Realscreen: ‘Free Meek’ wins 2021 Realscreen Award
Amazon’s Free Meek won the 2021 Realscreen Award in the Non-Fiction Arts & Culture Program category. Read more via Realscreen.
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TheWrap: ‘Selena + Chef’ EP on Giving Selena Gomez Harder Recipes in Season 2 and Planning for Post-Pandemic
Few shows with the pandemic as part of their premise seem destined to survive post-lockdown, but HBO Max’s “Selena + Chef” shows no signs of slowing down. The socially distanced cooking show returned on Thursday with three new episodes and six more set to roll out in the coming weeks. That’s a total of 20 […]
Entertainment Weekly: Director R.J. Cutler explains how his Billie Eilish doc for Apple TV+ resembles The Office
The Grammy-winner had a request for making Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry: “I want it to be like The Office.” Read more via Entertainment Weekly.
Deadline: Discovery+ To Launch ‘90 Day Fiancé’ Spinoff Game Show ‘Love Games’
The 90 Day Fiancé universe continues to grow with another spinoff: game show Love Games. Discovery+ will launch the series February 8 and it joins spinoffs 90 Day Journey, 90 Day Bares All, 90 Day Diaries and The Other Way Strikes Back! — all of which premiered as part of the fledgling streamer’s launch slate this week. Read more via Deadline.
Deadline: Charli D’Amelio & Family Sign Up For Hulu Reality Series ‘The D’Amelio Show’
Move over Kardashians… Charli D’Amelio, who has more than 100 million followers on TikTok, and her family have got their own reality show. Hulu has ordered The D’Amelio Show, an eight-part series that follows the family, which has a combined social media footprint of over 250M followers. Read more via Deadline.
Variety: Nicolas Cage Hosts ‘History of Swear Words’ Series on Netflix
Nicolas Cage will host “History of Swear Words,” a proudly profane series about expletives for Netflix in January. The six-episode series will dive into the origins, pop culture usage, science and cultural impact of swear words, such as “fuck,” “shit,” “bitch,” “dick,” “pussy” and “damn.” In each 20-minute episode, Cage will conduct interviews with historians, entertainers […]
Deadline: Nicolas Cage To Host ‘History Of Swear Words’ At Netflix
Nicolas Cage is continuing to lean into television – hosting unscripted comedy series History of Swear Words for Netflix. The Con Air actor is fronting the show, which explores the origins, pop culture-usage, science and cultural impact of curse words. Read more via Deadline.
The Hollywood Reporter: Nicolas Cage to Explore ‘History of Swear Words’ for Netflix
Nicolas Cage is continuing to lean into television – hosting unscripted comedy series History of Swear Words for Netflix. Read more via The Hollywood Reporter.
Deadline: ABC Sets Premiere Dates For ‘The Bachelor’, ‘American Idol’, ‘To Tell The Truth’ & New Game Shows
ABC has set early-2021 premiere dates for new seasons of its reality hits The Bachelor and American Idol, along with the return of To Tell the Truth and the debuts of three new game shows: Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, The Chase and The Hustler. Matt James is the new Bachelor in Season 25 of the franchise-launching juggernaut, which returns on Monday, January 4. The fourth season of […]
Deadline: HBO Max & Don Cheadle’s Radicle Act Ink ‘Max’ Deal; ‘Newsroom’ Alum Camilla Blackett To Showrun Dark Comedy
EXCLUSIVE: Don Cheadle’s Radicle Act banner and HBO Max are taking it to the Max, literally and figuratively. The AT&T-owned streamer has inked a development deal with the Emmy nominee’s production company for the dark comedy created by Camilla Blackett, I’ve learned. With the Fresh Off Boat, Skins and Newsroom scribe Blackett on-board as showrunner Max focuses on a black millennial woman who is trying to juggle her intense […]