Jamie Chung Talks 'Ballsy' 'Lovecraft Country' Episode and Series' New Love Triangle (Exclusive)

Will Thorne Staff WriterWelcome back to Tune In: our weekly newsletter offering a guide to the best of the week’s TV.Each week, Variety’s TV team combs through the week’s schedule, selecting our picks of what to watch and when/how to watch them.

Dino-Ray Ramos, Amanda N'Duka In August, HBO debuted Misha Green’s Lovecraft Country and the world hasn’t been the same since.

Real Housewives of Orange County star, Shannon Beador's love tank is full. The 56-year-old has been with boyfriend John Janssen for more than a year, but season 15 of RHOC will be the first time fans see the businessman on the show.«I've been so transparent — sometimes to a fault — on the show, so I can't be in a relationship and not talk about it or show it,» Shannon tells ET of bringing the reality TV cameras around her beau.

Janelle Monáe will play a special virtual reality concert on the season finale of HBO’s Lovecraft Country.The event, titled Music of the Cosmos, will mark Monáe’s first ever performance in VR. It will air after the finale on October 20, 3am BST.

, is at its best when it blends history with horror, showing how institutionalized racism in America and the monsters within are just as evil as the supernatural beings inspired by author H.P. Lovecraft.

“Evil” will be returning to Global with its second season, and the series’ cast and creators appeared virtually on Saturday for a panel hosted by New York Comic Con.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerThe cast and creatives behind Hulu’s new comedy series, Woke, were on hand for Day 1 of the New York Comic-Con virtual edition following the full release of season 1. New Girl alum and star of the series Lamorne Morris was joined by fellow cast members Blake Anderson and T.

Jurnee Smollett’s mom has a crush on her daughter’s new co-star.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterLovecraft Country actress Jamie Chung has been set at the next ambassador and spokesperson for HBO’s fifth annual Asian Pacific American Visionaries (APAV) short film competition.  Previous ambassadors have included Executive Producer of Cinemax’s Warrior Shannon Lee, Insecure’s Sujata Day, Westworld’s Leonardo Nam and Silicon Valley’s Jimmy O. Yang.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterSophia Chang is known for managing some of the biggest names in R&B and hip hop such as Raphael Saadiq, Q-Tip, the rap group A Tribe Called Quest as well as members of the iconic Wu-Tang Clan including RZA, GZA and the late, great Ol’ Dirty Bastard. She talks about her experience in her memoir The Baddest BItch in the Room, which she is currently being developed into a scripted series at FX.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TV“The Conners” showrunner Bruce Helford knows his titular characters “were built for disaster,” so there was never a question about whether the third season of the ABC family sitcom would tackle the real-life COVID pandemic.“It just seemed natural that we would be in the middle of this and do it,” he said on a virtual panel for the show on Wednesday.

Candace Cameron Bure is celebrating 24 years of marriage to her former hockey-playing husband Valeri Bure by getting a little “spicy” on Instagram as she talks life after “Fuller House” and her new lifestyle and apparel product line, Love Over All.

is back for another adventure with the third season of the Disney XD series, where she voices the intelligent engineer and athletic member of the superhero team GoGo Tomago.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“Rocky” and “Legally Blonde” are set to receive the “Films in Concert” treatment.

Jordan Peele’s and his follow-up,, finally shattered any preconceived notions about who could tell these stories — and just as importantly, who could star in them. “The fact that there’s, you know, a small handful of films led by Black people, to me, was the horror itself,” the director said in the 2019 Shudder original documentary , which traces the untold stories of Black people’s contributions to the horror genre and how they’ve finally been embraced by Hollywood. Three years after, the 2020

Janet W. Lee SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the sixth episode “Lovecraft Country,” titled “Meet Me in Daegu.”When bringing to life a nine-tailed fox from Korean and Chinese folktales, HBO’s “Lovecraft Country” creator Misha Green envisioned a grotesque reiteration of the otherwise beautiful creature.The result is Ji-Ah, portrayed by Jamie Chung, a charming Korean woman hiding her nine tails that come out of her orifices.

HBO’s felt a little more fabulous than usual, it may have had something to do with an appearance by esteemed drag queen Shangela, who opens up to ET about serving Lena Horne realness and acting alongside some of Hollywood’s biggest names. In what was the hit horror series’ most ambitious and provocative episode yet, Shangela (also known as D.J.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Lee Isaac Chung will rewrite and direct Paramount, Bad Robot and Toho’s live-action adaptation of Your Name, the reimagined adaptation of the 2016 animated romantic fantasy drama film which was an instant classic in Japan. Chung will work off the draft by Emily V.

Often, the best decisions aren’t made late at night after a long session of drinking in a Japanese bar. Unfortunately for Alexandra Daddario’s character in “Lost Girls & Love Hotels,” most of her nights end up in a Japanese bar after many, many drinks.