Louis CK is making a comeback, thanks to Netflix / The Pitt drops Supriya Ganesh, promotes Ayesha Harris / Wizards Beyond Waverly Place to end with Season 3
PLUS: Meryl Streep-led limited series The Corrections lands at Netflix, with Cord Jefferson as director.
Louis CK is making a comeback, thanks to Netflix
The streamer announced today that the disgraced comedian will star in his first Netflix special, titled Ridiculous, since his 2017 Netflix special 2017, released six months before his sexual misconduct scandal. He’ll also headline a show at the Hollywood Bowl on May 5 as part of the Netflix Is a Joke festival. “The move appears to mark a turning point for the comedian, who had been exiled from many mainstream comedy spaces following a 2017 New York Times report at the height of the #MeToo movement in which five women accused him of sexual misconduct,” says The Hollywood Reporter’s Katie Kilkenny. “The women alleged that he masturbated in front of them or on the phone with them. C.K. later admitted to the behavior, saying he believed at the time it had been appropriate because he had asked first. The report had major consequences for C.K., whose star power was then at its height following multiple Emmy wins for his acclaimed FX series Louie and eight sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden. FX cut ties with C.K. and ended his overall deal, he lost executive producer titles on multiple shows from FX and other companies and his management firm and publicist dropped him as a client. A film he starred in, wrote and directed, I Love You, Daddy, was dropped by its distributor. In the wake of the controversy, Louis C.K. began working again but with a far lower profile. He toured in the U.S. and in Europe, filmed some specials (including one called Sorry) and released a novel set in rural Texas.”
The Pitt drops Supriya Ganesh, promotes Ayesha Harris
Ganesh, who has starred as senior resident Dr. Samira Mohan in The Pitt’s first two seasons, will exit the HBO Max medical drama in “a story-driven decision,” reports Variety’s Joe Otterson. “Given that Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center is a teaching hospital, it is normal for residents to come in and out. Dr. Mohan has also spent part of Season 2 trying to determine what the next phase of her career will be once her residency ends.” Harris, who plays senior night shift resident Dr. Parker Ellis, will become a series regular in Season 3 after recurring in Seasons 1 and 2.
David E. Kelley and Matt Reeves team to develop The Bonfire of the Vanities series for Apple TV
Tom Wolfe’s incendiary 1987 New York City satire is set to become a TV series 36 years after Brian De Palma made the book into a notorious 1990 box office bomb starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall and Morgan Freeman. Kelley will write and showrun the adaptation, while Reeves will direct and executive produce. Kelley previously adapted Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full for Netflix. “The Bonfire of the Vanities has a colorful cinematic history. Wolfe lacerated ‘80s NYC high society, from the rise of Wall Street ‘masters of the universe’ traders and raiders to their stick-thin ‘social x-ray’ wives and mistresses, to the simmering racial tensions between moneyed Manhattan and the have nots in the outlying boroughs, down to lightning rod activist leaders who rode racial volatility to national stardom,” says Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. “The tale unfolds as a Wall Street bond trader named Sherman McCoy, the quintessential master of the universe, lives a charmed life until he takes a wrong turn, ends up in the Bronx, and his frightened mistress takes the wheel and runs over a Black man who approached the couple. Cue the mayhem. Published in 1987, Wolfe’s novel captured a moment New York, at a time when Wall Street titans like Michael Milken became stars, and activists like Al Sharpton made names for themselves seizing on powder keg situations. Like the case of Tawana Brawley, a young Black woman who claimed to have been assaulted and smeared with feces by a group of white men, and the tragedy of Michael Griffith, a young man hit and killed by a car, fleeing a gang of white teens who had beaten the 23-year old and his friends outside a pizza parlor in the white neighborhood. The novel used all these tensions to propel a study of greed, avarice, and racial divisions between the haves and have nots, leading to McCoy getting his comeuppance.” Wall Street Journal film critic Julie Salamon was granted behind-the-scenes access to De Palma’s film, which she turned into the 1991 book The Devil’s Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco and the 2021 TCM podcast The Plot Thickens: The Devil’s Candy.
Meryl Streep-led limited series The Corrections lands at Netflix, with Cord Jefferson as director
Jefferson, who won an Oscar for writing American Fiction and an Emmy for writing for Watchmen, will direct the limited series based on Jonathan Franzen’s bestselling 2001 novel of the same name, which has received a straight-to-series order. Franzen will adapt his own novel. Streep was first attached to The Corrections in September 2024. “At Netflix, The Corrections will be part of the prestige drama slate overseen by VP Nora Skinner,” says Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva. “Building up that part of the portfolio has been a big priority for Netflix under Head of UCAN (U.S. and Canada) Scripted Series Jinny Howe who recruited Skinner from HBO in 2024.” The Corrections was previously rejected as a Noah Baumbach HBO pilot in 2012 with a cast that included Chris Cooper, Dianne Wiest, Ewan McGregor, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans and Greta Gerwig. “Based on Franzen’s National Book Award-winning novel, The Corrections is a sharply comic portrait of a Midwestern family whose three unmoored adult siblings desperately resist their mother’s wish for one last Christmas together – each undone by the delusional ambitions that were supposed to save them from becoming their parents,” according to Deadline. Streep will play the mother, Enid.
Peaky Blinders sequel series will star Jamie Bell, Charlie Heaton, Jessica Brown Findlay, Lashana Lynch and Lucy Karczewski
“Bell will take over the role of Duke Shelby, the eldest son of Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy), which was played by Conrad Khan in the sixth and final season of the original series and by Barry Keoghan in the followup movie, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, which was released recently on Netflix,” Deadline says of the Netflix/BBC series. No details have been provided about Heaton’s character. Jessica Brown Findlay, Lashana Lynch and Lucy Karczewski will also star.
Wizards Beyond Waverly Place to end with Season 3, which will feature Selena Gomez’s directorial debut
The Wizards of Waverly Place revival series will end this summer with its third season on Disney Channel. Gomez will not only reprise her Alex Russo role in multiple episodes, but she’ll also direct the season premiere. Season 3 will run four episodes.
60 Minutes executive producer Tanya Simon could be ousted after one year
Simon became the first woman and only the fourth executive producer of 60 Minutes when she succeeded Bill Owens a year ago. But her contract is only for one year, reports Variety’s Brian Steinberg. Simon, reports Steinberg, “could be removed from the role later this year if CBS News executives decline to renew a one-year deal that put her in the job, according to three people familiar with the matter. The revelation is likely to exacerbate concerns about how Bari Weiss, editor in chief of the Paramount Skydance news operation, may recalibrate the revered program, and raises the prospect that CBS News managers could place an outsider — a person with no ties to the show — in charge of 60 Minutes for the first time in its history. Simon, who has been a producer and editor on the show for more than a quarter century, and is daughter of a former correspondent, Bob Simon, has a multi-year contract in place with CBS News, these people said. But Paramount only agreed to give her executive-producer duties for a year, likely because previous managers were in the midst of trying to sell the company to David Ellison’s Skydance Media, these people suggested, and interest was higher in taking care of short-term business issues rather than making longer-term plans.”
Melissa Gilbert defends husband Timothy Busfield in ABC News interview, calling him “the last person in the world who would hurt a child”
In an interview with George Stephanopoulos for Good Morning America that will air Monday, Gilbert says of her husband being accused of sexual misconduct on a child on The Cleaning Lady set: “For Tim, it’s done. He’s canceled. Even if he’s exonerated, he will always be that guy, the last person in the world who would hurt a child. And believe me, if I thought for a second that Tim Busfield hurt a child, he’d have a lot more to worry about than prison.” Gilbert was sitting next to Busfield’s lawyer during the interview.
Deli Boys adds Andrew Rannells, Kumail Nanjiani, Lilly Singh and Robin Thede for Season 2
They’ll appear in guest roles on the Hulu comedy series, which returns for Season 2 on May 28. Tan France will also return as Zubair, the British Pakistani gangster first seen in Season 1.
Ramy Youssef sets his third HBO standup special, directed by The Bear creator Chris Storer
Premiering on April 17, Ramy Youssef: In Love was filmed at the Hideout in Chicago with Youssef’s longtime collaborator Storer directing. Watch the trailer.
HBO announces a behind-the-scenes Harry Potter special premiering Sunday
The April 5 special Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic charts the making of Season 1.
Frankie Muniz pitches himself for AMC’s Dennis Quaid-led NASCAR drama series
NASCAR is producing Thunder Road, a “multi-generational saga of the Whitlock family, whose legacy in stock car racing is as deep as the family’s ties to the southern hill country roots that shaped them.” That prompted NASCAR driver Muniz to tweet: “I wonder if they need a NASCAR driver that has a small acting background....”
Alyssa Farah Griffin sets The View return after nearly two months of maternity leave
Griffin is set to return on Monday, April 13, moderator Whoopi Goldberg announced Thursday.
The Daily Show will be off tonight as it begins Spring Break early
Jon Stewart will return for a full week of new episodes on Monday, April 13.
Kim Kardashian to produce Paramount+ reality show Team Moms, about youth basketball families
Team Moms “will immerse viewers into the Legendary Prep Academy in Scottsdale, Ariz., an intense baseball prep school for kids between 6th and 12th grade that serves as a feeder to Division 1 college scholarships, NIL deals and ultimately MLB fame,” according to Variety. “The show will follow the coaches, families and teen athletes who comprise the starting lineup for one of the world’s most competitive youth baseball programs.”
Sarah Drew And Eric Johnson to lead Lifetime movie When I Said I Do
The movie is inspired by the song of the same name from Clint and Lisa Hartman Black, with the Blacks executive producing. When I Said I Do premieres May 23.
Euphoria Season 3 premiere to screen at Coachella
The Season 3 premiere of the HBO drama will play in the campgrounds of the festival on Sunday at 11:59 p.m. PT. following the weekend’s final performances. Euphoria returns for its third and final season on April 12.
ESPN to replace its No. 2 NFL broadcasting team
Chris Fowler, Dan Orlovsky and Louis Riddick Jr. are out as ESPN’s No. 2 NFL broadcasting team, reports The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand, who adds: “As part of a potential new booth, Jason Kelce has emerged as a dark horse candidate on the analyst side, according to sources briefed on discussions, while NFL Network’s Kurt Warner is also in the mix. Kelce is a studio analyst on ESPN’s Monday Night Countdown.”
Colby Donaldson reveals Survivor 50 doctors tried to pull him from game before Tribal Council
“That infection most likely would’ve taken me out at some point,” Donaldson tells EW. “In fact, the docs wanted to pull me before Tribal, but because I knew I was going at Tribal, I said, “No, let me just go to this one Tribal. I think I’m gonna get sent home tonight. If I don’t, we can reassess the injury in the morning.” ALSO: Colby Donaldson says his foot injury included the “worst infection” Survivor doctors have ever seen.
Live With Kelly & Mark disrupted by a dog guest peeing on set
“Please let him take a dump,” said Kelly Ripa, recalling a September 2025 incident in which a dog defecated on Live, during a segment Thursday in which a pet expert to explain how to conduct CPR on animals.
Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton and Cailee Spainey form two couples at war in Beef Season 2 trailer
The second season of Lee Sung Jin’s Netflix anthology series premieres on April 16.
Matthew Rhys plays a small-town mayor of a cursed New England Island in Apple TV’s Widow’s Bay teaser
In the drama series premiering April 29, “the old stories that seemed too ludicrous to be true start happening again.”
Netflix unveils the trailer for Ronaldinho: The One and Only
The docuseries on the Brazilian soccer legend premieres April 16.
Grantchester reveals the trailer for its 11th and final season
“All good things come to an end” for the Masterpiece series, which returns June 14.
Watch Netflix’s trailer for Full Swing Season 4
The golf docuseries goes behind the scenes of the Ryder Cup when Season 4 drops on April 17.