Joel McHale & Beck Bennett To Star In ‘Office Race’; Comedy Central Sets Premiere For Feature Film

Disney+ has set cast for UK psychological drama  Playdate, adapted from Alex Dahl’s best-selling novel of the same name.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Vice TV has set the premiere date and released the trailer for “Dark Side of Comedy” Season 2, its “Dark Side” spinoff series that explores the behind-the-scenes stories of iconic comedians. Season 2 subjects include Robin Williams, Sam Kinison, Joan Rivers, Carlos Mencia, Phil Hartman, Tracy Morgan, the sitcom “Family Matters,” Ellen DeGeneres, Norm MacDonald and Gilda Radner.

EXCLUSIVE: Small Axe star Shaniqua Okwok has criticized The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama for paying lip service to anti-discrimination pledges after the prestigious UK drama school failed to say whether it disciplined a teacher accused of a “racist incident.”

Ken Jennings is taking over hosting duties for the upcoming season of Celebrity Jeopardy!.

Meri Brown is ready to move on following her split from Kody Brown. The star announced in January that she and her ex had «permanently terminated» their marriage after years of estrangement. While the official split is playing out on season 18 of the Brown family's TLC series, Meri recently opened up to magazine about her plans for the future.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Netflix has set the premiere date for a docuseries about the pro wrestling promotion Ohio Valley Wrestling, Variety has learned exclusively. Titled “Wrestlers,” the show will debut on Netflix on Sept. 13.

Kody Brown is still holding out hope for a future with ex Janelle Brown. The star recently spoke to about his part in the end of his marriages to Janelle, Christine Brown, and Meri Brown, but admitted that he still wants a romantic future with his second wife. The former couple shared in the TLC show's special this past January that they were separated after nearly 30 years of being spiritually married.

After months of tension between King Charles and his son Prince Harry, there now seems to be hope of a reconciliation on the horizon with talks ongoing between the Sussexes and Buckingham Palace to broker peace between father and son. According to a well-placed source, Prince Harry is due to fly back to California via London at the conclusion of this year’s Invictus Games trip to Germany next month, with talks likely to take place between the pair on September 17.

Jonathan Bennett couldn’t be more happy for Lindsay Lohan after the birth of her first child.

The Toronto Film Festival said Friday that Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero, a documentary shot during over the course of 60 days of the Grammy-winning rapper’s first global concert tour, will make its world premiere next month at the fest.

Get ready for a trip back to “Fargo”.

EXCLUSIVE: Adding to its roster of local-language remakes, Sony Pictures International Productions is teaming with Biônica Filmes on a Brazilian redo of 2011 romantic comedy, Friends with Benefits which starred Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis. The Brazilian version, Amizade Colorida, is directed by Rafael Gomes and stars Maria Bopp and Ícaro Silva.

EXCLUSIVE: The Sands International Film Festival of St Andrews will return for a third edition set to run from April 19 – 21, 2024.

Sue and Noel Radford have jetted abroad with their kids for their 18th holiday in 20 months.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large In a previous column I made a strong case for moving the ceremony to November, when at least the Emmys wouldn’t feel too stale or crash into Oscars season. But since Fox is moving forward with January, the silver lining is that there’s a lot more time — five months, as a matter of fact — for producer Jesse Collins Entertainment, along with Fox and the TV Academy, to figure out how to make this major Emmy anniversary a show to remember. Much of that will come down to who hosts the telecast.

The new Adam Sandler comedy is a family affair.

TIFF today revealed their Centerpiece programme lineup which includes the Cannes Film Festival-winning Wim Wenders movie, Perfect Days. The festival also revealed another couple of star-driven world premieres that being Paramount’s Finestkind starring Jenna Ortega, Ben Foster and Tommy Lee Jones as well as 20th Century Studios/Hulu’s Awkwafina, Sandra Oh and Will Ferrell comedy, Quiz Lady.

UPDATE: CNN has scheduled the premiere of Lisa Cortés’ Little Richard: I Am Everything for September 4.

Victoria Beckham even looks chic when water skiing.

Tony Bennett‘s wife Susan Benedetto has shared the legendary singer’s final words before his death.The legendary American singer died on July 21 in his hometown of New York, after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was aged 96.In a new interview on the TODAY programme, Benedetto revealed that Bennett’s last words were “that he loved me”.She added: “He would wake up every day and still say that. He woke up happy every day.