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Though AMC has had some popular scripted series that have run for years, many others have been cancelled after just one season. How is the current crop of shows doing? Which will be cancelled or renewed? We'll have to wait and see.

Scripted AMC Network shows listed: 61st Street, Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches, The Beast Must Die, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, Dark Winds, Dietland, A Discovery of Witches, Dispatches from Elsewhere, Fear the Walking Dead, Feed the Beast, Halt and Catch Fire, Hell on Wheels, Humans, Into the Badlands, Kevin Can F**k Himself, Killing Eve, Lodge 49, Low Winter Sun, Lucky Hank, Mad Men, McMafia, The Night Manager, NOS4A2, Parish, Preacher, The Son, Soulmates, Tales of the Walking Dead, The Terror, Turn: Washington's Spies, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, The Walking Dead: Dead City,...

Tramell Tillman — the actor who broke out in popular Apple series Severance — has landed a role in the eighth Mission: Impossible film.

Tillman will join fellow franchise newcomers like Katy O’Brian, Nick Offerman and Hannah Waddingham, along with Mission vets that include Henry Czerny, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff and Vanessa Kirby. Plot details (including what character Tillman will be playing) are being kept under wraps.

Star Tom Cruise is producing the Paramount and Skydance film with director Christopher McQuarrie. David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger and Chris Brock are executive producing.

In Dead Reckoning Part One, the last Mission film to hit theaters, Cruise returned as Imf agent Ethan Hunt, a role he originated in the 1996 film based on the popular television series and he has carried over films that have collectively crossed some multiple billions at the global box office. The seventh film saw the...

Exclusive: Actor and writer Melissa Navia has signed with Innovative Artists for representation.

Navia can currently be seen starring in the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The series, a spinoff of Star Trek: Discovery and a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, follows Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and the crew of the USS Enterprise as they explore new worlds around the galaxy. Navia stars as ‘Lieutenant Erica Ortegas,’ the charismatic helmsman of the USS Enterprise. Season 2 premiered on June 15 and has already been renewed for a third season.

Also on the small screen, Navia recently recurred on the CBS series Bull and AMC’s Dietland. She also guest starred on NBC’s New Amsterdam and Billions and Homeland for Showtime.

On the big screen, she has appeared in a variety of indie films and shorts. In 2013, she won the award for Best Actress at the Wild...

Exclusive: Aldis Hodge (Black Adam) and Lauren E. Banks (City on a Hill) are the latest additions to the cast of The Dutchman, the psychological thriller based on the Obie Award-winning play by Amiri Baraka, which began filming under a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement in September.

The actors join an ensemble that includes André Holland, Kate Mara, Zazie Beetz and Stephen McKinley Henderson, as we were first to tell you. Emmy nominee Andre Gaines (The One and Only Dick Gregory) is directing from his screenplay written with filmmaker Qasim Basir.

Set on a New York subway, The Dutchman centers on an encounter between a well-to-do Black man and an enchanting white woman who match wits in a sexualized game of cat and mouse that leads to a violent conclusion. The searing confrontation amplifies the dimensions of racial conflict in America in this adaptation of the stage show first presented at the...

Everything Now is a British comedy-drama series created by Ripley Parker. The Netflix series follows the story of Mia, a 16-year-old London girl who joins the Sixth form (UK’s equivalent to high school), after a lengthy battle with anorexia. Everything Now stars Sophie Wilde in the lead role with Niamh McCormack and Lauryn Ajufo in supporting roles. So, if you loved the Netflix series here are some similar movies you could watch next.

Feel Good (Netflix) Credit – Netflix

Synopsis: Mae & George’s complicated love story continues as Mae struggles to come to terms with the ghosts from her past and George tries to reinvent her present. Can they grow together or will they grow apart?

Dietland (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – AMC

Synopsis: Dietland is a wickedly funny and extraordinarily timed satire about Plum Kettle, a ghostwriter for the editor of one of New York’s hottest fashion magazines.

Though AMC has had some popular scripted series that have run for years, many others have been cancelled after just one season. How is the current crop of shows doing? Which will be cancelled or renewed? We'll have to wait and see.

Scripted AMC Network shows listed: 61st Street, Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches, The Beast Must Die, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, Dark Winds, Dietland, A Discovery of Witches, Dispatches from Elsewhere, Fear the Walking Dead, Feed the Beast, Halt and Catch Fire, Hell on Wheels, Humans, Into the Badlands, Kevin Can F**k Himself, Killing Eve, Lodge 49, Low Winter Sun, Lucky Hank, Mad Men, McMafia, The Night Manager, NOS4A2, Preacher, The Son, Soulmates, Tales of the Walking Dead, The Terror, Turn: Washington's Spies, The Walking Dead, and The Walking Dead: World Beyond.

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Tramell Tillman is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in Dietland and Severance.

Tramell Tillman Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education

Tramell Tillman was born on June 17, 1985 (Tramell Tillman: Age 37) in Largo, Maryland. He has five older siblings.

Tillman graduated from Eleanor Roosevelt High School in 2003 and went to the University of Louisiana to study to become an orthopedic surgeon. However, Tillman did not like schooling. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Tillman transferred to Jackson State University and graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communications.

In 2014 he also graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Master of Fine Arts. He was the first African American man to graduate from that program.

Tramell Tillman Biography: Career

Tillman thanks his mother for talking him into acting to get over his shyness. He started his acting career on the stage in 2018 as Sergeant Brown in Carmen...

The “Bass Reeves” series from Taylor Sheridan starring David Oyelowo has added two new series regulars, Variety has learned exclusively.

Forrest Goodluck and Lauren E. Banks are both set to star in the show alongside series lead Oyelowo and previously announced cast member Dennis Quaid. The series is based on the true story of the titular lawman. Per the official description, “Reeves, known as the greatest frontier hero in American history, worked in the post-Reconstruction era as a federal peace officer in the Indian Territory, capturing over 3,000 of the most dangerous criminals without ever being wounded.”

Banks will play Jennie, described as “the strong and fiercely loyal wife of Bass Reeves.” Goodluck will play Billy Crow, said to be a “young Cherokee man with an affinity for dime store books and gaudy style.”

Banks recently starred in the Showtime series “City on a Hill” as well as the Starz limited series “Gaslit.

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Playing Seth Milchick, a supervisor and middle man at the mysterious Lumon Industries, on Apple TV+’s Severance, has changed Tramell Tillman’s life.

“The show dropped in February of this year … and nobody knew who I was in January,” Tillman tells THR. “I went to Comic-Con for the first time [in July], and my whole body was on a building — my face was everywhere. A person tapped me on the shoulder and asked for a picture. And the next thing you know, a crowd just grew, and so many people knew who I was.”

Tillman — whose previous small-screen roles include parts on Dietland and Godfather of Harlem — had just finished a run in the Broadway play The Great Society in 2019 and was looking for his next gig when Severance came across his desk.

“I was very intrigued by it, because it was very cryptic,...

Exclusive: Director Bill Oliver has rounded out the cast for his drama Our Son, with Andrew Rannells (Girls5eva), Robin Weigert (American Horror Story) and Kate Burton (Inventing Anna) signing on for roles, along with Phylicia Rashad (This Is Us), Cassandra Freeman (Bel-Air) and Isaac Powell (Dear Evan Hansen).

The recently-wrapped film starring Luke Evans and Billy Porter will follow a divorcing couple fighting for custody of their eight-year-old son. Oliver and Peter Nickowitz wrote the script, with Fernando Loureiro (Frances Ha) and Guilherme Coelho (Fala Tu) producing via their company Tigresa, along with Eric Binns (Lansky), Jennifer 8. Lee (The Price) and Christopher Lin. Alex Peace-Power is serving as co-producer, with CAA Media Finance representing the film’s distribution rights.

Rannells is a Grammy winner and Tony Award nominee whose recent credits include Peacock’s Girls5eva and Showtime’s Black Monday, along with such films as The Boys in the Band and The Prom.

Exclusive: Rosario Dawson and Lana Parrilla are boarding the upcoming SXSW Linda Goldstein Knowlton directed documentary Split At The Root, as EPs.

The pic is schedule to play in the Austin, TX festival’s Documentary Spotlight section.

Split at the Root follows the emotional journey of mothers separated from their children at the U.S. border and the grassroots initiative that, against all odds, reunites those families. When a Guatemalan mother seeking asylum was separated from her kids under the Zero Tolerance Policy, a Facebook post by a mom in Queens coalesced into a movement as thousands of like-minded women across the U.S. refused to stand by quietly. Immigrant Families Together was born – a rapid response group committed to doing what the government couldn’t – or wouldn’t do: reunite parents with their children separated by the Zero Tolerance Policy.

Producers for Split at the Root include Emmy Award-nominated...

How do you separate your work and home-life selves? Is it even possible at all? That’s the question at the heart of the new Apple TV+ series “Severance,” from director Ben Stiller and creator Dan Erickson. The dystopian series about a technology that enables workers to remove the memories of their workday — and of their personal lives while at the office — will launch globally February 18 on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes. This will be followed by new weekly installments each Friday during its nine-episode season. Watch the full trailer for the series below.

Here’s the synopsis: “In ‘Severance,’ Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure, which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in ‘work-life balance’ is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of an unraveling...

Work-life balance? No such thing. But in the new Apple TV+ series “Severance,” from director/executive producer Ben Stiller and creator Dan Erickson, it may not be such a pie-in-the-sky pipe dream after all. Apple has unveiled a teaser for the nine-episode first season, which debuts its first two episodes on February 18, 2022. Watch below.

Here’s the synopsis: “In ‘Severance,’ Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure, which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in ‘work-life balance’ is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work… and of himself.”

The series notably reunites director Ben Stiller with Patricia Arquette, who earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the 2018 Showtime series “Escape at Dannemora.” In “Severance,...

Exclusive: Alanna Ubach has joined the Season 2 cast of HBO Max’s critically acclaimed series The Flight Attendant as a recurring guest star.

She’ll appear in the new season—which is currently in production—alongside returning series regulars Kaley Cuoco, Zosia Mamet, Griffin Matthews, Deniz Akdeniz and Rosie Perez; new series regulars Mo McRae, Callie Hernandez and JJ Soria; returning recurring guest stars T.R. Knight, Yasha Jackson and Audrey Grace Marshall; and new recurring guest stars Cheryl Hines, Jessie Ennis, Mae Martin, Margaret Cho, Santiago Cabrera and Shohreh Aghdashloo.

The Max Original based on Chris Bohjalian’s 2018 novel of the same name centers on Cassie Bowden (Cuoco), a reckless flight attendant with an alcoholism problem who in Season 1, wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man—and no idea what happened. Season 2 finds Cassie living her best sober life in Los...

Exclusive: Nafessa Williams has been tapped to play Robyn Crawford in the biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, the upcoming feature about the late musical icon Whitney Houston. Williams steps in for Moses Ingram. who recently parted ways with the role.

Also joining the cast are Clarke Peters and Tamara Tunie, who will play John and Cissy Houston. Naomi Ackie will play Whitney Houston in the musical biopic that is being directed by Kasi Lemmons. The screenplay will be penned by Anthony McCarten, and will take audiences on an emotional, energetic journey through Houston’s career and music.

Crawford was Houston’s longtime assistant who would later become Houston’s creative director while also remaining one of her closest friends.

Alongside McCarten’s Muse of Fire Productions, the film is being produced by Pat Houston on behalf of the Houston Estate; Grammy-winning music producer Clive Davis; Larry Mestel on behalf...

Exclusive: Amy York Rubin is set to direct CBS’ comedy pilot based on TikTok star Sarah Cooper’s book How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings, from writer Cindy Chupack and producers Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi and CBS Studios.

Co-written by Cooper and Chupack, the Untitled Sarah Cooper/Cindy Chupack Project revolves around three women at different stages in their careers at a male-dominated company who help each other navigate modern gender politics in their professional and personal lives.

Sex and the City alumna Chupack, who serves as showrunner, executive produces with Cooper, as well as Tassler and Di Novi via their PatMa Productions.

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Rubin, along with her directing partner Pilar Boehm, recently served as co-executive producer and pilot director of Love, Victor, for Hulu and 20th Century Television. She also directed the pilot of Netflix’s critically acclaimed dark comedy Dead to Me.

In May 2020, Paramount+ (still known as CBS All Access back then) announced the order for a series centered on the Captain Pike, Number One, and Spock characters introduced on Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, and the fan base went Wild.

Anson Mount brought the legendary Pike to life as the perfect precursor to the Kirk era while Rebecca Romijn epitomized the efficiency and effectiveness of the ultimate second-in-command, Number One.

Ethan Peck had the hardest role to take on as Spock, a figure long-beloved and revered from Leonard Nimoy's first portrayal of the Vulcan-Human defender of all things logical and fascinating. Peck's turn in the pointy ears was a resounding success.

With the three of them at the helm of the iconic Enterprise, anticipation for a return to episodic exploratory missions has been a slow-burning roar ever since.

But three crew do not a Star Trek show makes.

Today, Paramount+ announced the addition of five,...

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” is beaming up five more to its cast.

Babs Olusanmokun, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Jess Bush and Melissa Navia have joined stars Ethan Peck, Anson Mount and Rebecca Romjin on the Paramount+ series, which started production on Friday. You can a video announcement of that here.

The series follows Spock (Peck), Captain Pike (Mount) and Number One (Romjin), all of which were introduced in Season 2 of “Star Trek: Discovery.” “Strange New Worlds” will follow the three in the decade before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

The “Short Treks” episode “Q&a” detailed the trio’s first day on the Enterprise.

There were no further details on who the five new castmembers would be playing.

Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Meyers will serve as co-showrunners. Goldsman will direct the first episode. Olusanmokun’s television...

Paramount+ has rounded out the cast of its upcoming new original series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as production officially gets underway in Toronto.

Babs Olusanmokun, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding (Jagged Little Pill), Jess Bush and Melissa Navia are set as series regulars in the series based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise.They join previously announced Ethan Peck, Anson Mount and Rebecca Romijn, who will be reprising their roles from Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery.

The Strange New Worlds‘ premiere episode is written by Star Trek: Picard EP Akiva Goldsman from a story the Oscar winner wrote with Kurtzman and fellow EP Jenny Lumet. Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers serve as co-showrunners, with Goldsman directing the premiere episode.

Watch a teaser video featuring the series’ cast below.

Exclusive: Kelly Hu will lead the feature film Breast Cancer Bucket List from producers Autumn Federici and Jake Helgren under their production banner, The Ninth House.

Roxy Shih, who recently directed Whose Child for Ninth House Films, will direct from a screenplay by Jessica Landry.

Patricia Velasquez, and Sylvia Kwan will join Hu.

The film follows Brenda Lee (Hu) who is diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. Facing her own mortality, Brenda is determined to track down the daughter Talia Carroll (Kwan) she gave up for adoption as an infant. Brenda’s best friend, Meg (Velásquez) is by Brenda’s side every step of the way on her search to find Talia. Talia, having been afforded a privileged life by her adoptive parents, is initially hesitant to connect with the stranger who appears on her doorstep identifying herself as her biological mother, a moment Talia has been longing for her whole life.

One of the highest profile Buffy the Vampire Slayer writer-producers, Marti Noxon, has spoken out in support of cast members Charisma Carpenter, Michelle Trachtenberg and Amber Benson who have accused series creator/executive producer Joss Whedon of abuse and creating a toxic work environment.

Noxon joined Buffy as co-producer at the start of Season 3 and rose through the ranks to executive producer/showrunner on the show’s final two seasons, Season 6 and 7. Carpenter was on the show for the first three seasons, Trachtenberg on Seasons 5-7 and Benson for Seasons 4-6.

“I would like to validate what the women of Buffy are saying and support them in telling their story. They deserve to be heard,” Noxon wrote on Twitter. I understand where Charisma, Amber, Michelle and all the women who have spoken out are coming from.”

Carpenter was the first to speak out on social media Wednesday, accusing Whedon of...

The first-class cast of The Morning Show just added another big name to its ranks.

Per Variety, Julianna Margulies is joining the cast of The Morning Show Season 2.

She is set to play Uba News' newest addition, Laura Peterson.

Margulies joins returning stars Jennifer Anniston and Reese Witherspoon, as well as Steve Carell, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Bel Powley, Karen Puttman, and Desean Terry.

The second season of the Apple TV+ drama will also welcome guest stars, including Greta Lee, Ruairi O’Connor, and Hasan Minhaj.

Margulies is best known for her role as Alicia Florrick on The Good Wife, a role she played in all seven seasons, and won awards for.

Before that, she starred on the NBC medical juggernaut, ER.

The actress remains in demand following The Good Wife, and has appeared on AMC's Dietland, Nat Geo's The Hot Zone, and Showtime's Billions since leaving the CBS drama behind.

Julianna Margulies is dropping anchor at The Morning Show, joining Season 2 of the Apple TV+ drama in the recurring role of Uba News’ newest talking head, Laura Peterson, TVLine has confirmed.

The Good Wife vet joins returning stars Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon as well as Steve Carell, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Bel Powley, Karen Puttman, and Desean Terry. Previously announced Season 2 guest stars include Greta Lee, Ruairi O’Connor, and Hasan Minhaj.

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The upcoming “Cowboy Bebop” live-action series at Netflix is rounding out its main cast with six new additions.

Geoff Stults, Tamara Tunie, Mason Alexander Park, Rachel House, Ann Truong, and Hoa Xuande have all joined the series. They join previously announced series stars John Cho, Mustafa Shakir, Daniella Pineda, Alex Hassell, and Elena Satine.

Based on the anime series of the same name, “Cowboy Bebop” is described as the jazz-inspired, genre-bending story of a rag-tag crew of bounty hunters on the run from their pasts, as they hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals. They’ll even save the world for the right price.

Stults will appear as Chalmers, who is said to be the epitome of a Western lawman. He is also Jet Black’s (Shakir) former co-detective in the Issp’s Homicide Division. He wears a chronic smile that makes you want to punch him square in the face…...

Geoff Stults, Tamara Tunie, Mason Alexander Park (Hedwig and the Angry Inch National Broadway Tour), Rachel House, Ann Truong and Hoa Xuande have joined the cast of Cowboy Bebop, Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the cult Japanese animated series. The space western hails from Tomorrow Studios, Marty Adelstein’s joint venture with ITV Studios, Midnight Radio, writer Chris Yost and Sunrise, the studio behind the original series.

The six join previously announced cast members John Cho as Spike Spiegel, Mustafa Shakir as Jet Black, Daniella Pineda as Faye Valentine, Alex Hassell as Vicious and Elena Satine as Julia.

Based on the worldwide phenomenon from Sunrise Inc., Cowboy Bebop is the jazz-inspired, genre-bending story of a rag-tag crew of bounty hunters on the run from their pasts,...

Kristen Bell appears to be returning to her murder mystery roots.

The beloved Veronica Mars star will lead the cast of Netflix's The Woman in the House which sounds very similar to The Rear Window.

The streamer placed a series order Tuesday for the series that stars the actress as a hearbroken women who is bored of her life because every single day is the same.

Anna (Bell) “sits with her wine, staring out the window, watching life go by without her," per the logline.

"But when a handsome neighbor moves in across the street, she starts to see a light at the end of the tunnel. That is until she witnesses a gruesome murder…. Or did she?”

Bell also serves asan executive producer on the eight-episode limited series, which was created by The Nobodies‘ Rachel Ramras, Hugh Davidson, and Larry Dorf.

The series also has Gloria Sanchez Productions’ Will Ferrell,...

Netflix has ordered a darkly comic thriller starring and exec produced by The Good Place’s Kristen Bell.

Limited series The Woman In The House comes from Will Ferrell’s production company Gloria Sanchez Productions. It was created by Rachel Ramras, Hugh Davidson and Larry Dorf, the creators of TV Land comedy Nobodies. The trio will serve as co-showrunners.

The eight-episode series is centered around Anna, a heartbroken, for whom, every day is the same. She sits with her wine, staring out the window, watching life go by without her. But when a handsome neighbor moves in across the street, Anna starts to see a light at the end of the tunnel. That is until she witnesses a gruesome murder… Or did she?

Sharp Objects’ and Dietland’s Marti Noxon will serve as a creative consultant on the series, which will also be exec produced by Ferrell, Jessica Elbaum, and Brittney Segal.

The first full trailer for MGM’s “Respect,” the upcoming Aretha Franklin starring vocal powerhouse Jennifer Hudson as the Queen of Soul, has arrived. The preview dropped Sunday night following Hudson’s performance at the BET Awards, which celebrated its 20th anniversary this year.

The film directed by Liesl Tommy was originally slated to open in theaters October 9, but was pushed to a limited Christmas Day debut, to be followed by an expansion kicking off January 8 and a wide opening on January 15, timed for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Expect a major awards play for star Hudson, who previously won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her scene-stealing turn in the musical “Dreamgirls.” Watch the trailer for “Respect” below.

The film charts the highs and lows of Franklin’s life and career. She began as a young gospel singer in Detroit and became a smash success after signing...

Exclusive: Tramell Tillman (Hunters) is set as a lead alongside Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, Britt Lower, Jen Tullock and Zach Cherry in Severance, Apple’s upcoming workplace thriller series directed by and executive produced by Ben Stiller.

Severance takes place at Lumen Industries, which is looking to take work-life balance to a new level. Tillman will play Milchick, an intensely earnest employee at the company.

The series is written and created by Dan Erickson, whose Severance script was the first TV script to make it on to the annual Bloodlist in 2016.

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Chris Black exec produces alongside Erickson, Stiller and Nicky Weinstock and Jackie Cohn from Red Hour Productions. Arquette and Scott also serve as producers. Endeavor Content, which is also behind Apple TV+’s See and Truth Be Told, is the studio.

Tillman most recently recurred opposite Forest Whitaker in Epix’s Godfather of Harlem...

Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife) and Corey Stoll (The Strain) have joined the Season 5 cast of Billions, Showtime’s drama series starring Paul Giamatti and Damien Lewis.

Created executive producers/showrunners Brian Koppelman and David Levien, along with Ep Andrew Ross Sorkin, Season 4 of Billions saw former enemies Bobby Axelrod (Lewis) and Chuck Rhoades (Giamatti), and Wendy Rhoades (Maggie Siff), the chief counselor to each, came together to form an uneasy but highly effective alliance, aimed at the eradication of all their rivals. They include Grigor Andolov (guest star John Malkovich), Taylor Mason (Asia Kate Dillon), Bryan Connerty (Toby Leonard Moore) and Waylon “Jock” Jeffcoat (guest star Clancy Brown).

David Costabile, Condola Rashad, Kelly AuCoin and Jeffrey DeMunn also star.

Margulies will play Catherine Brant, an Ivy League sociology professor and bestselling author. Stoll joins in a season-long arc as Michael Prince, a business titan from a small town in Indiana.

Billions is expanding its portfolio with a pair of big names, adding Julianna Margulies and Corey Stoll to its ranks in Season 5, TVLine has learned. Currently in production in New York City, the Showtime drama is set to return sometime in spring 2020.

Margulies will appear in several episodes as Catherine Brant, an Ivy League sociology professor and bestselling author, while Stoll will recur in a season-long arc as Michael Prince, a business titan from a small town in Indiana.

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AMC has added a pair of series to its roster of originals, picking up the legal drama 61st Street and the hourlong dark comedy Kevin Can F*** Himself.

The two shows, both from in-house AMC Studios, came out of the cabler's script-to-series development model, whereby a writers room is opened and several scripts are written. If those come in well, the project bypasses filming a pilot and goes straight to series. The model has produced the current AMC series Lodge 49 and NOS4A2, as well as the since-canceled Dietland and The Son.

"At AMC we believe in shows that have startling vision and fresh ...

Exclusive: Alanna Ubach is set for a recurring role in Fox’s high-profile new drama series Filthy Rich starring Kim Cattrall, from The Help writer-director Tate Taylor, Imagine Television and 20th Century Fox TV.

Filthy Rich is a southern Gothic family drama in which wealth, power and religion collide – with outrageously soapy results. When the patriarch of a mega-rich Southern family, famed for creating a wildly successful Christian television network, dies in a plane crash, his wife and family are stunned to learn that he fathered three illegitimate children, all of whom are written into his will, threatening their family name and fortune.

Ubach will play Yopi, Antonio’s (Benjamin Levy Aguilar) mother. She’s a fighter who knows how to win and a career gambler who’s always willing to take a chance.

Filthy Rich is produced by 20th Century Fox Television, Imagine Television and Fox Entertainment.

In the third episode of Shrill, the new Hulu comedy based on Lindy West’s same-named memoir, Annie, a thirtyish magazine editor played by Aidy Bryant, attends a pool party. There, for the first time, she enters a world filled with people who look like her: fat women, drinking, dancing, swimming and sunning themselves — “living in their bodies and enjoying their lives,” Annie marvels.

It’s a remarkable moment not just for her but also for the viewer. Like Annie, TV watchers are unaccustomed to seeing so many thick women share so many frames.

Producer, writer and director Marti Noxon took the dais for the first keynote at SXSW, and she shared her very personal journey of sobriety and how it was translated in a trio of projects in what she likes to call her “Self-Harm Trilogy.” This includes the eating disorder pic To the Bone (her directorial debut), the eye-opening self-image dramedy Dietland, as well as the HBO adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects. Last July, HBO’s president of programming, Casey Bloys, told Deadline that there are no plans for a second season of the Amy Adams-fronted mini-series. But during her keynote, Noxon said that there is more story to tell.

The miniseries focuses on Adams’s functioning alcoholic Camille, but it also shines some light on her pristinely controlling, tea-length dress-wearing mother, Adora (which won Patricia Clarkson a Golden Globe) and her sister. The miniseries gave us a taste of their story,...

Dietland alumna Erin Darke is set as the lead in YouTube Premium’s comedy pilot It’s a Man’s World (working title), from Smash creator Theresa Rebeck, Christina Wayne’s Assembly Entertainment and ITV Studios America. In addition, Romeo Tirone has been tapped to direct and executive produce the pilot. Production began February 25 in New York.

Written by Rebeck, the story centers around Emma (Darke), a successful video game design executive and the sole breadwinner for her family, who is used to dodging the landmines that come with being a woman in a male-dominated field. When she gets fired without explanation and finds that she’s being blacklisted by everyone in her industry, Emma decides to dress as a man to get a new job and to continue supporting her family. As strange and politically incorrect as Emma’s new life may be, she starts to...

Alanna Ubach has joined the cast of the untitled single-camera comedy pilot at ABC that hails from Hannah Simone, Variety has learned.

Simone will star in, write, and executive produce the project, which is inspired by Simone’s family. In the project, Hannah (Simone) and her Indian-American immigrant father Sid have always been close, but after she admits to herself that she’s in a dead-end job and he reveals his marriage is over, they’re starting over together and each finding a new path. This new chapter will either make them crazy close or just crazy.

Ubach will portray Susan, the family’s closest friend, filled with confidence and booze, always over-the-top. Susan can be counted on to say exactly the wrong thing at all times. Ubach joins previously announced cast members Simone and Jane Leeves.

Ubach recently lent her voice to the hit Disney-Pixar film “Coco.

Julianna Margulies is leaving behind the power suits and high heels she was accustomed to wearing while working on The Good Wife and Dietland, opting instead to wear military fatigues in National Geographic’s The Hot Zone. Margulies stars as Army scientist Lt. Col. Nancy Jaax in the small screen adaption of the 1994 best-selling novel by Richard Preston about the origins of the Ebola virus.

The six-part miniseries follows the heroic Jaax and her race to contain the viral hemorrhagic fever of Central African origins before an outbreak infects the U.S. population. A trailer for the series was released today at the Television Critics Association meeting.

Margulies was joined by co-stars Noah Emmerich, Liam Cunningham, Topher Grace, James D’Arcy, Paul James, and showrunners Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders for a Television Critics Association spring presentation panel on Sunday to discuss the drama set to air May 27-29 at 9/8c.

The Women’s Image Awards has announced its 2018 nominations, with the BBC miniseries “Little Women” that aired on PBS’ “Masterpiece” series earning a leading six bids on the TV side. As for films, “Mary Queen of Scots” secured five spots on the ballot, followed by the Ruth Bader Ginsberg biopic “On the Basis of Sex” and Melissa McCarthy’s “Can Your Ever Forgive Me,” both with four.

Given the #MeToo and Time’s Up movement’s push against sexual harassment and lack of equal opportunity for women in Hollywood, the fact that an organization like Women’s Image Awards exists is more important than ever. The group that is celebrating its 20th anniversary has just announced its nominations in 18 categories. The TV and film nominees are selected from a field of submissions from networks and studios.

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This year, there were nearly 500 scripted television shows on the air, both returning series and new debuts. And while that marks an increase from last year, 2018 also saw its fair share of casualties, with dozens of shows getting axed or coming to a predetermined end. Here are 90 shows that won’t see the light of 2019.

“Ten Days in the Valley” (ABC)

Final episode Jan. 6

“Chance” (Hulu)

Canceled Jan. 9

“Disjointed” (Netflix)

Final episode Jan. 12

“Lady Dynamite” (Netflix)

Canceled Jan. 13

“The Shannara Chronicles” (MTV)

Canceled Jan. 16

“One Mississippi” (Amazon)

Canceled Jan. 17

“I Love Dick” (Amazon)

Canceled Jan. 17

“Jean-Claude Van Johnson” (Amazon)

Canceled Jan. 17

“Damnation” (USA)

Final episode Jan. 18

“The Mayor” (ABC)

Final episode Jan. 25

“Great News” (NBC)

Final episode Jan. 25

“The Brave” (NBC)

Final episode Jan. 29

“Valor” (CW)

Final episode Jan. 29

“Dice” (Showtime)

Canceled Jan. 30

“Shut Eye” (Hulu)

Canceled Jan. 30

“9Jkl” (CBS)

Final episode Feb. 5

“The Librarians” (TNT)

Final episode Feb. 7

“Everything Sucks!

Next spring’s Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s Burn This starring Adam Driver and Keri Russell has completed casting and set an April 16 opening date at the Hudson Theatre.

Previews begin March 15, with Tony Award nominees David Furr and Brandon Uranowitz rounding out the four-member cast, says producer David Binder. Michael Mayer will direct, with the design team including Derek McLane (Sets), Clint Ramos (Costumes) and Natasha Katz (Lights).

Burn This, which originated Off Broadway in 1987 before transferring to Broadway in an acclaimed production starring John Malkovich and Joan Allen, is set in a downtown Manhattan loft in the 1980s, as four New Yorkers are brought together after a funeral. Driver and Russell play the brother and the roommate, respectively, of the deceased.

Furr will play Burton, the longtime lover of Russell’s Anna. Tony nominated for his performance in the 2016 Noises Off revival, Furr has also appeared on Broadway in Accent On Youth,...

Before the tryptophan from the turkey kicks in, check out TheWrap’s list of shows you can binge in four days over your Thanksgiving weekend. Don’t worry, we have dramas, comedies, action series, sci-fi shows on every platform from Netflix to HBO Go.

“Bodyguard” – The first six episodes of this UK import crossed the pond earlier this month, and you can definitely get through them all quickly. Though we do recommend a few breaks.

“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” – Season 1 of Netflix’s TV adaptation of the Archie Comics character is the show you want if you are looking for a few witchy tricks after all your Thanksgiving treats.

Show: “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Net: Amazon Prime Video – You can binge through the first season of this Emmy winner while you await the second season drop on Dec. 5.

Show: “House of Cards” Sixth and Final Season Net: Netflix – This is your last hooray with Claire Underwood,...

Exclusive: After working with Jay Roach on Meet the Fockers, Alanna Ubach is set to play Fox News spitfire host Jeanine Pirro in the filmmaker’s upcoming untitled feature about the women who battle against network boss Roger Ailes and his hostile corporate culture. Pirro was one of the Fox News hosts who defended Ailes, ripping apart Fnc colleague Gretchen Carlson’s sexual harassment lawsuit back in July 2016.

Carlson will be played by Nicole Kidman in the movie. Pirro has known Ailes for three decades going back to her assistant Da days in NYC. At the time when Carlson’s suit hit, Pirro felt Ailes wasn’t capable of the abuse Carlson was subjecting him to.

Bron Studios is co-financing the production which is already shooting and Lionsgate is finalizing their domestic deal to distribute and co-finance; the studio is already selling foreign on the pic as Deadline exclusively reported from AFM.

Latest addition to platform’s talent roster will produce series exclusively through her Tiny Pyro label.

Adding another name to its growing roster of producing talent, Netflix has signed a multi-year overall deal with writer-producer-director Marti Noxon, most recently the creator and showrunner of HBO limited series Sharp Objects.

Netflix has set an overall deal with yet another prolific producer: Marti Noxon. The streamer announced on Monday that it entered into a multi-year pact with the Emmy-nominated writer, producer and director.

Under the pact, Noxon will produce new TV series exclusively for Netflix. The streamer will also have a first-look option on Noxon’s feature projects. She will continue to produce all projects under her Tiny Pyro banner, with Maria Grasso — president of the production company — making the move to Netflix with her.

Among Noxon’s most recent projects as creator-showrunner are HBO’s Amy Adams-led limited series “Sharp Objects” and AMC’s recently-canceled freshman series “Dietland,” and “UnREAL.”

Also Read: 'Dietland' Canceled After One Season on AMC

Noxon’s two-decades-long small-screen career includes work on series like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Mad Men,” “Glee,” and” Grey’s Anatomy.” On the big screen, Noxon made wrote...

Another top TV showrunner is headed to Netflix with a rich overall deal. Marti Noxon has signed a multi-year overall pact with the streaming giant to exclusively produce new series programming through her Tiny Pyro production banner. Additionally, Netflix will have a first-look option on Noxon’s feature projects.

Following Noxon to Netflix is Maria Grasso who will continue in her role as President of Tiny Pyro. Noxon most recently had an overall deal at Skydance, the company behind one of her latest series, Dietland at AMC.

As a creator, Noxon is known for shows with strong female protagonists. Her most recent series as creator-showrunner include Sharp Objects at HBO, Dietland at AMC as well as the Peabody Award-winning first season of Lifetime’s UnReal.

“Marti Noxon is a brilliant and visionary creator who explores emotional depths to reveal the inner lives and struggles of complex, modern women,” said Cindy Holland,...

Emmy-nominated writer, producer and director Marti Noxon has signed a multi-year overall deal with Netflix.

Under the deal, Noxon will produce new series programming exclusively for Netflix. Additionally, Netflix will have a first-look option on Noxon’s feature projects through the pact, as well. Noxon will continue to produce all projects through her production company, Tiny Pyro. Maria Grasso will make the move to Netflix, as well, continuing in her role as president of Tiny Pyro. Noxon previously had an overall deal at Skydance, which she signed in 2016.

“Who can resist the allure of Netflix?” said Noxon. “Not only do they continually produce ground-breaking and visually stunning content, they’ve developed a platform that’s so influential its become a verb. I Netflix at home, happily, and now I’m even more excited to Netflix for a living.”

Noxon began her career as a writer and later executive producer on...

Amy York Rubin (Gay Kid and Fat Chick) is set to direct the pilot and second episode of Dead to Me, Netflix’s half-hour dark comedy series starring Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini, from writer Liz Feldman, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gloria Sanchez Prods. and CBS TV Studios.

Written by Feldman, Dead to Me, which has a 10-episode straight-to-series order, has been described as a comedic Big Little Lies. It is about a powerful friendship that blossoms between Jen (Applegate), a tightly wound widow, and Judy (Cardellini), a free spirit with a shocking secret.

Rubin is next set to direct Bo Burnham’s upcoming feature Gay Kid and Fat Chick for Paramount Pictures. Her other recent directing credits include Smilf for Showtime, Hulu’s Casual, AMC’s Dietland, ABC’s Fresh Off The Boat, TBS’ Tribeca and Wrecked, Freeform’s Grown-ish and Alone Together and I’m Sorry for TruTv.

AMC has opened up writers’ rooms for two projects that will be considered for greenlights under the network’s “scripts-to-series” development model, Rainy Day People, from Halt and Catch Fire creators/executive producers Chris Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers and exec producers Mark Johnson and Melissa Bernstein, and Kevin Can F*** Himself (working title), from writer Valerie Armstrong and producers Rashida Jones and Will McCormack.

AMC in the past couple of years has set up writers rooms twice a year, in spring and fall, for a couple of projects at a time that it picks from its scripts in development. Earlier this year, AMC opened rooms for Pantheon, an animated drama series, and St. Luke’s. Recent AMC series that have taken that path to screen are Dietland, Lodge 49 and the upcoming NOS4A2.

Rainy Day People, from Chris Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers and executive producers Melissa Bernstein and...

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A dark AMC comedy-drama, Dietland stars Joy Nash, Julianna Margulies, Robin Weigert, Adam Rothenberg, Tamara Tunie, Erin Darke, Rowena King, Will Seefried, Ricardo Davila, Tramel Tillman, Campbell Scott, Alanna Ubach, Kelly Hu, Marc Blucas, Ami Sheth, and Jen Ponton. The action centers on Daisy Chain magazine ghostwriter, Plum Kettle (Nash). As this perpetual dieter starts to broaden her perspective on self-worth and feminism, someone starts taking out men who have been accused of...