Comedian Brett Gelman is coming to Hawkins for Season 2 of “Stranger Things,” Variety has confirmed. Gelman will play Murray Bauman, a disgraced journalist-turned-conspiracy theorist who is…
Welcome to Remote Controlled, Variety’s podcast series featuring the best and brightest in television, both in front of and behind the camera. This week’s episode features Variety executive editor of…
Decades before "Lovejoy" and "Deadwood," Ian McShane was first mentioned in Variety at age 19, when he was cast in "The Wild and the Willing" (later renamed "Young and Willing"), a film about…
ROME – NBCUniversal International Formats announced its first European deal for talent format "Hidden Singer," which will air on Discovery Italia's channel Nove next year. The format, which…
The first scene of "Search Party" finds Dory (Alia Shawkat), a 20-something Brooklynite with a charmingly ugly mop of curls, transfixed in the middle of the sidewalk by a “MISSING” poster…
Comedy Central has renewed “Kevin Hart Presents: Hart of the City” for a second season, Variety has learned. The eight-episode second season will premiere in 2017. “Hart of the City,” currently…
UPDATED: NBC’s five-game “Thursday Night Football” NFL package began Thursday with a New Orleans Saints-Carolina Panthers match-up that delivered 13.3 million viewers in Nielsen’s final ratings…
Robin Thede, the former head writer and panelist for “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore,” has teamed with Jax Media to field an independently produced pilot for a weekly comedy news program. “The…
"The Grand Tour," the new auto show from the former hosts of "Top Gear" – Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May – premiered on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, and the British press love it…
There’s a new head of the Television Academy — for the first time in five years. Hayma “Screech” Washington has been elected chairman of the Television Academy, replacing longtime chair Bruce…
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched the midseason finale of “How to Get Away With Murder,” titled “Who’s Dead?” which aired on Thursday, Nov. 17. After eight episodes of guessing…