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Apple TV+ has added eight to the cast of workplace thriller Severance as principal photography gets underway on Season 2. Game of Thrones alumna Gwendoline Christie, Bob Balaban (The Chair), Merritt Wever (Godless), Alia Shawkat (Search Party), Robby Benson (Beauty and the Beast), Stefano Carannante (Mirabilia), Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (The Tourist) and John Noble (Fringe) join the Emmy-winning series starring Adam Scott, from creator and writer Dan Erickson and director and executive producer Ben Stiller. Fifth Season is the studio. The streamer also released a first-look image below.

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Shane Paul McGhie is stepping in for actor Skylan Brooks as one of the leads in the Suretone Pictures-Lionsgate horror title Creepers which is shooting in Bulgaria.

EXCLUSIVE: Marking her first feature since she won a Best Actress Oscar for The Eyes Of Tammy Faye, Jessica Chastain and Dopesick and The Batman star Peter Sarsgaard have just wrapped on Michel Franco’s (New Order) new film, which we can reveal is called Memory.

Gogglebox has been slapped with more complaints after viewers shared their disgruntlement with the broadcasting watchdog over recent scenes. Fans of the Channel 4 show had already lodged more than 100 complaints with Ofcom over an episode aired on April 22.

Gogglebox has been hit with over 200 Ofcom complaints after airing a sex scene featuring a duck.Viewers were left unimpressed as the group of armchair critics watched an expect from feminist anthology series Roar during an episode of the Channel 4 show which aired on Friday, April 22.The clip in question is from the episode named 'The Woman Who Was Fed by a Duck', which, as well as exploring the issue of domestic abuse, featured s a scene in which Merritt Wever's character Elisa is sexually pleasured by a duck.Ofcom has received 68 complaints from April 26 until May 2 about the now infamous Gogglebox scene, on top of the 149 from last week.During the Roar scenes aired on Gogglebox, Elisa could be seen forming a romantic relationship with a talking duck.Later in the episode, the bird instructed Elisa to lie on the floor and remove her trousers before performing oral sex on her - leaving both the Gogglebox cast and viewers at home horrified.While TV star Giles Wood dubbed the scene "the worst thing he'd ever seen on television", viewers on Twitter also made their horror known.One viewer said: "Gogglebox should not be promoting shows that are basically insinuating bestiality. That was absolutely disgusting and wasn't in the slightest bit funny."Another wrote: "Deeply disturbing is the best way to describe it."A third commented: "Just seen a clip of a talking duck having oral sex with a woman on #gogglebox and I'm legit traumatised.""We watched Gogglebox this evening.

Gogglebox has sent its audiences quackers once again – this time, by airing an excerpt from feminist anthology series Roar. Last week's episode of Gogglebox sparked a flurry of complaints from viewers to broadcasting regulator Ofcom, after the Channel 4 reality series aired its families reacting to a weirdly racy scene from the new Apple TV+ drama. The clip in question is from the series' episode 'The Woman Who Was Fed by a Duck', which, as well as exploring the issue of domestic abuse, features a scene in which Merritt Wever's character Elisa is sexually pleasured by a duck.

Gogglebox has been slapped with more than 100 official complaints after viewers were left shocked by 'traumatising' scenes. The hit Channel 4 show returned to screens on Friday (April 22).

Googlebox has received 149 Ofcom complaints for the inclusion of a duck sex scene in its latest episode.The broadcasting regulator has confirmed that almost 150 viewers took grievance with the Channel 4 show after it featured a scene from new Apple TV+ series Roar which depicted a woman receiving oral sex from the water bird.In scenes which aired on Friday (April 22), regular Gogglebox cast members including Giles and Mary sat down to watch the fifth episode of Roar.The female-led anthology is based on the short-story collection by Cecilia Ahern and its fifth episode 'The Woman Who Was Fed By A Duck' starred The Walking Dead actress, Merritt Wever.During the Roar scenes aired on Gogglebox, a woman called Elisa (Wever) could be seen forming a romantic relationship with a talking duck. Later in the episode, the bird instructed Elisa to lie on the floor and remove her trousers before performing oral sex on her - leaving both the Gogglebox cast and viewers at home horrified.While Giles dubbed the scene 'the worst thing he'd ever seen on television', viewers on Twitter also made their horror known.One viewer said: "Gogglebox should not be promoting shows that are basically insinuating bestiality.

The End Up, USG Audio’s first scripted podcast, has set its cast.

Issa Rae’s back in front of the camera, and this time, she’s lending her face and expert comedic timing to Roar, a new anthology series from Apple TV+.Roar, an 8-episode dark comedy often utilizing some surrealist themes, tackles issues facing women in various aspects of both personal and professional life. In the show’s flagship episode, Rae portrays a young black author with a hit book on the bestsellers list, just on the cusp of her big break in Hollywood.

and, Cynthia Erivo is back with another prestige TV series,. The anthology series premieres April 15 on Apple TV+, as Erivo begins pre-production on the anticipated film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical,.

The new women-centric Apple TV+ anthology series “Roar” is extremely literal. Across its eight episodes, a trophy wife lives on a shelf, an ignored woman disappears, and a frustrated wife returns her husband to a big box store.

Nicole Kidman has a slightly unusual obsession in Apple TV+ anthology series, Roar – she eats pictures!

Nicole Kidman eats photographs in a new trailer for the star-studded upcoming Apple TV+ anthology show Roar, premiering April 15.Each episode of the feminist-themed series tells a different woman's story - with a different big-name actress in the leading role.Cynthia Erivo, Alison Brie, Merritt Wever, Issa Rae, Meera Syal, Betty Gilpin, Kara Hayward and Fivel Stewart round off the sterling cast. Wow:Nicole Kidman eats photographs in a new trailer for the star-studded upcoming Apple TV+ anthology show Roar GLOW creatorsLiz Flahive and Carly Mensch have adapted the series from a book of short stories written by PS, I Love You novelistCecelia Ahern.The intriguing trailer opens on a peaceful sunlit room where Nicole, wrapped in a bathrobe, sits down peacefully - and then furtively starts munching a photo.

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons (Bonnie and Clyde) has signed on to star alongside Samantha Soule and Wendy vanden Heuvel in I Look To You, an upcoming indie feature written and directed by Daniel Talbott (Midday Black Midnight Blue).

EXCLUSIVE: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s long-awaited followup to her Emmy-winning series Fleabag is a go. Prime Video has greenlighted the new Waller-Bridge show, which will start shooting by the end of the year. Details about the premise are being kept under wraps.

Apple TV+ has announced premiere dates for its upcoming espionage series Slow Horses, starring Oscar winner Gary Oldman, and female-driven anthology series Roar, starring Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever and Alison Brie. The dates were revealed Friday, along with some first-look images, as part of Apple TV+’s TCA presentation.

Nicole Kidman is among the stars getting ready to “Roar” in the upcoming anthology series from Apple TV+.

EXCLUSIVE: GLOW alumna Betty Gilpin is reuniting with the creators of the Netflix wrestling comedy-drama series on their new series, Apple TV+’s Roar. In the anthology, starring and executive produced by Nicole Kidman, Gilpin also joins her former GLOW co-star Alison Brie.

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy winner Merritt Wever is boarding Midday Black Midnight Blue, the upcoming feature debut from Samantha Soule (The Queen’s Gambit, Outer Banks, Godless) and Daniel Talbott (The Conners, The Mist).

Ann Willis Ratray, who appeared on Broadway and TV before becoming a drama coach for young people including her son, Home Alone‘s Devin Ratray, died June 9 at her home in New York following a lengthy illness. She was 81.