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Black Mirror is a British sci-fi thriller drama anthology series created by Charlie Brooker. The episodes of Channel 4 and later Netflix series feature self-contained stories that revolve around a new piece of technology and explore how that technology affects the people around it. Black Mirror stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Cristin Milioti, Hayley Atwell, Jon Hamm, Michaela Coel, Anthony Mackie, Jesse Plemons, Toby Kebbell, Alex Lawther, Jodie Whittaker, and Hannah John-Kamen. So, if you loved the inventive stories, sci-fi elements, and compelling characters in Black Mirror, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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The Twilight Zone is a sci-fi fantasy horror drama anthology series created by Rod Serling. The CBS series’ episodes feature self-contained stories that revolve around seemingly ordinary people as they find themselves in extraordinary situations. The Twilight Zone stars Serling,...

Sundance is about the diamonds in the rough, and James Sweeney’s sophomore directing effort, Twinless, in which he stars opposite Dylan O’Brien won the Eccles audience over on night one of the Park City festival’s 2025 edition. The Republic Pictures title is up for sale.

Sweeney billed the movie as a bit “DePalma and grief drama,” the story about a young man Dennins (played by Sweeney) who loses his gay lover Rocky tragically (played by O’Brien). However, Rocky has a twin brother, Roman. Both Roman and Dennis find each other in a twin-loss bereavaement group, and a complex bromance sprouts.

The pic reps a return to Sundance for producer David Permut who sold the Jack Black comedy Polka King to Netflix, and for O’Brien who was here last year with Ponyboi. Sweeney gave props to Permut who discovered him at OutFest for his film Straight Up.

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Kate Gill is heading to Sony Pictures Television, joining the studio as senior VP of comedy development, working new comedy series for all platforms for the U.S. scripted division. Gill will report to comedy development exec VP Colin Davis and be based in Culver City.

“Kate has established a well-deserved reputation as a true tastemaker and a talent-friendly executive. Her strong relationships, varied experiences, and passionate outlook will be an essential asset to the team as we dive into this new era of comedy television,” said Davis in a statement.

Gill moves over from Paramount Television Studios, where she was senior VP of development and oversaw the Paramount+ musical series “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies.” While there, she also worked on the Max series “Station Eleven” and “Made For Love.” Before that, she was at YouTube Originals, working on series including “Weird City” and “On Becoming A God In Central Florida...

Sony Pictures Television has brought on Kate Gill as SVP, Comedy Development. In her new role, she will focus on developing new comedy series for all platforms for the U.S. scripted division. Reporting to Colin Davis, EVP, Comedy Development, Gill will be based in Spt’s Culver City, CA headquarters and starts her new role on May 13.

“Kate has established a well-deserved reputation as a true tastemaker and a talent-friendly executive. Her strong relationships, varied experiences, and passionate outlook will be an essential asset to the team as we dive into this new era of comedy television,” said Davis.

Most recently, Gill was SVP of development for Paramount Television Studios, where she oversaw the Paramount+ musical series Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies and shepherded the critically acclaimed limited series Station Eleven and half hour comedy Made For Love for HBO Max. Previously, she worked at YouTube Originals as...

Exclusive: Showrunner Jose Molina has signed with APA for representation.

Over the course of an extensive writing career, the Puerto Rican-born, Yale-educated Molina has collaborated with such renowned filmmakers as James Cameron (Fox’s Dark Angel), George Lucas (Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars) and Steven Spielberg (Fox’s Terra Nova). He also served as showrunner and executive producer on Jordan Peele’s genre-bending YouTube Original series, Weird City. Other recent credits include serving as co-executive producer on Netflix’s upcoming series Magic: The Gathering, Marvel’s Agent Carter for ABC, NBC’s La Brea, Blood & Treasure for CBS, the Amazon Prime original series The Tick, and The CW’s Legacies.

Molina was nominated for several humanitarian awards during his tenure on Law & Order: Svu—most notably for his episode titled “Alien,” which tackled the topic of gay marriage and adoption. The life-long genre fan is...

Amazon Prime’s Invincible isn’t like other animated superhero shows.

Sure, there’s an underdog hero — this one is named Mark aka Invincible (voiced by The Walking Dead‘s Steven Yeun) — but he’s unique. Half Korean American and half superhero, Mark is a teenager who inherits his powers from his dad Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons), the most dominant caped crusader or Viltrumite in their world. But the more strength and ability Mark gains, the more he begins to see that his father is more flawed than he could have ever imagined.

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Elizabeth Hurley (The Royals) and Hannah Simone (New Girl) have been tapped as the leads in CBS’ semi-autobiographical comedy pilot from Fam creator Corinne Kingsbury.

Co-written by Kingsbury and Spider-Man: Homecoming scribes John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the as-yet-untitled project follows Simone’s Penelope, whose career takes off at exactly the same time as her husband’s. But when Penelope’s single mom, Georgia (Hurley), is called in to help raise Penelope’s son, it appears Georgia needs more raising than the child.

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The results of the 9th Annual Streamy Awards are in, presented tonight live at the Beverly Hilton and streamed worldwide by YouTube. The Streamys honor the best in online entertainment and the creators behind it. The annual event brings together the biggest names in online entertainment for a night of celebration, discovery, and recognition. This year’s show included appearances by Emma Chamberlain, David Dobrik, Paris Hilton, Derek Hough, Casey Neistat, and Hannah Stocking, among others. The Streamys, which went host-less for the first time, featured the show’s inaugural collaborators. Emma Chamberlain coached this year’s Breakout Creator nominees on how to give a good acceptance speech. Diy creators Mr. Kate got distracted while presenting the Lifestyle award and re-designed Joey Graceffa’s table. Rosanna Pansino was joined by her friend iJustine for some live cookie decorating prior to presenting the Health and Wellness award.

Engineer Mark Rober unleashed...

One of the strongest ways that time has become a malleable force that’s untethered us from our own sense of reality is the sheer number of TV shows released in a given year. There are some series that feel like they last aired new episodes in 2015, while others have completely disappeared from the public consciousness despite existing for mere months.

Such is the way of modern television. As a result, we’ve decided to keep track of all the 174 seasons of TV we’ve reviewed so far this year. Some shows have fared better than others, but a majority of these are recommendations.

Each review is organized by the letter grade (A+ to F) that accompanies each of them. Some series have prompted follow-ups after pivotal episodes or finales, but the links below will take you to initial season reviews of all the shows listed.

It’s worth noting...

Peacock, NBCUniversal’s upcoming streaming service, has set the cast for One Of Us Is Lying, its Ya mystery drama pilot based on Karen M. McManus’ bestselling novel. Marianly Tejada (The Purge), Cooper van Grootel (Go!), Annalisa Cochrane (Into the Dark: Pure), newcomer Chibuikem Uche (Ghost Draft), Jessica McLeod (You Me Her), Barrett Carnahan (Grown-ish) and Melissa Collazo (Swamp Thing) will lead the ensemble cast of the drama which hails from NBCU’s Ucp and John Sacchi’s 5 More Minutes Productions banner.

Written by Erica Saleh and based on McManus’ novel, One Of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five high schoolers walk into detention and only four make it out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide.

Tejada will play Brownyn. Top of her class, Bronwyn is so focused on the future she rarely thinks about the present. Most classmates admire...

Exclusive: Timeless alums Goran Visnjic and Claudia Doumit are joining the second season of Amazon’s superhero drama series The Boys in recurring roles.

Based on the comic book by Garth Ennis (Preacher) and Darick Robertson and created by Supernatural creator and Timeless co-creator Eric Kripke, The Boys is set in a world where superheroes embrace the darker side of their massive celebrity and fame. It revolves around a group of vigilantes known informally as “the Boys” who set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty. Preacher‘s Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen produce.

Visnjic will portray Alistair Adana, the charismatic and shadowy leader of a mysterious church. Doumit will play Victoria Neuman, a young wunderkind congresswoman. Additionally, Malcolm Barrett will be returning as Seth Reed, a Vought Marketing executive,m who in a season 1 moment revealed he had...

Clueless and Fast Times at Ridgemont High director Amy Heckerling in on board to direct all episodes of Quibi’s musical comedy series Royalties.

Heckerling has signed on to helm all ten episodes of the show, which starts filming this week in La.

The series stars The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story’s Darren Criss and You’re the Worst’s Kether Donohue and is produced by Fox’s Gail Berman-led SideCar.

Royalties is a satirical take on the oft-untold story of songwriters behind the world’s biggest hits. It follows the ascent of a ragtag songwriting duo – Sara (Donohue) and Pierce (Criss) – as they navigate the strange and hilarious challenges of creating a truly great song, week after week.

Each episode will feature real-life entertainment personalities portraying fictitious (and ridiculous) music stars, along with original songs penned by Criss.

Criss is co-writing and executive-producing the series...

Paramount Television has added a trio of executives: Brian Segna as Svp Development and Kate Gill and Nicole Harjo as VPs of the division.

“I am thrilled by the addition of these three incredible executives to our stable,” said Jenna Santoianni, Evp and Head of Development at the studio, to whom they will report. “Their innovative taste and copious experience will be pivotal in developing our already-robust slate as Paramount Television continues to scale rapidly. I can’t wait to see what projects and new talent they bring to our diverse offerings.”

Segna joins from Ucp, where he served as VP Scripted Television Development. He worked on a number of series and pilots there including Nightflyers, Pearson, Channel Zero and two series in the works for Hulu based on the George R.R. Martin book Wild Cards. Prior to that he was VP Scripted Television Development for ITV Studios America.

Gill was with YouTube Originals,...

Paramount Television is continuing to add to its executive ranks.

The studio has tapped Brian Segna as its new senior vice president of development, along with Kate Gill and Nicole Harjo, both of whom are joining as vice presidents of development. The trio will all report to Jenna Santoianni, executive vice president and head of development for Paramount TV.

“I am thrilled by the addition of these three incredible executives to our stable,” said Santoianni in a statement. “Their innovative taste and copious experience will be pivotal in developing our already-robust slate as Paramount Television continues to scale rapidly. I can’t wait to see what projects and new talent they bring to our diverse offerings.”

Segna joins from Universal Cable Productions where he served as VP of scripted TV development. While there, he worked on series and pilots including “Nightflyers” for Syfy and Netflix, “Pearson” for USA Network, and “Channel Zero” for Syfy.

Jordan Peele, fresh off his two blockbuster directorial efforts, “Get Out” and “Us,” is ready to fully take over your TV screen. Currently, his Monkeypaw Productions has two series on the air, the acclaimed remake of “The Twilight Zone” and the YouTube anthology series “Weird City.” But his real TV crown jewel, “Lovecraft Country,” is set to debut next year.

Continue reading Abbey Lee Replaces Elizabeth Debicki In Jordan Peele’s Series ‘Lovecraft Country’ As Supporting Cast & Director Are Revealed at The Playlist.

YouTube could be the key to Will Smith finally earning a Primetime Emmy nomination — or win.

The superstar Formerly Known as the Fresh Prince has been nominated for two Academy Awards, five Golden Globes and one Screen Actors Guild Award, and has won four Grammys (out of eight nominations). Yet a Primetime Emmy nomination has so far eluded Smith.

That’s despite Smith’s long-running stint as the star of the hit 1990s sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” Smith’s other TV credits include executive producing Upn’s “All of Us.” But neither of those even got him a primetime nod. Smith technically was nominated in 1992 for a Daytime Emmy Award, in the outstanding special class program category for his part in the special “NBA All-Star Stay in School Jam,” but that’s it.

One explanation is obvious: After “Fresh Prince,” Smith mostly turned his attention to film. His...

YouTube has renewed “Karate Kid” sequel series “Cobra Kai” for a third season. The web and streaming platform has also handed a Season 3 renewal to Kevin Hart’s “What the Fit.”

Both “Cobra Kai” and “What the Fit” will premiere their new seasons in 2020.

YouTube is now offering two options for its upcoming original series like “Cobra Kai” and “What the Fit”:ad-free Svod viewing and ad-supported free viewing.

Also Read: 'Cobra Kai' Stars Talk About That Insane Season 2 Finale Scene: 'It Was Like an 11-Minute Riot'

From Aug. 29 to Sept. 11, 2019, YouTube plans to make Season 1 of “Cobra Kai” available to all users globally for free — you’ll just have to watch commercials. Season 2 gets the same treatment starting on Sept. 11, though those episodes will post weekly instead of all at once.

YouTube will share additional free ad-supported premiere dates for existing “Impulse” and “Liza on Demand” episodes at a later date.

The Conners‘ Sara Gilbert is set for a recurring role on the third season of Atypical, Netflix’s critically praised series from creator/executive producer Robia Rashid and director/executive producer Seth Gordon.

Atypical, from Sony Pictures TV, is a coming of age story that follows Sam (played by Keir Gilchrist), an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum as he searches for love and independence. While Sam is on his funny and emotional journey of self-discovery, the rest of his family must grapple with change in their own lives as they all struggle with the central theme: what does it really mean to be normal? Jennifer Jason Leigh stars as his mother, Elsa, who is on her own journey of self-discovery, Michael Rapaport plays his father, Doug, and Brigette Lundy-Paine plays Sam’s sister, Casey.

In season two, Elsa and Doug faced the aftermath of their marriage crisis and Casey tried...

Alex Piper has been named YouTube’s head of unscripted, North & South America, the company announced on Monday.

Piper, who most recently served at Fox as vice president of alternative entertainment, steps in for former unscripted boss Ben Relles, who moved to a role overseeing interactive content last week.

He will lead all efforts in conjunction with top creators to develop and produce unscripted programming, as well as having oversight of all live entertainment events. His focus will also include music projects and celebrity partnerships.

Also Read: YouTube Originals Unscripted Boss Ben Relles Gets New Role as Head of Innovation

“Alex Piper is a seasoned award winning reality programming executive with amazing taste and strong relationships who is incredibly well respected in the industry,” said Susanne Daniels, global head of original content for YouTube. “We are thrilled to have him join Youtube and bring his expertise to our diverse programming slate.

Alex Piper is joining the YouTube Originals team as head of unscripted, North and South America, leaving Fox Broadcasting after five years.

Piper takes over the job at YouTube from Ben Relles, who moved into a new role as YouTube’s head of innovation, overseeing interactive programming. Both Piper and Relles report to Susanne Daniels, global head of original content at YouTube.

At YouTube, Piper will lead all efforts with creators to develop and produce unscripted programming spanning formats and genres, including, talk, action, romance, horror and sci-fi. He will oversee all live entertainment events for YouTube. Piper’s focus also includes music and celebrity projects, working in conjunction with YouTube’s partnerships and music teams.

He joins YouTube from Fox where he most recently served as VP of alternative entertainment where he led development for a myriad of special events and series including “So You Think You Can Dance,...

YouTube is clearing its deck, as the service gets ready to unveil its new original programming plans. As part of the spring cleaning of sorts, YouTube series “Champaign Ill,” “Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television,” “Sideswiped,” and “Do You Want to See a Dead Body” won’t be back.

Those shows join previously confirmed cancelled series “Overthinking with Kat & June,” “Youth & Consequences,” and “Origin.”

YouTube isn’t completely wiping down the mat, however. Breakout hit “Cobra Kai” is back for Season 2 on April 24, and “Step Up: High Water,” currently in its second season, continues to perform well for the service. Also, comedy “Liza on Demand,” starring Liza Koshy, and sci-fi drama “Impulse” are both in production for their sophomore releases.

Meanwhile, YouTube hasn’t yet revealed the fates of comedy “Wayne,” which premiered in January, and anthology series “Weird City,” which launched in February.

YouTube will unveil its new originals distribution strategy,...

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Raise your hands if you're too terrified to look into the mirror after watching Us. Jordan Peele has done it again, following his incisive social thriller Get Out with the full-blown horror Us, which is already a box office smash (and the source of our existential nightmares). If you're looking for more content from the writer-director-actor extraordinaire, you won't necessarily have to dig through all of his MadTV and Key and Peele sketches. So, what is he doing? The question you should ask is: What isn't he doing?

Peele will lend his voice to Toy Story 4 as Bunny. He'll also appear in the currently filming horror flick Abruptio as Danny across Buffy the Vampire Slayer's James Marsters and Pitch Perfect's Hana Mae Lee.

On top of these parts, Peele has his own production company called Monkeypaw Productions that gives him the resources to create...

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Mae Jemison, SpaceX's Crew Dragon, YouTube's Weird City, and more in today's daily Link Tank!

Google is celebrating astronaut Mae Jemison on International Women’s Day.

"Friday marks International Women’s Day, a public holiday acknowledged around the world. While the day means different things to different women — some use it to celebrate achievements, while others use it as a point of protest — at the heart of it is the demand for gender equality. Mae Jemison, the former Nasa astronaut celebrated in a Google Doodle celebrating International Women’s Day, is one individual who embodies this message."

Read more at Inverse.

Here's how Riverdale might deal with the aftermath of Luke Perry's death.

Last night’s Riverdale felt like a great return to normalcy as fans of the show have been dealt a blow over the last week. Luke Perry, who starred as Archie’s father,...

Exclusive: Timeless star Malcolm Barrett is returning to his half-hour comedy roots with a male lead role in CBS’ multi-cam pilot Our House. Veteran multi-camera comedy helmer James Burrows has been tapped to direct the pilot from Brendan O’Brien and Nick Stoller, Sony Pictures TV and CBS TV Studios.

Written by O’Brien, Our House centers on a devoted dad (Barrett) and mom who are committed to raising their children with the love and support the mom never got as a kid but discover how difficult that is with her insane parents and siblings back in the picture.

Barrett will play Shawn, a kind-hearted and open-minded “super dad” who, along with his wife Bridget, is committed to raising his children in a home where emotions can be shared freely — the opposite of how Bridget was raised. Shawn recently moved his family from California to New York’s Rockland County,...

You may have heard that we're in the midst of Peak TV. The Golden Age of TV. A TV Renaissance.  That really just means that there's a whole lot of TV happening right now (like around 500 scripted shows), which is hard for those of us who want to watch as much of it as possible, but truly a gift for those of us who love it when TV gets really, really weird.  There are currently a whole bunch of really, really weird shows available to watch on a whole bunch of platforms, joined most recently by YouTube's Weird City and Netflix's The Umbrella Academy, both of which debuted last week. Weird City is an anthology series from Jordan Peele about the residents of a city divided into Above the...

There’s hardly a better example of just how overwhelming the TV offerings have gotten than “Weird City.” The new slick and bizarre comedy was co-created by Jordan Peele and “Key and Peele” writer Charlie Sanders, features a stacked cast, and is nonetheless stranded on YouTube Premium (though the first two episodes are available to stream for free). It’s the kind of show that could only exist during Peak TV, when the vast array of options can make room for bigger creative swings; it’s also the kind of show that could, regardless of merit, get lost in the shuffle.

But if you do tune into the six episodes that dropped on Feb. 13, “Weird City” quickly proves itself to be an interesting experiment, at the very least. It takes place in a sci-fi world wherein the “Haves” and “Have Nots” are divided into starkly segregated communities by a literal...

During her opening remarks to the Television Critics Association, Amazon Studios head of originals Jennifer Salke confirmed Al Pacino, Logan Lerman and Jerrika Hinton would play the lead roles in Jordan Peele’s upcoming series The Hunt. This is the third TV series Peele is producing, after YouTube’s Weird City and CBS All Access’s The Twilight […]

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For anyone who stopped watching “Modern Family” around the time it won a fifth Emmy for Best Comedy Series (aka five years ago), let “Weird City’s” premiere remind you why Ed O’Neill has sustained a career far broader than any one grumpy father figure. Sure, he’s been a dad’s dad on two iconic family sitcoms (plus “John From Cincinatti”), but O’Neill can pivot on a dime from amusement to anger, hope to heart-fall, and obliviousness to confusion. It’s this excellent comic timing combined by an eagerness to surprise that comes alive when he’s given material worth getting excited about. And his episode of Jordan Peele’s “Weird City” is pretty damn fun.

Set in a “not so distant future,” the YouTube original series frames its story around a society where the rich and poor are divided by a border wall. The “Haves” live “Above the Line,...

Welcome to “Weird City,” the futuristic metropolis where citizens either live “above” or “below” the line, dating apps dictate your total happiness, and Levar Burton is a seemingly all-knowing being. The YouTube sci-fi series, which hails from co-creators Jordan Peele and Charlie Sanders, kicks off its original six-episode run on Feb. 13 to put a comedic twist on the current anthology series trend.

Each standalone episode features a unique story within the framework of the city itself, with certain characters (like Burton) popping up throughout to thread the narratives together. Meanwhile a slew of guest stars including Ed O’Neill, Mark Hamill, Awkwafina, Laverne Cox and Sara Gilbert help bring the stories to life.

“There are definitely a lot of meta layers going on,” says Sanders, who notes he was largely inspired by Steven Spielberg’s “Amazing Stories” from the mid-1980s. “In each story the main characters are going to have standalone stories,...

This weekly feature is in addition to TVLine’s daily What to Watch listings.

With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable, streaming and whatever “Spectrum Originals” is, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

This week, you’ll find eight series premieres (including Doom Patrol and The Umbrella Academy), seven returning shows (including The Walking Dead) and so much more.

Now that the industry is past its beginning-of-the-year overviews (check out IndieWire’s Most Anticipated TV Shows of 2019), February is upon us. As the film world remains focused on last year in the lead up to the Oscars, there’s still plenty of new series on the TV side worthy of attention. As always seems to be the case when looking at the upcoming calendar for a given month, there is a wide range of offerings across streaming, broadcast, and cable. These also traverse different genres, covering both scripted and unscripted shows.

(We do this roundup of new shows pretty much every month — if you missed any of those previous picks, here are some notable TV premieres from October, November, and December of last year.)

“The ABC Murders”

Hercule Poirot has long been one of the iconic characters from mystery literature. To the long list of performers who’ve played Poirot on screen,...

YouTube original shows got a lot more publicity after Cobra Kai became the streaming platform’s big hit. The Karate Kid sequel series led to more high profile shows like Impulse, Origin, Wayne, and the upcoming Weird City from Jordan Peele. It also helped an earlier YouTube series, Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes On Television, get a second season. […]

The post Rawson Marshall Thurber and Ryan Hansen Talk ‘Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television’ Season 2 and Why They Make So Many ‘Cobra Kai’ Jokes [Interview] appeared first on /Film.

Awkwafina’s wedding dramedy “The Farewell” is close to landing a deal with indie studio A24 following its premiere this week at the Sundance Film Festival. The pact is for worldwide rights and is believed to be in the $6 million range, numerous individuals close to the negotiations told Variety.

“The Farewell” stars “Crazy Rich Asians” breakout star Awkwafina as Billi, a Chinese-American woman who travels back to China to visit her ailing grandmother. She discovers a family plot to keep grandma in the dark about her own terminal diagnosis, and agrees to help stage a fake wedding to give the matriarch one last hurrah. The film drew interest from a number of potential buyers, including Amazon and Netflix. But the asking price was a steep one and, in the case of Netflix, the filmmakers wanted a major theatrical release. Interested bidders were only allowed to make a pitch to the...

Weird City might star all of your faves, but that doesn't make it any less . . . well . . . weird.

The satirical YouTube series comes from the minds of Jordan Peele and former Key & Peele writer Charlie Sanders and is set in the not-too-distant, dystopian future city of Weird. The sprawling metropolis separates its citizens into two definitive sections, getting rid of the middle class entirely: Above the Line (the obscenely wealthy) and Below the Line (the lower class).

Although each of the bizarre, peculiar stories is connected by the mysterious Dr. Negari (LeVar Burton), a mad scientist type who presides over Weird, Weird City is an anthology that embarks on a new, uncomfortably relevant theme with each episode, such as social media addiction and online dating. The series hits YouTube Premium on Feb. 13 and stars Dylan O'Brien, Michael Cera, Awkwafina, Rosario Dawson, Gillian Jacobs, Ed O'Neill, Laverne Cox, Steven Yeun, and Mark Hamill,...

YouTube Premium has released the first trailer for Jordan Peele and Charlie Sanders’ new satirical sci-fi anthology series Weird City.

The series looks like it could be crazy entertaining and it’s a series I’ll definitely be checking out. I really like the fun and strange wackiness of what I’m seeing in this trailer. I know Jordan Peele has become known for his twisted horror film Get Out and his upcoming movie Us, but it’s good to see him involved with comedy again.

As you’ll see, Weird City has an impressive cast of actors that include LeVar Burton, Mark Hamill, Michael Cera, Awkwafina, Rosario Dawson, Dylan O’Brien, Laverne Cox, Steven Yeun, Ed O’Neil, Hannah Simone, Yvette Nicole Brown, Trevor Jackson, and Auli’i Cravalho.

The story is set in the not-too-distant future metropolis of Weird. “In this dystopian setting of our show, the middle...

Jordan Peele may be horror’s new favorite son, but the ever-busy writer/producer/director is finding ways to acknowledge his comedy roots. Jordan Peele and former Key & Peele writer Charlie Sanders teamed up to create the YouTube Premium series Weird City, a sci-fi anthology that brings the funny to futuristic dystopias. Set in a society where classes are starkly […]

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Rob Lowe is gearing up for some mind games: Mental Samurai, a game show hosted and produced by the Code Black actor, will premiere Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 9/8c on Fox.

Billed as the first-ever obstacle course for the brain, the program challenges contestants to “battle the boundaries of their minds to answer questions accurately with speed and precision.” On top of that, players have to “contend with being physically transported around the set at high speeds in a specially designed capsule capable of rotating 360 degrees.”

Mental Samurai hails from A. Smith & Co. Productions (The Titan Games, American Ninja Warrior...

YouTube has revealed the celebrity-laden lineup of guest stars for Get Out writer and director Jordan Peele’s upcoming YouTube Premium series Weird City.

The six-episode sci-fi anthology series is set in a future metropolis called Weird, and things there are pretty...well...you know. For the series' announcement back in June 2018, Peele described the project as a set of “comedy-driven twisted-ass science fiction stories that take place in a world close to ours but just a little bit off.”

Set to debut on YouTube Premium on Feb. 13, Weird City will feature a number of powerhouse guest stars: Mark Hamill (Star Wars), Laverne Cox (Orange Is the New Black), LeVar Burton (Star Trek), Dylan O’Brien (Teen Wolf), Rosario Dawson (Luke Cage), Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians), Steven Yeun (Voltron: Legendary Defender), Auli’i Cravalho (Moana), Michael Cera (Superbad), Ed O’Neill (Modern Family), Yvette Nicole Brown (Community), Gillian Jacobs (Community...

Let’s face it: we’ve all wondered what it would look like to see LeVar Burton get taken up through a pneumatic tube. “Weird City,” an science fiction anthology series arriving on YouTube Premium next month, also casts him as something of a mad scientist, which seems extremely promising. Burton is just one of many notable cast members in the ensemble. Written by Jordan Peele and former “Key & Peele” writer Charlie Sanders, “Weird City” also features appearances by Steven Yeun, Mark Hamill, Gillian Jacobs, Awkwafina, Laverne Cox, Rosario Dawson, and Michael Cera.

The six-episode anthology series is set in an imminent science fiction world full of gratification machines and instant muscle pills. In this futuristic society, humans either live in the wealthy, affluent Above the Line part of the slightly-futuristic city of Weird, or Below the Line, where amenities aren’t quite so prevalent. Aside from looking at class differences,...

Exclusive: Independent TV studio Sonar Entertainment has secured a new production finance facility of $121 million led by MidCap Financial. The capital infusion doubles Sonar’s funds for the development, financing, production and distribution of premium content, with the programming budget now north of $250 million. The additional money is designed to support the rapid slate expansion at Sonar, which went from 3 series in 2016 — all scripted — to 17 two years later. The company’s scripted shows include Mr. Mercedes at Audience, The Son at AMC, Taboo at FX/BBC One, Das Boot at Sky Deutschland and Hulu, The Hunt at Amazon, Weird City and YouTube Premium and Rob Riggle’s Ski Master Academy at Sony Crackle. Sonar also has drama pilot Constance starring Elisabeth Shue at TNT.

“The new financing really enables us to continue our growth plans and to reinforce what we see as a dominant position in the independent television space,...

Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures (MGM) has partnered with Monkeypaw Productions' Jordan Peele & Win Rosenfeld to produce a re-imagining of Candyman, the 1992 horror classic adapted from Clive Barker's short story The Forbidden. The announcement was made today by Jonathan Glickman, MGM's President, Motion Picture Group.

Rising filmmaker Nia DaCosta (Little Woods) will direct from a screenplay by Jordan Peele and Rosenfeld. The film, a "spiritual sequel" to the original, returns to the neighborhood where the legend began: the now-gentrified section of Chicago where the Cabrini-Green housing projects once stood. Production is expected to begin Spring 2019. Universal Pictures will release Candyman theatrically in the U.S. on June 12, 2020.

DaCosta's feature film debut, Little Woods, starring Tessa Thompson and Lily James had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this year and earned her the coveted Nora Ephron Award.

Peele wrote and directed the critically claimed Get Out which earned $250M worldwide for Universal Pictures.

By 2020 all shows will be part of a single slate cmprising ad-supported and subscription VOD.

Responding to reports of a cutback in its output of original scripted series, YouTube says it “will continue to invest in scripted programming” but move all its original programming in front of its paywall to be ad-supported.

The new strategy will make YouTube Premium original series part of a single YouTube Originals slate with existing ad-supported programming.

By 2020, says the Google-owned platform, all the shows will be part of a single slate for both Avod (ad-supported video on demand) and Svod (subscription supported video on demand) viewing,...

“Community” alum Yvette Nicole Brown will play Aunt Sarah in the live-action adaptation of Disney’s “Lady and the Tramp.”

Tessa Thompson is on board as Lady and Justin Theroux will voice the Tramp. Thomas Mann is portraying Lady’s human owner, Jim Dear. Kiersey Clemons is set to play Mann’s character’s wife, Darling.

Disney originally released “Lady and the Tramp” in 1955 in a story of an American Cocker Spaniel named Lady who lives with an upper-middle-class family. While the owners are away, Aunt Sarah looks after the baby. Her two trouble-making Siamese cats, Si and Am, deliberately mess up the house and trick her into thinking that Lady attacked them, leading to Aunt Sarah taking Lady to a pet shop to get a muzzle. Lady flees and ends up meeting a mongrel known as the Tramp and falling in love.

“The Lego Ninjago Movie” filmmaker Charlie Bean is directing the remake.

Warning! Spoilers ahead for Orange Is the New Black season six.

Season six provides a hell of a lot of forward momentum for the main characters of Orange Is the New Black. Among the Litchfield inmates, Sophia (Laverne Cox) has one of the happier storylines. She's released early and given a $300,000 payment from Linda and McC. Of course, the money is a bribe so that Sophia wouldn't join Caputo's lawsuit against the company, but she is still able to leave prison and return to her family. And as Sophia explains to Caputo, she can use that money to send her son to college.

The question is: will Sophia return to Oitnb for season seven, considering she's no longer an inmate? Things could really go either way. Aleida, for instance, is released from Litchfield before the riot, and Elizabeth Rodriguez's character has remained a part of the show. Taystee is...

After the success of his Oscar-winning film Get Out, Jordan Peele has gotten some TV deals. He is creating a reboot of The Twilight Zone for CBS All Access, but creating another anthology series for YouTube Premium. Both promise to tell surreal, bizarre, twisty stories, but the Weird City stories will be more connected than standalone […]

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Sara Gilbert, Dylan O’Brien, Ed O’Neill, Rosario Dawson, Michael Cera, Laverne Cox and LeVar Burton have been tapped to guest star on Weird City, YouTube’s upcoming half-hour comedic sci-fi anthology from Oscar and Emmy winner Jordan Peele and Emmy-nominated writer Charlie Sanders.

Co-written by Peele and Sanders, Weird City is an anthology set in the not-too-distant future metropolis of Weird. Each episode is an exploration of issues that pertain to present- day life, stories that could only be told now through the prism of sci-fi and comedy.

Weird City is produced by Peele’s Monkey Paw Productions, Sonar Entertainment, Mosaic and Raskal Productions. Jose Molina will serve as showrunner and executive producer. Peele, Sanders and Bernstein will also serve as executive producers along with Win Rosenfeld who will executive produce through Monkeypaw, Tom Lesinski and Jenna Santoianni through Sonar Entertainment,...

Los Angeleno actors, pay attention! Stay in the loop and be sure to check back every week for projects currently filming in the city you call home. Here’s the 411 on what’s filming (big and small) around the city. “American Horror Story”With images already being teased for Season 8 of the prolific Ryan Murphy’s horror-drama, we’re thrilled production on “Ahs: Apocalypse” is underway at Hollywood’s Fox Studios. The show will star Murphy stalwarts Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, and others, and will be a crossover of the show’s “Murder House” and “Coven” seasons. Casting by Ulrich/Dawson/Krizter. The series premieres Sept. 12 on FX. “Weird City”Have the chance to see Jordan Peele filming the upcoming sci-fi comedy show “Weird City,” a project sure to be a departure from his Academy Award–winning film, “Get Out.” The show is set to premiere in 2019 on YouTube Premium.

Jordan Peele is on top of the world right now. The Oscar-winning writer/director has a slew of new projects in development, including multiple series at multiple networks and of course, his follow-up to “Get Out,” which should hit theaters next year. Needless to say, the guy is very busy, and he can now add another project to his already massive list. The filmmaker has just signed a deal to have his newest series “Weird City” find a home at YouTube Premium.

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YouTube has given a straight-to-series order for “Weird City,” a science-fiction anthology series from Jordan Peele and ‘Key & Peele’ writer Charlie Sanders.

“Weird City” is a half-hour comedic anthology set in the not-too-distant future metropolis of Weird. Each episode is an exploration of issues that pertain to present-day life, stories that could only be told now through the prism of sci-fi and comedy.

The six-episode series will air on YouTube Premium (the rebranded name from YouTube Red) in 2019. Jose Molina, whose TV credits include “The Tick,” “Agent Carter” and “Sleepy Hollow,” will serve as showrunner. Adam Bernstein will direct for the first two episodes.

“We are thrilled to be in business with Jordan, Charlie and Jose, who have brilliantly created a highly entertaining satire that will be a timely send up of modern society,” said Susanne Daniels,...