Laurie Metcalf: Last News

After three iterations, a combined 17 seasons and nearly 40 years on the air, don’t expect The Conners to end with a big happy ever after.

Broadway and film producer Scott Rudin, whose aggressive and bullying behavior to some of his staff led to public condemnation and his withdrawal from producing four years ago, is making a comeback, which Rudin announces today in an interview with The New York Times.

Jordan Moreau Producer Scott Rudin, who stepped back from the film and theater industry in 2021 after workplace abuse allegations, is planning his Broadway return. The New York Times reported Friday that Rudin is developing a handful of Broadway productions. They include “Little Bear Ridge Road,” a play by Samuel D.

EXCLUSIVE: Seth Green has joined the cast of The Conners for the upcoming seventh and final season.

EXCLUSIVE: As NBC prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, it’s interesting to recall the show’s second official musical guest – singer-songwriter Janis Ian. On October 11, 1975, she riveted the audience with a performance of her smash hit “At 17,” a ballad of high school heartbreak and rejection.

The Conners are ready to say goodbye. ABC has set Wednesday, March 26 for the premiere of the Roseanne follow-up’s seventh and final season with a six-episode farewell event.

according to The Numbers.The action adventure, which The Post called “much easier to swallow than the first sequel,” is based on the Sega video game series.Its star-studded cast includes Jim Carrey, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba and James Marsden.The $122 million-dollar production is slated to earn $70.5 million this weekend, according to Deadline.Landing in second place was “Mufasa: The Lion King,” with earnings of $13.3 million on its opening day.The musical drama, produced by Walt Disney Pictures, is a prequel and sequel to 2019’s “The Lion King,” which was a remake of the original 1994 animated Disney movie.The Post said the “totally unnecessary, boring sequel shows the repetitive Circle of Life at Disney.”Seth Rogen, Billy Eichner, Donald Glover and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter all reprised their roles in the follow-up flick, and Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, joined the cast. It is expected to take in up to $38 million its opening weekend, Deadline reported.“Wicked” came in third on its fifth Friday in theaters, with a $3.72 million dollar take.This week, Vanity Fair reported that the movie, based on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel “Wicked,” was originally considered in the late 1990s — when it may have starred Demi Moore and other notable names.“People who had expressed an interest in the first six months included Whoopi Goldberg and Claire Danes,” Maguire told the outlet.

Long before Wicked made the jump from stage to screen, the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel had Hollywood in a frenzy.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director The “Wicked” movie is a box office powerhouse with $530 million and counting at the global box office. It’s also a critical darling, earning rave reviews and Oscar buzz for its leading ladies Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. But what if “Wicked” was originally made decades ago with Demi Moore as the green-skinned Elphaba? A new report from Vanity Fair dives into the first attempts to bring “Wicked” to the big screen in the late 1990s.

EXCLUSIVE: Anders Danielsen Lie (The Worst Person in the World), Bill Pullman (Independence Day) and Oscar nominee and Tony winner Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird) have been set to star in biopic Everybody Digs Bill Evans about the acclaimed U.S. jazz pianist and composer.

Laurie Metcalf and Eric McCormack are set to appear in upcoming episodes of Elsbeth!

Monster series will see Tom Hollander star as Alfred Hitchcock.Murphy recently announced that season three will star Charlie Hunnam as the 1950s serial killer Ed Gein. He became infamous when authorities discovered that he not only had killed multiple people, but had dug up graves from a cemetery near his home and fashioned all manner of household items and clothing from human remains.Now according to Variety, Hollander, Hacks star Laurie Metcalf and The Crown‘s Olivia Williams have been added to the cast.Metcalf will play Gein’s mother, Augusta, while Williams will play Alma Reville, Hitchcock’s wife.It is thought that because Gein served as one of the inspirations for Norman Bates and Hitchcock’s film Psycho, season three of the hit Netflix anthology will delve into how his crimes influenced the film and the novel upon which the movie was based.Hollander recently worked with Murphy on the second season of Feud as Truman Capote in the the series.Elsewhere, Murphy recently suggested that he might not be finished with Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.Following the news that a court hearing has been set for Erik and Lyle Menendez, and that new evidence that they were allegedly molested by their father is now being considered, Murphy has expressed an interest in extending the season.The show charts the brothers’ conviction and sentencing to life in prison for the first-degree murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989.Following its release Erik blasted Murphy in a statement, calling the show naive and inaccurate.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Monster” Season 3 has added Laurie Metcalf, Tom Hollander, and Olivia Williams to its cast, Variety has learned exclusively. The trio join previously announced cast member Charlie Hunnam, who will star as Ed Gein in the next season of the Netflix anthology series.

The third season of the hit Monster anthology series on Netflix is in the works!

EXCLUSIVE: Laurie Metcalf has signed with CAA.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “The Conners” has been renewed for Season 7 at ABC, which will also be the show’s last. In addition, ABC has canceled “Not Dead Yet” after two seasons. The final season of “The Conners” will reportedly be shorter than past seasons, with sources saying it will run for just six episodes.

It’s official: The Conners will be getting a proper goodbye. The Roseanne follow-up has been renewed for seventh and final season. As Deadline reported exclusively last week, the order is believed to be for six episodes, with the main cast, including John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert and Lecy Goranson, expected to return. The renewal took longer to finalize because dates for the cast, particularly Goodman, had to be worked out, I hear.

Good news for The Conners fans. The Roseanne followup, which just marked its 100th episode, will be getting a seventh season. The renewal is being finalized, with a short order to wrap the story expected, sources said. I hear it will be around 6 episodes, and the main cast, including John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert and Lecy Goranson, is expected to return.

Netflix has added a film with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score which has an opening scene fans have hailed 'iconic' - although it leaves some 'screaming.'

known for “Shameless,” told The Post about Goodman, 71.“I think a lot of the castmates on this show are super fearless, which is super important in comedy. You really won’t get to take two takes that are alike. You really always bring something new, which is really fun to watch.”“He’s definitely got quite the resume.

George (Lance Barber) and Mary (Zoe Perry), twin sister Missy (Raegan Revord), older brother Georgie (Montana Jordan) and grandmother Connie (Annie Potts), aka “Meemaw.”It’s a prequel to “The Big Bang Theory” (2007-2019), which followed the adult Sheldon, played by Jim Parsons, who also narrates “Young Sheldon” — co-created by Chuck Lorre, who also co-created “The Big Bang Theory.” (Zoe Perry’s mother, Laurie Metcalf, played the adult Sheldon’s mom in “TBBT.”)“We’re aware that ‘Big Bang Theory’ fans like those little Easter Egg moments, so there’s definitely going to be some of those coming up,” said Holland. “There are some ‘Big Bang’ references I think people will be excited to see and we’re excited to put them in.“Knowing this was our last season, we each had a personal list of things we wanted to acknowledge or make reference to or hide in the background — and I think ‘Big Bang’ fans will have a lot to look forward to.”Primarily, these last 14 episodes of “Young Sheldon” — the series finale airs in May — will focus on the Cooper family in the show’s late ’80s/early ’90s universe, with an occasional nod to its CBS predecessor.“Knowing this was the final season there were definitely some big events we knew we wanted to hit and characters we wanted to see again,” Holland said.“It’s tricky,” he said.