Ramy Youssef on How an Emmy Win for His Hulu Series Could Change the TV Landscape (Exclusive)

are dishing on first-day jitters in the operating room, prepping for working with medical equipment and being pregnant on set. In a unique crossover event, actors Chandra Wilson (Dr.

Public media station WETA Washington, D.C. and the National Alliance on Mental Illness are teaming to host a one-hour virtual town hall to launch Well Beings, a public media campaign to address the health needs of Americans with a focus on the Youth Mental Health Project.

earned Youssef a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy earlier this year. Hiam Abbass, Amr Waked, Laith Nakli, May Calamawy, Dave Merheje, Mohammed Amer and Steve Way also star in the show, which centers on Youssef's Ramy, an Egyptian-American on a journey to explore his faith and become a better Muslim.

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Manchester town hall’s reopening has been delayed until 2024 due to mounting costs caused largely by the coronavirus pandemic.Problems arising from nesting peregrine falcons in the building’s clock tower, and the discovery of asbestos and hazardous tar, have pushed construction cost up to £214m.Works to pedestrianise Albert Square and transform it into ‘one of the finest civic spaces in Europe’ will also be pushed back.The total cost of the Our Town Hall project to restore the Grade I listed

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Ramy Youssef and Tessa Thompson are the latest celebrities to take part in Variety‘s Actors on Actors interview.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticRamy Youssef’s Golden Globe win this year, for his comic role on his series “Ramy,” came as a delightful surprise. And on “Westworld,” Tessa Thompson is casting into the future, imagining a woman of color who’s eventually inhabited by an android — and keeping her work human scale throughout.

won a Golden Globe earlier this year, beating out the likes of Bill Hader and Paul Rudd.“The show is so well done from the writing to the filming,” says Merjehe, 39, who plays Ramy’s friend Ahmed in the Hulu series.

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineIn its first season, Hulu comedy Ramy garnered widespread acclaim, striking a chord with its portrait of a first-generation American Muslim, his family and his politically-divided New Jersey community. Released in May, Season 2 resonated all the more powerfully, its themes speaking to events playing out on the world stage.

season 1 first debuted in June 2018, there was no doubt that longtime stage actor Billy Porter was long overdue for a breakout moment. On co-creators Ryan Murphy and Steven Canals’ groundbreaking FX series about the ballroom scene and LGBTQ community of color, Porter plays ardent emcee Pray Tell, whose heart is as big as his mouth.

Lucy Hale‘s eyes go wide as she visits her first sex shop in the trailer for her brand new movie, A Nice Girl Like You.

, the Netflix docuseries following the professional and personal lives of four doctors working at a New York City area hospital, is back with an all-new episode filmed during the coronavirus outbreak. The installment captures what neurosurgeons Dr.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentNetflix has greenlit two new unscripted dating shows, Variety has learned exclusively.The new series further bolster Netflix’s lineup in the romance genre, following the success of breakout hits ‘Love Is Blind” and “Too Hot To Handle.”“Indian Matchmaking,” which will debut on July 16, centers around couples paired by an elite Indian matchmaker.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Nearly 20 years after its stunning 2001 debut, Alejandro Amenabar’s horror classic “The Others” is set to have a Spanish-language TV series spin-off.Miami-based BTF Media has snagged the series format rights from FilmSharks subsidiary the Remake Co.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentJohnny Depp is set to voice the character Johnny Puff in a new animated series titled “Puffins” from Italy’s Iervolino Entertainment, the company founded by producer Andrea Iervolino, who co-owns it with Monika Bacardi.“Puffins” will be a mobile-first, short-form toon series consisting of 250 five-minute episodes that follow the adventures of a group of cute birds, who are the servants of the wily walrus Otto.