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Netflix is continuing to build out its adult animated comedy slate with the addition of “Strip Law.”

Variety has learned exclusively that Netflix has commissioned the 10-episode series, which is slated to premiere on Feb. 20, 2026. The voice cast of the series includes Adam Scott, Janelle James, Stephen Root Shannon Gisela, and Keith David.

The official logline for “Strip Law” states, “Uptight lawyer Lincoln Gumb (Scott) is too boring to win cases in Vegas until he teams up with local magician/hedonist Sheila Flambé (James) to bring some flash and pizzazz to the stupidest cases the city can throw at them.”

The series hails from creator and executive producer Cullen Crawford. Steven Fisher and Trevor Engelson also executive produce along with Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynoski, Ben Kalina and Antonio Canobbio for Titmouse Inc.

“Getting to make this show with a metric ton of geniuses has been my favorite thing I’ve ever gotten to do,...

Sony Pictures Animation, the studio that brought you Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, is bringing you a similar animated style with Goat, a sports-themed animated comedy with an all-star cast that includes NBA champion Steph Curry, Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin, Gabrielle Union, and more! Sony recently hit the court running with Goat at a preview event at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Sony has released the new trailer.

Also set to hit the hardwood for Goat are Nick Kroll, Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton), David Harbour, Jenifer Lewis (I Love That for You), and Patton Oswald. Tyree Dillihay and Adam Rosette co-direct Goat from a screenplay by Aaron Buchsbaum and Teddy Riley. Goat is produced by Steph Curry and Erick Peyton of Unanimous Media, alongside Michelle Raimo Kouyate, Adam Rosenberg, and Rodney Rothman of Modern Magic. David Schulenburg co-produces, while Rick Mischel and Fonda Snyder serve as executive producers.

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Talk about cat-itude. Following in the pawsteps of Mike Myers and Martin Short, Bill Hader is the latest actor to embody Dr. Seuss's iconic chapeau-wearing feline in Warner Bros. Animation's upcoming animated version of The Cat in the Hat. Due in theaters on Feb. 27, the release marks the return of the studio's previously dormant theatrical animation division, which teased a full slate of new feature-length cartoons at CinemaCon earlier this year.

The CinemaCon crowd was also treated to early footage from the The Cat in the Hat, including some non-finished sequences. But all the digital ink and paint is dry on the first trailer for the film, which debuted today and promised plenty of Seussian imagery and tomfoolery.

Hader, for one, is happy to provide the voice for the Cat in the Hat's latest onscreen life. "I remember reading the book as a kid and then reading it to my own kids,...

Update: The new Spaceballs movie is turning into a family affair. THR reports that Lewis Pullman (Thunderbolts*) is in talks to join his father, Bill Pullman, in the upcoming Spaceballs sequel. As you might expect, the younger Pullman will play the son of Queen Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) and Lone Starr (Bill Pullman), who is named Starburst.

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Thirty-eight years after Mel Brooks took George Lucas’s Star Wars universe to task with the 1987 comedy classic Spaceballs, the 98-year-old filmmaker is up to his old tricks with a new Spaceballs movie coming in 2027! On Thursday, Brooks announced the film’s targeted release year through a hilarious teaser lampooning the absurd number of sequels and spin-offs from other franchises. In addition to the official announcement, Deadline says Rick Moranis and Bill Pullman are returning for the new Spaceballs movie, with Keke Palmer joining the cast.

Before you ask, yes, Mel...

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It's hard to believe that five whole years have passed since "Fresh Off the Boat" ended in 2020. Though many of us have blocked out the trauma of that year due to the pandemic, about a month before the world shut down, the trailblazing ABC comedy series put a satisfying bow on its run after six seasons. 

The show was received positively by audiences and critics for the performances of marquee stars Randall Park and Constance Wu, as well as the charming family dynamics on display. In addition to the performances, "Fresh Off the Boat" was a beacon of Asian-American representation on TV. It remains the first and only series featuring an all-Asian main cast to reach 100 episodes, making it also the longest-running Asian-American family sitcom in history.

Since the final episode, the cast has taken very different career paths. Some are cementing themselves in Hollywood,...

Sony Pictures Animation, the studio that brought you Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, is taking the rock and sprinting toward another animated marvel with Goat, a sports-themed animated comedy with an all-star cast that includes NBA champion Steph Curry, Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin, Gabrielle Union, and more! Sony recently hit the court running with Goat at a preview event at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

Also set to hit the hardwood for Goat are Nick Kroll, Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton), David Harbour, Jenifer Lewis (I Love That for You), and Patton Oswald. Tyree Dillihay and Adam Rosette co-direct Goat from a screenplay by Aaron Buchsbaum and Teddy Riley. Goat is produced by Steph Curry and Erick Peyton of Unanimous Media, alongside Michelle Raimo Kouyate, Adam Rosenberg, and Rodney Rothman of Modern Magic. David Schulenburg co-produces, while Rick Mischel and Fonda Snyder serve as executive producers.

Goat takes place in an...

The Bridgeton kids may have said farewell, but Nick Kroll isn't parting ways with the team behind Big Mouth just yet. Last month, Netflix announced that the co-creator and star of the platform's longest-running series would be back at the helm of a new animated show, Mating Season, with similarly raunchy themes. Set to premiere in 2026, it swaps the middle-to-high school setting for the great outdoors, following a cast of bears, raccoons, deer, foxes, and more creatures navigating the messiness of sexual relationships as they try to fulfill their desire to hook up. Moreover, it reunites Kroll with the same creative team, including his friend Andrew Goldberg, alongside Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett. With Season 8 of Big Mouth now officially behind him, he's ready to tease what the future holds in his new comedy.

Kroll appeared on Monday's episode of Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard for a wide-ranging conversation in...

The Smurfs are back, but whether that’s a good thing or not, we’re not quite sure. These blue creatures have been a pop culture staple for decades, and now they’re making a comeback in Smurfs, a reboot set for release in 2025. Unlike previous adaptations, however, this one will be a musical, with, perhaps, more surprises along the way.

PG movies are making a box office comeback, even outperforming PG-13 films last year. Paul Dergarabedian from Comscore says they’re becoming a real summer force. And while streaming is always there, filmmakers like Dean Fleischer Camp (Lilo & Stitch) believe nothing beats the magic of a movie theater, especially for kids.

With an all-star cast and an attempt to break down the Smurf mythology, this could either be a delightful trip down memory lane or yet another miss for the franchise. Let’s break it all down, and what we know about the project.

An episodic adaptation of a Disney live-action classic is coming to Disney+, and today, news outlets have unearthed new additions to the cast. According to reports, Greg Kinnear, Aidy Bryant, and Shay Rudolph will grab a shovel for Disney’s Holes TV series, based on Louis Sachar’s 1998 book. Jac Schaeffer, creator of WandaVision and Agatha All Along, has been tapped to direct the pilot for Holes.

The trio helps lead the cast, which includes Flor Delis Alicea, Anire Kim Amoda, Noah Cottrell, Iesha Daniels, Sophie Dieterlen, Alexandra Doke, and Maeve Press.

Liz Phang is the showrunner, while Alina Mankin pens the screenplay for Holes. According to reports, Holes “follows Hayley (Rudolph), a teenage girl sent to a detention camp where the ruthless Warden (Kinnear) forces the campers to dig holes for a mysterious purpose.”

Official descriptions say Greg Kinnear plays The Warden, the boss at Camp Yucca, with a...

Keke Palmer's new comedy One of Them Days has broken a Rotten Tomatoes record. The movie, which was produced by Insecure's Issa Rae, was directed by Lawrence Lamont (who previously collaborated with Rae on Max's Rap Sh!t) from the debut screenplay by Syreeta Singleton (who was the showrunner of Rap Sh!t). It co-stars Palmer and singer-songwriter Sza as best friends Dreux and Alyssa alongside an ensemble cast that includes Vanessa Bell Calloway, Maude Apatow, Katt Williams, Dewayne Perkins, Lil Rel Howery, and Janelle James.

The new Keke Palmer movie is the latest in a string of prominent projects for the actor, who kicked off her career in the mid 2000s and first rose to prominence when she starred opposite Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett in 2006's Akeelah and the Bee. She parlayed this success as a child actor into roles in projects such as Disney's Jump In! and Nickelodeon's True Jackson,...

Created by Jeff & Jackie Schaffer, one of FX's most popular comedy series was "The League," which ran for seven seasons from 2009 to 2015. The raucous sitcom follows a group of friends in Chicago who run a highly competitive fantasy football league every year, creating their own challenges, rewards, and penalties. Along the way, the ensemble endures their own hilarious highs and lows involving romance and family life in between planning their fantasy teams. Throughout the show's run, the group is joined by several memorable guest stars and recurring characters, including the occasional real-life football player getting in on the fun.

Led by a solid ensemble cast of talented comedians, "The League" introduced beloved, crass characters framed against the backdrop of fantasy sports. Since the show's ending in 2015, many of the cast members have gone on to continue their film and television careers, while others haven't reached the same level of success.

After debuting as host of the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards, Saturday Night Live alum Aidy Bryant is coming back for ceremony’s 40th edition in 2025.

The Spirits’ nominees will be announced December 4, with winners to be revealed at the awards show on February 22, 2025 that will be streamed live on the IMDb and Film Independent YouTube channels.

“We couldn’t ask for a better host for our 40th anniversary! As we prepare to celebrate this incredible milestone honoring the outstanding achievements and contributions within the independent world, we welcome Aidy back with open arms,” said Josh Welsh, president of Film Independent. “After her unforgettable turn last year, we can once again anticipate an evening filled with laughter, inspiration, and recognition of excellence.”

Last year’s top winners included A24’s Past Lives for Best Feature and that pic’s Celine Song as Best Director.

Bryant was a 10-year cast member on Saturday Night Live.

As you may or may not have noticed, Florence Pugh took a breather from acting this summer, a rare break for the self-described “work maniac.”

In an interview with British Vogue, the costar (with Andrew Garfield) of the soon-to-be-released romance-drama We Live In Time said she took a break from acting recently for the first time in a career that goes back to 2014’s The Falling and more recently included roles in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two.

The time-out marked the “first time ever in my career when I’ve actually asked for a summer break”, she tells the magazine. “I’m an absolute work maniac, [but] I can see I’m exhausted.”

Since 2023, Pugh has had on-screen or voice roles in The Trident, A Good Person, Human Resources, Oppenheimer, The Boy and the Heron, Dune: Part Two and We Live in Time. She’ll...

Ali Wong is returning to Netflix with her latest standup special, “Single Lady.” The upcoming event will premiere globally on the streamer Oct. 8.

Filmed during the Netflix Is a Joke Fest 2024 at the The Wiltern Theatre, this special will see the comedian open up about her post-divorce life and quest for love. Wong filed for divorce from her ex-husband Justin Hakuta in December of 2023. In addition to starring in the special, Wong will direct and executive produce “Single Lady” alongside John Irwin.

This will mark Wong’s fourth standup special with the streamer. Wong and Netflix first began their relationship in 2016 with “Baby Cobra.” That was then followed by 2018’s “Hard Knock Wife” and 2022’s “Don Wong.”

Outside of her standup, the comedian has also starred in several Netflix projects including the critically-acclaimed and award-winning “Beef,” which secured Emmy wins for both Steven Yeun and Wong. She also starred in...

If you thought you left cartoons behind with your childhood, most major streaming platforms might have a thing or two to say about that.

Quietly, deliberately, one animated series after another is becoming the next big offering, whether it’s Netflix’s Castlevania and Arcane series or Prime’s The Legend of Vox Machina.

From a distance, Bojack Horseman seems like a bizarre Indie cartoon straight out of left field.

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However, it has remained above 90% throughout the six seasons in critical and audience reviews. How’s that for a horse that walks on two legs and carries on conversations?

As it turns out, high-quality, well-written animated shows are a boon for streaming platforms. This is especially true, considering 60% of adults between 18 and 49 watch them.

Not bad. With the increase in video game adaptations, some of which are becoming animated narratives, the kid in you has every reason to celebrate.

We will update this article throughout the season, along with all our predictions, so make sure to keep checking IndieWire for the latest news from the 2024 Emmys race. The nomination round of voting takes place from June 13 to June 24, with the official Emmy nominations announced Wednesday, July 17. Afterwards, final voting commences on August 15 and ends the night of August 26. The 76th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are set to take place on Sunday, September 15, and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt.

Click on for more of our previous thoughts on what to expect at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards.

The State of the Race

Decades in, it definitely feels like when in doubt, Emmy voters will mark “The Simpsons” on their ballot if nothing else has made a splash. And at this point in time, that is not necessarily a bad thing since the...

The streaming giant’s massive May 23 data trove for the second half of 2023 includes almost 16,000 series, movies and specials, which accounted for about 90 billion hours of viewing worldwide. The shows and movies below are … not a big part of that number, to say the least. Rather, they’re some of the higher-profile projects that, relatively speaking, almost no one watched. (For comparison’s sake, some of the biggest titles are also included).

For the six months ended December 2023, viewership at the low end …

Human Resources season 2

Views: 2.5M

Premiered June 9, 2023

Human Resources

The spinoff of Big Mouth had more worldwide views in its first three weeks of release in June (about 3.7 million) than it did in the entire six months between July and December. Netflix had previously announced that the show’s second season would be its last.

Working: What We Do All Day

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Aubrey Plaza and Joe Wengert have set up the animated comedy series “Kevin” at Amazon’s Prime Video, Variety has learned.

Plaza and Wengert are co-writers and executive producers on the series, with Wengert also serving as showrunner. Dan Murphy will also executive produce. The series is produced by animation Titmouse, Plaza and Murphy’s Evil Hag Productions, and Amazon MGM Studios.

The official logline for the series states that it is about “a life-long housecat who decides that he doesn’t want to live with people anymore. Loosely inspired by a real break-up and the cat caught in the middle, Kevin dares to ask himself, “Is there a world where I don’t do the owner thing and am just… single for the rest of my life?”

“We’re thrilled to be working with Joe and Amazon to bring this cat’s story to the screen. We can’t...

French director Laurent Cantet, whose films include Human Resources, Heading South, The Workshop and his Palme d’Or-winning The Class, died today at the age of 63. With this sad news we are reposting Brandon Harris’s interview with Cantet about The Class from our Spring, 2008 print edition. — Editor Starting with 1999’s Human Resources, Laurent Cantet has quickly built an international reputation as France’s most socially engaged narrative filmmaker, crafting films that highlight the ever lingering issues of race and class in both France and, as in the case of his 2006 film Heading South, its former colony of Haiti. With […]

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French director Laurent Cantet, whose films include Human Resources, Heading South, The Workshop and his Palme d’Or-winning The Class, died today at the age of 63. With this sad news we are reposting Brandon Harris’s interview with Cantet about The Class from our Spring, 2008 print edition. — Editor Starting with 1999’s Human Resources, Laurent Cantet has quickly built an international reputation as France’s most socially engaged narrative filmmaker, crafting films that highlight the ever lingering issues of race and class in both France and, as in the case of his 2006 film Heading South, its former colony of Haiti. With […]

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In Human Resources, Time Out and The Class, the Palme d’Or-winning film-maker – who has died aged 63 – addressed French and European society at all levels

Laurent Cantet was a classic product of the French cinema industry: a deeply intelligent, high-minded progressive film-maker of the same generation as Robin Campillo and Dominik Moll whose supremely literate, emotionally committed, stylish and well-acted movies aspired to address French and European society at all levels.

Cantet made films that you could imagine being discussed around a gregarious dinner table of fashionable Parisians, with glasses being avidly drained and refilled all round – in fact, you could imagine Cantet himself talking about his work at just this kind of gathering.

Laurent Cantet, the French director who won the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival in 2008 for his film “The Class,” has died. He was 63.

A spokesperson for Cantet’s agency, Ubba, confirmed to Variety that he died on Thursday morning of an illness.

“The Class” is based on the novel of the same name by François Bégaudeau and is a semi-autobiographical account of his experience as a teacher in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. Bégaudeau also starred in the film. “The Class” received a unanimous vote for the Palme d’Or at Cannes, making it the first French film to do so since 1987. The movie also earned an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film.

After studying at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques in Paris and working in television, Cantet released his first feature film, “Human Resources,” in 1999. It followed a management trainee as he starts a job at his father’s factory.

French director Laurent Cantet, who won the Cannes Palme d’Or in 2008 for The Class, has died at the age of 63.

Based on the semi-autobiographical book by writer François Bégaudeau about his experiences working as a literature teacher in an inner city school in Paris, The Class featured a mainly unprofessional cast including the author.

Cantet had been due to shoot his next film Enzo, with Elodie Bouchez and Pierfrancesco Favino in the cast, this August

His second collaboration with Anatomy of a Fall producer Marie-Angle Luciani, after 2021 film Arthur Rambo, it revolved around a teenager who embarks on a mason apprenticeship in the South of France to escape a controlling father.

Cantet studied film at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (Idhec) in Paris in the mid-1980s, where his contemporaries were Dominik Moll, Gilles Marchand and Robin Campillo.

They would continue to collaborate on one another’s projects throughout their careers,...

Thandiwe Newton is the latest to join the Season 2 cast of Wednesday, sources confirm to Deadline.

Character descriptions and details for Season 2 are being kept under wraps. As it was previously reported, Steve Buscemi also has joined the Season 2 cast.

Netflix declined comment.

The coming-of-age comedy is from Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar and directed/EPed by Tim Burton. Other EPs are Steve Stark (Toluca Pictures), Andrew Mittman (1.21 Entertainment), Kevin Miserocchi (Tee and Charles Addams Foundation), Kayla Alpert, Jonathan Glickman (Glickmania), Gail Berman, Tommy Harper, and Kevin Lafferty.

The Addams Family spinoff is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ (Ortega) years as a student at Nevermore Academy. That’s where she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new...

Thandiwe Newton is the latest new cast member to join “Wednesday” Season 2 at Netflix.

Variety has learned exclusively from sources that Newton will star in the second season of the megahit series. Exact character details are being kept under wraps. She is the latest new cast member to be revealed, as Variety previously reported that Steve Buscemi will also appear in Season 2.

Reps for Netflix declined to comment.

Newton has held a number of TV roles in her career, perhaps most notably starring in the HBO series “Westworld.” She received three Emmy nominations for best supporting actress in a drama for that show, winning the award in 2018. Her other TV credits include “The Slap,” “Big Mouth,” “Human Resources,” and “Rogue.” In film, Newton is known for starring in features such as “Crash,” “Beloved,” “The Pursuit of Happyness,” and “W.”

She is repped by WME and Independent Talent Group.

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The WGA has written a new role for Niecy Nash-Betts: host of its strike-delayed 2024 Writers Guild Awards in Los Angeles next month.

The Emmy winner for Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story will emcee the West Coast ceremony on April 14 at the Hollywood Palladium.

“A good writer is an actors’ greatest gift,” Nash-Betts said. “Can’t wait to celebrate their accomplishments.”

A five-time Primetime Emmy nominee, she has has racked up dozens of film and TV credits since her screen debut in Herbert Ross’ 1995 film Boys on the Side. Along with co-starring in Netflix’s Monster, Nash-Betts was a series regular on The Rookie: Feds, Claws, The Soul Man and Reno 911! and recurred on shows including The Rookie, When They See Us, Never Have I Ever, Mrs. America, Getting On and Masters of Sex. She also has had voice roles on such toon series as Human Resources, Agent Elvis, Q Force,...

Eugene Levy joins Only Murders in the Building season 4 cast. Levy's role will be his first live-action TV role since Schitt's Creek. Only Murders in the Building season 4 promises to be star-studded with Levy joining the cast and Meryl Streep staying on board.

Only Murders in the Building adds Eugene Levy to its cast. Levy is best known for starring in the family comedy series Schitt’s Creek. Only Murders in the Building is a Hulu original mystery series that has thus far run for three seasons. Only Murders in the Building season 4 is set for the second half of this year.

According to Deadline, Levy will now be joining the cast of Only Murders in the Building. According to the source, Levy will be playing a recurring role in Only Murders in the Building season 4. The nature of his season 4 character has yet to be revealed.

Eugene Levy’s...

Lilly Wachowski is officially making her solo feature directorial debut after sister Lana Wachowski helmed “The Matrix Resurrections.”

As confirmed to Collider, Lilly will direct upcoming queer dramedy “Trash Mountain,” with lead actor Caleb Hearon penning the script. Colin Trevorrow has signed on as a producer, along with Eddie Vaisman and Julia Lebedev at Sight Unseen.

Per the official synopsis, “Trash Mountain” follows a gay Chicago man in his 20s who must return to rural Missouri to deal with the death of his father — an obsessive hoarder who has left a house full of items, some valuable and some not so, to pick through. “Human Resources” writer and “Fargo” actor Hearon cowrote the script with Ruby Caster.

“When my pal Caleb Hearon sent me ‘Trash Mountain,’ I leapt at the chance to direct it,” Lilly said in a statement. “So beautiful and sad and funny! Queer representation and stories are...

It's difficult to encapsulate the importance of Lana and Lilly Wachowski as directors. While the queer crime thriller "Bound" marked the sisters' directorial debut, it was their 1999 hit "The Matrix" that completely changed the landscape of science-fiction cinema forever. In 2021, the franchise's fourth installment, "The Maxtrix Resurrections" was released, but the film was a solo directorial venture from Lana Wachowski. Lilly has not directed a film since 2015's "Jupiter Ascending," but spent time directing season 1 of "Sense 8" and serving as the showrunner for "Work in Progress." The former was yet another sci-fi epic, but the latter is a sweet, semi-autobiographical queer dramedy starring Abby McEnany. It seems that working on this series must have inspired Lilly to continue similar creative ventures because according to a report from Collider, her next feature film is "Trash Mountain" starring Caleb Hearon.

Hearon co-wrote the film with Ruby Caster ("Bleeding Love"), and the...

Big Mouth season 7 received solid reviews and is considered one of the show's best installments, showcasing its boundary-pushing humor and anticipation for the characters entering high school. Big Mouth is not only one of Netflix's longest-running series, but it has also contributed significantly to the platform's revenue and subscriber retention rates, making it one of the streaming giant's most important shows. Despite its success, Big Mouth will end with season 8, allowing the creators to craft a fitting ending and pursue new ideas with their recently inked three-year deal with Netflix. Fans can look forward to other exciting projects from the production company, Brutus Pink.

In some ways, Netflix just saved Big Mouth by prompting the show's creators to think about the series' impending final season. Big Mouth season 7 is receiving solid reviews from critics and audiences alike, which is good news ahead of the raunchy coming-of-age series' eighth and final installment.

Hugh Jackman makes a big cameo in Rick and Morty season 7, showcasing one of the show's biggest celebrity cameos to date. In the episode, Jackman joins Rick and the gang, instigating wild antics and becoming fully accepted as a member of the friend group. This cameo continues a trend for Jackman, as his last five TV credits have all been for adult animation voice roles, making animation cameos easier for the primarily film actor.

Hugh Jackman has a cameo in Rick and Morty season 7, with the fun gag role confirming a surprising new trend from the actor's past three years. Rick and Morty has had tons of celebrity cameos from throughout the years, but Hugh Jackman's role in Rick and Morty is undoubtedly one of the show's biggest so far. While Rick and Morty's Hugh Jackman episode is fun enough, it becomes a lot more interesting when taking a...

Exclusive: United Talent Agency has signed rising-star actor, writer and filmmaker Jordan Mendoza for representation in all areas by a large, cross-departmental team.

Most recently, Mendoza wrote for Season 3 of FX’s acclaimed comedy series, Dave, co-created by and starring Dave Burd, which chronicles Burd’s pursuit of a reputation as one of the greatest rappers of all time under the name Lil Dicky.

Additionally, he was recently cast as one of the leads of the new Netflix series Neon, where he also serves as a consulting producer. The comedy created by Shea Serrano (Primo), which follows three small-town Florida friends as they look to make it in Miami’s world of reggaeton, debuts October 19th. Mendoza can also be seen starring in Netflix’s limited series Kaleidoscope, a heist drama from Eric Garcia and Ridley Scott’s Scott Free, which premiered at top of year.

Mendoza appeared opposite Jennifer Lawrence...

Netflix has released the trailer for Season 7 of Big Mouth.

Set to the song "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus, the trailer shows the various students of Bridgeton Middle School prepare for graduation and new opportunities as they head into high school. Among the plotlines teased are Nick (Nick Kroll) transferring to a private school and finding a new love interest, Andrew (John Mulaney) grappling with his legacy as "Grossest Human," Jay (Jason Mantzoukas) discovering his ex-girlfriend Lola (Kroll) hooking up with his brother Kurt (Paul Scheer), Missy (Ayo Edibiri) facing problems in her relationship with Elijah (Bryan Tyree Henry) and the arrival of a new hormone monster voiced by Megan Thee Stallion. It concludes by reaffirming that Season 7 will premiere October 20 on Netflix.

Related: Netflix Drops First Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Clip

In addition to Kroll, Mulaney, Mantzoukas and Edibiri, regular cast members returning to Big Mouth include Jessi Klein, Maya Rudolph,...

Netflix revealed when Big Mouth will return, with rap star Megan Thee Stallion making the announcement.

The streaming giant released a teaser for the upcoming 7th season, which sees Megan Thee Hormone Monster make her grand entrance at Bridgeton Middle School. She's greeted by hormone monsters Connie (Maya Rudolph), Maury and Rick (Nick Kroll), who reveal that the long-running adult animated series will return with new episodes on October 20.

Related: Netflix's Castlevania: Nocturne Gets a Gory New Trailer

Season 7 will see the teens of Big Mouth enter high school, where they are faced with new friends, new adversaries and new supernatural creatures to guide them through the awkwardness of puberty. In addition to Megan, new guest stars appearing this season include Stephanie Beatriz, Zazie Beetz, Padma Lakshmi, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Billy Porter and Beck Bennett.

Actors returning from both Big Mouth and the spin-off Human Resources include Thandiwe Newton (Mona the...

Big Mouth season 7 premieres on October 20, featuring Megan Thee Stallion as a guest and the characters transitioning to high school. The upcoming season will have new friends, enemies, and hormone monsters, as well as a star-studded cast including Lupita Nyong'o and Brian Tyree Henry. With season 8 as the final season, fans can expect surprises and a bittersweet farewell to Netflix's longest-running scripted original outside of family programming.

A new video comfirms the Big Mouth season 7 premiere date, while also revealing Megan Thee Stallion's guest role. The adult animated series, which focuses on a group of friends and their hormone monsters as they navigate growing up, will be ending with the already confirmed season 8. Created by Andrew Goldberg, Nick Kroll, Mark Levin, and Jennifer Flackett, Big Mouth is signing off with the distinction of being Netflix's longest-running scripted original outside of family programming. Based on the latest teaser, the bawdy...

Human Resources podcast hosted by politics and pop culture journalist Moya Lothian-McLean is back for its third series. Made by Broccoli Productions, the podcast explores the true story of Britain's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and how it touches every part of the nation, up to the present day. Moya is known for seeking out under-reported stories and marginalised voices.

Warning: This post contains minor spoilers for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

The cast of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a veritable who's who of Hollywood stars, and is jam-packed with recognizable names in nearly every role. Written and directed by Rian Johnson, Glass Onion moves the franchise to Greece and follows detective Benoit Blanc as his invitation to a billionaire's murder mystery party turns into a very real whodunit. Just as whip-smart as Johnson's first Knives Out, Glass Onion is not only a gripping mystery but also offers clever lampooning of the movie's over-the-top luxury class.

Continuing many of the thematic trends established in 2019's Knives Out, Glass Onion pushed things even further as the satire took center stage, and it was handsomely praised by critics for its clever writing. Johnson earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, and Glass Onion proved...

The Gabrielle Union-starring rom-com The Perfect Find and new seasons of deceptive baking sensation Is It Cake? and The Witcher, marking the beginning of the end of Henry Cavill’s starring run, are some of the much-anticipated titles still set to come to Netflix this month.

In The Perfect Find, Union plays a fashion editor who, after a public breakup and career implosion, starts working for her former rival Darcy Hill (Gina Torres) and catches the eye of a younger videographer (Keith Powers), who happens to be the boss’ son. As a romance blossoms, Union’s character begins to question what she really wants from the next phase of her life. The film, directed by Numa Perrier, is based on Tia Williams’ award-winning novel of the same name and also stars Janet Hubert, D.B. Woodside, Aisha Hinds, La La Anthony and others.

More deceptive desserts are on the menu...

Human Resources is actually better in comparison to its flagship series, Big Mouth, in various key ways. That's not to say Big Mouth is not amazing in its own right as one of Netflix's biggest and most awarded adult animation series, but Human Resources successfully overtakes its predecessor with several distinct characteristics. As Big Mouth's spinoff subseries, Human Resources opens up the opportunity for audiences to experience an entirely new world within the franchise.

Still, though, Human Resources's two seasons champions some of the best features of Big Mouth — the crude hilarity and "no holds barred" mentality masterfully layered overtop of very deep and compelling storylines makes Human Resources a special success that is also an ode to the original series. However, the addition to Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg's Big Mouth brainchild is, in a number of ways, just a cut above.

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As we creep towards summer, Netflix has a hot new list of fresh content, including the final season of “Never Have I Ever,” the sophomore season of ‘Human Resources” and the highly anticipated sixth season of “Black Mirror.”

Kicking off the start of the month on mega streamer are lots of family-friendly goodies like both “Nanny McPhee” and “Nanny McPhee Returns,” “Kicking and Screaming,” “Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius” and the “Angry Birds Movie.” But the adults won’t be left out of the conversation, as more mature flicks and series like “Jarhead,” “Funny People” and “We’re the Millers” are also hitting the platform this month.

And it wouldn’t be Netflix without its originals. “Take Care of Maya,” “Extraction 2” and the Sarah Snook-led “Run Rabit Run” will land on the site in June. And even if this isn’t enough to get you watching, Netflix will be streaming its Tudum festival on Saturday,...

This weekend, Netflix is adding a new batch of episodes from a nature documentary series, the long-awaited season 6 of Black Mirror, and the sequel to a successful action movie. Last weekend, the streaming giant welcomed all seasons of Ben 10, the drama movies Living and Stronger, the documentary Ordinary Men: The Forgotten Holocaust, the Bollywood action movie Sahasam Swasaga Sagipo, the Indian movie Srimannarayana, the Colombian rom-com To Love is to Grow, and the comedy-drama A Lot Like Love, along with the docuseries Arnold, season 4 of Never Have I Ever, and season 2 of Human Resources.

This weekend, Netflix will add a variety of titles to its catalog of licensed content, such as Christopher Nolan’s war drama Dunkirk, all seasons of Tom and Jerry Tales, the British docuseries When Missing Turns to Murder, season 2 of the true-crime docuseries Cold Case Files, the action fantasy movie 47 Ronin, the sports biopic Race,...

Human Resources, a spinoff of Big Mouth, explores the monster workplace of the popular Netflix series and introduces numerous new creatures that make up this universe. Viewers met plenty of the show's beings in the parent show as they were assigned to be the main characters' Hormone Monsters, Lovebugs, and so on. However, while Big Mouth mainly centers around the lives of preteens and teenagers as they go through puberty, the creatures in Human Resources also help adults as they go through motherhood, lost love, and more.

The Big Mouth spinoff premiered in March 2022, and a month later, the streaming service renewed it for a second season, which dropped in June 2023. Unfortunately, Netflix canceled Human Resources after season 2. The good news is that the monsters and creatures will continue to appear in Big Mouth seasons 7 and 8, with the eighth season serving as the adult animated show's last outing.

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When it comes to the Netflix Big Mouth spinoff Human Resources, the series has done a bit to step up its storytelling game in Season 2, especially with Alice Wong’s cameo appearance as a recurring character. For people who don’t know, Wong is a prominent disability rights activist as well as the author of Year of The Tiger: An Activist's Life, a memoir about her life experiences as a disabled person and an advocate for people with disabilities. In Season 2 of Human Resources, the activist makes an appearance as a fictionalized version of herself, navigating sex and romance with the aid (and dysfunction) of her love bug, Rochelle Hillhurst.

Warning: Contains spoilers for Human Resources season 2.

Human Resources season 2 has a slew of celebrity guests, including Miley Cyrus and Florence Pugh. The series premiered on Netflix in 2022 as a spinoff of Big Mouth and follows the monsters introduced in the original series. Nick Kroll, Aidy Bryant, Keke Palmer, and Maya Rudolph all voiced characters in season 1, and they've all returned for the second and final season. The show includes several storylines per episode, often spreading plots throughout the season. Season 2 has some touching storylines about learning to love after loss and advocating for those who need a voice.

The Netflix series has no shortage of comedy this season, which is amplified by some of the famous comedians guest starring. Human Resources season 1 guest starred celebrities like Hugh Jackman, Ariana Debose, Rosie Perez, and Lupita Nyong'o. Janelle Monáe, who sings the show's theme song, "Make Me Feel," also guest starred in the season.

Big Mouth’s spinoff Human Resources is ending after only two seasons. Following the Hormone Monsters from the massively successful Netflix adult animated series Big Mouth, Human Resources adds to the Big Mouth universe with Love Bugs, Logic Rocks, and Ambition Gremlins, to name a few. Big Mouth and Human Resources have surpassed more than one billion hours viewed on Netflix, making it one of the streaming platform’s most popular animated series – making Netflix's decision to cancel even more peculiar.

In April 2023, it was announced that Human Resources' second season would be its last. With Big Mouth’s popularity, this came as a bit of a shock. After all, Big Mouth’s announced eighth season makes it the longest-running adult scripted original series in Netflix history, surpassing Grace & Frankie at seven seasons. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, and Nick Kroll’s Big Mouth will end...

Netflix's Big Mouth spinoff Human Resources brings back some actors and characters from the original series, but others in the Human Resources cast make their debut in the spinoff. Human Resources has various returning characters from Big Mouth, such as Maury, Connie, Mona, and Tito, but it also introduces new monsters, starting with Emmy the lovebug. While hormone monsters are still central to the show, other monsters take center stage, too, including shame wizards, logic rocks, ambition gremlins, and even need monsters. Human Resources sees the monsters in their individual working relationships with the humans assigned to them, but it also shows teamwork when their humans are particularly overwhelmed.

Contrary to the original show, Human Resources does not only focus on puberty and all the different feelings involved with it, as the humans managed by the monsters tend to be adults. The spinoff also focuses a lot more on the monsters’ personal lives,...

If there is a silver lining to being stuck inside because our air quality is dangerous and unhealthy as a result of the Canadian wildfires, it’s that we have more time to watch TV. June is off to a hot start, too, with several awards contenders for next year’s Emmys debuting new seasons this week.

The fourth and, sadly, final season of Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher’s coming-of-age dramedy “Never Have I Ever” hit Netflix on Thursday. With the show’s trademark sense of humor firmly in place, the final episodes — which are expertly narrated once again by tennis icon John McEnroe (Emmy voters should really take notice) — Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) and her friends navigate their senior year of high school and all the familiar trappings of trying to make plans for the future while still figuring out who you are and what you want. And, yes,...

Human Resources is an adult animated series created by Jennifer Flackett, Kelly Galuska, Andrew Goldberg, Nick Kroll and Mark Levin.

From the “wicked” world of Big Mouth comes the second season of this very badass series that turns this (professional) mischief into something fun, at least for a few minutes. Whether one gets tired of it or not is up to the viewer.

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Absurd and crude, great in some of its dialogues, reflective… Human Resources continues with its tone of ludicrous parody that mixes The Office with Big Mouth itself and that, yes, manages to amuse in a South Park style, with that humor that you either love or hate but that, at least, has the honesty to try, in its provocative style, many times, just for the sake of it.

And other times, perhaps not by chance, in that provocation it finds the perfect formula to tell us something totally coherent.

Watching Season 1 of Human Resources was the animated series equivalent to going through doodles of a notebook from a 15-year-old. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but, more often than not, the Big Mouth spin-off favored repetitive dick jokes and scatological humor while structure took a bit of a backseat. That’s the main reason why Season 2 is such a huge improvement on the first, with a batch of episodes that look and feel like the series is finally able to wield its full potential.

In Hannah Montana, the Disney Channel TV series that put Miley Cyrus on the map, the actress portrays a trio of characters: Miley Stewart, a “normal” Tennessee schoolgirl; Hannah Montana, Miley’s globe-trolling pop-star alter ego; and Luann Stewart, Miley’s mischievous, pigtailed cousin. Like any savvy pop star with staying power, her years in the music spotlight have subsequently seen her undergo a series of style/musical transformations, from weed-loving twerker to Nicksian crooner.

But you’ve never seen Miley quite like this.

The second season of Human Resources,...