‘Super Pumped’: Showtime Anthology Series Adds Five To Cast

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAMC has officially greenlit the episodic anthology series “Tales of the Walking Dead.”The show’s six-episode first season is slated to debut on AMC and AMC Plus in summer 2022. Each one hour episodes is set within the world of “The Walking Dead” and will feature both new and existing characters.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Joseph Gordon-Levitt will be joined by Darren Pettie (“Mad Men”), Noah Weisberg (“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist”), Mark Gessner (“Power”) and Joel Kelley Dauten (“Feud: Bette and Joan”) in the upcoming Showtime anthology series “Super Pumped.” The four cast members will recur in the first season of the show, which will tell the story about the ride-sharing app and Silicon Valley unicorn Uber.The series, which is executive produced by Brian Koppelman, David Levien and Beth

Everyone loves anthology series. And anthology series seem to work best when they take a stab at the horror-thriller genre.

Amazon has given the green light to its spinoff of “The Boys” that is set at a superhero college, officially ordering the project to series. Along with the pickup, “Agent Carter” alums Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters will come aboard as showrunners, with “The Boys” writer Craig Rosenberg, who had been shepherding the series, leaving over creative differences.

The upcoming Pretty Little Liars reboot has added some new stars to the cast!

Saturday Night Live has finally set its cast for its upcoming 47th season.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterPatricia Arquette is set to star in, direct, and executive produce the limited series “Love Canal” currently in development at Showtime, Variety has learned exclusively.The series is based on the upcoming documentary “The Canal” by Will Battersby and upcoming book by journalist Keith O’Brien entitled “Paradise Falls.”“Love Canal” is about a group of blue collar women who came together in the late 1970s to fight for environmental justice for their community.

Nintendo and Illumination are teaming up for a Super Mario Bros. animated movie and the star-studded cast was just announced!

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterTalk about a level up — the new animated feature film based on the world of Super Mario Bros.

Emmy nominated actress Kathryn Hahn is going to portray the late Joan Rivers in the upcoming Showtime limited series The Comeback Girl!

GLOW alumna Betty Gilpin has been tapped as a co-lead opposite Shailene Woodley and DeWanda Wise in Showtime’s Three Women. The hourlong series is based on the nonfiction bestseller by Lisa Taddeo, who has adapted her novel. Principal photography is set to begin in the coming months.

73rd Primetime Emmy Awards. Would it go to the singular? Or or, both series that launched a million fan theories? Or perhaps one of the prestige period pieces, or ?In the end, was named the winner.

And now we come to the grand finale of my prediction posts for Emmy’s key contests. The name of this category has evolved over the years— the new name is designed to find someplace other than Television Movie to showcase individual episodes of what are known as Anthology series.

EXCLUSIVE: Patrice Covington (Genius: Aretha), Lea Robinson, Andia Winslow (Doc World), Rae Gray (Sea Oak) and Lil Frex (aka Emma Carroll) (Wild ‘N Out) are set for recurring roles opposite Abbi Jacobson in Amazon’s A League Of Their Own, a reimagining of Penny Marshall’s 1992 film, from co-creators Jacobson (Broad City) — who also stars — and Will Graham (Mozart in the Jungle) and Sony Pictures TV.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterRichard Schiff, Jessica Hecht, and John Michael Higgins have all been cast in guest roles in the Showtime anthology series “Super Pumped,” Variety has learned exclusively.The first season of the series is based on the Mike Isaac book “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber.” It centers on the rise of the ride sharing app and its co-founder and CEO, Travis Kalanick (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), and his relationship with venture capitalist Bill Gurley (Kyle Chandler).The cast also

Now that Anna Kendrick’s Darby has found love, HBO’s “Love Life” is shining a light on someone else’s story, that of Marcus Watkins, played by William Jackson Harper.

An incredibly rich category where, fortunately, no one from the five year old production of  Hamilton qualified, leaving room for one of the strongest fields in a long time, boasting a shortlist that cut out the likes of Nicole Kidman in The Undoing, Thuso Mbedu in The Underground Railroad, Kate Mara in A Teacher, Tessa Thompson in Sylvie’s Love and more.