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Imagine Entertainment announced that it has signed a multi-project deal for scripted television with Emmy-winning writer/producer Jason Katims and his True Jack Productions banner. Together, they have three projects in the works.

“Teen Wolf” alum Arden Cho is learning to live a little in the trailer for the upcoming Netflix romantic comedy series, “Partner Track.”The series, which is based on the novel of the same name by Helen Wan, follows Cho’s Ingrid Yun, a first generation Korean American and the first lawyer in her family, as she experiences the trials and tribulations of excelling at the prestigious (but old school) law firm, Parsons Valentine. With the support of her friends, she battles through workplace challenges to break through the glass ceiling on her path to become partner. But will her drive and ambition leave room for love?In the trailer, which Netflix released Friday, it looks like Ingrid is right on track to become a partner at the firm until she lays eyes once again on Jeff Murphy (Dominic Sherwood) — who just happens to be her ex.

Deadline. The weekly late-night series is the latest to be cut from the Warner Bros.

Naman Ramachandran “Wedding Season,” the first U.K. original series from streamer Disney+, will premiere on Disney+ Day on Sept 8. The romantic comedy-action thriller will stream on Disney+ globally, Star+ in Latin America and Hulu in the U.S.The streamer also revealed several first look images.The series tells the story of Katie and Stefan who fall for each other at a wedding and begin an affair, despite the former already having a fiancé.

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first look at Disney+’s Wedding Season, which Deadline can exclusively reveal will launch September 8.

previous one with WBTV, signed back in 2020.Thede’s current projects include the acclaimed “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” which was renewed for a fourth season earlier this month. Starring, created, showrun, executive produced and written by Thede, the historic sketch series is made entirely by and for Black women, whose skits touch on topics like sex, relationships, religion and social norms.

Showtime has given a green light to Seasoned, a half-hour comedy pilot starring real-life husband and wife Mandy Patinkin (Homeland) and Kathryn Grody (The Lemon Sisters).

A Black Lady Sketch Show will return for another go-round. HBO has renewed the Emmy-winning sketch comedy series for a fourth season.

EXCLUSIVE: The single-camera teen comedy Wild Life from Imagine Kids+Family has received a pilot order at HBO Max with rising star Izabella Alvarez (Euphoria, The Casagrandes) set as the show’s lead.

The Conners,” “The Wonder Years” and “Home Economics” have been renewed for new seasons at ABC, the broadcaster revealed Friday.All three series will air their respective finales Wednesday, May 18.“The Conners” has been picked up for a fifth season by the Disney-owned network. Season 4 of the comedy series debuted in September.The show is a spinoff continuation of “Roseanne,” which was canceled after one revival season in 2018 due to controversial remarks made by series star Roseanne Barr.In Season 4, the Conners continue to face the daily struggles of life in Lanford.

Block party scheduled for Lanford: The Conners will return for a fifth season at ABC.

David Letterman’s Emmy-nominated talk show series “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman” is set to return on May 20, Netflix announced on Thursday.The fourth season of the Netflix original series will feature six episodes and a new selection of guests, including Cardi B, Kevin Durant, Billie Eilish, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ryan Reynolds and Will Smith.The show features one-on-one conversations with the legendary talk show host and the celebrity guest inside and outside a studio setting. Season four comes after a long absence from the series, as season three premiered almost 18 months ago in October of 2020.Notably, the streamer has announced that all of the episodes were filmed prior to March 2022; that means that there will be no talk of the infamous Will Smith-Chris Rock Oscars slap that occurred on March 27.

The latest guest list for David Letterman’s Netflix show “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” has been unveiled.Letterman is welcoming Billie Eilish and Ryan Reynolds to the stage in the upcoming fourth season.Also joining Letterman for interviews are Cardi B, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Kevin Durant.Will Smith also sat for an interview, however the talk will not address the Oscars incident as it was recorded prior to March 2022.Past guest on Letterman’s Netflix show have included Kim Kardashian, Dave Chappelle, former President Barack Obama and George Clooney.Netflix first ordered the series in 2017, and it premiered the following year.David Letterman is host. The show is executive produced by Tom Keaney and Mary Barclay for Worldwide Pants; Tony Hernandez and Lilly Burns, Brooke Posch, and John Skidmore for Jax Media.

Will Smith will sit down with David Letterman for his latest round of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.

Neil Patrick Harris’ return to series television is coming this summer.

British broadcaster Channel 4 has ordered an apocalyptic comedy series starring Friday Night Dinner and The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird.

Netflix announced today that Joel Kim Booster’s stand-up special Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual will debut on the streamer on June 21st.

Wilson Chapman editorHulu has released the first trailer for the new queer rom-com “Fire Island,” starring Joel Kim Booster and “Saturday Night Live” star Bowen Yang.A modern take on the classic Jane Austen novel “Pride and Prejudice,” “Fire Island” focuses on two gay best friends, Noah (Booster) and Howie (Yang), who take a trip to the Pines, a hamlet on New York’s Fire Island that’s a hotspot for queer culture. Over the course of their vacation, they party with friends and develop flirtations with two other, significantly wealthier vacationers, Will (Conrad Ricamora) and Charlie (James Scully).

“Emily in Paris” stars Collins as the titular character, an American who lands a dream job doing the social media strategy for a luxury marketing company in Paris. Season 2, which dropped on the streamer in December, saw Emily “getting better at navigating the city but still struggling with the idiosyncrasies of French life,” per a logline from Netflix.In January, the show was renewed for Seasons 3 and 4.

Emily’s love life will continue to be complicated in Darren Star’s Netflix dramedy Emily In Paris. Lucien Laviscount, who played Emily’s (Lily Collins) Season 2 love interest Alfie, will be back next season and has been promoted to a series regular. The announcement was made during Emily In Paris‘ panel at Paley Fest.

Showtime’s late-night series Desus & Mero is taking the week off after Desus Nice, otherwise known as Daniel Baker, was hit by Covid-19. The series, which moved from twice a week to weekly with the return of its fourth season earlier this month, will be postponed due to the positive test.

Sasha Urban editorNetflix has dropped the trailer for “The Pentaverate,” Mike Myers’ new comedy series about a five-man secret society. The trailer comes after Myers joined Instagram last week and began posting cryptic images with fives in them: a five dollar bill, the 5 train in New York City, the five boroughs and a Five Guys storefront.Ever the chameleon, Myers is taking on eight different roles in the new series.

Angelique Jackson Searchlight Pictures has set summer release dates for “Fire Island,” “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” and “Not Okay.”All three films will stream exclusively as Hulu Originals in the U.S. with “Fire Island” and “Not Okay” streaming internationally on Disney Plus as Star Originals.

Netflix revealed ‘s second season will premiere on April 20.

EXCLUSIVE: We’ll be seeing more of Skye Townsend on Robin Thede’s A Black Lady Sketch Show. Townsend, who recurred as various characters in Season 2, has been promoted to series regular for the third season of HBO’s Emmy-winning sketch comedy series, executive produced by Issa Rae.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterJax Media executives Sarah Madigan and John Skidmore have joined Imagine Entertainment, the parent company of Jax, as head of business affairs and strategic partnerships and head of production, respectively, Variety has learned exclusively.Both will continue in their current roles at Jax Media, with Madigan remaining head of business affairs and Skidmore, a founding partner of Jax Media, still chief operating officer of the Imagine Entertainment-owned production company.Skidmore, who will be overseeing all projects across all divisions for Imagine, has produced some of Jax’s most popular titles, including “Broad City,” “Search Party,” “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” “Russian Doll” and the Netflix stand-up specials “Chris Rock: Tamborine,” “John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous” and “Mike Birbiglia: The New One.” Madigan currently runs business affairs at Jax Media and previously held roles at MGM and Netflix.“Skidmore is a founding member of Jax and Madigan has been integral to the company’s growth over the past few years, and we couldn’t imagine doing this new job without them,” Imagine Entertainment presidents Tony Hernandez and Lilly Burns said in a joint statement to Variety.Jax Media co-founders Hernandez and Burns were promoted to co-presidents of Imagine Entertainment in January and continue to lead Jax Media as CEO and CCO, respectively.

EXCLUSIVE: Jax Media is planting a flag in Atlanta.

Selome Hailu Catherine Cohen’s debut comedy special “The Twist …? She’s Gorgeous” will premiere on Netflix on March 15, Variety has learned exclusively.In the special, which was taped at Joe’s Pub in New York, Cohen uses her musical expertise to divulge details about relationships, modern feminism and being the main character of her own life. Henry Koperski is featured on the keys.

Russian Doll” returns this spring, and Netflix has released some first looks photos for the upcoming season.Season 2 will be set four years after Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) and Alan (Charlie Barnett) escaped mortality’s time loop. New episodes will follow the pair as they pass through an unexpected time portal located in Manhattan — causing both to face their pasts.The show’s first season also starred Greta Lee, Yul Vazquez and Elizabeth Ashley.

HBO Max will get even more South Side goodness, renewing the comedy from Bashir Salahuddin, Diallo Riddle and Sultan Salahuddin for Season 3.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“South Side” has been renewed for Season 3 at HBO Max.Season 3 of the comedy series will now be the second season of the show to air on HBO Max. Season 1 debuted on Comedy Central in 2019 before the show was sold to HBO Max along with fellow Comedy Central series “The Other Two,” which was picked up for a third season in September.

EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Entertainment has tapped Netflix executive Kristen Zolner as Head of Imagine Television. This marks the first major executive hire since Tony Hernandez & Lilly Burns, co-founders of Imagine-owned Jax Media, were named Presidents of Imagine Entertainment earlier this month, overseeing film and television for Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s indie company, which has been the center of acquisition speculation.

Comedies Black Monday and Work in Progress will not be moving forward at Showtime, becoming the latest titles to get the chop from the premium cable network.

Emily in Paris.” The wildly popular and fashion-heavy “Emily in Paris” starring Lily Collins, skewed overwhelmingly female, with 77% of the audience being women, according to Nielsen data released on Thursday.All 20 episodes of the second season dropped on Dec. 22, with viewers drawn to the 20something’s adventures around Paris, her dream job with a luxury marketing company, and of course, those clothes.With two seasons to binge, “Emily in Paris” made the Netflix global Top 10 list the week of its premiere, and on Jan.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorImagine Entertainment has expanded the purview of Imagine Documentaries chief Justin Wilkes to overseeing new business development as chief strategy officer for the independent content powerhouse.The move for Wilkes comes as Imagine Entertainment is actively seeking an influx of capital to fund its ambitious growth plans. The company headed by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer since 1986 is looking to bring in a new financial investor that will allow Imagine to continue operating status quo with its current management team.At present, Imagine is in talks with U.K.-based Centricus Asset Management about a sale that would value the company at around $700 million.