'Star Trek: Picard': Ed Speleers on Playing Jean-Luc's [SPOILER] and Keeping It a Secret (Exclusive)

Nia Vardalos dished on the third film in her successful franchise and why she thinks her co-star, John Corbett, may be stripping down for season 2. When asked if she knows anything about Corbett's return as Aidan Shaw to the franchise, Vardalos played coy, revealing to ET that she knows «a little about that.» «He told me something right before he went to film,» she told Cassie DiLaura, before suggesting that he may be getting naked in the upcoming episodes. «He got in really good shape.

Nia Vardalos dished on the third film in her successful franchise and why she thinks her co-star, John Corbett, may be stripping down for season 2. When asked if she knows anything about Corbett's return as Aidan Shaw to the franchise, Vardalos played coy, revealing to ET that she knows «a little about that.» «He told me something right before he went to film,» she told Cassie DiLaura, before suggesting that he may be getting naked in the upcoming episodes. «He got in really good shape.

dug into the U.S.S. 1701 origins, including a very close encounter with one of the franchise’s most infamous foes. ET exclusively debuts a first look at the deleted scenes from the season 1 Blu-ray set, which hits shelves March 21.

Sonequa Martin-Green is reacting to the end of .The star of the Paramount+ series, which launched the current era of the TV universe, spoke with ET's Deidre Behar backstage at the Hollywood Beauty Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday, where Martin-Green — the franchise's first Black female captain — put into words the emotions she's feeling over saying goodbye.«It's been a roller-coaster of emotions and I haven't even spoken about it publicly yet because it's a lot to process. It’s a lot to process, but I am overwhelmed with gratitude. Gratitude and peace and I'm quite excited,» said Martin-Green, who was presenting costume designer Gersha Phillips with an award that evening.

Brent Lang Executive Editor William Shatner kicks things off with a compliment. We’re talking via Zoom — he’s beaming in from the sprawling kitchen of his Los Angeles home, which overlooks the San Fernando Valley. I’m dialing in from the living room of my walkup apartment in Brooklyn, a much more modest setting. But Shatner is impressed by the over-stocked bookcase behind me, as well as the paintings, a seascape and an impressionist pastoral scene that I inherited from my grandmother, that line the wall around it. “You have terrific taste,” Shatner exclaims with the kind of brio that Captain James T. Kirk, his most famous alter-ego, approached his mission “to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, [and] boldly go where no man has gone before!”

Netflix’s You is nearing the conclusion of its fourth season, as the final episodes are just around the corner. The second part of the psychological thriller’s latest season is set to drop on the streaming platform in March, bringing Joe Goldberg’s fourth outing to an end.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Anthony Anderson is set to star in the ABC comedy pilot “Public Defenders,” Variety has learned. In addition, Liz Astrof has joined the pilot as showrunner while Randall Einhorn has signed on to direct. The single-camera pilot, which was originally picked up at ABC in January, hails from writer Eddie Quintana. The official logline states: “Up to their earholes in student loan debt, four inexperienced public defenders work tirelessly to keep their clients out of jail. Along the way, they have to rely on each other to navigate their first defendants, the absurd court system, and the copy machine that always jams.”

is blasting off for one last adventure.The Paramount+ series, which is led by Sonequa Martin-Green, will officially end with the upcoming fifth and final season in early 2024, it was announced Thursday. kick-started the current era of the TV universe across the Paramount family, and there are plans to celebrate the series with celebrations and appearances worldwide over the coming year.The final season will find Captain Michael Burnham (Martin-Green) and the crew of the USS Discovery uncovering a mystery that will send them on an epic adventure across the galaxy to find an ancient power whose very existence has been deliberately hidden for centuries. But there are others on the hunt as well — dangerous foes who are desperate to claim the prize for themselves and will stop at nothing to get it.The ensemble includes Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Wilson Cruz, David Ajala, Blu del Barrio and Callum Keith Rennie.

So, what’s the latest on “Star Trek 4“?  J.J. Abrams certainly sounds bullish on the film’s future.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director What’s going on with Paramount’s “Star Trek” film franchise? Don’t ask Chris Pine, even though he’s one of its headlining stars. Pine has played Captain Kirk in three “Star Trek” movies, and he is painfully out of the loop when it comes to the long-delayed and long-overhauled fourth movie. Directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Noah Hawley developed “Star Trek 4” scripts that never got off the ground. “WandaVision” director Matt Shakman was the most recent filmmaker attached to “Star Trek 4,” but he left the project to shoot Marvel’s “Fantastic Four” reboot instead. Paramount announced last September it was removing “Star Trek 4” from its release calendar. As part of Chris Pine’s new Esquire cover story, franchise producer J.J. Abrams said the “Star Trek 4″ script is in a good place. “I will say it’s the first time [since the original reboot] that we have a story that feels as compelling as the first one,” he added. But even still, Pine is out of the loop.

Paramount+ is debuting its first immersive activation, The Lodge: A Paramount+ Experience, for fans in California, Texas and Colorado this month, as part of the streaming platform's Mountain of Entertainment campaign.Attendees can expect to take part in the ultimate mountain lodge atmosphere, filled with environments inspired by popular Paramount+ content, including ,,,,, and more.Standout attractions will include custom cocktails at the Speakeasy Bar and 10 Forward Bar, photo-opportunities with the Vince Lombardi Trophy and the  helmet, and additional elements that will be showcased in a creative way. “The success of our award-winning A Mountain of Entertainment brand campaign is intrinsically tied to the wonder of our iconic Paramount Mountain, popular franchises and beloved characters.

United Launch Alliance recently announced it’s targeting May for the inaugural launch of its highly anticipated Vulcan Centaur rocket, which is expected to carry everything from satellites to human ashes into space.The Vulcan Centaur rocket has faced years of delays following the slower-than-anticipated development of powerful engines and requirements for when the moon lander can be launched.Under an updated timetable released by ULA CEO Tory Bruno, the more than 200-foot-tall rocket will take off on May 4, 2023, from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.If the launch is successful, the company plans to eventually replace the Atlas V and Delta IV rockets with the Vulcan Centaur.The rocket is said to be capable of launching 60,000 pounds of payload into low-Earth orbit and could one day be certified to carry highly sensitive satellites for U.S.

Tarek El Moussa could not be happier with where he is now in his life – and that includes the newest addition to his family. In an interview with Fox News Digital, the "Flip or Flop" star shared that the birth of his son, Tristan, brings "so much joy" to his household, which includes wife Heather Rae Young and the two children he shares with ex-wife Christina Hall: Taylor and Brayden. "I honestly I mean, this is the happiest, hands down, the happiest I've ever been in my life," he said.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses plot points on Season 3, Episode 2 of “Star Trek: Picard” (currently streaming on Paramount+) as well as the first half of the fourth season of “You” (currently streaming on Netflix). When Ed Speleers was growing up in the UK, he remembers coming home from school, turning on BBC Two, and tuning into “Star Trek: The Next Generation” at 6:30pm — but he never quite considered himself a Trekkie. So when “Star Trek: Picard” showrunner Terry Matalas cast Speleers for the third season of the Paramount+ series, he told the actor he needed to go to “Star Trek University.” “He gave me this long list of ‘TNG’ episodes that he felt were pertinent, and of films going right from ‘Wrath of Khan’ all the way to ‘First Contact,'” Speleers tells Variety via Zoom. “I devoured them. I’d spend three or four hours a day working on how I was going to approach this guy, and then I’d finish it all off with either watching two episodes of ‘TNG’ or one of these films.”

You.Maybe it’s the way Penn Badgley looks with or without a beard. Or maybe it’s the show’s funny, yet cutting satire on the people we suffer through every day.But damn, four seasons in, You (★★★★☆), Netflix’s series about a sociopath who obsesses over women, still hits that same perverse spot it did to make it one of the streamer’s best in recent years.Originally a Lifetime Original adapted from Caroline Kepnes’s book series, You was brought to the screen by producing giants Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble, who installed former Gossip Girl star Penn Badgley as the lead.After one season aired on Lifetime, the show migrated to Netflix, where it blew up and has remained a permanent fixture since season two.Badgley stars as Joe Goldberg, a troubled sociopath with inclinations for becoming obsessed with random women, ingratiating himself into their lives, and then killing anyone who gets in his way.On paper, this seems like a strange recommendation in the #MeToo era, but You‘s greatest strength has become its humor, focusing on entertainment and sardonic musings on everyday life from a truly messed up man.Over the first three seasons, Joe traveled across the coasts, going from being a bookstore manager in New York to a young dad in suburban California.

Star Trek: Picard season 3 premiered on Friday (February 17) with Sir Patrick Stewart returning to his iconic role as Jean-Luc Picard.The Star Trek spin-off was first announced back in 2018 with the first season then premiering in 2020, with a second season airing in 2022.Star Trek: Picard is set in the year 2399, 20 years after Jean-Luc Picard’s last appearance in Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). The spin-off first found the character deeply affected by the death of Data and the destruction of the planet Romulus.“Retired from Starfleet and living on his family’s vineyard, Picard is drawn into a new adventure when he is visited by an apparent daughter of Data, one of several new synthetic beings, or ‘synths’,” reads a synopsis.The second season then reunited Picard with The Next Generation’s Q (John de Lancie) and Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg) before they journeyed back to the year 2024 to adjust the timeline. Season three sees the return of more iconic Star Trek: The Next Generation actors with Michael Dorn as Worf, Gates McFadden as Dr.

Star Trek: Picard premiered last week – but it seems a season 4 is possible.The Star Trek spin-off was first announced back in 2018 with season 1 being released in 2020, with a second season airing in 2022.A third season was “informally” green lit back in 2020, so it could be filmed back-to-back with season 2 before Sir Patrick Stewart officially confirmed the season in 2021, with filming wrapping in March 2022. Paramount confirmed that Star Trek: Picard season 3 would be the last though.Star Trek: Picard is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video, with new episodes available every Friday.

Gerald Fried, a composer for some of television’s biggest moments in the 1960s, died Friday at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, CT of pneumonia at age 95.

Jon Burlingame editor Composer Gerald Fried, who won an Emmy for the landmark miniseries “Roots” and whose 1960s scores, from “Star Trek” to “Gilligan’s Island,” left an indelible impression on a generation of TV watchers, died of pneumonia Friday at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, Ct. He was 95. His wide-ranging career included scoring five early Stanley Kubrick films, including “Paths of Glory” and “The Killing”; receiving the only Oscar nomination ever given for a documentary score, 1975’s “Birds Do It, Bees Do It”; and earning five other Emmy nominations for music in specials, TV movies and miniseries. The prolific Fried scored approximately 40 films, some three dozen TV-movies and miniseries, and episodes of another 40 TV series during a career that spanned more than six decades.