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Lifetime is upping its holiday movie game by adding three movies to its 2022 It’s a Wonderful Lifetime movie slate, which will include a reunion of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman stars Jane Seymour and Joe Lando in a flick executive produced by Toni Braxton.

A Christmas Spark follows a widow (Seymour) who has lost her zest for life and given up on ever finding love again. She reluctantly takes on the job of directing the town’s Christmas pageant and soon finds herself falling for her leading man (Lando), the town’s most eligible bachelor.

A Christmas Spark is produced by Lighthouse Pictures and is being distributed by Sony Pictures Television. Braxton, Stephen Bulka and Jamie Goehring are executive producing. Rhonda Baraka directs from a script by Eirene Tran Donohue.

Gospel artist Kirk Franklin is also returning to executive produce and star in his second holiday movie for Lifetime, Kirk...

Guess what, losers! Your favorite Otp is back for another round! That's right, Harlivy will never die because "Harley Quinn" is coming back for season four at HBO Max.

This is rather surprising news because, well, if you've been living under a rock the past month, HBO Max hasn't been in the business of renewing things for a little while, especially not superhero or animated projects. This all started when Warner Bros. Discovery, under the leadership of David Zaslav, canceled both the live-action "Batgirl" and the animated "Scoob! Holiday Haunt" movies after they had both finished filming, in an effort to cut down on costs. In the days after, HBO Max also started canceling and vaulting titles left and right, removing them from the platform without explanation, many of them animated shows.

Which is why it comes as a surprise that "Harley Quinn," a title that is both a superhero show and an animated one,...

Kaley Cuoco’s Harley Quinn still has some chaos in her future. The animated series has been renewed for Season 4 at HBO Max.

“We are ecstatic that HBO Max wants the story of Harley and Ivy to continue,” executive producers Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker said in a statement. “And we are equally thrilled that this next season will be in great hands with Sarah Peters as our showrunner and Ceci Aranovich overseeing animation production, as they have both greatly influenced the show with their brilliance since the beginning.”

The streamer announced the news on Wednesday, a few weeks ahead of the season three finale on Sept. 15. The renewal came as a celebration for fans, but admittedly a surprise for some, considering the recent slew of cancelations at the streamer, particularly on animated projects.

“Patrick Schumacker, Justin Halpern and their incredible team of artists and writers have created something so...

The popular “Harley Quinn” animated series came back to HBO Max for Season 3 earlier this summer, and today we’ve learned that “Harley Quinn” Season 4 has been ordered up.

The Season 3 finale, meanwhile, premieres on September 15.

Deadline details, “The series is also getting a new showrunner. Sarah Peters, who has written on the series since season one and currently serves as consulting producer, will take over the role from Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker, who were previously showrunners and originally developed the project with Dean Lorey.”

Peter Girardi, EVP, Alternative Programming, Warner Bros. Animation said in a statement, “Three seasons down and I can’t even begin to think about the new levels of chaos and trouble that Harley, Ivy and the gang can get into with a fourth season. But I’m grateful to our partners at HBO Max for continuing this insane ride with us so we can all find out.

Harlivy shippers rejoice — everybody’s favorite supervillain couple is coming back to fight another day. “Harley Quinn” has been renewed for Season 4 at HBO Max.

In addition to the renewal, the streamer also announced that Sarah Peters, who has written for the show since Season 1 and serves as a consulting producer, has been promoted to executive producer and will take over duties as showrunner from creators Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker.

“We are ecstatic that HBO Max wants the story of Harley and Ivy to continue,” Halpern and Schumacker said in a statement. “And we are equally thrilled that this next season will be in great hands with Sarah Peters as our showrunner and Ceci Aranovich overseeing animation production, as they have both greatly influenced the show with their brilliance since the beginning.”

The news arrives as “Harley Quinn” continues to air its third season, which has been releasing new episodes on Thursdays.

There’s been a lot of talk lately in regards to whether or not DC Universe will be kept on as a streaming service, and that’s only ramped up in recent months as HBO Max looms on the horizon and promises a bumper collection of content.

Though DC Universe went live with significant fanfare from DC and Warner Bros., it hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing for the service since it first hit the scene. It’s got some solid shows – be it Doom Patrol, Titans or Harley Quinn, among others – but it’s continuously struggled to pick up – and indeed, keep – subscribers.

And now, with HBO Max promising to bring us big budget TV series like Justice League Dark and Green Lantern, not to mention the possibility of future Dceu movies premiering on the service instead of in theaters, it’s certainly starting to look like the more appealing option.

Debuting last year on DC Universe, Harley Quinn is an adult animated series that revolves around the pursuits of the titular character. While Margot Robbie's portrayal of the character in Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey definitely increased the anti-heroine's popularity, Kaley Cuoco's voice acting on the show is no less. It is currently in its second season and is already garnering a cult status with a hilarious take on classic DC villains and a fresh feminist narrative on Harley that feels more relevant than preachy.

Related: 5 Reasons Harley Quinn Should Be In The Justice League (& 5 Reasons She Should Stick To Being A Villain)

And then, of course, there are various pop culture references and Easter Eggs in Harley Quinn, most of which are from the DC universe.

‘The Big Bang Theory’ and animated Harley Quinn actress Kaley Cuoco has joined Woody Harrelson and Kevin Hart for her first feature film role in ‘The Man from Toronto’.

Cuoco will play the leading female role.

The story focuses on a mistaken identity after the world’s deadliest assassin, known as the Man from Toronto, and a New York City screw-up run into each other at an Airbnb. A clash of personalities, and a clash with deadly killers, ensues.

Also in news – Karen Gillan set to take the lead in sci-fi thriller ‘Dual’

‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ helmer Patrick Hughes will take the directors chair. Robbie Fox wrote the script from a story by Fox and Jason Blumenthal. Blumenthal is also producing, along with Todd Black and Steve Tisch, his partners at Escape Artists.

Harrelson replaced Jason Statham in the film, it was reported that Statham turned his back on the...

Harley Quinn is one of the most famous characters in the DC Universe. While she might be a villain, she has proven to be a rather likable character throughout the years. One of the most interesting fun facts about this character is that characters that are similar to her have actually been around for approximately 500 years.

Related: 10 DC Films We Can Expect After Birds Of Prey

Though she used to be nothing more than the Joker’s sidekick, the character has really started doing some interesting things on her own, and that is what viewers get to see in the animated series Harley Quinn. Here are some of the best quotes from the first season of the show.

Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey has a number of nods to other films in the Dceu franchise. However, one franchise that the film is heavily linked to is Suicide Squad. With a sequel on the way and one already in the bag, Harley Quinn in particular is a part of that bigger world.

Related: Birds of Prey: 10 Black Mask Mannerisms Ewan McGregor Nailed

Since Warner Bros. wants to set up this movie while making a number of nods to the original, it made sense that Birds of Prey would serve as the perfect launchpad for The Suicide Squad. Here are five ways that Birds of Prey links to the original and five that it links to the upcoming Squad film.

While the newly-rechristened Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (unofficially dropping its cumbersome parenthetical subtitle And The Fantabulous Emancipation of Harley Quinn) still holds matching 79% critical and audience scores at review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, putting it just ahead of the billion-dollar earner Captain Marvel‘s 78%, the latest entry in the DC Extended Universe is struggling to overcome its underwhelming $33 million opening weekend, which landed it among the poorest performers in the history of DC Comics adaptations.

Now, we’re hearing from our sources – the same folks who tipped us off that Chris Wood will be returning to his role as Mon-El on Supergirl and that Manu Bennett would be back as Deathstroke for the eighth season of Arrow, both of which have since been confirmed – that execs at Warner Bros. are interested in introducing a new version of Harley Quinn separate from Margot Robbie’s portrayal. Matt Reeves, director of next...

Rosie Knight Feb 14, 2020

Devil's Snare, the penultimate episode of Harley Quinn season 1, opens with a major surprise and concludes with an even bigger one.

This Harley Quinn review contains spoilers.

Harley Quinn Episode 12

The penultimate episode of Harley Quinn has arrived and it begins by offering up some seriously strange conflicts for the crew. This week Harley and her gang have to face down a group of mutant and maniacal trees whilst the Scarecrow uses his Poison Ivy pheromone fear serum to drive the citizens of Gotham towards the monstrous plantlife. In case that wasn't hint enough, this is a Poison Ivy episode, and even better than that we get the return of Christopher Meloni's crazed Jim Gordon. But the real star here is the Justice League who make their debut here and quickly banish our beloved baddies to... The Phantom Zone!!

As much fun as that setup would have been,...

As Homeland returns for its final season after a nearly two-year break, we all want to know what Carrie Mathison’s been up to… and she’d like to know that, too, actually.

Sunday’s Season 8 premiere finds Carrie at an Army medical center in Germany, recovering from the seven months she spent in a Russian prison. She’s getting better, weaning herself off of anti-anxiety meds and running laps in the yard, but she gets a rude awakening when she’s ushered into a supposedly friendly interview with a fed named Jim Turro. She explains that the Russians withheld her psychiatric meds,...

Jim Dandy Feb 10, 2020

Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti are bringing Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey to DC's Black Label.

There’s something distinctly Looney Tunes about Harley Quinn, probably the combination of self-awareness and ultraviolent slapstick comedy. So when you ask Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti about the magnificent, luridly poetic profanity in Harley Quinn & The Birds of Prey, their new Black Label collaboration on the character they steered for the better part of a decade, it’s hard not to hear Conner’s slow laugh as the glee of a cartoon artist’s paintbrush, getting ready to draw an anvil over Wile E. Coyote’s head. “That’s all Amanda, by the way,” says Palmiotti. “She’s the one [who makes] the sailors come running out of the bar, you know?”

“It’s funny, because when we were doing regular Harley,” Conner says, referring to the pair’s time writing the New 52-era,...

Despite receiving general critical praise and boasting an 80% Fresh rating and an 84% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) has opened to significantly lower box office numbers than anticipated. Initially projected to score a $50-55 million opening weekend, the latest entry in the DC Extended Universe of comic book movies grossed just $13 million domestically on its first day (including Thursday previews), prompting estimates to be downwardly adjusted to $33 million.

Should it close out its first weekend around that total, it would fail to break into the top 50 superhero film openings of all time, and suffer the lowest-grossing opening weekend of any Dceu movie by a wide margin, falling more than $20 million short of Shazam!‘s opening total, which had itself been the previous low point. By comparison, Suicide Squad, the movie that Birds of Prey spun out of, ranks 13th with...

A thoughtful meditation on liberation, egg sandwiches and glitter bombs, “Birds of Prey” (subtitled “And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn”) is a giddy treat of an R-rated comic-book movie, borrowing elements from inspirations as disparate as “9 to 5,” Bugs Bunny and Modesty Blaise to create an adventure that tweaks its genre familiarity with delightful bursts of anarchy and wit.

A sort-of sequel that soars far above “Suicide Squad,” this fresh follow-up wisely puts the spotlight on Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) as she carves out (sometimes literally) a new life for herself in the aftermath of her breakup with the Joker. In discovering the power she’s always had to stand on her own two feet, and in freeing herself from trying to please the dysfunctional man in her life, she even manages to make some new female friends along the way.

They include hard-drinking lesbian Gotham City detective Renee...