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Lucy Dacus is opening the doors to her own music museum as she reveals the track list for her forthcoming studio album Forever Is a Feeling, out March 28. On Instagram, the singer-songwriter shared the song titles for the 13-track project alongside intricate sketches reflecting the prevailing theme of each.

For “Bullseyes,” Dacus’ upcoming collaboration with Hozier, the sketch depicts a simple bow and arrow. “Come Out” is paired with a megaphone, while “Forever Is a Feeling” is represented by a bracelet adorned with charms of a clock, tea cup, globe,...

A Let’s Make a Deal contestant had host Wayne Brady bewildered momentarily during the game show.

A recent episode featured a contestant, Daniel, who went on stage wearing a cowboy costume, and it happened to be his birthday.

During the show, he won a bedroom set worth $9,000, but he decided he wanted to win more than that.

Wayne later called him back on stage for a shot at winning the show’s Big Deal, which was an unknown prize.

“How cool would it be to look back on this day and have won the Big Deal?” Wayne asked him.

“This was the day I got to meet comedy legend Wayne Brady,” Daniel replied.

Wayne was surprised by a Lmad contestant’s reply

Wayne indicated it was a good day on Lmad since he got to hang out with Daniel on his birthday. From there, he informed him the Big Deal...

Exclusive: Byron Mann (Wu Assassins), Milo Ventimiglia (This Is Us), Ashley Greene (Twilight) and Anson Mount (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) are set to topline Kill Him ‘Til He’s Dead, a sci-fi action film from writer-director Michael Winnick, which has wrapped production. Fivel Stewart (The Recruit) rounds out the cast.

The film follows a broken-down hitman (Mann) who finds himself waking up in different bodies as he tries to save the love of his life (Greene) from a ruthless tech titan (Ventimiglia) and his deadly associates (Mount & Stewart). Lan Kay (Bob Trevino Likes It) is producing via Lankis Entertainment, alongside Winnick, Mann, Charles Berg and John Zhang.

Mann, who was in The Big Short opposite Steve Carrell and headlined Vertical rom-com The Modelizer, next stars opposite Lee Je Hoon in the Korean financial thriller Big Deal for Showbox.

A three-time Emmy nominee for his portrayal...

Korea’s Showbox has unveiled a trailer and a release date for horror mystery “Devils Stay.”

Directed by Hyun Moon-seop (“Nightmare Teacher”), the cast includes Park Shin-yang, Lee Min-ki and Lee Re.

“When Seung-do (Park Shin-yang), a heart specialist, and his wife find their daughter So-mi (Lee Re) showing strange symptoms by the day, they decide to attempt an exorcism ritual. Upon arrival, priest Ban (Lee Min-ki) is sure there is the devil inside her, and the ritual seems to drive it out successfully, but ends in So-mi’s sudden death. As her funeral begins, Seung-do, who notices some strange signs in So-mi’s body, confronts his conviction that she may not be dead yet, and her heart is still beating. No one believes him, especially priest Ban, who strongly opposes him saying that it is by the menacing spirit inside her. During three days of So-mi’s funeral, they...

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Amazon Prime Big Deal Days is about to wrap up. The Prime Day-like sale event started yesterday, and runs until the end of today, Oct. 9. Also known as October Prime Day or Prime Day 2, the massive sale event sees 48 hours of Prime Day-like discounts across nearly every category on Amazon. You’ll find deals on everything from new brand-name tech to everyday essentials like toothpaste and underwear.

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South Korea’s Showbox has boarded a Korean remake of Chinese romantic drama Us And Them and upcoming crime drama The Verdict.

Buyers will be introduced to both upcoming projects at the Asian Contents & Film Market, which is taking place in Busan from October 5-8.

The Korean remake, which also has the working title of Us And Them, is an adaptation of the 2018 romantic drama directed by Taiwan’s Rene Liu, which proved a box office hit in China and was saw worldwide rights acquired by Netflix.

Relocated to Seoul, the story centres on a couple who fall in love and eventually part ways.

Kris Hitchen (Ken Loach’s “Sorry We Missed You”) and George Osborne (“The Pendragon Cycle”) are set to lead the cast of “Contact Hours,” a short film addressing the issue of student suicide.

The psychological drama follows a university caretaker whose life takes an unexpected turn when he discovers one of his students has been missing for days. As he investigates, he finds himself confronting a tragedy that prompts him to reevaluate his relationship with his own son.

Harry Richards, known for his short “Santi,” which screened at the BFI Future Film Festival 2022, will direct and produce. Liam Wallace-Cook (“Big Deal”) joins as co-producer.

The screenplay, penned by Offie-nominated playwright Rufus Love, was inspired by a real-life encounter with a university caretaker who resigned after discovering a student who had died by suicide. Love and Richards, who collectively knew six students at their university who died by suicide, were moved...

Today, CBS announced the premiere dates for its Summer 2024 slate. The summer lineup launches with the network debut of Tulsa King on Sunday, July 14 (8:00-9:00 p.m. Et/Pt), followed by the season 26 premiere of Big Brother on Wednesday, July 17 (9:00-10:00 p.m. Et/Pt).

The new true-crime series The Real CSI: Miami launches on Wednesday, June 26 (10:00-11:00 p.m. Et/Pt), and Let’s Make a Deal Primetime premieres on Wednesday, Aug. 7(8:00-9:00 p.m. Et/Pt).

CBS will also air summer specials, including Greatest @Home Videos: Father’s Day Edition hosted by Cedric the Entertainer on Friday, June 14 (8:00-9:00 p.m. Et/Pt), previously announced The 51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday, June 7 (8:00-10:00 p.m. Et/delayed Pt) and The 77th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 16 (8:00-11:00 p.m. Live Et/5:00-8:00 p.

CBS has revealed its 2024 summer schedule, which includes the broadcast debut of the Paramount+ drama Tulsa King, the 26th season of Big Brother and the new true-crime series The Real CSI: Miami.

Specials are also planned for the dog days, including Greatest @Home Videos: Father’s Day Edition hosted by Cedric the Entertainer, along with the 51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards and the 77th Annual Tony Awards.

The first season of the Paramount+ drama Tulsa King follows New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi (Sylvester Stallone), just after he is released from prison after 25 years and unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Okla.

The Real CSI: Miami is from Jerry Bruckheimer, Anthony Zuiker and the minds behind the CSI scripted television franchise. It follows real-life crime cases and forensic science used to solve them.

Bb will kick off with a two-night premiere and will air Sundays,...

Exclusive: Big Deal Films and A24’s Dreaming Whilst Black, one of the buzziest British comedies of 2023, has been greenlit for a second season by the BBC and Showtime.

Adjani Salmon’s comedy took years to get from web series to screen but was picked up by A24 and then Showtime last year and has been catapulted, garnering strong ratings and critical acclaim. The season will premiere in the U.S. on the Paramount+ with Showtime streaming tile, on linear on Paramount+ with Showtime and in the UK on BBC Three and iPlayer. It continues to be co-produced by Big Deal in creative collaboration with A24, and A24 distributes globally.

Dreaming follows Kwabena, played by Salmon, an aspiring filmmaker stuck in a dead-end recruitment job who takes the first step to achieving his dream of creating a TV show. Season 1 ended with Kwabena showing his new movie project to friends and family,...

Dreaming Whilst Black brought a new, diverse audience to the BBC in droves, according to the buzzy comedy’s EP Dhanny Joshi, who was speaking on a panel of diverse creatives at Mia Market.

According to Big Deal Films co-founder Joshi, the A24-distributed comedy has now notched up one of the highest shares of Black viewers for a BBC comedy of all time, around one quarter.

Joshi in part put this down to “creative choices” made throughout the making of the series, which took more than five years to get from web series to screen.

“We were offered deficit financing from huge distributors [early on] but said ‘Let’s not do that,” he told a panel in Rome. “Our overdraft facility may have been just £3,000 but we didn’t want to be tied to a distributor who may view creative choices as risky. So we were protecting ourselves and went on...

The BBC has hit its £100M ($130M) three-year diversity content comittment with one year to spare, according to the corporation.

The public broadcaster said it has spent around £120M over two years on shows that qualify under the commitment, which was forged in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. It is also ahead on radio content spend, according to the BBC Diversity Commissioning Code of Practice Progress Report.

The three-year commitment only counts shows that qualify under two of the following three criteria: diverse stories and portrayals, diverse production leadership and diverse company leadership. The criteria are discussed when a show is commissioned and then measured at transmission. Recent examples of shows that would have met the criteria include Big Deal Films/A24 comedy Dreaming Whilst Black and Candice Carty-Williams adaptation Champion.

“We’ve always said the investment was a starting point,” said new Diversity & Inclusion Director Chinny Okolidoh.

“I tried to reference all of the stimulus in his head that led him to create amazing pieces of theater,” details director Wayne Cilento on honoring the legendary choreography of Bob Fosse. Cilento has crafted the first ever Broadway revival of “Dancin’,” but the show now comes appropriately billed as “Bob Fosse’s Dancin’” since the director was keen to go beyond what was presented in the original incarnation. ”I wanted to show his scope,” explains Cilento, ”I wanted to do more than what he presented in 1978.” Watch the exclusive video interview above.

Cilento starred in the original Broadway production of “Dancin’” and earned a Tony nomination for Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance. Cilento was not a Fosse dancer when he booked the show (he jokes that he had previously auditioned for “Chicago” but was “cut immediately”). But fellow dancer and choreographer Graciela Daniele put in a...

Scott Satin, a longtime producer for shows such as Funny You Should Ask and Most Outrageous Moments, has died. He was 64.

The Hollywood Reporter learned Satin died on Thursday following a years-long battle with progressive supranuclear palsy. Progressive supranuclear palsy is a rare neurodegenerative disorder that impacts certain parts of the brain.

The producer-writer-director began his entertainment career in the late ’80s with TV series such as Mathnet and Square One Television. Throughout the ’90s, he continued to work on projects like Hollywood Squares, The Byron Allen Show, Big Deal, The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show and Extreme Gong, a Game Show Network revival of The Gong Show.

As reality shows began to rise in popularity in the 2000s, Satin kept tapping into them by executive producing series like NBC’s Meet My Folks, Who Wants to Marry My Dad?, Who Wants to Be a Superhero? and Most Outrageous Moments – a...

Scott Satin, a television producer with credits on “Funny You Should Ask” and “Most Outrageous Moments,” died Thursday after a years-long battle with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). He was 64 years old.

Satin created the NBC clip show “Most Outrageous Moments.” Narrated by John Cramer, the series ran for four seasons from 2005 to 2009.

In more recent years, Satin partnered with Byron Allen on the comedy series “The First Family” and “Mr. Box Office,” on which he served as both writer and executive producer. Satin also earned credits on “World’s Funniest Weather” and “Funny You Should Ask,” which remains in syndication with over 200 episodes.

Satin first collaborated with Allen on “The Byron Allen Show” in the 1990s. After beginning his career with “Square One Television” and “Mathnet,” Satin rounded into form with his work with Allen, along with credits on programs such as “Hollywood Squares,” “Big Deal,” “The Keenan Ivory Wayans...

Exclusive: Cybill Shepherd is set as a lead opposite Vanessa Bayer and Molly Shannon in Bayer’s half-hour Showtime comedy pilot I Love This for You (fka Big Deal).

Co-created and executive produced by Bayer and Jeremy Beiler (Saturday Night Live), I Love This for You is a grounded comedy in which Bayer plays a character, inspired by her own past, who overcame childhood leukemia to achieve her lifelong dream of landing a job as a successful home shopping channel host.

Shepherd will play Patricia Kunken, the icy, enigmatic founder and CEO of a popular home shopping network.

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Emmy winner Jessi Klein will serve as showrunner and executive produce along with Michael Showalter, who will direct, as well as Annapurna’s Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle and Jordana Mollick of Semi-Formal.

Shepherd won two...

Cybill Shepherd is headed to Showtime.

The Golden Globe winner will star in I Love This for You, a comedy pilot created by and starring Saturday Night Live alum Vanessa Bayer. SNL veteran Molly Shannon also stars.

I Love This for You (formerly Big Deal) is inspired by Bayer’s own past. She’ll play a character who survived childhood leukemia to fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming a home shopping host. Shepherd (Moonlighting, Showtime’s The L Word) will play Patricia Kunken, the icy and enigmatic CEO of a home shopping network.

Shepherd’s recent credits include Eleanor Coppola’s film Love Is Love Is Love and ...

Cybill Shepherd is headed to Showtime.

The Golden Globe winner will star in I Love This for You, a comedy pilot created by and starring Saturday Night Live alum Vanessa Bayer. SNL veteran Molly Shannon also stars.

I Love This for You (formerly Big Deal) is inspired by Bayer’s own past. She’ll play a character who survived childhood leukemia to fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming a home shopping host. Shepherd (Moonlighting, Showtime’s The L Word) will play Patricia Kunken, the icy and enigmatic CEO of a home shopping network.

Shepherd’s recent credits include Eleanor Coppola’s film Love Is Love Is Love and ...

What’s the prognosis for New Amsterdam‘s Helen? Which #OneChicago fella just might cop a love interest? Is Stargirl‘s future bright, or complicated? Read on for answers to those questions plus teases from other shows!

I’m suffering from some serious New Amsterdam withdrawal. Any scoop on Helen Sharpe? –Luana

And how! When(ever) Season 3 of the NBC hit arrives, “You’re going to learn everything you ever wanted to know about Helen Sharpe,” says EP David Schulner. “Follow Sharpe home? Check! A family bombshell? Check! Someone sharing Sharpe’s bed? Check! All these revelations will not only surprise the audience,...

HBO’s satirical limited series “The White Lotus” has added a handful of players to its already large cast.

Molly Shannon, Jon Gries and Jolene Purdy are all joining the cast in recurring guest roles, as well as Kekoa Kekumano and Lukas Gage. The new additions come less than a couple weeks after the series was ordered by HBO. Production is underway in Hawaii under Covid-19 guidelines.

“The White Louts” is set at an exclusive tropical resort and follows the exploits of various guests and employees over the span of a week.

A whopping 10 cast regulars were announced when the series was ordered, they are the following: Murray Bartlett, Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Daddario, Fred Hechinger, Jake Lacy, Brittany O’Grady, Natasha Rothwell, Sydney Sweeney, and Steve Zahn.

The show hails from writer, director, and executive producer Mike White, who previously co-created the HBO series “Enlightened” alongside Laura Dern, who also starred.

HBO is rounding out the cast for its upcoming limited series, The White Lotus, from Enlightened creator Mike White. Saturday Night Live alum Molly Shannon is set to recur, along with Jon Gries (Dream Corp.), Jolene Purdy (Under the Dome), Kekoa Kekumano (Aquaman) and Lukas Gage (Euphoria). They join previously announced series regulars Murray Bartlett, Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Daddario, Fred Hechinger, Jake Lacy, Brittany O’Grady, Natasha Rothwell, Sydney Sweeney and Steve Zahn.

Created, executive produced, written and directed by White, the series is set at an exclusive tropical resort and follows the exploits of various guests and employees over the span of a week.

David Bernad and Nick Hall exec produce alongside White with Mark Kamine as co-exec producer.

Shannon’s recent credits include The Other Two, which will air its second season on HBO Max next year. She’ll be seen in the upcoming thriller drama Promising Young Woman...

Exclusive: Iliana Regan’s Burn The Place, which was described by the New York Times as “perhaps the definitive Midwest drunken-lesbian food memoir” is being adapted for television after Annapurna optioned the rights.

The company, which recently produced David Simon and Ed Burn’s HBO limited drama The Plot Against America from, is developing the book, which was published by Agate Midway in July 2019, as a series.

Burn The Place was the first food book to be long-listed for the National Book Award since Julia Child and More Company in 1980. It tells Regan’s story of becoming a self-taught Midwestern Michelin-starred chef, amid a fight for sobriety, restaurant ownership, and her queer identity in the world of Chicago’s male dominated kitchen hierarchies.

Once on top, Regan yearns for a more authentic life, with aspirations to leave it all behind. She retires to the woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula...

The songwriting credits for the new Apple TV Plus animated series “Central Park” include a veritable who’s who of American female singer-songwriters stepping out of tune-land and into toon-land as guest writers, with Sara Bareilles, Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, Cyndi Lauper and Meghan Trainor among those represented.

None of their voices will be heard on the show— that’s left to a voice cast that includes executive producer Josh Gad, Leslie Odom, Jr., Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Tituss Burgess, Daveed Diggs and Stanley Tucci — but the list of talent the show attracted just as songwriters is bound to draw pop fans’ interest.

Other top-rank names contributing to the songwriting come from the worlds of theater, film and TV composing, including Alan Menken and Tony nominee Glenn Slater. The bulk of the songs, however, comes from the show’s core writers, Kate Anderson & Elyssa Samsel (“Olaf’s Frozen Adventure”) and...

Harrison Ford could soon be taking on the first regular television role of his career.

Variety has learned exclusively from sources that the iconic movie star is attached to star in a series adaptation of “The Staircase,” the docuseries that detailed the trial of American novelist Michael Peterson, who was accused of murdering his wife in 2001. Peterson claimed his wife died after falling down the stairs at their home, but police suspected he bludgeoned her to death and staged the scene to look like an accident.

The project is currently being shopped to networks and streaming services. Ford is attached to executive produce the series in addition to starring. Antonio Campos will write and executive produce, with Annapurna Television producing. The docuseries was originally released in 2004, with creator Jean-Xavier de Lestrade updating with new information years later. Netflix released it as a 13-episode series in 2018.

Reps for Ford and Campos...

Showtime has picked up to pilot Big Deal, a half-hour single-camera comedy co-created by and starring Emmy-nominated Saturday Night Live alumna Vanessa Bayer. The Big Sick helmer Michael Showalter will direct the pilot for the project, from Annapurna TV, which had been in development at Showtime for a year.

Emmy-winning former Inside Amy Schumer head writer Jessi Klein serves as showrunner on Big Deal, which Bayer co-created with former SNL writer Jeremy Beiler.

Big Deal is a grounded comedy in which a woman (Bayer) overcomes childhood leukemia to achieve her lifelong dream of landing a job as a QVC host.

Bayer’s character is inspired by the comedy actress’ own personal story as a survivor of childhood leukemia, which she was diagnosed with in her freshman year of high school.

Bayer, Beiler and Klein executive produce Big Deal with Showalter and Jordana Mollick via Showalter Semi-Formal Prods., which has had...

Vanessa Bayer has some news which is kind of a big deal.

Showtime has ordered a half-hour comedy pilot from the “Saturday Night Live” alum, who will star and executive produce.

The project in question is called “Big Deal,” and is described as a grounded comedy in which Bayer plays a character, inspired by her own past, who overcame childhood leukemia to achieve her lifelong dream of landing a job as a QVC host.

Bayer co-created the show with former “SNL” writer Jeremy Beiler, who will also executive produce. “Inside Amy Schumer” head writer Jessi Klein will serve as showrunner and executive produce along with “The Big Sick” director Michael Showalter who will helm the pilot.

The project was announced by Showtime presidents of entertainment Gary Levine and Jana Winograde.

“Vanessa Bayer is such a sharp and joyful comic talent, and in ‘Big Deal’ she mines the story of her...

In case you hadn’t heard, Vanessa Bayer is kind of a Big Deal.

Showtime has handed a pilot order to the SNL alum’s comedy project, just over a year after it went into development, TVLine has learned.

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Inspired by Bayer’s own past, Big Deal stars the actress as a woman who overcame childhood leukemia to achieve her lifelong dream of landing a job as a QVC host. Bayer will...

Vanessa Bayer is heading to Showtime.

The Saturday Night Live alum co-created and will star in comedy Big Deal, which has been ordered to pilot at the premium cable network.

Inspired by her own past, Bayer plays a character who overcame childhood leukemia to achieve her lifelong dream of landing a job as a QVC host.

Bayer co-created the comedy with Jeremy Beiler (SNL, Inside Amy Shumer). The duo will exec produce alongside Jessi Klein (former head writer on Inside Amy Schumer, Showtime's Black Monday, SNL, Dead to Me), who is also set as showrunner. Michael Showalter (The Big ...