Attention, #FreeBritney advocates: The New York Times Presents‘ latest episode, “Framing Britney Spears,” will debut Friday, Feb. 5 at 10/9c, simultaneously on FX and FX on Hulu. In the standalone documentary installment, “people close to Britney Spears and lawyers tied to her conservatorship now reassess her career as she battles her father in court over […]
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Stargirl Casts Arrow Vet Nick Tarabay as Season 2 Villain Eclipso
RELATED STORIES One of Stargirl‘s main Season 2 foes should look familiar to dedicated Arrowverse fans. Nick Tarabay, who recurred on Arrow as Digger Harkness/Captain Boomerang, is joining the CW drama in the series-regular role of Eclipso, our sister site Deadline reports. Meanwhile, Jonathan Cake (The Affair) will recur as The Shade. The arrival of […]
SNL Parodies Second Debate, Casts Maya Rudolph as Kristen Welker — Plus, Rudy Giuliani Pulls Another ‘Borat’
RELATED STORIES Saturday Night Live this weekend brought together Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump and Jim Carrey’s Joe Biden, possibly for the last time. The comedy all stars faced off in SNL‘s parody of the second and final presidential debate, during which Trump assured the American people that he’d have a coronavirus vaccine in a matter of […]
Smash’s Original Pilot Script ‘Had a Lot of Nudity,’ Plus Other Fun Facts From the NBC Cast’s 7-Year Reunion
RELATED STORIES Fans of Marilyn Monroe, Broadway musicals and thinly veiled sexual baseball metaphors were given a temporary reprieve from all that is 2020 on Wednesday with a special presentation from the cast of NBC’s Smash. People, in partnership with The Actors Fund, aired a live stream of the short-lived series’ one-night-only concert recorded in […]
House, ER, Scrubs Casts Reunite to Pay Tribute to the ‘Real Healthcare Heroes’ on Coronavirus Front Lines — Watch
RELATED STORIES Former House doctor Olivia Wilde is bringing together some of the biggest names in fake medicine to pay tribute to the actual hospital workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. “The closest… I’ve ever come to being a doctor is putting on a costume,” the actress formerly known as Thirteen notes […]
TVLine Items: Iliza’s CBS Sitcom, Homecoming Casts Cusack and More
Stand-up comic Iliza Shlesinger has lined up a gig at CBS: She’s set to star in a multi-camera comedy that’s in development at the Eye network, according to our sister site Deadline. The untitled comedy stars Shlesinger as a young woman who comes back to her hometown of Austin, Texas to help her mom and […]
Daisy Jones & The Six Casts Girlfriend Experience’s Riley Keough as Daisy
RELATED STORIES Riley Keough is ready to rock’n’roll. The Girlfriend Experience star has signed on to play the titular female singer/songwriter in Amazon’s upcoming series adaptation of Daisy Jones & The Six, our sister site Deadline reports. The show will be based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s popular 2019 novel about the rise and fall of a […]
Superstore Casts Breaking Bad Alum Dean Norris as Dina’s [Spoiler]
RELATED STORIES Dina’s dad will soon pay a visit to Cloud 9: Superstore has cast Breaking Bad vet Dean Norris to play the assistant manager’s estranged father, TVLine has learned exclusively. The character of Howard Fox is described as a “rugged and eccentric” individual who comes back into Dina’s life, ready to make amends for leaving her […]
Ava DuVernay’s OWN Anthology, to Span 5 Years in 8 Episodes, Casts Leads
RELATED STORIES Filmmaker Ava DuVernay‘s second project for OWN, following Queen Sugar, has found its leads. Xosha Roquemore (The Mindy Project) and Alano Miller (Underground) are set to headline the inaugural season of Cherish the Day, an anthology that will chronicle the stirring romance of one couple, with each episode spanning a single day. The […]
Third Walking Dead Series Casts One of Its Two Female Leads
The upcoming Walking Dead spinoff that will focus on two female protagonists has found the first of its pair of leading ladies: Alexa Mansour has nabbed one of the plum parts, our sister site Variety reports. The actress, a relative newcomer who has guest-starred on such series as Madam Secretary, How to Get Away With […]