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Guy Ritchie's Ray Donovan spinoff series, The Donovans, has reportedly become a standalone project, eyeing the likes of Tom Hardy and Pierce Brosnan to star. The Donovans spinoff was originally announced back in February 2024, focusing on an offshoot of the family situated in London, where criminal activity is abundant. Ritchie was attached to the project, which had been expected to premiere on Paramount+ in late 2024. Since then, however, no concrete news about the spinoff has been revealed, making it unclear just when it would arrive.

Now, according to Deadline, Hardy, Brosnan, and Helen Mirren are in negotiations to star in Guy Ritchie's The Associates, the working title of what was once the filmmaker's Ray Donovan spinoff for Paramount+. The description for the show is exactly the same as when it was announced as The Donovans, indicating the show has moved away from having direct connections to the Liev Schreiber-led original.

The much-anticipated continuation of Showtime's series Ray Donovan has morphed into something new, and it is eyeing a strong cast. Deadline reports that the new series, whose working title is Guy Ritchie's The Associates, wants to cast Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, and Pierce Brosnan in the London-set crime drama. Hardy is being enlisted for the role of Harry, a powerful fixer. He is dangerous and handsome in equal measure. Mirren and Brosnan are being targeted to bring the matriarch and patriarch of the family to life. While Guy Ritchie's The Associates started as an extension of Ray Donovan, it is no longer connected to the franchise.

Paramount+’s forthcoming Ray Donovan spinoff is now its own series that will not be connected to the Showtime drama, our sister site Deadline reports.

The new show, titled The Associates, reportedly is in negotiations with Tom Hardy (Peaky Blinders, Mad Max: Fury Road), Helen Mirren (1923, The Queen) and Pierce Brosnan (Remington Steele, The Thomas Crown Affair) to star.

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Shelley Smith, a model and actress known for her roles in the TV shows The Associates and For Love and Honor, has died. She was 70 years old. Michael Maguire, Smith’s husband, announced her passing in a Facebook video, telling supporters that she died on August 8 after cardiac arrest put her in a coma at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital three days earlier. “She wasn’t in any pain, and she passed peacefully, with me and Nicky and Miranda, her children, holding her hand and kissing her head and telling her how much we loved her,” Maguire said in the video. Born in 1952 in Princeton, New Jersey, Smith found success as a model, appearing on the cover of Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, and Harper’s Bazaar, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She segued into acting in 1979, starring that year in the ABC comedy The Associates, in which she played Wall Street lawyer Sara James opposite Martin Short,...

Actress/model Shelley Smith has died at the age of 70. Smith, who was best known for her role on “For Love and Honor,” also co-starred with Martin Short on “The Associates” and regularly appeared on game shows, including “The $10,000 Pyramid.”

News of Smith’s passing was first shared on Facebook by her husband, Michael Maguire. The actress died on Tuesday at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital after suffering cardiac arrest three days earlier. He also noted that Smith’s children — Nicky, Miranda and Nathan — were all with her when she passed away.

Maguire said in part, “I don’t know how to go on without her. But I know that we had an incredible relationship and it was as pure as anything could be.”

Smith began her career as an actress when she was only seven years old. She made her television debut in the first and only season of 1979’s “The Associates.

Shelley Smith, who starred with Martin Short on ABC sitcom The Associates, has died. She was 70 and her death from cardiac arrest came on Aug. 8.

Smith died at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, according to her husband of 18 years, actor Michael Maguire.

“I’m sorry I have not updated everyone sooner,” Maguire said in his post. “My dear, sweet angel Shelly Smith passed peacefully yesterday at 2:20 Pm. Her children, Nicky and Miranda Nathan and I were at her side and holding her hand and kissing her head and singing to her and telling her how much we loved her. Also, with us was Grant Stevens, my great great friend, who gave up himself to help us, understand the process of dying, and guided us through it with so much class and dignity! We owe him a tremendous debt!

“Shelley lived an incredible life! We are all heartbroken, but we are also...

Shelley Smith, the ’70s super model turned actor known for her work on “The Associates” and “For Love and Honor,” died Tuesday after going into cardiac arrest days earlier. She was 70.

Smith died at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, her husband Michael Maguire said in a video posted to Facebook on Wednesday.

“She loved helping people. Most of all, she helped me. She made me a much better person than I ever would have been. We had a great marriage,” Maguire said in the video. “I don’t know how to go on without her. But I know that we had an incredible relationship and it was as pure as anything could be.”

Smith kicked off her modeling career in the early 1970s, landing the cover of Harper’s Bazaar and getting features in Vogue, Mademoiselle and Glamour magazines. In 1979, she stepping into the television world and made her star debut on “The Associates” alongside Martin Short,...

Shelley Smith, the statuesque super model who starred alongside Martin Short on a sitcom and was a regular on game shows like The $10,000 Pyramid before she launched an egg-donor program to assist infertile couples, has died. She was 70.

Smith died Tuesday at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, her husband of 18 years, actor Michael Maguire, tearfully announced on social media. She had been in a coma after experiencing cardiac arrest three days earlier, and her health had deteriorated in the past year, he said.

On the 1979-80 ABC comedy The Associates, a sequel of sorts to The Paper Chase from creators James L. Brooks, Ed. Weinberger, Stan Daniels and Charlie Hauck, Smith played a sharp, upper-class Bostonian who works at a Wall Street law firm.

The show, which also featured Short, Joe Regalbuto, Alley Mills and Wilfrid Hyde-White — with whom she graced the cover of TV Guide in November 1979 — lasted just 13 episodes.

The 5-foot-9 Smith then played Capt.

It’s no mystery why Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” is nominated for 17 Emmy Awards including comedy series, actor and guest actor and actress: a delish plot, snappy dialogue, pitch-perfect directing, and a cast to die for led by Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez. They are “The Three Amigos” for the 21st century. To celebrate the series, which recently had its second season finale, why not look at some fun facts and trivia of the cast many of whom already have mantle full of honors.

Steve Martin

Talk about a modern-day Renaissance man. Martin is an actor, writer, musician-he plays a mean banjo-composer and ace tap dancers. Is there anything he can’t do? Martin won an honorary Oscar in 2014, the AFI’s Life Achievement Award in 2015, four Grammy Awards including two for best comedy recording in 1978 and 1979, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007 such critics honors...