‘Friends’ Reunion Special Delayed Again at HBO Max

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsIt’s order’s up for Selena + Chef as HBO Max announced Thursday that the quarantine cooking show will return for season two. With the sophomore season, the singer can look forward to whipping up even more delicious and challenging dishes in the comfort of her home.“Learning from some of the best chefs in the world has vastly improved my cooking skills but I have a lot more to learn.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHBO has added nine more actors and actresses to the cast of the adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me.”Additional cast will include: Jharrel Jerome, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Janet Mock, Jason Moran, Wendell Pierce, Mj Rodriguez, Kendrick Sampson, Yara Shahidi and Michelle Wilson. They join previously announced cast members Angela Bassett, Alicia Garza, Joe Morton, Phylicia Rashad, Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, Courtney B.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCBS All Access is developing a series about former NYPD detective Derrick Parker with Tip “T.I.” Harris attached to star and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson onboard as an executive producer, Variety has learned.The project is currently titled “Twenty Four Seven.” It is based on the book “Notorious C.O.P.: The Inside Story of the Tupac, Biggie, and Jam Master Jay Investigations from NYPD’s First ‘Hip-Hop Cop'” by Parker and Matt Diehl.During his time with the NYPD, Parker worked

HBO Max is already saying goodbye one of its biggest franchises.

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The Friends reunion at HBO Max may still be on hold, but another staple of the Must-See TV era is headed to the streamer in the fall. The cast of The West Wing will reunite for a theatrical stage presentation of an episode that will stream in the fall on HBO Max (a date hasn't been set).

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe cast and creators of “The West Wing” are reuniting to perform together for the first time in nearly two decades in a special set at HBO Max, Variety has learned.“A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote” will debut on the streamer this fall. It will feature a theatrical staging of the “Hartsfield’s Landing” episode from the show’s third season and will be shot at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles in early October.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorFollowing a barrage of criticism that he lobbed against Justice League replacement director Joss Whedon, actor Ray Fisher made an appearance on the DC Fandome panel today for Zack Snyder’s upcoming HBO Max director’s cut of the movie, with a question from a fan: What character is Snyder excited to fully flesh out in his version of the movie next year?“The characters that I’m excited to fully flesh out? Of course it’s Cyborg.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCarlos Portugal is developing the one-hour mystery drama “Miss NG” at HBO Max, Variety has learned exclusively.The series is set in the small town of Nuevo Guerrero, where nothing is more important than the annual Miss Nuevo Guerrero beauty pageant. But when last year’s winner goes missing, her former best friend, her arch-rival and her half-sister all enter the upcoming pageant.

Selena Gomez may be quarantined at home, where she’s been learning to cook on the HBO Max series,, but that doesn’t mean she’s isolated from her friends. On the latest episode of the at-home cooking show, Taylor Swift makes a virtual appearance as the two besties FaceTime each other. On episode four, chef and food personality Roy Choi is Gomez’s guest mentor, who virtually teaches the singer how to make Korean barbecue Texas breakfast tacos.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterMarie Moore has been named senior vice president of communications of Warner Bros. Global Kids, Young Adults and Classics division, Variety has learned exclusively.Moore will report jointly to Tom Ascheim, president of the division, and Johanna Fuentes, Warner Bros.

Mel Brooks film kicks off not with its opening sequence, but rather an introduction by University of Chicago professor and TCM host Jacqueline Stewart.The intro, in which the “Silent Sunday Nights” host provides social context to the 1974 Cleavon Little-Gene Wilder comedy, is similar to the disclaimer in front of “Gone with the Wind.”“This movie is an overt and audacious spoof on classic Westerns,” Stewart says in the newly added intro.

Blazing Saddles is currently streaming on HBO Max, along with a new introduction that automatically plays before the Mel Brooks classic begins. It is unclear exactly when the intro was added to the 1974 comedy classic starring the lateCleavon Little and the late Gene Wilder, but it was sometime after the film premiered on the streaming service in July.

HBO Max had added an advisory warning to yet another film rife with outdated racist themes.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHBO has set an all-star lineup of featured performers in the adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me.”The HBO version’s cast will include Angela Bassett, Oprah Winfrey, “Black Lives Matter” founder Alicia Garza, Joe Morton, Phylicia Rashad, The Roots’ Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, Courtney B. Vance, Pauletta Washington, and Susan Kelechi Watson.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe Comedy Central shows “The Other Two” and “South Side” are moving to HBO Max.In a deal between Comedy Central Productions and the streaming service, the first seasons of both shows will become available on HBO Max in 2021, with future seasons debuting exclusively on HBO Max instead of Comedy Central.In addition, HBO Max will become the exclusive streaming home of the Comedy Central series “Awkwafina is Nora from Queens.” The first season is now available on HBO Max.

Selena Gomez is inviting fans into her kitchen as part of her delightful at-home cooking series,.

Here’s an interesting one with a semi-interesting story. Like Netflix back in the day, HBO Max has to fill its content coffers and one way the streaming service is doing that—just like Netflix and Amazon did originally—is license previously made content and repackage it as something relatively new.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHBO and Sky are teaming on the co-production “The Baby.”The eight-episode series is described as a darkly comic horror series co-created by Siân Robins-Grace and Lucy Gaymer.  When 38-year-old Natasha is unexpectedly landed with a baby, her life of doing what she wants, when she wants, dramatically implodes. Controlling, manipulative and with violent powers, the baby twists Natasha’s life into a horror show.