News: HBO Acquires Rights to At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal

HBO Logo

HBO Documentary Films has acquired worldwide TV and streaming rights to AT THE HEART OF GOLD: INSIDE THE USA GYMNASTICS SCANDAL, exploring the sexual abuse scandal that shook the sports world in 2017.

News: Showtime Orders Drama Pilot Queen Fur

Showtime logo 2018 - large

QUEEN FUR is set in a small town in Central Florida – a place where beauty pageants, gun culture, Cuban revolutionaries and Southern hospitality co-exist and collide. And at the center of it all is Macy Dunleavy (Harrington) – a curvy, sexy, unapologetic high school dropout who is finding her womanhood and is ready to seize a big opportunity.

News: 15th Anniversary of New York Latino Film Festival (NYLFF) Presented by HBO Returns Aug 22-26.

The New York Latino Film Festival (NYLFF), fresh off its highly anticipated return, is excited to announce that its gearing up to kick off its 15th edition this summer and presented by its founding partner, HBO. The festival will once again ignite screens with the best the Latino community has to offer. With the addition of industry partners including AMC Theatres and the Motion Picture Association of America, the move into the summer is a welcome addition to the season’s Latino offerings that will further make New York the place to be for all things Latino. Final dates will be announced soon.

Videos/News: Starz Announces Casting for Season 2 of Vida, Key Art For America to Me, and Trailer for Warriors of Liberty City.

Starz - Lionsgate Logo (small)

At the 2018 Television Critics Association (TCA) Summer Press Tour, Starz announced Roberta Colindrez (“I Love Dick,” “The Deuce”) will be joining the cast of “Vida” as a new series regular in an expanded 10-episode second season during which series creator and executive producer Tanya Saracho will make her directorial debut. Starz also released the official trailer for upcoming docu-series “Warriors of Liberty City” and key art for “America to Me.”

Video/News: Sony Crackle’s New Comedy Rob Riggle’s Ski Master Academy Premieres Aug 23.

Sony Crackle announced that the network’s upcoming original comedy series “Rob Riggle’s Ski Master Academy” will debut on Thursday, August 23, with a special advance debut on Amazon Fire TV through the Sony Crackle app starting Monday, August 13. In addition, the free streaming network unveiled additional guest stars joining the series, including Dermot Mulroney (“My Best Friend’s Wedding”), Christopher McDonald (“Happy Gilmore”), Noël Wells (“Master of None”), David Arquette (“Amanda & Jack Go Glamping,” “Cleaners”), Jamie-Lynn Sigler (“The Sopranos”), Jamie Chung (“Big Hero 6”), Haley Joel Osment (“Future Man,” “Silicon Valley”) and more. The ensemble joins previously announced guest stars Paul Scheer and Richard Anthony “Cheech” Marin. The network also released new photos from the highly anticipated eight-episode summer series.

News: Youtube Renews Popular Series and Adds Bold Dramas and Big Comedies to Line Up

During the Television Critics Association session, YouTube showcased its upcoming Original series and announced renewals for 2018/2019.

Videos/News: Season 9 of Shameless and New Series Kidding Premieres Sept 9 on Showtime.

SHOWTIME has announced its new fall comedy line-up with the ninth season of its hit series SHAMELESS, starring Oscar® nominee and Emmy® and SAG Award® winner William H. Macy and Golden Globe® nominee Emmy Rossum, premiering on Sunday, September 9 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, followed by the series premiere of the new half-hour comedy series KIDDING, starring Golden Globe® winner Jim Carrey in his first series regular role in more than two decades and reuniting him with Oscar winner Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

Video/News: More Fist Pumps, GTL, Babies, and Weddings When Jersey Shore Family Vacation Part 2 Premieres Aug 23.

Jersey Shore Family Vacation logo - MTV (featured)

“Jersey Shore Family Vacation Part 2” returns with a two-hour premiere on Thursday, August 23 at 8:00PM ET/PT. The first hour will be simulcast globally across Viacom’s international network of MTV channels in nearly 180 countries. Season 2 kicks off with the housemates in Las Vegas then brings them back to New Jersey where it all started, for a weekend in Atlantic City and some fun on the shore. From welcoming new family members to reliving their glory days and celebrating milestones together, the housemates return for even more fist pumping and grand antics. But, when their personal lives spill out into the tabloids and on social media, the group must confront a variety of issues.

News: Showtime’s The Affair Returns For Fifth and Final Season.

SHOWTIME has renewed its Golden Globe® Award winning drama series THE AFFAIR for a fifth and final season. Season four of the series is currently airing on Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT, with the finale airing on August 19. THE AFFAIR explores the emotional and psychological effects of an affair that destroyed two marriages, and the crime that brings these individuals back together. Season four finds Noah (Golden Globe nominee Dominic West), Helen (Golden Globe winner Maura Tierney), Alison (Golden Globe winner Ruth Wilson) and Cole (Screen Actors Guild® Award nominee Joshua Jackson) in their own orbits, alienated from each other, spinning further and further away from where they all began.

News: HBO Series Camping Starring Jennifer Garner Debuts Oct 14

HBO Logo

What was supposed to be a delightful, back-to-nature camping trip quickly becomes a weekend of tested marriages and woman-on-woman crime that won’t soon be forgotten.

News/Videos: Sideswiped, a Multigenerational Comedy, is Now Available on YouTube Premium

The YouTube Original series Sideswiped, a multi-generational comedy about relationships—both romantic and familial—is available NOW on YouTube Premium. If you haven’t seen Sideswiped yet, you absolutely must. It’s one of the funniest shows I’ve seen in quite a while.

News: Treasure Hunters Embark on Deadly Expedition to Find Mega Treasure on New Season of Discovery Channel’s Treasure Quest

Discovery Channel logo 2018

TREASURE QUEST is back with more adventure, danger and treasure than ever before. This season, veteran treasure hunter Shawn Cowles, tech specialist Jeremy Whalen, and demolitions expert Jack Peters set out to Bolivia in search of the biggest land find treasure in history – the legendary Sacambaya Treasure, reportedly worth two billion dollars.

Video/News: Comedian Drew Michael’s First HBO Special Debuts Aug 25.

HBO Logo

DREW MICHAEL, the comedian’s first HBO special, debuts SATURDAY, AUG. 25 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT). Jerrod Carmichael, who has starred in two specials of his own on the network, directs. DREW MICHAEL follows him as he navigates his fears, anxieties and insecurities in an unconventional stand-up setting. Michael’s darkly comic, stream-of-consciousness monologue raises questions of identity, narrative, self-awareness and the limits of the medium itself. Suki Waterhouse also appears in the special.

Video: Oscilloscope’s John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection In Theaters Aug 22.

Oscilloscope Laboratories Presents JOHN MCENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION In Select Theaters August 22nd   WORLD PREMIERE | 2018 Berlin Film Festival DIRECTED BY | Julien Faraut PRODUCED BY | William Jehannin and Raphaelle Delauche RUN TIME | 94 Minutes SYNOPSIS | Written and directed by Faraut and narrated by Mathieu Amalric, JOHN MCENROE: …

Continue reading

Video/News: Season 3 of TBS Comedy Wrecked Premieres Aug 7.

TBS comedy Wrecked premieres its third season on Tuesday, August 7 at 10 p.m. (ET/PT). This season, the Wrecked gang find themselves shipwrecked on a mysterious billionaire’s private island where they’re forced to hunt each other to the death in a basic-cable battle royale.

Season three stars Ally Maki, Asif Ali, Brian Sacca, Brooke Dillman, Jessica Lowe, Rhys Darby, Will Greenberg, and Zach Cregger, along with guest stars Rob Corddry, Eugene Cordero, Jonno Roberts, Karan Soni, Rachel House, Robert Baker, and Will Hines. The series is executive-produced by Justin Shipley, Jordan Shipley and Jesse Hara.

News: Season 2 of HBO’s Drama The Deuce Returns Sept 9.

Chronicling the rise of pornography and the multibillion-dollar industry’s transformation of American culture, the critically acclaimed drama series THE DEUCE, created by George Pelecanos and David Simon, returns for its nine-episode second season SUNDAY, SEPT. 9 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO. Resuming five years after the culmination of the first season, THE DEUCE returns to the world of 1977, capturing the Times Square area of midtown New York at its most garish and volatile. The drama stars James Franco (Golden Globe winner for “The Disaster Artist”) as both Vincent Martino, a successful manager of several mob-backed nightspots, and his twin brother, Frankie Martino, whose own business ventures are more fraught, and Maggie Gyllenhaal (Oscar® nominee for “Crazy Heart” and Golden Globe nominee for season one of “The Deuce”) as Candy, now a rising director of ambitious porn films.

News: FX Orders Untitled ‘Fosse/Verdon’ Limited Series Starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams

FX has ordered the untitled ‘Fosse/Verdon’ project, an eight episode limited series from award-winning producers Thomas Kail, Steven Levenson and Lin-Manuel Miranda and starring Academy Award® winner Sam Rockwell and four-time Academy Award nominee Michelle WilliamsBased on Fosse, the biography written by Sam Wasson, this eight-part limited series tells the story of the singular romantic and creative partnership between Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon.

News: Tony Award Winner Diane Paulus and Emmy Award Winner Alex Rudzinki Set to Direct NBC’s Hair Live! on May 19, 2019

NBC’s “Hair Live!,” the original rock musical that is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, has found its directorial duo: Stage director Diane Paulus, the Tony Award-winning director of Broadway’s 2009 Best Revival of “Hair,” will join Emmy Award-winning Alex Rudzinski, who will serve as live television director as he did for “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert,” which just garnered him an Emmy nomination.

News: Former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright, Hillary Clinton, & General Colin Powell to Guest Star on Season 5 Premiere of CBS’ Madam Secretary Oct. 7

CBS announced today that former secretaries of state Madeleine Albright, Hillary Clinton and General Colin Powell will guest star in the fifth season premiere of MADAM SECRETARY to be broadcast Sunday, Oct. 7 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

News: The Browns Return to the Bush August 19 in an All New Season of Discovery’s Alaskan Bush People

Discovery Channel logo 2018

The Browns’ quest for a new life in the bush begins with establishing their foothold on their new property, but trouble strikes when the road that leads to their new home becomes a treacherous winding path of mud. It’s crucial for the Browns to fix the road, but are they equipped to handle such a large task?

Video: ABC’s The Rookie Starring Nathan Fillion Official Trailer.

Starting over isn’t easy, especially for small-town guy John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of being an LAPD officer.

News: Showtime® Signs Emmy®Award Winner Lena Waithe to First-Look Deal

Showtime logo 2018 - large

Waithe will work with SHOWTIME on comedy and drama projects that she both writes and produces through her company Hillman Grad Productions.

News: CBS Studios International to Host World Premiere of Showtime’s Limited Series Escape at Dannemora at MIPCOM 2018

Showtime logo 2018 - large

CBS Studios International will host the world premiere screening of the new SHOWTIME limited series, ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA, at MIPCOM 2018. ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA is based on the stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015 that spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers.

Video: ABC’s Single Parents Official Trailer

This ensemble comedy follows a group of single parents as they lean on each other to help raise their 7-year-old kids and maintain some kind of personal lives outside of parenthood.

News: ABC Announces Premiere Dates For Fall 2018-19 Season.

ABC logo _black-glossy_logo_2007 (thumb)

A total of eight new series have been announced for ABC’s 2018-19 season, including the one-hour dramas “A Million Little Things,” “The Fix,” “Grand Hotel,” “The Rookie” and “Whiskey Cavalier,” and the half-hour comedies “The Kids Are Alright,” “Schooled” and “Single Parents.”