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Rihanna is officially back — well, almost.

The singer is slated to get back in our ears on Friday with the new single “Lift Me Up” from the upcoming Marvel sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The song, written by Tems, Oscar winner Ludwig Göransson, Rihanna and Panther director Ryan Coogler, was recorded in five countries and produced by Göransson, according to a release announcing the star’s first solo single since 2016’s “Love on the Brain.”

Rihanna’s anticipated return to music was written as a tribute to late Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, who died in August 2020 at age 43. The song will be released on the singer’s Westbury Road label in partnership with Roc Nation/Def Jam Recordings/Hollywood Records. A brief preview of the song appeared on Rihanna’s Instagram on Wednesday, with her wordless humming floating above a string section.

“True Detective” Season 4 has added three new cast members, Variety has learned.

Aka Niviâna, Isabella Star Lablanc (“Long Slow Exhale”), and Joel D. Montgrand have all joined the HBO series’ fourth outing. They join previously announced leads Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as well as cast members John Hawkes, Christopher Eccleston, Fiona Shaw, Finn Bennett, and Anna Lambe.

The new season of the series is officially titled “True Detective: Night Country.” The official description of the season states, “When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace.

Ronny Chieng and Chloe Bennet have joined the cast of Hulu’s “Interior Chinatown,” from 20th Television. The series stars Jimmy O. Yang and hails from creator and executive producer Charles Yu, who wrote the award-winning book it’s based on, and pilot director/EP Taika Waititi.

“Interior Chinatown” follows Willis Wu (Yang), a background character trapped in a police procedural trying to find his way into the larger story. His journey uncovers secrets about the strange world he inhabits, as well as his family’s buried history. While waiting tables and dreaming about a world beyond Chinatown, he inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, unraveling a criminal conspiracy in the city and taking a stab at embodying a leading man.

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HBO Max’s long-gestating Green Lantern TV series is changing gears.

The drama that has been in the works since late 2019 will now focus on John Stewart, one of DC’s first Black superheroes. The series, from exec producer Greg Berlanti, was to originally have revolved around Guy Gardner and Alan Scott and had already cast Finn Wittrock (Ratched) and Jeremy Irvine (Treadstone) as the respective Green Lanterns.

As part of the creative overhaul, writer and showrunner Seth Grahame-Smith has departed the series after completing scripts for a full season of eight episodes. Sources say Grahame-Smith, who signed on as writer and showrunner a year after Green Lantern was announced, chose to leave the project after weathering a number of regime changes at HBO Max, its parent company, producers Warner Bros. Television and now DC Comics.

The decision to refocus Green Lantern arrives

What’s better than seeing your favorite sitcom characters shed their hum-drum outfits and status quo subplots for the theatrical costumes and hair-raising horror that only comes with Halloween? From “Freaks and Geeks” and “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” to “Parks and Recreation” and “Bob’s Burgers,” the best TV comedies celebrate October 31 with seasonal half-hours that inspire as much festive fun as they do nail-biting fear.

The most memorable Halloween sitcom episodes go beyond tossing pumpkins at the set dressing and instead dig deep to figure out what the annual celebration of things that go bump in the night might really mean to their characters. Stand-out shows find ways to bring specificity to their Halloween renderings, carefully considering everything from the narratively powerful meaning (or dramatically ironic coding!) behind characters’ costumes to the range of All Hallows’ Eve settings that can fit a story best.

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House of the Dragon‘s Daemon will have time to make his way through the Great Valyrian Songbook (and then some) with Vermithor, because the fantasy drama won’t be back in 2023, an HBO executive says.

HBO and HBO Max chief content officer Casey Bloys says the popular Game of Thrones prequel series likely will return for Season 2 “sometime in ’24,” telling Vulture, “We’re just starting to put the plan together, and just like last time, there are so many unknowns. It’s not to be coy or secretive, but you don’t want to say it’s going to be ready on this date,

The holiday season is almost upon us, as is a barrage of Christmas-related content, and VH1, Comedy Central as well as Paramount Network have six upcoming films to throw in the pot. VH1 is slated to release four original titles every Wednesday, starting November 30 through December 21, with films executive produced by Jamie Foxx, Gabourey Sidibe, and Idris Elba. The films will also feature several star-studded performers such as Sidibe, Ne-Yo, Ashanti, Vivica A. Fox, Nick Cannon, Loretta Devine, DC Young Fly, and more. Meanwhile, Paramount Network and Comedy Central will each debut a single holiday movie, both set to debut in December. Paramount Network will debut A Nashville Country Christmas headlined and executive produced by Tanya Tucker, while Comedy Central focuses on the original Reno 911! crew, led by Thomas Lennon, Wendi McLendon-Covey, and Niecy Nash-Betts, for a Wonderful Heist movie. “Last year we broke the traditional mold of holiday films in a big way,

Concerns over Cecily Strong‘s absence from Saturday Night Live this season can officially be put to rest! The star is back at work on Season 48, according to new photos showing Strong in Studio 8H preparing for the October 29 episode. In newly-released images from rehearsals for the installment hosted by Jack Harlow (who also serves as the musical guest), she appears alongside cast members Colin Jost and Sarah Sherman. It will be Strong’s first appearance on SNL since the Season 47 finale hosted by Natasha Lyonne in May 2022. (Credit: NBC/SNL) Fans became concerned about Strong’s position in the cast when they noticed her name was missing from the Season 48 opening credits, but those worries were all for naught. Strong was out in L.A. performing the one-woman show, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Following the production’s wrap on October 23, it was confirmed

Tony Hale’s character development was certainly arrested while filming “The Sopranos.”

During a small role as Uncle Junior’s (Dominic Chianese) nurse oncologist in the 2001 episode “Second Opinion,” Hale recalled his hands “violently shaking” on set.

“I’ll never forget on ‘The Sopranos’ — because of my anxiety, my nerves will manifest itself in my hands; my hands will start shaking,” Hale said on SiriusXM’s “Pop Culture Spotlight With Jessica Shaw” talk show. “And I was a nurse oncologist to Uncle Junior, and I’ll never forget my hands were violently shaking about to put a tube into his arm.”

The “Mysterious Benedict Society” actor continued, “Can you imagine Uncle Junior, ‘Who’s this guy giving me chemo treatments and his hands are violently shaking against my skin?'”

Hale completed the scene “by the grace of God,” and two years later, landed his breakout role as Buster Bluth on “Arrested Development.

Sam Heughan is revealing in his new memoir, Waypoints: My Scottish Journey, that one of Outlander‘s most brutal scenes nearly included a full-frontal shot of his penis. In the book, available now, Heughan reveals he filmed an “unnecessary” full-frontal shot for the scene in the first season of the Starz hit romantic drama, in which his character, Jamie Fraser, is sexually assaulted by Captain Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies). The actor admits the moment left him feeling betrayed by the show’s creators, as the scene didn’t call for a gratuitous shot like that to be effective. “This wasn’t a moment where I felt that being naked would add to the horror of what Jamie undergoes in that castle dungeon as a form of punishment, subjugation, and humiliation,” Heughan writes in the book. The full frontal would have been seen during the assault, he says, but the initial

Jason Bateman and Jude Law are developing limited series ‘Black Rabbit’ at Netflix. They will both star in the project and serve as executive producers.

Zach Baylin and Kate Susman will write the one-hour series, for which plot details are not yet available. Attached to the series are Baylin and Susman’s Youngblood Pictures as well as Aggregate Films, Bateman’s production banner with Michael Costigan, and Riff Raff Entertainment, Law and Ben Jackson’s banner.

The project brings Bateman back to Netflix after the conclusion of “Ozark” in April of this year. He starred as Marty Byrde in the crime drama series,

The following contains spoilers from Wednesday’s episode of Survivor 43.

Survivor‘s Baka tribe may have entered the pre-merge with a numbers advantage, but that didn’t mean the battle between Elie and Gabler was over. Not by a long shot.

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Ryan Murphy’s “Monster” takes the lead for the second week in a row on the Nielsen Top 10 streaming chart, with 4.4 billion minutes viewed from Sept. 26-Oct. 2. The number, calculated during in the show’s first full week of availability, breaks the limited series’ previous record making it the seventh most streamed program in a single week ever recorded by Nielsen with 3.7 billion minutes viewed during the Sept. 19 to Sept. 25 viewing window.

The numbers show a record breaking week for both titles in the top 2 spots as “Hocus Pocus 2” takes the throne for Nielsen’s biggest-ever opening weekend for

TBS‘ scripted comedy Miracle Workers is leaning into the Mad Max look with stars Daniel Radcliffe and Geraldine Viswanathan as they gear up for Season 4 in a teaser for the aptly titled Miracle Workers: End Times. Set to premiere Monday, January 16, 2023, the latest chapter of Miracle Workers sees Karan Soni, Jon Bass, and Steve Buscemi return alongside Radcliffe and Viswanathan. End Times follows all-new characters in a dystopian future full of radioactive mutants, killer robots, and a tyrannical homeowner’s association with outrageous annual fees. (Credit: TBS) As Radcliffe’s wasteland warrior and Viswanathan’s ruthless warlord face the dystopian nightmare of settling in the suburbs, they navigate a slew of existential married-life horrors under the guidance of a wealthy junk trader (Buscemi). Bass returns as the couple’s faithful war dog, Soni is a kill-bot who loves to party, and Season 4 guest stars include Quinta Brunson, Garcelle Beauvais, Kyle Mooney,

Prime Video has announced Black Adam and Leverage: Redemption star Aldis Hodge is set to star in its upcoming series adaptation Cross, based on the novels written by best-selling author James Patterson. Hodge will play Alex Cross, a detective and forensic psychologist with the unique ability to dig into the psyches of killers as well as their victims to identify and capture the murderers. “James Patterson is among the best at captivating audiences with his undeniably enthralling novels, and we are confident that with Ben Watkins’ artistic vision, Cross will do the same for our global customers,” said Vernon Sanders, head of global television at Amazon Studios. “We are proud to work with James and Ben alongside Paramount Television, Skydance, and the extremely talented Aldis Hodge, who we know will do an exceptional job of bringing Alex Cross to life.” Described as a “complex, twisted, pulse-pounding thriller,” the series adaptation

Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story topped Nielsen’s U.S. ranking of streaming originals for a second straight week, and with an 18 percent larger tally than its chart debut.

Netflix’s Dahmer for the week of Sept. 26 amassed nearly 4.4 billion minutes viewed across its 10 episodes — aka the seventh-best weekly performance ever in the Nielsen streaming chart’s history.

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The Kevin Bacon crime drama City on a Hill has been canceled by Showtime after three seasons. The series starred Bacon as a veteran FBI agent Jackie Rohr and Aldis Hodge as prosector on the rise Decourcy Ward. They worked together to tackle corruption in Boston. The network gave a statement regarding the decision to cancel on October 27. “City on a Hill concluded its successful run on Showtime with its Season 3 finale,” Showtime said in a statement, per The Hollywood Reporter. “We have had nothing but the best experience working with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge and the entire cast and crew, led by showrunner Tom Fontana and fellow executive producers including Jennifer Todd and Jorge Zamacona. We offer our sincerest thanks to everyone.” Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Barry Levinson, and more served as executive producers on the series, which also starred Jill Hennessy, Matthew Del Negro, and Lauren E. Banks.

Paul Attanasio has set a drama pilot at FX based on the Gerald Seymour book “Killing Ground.”

The one-hour pilot is titled “The Bends.” Per the official logline, “the series follows a seemingly perfect American family in Berlin whose secrets come to light when they hire a new nanny, unaware that she is trying to expose the parents’ corrupt financial and familial ties.”

Attanasio is writing and executive producing, with Mike Barker set to direct and executive produce the pilot. Warren Littlefield, Ann Johnson, Graham Littlefield, and Lisa Harrison of The Littlefield Company also executive produce, as will Kathy Ciric.

The apocalypse has arrived for Miracle Workers: Season 4 of the TBS comedy — the cable network’s last remaining live-action original series — will premiere Monday, Jan. 16, 2023 at 10/9c.

Dubbed Miracle Workers: End Times, the upcoming installment features returning stars Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Buscemi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Karan Soni and Jon Bass as all-new characters “in a dystopian future full of radioactive mutants, killer robots and a tyrannical homeowner’s association with outrageous annual fees,” per the official description.

“In a post-apocalyptic future, a wasteland warrior (Radcliffe) and a ruthless warlord (Viswanathan) face the most dystopian nightmare of all: settling down in the suburbs,

“The Serpent Queen” has been renewed for Season 2 at Starz.

The premium cabler has renewed the historical drama featuring two-time Academy Award nominee Samantha Morton for an eight-episode second season. The news comes ahead of the show’s Season 1 finale, which is scheduled to air on Sunday, October 30 on Starz at 8:00 p.m. Et/Pt in the U.S. and Canada and at midnight on Starz streaming services.

Based on the book “Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France” by Leonie Frieda, the series tells the story of Queen Catherine de Medici (Morton), described as “one of the most unlikely,