Ellen Pompeo to lead Hulu's Chicks / Joshua Jackson joins Your Friends & Neighbors / Sadie Sink to star in FX's The Marriage Plot
PLUS: Hugh Laurie boards BBC and MGM+’s Legacy of Spies in his second John le Carré adaptation after The Night Manager.
Ellen Pompeo to lead Hulu family dramedy pilot Chicks
Pompeo is reteaming with Hulu and Good American Family creator Katie Robbins on the potential series that Robbins created. “Written by Robbins, Chicks is set in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods of old Boston,” according to Deadline’s Matt Grobar. “It follows Chickie (Pompeo) and Doreen, two estranged half-sisters who are both struggling to get by when their wise guy dad unexpectedly kicks the bucket. Their only inheritance is a legacy of two-bit crime that inspires them to run increasingly audacious frauds. As their con grows, so does their odd-couple bond, as they each start to fill the father-shaped hole in the other’s heart. Chicks is based on an original idea from Robbins that she developed specifically for Pompeo, inspired by conversations the two had on set of their first project together, the Hulu limited series Good American Family, which premiered last March, amassing 6.3 million views in its first six days on the platform.” Chicks is expected to start production in New York in September.
Joshua Jackson joins Your Friends & Neighbors Season 3
Jackson will appear in a major recurring role on the Jon Hamm-led ABC drama series, joining fellow newcomer Michelle Monaghan. Details of his character are being kept under wraps.
Sadie Sink to star in FX limited series The Marriage Plot
Written by Succession vet Will Arbery and directed by Hiro Murai, The Marriage Plot will be adapted from Jeffrey Eugenides’ 2011 novel of the same. According to the official description, The Marriage Plot follows “three recent college graduates caught in an all-consuming love triangle as they reconcile their youthful romantic aspirations with looming adulthood and make life-altering choices about love and identity.” Stranger Things alum Sink will star in and serve as an executive producer.
Hugh Laurie boards BBC and MGM+’s Legacy of Spies in his second John le Carré adaptation after The Night Manager
Laurie, whose role hasn’t been revealed, joins an ensemble that includes Matthew Macfadyen, Dan Stevens, Felix Kammerer and Agnes O’Casey. “Legacy of Spies is one of the BBC and MGM+’s biggest budget bets in recent years,” says Deadline. “It is based on 1963’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and the 2017 novel A Legacy of Spies, which itself is a prequel and sequel to The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.”
Peacock orders The Break-In from All Her Fault team
All Her Fault creator Megan Gallagher and Carnival Films are reteaming to adapt another female-driven, novel-based mystery limited series. The Break-In, adapted from the 2025 domestic mystery novel by Katherine Faulkner, has the following description: “In the aftermath of a devastating home invasion, Alice Rathbone refuses to accept that the tragic event was simply random. Desperate for answers, Alice starts pulling at threads and soon finds a trail of dark secrets that spiral closer to home than she could ever have imagined.”
Jimmy Kimmel dominates the 11:35 p.m. hour in first faceoff with Jimmy Fallon since Stephen Colbert’s late-night exit
According to LateNighter, Kimmel’s Monday show had 2.185 million total viewers and 295,000 viewers in the 18-49 demo — more than Fallon’s Tonight Show and Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed combined. Monday marked the first time Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Tonight Show both had fresh episodes on the same night since Colbert’s final The Late Show on May 21.
WGA decries Scott Pelley’s firing from CBS News and 60 Minutes
In a message to members Thursday morning, WGA East president Tom Fontana decried the “assaults on CBS News, an institution of American journalism for nearly a century.” He said the actions taken by CBS News “are more than mere ideological interference with the news. They display a profound contempt for the journalism profession.” WGA East represents unionized employees at CBS News as well as CBS News Digital.
New 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton is making $1 million more than his predecessor Tanya Simon
Page Six Hollywood reports Bilton will make $2.5 million a year, $1 million more than ousted longtime 60 Minutes vet Simon was earning in her one year as the newsmagazine’s boss. Page Six Hollywood also reports that Bilton wasn’t the only candidate for the job. Josh Tyrangiel, the former Bloomberg chief content officer and Vice Media news executive vice president, had exploratory conversations last fall.
Netflix renews Devil May Cry for a third and final season
The animated adaptation of the Hideki Kamiya-created video game franchise will conclude with Season 3. “For those of you who have been paying attention to the episode names, I have been showing you the structure the entire time,” said TV series creator Adi Shankar in a statement. “This was always Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ with guns and a red coat. Season 1 was ‘Inferno.’ Season 2 was ‘Purgatorio.’ Season 3 will be ‘Paradiso.’ These three seasons make up ‘The Force Edge Saga.’ Since inception, ‘The Force Edge Saga’ was designed as a movie trilogy disguised as a television series.”
Obamas team with History Channel on Malcolm Gladwell-hosted podcast series Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise
Former President Barack Obama will provide commentary on the eight-part Gladwell-hosted podcast series premiering June 18. “The Reconstruction Era was a brief but pivotal and turbulent chapter in our nation’s history – one that is often overlooked, even though its consequences are still felt today,” Obama said in a statement. “In confronting this period honestly, I hope audiences can rediscover an essential part of our past and remember that even in moments of deep conflict and contradiction, persistence and perseverance remain powerful sources of hope.”
Presenting the 100 most-watched TV series of the 2025-2026 TV season across broadcast, cable and streaming
Netflix had three of the Top 5 with No. 1 Stranger Things, No. 2 His & Hers and No. 5 Sean Combs: The Reckoning. Paramount/CBS had two of the Top 5 with Taylor Sheridan’s Marshals and Landman.
Alan Jackson’s final concert performance will air as an NBC primetime special
Alan Jackson: The Last Show will air as a primetime television event later this year after taping June 27 at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium. The special will celebrate the country star’s “enduring legacy and profound impact on generations of fans and musicians alike as he takes the stage one final time.”
Patricia Heaton teams with Richard Schiff and James Wolk on legal drama pilot Public Interest
The legal drama pilot from producer-director David Barrett and MPI Original Films is set at a nonprofit public interest law firm in Washington, D.C., and follows Heaton as Ingrid Erickson, “an attorney unexpectedly thrust into the firm’s top leadership role after its longtime president suffers a sudden heart attack, and her unconventional team as they fight for everyday people facing impossible odds. As the attorneys navigate high-stakes legal battles, they must also contend with office tensions, personal relationships and the emotional toll of trying to do the right thing in an increasingly complicated world.” Liana Liberato, Tiana Okoye, Carter Redwood and Josh McKenzie also star.
Euphoria ends with 8.7 million viewers across HBO and HBO Max
The viewership was a slight increase from the 8.5 million who watched the Season 3 premiere. HBO also says episodes of Euphoria Season 3 are now averaging 25 million viewers to date worldwide.
Rich Eisen to host ESPN video podcast This Was SportsCenter: Stories from the Set
Premiering Friday as part of Disney+’s “Throwback Summer” campaign, former SportsCenter anchor Eisen’s new podcast will take fans of the iconic sports news show during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Season 1 will consist of six episodes and feature guests Dan Patrick, Mike Greenberg, Linda Cohn, Chris Fowler and Craig Kilborn. “The moment my daily Rich Eisen Show reunited me with ESPN, I knew I had to create this show,” said Eisen, who co-anchored SportsCenter from 1996 to 2003. “I’ve lost track of the number of times people have come up to me over the years to say how I either helped put them on a school bus in the morning or stayed up procrastinating late-night in college thanks to SportsCenter. For those folks, I’m about to inject, as Stuart Scott might call it, straight-butter nostalgia into their veins.”
The FBI Files is being rebooted
The 1998-2006 true-crime docuseries that aired on Discovery Channel, made with the full cooperation of the FBI, is being revived by independent catalog operator Radial Entertainment.
Andy Cohen crashes Anderson Cooper’s CNN show to wish him happy birthday on air
The longtime friends also chatted about their upcoming July 3 special Independence Eve Live With Anderson & Andy: Celebrating 250.
Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X star Ken McNickle reveals cancer diagnosis
Ken McNickle, who competed on Season 33 of the CBS reality competition in 2016, announced his cancer diagnosis in an Instagram post on Monday. McNickle did not reveal what type of cancer he has nor did he discuss treatment plans.