Television

With the strikes that shut down Hollywood over, NBC is setting midseason premiere dates for much of its scripted lineup. The Dick Wolf universe of shows — “Chicago Med,” Chicago Fire,” “Chicago P.D.,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU” and “Law & Order: Organized Crime” — are all poised to return. New episodes of

The upcoming 14th season of “Blue Bloods” will be its last. The CBS police procedural, starring Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, Will Estes, Bridget Moynahan and Vanessa Ray, will get a two-part final season consisting of 18 episodes. The first 10 will air this midseason, kicking off on Feb 16 on CBS and Paramount+. The second

A second season of “UnPrisoned” is coming to Hulu, Variety has confirmed. Starring and executive produced by Kerry Washington, “UnPrisoned” follows messy but perfectionist relationship therapist and single mom, Paige Alexander (Washington) whose life is turned right-side-up when her dad gets out of prison and moves in with her and her teenage son. Delroy Lindo

Juno Temple has just learned about Jon Hamm’s “Fargo” stunt nipples, and she’s in awe. “A full, fake nipple?,” she asks, turning to her co-star at FX’s “Fargo” Season 5 premiere screening and panel on Nov. 15 at Nya Studios. There’s a lot to unpack with this season’s already critically acclaimed ‘Fargo’ installment, which dives

The ATX TV Festival is beginning to roll out its programming for Season 13. The event, taking place May 30-June 2 in Austin, Texas, will include both “Suits” and “Halt and Catch Fire” reunions. The creatives and cast of “Suits” will get back together, marking five years since the series finale. The legal drama has

“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” is staying put at ABC for the foreseeable future. Variety has learned that ABC and Dick Clark Productions have extended their deal for the annual New Year’s Eve show through Jan. 1 2029. Hosted by Seacrest from New York’s Times Square, the show serves as a

Can “King Charles” rule in the heady, competitive world of cable news? CNN will soon find out. The new one-hour program will debut Wednesday, November 29, at 10 p.m., and will be co-anchored by the unlikely duo of Gayle King, who still has her long-running day job at rival CBS News, and Charles Barkley, the

Oscar winner Jeremy Irons has joined the cast of Palme d’Or-winning director Bille August‘s prestige limited series “The Count of Monte Cristo,” which also stars Sam Claflin. A sprawling adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel, the English-language series is produced by Mediawan’s banner Palomar, the leading Italian company behind “That Dirty Black Bag” and “The Name

KOREAN ROMANTIC REMAKE IS 28 YEARS BETTER LATE THAN NEVER Leading Korean star Jung Woo-sung (“A Moment to Remember”) will star opposite Shin Hyun-been (“Hospital Playlist”) in “Tell Me That You Love Me,” an original series for Genie TV. The show is a remake of the hit Japanese series of the same name that first

Yes Studios, the Tel Aviv-based producer and distributor behind “Fauda,” has scored major deals on “44 Hours,” a documentary feature about Gil Avni, a healthy 33-year-old father of two who was diagnosed with cerebral edema and miraculously recovered. The feature-length documentary has been acquired by Amazon Prime Video in the U.S. and by NRK in

Veteran actor Ciaran Hinds and Odessa Young have joined “Euphoria” star Jacob Elordi in the cast of premium Australian miniseries “The Narrow Road to the Deep North.” Production is now under way. An adaptation of the Booker Prize-winning novel by Richard Flanaghan, the five-part series is love story set against the backdrop of World War

AMC’s “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live,” featuring the return of beloved characters Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne Grimes (Danai Gurira) from the original series, has released a new teaser. The series is the next installment of the popular “The Walking Dead” franchise and will premiere Feb. 25, 2024, on both AMC and

Dex Carvey, the son of comedian and former “SNL” star Dana Carvey, died of an accidental drug overdose on Nov. 15. He was 32. Dana Carvey confirmed the news in a joint statement with his wife Paula Zwagerman on Instagram. “Last night we suffered a terrible tragedy. Our beloved son, Dex, died of an accidental

If movie and TV studios get nervous about advertising, so should everyone else. Advertisers loathe controversy, and often “pull” or “yank” their commercials from individual pieces of content that generate it. But the studios have stiffer spines. They don’t run garden-variety commercials, but rather trailers and sneak previews of much-anticipated TV programs, and their target

Nearly four decades ago, Lifetime Channel launched as a woman-centered network airing mostly talk shows and syndicated series. Four years later, the whole cable network changed, premiering its first TV movie, “Memories of a Murder.” The 1990 movie, starring Nancy Allen, set the tone for what was to come, with a plot about a stepmother

Before production got underway on Apple TV+’s “Silo” in 2021, creator Graham Yost’s inbox was a constant barrage of questions. “I would get 50 emails a day from production design and set dec and costuming with questions about the logic of what would be in a silo,” the creator tells Variety. Who can blame them?

Some innovators try to devise a gadget that changes the world. Others hope to solve a global social ill. Sarah Sherman is eager to bring fake vomit on “Saturday Night Live” into the modern age. The comic has gained notice on the long-running NBC late-night series for bizarre humor that blends gross-out jokes with a

Bowen Yang played U.S. Representative George Santos, who found himself at the center of an investigation into his campaign donation spending, during the “Saturday Night Live” Weekend Update. Santos was found by a House Ethics Committee report to have spent tens of thousands of campaign dollars on designer clothes and shoes, Botox, OnlyFans, personal trips

Emma Stone will host “Saturday Night Live” on Dec. 2 with Noah Kahan as her musical guest. Stone is currently starring in the Showtime TV series “The Curse” with Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie. She plays a home improvement TV host who gets cursed by a child along with her husband, played by Fielder. She

Bowen Yang starred as Tian Tian, a giant panda from China who interrupted an awkward Joe Biden press conference, in the “Saturday Night Live” cold open. As Mikey Day’s Biden was getting grilled at a press conference about his recent meeting with China’s president Xi Jinping, response to the Israel-Palestine conflict and the border crisis,

NBCUniversal is envisioning a day when the Paralympics, the international multisport event for athletes with disabilities, achieve a level of prestige, recognizability and enthusiastic fandom on par with the Olympic Games that inspired them. In preparations for next year’s Olympics telecasts, the media conglomerate on Nov. 16 revealed its high-tech content creation operations across a

“The Railway Men,” the first production from YRF Entertainment, the streaming production arm of India’s Yash Raj Films, was a carefully considered choice from studio head Aditya Chopra, director Shiv Rawail has revealed. The four-part series is a tribute to the unsung heroes of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy and marks the first venture in a

Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery have joined a growing list of blue-chip advertisers who are pulling advertising and promotions from the social-media outlet X in the wake of a recent antisemitic remark posted by the venue’s owner, Elon Musk. A Lionsgate spokesperson said Friday that the entertainment company “has suspended advertising on X because of

Amazon Prime Video has ordered a “Bosch” spinoff about the LAPD’s cold case division and Det. Renée Ballard. The 10-episode series was first reported as being in the works at Amazon MGM Studios in February. Like “Bosch,” the series will be based on the work of author Michael Connelly. Per the official description, the currently

On Oct. 5, 2023, Variety announced its inaugural Antisemitism & Hollywood Summit. Little did the organizers know that two days later, Israel would face its worst terrorist attack in the history of the nation, with Hamas’ attack becoming the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. When the summit was held nearly two

The Golden Globe Awards have found a TV home for 2024 at CBS. The 81st edition of the awards show will air Jan. 7 on the broadcast network immediately after an NFL on CBS doubleheader. The show will also stream on Paramount+ and be available on the CBS app as part of a new deal

Author and new age leader Deepak Chopra has signed on to present India-based executive and Balaji Telefilms co-founder Ektaa R. Kapoor with the International Emmy 2023 Directorate Award. The honor will be given on Monday, Nov. 20, at the 51st International Emmys in New York. “Ektaa Kapoor’s impact on culture has spurred a human revolution, not

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for Part 1 of Season 6 of “The Crown,” now streaming on Netflix. Approaching Princess Diana‘s death was a difficult and daunting task for the team behind Netflix’s “The Crown,” but its aftermath carried just as much pressure. At the end of the sixth season’s third episode, Diana (Elizabeth

Guy Fieri is expanding his empire with the announcement of a new festival in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. The Food Network star announced the launch of Flavortown Fest on Friday. Planned as a two-day festival held in the Arch City, the event promises to “fuse food and funk, bringing to life the one and

The people who brew Michelob Ultra are counting on potential customers to crack open a documentary before they crack open a beer. In Spring, the Anheuser-Busch InBev brand will launch “Lap of Legends,” a one-hour documentary special that spotlights the journey of Logan Sargeant, the popular American race-car driver. Sargeant will square off against avatars