‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ Spinoff ‘The Patrick Star Show’ Gets Series Greenlight At Nickelodeon

Vera Farmiga is heading back to television in a new limited series for Apple.

Teen hip-hop star Alaya High, otherwise known as Lay Lay, is to front a live-action comedy series for Nickelodeon – a series that leads the kids’ networks latest original programming slate.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple has ordered a half-hour comedy series starring Maya Rudolph that hails from Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard.The series is about Molly (Rudolph), a woman whose seemingly perfect life is upended after her husband leaves her with nothing but 87 billion dollars.Yang and Hubbard created the series and will serve as executive producers. Rudolph will executive produce in addition to starring under her Animal Picture banner.

Naman Ramachandran Award-winning author Paul McAuley’s acclaimed science fiction novel “Austral” is set for an epic series adaptation from Circle of Confusion Television Studios and ITV Studios’ Big Talk Productions (“Baby Driver”).“Austral” is an expansive drama set in Antarctica during the year 2098, decades after the melting glaciers have given way to a new frontier of resource-rich land, and a generation of settlers from all around the dying world have converged there.

Kevin Hart and his famed comedy crew The Plastic Cup Boyz will star in Kevin Hart’s Muscle Car Crew, the MotorTrend Group announced today.

Lucy Hale is headed back to television!

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJosh Holloway is set to star in the HBO Max series “Duster,” which hails from co-writers LaToya Morgan and J.J. Abrams, Variety has learned from sources.Set in the 1970’s Southwest, “Duster” explores the life of a getaway driver for a growing crime syndicate.

EXCLUSIVE: Highland Film Group is handling worldwide sales rights to Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2) action-thriller The Misfits and will distribute the movie in the U.S. through its sister distribution banner The Avenue in partnership with Paramount Pictures.

Casting for the upcoming Chucky television series has been announced!

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has given a 10-episode order to a multi-camera comedy series from Jack Dolgen (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Diary of a Future President), Doug Mand (How I Met Your Mother, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) and Doogie Kamealoha, MD creator Kourtney Kang.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBrian Robbins walked into a meeting where executives were deciding whether kids-media giant Nickelodeon should pick up “SpongeBob SquarePants” for a twelfth cycle, and asked what he thought was a simple question: With so many characters populating the underwater city of Bikini Bottom, how come the network had never created any spin-offs?“It really is like a mini-Marvel Universe,” says Robbins, who was named head of Nickelodeon in 2018.Fans will get to see another

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Concepcion is setting up his first audio and video projects since moving from The Ringer to Crooked Media.

Hannah Berner!The star announced that she is engaged to her boyfriend, Des Bishop. Berner shared the exciting news — and showed off her beautiful engagement ring — on her Instagram on Wednesday.In the pics, the two pose together in their living room, with Berner holding up her hand and ring finger.«Thanks for the engagement shoot mom! Love you @desbishop,» the bride-to-be wrote alongside the post.

Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Alison Brie and Merritt Weaver are about to be castmates.

direct to your inboxFilming of the sixth and final series of Peaky Blinders began in Manchester last night - as these behind the scenes pics show. Star Paul Anderson, who plays Arthur Shelby, was pictured on set in Castlefield, which has been transformed into interwar period Birmingham.

Kelsey Grammer will be reprising his role as Frasier Crane in a reboot of Frasier for the upcoming streaming service Paramount+.

“Flashdance,” “Grease” and “The Godfather.”The projects were announced by Paramount Television Studios president Nicole Clemens at ViacomCBS’s streaming presentation to investors on Wednesday.