Rachel Maddow Sets Return Date From Hiatus, Still No Word on Future Plans

Disney has added director-writer Ayan Mukerji’s upcoming Brahmastra Part One: Shiva to its domestic box office slate, giving it a September 9 release in the U.S. and Canada. The film marks the beginning of a trilogy as well as what’s billed as India’s first original cinematic universe. Ranbir Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Alia Bhatt, Mouni Roy and Nagarjuna Akkineni star.

Casey is back!

Jesse Spencer will officially return for 's season 10 finale, which is set to air May 25, ET has learned.The episode, which centers on Severide and Kidd's long-awaited wedding, begins filming Friday. Spencer's return to the NBC firefighter drama marks the first time viewers will see him back onscreen after he exited the series during the 200th episode earlier in the season. At the time of his departure, which was a surprise to many, the actor kept the door open for an eventual return.Co-showrunners Derek Haas and Andrea Newman spoke with ET on Wednesday and held out hope that Spencer would be available to come back for Severide and Kidd's big day.«We basically got down on one knee and begged and pleaded for him to come back because, at the end of the day, Casey promised to be Severide's best man and he's a man of his word,» Newman said.

Wayne Rooney has reiterated his desire to stay on as Derby County manager and be the man to rebuild the club as their inevitable relegation finally came to pass on Easter Monday.

EXCLUSIVE: Julian Fellowes’s breakout HBO period drama The Gilded Age is expanding its cast in a big way for Season 2, going from 12 to 24 series regulars, and deepening the Upstairs, Downstairs feel of the show. That includes thirteen actors who recurred in Season 1 and have been promoted to series regulars: Kelli O’Hara as Aurora Fane, Donna Murphy as Mrs. Astor, Debra Monk as Armstrong, Kristine Nielsen as Mrs. Bauer, Taylor Richardson as Bridget, Ben Ahlers as Jack Trotter, Kelley Curran as Turner, Douglas Sills as Baudin aka Borden, Celia Keenan-Bolger as Mrs. Bruce, Michael Cerveris as Watson, Erin Wilhelmi as Adelheid Weber, Patrick Page as Richard Clay and Sullivan Jones as T. Thomas Fortune.

would be absent from the show for a brief time.It was announced Wednesday that Goldberg will be on hiatus from the long-running talk show until May 2. “ICYMI: Our EGOT winner is away doing EGOT things! See you soon, @WhoopiGoldberg,” the show tweeted, adding that she will be back to host Hot Topics then.The “Ghost” actress stepped back from the show because she is filming the upcoming Amazon series “Anansi Boys” in Scotland.Behar, 79, explained to the audience earlier this week that Goldberg was shooting her six-episode series, mistakenly calling it a “movie.”“If you’re wondering where Whoopi is, the girl’s got a movie she’s making and she will be back when she finishes whatever she’s doing,” Behar said.

Gilbert Gottfried showed support for Chris Rock in his final days. Gottfried, one of the most recognizable voices in show business, died after a long illness on Tuesday. He was 67.

Naman Ramachandran “Beautiful Blue Eyes,” the last film starring Roy Scheider, will release worldwide on June 10, following a charity premiere in London on June 6.The two-time Oscar nominee (“Jaws,” “The French Connection,” “Marathon Man,” “Klute,” “All That Jazz”) died in 2008 while “Beautiful Blue Eyes” was being filmed. Completion of the film was put on hold until AI and CG technology was advanced enough to overcome the technical challenges faced by the filmmakers.

Maya Rudolph is starting over.The actress leads Apple TV+'s new workplace comedy series, , which launches with its first three episodes Friday, June 24. Subsequent episodes will drop weekly on Fridays.The 10-episode series, which hails from Alan Yang () and Matt Hubbard (), also stars Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Ron Funches, Nat Faxon and Joel Kim Booster.It follows billionaire Molly Novak (Rudoph), who seemingly has the dream life, complete with private jets, a sprawling mansion and a gigayacht. But when her husband of 20 years betrays her, she spirals publicly, becoming fuel for tabloid fodder.

book. Reports of Maddow scaling back her schedule have been made ever since she signed a new multi-year deal with MSNBC and NBCUniversal, allowing her a broader range of projects.The new contract keeps her at the company through 2024.”I do still have all these other irons in the fire, all these other things I’m working on that I want to bring to fruition, none of them are fast, all of them take a long time, and I’m still working on all of them,” Maddow said on her program Monday.She clarified that for bigger news events, such as the lead-up to the election, she plans to be in the anchor spot more than once a week. “This might change….We will see how things go, but that is the plan as of now,” Maddow said. Rotating hosts will fill in the 9 p.m. slot the rest of the week, and there are no immediate plans for a permanent replacement host, according to a network spokesperson.

election, I will of course be here more than that, but that is the general plan,” Maddow said on her show Monday.The cable news network's most popular personality had been on hiatus for the past two months, working on a new podcast and a movie adaptation of her book “Bag Man.” She said the weekly schedule will give her “more time to work on some of this other stuff I've got cooking for MSNBC and NBC.”She heaped praise on Ali Velshi, who had filled in frequently for her while she was away, calling him a “prince among men.”Yet MSNBC's ratings in her time slot tumbled in her absence, even with coverage of a gripping news event, the Ukraine war. MSNBC is not alone in questions about its 9 p.m.

matches reports about her show’s future from last year — but now we have a timeline.“I said when I left before that I may be eventually taking another hiatus this year, that things were fluid, we’d be taking it one step at a time,” Maddow said. “That’s all still true-ish. But, one of the things I realized while I was on hiatus working on these other projects the past few weeks, One of the things I realized, to my surprise, is that I actually don’t need another hiatus.

Rachel Maddow announced that she will go to a weekly schedule, hosting MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show solely on Monday nights starting in May.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorRachel Maddow doesn’t seem to have much in common with John Oliver.

Rachel Riley was spotted leaving the Countdown studio with husband Pasha Kovalev and their daughter, after opening up about the abuse she receives on social media.The TV star, 36, and her Strictly Come Dancing dancer husband Pasha, 42, are the proud parents of two children - Maven, two, and Noa, five months. And the couple, who married in 2019, looked in good spirits as they left the TV studio, with the family wearing a array of contrasting outfits.

Rachel Maddow plans to return from her MSNBC hiatus on April 11.

More than a decade after leaving, Dr. Addison Montgomery is returning to Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.