to “human error

NBCUniversal’s Lifestyle Group has promoted Jennifer Geisser to the position of executive vice president of communications and talent relations. In her new role, Geisser (pictured left) will be responsible for internal and external communications, developing and executing publicity campaigns, talent management and corporate communications for multiple brands including E!’s international networks. The announcement was made

When Dan Levy first went to his father Eugene Levy to ask him to work on the pilot of “Schitt’s Creek” with him, the senior Levy admits he was shocked, excited and panicked. “He never came to me for anything in his life — when he was in school doing plays, [I’d say], ]Do you

Pop TV has ordered “Mother Mary,” a new comedy pilot that puts a modern twist on one of the most famous, biblical stories ever told. Asking the question, “What would happen in today’s world if the most irresponsible and lazy human on Earth was impregnated by immaculate conception?” “Mother Mary” will star Betsy Sodaro, who

Before “Homeland” signs off of Showtime this spring, it is going back to its beginning. Rather than “mirror and reflect what’s happening in Washington, D.C.” in the storytelling this season as the show did in the past two seasons, executive producer Alex Gansa said the focus will be on the characters of Carrie Mathison (Claire

January 13, 2020 12:30PM PT Shooting on the upcoming “Falcon & Winter Soldier” series for Disney Plus has been temporarily postponed due to the earthquakes that have rocked Puerto Rico, Variety has confirmed. The Marvel series was due to shoot in Puerto Rico this month reportedly for multiple weeks, but those plans have now been called

MADRID  — Underscoring its ambitions to grow its Latin America business, Fremantle has named Manuel Martí, one of Latin America’s most cultured and respected TV executives, to the newly-created position of head of scripted development, Latin America. Martí will report to Coty Cagliolo, Fremantle head of production, Latin America, He will be responsible for developing

January 13, 2020 11:12AM PT The 2020 Critics’ Choice Awards saw a TV ratings tumble from last year on Sunday night, as the NFL playoffs dominated proceedings. The awards show was down 33% in the key 18-49 demographic on the CW, scoring a 0.2 rating, and down roughly 22% on total viewership, drawing just under

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. This week, “The New Pope” returns on HBO, and “Sex Education” season 2 drops on

Dan Kupetz, CBS Television Studios’ head of business affairs since 2004, is joining 20th Century Fox Television as executive vice president of business affairs and operations beginning in March. “Dan’s reputation from his years at CBS is deservedly stellar, and I knew from our first meeting that he possessed exactly the right combination of strategic

Dave Bautista has joined the Apple series “See” for its second season, Variety has confirmed. The exact nature of Bautista’s role is not yet clear, but it will be his first major TV appearance. The series takes place in the distant future, after a deadly virus decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Jason Momoa stars as Baba

Showtime’s upcoming Documentary Films slate includes “Kingdom of Silence,” “The Kingmaker,” “The Longest War” and “Love Fraud,” “The Trade” the premium cabler announced Monday. “The Kingmaker,” which comes from Lauren Greenfield, explores the disturbing legacy of the Marcos regime in the Philippines, and chronicles Imelda’s present-day push to help her son, Bongbong, win the vice

Showtime has renewed “Shameless” for an 11th and final season. The announcement was made by Showtime president of entertainment Gary Levine  at the network’s Television Critics’ Association press tour day. “Shameless” is the longest-running Showtime series ever. “The characters of ‘Shameless have brought Showtime viewers more laughs and tears and pure enjoyment than any program in our

“Avenue 5” is technically science-fiction, but as many genres shows have proved, drawing a straight line from our reality to a hyperbolic future like the one of HBO’s new comedy is all too easy. Set 40 years in the future, it takes place on Avenue 5, a spaceship that is essentially a high stakes luxury