‘Our Flag Means Death’ Review: Max Comedy Continues Confident Sail With Increasingly Lovable Characters

Playboy model Tabby Brown has died at 38-years-old. Brown, who had featured for the likes of Cosmopolitan and Elle, also dated former Manchester City players Raheem Sterling and Mario Balotelli.

Manchester United supporter group The 1958 have vowed to continue to protest against the Glazers for as long they own shares at Old Trafford following news of Sir Jim Ratcliffe's desire to buy a minority stake at the club.

Hunter Ingram For once, Stede Bonnet and Blackbeard aren’t the most dysfunctional pirate couple on the deck of Max’s comedy series “Our Flag Means Death.” In Season 2’s fourth episode, titled “Fun and Games,” that distinction belongs to legendary pirates Anne Bonny (Minnie Driver) and Mary Read (Rachel House). As the series has done with the shared history between the real-life Stede and Blackbeard, “Our Flag Means Death” interprets the fearsome women pirates as a couple. But they’ve been at the whole dating thing a lot longer than the boys.

“We’re trying to introduce entirely new filmmakers into the repertoire of our company,” Anonymous Content‘s David Levine said today.

Ben Croll Home to the Taylor Sheridan stable and to the “Star Trek” franchise, Paramount+ is looking for “populist” dramas that hold a wider sway and can span several seasons, said Paramount TV president Nicole Clemens at her keynote at MIA Market in Rome on Tuesday. “We’re not looking for shows that just play to New York and Los Angeles,” Clemens explained. “That doesn’t mean they’re not edgy, that doesn’t mean [they can’t be] dark.

Our Flag Means Death (★★★★☆). The pirate comedy from David Jenkins was quietly released on MAX last year with little fanfare but quickly caught attention as the tale of the show’s queerness spread.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Anonymous Content enacted a small round of layoffs on Friday, representing about 8% of the workforce at a company of around 170 people. The talent management and production shop reduced staff across all divisions, including representation, television, motion picture, literary, media rights and branded entertainment. Insiders familiar with Anonymous cited the Hollywood labor strikes and a volatile larger entertainment marketplace as reasons for the job cuts.

Deion Sanders is potentially going primetime, again.

Valerie Wu editor Elsie Choi, a film and TV development veteran who has worked for such producers as Dan Lin and Bruce Willis, has joined Los Angeles-based CJ ENM America as executive VP and head of scripted TV. CJ ENM is a South Korean entertainment company that has produced content such as Oscar-winning film “Parasite” and popular Korean fantasy drama series “Guardian: The Lonely and Great God.” Among the company’s recent productions are the romantic drama “Past Lives” with A24. It’s also the company behind the annual KCON Korean pop culture conference and concerts held in downtown Los Angeles in August.

The upcoming third season of Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo’s Max comedy series Sort Of will be its last. Co-creators Baig and Filippo announced the news Thursday on Instagram.

Rudie Obias editor If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Set sail for the high seas! Max‘s swashbuckling romantic comedy “Our Flag Means Death” returns for season 2 on Oct. 5, a year-and-a-half after season 1 wrapped.

Euphoria executive producer Ron Leshem flew into Spain this week and recalled how Hollywood had initially turned down the HBO hit over concerns about teenage lead characters.

Vulture on Monday about the difficulty she foresees going onstage with the band’s current lineup, including Nicks, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, and newer addition Mike Campbell. “We did go out on the road and do a year-and-a-half tour with Neil Finn and Mike Campbell. We had a really great time and it was a huge tour.

With the WGA-Strike officially over, there seems to be the first real lull due to the impact of it. October still has plenty of series worth exploring, especially notable titles such as the latest from Mike Flannigan and the second season of the popular “Our Flag Means Death,” but the lineup isn’t quite as bulked up as some of the more recent months.

Ben Croll Clad in his familiar accessories of dark suspenders and tortoise-shell glasses, Canal+ Group CEO Maxime Saada cuts a decorous and professorial figure, though the two framed posters of “Scarface” and “The Godfather” that decorate his office walls offer a slightly better insight into the chairman’s inner passions. “[I follow] a logic of intensity,” Saada tells Variety. “As a payTV player, our main objective is not to broadcast content to the widest possible audience in order to lure to advertizers, nor to aim for consensus. We want to inspire passion and fervor, because reactions of ‘not bad’ do not encourage subscriptions.” Saada is being honored at Mipcom with the Variety Vanguard Award.

There’s no question that Melissa Etheridge is an inviting performer, whether she’s beckoning through her window or simply asking us to enjoy some of the great rock singing ever – and, yes, at 62 she is still a great rock singer, her raspy voice as rangy, powerful and, when she wants, as subtle as it was during her 1990s breakthrough days.

The controversial dating series Naked Attraction is now available for U.S. audiences to watch and it’s getting so much buzz that it’s currently the #1 TV show on Max.

Gerry Turner’s journey on ABC’s inaugural season of “The Golden Bachelor” kicked off with a memorable limo entrance, as revealed in an exclusive preview video from The Hollywood Reporter.

You’ll recall in 2014, there was the ridiculously entertaining documentary “Next Goal Wins.” Directed by Mike Brett and Steve Jamison, the doc follows Thomas Rongen, a Dutch soccer coach hired to lead the national team for American Samoa. This famously pitiful outfit spent nearly two decades at the bottom of FIFA’s international rankings.

Actor Dennis Waterman has left almost £500,000 to his fourth wife, Pamela Flint following his death last year. The actor passed away in May 2022 at the age of 74 after being diagnosed with lung cancer two years prior. Dennis spent his final years in La Manga, Spain, where he moved after his decision to retire from acting in 2015.