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“The Sex Lives of College Girls” is back for Season 3, with some major switch ups to the core four.

While Leighton (Reneé Rapp), Whitney (Alyah Chanelle Scott), Bela (Amrit Kaur) and Kimberly (Pauline Chalamet) reunite for sophomore year, their reunion is short-lived as Rapp’s Leighton exits the series mid-season.

Meanwhile, the Max series welcomes two new cast members in Mia Rodgers and Gracie Lawrence, who play new Essex arrivals Taylor — an edgy international student — and Kacey — a transfer student who would rather spend time with her boyfriend than development friendships with Whitney, Bela and Kimberly.

For a full breakdown on which familiar faces you can expect to see in Season 3, as well as newcomers this season, keep on reading.

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Reneé Rapp as Leighton

Renée Rapp returns as Leighton Murray for a short arc before departing the series. After embracing her sexuality throughout the first two seasons,...

Exclusive: There’s a new student joining the ranks at Essex College.

Mia Rodgers has been added to the cast of Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls. She will play Taylor, a first-year international student studying at Essex College.

She joins other series regulars Pauline Chalamet, Alyah Chanelle Scott, Amrit Kaur, Christopher Meyer, Ilia Paulino, Renika Williams and Gracie Lawrence.

The Sex Lives of College Girls follows four college roommates in their first year at New England’s prestigious Essex College. Season 2 picks up with the students returning after their fall break, tackling the challenges that were thrown their way at the end of Season 1, while also facing their next semester filled with new faces, parties and predicaments.

The series, which comes from Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble, has been one of the streamer’s top performing originals. Executive produced by Kaling, showrunner Noble, and Howard Klein, the...

American history-based comedies can draw big audiences if done well, as seen with the success of Ghosts on CBS. A US adaptation of Defending the Guilty, a courtroom comedy, would have more appeal to an American audience and could provide a refreshing change to non-stop legal dramas. An American remake of Friday Night Dinner could work with a cast that has similar chemistry, as the relatable and chaotic family dynamics are universally entertaining.

Adapting British TV shows for American audiences is notoriously hit-and-miss, but there are some British classics which could be perfect if they were handled well. American TV has always sought inspiration from across the Atlantic, although results have been mixed. Some British TV shows should never have US remakes, because they are too culturally specific and they wouldn't work in a different setting. Changing their location would mean changing a hundred other things about them until they are no longer recognizable.

Sofia Barclay's talent and versatility have allowed her to excel in various supporting roles, showcasing her ability to play down-to-earth characters and heroes or heels. In some projects, such as "Sulphur and White," Barclay's talents were underutilized, but her performance in the film "Love Again" as Mira's sister Suzy was a rare bright spot. Barclay's role in the underrated sitcom "Defending the Guilty" allowed her to grow a character and go beyond the typical temptress stereotype, demonstrating her ability to make her roles feel like real people.

Though Sofia Barclay is still just getting started in show business, she has already amassed an impressive list of credits in popular TV shows and blockbuster movies. The multitalented performer earned her first official credit back in 2010, and has spent the years since honing her craft in roles that have grown in size and complexity since the mid-2010s. Known for her down-to-earth characters,...

Editor’s note: The following interviews were done outside of the FYC event series, as there was no panel or screening.

When it comes to assembling the quintessential ensemble cast for a series, it’s an art, not a science; an organic melding of faces and emotional forces. No more was this important than in the high stakes second season of HBO’s drama series White Lotus in which we’re pulled into the posh, sexy allure of those upper-class denizens on vacation only to relish in their deceitful sides and hijinks, warts and all. The series not only propelled fresh faces to the forefront such as Natasha Rothwell in season one, whose Hawaiian White Lotus resort spa manager is returning for the Eastern religion and spirituality set season 3, but it’s also shown a fresh, dynamic range of actors we’ve seen previously, i.e. Jennifer Coolidge and Alexandra Daddario among several others.

Will Sharpe, who endeared himself to audiences on “The White Lotus,” is directing a feature film adaptation of Michelle Zauner’s 2021 memoir “Crying in H Mart.”

Zauner’s novel centers around her relationship with her Korean heritage and her mother, who died from cancer in 2014. Best known as the frontwoman for indie-pop band Japanese Breakfast, Zauner is adapting the screenplay and will also play a part in the film’s music.

According to the official synopsis from MGM, which is backing the movie, “Crying in H Mart” is a “coming-of age story about a half-Korean daughter who returns to small town Oregon to care for her Korean mother. Critical and smothering Chong-mi and creative and independent Michelle struggle to understand each other across a cultural fault line, only learning to see and accept one another through the formative power of music and the vibrant flavors of Korean cooking.”

“There were...

Netflix has announced the cast of The House, its upcoming stop motion dark comedy animation anthology from Nexus Studios. The news was revealed Monday at the Annecy International Film Festival.

Directed by leading stop motion animation directors Emma de Swaef, Marc Roels, Niki Lindroth von Bahr and Paloma Baeza and produced by Nexus Studios, The Dark centers on a house and the three surreal tales of the individuals who made it their home.

“The characters in The House, albeit in different ways, are all trying to make sense of the world and their place within it. It’s about their flawed attempt to conform to an idea of who they think they are or who they think they ought to be,” said Charlotte Basso, Producer. “And whether they manage to break free or not. We couldn’t have dreamt of a better cast: they all embraced the heart of those...

Adrian Dunbar, Vicky McClure and Martin Compston are to Line of Duty what the ravens are to the Tower of London; if they ever leave, the kingdom will surely fall. Luckily for us, those three are going nowhere for the new seven-episode run which is due to start on BBC One from Sunday the 21st of March at 9pm.

Superintendent Ted Hastings, Detective Inspector Kate Fleming and Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott will return as AC-12, investigating a brand new, possibly bent copper as played by Kelly Macdonald. Here’s what we know about her and the other new and familiar faces we can expect to see in series six.

Kelly Macdonald – Dci Joanne Davidson

Scottish Black Mirror, Boardwalk Empire and Trainspotting actor Kelly Macdonald will play “the most enigmatic adversary AC-12 have ever faced” according to Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio. In the official press release, Dci Joanne Davidson...

The second-eldest Bridgerton sister may not get much attention from her family, but the actress who plays Eloise Bridgerton has gotten plenty of attention from fans. Bridgerton breakout star Claudia James has been acting professionally since 2012, when she was cast in an episode of Doctors. The English actress went on to land a recurring role on Doctors before starring in the TV series Porters, Vanity Fair, and Defending the Guilty, among others. We have a feeling that Claudia's star is only going to continue to rise thanks to Bridgerton, so we gathered everything you should know about the talented actress.

Related: Can't Get Enough of the Bridgerton Cast? Check Out Some of Their Other Roles!

The actor’s first feature-length effort is currently shooting in Northern Ireland, and will be toplined by Paul Mallon, Joanne Crawford and Tara Cush. British actor Prasanna Puwanarajah is now filming his first feature in Northern Ireland, a comedy entitled Ballywalter. Before moving into filmmaking, Puwanarajah studied medicine at New College, Oxford, and worked extensively in the NHS and for Médecins du Monde. His previous acting credits include the TV series Defending the Guilty, Patrick Melrose and Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned. The project was penned by Belfast-born Stacey Gregg, the writer-director of the upcoming psychological thriller Here Before (see the news), and writer of The Innocents, Riviera and Your Ma’s a Hard Brexit. The story has been described as “a bittersweet comedy set in the village of Ballywalter” and will star actors Paul Mallon, Joanne Crawford and Tara Cush...

Exclusive: Russell Tovey (Looking), Steve Oram (End of the F**king World), Omid Djalili (His Dark Materials), Sofia Barclay (Defending the Guilty), Lydia West (Years & Years), Arinzé Kene (I’m Your Woman) and Celia Imrie (Better Things) have joined Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Quantico), Sam Heughan (Outlander) and music icon and five-time Grammy Award-winner Celine Dion in Screen Gems’ romantic drama, tentatively titled Text For You, to be directed by Jim Strouse.

Shoot is underway in the UK, we can also reveal, and will complete in the U.S. in 2021.

Based on the German-language box office hit SMS Fur Dich, the film is about a woman, who, to ease the pain after tragically losing her fiancé, starts to send romantic texts to his old cell. It turns out the phone number has been reassigned to a man across town suffering from similar heartbreak. The two meet and feel an undeniable connection, but...

Sky/HBO series Chernobyl continued to dominate the awards scene after winning best drama at the Edinburgh TV Awards on Wednesday, as well as helping producer Sister scoop the production company of the year gong.

Other winners included Succession, which took home best international drama, and For Sama, which was honored in the documentary category. Fresh from winning a BAFTA, Glenda Jackson was awarded for her role in Elizabeth Is Missing.

Also during the ceremony, hosted by viral comedian Munya Chawawa, Homeland actor David Harewood won an outstanding achievement prize and Micheal Ward claimed a breakthrough talent award.

Check out the winners and nominees below. Winners are in bold.

Best Comedy Series

Defending the Guilty, Big Talk Productions Limited for BBC Two

Feel Good, Objective Fiction and Objective Media Group Scotland for Channel 4 and Netflix

GameFace, Objective Fiction for Channel 4

Mum, Big Talk Productions Limited in association with The...

“Chernobyl,” “Years & Years,” “The End of the F***ing World,” “Elizabeth Is Missing,” “The Crown” and “Giri/Haji” are the international heavy hitters in the drama category that are part of the Edinburgh TV Festival awards shortlist that were revealed Tuesday.

The comedy category shortlist includes “Feel Good,” “GameFace,” “Mum,” “Defending the Guilty,” “Sex Education” and “Stath Lets Flats.”

While the awards have been delayed until Nov. 18, the festival unveiled the shortlist after a virtual cocktail session that reunited director Paul Feig with his “Last Christmas” star Emilia Clarke.

This year sees a new, one-off category titled “Creativity in Crisis” that recognizes content emerging from a world reeling under the cornavirus pandemic. Nominees include Sky News documentary “8 minutes and 46 seconds,” “A Day in the Life of Coronavirus Britain” from Candour Productions for Channel 4, “Bitesize Scotland Daily” from BBC Scotland, “Charlie Brooker’s Antiviral Wipe” from Broke & Bones for BBC Two, “Gardener...

Amazon and the BBC have joined forces on new British comedy series The Offenders (working title) from Stephen Merchant.

Merchant, best known for being behind The Office with Ricky Gervais, but also for recently directing Fighting With My Family and playing an SS officer in Jojo Rabbit, originally created the series with Mayans M.C. co-creator Elgin James.

Produced by the ITV-owned Big Talk (Cold Feet, Defending the Guilty) and Merchant's own Four Eyes banner, The Offenders will follow seven strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete a community payback sentence. At first, they seem like archetypes ...

Exclusive: Mum producer Big Talk and Ray Donovan writer Sean Conway are to adapt Tade Thompson’s African noir novel Making Wolf for television.

The ITV-owned producer and the British writer are working on a drama adaptation of the book, which will be published by Constable in paperback in May 2020.

The book, from Rosewater author Thompson, tells the story of Weston Kogi, a London security guard, who returns to his West African home country and thinks telling people he works as a homicide detective is harmless hyperbole. However, he is kidnapped and forced by two separate rebel factions to investigate the murder of a local hero, Papa Busi. Solving the crime may tip a country on the brink into civil war and cost Weston his life.

Conway is to write the adaptation of the darkly comic, Kafkaesque story. He wrote all six episodes of Chloe Sevigny-fronted Sky drama Hit & Miss,...

BBC Two has commissioned a second series of Big Talk Productions’ legal comedy Defending The Guilty.

Will Sharpe will return as idealistic rookie barrister Will Packham, who is learning his trade from Humans star Katherine Parkinson’s Caroline, a cynical, worldly-wise pupilmaster.

Mark Bonnar (Catastrophe), Gwyneth Keyworth (Black Mirror) and Prasanna Puwanarajah also star in the show.

The comedy is written by Kieron Quirke, who wrote Cuckoo, and is based on the book Defending The Guilty: Truth And Lies In The Criminal Courtroom by Alex McBride.

Big Talk CEO Kenton Allen, Saurabh Kakkar, and Quirke are the executive producers for the ITV Studios-owned indie, while Kate Daughton is the executive producer for the BBC. Jim Field Smith is the co-executive producer.

The six-part second series was commissioned by BBC comedy controller Shane Allen, Daughton and Patrick Holland, the controller of BBC Two.

Exclusive: Leon Thomas (Victorious) is set as a series regular in ABC comedy pilot Woman Up, from Zoe Lister-Jones, Single Parents co-creator Liz Meriwether, Jason Winer and Single Parents producer 20th Century Fox TV. Written by Lister-Jones, Woman Up is about two former teen moms who have worked their asses off to see their daughters all the way through high school graduation. And now, at 35, they’re ready to make up for the youth they never had. Thomas will play Jeff, Phoebee and Liz’s younger neighbor in their apartment building. Thomas, actor, record producer, songwriter and singer, is best known for his role as Andre Harris on Nickelodeon’s Victorious. He’s repped by

ICM Partners, Authentic Talent & Literary Management and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham.

Sofia Barclay has booked a series regular role on ABC’s NYPD Blue pilot, a new iteration of the iconic cop drama.