Julianne Nicholson will reprise her Emmy-winning Mare of Easttown role on Task / Andrea Riseborough boards Paramount+’s 9/12 / Canada is getting its own Summer House
PLUS: Netflix orders golf drama series Jupiter Island from Love Story creator Connor Hines.
Julianne Nicholson will reprise her Emmy-winning Mare of Easttown role on Task Season 2
HBO’s Task and Mare of Easttown, both created by Brad Ingelsby and set in the working-class suburbs of Philadelphia, are officially crossing over, reports Variety Nicholson won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie in 2021 for her role as Lori Ross, the mother of three children who lives in Easttown, on Mare of Easttown. Lori Ross’ involvement in Task has yet to be revealed. Task Season 2 has the following vague logline: “Tom Brandis (Mark Ruffalo) takes the helm of a new task force, but the deeper the operation runs, the harder it is to tell who’s the target.”
ABC delivers a ratings upset over NBC with its Fourth of July coverage
“The network’s primetime special Nashville’s Star-Spangled Bash — the finale of a 24-hour ‘Disney Celebrates America’ programming block — outdrew the annual Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks on NBC, which is usually the top program on Independence Day,” says The Hollywood Reporter’s Rick Porter. “ABC averaged 5.44 million viewers for the three-hour Star-Spangled Bash, beating the 4.94 million on-air viewers for NBC’s two-hour special. ABC’s win marks the first time since 2010 that a network other than NBC has led primetime on the Fourth of July.”
Andrea Riseborough boards Paramount+’s 9/12 limited series
The former Alice & Jack star and To Leslie Oscar nominee will play the wife of Barry Pepper’s character in the 9/11 limited series led by Jeremy Strong. “Riseborough will play Molly, (Pepper’s) Coach’s resilient wife who is deeply concerned about her husband’s health and family’s future. She demands help and finds hope in Jason’s (Strong) legal expertise,” according to Deadline.
Netflix orders golf drama series Jupiter Island from Love Story creator Connor Hines
One day after Hines earned his first Emmy nomination, for FX’s Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, Netflix has given a straight-to-series order to his golf drama series Jupiter Island, which is “said to be loosely inspired by real-life events and celebrities in the world of the PGA,” according to Deadline, which adds: “The series is set on the ultra-exclusive Jupiter Island where the privileged world of professional golfers and their wives fractures when a mysterious outsider arrives — and a secret threatens golf’s reigning power couple.” Netflix has also signed an overall deal with Hines.
Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show will spend the next two weeks promoting Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
The Tonight Show will host a different cast member each night next week, starting with Tom Holland on Monday, followed by Matt Damon on Tuesday, Zendaya on Wednesday and Lupita Nyong’o on Thursday. The following week will feature more The Odyssey-themed guests: Travis Scott on Tuesday, July 21, John Leguizamo on Wednesday and Christopher Nolan himself on Thursday.
Tony Dokoupil had a tough CBS News Fourth of July weekend
Last Friday, CBS Evening News mistakenly used an image of rapper Kanye West instead of Sean “Diddy” Combs in its report that President Trump was mulling a pardon of Sean “Diddy” Combs. On the Fourth of July, Dokoupil and Entertainment Tonight’s Nischelle Turner co-hosted a live three-hour special called The Great American Block Party 250. But insiders tell the New York Post that the event was “amateur hour.”
American Horror Story sets Season 13 premiere date for September
Ryan Murphy’s hit FX horror anthology will return Thursday, Sept. 24 with an all-star reunion of past cast members.
Apple TV is taking over San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H for the first time
The streamer is making a big splash this year with Widow’s Bay, Dark Matter and Silo.
Canada is getting its own Summer House in the Bravo reality show’s first international adaptation
Summer House Canada will launch exclusively on NBC Universal’s reality streaming platform Hayu in 2027. “The Canadian reality series promises the same blend of relationship, career and personal lives collisions — including whispers and stolen glances — that has made Summer House a hit on Bravo,” says The Hollywood Reporter’s Etan Vlessing. “The local version will take place amid forested landscapes and lakeside cottages in Muskoka, Ontario, where wealthy Torontonians get away to escape the stress of big city life.”
Jimmy Kimmel Live! guest-host Tiffany Haddish celebrates the Trump White House being mad at her: “This is the day that I finally become Jimmy Kimmel”
Haddish’s joke on Tuesday about President Trump’s “tiny hands” being “all f*cked up” prompted a statement from a White House spokesperson to USA Today, saying: “Who the hell is Tiffany Haddish?” In response, Haddish said in her Wednesday monologue: “This is exciting. The White House is mad at me, y’all! This is the day that I finally become Jimmy Kimmel.”
TCM is celebrating Tom Hanks’ 70th birthday today with a four-film marathon
The Hanks birthday marathon kicks off at 8 p.m. ET with Sleepless in Seattle, followed by Philadelphia, That Thing You Do! and the TCM premiere of The ‘Burbs.
Joy Behar stuns The View panel with a sexual joke about executive producer Brian Teta
“That’s our boss!” exclaimed Sara Haines in response to Behar trying to connect the Summer House relationship scandal to Teta.
Netflix strikes a deal with Vox Media Podcasts
The streamer’s latest podcast deal is for exclusive rights to video versions of Vox podcasts Unexplainable and Switched on Pop, which will begin rolling out next week. Vox Media Podcast Network was recently acquired by James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems.
YouTubers the Stokes Twins are coming to Netflix
Popular YouTube creators Alan and Alex Stokes have signed a deal with the streamer that will bring an archive of their YouTube content to Netflix starting July 18. They will also develop a long-form show for Netflix that is expected to premiere in 2027. “The content deal with Netflix is non-exclusive; the Stokes Twins have more than 140 million subscribers on YouTube, and their videos will remain there. (The brothers also have millions of followers on TikTok, Instagram and other social platforms.),” according to The Hollywood Reporter. ALSO: Watch Netflix’s Stokes Twins’ official trailer.
NFL insider Adam Schefter is nearing a long-term ESPN extension
Schefter’s new deal is expected to keep him at ESPN into the early 2030s, reports Front Office Sports.
Ricky Gervais’ The Alley Cats celebrates The Office UK’s 25th anniversary
Watch Gervais’ new Netflix animated feline characters pay tribute to the body of work of “proper genius” Gervais.
Check out the first look at the Joe Buck-hosted ESPN Jeopardy!
Jon Hamm, Keegan-Michael Key, Adam Pally, Peter Schrager and Kyle Brandt are among the celebrity contestants on the sports-centric spin on the classic game show. ESPN Jeopardy! premieres July 31 on Disney+, Hulu and the ESPN app.
Paramount+ teases MobLand Season 2
The first trailer for Season 2, premiering Sept. 18, shows the Harrigans getting on the front foot in their latest war on the streets.
Diarra unsuccessfully tries to have a hot girl summer in Diarra from Detroit’s Season 2
Diarra Kilpatrick’s Paramount+ mystery dark dramedy returns for its second season on July 29.
Netflix’s The Gentlemen gets a Season 2 premiere date and teaser
The second season of the action comedy series starring Theo James, Kaya Scodelario and Ray Winstone will launch on Sept. 3.
Tracee Ellis Ross still has a lot of baggage in Roku’s Solo Traveling Season 2 trailer
Solo Traveling with Tracee Ellis Ross returns for its second season on July 20.
Hulu returns to Herb Baumeister’s Fox Hollow Farm in the trailer for Return to Fox Hollow: New Victims, Darker Secrets
The true-crime docuseries is now streaming.
Watch Hulu’s trailer for A Shop for Killers Season 2
The South Korean action drama series returns July 22.
Apple TV reveals the trailer for the new Snoopy Presents trailer
Snoopy Presents: There’s No Place Like Home, Snoopy premieres July 31.
Two long-lost sisters reunite in the trailer for Megan Park’s Amazon YA drama Sterling Point
“The series is led by 17-year-old Annie Jacobson (Ella Rubin). Raised in New York City with her twin brother (Keen Ruffalo) and loving adoptive father (Jay Duplass), Annie’s life takes a turn when she inherits her mysterious grandfather’s island in Canada. There, she finds new friends, budding romances and untold family secrets.” Sterling Point premieres Aug. 5.