TV Ratings: ‘The Nevers’ Delivers Best-Ever Debut for Original Series on HBO Max

HBO Max pirate comedy series Our Flag Means Death.According to Variety, Waititi joins the previously announced series lead Rhys Darby, who previously worked with Waititi on Flight Of The Conchords and the film What We Do In The Shadows. Waititi served as a writer and director on the former and was star, co-writer, co-director, and producer on the latter. Darby starred in both projects.Hailing from writer, showrunner, and executive producer David Jenkins, when Our Flag Means Death was ordered to

It’s fairly easy to look back on HBO’s “Entourage” with a bit of snark. The series hasn’t aged very well, to say the least.

Taika Waititi is already what Hollywood calls a “multi-hyphenate,” as a writer, director, producer, and actor. But on the new series, “Our Flag Means Death,” Waititi is going to add pirate to that list of titles.

Jojo Rabbit Oscar winner Taika Waititi is taking on yet another role in the HBO Max period comedy Our Flag Means Death. In addition to serving as executive producer and pilot director, Waititi will star opposite Rhys Darby in the series from writer David Jenkins (People of Earth), Garrett Basch (What We Do in the Shadows) and Dan Halsted.

For those concerned that the “Green Lantern” TV series would end up like all the other various iterations of the live-action superhero franchise that has tried to happen since the 2011 film with Ryan Reynolds bombed (that is to say, dead), don’t worry! We actually have our first cast member for the series, pointing to the fact that the show should actually be put into production fairly soon.

Mad Men and The Social Dilemma actor Vincent Kartheiser has joined the cast of HBO Max’s Titans and is set to take on Jonathan Crane, a.k.a. Scarecrow in season three.

At age 69, actress Jean Smart is having a bit of a renaissance moment in her career.

EXCLUSIVE: Riverdale‘s Cole Sprouse will star alongside Lana Condor in New Line’s Max Original feature Moonshot. Chris Winterbauer is attached to direct from a screenplay by Max Taxe. Sprouse’s Riverdale exec producers Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter will produce through Berlanti/Schechter Films along with Jill McElroy and Jenna Sarkin of Entertainment 360.

Michael Che isn’t known as a true actor. He’s a stand-up comedian that is a current writer-cast member on “Saturday Night Live” and is an anchor on the show’s “Weekend Update” segments.

Selena Gomez and her celebrated rainbow-colored knives are gearing up to make some new meals.

At the end of 2020, WarnerMedia decided that it was going to break the industry in two by announcing plans to release all of Warner Bros.’ 2021 film slate in theaters and on HBO Max simultaneously. The strategy was analyzed from every angle, with some saying it was the death of theaters and others saying it was the way of the future.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla HBO Max is going behind the counter of some of America’s more than 45,000 Asian restaurants.The streaming platform is ordering “Take Out,” a six-part docuseries that chronicles the cultural contributions and unique lives of the people and families behind America’s Asian food joints from award-winning journalist Lisa Ling.

WarnerMedia has named Dutch TV executive Annelies Sitvast its new head of unscripted programming for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. The move comes as Warner rolls out its streaming service HBO Max across its territorial footprint in the region.

EXCLUSIVE: Dove Cameron, star of CW’s upcoming live-action Powerpuff series, and Hamilton‘s Jordan Fisher, will star in the HBO Max movie Field Notes on Love based on the Jennifer E. Smith 2019 YA romance Ember novel.

HBO Max is rounding out cast for its comedy pilot OK Boomer. Will Sasso (United We Fall, Mom) and Tim Chiou (I Was a Simple Man, Seal Team) are set as series regulars, along with Zoe Manarel (New Amsterdam, An American Girl: Summer Camp) and Carter Chee in the multi-camera comedy pilot from creator Todd Linden (Happy Endings, Alexa & Katie), the late Jamie Tarses’ Fanfare and Sony Pictures TV. They join previously announced series regulars Patti Lupone, Erinn Hayes and Devere Rogers.

The “Friends” reunion is finally almost here.

Twenty years after winning a DGA award for The West Wing in the Dramatic Series category, guild president Thomas Schlamme found himself winning again tonight for the Aaron Sorkin series in theVariety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials slot.

A few months ago WarnerMedia shook Hollywood by announcing every movie would screen in both theaters and HBO Max simultaneously in 2021, and now they seem to want to keep some version of that model going forward. READ MORE: ‘Godzilla Vs.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max is heading to summer camp. The streaming service has put in development a half-hour comedy series set at a summer camp from Peabody Award-winning writer Lauren Herstik (American Vandal, Pearson) and Adam Goodman’s Invisible Narratives.

Taylor Sheridan is one of the most respected filmmakers working in Hollywood today. His unique brand of storytelling, typically focused on violence amongst everyday people in rural areas, has struck a chord with a ton of film fans, after seeing his writing in projects such as “Hell or High Water,” “Wind River,” and “Yellowstone.” Now, he is set to return with a new feature, “Those Who Wish Me Dead,” which is arriving on HBO Max next month.