‘Scamanda’ Docuseries Based On Podcast Set For Fall At ABC

Jon Burlingame Science fiction and fantasy have inspired dozens of great television scores through the years, from “Battlestar Galactica” to “Game of Thrones.” Three more streaming series continued that tradition this season: “Silo,” “Fallout” and “3 Body Problem.” Atli Örvarsson’s music for “Silo,” the Apple TV+ dystopian drama set in a bleak future where everyone lives in underground silos, was initially inspired by the setting. “It’s a mechanized world,” he says.

Variety Staff Follow Us on Twitter Variety’s “Actors on Actors” returns for its 20th season with the biggest stars of this year’s Emmys season. Among the highlights of the latest lineup: The first public conversation between Emma Corrin and Elizabeth Debicki, the two actors who played Princess Diana in Netflix’s “The Crown.” Robert Downey Jr. talks about the craft of acting with his longtime pal Jodie Foster.

IATSE has concluded its first week of negotiating a new three-year deal for its nationwide locals.

Brits should soon see their energy bills fall after Ofgem announced its latest price cap - but there is a warning the news is not 'a sign of stability'. The energy regulator has lowered its price cap in response to wholesale energy prices.

Bury is set for its first Food and Drink Festival begins with dozens of stalls across the town centre and entertainment during the first half of the Bank Holiday weekend. The festival will see Bury town centre packed with pop-up food markets, artisan drinks, craft stalls, music and live entertainment between 9am – 4.30pm on Friday, May 24 and Saturday May, 25.

Wayne Rooney could be about to enter the world of management less than six months after being sacked by Birmingham.

Experts are forecasting that UK inflation is set to fall close to the Bank of England's 2 per cent target for the first time in nearly three years, sparking hopes that interest rate cuts may be imminent as the two-year cost of living crisis begins to ease.

Good news for exhibition as Lionsgate is delivering two big releases this fall: The Dave Bautista action pic The Killer’s Game on Sept. 13 and the Mel Gibson directed Mark Wahlberg movie Flight Risk for Oct. 18. Again, we can’t be without film product in a marketplace that’s starving for volume.

The MTV Movie and TV Awards is taking a break this year. The annual event will instead return in 2025 with a fresh, 'reimagined' format.

Grand Theft Auto VI, the latest installment in the mega-selling video game franchise, will be released in fall 2025, parent company Take-Two Interactive has confirmed.

2021 Astroworld tragedy, in which 10 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a deadly crowd crush during Travis Scott‘s headline set.Following the recent news that Scott and Live Nation have settled nearly all the wrongful death lawsuits, the date for the last lawsuit has now been set for trial in civil court in September, a judge ruled on Tuesday (May 14) (as per AP).Jury selection will begin on September 10 for the lawsuit filed by the family of Ezra Blount, who was the youngest person killed at the concert at nine years old. Should the lawsuit go to trial, it will be the first civil case from the Astroworld tragedy to go before a jury.Along with Scott and Live Nation, who organised the festival, Blount’s family is suing other companies and individuals who are connected to the event e.g.

ITV2's Love Island is reportedly set for a major shake-up on its launch night, with the new series just weeks away.The popular dating show is due to return soon, and it's rumoured that there will be some big changes on the first night. The show, which sees singletons enter the iconic villa in search of love, will be back on our screens on Wednesday 5 June and Maya Jama is set to return as host, giving fans their much-needed Love Island fix. But it appears that ITV bosses are reportedly planning to take the launch up a notch as the show will celebrate its eleventh summer season when it returns to the Spanish island of Mallorca.

Jordan Moreau Joe Biden and Donald Trump will face off in two debates ahead of this year’s presidential election. The first will air live on CNN on June 27, and the second will be hosted by ABC on Sept. 10.

EXCLUSIVE: Ted and Seinfeld actor Patrick Warburton is to co-host the pilot for a movie props docuseries from Tom Biolchini and Juana Pablo Reinoso.

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali is set to star with Tom Hardy in 77 Blackout, a crime thriller set on the night when the city that never sleeps lost power and plunged into chaos and lawlessness. Cary Joji Fukunaga is directing. Fresh from the Oppenheimer Best Picture Oscar, Charles Roven is producing along with Madison Weireter for Atlas Entertainment, and William Green and Aaron Ginsburg for The Cut.

We all know that Taylor Swift is a genius when it comes to planning a long-term strategy for her music releases, but we bet fans had no idea that she had all of this on the radar back in 2023.

Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) will play the title role in Grendel, a live-action monster flick from The Jim Henson Company, for which Palisades Park Pictures is launching international sales ahead of Cannes.

UPDATED with name of film, details: The first of two new films — working title Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum — will be directed by and star Andy Serkis (Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle), with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens set to write the screenplay, along with Phoebe Gittins and Arty Papageorgiou (Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim). The film will be executive produced by Ken Kamins, with Serkis and The Imaginarium’s Jonathan Cavendish.

EXCLUSIVE: Last month, Michael Sheen appearance on new BBC interview series The Assembly popped on social media, and now Australia‘s biggest and brightest names will get the chance of a similar experience.

Terry Flores The directors of “Inside Out 2,” “Ultraman: Rising” and “Transformers One” are confirmed to speak at the weeklong VIEW Conference 2024, taking place in Turin, Italy, from Oct. 14-19.