HGTV and Food Network are getting into the holiday spirit.
03.08.2022 - 23:13 / variety.com
Emily Longeretta One year ago, the team behind NBC’s “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” was devastated when the broadcast network pulled the plug on the musical series after two seasons. At the time, the show’s cast, as well as creator Austin Winsberg, were vocal about how sad they were about the untimely end; after pitching it around and hoping for a pickup, it seemed to be dead in the water.And then the Roku Channel came around and offered a chance to wrap it up in the shape of a movie; the two-hour holiday pic focused on the Clarke family’s first Christmas without patriarch Mitch (Peter Gallagher), who died at the end of the first season.“We had ended Season 2 on a massive cliffhanger, but we had many new stories we still wanted to tell,” says Winsberg.
“To be able to create a resolution, give the fans clarity and live with these characters one more time meant everything to me.” Little did he know, his characters would not only get to wrap up their story, but they’d also be elevated by their Roku movie in the shape of two Emmy noms — one for TV movie and the other for choreography. But it took a lot of work to get there.“It was certainly a challenging assignment,” he says.
“It was important to make the movie feel accessible so that audiences that may not have seen the original show could also enjoy it. At the same time, we knew there were several loose threads that needed to be addressed through a structure that felt authentic for a movie and not just like two big episodes of the show.”With an extremely tight turnaround — the movie aired within six months of the show’s cancelation — “it was a thin needle to thread very, very quickly,” Winsberg says.In the TV movie category, “Zoey’s” isn’t the only nominee that features
.HGTV and Food Network are getting into the holiday spirit.
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterFollowing last year’s premiere of “Candy Coated Christmas,” featuring Food Network star Ree Drummond, Discovery+ is getting even more into the scripted holiday spirit with two new Christmas movies from Food Network — and the first two ever from HGTV, Variety has learned exclusively.The Warner Bros. Discovery-owned cable channels have just wrapped production on the four features, which include cameos from HGTV’s “Home Town” hosts Ben and Erin Napier and “Love It or List It’s” Hilary Farr, as well as Food Network stars Bobby Flay and Duff Goldman.Titled “One Delicious Christmas,” “A Gingerbread Christmas,” “A Christmas Open House” and “Designing Christmas,” the four movies will all launch Friday, Nov.
Fans of hit teen drama Skins have gone wild over a number of the original cast reuniting for lunch this month. Nicholas Hoult, Kaya Scodelario, Joe Dempsie, and Larissa Wilson all reunited for a lunchtime get-together 15 years after the first season of the show aired. The often-controversial teen drama ran from 2007 to 2013 and followed the lives of a group of teenagers in Bristol - the show tackled issues from mental illness, to eating disorders, to substance abuse.The first generation of the show, in particular, is one of the most notable, and the group of stars reuniting will certainly have caused some serious nostalgia from the show's fans.
EXCLUSIVE: 2022 Emmy nominee John Turturro (Severance) has come aboard the WWII documentary Potentially Dangerous as an executive producer. The first feature from director Zach Baliva is next set to screen at the Ferrara Film Festival in Italy on September 11th.
Diane Keaton is ready to take on more physical roles following her latest work in Mack & Rita.
Emily Longeretta During the Television Critics Association press conference on Thursday, Lifetime presented a panel for “Girl in Room 13,” an upcoming movie starring Anne Heche. The actor, who was was originally set to be on the panel, was in a car crash in Los Angeles on Aug. 5 and has been in the hospital since.At the top of the panel, the network stated that remarks were taped before recent events.“As many of you know and remains in critical condition.
Ashton Kutcher is offering some insight on his health three years after suffering from a rare form of vasculitis. The 44-year-old actor took to Twitter on Monday night hours after his discussion with Bear Grylls about his struggle with the disease made headlines — and he is hoping people can move on.«Before there are a bunch of rumors/ chatter/ whatever out there. Yes, I had a rare vasculitis episode 3yrs ago,» Kutcher wrote, noting that it was an autoimmune flair up.
Kevin Smith has weighed in on Warner Bros. Discovery scrapping the movie starring Leslie Grace. The move made by the conglomerate has caused shockwaves in the industry and Smith, who is a comic book aficionado and writer, shared his thoughts on his YouTube series Hollywood Babble-On.
slammed the series, calling it “a prime example of how Hulu’s corporate greed led to this tone-deaf cultural misappropriation of my life story” in a now-deleted Instagram post. He followed up a few days later with the announcement of another project about his life, in which Jamie Foxx will portray him, calling the biopic the “authorized” version.
Emily Longeretta Sometimes, a metaphor just works. For Sarah Paulson and her career, it’s a train comparison — something that came up multiple times during our chat about her Emmy nomination for portraying Linda Tripp in “Impeachment: American Crime Story.”“It was the most entirely unexpected thing in the world,” she says of her nom for lead actress in a limited series or anthology — the sole acting mention for the FX series. While she never expected any of her accolades, when she portrayed Marcia Clark in “The People vs.
her pregnancy with her third child back in the summer of 2020 before sharing the heartbreaking news just a couple of months later, and has since gone through IVF treatments to try and conceive again. Just months after she asked fans to stop asking if she was pregnant due to the painful feelings it brought up, Teigen took to Instagram to reveal her baby bump: She posted the photo of herself wearing some underwear that left no question about the growing baby bump, and her message not only conveys the nervousness and hope she feels, but also explains that the bruise in her leg is due to "1 billion shots.
200th episode of “Mission: Impossible”-centered podcast Light the Fuse (co-hosted by yours truly alongside Charles Hood). With McQuarrie — who made his “Mission” directing debut on 2015’s “Rogue Nation” — writing and directing the next two sequels, he appeared on Light the Fuse alongside Cruise to tease the upcoming films and talk about the franchise. And when asked what comes next after “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part Two” (set for release in the summer of 2024), McQuarrie said he didn’t know, exactly.
A 17-year-old Wisconsin boy and four young adults have been stabbed while tubing on Apple River.
Kate Ferdinand has broken her silence after losing her baby in a tragic miscarriage. She wrote: “I’ve been taking time off of my phone to be with my family but have just caught up with all of your messages. “Thank you so much for all of your love and well wishes.
Two dancers were injured at a Cantopop concert in Hong Kong after a massive video screen suspended above the stage fell onto performers below. The concert on Thursday, by boy band called Mirror, was the fourth of a series of 12 scheduled concerts by the band held at the Hong Kong Coliseum. According to the Associated Press, two performers were injured onstage and three other female audience members were also reported as injured, police said.
stroke.On Monday, Wolfe, 58, told People that he hopes fans will keep Fritz, 56, in “their thoughts and prayers.”“The most important thing is that we allow him time to heal and giving [sic] him the space to do so,” he said.Fritz was hospitalized earlier this month and, last week, Wolfe spoke about the news to his fans on Instagram.“I have been very private in the past year in regards to Franks [sic] life and the journey he’s been on,” Wolfe wrote on social media at the time. “There has been lots of opinions in regards to mine and Frank’s friendship and the show but now is not the time to set the record straight. Now is the time to pray for my friend.”He continued, “Frank has suffered a stroke and is in the hospital.
Holiday chaos could continue as British Airways pilots are considering strike action.