Listen: Sara Gilbert on Her Dream Guest Star on ‘The Conners’ and Missing ‘The Talk’

Jake Kanter International TV EditorSTV Productions is in the mix for two BAFTA TV Awards on Friday night, when double Oscar-winner Glenda Jackson competes in the Best Actress category for dementia drama Elizabeth Is Missing and Edinburgh-set The Victim vies for Best Mini-Series. For Sarah Brown, the Scottish producer’s creative director of drama, it represents the culmination of six years of work.“It’s been an amazing 18 months for us.

Inhaler have shared their cover of Mazzy Star‘s dream pop classic ‘Fade Into You’ – listen below.The band’s singer Elijah Hewson originally covered ‘Fade Into You’ for Radio X’s Phone Covers series back in April.Taken from Mazzy Star’s 1993 cult classic album ‘So Tonight That I Might See’, ‘Fade Into You’ reached number three on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1994.

A newly engaged couple have the most unruly houseguest in the new comedy film “Guest House”.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorBrittany O’Grady can certainly relate to Bess, the aspiring singer-songwriter she plays in “Little Voice,” Sara Bareilles’ semi-autobiographical Apple TV Plus series.Whereas Bess works as a dogwalker and a bartender to make ends meet, O’Grady was a host at Figaro Bistrot in Hollywood when she was 17. She was fired after two months because she went home back East for the holidays to look at colleges.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorLuke Evans has quite the jewelry collection, thanks to his career in Hollywood.“I started to collect the rings of my characters because I seem to have a ring with all my characters,” the 41-year-old Welsh actor says from Ibiza, where he’s vacationing before heading to Australia to shoot “Nine Perfect Strangers,” during an appearance on Thursday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.”Evans has pieces acquired from

Gordon Cox Theater EditorIn Sarah Jone’s new Instagram Live show, #yesimsarahjones, audiences can meet a character they’ve never before met in one of her stage shows: Jones herself.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWalter Mercado knew how to make an entrance.Just ask the filmmakers behind the new Netflix documentary “Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado” about meeting the iconic television astrologer for the first time at his home just outside of San Juan, Puerto Rico.“We go into his office and meet his secretary and his nieces and they take us upstairs to one of his sitting rooms,” co-director Kareem Tabsch tells Variety.

Sara Gilbert is missing her days on Global’s “The Talk”.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Crisis Theory,” the finale of “Westworld” Season 3.Dolores may have been killed off — or erased — on “Westworld,” but that doesn’t mean the actor who portrayed her, Evan Rachel Wood, is necessarily done with the show.“I want to come back,” Wood, who has earned two Emmy nominations for her work as the show’s leading robot, says on Thursday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorOne would assume that the powers that be at Disney and Marvel have approached Charlize Theron about joining the MCU.But no, Theron says, she hasn’t heard a peep. “I swear to God.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorMatt Bomer already knew Derek Simonds, the creator and showrunner of “The Sinner,” before being approached about starring in the third season of the USA Network series.“I had met with Derek years ago when he was involved in ‘Call Me by Your Name,’ and we’d hit it off creatively and had a great conversation,” Bomer, 42, says from his home in Los Angeles during an appearance on Tuesday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorShortly after Shira Haas auditioned for “Unorthodox,” she visited her grandmother, who is in her 90s and was in the hospital at the time.“She gave me a ring, and she told me that this one will give me luck, and that she really hopes that I will get this role, and she feels that I’m going to get it,” the Israeli actor says during an appearance on Tuesday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “This was kind of like

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorBetty Gilpin insists she doesn’t know exactly what’s going happen during the fourth and final season of “Glow.” The Netflix series had started production on the season when the coronavirus pandemic hit.“I know generally what’s going to happen,” Gilpin, who has earned two Emmy nominations for work as Debbie Eagan on the show, says during an appearance on Thursday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “We were about

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorHenry Cavill admits he thought about easing up on his workout regime in quarantine.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWhen Darren Criss was filming “Hollywood,” he was also shooting his Quibi series “Royalties” and traveling to Las Vegas for a series of concerts he was headlining with Steve Aoki.“There was, like, a Sprinter van with an editing bay in it that would come to set on ‘Hollywood,’ to where I’d be shooting a scene on ‘Hollywood,’ and then I would go edit music videos in the van for like 20 minutes on my break and then go back to shooting

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorFor Diane Guerrero, taking on the role of Crazy Jane in HBO Max’s “Doom Patrol” isn’t as easy as just playing a kooky character from a comic book series. Jane actually has 64 personalities, the result of childhood sexual trauma.“It’s like, ‘Of course I’m doing this role.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorMark Duplass is a man of many hats — he’s a writer, director, producer and actor.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorMandy Moore insists she doesn’t know the complete history of Rebecca Pearson and Miguel Rivas’ relationship on “This Is Us.”“I know as much as the audience knows at this point — Rebecca and Miguel were in each other’s lives,” Moore, who earned an Emmy nomination last year for her work as Rebecca, says on Tuesday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.”“I think she particularly leaned on him a little heavier,” she

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorPriyanka Chopra Jonas remembers when she was a teenager watching Sarah Michelle Gellar in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” in her native India — and later, when she moved to the U.S. for high school.“I was like, ‘That’s who I want to be,’” Chopra Jonas, 37, tells Variety.