TBS Picks Up ‘Kill The Orange-Faced Bear’ Comedy Starring Damon Wayans Jr. To Series

ABC will soon bring remakes of the classic sitcoms “Diff’rent Strokes” and “The Facts Of Life” to screens with a third installment of its “Live in Front of a Studio Audience” franchise.Jimmy Kimmel made the announcement Thursday on his late-night show, saying the “Diff’rent Strokes” update will feature John Lithgow as Mr. Drummond, Kevin Hart as Arnold, Damon Wayans as Willis, and Ann Dowd will play Mrs.

ABC has pulled back the curtain on the third installment of its Live in Front of a Studio Audience franchise. Jimmy Kimmel announced on his late-night show Thursday that the 90-minute special will re-create episodes of comedies Diff’rent Strokes and its spinoff The Facts of Life.

A star-studded charity The Great Gatsby table read has been announced!

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNetflix has ordered the hybrid comedy series “Saturday Morning All Star Hits” from Kyle Mooney and Ben Jones.The series will feature a combination of adult animated segments as well as live-action. It is described as a celebration of all that is 80s and 90s television.

Kyle Mooney is the latest Saturday Night Live star to pull double duty with a new Netflix series parodying Saturday morning cartoons.

What would you do if you knew the world was about to end? That’s a loaded question, to be sure, with an interminable global pandemic that won’t end and a climate crisis that already started decades ago. Whether the doomsday clock has yet to tick or has already tolled remains up for debate, but the proximity of apocalypse looms large in lots of recent films and TV.

A24 has shifted the release date for Sean Baker’s film, Red Rocket, pushing it back a week from the 3rd to the 10th of December.

Jeff Wilbusch is set to lead Peacock’s  from David E. Kelley, an eight-episode crime drama series based on Israeli crime writer Dror A. Mishani’s international bestselling novel The Missing File.

EXCLUSIVE: Ruby Ashbourne Serkis (The Serpent), Matt Cook (Man with a Plan), Omari K. Chancellor (The One?) and Will Hochman (Blue Bloods) have been cast in The Greatest Beer Run Ever, Peter Farrelly’s film for Apple and Skydance Media.

Regina King has made a big name for herself as one of the best actors working today. But with the release of this year’s “One Night in Miami,” King has become one of the most in-demand filmmakers, as well.

Kyle Dean Massey and Taylor Frey are parents!

EXCLUSIVE: The CW is developing a U.S. remake of a genre-bending Korean drama W: Two Worlds.

Regina King and David E. Kelley are adapting Tom Wolfe’s novel A Man in Full for Netflix.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterRegina King and David E. Kelley are teaming to adapt the Tom Wolfe novel “A Man in Full” as a Netflix limited series, Variety has learned exclusively.The drama project has received a straight-to-series order at the streamer, with Netflix ordering six one-hour episodes.

EXCLUSIVE: The TNets, WarnerMedia’s linear entertainment cable networks TBS, TNT and truTV, are firming up their 2022 scripted plans with a new series pickup, two renewals and three premiere dates.

APPOINTMENTSThe music division of talent agency CAA has promoted Zack Borson, Alex Douma, Omar Garcia and Brad Pophal in LA, Kaitlyn Bruce, Kara Enos and Ariel Happe in Nashville, and Jamie Shaughnessy in London. Bruce is now a music marketing exec, Happe is a brand partnerships exec, while the others become agents.Various Artists Management has appointed John Dawkins to the position of UK Managing Director.

EXCLUSIVE: The family comedy Mexican Beverly Hills is being developed for CBS by Erick Galindo, Aaron Izek, and Wilmer Valderrama, Deadline has learned. The single-camera project is inspired by Galindo’s New York Times essay of the same name.