Jacqueline Novak’s Netflix Special About Blowjobs, ‘Get on Your Knees,’ Gets Premiere Date (EXCLUSIVE)

Another broadcast series of the the pre-streaming era has found its way to SVOD. All five seasons of the 2003 NBC drama Las Vegas, starring James Caan and Josh Duhamel, will be available on Peacock starting Dec. 29, the NBCUniversal streamer announced Friday.

Ethan Shanfeld Alexander Payne’s bittersweet Christmas dramedy “The Holdovers” is hitting Peacock on Dec. 29.

BBC Radio 5 Live in an interview on Wednesday.“I’m even saying I don’t do that,” he said. “Literally saying in the joke I don’t do that.”In “Armageddon,” premiering Christmas Day, Gervais refers to making videos for the Make-A-Wish foundation, which grants wishes to terminally ill children, during the pandemic — and says his first reaction to the kids is “Why didn’t you wish to get better? What, you f – – king retarded as well?”“I didn’t do that either,” he tells the live audience. “These are all jokes, all right? … I don’t burst into hospitals and go ‘Wake up baldy.

VH1 has unveiled the cast, trailer and premiere date for The Impact New York, a spinoff to the BET+ reality series The Impact ATL.

Ricky Gervais has addressed a petition that was launched for him to remove a controversial joke from his upcoming comedy special.Armageddon, which will air on Netflix on Christmas Day, features a joke about Gervais being busy making videos for terminally ill children for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.The Office UK star shared that he makes the videos only on request, saying he doesn’t burst into hospitals and go, ‘Wake up baldy’”.He then added that he starts his videos to the children saying: “Why didn’t you wish to get better? What, you fucking ret***ed* as well?”Although he clarified that he was making a joke, many viewers were outraged at the sneak-peak of the one-hour comedy special, for which Gervais has already put out a warning, saying he discusses “sex, death, paedophilia, race, religion, disability, free speech, global warming, the holocaust, and Elton John’ in Armageddon,” adding that “if they [the audience] don’t approve of jokes about any of these things, then please don’t watch.”One viewer, who is a parent of a child who has suffered from cancer, launched a petition asking Netflix to remove the skit. The petition called Gervais “not only distasteful but also heartless” and criticised the “derogatory language” he used.It also posed the question of “how a writer or anyone at Netflix could green light such appalling content”.Now, Gervais has responded to the petition, telling BBC Radio 5 Live: “I’m literally saying in the joke that I don’t do that.

Prime Video has set February 23 for the premiere of The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy (fka The Hospital), its adult animated sci-fi comedy from Cirocco Dunlap and Maya Rudolph, Danielle Renfrew Behrens and Natasha Lyonne‘s Animal Pictures. Additionally, Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All At Once) has joined the cast as a series regular.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Pete Davidson has more than bupkis to say. The “Saturday Night Live” alum and star of Peacock’s “Bupkis” will star in his second Netflix hour-long special, “Turbo Fonzarelli,” which premieres Jan. 9, 2024, on the streamer.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Netflix has set a March 6 premiere date for “Supersex,” the series freely inspired by the real life of global porn star Rocco Siffredi, who has more than 1,500 hardcore films to his name. The series is created and written by prominent Italian screenwriter Francesca Manieri (“We Are Who We Are,” “L’Immensità”) who is known to be a militant feminist.

Girls5Eva just got a first look at the show’s upcoming third season!

We’re getting the first look at Palm Royale (fka Mrs. American Pie), Kristen Wiig‘s Palm Beach-set comedy series set for premiere March 20 on Apple TV+.

Peacock has released some of the first images of Apples Never Fall, Peacock’s upcoming limited series based on Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers author Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel. Annette Bening and Sam Neill lead the cast, along with Alison Brie, Jake Lacy, Conor Merrigan-Turner and Essie Randles. The series is set to release on the streamer in March.

Love is Blind has been renewed for Season 7 at Netflix.

There’s major Bridgerton season 3 news!

Bravo is finally sharing all the details of Season 11 of Vanderpump Rules!

Lena Dunham and her husband Luis Felber have co-created a romantic comedy series titled “Too Much” for Netflix. Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe are set to star. “Too Much” follows Jessica (Stalter), a New York workaholic in her mid-30s who is reeling from a broken relationship that she thought would last forever and slowly isolating everyone she knows.

Ricky Gervais has faced criticism after using an ableist slur in his Netflix special, Armageddon.In the upcoming special, which has been previewed through various clips on social media, the comedian jokes about making videos for terminally ill children for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.“I always start the video the same way, I go, ‘why didn’t you wish to get better?’ Gervais jokes in the clip. “What, you fucking ret***ed* as well?”Shortly afterwards, Gervais states that he doesn’t “use that word in real life”, defending his use of the word as “playing a role” for comedy purposes.After the video was posted on YouTube last week, disability equality charity Scope spoke out against the special in a statement on X.“Language like this has consequences,” they wrote.

Dave Chappelle is set to release a new stand-up special on Netflix on New Year’s Eve. It comes two years after the comedian received a backlash due to comments he made about the trans community.The new special was announced on X (formely Twitter), with the streaming service’s official Netflix is a Joke account posting a short teaser clip with the caption: “Dave Chappelle’s latest comedy special will launch globally on Netflix, December 31st.”The currently untitled special will be Chappelle’s seventh for Netflix.

When comedian Stavros Halkias‘s first Netflix special Fat Rascal debuted on the service on Tuesday, it marked the culmination of 15 years of extremely hard work, the last two of which have been particularly “wild.”

FX has confirmed the premiere date and released the key art (see above) for Feud Capote Vs. The Swans, the second installment of Ryan Murphy’s award-winning anthology.

Paramount+ has set January 25 for the premiere of Sexy Beast, the drama series prequel to the 2000 cult British gangster movie, starring James McArdle, Emun Elliott, Tamsin Greig, Stephen Moyer and Sarah Greene. The series will premiere exclusively on the service in the U.S. and international territories where available. You can check out some first-look photos below.