“This Is a Gardening Show” is a gardening show hosted by Zach Galifianakis, who is not kidding when he says (and says again) that “the future is agrarian.” (Or, more critically, “the only future is agrarian.”) Premiering Wednesday, which not coincidentally is Earth Day, on Netflix, the six-part series spotlights the cultivation or gathering of…
Shawna Thomas, a veteran journalist who has enjoyed stints as a Washington producer, news executive and a morning-show honcho, is joining MS NOW after wrapping up a stint as the executive producer of “CBS Mornings.” Thomas has been named political director, and will direct coverage of campaigns and elections. She will also appear on air…
EXCLUSIVE: Studio TF1 has boarded sales on Vincent Garenq’s Cannes-selected drama Forsaken (L’Abandon) revisiting the final 11 days of French school teacher Samuel Paty, whose murder triggered by a class on free speech shook France in 2020. Antoine Reinartz (Beats Per Minute, Anatomy of a Fall) plays Paty in the drama which will debut Out…
Classic Cartoons Quiz: Test Your ’90s TV Knowledge There’s no mistaking it: Millennials had one heck of a run when it came to classic cartoons. Whether you were a network TV kid, or had cable and access to Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel, you could spend hours in front of the TV after school or…
Rebekah Vardy, who infamously took fellow footballer’s wife Coleen Rooney to court over an Instagram post, is set to get her own reality show. Titled “The Vardys,” the series, from Orchard Studios, is due to hit U.K. network ITV (and its streaming platform ITVX) later this year. The showrunner for “The Vardys” is Josh Jacobs….
EXCLUSIVE: UK-based CMG Productions and indie audio company Stak are teaming on a slate of podcasts. The pair will co-develop and produce a slate of crime and sport podcasts, which will be expanded into “scalable, multi-platform” formats in scripted and unscripted, particularly premium docs and drama. CMG, launched in 2021 by Rebecca Knight and Claire…
“The American story keeps repeating itself,” U.S. filmmaker Kelly Reichardt told the audience of her masterclass Tuesday at Visions du Réel, a documentary film festival in Nyon, Switzerland. During an onstage conversation that is part of a wider tribute to the director, Reichardt was asked whether she is rewriting the American myth through her films….
EXCLUSIVE: It’s now a month since Saturday Night Live UK crashed onto British screens like Melania Trump emerging from a garden bush in Croydon — and the early viewing data is encouraging, if not faultless, for Sky’s remake of NBC’s iconic comedy series. A Deadline analysis has found that SNL UK has stormed past 86M…
Gather around. Singer-songwriter Noah Kahan is leading his audience to therapy — or a walk in the woods. Kahan’s fourth studio album, “The Great Divide,” out Friday, picks up where “Stick Season” left off with folksy, introspective hooks and catchy choruses that hit like a windows-down drive on a cool summer night. Recorded primarily in…
Kylie Jenner is being sued by a former housekeeper who claims she was harassed and discriminated against while working for the makeup mogul. Angelica Hernandez Vasquez filed a lawsuit against Kylie Jenner Inc., Tri Star Services and La Maison Family Services on Friday alleging that she was subjected to “severe and pervasive harassment” throughout her…
