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The late Sherlock Holmes (voiced by Matt Berry in hallucinations) was Dr. John Watson’s (Morris Chestnut) friend, an amateur sleuth … and a father?! That’s a possibility raised in TV Insider’s exclusive sneak peek of the Sunday, March 30, episode of Watson (the first to air since the series was renewed). Whoopie Van Raam guest stars as Irene Adler, whom Watson mentioned in Episode 6, talking to Stephens (Peter Mark Kendall) after he had to share about his cam girl when she collapsed during a video call. “I stayed with Sherlock Holmes for maybe about a year in total,” Watson shared. “He had one woman in his life, a con artist named Irene, she popped in and out. Besides her, he had a… standing appointment with a… companion who he introduced as Mrs. Hudson. She pretended to be the landlady whenever she came by, but the walls are very thin on Baker Street.

CBS’s medical drama “Watson” takes a detour into Sherlock Holmes territory this Sunday with “A Variant of Unknown Significance.” When a young man suffering from temporary paralysis is admitted to Uhop (Universal Health Organization Project), Dr. Watson finds himself treating not just a patient, but the son of an old acquaintance of Sherlock Holmes: Irene […]

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Exclusive: Luber Roklin Entertainment has expanded its team with the addition of Joe Bello and Mike Griffin as managers, Deadline has learned. Both will be based out of the company’s Los Angeles office.

Bello joins from Anonymous Content, where he worked as a manager for more than four and a half years. Clients he brings with him to Luber Roklin include actors Joseph Mawle (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power), Tamzin Merchant (Carnival Row), Kai Luke Brummer (Moffie), Kit Clarke (Hellraiser), Whoopie van Raam (The Meg 2), Terique Jarrett (Daddy) and Paris and Dylan Brosnan (The Unholy Trinity), among others.

Griffin joins after a six-year stint at boutique management and production firm Make Good Content. His clients include writers such as Emmy winner Dennis McNicholas (SNL), and on-camera talent such as Creed Bratton (The Office), Bobby Naderi (The Beekeeper), Mikaela Hoover (Superman), Wil Coban (The Boys in the Boat...

The Meg 2: The Trench is the highly-anticipated sequel to the 2018 film and has been in development for a long time due to the pandemic. The movie aims to appeal to a wider audience by keeping the violence at a minimum, similar to the first installment of the franchise. The sequel follows Jason Statham's character, Jonas Taylor, as he leads a team on a dangerous dive into unexplored areas where they awaken a group of terrifying Megs, including the biggest one ever seen.

The Meg 2: The Trench is coming to theaters this week, and is already giving a lot to talk about. The sequel to the 2018 film directed by Jon Turteltaub has been in development almost since the release of the original movie, but it took a long time to get it done because of the pandemic.

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No one needed a bigger megalodon after 2018’s shockingly dull shark exploit, “The Meg.” But we’re getting one anyway with Ben Wheatley’s outsized shipwreck “Meg 2: The Trench,” a dimwitted sequel committed to plunge into the depths of agonizing boredom, doing so at 25,000 feet, to be exact.

At least the initial chapter came with something that resembled a story. No such luck here, thanks to an inexplicably broad script by Dean Georgaris and Jon and Erich Hoeber (the same trio that penned the first tedious installment) that liberally borrows from “Jaws,” “Jurassic Park,” “Piranha 3D,” “Alien” and so on. In certain sequences, the references from the first two of these pictures feel so shameless that one ponders whether Steven Spielberg would have a legal case against “The Trench” if he didn’t have much bigger fish to fry.

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Jon Turtletaub’s The Meg was frustratingly dour and straight-faced for a film that pit Jason Statham’s rescue diver Jonas Taylor and a bunch of research scientists against a prehistoric megashark. And for its first hour, Ben Wheatley’s Meg 2: The Trench is also a derivative and listless affair, feebly drawing influence from the likes of Alien, Jaws, and The Abyss but never coming close to approximating their mood of tension and horror.

Meg 2 finds Jonas now working as an eco-warrior alongside engineer buddies Mac (Cliff Curtis) and DJ (Page Kennedy) and a few other scientists. Again venturing into “the trench”—the deepest part of the ocean where megalodons, or megs, in the world of the film still flourish—Jonas and his team encounter an illegal mining operation and eventually find themselves trapped and forced to take extreme measures to escape. This underlit stretch of Wheatley’s film...