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Warning: The following contains major spoilers for Yellowjackets Season 3: Episode 6, “Thanksgiving (Canada).”

Fans of Showtime’s feminist horror series Yellowjackets have been dying for answers to two major questions: who will the girls eat while stranded in the woods and how will survivors of that horrific plane crash eventually find their way home? While larger mysteries still remain, the latest episode brings us one step closer to uncovering the truth.

After an excruciating murder/execution, the girls “honor” Coach Ben Scott (Steven Krueger) with a ritualistic feast which descends into chaos. In the present day timeline, Misty (Christina Ricci) continues to investigate Lottie (Simone Kessell)’s murder while Van (Lauren Ambrose) begins to wonder who Taissa (Tawny Cypress) really is.

The episode’s final moments leave us on one hell of a cliffhanger while taking the 1997 timeline in a bloody new direction.

Though we’re still picking our jaws up off the floor,...

Exclusive: Emmy Award nominee Clifton Collins Jr. and Mo McRae have joined the cast of Apple TV+’s limited series Lucky created by Jonathan Tropper. Production is currently underway in Los Angeles.

Based on Marissa Stapley’s bestselling novel and Reese’s Book Club pick of the same name, Lucky stars Anya Taylor-Joy as the eponymous heroine. She is a young woman who left behind the life of crime she was raised in years ago but must now embrace her darker, criminal side one final time in a desperate attempt to escape her past.

Collins will portray ‘Dutch’ and McRae will portray ‘Agent Eli Gates.’

The pair joins the previously announced cast members Annette Bening, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Timothy Olyphant and Drew Starkey.

Lucky is produced by Hello Sunshine and Tropper Ink, and is created by Tropper under his overall deal with Apple...

When you've been an integral part of a sitcom phenomenon that's been popular for over a decade, it can be easy for people to just see an actor in the confines of their character. It may seem impossible to look at Jim Parsons and not think of Sheldon Cooper, but his work in "Hidden Figures" and "The Boys in the Band" shows an actor that's able to break free beyond the "bazinga" stigma. Simon Helberg has certainly had one of the most interesting careers of the "Big Bang Theory" bunch, having directed his own feature ("We'll Never Have Paris") in addition to starring in films directed by Leos Carax ("Annette") and the Coen Brothers ("A Serious Man").

But since the show's finale, it's Kaley Cuoco who has remained the most prevalent in the spotlight. Although she made waves in 2020 with the critically acclaimed Max original series "The Flight Attendant," she's...

HBO’s “The Last of Us” is filling out its supporting cast for Season 2 with six actors, Variety has learned exclusively. They are Joe Pantoliano, Alanna Ubach (“Euphoria”), Ben Ahlers (“The Gilded Age”), Hettienne Park (“Hannibal”), Robert John Burke (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”) and Noah Lamanna (“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”).

Pantoliano is playing Eugene, a small character from video game “The Last of Us Part II” that will be expanded on the show, similar to the Emmy-winning Bill and Frank stand-alone episode from Season 1. In the game, Ellie (played by Bella Ramsey on the show) and her friend Dina (Isabel Merced on the show), talk about Eugene when they stumble upon the lab he used to grow cannabis. In a recent interview for a Variety feature about the process of adapting “Part II” for the series, creators and executive producers Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann said that...

Quick LinksTracker Season 2, Episode 11 Is Led by Its Memorable CastHow Tracker Surprisingly Connects to The SimpsonsTracker Puts Reenie & Elliot's Relationship to the Test

The following contains major spoilers from Tracker Season 2, Episode 11, "Shades of Grey," which debuted Sunday, March 2 on CBS. It also contains mentions of torture and suicide.

Tracker Season 2, Episode 11, "Shades of Grey," wants to be a tense drama about crime families and how that's an oxymoron. And the CBS show succeeds, too, but not because it's that tense or dramatic of an episode. Rather, it works because viewers are likely to be reminded of a classic installment of The Simpsons that touched upon the same general theme.

"Shades of Grey" sees Colter Shaw enlisted by baking maven Ivy Hale to find her missing son Matt. However, Colter learns quickly that Ivy's bakeries are just part of what she has her hand in. This revelation also puts...

It might come as a surprise that Netflix has never had its own English-language medical drama. Not that those shows are easier to make than any other genre, but there sure have been enough of them on television over the last several decades that Netflix might have made making one a priority. They didn't, but they are now.

Given a network-level budget, Pulse, starring Willa Fitzgerald and Colin Woodell, will debut on Thursday, April 3. There will be a first-time creator, Zoe Robyn, in charge with the help of veteran showrunner, Carlton Cuse. Cuse might be best known for his work on the iconic series Lost.

The plot line involves a hospital in Miami that is beginning to deal with the effects of a hurricane hitting the area. The issue is that there is drama among the doctors. Chief Resident Dr. Xander Phillips, played by Woodell, has been suspended, and third-year resident Dr.

Willa Fitzgerald as Danny, Chelsea Muirhead as Sophie Chan, and Colin Woodell as Xander Phillips in ‘Pulse’ (Photo Cr. Jeff Neumann/Netflix © 2024)

Netflix has set an April 3, 2025 premiere date for Pulse, the streamer’s first English language medical procedural. The medical drama’s set in Miami and stars Willa Fitzgerald (The Fall of the House of Usher) and Colin Woodell (The Flight Attendant).

Pulse also stars Justina Machado, Jack Bannon, Jessie T. Usher, Jessy Yates, Chelsea Muirhead, and Daniela Nieves. Additionally, Néstor Carbonell, Jessica Rothe, Santiago Segura, Ash Santos, and Arturo Del Puerto star in the 10-episode season.

The premiere date announcement was accompanied by the first photos from the upcoming series.

Jessica Rothe as Cass Himmelstein, Jack Bannon as Dr. Tom Cole, Jessy Yates as Harper, Jessie T. Usher as Sam Elijah, and Willa Fitzgerald as Danny in episode 1 (Photo Cr. Anna Kooris/Netflix © 2024)

“As a hurricane barrels towards...

Fresh off the success of Max's hit original medical drama procedural The Pitt, Netflix will next stop up to the plate with its first English-language medical procedural Pulse. While Max's breakout series follows a team of emergency room doctors throughout one 15-hour shift, Pulse takes a page out of Grey's Anatomy's book and finds the doctors mixing business with pleasure.

On Feb. 18, Netflix formally announced Pulse complete with a release date and first-look images of Willa Fitzgerald, Colin Woodell, Justina Machado and the rest of the cast in action. All 10 episodes of the first season will drop on Thursday, April 3 on Netflix. Unlike The Pitt, Pulse isn't a medical drama you will have to wait to watch weekly. We'll be able to binge the full season all at once.

If you're a fan of medical drama series and can't wait to watch the genre continue to takeover the streaming...

The second season of Apple TV+’s psychological thriller “Surface” has a new trailer for its eight-episode season, teasing Sophie’s (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) ambitious venture to London.

The new chapter of the show follows Sophie as she is forced to unravel the secrets of her past with an injury that has wiped her memories clean. She embeds herself in royal British society but everything changes when a journalist unexpectedly reaches out to her about a new scandal.

Mbatha-Raw returns alongside co-stars Oliver Jackson-Cohen (“The Invisible Man”) and Millie Brady (“The Queen’s Gambit”). New additions to the “Surface” world include Phil Dunster (“Ted Lasso”), Gavin Drea (“Daisy Jones & The Six”), Rupert Graves (“Maurice”), Tara Fitzgerald (“Sirens”), Nina Sosanya (“Baby Reindeer”), Joely Richardson (“101 Dalmatians”) and Freida Pinto (“Slumdog Millionaire”).

“Surface” Season 2 drops its first episode on Friday, Feb. 21 followed by weekly new episodes. Watch the trailer below.

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Exclusive: Peacock’s espionage thriller series Ponies has added five new cast members to its series regular cast: Adrian Lester, Artjom Gilz, Nicholas Podany, Petro Ninovskyi and Vic Michaelis.

They join previously announced Emilia Clarke, who also executive produces, and Haley Lu Richardson.

Set in Moscow in 1977, the series follows two Ponies (“persons of no interest” in intelligence speak) who work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the Ussr, and the pair become CIA operatives. Bea (Clarke) is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants. Alongside her cohort, Twila, they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place.

Lester will play “Dane” – Precise and impossible to read, Dane is...

Exclusive: Authentic Talent & Literary Management, the management company founded by Jon Rubinstein, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, has upped Joshua Pasch and Philip Grenz to partner, also adding literary manager Raquelle David and manager and digital strategist Logan Potter to its growing team. With his promotion, Grenz also becomes Head of the Talent Department.

“By promoting Joshua and Philip and adding Raquelle and Logan to our team, we’re reinforcing what this company does best,” Rubinstein told Deadline, “empowering creative people to transform ideas into reality, which in turn makes a real impact that shapes culture.”

With Authentic since 2012, new partner Pasch began his career there as Rubinstein’s assistant and has since become an integral leader in the company’s growth. Over the past decade, he has cultivated a talent roster including Justin H. Min (Beef), Laz Alonso (The Boys), John Bradley (Game of Thrones), Liam Cunningham...

Comedian Roy Wood Jr. will host the 77th Annual Writers Guild Awards in New York next month. WGA nominations were announced yesterday after being postponed amid LA wildfires.

The awards are still set to unspool in concurrent ceremonies on both coasts — the Edison Ballroom in New York and the Beverly Hilton in LA — on Feb. 15.

NYC presenters include Ronny Chieng, Adriana Diaz (CBS Mornings), Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain), Cole Escola, Bridget Moynahan (Blue Bloods), Michael McKean (The Diplomat), Annette O’Toole Rosie Perez (The Flight Attendant), Meredith Scardino (Girls5eva), Cory Michael Smith (Saturday Night Live), DeWanda Wise and Michael Zegen.

Wood is currently host of CNN satire Have I Got News For You. He wrote and starred in the Writers Guild Award-nominated series Command Z, produced...

You season 5, which happens to be the final season of the Netflix series, filmed in New York City for five months last year, wrapping up in August – and now Netflix has unveiled a teaser for the season that reveals it has a premiere date of April 24th. You can watch the date announcement teaser in the embed above.

Series star Penn Badgley is joined in the cast of You season 5 by season 4’s Charlotte Ritchie, who plays heiress Kate Galvin, who ended up in a relationship with Joe at the end of season 4. Also in this new and final season are Madeline Brewer of The Handmaid’s Tale, who is taking on a series regular role in the new batch of episodes, and so do Anna Camp of the Pitch Perfect films and Griffin Matthews of The Flight Attendant. Camp will actually be playing two different characters, as she has been...

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It's hard to make a successful network television show. It's even harder to make a successful spin-off of a successful series. Audiences have a certain expectation and, when it comes time to follow another character or two elsewhere, it can get tricky. But CBS hit it out of the park with "Young Sheldon," which focused on a young Sheldon Cooper as he was growing up in Texas long before the events of "The Big Bang Theory," itself one of the most successful sitcoms of the 2000s.

Because "Young Sheldon" takes place decades before the events of the show that inspired it, it was difficult to have characters from "The Big Bang Theory" show up. However, the show's producers did manage to sneak Kaley Cuoco in during the series' third season for a stealthy cameo. Cuoco, of course, played Penny on...

Kaley Cuoco's stance on The Big Bang Theory spinoff makes the Young Sheldon finale flashforward scene so much more frustrating. Despite its continued success, CBS canceled Young Sheldon due to canon. Per The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon's childhood in Texas ended when he was 14, and despite countless plot inconsistencies in the past, the producers opted to follow continuity. Still, at the very least, Young Sheldon delivered a great send-off to the boy genius and his beloved family with a two-part finale. That said, this doesn't mean that it didn't have any issues, with clear ways to make it better.

The Young Sheldon finale was defined by two big storylines: the death of George and Sheldon's move from Texas to California for his post-graduate studies at Caltech. Because the show wrapped up in a significantly shortened year, Chuck Lorre and his creative team had to be as concise with its storytelling as possible.

Rob McElhenney is making his dreams become a reality in the trailer for Mythic Quest’s upcoming fourth season. Set to roll the dice on its latest installment on January 29, the Apple TV+ series will see the staff of Oubliette Studios get back into the office, where plenty of workplace-centered comedic drama will pick up as new games are discovered, and old ones are improved upon. Joining McElhenney (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) in reprising their roles from previous seasons is a lineup that includes Danny Pudi (Community), David Hornsby (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Charlotte Nicdao (The Strange Chores), Imani Hakim (Everybody Hates Chris), Naomi Ekperigin (Bob’s Burgers), Ashly Burch (Horizon Zero Dawn) and Jessie Ennis (The Flight Attendant).

Since its release on Netflix in December 2024, the dark comedy series No Good Deed has been an instant fan favorite. During the first week of the new year, the show remains in the top 10 most popular shows ranking, proving that viewers are still discovering the end-of-the-year hidden gem and on the edge of their seats with every unpredictable twist and turn.

The series comes from creator Liz Feldman, who knows a thing or two about crafting a dark and twisted mystery that's full of humor. No Good Deed centers on a couple attempting to sell their home, but when three other couples come biting to bid, the house's dirty secrets from the past come to light and entangle each couple in unpredictable ways.

After watching the complete eight-episode season of No Good Deed, you will probably be looking for another show that's as darkly funny and mysterious while you wait...

Now that 2024 has come to a close, it’s official, Netflix once again handed out the most cancellations in the calendar year – though at this point, I don’t think anyone will find this surprising. While the streaming platform has gotten better as the years have gone by in giving shows final seasons and the chances to establish themselves with audiences, the streaming platform continues to have some of the biggest cancellation rates in the business and 2024 was no different.

In total, Netflix canceled 16 shows in 2024 while also handing six additional shows their walking papers with final season orders which are about as close to cancellations as you can get the only difference being that those lucky six shows will get to actually wrap up their runs with proper sendoffs. So when you combine the two groups, Netflix decided to end a whopping 22 shows in 2024 be it by canceling them directly or ordering final seasons.

All good things have to come to an end. We don’t like it, but at least some shows are given the chance to wrap up on their own terms. This was the case for the five TV shows on this list for 2024.

We’re only looking at those that were either final seasoned or wrapped when they wanted to. They had the time to tell their full story—or at least, full enough to be able to bring fans closure. We’re not including those that were abruptly and unfairly canceled.

These shows not only brought an ending that worked for their stories, but they brought consistently good writing and fun storytelling. These are the five shows that we would have loved to see more of that we said goodbye to in 2024.

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Peacock’s new dark comedy Laid stars the ensemble cast of Stephanie Hsu, Zosia Mamet, Tommy Martinez and Michael Angarano.

Hsu portrays Ruby, a somewhat selfish woman in her 30s who works as an event coordinator, and Zosia Mamet portrays her best friend Aj, who has an intense fascination with true crime. Aj is the one to point out the trend of Ruby’s former partners dying, which makes the premise of the show. Isaac (Tommy Martinez) starts out as one of Ruby’s clients, but he soon gets dragged into the chaos of Ruby’s wake. Michael Angarano’s Richie returns to Ruby’s life as a staple in helping her figure out her past.

Several well-known guest stars also play key figures in Ruby’s sex timeline, including Finneas O’Connell,...

Laid star Tommy Martinez breaks down why his recreation of “Come Alive” from The Greatest Showman was so terrifying. The series follows Everything Everywhere All at Once star Stephanie Hsu as Ruby, an event planner who discovers that her former flames are suddenly dying. Laid also features Zosia Mamet and Michael Angarano. On the show, Martinez's character Isaac hires Ruby to plan his parents’ anniversary party, and the two bond over her love of musicals.

In an interview with Screen Rant's Grant Hermanns, Martinez detailed the behind-the-scenes stress of recreating the iconic musical number from The Greatest Showman. The actor delved into his initial nerves about the choreography and how the pressures of performing in front of Laid's full production crew made the scene where Isaac surprises Ruby with the elaborate dance number even more daunting. Here's what he had to say:

I wouldn't necessarily call myself a dancer.

Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers for “Laid.”

“I don’t know anything about love,” laments Stephanie Hsu’s character Ruby at the conclusion of Peacock’s new romantic comedy series “Laid.” The eight-episode season dropped in its entirety on December 19 and follows’s Hsu’s Ruby as she realizes everyone she’s ever slept with, including Michael Angarano, pro wrestler Ettore “Big E” Ewin and, inexplicably, John Early, are dying.

Ruby goes on a journey to find out why this is happening and, in the process, find herself amidst her past conquests, with the help of her best friend and roommate, Aj, played by Zosia Mamet, who puts her true crime obsessive skills to good work tracking down Ruby’s exes and figuring out a timeline: “I wanted to do something for the person I love most. And that’s you.”

It’s a grand gesture for the ages,...

The co-creators of Laid explain why the cameos from familiar faces like Barbie actors and Marvel stars are more than just mere cameos. Developed by Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna, and based on the Australian series of the same name, Laid debuted on Peacock in December. It stars Stephanie Hsu, known for her Oscar-nominated performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once, as Ruby. Once all of her former sex partners start dying off, often in strange ways, Ruby and her roommate Aj (Zosia Mamet) try to solve the mystery of what's going on.

In an interview with Screen Rant's Grant Hermanns, Khan and McKenna talk about why some of the guest appearances from the likes of Shang-Chi and Barbie star Simu Liu are more than just cameos. In the quotes below, McKenna talks about how the eight-episode series approached Ruby's sex timeline and was able to bring notable actors through that process.

Stephanie Hsu’s Ruby is given a unique predicament in “Laid,” when a number of her ex-partners start dropping dead.

Working together with her best friend and roommate, Aj, played by “Girls” star Zosia Mamet, Ruby confronts a slew of her ex-lovers, played by everyone from Finneas O’Connell, Josh Segarra and Alexandra Shipp to deliver the woeful news.

For the full breakdown of all the characters in “Laid” — and where you’ve seen them before — keep on reading.

Stephanie Hsu as Ruby in “Laid” (James Dittiger/Peacock)

Stephanie Hsu as Ruby

Stephanie Hsu stars as Ruby, who gets the shock of her lifetime when she realizes multiple people she’s slept with has died from various causes. She, with her best friend, Aj, begins investigating the strange occurrence.

Hsu broke out in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” and has had roles in “Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens,” “Shortcomings,” “Poker Face,...

“My vagina is killing people.”

As pithy summations for TV series go, that line from the new Peacock comedy Laid is pretty tough to beat. The series, created by Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna, and starring Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet, has a particularly high-concept premise: Ruby (Hsu), who has compiled a long and messy sexual history without ever finding a relationship that works, discovers that everyone she has ever slept with is dying. Because it’s happening to these men and women in the order in which they had sex with Ruby,...

Besides earning recognition for curating some of the most out-of-the-box entertaining storylines and maintaining authenticity across it all, Taylor Sheridan is also rather famous for having at least one female baddie in his projects. Like the way he drafted Kelly Reilly’s fan-favorite character in the Yellowstone saga: The brave, bold, and fierce Beth Dutton.

Taylor Sheridan. | Credits: Yellowstone / Paramount Pictures.

Since similar characters can be found in his other series as well, we have found just the perfect actress who could serve as the new badass female lead in the slew of upcoming shows that Sheridan already seems to have on his To-Do list. This would be none other than the fan-beloved Kaley Cuoco from The Big Bang Theory. And the best part? She seems to be interested as well!

Kaley Cuoco could be the next baddie in Taylor Sheridan’s projects

Over the years, while pretty much every...

On paper, The Big Bang Theory was a major gamble on Chuck Lorre’s part, as, unlike his previous works, the sitcom centered around a bunch of nerds, which didn’t exactly have mainstream appeal at the time. But thanks to the writing and some impeccable performances from the main cast, the gamble paid off, cementing Tbbt‘s status as one of the most celebrated inclusions in Lorre’s filmography.

The Big Bang Theory | Credit: CBS

While every actor played their part to perfection, whether it be Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Simon Helberg, or Kunal Nayyar, Kaley Cuoco’s performance was arguably the most impressive for reasons we’ll get into.

Kaley Cuoco succeeded in crushing stereotypes with Penny

Apart from making the niche subject a hit in a sitcom setting, another big trick of the show was to make Penny’s character work. Considering she was initially introduced as the beautiful neighbor next door,...

Good mysteries are crammed with sneaky clues and red herrings, which makes rewatching them a delight. On a second viewing, passing comments can take new meaning, and seemingly innocuous decisions are imbued with surprising importance. While this can't be said for every television mystery show, many get better and better each time you see them.

In the most obvious sense, knowing the answer to a mystery helps the audience spot hints that have been peppered throughout a program, but that's far from the only benefit. If a mystery is engaging, then the audience spends much of their initial watch effectively playing along with the protagonist, uncertain of the veracity of what they're seeing and constantly suspicious of whom to trust. But since fans know each character's motive during a repeat viewing, they often find themselves seeing these individuals in an entirely new light.

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No Good Deed is a dark comedy mystery thriller drama series created by Liz Feldman. The Netflix series revolves around three families competing to buy the same 1920s Spanish-style villa, believing it would solve all of their problems. However, they don’t know that the house and its owners have their own deeply hidden dark secrets. No Good Deed stars Ray Romano, Lisa Kudrow, Linda Cardellini, O-t Fagbenle, Abbi Jacobson, Denis Leary, Poppy Liu, Teyonah Parris, and Luke Wilson. So, if you loved the dark comedy, a thrilling mystery, and compelling characters in No Good Deed, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Dead to Me is a dark comedy crime thriller drama series created by Liz Feldman. The Netflix series follows Jen, a sardonic woman who recently lost...

Fresh off her run on The Penguin, Emmy Award winner Shohreh Aghdashloo has been announced as a Season 3 cast addition to Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time.

Aghdashloo joins series lead Rosamund Pike in portraying one of the powerful Aes Sedai — specifically, Elaida do Avriny a’Roihan, a highly anticipated character from Robert Jordan’s fantasy novels upon which the TV series is based.

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The Wheel of Time is bringing a key character from its source material to the screen.

The Prime Video series has added Emmy winner Shohreh Aghdashloo to its cast. In The Wheel of Time‘s third season, due in March, Aghdashloo (The Expanse, House of Sand and Fog) will play Elaida do Avriny a’Roihan, an important character in the fantasy novels by Robert Jordan on which the series is based.

Elaida is described as “a ruthlessly powerful Aes Sedai as proficient in politicking as she is in channeling. She has a deep history with Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) and Siuan (Sophie Okonedo), and scores to settle with both of them when she returns to the White Tower. Elaida is someone who believes in ends over means, and is willing to do anything to achieve what she envisions to be the greater good.”

Prime Video recently unveiled a teaser for season...

Created by and starring Brian Jordan Alvarez, English Teacher premiered on FX on Monday, September 2. Season 1 consists of eight thirty-minute episodes and follows Evan Marquez, a teacher in Texas who "finds himself at the intersection of the personal, professional, and political aspects of working at a high school." In addition to Alvarez, the main cast includes Stephanie Koenig, Sean Patton, Enrico Colantoni, Carmen Christopher, and Jordan Firstman.

Koenig plays Gwen Sanders, an optimistic history teacher at Morrison-Hensley High who tends to see the best in people, even when she shouldn't. The actor starred in Apple TV+'s Emmy-nominated series Lessons in Chemistry alongside Brie Larson and has also been featured in projects such as Sick Girl, The Offer, and The Flight Attendant. While English Teacher is yet to be renewed for a second season, the cast remains optimistic about the show's return.

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One actor is heading from Grey Sloan to the Upside Down, as Grey's Anatomy star T.R. Knight has landed a major role in a new Stranger Things production.

Per Variety, Knight has joined the cast of Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a stage play opening in 2025 that's based on the Netflix series. Knight will play Victor Creel, the father of Henry Creel (aka Vecna). The play is a prequel to the series, set decades before the events of Stranger Things Season 1. The synopsis reads, "Young Jim Hopper’s car won’t start, Bob Newby’s sister won’t take his radio show seriously and Joyce Maldonado just wants to graduate and get the hell out of town. When new student Henry Creel arrives, his family finds that a fresh start isn’t so easy… and the shadows of the past have a very long reach.”

Related 9 Beloved Stranger Things Characters...

Whenever a new streaming service shows up, it brings with it a myriad of exciting new shows that are charged with carving a brand identity for the platform, and offering something unique to stand out from the Too Much TV era. When it came to Max, the one to watch for canceled shows, one of the most exciting titles that not many people watched was "Tokyo Vice."

This moody thriller with a narratively complex story of crime and journalism boasted Michael Mann as an executive producer, and also the director of the pilot episode. It was a lavish production with unparalleled access to filming locations in Japan. Indeed, the most unique thing about "Tokyo Vice," and reason alone to watch the show, was that this was the first major American TV show to film entirely in Japan — which not even "Shogun" managed to accomplish. Never before has a scripted production...

The Westside Ripper is back (or is he?) in the comedy-crime series’ second season.

Kaley Cuoco has found her stride post “Big Bang Theory,” first with “The Flight Attendant” (Season 1 is awesome), and now with the returning dark comedy series, “Based on a True Story.” This was one of my favorite shows of 2023 (it lands No. 3 on my list of favorite comedy murder mystery TV shows on streaming), and I’m so happy it’s back. You can watch all eight episodes of the second season of “Based on a True Story” when it drops on Thursday, Nov. 21 on Peacock.

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Plot: Season two finds new parents Ava and Nathan Bartlett three months into parenthood. Focused on taking care of her family, Ava is determined to resist her true crime obsession and return to work as a real estate agent while Nathan trains private tennis clients. But a series of new murders pulls her back in – is Matt behind the slayings? Is Tory, now entangled in a relationship with Matt, in danger? For a while, life is good — Ava’s TikTok habit and her new friend Drew provide a welcome distraction, and Nathan’s all in on reigniting his tennis career as well as his friendship with Matt — until danger comes knocking, literally.

Review: When the first season of Based on a True Story dropped last year on Peacock, I was not impressed with the story of a couple who started their own true-crime podcast with input from a real serial killer.

Kaley Cuoco's crime show has debuted with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score for season 2. While she has many credits to her name, Cuoco is best known for playing Penny in all 12 seasons of The Big Bang Theory, in which she brought many of the funniest and most heartfelt scenes to life throughout the CBS sitcom's run. Penny's friendship with Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) became a particularly celebrated element of the series. Prior to The Big Bang Theory, Cuoco played Bridget Hennessy in the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules.

After The Big Bang Theory ended, Cuoco starred in and produced HBO's The Flight Attendant. The series blended elements of dark comedy and drama as Cuoco's complex character, Cassie Bowden, worked to solve mysterious murders while navigating her own struggles with alcoholism. Cuoco has also voiced Harley Quinn in the popular adult animated series of the same name since 2019, and starred...

Parenthood, murder, and podcasting — just another day for the Bartletts in season two of “Based on a True Story.”

Kaley Cuoco has found her stride post “Big Bang Theory,” first with “The Flight Attendant” (season one is awesome), and now with the returning dark comedy series, “Based on a True Story.” All eight episodes of the second season of “Based on a True Story” will drop on Thursday, Nov. 21 on Peacock. This was one of my favorite shows of 2023 (it lands No. 3 on my list of favorite comedy murder mystery TV shows on streaming), so let’s get you prepped for season two with everything you need to know.

Everything You Need to Know About ‘Based on a True Story’ Season 2:

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Santiago Cabrera spent two seasons on Star Trek: Picard playing Captain Cristobal Rios, a renegade captain who was once a member of Starfleet. Though his character was dropped, albeit with a slightly understandable wrap-up at the end of season two, he was missed in season three. Unfortunately, the budget wouldn't allow for all of the stars from the past two season of Picard to return as the actors from Star Trek: The Next Generation were coming aboard in another shot at a goodbye movie for the former series.

Cabrera moved on and has since been seen in The Flight Attendant and The Cleaning Lady and has a starring role in Apple TV's Land of Women. Long before any of these series, though, the South American actor was prepping for another role. In 2007, he'd been tapped to play Aquaman in Justice Leage: Immortal. Cabrera had already gone to Australia to meet with the movie's director,...

Peacock’s upcoming espionage thriller, Ponies, has cast Haley Lu Richardson (The White Lotus) opposite Emilia Clarke in a series regular role. She will portray Twila, a small-town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless.

Set in Moscow in 1977, the series follows two Ponies (“persons of no interest” in intelligence speak) who work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the Ussr, and the pair become CIA operatives. Bea (Clarke) is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants. Alongside her cohort, Twila, they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place.

Susanna Fogel serves as executive producer, director, and co-writer alongside executive producer and co-writer David Iserson and executive producer Mike Daniels.

Ponies was co-created by Fogel and Iserson. Iserson and Daniels will serve as showrunners. Executive producers are Emilia Clarke and Jessica Rhoades via her Pacesetter Productions. Pacesetter EVP Alison Mo Massey will co-ep alongside Katherine Bridle. The series is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

Richardson is represented by Gersh and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.

What would you do to get the house of your dreams? And if you were trying to sell that house, what would you do to cover up a secret that would drive the price down if anyone found out?

Those are the questions you’ll ponder during “No Good Deed,” a darkly comic thriller series from “Dead to Me” creator Liz Feldman. It revolves around a beautiful house in a desirable L.A. neighborhood owned by Paul (Ray Romano) and Lydia (Lisa Kudrow), who are trying to sell the house to escape the dark secret the house holds for them. The potential buyers include Luke Wilson, Linda Cardellini, Abbi Jacobson and Poppy Liu, and Teyonah Parris and O-t Fagbenle, who are locked in an intense competition for the house. And Denis Leary is poking around, too. The twisty story turns to cover-ups, blackmail, and murder, because that’s what it takes in this market.

The Hollywood Reporter teamed up with Peacock on Wednesday night to celebrate “Killer Women in Comedy,” led by the streamer’s upcoming series Based on a True Story and Laid.

Based on a True Story — which stars Kaley Cuoco and Chris Messina as a true-crime obsessed couple who investigate nearby murders, while also producing a podcast with whom they believe is the killer — returns for its second season on Nov. 21; Laid — a new series starring Stephanie Hsu as a woman who learns the past men she’s slept with are suddenly dying and is out to figure out why, with the help of her best friend (played by Zosia Mamet) — premieres Dec. 19.

In honor of the shows, THR and Peacock co-hosted a party on the Universal lot, toasting Cuoco, Hsu and Mamet as well as a variety of female comedians, writers, performers and creators across the industry. Quinta Brunson, Fortune Feimster,...

The Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco has boarded a new HBO comedy series from the creators of Hacks amidst speculation about her return as Penny. New details on the long-gestating Big Bang Theory spinoff recently emerged, confirming that Kevin Sussman, Brian Posehn, and Lauren Lapkus would reprise their respective roles as Stuart, Bert, and Denise. The spinoff, from franchise co-creator Chuck Lorre, is intended for the Max streaming service. Though the project is still in its early stages, Cuoco has expressed an openness to appear.

Deadline confirms that HBO has won the bidding for Kanas City Star. Led by Cuoco, who also executive produces, the half-hour show is described as a comedy with heart. The story centers on a semi-famous actress who returns to her hometown to work with a regional theater troupe. Kanas City Star hails from Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky, the trio behind the Emmy-winning Max comedy Hacks.

Three-time Emmy nominee Kaley Cuoco has lined up her next TV gig.

The Big Bang Theory vet is set to headline and executive-produce Kansas City Star, a half-hour comedy from Hacks masterminds Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky.

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According to our sister site Deadline, Kansas City Star,...

Exclusive: In a bidding situation, HBO has landed one of the highest profile comedy packages to hit the marketplace in awhile. Titled Kansas City Star, the half-hour project is headlined and executive produced by Kaley Cuoco and created and executive produced by the Hacks trio of Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky, sources tell Deadline.

Deals are still being finalized but the comedy is expected to get a series order, I hear. Warner Bros. Television, where Cuoco and her Yes, Norman banner have a producing deal and Aniello & Downs as well as Statsky are under overall deals, is the studio.

Details about Kansas City Star are sketchy but it is described by sources as a comedy with heart starring Cuoco as a semi-famous actress who returns to her hometown to work with a regional theater troupe. Reps for HBO and Wbtv declined comment.

A new Star Trek origin movie is reportedly slated for production, just in time for the Star Trek franchises 60th anniversary. Per Trek Movie, via the Puck newsletter, two sources have stated that the script for the new Paramount movie is done and could be greenlit soon.

The new Trek movie script, by Seth Grahame-Smith, could be approved by the end of the year, and the movie could begin shooting in the first half of 2025, according to Trek Movie. The film is set to be directed by Toby Haynes (Andor) and will be an origin story, set long before the era of the U.S.S. Enterprise in the 1966 original Star Trek series. Haynes is also known for directing the Black Mirror episode USS Callister.

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After 12 seasons of playing the good-hearted Penny on "The Big Bang Theory" (deemed the show's most likable character by /Film), Kaley Cuoco had a taste for something darker, wilder, but still, in its way, funny. She alighted on a sharply written novel by Chris Bohjalian called "The Flight Attendant," which, along with show developer Steve Yockey, she expanded into a two-season series about the alcohol-induced misadventures of Cassie Bowden. That's the thumbnail sketch, at least.

Boiling "The Flight Attendant" down to its hook does it something of a disservice. Yes, it starts as a murder mystery wherein a drunk Cassie struggles to piece together the events of the night that led to her ending up in bed with a dead man whose throat has been slashed, but once the FBI get involved it veers off in wholly unexpected directions. Then...

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Murder Mindfully is a German dark comedy crime thriller series written by Karsten Dusse, Doron Wisotzky, Michael Kenda, and Anneke Janssen. Based on the bestselling 2024 book of the same name by author Karsten Dusse, the Netflix series follows Björn Diemel, a down-and-out top-flight lawyer who goes to a mindfulness retreat and suddenly becomes a murderer and mastermind for the mob. Murder Mindfully stars Tom Schilling, Emily Cox, Michael Ihnow, Sascha Alexander Gersak, Amer El-Erwadi, and Viktoria Schreiber. So, if you loved the dark comedy the dark comedy, thrilling story, and compelling characters in Murder Mindfully here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Before her tenure in The Big Bang Theory, Kaley Cuoco was notable for her stint in 8 Simple Rules, in which she starred opposite sitcom icon John Ritter, who played Cuoco’s onscreen father Paul. However, their bond wasn’t confined to their gigs on the show, as Cuoco has continued to gush about her time with the actor, who tragically passed away in 2003.

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Although her connection with Ritter would come in handy during one guest star’s appearance in The Big Bang Theory, Cuoco wasn’t the lone Tbbt cast that shared a personal bond with the TV legend.

Simon Helberg and Kaley Cuoco Had a Personal Connection to John Ritter The Big Bang Theory | Credit: CBS

Before the two met on the set of the Chuck Lorre-led show, it seems Kaley Cuoco and Simon Helberg had already met once, courtesy of John Ritter.

The Big Bang Theory franchise is now getting another spinoff of the original series, and people are naturally eager to know if the old main cast members will be reprising their roles. The untitled Big Bang Theory spinoff is expected to focus on Stuart (Kevin Sussman), with his girlfriend Denise (Lauren Lapkus) and Caltech scientist Bert (Brian Posehn) also returning. While these three may be the main characters, there is still potential for others to join the regular cast, as well as a wider range of Big Bang Theory characters who could return in Stuart's spinoff.

Since The Big Bang Theory's ending, the cast members have branched out to other movies and TV roles, proving their versatility as actors after being primarily associated with the same roles for so long. However, they may still choose to return to their once-popular characters in a regular capacity if they miss working...