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When it first aired in 2000, "Six Feet Under" was unknowingly part of the dawn of a golden age of television. Alongside early-aughts HBO hits like "The Wire" and "The Sopranos," the tragicomedy told the story of a family-run funeral home trying to make sense of life and death in the wake of the sudden loss of their father.

A revival has reportedly been in the works for some time, despite the fact that it would seemingly be in conflict with what is arguably the greatest series finale of a TV show ever. Still, the mere idea of a return to these loveable, complicated, and tragic characters makes us wonder what happened to the cast of "Six Feet Under?"

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Richard Jenkins - Nathaniel Fisher Sr.

Appropriately, we'll start with Richard Jenkins, who played Nathaniel Fisher Sr., the family's patriarch. Though Nathaniel Sr.

BAFTA nominee Daniel Radcliffe (the Harry Potter franchise) and Oscar nominee Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea) are set to take the lead roles in the Vietnam War thriller Trust the Man, which Deadline reports will be directed by Will Graham, whose credits include an episode of Daisy Jones & The Six (which earned him an Emmy nomination). This is the second Daisy Jones & The Six director we’ve talked about today, as Nzingha Stewart – who was at the helm of four episodes of that limited series – will be directing the first episode of The ‘Burbs TV series.

Given that Radcliffe left the Harry Potter franchise behind 14 years ago, I should note that some of his more recent work includes Miracle Workers, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, and The Lost City. In addition to Manchester by the Sea, Hedges’ credits include Honey Boy, French Exit, and Shirley.

Graham has...

Exclusive: The Bear star Abby Elliott has signed with Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment for representation.

Elliott plays Natalie “Sugar” Berzatto in FX’s Emmy-winning breakout hit The Bear, which is currently streaming its third season and has been renewed for a fourth. She was just announced as a series regular in Sarah Snook’s upcoming Peacock series All Her Fault, alongside Snook, Dakota Fanning, Jake Lacy, Sophia Lillis and Michael Peña.

Elliott joined Saturday Night Live as the youngest female cast member in the show’s history at 21, where she was a cast member for four seasons. She also starred on Bravo comedy Odd Mom Out and NBC sitcom Indebted.

Elliott is a third generation actor, following in the footsteps of her father, actor and comedian Chris Elliott and her grandfather, radio comedian Bob Elliott.

She continues to be repped by Paradigm and Melissa Fox at Hansen Jacobson Teller et al.

Exclusive: Jill Kargman (Odd Mom Out), Justin Bartha (The Hangover), David Krumholtz (Oppenheimer) and Christine Taylor (Search Party) have been set to topline Miracle on 74th Street, an indie comedy from director Rachel Israel (The Floaters), which has wrapped production.

Others in the cast include Laura Bell Bundy, Eugene Cordero, Jessica Capshaw, Clara Wong, Jason Biggs, Jenny Mollen, Sol Miranda, Olli Haaskivi, Nathan Lee Graham, and Dan Hedaya. Then, there’s Drew Barrymore and Gwyneth Paltrow, who will appear in cameos.

Written by Kargman, Carol Hartsell, and Sean Crespo, Miracle on 74th Street follows renowned influencer Dzanielle as she navigates fake friends among the black card-swiping, Ozempic-sharting, workout-addicted Upper East Siders. In her comedic quest for a million followers, she finds her first real new friend and her true self.

Producers on the film include Tiny Office Productions’ Sj Allocco-St. Germain and Arielle Haller-Silverstone, Akward Productions’ Mandy Ward, and Steven Ast.

The Bear is an ongoing dramedy series that focuses on a struggling restaurant and its crew of ragtag cooks.

Carmy Berzatto, a big-time fancy chef who returned to Chicago to take over his deceased brother's business, heads up The Bear, formerly The Beef.

The Bear appeared on FX and Hulu in 2022, with The Bear Season 3 available for streaming on Hulu as of June 27, 2024.

If you think some of the faces seem familiar, you're probably right.

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The Bear has a diverse cast of actors, some series regulars and others who only appear as surprise guests, showing up for a few short scenes.

Here are the cast of The Bear and where they've been in their careers before joining the award-winning FX family dramedy.

Family of The Bear

The Bear isn't just the name of the series and the newly revamped Chicago restaurant.

On the first season of “The Bear,” Abby Elliot’s sister to Jeremy Allen White’s flawed, but masterful chef Carmy Berzatto, Natalie (mostly referred to as Sugar or Mom), didn’t get a lot of time to stand out. There may be intention in this. For all the characters, that first season represents a moment where everyone’s lives were upended by grief and shifting power dynamics. If there’s anyone who Carmy doesn’t want to disappoint, it’s Natalie, so facing her at a moment when he can’t face himself feels impossible.

By season 2 though, something has reopened inside of him. A passion. Maybe even a faith. It’s at this point that Carmy needs Natalie most. Though Richie and the Fak may have been around the Berzattos for a while, Natalie and Carmy have ridden the whole wild ride out hand-in-hand. In a recent interview with The New York Times,...

Think The Munsters, but way more grim.

UCP is developing 1313, which has been described as a horror series that plays on the Universal Monsterverse, aka a reimagining of the classic 1964-66 CBS sitcom The Munsters.

Lindsey Anderson Beer is set to showrun the drama. The project is being developed by James Wan, Beer and Ingrid Bisu for UCP. Atomic Monster and Lab Brew are the production companies.

Executive producers are Beer and Wan, Michael Clear, and Rob Hackett for Atomic Monster. Bisu is a co-exec producer.

The last time someone tried to dust off The Munsters for the small screen was in 2017, when NBC opted to reboot the comedy with Odd Mom Out creator Jill Kargman and Seth Meyers. The half-hour single-camera version was going to follow members of an offbeat family who are determined to stay true to themselves but struggle to fit in in hipster Brooklyn.

In the original,...

Wasserman, the sports and music representation firm that acquired Brillstein Entertainment Partners last year, is officially moving into the non-fiction space.

The company has launched a new division run by former Showtime exec Zoe Rogovin.

It comes after Wasserman scored a wide-ranging deal between Brittney Griner and Disney that includes a major documentary component. The company is also behind Netflix’s Get Gotti.

The unit will develop premium, commercial TV and documentary films with directors, talent and production companies as well as Wasserman’s own entertainment, sports, and music businesses.

Rogovin will report to Jon Liebman, CEO of Brillstein Entertainment Partners, who runs all content and entertainment for Wasserman.

She started her career as an intern at Brillstein and later worked in Global Media Rights and Business Development for Wasserman, before eventually becoming Showtime’s SVP of Programming, where she oversaw non-fiction series such as W. Kamau Bell’s We Need to Talk About Cosby,...

Production is underway on “Kangaroo Island,” the feature film debut from Australian director Tim Piper and screenwriter Sally Gifford.

The family relationship drama-comedy centers around a struggling Hollywood actress forced to reunite with her sister as part of her father’s last wishes. It stars Rebecca Breeds, Erik Thomson, Adelaide Clemens and Joel Jackson.

Lou Wells (portrayed by Breeds) was set to become Hollywood’s next big thing – but a few years later, she’s hit rock bottom. Broke and aimless, she reluctantly accepts a ticket from her estranged father (Thomson), home to Kangaroo Island for a “family reunion.” When her father’s real agenda unfolds, years of tension resurface, and Lou struggles between continuing to run away from her past or working to repair the damage done.

“Kangaroo Island” is a Pouch Potato Productions production, in conjunction with Piro Inc. Ot has financial support from the South Australian Film...

Since starting on "Saturday Night Live" in 2008, Abby Elliott has established herself as a successful actor. After departing the beloved sketch show, Elliott starred in the Bravo sitcom "Odd Mom Out" as Brooke Von-Weber and as Rebecca Klein in the NBC sitcom "Indebted." Most recently, Elliott has garnered attention and acclaim for her role as Natalie "Sugar" Berzatto on Hulu's "The Bear" alongside Jeremy Allen White.

When she isn't busy working, though, Elliott shares parenting duties with her husband, "House of Cards" writer Bill Kennedy. The two began dating in 2014 and tied the knot in the presence of 200 guests in September 2016, as reported by People. Elliott and Kennedy have since welcomed two children together, daughter Edith Pepper and son William Joseph. While "The Bear" actor is now a happy mom of two, the journey to motherhood was initially a tough one. She underwent IVF prior to the birth of her first child,...

Abby Elliott has come a long way since her "Saturday Night Live" days. Since leaving the sketch comedy series in 2012, Abby has landed the sitcoms "Odd Mom Out" and "Indebted," as well as films like "Sex Ed" and "Better Off Single." Currently, she stars in the award-winning series "The Bear." In the show, Abby plays Natalie "Sugar" Berzatto, who is the coowner of The Beef restaurant. "It's really exciting to be a part of something that has touched so many people," Abby said about her involvement on the show during an August 2022 episode of "The Last Laugh" podcast. "[It's the first time I've been a] part of a project that people have really responded to in this sort of way."

Abby's success as an actor isn't surprising since she comes from a family of entertainers. Her father is comedian Chris Elliott, while her mother is actor and talent coordinator Paula Niedert Elliott. Abby is also the granddaughter of radio personality Bob Elliott,...

Exclusive: UK-French sales company Alief has added Carol Hartsell’s Hamptons-set indie romantic comedy Love… Reconsidered to its Cannes 2023 slate on the eve of the market.

Sophie von Haselberg stars as a down-on-her-luck New Yorker whose life is suddenly transferred to the Hamptons after a chance meeting with a wealthy consignment store owner.

It is the second feature starring Bette Midler’s daughter von Haselberg sold internationally by Alief after it successfully handled Amanda Kramer’s Give Me Pity!

Other cast members include Colton Haynes, Javier Muñoz (Broadway’s Hamilton), Jill Kargman (Odd Mom Out) Marisa Ryan (Wet Hot American Summer), Rosa Gilmore (The Expanse), Luke Gulbranson, Anthony Norman (Mare of Easttown) Judy Gold (Better Things) and Elaine Bromka (Uncle Buck).

The film was scripted by Arielle Haller-Silverstone and loosely inspired by her own experiences when she lost her job during the Covid-...

Zoe Rogovin, who has spearheaded docuseries such as We Need to Talk About Cosby, has been promoted at Showtime.

Rogovin has been upped to SVP Programming. She was previously VP Non-Fiction Programming. She reports to Vinnie Malhotra, EVP Nonfiction Programming, and is based in Los Angeles.

In addition to the W. Kamau Bell-directed Cosby series, Rogovin has been responsible for J.J Abrams-exec produced UFO and music docs Supervillain, Supreme Team and Sheryl.

She is also responsible for returning series such as Couple’s Therapy, Ziwe and global news series Vice.

Rogovin joined the Paramount Global-owned premium cabler in 2019 to oversee development and production of original non-fiction features and series. She previously spent over six years at Bravo, where she was VP Development, developing series such as The Real Housewives of Dallas, Family Karma, Backyard Envy and The Singles Project as well as scripted comedy Odd Mom Out.

Zoe Rogovin has been promoted to senior vice president of programming at Showtime.

Rogovin enters the position after most recently serving as vice president of non-fiction programming. Since joining the company in 2019, she has overseen development and production of the network’s non-fiction projects across episodic, serialized and film formats. Showtime titles under Rogovin’s purview have included the recent limited series “We Need to Talk About Cosby” from W. Kamau Bell, “UFO” from Bad Robot, “Supreme Team” from Nas and “Supervillain,” about Tekashi 6ix9ine. She has also worked on returning series such as “Couples Therapy” with Dr. Orna Guralnik, comedy sketch series “Ziwe” with Ziwe Fumudoh and news program “Vice,” as well as the Sheryl Crow documentary “Sheryl.”

Rogovin is based in Showtime’s West Hollywood offices and reports to Vinnie Malhotra, who serves as executive vice president of non-fiction programming.

Before working at Showtime, Rogovin served as...

Stephanie March has joined the cast of the CW’s upcoming series Naomi, alongside star Kaci Walfall. The series comes from Ava DuVernay and Arrow writer and co-exec producer Jill Blankenship.

Based on the eponymous comic book series that debuted in 2019, co-written by Brian Michael Bendis and David F. Walker and illustrated by breakout artist Jamal Campbell, the show follows a teenage girl’s journey from her small northwestern town to the heights of the multiverse. When a supernatural event shakes her hometown to the core, Naomi sets out to uncover its origins, and what she discovers will challenge everything we believe about our heroes.

March will play Akira. Originally from a planet far away, Akira finds herself in hiding on Earth when Naomi seeks her out, looking for answers.

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The series also features series regulars Alexander Wraith, Cranston Johnson and Camila Moreno. Additional cast members include Barry Watson,...

Exclusive: Sophie von Haselberg (Halston), Colton Haynes (Arrow), Javier Muñoz (Broadway’s Hamilton), Jill Kargman (Odd Mom Out) and Marisa Ryan (Wet Hot American Summer) have signed on to star in Love…Reconsidered, an indie comedy, which is currently in production in New York.

The film directed by Full Frontal with Samantha Bee‘s managing digital producer Carol Hartsell centers on Ruby (Von Haselberg), a 30-year-old New Yorker whose life is suddenly transplanted to the Hamptons after a chance meeting with a wealthy consignment store owner.

Rick Younger, Judy Gold, Elaine Bromka, Luke Gulbranson, Jon Lemmon, Anthony Norman, and Amy Pham round out the cast of the film, scripted by Arielle Haller-Silverstone.

Ian Stone and El Ride Productions are exec producing, with Haller-Silverstone and casting director Sj Allocco serving as co-producers.

Von Haselberg is repped by APA and Artists First; Haynes by UTA and Untitled Entertainment; Muñoz by APA and...

Exclusive: Stephanie March has signed with Echo Lake Entertainment for management in all areas.

The actor-producer is best known for her turn as New York Assistant Da Alexandra Cabot on NBC’s long-running procedural, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

She most recently starred alongside Shaun Benson in the Lifetime TV movie A House on Fire, playing a wife and mother struggling with mental illness and substance abuse problems. She also portrayed Ivanka Trump in Comedy Central special A President Show Documentary and starred in Adult Swim’s Neon Joe.

Additional credits on the TV side include 30 Rock, Happy Endings, Rescue Me, Grey’s Anatomy, Odd Mom Out, Made in Jersey, Nightcap and Conviction. March also has appeared in such films as The Invention of Lying, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Who We Are Now, The Treatment, Falling for Grace and Innocence.

March made her Broadway debut in a 1999 adaptation of Arthur Miller...

Jeremy Allen White has been cast in the lead role of the FX comedy pilot “The Bear,” Variety has learned.

In addition, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Lionel Boyce, Abby Elliott, and Matty Matheson have also been cast in the project, which was ordered to pilot at FX back in March.

“The Bear” is about a young chef (White) who returns to Chicago to run the family restaurant. Christopher Storer is the writer and director of the pilot. He will also executive produce with Hiro Murai and Mate Matteson of Super Frog and Joanna Calo. FX Productions will produce.

White is best known for playing Lip Gallagher throughout the run of the hit Showtime series “Shameless,” which ended its run in April. His other TV credits include the first season of “Homecoming” at Amazon, while he has also starred in features like “The Rental,” “Afterschool,” “The Time Being,” and “Viena and the Fantomes.

And just like that, HBO Max’s “Sex and the City” revival has assembled a writing team.

The original series re-enters the lives and friendships of Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis), now in their 50s.

“And Just Like That…” features familiar “Sex and the City” writers as well as several new additions. Comedian and author Samantha Irby, “Fresh Off the Boat” writer Rachna Fruchbom and “Reversing Roe” producer Keli Goff have joined veteran “Sex and the City” writers and producers Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky in the writers room.

Irby, billed as a co-producer, is known for penning the New York Times bestsellers “Meaty,” “We Are Never Meeting in Real Life,” and “Wow, No Thank You.” She is currently developing “Meaty” at Comedy Central with Abbi Jacobson and Jessi Klein, and previously worked on “Tuca & Bertie,” “Work in Progress” and “Shrill.

Who doesn't love to hate those outrageous, uber-wealthy, if-you-have-to-ask-you-can't-afford-it denizens of New York City's Upper East Side?

For three seasons, from 2015 to 2017, fans followed the life of Odd Mom Out Jill Weber (Jill Kargman), along with her family, friends, and frenemies, as she navigated Lol only-in-New-York situations and revealed tropes that hit a little too close to home for those who actually live in the home of Gossip Girl.

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Kargman played a fictionalized version of herself, based on her novel Momzillas which was published in 2007 and which she described as "living in an ecosystem that has become so elite, so hip, and so trendy, that I find myself the 'odd mom out.'" The show introduced us to a cast of characters that ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous. Now that Omo is being re-released, let's refresh our memories.

Exclusive: DC Wade has joined Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment as a partner.

Wade was a talent agent at WME for five years before departing last year to help form upstart Imagine Artist Management as a partner. The management firm, originally an extension of Imagine, has since evolved into an independent spinoff firm, Independent Artist Management, putting Wade in play. In a competitive situation, with multiple management companies interested, Wade opted to set up shop at Odenkirk Provissiero, led by principals Naomi Odenkirk and Marc Provissiero.

“Naomi, Marc, and the whole team have built something special,” Wade said. “I’m excited to help expand and amplify the Ope brand as we continue into the next decade of the company.”

Wade brings with him a roster of established and emerging diverse talent, including Insecure’s Yvonne Orji, whose HBO special, executive produced by Wade, premiered in June. His other clients include Odd Mom Out showrunner Lara Spotts,...

With production grinding to a halt in the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the entertainment industry has found itself navigating uncharted territory. To offer a better sense of how, The Hollywood Reporter is running a regular series that focuses on how Hollywood's writers, actors, directors, executives and others are living and working in these challenging times.

Having already made a career out of skewering her fellow Upper East Side mothers in books like Momzillas and on the Bravo comedy Odd Mom Out, Jill Kargman's lockdown outlet has been mocking them on Instagram — in one-minute daily updates such as Dzanielle, a ...

Exclusive: Lara Spotts, writer, producer and former head of development at Bravo, has signed with Imagine Artist Management.

Spotts stepped down as Svp development at Bravo in 2016 to make a transition from network executive to showrunner on Odd Mom Out, one of the series she’d shepherded at the network. Spotts, who oversaw both scripted and unscripted development for Bravo, took over showrunning duties in the third season of Odd Mom Out, the network’s first scripted comedy series, created by and starring Jill Kargman.

As head of development, Spotts led Bravo into the scripted space in 2014 with the network’s first drama Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce. Unscripted series that she oversaw included Southern Charm, The People’s Couch, Newlyweds: The First Year and Thicker Than Water.

Prior to Bravo, she developed and executive produced her own documentary Raising Teens for Logo and wrote and produced the short film One Sung Hero,...

Zoe Rogovin has been named VP Nonfiction Programming at Showtime Networks, overseeing the development and production oversight of premium non-fiction storytelling, including episodic, serialized/anthology and film formats.

Based in Los Angeles and reporting to Evp Nonfiction Programming Vinnie Malholtra, Rogovin also will identify and cultivate new and existing talent platforms and outlets, including emerging creators.

Rogovin previously was VP Development at Bravo, where she ushered in numerous shows including docuseries The Singles Project and scripted comedy Odd Mom Out. She also held key leadership and creative roles in the development and production of shortform originals for bravotv.com and Bravo’s partnerships with YouTube, Snapchat and Quibi.

Prior to joining Bravo, Rogovin worked in the TV Literary Department at ICM Partners and in Wasserman Media Group’s Business Development team. She also was named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list and has been a contributing member of the Diversity & Inclusion Committee at NBCU Cable.

“Orange Is the New Black” alum Emma Myles has joined the cast of Showtime’s “City on a Hill” in a recurring role, TheWrap has learned exclusively.

She will appear alongside stars Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge in the role of Kelly Kinicki’s widow, Babsie. Her grief resurfaces when Jackie (Bacon) and Decourcy (Hodge) re-open the investigation on Kelly’s disappearance, Showtime said.

Myles’ past film and television credits include playing Leanne Taylor on “Orange Is the New Black,” as well as roles in “Odd Mom Out,” “King of Knives,” “Child of Grace,” “Girl Most Likely,” “Happy Yummy Chicken,” “Law and Order: Svu,” “Spinning Into Butter,” “Please Give” and “How to Make it in America.” She is repped by the Katz Company and Don Buchwald and Associates.

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“City on a Hill” is set in early 1990s Boston, rife...

NCIS: New Orleans boss man Dwayne Pride is due to be paid a visit from dear ol’ Mom — and playing the family matriarch will be Joanna Cassidy, TVLine has learned exclusively.

In the CBS drama’s Season 5 finale — titled “The River Styx: Part II” and airing Tuesday, May 14 — Pride (played by Scott Bakula) tracks Apollyon, a deadly underground spy network, to war-torn South Ossetia in Russia, where he is separated from the team and faces grave danger. In order to save Pride, the team must locate a mole who continues to feed information to Apollyon.

Cassidy will appear in...

It was bound to be a freewheeling discussion about comedy on television in the #MeToo era at the AMC Networks Summit when moderator Jill Kargman, creator and star of the Bravo series Odd Mom Out, began asking stars, writers and showrunners about the challenges of being funny in the “political hellscape sh*t-show” we’re currently living in.

The panel, part of AMC Networks’ second annual summit event in New York, focused on the shifting limits of comedy in a redefined age of what is or isn’t appropriate, the new freedoms afforded by greater content options in the streaming era, and a defiance among diverse creators to make their own brave choices.

Tackling the “political hellscape” question, Joel Church-Cooper, executive producer of IFC’s series Brockmire, stressed the safe comedic value of “punching up. There are plenty of stupid, incompetent people in power,” he said. “Punching upwards is very safe territory.

Here's a list of TV shows that aired (or are expected to air) during the 2016-17 season (roughly September 2016 through August 2017) and that also won't be back for the 2017-18 season. Not finding a show that you believe has been cancelled? Check the 2015-16 season list or 2014-15 season list.

Most recent additions: Degrassi: Next Class (Netflix), Marvel's The Defenders (Netflix), Daytime Divas (VH1), Somewhere Between (ABC), Playing House (USA), Zoo (CBS), The Night Shift (NBC), Odd Mom Out (Bravo), The Mist (Spike TV), Stitchers (Freeform), The Fox News Specialists (Fox News), Class (BBC America), The Last Tycoon (Amazon), Z: The Beginning of Everything (Amazon), Blood Drive (Syfy), Dark Matter (Syfy), Will (TNT), Gypsy (Netflix), Hooten & the Lady (The CW), Twin Peaks (Showtime), The New Celebrity Apprentice (NBC), @midnight with Chris Hardwick (Comedy Central), Pure (Hulu), So Cosmo (E!), Big Brother: Over the Top (CBS All Access),...

NBC pilot “Uninsured” has cast four of its series regulars, with Adam Pally and Abby Elliott playing the young married couple at the center of the show.

Pally will play Dave, who is described as a “natural hype man with a good heart.” Elliott has been tapped to play “super mom” Rebecca, who “longs for the kind of order she can never achieve in a chaotic household.”

Alongside them as series regulars are Jessy Hodges as Dave’s edgy younger sister Joanna and Amer Chadha-Patel as Dave’s fast-talking business partner Aram.

The multi-camera comedy revolves around young parents Dave and Rebecca, who “end up having to take care of Dave’s parents who have mishandled their finances and need help to pay down a sizable debt.”

Sony Pictures Television will produce. Dan Levy is writing and producing; Doug Robinson and Alison Greenspan are serving as executive producers under the Doug Robinson Productions banner.

Happy Endings alum Adam Pally and Abby Elliott (Saturday Night Live) are set as the leads of NBC’s Uninsured, a multi-camera comedy from The Goldbergs writer/co-executive producer Dan Levy, executive producer Doug Robinson and Sony Pictures TV. Pally also will serve as co-executive producer on the pilot, which also has cast as series regulars Jessy Hodges (Barry) and Amer Padha-Chatel (Beecham House).

Written by Levy, Uninsured revolves around young parents Dave (Pally) and Rebecca (Elliott), who end up having to take care of Dave’s parents who have mishandled their finances and need help to pay down a sizable debt.

Pally’s Dave is a natural hype man with a good heart. Elliott’s Rebecca is a supermom who longs for the kind of order she never can achieve in a chaotic household.

Pally and Elliott did not need a chemistry test together as they already played a...

Samantha Bee is launching her own production company and signed a first-look with TBS, the network that airs her late-night series, “Full Frontal.”

Bee’s company, Swimsuit Competition, will be focused on narrative and documentary content. They will be seeking great ideas from people flying under the radar, or whose work has been underestimated in the past. “The Rundown with Robin Thede” producer Kristen Everman, who also produced the “Full Frontal” special “Not the White House Correspondents Dinner,” will serve as head of development.

“Fine, if none of you are gonna make TV I want to watch, I’ll make it myself,” Bee said.

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Swimsuit Competition will initially focus on developing content for television, but could expand to other platforms. “If your senior superlative was ‘Most Unaware of His or Her Appeal,...

Samantha Bee usually crafts pieces of content that are just minutes long, all in the name of crafting segments for her TBS program, “Full Frontal.” Now she’s getting into longform.

Bee has formed a new production company, Swimsuit Competition, that will look to release “narrative and documentary” works. Kristen Everman, a producer who worked on Bee’s 2017 effort to lampoon the White House Correspondents Dinner and on Robin Thede’s recent late-night series for Bet, will work as head of development for the new shingle, which has signed a first-look deal with TBS, the At&T-owned cable network, to develop original content. Everman began her career in entertainment at “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” and has worked on series including Hulu’s “Difficult People” and Bravo’s “Odd Mom Out.”

“Fine, if none of you are gonna make TV I want to watch, I’ll make it myself,...

Samantha Bee is extending her relationship with TBS.

The Full Frontal host has inked a first-look deal with the Turner-owned cable network. Bee has also launched a new production company, called Swimsuit Competition, and tapped Full Frontal producer Kristen Everman to serve as head of development. Everman started her career on Comedy Central's The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and also worked on the feature Precious and TV series including Difficult People and Odd Mom Out.

The pact extends Bee's relationship with TBS, where in addition to Full Frontal, she also co-created the cabler's scripted comedy The ...

NBC is developing a comedy series that hails from Sas Goldberg and Jake Wilson, Variety has learned exclusively.

The untitled project is described as an ensemble musical comedy. It follows Sally who, newly jobless and single after a decade working abroad, returns to New York hoping to relive her college glory days with her friends, only to find the realities of adulthood have eclipsed the carefree days of their 20s.

Goldberg and Wilson will write and executive produce, with Flody Suarez and Jeffrey Seller also executive producing via Seller Suarez Productions. Universal Television will produce in association with Seller Suarez, which is under an overall deal at the studio.

Last year, Goldberg and Wilson sold and developed a pilot at Fox with The Lonely Island producing. They also produced a pilot presentation for Bravo with Jax Media that they wrote, starred in, and Wilson directed. In addition, they have sold...

Fresh from the Sundance Film Festival comes a movie so outlandish you can’t pass up on seeing it. Full of showbiz, shadows at the window, and good ol’ fashioned family insanity, “Clara’s Ghost” follows the bizarre exploits of the fictional Reynolds family, played by the very real Elliott family. Known for their comedy and sitcoms, the Elliott family includes Chris Elliott and his daughter Abby Elliott, but you may not have heard of the other two members of the family.

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“You’d think that royal blood dilutes over time, but the poison survives,” says Radha Mitchell’s character in the new trailer for Matthew Weiner’s forthcoming Amazon Prime anthology, The Romanoffs. The new series — the first anthology for the streaming service — features eight separate stories about people who believe themselves to be descendants of the titular royal family.

We received a tease to the series last month, but the new trailer pulls the curtain back a little more, showing us the army of characters in the anthology who all claim they are a Romanoff. Some of them relish in the fact that they come from royal blood, while others find it problematic. “There are so many people out there with your background and I guess they’re proud, but they’re really f*cked up,” Kerry Bishe’s character tells Corey Stoll.

Set in seven countries around the globe,...

The highly anticipated original contemporary anthology series, The Romanoffs, is set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video Friday, October 12 with new episodes released weekly, on Fridays.

This is the first anthology series for Amazon Prime Video that will roll out on a weekly basis. The Romanoffs will be available initially in the original version in over 200 countries and territories, with dubbed foreign language versions coming in early 2019.

“The Romanoffs is an ambitious event series that will be the first-ever anthology released weekly on Prime Video,” said Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios, “Filmed around the globe and featuring an incredible, star studded cast, each episode will be a surprise gift to the audience. We are grateful to Matthew Weiner for bringing this groundbreaking series to life for our Prime audience.”

The Romanoffs is created, written, directed and executive produced by nine-time Emmy award winner Matthew Weiner (Mad Men), featuring eight...

According to the new teaser trailer for Amazon Prime Video’s forthcoming anthology series The Romanoffs, it is possible for anyone and everyone to be a descendant of the famed Russian royal family.

Amazon’s first anthology series comes from the Emmy Award-winning Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner and features eight separate stories about people who believe themselves to be descendants of the titular royal family. Set in seven countries around the globe, The Romanoffs was shot on location in Europe, the Americas, and the Far East. Each story brings us to a new location and introduces us to a new cast of players claiming they are a Romanoff.

Weiner, who created, written, directed and executive produced the series, reunites with some familiar faces from Mad Men‘s Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce including Christina Hendricks, John Slattery, Jay R. Ferguson, and Cara Buono.

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Matthew Weiner’s “The Romanoffs” is finally coming to Amazon Prime, the streamer announced Saturday during the Television Critics Association press tour. The news was a bit of a surprise, as Amazon hasn’t said a word about the long-gestating project for months, following accusations of sexual misconduct posed against the “Mad Men” creator last fall by a writer who worked on the AMC series.

Amazon revealed the highly-anticipated original anthology series will debut on Friday, October 12. And, because you’ve been waiting so long to find out when it’s coming, Amazon also decided to tell you who is coming when it lands, with a teaser announcing a line-up of huge guest stars.

According to the show’s official logline, “The Romanoffs” is a contemporary anthology series, set around the globe, featuring eight separate stories about people who believe themselves to be descendants of the Russian royal family. The...

Nobody likes surprises — especially during the summer, which is supposed to be a happy time full of hot dogs, spiked watermelon and then boozy, late-night games of lawn darts. (What?)

But given how quietly summer TV shows get cancelled, usually during the dog days of August while you’re busy getting Billy ready for the first day of military school, it’s easy to forget that a few of your off-season favorites are simply now, well, off.

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In today’s film news roundup, “Straight Into a Storm” gets a theatrical release, Gravitas buys “All Light Will End” and Richard Thomas’ “The Price of Silence” wraps.

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Abramorama will give a theatrical release to “Straight Into A Storm,” the music driven documentary about the band Deer Tick, starting on June 15 in New York at the Roxy Cinema Tribeca.

In recent years, Abramorama has specialized in handling music driven documentary films, partnering with Neil Young, Green Day, Pearl Jam and The Beatles. “Straight Into A Storm” is directed by William Miller and produced by Jason Diamond, Josh Diamond and Miller.

Abramorama will implement a release strategy that has the film hitting cities Deer Tick will play on their upcoming tour in addition to other key markets. The film will also have a special screening in New York City on June 19 for music industry executives as part of the A2IM conference.

Bravo doesn't produce and run many of their own scripted TV shows, but they do like to keep an oar in the water. Although Odd Mom Out has been cancelled and Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce is ending with its fifth season, they've ordered two seasons of the Dirty John anthology series, and now Imposters is back for a second season. Last year, it was the cable network's top rated (non-reality) series. Can it build upon that success? Will Imposters be cancelled or renewed for season three? Stay tuned. A Bravo dark comedy, the Imposters TV show stars Inbar Lavi, Rob Heaps, Parker Young, Marianne Rendón, Stephen Bishop, and Brian Benben, with Uma Thurman guest starring. It centers on Maddie (Lavi), a beautiful con-artist, and the "Bumblers," a team of her former victims. In season two, after they all escape Max (Benben) and FBI...

Julie Klausner didn’t have a Difficult time lining up her next TV gig: The Difficult People star has joined the cast of the NBC comedy pilot So Close, our sister site Deadline reports.

The series stars SNL alum Sasheer Zamata and Odd Mom Out‘s Sean Kleier as Riley and Kyle, two hopeless romantics who are both on the verge of settling for the wrong partner and unaware they might be soulmates. Klausner will play Amy, a friend of Riley’s who works with her at a law firm.

In other pilot casting news, per Deadline:

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Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cabot is slipping back into her legal briefs: Former cast member Stephanie March will return to Law & Order: Svu this season, NBC announced Monday.

The hour, which is titled “Sunk Cost Fallacy” and is slated to air in April, will be March’s 91st Svu as the trial attorney. Per the network’s official synopsis, the search for an abducted woman and her young daughter leads Mariska Hargitay’s Lt. Benson to cross paths with her friend, Cabot.

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Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cabot is slipping back into her legal briefs: Former cast member Stephanie March will return to Law & Order: Svu this season, NBC announced Monday.

The hour, which is titled “Sunk Cost Fallacy” and is slated to air in April, will be March’s 91st Svu as the trial attorney. Per the network’s official synopsis, the search for an abducted woman and her young daughter leads Mariska Hargitay’s Lt. Benson to cross paths with her friend, Cabot.

“It is a thrill to welcome Stephanie back to the Svu family, even for a short visit,” showrunner Michael Chernuchin said via statement.

As reported by Deadline, Sasheer Zamata is set to star in So Close, an NBC comedy pilot from Life In Pieces writer Greg Malins. The pilot will also star Sean Kleier from Odd Mom Out, with him and Zamata playing two “hopeless romantics” who don’t know each other even though they’re destined to fall in love and “live…

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Having experienced plenty of American Crime, Timothy Hutton is now turning his attention to the legal system.

The actor will co-star in the CBS drama pilot Main Justice, which is inspired by the life and work of Eric Holder, the first African-American Attorney General of the United States, our sister site Deadline reports.

Hutton will play Deputy Attorney General Thomas Yarrow, who was the interim Attorney General prior to the recently sworn-in Miles Blair (Fargo‘s Bokeem Woodbine). Yarrow — whose ego is only matched by the money he spends on his wardrobe — is immediately critical of Blair’s decisions.

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The Elliott family is now three generations deep into comedy. It began with Bob Elliott, half of the comedy duo Bob and Ray. His son Chris Elliott went into comedy on Late Night with David Letterman, his own sitcom Get a Life (costarring Bob) and movies like Groundhog Day and There’s Something About Mary. Now his daughters, Abby and Bridey Elliott, are working actors. Abby was a Saturday Night Live cast member and now appears on Odd Mom Out. Bridey acts in indie movies and series too (Fort Tilden won SXSW) and she directed the whole family in Clara’s Ghost,...read more...

Seth Meyers opened up the 2018 Golden Globe Awards with a monologue focused heavily on the current sexual harassment and abuse allegations plaguing Hollywood. Meyers was always going to have to address the topic given the countless accusations against Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Louis C.K., and more, and one of the biggest question marks of the night was how he was going to go about doing so.

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“Good evening ladies and remaining gentlemen,” Meyers started. “Happy New Year, Hollywood. It’s 2018: Marijuana is finally allowed and sexual harassment finally isn’t. It’s going to be a good year.”

“This was the year of big little lies and get out, and the television series ‘Big Little lies and the movie ‘Get Out,'” he continued. “There’s a new era under way.

California native Drew Barrymore confesses she’s still acclimating to life in New York City.

“I’m not an aficionado,” the actress told People Wednesday at Chrisitan Siriano‘s Dresses to Dream About book release party at New York City’s Rizzoli Bookstore, where attendees sipped on Belvedere Vodka cocktails. “If it was the state of California I could tell you everything, but New York I’m like lost. I’m new here!”

The mom to daughters Frankie, 3, and Olive, 5, moved to Manhattan’s Upper East Side in 2014 with her now-ex husband, New York-born actor Will Kopelman. But when she’s not riding the 6 train,...