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Exclusive: As nearly every local store has shown you recently, the holiday season is in full swing. With that comes a healthy amount of themed programming like The Roku Channel’s Jingle Bell Love, starring Joey McIntyre, premiering November 18.

McIntyre stars in the romantic comedy as Jack Cooper, who viewers will meet when he visits his late wife’s hometown for Christmas. He gets more than he bargained for when his determined daughter hooks him up with a charming local shop owner (Michelle Morgan), even though he is already dating someone else that nobody really likes. Things get complicated when past-due business dealings bubble to the surface. Jack is full of creative ideas that could help smooth things out just in time for Christmas, but will it all work out?

Yanna McIntosh, Delia Chambers and Al Goulem also star.

McIntyre, who has been a member of one of the biggest boy bands of all time,...

Exclusive: Olivia Scott Welch has signed on to star opposite George Baron (Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp) in The Blue Rose, a surreal genre-bender he wrote and is directing, in his feature debut.

The noir pic is set in the 1950s, following the one-night journey of two rookie detectives as they set out to solve a homicide, only to find themselves in an alternate reality made up of their worst nightmares.

Welch will play Detective Lilly, with Baron portraying Detective Dalton.

Sarena Khan and Andra Gordon are producing under their Athena Pictures banner with Jay Van Hoy of Parts & Labor and Tracie Dalton exec producing. Production on the indie kicks off in Los Angeles later this month.

“We are so thrilled to support George in bringing his wonderfully inventive vision to life — one of those rare gems that defies expectations at every turn,” Athena...

The 80s are almost over, and American Horror Story celebrates with serial killer knife-fights, jump scares, and an insane plan

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This American Horror Story 1984 review contains spoilers.

American Horror Story: 1984 Episode 8

The action at Camp Redwood has jumped forward in time to 1989, and it shows both in character actions and in character motivations. That's a big milestone; the change-over from one decade to another always seems like a big deal to people, and in a lot of ways to the characters on American Horror Story: 1984, the end of the Reagan era is also the end of their era of relevance. It's been a common retrain in the later portions of the season. Their time is ending, and they'll all soon be forgotten, but never is it more explicitly stated than in this week's episode, with multiple people eulogizing the good and ill of Reagan's America in long rhapsodies.

In today’s film news roundup, the comedy “Wild Man” gets a deal, Vinnie Jones will play a villain, and Jack Klugman’s son Adam has directed a short film for the 9/11 anniversary.

Acquisition

Ted Welch’s comedy “Wild Man” has been acquired for global distribution by North of Two for a winter theatrical release, Variety has learned exclusively.

Jacquie Phillips and Stefanie Black directed from a script by Black and Welch about a man who drinks his way into a 90-day house arrest while home for his high school reunion. He forms an odd friendship with an awkward former classmate who lives across the street.

“It’s the perfect mix of charm and nostalgia. Jacquie and Stefanie have knocked this out of the park,” says North of Two CEO Mark Cartier.

“Wild Man” also stars George Dalton, Christine Woods, Mike Vogel, Kate Upton, Stefanie Black, Joe Mullen, Brandon Hirsch,...

Actor/director Stefanie Black has signed on to direct the film adaptation of E! News correspondent Ken Baker’s novel, “How I Got Skinny, Famous and Fell Madly in Love,” TheWrap has learned. Black is set to co-adapt the story for the screen along with Baker. The award-winning novel follows plus-size teen Emery Jackson, who is convinced to star in a reality show featuring her effort to lose 50 pounds in 50 days. “Growing up a young woman struggling with body image, there weren’t characters on TV or in films that I could identify with,” Black said in a statement to TheWrap.

Exclusive: Londonderry Entertertainment, the finance and management company co-founded by Patrick Millsaps, has just come aboard to executive produce Wild Man which stars Kate Upton, Mike Vogel and Christine Woods. The company was established to help women filmmakers. Wild Man is being co-directed by two women — Jacquie Phillips and Stefanie Black. Londonderry is putting up about a third of the film’s small indie budget. Wild Man is almost completed and will finish…...

#Tbt to that time Jake (Scott Foley) killed people ... a lot of people. That was the gist of Thursday night's episode of Scandal, a stark reminder that, as sweetly as the one-time command treats Olivia (Kerry Washington), he's still a trained assassin. Faced with David's (Joshua Malina) plan to prosecute B613, Jake went into what Huck (Guillermo Díaz) termed "survival mode" - or, as we at People call it, a murderous rage. Or did he? A last-minute twist revealed that it was really Papa Pope pulling all the strings. Olake shippers can breathe a sigh of relief, but it looks...

#Tbt to that time Jake (Scott Foley) killed people ... a lot of people. That was the gist of Thursday night's episode of Scandal, a stark reminder that, as sweetly as the one-time command treats Olivia (Kerry Washington), he's still a trained assassin. Faced with David's (Joshua Malina) plan to prosecute B613, Jake went into what Huck (Guillermo Díaz) termed "survival mode" - or, as we at People call it, a murderous rage. Or did he? A last-minute twist revealed that it was really Papa Pope pulling all the strings. Olake shippers can breathe a sigh of relief, but it looks...

#Tbt to that time Jake (Scott Foley) killed people ... a lot of people.

That was the gist of Thursday night's episode of Scandal, a stark reminder that, as sweetly as the one-time command treats Olivia (Kerry Washington), he's still a trained assassin.

Faced with David's (Joshua Malina) plan to prosecute B613, Jake went into what Huck (Guillermo Díaz) termed "survival mode" – or, as we at People call it, a murderous rage.

Or did he? A last-minute twist revealed that it was really Papa Pope pulling all the strings. Olake shippers can breathe a sigh of relief, but it looks like...

Recently,Fox released the new,official,synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Bones" episode 23 of season 9. The episode is entitled, "The Drama In The Queen," and it sounds like things will get pretty intriguing as the team tries to find out how a swim coach was murdered, and more. In the new,23rd episode press release: The team will investigate the murder of a man leading a double life. Press release number 2: The Jeffersonian team is going to investigate the death of Brian Thomas, the head swim coach at a community college, whose remains were found dumped at the bottom of a well. When possible suspects tell Brennan and Sweets that Brian may have been having an affair, the team will dig a little deeper only to find details of Brian's secret life. In the meantime, Sweets is going to fill in for Booth in the investigation while Booth prepares...