CBS Studios Announces BIPOC Casting Fellowship, Sets Second Cohort for Leadership Pipeline Challenge

The Upshaws are back in June for an eight-episode second season on Netflix, as audiences take yet another visit with a working-class African American family in Indiana struggling to make it work and make it right without the blueprints to do it.

Caity Lotz and Kyle Smid are engaged!

Caity Lotz and Kyle Schmid are engaged!

Baby on board! Chris Sullivan and his wife, Rachel Sullivan, are expecting their second child.

Wolf Alice have announced plans to release a new EP featuring lullaby versions of select songs from their ‘Blue Weekend’ album.Titled ‘Blue Lullaby’, the release will feature four reworked tracks from their 2021 album including new versions of ‘No Hard Feelings’, ‘Lipstick On The Glass’, ‘How Can I Make It OK?’ and ‘The Last Man On Earth’, the latter of which you hear below now.“’Blue Lullaby’ came about because we wanted to strip down some of our more emotional songs from ‘Blue Weekend’ and see if they hit any different,” said frontwoman Ellie Rowsell.“We also had a really nice moment during the ‘Blue Weekend’ campaign singing one of our songs with a choir and we wanted to experience that again with a few other songs, especially as there are a lot of harmonies and a lot of vocal layering on ‘Blue Weekend’.“Hearing multiple voices singing together is an unparalleled feeling to me so I’m happy we got to record this experience and I hope people enjoy it.”‘Blue Lullaby’ will be released on June 24 via Dirty Hit. You can pre-save the album here, and see the tracklist below.1.

Oderbruch (working title), the CBS Studios and Syrreal Entertainment supernatural mystery drama for Germany’s ARD Degato, has added four cast members, as principal photography begins this week.

Cristela Alonzo is returning to Netflix for her second comedy special. Middle Classy, a follow-up to her 2016 comedy special, Lower Classy, will premiere globally on Netflix on June 28.

EXCLUSIVE: Radar Pictures has secured the life rights to two-time World Series of Poker Main Event champion Doyle Brunson, with plans to develop a biopic on the legendary player. Radar’s Justin Smith will adapt the script from Brunson’s autobiography “The Godfather of Poker” which he co-wrote with Mike Cochran.

Summer holidays are on Scot's minds once again after two years of Covid travel rules put plans on hold.

Actor Sophia Forrest, daughter of Australian billionaire and mining magnet Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest, got engaged to her girlfriend, actor Zara Zoe.   A post shared by Sophia Forrest (@sophia.forrest)The couple had made their relationship official in March 2020, when Sophia shared a photo of the couple kissing with the message, ‘Partner in Quarantine’ accompanied by the coronavirus, pride and toilet roll emojis.    A post shared by Sophia Forrest (@sophia.forrest)Sophia is known for her roles in the ABC show, Barons, the series Love Child, and the DC movie Aquaman, starring Jason Momoa. She reportedly met Zara, when they were both cast in the 2018 Michelle Payne biopic Ride Like A Girl.   A post shared by Sophia Forrest (@sophia.forrest)Sophia has spoken out about LGBTQI issues and recently praised the queer storyline in the ABC show Barons.

When Disney scored the rights to the “Alien” property after acquiring 21st Century Fox, many fans wondered what the company would do with the R-rated sci-fi horror franchise. Launched in 1979, the Ridley Scott-directed original film starred Sigourney Weaver as the badass Ellen Ripley.

The Invictus Games are returning to Canada.

Sasha Urban editorBobak Esfarjani, best known for his work as a writer and producer on NBC’s “Manifest” and as a story editor on “WandaVision” for Disney+, has signed an overall deal with FX Productions.Esfarjani is currently a writer and supervising producer on FX’s upcoming “Alien” series, as well as a show based on the Octavia Butler novel “Kindred.” Esfarjani was previously nominated for a WGA award for his work on “WandaVision.” He will continue work on these and other series for FX, in addition to developing new content.“Bobak has greatly contributed to FX’s upcoming ‘Kindred’ and ‘Alien’ and now, under this agreement, he will be able to apply his considerable talents to other FX series while developing original content that draws on his vision as a writer and creator,” said Kate Lambert, FX’s executive vice president of original programming. Credits of Esfarjani’s also include James Wan’s “Archive 81” for Netflix.

FX Productions has signed writer and contributing producer Bobak Esfarjani (FX’s Kindred and Alien) to an overall deal. Under the agreement, Esfarjani will continue to work on these and other series while developing new content for the network.

Thania Garcia Becky G is gearing up to share her third studio album, “Esquemas,” due to be released on May 13 via Kemosabe Records/RCA Records.

Sky Studios’ first ever full in-house production, The Rising, combines the murder of a young woman, Neve, with a whodunnit story that she leads from beyond the grave. Its Executive Producer Julian Stevens said giving her “agency” to propel the story allowed the drama to sensitively combine themes of violence against women and the afterlife.

EXCLUSIVE: CBS Studios has signed an overall deal with Barbershop writer Don D. Scott. Under the two-year pact, Scott will develop new series for the studio across all platforms, including drawing on his unique background for inspiration. Scott grew up in a nightclub-owning family, and his father was also a professional bowler who broke the color barrier in the PBA.

NBC announced last month that Mike Tirico would replace the legendary Al Michaels as the voice of Sunday Night Football. Now, the network has revealed the rest of the team.

The trams on the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot tour trams are going electric.