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Vanessa Bayer spent seven seasons on Saturday Night Live playing characters far from her own experience: a naughty Christmas elf, Miley Cyrus, earnest Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy. But Joanna Gold, her lead character on the workplace comedy/coming-of-age story I Love That for You, is inspired by Bayer’s real life. The actress survived childhood leukemia — as has Joanna, whose attempt to move from overprotected “Cancer Girl” to host on her beloved Special Value Network, is the show’s central story-line. “This is a love letter to home shopping networks. I watched a lot as a kid,” says Bayer, an executive producer as well as cocreator. In the premiere, Joanna, after putting her life on hold for years and then gaining a ...

Joey King — who snagged an Emmy nomination for Hulu’s The Act — has been tapped to headline another weighty limited series for the streamer.

The actress will star in Holocaust-themed drama We Were the Lucky Ones, an eight-episode adaptation of Georgia Hunter’s best-selling novel of the same name.

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Written and EP’d by Morning Show and Bates Motel vet Erica Lipez, Lucky Ones is inspired by the

Hulu has ordered a limited series adaptation of the Georgia Hunter novel “We Were the Lucky Ones” with Joey King attached to star, Variety has learned.

Hulu has given the show an eight episode order. It is inspired by the true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite.

Erica Lipez is adapting the book for the screen and will executive produce. Thomas Kail will direct and executive produce via Old 320 Sycamore. Jennifer Todd of Old 320 Sycamore will also executive produce, with the company’s Kate Sullivan producing. Hunter

The Ellen DeGeneres Show has officially wrapped. Ellen DeGeneres and her crew filmed their last episode of the daytime TV staple on Thursday, April 28. The final episode will air Thursday, May 26. The beloved talk show is coming to a close after 19 seasons. DeGeneres remarked on how life has changed since the series debut in 2003 on Instagram. “When we started this show in 2003, the iPhone didn’t exist. Social Media didn’t exist. Gay marriage wasn’t legal,” she wrote. “We watched the world change, sometimes for the better, sometimes not.” “But whatever was happening, my goal was always for the show to be a place where we could all come together and laugh for an hour,” she continued. “Being invited into your lives has been the greatest privilege of my life and has brought me incredible joy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.” View this post on Instagram A post

Working on “Our Flag Means Death,” a half-hour comedy now streaming on HBO Max, production designer Ra Vincent was excited for the challenge of crafting “a theatrical play … on the high sea.”

A fictionalized account of reallife 18th-century “gentleman pirate” Stede Bonnet (played by Rhys Darby) and his relationship with the infamous Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard (Taika Waititi), the series needed to use its sets in ways that typical movie and television productions do not.

“It’s less of a major motion picture and more of a theater sports performance,” Vincent explains. At the outset, Vincent says the team decided,

Patti Labelle will bless The Neighborhood with her presence when she makes her debut as the Butler family matriarch in the May 9 episode of the CBS comedy.

TVLine has your exclusive first look at the Grammy-winning R&b legend’s arrival. Labelle plays Marilyn, the oft-mentioned but never-before-seen mother of Cedric the Entertainer’s Calvin. In “Welcome to the Mama Drama,” Marilyn comes to town when Calvin is honored by the Chamber of Commerce for all the ways Calvin’s Pit Stop has given back to the community.

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Jeffrey Dean Morgan took to social media to say that some “The Walking Dead” fans have “gone way too far” with toxic outrage over the news that Melissa McBride will no longer star in the planned Carol-Daryl spinoff with Norman Reedus. McBride’s exit was announced April 27. The actor has played Carol since the first season of AMC’s flagship zombie drama. McBride exited the spinoff because relocating to Europe to shoot the series proved “logistically untenable” for her, AMC said in a statement.

“Some of you have gone Way too far,” Morgan wrote on Twitter. “Toxic. Attacking [Norman Reedus] for crap

“Ozark” cinematographer Shawn Kim came aboard the show at the start of Season 4 with a good idea of what creators Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams wanted for the look of the dark thriller about a mob accountant and his family who relocate from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks: A “sense of danger in the shadows,” Kim says.

“Ozark” fans have been waiting three months for the second half of the season to find out what happens to the Byrdes — Jason Bateman’s Marty, wife Wendy (Laura Linney) and their two children — as they try to wriggle free from the clutches

Michael Fabiani has been promoted to Senior VP of Communications at MTV Entertainment, the network announced on Friday.

Fabiani not only leads awards for the group, but he also oversees “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” “The Challenge,” “The Real World: Homecoming” and other shows that feature on MTV’s slate.

“Whether it’s driving the cultural conversation around ‘Drag Race,’ building on the enormous success of ‘Jersey Shore’ or leading breakthrough Emmy campaigns which have helped bring our brands to new heights, Michael has done an extraordinary job spearheading these press efforts,” said Liza Burnett Fefferman, EVP and head of communications at

As Pachinko Season 1 comes to a close Friday, April 29, Apple TV+ has green-lit Pachinko Season 2. The acclaimed series is developed by Soo Hugh from Min Jin Lee’s bestselling novel of the same name. Pachinko documents the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive. Beginning in early 1900s South Korea, Pachinko is told through the eyes of its remarkable matriarch, Sunja (Yuh-jung Youn), who triumphs against all odds. “Epic in scope and intimate in tone, Pachinko tells an unforgettable story of war and peace, love and loss, triumph and reckoning,” the Season 2 logline teases. Season 2 will continue the captivating multigenerational story told across three languages — Korean, Japanese, and English.” Hugh will continue with the lauded series in Season 2 as creator, writer, showrunner, and executive producer. “Words cannot express my joy in being able

The Fox-owned streaming outlet Tubi plans to expand its relationship with Nielsen to help advertisers measure viewing of Tubi programming across a wider array of venues, a critical demand that has increased from Madison Avenue as more viewing takes place via mobile and broadband.

Tubi plans to utilize Nielsn’s Digital Ad Ratings to expand coverage of streaming devices, including computer, mobile and connected TV. The company said the expanded pact represents ” a step towards increased industry coverage” provided by Nielsen One, a new product being developed by the measurement giant that will track viewership acorss linear and digital screens

It’s often impossible to trust your competition during a reality show, and that will definitely be true in Peacock’s new series. The streaming service has ordered 10 episodes of a U.S. version of The Traitors, based on the popular Dutch series of the same name. Alan Cumming will host. Production will begin later this month, and contestant casting will be announced at a later date. Described as a psychological thriller and competition reality series, The Traitors is set in a remote castle in the Scottish Highlands. Cumming will play host to reality TV icons and America’s best game players competing in a show of alliances, deception, and even “murder” in hopes of winning up to 250,000. According to the series description, “Treachery and deceit are the name of the game.” The 20 contestants will be tasked with completing a series of challenges that can earn them cash prizes. However,

Disney+’s Moon Knight made a hero’s landing on Nielsen’s latest U.S. ranking of streaming originals, while Netflix’s Bridgerton dominated the chart for a second straight week since its Season 2 release.

Bridgerton topped Nielsen’s ranking for the week of March 28 by amassing 3.2 billion minutes viewed across 16 total episodes. It thus joins Tiger King, Umbrella Academy, The Crown, Inventing Anna, Squid Game and Ozark as programs that have cracked the 3-billion-minute mark in a given week.

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Former AMC Networks chief Josh Sapan’s compensation for 2021, his final year as CEO of the company, rose 30 over the previous year to 15.3 million.

According to a proxy statement filed with the SEC Friday, Sapan’s total pay from the company for 2021 was 15.3 million, compared to the 11.8 million he received in 2020 and the 20.2 million he was paid in 2019.

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Sapan’s successor, AMC Networks interim CEO Matthew Blank, was paid 6.97 million for the year. Blank joined AMC Networks in his new role in September,

If you love to live in nostalgia, the incredible Star Trek: Strange New Worlds opening titles are right up your alley. With the premiere of the newest Star Trek series on Paramount+ less than a week away, the streaming service released its opening titles. “Space, the final frontier,” Anson Mount, who plays Captain Christopher Pike, says. “These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.” Watch them below. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise… Here’s your first look at the opening titles from #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds! pic.twitter.com/090MUm2Nbd — Star Trek on Paramount+ (@StarTrekOnPPlus) April 29, 2022 “Perhaps the greatest honor of my career to date was getting to utter these words: ‘Space, the final frontier…’ I could not be more proud to

Are you ready for it? The Bling Empire Season 2 trailer is here. It’s filled to the brim with rich people drama. Relationships start and end in the two-minute video, and there’s more than one conflict between “Los Angeles’s beloved uber-rich Asians.” And it’s all capped off with a phone call from Kathy Hilton. Bling Empire returns for Season 2 on Friday, May 13 on Netflix. And this season, your favorites are back “with even more luxury, glamour, and crazy,” the logline teases. “This season, a romance between Kevin and Kim percolates, Cherie and Jessey’s relationship is questioned, and as Kane and Kevin’s best bud friendship is tested, Beverly Hills’s rivaling queens, Christine and Anna, put a new twist on the art of social warfare,” it continues. “But through it all, the one thing these friends hold dearest to their hearts is their love for each other…

A popular song in the 1960s quipped, “England swings like a pendulum do,” but during that flashy decade of youthful rebellion, there was also a much more sinister movement sweeping the land toward neo-Nazi white-supremacy fascism. PBS’s Masterpiece revisits this uneasy time (with unfortunate echoes of the present) in the tense four-part limited series Ridley Road, featuring the exploits of a most unusual Mata Hari–style spy. We meet Vivien Epstein (an alluringly vulnerable Agnes O’Casey) as a restless young Jewish woman in Manchester, fleeing a dull arranged marriage proposal to follow her dashing boyfriend, Jack (Tom Varey), to London, though he warned her not to. Finding work as a hairdresser in fashionable Soho, this romantic is in for a rude awakening when she discovers that Jack has gone underground as a member of the anti-fascist 62 Group, based in the East End’s Ridley Road and led by her

Sunja’s epic story will continue to be told, now that Apple TV+ has renewed its acclaimed adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko novel for Season 2.

Adapted by Soo Hugh and directed by Kogonada and Justin Chon, the eight-episode freshman run premiered on March 25 (with the first three episodes) and released its finale this Friday morning.

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Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not watched the final episodes of “Grace and Frankie,” now streaming on Netflix.

It’s the end of the road for “Grace and Frankie.” The longest-running Netflix original series dropped its final 12 hours on Friday, bringing the total count to 94 episodes. The comedy, created by Marta Kauffman, followed Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda’s Grace Hanson and Frankie Bergstein who became friends after their husbands revealed they were in love with each other.

During the last episode, Sol (Sam Waterston) helped Robert (Martin Sheen) through his memory loss, bringing him back to

“Pachinko” has been renewed for a second season at Apple TV+ ahead of the series’ Season 1 finale on Friday night.

The Korean, Japanese and English-language drama was created, written and executive produced by Soo Hugh. Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Min Jin Lee, “Pachinko” follows a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in hopes of a brighter future. Beginning in the early 1900s, the tale is told from the perspective of Sunja, the family’s matriarch.

“Words cannot express my joy in being able to continue telling the extraordinary story of this indomitable family,