My Brilliant Friend is coming to an end at HBO. But not quite yet.
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EXCLUSIVE: Queen Sugar has a new boss to take the Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey executive produced drama to its conclusion later this year
Shaz Bennett will serve as showrunner for the OWN series in its seventh and final season. Set to start production this month down in Louisiana the Dawn-Lyen Gardner, Kofi Siriboe and Rutina Wesley starring Queen Sugar is expected to premiere its last cycle this fall.
“Shaz is a multi-hyphenate who has been a dream to collaborate with because she is kind, open, dedicated and about the work with no ego and all heart,” DuVernay told Deadline today of co-EP, writer and long-time director Bennett.
“From her episodic directing of Queen Sugar to being a true leader as our co-executive producer last season, I’ve reveled in watching her shine, the Oscar nominee noted. “When considering who we wanted to end the series with by our side, Paul and I chose Shaz hands-down and I’m just overjoyed to work with her in this capacity.”
Replacing Anthony Sparks in the showrunner perch, Bennett will also be an EP on Queen Sugar with DuVernay, Winfrey and Array Filmworks president Paul Garnes.
Fulfilling multiple roles on Season 6 of the show, including helming the penultimate episode and the November 16 2021 “And You Would Be One of Them” finale, Bennett actually had her small screen directorial debut in Season 30 of Queen Sugar. With writing gigs on Bosch, and Dance Moms, Bennett has gone on to direct on Showtime’s Billions and NBC’s Ordinary Joe, among others
Bennett’s 2017 feature debut Alaska Is A Drag was picked up by Array and released on Netflix globally in 2019. Starring Martin L. Washington Jr, Maya Washington, Matt Dallas, Christopher O’Shea, Jason Scott Lee, Margaret Cho, Kevin Daniels, Nia Peeples
My Brilliant Friend is coming to an end at HBO. But not quite yet.
EXCLUSIVE: Harvey Guillén (What We Do In The Shadows, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish) continues his casting streak with a role in HBO Max’s animated series, Harley Quinn.
Based on the DC Comics series from Riccardo Burchielli and Brian Wood of the same name, the demilitarized zone of Roberto Patino’s four-part HBO series “DMZ” can be full of surprises. It’s what we know as Manhattan, after a civil war between the Free States of America and the United States of America.
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“The Adam Project” and “Pieces of Her” topped Netflix’s lists of English-language film and TV series for the week of March 7, when the fifth and final season of “The Last Kingdom” was viewed for 63.5 million hours in its first five days after launch.Debuting March 11, the Ryan Reynolds-led flick drew 92.43 million hours viewed in just its first two days on the platform. Meanwhile, “Pieces of Her,” which premiered Season 1 March 4, was the No.
They say the devil is in the details, and that is certainly true for the dystopia dazzle that is Ava DuVernay and Roberto Patino’s DMZ.
Grimes and her on-off boyfriend Elon Musk named their first child X AE A-Xii in 2020, it should come as no surprise that their second has an equally unusual moniker. They were hardly likely to call her Monica. In fact, Grimes - who was born as the somewhat more conventionally-named Claire Elise Boucher - has revealed that her daughter’s name is Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, or ‘Y’ for short.
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Jimmy McGill’s journey is almost at its end.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterSPOILER ALERT: Do not keep reading if you have not finished Season 5 of “The Last Kingdom.”“The Last Kingdom” is coming to an end.Although a two-hour movie followup is currently filming, Season 5 of the Netflix historical drama wraps up the story of its central character, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, played by Alexander Dreymon, in a very satisfying way — as the sins of Uhtred’s past collide head on with his present and the future of England.Uhtred finds himself in an unusual place at the beginning of the season — unable to be with Aethelflaed (Millie Brady), the woman he loves and the Lady of Merica, he presides over a Mercian border town at her request. But strange things are in the air, as Brida (Emily Cox) is determined to have her vengeance once and for all and the enemies of the House of Wessex are gathering.
Better Call Saul is coming to an end.
… had to say goodbye.Netflix's breakout comedy led by Maitreyi Ramakrishnan has been renewed for a fourth and final season, which will premiere in 2023, the streaming service announced Tuesday. The series recently wrapped filming on its third season, which is slated for a summer return.“Hey Crickets, we’ve got some morning announcements for you: Season 3 of is gonna drop this summer! Plus we’ve just been renewed for a fourth and final season, which we are absolutely thrilled about," said co-creators Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher in a statement. «We can’t wait to reveal all the steamy romance and hilarious adventures we have in store for you.
EXCLUSIVE: Never Have I Ever, the coming-of-age comedy following the life of an Indian-American teen, is returning for a fourth and final season.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Never Have I Ever” has been renewed for Season 4 at Netflix, which will also be the show’s last season, Variety has confirmed.News of the fourth season renewal comes before Season 3 of the series even has a premiere date. Production on the third season recently wrapped and will debut over the summer.The comedy series hails from co-creators Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher.
Can anyone find hope among total desolation? One woman is on a quest to restore hers in DC’s “DMZ.” The limited series from producer and director Ava DuVernay brings to life the popular comic. For DuVernay, it acts as yet another crucial step into the already crowded streaming market.
Milo Ventimiglia is dishing on the final season of This Is Us!
In the third episode of the new season of “Killing Eve,” Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer) attend an impromptu “therapy” session. Eve asks if Villanelle has ever heard the fable about the scorpion and the frog, and explains that “they both die because the scorpion can’t change its nature.” The fable has become an eye-roll-inducing pop culture cliché at this point, but Villanelle’s replies make the scene work.
Aaliyah’s casting in highlighted her career's game-changing transition in the early 2000s. And unlike her character, a mere fictional monarch from the mind of best-selling fantasy author Anne Rice, Aaliyah was held up as real-life royalty in the R&B community by the time she landed her second big-screen role. Crossing over from music artist to movie star was an organic, if not expected, evolutionary step for Aaliyah’s trajectory. But Akasha, the adaptation’s other-worldly antagonist, became the singer's final role on the silver screen (following the previous year’s Jet Li vehicle ).