Ramy Youssef On Emmys Breakthrough, ‘Ramy’ Season 3 & Digging Into Perspective Of Disabled With Upcoming Apple Series Starring Steve Way

Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple has ordered an animated series based on the classic children’s book “Harriet the Spy” by Louise Fitzhugh, Variety has learned.Beanie Feldstein will voice the titular Harriet, while Jane Lynch will play her nanny, Ole Golly. In addition, Lacey Chabert will voice Marion Hawthorne, the queen bee at Harriet’s school.Like the book, the series will be set in 1960s New York City.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsApple TV+ will breathe new life into Louise Fitzhugh’s 1964 children’s book with Harriet the Spy, the first animated adaptation of the iconic children’s novel.

Will Thorne Staff WriterWhen Archie (Jeremy Pope) is threatened with being removed from his own screenplay because making a movie written by a Black screenwriter would “sink the studio” in Netflix’s “Hollywood,” he responds with as much composure and restraint as he can muster.

In the summer of 1989, less than two months after the release of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, a dramatization of racial tensions between Black and Italian Americans in Brooklyn, Yusuf Hawkins was shot to death for being a Black boy in a white neighborhood just a few miles from the film's Bedford-Stuyvesant setting. Sixteen years old, Hawkins was the victim of an impromptu mob in Bensonhurst that had gathered to attack another Black youth rumored to be dating an Italian-American girl.

Will Forte will officially be reprising his role as MacGruber in an upcoming series for the streaming service Peacock!

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVOn August 23, 1989, teenage Yusuf Hawkins took the train into Bensonhurst, Brooklyn with a few of his friends to look at a car for sale. What they didn’t know, being young Black boys from East New York, was that tension was running high in that other pocket of town.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Adria Arjona is set to star opposite Diego Luna in Disney Plus’ Star Wars series based on the Cassian Andor character Luna played in Rogue One. Denise Gough, Genevieve O’Reilly, Stellan Skarsgard and Kyle Soller are also on board.A Disney spokesperson declined to comment.Tony Gilroy, who co-wrote Rogue One, is set to write the pilot for the series in addition to directing multiple episodes.

Will Forte. The former star will reprise his role, which is a parody of the titular action hero from the 1985 TV series, . According to the streaming platform, “America’s ultimate hero and uber patriot” has been released from prison and tasked with a new mission: “To take down a mysterious villain from his past — Brigadier Commander Enos Queeth.

Updated 08/06/2020: Amazon's A League of Their Own series has officially been given the green light, Deadline reports. The series, which comes fromMozart in the Jungleexecutive producer Will Graham and Broad City's Abbi Jacobson, will be a reimagining of Penny Marshall's beloved 1992 film.

Robert Downey Jr is heading to Apple!

, the comic series about a dysfunctional family of sibling superheroes who are forced to unite to prevent an apocalypse, returned to Netflix for another season of wild antics and adventures as the Hargreeves attempt to save the world again after being scattered through time in 1960s Dallas, Texas.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: In one of the largest orders ever, Lifetime has picked up six new seasons — Seasons 12-17 —  of its flagship reality series Married at First Sight.Additionally, Lifetime has greenlighted a new spinoff series, Married at First Sight: Unmatchables with an eight-episode order and has given a blind commitment to another series from the Married at First Sight franchise producer, Kinetic Content.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorSuranne Jones, the star of BBC/HBO drama Gentleman Jack and Doctor Foster, is to feature in the second season of Channel 4’s female-led anthology drama series I Am.Jones will star in I Am Victoria alongside Top Boy actor Ashley Walters, as Channel 4 confirmed that it has commissioned another three episodes of the show created by Dominic Savage, the writer of Gemma Arterton-fronted feature The Escape.Produced by Me+You Productions in association with Sky

“The Simpsons” are back at the annual Comic-Con, only this year it’s at home and the cast and crew had some showing and telling to do.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorThe Umbrella Academy star Emmy Raver-Lampman has joined Apple’s animated series Central Park in a recasting for the role of Molly Tillerman, the mixed-race character originally voiced by Kristen Bell.

Netflix has announced that it has pulled the plug on an upcoming prank show starring comedian Chris D’Elia.The news comes after numerous claims of sexual harassment and misconduct were made against the actor last month. D’Elia has denied all allegations.According to Deadline, D’Elia had just finalised a deal with the streaming giant to make the show with his best friend and fellow comedian Bryan Callen when the allegations surfaced.

Elisabeth Moss will be starring in the upcoming Apple TV+ series Shining Girls!

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThe online fest will bring the energy and magic of the live fest as it spotlights the best of independent Black cinema, studio premieres, conversations and panels, along with virtual networking events.