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Brian Williams is leaving MSNBC and NBC News at the end of the year but says “pop up again somewhere.”

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorRashida Jones learned a while ago to live with pressure.At the tail end of the runup to the 2020 presidential election, Jones was the NBC News executive supervising two of the most scrutinized events in a chaotic news cycle. First came a town hall meeting between anchor Savannah Guthrie and then-president Donald Trump, a session that sparked backlash after NBC decided to air it opposite a similar ABC News telecast with then-candidate Joe Biden.

With the ridiculous number of high-profile TV series being developed right now, it’s perfectly understandable if one or two slip under the radar. And right now, it feels like people might be sleeping on the upcoming Apple TV+ series, “Wool.” But with its latest round of casting announcements, the post-apocalyptic “Wool” is shaping up to be a series that could easily top most-anticipated lists.

After Rachel Maddow signed a new multi-year deal with MSNBC and NBCUniversal, there were reports that she ultimately will scale back her schedule to as little as once-a-week. That would leave the network with the potential loss of the nightly show, with no obvious successor.

Annie Murphy starrer Kevin Can F**k Himself will be back for a second season. AMC has renewed the series from creator Valerie Armstrong and executive producers Rashida Jones and Will McCormack (Claws). The eight-episode second season is slated to premiere on AMC+ and AMC next year.

NBCU’s streaming service Peacock is expanding MSNBC content, announcing a renamed channel as well as  future programming headlined by Mika Brzezinski, Michael Beschloss And Nicolle Wallace.

Rashida Jones, who took the helm of MSNBC on Monday, unveiled a new organizational structure that puts greater emphasis on the difference between breaking news programming, and analysis and opinion shows.

Laverne Cox is rethinking her part in an upcoming documentary about s*x workers and the s*x industry — and it all comes down to listening to fan backlash!

Laverne Cox is exiting a controversial project about sex work.

Sell/Buy/Date following “outrage” from sex workers on social media.The film sees Tony Award-winning playwright Sarah Jones make her feature directorial debut, adapting her 2016 Off Broadway stage production of the same name.Rashida Jones and Meryl Streep had joined the project as executive producers alongside Cox.In a statement shared on Twitter, Cox wrote: “When I agreed to come on as an executive producer of “Sell, Buy Date” I did so because I was so deeply moved by Sarah Jones’ brilliant play

Sarah Jones is about to take a look at the world of the sex industry from a different angle. The Tony Award winner is set to make her feature directorial debut with the documentary Sell/Buy/Date which is based on her 2016 Off-Broadway stage production of the same name.

MSNBC is getting a new president. The NBCUniversal-owned cable news channel has named Rashida Jones president, succeeding Phil Griffin, who will depart the company in the new year.

Apple TV+ is entering the first major awards season of its young life. Sure, last year, the fledgling streaming service was around during the big Oscars push, but the service didn’t necessarily have any features that were arriving that could be in the regular awards conversation.

Men are incorrigible Lothario scoundrels, motherhood is full of loneliness and self-doubt, and complicated father/daughter relationships are constantly tested in Sofia Coppola’s “On The Rocks,” her latest dramedy, an effervescent, charming, and soulful affair.

Despite studios moving films such as Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” remake out of the calendar year and questions about whether some films will actually hit theaters, there are still new Oscar contenders being revealed for critics and AMPAS members alike. Over the past 48 hours, Netflix virtually screened Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7” for select media, and A24 and Apple debuted Sofia Coppola’s “On the Rocks” at the 2020 New York Film Festival.

In the pantheon of perfect Bill Murray roles — “Caddyshack,” “Groundhog Day,” “Lost In Translation” — his smooth-talking character in the new comedy “On The Rocks” ranks as one of the best.He plays Felix, a suave New York renaissance man and art dealer in Sofia Coppola’s wonderful movie — the pair’s first narrative feature collaboration since 2003’s “Lost In Translation” — which premiered Wednesday night in the New York Film Festival.Murray, bless him, brought me back to the New York we all miss

Sofia Coppola’s latest film on Wednesday, “On the Rocks.”The film, which is set to have a theatrical run in October, will reunite the director with Bill Murray, who she last collaborated with on his 2015 special “A Very Murray Christmas.” He stars alongside Rashida Jones.Over the next several months — depending on theater openings — audiences could see Murray in three major films: “On the Rocks,” Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” (Oct.

Also Read: Anne Hathaway, Bill Murray to Star in Aaron Schneider's 'Bum's Rush'That exchange leads to another hilarious sequence in which Murray and Jones decide to tail Wayans in a less-than-inconspicuous red convertible and in which Murray says that one New York plaza is perfect for cheaters because of its numerous exits from the building.Murray was nominated for an Oscar for his work with Coppola in “Lost in Translation,” and this film, her first since “The Beguiled” in 2017, could be another

Sofia Coppola likes her collaborations and collaborators. It’s been a minute since her first proper feature-length narrative film, 2017’s “The Beguiled,” but the filmmaker is back with a story that includes familiar friends.

Even almost two decades after the film’s debut, “Lost in Translation” still ranks as one of the best films in both the careers of Sofia Coppola and actor Bill Murray. And now, the duo is teaming up yet again for the upcoming dramedy, “On the Rocks,” but instead of Scarlett Johansson playing opposite Murray, there’s Rashida Jones.

With a number of feature films being delayed into 2021, there are fewer and fewer exciting features arriving this fall, whether it be on the big screen or streaming. However, one of the most anticipated titles that is still going to grace us in 2020 is none other than “On the Rocks,” from filmmaker Sofia Coppola and starring Bill Murray and Rashida Jones.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIf exposing his life in the semi-autobiographical ABC comedy “Black-ish” wasn’t enough, Kenya Barris now plays a fictionalized version of himself in “#BlackAF.” The Netflix series — the first project under the $100 million overall deal that Barris signed with the streamer in August 2018 — is a satirical look at himself, his family (series co-producer Rashida Jones plays his wife) and his career.

It’s all happening! Celebs like Amy Poehler and Daniel Radcliffe gave their biggest fans just what they wanted to see amid the coronavirus pandemic by revisiting their most beloved characters.

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NBC News and MSNBC plan to be among the first and last news outlets focused on the New Hampshire primary, starting live coverage this evening on Chris Matthews’ “Hardball” and Chris Hayes’ “All In” and then continuing through Wednesday morning.

After months of campaign events, polls, debates and candidate interviews, the first votes of the 2020 presidential election will finally be cast tonight, in the convoluted process known as the Iowa caucus.Because the results of the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus historically presage success or failure for the Democratic nominees, media networks have been preparing for tonight's vote for a long time."It's incredibly exciting," says Rashida Jones, senior vp, specials, for NBC News and MSNBC.