EXCLUSIVE: Luke Mitchell (The Republic of Sarah) will return to the CW in a recurring role on Legacies, Deadline has learned exclusively.
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Shaquille O’Neal and Liza Koshy have joined NBC’s Dancing With Myself as creators alongside Shakira. The dance challenge series also announced Camille Kostek is set to host.
Inspired by the millions tuning in to watch the latest dance crazes on social media, Dancing with Myself will see a group of everyday people compete each week in a series of high-energy dance challenges designed and demonstrated by creators Shakira, Koshy, and O’Neal.
Isolated in their own pods, contestants have a short time to learn the new routines, add their unique flair and then perform their hearts out in front of a live studio audience. As each round of the competition progresses, the creators on the judging panel provide instant feedback and choose their favorites to advance, along with the audience picks. But ultimately, it’s the studio audience that decides who’s the best dancer of the night and gets to take home the cash prize.
Dancing with Myself is produced by Universal Television Alternative Studio, a division of Universal Studio group, and Irwin Entertainment. John Irwin, Dave Kuba, and Eli Frankel executive produce for Irwin Entertainment. Tina Nicotera Bachman, Ben Thursby-Palmer, Jaime Levine, and Shakira also executive produce. The series is licensed by NBCUniversal Formats, a division of Universal Studio Group.
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EXCLUSIVE: Luke Mitchell (The Republic of Sarah) will return to the CW in a recurring role on Legacies, Deadline has learned exclusively.
NBC is making its summer reality plans. The network today set premiere dates for a number of unscripted series including America’s Got Talent, American Ninja Warrior, the NBC return of Who Do You Think You Are? after a decade and the new competition show Dancing with Myself.
EXCLUSIVE: Ricki Lake, who hosted her first daytime talkshow at the age of 24, is launching her own podcast.
Apple announced on Wednesday that Jemima Kirke of Netflix’s “Sex Education,” and HBO’s “Girls”, and Nico Tortorella of Hulu’s “Younger,” and AMC’s “The Walking Dead: World Beyond,” have joined the cast of its limited series “City on Fire” from “Gossip Girl” duo Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage.Ashley Zukerman, Xavier Clyde, Max Milner, Alexandra Doke, Omid Abtahi, Kathleen Munroe and “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” star John Cameron Mitchell have also been added as series regulars.They join already announced cast Chase Sui Wonders as a murdered NYU student and Wyatt Oleff as her friend who stops at nothing to solve her death.Kirke plays Regan, the daughter of a Manhattan real estate scion who strives to succeed on her own; Tortorella is William, a brilliant, but self-destructive artist living in Manhattan; Zukerman is Keith, Regan’s husband; Clyde is Mercer, William’s boyfriend who moved to New York from rural Georgia to write the next great American novel. Musician Milner is Nicky Chaos, a charismatic activist and revolutionary with a group of followers who wage war against the 1%; Doke is Sewer Girl, who’s part of Nicky Chaos’ crew; Abtahi is Detective Ali Parsa, the workaholic detective assigned to Samantha’s case; Munroe is Detective PJ McFadden, a no-nonsense cop working the case alongside Detective Parsa, and Mitchell is Amory, an influential and ruthless executive in Manhattan.The Apple Studios murder mystery is based on the novel of the same name by Garth Risk Hallberg, and set in 2003 while police are also trying to catch a serial arsonist.Principal photography is underway in New York City.“City on Fire” is produced by Apple Studios for Apple TV+.
Lizzo fans have something to twerk about. Grab your booty shorts and get ready to dance it out with the 33-year-old artist's new competition reality show, The reality series premiered today, March 25, on Prime Video. Watch NowThe eight-episode dance competition follows the singer's hunt for «confident, bad-ass women to join the elite ranks of the Big Grrrls,» as she's affectionately coined her team of backup dancers.
Shakira and Nick Jonas are the duos we never knew we needed. Shakira shared a first look on the set of Dancing With Myself with her new “partner in crime” Thurdsay, and they were all smiles. “With my new partner in crime Nick Jonas at Dancing With Myself,” she wrote in the caption.
Dancing On Ice first landed on our screens back in 2006, and we've watched numerous well-known stars take to the ice over the years. There's been 13 celebrities take home the trophy so far, with the 14th winner set to be announced in this week's final, which takes place on Sunday 27 March. Pussycat Dolls star Kimberly Wyatt, Regan Gascoigne, and Strictly Come Dancing star Brendan Cole are set to battle it out in the Dancing On Ice 2022 final.
last week Amazon closed its deal to acquire MGM and placed MGM’s film group chairman Michael De Luca as part of an interim leadership structure reporting to Amazon Studios and Prime Video SVP Mike Hopkins. “Bones and All” is a story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter, as they meet and join together for a thousand-mile odyssey which takes them through the back roads, hidden passages, and trap doors of Ronald Reagan’s America.
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EXCLUSIVE: Nick Jonas is joining NBC competition series Dancing with Myself as Shaquille O’Neal exits.
Showtime’s late-night series Desus & Mero is taking the week off after Desus Nice, otherwise known as Daniel Baker, was hit by Covid-19. The series, which moved from twice a week to weekly with the return of its fourth season earlier this month, will be postponed due to the positive test.
Much-loved BBC cooking competition MasterChef is set to introduce some exciting landmark changes in the upcoming series later this month - one of which will be of particular excitement for judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace.The culinary professional pair will now be served a plate of hot food by the chefs, something that has not yet happened in the 18 years since the show first aired. Despite having adjusted their taste-buds to inspect room temperature cuisine over the years, John, 56, and Gregg, 57, will finally be presented with a steaming dish in a brand new round of the competition. Australian-British TV chef and presenter John recently let fans in on the show's newest addition.
EXCLUSIVE: Nicole Muñoz (Van Helsing), Praneet Akila (Nancy Drew), Jesse Stanley (Van Helsing), and Mark Hildreth (Resurrection) round out the cast for House of Kibaa’s live action NFT series GenZeroes.
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Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Deuce), Kyle Vincent Terry (Gotham) and Caroline Chikezie (Mayhem) are joining the upcoming third season of Power Book II: Ghost, Starz’s Power universe spinoff, in recurring roles. Power Book II: Ghost is the first series in the expanded Power franchise from executive producers Kemp and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson.