Unpacking the Upfronts: How TV’s Big Week Reflects Broader Industry Turmoil

Keeping Up With the Kardashians has undeniably become an iconic fixture in the realm of reality TV, giving rise to numerous spinoffs and establishing an unparalleled empire.Throughout the years, viewers have witnessed the family engage in heated arguments, shed tears, and embark on the journey of building their own families. However, behind the scenes, there exists a number of rules that both the KarJenner family and the show's guests must adhere to while filming the beloved series. As the eagerly anticipated third season of The Kardashians continues its run on Disney+ and Hulu, let's delve into the behind-the-scenes rules that shape the filming process for the show.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer When Variety broke the news that Kim Cattrall will reprise her iconic role as Samantha Jones for a cameo in the Season 2 finale of “And Just Like That,” I couldn’t help but wonder… is there anything that could thrill a “Sex and the City” fan more? The answer is yes: the HBO show’s 25th anniversary experience in New York City, as put on by Max, to celebrate Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Samantha and — possibly most important — all of their stunning clothes. Formally titled “And Just Like That…It’s Been 25 Years, A Sex and the City Experience,” the event will be open June 8-June 11, but Variety and other members of the press were let into Carrie’s closet early Thursday to explore.

Mark Sutherland “I know you didn’t come here to listen to this,” sighed Roger Waters as he surveyed the O2 crowd. With most aging rockers on a “first-ever farewell tour”, that statement would likely mean they were about to play some new material. At Roger Waters’ show, sadly, it meant he was about to sing the same old song. Sure enough, an extended rant against “the Israeli lobby” and British MP Christian Wakeford followed.  “They are trying to cancel me,” he claimed, to at first hesitant, but then louder applause. “And it hurts. We’ve done 80 shows and we’ve done nothing but share our love for people. That’s why I’m so pissed off with this Israeli lobby bullshit.” He also accused his critics of, “Making up stuff because you’ve been told to by your masters from the Foreign Office in Tel Aviv.”

Legendary! How I Met Your Father has yet to reveal who the father actually is — but fans are beginning to speculate the answer  may not be who it first seemed. 

Addie Morfoot Contributor In 2016, documentary director Cynthia Hill received a LinkedIn message from Stephen Pandos, a man who believed that his parents were responsible for the 1987 disappearance of his 15-year-old sister, Jennifer Pandos. Hill remembers reading the message and thinking, “there must be a story there.” So the director of “Private Violence” and “What Happened, Brittany Murphy?” began filming Stephen. “When you start a project you are never sure if there’s going to be anything there or not,” she says. “But we thought it was at least worth doing a test shoot.”

They're widely considered to be the most deadly gang operating in the UK and Ireland. Their fearsome reputation puts them on a par with the Italian mafia and the Mexican cartels.

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Gordon Cox Theater Editor The writers of “Kimberly Akimbo” tell a story about the musical’s creation that feels as if it could be a scene in the show itself. Like the Tony-nominated production, now up for eight awards including best musical, it’s a tale that lands right in the overlap of humor and heartache. In the summer of 2017, just before composer Jeanine Tesori and bookwriter-lyricist David Lindsay-Abaire were scheduled to spend two weeks developing the first act of “Kimberly Akimbo” at the Sundance Theatre Lab, Tesori had a cerebral hemorrhage. She was in the ICU for 11 days, the Tony-winning composer (“Fun Home”) recalled. She missed the entire first week of the show’s time at Sundance.

When she was a member of girl band The Saturdays, Frankie Bridge was known for her iconic super short pixie cut, with a short back and sides and a long swooping side fringe that she had for most of her time in the band. However, after leaving the band, Frankie decided it was time to experiment with some brand new looks.

We’re Richmond ‘til we die! The season 3 finale of Ted Lasso is shaping up to be one of its biggest episodes yet — and could potentially mark the end of the beloved Apple TV+ series.

EXCLUSIVE: BET+ has renewed its Emmy-nominated series The Ms. Pat Show for a fourth season.

House arrest isn’t stopping disgraced faux-heiress Anna Delvey from entering the podcast business.

Nielsen has released their television show ratings from September 2022-May 2023.

A whole new generation of little girls are falling in love with “The Little Mermaid” and that’s thanks to Halle Bailey.

Paul Heaton has announced that he will be leaving some money behind at a few local pubs during the Neighbourhood Weekender festival.The Housemartins and Beautiful South legend took to social media to announce the free rounds of pints for those who will be in attendance of the festival.The statement posted to Heaton’s official social media accounts read: “As a thank you, and a small amount of help during the cost of greed crisis, Paul is leaving some money behind the bar at a few local pubs in Warrington so that some of you attending @nbhdweekender this weekend can have a drink on him.”According to the statement, the pubs that are involved are The Bull’s Head on 33rd Church Street, The King’s Head on 40 Winwick Street and The Cheshire Cheese on 654 Knutsford Road which are all near the festival’s site of Victoria Park.As a thank you, and a small amount of help during the cost of greed crisis, Paul is leaving some money behind the bar at a few local pubs in Warrington so that some of you attending @nbhdweekender this weekend can have a drink on him….(click on attached image for more info) pic.twitter.com/opH5HPcAv1— Paul Heaton (@PaulHeatonSolo) May 26, 2023The festival’s own pub, The Neighbourhood Inn, will also take part for any attendees who plan on heading in early to catch any acts. They will be offered a drink token for the pub on the way in the festival on a first come, first served basis.The statement ended with a confirmation of a “Similar process” that “will be running local to the other Paul Heaton shows over the summer.

Wow! The word out of Cannes was pretty strong about the show that’s supposed to be HBO‘s next big thing. What we heard was mostly about how graphic and sexually explicit it was — but apparently that’s nothing compared to how BAD it is??

AFC Richmond scored a goal for Apple TV+ on the Nielsen streaming charts for the week of April 24 to April 30.

The Last Of Us has been revealed as the most bloodthirsty TV series.In new data provided by IMDb and Cinemorgue Wiki (via BonusFinder), the post-apocalyptic drama was named as the most fatal show in the world, with 56.5 per cent of its characters being killed.The HBO series also has the highest mortality rate, with roughly 5.78 characters dying per episode.Created by Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) and Neil Druckmann (co-director of The Last Of Us games), the series follows Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) 20 years after modern civilisation has been ravaged by a deadly infection.A synopsis reads: “The series takes place 20 years after modern civilisation has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone.“What starts as a small job soon become a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the US and depend on each other for survival.”According to BonusFinder‘s data, Starz historical drama Spartacus has the second highest death rate for a TV show, with 46.7 per cent of its characters being killed.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Brazil’s on fire, and rapidly putting into place the policies that will rebuild its film and TV industries, which look set to transform it into the film-TV powerhouse of Latin America. That cuts several ways.  Under Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilian president over 2019-2022, ApexBrasil, the Brazilian Trade and Investment Agency, saw its funding for Brazil’s audiovisual sector almost entirely nixed. Often working together, promotion agency Cinema do Brasil, backed by Audiovisual Industry Syndicate of the State of São Paulo (SIESP), Projeto Paradiso, a philanthropic org focusing on new talent and project development, and SP Cine, the energetic São Paulo City film commission, did an extraordinary job to support and promote Brazilian filmmakers and companies’ presence at festivals, drawing on highly contained resources.