Oprah Winfrey to tackle Ozempic in ABC special / JonBenét Ramsey limited series is in the works / Margaret Qualley to play Amanda Knox

PLUS: Felicity is getting a retrospective podcast from co-creator J.J. Abrams.

Oprah Winfrey to tackle Ozempic and other weight-loss drugs in an ABC primetime special
One week after Oprah stepped down from the WeightWatchers board over her admission in December she uses weight-loss drugs, ABC announced it will air the special An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution on March 18. “It is a very personal topic for me and for the hundreds of millions of people impacted around the globe who have for years struggled with weight and obesity,” said Oprah in a statement. “This special will bring together medical experts, leaders in the space and people in the day-to-day struggle to talk about health equity and obesity with the intention to ultimately release the shame, judgment and stigma surrounding weight.”

A JonBenét Ramsey limited series is in the works
The unsolved 1996 killing of 6-year-old child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is being turned into a limited series from MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios that may end up on Paramount+. "The yet untitled project details the mysterious death and the surrounding media frenzy in the murder of JonBenét Ramsey, a case that captivated an entire nation and left us with more questions than answers," per Deadline." Created by Harrison Query and Tommy Wallach, the potential series will be led by showrunner Richard LaGravenese, the screenwriter behind The Bridges of Madison County and Behind the Candelabra.

TruTV is being overhauled with nightly sports programming
The "zombie" cable channel that has become known in recent years for endless reruns of Impractical Jokers and World's Dumbest will be revamped with TNT Sports on TruTV starting next Monday, featuring a mix of live sports, original sports programming and ancillary sports content. "In doing so, Warner no doubt hopes to create new value where there has only been a little," reports Variety's Brian Steinberg. "A new sports schedule would likely draw broader viewership and new ad dollars to the network, and might even spur cable distributors to accord the outlet more value in future carriage contracts. The sports schedule will not consist only of simulcasts of NHL, MLB and NBA matchups that typically turn up on the company’s flagship TBS and TNT cable networks. Warner intends to air new 'alterna-casts' that target different audiences; a new live half-hour 'TNT Sports Update' each evening at 6 p.m.; and a new weekly program based on the social-media driven clip showcase 'House of Highlights.'" ALSO: Impractical Jokers is moving from TruTV to TBS.

Margaret Qualley to play Amanda Knox in Hulu limited series from Knox and Monica Lewinsky
Hulu has officially ordered the eight-episode limited series that is being made with Amanda Knox's participation as a producer. First reported by Deadline in January, the untitled series will tell the story of Knox, who was wrongfully convicted for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher. Warren Littlefield and Monica Lewinsky are also on board as executive producers.

Max Greenfield joins Mindy Kaling's Netflix basketball series
Greenfield, Uche Agada and Dane DiLiegro are the latest additions to Kaling's drama series set in the front office of a professional basketball team. Greenfield, who will recur, joins a cast that includes Kate Hudson, Brenda Song, Drew Tarver and Scott MacArthur. He'll play a good-natured pediatrician who is engaged to Hudson's character.

Felicity is getting a retrospective podcast from co-creator J.J. Abrams
Dear Felicity from Abrams’ Bad Robot Audio and Spotify’s The Ringer is set to debut next Wednesday, hosted by Felicity alums Amanda Foreman and Greg Grunberg and The Ringer’s Juliet Litman. Dear Felicity will look back at the 1998-2002 The WB drama series in a different way from other TV retrospective podcasts. They'll be joined by guests including stars Keri Russell, Scott Speedman, Scott Foley, Amy Jo Johnson, Tangi Miller, Ian Gomez, Jennifer Garner and Keiko Agena, plus co-creator Matt Reeves, executive producer Brian Grazer and music composer Andrew Jarecki. According to the podcast’s producers, rather than the typical episode-by-episode approach of other nostalgic TV rewatch podcasts, episodes of Dear Felicity will cover “themes and story arcs to facilitate broader conversations” about Felicity, as well as The WB, the careers of those involved with the show and how the dynamics of the era’s TV business.

Andy Cohen fires back Leah McSweeney, calling her lawsuit “false, offensive and defamatory"
On Feb. 27, former Real Housewives of New York star McSweeney filed a complaint against Cohen, Bravo and NBCUniversal, alleging that Cohen fostered a “rotted workplace culture,” as she told the New York Times. McSweeney also alleged that the executive producer had “discriminated against, tormented, demoralized, demeaned, harassed and retaliated against Ms. McSweeney because she is a woman with disabilities, such as alcohol use disorder and various mental health disorders, all in the name of selling drama.” In response, Cohen sent a letter to McSweeney's attorneys saying “virtually every statement about Mr. Cohen contained in the complaint is false and will be proven so if this baseless lawsuit proceeds, we demand that you immediately retract and withdraw all allegations relating to Mr. Cohen’s purported ‘cocaine use,’ including but not limited to the allegation that Mr. Cohen “engages in cocaine use with Housewives and other ‘Bravolebrities’ that he employs.”

President Biden prepares for his State of the Union by getting advice from five famous Hollywood presidents of the United States
Scandal's Tony Goldwyn (President Fitzgerald Grant III), Commander in Chief's Geena Davis (President Mackenzie Allen), The American President's Michael Douglas (President Andrew Shepard), Deep Impact's Morgan Freeman (President Tom Beck) and Independence Day's Bill Pullman (President Thomas J. Whitmore) made tongue-in-cheek references to the challenges they faced “when I was president.” “Looking back on my own presidency, I — I, uh, behaved very badly in a lot of situations,” admitted Goldwyn of his character's scandalous presidency.

Chris Cuomo sits down with Tucker Carlson for a NewsNation interview
Cuomo traveled to Florida for their one-on-one sit-down conversation with Carlson that is expected to air next Monday during Cuomo's show. Cuomo and Carlson have much in common having been fired by CNN and Fox News, respectively, in recent years.

Meghan Markle and Geena Davis team to change the underrepresented portrayals of moms on TV
On Thursday, Moms First, a charity partner of Markle's Archewell Foundation, and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media shared the results of a study that shows how those portrayals don’t always reflect reality, and argues that a change is necessary if we want to shift public attitudes and policy, according to Vanity Fair's Erin Vanderhoff. "The study, funded by the Archewell Foundation, found that though TV moms have become slightly more diverse, they are still underrepresented as earners and are still largely young, white, and thin. In 2022, when a couple with kids under 18 had a clear breadwinner, they were male 86.5% of the time. The study found that childcare and the realities of keeping a house running are largely erased." Davis said she was surprised by how ‘dated’ the various portrayals of TV moms seemed. “The representation of motherhood seemed like such a throwback,” she said. “It didn’t reflect modern reality anywhere near as closely as I had hoped or imagined.”

Fox to show college football in primetime every Friday this fall
While Fox has shown college football games on Friday nights in the past, they will become a weekly staple with Big Ten, Big 12 and Mountain West matchups.

Apple TV+'s Murderbot rounds out its cast with Sabrina Wu
The Joy Ride star, Tattiawna Jones, Tamara Podemski and Akshay Khanna are the latest additions to the sci-fi series.

ABC News reprimands a top producer for giving Donald Trump’s presidential campaign proprietary exit polling data on election night 2016
The recent book Let Trump Be Trump by former Trump campaign officials Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, revealed "that Chris Vlasto — then-executive producer of Good Morning America and now senior executive producer for investigative reporting — called Bossie, Trump’s deputy campaign manager, at 5:01 p.m. on election night with information being shared within a consortium of The Associated Press and the major TV networks," according to Politico's Michael Calderone, who adds: "Two sources familiar with the consortium process told POLITICO that Vlasto should not have been providing such detailed information to people outside the group, which spends millions of dollars on exit polling and shares the information on Election Day."

The Conners bringing back Roseanne star Natalie West
West, who starred on Roseanne as Crystal Anderson, will return to The Conners after last appearing during its first season.

BMF returns to a series high for its Season 3 premiere
About 5.1 million watched last Friday's season premiere across multiple platforms.

Nicholas Braun to play Jim Henson as SNL 1975 casts its Michael O’Donoghue and Billy Crystal roles
Jason Reitman's Saturday Night Live origin story movie has cast three more roles: Braun will play Jim Henson, Tommy Dewey will play Michael O’Donoghue and Nicholas Podany will play Billy Crystal.

Superman & Lois casts Kung Fu's Yvonne Chapman
Chapman, who is currently appearing on Avatar: The Last Airbender, will recur on The CW drama's final season as Amanda McCoy, one of the only characters who has figured out Superman's real identity in the comics.

Thomas Vinterberg to adapt The Brothers Lionheart as a limited event series
The Danish Oscar-winning Another Round filmmaker will co-write and direct the adaptation of Astrid Lindgren‘s beloved children’s fantasy novel of the same name that was originally published in 1973. "The Brothers Lionheart, from the renowned Swedish author of children’s classics such as Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga and Karlsson-on-the-Roof, is a coming of age tale, nestled inside an epic fantasy adventure story. The novel tells the story of two brothers – Karl and Jonathan Lion – as they leave the natural world and embark on the adventure of a lifetime in the mythical land of Nangiyala. Lindgren’s saga explores classic themes of love and loss, fear and courage, tyranny and rebellion, as the brothers must mature quickly to evade, uncover and defeat the dark, mystical forces threatening to terrorize the good people of the Wild Rose Valley."

Steve Lawrence dies: Emmy-winning crooner was 88
The creamy-voiced pop crooner who popularized the standards “Go Away Little Girl” and “I’ve Gotta Be Me” and formed the crowd-pleasing act Steve and Eydie with his wife, Eydie Gormé, for more than five decades, died Thursday of complications from Alzheimer’s disease, his son announced. "Often billed as 'Steve and Eydie,' Mr. Lawrence and his wife were a ubiquitous presence on records, television variety shows and in nightclubs from Las Vegas to the Catskills," says Terence McArdle in Lawrence's Washington Post obituary. "Mr. Lawrence, with his boyish good looks and self-assured grin, and Gormé, with her raven bouffant and beaded, feathered dresses, projected an appealing playfulness. They would finish each other’s sentences and rib each other in their sharp-tongued repartee. In their later years, Steve and Eydie were regarded as the last of the ‘tux and gown’ acts, staunch interpreters of popular standards who eschewed rock and contemporary popular music. Their TV specials, such as their Emmy Award-winning Steve & Eydie Celebrate Irving Berlin in 1978, were often songbook-themed."

Peacock's Stormy Daniels documentary trailer shows the aftermath of battling Donald Trump
Titled Stormy and premiering March 18, the trailer shows Daniels dealing with everything frsom the hounding press and MAGA death threats.

Hulu unveils the trailer for Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story
The Hulu docuseries, premiering April 26, relives Bon Jovi’s triumphs, setbacks, greatest hits and most public moments of friction.

Starz reveals the red band trailer for Mary & George
Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine star as a treacherous mother and son who scheme, seduce and slay their way to the top. Mary & George premieres April 5.

Watch the trailer for Amazon's Frida Kahlo documentary
Premiering March 14, Frida is described as an "intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist.

HBO teases Alex Edelman's first special
The comedian's Broadway show, Just For Us, is coming to HBO on April after a two-month run.