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Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TV“Saturday Night Live” returned with its second batch of all-new episodes on Nov. 6 and once again, COVID-19 was the hot topic for the cold open sketch.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TV“Saturday Night Live” returned with its second batch of all-new episodes on Nov. 6 and once again, COVID-19 was the hot topic for the cold open sketch.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVDefine American has released “Telling Authentic Immigrant Stories: A Reference Guide for the Entertainment Industry,” a best practices’ guide in telling immigrant stories, with a focus on film and television.The guide is aimed at individual content creators, as well as production companies and studios at large, and it features detailed descriptions, definitions, historical timelines and dates, and other resources about specific communities.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAnyone who follows actor Lee Pace on Instagram knows that he likes to capture special moments in his life and career. But what you might not know is that when he truly wants to mark something unique, he uses a film camera to do it.“When I look at the pictures that my parents took of us growing up before they got a digital camera, there’s something about, you pull out the camera on a special day.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen Alena Smith sat down to tell the untold tale of famed poet Emily Dickinson, she imagined a three-year television series. She sold the show straight to series to Apple TV Plus in May 2018, more than a year before that streamer would even launch.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVNetflix and Mohammed “Mo” Amer are expanding their partnership through a new stand-up special and scripted comedy series, Variety has learned exclusively.“Ramy’s” Ramy Youssef co-created the scripted series with Amer. A24 is producing both projects.First up is the new special, titled “Mo Amer: Mohammed in Texas,” which will premiere Nov.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVApple TV Plus announced a four-part docuseries about two-time NBA Hall of Famer Earvin “Magic” Johnson coming to the streaming service at a date still to be announced.The docuseries will explore Johnson’s accomplishments on the court and off, as well as his global impact, through never-before-seen footage and interviews with Johnson and those in his inner circle.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThe Ruderman Family Foundation selected five more recipients of its Seal of Authentic Representation: Fox’s “9-1-1,” Apple TV Plus’s “CODA,” Freeform’s “Everything’s Gonna Be Okay” and Netflix’s “Never Have I Ever” and “The One.”Marlee Matlin, who is one of the stars of “CODA,” has also received the Ruderman Family Foundation’s Morton E.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVDan Levy’s production calendar just keeps exploding. The latest project for the multi-hyphenate, cooking competition series “The Big Brunch,” which also comes from Boardwalk Pictures, has been ordered at HBO Max with a 2022 targeted premiere.Levy created and will host the series that centers around celebrating inspiring but still undiscovered culinary voices from all across the U.S — but also brunch.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVIf there’s one thing the team behind “Judy Justice,” Judge Judy Sheindlin’s MDb TV courtroom series premiering Nov.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen Peacock’s “Saved by the Bell” reimagining drops its second season on Nov. 24, it will pay tribute to original cast member Dustin Diamond right from the premiere episode.Diamond played Samuel “Screech” Powers beginning in “Good Morning, Miss Bliss,” the prequel to “Saved by the Bell” in 1988.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVMTV Books has announced that the first title under its relaunched imprint will be “My Life: Growing Up Asian in America,” which includes an introduction by former MTV News correspondent SuChin Pak.“With MTV Books, our mission is to cultivate and amplify new and pioneering voices who reflect the diversity of experiences that resonate with our global audiences,” said Nina L. Diaz, CCO/president of content, MTV Entertainment Group.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “La Amara Vita,” the seventh episode of Season 2 of “The Morning Show,” streaming now on Apple TV Plus.After the sexual harassment and abuse allegations against UBA anchor Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell) came to light in the first episode of Apple TV Plus drama “The Morning Show,” he lost his job and eventually his family.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen executives at CBS Studios decided to dust off the not-too-distant IP of “The 4400,” a four-season drama about a group of people who were plucked from different places and time periods and returned at once, it was good news for Ariana Jackson.Jackson wasn’t the first producer to tackle such a project — a previous attempt at a reboot was made in 2018 by Taylor Elmore and Craig Sweeny.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVCBS has given “Ghosts” a full season order for the 2021-22 broadcast season.The freshman comedy, which just premiered on Oct. 7, follows a young couple (played by Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar) who inherit a country estate and decide to move into it to fix it up to become a bed and breakfast.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVOver the years, as “Schitt’s Creek” grew in popularity, co-creator and star Dan Levy says he got many offers to write a book about the show. It wasn’t until after the CBC-Pop TV family sitcom wrapped its six-season run that he began working on one, though.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVNetflix renewed family sitcom “Family Reunion” for a 10-episode third and final season.The series follows the McKellan family who moved from Seattle to Georgia in the series premiere to be closer to extended family. Now there are three generations living in the same house, and house is stuffed full of people.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the series premiere of “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” streaming now on Amazon Prime Video.After Alison (Madison Iseman) learns her twin sister Lennon (also Iseman) slept with the guy she has been in love with for years in the premiere episode of Amazon Prime Video’s “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” she just wants to leave their graduation party.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the third season of “You,” streaming now on Netflix.After working in the futuristic world of “The 100” and the witchy world of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” Tati Gabrielle moves into a new form of the heightened genre landscape in the suburbs of Madre Linde on the third season of Netflix’s “You.”As Marienne, the latest object of Joe Goldberg’s (Penn Badgley) obsession, on paper she may have

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the third season of “You,” streaming now on Netflix.If you thought Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) would fall in love with a woman who was an perfect match for him in terms of how far she’d go for what she loved, marry her, have a baby with her and live some version of happily ever after — even one in which they begin to kill together — well, then you haven’t really been paying attention to Netflix’s

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the first four episodes of “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” streaming now on Amazon Prime Video.“I Know What You Did Last Summer” as a franchise has its roots in Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel about a group of teenagers who hit someone with a car, cover it up and then are stalked and murdered for the secret one year later.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAva DuVernay doesn’t consider herself a “Kumbaya girl,” but when she set out to create her first-ever unscripted series, NBC’s “Home Sweet Home,” she wanted it to be one that connected people rather than focusing on the conflicts between them.“We are in the most polarized time.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVMore than a decade after Brittany Murphy died, director Cynthia Hill wants to give the actor a chance to “be something other than her death.”“We’re doing a lot of looking back to reevaluate missteps and to be able to talk about people like Britney Spears and Brittany Murphy, who have been victimized by Hollywood, by the gossip industry,” Hill tells Variety.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVHBO’s “Succession,” Netflix’s “You” and Chuck Lorre, joined by members of his multiple CBS sitcoms, are among the panels set for this year’s PaleyFest NY event.The full Paley Center for Media lineup also includes Paramount Plus’ “SEAL Team,” HBO Max’s “Gossip Girl,” AMC’s “Fear the Walking Dead” and NBC’s “New Amsterdam.”The Paley Center for Media announced that this year’s event will stream on the organizations YouTube Channel on Oct.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “Welcome to the Porch Pirate,” the fourth episode of “The Neighborhood” Season 4.Meg DeLoatch, the new showrunner of “The Neighborhood,” knows there are many fans of the CBS sitcom who don’t follow the behind-the-scenes machinations or read news headlines about the show.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVStarz released a teaser for “Outlander’s” sixth season, which will premiere in early 2022.The new season, inspired in part by Diana Gabaldon’s “A Breath of Snow and Ashes,” will see the threat of the Revolutionary War looming over Fraser’s Ridge. A sign tacked up in the teaser, which you can watch below, advises townspeople to refuse British goods, for example.“It’s starting — a storm, the war.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVActor, comedian and writer Cristela Alonzo doesn’t like it when competition series make the judges or the hosts into the stars of the show, because she wants the contestants, who are the ones tasked with physically, mentally and emotionally demanding feats, to be celebrated.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the fourth episode of “The Morning Show” Season 2, streaming now on Apple TV Plus.Greta Lee blazed onto the second season of Apple TV Plus’ “The Morning Show” in a way that demanded audiences sit up and pay attention.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the Season 2 finale of “Ted Lasso,” streaming now on Apple TV Plus.The hourlong second season finale of Apple TV Plus’ “Ted Lasso” packed quite a few punches into its timeframe, from Sam (Toheeb Jimoh) choosing to stay with AFC Richmond not for Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) but for himself (plus opening up a Nigerian restaurant in London), to Keeley (Juno Temple) choosing to focus on fully setting up

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen Jorja Fox’s Sara Sidle steps back into the Las Vegas crime lab in the series premiere of “CSI: Vegas,” she can’t help but marvel at what she sees.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “The Long and Winding Road,” the third episode of “The Resident” Season 5.The third episode of the fifth season of “The Resident” finally fully answered how Nic (Emily VanCamp) would be written out of the Fox drama: She was killed off.The actor’s exit was announced in August, just a little less than a month before the fifth season premiered.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVIn its first episode back after summer hiatus, “Saturday Night Live” dove back into pop culture headlines by producing sketches that parodied “The View” co-hosts’ experiences getting told they tested positive for COVID-19 live on air and mashed up Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ recent space flight with “Star Trek.” But it also threw things back a little bit by allowing guest host Owen Wilson to return to his “Cars” role.The former sketch featured Wilson

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThe first “Weekend Update” segment of “Saturday Night Live’s” 47th season paid tribute to former cast member Norm Macdonald.First, current cast member Pete Davidson joined “Update” co-anchors Michael Che and Colin Jost at the desk wearing a shirt with Macdonald’s image on it.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVNew “Saturday Night Live” featured player James Austin Johnson made his mark on the NBC late-night sketch comedy series immediately from the start of the Season 47 premiere: He debuted as Joe Biden impersonation during a “special message from the president” cold open sketch.After winning eight Emmys at the 73rd annual ceremonies last month, including the variety sketch series award for the fifth consecutive year, “SNL” returned to Studio 8H in New

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “Maid,” streaming now on Netflix.After playwright Molly Smith Metzler read Stephanie Land’s memoir, “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive,” she began to look at the world differently.Specifically, this was because of the passage in which Land described a time in her life when she and her daughter were living in an apartment that got so damp it was growing black mold, resulting in

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen director Cherien Dabis was prepping to helm the near-silent seventh episode of Hulu comedy “Only Murders in the Building,” actor James Caverly, who is deaf, steered her toward the 2007 documentary “Through Deaf Eyes” as research. In it, there is a clip that offers an example of what a person on the spectrum of hearing can experience audibly.