Scarlett Johansson to produce Netflix’s The Nanny Diaries series / Peacock rejects Clueless sequel / Labrinth says his Instagram posts blasting Euphoria were “out of character"
PLUS: Leaving Neverland director explains why his 2019 HBO documentary is unavailable to watch as Michael Jackson biopic Michael premieres.
Scarlett Johansson to produce Netflix’s The Nanny Diaries series after starring in the 2007 film adaptation
The 2002 bestselling novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus that was turned into a 2007 feature film starring Johansson is set to become a TV series from Johansson and Greg Berlanti‘s Berlanti Productions. “Written and executive produced by Amy Chozick (The Girls on the Bus) and Jenny Bicks (Sex and the City) who will serve as showrunners, The Nanny Diaries centers on Annie, a broke, aspiring writer in search of a story who takes a nanny job for a magnetic Upper East Side socialite, plunging into an elite world of unimaginable excess,” says Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva. “When she lands the book deal of her dreams to go undercover and expose the salacious lives of the ultra-rich, Annie must try to keep up this double life even as she grows attached to the people and this world… and finds out what her elusive boss is actually capable of. Berlanti and Johansson first discussed the idea of adapting the book into a TV series while shooting Apple’s 2024 movie Fly Me to the Moon, which Berlanti directed and Johansson starred in.”
Peacock rejects Clueless sequel series starring Alicia Silverstone
The potential series, announced in April 2025, that would’ve had Silverstone reprise her iconic Cher Horowitz role from the 1995 Clueless movie is no longer moving forward, reports Variety’s Joe Otterson, who adds: “According to sources, CBS Studios and Paramount remain high on the project and the IP. Given the rabid fanbase for the film and the auspices it boasts, it is expected to generate significant interest in the marketplace when it is taken out to buyers once again.”
Labrinth says his Instagram posts blasting Euphoria were “out of character. I’ve never done that in my career”
Actually, the singer-songwriter-composer tells British GQ, he has nothing but respect for Euphoria creator Sam Levinson and Hans Zimmer, who succeeded him as composer for Season 3. The Instagram posts, the first of which he wrote “Double F*ck Euphoria,” were in response to rumors he had been let go. “There were things getting sent through the grapevine that made me look like the crazy Black guy that just decided to go AWOL… like I just went fucking crazy on everybody and decided I’m on some publicity stunt. (So my) thought process was like, I need to make it clear that I’m out. This has got nothing to do with me getting pushed out or thrown out. I’m going.” According to British GQ’s Frazier Tharpe, “Labrinth says he was still attached to the series when Zimmer entered the picture, although they never actually met. But he rejects the idea that his departure stems from him feeling slighted or sidelined, implying that if he hadn’t left, the show might have married his contributions with Zimmer’s more traditional score.” Labrinth adds with a shrug: “I don’t mind being disposable. That’s normal in this industry. That’s just a given. I don’t think my involvement was going to be as much as it was before, which I was fine with. That wasn’t a bother to me.” As for why he wanted to walk away, Labrinth says: “There was no expectation, in the first season. It was created through raw energy and Sam’s vision. And that I will always say with my chest, I never take that away from Sam.” But Labrinth says he and Levinson eventually lost their creative equilibrium, to a point where he no longer felt respected. “The industry in general plays (on) hierarchy, it plays (on) desperation, plays egos, it plays little man, big man, all this kind of stuff,” he says. “And I’m like, if we are creating, none of those words should be in our room.”
Peabody Award’s 2026 TV winners include Heated Rivalry, The Pitt, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Andor and The Rehearsal
Pee-wee as Himself, Adolescence, Common Side Effects, Pluribus, Forever, Mussolini: Son of the Century and Dying for Sex are also among the 34 winners chosen by the Peabody Awards jury.
Jeff Probst thought he was being pranked while participating in Survivor 50 immunity challenge
“My forearms are still sore,” Probst told Variety two days after filming the challenge, an idea that was the brainchild of Jimmy Fallon. “It was so much harder than I thought,” Probst said. In fact, before he started, he wasn’t sure he should give it his all. “I had this thought: Don’t outlast too many people, because it’ll seem rigged and no one will believe it. And turns out, I could barely outlast anyone,” said Probst. “There was no concern about somebody thinking this was staged.” ALSO: Ousted Survivor 50 contestant talks Jimmy Fallon twist — he’s set to confront Fallon tonight on The Tonight Show.
Sophie Bush boards Hulu’s Count My Lies
Bush will recur as Allison, a stylish Tribeca architect and mother, the book adaptation from This Is Us’ Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. Bush joins a cast that includes Shailene Woodley, Lindsay Lohan, Kit Harington, Katherine LaNasa and Lou Diamond Phillips.
The Deadliest Catch will pay tribute to deckhand Todd Meadows in the Season 22 premiere, but won’t show his death on air
The Discovery Channel reality show returns May 8, less than three months after Meadows’ death while working on the Aleutian Lady on Feb. 25. Discovery said the show will address “tragedy of his passing with care and honor his memory” but will not show his death on air. Season 22 also includes a tribute in the premiere episode and in later episodes will look back on the events of the fishing season, including Meadows’ contributions. Meadows will appear in episodes in the second half of the season with his earlier scenes filmed in the weeks before the accident.
Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders overwhelmingly approve Paramount’s $81 billion takeover of the Hollywood giant
“Per a preliminary vote count on Thursday, the overwhelming majority of Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders voted in support of selling the entire business to Paramount for $31 a share, the company said. Including debt, the deal is valued at nearly $111 billion,” reports the Associated Press, which adds: “It’s not a done deal quite yet. The acquisition still faces ongoing regulatory reviews.”
Leaving Neverland director explains why his 2019 HBO documentary is unavailable to watch as Michael Jackson biopic Michael premieres
Dan Reed’s documentary featuring Wade Robson and James Safechuck’s highly detailed accounts of childhood abuse at Jackson’s hands is currently unavailable to watch. “The Michael Jackson estate had a contract which Jackson had signed with HBO for a concert recording in Budapest in 1992,” Reed tells The Hollywood Reporter. “The contract contained a non-disparagement clause. The estate argued that the non-disparagement clause, which says, ‘You can’t say anything nasty about Michael,’ applied forever to everything that HBO would ever do — which is patently ridiculous. Somehow the estate managed to persuade HBO to come to an amicable settlement. And that involved, after six years on the platform, taking Leaving Neverland down. HBO has a license only until 2029. So after that, I can resell it and make it available again. The sequel went out on YouTube in the U.S., which is pretty unsatisfying.”
Police are investigating cyberbullying accusations in wake of Storage Wars star Darrell Sheets’ death
Law enforcement officials told EW that cyberbullying accusations are “part of the current active investigation” into the former cast member of the A&E reality show Storage Wars, who was found dead Wednesday of what police said appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Sheets was 67. ALSO: Storage Wars stars pay tribute to Darrell Sheets.
Mariska Hargitay “burst out in tears” when Christopher Meloni’s Law & Order: Organized Crime was canceled after five seasons
“I saw it and burst out in tears, first of all,” Hargitay told Extra at NBC Universal’s Emmy Luncheon on Wednesday. “I immediately burst out in tears because it has, just like (Meloni) said, and he was so beautiful and open — because it has been a great ride. And it has been so beautiful and intimate and such a huge part of his life and was life-changing for him.” Hargitay added that the cancelation took her by surprise. “Chris is working and in demand and such a magnificent actor,” she said. “But it’s, in a way, closing a chapter. So when that happens, one needs to take inventory. It’s a real marker in your life.” ALSO: Mariska Hargitay wants to reach Season 30 of Law & Order: SVU — what about Season 35?
Taylor Frankie Paul reportedly won’t resume filming on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
People reports that Paul could still make an appearance on Season 5 of Mormon Wives, which was put on pause but is resuming production after she was cleared of domestic violence allegations. People reports Paul has opted to stay out of the spotlight by deactivating her TikTok and Instagram accounts.
Apple TV’s Liminal adds Franka Potente and Tracy Letts
They’ll join Vanessa Kirby, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Tom Pelphrey in Apple‘s sci-fi action-thriller based on the graphic novel of the same name.
Fox renews Fear Factor: House Of Fear for Season 2
The Johnny Knoxville-hosted reality competition will return for a second season after premiering in January.
Netflix’s A Different World sequel series adds newcomers Method Man and Norman Nixon Jr., plus veterans Karen Malina White and Ajai Sanders
Cliff “Method Man” Smith and Norman Nixon Jr. will play Coach Coles and Professor Baptiste, respectively. White and Sanders will reprise their respective Charmaine Brown and Gina Deveaux roles from the original series.
SNL alum Emil Wakim to star in his first Netflix standup special
Wakim will star in his first full-length standup comedy and perform as part of Netflix Is a Joke festival. Wakim joined SNL’s landmark Season 50 as the show’s first-ever Lebanese American cast member. But he was dropped after one season.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell stars in ESPN’s NFL Draft promo for Super Bowl LXI
“You’re on the clock,” the commissioner tells a room full of ESPN personalities after giving App-E an awkward hug. “Having Goodell take part is akin to inviting the CEO of Disney to get involved,” says Variety’s Brian Steinberg. “In February, the league took a 10% stake in ESPN, the result of a deal that made NFL Network and NFL RedZone part of ESPN’s operations.”
Dustin Milligan and Diona Doherty team for CBC and BBC Northern Ireland comedy series Committed
The 10-episode series “will follow Milligan as Canadian Peter Hooley (Schitt’s Creek, Hot Frosty) as a recently divorced accountant who falls head over heels for Northern Irish woman Julie Johnston, played by Doherty (Derry Girls, Blue Lights), after a whirlwind weekend in Toronto,” per Deadline. “He crosses the Atlantic to declare his love, only to find himself in old-fashion and eccentric village in rural Northern Ireland.”
Andrea Riseborough and Ashley Walters to star in ITV thriller series First Woman, about the race to find a missing female astronaut
To Leslie star Andrea Riseborough and Adolescence vet Ashley Walters will lead the British drama series with the following logline: “When Ben Reith (Walters) is woken in his London home to be told that his wife Claire (Riseborough) has gone missing, it’s the start of a global news story, because Claire is an astronaut crewing the UK’s first moonbase and she’s disappeared into the long lunar night.”
Bravo and Peacock set a date for the Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’ Las Culturistas Culture Awards
The fifth annual comedy variety special will tape at the United Theater on Broadway in Los Angeles on May 30 and air on June 17. This is the second year that the Las Culturistas Culture Awards will air on TV.
Tyler James Williams on Abbott Elementary Season 5 and its finale: “It was interesting to all of us to see some different layers there”
“I know everyone hates me for how I relate to their relationship,” Williams tells EW in wake of the Season 5 finale. “But it really was (my favorite storyline).” In a separate interview with Deadline, Williams adds: “This is the reason why I love TV. I’ve done film here and there, but my preferred medium of storytelling is television, because, to me, it reflects real life. It’s hard to track change through somebody in an hour and a half as an actor, but showing you that change over years as if they’re a friend that you would know and you’ve watched them grow is kind of my preferred way of doing that.”
Kim Kardashian’s 2016 Paris Fashion Week robbery is getting the French TV docuseries treatment
Canal+’s four-part Kim, the Diamond and the Grandpa Robbers “pulls back the curtain on one of the decade’s boldest celebrity heists, drawing on rare and exclusive access to those at its centre – including members of the gang and the lawyers who defended them,” according to the official description.
Why Running Point Season 2 pays tribute to a 15-year-old Los Angeles boy who died
The third episode of the newly released second season of the Netflix sports comedy concludes with an end card that reads “In Loving Memory of #6 Niko Mijailovic.” According to Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva, “it is a tribute to a Los Angeles boy who died at 15. He was finishing eighth grade at the elite private Campbell Hall and a star varsity volleyball player for the school wearing a #6 jersey. During Mijailovic’s memorial service, it was mentioned that the last thing the family watched together was Season 1 of Running Point.” Andreeva notes that Mijailovic’s family was connected to the Netflix series.
Peacock expects to finally turn a profit in the second quarter of 2026
The NBC Universal streaming service is expected to turn a corner after losing $432 million in its first quarter.
Stephen Colbert sends Jimmy Kimmel a box of “Iran War Jokes”
With the Iran War expected to continue past The Late Show finale on May 21, Colbert has revealed his contingency plan for his “Iran War Jokes.”
The Chi’s final season gets a premiere date
The first episode of the eighth and final season of the Lena Waithe drama series will drop on Paramount+ Premium on May 22, followed by a weekly release.
Connor Tomlinson to host a history-themed video podcast after leaving Love on the Spectrum
“History is something I’ve been deeply passionate about my whole life,” says the fan favorite character of his untitled podcast from indie podcast network PAVE Studios.. “I’ve always believed that only by understanding where we’ve been can we truly make sense of where we are, and avoid repeating the same mistakes going forward. The past is set in stone, the future unwritten.”
Front Office Sports is set to become a TV series from Jeff Zucker
The online outlet known for its aggressive coverage of the business of sports is launching a syndicated 30-minute spinoff series this fall, titled Front Office Sports Tonight. The show, premiering Sept. 14, will “go beyond the field of play to break down the most important cultural, entertainment and business stories in the world of sports,” the company says. Former CNN president Jeff Zucker, who is chair of Front Office Sports’ board of directors, says: “As media changes every day, one thing is clear: Sports has never been more important. And no one covers the business of sports like Front Office Sports. We are thrilled to bring FOS reporting to local television stations across the country, on a daily basis, beginning this fall.”
Apple TV’s trailer for For All Mankind spinoff Star City is dripping with Cold War paranoia
The alt-history drama series depicting the Soviet Union landing on the moon premieres May 29.
Netflix teases The Roast of Kevin Hart
The comedian vows to “let it burn” on the Shane Gillis-hosted roast, airing live on Sunday, May 10 at 5 p.m. PT.
Amazon’s Off Campus unveils its trailer
The college-set romantic drama series starring Ella Bright and Belmont Cameli will premiere with a binge release on May 13.
Jason Momoa fulfills more “crazy dreams” in On the Roam Season 2’s trailer
Season 2 of Momoa’s HBO Max travel adventure docuseries premieres May 14.
Netflix drops the trailer for Korean superhero drama series The Wonderfools
Premiering May 15, the 1999-set series is “about a motley crew of awkward, regular people who suddenly gain superpowers, but aren’t necessarily well suited to the responsibility that comes with.”