‘Succession’ & ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Pick Up Best Series Emmy Momentum With Casting Wins

Gisele Bundchen covers up her bikini while walking on the beach on Saturday (February 19) in Costa Rica.

Ant-Man star recorded a message for the Bridge City News Instagram page urging the politician to discuss vaccine mandates in Canada with those who have been protesting over the last three weeks with those calling themselves “Freedom Convoy”.“Dear prime minister Trudeau, I want to speak to you today about your current approach to and current treatment of our fellow Canadians who are protesting your federal vaccine mandates,” Lilly said in the video.“They have asked to meet with you, prime minister, medical experts, top scientists, doctors, nurses, parents, grandparents, intelligent, loving, concerned citizens.”A post shared by Bridge City News (@bridgecitynews)She continued: “If you’re so convinced of your own reasons for the mandates, sit down and walk the leaders of a group of 2.3million protesters across the country who represent many millions more across the nation, and explain it to them and ask them to listen with open hearts and minds, and then reciprocate.“Listen to what they have to say with a mind open to hearing things that might go against the ideas you are entrenched in. You unify people by finding solutions together, not by vilifying those who say there is a better way.“What we need right now from our leadership is unification, and that requires being willing to see, recognise and hear from the people sitting out in the cold at your door.”Earlier this year, Evangeline Lilly revealed she joined thousands of protestors in Washington D.C.

Porridge Radio have announced details of their third album ‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky’ and shared its first single ‘Back To The Radio’.The band have also confirmed their biggest-ever UK headline tour alongside a series of intimate in-store shows around the record’s release.‘Back To The Radio’ was written by frontperson Dana Margolin ahead of the release of the group’s acclaimed 2020 album ‘Every Bad’, a time when she felt like “a lot of things were coming that I wasn’t sure I knew how to handle”.“The song grew out of a feeling of intense loneliness and being unprepared for what everybody was promising me was about to happen – and a strong desire to escape without knowing what I wanted to escape to,” she said in a press release. “To me, there’s a huge feeling of catharsis in this song, of letting go and letting it sweep you away.”The song comes with a video directed by Margolin’s sister Ella and finds the singer waking up in a room where papier-mâché furniture is slowly being removed one by one. Later, she joins the rest of Porridge Radio in a room decorated with landscape scenery as people dressed all in black move her around the space.

Sam Hunt's pregnant wife has filed for divorce, ET has confirmed.According to the legal docs, obtained by ET, Hannah Lee Fowler filed for divorce in Williamson County, Tennessee.  In the docs, Fowler cites «irreconcilable differences» as the reason to terminate the marriage, and she accuses the country star of «inappropriate marital conduct» after claiming he is «guilty of adultery.» Fowler also revealed she's pregnant and is due in May. The pregnancy news had not been previously disclosed.Fowler, 33, lists the the date of separation as Feb.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Sandy Kominsky will not have his trusted agent and friend Norman Newlander by his side for the last chapter of Netflix’s The Kominsky Method. Alan Arkin, who played Norman opposite Michael Douglas’ Sandy in the first two seasons of the Golden Globe-winning comedy, has left the Chuck Lorre-created show ahead of its upcoming third and final season.I hear the decision was made long time ago, with Arkin indicating he would not continue beyond Season 2. That was not reflected in the Season 2 finale of The Kominsky Method as it was unclear at the time whether there would be a third season, I hear.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: With Batwoman and Riverdale already filming in Vancouver, several more Greg Berlanti  series are gearing up to go back to production. Supergirl is slated to begin filming its sixth and final season in Vancouver next Monday, Sept.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVNBC is developing God’s Country, a drama inspired by Blake Shelton’s hit song of the same name. The project hails from the long-time Voice coach Shelton, Las Vegas creator Gary Scott Thompson and Universal Television.Written by Thompson, in God’s Country, when the patriarch of a hardworking Midwestern farm family dies mysteriously in a car accident, his grown children discover he was keeping a devastating secret they could never have imagined.Shelton’s song “God’s Country”, written by Devin Dawson, Hardy and Jordan Schmidt, was released in March 2019.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Four Ryan Murphy Production series are gearing up to go back to production: flagship Fox drama 9-1-1, breakout spinoff 9-1-1: Lone Star, as well as FX’s award-winning Pose and Impeachment, the latest installment in the American Crime Story franchise.The news comes on the heels of a strong launch for Murphy’s latest series, the One Few Over a Cuckoo’s Next prequel Ratched at Netflix. Murphy over the weekend posted a slew of Netflix graphics showing Ratched‘s No.1 ranking in various territories, followed by an image of a Netflix notification that the drama starring Sarah Paulson was thew streamer’s most popular show in the world on its third day of release, Sept.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVOn the heels of its history-making Emmy wins Sunday, Schitt’s Creek is heading to Comedy Central.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content has put in development a limited series adaptation of Tom Cooper’s novel Florida Man, with Joel Edgerton set to star and executive produce. Quarry co-creator/exec producer Graham Gordy is attached to pen the adaptation and executive produce.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVPop TV was one of the biggest stories at the 2020 Emmy Awards. Fueled by Schitt’s Creek‘s unprecedented sweep of all seven comedy categories on the main telecast Sunday, the small basic cable outlet ranked third among all networks and platforms in total wins, behind only awards juggernauts HBO and Netflix.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVThe traditional HBO Emmy party at the Pacific Design Center may have been canceled this year because of the pandemic, but the premium cable network had a lot to celebrate this year.No Game Of Thrones, no problem. A year after the fantasy series wrapped its dominant Emmy run with one final hurrah and a fourth Drama Series win last September, HBO’s Succession picked up where Game of Thrones left off.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVSchitt’s Creek swept all seven comedy series categories during the Primetime Emmy Awards telecast on ABC tonight. But Dan Levy, who won/shared four of them, used one of his acceptance speeches, for Writing for a Comedy Series, to highlight another praised comedy series, Insecure.Issa Rae’s HBO series is coming off one of its strongest seasons, and that was not lost on Levy.“I want to recognize Issa Rae and the writers on Insecure for writing some of the funniest, most heartfelt television of the year,” he said.Insecure was not nominated for writing this year but had a slew of Emmy nominations, including for comedy series and lead actress in a comedy series, Rae.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVE! veteran Giuliana Rancic had been announced as co-Headliner alongside Vivica A. Fox of E!’s Live From the Red Carpet: the 2020 Emmy Awards multi-platform coverage.She wasn’t not there at the start of the official pre-show at 6 PM ET/3 PM PT.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVFour nights in, the virtual 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards had gone without a hitch, successfully juggling dozens of categories and hundreds of pre-taped speeches. But during Night 5, the main Creative Arts Emmy ceremony airing live on FXX, the announcement of the winner for Outstanding Guest Actor i=In a Drama Series was botched.This Is Us‘ name Ron Cephas Jones appeared onscreen while the voiceover read Jason Bateman’s name; the Ozark star was nominated in the category for HBO’s The Outsider.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVIn 1978, the first installment of the Star Wars film saga earned John Williams a Music, Original Score Oscar. Forty two years later, the first season of the first live-action Star Wars TV series, Disney+’s The Mandalorian, landed Ludwig Göransson a Music Composition for a Series Emmy Award.Göransson warned his first ever Emmy nomination for The Mandalorian after winning an Oscar last year for Black Panther.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Diamond White (Empire) is joining the cast of CBS’ daytime drama The Bold and the Beautiful as a contract player. She will portray Paris Buckingham, the never before seen sister to Zoe (played by Kiara Barnes) and daughter of Dr.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: This will come as a shocker to Stumptown fans. The breakout series starring Cobie Smulders, which was renewed for a second season in May, will not be going forward with the Season 2 order.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVABC has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to Rebel, its Katey Sagal-starring drama inspired by the life of activist Erin Brockovich today. It hails from Brockovich, Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19 executive producer/showrunner Krista Vernoff, Davis Entertainment, Sony Pictures TV and ABC Signature.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVLast September at the Creative Arts Emmys, Norman Lear, became the oldest Emmy winner in history with a victory in the category of Outstanding Variety Special (Live) for Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All In the Family’ And ‘The Jeffersons’. He was 97 at the time.A year later, Lear, 98, set a new benchmark with the repeat in the same category for the second installment of the Live In Front of a Studio Audience franchise, Live In Front Of A Studio Audience: ‘All In The Family’ And ‘Good Times’. The ABC special was recognized on Night 2 of the remote 2020 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVSaturday Night Live’s Don Roy King’s Emmy winning stream continues.Tonight, the TV veteran won the directing for a variety series award for the fourth year in a row during Night 2 of the 2020 Creative Arts Emmy Awards. King won for the SNL episode hosted by former cast member Eddie Murphy in his return to the NBC show.In his pre-taped acceptance speech, King started off by thanking “two people, (SNL boss) Lorne Michaels, who makes my work the best it can be, and my daughter Cameron, who makes my life even better.” He went on to expand the list to “a hundred and two” by acknowledging the winning episode’s host Eddie Murphy and musical guest Lizzo as well as the SNL cast, crew and writers.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVOn the heels of the historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, the two Middle Eastern countries are also set to make TV history. The long-running Israeli docu-reality series Goalstar will film its upcoming season in the United Arab Emirates, becoming the first Israeli television production to be shot in the UAE.The news comes on the day of the signing ceremony at the White House for the agreement brokered by the U.S., in which Israel established formal ties with two Arab states, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.Goalstar, from ADD Content, has been airing since 2012 on Israel’s leading cable network Hot.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Jeanie Bradley, Head of Current Programming at UCP, is retiring after decades in the TV business and stints as head of current at two major TV studios. In light of her departure, which had been in the works for months, Dana Gotlieb-Carter has been promoted to succeed her as SVP, Head of Current Programming, UCP.“Jeanie has been a beacon of positivity since she joined the team here at UCP.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVChicago P.D.’s Lisseth Chavez is set as a new series regular in the upcoming sixth season of season 6 of the CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. The Warner Bros. TV-produced superhero drama moved in to cast Chavez shortly after she became available following a season-long stint as a series regular on NBC’s Chicago P.D.  Chavez will play Esperanza “Spooner” Cruz.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVJeremy Tardy, who has been recurring on Netflix’s Dear White People, revealed in a Facebook post Friday that he will not be returning for the Lionsgate TV-produced series’ upcoming fourth and final season “due to my experience with Lionsgate and their practices of racial discrimination.” In response, Lionsgate called the standoff that led to Tardy’s exit “a purely financial negotiation.”In a lengthy post (you can read it below), Tardy chronicled the events that led to his departure, claiming that, Lionsgate made him an offer to return for several episodes but refused to consider a counteroffer.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Unbelievable star Kaitlyn Dever is set as a lead opposite Michael Keaton in Dopesick, Hulu’s eight-episode limited series based on Beth Macy’s bestselling book, from The Handmaid’s Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield and Touchstone Television.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersWritten by Danny Strong and directed by Barry Levinson, Dopesick is described as an ambitious, harrowing and compelling look into the epicenter of America’s struggle with opioid addiction. It takes viewers from a distressed Virginia mining community to the hallways of the DEA and to the opulence of “one percenter” Big Pharma Manhattan.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Liz Tigelaar’s Best Day Ever production company and ABC Signature Studios, where Tigelaar is under a deal, have landed the television rights to Melissa Broder’s upcoming novel Milk Fed for series development, with Broder set to pen the adaptation.The anticipated novel, from publisher Scribner, is scheduled for release on February 2, 2021.Milk Fed is the story of a love affair between an ambivalently Jewish woman with an eating disorder and the zaftig Orthodox woman who works at her local LA frozen yogurt shop.Tigelaar will serve as showrunner if the project is ordered to pilot and executive produce with Best Day Ever’s Stacey Silverman as well as Broder.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVAmazon Prime Video has taken in for development a scripted series starring Nicolas Cage as the infamous Joe Exotic, made a household name by the hugely popular Netflix docuseries Tiger King. The project, which had been in the works at CBS TV Studios, hails from Brian Grazer, American Vandal showrunner Dan Lagana, and Paul Young.The yet untitled series was taken out to buyers in May, with Amazon quickly emerging as its likely destination.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Disney+ has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to comedy Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. (working title), a re-imagining of the popular 1989 ABC series Doogie Howser, M.D.. The project (fka Doogie Kealoha, M.D.), which reboots the Neil Patrick Harris-starring half-hour medical dramedy with a female lead, comes from How I Met Your Mother and Fresh Off the Boat alumna Kourtney Kang and 20th Television, a part of Disney Television Studios.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersWritten by Kang and set in modern-day Hawaii, Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVMara Brock Akil, the prolific creator/showrunner behind such series as Girlfriends, The Game and Being Mary Jane, has signed a multi-year overall deal with Netflix to create new original content.The deal comes just ahead of the September 11 release date of her popular series Girlfriends on Netflix, marking the series’ 20th anniversary.“We are thrilled to welcome Mara Brock Akil to Netflix,” said Channing Dungey, VP Original Series, Netflix. “Her signature storytelling, authentic perspective and captivating characters have long entertained audiences and proven to be relevant, timely and endlessly engaging.