The two-time Oscar winner will star in HBO's True Detective: Night Country, playing Detective Liz Danvers in the fourth season of the Nic Pizzolatto-created series from writer and director Issa López and executive producer Barry Jenkins. Foster will also serve as executive producer. "The series is centered around Detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro who are looking to solve the case of six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanishing without a trace, when the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska," per Deadline. "The pair will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice." True Detective marks Foster's first major TV role as an adult. As a child actor in the 1970s, Foster starred in the TV spinoffs of acclaimed films Paper Moon and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. She also recurred on The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Gunsmoke and My Three Sons. As an adult, Foster has lent her voice to The Simpsons, Frasier and The X-Files while directing episodes of Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards and Black Mirror.

The last-minute disclaimer warns that the Season 4 premiere contains violent content involving children. “We filmed this season of Stranger Things a year ago,” reads the warning that runs before Season 3 recap. “But given the recent tragic shooting at a school in Texas, viewers may find the opening scene of episode 1 distressing. We are deeply saddened by this unspeakable violence, and our hearts go out to every family mourning a loved one.”

Disney+ and Lucasfilm's presentation today in Anaheim focused on Obi-Wan Kenobi, Andor, Skeleton Crew, The Mandalorian and Ahsoka. "But in contrast to the robust slate of Star Wars TV series set for Disney+, the franchise’s feature film landscape has been as desolate as the sands of Tatooine in the wake of 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker," says Adam B. Vary. "That’s surprising, since Star Wars is one of Hollywood’s biggest properties and the studio has a trio of untitled space opera movies set to hit theaters around Christmas every other year starting in 2023." ALSO: Ahsoka is expected to premiere in 2023.

Black will be the fifth recipient of the MTV Movie and TV Awards' lifetime achievement award. Previous recipients include Sacha Baron Cohen, Will Ferrell, Melissa McCarthy and Kevin Hart.

The co-executive producer on Law & Order: SVU replaces Barry O’Brien, who was named interim showrunner in late February.

TV will be the place to be for major franchises at the end of the summer, while movie theaters will be bereft of blockbusters in August. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law premieres Aug. 17, House of the Dragon on Aug. 21, Andor on Aug. 31 and Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on Sept. 2.

The Grown-ish star is a real-life college grad with a major concentrating on concentrating on "Black political thought under a neocolonial landscape."

Natasha Lyonne and Chloe Fineman star as two nurses who host a show about the dying art of smoking cigarettes.

Liotta, best known for his movie roles in Goodfellas and Field of Dreams, was filming the movie Dangerous Waters in the Dominic Republic when he died in his sleep this morning. Although best known for his work on the big screen, Liotta's only nomination for a major award was for his memorable 2004 ER guest role as ex-con Charlie Metcalf, which earned him an outstanding guest actor in a drama series Emmy. Liotta got his start on NBC’s Another World, where he starred from 1978 to 1981. In the past two decades, Liotta featured prominently on the small screen, starring in CBS’ short-lived 2006-2007 drama Smith, History Channel's Texas Rising in 2015 and as a corrupt lieutenant opposite Jennifer Lopez on the 2016-2018 NBC drama Shades of Blue, Amazon's Hanna and the upcoming Dennis Lehane Apple TV+ miniseries Black Bird. He also guest-starred on Modern Family (as himself), Young Sheldon, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Hannah Montana. Last year, Liotta, returning to the mafia genre, played twin brothers “Hollywood Dick” Moltisanti and Salvatore “Sally” Moltisanti in the 2021 The Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark. “This is a massive, unexpected shock,” said Sopranos creator David Chase. “I have been an admirer of Ray’s work since I saw him in Something Wild, a movie he wrenched by the tail. I was so glad he worked on The Many Saints of Newark. I believed strongly in my heart that he could play that double role. He created two distinctly separate characters and each performance was phenomenal. Ray was also a very warm and humorous person. A really superior actor. We all felt we lucked out having him on that movie.”

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• Jennifer Lopez pays tribute to her Shades of Blue co-star: "Ray was my partner in crime on Shades of Blue … the first thing that comes to mind is he was so kind to my children," Lopez wrote on Instagram. "Ray was the epitome of a tough guy who was all mushy on the inside … I guess that’s what made him such a compelling actor to watch. The original Goodfella. We shared some intense moments on set those three years! When I first heard he took the job on Shades of Blue, I was thrilled, and the first time we walked on set to do our first scene together there was an electric spark and a mutual respect and we both knew this was going to be good. We enjoyed doing our scenes together and I felt lucky to have him there to work with and learn from. Like all artists he was complicated, sincere, honest and so very emotional. Like a raw nerve, he was so accessible and so in touch in his acting and I will always remember our time together fondly. We lost a great today … RIP RAY … it’s so sad to lose you what seems way to soon … I will remember you always."
• Ray Liotta completed filming on Apple TV+'s Black Bird before his death: “It was, quite literally, the culmination of a lifelong dream to work with Ray Liotta," Black Bird showrunner Dennis Lehane said in a statement. "From the moment I saw him blow out the screen, his co-stars, and the back of the theater in Something Wild, I found him the most electric American actor of his generation. At the heart of a Ray Liotta performance was a duality that he couldn’t quite control; I suspect it wasn’t conscious. It felt, instead, like something that was locked in his DNA. When his character was threatening and dangerous, he still couldn’t fully hide the sweet little boy inside. When the character was charming, even loving, you could still feel something volatile roiling underneath."
• In his last late-night talk show appearance last September, Liotta told Seth Meyers he had never fully watched The Sopranos.

"I think I’m staying,” the "Weekend Update" co-anchor and co-head writer told Bill Simmons on The Ringer founder’s The Bill Simmons Podcast, according to Deadline. “I never know, it’s hard, once the season’s over it’s best to not to make decisions like towards the end of the year because all you want to do is get out of there, you’ve had your fill, but August or September is usually a different story. I don’t have any plans to leave just yet.” ALSO: Bowen Yang wouldn't do "Trend Forecasters" without Aidy Bryant.

The Star Wars series from Spider-Man trilogy director Watts and Christopher Ford has a title and star. Originally code-named Grammar Rodeo, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew will be set in the New Republic era, and tells of a group of kids lost in the Star Wars galaxy trying to find their way home. Details of Law's character are being kept under wraps.

Sackhoff was brought on stage during today's The Mandalorian panel at Star Wars Celebration, which featured a teaser for Season 3.

Very first guest Jennifer Aniston, theme song writer Pink and Billie Eilish -- who was one years old when The Ellen DeGeneres Show premiered -- helped DeGeneres send off her hit daytime show on Thursday in a finale taped on April 28. “I walked out here 19 years ago, and I said this is the start of a relationship. And today is not the end of a relationship, it’s more of a little break. You can see other talk shows now," joked DeGeneres. "I may see another audience once in a while."

The Los Angeles-based French actor and Netflix Lupin star will develop series projects together in his home country as well as for the United States and other parts of the world as part of his new TV deal with the Warner Bros. Discovery streamer.

"I've known the staff at @wfaa personally and professionally for almost 20 years and believe this mistake was made unintentionally," Kimmel tweeted in response to the Dallas-Ft. Worth ABC affiliate's apology. 'Thanks for reposting and for correcting this error. Sending love to all my friends in Texas."

The Tony nominee will star in the musical drama set in Amsterdam in 1907 musical drama set in Amsterdam as Ntando, "who grew up in the Xhosa heartlands of South Africa’s Eastern Cape, and left his village to seek employment in the city, where he so distinguished himself that his boss brought him to Amsterdam to work in his own house. In Europe, Ntando has a freedom he couldn’t have dreamed of – and he’s enjoying it to the max."

First released in 2017, Horizon Zero Dawn is set "in a post-apocalyptic United States inhabited by robotic creatures, known as Machines, of various size and scale. Horizon Zero Dawn centers on an ambitious and clever, but outcast hunter named Aloy who seeks to uncover the past." The potential series is in early development.

The Oscar-winning actress, who currently stars in the upcoming Fox country music drama Monarch, and New York City rapper will star in a comedy described as a half-hour workplace comedy that explores New York City through the dysfunctional employees of the 78th ranked moving company in Manhattan. Sarandon created The Movers with her son Jack Henry Robbins and Danielle Uhlarik.

The Life Below Zero spinoff focusing on indigenous Alaska natives has been picked up for a second season days before its premiere with back-to-back episodes on Memorial Day.

Jolie Jenkins, Eva Carlton and Annaka Fourneret have boarded the series about Lincoln Loud, an 11-year-old boy with 10 sisters, as he navigates everyday life while living with such a large family. 

The disgraced former House of Cards star was also charged with one count of “causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent" in a decision that was unveiled Thursday by the U.K.’s Crown Prosecution Service, which has spent over a year reviewing a file passed to them by the Metropolitan Police. Variety reports some of the charges "are believed to stem from Spacey’s time at the Old Vic theater in London, where he served as artistic director from 2004-2015."

Warwick Davis reprises his role as Willow Ufgood in the Disney+ Lucasfilm series set 20 years after the 1988 movie Willow.

Diego Luna reprises his Rogue One: A Star Wars Story prequel series role as Cassian Andor in the series that "brings forward the tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved. It’s an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue where Cassian will embark on the path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero." Andor premieres Aug. 31. ALSO: Succession composer Nicholas Britell will score Andor.

The true-crime docuseries, premiering June 8, delves into Warren Jeffs' secretive polygamous sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Jeffs had 78 wives, 24 of whom were underage girls.

The Netflix Swedish-language romcom series reeturns June 16.

Kimmel opened last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live! speaking directly to viewers without an audience to emotionally discuss the Uvalde, Texas school massacre that left 19 elementary school students and two teachers dead. “Once again we grieve for the little boys and girls,” Kimmel said while fighting back tears. “Whose lives have been ended and whose families have been destroyed. While our leaders on the right, the Americans in congress and at Fox News and these other outlets warn us not to politicize this. They immediately criticize our president for even speaking about doing something to stop it. Because they don’t want to speak about it because they know what they’ve done and they know what they haven’t done. And they know it’s indefensible, so they’d rather sweep this under the rug.” After the monologue was broadcast to the Eastern and Central time zones, Kimmel was informed that his monologue didn't air in full in the Dallas-Ft. Worth television market. "To my friends in Dallas who are asking: I do not know whether our @ABCNetwork affiliate @wfaa cut away from my monologue tonight intentionally or inadvertently  but I will find out," he tweeted. "In the meantime, here's what you didn't get to see." The Ft. Worth Star-Telegram reported that "Kimmel’s six-minute monologue was cut off by a string of commercials, beginning with an in-house WFAA/Ch. 8 news spot. The ABC affiliate played several more commercials before cutting back into the end of the monologue, which Kimmel used for a three-minute Everytown.org commercial. The gun violence prevention organization aims to enact “evidence-based solutions” to curb gun violence. A source at WFAA says the commercials aired and cut out part of the monologue because the 10 p.m. newscast ran long. It wasn’t just the monologue that received off-kilter cuts to commercials. An interview with Seth MacFarlane was chopped up into mangled segments between spots." Meanwhile, Peter Freedman, director of digital content at WFAA, responded to Kimmel, tweeting: "We'd made the decision earlier in the day to extend our 10 o'clock news to include *extra* Uvalde coverage in our broadcast, it had nothing to do with your monologue. We're on the same team." WFAA later tweeted an apology accompanied by an article explaining its "technical difficulties."

“In light of the tragic events in Texas yesterday, there will no longer be a press line at tonight’s premiere for The Orville: New Horizons. Our deepest sympathies are with the families affected,” Hulu and the The Orville team said in a statement.

The Oscar-winning actor, who took time off from FX's The Old Man after his lymphoma diagnosis, tells People his health took a turn for the worse in January 2021 after he contracted COVID-19. "I had no defenses. That's what chemo does — it strips you of all your immune system. I had nothing to fight it," he says. "COVID made my cancer look like nothing."

Oketch is the second Canadian and the second Black woman Survivor champion (and the first Black female winner since Vecepia Towery won Survivor: Marquesas nearly 20 years to the day. As Andy Denhnart points out, Oketch was as satisfying and joyful a winner as the season itself -- and that's thanks to the editing, which made the final three more worthy winners compared to Survivor 41. In an interview with EW, Oketch described sitting on the news of her victory for the last 11 months: "At first it was hard because I'm like, 'I just wanna tell everyone how I did! This is amazing.' But the thing that I'm really actually thankful for is because I had to sit on it for 11 months. I really had time to go and reflect. Like, when I came back from Survivor, I was an emotional wreck crying every day, just sleeping on the floor, just a mess having that time to reintegrate into regular life, and then also to see what's next? Like, I finished this dream. This dream's now done. What do I figure out in my life? And figuring out that there's more in life than just Survivor was very helpful. And I'm so happy that I had that 11 months to think about it because I don't think I'd be in the same mental state that I am now if I had to only like five months from being crowned to actually people knowing that I'm crowned."

While Bel-Air executive producer Smith and his family attended the Peacock drama's premiere in February, he has been laying low in the aftermath of the March 27 Oscars slap incident.

Netflix promises Atkinson's new short-form comedy series, landing June 24, will "get the whole family buzzing."

In the day since 19 students and two teachers were gunned down in a classroom at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the Abbott Elementary creator and star says she's been inundated with requests to depict a school shooting on her hit ABC comedy. "wild how many people have asked for a school shooting episode of the show I write," she tweeted. "people are that deeply removed from demanding more from the politicians they've elected and are instead demanding 'entertainment.' I can't ask 'are yall ok' anymore because the answer is 'no.' please use that energy to ask your elected official to get on Beto time and nothing less. I'm begging you. I don't want to sound mean, but I want people to understand the flaw in asking for something like this. we're not okay. this country is rotting our brains. im sad about it." Brunson also posted a screenshot representing "one of many" of the requests for a school shooting episode. "Formulate an angle that would get our government to understand why laws need to pass," the person wrote. "I think Abbott Elementary can affect change. I love the show." ALSO: Abbott Elementary stars Lisa Ann Walter and Sheryl Lee Ralph joined Brunson in expressing shock and sadness over the Texas school shooting.

The 15-year-old who hails from Grapevine, Texas tweeted that she felt uncomfortable promoting the film scheduled for Memorial Day in the aftermath of an 18-year-old killing 19 elementary school students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. Lifetime will show The Bad Seed Returns later this year and has notified the TV Academy that it will no longer be eligible for this year's Primetime Emmys. “In the wake of the recent tragedy in my home state of Texas, we have decided to delay the release of The Bad Seed Returns. Lifetime and everyone involved are in agreement,” Grace wrote. “I was in first grade when Sandy Hook happened … and it feels like not much has changed since then...I remember my parents teaching me emergency action plans for going to church or the movies.”

At NBC Universal's upfronts on May 16, Seth Meyers joked: “It’s been three years since the last time we gathered in person for upfronts, and I’m sure you all missed it as much as I did if not less. How great it is to be at Radio City, what a historical room… to be able to tell people you caught COVID in.” As Deadline's Nellie Andreeva reports today, Meyers' joke has become reality. "Ten days later, Covid cases are sweeping through the ranks of those who attended the marathon of events in New York last week," says Andreeva. "Top-level executives at virtually all of the major networks and studios have been impacted, along with support staff that worked on the presentations as well as media buyers and reporters who attended the string of events."

Pavlich, who has worked for Fox News since 2013, made her comments on America’s Newsroom while discussing the president's response to the Texas school shooting, telling Bill Hemmer: “I would say there is an argument to be made that the pro-gun control lobby also should be looked at in the sense there has been a concerted effort over the last two or three years to take armed officers out of schools simply because they have firearms.” What Pavlich failed to mention was that she's a “ambassador” for Volquartsen Firearms, a company that boasts about making “the world's finest rimfire rifles, pistols, and parts," according to Media Matters.

The 42nd season of Survivor "has proven definitively that it is not broken, and that the core of the show can still shine through even when buried under a pile of dumb ideas," says Andy Dehnart. "I was not convinced that Survivor could recover after the mess of Survivor 41." He adds: "Survivor 42 has felt different in part because so many of its players have such buoyant personalities, and are embracing the fun of playing the game. For the last three Tribal Councils, the person who’s been voted out of the game, headed for the jury, has done so with incredibly good cheer. But the perception of Survivor 41’s cast was unfairly hurt by choices the show made."

Peterson appeared on Britain's This Morning to discuss the HBO Max scripted adaptation. "I was there when she died," he said of declining to watch. "I definitely do not want to watch a fictionalized account, seeing her (Kathleen Peterson) die three times." 

“It was really strange, very meta, being present at someone’s — like, your own — funeral and hearing what someone would say about you,” Moore tells TVLine of making a behind-the-scenes cameo at the filming of Rebecca's funeral. She adds: “It was really beautiful It was nice to be around. The entire cast was there.” 

“Here’s me today meeting the director of @euphoria today and @theweeknd,” Spears captioned an Instagram video. Levinson and The Weeknd are currently working on the HBO series The Idol, which follows a rising pop star and her romance with a Los Angeles club owner who leads a secret cult. No word what the meeting was about, but Spears previously credited watching Euphoria with helping her anxiety go away. 

MSNBC's hiring of the former Biden White House press secretary is just as bad as CBS News hiring former Trump administration official Mick Mulvaney, says Alex Shepherd. "Ultimately, they’re both there to be predictable: They will find their camera, look into the lens, and offer canned partisan spin," says Shepherd. "The chance you’ll catch them saying something truly surprising on air is approximately nil. This, ultimately, is what makes these kinds of hires disheartening. Over the last several years, we’ve been repeatedly exposed to just how vapid and destructive our television news’ obsession with having self-interested representatives of both parties on to air their respective sides’ poll-tested banalities can be. It has an especially destabilizing effect given the crucial role of asymmetric polarization, wherein both the Democratic and Republican 'talking points' being aired will seem equally inauthentic, given that both are being aired by people with clear partisan loyalties. The result is a kind of political fun-house mirror, in which reality is constantly being distorted and no one learns anything material or real."

Showrunner Eric Kripke says potential spinoff scripts are in various stages of development. "I don't think we're going to rush it," he tells EW. "I think we want to build it slowly." Kripke adds: "If the college show works, then maybe there's appetite for more (spin-offs). But I think we're in no rush because this only works if each show is totally different than the other, and we maintain the same level of quality as The Boys. Otherwise, it's sort of like, what's the point of doing it? We're trying really hard to not be scum f--- sellouts. We're trying really hard to make sure that each show or each idea would be something we just want to do on our own anyway, whether The Boys was connected to it or not."

A judge declined the prosecution's request to give the former TLC 19 Kids and Counting star the maximum 20-year prison sentence. After the proceedings at the Western District of Arkansas Federal Courthouse in Fayetteville, U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks described the materials Josh was convicted of downloading as "horrific and sick." The sentence also requires Duggar to pay $50,100 in fines and special assessments and be subject to 20 years of post-release parole supervision.

All the Queen's Men returns for Season 2 on July 14, Family Business Season 4 premieres July 28 and Season 2 of The Ms. Pat Show debuts on Aug. 11. The reimagined celebrity edition of College Hill, meanwhile, premieres July 27.

The disgraced former Empire star's directorial debut B-Boy Blues -- his first post-scandal and post-Empire entertainment project -- has been picked up by the BET streamer. In addition to directing, Smollett co-wrote the film, an adaptation of James Earl Hardy’s novel, with the author.

"J.J. Abrams is taking the reins to the Speed Racer franchise. God help us," says Steve DaSilva of the news that Abrams plans to make a live-action version of the popular Japanese manga and animated series for Apple TV+. As DaSilva notes, Abrams did a disappointing job with Star Wars, his last attempt to reboot a popular franchise.

The former Runaways star will play "an attractive, charming and confident fighter pilot of Jewish heritage who will eventually need to put all his survival skills to the test when he comes face to face with the darkest side of the war."

DeGeneres said on her penultimate The Ellen DeGeneres Show that she recently watched the test footage, filmed in September 2002 and used to sell her show to TV stations, for the first time in years. DeGeneres said the test shows aimed to "show people that I can talk to people."