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Exclusive: Actress Merrin Dungey has signed with Quest Entertainment & Management.

The signing marks a reunion of sorts for the Gersh-repped Dungey and manager Paul Rosicker of Quest. Dungey has been with Gersh for over two decades, while Rosicker was a TV talent agent at Gersh for 30+ years before launching Quest with partner Brian Ferrantino last year.

Recently, Dungey has been seen in a series regular role opposite Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear on Starz’s Shining Vale. She’s also recurred on CBS’s S.W.At., Bob’s Burgers for Fox, The Lincoln Lawyer at Netflix, and HBO’s Emmy winner Big Little Lies.

Dungey originally broke out as Francie, the roommate of Jennifer Garner’s Sydney, on J. J. Abrams’ Alias. She continues to be represented by Gersh and Jackoway, Austen Tyerman.

We were first to report on the launch of Quest Entertainment & Management in February of last year.

Actress and producer Alysia Reiner has signed with Fusion Entertainment.

Reiner is best known for playing Natalie “Fig” Figueroa on Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black,” earning a SAG Award as part of the ensemble.

On screen, she also appeared in the Oscar-winning “Sideways” and most recently was featured in Joanna Arnow’s critically acclaimed “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” which premiered at Cannes and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.

Her television portfolio includes over 150 episodes and performances in series including five seasons of FX’s “Better Things,” two seasons of HBO’s “The Deuce,” “How to Get Away with Murder” opposite Viola Davis, two seasons of “Shining Vale” with Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear, and Netflix’s political thriller “The Diplomat,” now filming its third season. Reiner also played Agent Sadie Deever in Marvel’s “Ms. Marvel.”

“Alysia’s body of...

Warning: This story contains spoilers from Season 1 of Bad Sisters

For Fiona Shaw, joining the tight-knit cast of Bad Sisters for its second season on Apple TV+ brought some initial anxiety — but that quickly faded thanks to the show's “generous” cast.

“I was scared,” the Emmy- and Tony Award-nominated actress told Gold Derby on the red carpet at the show’s FYC event Saturday at the Hollywood Athletic Club. But “they all said, ‘Come out to dinner with us. Be with us.’ And they were so welcoming that I never wanted to leave them. I wanted to become an honorary ‘bad sister.’”

Shaw plays Angelica Muldoon in the dark comedy about five Irish sisters. The first season, adapted from the 2012 Belgian series Clan, was developed by executive producer and actress Sharon Horgan, who also stars as eldest sister Eva.

The second season, which Horgan expanded beyond the original source material,...

Fargo wrapped up with its final season last year, and the show has seen many movie and TV veterans come and go through its five-season run. One of the stars from the first and second seasons of Fargo was Allison Tolman, famed for her role as Molly Solverson. Unlike many other TV shows, Fargo brings in a mostly new cast each season to tell a new story, with names like Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Hamm, and Jason Schwartzman all coming and going over the years. Tolman never came back after Season 2, but we now know this wasn’t due to a lack of interest. During a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Tolman was asked about her time on Fargo, and she spoke about it fondly but also recalled how difficult it was to stand on the sidelines after departing the show:

"Standing at the station and watching a train leave...

Exclusive: Apple has set BAFTA and Emmy winner Dearbhla Walsh (Bad Sisters, Fargo), Kate Herron (The Last of Us, Loki) and Alice Seabright (Sex Education, Chloe) to direct Margo’s Got Money Troubles, its upcoming drama series from David E. Kelley and A24, starring Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman.

Walsh will direct four of the eight episodes including the pilot and serve as an executive producer. Herron and Seabright will direct two episodes each.

In Margo’s Got Money Troubles, based on Rufi Thorpe’s novel, Fanning stars as Margo Millet, the child of a Hooters waitress, Shyanne (Pfeiffer), and an ex-pro wrestler, Jinx (Nick Offerman), who becomes pregnant after a brief affair with an English professor, Mark (Michael Angarano), at the local junior college she attends. Now, at 20, Margo is alone with an infant, unemployed, and on the verge of eviction. When her estranged father Jinx shows up on...

Actor Judith Light, who has won multiple Emmys and Tony awards, and French journalist, director and producer Mireille Dumas will preside over the fiction and news and documentaries juries, respectively, at the 64th edition of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, taking place from June 13 to 17 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.

Light gained recognition with her role as Karen Wolek in the soap opera “One Life to Live,” for which she won two consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards. She became known internationally as Angela Bower in the hit sitcom “Who’s the Boss?,” which aired from 1984 to 1992. She also appeared in such series as “Ugly Betty,” “Transparent” and “The Politician,” and recent projects include “Julia” and “Shining Vale.” Last year, Light won the guest actress in a comedy series Primetime Emmy for Peacock’s Rian Johnson series “Poker Face.”

Her latest projects include Apple TV+ series “Before,” alongside Billy Crystal, Searchlight’s film...

Exclusive: In a very competitive situation with several major bidders, Netflix has landed for development Dead Letters, a drama starring and executive produced by Lucy Hale, Deadline has learned. An adaptation of Caite Dolan-Leach’s 2017 novel, the project comes from Unwell Productions, the company of Call Her Daddy‘s Alex Cooper, and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment.

Written/executive produced by Rachel Caris Love (Invitation to a Bonfire) and to be directed/executive produced by Liz Friedlander (Shining Vale), Dead Letters is described as an addictive mystery whodunit-meets-psychological thriller centered on a pair of identical twin sisters: Ava and Zelda, played by Hale. When Ava returns home to the family vineyard in the wake of Zelda’s sudden death, she must find out who murdered her beloved twin while reckoning with dangerous revelations about the woman Zelda had become in her absence. To complicate matters: Zelda knew she was in...

Bryan Lillis has been cast in a guest star role in “Dexter: Resurrection,” Variety has learned exclusively.

Lillis will play Ryan, a guest staying at the Empire Hotel in the upcoming continuation of the “Dexter” franchise. He joins previously announced guest stars David Dastmalchian, Neil Patrick Harris, Krysten Ritter, and Eric Stonestreet.

Lillis is known for his roles in films like “Promising Young Woman” as well as for appearances in shows like “NCIS: Los Angeles,” “Shining Vale,” and “9-1-1.” He is repped by Framework Entertainment and Gray Talent.

Michael C. Hall is returning as Dexter Morgan for “Dexter: Resurrection.” He will be joined by Uma Thurman as Charley, David Zayas as Detective Angel Batista, Jack Alcott as Dexter’s son Harrison Morgan, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine as Blessing Kamara, Kadia Saraf as Detective Claudette Wallace, Dominic Fumusa as Detective Melvin Oliva, Emilia Suárez as Elsa Rivera, with James Remar as...

Armed with chainsaws, guns, knives, axes, and more, Kevin Bacon is prepared for battle on the new poster for “The Bondsman.”

All eight episodes of the action-horror-thriller series will stream April 3 on Prime Video.

Bacon stars as Hub Halloran, a murdered bounty hunter, who’s back from the dead after being resurrected by the Devil to trap and send back demons that have escaped from the prison of Hell. By chasing down those demons, with the help and hindrance of his estranged family, Hub learns how his own sins got his soul condemned — which pushes him to seek a second chance at life, love, and country music.

Jennifer Nettles (“The Righteous Gemstones”), Damon Herriman (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), Beth Grant (Donnie Darko), Maxwell Jenkins (“Lost in Space”), and Jolene Purdy (“Under the Dome”) co-star.

The series is created by Grainger David, with Erik Oleson serving as showrunner.

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Exclusive: Greg Kinnear has been tapped as a series regular opposite Elle Fanning and Michelle Pfeiffer in Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Apple TV+’s new drama series from David E. Kelley and A24.

In Margo’s Got Money Troubles, based on Rufi Thorpe’s novel, Fanning stars as Margo Millet, the child of a Hooters waitress, Shyanne (Pfeiffer), and an ex-pro wrestler, Jinx (Nick Offerman), who becomes pregnant after a brief affair with an English professor, Mark (Michael Angarano), at the local junior college she attends. Now, at 20, Margo is alone with an infant, unemployed, and on the verge of eviction. When her estranged father Jinx shows up on her doorstep and asks to move in with her, she agrees in exchange for help with childcare. Margo starts an OnlyFans as an experiment and soon finds herself adapting some of Jinx’s advice from the world of wrestling.

Kevin Bacon is ready to chainsaw through demons on the poster for “The Bondsman.”

All eight episodes of the action-horror-thriller series will be available April 3 on Prime Video.

Bacon stars as Hub Halloran, a murdered bounty hunter, who’s back from the dead after being resurrected by the Devil to trap and send back demons that have escaped from the prison of Hell. By chasing down those demons, with the help and hindrance of his estranged family, Hub learns how his own sins got his soul condemned — which pushes him to seek a second chance at life, love, and country music.

Jennifer Nettles (“The Righteous Gemstones”), Damon Herriman (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), Beth Grant (Donnie Darko), Maxwell Jenkins (“Lost in Space”), and Jolene Purdy (“Under the Dome”) co-star.

The series was created by Grainger David, with Erik Oleson serving as showrunner.

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NBC has given out a pilot order to the single-cam project “Stumble.”

The show is described as “A mockumentary about the ridiculously high stakes competitive world of junior college cheer.” The project was originally set up with a put pilot commitment at NBC in late 2024.

Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof are writing and executive producing the pilot. Dana Honor is executive producing via Defining Eve Productions, with cheerleading coach Monica Aldama also executive producing. Universal Television is the studio.

Both Jeff and Liz Astrof, who are brother and sister, are veteran comedy writers and producers, but this marks the first time they have teamed up to create a series.

Jeff recently created the Starz series “Shining Vale” and previously co-created the NBC mockumentary series “Trial & Error.” His other credits include “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” “Grounded for Life,” and “Friends.”

Liz recently worked on the ABC comedy “Not Dead Yet...

Sharon Horgan is setting up shop at HBO.

The creator and star of Bad Sisters and Catastrophe — along with her production company, Merman — has signed a two-year, first-look deal with HBO. The first project under the deal is a comedy series that Horgan will write, executive produce and star in; HBO has given the untitled show a straight-to-series order.

“We’re thrilled to be reunited with Sharon. Her willingness to offer up her own experiences through the characters she creates makes us all feel a little less lonely, that is what sets her comedy apart so brilliantly,” said Amy Gravitt, executive vp comedy programming at HBO and Max. “She also has such a sharp eye for material and a strong desire to shepherd other people’s stories, we’re looking forward to the new talent she will bring into the fold.”

Horgan previously had a first-look deal at Apple TV.

HBO has inked a two-year first-look deal with BAFTA winner and Emmy-nominated actress/writer Sharon Horgan and her production company Merman.

As part of the deal, the cabler gave a straight-to-series order to a new comedy series from Horgan and Merman, with Horgan serving as writer, star and executive producer.

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This yet-to-be-titled comedy will star Horgan...

Max has announced an exciting new horror-comedy film on the way this March! The Parenting is about a couple who rents a spacious house for a weekend, only to realize that it is already inhabited by an ancient poltergeist.

The film has a stacked cast, including Brian Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Dean Norris, Edie Falco, Parker Posey, Nik Dodani, Brandon Flynn, and Vivian Bang. The story centers on a young couple, Josh and Rohan, as they plan the perfect getaway with their families. Tensions are already flaring between them, made worse by the realization that a 400-year-old poltergeist is haunting the house they booked.

The couple, their families, and their close friend must work together to get rid of the evil entity for good.

Max describes the film as a "laugh-out-loud story" and it will officially begin streaming on March 13. The Parenting was directed by Craig Johnson, best known for his work on The Skeleton Twins.

Nearly three decades after former high school outcasts Romy and Michele attended their 10-year high school reunion, a sequel to the 1997 movie Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion is moving forward at 20th Century Studios. The original film, which is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, starred Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow as Romy White and Michele Weinberger. The titular duo are in talks to reprise their roles in the sequel.

Oscar-winner Sorvino and Emmy-winner Kudrow will also serve as executive producers on the Romy and Michele sequel, which is set to be directed by Tim Federle (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series). Sources told The Hollywood Reporter that the movie is expected to start filming in June, likely in Los Angeles.

Sorvino posted to the social media site Threads after news broke about the sequel film, saying “We’re pretty excited about it.”

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Nearly 30 years after the release of the ’90s cult hit film “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion,” stars Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino are in talks to return for a legacyquel produced by 20th Century Studios.

Released in 1997, the film follows a pair of 29-year-olds who realize they haven’t done much with their lives since graduating high school, and decide to make up a story that they struck it rich after inventing Post-it Notes. The film was released by Touchstone Pictures, a release label established by Disney for films aimed at adult audiences.

With the acquisition of 20th Century Fox in 2019, Disney now has that studio and its specialty counterpart Searchlight Pictures to fill the role once held by Touchstone. David Greenbaum, the former head of Searchlight who is now both the president of 20th Century and Disney’s live-action division, is looking to expand the label’s output...

Romy And Michele’s High School Reunion is getting a sequel with Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow in final talks to reprise their roles from the 1997 film.

The pair of actresses will also executive produce, and Tim Federle is attached to direct.

Production is eyeing a June start date, potentially in Los Angeles.

The reunion of all reunions was teased back in November 2024 when Sorvino told People that a deal had been made with a director and that she and Kudrow were on board as Eps. Then Kudrow shared in January the update that a “really good” script had been written.

Original scribe Robin Schiff returned to pen the sequel film. She has recently been behind Netflix’s hit series Emily in Paris as an executive producer and showrunner. Veteran producer Laurence Marks will also return after his work on the original film.

The reunion is on.

A sequel to Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion is moving ahead at 20th Century Studios, with Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow in negotiations to reprise their starring roles. The pair will also serve as executive producers.

Tim Federle, who wrote and directed the Disney+ original movie Better Nate Than Never and who created High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, will direct the feature, which is eyeing a June start date. Sources say the studio is looking to possibly shoot in Los Angeles, but nothing has been set.

Robin Schiff, who wrote the original and is known for showrunning the Neflix hit Emily in Paris, returned to pen the sequel. Laurence Mark, the veteran producer who produced the original, is also back in same role. Barry Kemp, the creator of 1980s series Newhart, is also producing.

The original, released in 1997, was made by Disney’s now-dormant Touchstones Pictures banner,...

Remember that adorable on-screen romance between Deputy Dewey and Gale Weathers in Scream? Well, the stars behind those characters, David Arquette and Courteney Cox, turned their reel-life chemistry into real-life marriage that lasted over a decade. While their love story may have ended in 2013, both stars have continued to absolutely crush it in their careers.

David Arquette and Courteney Cox in Scream 2 (1997) | Credits: Dimension Films

Here’s something that’ll make your jaw drop – their combined net worth is a whopping $180 million! Yep, you read that right. From Friends royalties to wrestling championships (bet you didn’t see that coming), these two have built their fortunes in some pretty fascinating ways. Let’s take a peek into how they’ve managed to stack up such impressive wealth over the years.

Friends star Courteney Cox’s impressive $150 million fortune Courteney Cox in Friends | Credits: NBC

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Exclusive: Paul Wesley, an actor who played a vampire on The Vampire Diaries, is executive producing a series project about a vampire who wants to be an actor. The untitled comedy, which landed at Fox for development in a competitive situation, centers on a determined 25-year-old vampire who struggles with running the family business for his murderous and suffocating vampire parents while trying to chase his dream to become an actor.

It is written by Unstable co-creator Victor Fresco and will be directed by Liz Friedlander (The Rookie). The duo and Wesley executive produce with Aaron Kaplan of Kapital Entertainment and Tracy Katsky of KatCo. Fox Entertainment is the studio.

The team of the project are all interconnected via past collaborations. Fresco created the Netflix horror comedy series Santa Clarita Diet, which he executive produced with Kaplan and Katsky. Friedlander and Wesley have been friends since she directed episodes of The Vampire Diaries.

The Boys has been a major success for Prime Video with its depiction of an alternate reality in which superheroes abuse their powers. The superhero satire premiered in 2019 and returned last year for season 4, with the upcoming The Boys season 5 now confirmed to bring the show to an end. The show is beloved for its collection of despicable and deplorable characters, with Antony Starr's Homelander being the biggest and baddest Supe of all.

Starr, a New Zealander, was a series regular on Outrageous Fortune, which ran from 2005 to 2010, before going on to appear in projects like Rush, Tricky Business, and Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023). Starr's most notable role before joining the cast of The Boys, however, was as the lead of an acclaimed crime thriller TV show that ran on Cinemax from 2013 to 2016. This show is now finding success once more on streaming.

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We had learned in the tail end of 2023 that the Courteney Cox horror series “Shining Vale” had been cancelled after two seasons at Starz, with the horror-comedy series being pulled from the Starz streaming service entirely at the end of the year. In other words, there was nowhere to even legally watch the series after its cancellation, but that has thankfully changed.

At the start of this year, Bloody Disgusting has learned, “Shining Vale” returned to streaming. The previously released two seasons of the show are now streaming exclusively on Max.

Created by Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan, the short-lived horror series was produced by Warner Bros. TV, which would explain how it ended up on Max over a year after being given the axe by Starz. Mind you, this doesn’t mean the series is returning to life with new seasons, but rather its previously produced two seasons have found a new streaming home.

A new group of teens find themselves wrapped up in a new horrifying mystery in Goosebumps: The Vanishing. The Disney+ show serves as an adaptation of R.L. Stine's iconic children's horror novels of the same name, with the first season centering on a group of teens in a fictional small town of Washington who inadvertently unleash an evil force connected to the death of a teen from 30 years prior. The Vanishing is taking an anthology approach to the show, focusing on a new set of characters in New York and their investigation into the disappearance of a teen from 30 years prior.

Among the Goosebumps: The Vanishing's roster of characters is American Born Chinese alum Stony Blyden as Trey, the jock of the group who proves antagonistic to main characters, Devin and Cece, after the former begins bonding with his girlfriend, Frankie. The latter, a creative free spirit, is played by Galilea La Salvia,...

When Starz decided to cancel the series Shining Vale back in 2023, the decision was met with disappointment and criticism, especially since the network also decided to wipe the show’s two seasons completely from its platform. Thankfully, for viewers who missed it when it originally aired, Shining Vale has a new streaming home, landing on Max just in time for the start of the new year. The dark comedy-horror series is led by Courteney Cox, who is also one of the show's executive producers, alongside show creators Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan, the latter of whom is also known for co-creating Apple TV+'s Bad Sisters. If you're looking for another genre-bending series, as well as an opportunity to watch one of Cox's most underrated horror performances, you need to check out Shining Vale.

The demand for Shining Vale Season 3 has increased after the series emerged online on Max to ring in the New Year. 

Created by Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan, the horror comedy series starring Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear revolves around a family that moves into a haunted house where their matriarch ends up seeing ghosts. 

Shining Vale was canceled after two seasons on Starz in December 2023, and the series was removed from the streaming service at the end of 2023. 

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Shining Vale, a Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear-led, award-winning horror comedy show, was canceled by Starz at the end of 2023 after just two seasons. To add insult to injury, Starz also removed the show from its library. Fans will be happy to know that both seasons have reappeared on Max on New Year's Day 2025 and quickly went to number three on the charts.

The show follows the Phelps family, Patricia "Pat" (Courteney Cox) and Terry (Greg Kinnear) as they move to an old house in a small Connecticut town, in an attempt to save their marriage. Unfortunately, their new home was the site of horrible events and could be haunted. Soon, Pat wonders if she has become possessed by the demons that could be lurking in the house.

Shining Vale debuted in the spring of 2022 and received positive reviews from critics and fans and a respectable 228,000 viewers. It currently...

The horror comedy series Shining Vale premiered on Starz back in March of 2022, then the second season reached the airwaves in October of 2023. Unfortunately, it was cancelled soon after, as it “did not find a large enough audience to continue.” But Starz went further than just cancelling this show, they also it from their archives, removing from the Starz streaming service at the end of 2023. A year later, Shining Vale has now resurfaced and is available to watch on the Max streaming service!

Created by Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan, the first season of Shining Vale followed a dysfunctional family that moves from the city to a small town into a house in which terrible atrocities have taken place. But no one seems to notice except for Patricia “Pat” Phelps, who’s convinced she’s either depressed or possessed – turns out, the symptoms are exactly the same. Pat is a...

Last year, the Courteney Cox-led Shining Vale — despite its positive critical reception — was cancelled way too soon by Starz. The horror comedy sadly did not garner enough audience engagement to warrant another season and was ultimately removed from the streaming platform's library. Luckily, a year after its unfortunate fate, the series gets a new lease on life on a new platform. Warner Bros. Discovery picked up Seasons 1 and 2 of Shining Vale, now streaming exclusively on Max....

Shining Vale has found a new streaming home. The Starz horror-comedy show, which was co-created by Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan, stars Courteney Cox as an author whose family moves to a new home where she is haunted by supernatural entities. The Shining Vale cast also includes Greg Kinnear, Gus Birney, Merrin Dungey, Dylan Gage, and Mira Sorvino. Less than three weeks after its season 2 finale, the show was cancelled, after which point it was removed from the Starz streaming service in its entirety.

Now, Shining Vale has appeared in the Max library. This means that it has officially found a new home after spending more than a year not being available to stream on any platform, as it was removed from Starz by the end of December 2023. The show had been available for rental and purchase on various video on demand platforms in the meantime. This new home likely...

How about some exciting news to kick off 2025?! If you're a fan of Courteney Cox's Starz horror-comedy series Shining Vale, then you were sad to learn in December 2023 that the series had been canceled after two seasons. Not only that, the series was also stripped from the cable network's streaming service, leaving the underrated series in limbo.

Well, you don't have to worry about not being able to watch the show anymore. In a surprise announcement on New Year's Day, Shining Vale seasons 1 and 2 arrived on Max for streaming. As a series produced by Warner Bros. Television, the series ending up on the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming platform makes so much sense. If only it had happened sooner!

In the series, Emmy Award nominated-Friends star Cox plays writer Pat Phelps, who relocates with her husband (Greg Kinnear) and teenage children from Brooklyn to a seemingly haunted house in Connecticut.

A year after Shining Vale was canceled by Starz and removed from the streamer’s library, the existing two seasons of the series, starring Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear, are available for streaming again, this time on Max.

The Warner Bros. Discovery streamer picked up the two seasons of horror comedy, produced by sibling Warner Bros. Television which at the time of the December 2023 cancellation tried to find a new home for it.

Season 1 of Shining Vale, from creators Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan, followed Pat (Cox) and Terry Phelps (Kinnear), a married couple who cash in their life savings and move from a cramped Brooklyn apartment to an old Victorian mansion in Connecticut, as a last-ditch effort to save their marriage. Doors slam, the piano plays by itself and when an old-fashioned-looking woman appears to hover outside the family window, Pat believes that she is going crazy — or worse.

After several months of negotiations, legacy star Courteney Cox will officially return for the upcoming installment in the Scream franchise, Scream 7. However, the film is more than a year away from its theatrical release, but Max has the perfect replacement.

While fans wait to see what will happen next to Cox's Gale Weathers, the only legacy star to have appeared in all Scream installments so far, Warner Bros. Discovery offered the second-best option. On Jan. 1, Courteney Cox's two-season series Shining Vale premiered on Max. While it's quite different from the famous slasher franchise, Shining Vale is a satirical comedy horror that will keep viewers entertained.

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Max is kicking off the new year with the series premiere of The Pitt, a medical drama that puts ER star Noah Wyle back in scrubs and playing the chief attendant in Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital’s emergency room. Max’s January 2025 lineup also includes the season five premiere of the critically acclaimed, comic book-inspired animated series Harley Quinn, and the series debut of Isadora Moon, based on the bestselling book series.

Season 23 of Real Time with Bill Maher and the premieres of A24’s The Front Room, Look Into My Eyes, and A Different Man stream on Max in January.

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Exclusive: In a competitive situation with multiple bidders, NBC has landed single-camera comedy Stumble with a put pilot commitment. It is written by Liz Astrof and Jeff Astrof, each a comedy showrunner in their own right teaming up for the first time to create a series together.

Stumble is a mockumentary about the ridiculously high stakes and competitive world of junior college cheer.

Cheerleading coach Monica Aldama, known for her appearance on the Netflix docuseries Cheer, is executive producing the comedy, which is expected to feature a female coach character. Liz Astrof and Jeff Astrof also executive produce alongside producer Dana Honor through her Defining Eve Productions.

With the pitch landing at NBC, Stumble will be produced by sibling Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

The Astrof siblings have worked together, with Liz serving as a consulting producer on two series co-created/executive produced by Jeff, NBC’s...

It’s been nearly 30 years since Romy and Michele attended their 10-year high school reunion in 1997, but talks of a sequel film to Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion are heating up once again. One of its stars, Oscar-winner Mira Sorvino, who played Romy White in the original movie, told People that a sequel is “close” to becoming a reality.

Sorvino, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1996 for her role in Mighty Aphrodite, said that a follow-up to Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion is “so close to being greenlit,” and added that a director has already been hired for the project.

They’ve done his deal, they’ve done Lisa (Kudrow) and my deals as executive producers.

“They’ve done his deal, they’ve done Lisa (Kudrow) and my deals as executive producers,” Sorvino said. In the film, Kudrow (Friends) played Romy’s best friend,...

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From John Wick: Chapter 4 to Outlander, some of the hottest new releases are streaming on Starz right now, just in time for the holidays. But if you don’t have a subscription, we have some good news for you: This Black Friday, Hulu subscribers can add Starz to their plans for less than a dollar a month. Starting at $0.99 cents a month for 12 months, here’s how to...

See what has happened to the 'Family Ties' cast members 35 years after the hit show ended.MEGABrian BonsallBonsall played the role of Andy Keaton through the show's final three seasons.@mrbrianbonsall/Instagram

Brian Bonsall started acting on Family Ties when he was 5 years old, playing the role of Andy Keaton through the show's final three seasons.

He said of his time on Family Ties: "Good memories for sure. They were a second family to me, growing up doing that ... Michael J. Fox used to come pick me up in his Ferrari, taught me to dive into a pool. It was so comfortable hanging out."

The break helped him appear in more 1990s shows, including Father Hood and Blank Check, until he retired in 1995. He later shifted his career and pursued his passion for music with several bands.

Bonsall found himself in trouble when he was arrested in Boulder, Colo.

TV’s mockumentary genre has taken on the doldrums of office life (“The Office”), the intricacies of blended families (“Modern Family”), and the fundamentals of elementary schools (“Abbott Elementary”). But now, NBC is about to go where no series set in the comedy verite format has gone before: a hospital. “St. Denis Medical” will premiere on November 12 on NBC and will stream later on Peacock. Watch the trailer above that introduces the medical characters played by Wendi McLendon-Covey, David Alan Grier, Allison Tolman and more.

The minute-long video begins with Tolman’s supervising nurse Alex complaining, “A couple weeks ago I got a promotion. It came with a small pay bump and a large responsibility bump.” Tolman is a prior Emmy nominee for “Fargo” (2014) who most recently was seen on television shows like “Shining Vale,” “Gaslit,” and “Why Women Kill.”

We then see a clip of Mekki Leeper‘s newly hired registered nurse Matt,...

Dripping with allegories and hidden themes, there are still many fans who want the ending of The Babadook explained. The Babadook's touches on darker aspects of motherhood, loss, grief, and how mental illness can create monsters all on its own. However, the movie ends on a confusing but conclusive note for its titular terror and the family he torments. The story sees single mother Amelia struggle with depression just as her son Samuel becomes obsessed with the horrifying movie monster Mister Babadook, who he fears is real and will come for him.

Eventually, the strange events that happen at home find Amelia resenting her son, who she seems to blame for his father's death without reason. Their tenuous relationship, despite her displaying a protective mother's ferocity, seems to fuel the beast who haunts them. This horror movie about mother and son sees them working together to overcome an evil entity in their midst,...

Is Blue Bloods prepping not one but two spinoffs? The big casting news for Season 14B seems to hint at that!

For a show that's run 14 seasons and is one of the biggest hits on its network, it's truly amazing Blue Bloods has never gotten a spinoff. Given CBS loves its franchises like FBI and NCIS, one would think it's natural. Heck, Fire Country has only had two seasons and it's getting a spinoff.

A reason may be how Blue Bloods is always focused on the Reagans more than other characters, and it's hard to see a show working without that connection. That family bond has made the show a huge hit, even if the upcoming second half of Season 14 will be the last. 

There have been rumors of a possible spinoff with Donnie Wahlberg even hinting at one, although it may not be about his character, Danny Reagan. An...

Exclusive: Tasha Smith (Bad Boys: Ride or Die), Chris Perfetti (Abbott Elementary), Francois Arnaud (Yellowjackets), Susan Park (Shining Vale) and Cree (Turtles All the Way Down) are the newest additions to the cast of Twinless, the dark comedy that James Sweeney wrote and is directing for Republic Pictures.

Details as to the newcomers’ roles are under wraps. As previously announced, Dylan O’Brien, Aisling Franciosi, Lauren Graham and Sweeney will also star in the film, which follows two young men who strike up an unlikely bromance after meeting in a twin bereavement support group.

David Permut and Sweeney are producing, with O’Brien and Miky Lee serving exec producing. Three Point Capital is financing the pic with Ali Jazayeri, David Gendron and Liz Destro also serving as executive producers. Alex Astrachan, Director of Development at Permut Presentations, is co-producer. Casting Director is Jessica Munks. Republic Pictures has worldwide rights to the film.

CBS's Ghosts outperformed rival show Shining Vale in ratings and popularity. Shining Vale struggled with balancing its horror and comedy elements. Ghosts maintained a confident tone and successfully parodied horror tropes.

Although CBSs Ghosts is deservedly loved by critics and viewers alike, the hit sitcoms success may have contributed to another rival shows swift demise. It is always tough when two competing TV shows or movies stumble on the same central conceit. In 2015, both Scream Queens and MTVs Scream took a stab at reigniting the self-aware teen slasher craze of the 90s. A few years earlier, 2 Broke Girls and Dont Trust The ***** In Apartment 23 told the stories of young New York heroines who struggled to make ends meet with the help of a cynical, sardonic friend.

In some cases, both dueling shows can succeed alongside each other despite their similarities. However, when CBS adapted the 2019 BBC sitcom Ghosts...

Warning: Spoilers for The Boys season 4, episode 7!

The Boys season 4, episode 7 is titled "The Insider", which can refer to several characters and incidents. Director Catriona McKenzie balances character beats with action sequences in The Boys, and is sure to do the same when she returns for Gen V season 2, episode 6. McKenzie gives her nuanced interpretation of important scenes in the episode for Annie, Butcher, The Deep, A-Train, and Ashley.

The Boys season 4, episode 7 is titled "The Insider" a word that works on multiple levels throughout the episode. A-Train has been acting as a spy on behalf of Hughie and Mother's Milk throughout the season, finally revealing his cards when he stops The Deep and Noir from killing Butcher and Annie. Meanwhile, Annie herself has been replaced by an "insider" in the form of a shapeshifter hired by Sage. But perhaps most frightening of all is Kessler's voice inside Butcher's head,...

Emulating what many are expecting at next week’s Emmy Awards nominations, FX’s “The Bear” topped the field with 15 bids followed by Max’s “Hacks” and Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” with 13 apiece for the Astra TV Awards. The above comedies were followed in the overall nominations tally by ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” CBS’s “Ghosts” and Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show” with 11 honors each, while the Prime Video freshman drama “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” also came in at double-digits with 10. Leading the way for limited series were a pair of Netflix offerings, “Baby Reindeer” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” along with Apple TV+’s “Lessons in Chemistry” and HBO’s “True Detective: Night Country” – all with seven bids apiece.

The Astras are unique among TV awards competitions in that they create separate stand-alone categories for broadcast, cable and streaming as well as...

Atomic Monster, the production company headed up by genre regular James Wan, is teaming with Amazon Studios to produce a psychological thriller series based on the best-selling novel 56 Days, by Catherine Ryan Howard (pick up a copy Here). Titled Obsession, this adaptation of Howard’s work got an official series order at the end of last year, and over the last couple of months, casting announcements have been revealing the names of the actors we’ll be seeing on the show. Dove Cameron of Schmigadoon! and Descendants and Avan Jogia, who dealt with zombies in both Zombieland: Double Tap and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, have been cast in the lead roles, and now Deadline has revealed that they’ll be sharing the screen with Kira Guloien (The Good Doctor), Celeste Oliva (Julia), Jesse James Keitel (Big Sky), Matt Murray (Snowpiercer), and Patch Darragh (Long Bright River).

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The upcoming second season of the Frasier reboot looks set to feature another Og reunion as the updated sitcom adds another original cast member. The Paramount revival sees Frasier Crane link up with his agent from the show's first run.

Per Variety, the Frasier reboot confirmed two new additions to its Season 2 cast, one of them being Harriet Sansom Harris. Harris portrayed Frasier's agent, Bebe Glazer, in the original Frasier series and will star in a guest role during the revival's upcoming season. Meanwhile, Golden Globe-winning actor Rachel Bloom, known for starring in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Julia, will portray Bebe's daughter, Phoebe.

Related Frasier Reboot Brings in Two More Original Series Stars for Season 2

Kelsey Grammer's Frasier revival series brings back two familiar faces from the original sitcom as the Season 2 cast takes shape.

The revival describes the returning Bebe as "delightfully devilish" and "one of the show's most iconic characters.

When TV academy voters sit down to fill out their 2024 Emmy nominations ballots, they have to consider 73 shows for Best Comedy Series; this is down by 22 contenders from last year. As was the case last year, each member’s selections may not exceed the number of eventual nominations in a given category, which will be eight in this case.

On its quest for a second consecutive victory here, “The Bear” will have to fend off just two of its seven 2023 rivals: “Abbott Elementary” and “Only Murders in the Building.” Last year’s remaining contenders that did not air episodes during the June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2024 eligibility period are “Barry,” “Jury Duty,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Ted Lasso,” and “Wednesday,” the last of which is the only one known to have a new season in the works.

Remember, only eight of the shows listed below will earn bids for Best Comedy Series...

Atomic Monster, the production company headed up by genre regular James Wan, is teaming with Amazon Studios to produce a psychological thriller series based on the best-selling novel 56 Days, by Catherine Ryan Howard (pick up a copy Here). Titled Obsession, this adaptation of Howard’s work got an official series order at the end of last year, and last month we learned that Dove Cameron of Schmigadoon! and Descendants and Avan Jogia, who dealt with zombies in both Zombieland: Double Tap and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, have been cast in the lead roles. Now they have their first pair of co-stars. Cameron and Jogia are being joined in the cast of Obsession by Karla Souza of How to Get Away with Murder and Dive, and Dorian Missick of The Burial and Shirley.

Lisa Zwerling and Karyn Usher, who were behind the Starz drama The Rook, are writing...

Courteney Cox has been opening up about the tragic passing of her Friends co-star and former on-screen husband Matthew Perry, revealing he still “visits” her frequently. Appearing on CBS Sunday Morning on Sunday (May 19), Cox said of Perry, “You know, he’s just so funny. He has genuinely a huge heart, obviously struggled. I’m so thankful I got to work so closely with him for so many years.” She added, “He visits me a lot, if we believe in that.” When asked to elaborate on her spirituality, the Shining Vale actress explained how she feels her late family and friends often reappear to give her guidance. “You know, I talk to my mom, my dad, Matthew — I feel like there are a lot of people that, I think, guide us,” Cox shared. “I do sense, yeah, I sense Matthew’s around for sure.” Cox and Perry starred alongside one...