Rachel Sennott’s HBO Comedy Pilot Adds Four to Cast

Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling struggled to get along on the set of 2004’s “The Notebook.”As the rom-com celebrates its 20th anniversary on June 25, the director, 65, expressed his regret for ever discussing their dynamic in a new interview.“It caught me on a bad day, but if [McAdams and Gosling] are around, I apologize to you guys. I shouldn’t have spilled the beans,” he told Entertainment Weekly in a story published Tuesday. In a 2014 interview with VH1, the director disclosed: “Maybe I’m not supposed to tell this story, but they were really not getting along one day on set.

By anyone's standards, it has been a tough couple of weeks for Rachel Stevens, who has faced backlash after opening up about the pain of her marriage breakdown, after she fell for her Dancing on Ice partner Brendyn Hatfield.The S Club singer, 46, spoke out for the first time on her split from ex-husband Alex Bourne, admitting that developing romantic feelings for her now boyfriend, professional skater Brendyn, 38, who she met on the show in 2022, was the reason behind her divorce. Rachel confessed that, while her marriage to real estate agent Alex was already on the rocks before she joined the ITV show, meeting Brendyn was the confirmation that she needed to end things, leading to a “messy and scary” split from her ex.

Selena Kuznikov During her time in journalism school, writer-director Ally Pankiw discovered documentary studies and broadcast news, and immediately fell in love with video editing and production. Although she didn’t attend traditional film school, she taught herself the basics of Final Draft after graduating and started writing. After directing Season 1 of Netflix’s “Feel Good,” the “Joan Is Awful” episode of “Black Mirror” and more, Pankiw finally got funding for her first feature film: “I Used to Be Funny,” starring “Shiva Baby” breakout Rachel Sennott.

EXCLUSIVE: Devin Craig (Queen Sugar), Ruby Cruz (Bottoms), Michael Provost (Insatiable) and Roby Attal (Red 11) are heading to class in the upcoming third season of Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble‘s The Sex Lives of College Girls. All four will recur as students at Essex College.

In one of the more promising pieces of development to come along in a while, Hulu has ordered Mid-Century Modern, a comedy pilot from Will & Grace duo Max Mutchnick and David Kohan and Uber-producer Ryan Murphy. 

Selome Hailu Amazon MGM Studios has given a pilot order to “The Nightbeast,” a horror comedy starring Tatiana Maslany. In “The Nightbeast,” per the official logline, “a young mother unsatisfied with her seemingly perfect suburban life begins an affair with the boogeyman in her son’s closet — a surprisingly sexy man called the Nightbeast.

EXCLUSIVE: Leander Suleiman will play comedy writer Anne Beatts in Sony Pictures’ film SNL 1975 (working title), based on real-life behind-the-scenes accounts of the opening night of Saturday Night Live, Deadline has learned.

There's promising news for Brits as hot weather maps predict an end to the cold spell, with a two-day blast of 26C heat.The UK could see a heatwave by the end of June, with temperatures expected to rise into the mid-twenties, nearing the 30C mark. According to WX Charts maps and charts that use Met Desk data, we could see the temperature peaking at around 26C.

28 Years Later will be set in Newcastle, and lead star Jodie Comer has revealed she’s studying Cheryl‘s accent in preparation for her role.Comer will star alongside Cillian Murphy, Ralph Fiennes, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jack O’Connell in the third instalment of Danny Boyle‘s zombie apocalypse trilogy, which reportedly began filming in Newcastle last month.Now, in a new profile piece for ELLE, Comer has revealed that she’s been watching clips of Cheryl on The X-Factor in order the grasp the Geordie accent.“I’m excited to get the first day done,’ she said, ahead or shooting her scenes. “Danny just seems like such a confident, intuitive and intelligent director.

EXCLUSIVE: Jon Gabrus is set as a series regular opposite June Diane Raphael and Paul Scheer in DINKS, an improvisational style multi-cam comedy pilot, from Grace & Frankie creator Marta Kauffman and her Okay Goodnight banner, Amazon MGM Studios and Lionsgate Television. Additionally, Nicole Byer, Carl Tart, and Lennon Parham join as guest stars in the project.

CBS got in early with its 2024/25 schedule and has been stocking up on new shows such as NCIS: Origins, Watson and Sheriff’s Country but isn’t planning on slowing down soon.

HBO executive Casey Bloys, whose official title is chairman and CEO of HBO and Max content, has confirmed some news about season three of Euphoria.

Chanel brought together a star-studded crowd from the annual luncheon to celebrate Through Her Lens: The Tribeca CHANEL Women’s Filmmaker Program.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic For many viewers, the scenes hardest to take in viral streaming cringefest “Baby Reindeer” weren’t the ones of overt stalking or abuse, but those depicting the DOA stand-up comedy of Richard Gadd’s alter ego — moments whose flop-sweating public failure seemed to stretch into tortuous infinity. Canadian feature “I Used to Be Funny” likewise hinges on a paralyzing intersection between stand-up, anxiety and depression. Mercifully, however, here it’s not the protagonist’s stage act that is the cause of massive self-doubt.

Odessa A’zion (Sitting in Bars with Cake), Jordan Firstman (Rotting in the Sun), Miles Robbins (Blockers) and True Whitaker (Godfather of Harlem) have joined HBO‘s Untitled Rachel Sennott Comedy Pilot.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Goosebumps” Season 2 at Disney+ is adding six new recurring cast members. Variety has learned that Sakina Jaffrey (“Billions,” “House of Cards”), Eloise Payet (“The End of the Party”), Kyra Tantao (“Zombies 3”), Arjun Athalye (“Are You Afraid of the Dark?”), Christopher Paul Richards (“The Kids Are Alright”), and Stony Blyden (“American Born Chinese”) have all joined the second season of the series based on the R.L. Stine books.

“Rob (Reiner) always wanted to do from the moment My Dinner With Andre came out — ‘My Lunch With Albert,” Albert Brooks shares about his best friend’s vision for a movie about himself.

The indie dark comedy Forge, currently shooting in Miami, has set its supporting cast.

A Geordie Shore cast member has popped the question to their other half during a sun-soaked getaway as the cast films the latest series abroad. Currently, the MTV hit is shooting in Thailand for its new season, with stars like Nathan Henry and Ricci Guarnaccio keeping fans in the loop via social media.

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate and Grindstone Entertainment have acquired rights to the comedy The Duel, exec produced by and starring Dylan Sprouse (Beautiful Disaster), in North America, as well as all other English-speaking and Latin American territories.