'Queer as Folk' Revival Cast on Those Many Sex Scenes and Nods to Past Series (Exclusive)

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeFamed chef and restauranteur, entrepreneur and philanthropist Wolfgang Puck is getting into the kids business. Puck is set to announce plans to launch a new children’s animated series, “Wolfgang Puck’s Secret Chef Academy,” which he plans to pitch to networks and streamers.Puck has partnered with Genius Brands International to launch the project.

“Bridgerton”‘s Simone Ashley had some arguably peculiar sex education to prepare her for on-screen intimacy.

Bear Grylls is back with even more celebrities facing the great outdoors. comes with a new set of stars, locations and challenges that will test the limits of the Emmy-winning host and his famous guests, including Ashton Kutcher, Natalie Portman, and Simu Liu.Like seasons before, Grylls will teach the celebrities a set of essential survival skills that they will later put to the test in some of the most intense outdoor settings.

Thania Garcia Although it wasn’t a winning night on the field for the Boston Red Sox on Saturday, baseball fans received a treat from Neil Diamond, who gave a rare live performance of “Sweet Caroline.”Diamond retired from concert touring in 2018 following his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis. This post-retirement appearance is the first time that Diamond has performed at Fenway since 2013.

Paving the way in ecotourism, Costa Rica is an adventure from the off. Over the years it's become a vacay hotspot for A-listers, such as Beyoncé, Demi Moore, Miley Cyrus, Leonardo DiCaprio and tennis champ Rafa Nadal.

My Policeman, in which the singer plays a married police officer involved in a secret gay love affair in 1950s Britain, was released June 15, stirring up even more public interest in the Queer love story.In a recent appearance on The Howard Stern Show, Styles spoke about the challenges he faced while performing the film’s sex scenes.“It does feel vulnerable. I’d never kissed anyone on camera before and it felt like giving a part of myself away in some ways,” Styles said.“I was naked in My Policeman.

The Big D is dunzo at TBS.

Sasha Urban editorSydney Sweeney is opening up about filming sex scenes on “Euphoria,” which she says boosted her body confidence.“She doesn’t know how to communicate without showing her body,” Sweeney said about her character Cassie. “That is a form of communication for her, and she was never taught that you did not need that.”Sweeney dove into the psyche of her character for Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” series presented by Apple TV+, in conversation with “Yellowjackets” star Christina Ricci. “Euphoria” made headlines earlier this year when Sweeney revealed that there were supposed to be more nude scenes in the show’s sophomore season, until she spoke out against including them because she felt that they weren’t necessary.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterNat Geo’s “SharkFest” is turning 10 and marking the occasion by enlisting sister Disney brands ABC, ESPN and Hulu to help air its largest programming slate ever across the most platforms it has ever been on, Variety has learned exclusively.While “SharkFest” aired during a six-week period last year, making the 2021 edition the longest “SharkFest” ever, that lineup was limited to Nat Geo, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Mundo, Disney XD and Disney+.This time around, Nat Geo is putting out nearly 30 hours of new content and 60 hours of “enhanced” programming over four weeks beginning July 10, its most-packed “SharkFest” schedule on record. And that increased content load is spread out not just across Nat Geo, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Mundo, Disney XD and Disney+, but also broadcast network ABC, cabler ESPN and streamer Hulu, making it an historic occasion for the decade-old fin-tastic event.

in 2012, Kristen Kish has become a fixture in the culinary world as well as on TV thanks to her longtime success in the kitchen and, more recently, as one of three chefs featured on TruTV's cooking competition show, . Now, Kish is teaming up with Alton Brown to co-host Netflix’s revival of, the famed Japanese cooking competition series. Although “the original is iconic in its own way,” Kish tells ET that when “you put it on Netflix, it just becomes bigger.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSeven-time Grammy-winning producer Mark Ronson will give an in-depth master class on music production in a forthcoming BBC Maestro series, demonstrating in detail how he works as a producer, beat maker, musician, songwriter and collaborator. Ronson’s long resume includes classic albums with such legendary artists as Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga, Adele, Bruno Mars (including the smash “Uptown Funk”), Paul McCartney, Lily Allen, Duran Duran and many others.The series, which launches on July 5, features 18 online lessons — with individual sub-chapters — wherein Ronson educates beginners on how to tackle songwriting, recording, production as well as advice on how to successfully collaborate with other musicians to create genre defying and timeless music.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCarlos Valdes will star opposite Mae Whitman in the upcoming Hulu series “Up Here.”The series received an eight-episode order at Hulu back in January. It is described as a musical romantic comedy set in New York City in the waning days of 1999.

premiered Sunday at the Tribeca Film Festival exposes the frightening and vulnerable position actresses have been put in for decades on sets run by powerful male directors.Steamy sex scenes, they insist, are anything but sexy.Rosanna Arquette recalled that her first nude shoot, in the 1981 comedy “S.O.B.,” was never meant to happen. When she took the role, the actress said, the intimate moment was not mentioned in her contract.Then the cameras rolled.“Let’s just lose the bikini top,” Arquette, 62, remembers famed director Blake Edwards, whose wife Julie Andrews also went topless in the movie, telling her surrounded by crew and fellow actors, such as William Holden and Robert Preston.

20 years of pride! Carson Kressley and Thom Filicia are gearing up to celebrate two decades of the original Queer Eye series — and they still can’t believe how much the show means to longtime fans.

They’re all in! More than a decade after wrapping up their time on Scrubs, the cast continues to be invested in a return.

Andy Cohen is showing his support for Bravo’s decision to pass on the Queer Eye reboot.