‘Euphoria’ star Eric Dane went full-frontal for ‘dumpster fire of a meltdown’

Just as Discovery’s acquisition of WarnerMedia is entering the final stretch, HBO/HBO Max is living up to its status as one of the most prized assets in the proposed deal.

“The White Lotus” and “Euphoria” — but Hollywood’s power players didn’t always believe Sydney Sweeney was fit for television. In a new interview with British GQ, the 24-year-old talked about her teenage years spent struggling to secure gigs, leaving her cash-strapped family living out of a budget motel room. “A casting director told me once that I will never be on a TV show,” the Spokane, Washington native revealed.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“Euphoria” hit another series high on Sunday, drawing 5.1 million viewers across multiple platforms, a 20% increase from last week and up 45% from the season average. That number was reached despite the HBO drama airing opposite Super Bowl LVI on NBC.As Variety previously exclusively reported, “Euphoria’s” Season 2 per-episode-viewership average is up nearly 100% from its first season.“Euphoria” Season 2 takes place amidst the intertwining lives in the town of East Highland, where 17-year-old Rue (Zendaya) must find hope while balancing the pressures of love, loss, and addiction.The series stars Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, Nika King, Eric Dane, Angus Cloud, Jacob Elordi, Algee Smith, Sydney Sweeney, Alexa Demie, Barbie Ferreira, Maude Apatow, Javon Walton, Dominic Fike, Storm Reid and Austin Abrams.

EXCLUSIVE: Eric Dane, Zahn McClarnon and Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone have rounded out the cast of Tony Tost’s directorial debut National Anthem from Bron Studios. Sydney Sweeney, Halsey, Paul Walter Hauser, Simon Rex, Toby Huss, Gavin Maddox Bergman, Harriet Sansom Harris and newcomer Derek Hinkey are also on board.

, viewers are also seeing just how messed up and complicated the parents are, including Suze, the wine drunk, single mother to Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) and Lexi (Maude Apatow) brought to life by Alanna Ubach. A familiar face onscreen, the 46-year-old actress has been seen in everything — notably,, and  -- going all the way back to the ABC afterschool specials she did with current co-star Eric Dane. Now, with much appreciation, she’s bringing her wicked comedic timing and amazing facial reactions to a dark and complex season 2.With Cassie going through quite the meltdown these past few episodes and Suze struggling to keep it together, Ubach hopped on the phone with ET to discuss why this good time gal may finally have to stop being everyone’s best friend.

Figure skater Nathan Chen brought glory to the United States on the ice during Monday’s primetime coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics, shattering the world record in the men’s short program at the Beijing games. Nabbing 113.97 points, Chen brought in the highest short program score in figure skating history. Monday saw new highs for Chen and the winter sport, not for NBC’s fifth night of coverage, or at least in early numbers.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla “Euphoria” fans have never, ever been happier.Fans of the trippy, Zendaya-led teen drama will be able to chase the same high after Season 2 because the scandalous and visually sensational Sam Levinson series will return for a third season.The Emmy-winning high school show was a shoo-in for a junior year renewal. Along with the intoxicating amount of social media traction and buzz it generates on a week-by-week basis, the first three installments of Season 2 have nearly doubled in per-episode viewership in comparison to its freshman season.

HBO will get a third dose of Euphoria. The Emmy-winning drama series starring Zendaya from creator Sam Levinson has been renewed for Season 3.Euphoria’s renewal comes as its sophomore season continues to deliver ratings records for both HBO and HBO Max.

Euphoria is coming back for another season!

, HBO’s Emmy-winning series created by Sam Levison and starring Zendaya as a drug-addled teenager named Rue, has been renewed for a third season. The news comes as the show enters the second half of the wildly captivating season 2, with episode 5 premiering on Sunday. Season 2, which consists of eight episodes, follows the intertwining lives of a group of East Highland teenagers as they try to navigate the pressures of love, loss and addiction.

the internet’s most hated character, Che Diaz. In the episode, out Thursday on HBO Max, Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), goes to what she believes is a dinner to meet the family of her non-binary lover, Che. In reality, Che takes Miranda to a crowded nightclub and gets on the stage to sing a song.

Euphoria than the first, HBO has revealed.According to Variety, the hit teen drama has nearly doubled its season one per-episode viewership, jumping from a 6.6million average for the first season to 13.1million viewers since the second season first aired on January 9.The fourth episode of season two drew 3.2million viewers last Sunday (January 30), which makes it the show’s second-most-watched episode ever behind the third episode of season two, which drew 3.6million viewers.Euphoria was created, written and executive produced by Sam Levinson, who also directs all the episodes of season two. The show stars Emmy winner Zendaya alongside Hunter Schafer, Angus Cloud, Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney, Alexa Demie, Barbie Ferreira, Maude Apatow and more.Last month, Sweeney praised Levinson for allowing her to cut nude scenes for her character Cassie in season two.Speaking to The Independent, Sweeney said: “Sam [Levinson] is amazing.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterThe second season of “Euphoria” is a dream for HBO. Over the first three installments of its second season, the Zendaya-led drama has nearly doubled its Season 1 per-episode viewership, Variety has learned exclusively.The “Euphoria” Season 2 premiere, which first aired Jan. 9, has drawn 13.1 million viewers across multiple HBO and HBO Max to date, with Episodes 2 and 3 tracking similarly, per HBO.

Eric Dane is considering his Euphoria character, Cal Jacobs.

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Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “You Who Cannot See, Think of Those Who Can,” the Jan. 30 episode of “Euphoria.”At the risk of writing too personally about a show that’s all about personal upheaval, I had wondered whether parenthood might turn me off “Euphoria.”I was an admirer of the show’s first season, which aired in 2019, but after becoming a parent in 2020 I suspected that the show’s depiction of American teenagerhood as a broken-down garden of temptation might not intrigue me as it had once before.