First Lady Jill Biden‘s guests at President Joe Biden‘s State of the Union address tonight will include Maria Shriver, singer and civil rights advocate Bettie Mae Fikes and UAW President Shawn Fain.
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EXCLUSIVE: It’s double dose of good news for Virgin River fans. Netflix is looking to expand the Virgin River world with a spinoff series, Deadline has learned. Meanwhile, Season 6 of the romantic drama, delayed by strikes and weather, is starting production today in Vancouver. (As Deadline revealed, it will premiere in 2025.)
Before Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) and Jack’s (Martin Henderson) sweeping Virgin River romance, Mel’s late mother Sarah too fell in love with a man from the picturesque Northern California town, Everett, who was revealed in the recent Virgin River Christmas special as Mel’s biological father.
The potential prequel, which is currently in development, will explore Sarah and Everett’s origin story. The upcoming Season 6 will provide a glimpse into the duo’s past, featuring young Everett and Sarah in flashbacks.
Casting is underway for actors to play the characters as guest stars in Season 6 of Virgin River. In success, they would headline a Sarah & Everett spinoff, which is being written in the development stage by Virgin River showrunner Patrick Sean Smith.
Netflix took a similar route with another hit romantic drama, Bridgerton, successfully expanding the universe with prequel Queen Charlotte which become one of the streamer’s most watched series.
During a Q&A with Deadline tied to the Christmas special that closed out Season 5, Smith, who joined the series after Season 4, hinted that we would learn more about Sarah and Everett’s romance next season.
“What we’re exploring more in Season 6 is who Everett Reid is, what his backstory is, what his connection to Virgin River was when he met her mom and then also what it is today,” he said, adding that Season 6 will explore the “relationship of
First Lady Jill Biden‘s guests at President Joe Biden‘s State of the Union address tonight will include Maria Shriver, singer and civil rights advocate Bettie Mae Fikes and UAW President Shawn Fain.
UPDATED, with first results: As the first polls closed on Super Tuesday, Joe Biden and Donald Trump were projected to be the winners of Virginia’s Democratic and Republican primaries, on a night where he and Donald Trump are expected to solidify the chances of a November general election rematch.
The suspense this Super Tuesday may be in watching how all of the networks try to make the night suspenseful.
Michelle Yeoh‘s recent Netflix series The Brothers Sun has been cancelled just two months after its first and now only season was released.The crime drama is set in Southern California’s San Gabriel Valley and follows Taiwanese mobster Charles Sun (played by Justin Chien), whose father is assassinated in Taipei. In the aftermath of his death, Charles travels to Los Angeles to protect his estranged mother (played by Yeoh) and younger brother (played by Sam Song Li).The eight-episode series was created and executive produced by Brad Falchuk and Byron Wu and landed on Netflix on January 4.Chien took to Instagram to post a tribute to the show.A post shared by Justin Chien 錢裕揚 (@justin_chien)“To all the fans of The Brothers Sun, Thank you for riding with us on this labor of love.
Colman Domingo explains why Euphoria Season 3 has been delayed, with the HBO show last airing in February 2022.
EXCLUSIVE: Fox is firing up another season of Gordon Ramsay‘s Food Stars and is shifting filming from California to the UK.
Kourtney Kardashian may need some Lemme Chill over this news…
Meghan Markle has various different nicknames and titles, but it seems that she has one moniker that she was given by King Charles.
William Earl The upcoming Lucasfilm theatrical release “The Mandalorian & Grogu” is one of 15 films to secure an estimated $61 million in 2024 production tax incentives through California’s Film and Television Tax Credit Program. The California Film Commission touted Disney’s “Mandalorian & Grogu” as the biggest-budget movie to ever qualify for state’s tax program, which distributes $330 million annually in state tax credits to TV and film productions.
Last weekend, Pedro Pascal won the fan vote to take the Male TV Star of the Year trophy at the People’s Choice Awards for his role as Joel in HBO’s The Last Of Us. Six days later, he won the vote of his peers to land the SAG Award for Male Actor In a Drama Series, his first major industry recognition.
Zendaya is giving back in a major way!
Two new ATL shows feature LGBTQ characters prominently. The world premiere drama, “Furlough’s Paradise,” by playwright A.K. Payne, has just premiered at the Alliance Theatre. It’s part of the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, now in its 20th year.
Selome Hailu Netflix is developing a “Virgin River” prequel series. “Virgin River” follows the lives of the residents of the eponymous Northern California town, including nurse practitioner Mel (Breckenridge), bar owner and veteran Jack (Henderson), town doctor Doc (Matheson), mayor Hope (O’Toole) and many more.
The Good Doctor is sadly coming to an end, and the final season starts this week.
Prince Harryand Meghan Markle’s relaunched website and use of their official coat of arms could be telltale signs of an “internal conflict”, according to a royal expert. Last week, the couple replaced their Archewell website with Sussex.com, and included a notable change in logo from a calligraphed H&M to the couple’s coat of arms, which was designed for their wedding and approved by the late Queen Elizabeth II in 2018.
Prince Harry spoke out about his father, King Charles, for the first time since Buckingham Palace revealed the monarch’s cancer diagnosis — and several royal watchers are left with more questions than answers. The Duke of Sussex is in Canada for the Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025’s One Year to Go celebration along with his wife, Meghan Markle.The father of two gave a televised interview on Friday to "Good Morning America" host Will Reeve, the son of the late "Superman" star Christopher Reeve. "One of the most revealing things that came out of the ‘Good Morning America’ interview was the total reluctance to say anything about his father’s condition," Christopher Andersen, author of "The King," told Fox News Digital.
Prince Harry has opened up about the moment he learned King Charles had been given a cancer diagnosis and revealed that he is thankful for getting the chance to see him. The Duke of Sussex gave a rare interview on Good Morning America where he revealed that King Charles himself informed him about his health news.
Prince Harry has opened up about his relationship with his father, King Charles, in a new interview on US TV.
Prince Harry has opened up about King Charles' cancer for the first time and expressed how thankful he was to have been able to visit his father in the UK during a touching interview.The Duke of Sussex also hinted that this tough time might lead to a reunion with the Royal Family.The interview took place on Thursday, 15 February just after Harry had an exciting ride on a bobsled at the place where the Invictus Games will happen next year, reports Mirror Online. While he discussed the Invictus Games, life with Meghan and whether he would become an American citizen, he also spoke openly about his father with Good Morning America.
interview with “Good Morning America” Friday, according to the King’s former butler.The Duke of Sussex, 39, “loves his family” and is “grateful” that he was able to visit his estranged father, he said in a tell-all chat with host Will Reeve.But according to Grant Harrold, who worked for King Charles for seven years when he was the Prince of Wales, the Duke’s relatives “won’t be over the moon” about his revelations.“If Harry is going into great discussion about anything, it’s possible that the royals won’t be over the moon,” Harrold exclusively told The Post. “I have no idea why Harry feels the need to speak out, that’s what I don’t understand.