Davidson, who joined Saturday Night Live in 2014 at age 20 as one of its youngest-ever cast members, is saying goodbye after tomorrow's Season 47 finale, reports Variety. NBC declined to make SNL producers available for comment about Davidson. The news of Davidson's impending exit comes as he has taken substantial time off from SNL this season to work on other projects. Earlier this week, Davidson showed up at the upfronts to promote his Peacock semi-autobiographical comedy Bupkis, which SNL boss Lorne Michaels is producing. He has also become a magnet for tabloids while dating Kim Kardashian and other high-profile celebrities. Davidson joined SNL at the recommendation of Bill Hader, who worked with him on the Amy Schumer movie Trainwreck. "It was really crazy. I was on set for like maybe 12 minutes and I met Bill Hader and then, about like a day later, Bill Hader called me and he goes, 'I recommended you to Lorne Michaels,'" said Davidson. 

Pete Davidson isn't the only longtime Saturday Night Live cast member expected to say goodbye with the Season 47 finale. "We hear that there may be a big group goodbye, featuring all four the departees, at the end of tomorrow night’s episode, which is hosted by Natasha Lyonne," reports Deadline's Nelie Andreeva and Peter White. "It’s not a huge surprise given that this season – season 47 – featured its largest ever cast with 21 stars and eight cast members that were entering their eighth season and beyond." Lorne Michaels recently admitted that he was expecting this year to be a “year of change” for Saturday Night Live heading into its 48th season. McKinnon joined SNL 10 years ago in April 2012, near the end of Season 37, briefly being a cast member along with the departing Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg. Bryant, who is completing her 10th season, joined in fall 20212 at the start of Season 38. Mooney joined SNL with Season 39 in 2013 and is completing his ninth season.

Langella, who was ousted from the Netflix drama last month over sexual misconduct allegations, left his former cast members in "shock" with his May 4 Deadline essay complaining he was “collateral damage” and a victim of cancel culture, calling his “not fair,” “not just” and “not American.” In response, Deadline interviewed people involved with or close to production on The Fall of the House of Usher. "One word consistently used by virtually everyone when describing Langella’s behavior was 'toxic' as they recalled inappropriate comments and behavior as well as 'crass' jokes he allegedly made," reports Deadline's Nellie Andreeva, adding: "While Netflix’s investigation was triggered by the touching complaint Langella talked about, the internal probe examined more than a dozen incidents and accusations over the course of several weeks." As one anonymous production member put it: “There was a general sense of toxicity that followed him around. A lot of the cast and crew were very uncomfortable around Frank from the beginning.” Andreeva reports Langella has been exploring legal action, but neither him nor Netflix responded to the new allegations.

Natalie Portman will still star in the Laura Lipman novel adaptation, which is currently in production. The hunt is now on for a new actress to take over Nyong'o's role. 

Mitchell is teaming with former SNL writer and former The Bernie Mac Show executive producer Warren Hutcherson on a multicamera comedy pilot inspired by Mitchell's standup. I Gotta Ask My Wife is described as "an edgy multi-cam that follows the friendship between three men, all living in the same apartment building, at different stages in their romantic lives: one in his 20s, single and looking for love, one thirty-something who can’t get divorced fast enough, and one happily married, father of two (Mitchell, 40s), who just wants to “chill” (code for: stay out of trouble) at home with his wife."

Ryan Murphy's hit Fox dramedy is joining the two Disney-owned streaming services on June 1, six months after its Netflix exit.

Smith is one of six guests on Letterman's fourth season of My Next Guess Needs No Introduction, premiering today. "Life is so exciting to me right now because I can reach people differently than I've ever been able to reach people, largely because of my pain," Smith said during his interview with Letterman, taped before his infamous Oscars slap of Chris Rock. "I'm really ready to dive into my heart in a way that I think will be, hopefully, fulfilling for me and helpful for the human family."

The Euphoria and The Flight Attendant actress will star on the Peacock comedy based on MacFarlane's popular film franchise as a character described as "kind, selfless and almost pathologically sweet when it comes to caring for her family, and sees the world through naive, rose-colored glasses."

The Flight Attendant actress will star opposite Michaela McManus in the "soapy" procedural set in the world of national park law enforcement agents.

Sadoski is one of seven new additions to the seasonal anthology series.

“your husband alerting her literally saved her life,” the former The Talk co-host captioned a screenshot on her Instagram Story Friday of a comment from Rajad’s wife and fellow rapper, Pretty Face Ray’Ray, about the fire, which killed one person and injured two.

Disney+ has given an early renewal to HSM:TM:TS, which will return for its third season on July 27 with episodes released weekly.

Windey and Recchia are "two best friends" on an "unbelievable journey" when the first two-lead Bachelorette season kicks off on July 11.

NBC's newest dance competition, with host Camille Kostek and Shakira, Nick Jonas and Liza Koshy as judges, premieres after America's Got Talent on May 31.

The BBC romantic comedy drama adaptation of Dolly Alderton’s book of the same name about four female friends is being touted as the next Girls.

Netflix today announced how the fourth and final season of Stranger Things will be broken down into two volumes. Volume 1, consisting of Episodes 1 through 7, debuts May 27 with most episodes running at 75 minutes. The final two episodes, Episode 8 and 9, drop on July 1. Episode 8 will run 85 minutes, while the Episode 9 series finale will approach 2-1/2 hours, according to Variety. The Duffer Brothers recently told The Wrap that Episodes 7 and 9 will be of movie length.  “Seven and nine in particular are movies,” Matt Duffer said. “And nine is a long movie.” When asked how long, Ross Duffer responded: “We’re still refining it but we will say that it is over two hours. It’s a big one.” ALSO: Watch the first eight minutes of Season 4.

Campbell will recur as a guest-star on the Peacock video game adaptation starring Anthony Mackie, Stephanie Beatriz and Thomas Haden Church.

Netflix's LGBTQ-themed young adult romantic dramedy based on Alice Oseman's webcomic and graphic novel has become a sensation since premiering last month. Oseman will return to write both new seasons.

Reggie Hundlin, who has produced the last two Emmys on CBS and ABC, will reteam with Done+Dusted, which has produced the last five, for this year's Primetime Emmys ceremony on NBC. "In their first two years at the helm, D+D and Hudlin have managed hold ratings steady in a time when most awards shows numbers are collapsing — and have also earned high marks for two unique shows that have reinvented the show’s look and feel (partly out of necessity due to the pandemic)," says Variety's Michael Schneider. "What’s more unique is the stability of the production team despite the fact that the Primetime Emmys are telecast on a broadcast wheel."

Steele was reportedly "covered in blood" but was able to walk off the course after she was hit by golfer Jon Rahm's errant tee shot.

During Washington's final visit to The Ellen DeGeneres Show, she recalled deflecting her question in 2014 about whom she preferred kissing by saying neither. "I thought I was keeping the peace by saying I don't like to kiss either one of them but they were both pretty pissed for years," she said with a laugh.

James Saito, Tim Chiou, Freda Foh Shen and Felisha Terrell will also join Milo Ventimiglia and Catherine Haena Kim in the drama pilot about a relationship between a conman and CIA officer.

The comic book series from writer Paul Tobin and artist Alberto Albuquerque is described as "John Wick meets A Beautiful Mind." It is set to become a Hulu series from The Nevers and Cloak & Dagger producer Peter Calloway. A Calculated Man "is a math-inspired crime series that follows Jack Beans, an accountant living in witness protection after betraying his former employers, the Pinafore crime family," per Deadline. "After three years, Jack decides to reclaim his old life. What follows is a journey full of murder, mayhem and mathematics."

St. John, best known for playing Red Power Ranger Jason Lee Scott, was one of 18 people taken into custody early Thursday morning for allegedly defrauding the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program.

The third and final season of the LGBTQ teen dramedy premieres on Hulu and Disney+ on June 15.

"The sight of dopey, meme-based game show Is It Cake? claiming the No. 1 slot on Netflix" and a trashy TV "resurgence fueled by self-consciously trashy shows like Selling Sunset and FBoy Island" are helping fuel our new "era of exuberant, even apocalyptic, bad taste," says Judy Berman. As Berman notes, the trend of big, flashy performances in movies such as House of Gucci "has reached TV, from (Nicole) Kidman’s goofy accent in Nine Perfect Strangers to Sean Penn’s grotesque makeup in Gaslit to Renée Zellweger’s fat suit in The Thing About Pam. Everything about Pam & Tommy is a paean to bad taste. No single human encapsulates our bad-taste moment like Pete Davidson, who plays up his dirtbag swag, proudly reps Staten Island, and now sits at the dead center of pop culture by virtue of dating Kim Kardashian." Berman adds that "what’s remarkable about all this is not that it’s happening so much as the absence of any notable mainstream backlash," noting that "the same fashion establishment that chafed over populist youth trends like grunge in the ’90s and style blogs in the aughts is not just drawing inspiration from Euphoria but sending its stars down the runway."

There were just 35 broadcast pilot pickups for ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and The CW -- compared to an average of 77.4 over the past decade -- representing a new 10-year low. "Gone are the days when broadcast was the priority at the New York dog-and-pony show, when networks would trot out the stars and fresh faces of the newly ordered 30-something comedies and dramas before unspooling trailers that they hoped would deliver a hit half as successful as the five-time Emmy winner," says The Hollywood Reporter's Lesley Goldberg. "Now, in the first in-person presentations since COVID-19 upended the industry, the stage was largely devoid of the class of 2022-23, and the vast majority of the new show trailers went unseen — if they were mentioned at all. What’s more, ABC, Fox and NBC still have series orders for next season in the works and casting to do for others that have already been greenlit. The lack of star power onstage has as much to do with the current state of the pandemic as with its impact on the overall television landscape over the past few years." ALSO: Here are some of the best, worst and weirdest moments from upfront week.

The HBO Max dark dramedy has become too repetitive in Season 2, says Jihane Bousfiha. "Ever since HBO Max’s stylish comedy-thriller The Flight Attendant got renewed for a second season in late 2020, I haven’t been able to shake off the thought that it would’ve been cool to see the show go down the daring yet intriguing route of having each season center on a different character, whether it be someone new or a character we’re already familiar with, and the tumultuous events they find themselves at the center of," says Bousfiha. "Although I think expanding on what was originally meant to be a limited series is entirely unnecessary (remember Big Little Lies?), it was bound to happen due to the show’s success, and a good way to change it up is to do something out of left field—in other words, The Flight Attendant should’ve kicked Cassie Bowden (Kaley Cuoco)—an (understandably) self-destructive woman who doesn’t follow orders and acts purely on impulse, even when fully sober—to the curb. Sorry babe."

Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón announced that the publicity generated by Isaiah Lee allegedly tackling Chappelle earlier this month at the Hollywood Bowl led the victim in the stabbing to identify Lee, his then-roommate, to LAPD detectives. Lee pleaded not guilty to the attempted murder charge and is due back in court next month.

Jackson and Ridloff will also serve as executive producers on the untitled series that has been given a three-year script-to-series commitment. "The as-yet-untitled prospective series follows two polar opposites who become intertwined in a love affair that turns their worlds – and those of everyone around them – upside down," according to Deadline. "The half-hour drama will chronicle what it takes to fall and stay in a radical, rebellious love. One person is ambitious, while the other is restless. One is ready to commit, while the other debates the merits of relationships. One is Black and one is white. One is deaf and one is not. Though wildly different, the two are emotionally and physically drawn to each other despite personal expectations and public assumptions. Their attraction passionately disrupts notions of race, gender, class, physical ability, and normative culture, elevating to true love that surpasses difference."

After playing the title role of Delilah Connolly on OWN's Delilah last year, Hill will star opposite Jesse L. Martin n in NBC’s drama pilot The Irrational, playing "an astute and intelligent FBI agent with a passion for her work who often finds herself teaming up with Alec (Martin) in one way or another."

The 78 miillion is the second-largest trailer debut for a Marvel Studios series, behind only 2021’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which included a Super Bowl spot.

“As of tomorrow, I am taking a leave of absence from the majority of my responsibilities at WWE,” McMahon tweeted Thursday afternoon. “WWE is a lifelong legacy for me and I look forward to returning to the company that I love after taking this time to focus on my family.”

Bee's hiatus coincided with the reported leaked Justice Samuel Alito opinion ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. Bee called the draft opinion a trailer for “how f*cking horrible life is to become for a lot of people” once states are free to ban abortion altogether and tore apart the “infuriating” arguments that Alito makes.

Brady is constantly making headlines these days, from his Netflix roast deal to his massive Fox Sports contract to his ESPN+ docuseries to his Hertz ads. He's also starring in a road trip movie with his name in the title: 80 for Brady. Yet Brady is still the most famous player on the most famous sports league. "Throw in his cool-uncle social-media habits, and it’s obvious that Brady is currently everywhere," says ProfootballTalk's Mike Florio.

ALSO:

• Fox Sports officially taps former NFL player Greg Olsen as the lead analyst for next year's Super Bowl, filling Tom Brady's future role: Olsen will be the lead analyst for Fox's NFL coverage next season, reteaming with his broadcast partner Kevin Burkhardt. But Olsen's lead NFL analyst role is temporary until Brady retires.
• TV executives should look beyond star QBs for broadcasting gigs

Jordan, who lost to Brian Heidik in a 4-3 vote on Survivor's fifth season in fall 2002, died Thursday after a short illness. Jordan gave an interview to the Survivor Bluffs podcast last December.

Twenty years ago this month, BBC spy drama Spooks (known as MI-5 in the United States) premiered, with MacFadyen as its lead -- joined by his now-wife Keeley Hawes and David Oyelowo -- less than a year after 9/11. Macfadyen starred in Spooks  for the first two seasons as spy chief Tom Quinn. He went on to play Mr. Darcy in 2005's Pride & Prejudice opposite Keira Knightley. But it is the British actor's American role as Tom Wambsgans that has made him a standout as an actor. "So many of the show’s most indelible moments are etched on Tom’s face, his expressions flickering between cockiness, servility, desire, and horror," says Vanity Fair's Joy Press of Macfadyen. "By the end of season three, it’s clear that all those episodes biding his time have paid off. He’s become Logan’s—and Succession’s—secret weapon. In real life, Macfadyen has none of that Wambsgansian volatility or douchiness." Oyelowo recalls him and Macfadyen having a heart-to-heart years ago. “The reality is that you are a full-bore, indisputable leading man, and you keep hiding in the corner," said Oyelowo, who adds: “You have to persuade him he’s a leading man or that he’s good-looking or that he’s as talented as he is. And I’m just glad that opportunities have continued to come along to sort of drag him into inhabiting roles that are worthy of that talent.” Meanwhile, Macfadyen says he's tired of the debate over co-star Jeremy Strong's method acting. “I find it slightly aggravating because — it makes (the show) about one thing, and it’s an ensemble piece,” he says. “You think of (fellow cast members) J. Smith-Cameron and Alan Ruck, who are fucking extraordinary actors. (Strong) is not the main event.”

The new “mystery box” feature that’s intended to help kids discover new shows among the vast number of children's programming on Netflix.

"On the eve of the current NBA playoffs, the league's games returned to state-run TV in China after a nearly three-year ban," reports ESPN's Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru. "It was a quiet return, with nary a word from New York or Beijing trumpeting the apparent end of a bitter conflict. NBA owners had remained largely silent throughout the ban, even as the league worked behind the scenes to repair a ruptured relationship that had cost hundreds of millions of dollars and laid bare the complexities of doing business with an authoritarian regime. The owners had reason to stay quiet: In addition to the money their teams derive from the NBA's $5 billion business in China, many have significant personal stakes there through their other businesses."

“The rash didn’t go away. It was itchy,” tells Variety, laughing and adding: “Are there every too many prosthetics? I don’t think so. What a cool process. I didn’t know anything about that stuff… It was magnificent to sit there and watch it all come together.” ALSO: Zellweger says undergoing a physical transformation for a role "feels like a safe space to hide."

The adoption journey British comedy starring Rafe Spall and Esther Smith returns July 22.

"I know when I'm in the shower, I time it to the minute," he said to his Late Late Show staff. "How long are people spending in the shower?"

The SEAL Team and The Village alum's character is described as "a beautiful but completely unaffected young Park Service agent, a 'wild at heart rule breaker' with a big heart and self-deprecating sense of humor who loves the wilderness."

The remake of the Spanish version of Money Heist debuts on June 24.

Kenan Thompson and Kate McKinnon "sufficiently insulted" the Russian Doll star, who hosts the Season 47 finale with musical guest Japanese Breakfast. ALSO: On The Tonight Show, Kenan Thompson debunks Samuel L. Jackson's alleged SNL ban.

Comedian Adam Conover’s new Netflix series examining and critiquing how the U.S. government handles certain matters -- from food production to weather disasters to military defense weapons -- is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions. "Barack Obama makes his presence known, appearing in the first episode and the last, which features a conversation between him and Conover about the feasibility of real change," says Sonia Rao. "The Obamas lend The G Word a degree of legitimacy in Netflix’s vast sea of offerings, but they might also give viewers pause: Why should we trust a show produced by a former president to offer an objective critique of the government?" The G Word, says Rao, ends with "an extra dose of hope, but these concluding remarks relay a somewhat disingenuous take on what is required for the government to truly serve its people — perhaps the most obvious indicator of its producers’ bias. A show of this nature would do well to take the microphone away from career politicians and continue to uplift those heard less often. At one point in the final episode, for instance, Conover speaks to a Philadelphia resident who says she aspires to run for office one day."

ALSO:

• The G Word approves upon Adam Conover's Adam Ruins Everything: "The loss of Adam Ruins Everything, which was unceremoniously cancelled by truTV three years ago, meant the loss of Adam Conover’s incisive, entertaining takedowns (engagement rings are a scam) and explorations of misinformation about common parts of our lives (circumcision, hymens, and non-genital things)," says Andy Dehnart. "Thankfully, Netflix’s new series The G Word with Adam Conover is an excellent evolution of the format, examining an important part of our lives and sharing information with humor and curiosity. The show improves over its predecessor in several ways, and not just because it has more-impressive special effects and field trips that take Adam across the country, and even into a hurricane."
• How Adam Conover got involved with The G Word: "The genesis of it is that the Obama company Higher Ground had optioned the Michael Lewis book, The Fifth Risk, which is a wonderfully reported book about the Trump transition," he says. "It also has all these fascinating details about how the government works. They were looking to make a show about it, but they needed somebody with a pitch and an angle. I had read the book and loved it. So when I got a call about it, I jumped at the chance. I went in, and I told them, “Hey, here’s how I would handle it using my signature blends of comedy and research and information and investigation.” They loved that idea. And we went with it." Conover adds that the pandemic "changed everything about the show" since "we were in our writers room for one week and then the COVID shutdown happened."

The five-episode limited series on the L.A. billboard icon Angelyne, based on Gary Baum’s 2017 The Hollywood Reporter exposé of her, "makes that enigmatic face on billboards about as fully realized as you could hope," says Alison Foreman, who adds:

"Created by Nancy Oliver (Six Feet Under), with executive producer Allison Miller (Brave New World) doubling as showrunner, Angelyne doesn’t debunk every myth about the local legend; no series ever could. But this technicolor portrait of Hollywood’s sweet-yet-spicy hometown hero offers something almost better. It’s a searingly fun chance to decide for yourself what’s real and what’s fiction on the spiritually charged Planet Angelyne. Though the show’s plot is anchored in how the world sees her–dramatizing Baum’s revelatory article and other seemingly true Angelyne accounts from third parties (which, let’s be honest, not all of which the actual Angelyne will love seeing discussed so publicly)–its execution is infused with the titular star’s otherworldly sensibilities and a palpable love for her life’s work. (It’s worth noting here that Angelyne received $1 million and an executive producer credit for this project.)"

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• Angelyne revels in its disconnects: "But unlike Pam & Tommy, Tammy Faye, or Inventing Anna, it doesn’t apologize for her moments of pettiness, vanity, or selfishness," says Roxana Hadadi. "She’s a feminist fighting against dismissive men who call her a bimbo for her bust size, and a bad boss who runs her employees into the ground, and a victim of generational trauma who escaped into the world of make-believe that is Hollywood, and a figure who calls herself a 'sex goddess' and sells a certain cartoonish image of herself without actually seeming all that interested in the physical act. Angelyne gives its titular subject totality, and Rossum easily ricochets between Angelyne’s coquettish sexy-baby voice and a hard, direct glare with all seduction wiped off."
• Angelyne is like a Charlie Kaufman-lite feature film stretched out over five hours: "Angelyne is a quintessentially Hollywood story of performance, reinvention and self-expression, an amusingly meta perspective on the entertainment industry as a dream factory in which 'stars,' as much as movies or TV shows, can be the finished product at the end of the assembly line," says Daniel Fienberg. "The cleverness of Angelyne comes and goes and its intellectual points range from perceptive to half-baked in what ultimately feels like a Charlie Kaufman-lite feature film stretched — thankfully only to five hours — by the demands of streaming television. The 'Choose Your Own Reality' conceit of Angelyne — in which she (played under increasing layers of latex by Emmy Rossum) tries desperately to retain control over her narrative and also over an imaginary documentary about her life through interjections, corrections and whimsical fabulism — is a good one."
• Angelyne lets Emmy Rossum reinvent herself as an actress after Shameless: "Where Rossum’s prior roles saw her as the sensible brunette, her Angelyne is a wide-eyed, bottle-blonde, hot pink Christmas decoration; she titters like Betty Boop, dispensing one florid pearl of wisdom after another ('I strive for a painless existence') in that breathy Marilyn Monroe voice," says Clint Worthington. "Much like Lily James in Pam & Tommy last year, Rossum dons a 30-pound breastplate and all the foot-high blonde wigs she can muster to capture the real Angelyne’s cartoonish proportions. She commands the room, demanding all eyes on herself and only letting the barest crack of a real self through; it’s a remarkable study in manufactured perception. By God, the layers of artifice work like gangbusters: after all, Angelyne, like Rossum, are both women looking to redraw themselves to show the world what they can do, to demand the attention they feel they deserve."
• This is a niche story, one that doesn’t seem to have the basic tenets of a classic Hollywood biopic or rags-to-riches tale: "How much can you plumb the seeming depths of shallowness?" asks Kayleigh Donaldson. "But therein lies the most interesting parts of Angelyne, which sees those well-worn tools of real-life storytelling as ill-equipped for someone like its star." Donaldson adds: "Rossum is committed in her performance as Angelyne. Complete with a heavy head of blonde hair and a massive breastplate that dwarfs her petite frame, Rossum is clearly having a ball being so unrecognizable. She nails the Valley girl drawl and piercing stare of a woman who always is trying to charm you or figure out your deal. Angelyne is no bimbo, despite what many (MANY) people say to her face throughout the show. Rossum slyly moves between these various modes, from Marilyn copycat cover girl to evasive deal-maker."
• Angelyne succeeds when it echoes the same carefully constructed campiness of its subject rather than try to create gravitas from the ground up: "In moments when Rossum embraces Angelyne’s baby-voiced coo, or Linklater adopts an impossibly affected drawl; when the cinematography echoes the flat, arid L.A. light sliding against the neon; when Angelyne’s daydreaming becomes a full-on alien abduction fantasy to lure us into the larger-than-life corners of her mind. When it’s not overly concerned with selling Angelyne as The Original #Influencer, the show is freer to simply show us what it’s like to be Angelyne, in all her perfectly tacky glory," says Caroline Framke. "As people (mostly men) keep trying to dig up the truth of who Angelyne is, and Angelyne keeps refusing to let them, the show flips its own narrative inside-out to emphasize just how conflicted her story continues to be."
• Angelyne's attempt at the truth, while changing the name of some characters, is a little schizoid: "It’s hard to know how to take the series at first, what’s meant to be funny ha-ha and what’s meant to be funny strange," says Robert Lloyd. "This is not just as concerns the star, a character half-defined by self-knowledge and half self-delusion, but of most of the other main characters, including Freeman’s printer, Hamish Linklater as her fan club president and right hand, Charlie Rowe as her house photographer and Lukas Gage as a young man trying to make a documentary about her, though not the 'documentary' we seem to be seeing. Some are caricatures, some not."
• Angelyne is a colorful, bombastic look at an L.A. icon: "With so much still unknown about Angelyne and anyone outside LA understandably hard-pressed to know who she is, star Emmy Rossum and creator Nancy Oliver have their work cut out for them," says Kristen Lopez. “Angelyne is a hot pink, rapid-fire series focused on the nature of identity and the way our memory informs who we are. With a fun, unique structure, and producer-star Rossum slathering herself in prosthetics and body-hugging costumes, Angelyne becomes a highly entertaining and heartfelt look at a Los Angeles icon."
• Angelyne barely scratches the surface of the real-life proto-influencer: The show's "often prosaic writing is at odds with the otherwise heightened tone of the series, which grows more self-aware with each of its five episodes, until it’s winking with both eyes," says Danette Chavez. "Like its namesake, the show wants you to know it knows you’re watching; elements like the bad old age makeup highlight the artifice on display. And when Rossum as Angelyne talks directly to the camera, she isn’t addressing the documentary makers so much as the audience at home. But then there’s fourth wall-breaking on top of fourth wall-breaking, with Angelyne showing up in other characters’ talking heads to refute their claims."
• Angelyne’s story turns into a woozy blur of perspectives of her own alien persona: "From a production standpoint, Emmy Rossum, both star and executive producer of the series, commits this continual splintering of Angelyne’s story almost to a fault," says Katherine Smith. "While Angelyne’s own narrative to herself becomes unreliable, the fractal framing and shifts into magical realism can make the series feel overstuffed, too imbalanced of a canvas for an already volatile source character. At same time, Angelyne, as a character for writing and within the plot, begs for maximalism."
• Angelyne is the right way to tell the “only in Hollywood” origin story of Los Angeles’ unofficial mascot: "Actress Emmy Rossum is clearly having a blast portraying the various chapters of the enigmatic woman’s life story, but she tempers the performance from devolving into the cartoonish," says Tara Bennett. "She’s surrounded by a very solid cast, especially Hamish Linklater, Martin Freeman, and Molly Ephraim, who help keep the tone light but grounded. And the unexpected flights of fancy woven into the story distinguishes Angelyne as a biographical series that dares to be different."
• Emmy Rossum says her goal with Angelyne was to make a "love letter" that celebrates her as a trailblazer: "I hope that she knows that this is a love letter to the fun and fantasy and the hot pink, Corvette-driving enigma that she is. I hope more people fall in love with her and appreciate her for what a trailblazer she is as the precursor to social media," says Rossum, adding: “She understood the power of her image and the fierce control and preservation that that living, breathing performance art needs to survive. She was creating a fantasy and has perpetuated that for decades."
• Angelyne isn't happy with Peacock's limited series based on her life -- or is she?: "I had a glimpse of it and I refused to watch it," the L.A. billboard icon tells Inside Edition of the Peacock limited series in which Emmy Rossum plays her. "It doesn't do me justice. Would you be flattered if someone played you and misrepresented you?" But as EW's Lester Fabian Brathwaite points out, Angelyne was using the Inside Edition interview to promote herself. "This is a professional, kids. As such, it's perhaps best to take her umbrage with the show with a grain of salt," says Brathwaite. "After all, Rossum has spoken quite positively of meeting Angelyne before donning extensive makeup and prosthetics to portray her." Rossum told The Hollywood Reporter that Angelyne was involved with the series early on and they actually had a sit-down together. "The one thing she told me was that she’s a mirror, so whatever I saw in her that’s the story I should tell and therefore it would be my story and not her story. And I thought that was so empowering,” said Rossum.

The potential TV series, which Hwang has titled The Best Show on the Planet, is inspired by his experiences with suddenly being thrust in the limelight after Squid Game's overnight success last fall. Hwang revealed the show, which is in its infancy, in an interview with Deadline’s Disruptors Magazine. As Hwang has repeatedly said, he first got the idea for Squid Game in 2008, but that it would take him more than a decade to see it come to fruition. Hwang is developing The Best Show on the Planet as he continues working on Squid Game Season 3. As he tells Deadline: “Season 1’s success has given me an immense amount of pressure and I am having nightmares about the reception for Season 2 not being so good."

Covert Affairs creators Matt Corman and Chris Ord are attached to write and executive produce are attached to write and executive produce a new Marvel Daredevil series, reports Variety. Marvel has yet to formally announce a new Daredevil series. It's unclear if Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio, who starred on Netflix's Daredevil and appeared in recent Marvel projects, will reprise their roles.

Snooki and her fellow Jersey Shore Family Vacation cast members released a joint statement this morning in reaction to news of the sequel series, saying: "As a cast that took a chance with a network in need, we put our most vulnerable moments on television for the world to see. We gave our all over the past 13 years, became a family and continue to open our lives to the world. So please understand that we are not in support of a version that will exploit our original show, our hard work and authenticity to gain viewers.” 

Bill Hader is expected to direct all eight episodes when his and Alec Berg's Emmy-winning comedy series begins production on Season 4 in June. Barry is currently in its third season, which is scheduled to end on June 12. “Bill, Alec, and the entire cast and crew delivered an exquisite third season of Barry, it’s a masterful blend of laughs and suspense,” said Amy Gravitt, executive vice president, HBO Programming. “I’m so happy to announce that we are picking up the fourth season.”

Lovesong follows "two Mexican American childhood friends living in London as they become entangled in a torturous love triangle with the same captivating singer-songwriter — a love story born out of betrayal and paid for with the cost of friendship," per Variety. "Steeped in the East London music scene, the series embarks on a cinematic contemplation of love, sex, identity, purpose and the price of happiness. Johnny Flynn will serve as composer."

In celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Netflix announced it is expanding its accessibility features across the globe and launching a new collection highlighting stories focused on people living with disabilities. 

Church will co-star with Anthony Mackie and Stephanie Beatriz in the half-hour action comedy based on the PlayStation video games of the same name. He'll play Agent Stone, described as "a cold and unyielding post-apocalyptic highway patrolman who rules the roads with a silver tongue and a twisted iron fist, prosecuting even the smallest crimes with the harshest of judgements. Agent Stone will stop at nothing to bring law and order back to the Divided States of America, and will kill anyone in his path who defies his power."

The hit Channel 4 comedy ended with the former first daughter receiving a delayed letter from the gang in the closing credits. In a previous episode, the gang wrote to a then-teenage Chelsea asking if she would like to hang out during then-President Bill Clinton's visit to Northern Ireland in 1995.

Kassell, who directed multiple episodes of Watchmen including the pilot, has boarded the live-action Amazon series as executive producer and director of the pilot.

The show's fans used memes to suggest that nobody was happier to see Riverdale end than the show's stars. "While Riverdale always had a passionate fanbase behind it, it’s also something of a perennial internet punching bag because of its many, many absurdities over the years," says Michelle Jaworski. ALSO: KJ Apa feels sad about Riverdale ending, but adds: "I think it's perfect -- all great things have to come to an end. I feel good about it."

The trio, who were in attendance for their respective new CW series Walker: Independence, The Winchesters and Gotham Knights, interrupted CW chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz's speech to pitch some ideas. “How about an awards show from hell, we’ll call it the Demons’ Choice Awards,” Ackles said to a big laugh.

Aylward, best known for playing the surgeon Dr. Donald Anspaugh, chief of staff and at Chicago's County General Hospital on ER, and former DNC chair Barry Goodwin on The West Wing, died this week at his home in Seattle. The character actor with the very recognizable face also recurred on numerous shows, from Mad Men to Northern Exposure to Alias and, most recently, Briarpatch.

While other upfront presentations featured networks being part of major media companies, The CW chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz said at his network's upfronts: “We are The CW on broadcast, on streaming on social media. One name, one brand.”

Watch the origin story for The Ellen DeGeneres Show's "scare table" in the show's "anatomy of a scare" featurette.

The former White House press secretary said at a forum in Chicago on Wednesday that, in the aftermath of Trump's presidency, "e made a decision from the beginning that part of restoring civility was treating people with respect in the briefing room, with, to calling on everyone, including Fox, which didn’t always have positive reporting about the President or the vice president, and not making a dispute with Fox the story. And there are times when that may be appropriate, but not when you follow an administration where they were disputing the legitimacy of institutions or the media."

"You know, I'm excited because the cast I was involved with was hot garbage," he said on TikTok of the "more diverse" reboot. "So, I look forward to this new cast, who probably deserve to be on television."

“I don’t watch the show at all. It doesn’t really enter my lexicon,” she said on Carlos King's podcast Reality with The King. “I don’t watch anymore and it’s too weird. It would be too weird to watch, but, um, I don’t miss it. And I think it’s because I had such a hard time. My last season, it was a really rough time in my life.” She went on to call Hostin "one of the greatest TV presences, I think in all of television. Like I have told her that I think she should host her own show eventually.”

Drake Rodger and Meg Donnelly star as John and Mary, the parents of Sam and Dean, in the series that tells their epic, untold love story.

Matt Barr and Katherine McNamara star in the Walker prequel series set in the late 1800s.

Pratt stars as a Navy SEAL thrust into a conspiracy in the thriller premiering July 1.

"I absolutely did have COVID. I absolutely did," Quinn said on Watch What Happens Live. Quinn was doubted because she was spotted filming something else two days after her announcement that she would be missing the reunion due to COVID.

Robert and Michelle King's acclaimed supernatural dramedy, returning June 12 on Paramount+, appears to be trolling Ted Lasso in its new trailer.

Edward Burns' period dramedy returns July 10.

The Netflix documentary looks at J.Lo's life in recent years, including her preparation for the Super Bowl LIV halftime show. Halftime premieres June 14.

The limited series, premiering June 2, "rejoices in the laugh-out-loud highs, while pulling no punches in its depiction of the gut-wrenching lows of life on a gynecology and obstetrics ward."