Maggie Freleng To Host ‘Unjust & Unsolved’ Podcast Series For Obsessed Network

You could dine on nothing but lard for twenty years and still not develop the hardness of heart necessary to avoid being won over by Roger Michell‘s “The Duke,” a ridiculously charming British comedy that dunks a gamely accented prestige cast into an appealingly milky true story like so many digestives into a warm, well-earned, early evening cuppa.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: The group that persuaded Will Smith to bungee jump out of a helicopter to celebrate his 50th birthday are launching a podcast with Cadence13 and Headspace Studios.The founders of The Yes Theory, a content company and YouTube channel with over 1.8M viewers, are launching the The Yes Theory Podcast.It will feature Thomas Brag, Matt Dajer and Ammar Kandil explore the process of self-improvement and explore how people can all become their “truest selves”.

Eli Countryman The Recount and iHeartMedia are loading up on political podcasts in advance of the presidential election.Recount and the radio giant have teamed to co-produce a series of weekly podcasts leading up to Election Day on Nov.

Paul Mescal is making his feature film debut!

Normal People star Paul Mescal has landed his next film role.Mescal will appear alongside Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson and more in The Lost Daughter, the directorial debut of Maggie Gyllenhaal.The new film will be based on Elena Ferrante’s 2006 book of the same name, and Mescal has now come on board for the movie, which also features Jessie Buckley, Peter Sarsgaard and more, as The Hollywood Reporter notes.The official synopsis for The Lost Daughter reads: “When her daughters leave home, Leda

Peter Sarsgaard.It’s not clear yet which part the Kildare actor has taken on but the film is based on Elena Ferrante’s critically acclaimed book of the same name and has Maggie Gyllenhaal at the helm as director.The adaptation marks The Dark Knight actress’s directorial debut and Paul Mescal’s first feature film.As The Hollywood Reporter exclusively broke the news of his role, Paul took to Twitter to tell fans how thrilled her was to be joining the cast writing: ‘I’m a very excited boy!’His fans

Honestly, if you were to tell me that Maggie Gyllenhaal has directed a half dozen feature films, I wouldn’t be able to argue against that. Not that I’m completely oblivious to the actress’ career, but instead, she just strikes me as someone with a filmmaking maturity that would seemingly come from a great deal of experience.

A Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt reunion will shortly take place and will bring them together onscreen again. As previously announced, the two stars will participate in Dane Cook‘s upcoming Dane Cook Presents Feelin’ A-Live: Fast Times at Ridgemont High virtual live table read–-and even though virtual, Dane Promises it’ll be an “onscreen” reunion.

Matthew Carey Chef and restaurateur David Chang, founder of the Momofuku group of restaurants, has earned numerous awards during his career, including Michelin stars and a prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Chef. But he’s up for a different kind of award right now that has him feeling perhaps a little flummoxed: an Emmy.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Fox Entertainment is opening a writers room for its Untitled Country Music Dynasty drama from writer/exec producer Melissa London Hilfers with an eye toward potential straight-to-series order for the 2021-22 season. The decision on the project, exec produced by Gail Berman, Hend Baghdady and leading country music manager Jason Owen, is part of a recalibration of the network’s approach to development.

Maggie Rogers and Leon Bridges performed at last night’s Democratic National Convention, which took place virtually for the first time.Presented by Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives), the week-long event’s first instalment featured speeches from former First Lady Michelle Obama and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who both urged viewers to vote for Joe Biden in the US presidential election this November.Rogers played her track ‘Back In My Body’ from an outdoor coastal setting in Scarborough,

John Leguizamo has a date to get his shine on. The Tony- and Emmy Award-winning actor will join Shine Global co-founder Albie Hecht in conversation Aug.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Vice has hired and promoted 20 people to help strengthen its ever-expanding global news and audio operation.

Tim McGraw, 53, proved he’s a proud dad who’s in awe of how much his daughter Maggie has grown when he shared a tweet that honored the beauty on her 22nd birthday. In the Aug.

Here’s an interesting one with a semi-interesting story. Like Netflix back in the day, HBO Max has to fill its content coffers and one way the streaming service is doing that—just like Netflix and Amazon did originally—is license previously made content and repackage it as something relatively new.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: The story of Phil Spector, murderer and musical genius, is being told through a new narrative podcast series from the team behind Disgraceland and iHeartRadio.Blood on the Tracks launches August 12 and features the fictionalized voices of the likes of Lenny Bruce, Ronnie Spector, Ike Turner, Keith Richards, John Lennon and Debbie Harry talking about the Wall of Sound creator and Let It Be producer.It comes after iHeartRadio and Disgraceland creator and

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Young actress Maggie Elizabeth Jones (Ben and Kate) has been cast as one of the leads of CBS’ new Chuck Lorre-Marco Pennette multi-camera comedy series B Positive, headlined by Thomas Middleditch and Annaleigh Ashford.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersJones has joined the series in a recasting; a different teen actress played the role in the James Burrows-directed B Positive pilot, the only 2020 broadcast pilot that was

The top 10 highest paid actors of 2020 have been revealed and there are a few surprises on this list!

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: C13Originals is launching a new podcast that tells the true story of a Hell’s Angel member, murder and the impact it had on his family who went into witness protection.The Entercom-owned company, which is behind podcast series including Root of Evil, Once Upon A Time In The Valley and Long May The Run, is launching Relative Unknown on August 11.It tells the story of Jackee Taylor, who was born Jacqueline Crouch, the daughter of Clarence “Butch” Crouch, a