Stephanie Koenig Joins CBS Comedy Pilot ‘The Big Bad Wolfes’ From ‘Will & Grace’ Creators

In a devastating blow for local LGBTQI communities, a Hong Kong court this week has refused to recognise same sex marriages conducted abroad. “The applicant’s attempt in the present case to achieve complete parity of legal recognition of foreign same-sex marriages and foreign opposite-sex marriages is too ambitious,” Judge Anderson Chow wrote in his judgment.The case bought forward by Jimmy Sham, a local district councillor who in 2013 had married his partner in New York, argued that Hong

Lindsay Blake Ryan Murphy’s new “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” prequel, “Ratched,” finally dropped today on Netflix. The highly-anticipated origin story takes a look at the early career of infamous villain Nurse Mildred Ratched (played by a deliciously vicious Sarah Paulson) as she perfects her special brand of patient care and lobotomy skills at the fictional Lucia State Hospital.

Scott & Bailey star Lesley Sharp will lead an adaptation of the Swedish crime thriller Before We Die for Channel 4.The new Bristol-set series will see actress star alongside Vincent Regan (300) and Patrick Gibson (The OA).Sharp will play Hannah Laing, a detective who discovers her son Christian (Gibson) is working as an undercover informant in a murder investigation, while Regan will play unconventional investigator Billy Murdoch.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: JT Neal (Bless This Mess, Sierra Burgess Is a Loser) is set as a series regular opposite Ginnifer Goodwin in Fox’s comedy pilot Pivoting, from writer Liz Astrof, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and Warner Bros TV.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersWritten by Astrof and to be directed by Tristram Shapeero, Pivoting follows three women — Amy (Coupe), Jodie (Goodwin) and Sarah (not yet cast) — after the death of their

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski EXCLUSIVE: Ophelia Lovibond (Trying) is set as the lead in HBO Max’s comedy pilot Minx, from writer Ellen Rapoport, Paul Feig’s Feigco Entertainment and Lionsgate TV.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersWritten by Rapoport and directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg, the half-hour Minx is set in 1970s Los Angeles and centers on Joyce (Lovibond), an earnest young feminist who dreams of producing a magazine by, for and about women and joins forces

Regina King is adding her star power to western movie, The Harder They Fall.

Dave McNary Film ReporterRegina King, Zazie Beetz, Lakeith Stanfield, Edi Gathegi and RJ Cyler have joined Idris Elba and Jonathan Majors in the Netflix Western “The Harder They Fall.”Producers are Jay-Z, James Lassiter, Lawrence Bender, and Jeymes Samuel, also known as The Bullitts. He previously collaborated with Jay-Z on “The Great Gatsby” soundtrack and will re-team with Jay-Z to write and produce original music for “The Harder They Fall.”Samuel and Boaz Yakin are the screenwriters.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterStudiocanal will be launching sales at Toronto for The Jonsson Gang, the latest pic from Tinker Tailor Solider Spy filmmaker Tomas Alfredson.SF Studios is handling the project’s Swedish release, which is set for December 2020.The pic is a reboot of a successful Swedish film comedy series. Following a failed heist, a man ends up in prison.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Carrie Wampler (Big Little Lies) has joined the upcoming eighth season of ABC comedy series The Goldbergs in a major recurring role in a recasting.Wampler will play Ren, a stylish, artsy, rebellious and effortless Manhattan NYC prep school girl who Erica (Hayley Orrantia) befriends at college. She’s also Barry’s (Troy Gentile) new girlfriend.Wampler takes over for Kelli Berglund, who initially was cast in the role.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Jeremy D.

Also Read: 'Star Trek: Discovery' Adds Non-Binary and Transgender Characters for Season 3“Mom” featured Faris and Janney as mother-daughter duo Christy and Bonnie Plunkett who rekindled their relationship after years of alcohol addiction. Faris’ character was also a single mother of two.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVCBS’ sitcom Mom is losing one of its two title characters. Anna Faris will not be returning to the series for its upcoming eighth season, leaving  Allison Janney as the sole lead.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersThe move is surprising.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Rachel Lee Goldenberg (Unpregnant, Valley Girl) has been tapped to direct HBO Max’s comedy pilot Minx, from writer Ellen Rapoport (Paramount’s Clifford the Big Red Dog, Netflix’s Desperados), Paul Feig’s Feigco Entertainment and Lionsgate TV.Written by Rapoport, the half-hour Minx is set in 1970s Los Angeles and centers around an earnest young feminist who joins forces with a low-rent publisher to create the first erotic magazine for women.Rapoport

Janet W. Lee Mark Ruffalo virtually joined Tuesday morning’s Justice for Jacob Community Celebration in his hometown, Kenosha, Wis.

attacking passengers at the station during their arrest of suspected protesters.

The Notorious B.I.G.‘s “King of New York” crown and some love letters written by 2Pac are going under the hammer next month.The iconic pieces of music history are just two of 120 items that will be auctioned off by Sotheby’s celebrating the impact of hip-hop.The crown up for auction was worn by Biggie during his last recorded photoshoot just three days before he was shot dead on March 9, 1997.Spawning the “King of New York” picture, as it came to be known, it’s featured on magazine covers,

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorGus Birney (The Mist) and Dylan Gage (PEN15) are set as series regulars opposite Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear in Shining Vale, Starz’s horror-comedy pilot from Divorce creator Sharon Horgan and Trial & Error co-creator Jeff Astrof. The half-hour show hails from Warner Bros.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterDylan Gage and Gus Birney have been cast in the upcoming Starz horror comedy pilot “Shining Vale,” Variety has learned.The pair joins previously announced cast members Courtney Cox and Greg Kinnear. “Shining Vale” is a half-hour series about a dysfunctional family that moves from the city to a small town into a house in which terrible atrocities have taken place.

Hong Kong actress/producer Josie Ho is set to collaborate with French director Luc Besson and American History X helmer Tony Kaye through the Hong Kong-based 852 Films, the production company she had founded with husband Conroy Chan in 2009. Ho will star in the entire slate, she and Chan will also take up producer duties for the films.