Sarah Snook, Demi Lardner Join Cast of Hulu Animated Series ‘Koala Man’

On the heels of the recently announced prequel series Blood of My Blood, Starz’s President of Original Programming Kathryn Busby is sharing an update on what the new project means for the future of the original series.

Spanx founder Sara Blakely is mourning her “idol” Olivia Newton-John.

EXCLUSIVE: The Wilds’ Sarah Pidgeon and newcomer Tanzyn Crawford have been cast as series regulars alongside Kathryn Hahn and Quentin Plair in Hulu’s Tiny Beautiful Things, based on Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling book, from ABC Signature and Hello Sunshine. Additionally, Rachel Goldenberg has been tapped to direct the first two episodes.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorVeteran Russian musical collective and  activists Pussy Riot will be joined by some high-profile guests for their forthcoming concert at Los Angeles’ El Rey Theater on Wednesday: comic Sarah Silverman will be performing a full set, while Big Freedia — fresh from her prominent guest spot on Beyonce’s “Break My Soul” —  Salem Ilese, Josiah, Boyfriend, Slayyyter and Eva Elfie will be making special guest appearances, along with previously announced artist Rei Ami.The appearance is a rare high-profile slot for Silverman, who has been keeping a relatively low profile in recent months. Big Freedia and Salem Ilese both appear on Pussy Riot’s “Matriarchy” mixtape, which dropped on Friday. Ilese also released the viral hit “Crypto Boy,” and for which the group’s Nadya Tolokonnikova created the single artwork.

Paramount+ has set the lead cast for its upcoming drama series Sexy Beast, the prequel to the 2000 cult British gangster movie, which is set to premiere in 2023.

Carson Burton Alexander Skarsgård, Nicholas Braun, French actor Liliane Rovère and others have joined the cast for Season 53 of “Documentary Now!,” IFC announced Friday. The channel also released a first look teaser as well as final details for two new episodes to round out the season.Known for paying homage to the world of documentaries, “Documentary Now!” Season 53 will debut with on Wednesday, Oct.

EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Travis (The Kominsky Method) and Tiera Skovbye (Riverdale) have joined the cast of Ride, Hallmark Channel’s new primetime series that is centered on a rodeo dynasty.

William Jackson Harper (Love Life), Tom Pelphrey (Ozark), Aml Ameen (Boxing Day), Sarah Jones (For All Mankind), Jon Michael Hill (Widows), and Chanté Adams (A League Of Their Own) have been cast opposite Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane in A Man In Full, Netflix’s six-episode limited series based on Tom Wolfe’s 1998 novel, from David E. Kelley and Regina King.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe upcoming Netflix limited series “A Man in Full” has added six new cast members, Variety has learned.William Jackson Harper, Aml Ameen, Tom Pelphrey, Sarah Jones, Jon Michael Hill, and Chanté Adams have all joined the show opposite previously announced leads Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane. The series is based on the Tom Wolfe novel of the same name. Variety exclusively reported the show had received a straight-to-series order at the streamer in November 2021.

EXCLUSIVE: Everybody Still Hates Chris, a reimagined animated version of Chris Rock’s beloved autobiographical family comedy Everybody Hates Chris, has received a straight-to-series order by MTV Entertainment. It will be windowed globally across streamer Paramount+ and sibling linear network Comedy Central. Rock is back as narrator and executive producer of the new series, which, like the original, is inspired by the comedian’s teenage years. CBS Studios and 3 Arts Entertainment, which produced Everybody Hates Chris and originally developed the animated reboot, will produce with MTV Entertainment Studios, which has been ramping up its adult animation portfolio with the recently announced Andy Samberg-produced series Digman! joining the Daria spinoff movie Jodie, both the film and series reboots of Beavis and Butt-Head as well as stalwart South Park.

John Cale has shared an animated video for his new single ‘Night Crawling’.The clip, which you can view below, sees the Velvet Underground multi-instrumentalist hitting the streets of New York in the 1970s with David Bowie.The song is his first new music since 2020 single ‘Lazy Day’ and his collaboration with Kelly Lee Owens on ‘Corner Of My Sky’.“There was this period around mid-late 70s when David and I would run into each other in NY. There was plenty of talk about getting some work done but of course we’d end up running the streets, sometimes until we couldn’t keep a thought in our heads, let alone actually get a song together.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning screenwriters Bobby Moresco (Crash) and Nick Vallelonga (Green Book) have partnered with Midnight Run scribe George Gallo and John Gotti Jr. to develop the series Betrayal examining Gambino crime family boss John Gotti and the Fall of La Cosa Notra.

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount +’s The Good Fight has added Phylicia Rashad and Shahar Isaac as recurring for its upcoming sixth and final season.

The teaser trailer for Guillermo del Toro‘s Pinocchio just debuted online!

The Sandman is coming!

FXX’s Little Demon will host a Twins reunion between Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The news was announced during the animated series’ SDCC panel on Friday.

Sarah Snook (Succession) and Australian comedian Demi Lardner have joined the cast of the upcoming Hulu animated comedy series Koala Man, it was announced during the show’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday.

EXCLUSIVE: Two top supernatural film-to-series franchises are coming together as Buffy the Vampire Slayer alumna Sarah Michelle Gellar has been tapped to star in and executive produce Paramount+’s upcoming Teen Wolf offshoot series, Wolf Pack, from MTV Entertainment Studios. Gellar’s casting will be revealed today during Paramount+’s Teen Wolf: The Movie panel at the San Diego Comic-Con where Gellar will make an appearance as the surprise guest touted in the promo for the panel, I hear. Gellar is  Comic-Con royalty as Buffy the Vampire Slayer is hugely popular among convention-goers who organized a big fan event to celebrate the series’ 20th anniversary at the 2017 Comic-Con.

Phaedra Parks handed in her peach on , and despite fan pleas to make a return, Phaedra says she has no interest in picking up that piece of fruit ever again.«No, I don't want to pick up a peach,» she declares to ET. «If I wanted a peach, I would have a peach pie, but that's not… no, as I've made it very clear, that's not what I want to do. No.

Hugh Jackman is saying “g’day” to a new animated project.The former “X-Men” star (who, it should be noted, is incredibly Australian) is set to lead the Hulu animated series “Koala Man” from “Rick and Morty” co-creator Justin Roiland and “Smiling Friends” co-creator Michael Cusack.“Koala Man” was ordered straight-to-series last spring and is officially described as centering around a “middle-aged dad Kevin [played by Jackman] and his titular not-so-secret identity, whose only superpower is a burning passion for following rules and snuffing out petty crime.”The show takes place in the Australian suburb of Dapto, where “forces of evil both cosmic and man-made lie in wait … Koala Man stands at the ready.