HBO Series ‘Perry Mason’ Adds ‘Marriage Story’ & ‘Blue Bayou’ Actor Mark O’Brien

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorKickoff for Super Bowl LVI is still days away, but NBC has scored at least one touchdown.NBC has sold out all of its inventory for the Big Game, scheduled to be broadcast on Sunday, February 13, from SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. NBCUniversal said in a statement Thursday that it has sold every in-game unit available across NBC, Telemundo and all digital platforms including Peacock.

Alan Ritchson is hitting the red carpet for the premiere of his new Amazon Prime Video series!

Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston reunite to promote their joint tequila brand in Las Vegas on Saturday (January 29).

Tom Brady‘s hanging up his cleats. The seven-time Super Bowl champion and five-time Super Bowl MVP is retiring after 22 magnificent seasons in the NFL.

Tom Brady's hanging up his cleats. The seven-time Super Bowl champion and five-time Super Bowl MVP is retiring after a magnificent 22 seasons in the NFL.According to multiple reports, the 44-year-old quarterback will soon formally announce his retirement from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the team he led to a Super Bowl LV victory last year against the Kansas City Chiefs.

EXCLUSIVE: Brely Evans and Ben Stephens, who recur on Carl Weber’s The Family Business as Sonya Duncan and Curtis Duncan, have been promoted to series regulars for the upcoming fourth season. Additionally, Bern Nadette Stanis (Good Times), Nayirah Bosley and Sacaiah Shaw have joined the BET+ series in heavily recurring roles. Filming on Season 4 got underway last week in Los Angeles.

Vachik Mangassarian, a character actor with dozens of credits including Marvel’s "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and feature "The Stoning of Soraya M.," has died. He was 78. His reps at McCaffrey Talent Management told Deadline that he died Saturday of COVID complications.

Peter Robbins, who voiced Charlie Brown in the classic 1960s Peanuts cartoons, has died. The former actor committed suicide last week, his family told San Diego’s Fox 5. He was 65.

Fox 5 in San Diego that he died by suicide.Robbins, born Aug. 10, 1956 in Los Angeles, started acting at age 7, landing the role of Charlie Brown in “A Boy Named Charlie Brown” in 1963. He would play the “Peanuts” character in the subsequent animated classics “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (1965), “Charlie Brown’s All Stars!” and “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” (both 1966), “You’re in Love, Charlie Brown” (1967), “He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown” (1968), and “It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown” (1969).

Jon Burlingame editorFrom the opening frames of HBO’s series “The Gilded Age,” the music of composers Harry Gregson-Williams and Rupert Gregson-Williams gives viewers a sense of the ambition and drive of “new money” in conflict with the “old money” of 1880s New York.The brothers — Harry based in Los Angeles, Rupert just outside London — generally work on different projects, and most often for features (Harry’s credits include “The Martian” and “The Last Duel,” while Rupert’s include “Wonder Woman” and “Aquaman”).But both are past Emmy nominees (“Electric Dreams” for Harry, “The Crown” for Rupert) and this is their second TV collaboration, after 2019’s Hulu series “Catch-22.” Given the sheer volume of music demanded by “The Gilded Age,” nearly six hours for the 10 episodes, they were happy to reunite professionally. “It was good to have two sets of hands on it,” says Harry.

Vachik Mangassarian, a character actor with dozens of credits including Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Curb Your Enthusiasm and feature The Stoning of Soraya M., has died. He was 78.

Shea Whigham’s character Paul Strickland will return for the second season of period crime drama “Perry Mason,” but in his new role at the district attorney’s office, he’ll find himself on the other side of a case from pal Perry Mason (Matthew Rhys), HBO announced on Thursday.Sean Astin will star as Perry’s new client Sunny Gryce, in a case about battling supermarket chains.The cabler also announced that “Sound of Metal” Oscar nominee Paul Raci is joining the cast as recurring character as Lydell McCutcheon, a “self-made power-player who built Los Angeles along with his fortune, off the city’s vast oil fields.” “Pivoting” star Tommy Dewey will play his son, Brooks McCutcheon, who’s charming but always anxious to prove himself.Meanwhile, Perry’s partner Delia (Juliet Rylance) meets “stylish, confident, and witty” screenwriter Anita St. Pierre (Jen Tullock of “Severance”), who “crashes into Della’s world and shows her a side of life and love that she’s been missing,” according to HBO’s press release.The Season 2 logline: “Months after the end of the Dodson trial, Perry’s (Matthew Rhys) moved off the farm, ditched the milk truck, he’s even traded his leather jacket for a pressed suit.

HBO’s Perry Mason will see a handful of new faces as Sean Astin (Stranger Things), Tommy Dewey (Pivoting),  Oscar-nominee Paul Raci (Sound of Metal) and Jen Tullock (Severance) join the cast for Season 2. Shea Whigha (Gaslit), who appeared in Season 1, will also return for the upcoming season. They will appear opposite Matthew Rhys who stars in the titular role.

Simon Cowell and Megan Fox ringing in the new year with engagement news. Indulge your hopeless romantic side and take a look back at the sweet way some of our favourite stars have popped the question to their partners. From Orlando Bloom's elaborate Valentine's Day proposal to Katy Perry, to Lily Collins' intimate mountainous engagement to Charlie McDowell, look back at our favourite celeb proposal stories and their dazzling engagement rings…SHOP: 18 amazing websites to buy wedding dresses online: ASOS, Net-A-Porter, Revolve, eBay and moreThe Emily in Paris star got engaged to Charlie McDowell while the couple were on a road trip together.

Production has begun in Los Angeles on the third season of Disney+ original series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. Five actors have joined the cast, including Disney Channel alums Corbin Bleu (High School Musical franchise), Meg Donnelly (Zombies franchise) and Jason Earles (Hannah Montana) in guest-starring roles, along with series regulars, newcomer Adrian Lyles and Saylor Bell (Disney Channel’s I Didn’t Do It).

Oscar Isaac is the newest MCU superhero! The Star Wars alum has joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe playing Moon Knight. The first trailer for Marvel Studios’ upcoming series Moon Knight debuted on Monday during the NFL Super Wild Card game between the Arizona Cardinals and Los Angeles Rams.The upcoming live-action series follows Steven Grant (Oscar), “a mild-mannered gift-shop employee, who becomes plagued with blackouts and memories of another life,” according to Marvel.