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TNT Sports will soon launch its own direct-to-consumer app, much like ESPN and Fox have done.

More and more programmers are taking their channels direct-to-consumer, as channel owners increasingly see the cable bundle as unsustainable. ESPN and Fox have both launched Dtc streaming services in the past month, and now a new one could be on the way to offer even more sports outside the cable bundle. The new streamer is on the way from TNT Sports, whose future top man, Gunnar Wiedenfels, teased that the Dtc product could be hitting the market soon on Wednesday.

Key Details: Under construction: Wiedenfels says the company is working on a new TNT Sports app.

Forget the back-stabbing Roy family. For his first film as director, Succession star Brian Cox returns to his native Scotland with Glenrothan, a heartfelt story of reconciliation, whisky and the ties that bind.

Set in the rural highlands, the film follows two estranged brothers who reunite in the land of their birth. Donal (Alan Cumming) long ago left home for America, leaving older brother Sandy (Cox), behind to run the family distillery. Forty years later, the brothers finally re-unite, back on Scottish soil, to reopen old wounds and reconcile with their shared past.

Alongside Cumming and Cox, the cast includes Shirley Henderson and Siobhan Redmond. Glenrothan has its world premiere at TIFF. Protagonist Pictures is selling the film worldwide.

The project marks a departure for its two leads, who are playing far from their public personas. The Traitors host Cumming “butches it up a bit” as Donal, a rebellious, leather-jacket-wearing,...

Aew PPVs will stream on HBO Max in the United States starting this month.

HBO Max is cementing its status as the premier destination for fans of All Elite Wrestling. The streamer has a deep relationship with the wrestling promotion, and on Wednesda,y it announced that they were growing even closer. Starting this month, Aew pay-per-view (PPV) events will begin streaming on HBO Max, allowing fans of the wrestling league to watch events like “Aew All Out” and more.

Key Details: Joining the family: Aew PPVs join a host of other programming from the wrestling promotion on HBO Max. Shipped out: Previously, Aew PPVs streamed on Amazon. Diverging paths:...

Nicholas Braun, best known for his role as Cousin Greg on HBO’s hit series Succession, was arrested in New Hampshire last weekend for driving under the influence. The actor, 37, was stopped by police in Moultonborough on Friday evening.

He was taken to Carroll County Jail but was released on his own recognizance without paying bail.

Braun did not have a mugshot taken because the police camera was not working. His charges include DUI Impairment and Operating Without Lights. He is scheduled to appear in court for his arraignment on September 16, according to TMZ.

Braun is widely recognized for playing Greg Hirsch on Succession, a role that earned him three...

Nicholas Braun, best known for playing Cousin Greg on HBO’s hit series Succession, was arrested for driving under the influence in New Hampshire last weekend.

According to TMZ, the 37-year-old actor was pulled over by police in Moultonborough on Friday evening. He was taken to Carroll County Jail but was released on his own recognizance and did not have to pay bail.

Braun did not have a mugshot taken because the police camera was not working. His official charges are DUI Impairment and Operating Without Lights. He is scheduled to appear in court for arraignment on September 16.

Braun is widely recognized for his role on Succession, which aired from...

As HBO quietly forges ahead with its ambitious Harry Potter TV reboot, industry rumors and insider hints confirm that the Dark Lord will appear across several episodes. However, the identity of the actor portraying He Who Must Not Be Named remains a mystery. Though Nicholas Hoult is strongly rumored to be in the shadows of this sinister role (per X), a growing legion of fans and film insiders agree: Cillian Murphy would have been a far more spellbinding choice.

Murphy’s glacial gaze, unnerving composure, and talent for conjuring dread in dead silence render him uniquely suited to portray the corrosive psyche and tragic unraveling of Tom Riddle. Hoult, though competent,...

Over the past decade, Yorgos Lanthimos has transformed from a "Greek Weird Wave" provocateur into one of the most decorated auteurs in Hollywood. With The Favourite and Poor Things already under his belt, Lanthimos is back in the Oscar conversation with Bugonia.

The satirical dark comedy, a remake of the 2003 South Korean cult film Save the Green Planet!, follows two conspiracy theorists (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) who kidnap a corporate CEO (Stone) they believe is an alien plotting humanity’s demise. Blending satire, sci-fi, and Lanthimos’ signature strangeness, Bugonia is already sparking debate over whether the Academy will embrace it as they did Poor Things — or find it too prickly for mainstream voters.

“Just to be clear,” says director Romain Gavras when discussing his new movie Sacrifice. “We didn’t actually throw anyone in a volcano.”

A disclosure like this may seem unnecessary, but for a film that was partially shot on location on the rim of a semi-active volcano, it is not entirely needless.

For Sacrifice, which is set to debut at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 6, Gavras and producers traversed treacherous terrain — from mines in Northern Greece to the Cannes film market — to make an independent feature that really doesn’t look like one.

In Sacrifice, Gavras dissects myth-making in its many forms. The movie follows actor Mike Tyler (Chris Evans), who is attempting a comeback after a personal crisis and subsequent soul-searching. For his first public appearance, he attends a black-tie environmental charity gala thrown by a billionaire entrepreneur (Vincent Cassel) and his wife (Salma Hayek-Pinault). But it...

Apple TV+ show, Platonic, is currently streaming. It has Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen in the lead roles. It uses the soundtrack as a tool to tell a story. From low moods to energized tracks to heartbreaks and celebratory sounds, the show has a music style that seems to carry the overall tonality and vibe.

Key PointsPlatonicCreatorFrancesca Delbanco & Nicholas StollerMain CastRose Byrne

Seth Rogen

Luke Macfarlane

Tre Hale

Andrew Lopez

Carla GalloIMDb7.2/10Rotten Tomatoes96%

The music mirrors Platonic’s chaotic, nostalgic, and often absurd exploration of a midlife friendship. By weaving in a mix of genres from classic rock to modern indie, the soundtrack captures Will and Sylvia’s reversal...

Pack your suitcases, we’re going on a summer trip. The first look at the film adaptation of Emily Henry’s “People We Meet on Vacation” has been unveiled. The film will premiere on Netflix on Jan. 6.

“People We Meet on Vacation” follows Poppy (Emily Bader) and Alex (Tom Blyth), who have been unlikely best friends for a decade. While the two live in different cities, they spend every summer vacation together. The balance of their friendship is put to the test when they begin to question what has been obvious to everyone else, and if their tight-knit friendship could be something more.

Additional cast members for “People We Meet on Vacation” include Sarah Catherine Hook (“The White Lotus”), Jameela Jamil (“The Good Place”), Lucien Laviscount (“Emily in Paris”), Lukas Gage (“You”), Miles Heizer (“13 Reasons Why”), Tommy Do (“Hacks”), Alice Lee (“The Union”), Alan Ruck (“Succession”) and Molly Shannon...

Succession star Nicholas Braun was arrested under suspicion of driving under the influence and operating without lights, according to TMZ. Braun, notable for his immaculate performance as Greg in the Emmy-winning corporate drama, which nabbed him an Emmy nod, landed in the Carroll County lockup after cops in Moultonborough pulled him over last Friday night.

However, the actor reportedly didn’t have to spend much time in custody, as merely an hour after the arrest, Braun was allowed to walk out freely on the condition that he had to attend a court hearing.

Will Nicholas Braun Appear in Court After DUI Arrest?

Braun isn’t exactly scott-free despite having a short stay in custody,...

Netflix is keeping the summer season going post-Labor Day weekend with the launch of some first-look photos at its People We Meet on Vacation film, adapted from Emily Henry’s best-selling book.

The film stars Tom Blyth (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) as Alex Nilsen and Emily Bader (My Lady Jane) as Poppy Wright along with Sarah Catherine Hook (The White Lotus – Season 3), Lucien Laviscount (Emily in Paris), Miles Heizer (Love, Simon), Jameela Jamil (The Good Place), Tommy Do (Hacks), Lukas Gage (The White Lotus – Season 1), Alice Lee (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist), and with Emmy-nominated actors Molly Shannon (Only Murderers in the Building) and Alan Ruck (Succession).

Related: Everything We Know About The ‘People We Meet On Vacation’ Movie So Far

Blyth’s Nilsen and Bader’s Wright are as opposite as it gets, but they’ve been best friends for ten years, taking a summer vacation...

Nicholas Braun is facing legal trouble after an incident over the holiday weekend.

The 37-year-old Succession star, best known for playing Cousin Greg on the series, was arrested on suspicion of DUI Impairment and Operating Without Lights on Saturday (August 30) in the town of Moultonborough in Carroll County, New Hampshire.

Officials confirmed the arrest and noted that he was released within the hour on his own recognizance, meaning he didn’t have to pay bail, but is required to return to court, according to TMZ.

Keep reading to find out more…

And in a unique turn of events, he has no mugshot either, as the police’s camera reportedly wasn’t working.

HBO Max doesn’t normally come with a free trial, even through Prime Video, but you can try free for seven days now.

One of the factors that can keep some customers from opting into HBO Max is the streamer’s lack of a free trial. HBO Max has a ton of premium content, but you usually don’t get a free trial to enjoy the service, even if you sign up to add HBO Max as an extra with Prime Video. However, if you sign up for HBO Max through Prime Video right now, you can enjoy a seven-day free trial of either the ad-supported or ad-free plan service.

Exclusive: Judy Reyes has joined the cast of the upcoming ABC comedy series Scrubs in a special recurring guest star role. She will reprise the character she originated in the mothership series, Carla Espinosa, head nurse at Sacred Heart Hospital, which she played across the show’s main 8 seasons.

The 30-minute project, produced by 20th Television, received a series order in July, with leads Zach Braff, Donald Faison, and Sarah Chalke all returning to their original roles as Jd Dorian, Christopher Turk, and Elliot Reid, respectively. All three also executive produce.

ABC’s new Scrubs will follow Jd (Braff) and Turk (Faison), who scrub in together for the first time in a long time- medicine has changed, interns have changed, but their bromance has stood the test of time. Characters new and old navigate the waters of Sacred Heart with laughter, heart, and some surprises along the way.

Netflix has released the first trailer for its new series Amsterdam Empire, a high-stakes family drama full of secrets, betrayal, and power struggles. Fans of shows like Succession can expect intense twists and tense confrontations.

The series is set in Amsterdam and centers on the Van Doorn family, who run a successful cannabis empire called the Jackal. Jacob Derwig stars as Jack van Doorn, the founder and ruthless head of the business.

When Jack’s affair with a journalist is revealed, his wife Betty, played by Famke Janssen, becomes his most dangerous rival. “This is my first Dutch-language role,” Janssen said. “I also wanted to help make sure the series stayed true to its vision.

Netflix has released the first trailer for its upcoming series Amsterdam Empire, a power drama with twists, betrayals, and high-stakes family battles. Fans of shows like Succession can expect a gripping mix of glamor, grit, and shocking secrets.

Set in Amsterdam, the story follows the Van Doorn family, who built a cannabis empire called the Jackal. Jacob Derwig plays Jack van Doorn, the ruthless founder who has clawed his way to the top. But when his affair with a well-known journalist is revealed, his wife Betty, an ex-pop diva played by Famke Janssen, becomes his most dangerous opponent.

“This is my first Dutch-language role,” Janssen said, who also serves as an executive producer.

Steven Knight’s next series for Netflix, House of Guinness, just got its first trailer, and it seems to be the perfect replacement for Peaky Blinders fans as they wait for The Immortal Man. The period crime drama is set again in the 19th Century, this time in Ireland. It follows a new generation of the Guinness family dealing with the aftermath of the patriarch’s death.

The trailer has a similar visual tone to Peaky Blinders, with a beige color tone, albeit it seems more cinematic than the Cillian Murphy-starrer. Knight has been tackling period dramas for quite some time now, with his latest Disney+ drama A Thousand Blows...

HBO’s Harry Potter series adaptation will have a key connection to the film franchise. Warwick Davis, who originated the role of Professor Filius Flitwick on the big screen, will return to Hogwarts in the same role for the TV incarnation. The reveal was accompanied by an image of Davis riding the Hogwarts Express.

The news was announced on Sept. 1, billed as "Back to Hogwarts" day, where fans celebrate the annual beginning of the academic year at the renowned school of witchcraft and wizardry.

Davis is the only addition to the new ensemble. Also announced on Monday were a few fellow faculty members: Sirine Saba as Professor Pomona Sprout, Richard Durden as Professor Cuthbert Binns,...

Chris Columbus, who directed 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and 2002’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, doesn’t expect the films’ cast to reunite for related future projects. In an interview with The Times, the filmmaker confirmed that author J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans views make actors reluctant to be associated with her work.

When asked whether he wanted to direct a film adaptation of the stage show, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, using the original Potter movie cast, Columbus said, “It’s never going to happen.

Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos continue to create magic together. The duo have collaborated on multiple projects, including Poor Things, which brought Stone her second Oscar, and the new Bugonia.

The sci-fi black comedy just debuted at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on Aug. 28. The film reunites several Lanthimos frequent collaborators, including Stone and Jesse Plemons, and it's a remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet!. Following its world premiere, Bugonia debuted with a near-perfect 96% rating from the critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

Bugonia initially debuted with a perfect 100% score from the critics out of 22 reviews, but, as more reviews came in, the new film lost its rare rating.

Cane’s kids want nothing to do with him. Fans of The Young and the Restless think their reaction is silly. Instead, they would like to see the soap follow in the footsteps of the popular HBO Max series, Succession.

Lost The Plot?

Y&R fans aren’t buying the fact that Mattie (ex-Levie Stevenson) and Charlie (ex-Noah Alexander Gerry) wouldn’t be cool with their father being a billionaire. He didn’t lie and cheat them. He built his own empire and became a billionaire. One fan had an interesting suggestion for this storyline on Reddit. “I think it would be more like Billions or Succession, and his...

It has been a big reveal of the new Yorgos Lanthimos/Emma Stone team-up. On Wednesday, the poster for Bugonia was released. Yesterday, a new trailer was released. Today, reactions are coming out of the Venice Film Festival as the movie premieres to an audience for the first time. Reactions to Bugonia have started to crop up on social media. So, what are audiences saying? Lanthimos and Stone have been gathering much acclaim together with The Favourite, Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness. Will Bugonia be another success for them?

Movie critic Mia Pflüger posted her reaction, which read, “Emma Stone in #Bugonia is magnetic, dangerous and utterly unforgettable. Her...

Years before Keanu Reeves made revenge-for-a-dead-dog movies mainstream with John Wick, Brian Cox delivered a powerhouse performance in the criminally underrated 2008 thriller Red, which follows an eerily similar premise. The film follows one man’s revenge after his beloved dog is shot to death, with Cox playing a reclusive man who sets out for justice and redemption when three teens kill his dog for no good reason.

Unlike the very choreographed action of John Wick, Cox’s revenge story unfolds as a slow-burn that showcases the Succession star’s dramatic range years before he became Logan Roy.

Critics praised Brian Cox’s performance, with Rotten Tomatoes giving the film a 71% approval rating based on 28 reviews.

Some TV shows hit you right away, you’re hooked from episode one, and can’t stop talking about them. But then there are the others, the ones you watch once, think “yeah, that was fine,” and move on. And yet, when you circle back for a second viewing, suddenly everything clicks.

The jokes land harder, the characters feel richer, and all those little details you missed the first time turn the show into something genius. From the genius Better Call Saul to comedy gold Arrested Development, some shows just demand a second look.

Here are 10 great TV shows I didn’t fully appreciate until my second viewing.

1. Better Call Saul...

With “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos Lanthimos went from the Greek arthouse curiosity behind films like “Dogtooth” and “The Lobster” to a major Oscar player. His tart-tongued Queen Anne period piece “The Favourite” earned 10 Oscar nominations, winning for Best Actress Olivia Colman. With “Poor Things,” he again solidified a Best Actress winner with Emma Stone as a brain-transplant patient turned feminist, with three crafts wins in tow. The writing was on the walls for future success when Lanthimos and his screenwriting collaborator Efthimis Filippou earned a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination for “The Lobster” in 2016.

“The Favourite,” “Poor Things,” and his nihilistic triptych “Kinds of Kindness” (which he shot as a diversion from the post-production rigors of “Poor Things”) were all set up at Searchlight; with “Bugonia,” he joins Focus Features for the first time.

His latest film and tenth feature, “Bugonia” premieres Thursday night in competition at the 82nd Venice Film Festival,...

HBO Max comes with a huge library of content, but if you don’t need autoplay, does the service let you adjust your settings?

HBO Max might be one of the top services to use autoplay with. That’s because not only does it have a host of HBO originals and other premium content in its catalog, it also carries a large selection of shows from cable channels owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, including Discovery, Food Network, HGTV, and more.

Viewers who are a little bit befuddled by all that content might want autoplay turned on. But if you’re confident enough to explore the HBO Max catalog without autoplay,...

Imagine if Michael Haneke’s “Funny Games” were instead about a pair of lone-wolf, conservationist vigilantes trying to save the world instead of two sociopathic twinks wanting to tear it down, and you’ll have some idea of the hyper-contained, rigorously controlled torture chamber that is Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia.”

Jesse Plemons stars as a galaxy-brained conspiracist beekeeper who’s either severely mentally ill or the only prophet among us, hijacking his cousin (Aidan Delbis) into a scheme to kidnap a big pharma executive (Emma Stone) whom he believes to be a body-snatched alien sent to end the planet.

Lanthimos works from an on-the-nose-for-the-now feature screenplay by “Succession” and “The Menu” writer Will Tracy, diverting from the droll theater of cruelty present in scripts by Efthimis Filippou (“Kinds of Kindness”) or the florid repartee of Tony McNamara. “Bugonia” has all the streak of Tracy’s kill-the-rich brand of satire, but with...

Director Yorgos Lanthimos is reteaming with his The Favourite, Poor Things, and Kinds of Kindness star Emma Stone for Bugonia, a remake of the South Korean film Save the Green Planet that’s set to receive a special limited engagement in theatres on October 24th before opening wide on October 31st. We saw a teaser trailer for the movie a couple of months ago, and now a full trailer has dropped online. You can check it out in the embed above.

Described as an eccentric black comedy, the original Save the Green Planet followed a disillusioned young man who captures and tortures a businessman whom he believes to be part of an alien invasion.

The greatest shaved female heads in cinema history are undoubtedly Renée Falconetti in “La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc” and Sigourney Weaver in “Alien 3.” Between those two poles of follicle-free cinema lie a universe of filmmaking — and a new entry is about to enter its ranks: Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Bugonia,” which just released its official trailer timed to its Venice debut (it had already shown footage at CinemaCon).

“Bugonia” stars the director’s now-repeat collaborator Emma Stone as a corporate CEO living the life: power suits, indoor pools, Time and Forbes covers. The only annoyance in her life is making sure she nails the bit of corporate jargon she’s supposed to make sound natural in a video shoot. Then she’s kidnapped, her head shaved by her abductors, and she’s told her hair “has been destroyed” to prevent her from using it to contact her mothership.

Ah.

Jesse Plemons plays the abductor,...

Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos is back in the Venice Competition with his latest feature, Bugonia, which once again stars his frequent collaborator Emma Stone.

The last time Lanthimos and Stone collaborated on a Venice competition title, it was Poor Things, based on the novel by Alasdair Gray, which won the Golden Lion alongside four Oscars and two Golden Globes.

“I love working with Yorgos. I love the material that he’s drawn to and the worlds he wants to explore, and the characters that he’s been generous enough to let me try my hand at,” Stone said of her collaboration with Lanthimos.

“With the exception of Will, we have all worked with Yorgos multiple times. So what it ends up feeling like is a really comforting and safe environment to explore and feel as free as possible. I know everybody says it’s ‘like we’re a family,’ but...

If you've been hearing a lot about the forthcoming "Harry Potter" reboot for HBO and wondering who exactly this new adaptation is intended for in the first place, you're not alone! Director Chris Columbus, known for "Home Alone" and the first two "Harry Potter" movies, noticed that the new series might end up serving as a poor imitation of the original film franchise.

During an appearance on "The Rest Is Entertainment" podcast hosted by Richard Osman and Marina Hyde, Columbus discussed some recent set photos (via People Magazine) of the new actor playing Harry Potter himself, Dominic McLaughlin, alongside "Shawn of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz" star Nick Frost as...

Director Yorgos Lanthimos is reteaming with his The Favourite, Poor Things, and Kinds of Kindness star Emma Stone for Bugonia, a remake of the South Korean film Save the Green Planet that’s set to receive a special limited engagement in theatres on October 24th before opening wide on October 31st. We saw a teaser trailer for the movie a couple of months ago (that’s the video embedded above) and a full trailer is said to be dropping online tomorrow – and in the meantime, we have a poster to look at. You can check it out at the bottom of this article.

Described as an eccentric black comedy, the...

Spring or summer? Fall or winter? When is the optimal time to launch a show if you're in the hunt for some Emmys? And which month should you stay away from at all costs?

In the crowded landscape of Peak TV, getting a series noticed by the Television Academy is perhaps the biggest obstacle for an awards campaign. The presumption might be to premiere a project in the spring months of March, April, or May to stay top of mind and be one of the last shows voters see before the May 31 eligibility deadline. But is that actually the case? Gold Derby analyzed the past decade of Emmy-winning comedies, dramas,...

The Emmys, when compared with the Oscars and Golden Globes, are the most predictable of the screen media awards. If you watch the Emmys long enough, you become familiar with the Television Academy's game.

It's as simple as this: They choose a handful of shows they like, and make them sweep their genre categories, sometimes multiple years in a row. Notable examples of this phenomenon include "Game of Thrones," "Succession," and "The Bear." How many times did "RuPaul's Drag Race" win Outstanding Reality Competition Program despite middling seasons? If a show was good once, the Academy will lazily default to awarding the show consistently instead of critically assessing the quality of individual seasons.

Exclusive: Harvest, a Danish family drama from Oscar nominee Martin Zandvliet billed as “Succession with tractors,” has set its cast and is ready for an international launch.

Set against the backdrop of rural Denmark, the eight-part drama explores how power, legacy and betrayal collide when the patriarch of a family farm makes a surprise and shocking decision. We can reveal the lead cast comprises Katrine Greis-Rosenthal, Elliott Crosset Hove, Lars Brygmann, Charlotte Fich, Simon Bennebjerg and Joachim Fjelstrup.

Danish pubcaster Dr ordered Harvest last year, and it is now backed by the New8, the collective of European broadcasters who team to finance big-ticket scripted shows from the contintent.

Zandvliet, who wrote and directed the Academy Award-nominated Land of Mine, is the writer and director.

Mark Ruffalo leads a task force chasing violent home invaders in this new seven-episode crime drama.

Image via HBO Max trailer

I’m still not over “Mare of Easttown” — it has one of the best drunk-acting scenes I’ve ever seen and an ending so shocking I just sat there, disoriented and kind of thrilled. So, when I heard creator Brad Ingelsby was back with a new HBO series, I was all in. “Task” looks like another gritty, emotionally messy crime drama set in suburban Philly, but this time we’ve got Mark Ruffalo leading a task force and Tom Pelphrey pulling off a string of violent home invasions. Last week,...

Sydney Sweeney’s new movie hit theaters everywhere to disappointing box office returns, but at the same time as it struggled to turn a profit, one of her more recent films is excelling on streaming. Sweeney stars alongside Dakota Johnson (Materialists) andIsabela Merced (The Last of Us) in Madame Web, the 2024 superhero movie following a Manhattan paramedic who discovers she may have clairvoyant abilities. Madame Web is currently streaming on Netflix in America and Prime Video globally, where it’s returned to the top 10 in several countries, including Senegal, Jordan, and France.

Not only was Madame Web not well-liked by critics or audiences upon its release, but it was also...

Doctor Who has gone through several different castings since its relaunch in 2005, and now one of the show's producers who helped bring the series back to television has spoken out about how things have changed in recent years, specifically with the casting of Jodie Whittaker and Ncuti Gatwa.

Speaking with King's College London's InTouch, award-winning TV producer Jane Tranter discussed her career, which includes Doctor Who and Succession. She specifically talked about the groundbreaking sci-fi series' ability to handle sensitive subject matter, along with her thoughts about recent years introducing more diverse casting to its lead role, which was historically played by white, male actors.

"I like the fact...

Doctor Who has always been a boundary-pushing show, but one of the series producers has opened up about not thinking certain casting choices were actually innovative. In July 2017, Jodie Whittaker was announced as the Thirteenth Doctor, making her the first woman to play the beloved role. There was controversy surrounding her casting, with some people unhappy with the fact that the Doctor morphs genders.

In May 2022, it was revealed thatDoctor Who chose Ncuti Gatwa to portray the Fifteenth Doctor, making him the first person of color and openly queer individual to do so. There were people who criticized the casting choice as a stunt in order to seem "woke." Whittaker...

This is the end... of the first week of final Emmy voting. TV Academy members — those that aren't already on vacation anyway — have until Wednesday, Aug. 27 to fill out their ballots before settling in for that long Labor Day weekend rest. Meanwhile, most of the major Emmy races have been equally sleepy, at least on the Gold Derby leaderboards. The Studio hasn't budged from its top spot in the Best Comedy Series race and Adolescence retains its lock on Best Limited Series.

The one area where there's some drama happening is, appropriately enough, among the Drama Series races. Even as Severance holds onto the No. 1 spot in our predictions — and...

A date has been locked in for Aniplex Online Fest 2025 , which has the streaming event gearing up for its sixth consecutive year. Over 20 anime titles and more than 40 guests will be featured during the stream, which will go live worldwide in both English and Japanese on the official Aniplex YouTube channel on September 13 at 1:00 a.m. Pacific Time / 5:00 p.m. Japan Time. The official visual for Aniplex Online Fest 2025, featuring the art of Solo Leveling character designer Tomoko Sudo, was revealed along with the rest of the details. You can see the illustration above. So far, Aniplex has teased “new series reveals and surprise guest appearances” during the event,...

Oscar winning director and producer Adam McKay has signed with CAA for representation.

McKay’s credits include Netflix’s Don’t Look Up, a disaster movie about a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth that stands in as a metaphor for the climate crisis; Vice, which nabbed eight Academy Award nominations and The Big Short, which netted the Hollywood veteran an Oscar.

Upcoming feature projects include Sony Pictures’ untitled thriller from writer director Tommy Wirkola, starring Phoebe Dynevor, Whitney Peak, and Djimon Hounsou, and the HBO comedy series The Chair Company, with Tim Robinson starring and writing.

McKay also produced Searchlight Pictures’ The Menu and the social thriller Fresh, and he executive produced Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut Booksmart, Netflix’s Dead to Me and Lorene Scafaria’s Hustlers.

For TV, McKay executive produced the hit HBO show Succession and directed the pilot. He also executive produced and directed the pilot of...

As one of the biggest risers in the Emmy odds, The Pitt has the opportunity to accomplish something that has not been done in almost 20 years: winning Best Drama Series with a season longer than 13 episodes. The last time this was achieved was by 24 in 2006. The Fox action serial starring Emmy winner Kiefer Sutherland produced 24 episodes per season as it chronicled a single day. It was also the last time a broadcast-network series won Best Drama.

The Pitt is only the second series in a decade to be nominated in the top category for an elongated season, after This Is Us, with 15 installments. Before that time, broadcast networks dominated the category.

This article could’ve just as easily been focused on “The Pitt.”

Despite the Max original series earning less than half the total nominations of “Severance” (and only the fifth most of any drama series), many prognosticators believe “The Pitt” has a legitimate shot at winning Best Drama Series, along with a handful of other trophies on Emmy night. Over at IndieWire’s sister site, Gold Derby, there’s a nearly even split among experts, with “Severance” clinging to a narrow 11-8 lead.

Working in “The Pitt’s” favor: the critics, who are absolutely rabid for a throwback medical drama consisting of a hefty 15 hourlong episodes; nostalgia, which should hook a few older voters who remember when the Emmys still regularly honored broadcast-style dramas; the “made in L.A.” narrative, which has been getting a lot of press coverage this season, as anxious Hollywood residents rally around productions that help...

Adam McKay and his production company Hyperobject Industries have signed with CAA for representation.

McKay’s recent credits include the Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated Don’t Look Up, one of Netflix’s most successful films; Vice, which received eight Academy Award nominations, six Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations, and a DGA nomination; The Big Short, which earned McKay Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Director. He and Charles Randolph also won Best Adapted Screenplay for Big Short at the Academy Awards, BAFTA, WGA and USC Scripter Awards.

Upcoming feature projects include the untitled Sony Pictures’ thriller from writer-director Tommy Wirkola, starring Phoebe Dynevor, Whitney Peak and Djimon Hounsou, which is set for a July 2026 release. Other recent film work includes McKay’s role as a producer on Searchlight Pictures’ The Menu and social thriller Fresh. He served as an executive producer on Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut Booksmart, Netflix...

The Television Critics Association has been doling out prizes for over 40 years now, with its first awards show in 1985 honoring The Jewel in the Crown and The Cosby Show. Fast-forward to this week, and the 2025 winners consist of The Pitt and The Studio (one win for Best Comedy Series). Since the TCA's champions are announced prior to the Emmys every year, and cover the same June 1-May 31 eligibility period, awards prognosticators often look to the organization as a pivotal bellwether on the campaign trail.

But that might be a fool's errand.

Over the past 25 years, the TCA Awards and the Emmys have only agreed 40 percent of the time for Best Comedy Series,...

John Cena and his motley crew of crime fighters are back for more action, comedy, profanity, and dance moves.

In the midst of his year-long WWE retirement tour, John Cena is also making a triumphant return to the small screen. The second season of the critically acclaimed adult-comedy, superhero show”Peacemaker” returns on Thursday, Aug. 21 at 9 p.m. Et on HBO Max. The live-action series based on the DC Comics character of the same name has been semi-canonized in the new Dcu after Cena’s Peacemaker appeared in this summer’s “Superman,” which was also written and directed by “Peacemaker” creator and Dcu architect James Gunn. Don’t miss any...

The popular medical drama series is coming back far sooner than many fans anticipated.

Traditional production schedule? Pshaw to that, says HBO Max, at least when it comes to the new season of “The Pitt.” The medical drama series set in an overworked Pittsburgh hospital just wrapped its first season in April, and such shows nearly always take at least a year to craft a second season — especially on HBO, where the high production values usually demand an extended schedule. But as announced on Thursday, HBO will bring back “The Pitt” for a second season far earlier than most would expect.

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We finally know when Death by Lightning, Netflix's new depiction of the strangest Presidential assassination in American history, will strike. The historical drama miniseries starring Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water) as President James A. Garfield and Matthew Macfadyen (Succession) as his killer, Charles Guiteau, will premiere on November 6. The streamer also unveiled the first poster for the series.

The poster features a stylized rendition of the July 2, 1881, assassination of Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, DC. The pistol-wielding Guiteau lurks behind the stripes of the American flag, leveling his weapon at the unsuspecting Garfield. Garfield, meanwhile, as the title implies, has been "struck by...