Netflix Orders Animated ‘Good Times’ Series from Norman Lear, Steph Curry, Seth MacFarlane (EXCLUSIVE)

Steph Curry, 32, looked like he could win a “Father of the Year” award in his latest family snapshot! The athlete was sitting on a couch with his three kids, including Riley, 8, Ryan, 5, and Canon, 2, in the sweet photo, which was posted to his wife Ayesha Curry‘s Instagram page on Oct. 3, and they couldn’t help but have a cozy moment together. Little Canon had one arm around his dad while Ryan looked on over them and Riley sat on the other side showing them something on a phone.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeRobert Smigel has figured out what disgraced morning anchors Charlie Rose and Matt Lauer are up to: They’re co-hosting a midday talk show in Sarasota, Fla., and making their guests very uncomfortable.That was one of the many gags on Smigel’s half-hour Fox special “Let’s Be Real,” which featured puppets parodying Rose and Lauer, as well as Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Mike Pence, Rudy Giuliani, Kanye West and Nancy Pelosi.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeFor the first time since Nielsen launched its new weekly streaming top 10 list in late summer, Netflix has some company.The Season 2 premiere of Amazon Prime Video’s “The Boys” managed to make it into the top 10, for the week of Aug. 31 to Sept.

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineIn the year of the coronavirus pandemic, many TV producers have had to get creative, to figure out how to keep their shows on the air, even as production across the world was shut down.During the last seven months of lockdown, the visionaries behind two-live action sitcoms—ABC’s Black-ish and Sony Pictures Television’s One Day at a Time—wound up taking the same tack to do just that, presenting animated episodes of their beloved shows for the first time.For

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsMore than a year after season two of sci-fi adventure series The Orville came to an end, leading man and executive producer Seth MacFarlane finally has an update for season three.“All I can say is we are working on it.

Christopher Vourlias “Around the World in 80 Days,” the David Tennant-starring adaptation of the beloved classic by Jules Verne, is set to resume shooting in Romania and South Africa, Variety has learned. Production was suspended by the coronavirus pandemic in March.Production restarts next month in Romania before traveling to South Africa, which last week announced that international flights into the country will resume on Oct.

The Boys, which has become Amazon’s most successful original series yet, is getting a spinoff series!

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large“The Simpsons” fans might notice at least one long-running character sounds a little different in Sunday’s Season 32 premiere.In the episode, Carl Carlson — Homer Simpson’s nuclear plant co-worker, and best friend to Lenny Leonard — is now voiced by actor Alex Désert (“Better Things”).

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe producers of this year’s 72nd Emmy Awards promised some unexpected moments, and it didn’t take long for that to come true. That is, if you classify “almost burning down the Staples Center” as unexpected.While announcing the very first Emmy on Sunday night with presenter Jennifer Aniston, host Jimmy Kimmel sprayed the envelope with Lysol, and then set it on fire to jokingly sterilize it.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeDid the casting directors call it? Among the past week’s Emmy winners were the casting teams for “Succession,” “Schitt’s Creek” and “Watchmen.” Those happen to be the three major frontrunners as the 72nd Emmy Awards get underway on Sunday night — with host Jimmy Kimmel live from the Staples Center.Besides which shows ultimately come out on top, the other big question is whether HBO or Netflix — the two titans of the Emmys — will exit with bragging

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentBarcelona’s Gadea Films, co-producer of Laura Herrero Garvin’s Mexico City-set documentary “La Mami,” a hit at IDFA, is reaching across the Atlantic once more, linking to Colombia’s Rara Colectivo Audiovisual on the production of Cordelia Alegre’s “La Unión.”Put through this year’s Screen-Incubator at the Madrid Film School (ECAM), “La Unión” marks yet another feature debut from a Barcelona-based female director, this time a fiction film.“La Unión”

Also Read: 'Good Times' Star Ja'net Dubois Remembered by Norman Lear, Viola Davis and MoreCarl Jones serves as creator, showrunner, and executive producer. Brent Miller also executive produces via Act III, with Erick Peyton and Jeron Smith for Unanimous and Erica Huggins for Fuzzy Door.“We can’t think of anything better, at this time in our culture, than a reimagining of Good Times animated,” Lear and Miller said.

Denise Petski, Nellie Andreeva Netflix has given a series order to an animated version of Norman Lear’s groundbreaking TV sitcom Good Times. The project hails from Lear and his Act III Productions, NBA star Steph Curry and his Unanimous Media, Seth MacFarlane and his Fuzzy Door, and Sony Pictures TV.Based on his iconic 70’s series, Good Times is Norman Lear’s first animated series, following the Evans family as they navigate today’s world and contemporary social issues.

Denise Petski, Nellie Andreeva Netflix has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to an animated version of Norman Lear’s groundbreaking TV sitcom Good Times.

Netflix has dropped a new trailer for Ratched and we’ve already got a reminder set for 18 September.The series, from the creators of American Horror Story, will tell the origin story of one of cinema’s most iconic and evil characters to ever make it to screen – Nurse Mildred Ratched.The show teaser explains how Mildred landed in Northern California in 1947 seeking employment at a top psychiatric hospital ‘where new and unsettling experiments’ were taking place on the human mind.Mildred fools

Florida Georgia Line are back with new music.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeLos Angeles public broadcaster KCET has confirmed the episodic lineup for its 21st annual “Fine Cut Festival,” which features short films from Southern California student filmmakers.Finalists will air on KCET every Wednesday at 10 p.m. starting Sept.

Laverne Cox is set to be honoured by Equality California.

Norman Lear, Honoree at the 2017 Kennedy Center Honors. Official White House Photograph

Angelique Jackson Norman Lear and Laverne Cox join the star-studded list of honorees at Equality California’s virtual Golden State Equality Awards.Lear will receive the Ally Leadership Award in honor of his social and political activism on- and off-screen. Gloria Estefan and Rita Moreno, who currently stars in Lear’s “One Day at a Time” reboot, are set to present the legendary television and film writer/producer with the award.