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Meghan Markle is rolling up her sleeves and inviting you into her world with “With Love, Meghan.” In this brand-new lifestyle series, she’s all about embracing playfulness over perfection - whether she’s in the kitchen, the garden, or even tending to a beehive. Featuring candid conversations with friends like Roy Choi, Mindy Kaling, and Alice Waters, the show is packed with personal tips, meaningful moments, and plenty of inspiration for hosting, cooking, and creating beauty in unexpected ways. Originally set to premiere in January, the release was delayed out of respect for those affected by the California wildfires, but now it’s finally here. “With Love, Meghan” premieres Tuesday, March 4, with all eight episodes only on Netflix.

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Netflix has bolstered their number of reality TV projects in recent years. While the streaming giant has turned to competition and dating series that are relatively easy to produce and lead to untold hours of binging, they have also expanded their lifestyle-style reality programs as well. Series like Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, Cooking with Paris, and Interior Design Masters have proven they have what it takes to keep the audience in their seats, and if the streaming giant is known for anything, it's excessively investing in a good thing.

Exclusive: Wednesday and Elvis producer Gail Berman, founder and CEO of The Jackal Group, has signed a three-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television. Under the pact, which starts today, the industry veteran will develop and produce scripted series for cable and streaming platforms.

Berman, an Oscar, Emmy and Tony-nominated producer and the only woman to have held top posts at both a major film studio and a broadcast television network, is coming off receiving the Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television at the 2024 PGA Awards.

“We are thrilled to partner with Gail,” said Katherine Pope, President, Sony Pictures Television Studios. “Beyond being a true legend, Gail is a brilliant producer and creative force, always doing the work with unwavering grace.”

Aligning with an independent TV studio is a natural next step for Berman who has spent a large part of her career as an independent producer, first working in...

Veteran TV and film producer Gail Berman has been tapped to receive the Norman Lear Achievement Award at 2024 Producers Guild Awards ceremony next month.

Berman, whose most recent hits include Netflix’s “Wednesday” and 2022’s “Elvis,” will be feted at the 25th annual Producers Guild Awards on Feb. 25. Berman’s long resume includes a five-year run as head of entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Co. and serving as the No. 2 executive at Paramount Pictures from 2005 to 2007. She is also a previous president of the Producers Guild, serving alongside producer Lucy Fisher from 2018-2022.

“Gail’s impact on the television industry is nothing short of groundbreaking. Whether it’s the contemporary successes of shows like ‘Wednesday’ or her extensive role as a television executive overseeing critical and commercial hits such as ‘American Idol,’ ’24,’ ‘House,’ ‘Family Guy’ and ‘Arrested Development,’ her commitment as a producer speaks volumes and her impact has left...

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced Wednesday that producer Gail Berman will be honored with this year’s Norman Lear Achievement Award.

The Norman Lear Award recognizes a producer or producing team for their extraordinary body of work in television. Past honorees include Mindy Kaling, Greg Berlanti, Marta Kauffman, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Ryan Murphy, Shonda Rhimes, Chuck Lorre, J.J. Abram, Lorne Michaels, Dick Wolf, Jerry Bruckheimer, Aaron Spelling, David E. Kelley and the late Norman Lear himself. The Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television is sponsored by Delta Air Lines.

The veteran Berman has produced over 300 episodes of television throughout her career, with titles including All-American Girl, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff Angel, Monarch, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo and Wednesday.

Currently, in her role as CEO of The Jackal Group, a production company creating scripted and unscripted television, feature films and commercial theater, Berman is producing...

Disney Entertainment co-chairmen Alan Bergman and Dana Walden have named Joe Earley as president of the company’s direct-to-consumer division.

Earley will be responsible for leading Disney Entertainment’s streaming efforts, including Disney+ and Hulu, working closely with content teams around the company. In addition, he will continue leading Hulu until a successor is identified. Earley will report to Bergman and Walden.

“Joe has proven himself to be an extraordinary asset and is uniquely positioned for this role as we guide Disney’s streaming strategy into the future,” Bergman and Walden said in a statement. “His vast industry experience and deep understanding of what sets our prestigious portfolio of brands apart will be essential as we build on our robust direct-to-consumer efforts. Joe is a talented, passionate leader, committed to creative excellence, and we look forward to partnering with him in this next chapter.”

Earley succeeds Michael Paull, who is...

In a shake-up of Disney’s streaming leadership ranks, the company is moving Hulu president Joe Earley into the role of president of direct-to-consumer for Disney Entertainment effective immediately — succeeding Michael Paull, who is leaving Disney after six years.

In the new role, Earley will lead Disney Entertainment’s streaming businesses including Disney+ and Hulu, reporting to co-chairmen Alan Bergman and Dana Walden. A former longtime Fox exec, Earley joined Disney in 2019 as was instrumental in the launch of Disney+. In addition, Earley will continue as the top exec in charge of Hulu until the company identifies a replacement. Disney+ is led by president Alisa Bowen, who was elevated to the post last fall after overseeing global business operations for Disney’s streaming platforms.

Paull, a former Amazon digital video exec, was originally tapped in 2017 as CEO of BAMTech, the video-streaming company previously jointly owned by Disney, Major League Baseball...

Marie Kondo has become the go-to expert for decluttering one’s home, thanks to her Netflix series “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” and “Sparking Joy with Marie Kondo”.

During a recent webinar promoting her new book, Marie Kondo’s Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life, Kondo admitted that since welcoming her third child with husband Takumi Kawahara, she’s taken on something of a “do as I say not as I do” approach when it comes to her own home.

“My home is messy, but the way I am spending my time is the right way for me at this time at this stage of my life,” she explained in Japanese through an interpreter, as reported by the Washington Post.

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Having three young children, she said, has given...

Netflix has ordered a limited series adaptation of the Elin Hilderbrand novel “The Perfect Couple.”

Jenna Lamia will adapt the book for the screen and serve as executive producer and showrunner. 21 Laps will produce via the company’s overall deal with Netflix, with The Jackal Group also onboard to produce. Netflix has given the series a six-episode order.

In the show, which is described as a soapy mystery, it’s Fourth of July weekend and Celeste Otis is about to marry the perfect man, who just so happens to be from the wealthiest family on Nantucket. But when a body is discovered floating in the harbor on the morning of what was to be the wedding of the year, suddenly everyone at the party is a suspect.

Shawn Levy and Josh Barry of 21 Laps will executive produce, as will Gail Berman and Hend Baghdady of The Jackal Group. Hilderbrand is...

Fox released a trailer for “Our Kind of People,” premiering on Sept. 21 at 9 p.m. Et.

Inspired by Lawrence Otis Graham’s critically acclaimed book, “Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class,” the series takes place in the aspirational Martha’s Vineyard community Oak Bluffs, where the rich and powerful Black elite have come to play for over 50 years.

Starring Yaya DaCosta, Morris Chestnut, Joe Morton, Nadine Ellis, Lance Gross, Rhyon Nicole Brown, Kyle Bary and Alana Bright, the show follows a strong-willed single mom as she sets out to reclaim her family’s name and find success in her revolutionary haircare line.

“Our Kind of People” is executive produced by writer Karin Gist, Lee Daniels, Ben Silverman for Propagate, Claire Brown for The Gist Of It Productions, Marc Velez for Lee Daniels Entertainment, Pam Williams and Montrel McKay. Tasha Smith directed the series premiere.

Watch a preview below.

Netflix is cleaning up with more non-scripted renewals.

The streamer has ordered new seasons of Get Organized with The Home Edit and Dream Home Makeover and has set a summer premiere date for Sparking Joy With Marie Kondo.

Get Organized with The Home Edit has been picked up for a second season. The show follows organizers and authors Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin, the pair behind the company The Home Edit. The show will take a closer look inside the business featuring even bigger organization projects, along with several celebrities surprising deserving friends and family members with makeovers.

The first season featured guest stars including Reese Witherspoon, Rachel Zoe, Khloe Kardashian, Eva Longoria and Retta. It is produced by Hello Sunshine and Critical Content with Omid Kahangi as showrunner. Shearer, Teplin, Witherspoon, Sara Rea, Sue Kinkead, Tom Forman, Jenny Daly, Jon Beyer and Molly Sims exec produce.

Dream Home Makeover...

In an episode late in the first season of the new series “Get Organized With The Home Edit,” the actress Jordana Brewster tells the show’s hosts, two professional organizers, that she wants them to make her fridge “look like a store, like you do.” When the fridge has been completed, with products facing label-forward in tidy symmetrical lines, Brewster is overwhelmed. “I would almost say,” she declares, “that it looks like an ad.”

The Home Edit, a Nashville-based company run by newly-minted television hosts Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin, exists to produce this sense: It’s a self-replicating advertisement for itself. As promulgated on social media — the engine of The Home Edit’s growth, as we are informed in the opening credits — spaces that have undergone Shearer and Teplin’s ministrations are less edited than rewritten. The two organizers put into practice cumbersome and time-consuming systems that gesture at...

Netflix is continuing to bulk up its catalogue of reality television shows, as the streamer has ordered a new series from decluttering wiz Marie Kondo and renewed three of its existing unscripted shows for second seasons.

Per the streaming service, the upcoming “Sparking Joy with Marie Kondo” will follow Kondo and her team as they set out to tidy one small town in America, sparking joy in big new ways. The series marks Kondo’s second Netflix show; Kondo made a name for herself in American pop culture with Netflix’s Emmy-nominated 2019 show “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo,” where Kondo visited various families to help them clean and organize their homes.

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As for Netflix’s returning shows, “Rhythm + Flow” is coming back for a sophomore season.

Netflix has given hit reality TV shows Love Is Blind, The Circle, and Rhythm + Flow the renewal green light as well as ordering up a new series from Marie Kondo called Sparking Joy. The reality TV portion of Netflix's vast streaming kingdom has been slowly growing in recent years, with the success of Love Is Blind and The Circle further cementing the genre's success established by shows like Tidying Up with Marie Kondo and Queer Eye. Now, Variety confirms Netflix is bringing back its biggest and most recent reality TV hits for even more seasons. Love Is Blind …...

Netflix is doubling down on its reality slate – ordering a new series from Marie Kondo, handing two season renewals to Love Is Blind and The Circle and renewing Rhythm + Flow.

The streamer has been recently stepping up its game in the non-scripted space, with Love Is Blind, produced by Red Arrow’s Kinetic Content, particularly getting attention and becoming Netflix’s top show in the U.S. at the end of February, two weeks after its launch.

The show, which is hosted by Vanessa Lachey and her husband Nick Lachey, follows a group of single men and women as they enter solo pods in the hope of finding love. It has been renewed for a second and third season and is currently casting the second run in Chicago.

Netflix has released Top 10 lists of its most popular titles of 2019 — movies, TV series and specials — in various territories. Netflix What We Watched 2019 – U.S. is led by the Adam Sandler-Jennifer Aniston comedy feature Murder Mystery, followed by the third season of mega hit series Stranger Things, the recently released Michael Bay movie 6 Underground headlined by Ryan Reynolds, Disney/Pixar’s The Incredibles 2, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, new series The Witcher with Henry Cavill, the Ben Affleck starrer Triple Frontier, the Ted Bundy film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile starring Zac Efron, series The Umbrella Academy and movie The Highwaymen toplined by Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson.

While Netflix does not officially reveal its methodology, the rankings are believed to be based on the number of accounts that have watched at least two minutes of a movie, TV series or a special — both original and...

Netflix has revealed a series of top 10 lists highlighting the streaming platform’s most-viewed films and television series of 2019 in the United States. Overall, the most popular release across any format was the comedy “Murder Mystery,” starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston. The most popular television series was the third season of “Stranger Things,” and the most-viewed nonfiction release of the year was the self-care series “Tidying Up With Marie Kondo.”

In the case of these lists, most “popular” is defined by anything actually released in 2019, and what was most viewed within 28 days of its initial launch on Netflix. The streamer also defines a viewer here as anyone who watched at least two minutes of these programs.

Among the overall top 10 most popular titles housed on the streaming platform, only one film or series was not a Netflix original release: “The Incredibles 2.” Also of note amid the overall top 10, six...

Condragulations RuPaul Charles, you just tied an Emmy record. The star of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” snatched up his fourth Emmy for Best Reality Host at the Creative Arts ceremony on Saturday, September 14, tying the same number of trophies Jeff Probst (“Survivor”) won between 2008 and 2011. (See the complete list of Creative Arts winners.) Oddly enough, Probst was never nominated again in this category, which means RuPaul could beat the record next year if Emmy voters’ love affair continues.

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Gold Derby accurately predicted RuPaul would beat out his co-nominees James Corden (“The World’s Best”), Ellen DeGeneres (“Ellen’s Game of Games”), Marie Kondo (“Tidying Up with Marie Kondo”) and Amy Poehler & Nick Offerman (“Making It”). RuPaul previously won this category between 2016 and 2018.

Last month we interviewed RuPaul on the...

Netflix has ordered a new lifestyle series that boasts Reese Witherspoon among its executive producers.

The hour-long series will follow master home organizes Clea Sherer and Joanna Teplin, the duo behind The Home Edit company. In each episode, Sherer and Teplin will transform the lives of their clients by conquering clutter with their signature style. Each episode features two organizational projects shaped by the pair’s sense of form-meets-function that will entertain and inspire. Netflix has ordered eight episodes.

Tess Gamboa Meyers will serve as showrunner and executive producer. Witherspoon will executive produce under her Hello Sunshine banner. Other executive producers include Molly Sims, Charlotte Koh, Cynthia Stockhammer, Critical Content’s Tom Forman, Jenny Daly, and Jon Beyer.

News of the series comes after Netflix has found success in the lifestyle space with hits like “Queer Eye” and “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.”

Witherspoon also executive produces and stars in...

Netflix hates mess: The streaming service has begun production on an eight-episode lifestyle series produced by Reese Witherspoon and featuring Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin, the pair behind the innovative home organization company The Home Edit.

According to the streaming service, “known for their design-centric approach to arranging and organizing, New York Times bestselling authors Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin will take on the homes of big-name celebrities and everyday families.”

The currently untitled series “follows master organizers Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin as they dramatically transform the lives of their clients by conquering clutter with their signature style,” Netflix’s description said. “Each hour-long episode features two organizational projects shaped by Clea & Joanna’s unique sense of form-meets-function that will entertain and inspire.”

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The project is executive produced by Molly Sims, Hello Sunshine’s Witherspoon,...

Fox is developing a single-camera comedy series based on the Australian show “Mr. Black,” Variety has learned.

The half-hour series follows the acid-tongued Mr. Black, a man who has one dying wish: to break up his adult daughter and her boyfriend – whom he happens to live with. The original series, which premiered in Australia earlier this year, was created by Adam Zwar and produced by Cjz for Australia’s Network Ten.

No writer is currently attached to the American version. Gail Berman will executive produce via SideCar, with SideCar and Fox Entertainment producing. Fox announced a new deal with Berman back in February just ahead of the 21st Century Fox-Disney merger. Under the new deal, Berman and SideCar are to identify and incubate programming both for the network and third-party platforms. SideCar will be responsible for developing scripted and unscripted programming to complement the active development of Fox.

Just a few years ago streaming services didn’t even produce reality series, but this year Netflix landed five Emmy nominations in four reality/competition categories and sparked buzz (and viewer joy) that may encourage linear networks to take more chances in the increasingly crowded reality space.

“With the amount of shows we’ve rolled out collectively, it felt inevitable that with many more programs to offer, the voters would embrace some of the new programs,” says Netflix vice president of nonfiction series and comedy specials Brandon Riegg. He notes the streamer leans tonally into more positive, aspirational and escapist reality programming. “A lot of what we’ve talked about is there’s so much great content out there, we do need to differentiate ourselves. I think having that mentality allows for these projects to bubble up that might feel unconventional but it fits within the spectrum of what we’re trying to program to.

When Marie Kondo (Netflix’s “Tidying Up With Marie Kondo”) needs a place to work in Los Angeles, she sets up in a West Hollywood house. Most often, she finds herself writing at a long, wood dining-room table, which has a view of the backyard pool, if you lean back just right. Since the space is not solely her own, she makes sure to bring specific items to better foster a sense of structure and serenity to get work done. “I am usually writing about how to spark more joy in our lives and how to let the atmosphere around us spark more joy, so it’s very important that the spaces in which I create also spark joy for me,” she says.

Purity Of Place

Some of the most important items with which Kondo travels are crystals: She uses them to purify the air around her. When she is writing,...

Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman are reunited again to bask in Emmy nominations — this time for their work as hosts of NBC’s unscripted crafting competition series “Making It!” Marie Kondo, the fastidious star of Netflix’s “Tidying Up With Marie Kondo,” could clean up at the ceremony with two noms, one as host of a reality or competition program, the other for structured reality show.But Kondo and the “Parks and Recreation” duo face high-wattage competition in the reality host field, starting with reigning champ RuPaul of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” who is trying for a four-peat after owning the category since 2016. Two other perennial Emmy magnets are also up for hosting honors: Ellen DeGeneres for NBC’s “Ellen’s Game of Games” and James Corden for CBS’ “The World’s Best.”

The range of nominees across Emmy’s reality and unscripted series categories underscores how broad the content of unscripted programming has become.

Happy inauguration! The 2019 Emmy nominations have just been announced, and there are 44 lucky performers who are now celebrating their first-ever nomination — or if they’re really lucky, nominations — in the acting categories.

The list below does not include first-time nominees for Best Reality Host, like Marie Kondo (“Tidying Up with Marie Kondo”) and Nick Offerman (“Making It”), or Best Narrator (Juliet Stevenson for “Queens Of Mystery”), but it does include someone like Phoebe Waller-Bridge (“Fleabag), whose only previous Emmy bid was in writing for “Killing Eve.”

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1. Amy Adams: Best Limited Series/TV Movie Actress (“Sharp Objects”)

2. Alfie Allen: Best Drama Supporting Actor (“Game of Thrones”)

3. Michael Angarano: Best Drama Guest Actor (“This Is Us”)

4. Asante Blackk: Best Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actor (“When They See Us”)

5. Marsha Stephanie Blake: Best Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting...

As diversity and inclusion attempt to stay afloat in Hollywood, this morning’s Emmy nominations showed that although the needle has been slowly moving, it hasn’t been moving enough to see change. This year, there were only 24 acting nominations for people of color. In addition, two reality show hosts of color were nominated which brings the total to 26. This is a major dip from last year’s record 38 and even less than 2017 which counted 27 diverse nominees.

Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us came in with the most nominations for people of color including a first-time nod for Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for Jharrel Jerome’s stunning turn as the real-life Korey Wise in the Netflix limited series. Other well deserved nominations from the series included Niecy Nash and Aunjanue Ellis for Lead Actress Limited Series or Movie as well as Marsha Stephanie Blake for Supporting Actress.

Gail Berman has set her executive team for Fox Entertainment’s Sidecar, including four development executives and two members of the business and legal affairs team.

The highest-ranking among them, Hend Baghdady, comes from The Jackal Group, which Berman (pictured above) founded. Baghdaddy, who developed and executive produced “Tidying Up With Marie Kondo,” is not the only one of the bunch with The Jackal Group on her resume.

In (generally) descending-rung order on the “content development accelerator’s” corporate ladder: Baghdady is executive vice president of development and production; Susan Lierle is senior vice president of business and legal affairs; Jeff Nemon is senior vice president of drama development; Alana Romoff is vice president of development; Matthew Chadwick is vice president of alternative programming and production; and Eduardo Lopez-Mendez is manager of business and legal affairs.

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SideCar, Fox Entertainment’s new content development accelerator led by Gail Berman, has filled out its executive team with Hend Baghdady, Susan Lierle, Jeff Nemon, Alana Romoff, Matthew Chadwick and Eduardo Lopez-Mendez. The company is set to develop scripted and unscripted projects alike for both the Fox network and third-party platforms.

“This truly is an amazing team of accomplished executives,” said Berman in a statement. “I’ve worked with most of them for the past four years, and the reason they’ve all come over to SideCar is because what they’ve produced has been stellar. Now, we all have a unified purpose of determining how best to serve the needs of Fox, as well as those of our third-party partners.”

Baghdady has been named executive vice president of development and production at SideCar. Formerly senior vice president of alternative and production for The Jackal Group, she developed and exec-produced...

The Television Critics Association has announced its nominees for the 2019 TCA Awards, with strong showings for new series, women in general – and shows not named “Game of Thrones.”

FX’s freshman drama “Pose” and Netflix’s new comedy “Russian Doll” led all nominees with four apiece, with Billy Porter earning a nod for Individual Achievement in Drama and Natasha Lyonne scoring a mention for Individual Achievement in Comedy.

Amazon’s U.K. import “Fleabag” also had a strong showing with three overall nominations, including Outstanding Achievement in Comedy, Program of the Year, and Individual Achievement in Comedy for creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

A large variety of series’ scored two nominations, including HBO representatives “Barry,” “Chernobyl,” “Sharp Objects,” “Succession,” and “Veep,” with two nominations also going to Showtime’s “Escape at Dannemora,” FX’s “Fosse/Verdon,” CBS All Access’ “The Good Fight,” BBC America’s “Killing Eve,” Pop TV’s “Schitt’s Creek,...

Freshman seasons of “Pose” and “Russian Doll” lead the list of nominees for the 2019 TCA Awards, the Television Critics Assn. announced Wednesday.

Both series scored four nominations each. FX’s ballroom culture drama “Pose” appears on the ballot in the categories of individual achievement in drama (for lead actor Billy Porter), outstanding achievement in drama, outstanding new program and program of the year. In the latter two categories “Pose” and Netflix’s dark comedy “Russian Doll” are competing against each other. “Russian Doll” also scored nominations for individual achievement in comedy (for lead actress Natasha Lyonne) and outstanding comedy series.

These series join 46 others as the nominees for the 35th Annual TCA Awards. These awards are designed to celebrate the best series, creators and performers of the 2018-19 television season, with more than 220 professional television critics and journalists from the U.S. and Canada voting.

Despite not having a series that earned the most nominations,...

Netflix’s “Russian Doll” and the first season of FX’s “Pose” lead the 2019 Television Critics Association awards nominations with four nods each.

Both shows are up for in the Outstanding New Program and Program of the Year categories, as well as in their individual genre categories. “Pose” star Billy Porter will also compete for Individual Achievement in Drama, while “Russian Doll’s” Natasha Lyonne will compete in the same category for comedy.

The widely praised second season of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “Fleabag” has also put up an impressive showing, with three nominations.

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The winners will be announced on Saturday, Aug. 3 at the ceremony hosted by the comedy duo Desus & Mero, whose eponymous Showtime comedy has also been recognized in the sketch/variety category.

HBO leads with 15 nominations overall, besting Netflix, which scored 14. FX ranks third with eight nods,...

"I had no idea that tidying could become a job one day," says Marie Kondo, the world-renowned organizing consultant, bestselling author and star of Netflix's hit structured reality series Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, as we sit down at the offices of The Hollywood Reporter to record an episode of THR's Awards Chatter podcast. The diminutive 34-year-old, a Japanese Mary Poppins, of sorts, continues, "When I entered university, I would approach any friends or any acquaintances I knew who were living on their own, and I would beg them to let me come to their apartment and tidy. I ...

“Queer Eye” was the biggest champ with four wins at the new Critics’ Choice Real TV Awards that were bestowed last night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The gala event was hosted by comedian Loni Love and will air on VH1 on Sunday.

The four victories by “Queer Eye” included Best Ensemble Cast in an Unscripted Series, Best Lifestyle Show: Fashion/Beauty, Best Structured Series and Male Star of the Year for Jonathan Van Ness.

“The Late Late Show with James Corden” also took multiple awards, prevailing for both Best Late-Night Talk Show (a tie with “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”) and Best Show Host for James Corden. Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke: The Series” won the Short Form Series category, sending the Brit home with three trophies.

The race for Best Relationship Show also resulted in a tie: “Dating Around” and “Married at First Sight.”

Netflix, which led the networks in nominations,...

The first annual Critics’ Choice Real TV Awards, a new awards show devoted to nonfiction, unscripted and reality programming, has given prizes to “Queer Eye,” “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” “Jeopardy!” and “The Late Late Show With James Corden,” among other shows.

Netflix’s “Queer Eye” reboot took awards as the best structured reality series, fashion/beauty lifestyle show and ensemble cast in an unscripted series, while cast member Jonathan Van Ness won the fan-voted award for Male Star of the Year.

The Female Star of the Year award, also voted on by fans, went to Sandra Lee from “Dr. Pimple Popper.”

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Overall, programs from Netflix dominated the awards, with nine wins to two each for CBS, CBS Television/Syndicated, Lifetime, NBC and PBS. Netflix also won...

Netflix is famously tight-lipped when it comes to revealing how many people are tuning in to its endless supply of movies and TV series, though the streaming giant does occasionally toot its own horn when one of its titles does especially well. Now the company is experimenting with a weekly list of its most-watched offerings in the UK, with nature docuseries “Our Planet” topping the first edition.

In a Twitter thread, the company announced that it will be releasing such lists on a weekly basis from here on out. To compile them, “we look at the most-watched individual season of a show, film or special (regardless of when it launched). ‘Watched’ means members finished at least 70% of one episode.”

“It’s a test as we want to make sure this information is useful for you,” Netflix added. “So we may tweak it in the weeks ahead. eg. we’re not including kids right now.

Add one more honor to Sandra Oh’s list. The “Killing Eve” actress, who was recently named to the Time 100, has landed on another list of 100 esteemed people: Gold House’s A100.

On Wednesday, Gold House – a collective of pioneering Asian founders, creative voices, and leaders – released its second annual A100 List celebrating Asians and Asian American & Pacific Islanders (Aapi) who’ve made transformative contributions to society. The list honors impactful Asians in a number of fields ranging from media and entertainment to social activism and politics.

Oh has become the face of much of the increased representation for Asian Americans (the Korean Canadian actress acquired U.S. citizenship last year.) Not only is she one of the handful of Asian lead actors in a TV series, but she’s also the first actress of Asian descent to be nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in...

Fox and Jackal Group chairman and CEO Gail Berman are partnering on a new production venture, Variety has learned.

The new company is called SideCar, which is described as a content development accelerator headed by Berman. The new unit will work side-by-side with Fox, identifying and incubating programming both for the network and third-party platforms. SideCar will be responsible for developing scripted and unscripted programming to complement the active development of Fox. Fox will retain ownership of all series that originate under the SideCar banner.

“The beauty of a SideCar is that the riders are literally headed in the same direction, and having Gail Berman riding shotgun is about as good as it gets,” said Charlie Collier, CEO of Fox Entertainment. “Michael Thorn, Rob Wade and their teams have Fox firing on all cylinders. So, extending their reach and allowing creators another door through which to access our brands, business...

Marie Kondo changed the lives of packrats everywhere when she released her best-selling how-to book of minimalism, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up," in 2014. So no one was surprised when she landed her own show on Netflix. Tidying Up with Marie Kondo is nothing but eight episodes of a woman helping random people de-clutter their homes, so what's with all the hullabaloo? The show's success lies in how deeply satisfying it is to watch people change their lives and homes for the better, but it's not the only show that offers that kind of gratification. Here are 10 reality shows that are just as satisfying as Tidying Up With Marie Kondo.

As you’ve surely noticed by now, Netflix boasts an ever-expanding library of original movies and TV series. “Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened,” “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch,” and “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” are just some of the conversation starters to premiere on the streaming giant in recent weeks, and they have something in common: They all cost money to acquire and/or produce. So much, in fact, that Netflix spent $12 billion on content in 2018 — and, according to Wall Street analysts (per Variety), could see that number rise as high as $15 billion this year.

“We believe [Netflix] could, if it chose, ramp margins more quickly by limiting growth in its substantial investment in global marketing and production, but it is (wisely) playing the long game,” Ben Swinburne of Morgan Stanley wrote in a note. The company spent $8.9 billion on content in 2017 and, according to Daniel Salmon of Bmo Capital Markets,...

In 2016, two years after the English translation of “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing” became a best-seller, Marie Kondo moved to Los Angeles to establish her home organization consultancy in America. Amidst her culture shock, the Japanese native soon realized her new country also provided something that her homeland did not: unprecedented levels of clutter on which to practice her art.

On Netflix’s “Tidying Up With Marie Kondo,” we see her gently guide clients to confront years of accumulation: towering stacks of baseball cards, never-worn athletic shoes literally decaying in the box. Kondo admits that one client, an empty-nester obsessed with collecting Christmas nutcracker dolls, has more clothes than she has ever encountered.

“Japanese homes are much smaller than American homes,” Kondo said through her interpreter, Marie Iida, who also appears on the show. “American homes have ample space so that it’s a difference of quantity.

Jennifer Garner is clearly following the “new year, new me” motto because she’s already doing a bit of spring cleaning. It appears the A-list star is on the pulse of the culture because, like many of us, Garner has apparently watched Netflix’s hit reality show, “Tidying Up With Marie Kondo”. Following Marie Kondo’s method, KonMari, Jen is ready...

Jennifer Garner is clearly following the "new year, new me" motto because she's already doing a bit of spring cleaning. It appears the A-list star is on the pulse of the culture because, like many of us, Garner has apparently watched Netflix's hit reality show, Tidying Up With Marie Kondo. Following Marie Kondo's method, KonMari, Jen is ready to get rid of the the things that "don't spark joy." How are we so sure? The 46-year-old actress took to Instagram to hilariously share her junk drawer. In her 23-second video clip, she unsurprisingly called on the organization guru to "Marie Kondo" her home. "@mariekondo—I'm all about it," she wrote....

Book lovers, calm down. When “Tidying Up With Marie Kondo” hit Netflix Jan. 1, America embraced her little folded T-shirt rectangles and shoeboxes reused to organize small items. But when it came to tossing out books — well, those were fighting words.

Do Not listen to Marie Kondo or Konmari in relation to books. Fill your apartment & world with them. I don’t give a shite if you throw out your knickers and Tupperware but the woman is very misguided about Books. Every human needs a v extensive library not clean, boring shelves

— Anakana Schofield (@AnakanaSchofiel) January 3, 2019

Others were more levelheaded, noting that the KonMari Method was not tantamount to book burning.

What Marie Kondo Says: Think about getting rid of books you aren't going to read or reread.

What Twitter Hears: Let's burn all books and slay the writers! Let the streets run red with their blood as our literary pyre's smoke blocks out the sun!

Does this reality TV show spark joy?

If the answer is no, then it's not Netflix's latest feel-good fever, Tidying Up With Marie Kondo. The eight-episode series is set on reinventing the reality makeover genre. Equipped with a disarming pint-size host and the kind of self-optimization content everyone's Googling these days, Tidying Up has quickly become something of an internet sensation since its Jan. 1 launch.

Kondo is a world-renowned tidying consultant and best-selling author who has evolved into an organizational guru thanks to her patented KonMari method, which features prominently on her breakout Netflix series. Each episode sees the ...

Millions of Americans are turning to a 34-year-old Japanese “organizing consultant” to help de-clutter their homes, and for Marie Kondo, the tidying expert and eponymous star behind Netflix’s “Tidying Up With Marie Kondo,” there’s nothing that “sparks joy” more than seeing people take ownership of their belongings — and their lives.

Kondo, whose eight-episode series premiered on Netflix on New Year’s Eve, touts the virtues of the “KonMari Method” of organizing, which aims to pare down the tidying experience. Rather than cleaning out room by room, the KonMari Method promotes sorting by category, and assigning a sentimentality to each item. As Kondo writes on her website, “Keep only those things that speak to the heart, and discard items that no longer spark joy. Thank them for their service — then let them go.”

The Netflix series was based on Kondo’s best-selling book, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up:...

New year, new you, perfect time to rid your home of all the things no longer sparking joy in you, right?  Netflix smartly released Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, its newest kind and gentle self-help show, on New Year's Day, right when the garbage monsters of the world were making and facing their 2019 resolutions to be and own less garbage.  "I will clean my home," we said to ourselves. "I will feel joy."  Marie Kondo is famous for her book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, and the method of KonMari, which encourages you to get rid of any of your belongings that do not spark joy. The Netflix series follows her as she helps families get rid of their clutter and...

The holidays might be over, but Netflix has a quick fix for the back-to-work blues. Sing along to your favorite Beatles songs in “Across the Universe” or laugh along with the Joker as he tries to thwart Batman in “The Dark Knight” when both arrive to the streaming platform next month.

A couple classics are set to arrive as well — meet a bloodthirsty bunny and a not-dead prince in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” and revisit the strange events of “Pulp Fiction.” Among the list of Netflix originals coming is stand-up smorgasbord “Comedians of the World,” featuring Nicole Byer, Chris D’Elia, and Neal Brennan, along with the second season of “Friends From College” and the third season of “A Series of Unfortunate Events” starring Neil Patrick Harris as Count Olaf. “The Incredibles 2” will wrap up the month of releases, dropping Jan. 30.

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It’s hard to imagine a cannier choice of premiere date getting made in 2019 than the one happening on the year’s first day.

On Jan. 1 — that day of putting into practice optimistic resolutions and, sometimes, enduring a bit of self-flagellation over the excesses of the night before — Netflix releases the first season of “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo,” an eight-episode self-help reality show spotlighting the Japanese decluttering guru and her vaunted “KonMari” method.

Happily for those spending their New Year’s Day seeking a bit of uplift for the year ahead, Kondo makes decluttering seem within reach, and appealing, too. Better still for all television fans, she’s an amiable presence on a show that wears its status as an adaptation of her mega-hit book “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” lightly, a series that steers clear of overproduction in favor of the clean lines of classically-built home-improvement television.