Kathryn Hahn on Relating to ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ Character, Finally Being Picky in Her Career and Genres She Still Wants to Conquer

William Earl The ATX TV Festival has added sessions featuring “Tiny Beautiful Things,” “Mayans MC,” actor Caitriona Balfe and other buzzy television topics for its 12th edition, set for June 1-4 in Austin, Texas. The festival will take the pulse of the industry with an executive panel featuring Paramount Television Studios president Nicole Clemens, Universal Television Alternative Studio chief Toby Gorman and NBCUniversal scripted content leader Lisa Katz. Balfe has joined the festival’s previously announced “Women of Outlander” panel, as have actor Sophie Skelton, executive producer Maril Davis and EP-writer Toni Graphia. “Austin City Limits,” the storied live music showcase that has been a staple of public television for decades, will celebrate its golden anniversary with “Backstage with ‘Austin City Limits’: 50 Years of Making Music in Austin.” Key producers and technicians will detail the backstories behind the performances of the country, folk, roots, rock and pop figures who have appeared on the show.

Melissa McCarthy is on the cover of People’s 2023 Beautiful Issue.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Since Reese Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine got an infusion of capital in 2021, north of $900 million, the actor-producer-entrepreneur’s output has gone into overdrive.

This week’s guest is Cheryl Strayed.

Deadline has launched the streaming site for its 2023 Contenders Television award-season event, which wrapped over the weekend after a total of 40 scripted series showed off their wares in front of voters at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles.

It was on the set of Wild that Tiny Beautiful Things author and executive producer Cheryl Strayed knew she wanted to work with Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Dern again after having “so much fun” collaborating together.

EXCLUSIVE: Joey Soloway, the Emmy winner best known for creating, producing, directing and writing the groundbreaking Amazon series Transparent, has signed with Range Media Partners for management.

The boss weighs in. Andy Cohen shared a more detailed reaction to Tom Sandoval‘s bombshell interview with Howie Mandel — and he wasn’t at all pleased by the situation.

Not on his side. Kate Chastain poked fun at Tom Sandoval‘s bombshell interview where he stood by his affair with Raquel Leviss — and addressed the surprising global response to his split from Ariana Madix.

Tiny Beautiful Things ended on a bit of a cliffhanger!

Tom Sandoval is breaking down exactly how he got entangled with Raquel Leviss!

Tom Sandoval is detailing his first kiss with Raquel Leviss. The star appeared on the latest episode of the , and opened up in detail for the first time about the start of his affair with Leviss, which began amid his nearly decade-long romance with Ariana Madix.Sandoval explained that, over the last year, he began to «feel trapped» in his relationship with Madix and realized that he needed to «make a change to feel alive again, to feel motivated, to feel optimistic again.»Enter Leviss, who came along «at the worst time ever» for Sandoval because he was «yearning for a connection.»«As Raquel and I became really good friends,» he explained. "… I thought she was so awesome.

Charna Flam In preparation for her latest production, “Tiny Beautiful Things,” costume designer Alana Morshead “stalked every book [Cheryl Strayed] wrote and everything [she] ever said, and put it into this show.” Hulu’s newest limited series “Tiny Beautiful Things” released all eight episodes on April 8, andis based on Strayed’s best-selling collection of her “Dear Sugar” advice column, “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar.” Kathryn Hahn stars as Clare, a mother and wife whose world begins to crumble — just in time for her to become an advice columnist.  Morshead immersed herself in the author’s previous work, diving into “Wild” and “Brave Enough,” in an effort to bring Strayed’s story to life through costuming nods and references to the author’s personal history. “It’s such a personal story,” Morshead told Variety.

Marvel star Kathryn Hahn is still able to lead a "normal life". The 'WandaVision' star - who has teenagers Leonard, 16, and Mae, 13, with her husband Ethan Sandler - has insisted she has never set out to purposely keep her kids out of the spotlight, but that's because she's never felt like her life has changed since being famous. Speaking to Parade magazine, she explained: "I don't think of [living a normal life] consciously, but I think that it must be because I feel like I'm just still the same person [I always was].

Hunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from “Love,” the finale of the limited series “Tiny Beautiful Things,” now streaming on Hulu. Hulu’s “Tiny Beautiful Things” ends on a serene note, with a hospital bed in the middle of a horse pasture and a single spoken word: “love.” The moment is one of the few shared between Kathryn Hahn and Merritt Wever in the limited series, which is based on author Cheryl Strayed’s life and her time writing an advice column called “Dear Sugar.” Wever plays Frankie, the free-spirited mother of Hahn’s character Clare, who (like Strayed’s mother) dies suddenly of lung cancer at the age of 45. The story primarily takes place in the present day as a grown-up Clare (played by Hahn) grapples with the trauma of having lost her mother, while Wever’s character exists in flashbacks to the 1990s when Clare was in her 20s and played by Sarah Pidgeon.

Alison Herman Kathryn Hahn has a type. Since starring in Joey Soloway’s “Afternoon Delight” in 2013, the actor has spent a decade delivering nuanced portrayals of messy, horny, hilarious women who bluster their way through middle age. It is a miracle of modern television that Hahn’s hyper-specific specialty has supported three separate series: “I Love Dick,”also helmed by Soloway; “Mrs. Fletcher”;and now, “Tiny Beautiful Things.” Created by Liz Tigelaar of “Little Fires Everywhere,”the Hulu half-hour casts Hahn as a fictional version of Cheryl Strayed, the memoirist and advice columnist who rose to fame by blending both forms into one. The show is adapted from the 2012 book of the same name, a collection of essays Strayed first published under the moniker Dear Sugar. Strayed met her readers’ deeply personal disclosures with some of her own, sharing her experience with addiction, grief and abuse in long missives more meandering and literary than straightforward tips. As a series, “Tiny Beautiful Things” aggregates and expands those experiences, then attributes them to Hahn’s Strayed surrogate, Clare Pierce.

Kathryn Hahn is on something of a roll. Maybe that’s an exaggeration.

Katie Maloney is going in!!

All eyes on Ariana Madix! The reality star cemented herself as a fashionable force to be reckoned with at the season 10 reunion of Vanderpump Rules with a “revenge dress.” 

April is an unrelenting month of releases, with television seemingly adding on new series or returns every other day. While tough to keep track of it all, there’s still a list of those we think are best prioritized.