'Nancy Drew': Kennedy McMann on Final Season, Nancy and Ace's Romantic Curse (Exclusive)

the “Billions” universe is expanding with several spinoffs planned, all of which will be executive produced by showrunners Brian Koppelman and David Levien, as well as Paul Schiff, whose credits include “Rushmore” and “My Cousin Vinny.” ”Billions: Miami,“ ”Billions: London,“ ”Millions“ and ”Trillions” are all in the works, Showtime announced in February.Per Showtime’s logline, in Season 7, “Alliances are turned on their heads. Old wounds are weaponized.

Marta Balaga Oscar winner Andrew Ruhemann has returned to the director’s chair for “The Day I Became a Bird.” His first short in 13 years, based on a book by Chabbert Ingrid, will see a boy who falls in love – with a girl that only has eyes for birds. Desperate to get her attention, he comes up with a rather unusual plan. “I was at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and that’s where I found this book. I thought it was a very intriguing image: Why is there this kid in a bird costume? It moved me,” he says. Ruhemann’s previous short, “The Lost Thing,” brought him an Academy Award in 2011, shared with Shaun Tan.  

Caitriona Balfe has delivered a crushing blow to Outlander fans as she admits the eighth and final season is 'on hold' due to the writer's strike.

Charna Flam Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offered to announce that he had separated with his wife, Cheryl Hines, as an effort to shield her from scrutiny of his political statements. In a new interview with the New York Times, Hines’ first since Kennedy announced his candidacy in the 2024 presidential run, the actor reiterates that she supports her husband’s political aspirations and understands her growing role in the campaign — noting how her public persona “feels different, because it feels like every word is important” and that “people are listening in a different way.” Hines shares that the statement that drove Kennedy to propose the separation announcement were his comparisons between the Holocaust and CDC leader Anthony Fauci’s efforts to vaccinate Americans against COVID.

Deadline reported. As the WGA strike enters its fifth week, “The Good Lawyer,” with Felicity Huffman and “Nancy Drew” star Kennedy McMann, remains on the bubble as do “Home Economics” and “The Rookie: Feds.”The network is betting strongly on “strike-proof” unscripted series and reruns of its award-winning comedy, “Abbott Elementary” for its fall lineup.

ABC still has some decisions to make on its scripted slate.

Karen Idelson Few people lived a life as bold and controversial as Leonardo da Vinci. It’s easy to forget sometimes he was also a human being with doubts who struggled with the same things that trouble just about all of us. In animated feature “The Inventor,” writer/director Jim Capobianco, who shared an original screenplay Oscar nomination with Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava for “Ratatouille,” was always interested in the more personal side of the famed painter and inventor. “The Inventor” combines traditional 2D and stop-motion animation as well as original music and lyrics by Alex Mandel.    “I’m telling the story of [da Vinci] at the end of his life and years in France,” says Capobianco. “I knew he was going to die [at the end of the story] and I was asking what that means to a man like Leonardo da Vinci. Having researched him, I learned that he believed that he procrastinated a lot and he thought he didn’t finish a lot of the things he set out to do. So, I thought about what it would mean to this person, this character. I realized it’s about what you leave behind for others and how you affect other people with what you do, how you change other people’s lives while you’re here. I realized with Leonardo da Vinci, he’s the perfect kind of foil for that because here I am making a film about him 500 years after he lived, and we still talk about him. He has such an impact on us and the idea of invention and the idea of curiosity and everything he accomplished.” 

While the initial pitch for “Warrior” billed it as “based on the writings of Bruce Lee,” the martial arts action series has grown into something special thanks to the incredible, underrated cast and the smart writing. Now, “Warrior,” as it approaches its third season, is one of the best series on Max and should be required viewing for those looking for something a bit more unique on streaming.

The day that SAG-AFTRA began its talks with Hollywood studios over its own film and TV contract with a strike authorization in hand, picketing Writers Guild members on Wednesday hit up Disney and Warner Bros in Burbank.

BreAnna Bell In its upcoming sixth and final season, “grown-ish” has added musical talents Kelly Rowland, Omarion, Latto, and NLE Choppa as guest stars. The news was announced on Saturday at ATX TV Festival in Austin, TX. Kelly Rowland will portray Edie, a tenured professor who serves as the head of the psychology department at Cal U. Latto will portray Sloane, a wine rep who counts Doug as a client. Omarion will portray himself. NLE Choppa will portray himself. They join previously announced guest stars Lil Yachty, and Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals. Marcus Scribner, Trevor Jackson, Diggy Simmons, Daniella Perkins, Justine Skye, Tara Raani and Yara Shahidi star in the comedy, which will air its 100th episode with its last season.

Todd Gilchrist editor If an endless array of variations, alternatives and opportunities is a foundational concept of the animated superhero series “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” it also seems like one for the career of Metro Boomin. St. Louis native Leland Tyler Wayne’s musical alter ego is not only the producer of the soundtrack for its sequel, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” but also plays a small role in the film as one of its Spider-people, Metro Spider, and collaborated with Nike on an elaborate, patchwork “Spider-Verse”-themed Air Jordan that sold out almost immediately after he and his siblings modeled for its advertising campaign.A post shared by Jordan (@jumpman23) In just the past few months, he also partnered with Major League Baseball to be the opening-day voice of its 2023 season, starred in a Budweiser Super Bowl commercial, and celebrated the release of “Heroes & Villains (Villains Version),” a remix edition of his second studio album, with a digital comic book and a debut performance at Coachella 2023 assisted by The Weeknd, Young Thug, 21 Savage, Diddy and more performers. This web (excuse the pun) of projects exemplifies the scale of his creative ambition, but even a cursory scan of their results highlights how much effort he puts into each one. After shepherding the sprawling “Across the Spider-Verse” soundtrack to completion, he spent a week on Instagram premiering Spider-person iterations of his collaborators, including Coi Leray, Future, Offset, James Blake and A$AP Rocky; it’s clear he’s not content to sit behind the boards and simply let his indefatigable collection of beats speak for him.

EXCLUSIVE: Isha Blaaker (Run The World, A Madea Homecoming) has been tapped for a pivotal recurring role in the current final season of Fear The Walking Dead.

Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Skonieczny is set to go into production on the feature film “Wrooklyn Zoo.” “Wrooklyn Zoo” is a modern retelling of William Shakespeare’s classic “Romeo and Juliet” in which Romeo, a skilled skateboarder, finds himself captivated by Julia, a Romani girl seeking to emancipate herself from her environment. Their love becomes a powerful force that transcends cultural and societal barriers, leading them on a journey of self-discovery and resilience. Skonieczny is known for directing the critically acclaimed HBO drama series “Blinded by the Lights,” which launched on HBO Europe in 2018, becoming the platform’s third most watched show in the region. The show debuted in the U.S. in 2019 — a rarity at the time for European HBO programming.

Sophia Scorziello editor Friday evening at the Fairmont Century Plaza had it all — and all for a good cause. “Housewives of Beverly Hills” stars danced on stage with Flo Rida, an Aston Martin was auctioned off for $240,000 and Cinq à Sept held a fashion show, all for the 30th annual Race to Erase MS Gala, a fundraising event dedicated to the treatment and hopeful cure of multiple sclerosis. Nancy Davis founded Race to Erase in 1993, a year after she was diagnosed with MS. “I was told 31 years ago I could never walk again and that life as I knew it was over,” Davis shared with Variety at the gala. But over the last three decades, funds raised at the gala have helped lead to 25 medications used to treat MS, raising $56 million for MS research.

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan was on top of the world Thursday as she celebrated the fourth and final season of Netflix's .The 21-year-old actress prepares to say goodbye to Devi Vishwakumar in the new season of Mindy Kaling's coming-of-age comedy, which finds the titular heroine entering her senior year of high school. But before she and her friends say sayonara to Sherman Oaks High, they have a few loose ends to tie up, including the aftermath of Devi and Ben's «one free boink.»While season 4 is mere days away from premiering on Netflix, Ramakrishnan and her castmates wrapped filming nearly a year ago in August 2022.

The perfect beach watch. As the summer season arrives, TV fans are in for some exciting content with both new and returning shows.

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan gets kissed by both Jaren Lewison and Darren Barnet at the Never Have I Ever final season premiere!

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Australian actors Deborah Mailman and Rachel Griffiths have begun production on the final six-episode season of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s award-winning female-led political drama series “Total Control.” With screenplays by Stuart Page, Julia Moriarty, Pip Karmel and Meyne Wyatt, season three picks up almost two years after the explosive events of the second season. Outsider turned kingmaker, Alex Irving (Mailman), is completely at home in the nation’s capital. While Rachel Anderson (Griffiths), now an occasional ally, is threatening to upend the entire system by establishing her own political party. However, as Alex attempts to carve out a nation changing legacy, a controversy engineered by her enemies threatens to destroy her career and public reputation. In the final season, Alex must make a choice: either she can stay true to her principles and accept defeat, or she can get her hands dirty and fight back.

True love conquers all? Nancy Drew star Kennedy McMann opened up about the long road ahead for the title character and Ace (Alex Saxon) as they try to fight for their future together in the final season of the show.

Prime Video dropped the official trailer for Tom Clancy’s “Jack Ryan,” the political thriller series is set to return with two episodes on Friday, June 30. The six-episode season will be available on the streamer, with the remaining four episodes dropping two each Friday, until the series finale on July 14. The fourth and final season will follow CIA Acting Deputy Director, Jack Ryan, who is tasked with uncovering an internal and national corruption conspiracy; per the official release, “Jack and the team investigate how deep the corruption runs, he discovers a far-worse reality—the convergence of a drug cartel with a terrorist organization—ultimately revealing a conspiracy much closer to home and testing our hero’s belief in the system he has always fought to protect.”