Lorne Michaels’ New Musical Comedy Series ‘Schmigadoon!’ To Premiere In July (TV News Roundup)

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Gordon Ramsay will headline yet another cooking series at Fox.

Gordon Ramsay is preparing a new meal for Fox.

Warning: This story contains spoilers from the Friday, May 14, episode of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.

Olivia Rodrigo leaves her hotel on Thursday (May 13) in New York City.

Haley Bosselman editorStarz announced that Daveed Diggs and Rafel Casal’s new comedy series “Blindspotting” will premiere on June 13 at 9 p.m. across all its platforms.Based on the 2018 film of the same name that Diggs and Casal also wrote, produced and starred in, “Blindspotting” picks up six months after where the movie left off.

Elon Gold for the new series “It’s Not a Show with Elon Gold” for Crackle Plus.The show will feature guests including Tiffany Haddish, Bill Burr, Howie Mandel, Jeff Garlin, Jim Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser, Jay Leno, Amanda Peet, Bob Saget, Jeff Ross, Russell Peters and more.With a 10-episode season currently in development, “It’s Not a Show with Elon Gold” is executive produced by Gold, showrunner Bob Maurer, Scott Weinstock, Willie Mercer, David Ozer and Tim Rouhana.

Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn, an updated – somewhat – musical comedy take on Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers that enjoyed a pre-pandemic Off Broadway run, is headed to Broadway, producers announced today.

Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer” will premiere on National Geographic on June 18 at 9 p.m. The documentary will then be available to stream on Hulu the next day, just in time for Juneteenth.Debuting just after the 100-year anniversary of the two-day Tulsa Massacre, “Rise Again” centers on award-winning journalist DeNeen Brown and her search for a mass grave in her native state of Oklahoma.

EXCLUSIVE: First Look Media’s streaming platform Topic has acquired North American rights to David White’s New Zealand-set quirky comedy feature This Town. 

Haley Bosselman editorReturning for its 34th season, “POV” will be back on the PBS schedule July 5 with writer-comedian CJ Hunt’s “The Neutral Ground.”This documentary, which will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, begins in 2015 with Hunt filming the New Orleans City Council vote to remove four Confederate monuments. When the removal is halted because of death threats, Hunt sets out to understand why a losing army from 1865 continues to have so much power in America.

Elon Musk dined with some "Saturday Night Live" heavyweights just days before his guest-hosting debut is set to take place. Weeks ago, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO was confirmed as the host for the late-night NBC variety show's May 8 episode.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorYou don’t have to be perpetually “live, from New York” to flourish these days at “Saturday Night Live.”In years past, the show’s cast members focused their all on the venerable late-night program and, when outside opportunity knocked or contracts ran out or media economics forced a tightening of the group, they left.

Antonio Ferme editorNetflix released a trailer for the upcoming limited series “Halston,” which stars Ewan McGregor as the titular American celebrity fashion designer and premieres on May 14.Set in New York during the 1970s and ’80s, the limited series will showcase Halston turned his invented name into a worldwide fashion empire that’s synonymous with luxury, sex, status and fame.

Julia Michaels just dropped her debut album Not in Chronological Order and she’s explaining how her boyfriend JP Saxe inspired the music.

Schmigadoon! stars Strong and Key as a couple on a backpacking trip designed to reinvigorate their relationship. They discover a magical town living in a 1940s musical and learn that they can’t leave until they find “true love.”

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJulie Ann Emery has been cast in Apple’s upcoming Hurricane Katrina series, “Five Days at Memorial.”The series is based on the Sheri Fink novel of the same name. It chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans, LA, hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.

Ethan Shanfeld Starz announced that the new six-part limited series “Little Birds” will premiere on June 6.Starring Juno Temple, Yumna Marwan and Hugh Skinner, the series follows a New York heiress exploring the surprising and degenerate world of Tangier in 1955 after her husband does not receive her the way she expects.

Michael Che isn’t known as a true actor. He’s a stand-up comedian that is a current writer-cast member on “Saturday Night Live” and is an anchor on the show’s “Weekend Update” segments.