‘Frogger’: Damon Wayans Jr. To Host Peacock Competition Series Based On Konami Arcade Game

PBS is entering the cooking competition kitchen.

Josh Groban is taking up hosting duties of the new competition series — based on Nippon TV’s popular game show Sokkuri Sweets set for premiere in August on Roku. Executive produced by Chrissy Teigen, the title was part of now-defunct Quibi’s portfolio acquired by Roku earlier this year.

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock’s Days Of Our Lives: Beyond Salem will bring back Eileen Davidson, who is the latest Days Of Our Lives alum to join the limited series. Davidson will join Lisa Rinna, Deidre Hall, Drake Hogestyn, Jackée Harry, James Reynolds and more.

Days Of Our Lives: Beyond Salem, Peacock’s five-episode limited series spawned by the long-running NBC soap drama, has added Days of Our Lives alums Thaoo Penghlis, Leann Hunley, Christie Clark and Austin Peck to the cast. Also returning to the Days world are Greg Rikaart and Chandler Massey. Zachary Atticus Tinker also joins the limited series.

San Jose Sharks forward Evander Kane denied allegations his wife made on social media that he bet on NHL games, including against his own team.

Director Dan Trachtenberg (“10 Cloverfield,” “The Boys“) is currently shooting his secretive “Predator 5” movie in Calgary, but that isn’t the only sci-fi property he’s expected to breath new life into.

ITV, confirmed the news and said “there are no current plans for the next series of ‘The X Factor’ at this stage.”The show was created by Cowell, 61, and first aired in 2004. Through the years, 445 episodes have aired.

The NBC soap opera “Days Of Our Lives” is getting its own spin-off for Peacock.

NEW YORK -- The NBC soap opera “Days of our Lives” is getting its own spinoff for Peacock.NBCUniversal's streaming service, Peacock, announced Monday that it has ordered five episodes of “Days of our Lives: Beyond Salem.” The series will feature both past and present characters of the series, including Deirdre Hall as Dr. Marlena Evans, Lisa Rinna as Billie Reed and Jackée Harry as Paulina Price.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVBeloved daytime drama “Days of Our Lives” is expanding its world once again with an upcoming limited series entitled “Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem.”Five episodes of this new series has been ordered by streamer Peacock, and they will feature the return of Lisa Rinna in the role of Billie Reed.The episodes will take place over a long weekend during which a number of key characters leave their Salem hometown for adventures: ​John (Drake Hogestyn) and

Ethan Shanfeld Damon Wayans Jr. will host Peacock’s “Frogger,” a competition series based on the iconic 1980s video game.Co-hosted by “Good Morning Football’s” Kyle Brandt, the series supersizes the concept of the Konami game into an epic obstacle course filled with all the same elements.

It’s “Mouse Trap”! Fox is developing a physical reality-competition series based on the Hasbro board game Mouse Trap with studio Entertainment One (eOne), TheWrap has learned.Per its official logline, “Mouse Trap” pits contestants against one another as they navigate larger-than-life obstacles recreated from the game. Through a series of demanding challenges requiring the utmost physical and mental endurance, each episode will culminate with its final round, with the last players standing

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is heading down the mouse trap for its latest reality competition series.

Marlo Kelly (Dare Me) is set for a key role opposite Kate McKinnon and John Cameron Mitchell in Joe Exotic (working title), Peacock’s limited series based on the Wondery podcast.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterDirector Alan Taylor has boarded the “Interview With the Vampire” series at AMC, Variety has learned exclusively.Taylor will direct the first two episodes of the upcoming series and will also serve as an executive producer on Season 1. The show, which was officially greenlit in June, is based on the Anne Rice novel of the same name.Taylor is no stranger to AMC, having directed multiple episodes of the network’s hit drama series “Mad Men,” including the pilot.

EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s RTL is preparing to premiere a local version of canine competition series America’s Top Dog.