‘Smurfs’ Heads To Nickelodeon & Paramount Animation In New Multi-Pic Deal; Pam Brady Writing New Movie; Series Picked Up For Season 2

A source close to Pamela Anderson is opening up about why she will never watch the new Hulu series Pam & Tommy, in which Lily James portrays her.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterTNT’s “Rich & Shameless” seven-part film series will launch this summer, but the first installment, “The Crime Against Pam & Tommy,” is debuting this Saturday. And the sooner the better for director Jenny Popplewell, who wants the movie to “settle the truth” for Pamela Anderson about her sex tape with ex Tommy Lee, which Popplewell called “revenge porn before we knew it was revenge porn.”“We reached out to Pamela Anderson right from the start and to Tommy and asked them if they’d like to be involved,” Popplewell said alongside “Rich & Shameless” showrunner and producer Tom Lindley during a Television Critics Association panel Monday.

Renee Zellweger was seen in the Super Bowl trailer for the upcoming crime drama series The Thing About Pam, which was released on Sunday.In the clip, the 52-year-old actress was seen slowly being uncovered by various newspaper clippings while asserting her innocence in the case of a murder.The forthcoming show is based in the 2011 Betsy Faria case and is currently scheduled to be released on both NBC and the Peacock streaming service next month. Showing up: Renee Zellweger was seen in the Super Bowl trailer for the upcoming crime drama series The Thing About Pam, which was released on SundayThe trailer began with Zellweger, portraying Pam Hupp, covered up in newspaper articles, and she was heard stating in a voiceover: 'People think they know me.

Ant Anstead has joined the promotional push for the NBC limited series The Thing About Pam,which stars his girlfriend, Renee Zellweger, in the lead role.On Thursday,the For The Love Of Cars presenter posted the trailer for the upcoming true-crime series on Instagram, and showed off his sense of humor in the process.'Beaming with pride (and now sleeping with one eye open!) Ren's latest role!' the reality star jokingly captioned the clip, in a reference to his ladylove playing a convicted murderer.Scroll down to video Proud: Ant Anstead revealed he was 'beaming with pride' over his girlfriend, Renee Zellweger's new role in the upcoming limited series The Thing About PamBased on the true story, Zellweger portrays Pamela Hupp, the infamous Missouri woman who is currently serving a life sentence in prison for the deadly shooting of a mentally and physically disabled man, Louis Gumpenberger, in 2016.Prosecutors also allege the murder was engineered by Hupp in an attempt to frame the husband of her best friend, Betsy Faria, for Faria's 2011 stabbing murder, for which Hupp was charged in July 2021. Zellweger, 52, is making her network television debut with the role, while also serving as one of the executive producers for the project, via her banner Big Picture Co., according to People.Jenny Klein, who's best known for her work on Supernatural, (2008-2016), Jessica Jones (2015), The Witcher (2019) serves as showrunner for the series.

Andrew Rannells has been tapped for a recurring role in Hulu limited series Immigrant (working title), starring Kumail Nanjiani, Annaleigh Ashford and Murray Bartlett, from Pam & Tommy creator Robert Siegel.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“The Smurfs” empire will continue to expand.Multiple feature films based on “The Smurfs,” as well as another season of the original television series, have been put into development, Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Animation announced on Monday. A renewed emphasis on the tiny blue creatures is the result of a new creative partnership with LAFIG Belgium and IMPS.

Lily James enjoyed some much needed downtime from promoting her new series, Pam & Tommy, stepping out for a date night with boyfriend Michael Shuman. There was not a prosthetic boob or bleached blonde wig in sight as Lily, 32, was spotted with the Queens of the Stone Age rocker on Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood on Friday. The actress, who plays Pamela Anderson in the Disney Plus series, laughed and looked relaxed as she and Michael, 36, walked hand-in-hand following dinner at the Melrose Umbrella Co. Lily looked chic and casual in a beige trench coat teamed with a white shirt, black wide-leg trousers and white stilettos, while Michael looked cool sporting a leather jacket. The couple are believed to have been dating for around a year and were first linked in May 2021 when they were reportedly seen in an embrace outside a Suffolk hotel.Lily has been busy promoting her anticipated performance as Baywatch icon Pamela in the miniseries about the TV star’s controversial romance with Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee, and their infamous sex tape scandal in the 90s. However, all of the hard work she put into rehearsing the role resulted in the Downton Abbey star considering stepping down completely.Looking back on the intense boot camp she underwent to get into character, the 32-year-old said: ‘I really wanted to pull out of this a week before.’Speaking to Variety, she added that her feeling was: ‘I can’t do it. I can’t do it,’ continuing: ‘It just felt too frightening.

Hulu and Disney+ series Pam and Tommy, she donned the iconic red swimsuit as seen on Pamela Anderson in her Baywatch days and looked quite the part, but business-woman Karren Brady was unsure whether it would be worth the effort."I couldn’t be a***ed!" she exclaimed."LILY JAMES looks amazing in the new film...but reading about what she had to do to achieve that amazing physique is exhausting."The incredulous entrepreneur continued: "Lily did a rigorous set of workouts five days a week, often starting at 5.30am."She also had to ditch refined sugar and booze and drink four litres of water a day instead."All of which is a good reminder of just what it takes to look as good as Pamela."Basically, it’s a full-time job that involves feelings of permanent deprivation."Yes, the results are fantastic, but, still, I couldn’t be arsed!"Pamela is a tough act to follow, as she was considered one of the world's sexiest women during her time on Baywatch.While 32-year-old actress Lily was up for the challenge, Karren was clear that it wasn't a regime she would be prepared to take on.Speaking in her Sun column, she also expressed her amazement at the micro-mini look of Kim Kardashian's latest Skims lingerie, which she modelled this weekend to promote her Valentine's Day collection."I’ve seen more material in an eye patch," she gasped."The triangle-shaped bra hardly did the job but the bottoms were so microscopic as to be practically invisible – the ultimate itsy bitsy teenie weenie bikini."Meanwhile, Lily opened up on the truth behind her "gruelling workouts" in an interview with Entertainment Weekly recently.The former Cinderella star revealed: "I worked with this amazing trainer, Matt Bevan, who worked with Daisy Ridley as well.

Lake Bell is opening up about her experience.

ACTRESS Lily James boobed repeatedly while playing Pamela Anderson — as she wore out 50 pairs of fake breasts. The Brit, 32, was given a new set of the gel-filled bosoms every day while filming the new TV series Pam & Tommy.

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amazing transformations to embody the ‘90s icons Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson for the new Hulu limited series Pam and Tommy. Not only did the actors nail what the celebrities looked like, but they had to fully embrace the characters’ libidos and personalities. It turns out, Stan had a little extra help in the costuming department that viewers — and even James — didn’t get to see, as Stan recently let fans in on the wild addition to his wardrobe that helped him “feel like a man.

Renee Zellweger looked completely different in the recently released teaser trailer for her upcoming true crime series The Thing About Pam.The actress, 52, will star in the series as the convicted murderer Pam Hupp who was convicted of the 2016 murder of Louis Gumpenberger.The Thing About Pam trailer began with a man reporting his wife has been murdered. Total transformation:Renee Zellweger looked completely different in the recently released teaser trailer for her upcoming true crime series The Thing About Pam (pictured 2021)It then quickly moves through a number of shots introducing the character including Zellweger's Hupp dropping off the murder victim at home and a scene where she ate with a very critical character.She added a fake Midwestern accent for the character who lived in Missouri and committed the murder there.

NBC has dropped the first teaser of Renee Zellweger‘s new series, The Thing About Pam.

Pam & Tommy is finally here! The Hulu drama series dropped on Wednesday, February 2, which follows Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s relationship — and their infamous sex tape scandal.

Lake Bell has a personal connection to the new “Pam & Tommy” TV series starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan.

Lily James' transformation into Pamela Anderson for her role in Hulu's "Pam & Tommy" was quite the undertaking, so much so that the actress admits she didn't recognize herself. In a recent interview on James Corden's "Late Late Show," James revealed just what went on behind the scenes in order to resemble the actress and former Playboy model. She recalled slipping into the iconic red swimsuit Anderson donned for "Baywatch" for the first time.

Disney+ yesterday, starring Lily James as Pamela Anderson and Sebastian Stan as Tommy Lee.

Float under her arm, blonde hair sunlit like a halo, the image of Pamela Anderson running along the sandy California beach in her red swimsuit defined 90s television. So when it came to making the hit Disney + show Pam & Tommy, recreating the iconic Baywatch swimsuit was a priority. It's one that fell to talented costume designer Kameron Lennox, who was tasked with finding the perfect suit for Downton Abbey actress Lily James, who wore a prosthetic bodysuit for the role of Pamela.

British actress Lily James steps into a role like no other, playing 90s icon Pamela Anderson in the Hulu series Pam & Tommy, revealing in a new interview how she got into character.The 32-year-old actress was joined by her director in 2015's Cinderella, Kenneth Branagh on CBS' The Late Late Show with James Corden on Thursday.After a clip was revealed, which Branagh marveled at how 'unrecognizable' James is as Pamela Anderson, she revealed one of her favorite 'triggers' for getting into character as the Baywatch superstar. In character:British actress Lily James steps into a role like no other, playing 90s icon Pamela Anderson in the Hulu series Pam & Tommy, revealing in a new interview how she got into character Lily and Kenneth:The 32-year-old actress was joined by her director in 2015's Cinderella, Kenneth Branagh on CBS' The Late Late Show with James Corden on Thursday Unrecognizable:After a clip was revealed, which Branagh marveled at how 'unrecognizable' James is as Pamela Anderson, she revealed one of her favorite 'triggers' for getting into character as the Baywatch superstarWhen asked by Corden what her specific phrase was to get into character, the actress said she had a few, but one was her favorite.'It's useful to have those sort of anchors when you go into an accent.

She wore a set of prosthetic breasts to match Pamela Anderson's bust in her high-profile Hulu series Pam & Tommy.But Lily James managed to match the rest of the Baywatch star's iconic physique thanks to a rigorous set of workouts that saw her regularly working out by 5:30 a.m. over a four-month period.The 32-year-old actress' personal trainer Matt Bevan detailed the grueling exercise regimen he crafter for her for Vogue on Thursday.