Aubrey Plaza Joins ‘The White Lotus’ Season 2

The crushing weight of debt and the stress of financial struggle have led many to find creative problem-solving methods. The Sundance crime drama “Emily The Criminal” explores one such story about a character pressed to the limits by a system intent on keeping her in the loop of student debt and marginalized job opportunities.

Elizabeth Mitchell is joining Tim Allen in the upcoming Disney+ limited series, a rep for Disney confirms to ET. The actress will reprise her beloved Carol/Mrs. Claus character, while Allen returns as Scott Calvin/Santa.Mitchell joined the holiday franchise in the 2002 sequel, which saw Allen's St.

A woman said her life was 'ruined for three years' after she was catfished online as part of a campaign of harassment.

Michael Appler On Broadway Wednesday evening, “Skeleton Crew,” the final of seven new plays written by Black playwrights to make its debut this season, opened to an intimate crowd at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Friedman Theatre. The show was embraced by an audience that included Danielle Brooks, Denée Benton and La Chanze but stripped, like the factory it depicts, of the usual pomp and circumstance of a flashy Broadway opening.“Skeleton Crew,” the third work in Dominique Morisseau’s trilogy of Detroit-based plays, finds five workers at a Michigan auto factory — dogged by a corroding city around them, the unfeeling unpredictability of their employers and the looming devastation of joblessness as their workplace, the last of the city’s independent auto factories, inevitably closes.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“The Vampire Diaries” creators Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson are teaming up again on the supernatural drama series “Dead Day” at Peacock.Based on the AfterShock comic book series of the same name, “Dead Day” has been given a straight-to-series order at the NBCU streaming service. Plec and Williamson will serve as writers, executive producers, and co-showrunners on the series.“We have been looking for a project to do together and ‘Dead Day’ has all the ingredients we love as storytellers,” said Plec and Williamson.

Peacock has given a straight-to-series order to a TV adaptation of Ryan Parrott’s comic book Dead Day.

EXCLUSIVE: Beanie Mania filmmaker Yemisi Brookes, documentarian-cinematographer Christopher Frierson (DMX: Don’t Try to Understand), director-producer Lisa Cortés (All In: The Fight For Democracy), directors Morgan Pheme and Dan DiMauro (Get Me Roger Stone), Mark Laita’s YouTube channel Soft White Underbelly and The Speed Cubers filmmaker Sue Kim have signed with Black Box Management for representation.

If Emily the Criminal had been made in the 1970s, it might have been an angry drama starring Jane Fonda. If it had been made in the ’80s, it would have been a feelgood comedy starring Dolly Parton. And here we are in 2022, where it lands with its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival as a taut, gripping but nevertheless damning portrait of how much ground has been lost in the last 40 years. The setting is America, but the subject is universal: the growth of wage slavery and, in particular, the glass ceiling that exists for people, women in particular, on low income.

Josh Duhamel is hitting the ice!ET can confirm that the 49-year-old actor has joined the Disney+ cast of for season 2.Duhamel will star opposite Lauren Graham as the new character Gavin Cole, a former NHL player-turned-coach. Inspirational, charming, hardcore — he’s big on the hockey metaphor that applies to life.

Things have not been going well for Emily. Some of it is just terrible luck.

Ariana Grande with reviving her career during an appearance on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.The actor is known for her roles in the likes of American Pie, Legally Blonde and, more recently, Promising Young Woman and The White Lotus.During the interview, Fallon noted that many of his previous guests had done impressions of Coolidge on the show and aired clips of SNL star Chloe Fineman and Grande impersonating the actor.After Grande’s impression was shown, Coolidge responded: “You should know that was the beginning of a lot of cool things that happened for me. I was going through a dead zone and not much was going on, then Ariana did this imitation on your show and you encouraged her.“Then this ball got rolling.

The White Lotus is getting a second season on HBO and series creator Mike White is planning an anthology that will take place in a new location every season.

Mike White’s “The White Lotus” will be filmed in Sicily, Variety has learned — confirming previous reports that Season 2 of the HBO show will take place in Italy.A source close to the show said that once again a Four Seasons Hotel will stand in for White’s fictional luxury chain of White Lotus hotels, specifically the Four Seasons San Domenica Palace in the exclusive Sicilian resort town of Taormina. (The Hawaii-based first season of “The White Lotus” was filmed at the Four Seasons Resort Maui.) According to the San Domenica Palace’s website, it’s closed to guests until April 1.Representatives from HBO had no comment.Season 2 of the dark comedy will star Michael Imperioli and Aubrey Plaza alongside recently announced cast members F.

EXCLUSIVE: Anirudh Pisharody (9-1-1, The Goldbergs) has been tapped for a recurring role in the third season of Never Have I Ever, which is currently in production in Los Angeles.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterLike the rest of us, Aubrey Plaza devoured the first season of “The White Lotus,” HBO’s buzzy social satire about insufferable vacationers and seemingly cheerful employees at a luxurious Hawaiian resort. Unlike the rest of us, Plaza was cast on the show’s second season.Beyond the chance to appear on the hit show, Plaza says she’s most looking forward to working with Mike White, who created, wrote and directed “The White Lotus.”“I was a fan of Season 1, but more importantly, I was a big Mike White fan,” Plaza said at Variety’s virtual Sundance Studio presented by Audible, where she’s on the press circuit for her coming-of-age thriller “Emily the Criminal.” Before the pandemic, Plaza and White had been collaborating on a creative project that “kind of got messed up by the COVID of it all.” “So I’m very excited to work with him,” she says.

HBO Max has recruited four more stars for the upcoming season two of their hit series, The White Lotus.

star-studded ensemble for season 2 continues to grow. On Tuesday, HBO confirmed to ET that F.

F. Murray Abraham will play Michael Imperioli’s father in the second season of HBO Max’s “The White Lotus,” TheWrap confirmed on Tuesday.Oscar-winner Abraham will play Bert Di Grasso, father of Dominic (Imperioli), who’s also traveling with his grandson Albie (Adam DiMarco of “The Order” and “The Magicians”) a recent college graduate.Aubrey Plaza was previously announced as Harper Spiller, a woman vacationing with her husband and his friends.