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Selome Hailu ABC’s untitled drama pilot from “This Is Us” and “Queen Sugar” writer Kay Oyegun has cast Sendhil Ramamurthy, Johnny Simmons, Rachel Hilson, Demitrius Grosse and Rahnuma Panthaky.The pilot follows five therapists at the Mindful Insight Therapy Group in Philadelphia who find unique ways to solve problems in their patients’ lives while grappling with their own. Ellen Roman, the owner of the practice and a brilliant therapist, has her life shockingly turned upside down when she begins working with a sociopathic patient who may hold the key to the disappearance of her sister five years earlier.Ramamurthy will play Amit, a big-hearted and well-respected relationship therapist.

Selome Hailu The Onyx Collective comedy pilot “Deli Boys” has been ordered to series at Hulu, with Brian George added as a series regular. 20th Television serves as the studio.Created by Abdullah Saeed, the half-hour, 10-episode series stars Asif Ali and Saagar Shaikh as Mir and Raj Dar, respectively.

Selome Hailu Back-to-back airings of “Succession” and “Barry” as both shows progress through their fourth and final seasons continue to bring in strong numbers for HBO on Sunday nights — and now, Season 2 of “Somebody Somewhere” is contributing to that roster. With Episode 6, “Succession” hit a series high for the fourth time this season: 2.7 million viewers, up 7% from the 2.6 million viewers who tuned into Episodes 4 and 5. Season 4 debuted with a then-series high of 2.3 million viewers, before dipping to 2 million with Episode 2 and jumping back up to 2.5 million with Episode 3. These statistics are reported by Warner Bros. Discovery based on a combination of Nielsen’s measurement of linear airings on HBO and first-party data regarding streams on HBO Max.

Charna Flam Grammy-nominated rapper Tobe Nwigwe stopped by Variety and Audible’s Music Storytelling Panel at South by Southwest to chat with Audible’s executive producer of music storytelling, Preston Copley, about his rise through the music industry and his immersive interview on the Audible podcast “Origins.” Nwigwe is the center of the third episode of “Origins,” which is hosted by author Phil Griffin and features conversations with industry titans, including Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, King Princess, Mickey Guyton, Koffee, Flying Lotus and Camilo. The intention of “Origins” is to showcase “a class of artists who deeply impact culture,” Copley explained to Variety reporter Selome Hailu, who moderated the panel. “They’re early enough in their career where they’re newly grappling with a lot of global recognition, and this is a moment for them to look back on the journey that’s brought them from where they were to where they are.”

Selome Hailu NBC’s comedy pilot “Lopez vs. Lopez,” created by George Lopez and his daughter Mayan Lopez, has been ordered to series.The multi-cam stars both Lopezes and is described as a working-class family comedy about dysfunction, reconnection and all the pain and joy in between. In April, Variety learned exclusively that Selenis Leyva, Brice Gonzalez and Matt Shively would also star, with Laci Mosley and Kiran Deol in recurring roles.

Selome Hailu The cast members of “Barry” are almost as excited to be back on the air as they are to see each other in person again.On April 18, at the Season 3 premiere of the Bill Hader-created HBO series at Rolling Greens in Los Angeles, different actors frequently stopped in the middle of red carpet interviews to greet and congratulate each other.“God, you are sensational!” industry icon Henry Winkler said to young actor (and new cast member) Elsie Fisher, almost shouting. “Oh, my god! I love you, and you are sensational!” he continued, referring to Fisher’s performance in the new season. “What is happening?” the 19-year-old said to Variety, blushing.“I was such a big fan of ‘Barry’ before I worked on it,” Fisher shared, adding that they were particularly thrilled to collaborate with Hader and Sarah Goldberg.

Selome Hailu Moving forward, IMDb TV will be known as Amazon Freevee.IMDb, which is owned by Amazon, launched the free, ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) service in January 2019 under the name IMDb Freedive, before rebranding to IMDb TV in June of that year. After beginning in the U.S.

Selome Hailu Premiering his new Apple TV Plus docuseries “They Call Me Magic” at the South by Southwest Film Festival, Magic Johnson shared that Michael Jordan’s Netflix docuseries “The Last Dance” helped him decide it was finally time to tell his own life story.“The reason we did it is because when Michael did ‘The Last Dance,’ my phone just started ringing,” the former L.A. Laker said in a post-screening discussion.

Selome Hailu The students of Lakewood Elementary may be all grown up, but “Arthur” isn’t really ending.The PBS Kids series, based on Marc Brown’s picture books of the same name, is the longest running animated children’s show in TV history, and on Feb. 21 aired the four episodes that comprise the 25th and final season. But at 75, Brown finds himself invigorated by possibilities that remain for his beloved aardvark, including podcasts, games and more.Series finale “All Grown Up” looks 20 years into the future to see who Arthur and his animal pals become, an idea that emerged from one of the questions children ask Brown most frequently.

Selome Hailu Rawson Marshall Thurber will creatively oversee Entertainment One’s upcoming live-action “Dungeons & Dragons” series, a rep for eOne confirmed to Variety. Thurber will write and direct the pilot script and executive produce the series, which is based on the popular fantasy role-playing game franchise published by Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro.The hourlong series will be one of the one of the first projects set in the “Dungeons & Dragons” TV universe that has been in planning stages at eOne since the indie studio was acquired by Hasbro in 2020.

Selome Hailu editor1091 Pictures has acquired the global rights to “Vandal,” Jose Daniel Freixas’ feature directorial debut, which premieres digitally and on demand on 11/16. The film follows Nick “Damage” Cruz (Daniel Zovatto), the young leader of an infamous graffiti crew in Miami, as he experiences love, loss and the consequences of his actions while coming of age and struggling to justify his obsession with illegal street art.Zovatto’s credits include the 2016 horror-thriller “Don’t Breathe,” Showtime horror series “Penny Dreadful” and the upcoming “Station Eleven” adaptation for HBO Max.

Selome Hailu editor“Invincible: The Musical,” Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo’s Broadway-bound show based on “Romeo and Juliet,” will have an invite-only industry presentation at The Bourbon Room in Los Angeles Nov. 10-12.Named for Benatar’s famous 1985 single, “Invincible” features music from both Benatar and Neil Giraldo, with book by Bradley Bredeweg, direction by Scott Schwartz, choreography by Lauren Yalango-Grant and Christopher Grant, orchestrations by Neil Giraldo and music direction and arrangements by Jesse Vargas.

Selome Hailu editor“Ted Lasso” took home seven Emmy awards this year after receiving 20 nominations, more than any comedy has ever received in its first season. But while the series has been critically lauded for its originality (Variety recently praised the risky storytelling of Season 2), the idea of “Ted Lasso” had been percolating for almost two decades before its premiere.Co-creators, writers and stars Jason Sudeikis, Brendan Hunt and Joe Kelly first conceptualized the character of Ted Lasso in Amsterdam in the early 2000s while performing in the comedy troupe Boom Chicago, according to an interview with Hunt in the Daily Beast.

Selome Hailu editor2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Selome Hailu editor“The Green Knight” is dense, to say the least.Based on an anonymously written poem from the 1400s now known as “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” David Lowery’s film weaves together myths of lords and ladies who love little mind games, beheaded young women who may or may not turn into foxes and, of course, none other than the legendary King Arthur of Camelot. “The Green Knight” is embellished with what feels like an endless number of different accents and chapter titles that appear on the screen in typefaces that force you to slow down or squint.

Selome Hailu editor“Annette,” the film written and scored by brothers Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks that won Leos Carax the best director at the Cannes Film festival, is unorthodox, so it may be fitting that it got its Los Angeles premiere at the Hollywood Forever Ceremony Aug. 18.The titular character of the film, a baby girl born to singer Ann (Marion Cotillard) and comedian Henry (Adam Driver), is embodied by a lifelike, uncanny puppet.“We think we found a really modern way of doing movie musicals.

Selome Hailu editor“Reservation Dogs,” FX’s new comedy about Indigenous teens in rural Oklahoma co-created by Taika Waititi and Sterlin Harjo, is breaking ground for Native American representation in Hollywood. With a team almost entirely made up of Native creatives, what’s the show’s most innovative storytelling element? According to them, it’s the simple fact that “Reservation Dogs” has a sense of humor.“TV and streaming is not as afraid as feature films have been to let us tell stories with Native lead actors,” Harjo told Variety at the “Reservation Dogs” premiere at NeueHouse Hollywood.