Apple TV+ has unveiled the first look at new series Hello Tomorrow ! , starring and executive produced by Billy Crudup and The Last Thing He Told Me , starring and EP’ed by Jennifer Garner , and revealed the premiere date for Season 2 of Schmigadoon! . The streaming network has set Friday, April 7 for the Season 2 premiere of Schmigadoon! From co-creators Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, in Season 2, having found true love in the town of Schmigadoon, the upcoming season will find Josh (Keegan-Michael Key) and Melissa (Cecily Strong) in Schmicago, the reimagined world of ’60s and ’70s musicals. The second season will include new original musical numbers from co-creator and executive producer Cinco Paul, as well as returning stars Cecily Strong, Keegan-Michael Key, Ariana DeBose, Martin Short, Dove Cameron, Jaime Camil, Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Ann Harada, Jane Krakowski, and Aaron Tveit are set to return, with Tituss Burgess and Patrick Page joining the cast for … [Read more...] about Apple TV+: First Look At New Billy Crudup & Jennifer Garner Series; Premiere Date For ‘Schmigadoon!’ Season 2
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‘The 1619 Project’: Hulu Announces Premiere Date For Docuseries From Nikole Hannah-Jones
The 1619 Project has an airdate. The six-part limited docuseries, which is an expansion of the book created by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine, is set to premiere with two episodes on Hulu Jan. 26, with two episodes releasing weekly thereafter. The episodes ― “Democracy,” “Race,” “Music,” “Capitalism,” “Fear” and “Justice” ― are adapted from essays from The New York Times bestseller The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story that examines how the legacy of slavery shaped different aspects of contemporary American life. “This is a story of America, that’s our argument,” said Hannah-Jones at the Television Critics Tour on Saturday. “You can’t understand the story of America without understanding the story of slavery. It’s not a documentary about Black people, it’s a documentary series about America. It offers a better understanding of the country we live in.” After the publication of The 1619 Project , Hannah-Jones … [Read more...] about ‘The 1619 Project’: Hulu Announces Premiere Date For Docuseries From Nikole Hannah-Jones
E! Sets Premiere Dates For 3 Rom-Com Movies: ‘Why Can’t My Life Be A Rom-Com,’ ‘Royal Rendezvous’ & ‘Married By Mistake’
E! is celebrating love with three new rom-coms premiering on the cable network in the coming weeks: Why Can’t My Life Be a Rom-Com?, Royal Rendezvous and Married by Mistake. Watch a preview of the movies in the video posted above. Premiering on Sunday, February 19 at 9 p.m., Why Can’t My Life Be a Rom-Com? stars Em Haine, Cecilia Deacon, Wern Lee, Markian Tarasiuk, Aren Buchholz and Roraigh Falkner. The logline reads as follows: “Eliza is smart and independent, but after years of bad boyfriends she finds herself newly single, jobless and questioning all of her decisions. Throwing caution to the wind, Eliza follows best friend Sofia to the Hamptons and decides to change her approach to romance. They’re going to follow the rules of dating from a 50-year-old self-help book. The book seemingly works and Eliza finds herself in the center of a love triangle between Rich, a perfect doctor, and Doug, the towel boy at a Hampton’s hotel. Torn between two very different but equally viable … [Read more...] about E! Sets Premiere Dates For 3 Rom-Com Movies: ‘Why Can’t My Life Be A Rom-Com,’ ‘Royal Rendezvous’ & ‘Married By Mistake’
‘South Park’ Gets Season 26 Premiere Date On Comedy Central
Comedy Central has set Wednesday, February 8, for the Season 26 premiere of South Park . Watch a teaser above. Co-created by Trey Park and Matt Stone, the Emmy- and Peabody-winning animated series also will roll out its new season on Comedy Central internationally throughout 2023. New episodes will be available to stream in HD on SouthPark.cc.com, CC.com and the Comedy Central App post-premiere. Last summer, Comedy Central celebrated the silver anniversary of cable’s longest-running scripted series with South Park: The 25th Anniversary Concert . Filmed at Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre, the concert, starring Park and Stone, Primus and Ween with a special appearance by members of the band, Rush, premiered on August 13, 2022, twenty five years to the day the series premiered on Comedy Central. It is currently available on Paramount+. Parker and Stone’s massive deal with MTV Entertainment Studios ( originally at ViacomCBS ) includes extending South Park on Comedy … [Read more...] about ‘South Park’ Gets Season 26 Premiere Date On Comedy Central
Great American Family Sets Premiere Date For Lori Loughlin Rom-Com ‘Fall Into Winter’
The great American comeback continues for Great American Family fave Lori Loughlin . The When Hope Calls star will join James Tupper (The Detectives) in Fall Into Winter, an original movie premiering Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. It’s Loughlin’s first rom-com role since serving time behind bars in 2020 for the college admissions scandal. She last appeared on GAF in When Hope Calls Christmas, which premiered on the network, December, 2021. In Fall Into Winter, life quickly changes for Kerry (Loughlin) as she is suddenly forced to work alongside former nemesis, Brooks (Tupper), an old friend of her brother’swho unexpectedly buys out half of Kerry’s family-owned confectionery business. Fall Into Winter is executive produced by Brad Krevoy, Susie Belzberg Krevoy, Amy Krell, Lorenzo Nardini, Lori Loughlin, TW Peacocke, Micheline Blais. David Anselmo produces for HP Into Winter Productions, Inc. Fall Into Winter is written by Cara J. Russell. Supervising … [Read more...] about Great American Family Sets Premiere Date For Lori Loughlin Rom-Com ‘Fall Into Winter’
‘All That Breathes’ Premiere Date: Shaunak Sen’s Oscar-Nominated Documentary Heading To HBO
HBO has announced that its Academy Award-nominated documentary All That Breathes , from director-producer Shaunak Sen ( Cities of Sleep ), will premiere on the premium cabler on February 7 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT, and will also be available to stream on HBO Max. The 2022-2023 awards season favorite follows two brothers who devote their lives to the quixotic effort of protecting the black kite, a majestic bird of prey essential to the ecosystem of New Delhi that has been falling from the sky at alarming rates. Amid environmental toxicity and social unrest, the ‘kite brothers’ spend day and night caring for the creatures in their makeshift avian basement hospital. The film explores the connection between the kites and the Muslim brothers who help them return to the skies, offering a mesmerizing chronicle of inter-species coexistence. All That Breathes world premiered at Sundance 2022, where it was selected as the Grand Jury Prize winner in World Cinema Documentary … [Read more...] about ‘All That Breathes’ Premiere Date: Shaunak Sen’s Oscar-Nominated Documentary Heading To HBO
‘Riverdale’ & ‘Nancy Drew’ Final-Season Premieres Set For Spring On The CW
The CW has set spring premiere dates for the final seasons of its Archieverse drama Riverdale and YA sleuth series Nancy Drew . Fronted by KJ Apa , Lili Reinhart , Camila Mendes and Cole Sprouse , Riverdale ‘s swan-song Season 7 will bow at 9 p.m. Wednesday, March 29, following a new episode of The Flash. The Kennedy McMann -led Nancy Drew begins its fourth and last season at 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 31. The network also today said that both series will wrap their runs on the same night, with the finales airing back-to-back Wednesday, August 23. Riverdale returns with a time warp. Picking up where last season ended, Jughead Jones (Sprouse) finds himself trapped in the 1950s. He has no idea how he got there, nor how to get back to the present. His friends are no help, as they are living seemingly authentic lives, similar to their classic Archie Comics counterparts, unaware that they’ve ever been anywhere but the 1950s. Read the full-season synopsis … [Read more...] about ‘Riverdale’ & ‘Nancy Drew’ Final-Season Premieres Set For Spring On The CW
‘Tom Jones’: Masterpiece On PBS Unveils Trailer & Premiere Date
Fans of Ted Lasso ‘s Hannah Waddingham may want to check out Tom Jones , Masterpiece’s retelling of Henry Fielding’s novel from Gwyneth Hughes ( Vanity Fair ). The romantic comedy will air in four parts, Sundays, April 30 – May 21, 2023 at 9pm ET on PBS. Waddingham plays the seductive and vengeful Lady Bellaston, who comes between Tom (Solly McLeod) and Sophia (Sophie Wilde). The story follows Tom, a foundling of uncertain parentage in 18th Century England who falls for an heiress (Wilde). Co-produced by Mammoth Screen, the limited series also stars James Fleet ( Bridgerton ) as Squire Allworthy, Tom’s warm-hearted adoptive father; Alun Armstrong ( Little Dorrit ) as Allworthy’s hard drinking but loveable neighbor; Squire Western, who is Sophia’s doting grandfather; Felicity Montagu ( The Durrells in Corfu ) plays Allworthy’s reserved sister, Bridget; and James Wilbraham ( In My Skin ) as her odious son, William Blifil—an unrelenting antagonist to Tom. … [Read more...] about ‘Tom Jones’: Masterpiece On PBS Unveils Trailer & Premiere Date
Steph Curry Expected To Attend World Premiere Of Sundance Doc ‘Stephen Curry: Underrated,’ From Peter Nicks And Ryan Coogler
Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry is heading to Utah, not for a game against the Jazz but an event in an entirely different arena: the Sundance Film Festival. We’re told the future hall of famer intends to make the world premiere of Stephen Curry: Underrated on Monday night, January 23, the documentary about him directed by Peter Nicks and produced by Ryan Coogler , Nicks, Jenelle Lindsay, and Erick Payton. “The plan is for him to be there… The timing just kind of worked out,” Nicks tells Deadline. “You can never know 100 percent with someone like that… He’s probably going to have to dip out. He’s got practice the next day.” The film from A24 and Apple Originals documents the two-time league MVP who wasn’t expected to survive in the NBA, let alone set the record for the most 3-point buckets in a career. “Far below NBA standard in regard to explosiveness and athleticism. At 6’2”, he’s extremely small,” said a frosty scouting report for Curry. It’s … [Read more...] about Steph Curry Expected To Attend World Premiere Of Sundance Doc ‘Stephen Curry: Underrated,’ From Peter Nicks And Ryan Coogler
Broadway-Bound Michael Jackson Bio-Musical Gets Title And Chicago Dates
The previously announced Michael Jackson stage musical has gotten a name and a pre- Broadway premiere date: The newly titled Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough will begin performances in Chicago on October 29. The musical, inspired by the life of the late King of Pop and featuring a book by Lynn Nottage , will run through December 1 at Chicago’s James M. Nederlander Theatre (formerly the Oriental Theatre). Playwright Nottage has won two Pulitzer Prizes for drama, the first in 2009 for Ruined and the second in 2017 for Sweat . The title and date was announced today by producers the Michael Jackson Estate and Columbia Live Stage. Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough is set to arrive on Broadway in 2020. Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough – currently in development and named after the hit song from Jackson’s classic 1979 album Off The Wall – will include a score consisting of Jackson songs. Christopher Wheeldon, a 2015 Tony Award winner for An American in Paris ‘ … [Read more...] about Broadway-Bound Michael Jackson Bio-Musical Gets Title And Chicago Dates