Prolific Lost showrunner Carlton Cuse is taking a journey into the Star Wars galaxy, with son Nick Cuse at his side. The duo is in early development on a Star Wars series for Lucasflim, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.

Carlton Cuse’s lengthy credits include Bates Motel, The Strain, Jack Ryan and Netflix’s recently released medical drama Pulse. Nick Cuse worked with his father’s Lost co-showrunner Damon Lindelof on Watchmen and The Leftovers, with his credits also including Station Eleven and Masters of the Air.

Details on the Star Wars project are being kept under wraps.

The news comes on the eve of Andor season two’s debut and follows Star Wars Celebration in Tokyo, where Lucasfilm unveiled a first look at feature The Mandalorian & Grogu and revealed a title for Shawn Levy’s Ryan Gosling movie, Star Wars: Starfighter. The company also revealed new details of Ashoka season two,...

With “Sinners” now in theaters, Ryan Coogler is turning his attention back to his “X-Files” series reboot.

“I’ve been excited about that for a long time and I’m fired up to get back to it,” Coogler said during a recent interview with “Last Podcast on the Left,” confirming that that project is “immediately next” on his slate. “Some of those episodes, if we do our jobs right, will be really fucking scary.”

Coogler was first reported to be developing an “X-Files” series back in 2023, when series creator and showrunner Chris Carter confirmed that the two have had conversations...

He was just supposed to be passing by, but Ronin, the former Sith Lord character who appeared in the first season of the animated anthology Star Wars: Visions, will be returning in the third season of the Lucasfilm series which debuts on Disney+ on Oct. 29 this year.

The big reveal came at the Star Wars Celebration event in Tokyo, in a panel dedicated to the hit show, where Visions executive producer James Waugh confirmed that three of the most popular storylines from the first season of the show — “The Duel,” “The Village Bride” and “The Ninth Jedi” — will be continuing in the upcoming third volume of episodes.

Waugh also revealed a “bold new direction” for Visions with the introduction of the Star Wars: Visions Presents banner, which he said would be giving filmmakers a chance to tell deeper and more longform stories without the constraints of the shorter runtime of the typical Visions episodes.

[Editor’s note: The following interview contains spoilers for “Yellowjackets” Season 3, Episode 10.]

“Yellowjackets” fans are still hard at work choking down that devastating Season 3 finale. But for Showtime’s favorite frog scientist, Ashley Sutton, more theories about the cliffhanger episode — and the popular series’ shadowy future — are as welcome as free samples in a field study.

“My intention the last year and a half has been to really dive into every character and work on auditions,” the actress told IndieWire. “Just fully lean in and create these people’s lives from scratch, so you can really find the human connection with them. I did that with Hannah, and I actually got the opportunity to play her and this crazy arc that she’s on.”

“She’s kind of all over the place,” Sutton admitted, describing a rich relationship with the material first imagined by series co-creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson. The duo share executive producer and showrunner duties with Jonathan Lisco.

The competition continued on the Monday, April 21, episode of American Idol. After 20 artists performed on Easter Sunday, America voted for their favorites, with only 14 moving on. The top 14 were revealed on Monday night. Yes, unfortunately that meant that six singers were cut and will no longer have a shot at winning Season 23 of American Idol. All 20 artists had the chance to hit the stage, but some were performing for fun, and others, who earned the least amount of viewer votes last night, were singing for the judges’ save. Scroll down for a full recap of the night, including reactions from judges Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, and Lionel Richie for the performances from those in jeopardy. Plus, find out who was eliminated! Kolbi Jordan Kicking off the night was platinum ticket winner Kolbi Jordan, who made the top 14 and performed a rendition of Whitney Houston’s “I’m Every Woman.” She...

The Star Wars franchise may have found its new showrunner in a Lost alum — and a new TV show might not be so far, far away.

A new Star Wars series is in the works from Lost executive producer Carlton Cuse, our sister site Variety confirms. (The InSneider first reported the news.) Cuse is joined on the new series by his son Nick Cuse, whose credits include Watchmen, Station Eleven and Masters of the Air. Beyond that, no details on the series have been revealed.

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Bazinga! Jeopardy! fans think the new two-time champion, Liam Starnes, looks exactly like Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) from The Big Bang Theory. Some fans think he could even be Sheldon’s younger brother. His two-day total is $52,802, and he will be back on April 22 for his third game. Starnes, from Barrington, Illinois, is an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago, according to his LinkedIn. There, he studies data science and statistics. Starnes is also the vice president of the college bowl and made the dean’s list in 2022. The game show contestant revealed on Monday’s (April 21) episode that he had a Jeopardy!-themed birthday party when he was younger. He said all the decorations were Jeopardy! themed, and the party-goers played a round of the game. Host Ken Jennings also revealed Starnes was born when he had his first run on Jeopardy! 20 years ago. In his first episode,...

[The following post contains Major spoilers for the Monday, April 21, episode of Jeopardy!] Jeopardy! came down to a tight game after one contestant calculated exactly how much they would need to win. They won by only $100 after the final round. Liam Starnes, from Barrington, Illinois, faced off against Bob Callen, from Lexington, Kentucky, and Maja Vlajnic, from Fredericksburg, Virginia, on Monday, April 21. Starnes returned for his second game after fans praised him for his first performance. Host Ken Jennings started off the game by saying that he found out Starnes was born during his initial Jeopardy! run 20 years ago. “Wow. That was a blow,” he said. “And now that I feel like an extremely old man, let’s welcome our new challengers.” Jennings introduced Callen and Vlajnic before starting the game. The first question was a Triple Stumper. “‘The Beef State’, it’s home to more cattle than people, with its 6 million cows outnumbering humans 3 to 1,” the clue read. The ...

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass included a plug for the expansion of the film and TV tax credit in her State of the City speech on Monday, saying it is time to “bring Hollywood back.”

Bass spent most of the speech addressing the city’s dire fiscal situation, homelessness, and the work of recovering from the Palisades Fire. But toward the end, she renewed her call for California lawmakers to triple the $330 million state subsidy for the film industry.

“We have to win back our entertainment jobs,” Bass said in the City Council chambers, calling Hollywood “our foundational industry.”

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One bit of hiring for Disney+ seems to all but signal the end of the platform’s initial ethos when it came to staffing its shows.

Longtime TV veteran Carlton Cuse, best known for his years showrunning “Lost” alongside Damon Lindelof, will be showrunning a new “Star Wars” series alongside his son Nick Cuse, according to The InSneider. The elder Cuse has been creating shows since “The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.” in 1993, going on to create “Nash Bridges,” “Martial Law,” and “Bates Motel” in addition to his acclaimed work on “Lost.”

Disney+ has not returned IndieWire’s request for comment.

It seems likely that this new “Star Wars” series, like every “Star Wars” series to date, would stream on Disney+. At its launch in 2019, and for several years thereafter there seemed to be a desire to avoid traditional TV showrunners at the streamer.

“The Mandalorian,” the platform’s launch series,...

Take a peek behind the walls of the Vatican, as one of the most dramatic transitions of power in the history of the Catholic Church unfolds. In The Two Popes, the Academy Award-nominated director Fernando Meirelles explores the role of the Church in the modern world through the relationship of two pontiffs with opposing philosophies. The biographical drama follows the imagined conversations between the traditionalist Pope Benedict XVI and his successor, the liberal-minded, future Pope Francis, as they work to find common ground.

The portrayals are based on real cardinals, Benedict and Francis. Pope Benedict, played by Anthony Hopkins, resigned from the papacy in 2013. Pope Francis, played by Jonathan Pryce, served in the Papal Chair until his death in April 2025. Both Hopkins and Price earned Oscar nominations for their portrayals — The Two Popes was praised for its masterful performances and its exploration of a crucial era for...

Netflix Japan is making a bold statement with its upcoming release “Bullet Train Explosion,” a reboot of the 1975 classic “Bullet Train.”

The film, which premieres April 23, marks a significant milestone as Netflix celebrates its 10th anniversary in the Japanese market.

According to Shinichi Takahashi, director of live action content for Netflix Japan, the production achieved unprecedented access to Japan’s iconic bullet trains. “We were able to rent an entire bullet train and film it in motion seven times, travelling back and forth from Tokyo to Aomori,” Takahashi revealed during the Netflix Apac showcase in Tokyo, which also included a...

The amazing thing about filming penguins in the wild, “Secrets of the Penguins” cinematographer Bertie Gregory tells Variety, is that since the big birds don’t have land-based predators, humans can get much closer than they might to other animals.

Sometimes the penguins would even get curious about the cameras and “break the fourth wall.”

“That is why this series is so intimate and emotional — we’re relatively close without disturbing their natural behavior,” Gregory explains of the show executive produced by James Cameron and narrated by Blake Lively. “Penguins pretty much have no fear of people. So that means...

Spoiler Alert: This article contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 2 of HBO’s “The Last of Us,” now streaming on Max.

The bloater is back and better than ever!

The biggest and baddest infected monster from “The Last of Us” made his triumphant return from Season 1 in the fiery Jackson battle Sunday night and went toe-to-toe with Tommy (Gabriel Luna), who wielded a sputtering flamethrower. Tommy won the fight, but the bloater did a number on the settlement and its residents before getting burned to a sizzling crisp. The super-sized clicker was first seen in Episode 5 of Season 1, but the Season...

CBS has settled a discrimination lawsuit filed by Brian Beneker, a script coordinator who claimed he had been passed over for a writing job on “Seal Team” because he is a straight white man.

Beneker alleged that CBS’ diversity hiring goals — which, at the time, included reaching 50% representation for Black, Indigenous and People of Color (Bipoc) writers by 2022-23 — amounted to an illegal quota.

No terms of the settlement were disclosed. Paramount Global — the parent company of CBS — recently rolled back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, saying in a memo that it would no longer “set or use aspirational...

Netflix is doubling down on Southeast Asian genre content with two zombie horror films that promise to reinvent the subgenre with distinctive local flavors, the company revealed during the ongoing Apac film showcase in Tokyo.

Malobika Banerji, senior director of content for Southeast Asia at Netflix, unveiled first looks at “The Elixir” from Indonesia and “Ziam” from Thailand, both slated for 2025 releases.

“The Elixir,” directed by acclaimed Indonesian horror auteur Kimo Stamboel, centers on a fractured family fighting to escape a zombie outbreak triggered by a traditional Javanese herbal elixir. The film stars Mikha Tambayong, Eva Celia, and Donny Damara,...

The spirits on Ghosts love their TV time, watching everything from Survivor and Selling Sunset to fictional programs like the reality series It’s Getting Hot in Here and the Succession-esque Night Sugar. But if Trevor had his way, he and his pals would only be watching one thing, all the time: The Cutting Edge.

Over the show’s four seasons, the finance bro has repeatedly referenced the 1992 sports romance, written by Tony Gilroy (!) and starring Moira Kelly and D.B. Sweeney as a figure skater and a former hockey player who team up to win the Olympics and each other’s hearts.

Netflix’s strategic investment in Asian-Pacific filmmaking is yielding significant returns, with Apac members’ film viewing surging nearly 20% in 2024, according to data revealed at the company’s ongoing Apac film showcase in Tokyo.

The streaming giant disclosed that Apac films dominated its Non-English Film Weekly Top 10 charts more than content from any other region last year, with over 100 Apac titles breaking into these rankings. The robust performance underscores Netflix’s expanding footprint in the world’s most populous region.

“The average Netflix member watches seven movies every month,” noted Minyoung Kim, VP of Content for Apac (excluding India), highlighting film...

WrestleMania 41 may have come to a close, but WWE on Netflix is just getting started. Enter WWE: Unreal, a new series coming in summer 2025. For the first time ever, step into the WWE writer's room and outside the ring with your favorite WWE Superstars, where the drama is just as intense offstage as it is under the spotlight.

While full details remain under wraps, WWE: Unreal is part of Netflix’s rapidly growing partnership with WWE — one that kicked off in a major way in January 2025 with Raw, streaming live on Netflix on Mondays at 8 p.m. Et / 5 p.m. Pt. Since the premiere, dozens of Superstars have stepped into the WWE Raw ring, including The Rock, John Cena, and the Undisputed WWE Champion “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes, and the Raw after WrestleMania on Monday, April 21 is set to be the biggest spectacle of...

A man storms into an Apple store, gun in hand, and fires shots. As he takes customers and employees hostage, the armed man demands a breathtaking amount of money — all in cryptocurrency — before he’ll let anyone go. iHostage, inspired by the 2022 hostage crisis at an Amsterdam Apple store, follows the attacker and those he’s holding for ransom. Directed by Bobby Boermans and written by Simon de Waal (The Golden Hour), the film stars Soufiane Moussouli, Loes Haverkort, and Marcel Hensema.

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When an armed man, Dutch national Ammar Ajar (Moussouli) enters an Amsterdam Apple store, he demands a ransom of more than $200 million — and safe passage out of the city. He then takes Ilian Petrov (Šehović), a Bulgarian visitor, as his main hostage. Soon, chief negotiator Lynn (Haverkort) steps in, buying time for a...

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have been friends since they were in elementary school, and now they’re bringing that friendship to Netflix. The duo are reteaming for new crime thriller The Rip, from writer-director Joe Carnahan. Also coming along for the ride are Steven Yeun, Kyle Chandler, Teyana Taylor, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Sasha Calle; the film will be produced by Artists Equity, the artist-led studio that Damon and Affleck founded in 2022.

“Working with Matt and Ben and having two, distinctly talented filmmakers, as both creative allies and the studio heads, wound up being the best of both worlds,” Carnahan tells Tudum. “I've never had as easy an experience on a movie as I had on The Rip. They took exceptionally good care of me and backed my decisions every step of the way.”

Damon and Affleck met as neighbors in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and quickly became...

Onya Nurve did it.

It’s been a few days since Nurve, whose real name is Justin Woody, was crowned the winner of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 17, and it hasn’t quite clicked for the queen who has been celebrating since Friday and is now up at the crack of dawn, speaking to the press.

But one thing is clear, she’s proud of her win. For Nurve, it’s been a season. She dominated with four Main Challenge Wins, she wowed with her Eddie Murphy impersonation during the Snatch Game challenge, and she triumphed over Jewels Sparkles in the...

Variety FYC TV Fest returns May 7 in Los Angeles for a day of genre-focused discussions featuring the creators and talent behind the year’s most talked about Emmy contending series. Join us for an exciting star-studded event, complete with engaging panel conversations and a special presentation of the Mary Tyler Moore Visionary Award.

The festival kicks off with “Meet the Makers” drama panel, including “The Day of the Jackal” and “Lockerbie: A Search for Truth”, featuring executive producers Gareth Neame and Nigel Marchant. The morning continues with a look into thrilling series “Yellowjackets,” followed by an ensemble conversation with the...

A Price Is Right contestant fell on the ground on set after winning a lot of money on the Showcase wheel. The contestant first won $1,000 after spinning 100, and then got a second chance to win more money. The episode was a special “All Cash Friday” where all of the prizes were money. Sabrina Miller was one of the first contestants called to Bidder’s Row on Friday, April 18. She bid $2,000 on a trip for two to Santa Fe, New Mexico. That was the highest price and since the retail price was $2,896, she won. For her game, Punch a Bunch, Miller had the chance to win up to $50,000 in cash. First, she had to guess if items were higher or lower than the given price to earn punches. The first was an electric wok with two chopsticks and a steaming rack. It was priced at $40, and Miller said it was higher.

9-1-1 will never be the same. And as Angela Bassett wrote in a message on Instagram on Monday, April 21, four days after the episode that changed the show forever, that is definitely true for her character, Athena. “For eight seasons, this kind, funny, compassionate, talented actor became not only my trusted colleague, but also a dear friend. #peterkrause as #bobbynash helped to introduce @911onabc to the homes and hearts of fans around the world,” Bassett wrote in the caption of a photo of herself and Krause. “I know this is hard for all of you. It’s hard for us, too. Peter’s Bobby Nash will be missed but his character will never be forgotten. He is forever a part of our family. We should all give Peter a lot of love as he expands beyond “the 118” and into all adventures that await him. Love you, my friend. Athena will never be the same.

A mysterious new “Star Wars” series is in early development from “Lost” co-showrunner Carlton Cuse and his son, Nick Cuse, Variety has confirmed.

There are practically no other details available about the show, such as which characters it will include, when it will take place in the “Star Wars” timeline or which actors will be cast.

Cuse is not the first “Lost” alum to travel to a galaxy far, far away. J.J. Abrams, a co-creator of the sci-fi classic, directed 2015’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and 2019’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.”

And Damon Lindelof, Cuse’s co-showrunner on “Lost,...

The Star Wars universe continues to grow.

Star Wars: Visions Season 3 will debut Wednesday, Oct. 29 on Disney+, Lucasfilm announced at the Star Wars Celebration 2025 in Tokyo, per The Hollywood Reporter.

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Additionally, there will be a new spinoff series, The Ninth Jedi, expanding upon an earlier Visions short. The offshoot is set to premiere sometime in 2026.

In other recent scheduling news…

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[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “The Last of Us” Season 2, Episode 2, “Through the Valley.”]

In movies and TV, zombies are scary due to their numbers. It doesn’t matter how fast you run, it doesn’t matter where you go, they’ll find you. They exist on such a massive scale that they become inevitable.

In archetypical zombie movies like George A. Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead,” the protagonists are trapped in an enclosed location surrounded by hordes of zombies whose only goal is to maul them to death. Yet those zombie hordes are just waiting outside. At most, they run like a mindless herd once they find a way in. These undead don’t plan, don’t strategize, and don’t even think. “The Last of Us” season two does something different in its second episode, and the result is a very different take on the walking dead than what we’ve seen...

Season 23 of American Idol is in full swing, and Filo is one of the contestants who’s managed to stand out week after week. Filo received one of this season’s three platinum tickets, so he made an impression on judges Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie, and Carrie Underwood from the start. Now, the aspiring vocalist is in the top 20 and hoping to continue advancing thanks to America’s votes. Scroll down to learn more about Filo amid the singing competition. Where is Filo from? Filo grew up in Egypt and moved to the United States when he was 13 years old. Since moving to the States, he has been living in the Bay Area of California. “Growing up in Egypt was amazing,” Filo said during his audition. “I was raised in the Coptic Orthodox church, growing up in a huge community. It’s definitely a huge part of my life that I really cherish.

It’s been a treat to watch real-life spouses Carrie Preston and Michael Emerson face off as foes in Elsbeth‘s second season, but all good things must come to an end. Emerson’s final appearance as Judge Milton Crawford airs this Thursday, April 24, at a special time, 9/8c, on CBS. Every remaining episode of the season will air at 9/8c, with the Season 2 finale airing on Thursday, May 8. In a preview for his last stand with Carrie Preston’s Elsbeth Tascioni, Michael Emerson tells TV Insider that the episode is “laced with danger.” While their onscreen dynamic is that of rivals, the husband and wife have had a thrilling ride as costars. “We were ready for writing this strong,” he says of sharing the screen this season. Viewers have known since Emerson’s debut episode that Crawford’s guilty of murder. Elsbeth has been suspicious of the judge ever...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers from “Through the Valley”, the second episode of “The Last of Us” Season 2, now streaming on Max.

Kaitlyn Dever delivered a chilling, emotionally devastating performance in Sunday night’s episode of HBO/Max’s “The Last of Us,” immediately propelling her into the center of the Emmy conversation. The acclaimed actress was featured prominently in what may be the season’s most talked-about hour, and has industry insiders debating about her category placement ahead of the official submission deadline.

Variety has learned exclusively that Dever qualifies for the guest actress in a drama series category,...

David Visentin is returning to Love It or List It for Season 20, but he’ll have a new cohost by his side. When the show returns on Monday, April 21, Visentin will be joined by Page Turner. The casting choice was made after Visentin’s former costar, Hilary Farr, announced in 2023 that she would be leaving the show after 15 years. However, the real estate mogul said he has no hard feelings. “Hilary and I will be friends forever. I love her,” he told TV Insider. “You can’t work with somebody for that long and not appreciate them as a human being and have love for them. I appreciate everything she gave to this show since 2008. I mean, it got to be where it is because of her.” Turner said that she also “appreciates” how much Farr brought to the HGTV series before her exit. “Without her, I couldn’t be sitting here,...

In June 2023, the submersible Titan went missing during a tourist expedition to view the wreck of the Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. It wasn’t until four days later that the vessel was found at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, with experts determining that the Titan had imploded during its descent, instantly killing all five of its passengers.

The upcoming 2025 documentary film Titan focuses on this notorious incident that dominated headlines as it examines OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, his quest to become the next billionaire innovator, and the doomed underwater endeavor that forced the world to reconsider the price of ambition in the depths of the ocean.

“When the Titan submersible went missing, I was horrified and mesmerized by the 24/7 news coverage and global social commentary — just like the rest of the world,” director Mark Monroe says. “There was no context for what...

Vanna White has shown off her toned arms as she did pushups in a video. The Wheel of Fortune hostess shared a behind-the-scenes video while in Hawaii where she taught her cohost, Ryan Seacrest, how to hula dance. “I love my job.. but I love it even more in Hawaii! Did you all notice how quick all those outfit changes were?” White captioned the post. Vanna White shared a video of her getting her hair and makeup done at 8 am while she wore a navy floral dress. She shared the view that she got to look at while getting prepped, which was endless ocean and the beach. The next clip had White on the ground in a different blue dress. “I wear a lot of strapless dresses, so I try to keep my arms in shape, so I do a few pushups before we start the day,” she said. White...

WrestleMania — it’s the grandest stage of them all, and this year, it went down on Saturday, April 19 and Sunday, April 20 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Feuds months (or years) in the making finally came to a head in the two-night spectacle, with unforgettable matches that will define careers and salify legacies. While WWE continues all year round without breaks, WrestleMania essentially serves as an unofficial season finale — a culmination of storylines and heightened stakes that make it the Super Bowl of wrestling. Whether it’s championship gold, bragging rights, or spilling bad blood, scores are always settled at the annual event.

Since the inaugural WrestleMania on March 31, 1985 — watch Episode 1 of Mr. McMahon for the origin story — the annual event has only grown, drawing its biggest live audience with over a hundred thousand in attendance for WrestleMania 32, expanding to Saturday...

The swanky uptown pad that was once home to Midge Maisel and her parents is officially on the market — but it won’t come cheap!

The property is being listed for the first time in over 30 years, with a bonus of being part of TV and film history. The home was featured in Prime Video’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for five seasons, and was also used for Woody Allen’s 1997 film Deconstructing Harry.

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Third time’s the charm! Three contestants won Ford Broncos on Wheel of Fortune in the same week. The game show contestant solved the puzzle quickly and won the car on the latest episode. Sheila Sabo, from Prescott, Arizona, played against Diana Cabot, from Miramar, Florida, and Mohamed El-Shiekh, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Friday, April 18. Cabot, a huge Wonder Woman fan, solved the first two toss-ups, putting $2,000 in her bank. Sabo, a big gamer, solved the first puzzle— “Being on Hold for Hours”— after almost all of the letters were called. She tried to solve the second puzzle, but guessed one word wrong. El-Shiekh, a man who always feels lucky when it comes to parking spaces, upgrades on flights, and free tickets to see late-night shows, solved it, putting him in the lead with $3,350. Sabo solved the Prize Puzzle with only one letter left as the last word stumped the contestants.

Come to Ransom Canyon for the stunning landscapes, stay for the irresistible love stories and layered small-town drama — there’s something for everyone in the series created by April Blair.

The addictive first season revolves around local dance hall owner Quinn (Minka Kelly) and grief-stricken rancher Staten (Josh Duhamel) as they make sense of the past, present, and future of their small Texas hometown, Ransom Canyon. The former classmates have been friends forever, but could never be together. After years of pining after Staten, Quinn decides to move on — only for Staten to come out of hibernation and make things a little more complicated.

Staten is mourning the deaths of both his wife, Amala (Quinn’s best friend and another high school classmate), and his teenage son, Randall. But even in his bereavement, he’s determined to prove there was foul play involved in the car accident that...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers from “Through the Valley”, the second episode of “The Last of Us” Season 2, now streaming on Max.

Pedro Pascal’s fate in this year’s Emmy Awards race remains uncertain as HBO/Max and his awards team deliberate over which category best suits his performance in Season 2 of “The Last of Us”: lead drama actor or supporting.

Pascal’s portrayal of Joel Miller in the post-apocalyptic drama is drawing critical acclaim once again this season — though his screen time took a dramatic shift on Sunday night. In the second episode, titled “Through the Valley,...

A Wayans family member is making their acting debut in Poppa’s House. Amara Wayans, daughter of Damon Wayans Jr., joins her family onscreen in the Monday, April 21, episode of the CBS sitcom, which — unsurprisingly, given the big family affair that is Poppa’s House — includes behind-the-scenes contributions from Damon Wayans Sr.‘s daughters, Cara Mia and Kyla Wayans, as well as Damon Jr.’s other daughter, Aniya Wayans. TV Insider is sharing the exclusive first look at Amara’s acting debut in the video above. After working on the sitcom as Essence Atkins‘ stand-in throughout Season 1, Amara gets her own role in Poppa’s House Episode 17, “Babygirl.” She’s playing Natalie, the younger sister to her dad’s character, making grandpa Damon Sr. her onscreen father. Natalie and Poppa have been estranged ever since Poppa cheated on his ex-wife, Catherine, and split up their family. Natalie arrives at Junior’s (...

Less than a week after its release, Ransom Canyon has claimed the No. 1 spot on Netflix’s Top 10 list. The Western romance series, which is based on Jodi Thomas’ book series, has quickly won over viewers. While some of the show’s storylines wrapped up nicely in the Season 1 finale, there was a lot left open-ended, leaving fans to wonder if a Season 2 is on the way. Will there be more episodes to answer all of our burning questions? Scroll down for everything we know about Season 2 of Ransom Canyon. Is there a Season 2 of Ransom Canyon? So far, the show has not been confirmed for a second season. However, the powers that be are already working on the next story they want to tell. “We’ve already started the writers’ room, even though the show hasn’t been picked up to series yet for Season 2,” showrunner Ashley Blair told TV Insider.

Rooney Mara drama “La Cocina” by Alonso Ruizpalacios has been snapped up by boutique movie distributor Mubi to stream exclusively in the U.S. starting May 2.

Mara stars opposite four-time Ariel Award winner Raul Briones in this intense black & white kitchen drama which Variety described as a “chaotic symphony of nearly two dozen characters…” that “mixes biting social critique with stylistic bravura.”

Based on the seminal 1957 play “The Kitchen” by Arnold Wesker, the drama takes place in a hectic Times Square kitchen where a staff of mostly immigrant workers battles the heat, the pressure and the weight of dreams carried from distant homelands.

The 2016 film “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” was a critical and commercial success at the time, but hasn’t had much staying power in the cultural consciousness. A prequel to “A New Hope” extrapolated from that movie’s iconic opening crawl, “Rogue One” was vestigial by design. The subtitle also announced the project as one of a planned series of standalone films to pad out Disney’s release schedule; when that effort fizzled along with beleaguered origin story “Solo,” “Rogue One” was left marooned as a largely forgotten blip.

One of the many, many impressive accomplishments in “Andor,” the...

If you listen to the very end of the “Andor” episode credits, you will hear the familiar melody of John Williams’ original “Star Wars” score. Relatively few people will get that far, in part because streaming platforms like Disney+ encourage viewers to skip the credits and move onto whatever’s next in their queue.

But those that catch the soaring theme may be taken aback; like they’ve been reminded of something they didn’t realize they’d forgotten. “Oh yeah,” they might think. “‘Andor’ is a ‘Star Wars’ story.”

After suffering too many trips to galaxies far, far away that were either frustratingly confined to previous visions or otherwise failed to flourish, Tony Gilroy’s two-season limited series sets itself apart, despite functioning like a puzzle piece. Yes, “Andor” is a prequel series to a prequel film to a trilogy that first debuted nearly five decades ago, but instead...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for The Last of Us Season 2, Episodes 1-2.] The Last of Us Season 2 continues to build up suspense as Episode 2 further unravels the mystery introduced by the character Gail (Catherine O’Hara), Jackson’s resident therapist. The role that was created for the series brings fresh life into the storylines introduced in the game The Last of Us Part II upon which the show is based, but as she tried helping Joel (Pedro Pascal) cope with Ellie’s (Bella Ramsey) coldness toward him, she was combating her own anger against the man fans have came to know and love. As Gail revealed in the Season 2 premiere, Joel shot and killed her husband, Eugene (who is played in the show by Joe Pantoliano). While viewers haven’t met the character onscreen this season, his death loomed large over Joel and Gail’s charged session. But who was Eugene? We know that Gail was...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 2 of HBO’s “The Last of Us,” now streaming on Max.

Kaitlyn Dever revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that she started filming her role of Abby on “The Last of Us” Season 2 just three days after her mother’s funeral. To make matters even more intense, the first sequences Dever shot for the show was Abby torturing Pedro Pascal’s Joel to death.

“It was just a massive scene emotionally, and with blocking, too,” Dever said. “There were so many moving parts and so many things to navigate… To be as honest as possible,...

Netflix is pulling back the curtain on the WWE.

“WWE: Unreal,” a new docuseries set to debut this summer, will give viewers an exclusive, closer look at the organization. Produced by Omaha Productions, NFL Films, Skydance Sports and WWE, the series will consist of 10 episodes, each 50 minutes long.

Here is the official logline: “For the first time ever, step into the WWE writer’s room and outside the ring with your favorite WWE Superstars, where the drama is just as intense offstage as it is under the spotlight.”

“This is a calculated, coordinated production,” chief content officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque...

Don’t adjust your TV. Yes, you did see that episode of The View already. This week, the ABC talk show is airing reruns all week long — from Monday, April 14, through Friday, April 18, and again on Monday April 21 — instead of live new episodes. Sure, there are plenty of new “Hot Topics” for cohosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin to dig into this week, but the show is on a temporary hiatus, so it’ll have to wait. Instead of new episodes, The View will air five encore episodes during its usual 11 a.m. Et hour on ABC. What repeat episodes are airing this week? For Monday’s (April 14) airing, the network is reairing the March 13 episode, which featured journalist Kara Swisher and music icon Donny Osmond promoting his Las Vegas residency (and revealing exactly when he’ll retire from his lifelong...

For 11 years, Homura Kawamoto’s manga “Kakegurui” has delighted readers with its hammy, enjoyably ridiculous story of an elite private school where student popularity is determined through a cutthroat underground gambling circuit. Combining intensely serious gambling battles with a strong dose of lesbian homoeroticism, “Kakegurui” (which translates to “Compulsive Gambler” in English) has spawned an entire franchise since its first publication in 2014, including two seasons of an anime series produced by Studio Mappa, a live-action Japanese series, two spin-off manga, and two live-action films.

Now, Netflix — which licensed the anime series for international distribution — is taking the gamble of seeing whether this weird, campy property can make the same successful adaptational leap that manga like “One Piece” have in the past, rather than flop on its face like some other attempts to translate anime to new mediums (see “Cowboy Bebop”). The streamer has today announced that an English live-action adaptation of “Kakegurui,...

Jenny Marrs and Dave Marrs celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary by renewing their wedding vows. They first came up with the idea to hold a 20th anniversary celebration in 2023 and waited two years to put it into effect. Jenny shared a video clip of the renewal, which included the quote “You’re surrounded by your legacy.” All five of the couple’s children joined them in front of the room to honor this. “This moment was, for me, the most sacred and special part of our vow renewal ceremony and I’ll forever treasure this memory.” Just days before the renewal, the Marr’s “unexpectedly lost someone very dear to [their] family,” according to Jenny. She said she “considered rescheduling” the surprise celebration, but chose to keep it because God “knew we could hold it all – sorrow and joy.” “We remembered the two giddy kids who vowed to love one another...