ESPN’s Austin Rivers Slams The Casting Choices In Hulu Series ‘Clipped’

UPDATED with latest: Warner Bros. Discovery‘s Harry Potter television series has found its showrunner and director.

Godfather of Harlem is returning for a fourth season!

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large To paraphrase a long-running network slogan, “It’s Not Max. It’s HBO.” HBO and Max content CEO Casey Bloys is changing the delineation between what an “HBO show” and a “Max show” is, moving most of Max’s upcoming big-budget, tentpole Warner Bros. IP projects to under the HBO umbrella.

EXCLUSIVE: Stuff the British Stole, the Australian-Canadian doc series about the impact of British colonialism, is being remade as a six-part scripted heist caper.

Superman & Lois will be flying in for a fourth and final season later this year!

Austin Butler has become one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, but he is just like all of us in that he still gets starstruck.

Laurence Fishburne is a talented actor who has played a range of characters from Morpheus to Mr. Clean. The new FX series Clipped offers him yet another unexpected role as an NBA coach who employs force and gravitas in guiding players in combat with the racist owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Kelly Clarkson put Austin Butler on blast for the silliest reason when he stopped by The Kelly Clarkson Show with his The Bikeriders costar, Jodie Comer.

EXCLUSIVE: When the Night Comes Falling, written by Howard Blum, tells the inside story of the mysterious murders of the four University of Idaho students. It is now being developed as a scripted series.

The Office spin-off series, but he did convince Domnhnall Gleeson to star in the Peacock show.The two actors previously worked together in FX’s 2022 limited series The Patient, which earned Carell a Screen Actors Guild award nomination. Gleeson, meanwhile, was nominated at the Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice Awards.“I know Domhnall Gleeson – who I did ‘The Patient’ with – is going to be one of the leads.

Nicola Coughlan and Luke Newton, aka Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton, have arrived at a special screening of Bridgerton season three part two on Wednesday (June 12) at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London, England.

Recently, it was revealed that two actors were added to the ensemble cast of DC Studios’ “Peacemaker” Season 2. It appears that they’re getting closer to production because we have yet another name joining John Cena and Co.

Selome Hailu A new series based on John Grisham’s 1995 novel “The Rainmaker” and the 1997 film adaptation has been greenlit at the USA Network. Grisham serves as executive producer on the series alongside Jason Blum, while Blumhouse Television and Lionsgate Television serve as the studios. The official logline reads, “Fresh out of law school, Rudy Baylor goes head-to-head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond as well as his law school girlfriend.

Andrew Wallenstein President and Chief Media Analyst These are trying times for Los Angeles Clippers fans like myself. Instead of watching our team compete in the NBA championship that began last week, we have to settle for the alternative programming we’re getting by way of FX on Hulu with the new series “Clipped.” Perhaps it should come as some comfort to the Clipper faithful that the series chronicles what feels like a bygone era in the team’s history, even though the disgraceful end of franchise owner Donald Sterling’s reign occurred less than a decade ago.

The stars of House of the Dragon are hitting the red carpet!

Brent Lang Executive Editor When Michael Angarano was trying to get “Sacramento,” his indie buddy comedy about two friends who go on a road trip to a certain state capital off the ground, the question he’d get was always the same. Does it really need to be set in Sacramento? “At one point we were ready to shoot the movie in Atlanta — we had the financing and everything,” remembers Angarano, who directed the film, as well as co-wrote it. “And this was for a movie called ‘Sacramento.’ But it’s like why try to cheat it? Maybe, we should we just call it ‘Athens’ or ‘Savannah’?” And even though Angarano and his co-writer Chris Smith weren’t that familiar with the city that inspired their film, its appearance on a highway sign, informing them of the California city’s distance from Los Angeles, was foundational.

EXCLUSIVE: Nick Wechsler (Revenge) is set as a series regular in NBC‘s new drama series The Hunting Party, joining previously announced Melissa Roxburgh, Patrick Sabongui, Sara Garcia and Josh McKenzie. Additionally, Kyra Leroux (Riverdale) joins the series in a recurring role.

By —Hulu's latest series, from Candice Carty-Williams' bestselling novel and —isn't the first show to depict the wild, messy, and often hilarious ride that is being a woman in her twenties. It just does it so well.The series kicks off with a scene that is every woman’s nightmare: Queenie at the gyno, prodded and poked, her discomfort ignored.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Steve Zahn has joined Glen Powell in the upcoming Hulu comedy series “Chad Powers,” Variety has learned. The series was originally picked up at Hulu in February.

EXCLUSIVE: During their inaugural Gotham TV Awards ceremony in New York City, The Gotham Film & Media Institute, the group behind the annual film-centric Gotham Awards, named 10 Series Creators to Watch, as a means of recognizing rising series writers and creators with innovative vision and bold, risk-taking new series in development.