Television

October 4, 2018 1:00PM PT Showrunner and writer Eric Newman has signed a multi-year series overall deal with Netflix. The series deal is in addition to Newman’s previously announced Netflix feature film overall agreement through Screen Arcade. Newman served as a producer on the Netflix original feature film “Bright” and as an executive producer on

October 4, 2018 12:55PM PT The DC Universe just got a whole lot more Lobo. The red-eyed, bounty hunter will be joining season two of “Krypton,” Syfy announced Thursday. Set 200 years before Superman’s home planet Krypton was destroyed, the latest installment of the Superman origin series will soon introduce the both ruthless Lobo, to

October 4, 2018 12:30PM PT Meg Ryan is attached to produce–and potentially star–in a single-camera comedy series currently in the works at NBC. The project is titled “The Obsolescents” and takes place in a New Jersey suburb where the facade of peace and civility is disrupted by the shocking death of a long-time Township Council member.

October 4, 2018 12:00PM PT HBO is teaming with Jason Kim and Greta Lee to develop a comedy series about Los Angeles’ Koreatown neighborhood. Kim and Lee will write and executive produce “KTown,” billed as a a dark comedy about LA’s most eccentric zip code and the kingpin family at the center of it. Lee

October 4, 2018 12:00PM PT TLC has grabbed exclusive U.S. TV rights to Britain’s royal wedding No. 2 for 2018, the nuptials of Princess Eugenie. The 28-year-old daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson is marrying her companion of eight years, Jack Brooksbank, on Oct. 12 in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. TLC will

Jermaine Fowler is back in business with CBS. In one of the biggest comedy deals of the current development season, the former “Superior Donuts” star–along with Quinta Brunson and Larry Wilmore–has landed a pilot production commitment for a multi-camera comedy at the broadcaster. Titled “Quinta & Jermaine,” the series will star Fowler and Brunson as childhood

There is an art to making comedy about irritating, self-involved, or even just flat-out terrible people. Sharp writing can make such characters wickedly funny, spitting jokes like acid that sting as hard as they land (see: “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”); it can peel back their defensive spiky layers to find surprising depth and tenderness

“The Walking Dead” returns for its ninth season in a state of flux. The juggernaut AMC series has a new showrunner at the helm in Angela Kang, making her the fourth showrunner in the show’s history. At the same time, series mainstay Andrew Lincoln will be leaving the show while fellow star Lauren Cohan will only

The hosts at MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” regularly do battle with all sorts of A.M. competition. On Thursday, however, co-anchor Mika Brzezinski found herself sparring with a range of rival newscasters in a most unusual way. Brzezinski held forth on Thursday’s “Morning Joe” with an impassioned oration about White House adviser Kellyanne Conway’s recent disclosure about

MADRID — Two of the biggest, and most ambitious players in the Latino TV world, Brazil’s Globo and Spain’s Atresmedia Internacional, have struck a strategic agreement for Atresmedia’s overseas pay TV channel Atreseries to become the first pay TV window for Globo telenovelas, series and mini-series in Latin America and the U.S. Hispanic market. Announced

The “Heathers” TV series is finally going to make it to air. The Paramount Network is planning to release the first season of the show ahead of Halloween. Beginning Oct. 25, the cable network will air two episodes a night until Oct. 29. The finale will be followed by the premiere of a new Heather’s

U.K., French, and German channels have signed up for “Greatest Events of World War II in HD Colour.” The documentary series uses colorization software to show events from the conflict in color for the first time. Discovery has landed the series for the U.K., N-TV has it in Germany, and Planete+ will show it in

If you’re looking for the ultimate #CoupleGoals, look no further. “It’s one thing to be in love…but you gotta really like each other,” Megan Mullally said while gazing fondly at her husband of 18 years, Nick Offerman, at the Los Angeles stop of their book tour for “The Greatest Love Story Ever Told.” The internet’s recent

As first look images and footage began to emerge for DC Universe’s “Titans,” there was some criticism from long-time comic book fans concerned about the darkness of the show and the changes to certain characters. But just weeks ahead of the show’s digital debut, at the world premiere event at New York Comic-Con, the cast

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Could it be…Satan?”, the fourth episode of “American Horror Story: Apocalypse.” “American Horror Story: Apocalypse” really kicked things into high gear last week with the arrival of the “Coven” witches and things did not slow down this week with “Could It Be… Satan?” with the

October 3, 2018 5:00PM PT Kaley Cuoco will lend her voice to the title character in the upcoming “Harley Quinn” animated series at DC Universe. The announcement was made at New York Comic Con, with Cuoco taking the stage after a special first look video (see below) was unveiled. In the video, Harley sits in

October 3, 2018 5:00PM PT Matt Bomer has joined the cast of “Doom Patrol,” the drama series in the works for Warner Bros.’ DC Universe streaming service. Bomer will provide the voice of Negative Man in the live-action series, and he will appear in flashback sequences as the character of Larry Trainor. Negative Man will

October 3, 2018 4:54PM PT Creator Jon Favreau revealed the first details of his forthcoming “Star Wars” streaming TV series. In a post Wednesday on his Instagram account, the filmmaker teased “The Mandalorian,” writing in a yellow-on-black script reminiscent of the traditional opening “crawl” that precedes most “Star Wars” films, “After the stories of Jango

In today’s TV News Roundup, Netflix has released a new trailer for its upcoming series “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” and HBO has released a new photo of Helen Mirren as the Russian empress Catherine the Great. DATES Fox Sports Films is debuting three documentaries in honor of legendary player moments from Kirk Gibson, Jim Abbott

Mischa Barton is joining the cast of “The Hills” reboot, “New Beginnings,” a docuseries based on the hit MTV show, which ended in 2010. Barton will star alongside original cast members from “The Hills,” including Audrina Patridge, Brody Jenner, Frankie Delgado, Heidi Pratt, Jason Wahler, Justin “Bobby” Brescia, Spencer Pratt, Stephanie Pratt, and Whitney Port,

October 3, 2018 1:30PM PT CBS executive Vinnie Favale has been place on leave amid accusations that he used offensive and homophobic language in work situations. In a report Wednesday by CNN, Favale, senior VP of talent at CBS Television Studios, was accused of having made multiple offensive remarks during meetings related to “The Late

October 3, 2018 1:00PM PT Jake Johnson will play the lead role in an animated comedy that has been ordered to series at Netflix, Variety has learned. Titled “Hoops,” the series centers on a hot-headed, foul-mouthed high school basketball coach (Johnson) who thinks turning around his God-awful team will take him to the “big leagues.” Netflix has

CNN is taking some of its coverage of politics off the TV screen and putting it into a special live forum. The AT&T-owned cable-news network is set to launch “Citizen by CNN,” a day-long conference slated to be held Monday at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan. While some of the panels and interviews set

Damon Wayans says that he’s leaving Fox’s “Lethal Weapon.” In an interview with the website Eurweb.com, Wayans said that he plans to exit the Warner Bros. Television-produced drama after finishing production on the 13 episodes ordered by Fox for season three. “I’m going to be quitting the show in December after we finish the initial

October 3, 2018 12:00PM PT Performer Will.I.Am has signed a first-look television and film development and production deal with EntertainmentOne. Under the multiyear deal, Will.I.Am will serve as an executive producer on TV and film projects, leveraging his industry and creative expertise to develop and produce original programming with eOne, for which the studio will

October 3, 2018 11:28AM PT Though it’s been more than a year since MTV pulled the plug on the dark comedy series “Sweet/Vicious,” the show is getting a second chance, this time in the form of a comic book. Sources confirmed to Variety that series creator Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is partnering with Black Mask Studios to

Everyone’s favorite “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” dancing sass master is leaving the show. In a tweet Wednesday, Chelsea Peretti announced her departure from the NBC comedy after a brief stint on Season 6, with some possible guest appearances hinted at for the future. “B99 fans. Hiiiiiiiiiiii. Chelsea Peretti, here. I won’t be doing a full season of

A little loss can be something to celebrate. Through the first three weeks of the 2018 regular season, NFL game telecasts are down an average 2% in total viewers from where they were at the same point in 2017, according to Nielsen data. That’s a significant improvement from the previous two seasons, when three weeks

U.S. showrunner Frank Spotnitz (“The Man in the High Castle”) and British writer Stephen Thompson (“Sherlock”) have been recruited by Italy’s RAI and Lux Vide to develop “Leonardo,” an English-language TV series that will portray the Renaissance genius as a gay outsider.  “He was a real outsider for those times. He was an illegitimate child,

CBS News said it added Bianna Golodryga to its morning host roster at “CBS This Morning,” broadening its roster of anchors in the competitive morning-news field. The anchor addition comes as the morning program, while faring better for CBS than many of its predecessors, continues to lag its main rivals:  NBC’s “Today” and ABC’s “Good Morning