Sci-fi drama series “Brave New World” has been canceled by Peacock after one season, Variety has confirmed. The show’s studio, Universal Content Productions, will attempt to sell it to other outlets. Developed by David Wiener, “Brave New World” was part of Peacock’s original rollout and was the streamer’s only scripted series at the time of its
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched Season 4, Episode 5 of “The Masked Singer,” which aired Oct. 28 on Fox. How YOU doin’, Wendy Williams? The talk show host, who’s the latest celebrity to be revealed on Fox’s “The Masked Singer,” tells Variety she’s relieved to finally share her secret
“The Rookie” is the latest show to be hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of five production crew members on the ABC drama have tested positive for coronavirus, Variety has confirmed with sources. Despite the outbreak, the show’s producer Entertainment One has made the decision to continue production, stopping briefly for a “deep cleaning” of the
“The Baby-Sitters Club” has been renewed for Season 2 at Netflix. The announcement comes after the first season of the show was released in July. The second season is currently slated to debut in 2021. The cast announced the second season in a video posted Wednesday. Based on the best-selling book series of the same
Taking cues from an aunt who brings a string of random guys to family holiday gatherings may not be wise. Yet, in the pleasantly diverting rom-com “Holidate” (streaming on Netflix), that’s exactly what Sloane (Emma Roberts) does, with a twist. After meeting prickly, she and handsome strange Jackson enter into a pact. They’d been standing
Courtesy of Rebag / PAUL DE LUNA Since Rebag’s founding in 2014, the reseller site has built a small empire of gently-used designer used bags, everything from vintage Fendi to one-of-a-kind Hermès Birkins. Earlier this year, they launched a selection of accessories, and now the company is expanding even further by venturing into watches and
Sunny Hostin is developing a drama series inspired by her life and career at Fox, Variety has learned. Titled “The Counsel,” the series follows four thirtysomething women of color who are leaders in their respective fields of journalism, law, politics and public relations. They must rely on their lifelong friendship to overcome a scandal that threatens
With only four episodes to go for the CW’s “Supernatural,” things are looking dire for Team Free Will. While Dean (Jensen Ackles) is ready and willing to let Jack (Alexander Calvert) sacrifice himself to take down Chuck aka God (Rob Benedict), Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Castiel (Misha Collins) are hoping there’s another way. Part of
Neither VFX supervisor John Mangia nor VFX producer Arissa Blasingame were chess masters before joining Netflix’s limited series “The Queen’s Gambit,” but they learned about the game once they were recruited to come on board to create the visual effects. Based on the novel of the same name by Walter Tevis, the series follows the
Timothy Hutton is no longer a part of the cast on FX’s long-gestating “Y: The Last Man,” the network confirmed on Wednesday. Hutton’s exit comes as several cast members have been swapped now that the show is entering production. Olivia Thirlby has replaced Imogen Poots as Hero Brown, while Ashley Romans takes over the role
In today’s TV news roundup, ABC is set to air a special episode of “The Bachelorette” on Nov. 5, and Shudder revealed that new cast members, including Marilyn Manson, have been brought onto season 2 of “Creepshow.” DATES ABC revealed that a special episode of “The Bachelorette” will air on Nov. 5, with Clare Crawley
Bob Gibson, who co-founded Gibson & Stromberg, a pioneering firm in music publicity during a key golden age of rock in the late ’60s and early ’70s, died Oct. 23 in Los Angeles. He was 80. The company he formed with Gary Stromberg lasted from 1969 until 1975 and represented artists including the Rolling Stones,
Charlotte Kirk would like to set the record straight. The actress at the center of two Hollywood sex scandals has already spoken out once, claiming in the spring of 2019 that she had a consensual affair with Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara. But now Kirk wants to speak out again, this time to tell what
The annual IDFA press conference began Wednesday with some seemingly abstract visuals that artistic director Orwa Nyrabia revealed formed a key part of this year’s marketing campaign. Inspired by the work of Dutch photographer Maurice Mikkers, the images are close-ups of human tears—pretty apt for a year that Nyrabia described as “exciting, painful, and joyful
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has announced director-screenwriter Hou Hsiao-Hsien and songwriter Harry Belafonte as recipients of this year’s career achievement awards, and Norman Lloyd as the recipient of its legacy award. “In light of the challenges that 2020 has presented, we are particularly thrilled to be expressing our profound admiration this year for
“Big Brother” has been renewed for Season 23 at CBS. The 23rd season of the popular reality series will air in summer 2021. Julie Chen Moonves will return as host. The news comes just ahead of the two-hour season finale of “Big Brother: All Stars,” which airs tonight on CBS at 9 p.m. ET/PT. “At
After what feels like many moons rather a single year, Mando and his adorable green companion are coming back to our screens this week, and boy do we need them. Season 2 of “The Mandalorian” has a lot of hype to live up to after a critically and fan-acclaimed first season packed with the kind
Downtown Music Holdings has announced a number of appointments and recent key hires. Tracy Maddux, who has served as CEO of CD Baby and AVL Digital, which Downtown acquired in March 2019, will transition to Chief Commercial Officer for Downtown. Amber Charania has joined the Legal and Business Affairs team as Legal Counsel, along with Dean Luck, Downtown’s new International
The past few months has been such a dynamic time for this industry that it was a challenge to keep up with all the executive moves for women on this year’s report. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has accelerated change, disrupting business models and personal lives. Still, the women on Variety‘s Power of Women impact list
Seven additional counts of sexual assault were filed on Wednesday against former adult film star Ron Jeremy, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced in a statement. The seven counts — which include three counts of forcible rape, two counts of forcible oral copulation, one count of sexual battery by restraint and one count
A Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday about a U.S. law that shields internet companies from liability over content posted to their platforms — predictably — mainly provided a venue for GOP members to slam the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google for allegedly censoring conservative viewpoints and information. The execs of the three tech companies
“I have been hiding behind producing,” says “You Will Die at 20” director Amjad Abu Alala. “I wanted to do that. I remember, last year, after my film won the Lion of the Future Award for best debut film at the Venice Film Festival, I got on the plane to the Toronto Film Festival and
Sia first announced her plans for her directorial debut, “Music” at the 2015 Venice Film Festival. But the story germinated over fifteen years ago when she penned the short story, still the “Chandelier” singer tells Variety’s Executive Editor of Music Shirley Halperin that she never saw herself as a director. Speaking as part of Variety’s
Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff in the Department of Homeland Security, revealed that he was the anonymous author of an anti-Trump New York Times op-ed in 2018. Taylor revealed his identity as the previously unnamed author in a blog post on Wednesday, saying “Donald Trump is a man without character. It’s why I
Julia von Heinz’s “And Tomorrow the Entire World” has been selected to represent Germany in the best international feature film category of the Oscars. The film premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival. The decision was made by an independent jury, whose members were appointed by German Films. Ten films were submitted for selection.
One of the hardest calls a development executive faces is deciding on the right home for a project. Lauren Neustadter, head of film and TV for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine media banner, has a gut check that she exercises before the company gets involved with a new project. As she explains to Variety podcast “Strictly
France President Emmanuel Macron has put the country under a partial lockdown until Dec. 1 to fight the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. The nation was placed under a nightly curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. two weeks ago, but that hasn’t been enough to curb a skyrocketing number of COVID-19 cases. The
Jennifer Lopez’s latest movies have at least one thing in common: They’re all directed by women. The slate includes 2019’s “Hustlers,” directed by Lorene Scafaria, which grossed $157 million worldwide; next year’s “Marry Me” (from Kat Coiro), in which Lopez plays a pop star navigating a bad breakup with her famous fiancé (Maluma); and the
Dua Lipa has announced a special online concert called “Studio 2054” that will be “a night of music, mayhem, performance, theater, dance and much more,” according to the announcement, “reality and fantasy exploding together to deliver a brand new multi-dimensional live experience.” The show will be streamed starting on Friday, Nov. 27, via LiveNow.com, and is
Alex Jones, the alt-right conspiracy theorist who has been kicked off major internet platforms, was a guest on the latest episode of Joe Rogan’s popular podcast — and during the rambling three-hour-plus show, Jones spouted a variety of misinformation, including claiming that masks aren’t effective at preventing COVID infection; denying climate-change science; spreading false anti-vaccine