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“The Bear” star Ayo Edebiri is nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for supporting actress in a comedy for the first season of the hit FX series. However, she’ll be switching it up for the show’s second season, which aired in June. Edebiri, who plays young sous chef Sydney Adamu, will be submitted for lead

SPOILER ALERT: This story includes discussion of major plot developments on “Loki,” which is currently streaming on Disney+. Roughly 20 minutes after the news broke that the 118-day SAG-AFTRA strike had concluded, the first email I received from an actor’s publicist was for Ke Huy Quan. That’s how enthusiastic the recent Oscar-winning star of “Everything

After self-releasing three specials and amassing more than 17 million TikTok fans, Matt Rife is beyond gratified to have scored a Netflix special. “You work your entire career to feel accepted by a network standard,” Rife tells Variety, noting it was both arduous and creatively fulfilling to produce his YouTube specials — “Only Fans,” “Matthew

Matt LeBlanc honored his late “Friends” co-star Matthew Perry with a new tribute posted to Instagram in which LeBlanc called his time with Perry “among the favorite times of my life.” Perry died unexpectedly on Oct. 28 at 54 years old. LeBlanc issued a joint statement on Perry’s death shortly after with “Friends” cast members Jennifer

Ahead of the Season 2 finale, FX has ordered a third season of “Welcome to Wrexham.” The forthcoming installment is scheduled for a spring 2024 premiere. Starring and executive produced by Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds, the docuseries chronicles the two stars’ efforts to return Wrexham AFC, one of the oldest and most storied football

“Praise Petey” has been canceled after just one season at Freeform. Series creator Anna Drezen shared the news in an Instagram post on Nov. 13. In the post, Drezen wrote, “I cannot believe we got to make this show. Best crew, best cast, top to bottom the dream of my life to make something this

The BBC is investigating five complaints into the conduct of Russell Brand during the comedian’s time as a presenter for the broadcaster. In September, the Sunday Times of London, The Times and U.K. broadcaster Channel 4’s documentary team “Dispatches” published the results of a year-long investigation where Brand was accused of “rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse.”

Revenue gains made by streamer Joyn partially offset the continuing decline in linear TV advertising in the German-speaking region at media giant ProSiebenSat.1. Quarterly results published on Tuesday reveal that group revenues are relatively stable with a 3% decline in the third quarter of 2023 to €888 million ($950 million) compared to €911 million ($974 million)

“Wednesday” is moving production from Romania to Ireland for Season 2, and is tentatively scheduled to start shooting in April, Variety has confirmed. The eight-episode first season, which originally debuted last November on Netflix, was shot in Romania from September 2021 to March 2022. After breaking multiple streaming series records, including most hours viewed for

When tackling the final season of Netflix’s popular royal drama, creator Peter Morgan took extra care to handle certain stories — namely, Princess Diana‘s tragic death — with a sensitive touch. After previously revealing to Variety in his Oct. 25 cover story that the show would not be showing the disastrous car crash that ultimately

Jamie Lynn Spears is headed to the jungle. The actor and little sister of Britney has been announced as a castmember on the latest season of U.K. reality survival show “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!” alongside British right-wing politician Nigel Farage and morning show host Josie Gibson. Farage is best known as

Seven veterans who have transitioned into various careers and pursuits that inspire others were honored in “Variety Salute to Service” presented by the History Channel. Marine Corp and Navy veteran Montel Williams hosted this year’s special, which premiered Saturday on the History Channel and was produced by A+E Factual Studios. Williams explained that the veterans

Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell will taking a ride in the Burgermobile this Thanksgiving. Variety has learned exclusively that the comedy duo, who star in the upcoming film “Good Burger 2,” will be onboard when the Burgermobile from the film takes part in the 97th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. It was previously announced that

We are at a place where humanity exists between two spheres. The “real world” is our tangible environment. We can touch things, unpacking textures, tastes and scents. And then, there is another world. Though artificial, and born of the internet and technology, AI is more life-like than ever. Innovation, after all, is infinite. While many

SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot developments in Season 2, Episode 6 of “Loki,” currently streaming on Disney+, and “The Marvels,” currently playing in theaters.  For the past few months, I’ve been talking with some of my friends and colleagues about a radical idea that’s been bouncing around in my head that I haven’t

UPDATED: SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher on Monday scolded “naysayers” and “contrarians” who have criticized the union’s new contract. Drescher defended the agreement during a Zoom meeting for SAG-AFTRA members on Monday morning. “Sadly there have been some naysayers who have exploited this momentum of ours,” Drescher said. She said that throughout the negotiation, some people

“Queer Eye” co-host Bobby Berk has announced that he will be exiting the Netflix reality show after the upcoming Season 8. Berk shared the news on social media Monday morning. He has hosted Netflix’s reboot with Antoni Porowski, Jonathan Van Ness, Karamo Brown and Tan France since it launched in 2018. Season 8 will premiere

“BlackBerry” was never supposed to be two things. Yet when the three-part miniseries telling the metaphoric rise and catastrophic fall of the BlackBerry debuts on AMC on Nov. 13 (having premiered on CBC and CBC Gem on Nov. 9), viewers will see an extension of the film that premiered last January at the Berlin International

Gun use is dramatically down on TV this fall — but that may be mostly attributed to the recent Hollywood strikes, which led to the shutdown of virtually all film and TV productions this year, according to a new study. The report, “Gun Smoke: An Analysis of How Labor Strikes May Have Impacted Network TV

“Young Sheldon” isn’t getting any younger, so scripted originals are coming back just in time. CBS will take advantage of this year’s Super Bowl to launch its truncated 2023-2024 primetime lineup the week of February 12. That’s the week that most of its major series will return with new episodes, including the “NCIS” and “FBI”

The organizers behind the prestigious U.K. documentary prize the Grierson Awards have condemned an antisemitic incident that took place at the ceremony last week. “We are appalled to have received several reports of anti-Jewish racism by an individual at the reception after the Grierson Awards last Thursday night,” said The Grierson Trust, the body behind

Variety chief correspondent and rising star Elizabeth Wagmeister is heading to CNN, where she’ll cover the entertainment beat for the news cabler, based in Los Angeles. Wagmeister was a driving force who helped Variety reclaim its role as the most-read, No. 1 entertainment news source in the business (often doubling its competition in Comscore rankings).

Red Bull Studios and London-based Featuristic Films have partnered on “Art of the Jump,” a feature documentary about the life and career of Sébastien Foucan, a well-known French athlete. Directed by James Kermack (“Knuckledust,” “Hi-Lo Joe”), the documentary follows Foucan’s humble upbringing in the French suburb of Lisses to sports stardom. Foucan is known for

Comedian Tom Segura has announced the first leg of his new global stand-up comedy tour “Tom Segura: Come Together.” “This tour is bigger and blacker than anything I’ve ever done,” Segura said. “But that name has already been used, but ‘Come Together’ gets the point across. Let’s all come together for a night. One way

Matan Meir, a crewmember on hit Netflix series “Fauda,” has been killed in action during the Israel-Hamas war, the show’s production team have confirmed. The Times of Israel reported that Meir, along with four other Israeli soldiers, was killed after encountering a booby-trapped tunnel next to a mosque in Northern Gaza on Nov. 11. Meir

U.K. production studio Content Kings is expanding to the Middle East with a new office in Dubai, Variety can confirm. Darren Arturi has been tapped to lead the office, joining the company as director of Middle East and Asia operations. “We are eager to embrace the rich cultural tapestry and untapped potential of this region,”

SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers from “Unmortricken,” the fifth episode of “Rick and Morty” Season 7. Dan Harmon is, by his own admission, “allergic to serialized, canonical stuff.” But the “Rick and Morty” co-creator told Variety that he resisted that impulse for “Unmortricken,” the episode that brought Season 7 of the Adult Swim animated

Timothée Chalamet embraced his inner-twink while hosting the Nov. 11 episode of “Saturday Night Live,” in a sketch in which the Oscar-nominated actor played openly gay Australian pop star Troye Sivan. The sketch involved a woman (played by cast member Sarah Sherman) complaining to her doctor (played by cast member Bowen Yang) that she’s been

“Saturday Night Live” host Timothée Chalamet took full advantage of his ability to promote his latest movie, the upcoming movie musical, “Wonka,” following the conclusion of the 118-day SAG-AFTRA strike, which had prohibited actors from promoting any work for the studios. In his opening monologue, after first joking that during the strike, all he could

The news that multiple Oscar nominee Michelle Williams was the reader for the audiobook of Britney Spears‘ memoir “The Woman in Me” was too delightful for “Saturday Night Live” to pass up. In a pre-taped sketch for the Nov. 11 episode hosted by Timothée Chalamet, Chloe Fineman as Spears introduced a cavalcade of celebrities (or,