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Fox has revealed the unfortunate fates of two more scripted series, cancelling both The Cleaning Lady and Alert: Missing Persons Unit, TVLine has learned.

Season to date, The Cleaning Lady is averaging just 1.67 million total viewers (with delayed playback), down 13% from last year. Out of the seven dramas that Fox has aired this TV season, it ranks… last in total audience. Alert: Mpu Season 3, meanwhile, averaged 2.16 million total viewers (with delayed playback), down 12% from its sophomore run. Out of the seven dramas that Fox has aired this TV season, it ranks No. 6, besting only its Cleaning Lady lead-in.

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What a premiere!

The Cleaning Lady is back, and dare I say, better than ever.

Fox has teased for months that the series would be shifting gears considerably, and boy, The Cleaning Lady Season 4 Episode 1 sent every single storyline in fascinating directions.

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It grabbed my attention from the first scene and didn’t let go until the end, which is the mark of a good show in my book.

The Cleaning Lady Season 3 meandered for episodes before reaching an abrupt conclusion that promised a reset of sorts, so the pay off so far seems worth that season.

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Thony gets harder as the seasons go by, and she was on her A-game throughout the premiere as she faced continued adversity.

Liza Weil’s return was kept well under wraps, which made it even more surprising that Russo was open to sponsoring the De La Rosa...

Arte/Zdf, the German arm of European public broadcaster Arte, and German production company Port au Prince have boarded “Ivan & Hadoum,” the feature debut of Ian de la Rosa, one of Spain’s top emerging talents.

Now casting, “Ivan & Hadoum,” will be presented Friday at the EFM’s Spain in Focus Showcase by Emilia Fort at Avalon, one of the film’s Spanish producers.

Arte/Zdf will support “Ivan & Hadoum” via its Das Kleine Fernsehspiel initiative for new and artistically ambitious filmmakers.

“Ivan & Hadoum,” which won a Eurimages Co-production Development Award at the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2023, is set in an industrial greenhouse in Almería, Spain. Iván falls in love with co-worker Hadoum, a young Spanish-Moroccan woman. Ivan’s desired job promotion is challenged by the relationship, however, forcing him to decide what kind of man he wants to be.

Port au Prince and Arte/Zdf join Spain’s Avalon and Pecado Films,...

In an acquisition which underscores the often shared sensibility between Canal+, France’s biggest pay TV operator, and Movistar Plus+, the largest Spanish pay TV player, Canal+ has acquired Canneseries winner “The Left-Handed Son” (“El hijo zurdo”), a Movistar Plus+ original series.

The series will bow on Canal+ on April 5 in a deal brokered by Movistar Plus+ International.

A psychological thriller with a lyrical undertow which surfaces to moving effect in key scenes, “The Left-Handed Son” marks the auspicious directorial debut of Rafael Cobos, the career-long co-scribe of Alberto Rodríguez, from 2005’s “7 Virgins” through international hit “Marshland” to 2017’s “The Plague,” still one of the biggest series which Movistar Plus+ has ever made.

World premiering at Canneseries in April 2023, “The Left-Handed Son” went on to win best series in the TV festival’s short form competition.

Produced with Átipica Films and co-directed by Paco R. Baños, who helmed four of its six episodes,...

Well, that certainly went about as terrible as it could have.

The De La Rosa’s had a rough go of it during The Cleaning Lady Season 3 Episode 3 with Thony starting up a new cleaning venture courtesy of Ramona and Fiona and Chris trying to make their way back home.

As we’ve come to expect from The Cleaning Lady, this was a difficult but necessary hour, packed full of suspense and all the things that make the series one of the most hypnotizing on television.

Thony made a deal with the devil when she offered to clean for Ramona in exchange for helping bring Fiona and Chris home. She was desperate, and it felt like the only option, but she now sees how in her head she may be.

Arman, Ramona, and Jorge may be blood, but they’re all very different people.

As the relationship between Arman and Thony deepened,...

Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist is beefing up its ensemble.

The upcoming Peacock limited series has recruited acclaimed actress Taraji P. Henson, according to Deadline. She will play Vivian Thomas, Chicken Man’s (played by Kevin Hart) mistress and a shrewd businesswoman in her own right.

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Exclusive: Fox’s The Cleaning Lady is bulking up its Season 3 cast with the addition of Brandon Jay McLaren and Jb Tadena (Kung Fu) in recurring roles. Season 3 will premiere on Tuesday, March 5 on Fox at 8 p.m. Et/Pt.

McLaren will portray Jeremy Dolan, the guy we all wish we knew. He’s charming, smart, affable and can put anyone at ease, including Thony (Élodie Yung) whom he has an instant connection. Jeremy enters the world of The Cleaning Lady as a contractor-turned-entrepreneur, building his business with a personal approach. His openness about his life and his carpentry skills keep Jeremy in Thony’s orbit as she comes to rely on him for help. But below his trustworthy, charismatic façade lurks a sinister secret about his true character, a truth that will have dire consequences for all involved once revealed.

Tadena will portray Paolo Belleza, a...

Filmmaker Roger Ross Williams is known for capturing moments of intimacy and awe in documentaries like God Loves Uganda and the Oscar-nominated Life, Animated. With Cassandro, a portrait of gay lucha libre wrestling star Saúl Armendáriz (Gael García Bernal), Williams has brought that sense of warmth and showmanship to his first scripted feature. The film, which arrives in theaters Sept. 15 and on Prime Video Sept. 22, is just one of a bumper crop of Williams projects that are landing in 2023, from HBO’s Love to Love You, Donna Summer, which premiered in May, to the AppleTV+ docuseries The Super Models, due Sept. 20, to his hybrid doc feature on the history of racism, Stamped from the Beginning, set to be released by Netflix in November.

At the Telluride Film Festival earlier this month, Williams spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about making the leap to scripted fare, the trip to Juarez, Mexico that...

Spike Lee was not on the speakers list at a rally Thursday morning for striking film and television writers outside City Hall in New York. But one of the Brooklyn-born filmmaker’s best-loved movies, 1989’s Do the Right Thing, kept cropping up as local elected officials took turns calling for studio executives to resume negotiations with the Writers Guild of America and help end a strike now in its eighth week.

“Eight weeks is too long — It’s time for a fair contract,” said Carmen De La Rosa, one of 12 elected members of New York’s 51-seat City Council who spoke at a demonstration in downtown Manhattan organized by the WGA East. De La Rosa on Thursday introduced a formal resolution that her colleagues will vote on calling for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to resume “good faith” negotiations with the WGA and settle their differences equitably.

Spain boasts a bullish presence at the Berlinale. Following, short profiles of its features that have made the festival cut and a selection of top titles being moved at the European Film Market:

20,000 Species Of Bees

Director: Estíbaliz Urresola

Spain’s Berlin competition player is from Urresola, director of Cannes Critics’ Week short “Chords.” Film takes place in a Basque Country village and is a celebration of female sexual diversity. Catalonia’s Inicia Films (“La Maternal”) produces with Gariza Films (“Nora”).

Sales: Luxbox

21 PARAÍSO

Director: Nestor Ruiz Medina

A couple in love grapples with the realities of making a living through OnlyFans. Set in an Andalusian idyll, a rich portrait of the challenges of love. Screened at Seville and Tallinn.

Sales: Begin Again Films.

Anqa

Director: Helin Celik

A Forum doc feature from Vienna-based Kurd Celik, the films tells the harrowing story of three Jordanian women, survivors of male near-fatal violence.

“20,000 Species Of Bees”

(Estíbaliz Urresola)

A Berlin competition contender and, like “Alcarràs,” redolently grounded – unspooling in a Basque Country village – and yet a big-issue drama. Catalonia’s Inicia Films (“La Maternal”) and Basque Country’s Gariza Films (“Nora) produce.

Sales: Luxbox

“Anqa”

(Helin Celik)

Selected for Forum, a doc feature produced by Barcelona’s Kepler Mission Film and Vienna-based Kurd Celik. The harrowing story of three Jordanian women survivors of male violence.

“The Beasts”

(Rodrigo Sorogoyen)

A stylish feminist Western, set in modern deep Galicia, which, breaking out in France and Spain, rates with “Alcarràs” as the standout Spanish film of 2022.

Sales: Latido Films

“The Chauffeur’S Son”

(Isaki Lacuesta)

From “Elite’s” Zeta Studios, chosen for Co-Pro Series and bidding to become the series debut as writer-director of Lacuesta (“Between Two Waters”), a searing portrait of the perverse collusion of politics and media, exemplified by the real life...

Three first features from Spain’s burgeoning next generation of female filmmakers, led by Cannes Critics’ Week winner Laura Ferrès, is one highlight at this year’s Málaga Work in Progress, an Málaga Festival industry centerpiece where productions such as “The Platform” first saw the light of day.

Playing in Malaga Wip, “The Platform” was acquired by Latido Film which sold the title to Netflix at Toronto. It has gone on to rank as the third most-watched non-English movie ever on Netflix.

At least three titles – Spanish road movie “Devil Dog Road,” horror pic “The Hidden City,” the neo-noir “Foremost by Night” – boast genre gristle. Some titles turn on gender oppression (“As Neves”), female self-discovery (“Mara’s Vacation”) or sexual diversity (“I Trust You”). Many, especially from Spain, have social-issue overtones.

Production companies range from established indie forces – Madrid’s Aquí y Allí, Buenos Aires’ Magma Cine, Portugal’s Ukbar Filmes – to on-the-rise outfits,...

So far nearly all the 2023 Sundance Film Festival films I have seen are based on true stories, from a teacher in Radical, to a gay single father in San Francisco circa ’70s and ’80s in Fairyland, to Michael J. Fox as himself, and now yet another iconic character gets his story told on the big screen. World Premiering at Sundance tonight is Cassandro, a wild story of the first openly gay wrestler in the ultra macho sport of Mexico’s Lucha Libre.

Although the Lucha Libre and their outragous contingent known as the Exotico is a well-known in Mexico, it is not so well known outside of the country. That is about to change thanks to this film which represents the narrative feature film debut of Oscar-winning documentarian Roger Ross Williams (Life Animated), who became fascinated with the life of famed wrestler Saul Armendariz — aka Cassandro — when he made a short docu on his life.

Nick Cannon is expecting a ninth child in a paternity saga that seems to have no end in sight. Cannon announced on Instagram Wednesday that he and partner Brittany Bell are having a baby boy, which will be their third together.

In a video showing an elaborate maternity shoot, Cannon also wrote in the caption, “Time stopped and this happened.”

Cannon had a son, a boy named Legendary, with upcoming Selling Sunset cast member Bre Tiesi in July, and is also expecting his ninth child due in October with Abby De La Rosa. The rapper and TV host teased in a podcast appearance that “the stork is on the way” in 2022 and so far he certainly hasn’t been lying about that.

Cannon’s oldest children are fraternal twins with Mariah Carey. After Carey and Cannon divorced, Cannon had two children with Bell, then twins with De La Rosa. He...

Television personality Nick Cannon has shared that the 34-year-old model is pregnant with their third child together, his tenth.

“Time Stopped and This Happened. #Sunshine #SonRISE,” Cannon captioned an Instagram video that featured their maternity shoot, reports pagesix.com.

Bell posed topless in the photos, sporting a white skirt with her bare baby bump on display.

Later in the shoot, the Pepperdine University grad rocked an unbuttoned coat. She also wore a pink crop top and matching pants.

The duo, who talked and laughed during the shoot, concluded with family snaps with son Golden (5), and daughter Powerful (1).

While many of Cannon’s followers took to the comments to share their “congratulations,” others expressed their disbelief at his growing family.

“He dead serious. i cant,” one social media user wrote. Another added, “You just not pulling out?”

Bell has yet to share the news on her own Instagram account.

When the...