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Comedy in the 23rd Century with the crew of the USS Enterprise has always been a levity reprieve while exploring and promoting Federation ideals in the Alpha Quadrant. In Tos, most notably with the sparring comedy team of the Vulcan “straight man” in Lieutenant Spock and the “captain sarcasm” in Medical Officer “Bones” McCoy. Star Trek creators were quite smart in balancing the seriousness of first contact missions, alien species conflicts, and the dangers of unknown space anomalies within the light-hearted fun of comedy and laughter at light-speed.

With Star Trek’s first musical episode in Snw, to the adult animated Star Trek comedy Star Trek: Lower Decks – injections of comedy have always been a part of Star Trek’s appeal, and it is as alive today as it was some sixty years ago from the 1966 iconic Tos that launched a global phenomenon.

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James Gunn, co-ceo of DC Studios, is a creative genius and storyteller. He has single-handedly reinvented Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy property into a worldwide franchise phenomenon, propelling Chris Pratt (Star-lord) into a bona fide “in demand” A-list action star! He is a fantastic writer and director of other superhero projects, such as DC's The Suicide Squad and the Peacemaker series, which further solidifies how his witty, yet grounded-in-realism take on the human side of being a hero or an anti-hero resonates with critics and fans around the world.

And now our Saturn Award winner for Best Director (Guardians of the Galaxy) has his sights on doing the same for Wonder Woman in the wake of the rebooted Dcu launch of the soon-to-be-released Superman. Gunn recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly and confirmed that a new Dcu Wonder Woman movie is alive and well by saying this:

“We’re working on Wonder Woman.

Two of the original directors on The Officeseason 1 will return to direct the first two episodes of the highly anticipated spinoff series, The Paper, ScreenRant exclusively reports. The Paper, starring Domhnall Gleeson, Sabrina Impacciatore, Melvin Gregg, and more, will premiere on Peacock on September 18, 2025. Oscar Nuńez, who played Oscar Martinez in The Office, will reprise his role in The Paper. The Paper is not a remake of The Office, which was originally created by Ricky Gervais for the BBC, but will exist in the same story world.

In an interview with ScreenRant's Ash Crosson, celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, the 2-time Emmy-nominated film and television director Ken Kwapis shed light on his involvement in The Paper season 1. He also revealed that Greg Daniels, who directed 13 episodes of The Office and developed the American series for television, has also returned to direct an early episode of The Paper.

Steve Carell dominated the Netflix landscape when The Office was available on the streaming service, becoming one of its most popular titles. However, since the sitcom left the platform, Carell has starred in the short-lived sitcom Space Force, which was canceled after two seasons.

Carell once again returned to the service with a new series in May 2025, which quickly climbed to the top of the streamer’s charts. However, the series has now been dethroned with the arrival of a sinister documentary about Osama bin Laden. Here is how the documentary’s arrival shook up the Netflix charts.

Steve Carell’s The Four Seasons loses top spot on Netflix Top 10 charts

Actor Steve Carell is best known for his performance as Michael Scott in the critically acclaimed sitcom The Office. He most recently appeared in the comedy-drama series The Four Seasons, which premiered on Netflix on May 1, 2025.

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Even though The Office found a whole new second life on Netflix, and honestly felt like it was tailor-made for the platform, the truth is, if it had been a Netflix original, it likely wouldn’t have made it past a few seasons. While it thrived over nine long seasons on network TV, the current streaming landscape tells a very different story.

Post-pandemic shifts in the industry have changed the game. Studios are now leaning toward shorter, tighter seasons and wrapping up shows much faster than before. Michael Schur, the creator of this very show and also behind hits like The Good Place, has even spoken out about this trend, explaining that economic pressures are now pushing platforms to favor quick turnarounds and limited runs over long-term storytelling.

So while The Office today thrives on Netflix, the current climate might not have been as kind if it were made in recent years,...

Imagine trying to redo The Office in recent years with the same ingredients that made it a pop culture phenomenon in the early 2000s. Sounds impossible right? Well, it is indeed, and even Greg Daniels knows it. So much so that the mastermind behind Dunder Mifflin’s chaotic charm claimed to be disinterested in a reboot that messes with perfection.

Therefore, when it came to his Steve Carell-led Netflix show, Space Force—although Greg Daniels joined the show to serve as the creative mind, he stayed true to his words. So, even though he used the same comedy DNA and starred Carell, Daniels refused to recycle Michael Scott’s magic.

Greg Daniels promised to never redo The Office charm The Office creator Greg Daniels | image: Criticologos, licensed under Cc By 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

When someone creates a show as iconic as The Office, the temptation to recreate that magic is real.

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune fans, we’ve got a fresh off the press preview for the new Season 5 Episode 3 episode titled Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ben Schwartz and Adam Pally!

Find out everything you need to know about the Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ben Schwartz and Adam Pally episode of Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ben Schwartz and Adam Pally Season 5 Episode 3 Preview

The upcoming episode of “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” promises to be a delightful mix of laughter and competition. Scheduled to air on ABC at 8:00 Pm on May 7, 2025, this episode features three well-known celebrity contestants: Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ben Schwartz, and Adam Pally.

Wendi McLendon-Covey is best known for her role in “The Goldbergs,” where her comedic timing and charm have won over audiences. Her quick wit and engaging personality are expected to shine...

It’s true, The Office is a gem. But not everyone from today’s generation caught it the first time around. Back in the day, it wasn’t an instant phenomenon. Some folks just didn’t give it a shot, and others didn’t realize what they were missing.

Fast forward to 2020, and suddenly, The Office was everywhere again. Thanks to the rise of streaming during the pandemic, the show found new life and a brand-new audience. In fact, it became the most-streamed show in the U.S. that year, right before it left Netflix, and has been a top performer for Peacock ever since.

What’s wild is that The Office was basically built for binge-watching before binge-watching was even a thing. With its short episodes, lovable weirdos, and mockumentary style, the show was effortlessly addictive. You didn’t just watch an episode, you let five play while you “folded laundry.

Exclusive: Ben Harris, who has been overseeing casting for Netflix’s comedy series for the past three and a half years as Director, Series Casting, Comedy, has been promoted, adding casting oversight of the streamer’s drama series too.

As Director, Drama/Comedy Series Casting, he will have dual report to Netflix’s head of comedy Tracey Pakosta and head of drama Jinny Howe.

Harris has been head of comedy casting at Netflix since the streamer launched an in-house casting department in July 2021.

Before that, he was a casting director with a resume that includes HBO’s Veep, for which he shared an Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series Emmy Award with Allison Jones, as well as HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, Eastbound & Down, Avenue 5 and White House Plumbers; Max’s Our Flag Means Death; FX’s What We Do In the Shadows, NBC’s The Office, Fox/NBC’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine,...

Exclusive: CBS is developing a workplace comedy series from writer Lauren Houseman and CBS Studios.

Lauren Houseman

Sheltered is a single-cam series that tells the story of the misfit volunteers at an overworked and underfunded pet rescue who often feel as complicated, lonely, and ‘unlovable’ as the difficult dogs and cats in their care.

Executive producing alongside Houseman are The Lonely Island’s Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer as well as Ali Bell of the company’s banner Party Over Here.

CBS doesn’t have a signature single-camera workplace comedy at the moment, something ABC has with Abbott Elementary, NBC with newcomer St. Denis Medical and Fox with Animal Control.

Houseman has previously collaborated with Greg Daniels, as a producer across both seasons of his Netflix series Space Force, and as a producer and writer on Daniels’ Prime Video series Upload.

Her writing credits also...

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Going Dutch is a comedy series created by Joel Church-Cooper. The Fox series follows Colonel Patrick Quinn, an arrogant and narcissistic man who is reassigned to the “least important Army base in the world” after an offensive rant. When he gets there, he discovers that his estranged daughter is already there. Going Dutch stars Denis Leary, Taylor Misiak, Danny Pudi, Lacy Mosley, and Hal Cumpston. So, if you loved the military humor, hilarious comedy, and compelling characters in Going Dutch, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Enlisted is a military fiction comedy series created by Kevin Biegel. The Fox series revolves around three brothers who are soldiers in the US Army as they serve their nation by taking care of those who are left behind after the soldiers deploy.

Netflix is one of the biggest and most famous streaming services in the world, with many talked-about series in its expanding library. The platform has made many huge hits, including but not limited to Stranger Things, Squid Game, The Witcher, and Outer Banks. These shows massively grew in popularity and became staples of the Netflix brand. Every so often, Netflix has an ambitious new show to give subscribers.

However, there have been several instances when those anticipated series failed to meet viewers' modest-to-high expectations. Whether it was an adaptation of beloved source material, a reboot, a spin-off, or featured promising talent and ideas, these Netflix original shows failed to live up to the hype. Between Resident Evil, Cowboy Bebop, and Space Force, these Netflix series let critics and audiences down the most.

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Warning: contains spoilers for X-Men #9Marvel Comics has been teasing the mysterious "Inmate X" identity for months now, with most fans assuming that the mutant prisoner would be none other than former X-Men leader Charles Xavier. However, X-Men #9 has finally revealed that Inmate X is not Xavier, launching a whole new set of fan theories on whom it could be, with this bewildering mutant most likely playing a major role in an upcoming X-Men story.

The mystery of Inmate X was deepened when, in X-Men #9, Xavier used his powers to control Psylocke, manipulating her and Nightcrawler into freeing him from Graymalkin Prison, after which he reveals that he is in fact not Inmate X.

X-Men #9, from writer Jed MacKay and artist Federico Vicentini, sees Juggernaut readying himself to break out Inmate X from Graymalkin - a mutant prison run by Dr. Corina Ellis with the help...

Steve Carell is one of Hollywood's most beloved actors. Best known as Michael Scott on The Office, Carell has also built a successful film career with classics like Anchorman and The 40-Year-Old Virgin. After conquering comedy, Carell shifted to dramatic roles in The Big Short and Foxcatcher, earning his first Academy Award nomination for the latter. Recently, he's returned to television, delivering acclaimed performances in The Morning Show (Apple TV+) and The Patient (FX), and signing on for a new HBO series. However, his most lucrative role might be voicing Gru in the six films in the Despicable Me franchise.

The youngest of four brothers, Carell grew up in Acton, Massachusetts. Though he planned to go law school, Carell caught the performing bug after joining a student-run improv troupe while attending Denison University. After graduating, Carell moved to Chicago, where he joined the famed The Second City. His first big...

Jimmy O. Yang almost didn’t make it to the first day of shooting.

To get into the mindset of his character on Hulu’s incredibly meta new series Interior Chinatown — in which the 37-year-old actor plays Willis Wu, a humble background character in the show’s fictional police procedural, Black & White, who thinks he’s living a real life — Yang went method. He purchased some grubby garments from Goodwill, put on a pair of old shoes he still had from his early days waiting tables, and, for the grand sum of $1500, purchased the crappiest car he could find, a 1999 Toyota Corolla.

He did such a good job, the guards at the Fox lot, where the show shoots, wouldn’t let him through the gates when he turned up for Day One of production.

“The security guard would not give me the time of day,” he recalls to The Hollywood Reporter.

Plot: Based on Charles Yu’s award-winning book of the same name, the show follows the story of Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural called Black & White. Relegated to the background, Willis goes through the motions of his on-screen job, waiting tables, dreaming about a world beyond Chinatown and aspiring to be the lead of his own story. When Willis inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, he begins to unravel a criminal web in Chinatown, while discovering his own family’s buried history and what it feels like to be in the spotlight.

Review: Interior Chinatown is an interesting approach to telling a meta-fictional story. Rather than breaking the fourth wall or setting a story within a story, this series takes the approach of interconnecting characters often relegated to the background and showing how they can break free of their stereotypical and cliche constraints to...

Two Sentence Horror Stories creator Vera Miao has set her next project, a horror film titled Rock Springs. She wrote the script and will direct this horror feature, which will star Kelly Marie Tran, Benedict Wong, and Jimmy O. Yang.

The film's plot revolves around a family consisting of a young girl, her mother, and her grandmother, who decide to move to Rock Springs, Wy after the passing of her father. But shortly after their arrival, they find their lives in danger when they discover the town's dark past and that something monstrous lurks in the woods behind their new house.

Tran is best known for starring as Rose Tico in Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. She also voiced the lead role of Raya in the animated fantasy film Raya and the Last Dragon. In addition, she played as Jules Shaw in the...

Exclusive: Emmy Award winner Ben Schwartz has joined the 20th Century feature Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice as part of the ensemble cast, which includes Vince Vaughn, James Marsden, Eiza Gonzalez, Jimmy Tatro and Arturo Castro.

The film is a buddy action comedy from writer and director BenDavid Grabinski set in the criminal underworld. Character names and descriptions have yet to be revealed.

Deadline first reported in May that 20th Century landed the project following a heated bidding war. Andrew Lazar is producing.

Schwartz received an Emmy Award in 2009 for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special for his collaboration with host Hugh Jackman’s opening number in ABC’s 81st Annual Academy Awards. He has an additional three nominations for both acting and writing.

His recent TV credits include Lord & Miller’s AppleTV+ miniseries The Afterparty and the Greg Daniels and Steve Carell Netflix series Space Force, both...

The Abandons, an upcoming Western series in the works at Netflix by Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter, is enduring some major turbulence behind the scenes. With most episodes already filmed, it's been revealed that Sutter has suddenly left the production.

Per Deadline, Sutter has departed The Abandons just three weeks before the season was set to finish with filming. The news comes as a shock, as Sutter had been executive producing in addition to creating the show. Filming will continue on without Sutter on board, as fellow EP Otto Bathurst and co-executive producer Rob Askins will oversee the rest of the production. There is reportedly about one episode's worth of material left to film, though there are also scheduled reshoots on the calendar.

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Kurt Sutter has departed his Netflix series The Abandons just three weeks before the Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson-led Western is set to wrap, according to a Thursday report from our sister site Deadline.

Sutter, who created the series, was also serving as executive producer and showrunner. The Abandons executive producer/director Otto Bathurst and co-ep Rob Askins will be overseeing the remainder of production, which will continue as scheduled.

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The Truman Show, the critically acclaimed 1998 drama starring Jim Carrey, Ed Harris and Laura Linney, has found a new streaming home. Starting Oct. 1 the film, which has a 94% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, will stream on Paramount+.

Carrey stars as Truman Burbank, a man who is blissfully unaware his life is being filmed for a reality television show watched by millions. Everything in his life, unbeknownst to him, has been crafted by producers, essentially making his entire life a lie.

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Netflix has released the trailer for its literary romance drama “Lonely Planet,” featuring an old-school-new-school paring of Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth.

According to the official logline, the film follows a novelist named Katherine (Dern), who in search of inspiration, books a trip to a writer’s retreat in Morocco. There, she meets “a young man (Hemsworth) whose acquaintanceship evolves into an intoxicating, life-altering love affair.”

Supporting cast members include Diana Silvers (“Space Force”), Ben Youcef (“Afraid”), Bellina Logan (“Palm Royale”), Gustav Dyekjær Giese (“The Quiet Ones”) and Dillon Lane (“The Guilty”).

While discussing the film with Netflix’s publication Tudum, Dern said what attracted her to “Lonely Planet” was “the exploration of identity and self-worth within relationships, especially in a world as intellectually charged as the literary scene.”

“The dynamic between the younger man and the older, established writer intrigued me because it’s not just about romance — it...

“Tell Me Lies” Season 2 has finally arrived, welcoming back fan favorites as well as new additions to the cast.

Grace Van Patten and Jackson White return as Lucy and Stephen, respectively, who reunite at college as exes following their dramatic breakup at the beginning of summer. The exes have to deal with not only the fallout of their split, but also the ripple effects that Season 1’s dramatics had on their friend group.

Season 2 will also welcome in several new faces to the fold, including “Gossip Girl” star Thomas Doherty and “Lucifer” star Tom Ellis.

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Grace Van Patten as Lucy Albright

Grace Van Patten returns as Lucy Albright, now a sophomore in college who recently went through a dramatic breakup with Stephen after dating her for most of her freshman year. She is close friends with Bree and Pippa, who also became entangled with Stephen’s friend group of upperclassmen.

While talking to “Saturday Night Live” veterans David Spade and Dana Carvey on their “Fly on the Wall” podcast, comedian Punkie Johnson discussed her decision to leave “SNL” ahead of its 50th season.

Johnson revealed she began doubting her role on the prolific sketch comedy show before Season 49. “I talked to my team. I was like, ‘Look, I don’t really know if I belong at this job, so maybe I should step away,’” Johnson said. “But I told them super, super late, like right after I found out I got to go back. And it was like ‘Well Punkie, you need a plan. You can’t just quit your job.'”

Johnson decided to remain as a cast member for Season 49, and said for the first couple of weeks, things were “tremendous.”

“I think I got like three or four sketches on the first half [of the season],” she added. “And usually...

Exclusive: Amazon MGM Studios has taken in for development San Fuerte, a single-camera comedy written and executive produced by Shepard Boucher (Upload).

In it, Ben Schreiber is an American journalist who’s sent to the Latin American island nation of San Fuerte to interview its enigmatic dictator, Emilio San Juan. While there, Ben discovers the shocking truth: Emilio is his father, and he has no intention of letting him go home…

Boucher is executive producing alongside Aaron Kaplan of Kapital Entertainment.

A former journalist at ABC News, Boucher has worked as co-executive producer on such series as Prime Video’s Upload and My Lady Jane, Max’s Made For Love as well as Netflix’s Space Force and the upcoming medical procedural Pulse. His writing-producing credits also include the CW’s Riverdale and TBS’ Angie Tribeca. He is repped by CAA, Kaplan/Perrone and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka.

Exclusive: Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men) and Laura Slade Wiggins (Shameless) have signed on to star alongside Landon Ashworth (Space Force) in Go On, a fantasy drama marking Ashworth’s feature directorial debut, which will enter production in New Mexico in September.

Marking Ashworth’s first produced feature screenplay, the film follows two strangers on a remote mountain, scorched by forest fires, as they help each other process baggage from their previous lives so they can transition to the afterlife. Ashworth crafted the screenplay after losing his very young cousin, Landon Bellm, to suicide.

“Having my feature film directorial debut be my own screenplay which addresses real, meaningful, and relatable issues is an honor,” Ashworth told Deadline. “Also, having the opportunity to work with Vincent is beyond a dream come true. I’ve followed his career for over a decade and knew he needed to play the co-lead of this movie.

Punkie Johnson and Molly Kearney have announced their departures from the cast of Saturday Night Live. There is no word as to any further departures from the cast ahead of season 50. At the time of writing, Johnson and Kearney's next steps are unknown.

Two cast members have left Saturday Night Live after season 49. The long-running NBC sketch comedy show was created by Lorne Michaels and originally began airing in 1975, featuring guest hosts and musicians along with live and pre-recorded sketches performed by a rotating cast of comedy performers. So far, no hosts or musical guests have been announced for the landmark season 50, but former SNL cast member Maya Rudolph has reportedly been set to return to reprise her role as Presidential nominee Kamala Harris through the end of the 2024 election.

On their respective official Instagram accounts, both Punkie Johnson and Molly Kearney announced their departures from the cast of Saturday Night Live.

Justin Simien, known for being at the helm of acclaimed films and shows like Dear White People and Haunted Mansion, has navigated plenty of unexpected twists and turns in his sci-fi career journey. From developing a highly anticipated Lando Calrissian series for Disney+ to now co-creating an untitled Star Trek comedy for Paramount+, the director is boldly going where few have gone before.

Simien shared the behind-the-scenes story of developing the scrapped Disney+ show centered on everyone’s favorite smuggler, Lando, played by Donald Glover in Solo. “We had a full bible, scripts, and concept art in place,” Simien revealed. However, the plug was pulled in favor of reimagining it as a feature film spearheaded by Glover and his brother. The director said learning about the series being shelved from “the trades” was when it truly hit him.

While this setback left Simien grieving the loss of a passion project,...

Donald Glover's journey as Lando Calrissian has been a twisty path from Solo: A Star Wars Story. A Disney+ spinoff series was announced, and Lando was very far along when Glover announced a creative change. Then it was announced that Lando would be a movie and not a series after all, and now it seems Disney has shelved it altogether, which was all heartbreaking to filmmaker Justin Simien, who was set to direct. He found out in the worst way. "It became clear. They probably wont want me to say this, but I knew it was official when I read it in the trades. But the writing was super on the wall," Simien told Collider. He explained how far along the project was:

It was pretty developed. Yeah, there was a Bible, there was concept art, there were scripts, but it just wasnt meant to be.

"It is true grief,...

Lisa Kudrow is opening up about the moment she realized Friends was helping people through tough moments in their lives.

The actress stopped by Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson’s podcast, SiriusXM’s Where Everybody Knows Your Name, to discuss her current series, Time Bandits. During the conversation, Kudrow opened up about how she realized Friends was having an impact on people.

“I would drive home, you know, in L.A. and if I’m stopped, someone in the car next to me might look over and go, ‘Ah,’ and wave or something,” the Space Force actress said on the podcast. “After 9/11, and it happened a few times driving home, someone’s next to me, and they just looked over, and they just looked exhausted and tired and just went, ‘Thank you,’ and it almost made me cry, and that’s where it hit me. ‘Oh no. We are actually providing a service,...

Punkie Johnson, a cast member on “Saturday Night Live” for the last four seasons, confirmed on Instagram Thursday that she is exiting the NBC sketch comedy program ahead of Season 50.

The comedian let the news slip while performing onstage at her own comedy show Wednesday, and assured in her video announcement that “it’s not bad blood, it’s no bridges burned.”

“I just want to let you know after four seasons, I will not be returning to ‘SNL’ for the 50th,” Johnson began. “Alright, so last night, I had a Punkie and Friends show, and since it was some ‘SNL’ cast and writers at the show, I opened up the floor for questions. And everything was going fine, until somebody asked, ‘What are you looking forward to most next season?’ I don’t remember the exact question, all I heard was, ‘Me and next season.’ I’m not going to lie to my friends,...

Punkie Johnson is leaving “Saturday Night Live” after four seasons.

Johnson apparently broke the news to an audience at a stand-up comedy show at Brooklyn’s Union Hall on July 31, at which fellow “SNL” cast members Molly Kearny, Devon Walker and Michael Longfellow were also on the lineup.

Johnson confirmed her exit in a video posted to Instagram on Thursday.

“After four seasons, I will not be returning to ‘SNL’ for the 50th,” Johnson said, adding that when she took an audience question at her stand-up show about whether she was excited for the next season of the NBC sketch comedy series, she said, “Oh, I ain’t coming back.”

“It’s no bad blood, it’s no bridges burned, it’s no hard feelings,” Johnson continued. “Bro, I love my people! I didn’t think none of this was going to be a big deal.”

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Changes are starting to happen at Saturday Night Live ahead of its upcoming 50th season.

Punkie Johnson has left the show after four seasons. She revealed the news during a comedy show last night and just confirmed it on Instagram.

“After four seasons, I will not be returning to SNL for the 50th,” she said.

“It’s no bad blood, it’s no bridges burnt, it’s no hard feelings,” she added. “SNL was a dream I didn’t even know I could achieve. I was part of one of the most elite institutions in comedy, and I’m so grateful for it… but my time there has come to an end.” (You can watch a video of her comments below.)

Johnson, whose real name is Jessica Williams, joined the NBC show as a featured player in Season 46 before being promoted to repertory status in 2022 ahead of its 48th season.

Unstable is a workplace comedy series created by Rob Lowe, John Owen Lowe, and Victor Fresco. Created by and starring the Lowe father-son duo, the Netflix series follows Jackson as he tries to save both his father and his father’s company after Ellis starts spiraling out because of his wife’s death. Unstable also stars Sian Clifford, Aaron Branch, Rachel Marsh, Emma Pilar Ferreira, Fred Armisen, Tom Allen, Jt Parr, Lamorne Morris, and Iris Apatow. So, if you loved the feel-good, workplace, and absurd comedy in Unstable here are some similar shows you could watch next.

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The Star Trek Universe keeps expanding at warp speed.

Justin Simien, the writer-director behind Dear White People and The Haunted Mansion, and Tawny Newsome, one of the voice stars of Star Trek: Lower Decks, are in development on a new live-action Star Trek series for Paramount+.

The announcement was made Saturday during the Star Trek Universe panel in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con by Simien, who was moderating, and Newsome, who was on stage.

The new series is intended to be an action comedy that, according to Paramount, centers on Federation outsiders who are serving on a gleaming resort planet. Not only that, their day-to-day exploits are being broadcast to the entire quadrant.

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“Star Trek” is preparing to beam up some laughter.

Actor-writer Tawny Newsome (“Star Trek: Lower Decks”) and writer-director Justin Simien are developing a new live-action comedy set in the world of the storied sci-fi franchise.

The show will be set in the 25th century. According to an official logline, it will follow “Federation outsiders serving a gleaming resort planet find out their day-to-day exploits are being broadcast to the entire quadrant.”

Newsome and Simien announced the project, along with fellow executive producer Alex Kurtzman, during the “Star Trek” Universe panel at San Diego Comic-Con, which Simien moderated. Newsome was there with the cast of “Lower Decks” to discuss the fifth and final season of the animated comedy, in which Newsome voices Beckett Mariner, one of the junior officers on the USS Cerritos.

Simien, Newsome and Kurtzman will also write on the show. Aaron Baiers, Kyle Laursen, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth will executive produce.

Friday started off with a bang as the cyber world was thrown into turmoil. With airlines in the United States facing communication issues with the Faa and major airlines grounding operations worldwide, it seemed like the world was on the brink of disaster. Screens at airports turned blue, Fids systems crashed, and chaos reigned as the systems that were meant to protect us from hackers inadvertently caused more harm than good.

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The culprit behind this mayhem was CrowdStrike, an American cybersecurity firm whose update caused a domino effect of outages and disruptions. Microsoft also found itself in hot water as machines running ‘CrowdStrike Falcon’ were affected. While all this was going on, the narrative took a lighter turn when one of the episodes from Steve Carell’s Space Force series, courtesy of Jimmy O Yang’s genius, caught viral fire.

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Lisa Kudrow plays the jolly leader of a merry band of thieves in the official trailer for Time Bandits, the Apple TV+ fantasy comedy that co-creator Taika Waititi adapted from the 1981 Terry Gilliam film of the same name.

“Nothing is too big for us to steal,” Kudrow’s character, Penelope, explains to the series’ hero, Kevin, an 11-year-old history buff and the central child star played by Brit actor Kal-El Tuck. “Ok, now that we’re close, maybe it is too big to steal,” a deadpan Kudrow says in an otherwise absurdly comedic scene in the trailer as Penelope, Kevin and her crack team of robbers come upon a giant Trojan horse about to enter medieval city gates.

Time Bandits has its characters traveling through time and space to meet adventure at every turn as they look to plunder treasure, whether when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, as Stonehenge was created or during the Harlem Renaissance.

Most space-related films tend to be serious dramas. There are very few films that present a story set in the stars in the world beyond our planet in a satirical and humorous manner. Don’t Look Up was an apocalyptic comedy-drama, while Netflix’s Space Force tried to produce another satirical comedy, but the show fell flat. Space Cadet is the story of a young woman who had yearned to head to space since childhood but could not do so because of unforeseen circumstances she faced growing up.

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Who was Tiffany “Rex” Simpson?

Tiffany “Rex” Simpson was a young Florida-based woman who was a well-known bartender in town. Rex, at the same time, had a vast knowledge of the stars, moon, and everything related to astrophysics and space. She lived with her father and had come up with several inventions that she’d placed all over the backyard of her home.

The main stars of America’s Got Talent have remained mostly constant. While there have been some changes, like Sofia Vergara not participating in the Fantasy League season, the four judges and host, Terry Crews, have been there for a few seasons without a break. However, some fans think Crews might be on his way out.

Here is why some people think Crew might be leaving AGT.

Terry Crews Picks Up Exciting New Gig Away From America’s Got Talent

A beloved sitcom is coming back to TV in a different form. Everybody Hates Chris was a show that was based on the childhood of comedian Chris Rock. Now, the animated series Everybody Still Hates Chris is coming, and the cast from the original show is returning to voice their characters.

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The returning cast members include Chris Rock (as the narrator), Terry Crews, and Tichina Arnold (via Variety). Crews played Julius,...

Quite a few of your favorite television performers have plenty of Emmy Awards on their shelves… Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Allison Janney, Cloris Leachman, Tina Fey. Other TV legends like Henry Winkler and Bob Newhart just picked up their first and only statuettes in recent years. But how about the many others still waiting for their trophy? Tour through our photo gallery above featuring the Top 30 greatest TV stars who have never won an Emmy (arranged in alphabetical order). We only chose people with long-running television careers without reaching this one singular achievement. Congratulations to Jason Bateman for finally getting off of our list in 2019!

Several people in our gallery are still actively working, with some of them on this year’s Emmy ballot seeking another shot at the gold. Those names include Tim Allen (“Last Man Standing”), Kristen Bell (“The Good Place”), Steve Carell, Don Cheadle (“Black Monday”), Lauren Graham (“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist...

Brian Wilson's perfectionism led to the shelving of the "Smile Tapes" and a difficult period for The Beach Boys. "Pet Sounds" was Brian Wilson's deep and emotional response to "Rubber Soul" by The Beatles. "Pet Sounds" then inspired their album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." Despite initial backlash, "Smiley Smile" showed a different side of The Beach Boys but struggled to find its place in the music scene until years later.

The new Disney+ documentary, The Beach Boys, chronicles the bands rise to fame, their highs and lows, and their return to success and icon status with their extremely successful and well-known catalog. However, there is one Beach Boys album that didnt receive much love when it first came out, and The Beach Boys reveals why. Songs by The Beach Boys have been used in many movies to great effect, from 50 First Dates to Fantastic Mr. Fox. Partially because of this,...

Tires is a workplace comedy series created by the immensely popular stand-up comedian Shane Gillis. The Netflix comedy series is set in a tire shop and follows the daily hijinks of all the employees from Shane’s quippy remarks to Will’s latest humiliation. Tires stars Gillis in the lead role with Steve Gerben, Chris O’Connor, Kilah Fox, Stavros Halkias, and Andrew Schulz. So, if you loved the comedy and the characters in Tires here are some more workplace comedies for you to watch next.

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The Crew is a workplace comedy series created by Jeff Lowell. The Netflix series is set in a NASCAR garage and it follows the story of the crew chief as he is surprised to find out that the owner has decided to retire and put his millennial daughter in charge of the garage. Both butt heads over how the garage...

Kurt Sutter has lassoed himself quite an ensemble for The Abandons, his new Netflix Western now filming in Calgary.

With production now underway and first cast photos revealed below, the creator of Sons of Anarchy and veteran of The Shield said to Tudum, “I am fascinated by the metamorphosis of good into evil. What must transpire to drive the morally sound to become the dangerously corrupt. The Abandons explores those complex compromises through the most powerful human instinct — the love and protection of mothers.”

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Steve Carell has been responsible for some of the funniest characters on the big and small screen this century. Brick Tamland in Anchorman, Michael Scott in The Office, Gru in Despicable Me, Mark R. Naird in Space Force — the list goes on. Now, per THR's reporting, Carell is set to add another notch to his funnyman belt with a starring role in a new HBO comedy from Ted Lasso co-creator Bill Lawrence and Scrubs' Matt Tarses.

The victor of a multi-platform bidding war, HBO have ordered the as-yet-untitled show straight-to-series, with a 10-episode first season in development. Lawrence and Tarses, who are currently hard at work on Apple TV's upcoming Vince Vaughn comedy series Bad Monkey, are set to write the first episode of this show, a single-camera comedy set on a college campus that centres around the complicated relationship between an author (presumably Carell) and his daughter.

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Known for his stellar performance in the popular sitcom The Office, Steve Carell is officially returning to Television with a new HBO comedy show. The actor, celebrated for his comedic brilliance, will headline the new show from Ted Lasso co-creator Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses. Fans have expressed their excitement, reacting enthusiastically to the news of Carell’s upcoming project.

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Steve Carell Joins a New HBO Comedy Show

Actor-comedian Steve Carell is set to lead a new untitled HBO single-camera comedy show, which received a straight-to-series order for 10 episodes amid a competitive bidding war among multiple platforms.

In addition to starring in the series, Carell is also producing the comedy show with Lawrence and Tarses. The show is set on a college campus and follows an author’s complicated relationship with his daughter.

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Bill Lawrence, the co-creator of the Emmy-winning series Ted Lasso,...

Though Steve Carell has tried his best to work on great TV shows in recent years, he still can’t shake “The Office.” Sure, he’s made plenty of films and proven he’s a wonderful actor, but everytime he works on a new show, such as the Netflix comedy, “Space Force,” it’s always just a reminder that he was at his peak on “The Office.” Well, now he’s headed to HBO (a network synonymous with quality) to once again try to shake off that ‘Office’ smell.

Continue reading Steve Carell To Star In New HBO Comedy Series From ‘Ted Lasso’ Creator Bill Lawrence at The Playlist.

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Oscar-nominated actor John Malkovich has joined the cast of Marvel Studio's The Fantastic Four.

We've been hearing a lot of casting news surrounding the upcoming MCU film for the past few months as it is heading to production this summer.

Now, another talent has been added to the roster as they have recruited an iconic award-winning actor to join the growing ensemble of the highly-anticipated MCU film.

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John Malkovich Joins the Cast of The Fantastic Four

Reports have confirmed that Malkovich is making his MCU debut as he is set to join the cast of The Fantastic Four.

The details regarding the role that he will play in the film are currently under wraps.

He is joining a star-studded ensemble that...

Marvel Studios has added another cast member for its upcoming Fantastic Four adaptation. Deadline reports that John Malkovich, known for his roles in Space Force and In the Line of Fire was added to the McU's evergrowing roster for an unnamed role. Malkovich will be joining other confirmed actors in this project, including Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.

After the end of strikes, agents, managers and producers quickly moved in to assemble high-profile packages to take out in what was expected to be a frothy marketplace following six months of inactivity. But, while there have been a few bidding wars and big sales with a couple of others pending, the level of demand has not been what many anticipated. The biggest casualty of the tight market — packages with A-list stars attached.

“This has been such a head-scratcher,” one agent said about the situation. Agencies are keeping record of all the star packages that went out and failed to draw interest over the past few months despite the level of talent that has included Oscar and Emmy winners and nominees in front or behind the camera, stars of blockbuster movies and iconic TV series and, in a couple of instances, famous IP. The total now exceeds 20.

“We call it the whiff list,...