Lily James and Willem Dafoe have signed on to star in the indie drama Finalmente L’alba (Finally Dawn) sources tell Deadline. Rachel Sennott and Rebecca Antonac are also on board with Saverio Constanzo directing the pic.
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Darren Star and Jeffrey Richman comes, a new Netflix comedy starring Neil Patrick Harris as Michael, a man of a certain age who suddenly finds himself navigating single life in New York City after his husband of 17 years (Tuc Watkins) unexpectedly ends their relationship. The series then follows him as his friends — his business partner, Suzanne (Tisha Campbell), TV weatherman Billy (Emerson Brooks) and art dealer Stanley (Brooks Ashmanskas) — help him get over his heartbreak and back into the dating pool. With now streaming on Netflix, Harris, Star, Richman and the rest of the cast open up about the series — and it’s place in this current era of queer storytelling on TV -- as well as comparisons to and at least one moment inspired by a real-life experience that will definitely have viewers talking.
For Harris, who most recently appeared in and, is a rare example of a series that’s telling stories about queer relationships “in such a lovely and inclusive, mainstream way,” he tells ET, while Brooks notes that “it tells about a wonderful, devastating, funny breakup through the eye of a gay man in his forties, something that has never really been done before in this format.” “We’ve wanted better representation of the queer community for a long time. We’ve worked hard towards that.
We’ve been making progress,” Watkins says. “I think [] is part of the evolution and the change we’ve wanted.”Meanwhile for Star and Richman, who made TV history with, it was an opportunity to tell a more personal story.
“This is our perspective. We know this world,” Richman says, noting that it’s “much more authentic” than an average sitcom.Star adds, “This is a show written with a lot of really direct experience of being a gay man and writing it
.Lily James and Willem Dafoe have signed on to star in the indie drama Finalmente L’alba (Finally Dawn) sources tell Deadline. Rachel Sennott and Rebecca Antonac are also on board with Saverio Constanzo directing the pic.
Right now we’ve no word on exactly when Bridgerton’s third season will drop on Netflix for our next instalment of Regency era beauty looks and Lady Whistledown drama. But until it does, we’re delighted that some of the key cast members have been keeping us posted on their beauty updates.
Patrick Schwarzenegger passes a purple smoothie back to girlfriend Abby Champion while out and about in New York City over the past weekend.
EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Herold, who served as Partner and Head of Theater at ICM Partners for nearly two decades, has moved to UTA as an agent in the Theatre division. He will be based in New York and report to Partner & Head of Theatre, Mark Subias. Herold is the latest ICM agent to leave following the agency’s acquisition by CAA.
may have only premiered on Netflix last Friday, but fans are already looking to the future. It's no surprise considering that the 10-episode series is a long-awaited adaptation of Neil Gaiman's beloved comic book series that's finally arrived on the small screen after several failed attempts! And after an explosive season finale that leaves more problems than solutions, the biggest question that remains is, will there be a season 2? Nothing's been announced, and Gaiman played coy when ET posed the question to him and co-creator Allan Heinberg.
Finally, right? It took forever for Neil Gaiman’s beloved and bestselling comic book “The Sandman” to get adapted. For years, it looked like there would be a feature film based on the DC Comics smash hit.
Based on his success with “Sex and the City,” some people might assume Darren Star’s new Netflix comedy, “Uncoupled,” would be a gay version of that. In actuality, it has its own vibe and sensibility.
EXCLUSIVE: Filipina acting and singing star Lovi Poe has launched her own production company called C’est Lovi Productions.
Naman Ramachandran The world premiere of hotly anticipated Netflix series “The Sandman” at London’s BFI Southbank on Wednesday evening was a star-studded triumph, with Neil Gaiman and cast greeted with cheers and adulation.Apart from Gaiman, on whose iconic comics the series is based, the cast and crew, Netflix and Warner Bros. Television executives, the audience was largely composed of comic book aficionados who evidently were familiar with the nuances of every single one of the 75 comics in the series.The first two episodes of the series were screened to a rapt audience, and Gaiman kicked off the post-screening Q&A by describing how he had spent well over 30 years “fighting terrible film adaptations” of his comics. And, after Netflix boarded the project, “Suddenly, in 2019, it was the opposite,” Gaiman said.
K.J. Yossman “Sex Education” fans can breathe easy.
Sex Education star Rakhee Thakra has become the latest cast member to announce her departure from the show.Thankra, who played teacher Emily Sands in the Netflix series, recently confirmed that she won’t be returning for season four.“I’m not part of the new series,” she told Daily Star Sunday, before adding: “I can’t really talk about why.”She continued: “But I’m so proud of the show and grateful to have been part of something so important. There is nothing bad about Sex Education.”The Netflix series was officially renewed for a fourth run in September 2021, following the critical success of the third season.
Uncoupled (★★★☆☆), it’s especially hard out here for a single gay man of a certain age.Whereas “a certain age” might, in more agreeable times, have meant truly middle-aged or at least gracefully senior, now, apparently, we’re all ancient after 40.So, Uncoupled‘s busy, fortysomething real estate broker Michael — unceremoniously dumped by his partner Colin, after 17 seemingly happy years together — has a steep learning curve to catch up with all the ins and outs of hooking up and hanging out now that he’s single again.Embodied in all his ripe ambition and sexuality by Neil Patrick Harris, Michael is caught completely off-guard by Colin (Tuc Watkins) packing up and leaving. But the show drops hints that he perhaps should have detected something was off — namely, the fact that Colin, uneasy about turning 50, was in no mood to celebrate the milestone.Created by uber-successful gay writer-producers Jeffrey Richman (Modern Family) and Darren Star (Sex & the City), Uncoupled has plenty to say about aging, gracefully or not, within the youth-obsessed gay culture.The series acknowledges, through Michael’s broker partner and bestie Suzanne (Tisha Campbell), that single women over 40 might still have it harder.In fact, Michael’s fabulously wealthy client, Claire (a delightful Marcia Gay Harden), also recently dumped, insists that women at any age are more ruthlessly judged by their appearance and other superficial aspects.As if accepting a challenge, Michael responds that we’ll just have to see about that.
Neil Patrick Harris is celebrating the release of his new Netflix series!
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorNeil Patrick Harris is showing a side of himself that we’ve never seen before.In Darren Star and Jeffrey Richman’s new Netflix series “Uncoupled,” Harris stars as Michael, a gay New York real estate agent whose partner of 17 years Colin (Tuc Watkins) leaves him.As Michael navigates dating again, stories of love, heartbreak, middle-age and unexpected sexual encounters unfold.Harris is seen in various states of undress. In fact, the actor has his first on-camera gay sex scene on “Uncoupled,” with “Sex and the City” movie alum Gilles Marini.“We did make out in that first scene and then between takes he goes, ‘Oh it is true? It is true what they say?’” Harris recalls.
No, that’s not actually Neil Patrick Harris‘ member used in the d–k pic for his new Netflix series Uncoupled, but he did get to pick it out.
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Rainey Jr., star of Starz’s Power Book II: Ghost, has signed with APA for representation. Rainey moves to APA from ICM Partners to join his former agent Andrew Rogers, who recently joined APA as a new Partner and Head of Global Talent.
Sex and the City ever so slightly. The original gang was older; one was missing; and some new friends had arrived to . While Sex and the City creator Darren Star wasn’t involved with And Just Like That, he perhaps wanted to do some riffing of his own, as evidenced by the new Netflix series Uncoupled (July 29).
Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticDarren Star has, in recent years, had a Netflix success with “Emily in Paris” — a show that, depending on your vantage point, is either a death knell for TV comedy or a sunnily surface-level jaunt whose idle pleasures are just that. Star, the creator of “Sex and the City” and “Melrose Place,” has a gift for skating the viewer across smoothly luxurious settings.Which may be the problem, or one of them, with his latest series for Netflix, which he created with Jeffrey Richman.
Neil Patrick Harris couples up with husband David Burtka at the premiere of his Netflix series, Uncoupled, held at The Paris Theater on Tuesday night (July 26) in New York City.