Jon Hamm, Juno Temple, Jennifer Jason Leigh to Lead ‘Fargo’ Season 5 at FX

Spilling the tea! Ted Lasso’s Keeley Jones and Rebecca Watson aren’t the only ones who like to have a little “goss” session. Juno Temple and Hannah Waddingham, who play the leading ladies on the Apple TV+ series, can often be found bonding in the hair and makeup trailer on set — alongside beauty stylist Nicky Austin.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterMoses Ingram has signed on to star opposite Natalie Portman in the Apple limited series “Lady in the Lake.”Ingram takes over the role of Cleo Sherwood in the series from Lupita Nyong’o, whom Variety exclusively reported had exited the show after production had already begun.This is the latest high-profile TV role for Ingram, who is fresh off her starring turn in the Disney+ “Star Wars” series “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” Ingram is also known for appearing in the hit Netflix show “The Queen’s Gambit,” for which she received an Emmy nomination for best supporting actress in a limited series. On the feature side, she has starred in projects like “The Tragedy of Macbeth” (which streams on Apple), “Ambulance,” and “The Same Storm.” She is repped by Innovative Artists, Authentic Talent and Literary Management, Viewpoint, and Fox RothschildAlong with Ingram and Portman, the cast of “Lady in the Lake” includes Y’Lan Noel, Mikey Madison and Brett Gelman.

EXCLUSIVE: The UK representation scene was all abuzz about the next steps of respected former Troika co-founders Michael Duff and Conor McCaughan after they left their long-time agency back in 2020. We’re now getting more clarity on their next steps.

Writer/Producer/Director Theodore Melfi has a different take than those who think independent filmmaking is becoming an endangered species, and in fact he tells me right now we are in “a golden age of independent film”. That may be one of the reasons he is bullish about both films he has at this week’s Tribeca Festival in New York City – independently produced movies he is helping shepherd along. On Corner Office which stars Jon Hamm he is an Executive Producer, and on American Dreamer he is the screenwriter as well as a producer of the comedy that stars Peter Dinklage, Shirley MacLaine, and Matt Dillon. Both are for sale and the bottom line is Melfi truly believes the audience will dictate whatever the perfect form of distribution is, whether it be theatrical, streaming, digital VOD, or a combination of all three.

Gallery: 25 hilarious pieces of movie trivia (Espresso)"It's a very anticipated cake, that's for sure. I don't know when that particular piece of information got out, but I had been on it even before I worked on this film. I don't know how, but I remember getting it at one point and thinking, 'This might be the best cake I've ever had in my life.

Because it’s so drab and one-note, “Corner Office” leaves the viewer with lots of time to contemplate the Hamm Conundrum. To wit: in Jon Hamm, we have an actor who seems genetically engineered for movie stardom, a chiseled slab of masculinity who wears a suit like he was born to it, and is a magnificent actor, plus possesses an admirable refusal to take himself too seriously.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIn “Mad Men,” Jon Hamm had his corner office: the room with a view, overlooking Madison Avenue, where Don Draper could work, drink and brainstorm in peace. Maybe that’s why the actor was drawn to playing a lowly paper-pusher with a bad mustache and big dreams of occupying such a space in “Corner Office,” a low-key, screw-loose workplace satire that offers audiences a side of Hamm they’ve never seen before — and might not be in such a hurry to experience again, unless the toil-from-home blues of the pandemic have made them receptive to the call of cubicle life.Premiering at the Tribeca Festival, “Corner Office” is director Joachim Back’s slightly taxing cinematic take on “The Room,” a slender novel by Swedish actor-cum-author Jonas Karlsson, unread by me, that bills itself as “a short, sharp and fiendish fable in the tradition of Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Charlie Kauffman.” Check, check and check, insofar as those three absurdist writers are concerned, though I’d quibble with the other descriptors in that pitch.

The mad man returns! Jon Hamm is coming back to television — and he’s set to star in season 5 of FX’s hit anthology series Fargo.

Fargo season 5.Specific details about their characters are currently under wraps, although their names have been revealed. Hamm will play Roy, Temple will play Dot and Leigh will play Lorraine [via Variety].A fifth season of the FX anthology series was officially announced back in February, over a year after the conclusion of the Chris Rock-led fourth season.Plot details for Fargo season 5 are yet to be revealed, but it has been confirmed that the latest story from creator Noah Hawley will be set in 2019, keeping up the show’s trend of alternating seasons between different time periods.The tagline for the season reads: “When is a kidnapping not a kidnapping, and what if your wife isn’t yours?Hamm, who is best known for his Emmy-winning role in Mad Man, recently appeared in Top Gun: Maverick, which is now the biggest box office hit of 2022 in the UK and Ireland, overtaking Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and The Batman.

Just when you’re convinced that there is no way FX is going to do another “Fargo” season, the network turns around and gives Noah Hawley the greenlight for a new batch of episodes. And now, as Season 5 of “Fargo,” which was announced back in February, gears up for production, we’re starting to get an idea of which actors will be leading the new ensemble.

Despite their awards season success, critical acclaim and fan devotion, “Ted Lasso” may be following through with their initial game plan to limit the show to just three seasons.

announced a fifth season back in February, revealing that it will take place in 2019 and will ask the question of when is a kidnapping not a kidnapping, and what if your wife isn’t yours? Specific character details are few and far between at this point, but it is known that Temple will play a character named Dot, Hamm will play Roy, and Leigh will portray Lorraine. Temple most recently starred in Paramount+’s “The Offer” and is best known for her role in Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso.” Hamm’s definitive role was as Don Draper in AMC’s award-winning “Mad Men” and he most recently co-starred in the box office hit “Top Gun: Maverick.” Leigh has appeared in a handful of high-profile shows and movies in recent years, including an Oscar-nominated turn in 2016’s “The Hateful Eight,” Amazon Prime Video’s “Hunters,” and Apple TV+’s “Lisey’s Story.

There have been some new additions to the cast of Fargo.

Juno Temple (Ted Lasso), Jon Hamm (Mad Men) and Jennifer Jason Leigh (Atypical) are set as leads in the upcoming fifth installment of Fargo, FX’s acclaimed limited series created and executive produced by Noah Hawley.

Brett Goldstein, who plays Roy Kent on the Apple TV+ soccer comedy in addition to writing on the show, told the this week that, as far as the writers are concerned, the upcoming third season will be the show's last, ending with its series finale.«We are writing it like that. It was planned as three,» Goldstein shared, later joking, «Spoiler alert — everyone dies.»Creator and star Jason Sudeikis spoke with ET last October, following 'shuge night at the 2021 Emmys — where the show won seven awards including Outstanding Comedy Series.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJohn Malkovich, Emily Mortimer, and Claes Bang are set to star in the upcoming Apple drama series “The New Look.”The series will be led by Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche, with Maisie Williams previously announced as a cast member. “The New Look” is set against the World War II Nazi Occupation of Paris when Coco Chanel’s (Binoche) reign as the world’s most famous fashion designer ends and Christian Dior (Mendelsohn) rises helping return spirit and life to the world with his ground-breaking, iconic brand.Malkovich (“The New Pope,” “Space Force,” “Places in the Heart”) will star as Lucien Lelong, President of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture whose influential eponymous fashion house employed Dior and Balmain during the Occupation. Mortimer (“ The Pursuit of Love,” “The Newsroom,” “Doll & Em”) will play Eva Colozzi, a friend, confidante and style inspiration to Coco Chanel.Bang (“The Northman,” “The Square,” “Bad Sisters”) will appear as Spatz, a.k.a Hans Von Dincklage, a Nazi operative stationed in Paris to both seduce and spy on the Parisian female elite.Malkovich is repped by WME.

Jennifer Connelly may star in “Top Gun: Maverick”, but she’s only just got over her fear of flying not so long ago.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAudible will immerse listeners in “The Big Lie,” an original drama series based on the FBI’s real-life infiltration of Hollywood during the 1950’s Red Scare.“The Big Lie,” premiering June 16 on Audible, stars Jon Hamm as FBI special agent Jack Bergin, who sets out to shut down production of “Salt of the Earth” — the only movie named to the so-called Hollywood Blacklist — after he becomes convinced that it’s really a recruiting tool for the Communist Party. The seven-episode “The Big Lie” will premiere exclusively on Audible, available at this link.“I don’t want to see somebody get killed over this movie,” Hamm’s FBI agent says threateningly in the series trailer, which was just released by Audible.