‘Not Dead Yet’: Josh Banday, Jessica St. Clair, Angela Gibbs Among Five Cast In ABC Comedy Pilot

Saturday Night Life for the first time, Kim Kardashian demonstrated that there is a comedic vein running through her body. During the show’s intro, the reality tv personality and businesswoman joked about almost every member of her famous family; however, there was one joke, in particular, that didn’t aired —until now!Khloé Kardashian: 5 Eligible Bachelors That Would be PERFECT for HerKim Kardashian says her boyfriend Pete Davidson uses SKIMS underwearIn the second episode of The Kardashians, Kim appears rehearsing her monologue with friend Amy Schumer She shares her concerns about certain jokes comedian Michelle Wolf helped her write.

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap, NCIS: New Orleans) and Bella Thorne (Big Love, The DUFF) are among the final cast to be announced for the indie film Divinity, the latest collaboration between Steven Soderbergh and Eddie Alcazar. Cypress Hills’ DJ Muggs will serve as musical composer.

Evangeline Young  (ABC’s Emergence) has been cast as a series regular opposite Chris Sullivan in ABC’s comedy pilot The Son in Law. In addition to Sullivan, she joins previously cast series regulars Reema Sampat, Meera Simhan and Anupam Kher.

Netflix has unveiled the voice cast for its upcoming animated film “My Father’s Dragon,” which is the next feature from the award-winning studio behind “Wolfwalkers” and “The Secret of Kells” Cartoon Saloon. Jacob Tremblay will lead a voice cast that also includes Gaten Matarazzo, Golshifteh Farahani, Dianne Wiest, Rita Moreno, Chris O’Dowd, Judy Greer, Alan Cumming, Yara Shahidi, Jackie Earle Haley, Mary Kay Place, Leighton Meester, Spence Moore II, Adam Brody, Charlyne Yi, Maggie Lincoln, Jack Smith with Whoopi Goldberg and Ian McShane.Nora Twomey (“The Breadwinner”) is directing “My Father’s Dragon” based on Ruth Stiles Gannett’s Newbery Award winning book of the same name.

EXCLUSIVE: ABC comedy pilot The Son In Law has found its father in law.

Rio Del Valle Hackford, son of director Taylor Hackford and stepson of Helen Mirren, has died at age 52.

Meera Simhan (The Flash) is set as a lead opposite Reema Sampat and Chris Sullivan in The Son In Law, ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot from 20th Television.

Robbie Amell (Upload), Meng’er Zhang (Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings), Hugh Skinner (Mamma Mia Here We Go Again!) and Christelle Elwin (Half Bad) have joined the Season 3 cast of Netflix’s The Witcher.

LONDON -- British author Jack Higgins, who wrote “The Eagle Has Landed” and other bestselling thrillers and espionage novels, has died. He was 92.Publisher HarperCollins said that Higgins died at his home on the English Channel island of Jersey surrounded by his family.Born Henry Patterson in in Newcastle, England, in July 1929, Higgins served in the military before studying sociology at the London School of Economics.

Ghosts could make easy jokes about sounds that go bump in the night but then that wouldn’t make it the breakout comedy that CBS needs it to be. So says the cast of the hit freshman comedy, which took center stage at Deadline’s Contenders TV event at Paramount Studios.

Gina Rodriguez is going back to TV. Following her success with the TV series “Jane the Virgin,” which ended in 2019, Rodriguez is coming back to TV for another comedy.

Girls5Eva is adding to the band in season two.

Netflix has added nine actors to the cast for XO, Kitty its upcoming To All The Boys spinoff series. Joining as series regulars are Choi Min-yeong (Dream Palace), Anthony Keyvan (Genera+ion), Gia Kim, Sang Heon Lee, Peter Thurnwald (Players) and Regan Aliyah (Club Mickey Mouse). They will appear opposite Anna Cathcart who takes on the titular role. The series comes from co-showrunners and executive producer Jenny Han and Sascha Rothchild.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe ABC comedy pilot “Not Dead Yet” starring Gina Rodriguez has found five new series regulars, Variety has learned.Josh Banday (“Pam & Tommy,” “Upload”), Jessica St. Clair (“Playing House,” “Avenue 5”), Mary Elizabeth Ellis (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “Licorice Pizza”), Angela Gibbs (“Black Jesus,” “Hacks”), and Rick Glassman (“Old Dads,” “A Futile and Stupid Gesture”) will all appear alongside Rodriguez.In the single-cam pilot, Nell Stevens (Rodriguez) is broke, newly single and feeling old. Nell – a self-described disaster – works to restart the life and career she left behind 10 years ago.

EXCLUSIVE: Indonesian helmer Joko Anwar (Impetigore) is preparing to make his English-language debut with Fritzchen, an adaptation of the classic short story by Charles Beaumont, which is in development at Village Roadshow.

“Outlander” Season 5 alum Ed Speleers is among the actors who’ve joined the cast of “You” for Season 4 in a series regular role, Netflix announced Friday.Speleers, also well-known for his work in “Downton Abbey” and “Eragon,” will play Rhys. According to a character description from Netflix: “Dry, irreverent Rhys is an author whose memoir garnered him acclaim and pressure to launch a political career. Born into poverty, Rhys lived a traumatic early life before he came into money, going to Oxford and making all the right friends.

EXCLUSIVE: Tilly Keeper, Amy Leigh Hickman, and Ed Speleers have joined You as series regulars opposite Penn Badgley in the upcoming fourth season of the Netflix series, which will be set in a new location, London. Production is under way in London on the new season, which also has cast eleven actors in recurring roles. In addition to Badgley, Keeper, Hickman and Speleers join fellow Season 4 series regulars Tati Gabrielle, Charlotte Ritchie and Lukas Gage.