NBC has ordered an additional nine episodes of its new hit comedy series Lopez vs Lopez, bringing the first season total to 22 episodes.
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EXCLUSIVE: The upcoming third season of Syfy’s flagship series Resident Alien, starring Alan Tudyk, will be shorter than anticipated. Its size has been cut from 12 episodes to 8.
As Deadline reported, Resident Alien received a 12-episode Season 3 renewal in July, ahead of the August 10 premiere of the second half of its second season. The series’ first season consisted of 10 episodes, its 16-episode second season was split into two batches of eight episodes each.
The UCP-produced Resident Alien was a breakout for Syfy when it premiered in 2021. The first part of Season 2 also did well, ranking among this year’s top 15 most-watched cable series and top 5 most-watched cable dramas, averaging 2.3 million viewers in L+7. The show’s ratings dropped significantly in the back half of Season 2.
Based on the Dark Horse comics, Resident Alien, one of just a handful of original scripted series on NBCU’s USA and Syfy cable networks, follows a crash-landed alien named Harry (Tudyk) whose secret mission is to kill all humans.
From UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Amblin TV and Dark Horse Entertainment, Resident Alien was adapted to television by executive producer Chris Sheridan. Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg of Dark Horse Entertainment, and Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank of Amblin TV also executive produce.
NBC has ordered an additional nine episodes of its new hit comedy series Lopez vs Lopez, bringing the first season total to 22 episodes.
Horror fans have tuned into Netflix for Mike Flanagan‘s multiple hit shows for over a half-decade. But now they’ll need to sign up for a different streamer to get their Flanagan fix.
EXCLUSIVE: Susan Storman, the celebrated Broadway director and choreographer, has revealed that an acclaimed UK revival of musical comedy Crazy for You, which features show-stopping numbers from the George and Ira Gershwin songbook, will transfer from the Chichester Festival Theater into Andrew Lloyd Webber’s LW Theatres-owned Gillian Lynne Theatre for a strictly limited 30-week West End season from June 24. Opening night is July 3.
Irish academic Susan Liddy has been elected as the new president of Women in Film and Television International (WIFTI), replacing Swedish producer Helene Granqvist who has been in the role since 2018.
EXCLUSIVE: Jack Burditt assumed he had the blessing of Tim Allen when he was first asked to adapt The Santa Clause franchise for Disney+. But that wasn’t exactly the case.
Susanna Hoffs, the co-founder, lead singer and guitarist of The Bangles, will adapt her debut novel “This Bird Has Flown” into a feature romantic comedy for Universal Pictures.Released in April of this year, “This Bird Has Flown” tells the story of a one-hit wonder musician named Jane, who finds herself broke and single a decade after her breakout song. En route to London, Jane meets a handsome stranger named Tom Hardy, and jumps at the opportunity for a second chance at stardom and love.Liza Chasin, along with Margaret Chernin of 3Dot Productions, and Bruna Papandrea, as well as Steve Hutensky and Sarah Harvey of Made Up Stories, will produce the film.
Universal Pictures has snapped up rights to This Bird Has Flown, the upcoming debut novel from The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs, who will adapt her own work for the screen.
Good Morning Britain presenter Susanna Reid slammed a Just Stop Oil protestor live on air and she was so annoyed by how the conversation went that she ended the interview abruptly.
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Susanna Reid has hit out at Matt Hancock for breaking I'm A Celebrity rules before even entering the jungle.