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The Overlook Film Festival returns to “America’s most haunted city” from April 3 to 6. A cat on its ninth life, the annual event in New Orleans was founded almost a decade ago to celebrate scary movies and immersive horror experiences. This year, the festival lineup emphasizes tradition — honoring Shudder’s 10th birthday at its opening night party, programming a retro series with “Ash” director Flying Lotus, offering a conversation with genre literary legend Joe Hill, and more.

“I feel like we are standing at the crossroads of horror history,” said Michael Lerman, co-founder and director of film programming. “This year really showcases the old and new guard coming together. We have astounding debuts from exciting newcomers. We have veteran masters that keep reinventing themselves with new work. And we’re just getting started so stay tuned for more.”

From narrative films like “The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick...

Exclusive: HBO is in development on the comedy series Flat Tyres from Fifth Season and co-creators Thabo Rametsi and Robbie Leacock.

The series follows a hapless gang of four deluded friends as they endlessly try – and fail – to become criminal kingpins of Cape Town’s most vibrant township.

Executive producers are Nicholas Hatton and Jason Woliner for Swindle Pictures as well as Matt Sadeghian and Geordan Somerville for Brillstein.

Rametsi is a multi-award-winning South African actor, writer, director, and producer who has starred in critically and commercially successful African films including the independent feature Kalushi: The Story of Solomon Mahlangu as well as Amandla and Silverton Siege for Netflix. He is known for his roles in U.S. projects including The Gamechangers starring Daniel Radcliffe, Homeland with Rupert Friend, and The Giver directed by Phillip Noyce.

Rametsi is also the co-creator of the upcoming graphic novel series Imbokodo published by...

In the mid-aughts, Chuck Norris was having a moment. Following the conclusion of his melodramatic cop western Walker, Texas Ranger in 2001, Norris did pretty much the same kinds of stuff he’d been doing for the previous three decades — starring in low-budget action movies with lots of martial arts.

But then, Norris became one of the very first internet memes, in large part thanks to Conan O’Brien and his writing staff. That’s because, in May 2005, Conan introduced the Walker, Texas Ranger lever on Late Night, a bit that featured O’Brien pulling on a lever that would play an out-of-context clip from Norris’ CBS series. Once that gag had run its course a few years later, two veteran Conan writers developed a TV show that began as a loose parody of Walker, Texas Ranger. They even got genuine comedy royalty, Chris Elliott, to star in it, along with then up-and-comer Brett Gelman.

Point Grey Pictures, the production company run by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver, is staying in business with Lionsgate Television.

The company has extended its first-look deal with the company. It comes five years after Point Grey signed a deal with Lionsgate.

The move also comes a day after Apple confirmed a series order for The Studio, a Hollywood movie studio comedy series starring Rogen, Kathryn Hahn and Catherine O’Hara.

Point Grey is behind series including Amazon’s The Boys and its spin-off The Boys: Gen V, Future Man, Black Monday and Preachers. It also worked with Lionsgate Television on Jason Woliner’s limited series Paul T. Goldman for Peacock.

Earlier this year, Point Grey moved its movie deal to Universal.

Ashley Morales negotiated the deal on behalf of Lionsgate Television.

“Seth, Evan and James are the masters of subversive, renegade humor who make coming to work both...

The Cinema Eye Honors announced the winners for its documentary films and series competition Friday in Manhattan, with “32 Sounds” taking the honor for outstanding nonfiction feature. Maite Alberdi won outstanding direction for “The Eternal Memory” together with Kaouther Ben Hania for “Four Daughters,” while “Paul T. Goldman” won outstanding nonfiction series.

See all the winners below:

—Outstanding Nonfiction Feature

32 Sounds

Directed by Sam Green

Produced by Josh Penn and Thomas O. Kriegsmann

—Outstanding Direction

Maite Alberdi

The Eternal Memory

Kaouther Ben Hania

Four Daughters

—Outstanding Editing

Michael Harte

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

—Outstanding Production

Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson Rath, Derl McCrudden and Vasilisa Stepanenko

20 Days in Mariupol

—Outstanding Cinematography

Ants Tammik

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

—Outstanding Original Score

Jd Samson

32 Sounds

—Outstanding Sound Design

Mark Mangini

32 Sounds

—Outstanding Visual Design

Thomas Curtis and Sean Pierce

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

—Outstanding Debut

Kokomo...

“Jury Duty” is a reality show. Or is it a sitcom? A documentary? An elaborate prank?

How about all of the above?

One of 2023’s defining breakouts, the Amazon Freevee series is the crown jewel of an ascendant hybrid genre sometimes referred to as docu-comedy. Even the people who made the show aren’t sure how to classify it. Director Jake Syzmanski and co-creator Lee Eisenberg say they’ve never heard that term. Eisenberg suggested hidden-camera comedy, but that’s not really accurate either, as everyone involved knew they were being filmed. Robyn Adams, a producer, used “outlined improv.” Whatever nomenclature best applies, this increasingly common format has enjoyed a banner year, with “Jury Duty,” Peacock’s “Paul T. Goldman,” BBC and Netflix’s “Cunk on Earth,” and HBO’s “How To with John Wilson” picking up where the likes of Sacha Baron Cohen and Nathan Fielder left off.

“There was a big worry about,...

The 2023 Cinema Eye Honors have unveiled the 20 titles for its Audience Choice Prize Long List, with voting now open.

The 17th annual awards ceremony also recognized the best nonfiction and documentary films and series across five Broadcast categories and a Shorts List with 10 of the year’s top documentary short films, as well as the 20 films in the running for the Audience Choice Prize Long List.

This year’s list includes films from Cinema Eye Honors alumni including “The Eternal Memory,” “American Symphony,” “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie,” “Stamped from the Beginning,” “32 Sounds,” “A Compassionate Spy,” “Confessions of a Good Samaritan,” “The Mission,” “The Pigeon Tunnel,” and “Stephen Curry: Underrated.”

Hulu series “The 1619 Project” and Showtime’s “Nothing Lasts Forever” lead the Broadcast Film and Series nominations with three nods each. The “1619 Project,” adapted from Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones’s work with The New...

The Hulu series The 1619 Project and the Showtime feature Nothing Lasts Forever scored a leading three nominations apiece today as the Cinema Eye Honors announced its first round of contenders for the prestigious documentary-focused awards.

The 1619 Project, based on Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Pulitzer Prize-winning examination of slavery in North America and its impact up until the present day, earned nominations for Best Anthology Series, broadcast editing and broadcast cinematography. Oprah Winfrey, Oscar winner Roger Ross Williams and Hannah-Jones are among the producers of the six-part series.

‘Nothing Lasts Forever’

Nothing Lasts Forever, director Jason Kohn’s glittering examination of the world of diamonds – the real kind and the emergence of undetectable “synthetic” diamonds – earned nominations for Best Broadcast Film, broadcast editing and broadcast cinematography. Scroll for the full list of nominations announced today.

Other films and series that scored multiple nominations include Hulu’s Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields...

Hulu’s “The 1619 Project” and Showtime’s “Nothing Lasts Forever” lead all broadcast documentaries in nominations for the 17th annual Cinema Eye Honors, which were announced on Thursday during the Cinema Eye Fall Lunch at Redbird in downtown Los Angeles.

Each of the programs received three nominations in the five broadcast categories, with “The 1619 Project” nominated in the Anthology Series, cinematography and editing categories and “Nothing Lasts Forever” singled out in Broadcast film, cinematography and editing categories.

Other programs with multiple nominations include the broadcast movie “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” the nonfiction series “Dear Mama” and “Paul T. Goldman” and the anthology series “Edge of the Unknown With Jimmy Chin” and “Our Planet II.”

Hulu led all networks and platforms with eight nominations, followed by Netflix with five and Showtime with four.

Cinema Eye Honors, a New York-based organization devoted to honoring all facets of nonfiction filmmaking, also...

Earlier this spring, TBS announced that it had ordered a new season of The Joe Schmo Show, the format in which a single ordinary person found themselves in the middle of what they thought was an unscripted series, only to eventually discover that everybody around them was actually a comedian attempting to bamboozle that one Joe Schmo.

On one hand, it was a somewhat unlikely resurrection for the quirky reality-comedy hybrid, which originally debuted on Spike TV — remember Spike TV? — back in 2003, aired a second season in 2004, went into hibernation until a third season in 2013, and then returned to sleep for another decade.

On the other hand, bringing back The Joe Schmo Show became an oddly obvious choice after a year in which the lines between scripted comedy and reality became more blurry than ever before, or at least more blurry than any point since that mid-’00s moment when...

On New Year’s Day, Peacock dropped the first three episodes of its true crime series “Paul T. Goldman,” a documentary loosely based on Paul Finkelman’s semi-autobiographical self-published book. The show, utilizing reenactments and behind-the-scenes shots, has the eccentric Finkelman telling the story of his relationship with his second wife, whom he believed was living a double life as a prostitute, dating her pimp and running an international sex trafficking ring.

It was directed by “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” director Jason Woliner, who brought an ambitious use of satire to the streaming platform. Finkelman’s unique delivery and distorted facts and his attempt to set the record straight in the form of a movie that he directs and writes himself, starring himself, creates an unconventional type of nonfiction storytelling. Still, Peacock and Woliner saw it as a documentary and decided to submit it for Emmys consideration in outstanding documentary or nonfiction series.

Daniel Fienberg With nearly 600 scripted shows to distribute across the calendar, TV networks and streamers haven’t made the winter into a wasteland — but with many of the biggest titles being saved for spring releases ahead of the May 31 Emmy eligibility deadline, the months of January and February have become as topsy-turvy as the industry itself.

Look around! The winter’s most critically acclaimed series is a video game adaptation; the comeback kid of streaming services is Peacock; the busiest TV star in all the land is Harrison Ford; and TV fans are spending much more time obsessing over which shows are being pulled from the digital space than which shows are being added.

What we need to discuss first is HBO’s The Last of Us. Because otherwise the winter narrative for Warner Bros. Discovery would center on disappearing shows on HBO and the fact that new episodes of...

Welcome to the 200th episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast.

Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as the case may be).

This week, we’re celebrating the landmark episode of the show with a supersized installment featuring Susan Rovner, the chairman of entertainment content at NBCUniversal TV and streaming. (Other topics include a look at DC’s new chapter, the future of Showtime and, of course, Headlines and Critic’s Corner.)

After spending more than two decades serving as Peter Roth’s top lieutenant at Warner Bros. Television, Rovner joined NBCUniversal in late 2020 and oversees entertainment programming at streamer Peacock, NBC, Bravo, USA Network, Syfy,...

[Editor’s Note: The following interview contains spoilers for “Paul T. Goldman,” including the ending.]

When making a show like “Paul T. Goldman,” you leave a lot of things to chance. After spending the better part of a decade documenting one man’s effort to turn his own memoir into a hit, director Jason Woliner entered the home stretch of the project with some question marks still lingering.

“Paul T. Goldman” — both the man and the show — is not easy to summarize in a few sentences. (Here’s a longer dive into what they both are and aren’t.) Over the course of six episodes, Woliner oversees the journey to turn Goldman’s book “Duplicity” into a glossy Hollywood adaptation. Kicking off a long list of unconventional-yet-surprisingly-successful choices, Goldman stars as himself in scenes he wrote. In between the dramatizations, Woliner outlines the circumstances of Goldman’s life from an outsider’s perspective, drawing attention to where perception and reality may not completely align.

This post contains spoilers for "Paul T. Goldman."

For the first five episodes of Peacock's oddball, uber-meta comedy series "Paul T. Goldman," director Jason Woliner grabs the audience by the hand and guides them into the kooky world of the title character -- a world that's similar to our own, but heightened. Paul, a nebbish middle-aged man, has concocted an elaborate reality in which his ex-wife is a madam who has teamed up with a pimp to oversee a prostitution ring, and Paul envisions himself the hero who brings down their international sex trafficking syndicate. For the ten years that this project has been in the works, Woliner let Paul essentially steer the ship, and the director has facilitated fictionalized reenactments of scenes from Paul's screenplays based on these "true" life events in order to help immerse the audience in Paul's headspace and let us see how he sees the world.

Paul T. Goldman launched earlier this month on Peacock and has struck a chord with viewers.

The series picks up when Paul T. Goldman's world is turned upside down after he finds out that his wife has been living a secret double life.

As a result, he embarks on a mission to find out the truth, which leads him to many different places and people.

Jason Woliner, who directed and helped bring the project to life, recently chatted with TV Fanatic about the filming process.

When I asked Jason earlier this month whether he was excited to have filming completed after working on the project for more than a decade, he revealed he was still working on the series.

"I wish I could say it was completed," Jason said with a laugh, adding that he was still editing the season finale.

He noted it was odd to be editing the...

Comedian Jonah Ray discusses his favorite year in cinema (1994) with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Airport (1970)

Airport 1975 (1975)

Airport ’77 (1977)

Airplane! (1980)

Basket Case (1982)

Destroy All Neighbors (Tbd)

Satanic Hispanics (2022)

Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022)

Black Christmas (1974) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings

Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s franchise power rankings

Tales From The Crypt (1972)

Donnie Darko (2001)

Pooka! (2018)

Pooka Lives! (2020)

Harvey (1950) – Joe Dante’s trailer commentary

Ed Wood (1994)

Black Dynamite (2009)

Bride Of The Monster (1955) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s review

Glen Or Glenda (1953)

Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957)

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Frankenweenie (2012)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Dumb And Dumber (1994)

Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (1997)

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

The Mask (1994)

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)

Scream (1996)

Evil Laugh (1986)

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Forrest Gump (1994)

Clerks (1994)

The Search For One-Eye Jimmy (1994)

Cabin Boy (1994)

Scary Movie 2 (2001)

Scary Movie 4...

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January is traditionally a slower month for movies and television, but while this January is a bit sleepy compared to the rush of December, there’s still a lot that looks promising in the month to come.

For starters, the usual flood of horror movies includes a new killer doll movie that looks like a lot of fun; HBO has a major new series adapting a classic video...

"Paul T. Goldman" is one of the strangest TV shows I've ever seen.

Jason Woliner, the director of "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm," has been working to bring Paul's story to the screen for the past decade, originally envisioning it as a movie but ultimately extending it into a six-episode series on Peacock. Since the rise of streaming, many shows have felt as if they were designed by an algorithm and stretched out with the sole intention of keeping viewers engaged with a platform for as long as possible. Not this one. 

Watching "Paul T. Goldman" is an immersive dive into the psyche of an eccentric man with a bonkers life story, and the way Woliner chose to tell that story is endlessly fascinating: He mixes familiar documentary language with dramatic recreations of scenes from a screenplay Paul wrote based on his own self-published memoir, starring Paul playing himself. The result is...

Is this guy for real? I’ve watched all but one episode of Peacock‘s Paul T. Goldman, a bizarre hybrid of reality show and making-of-movie chronicle, and I still don’t know. And I don’t know if I care. Director Jason Woliner (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm), who appears to have an affinity for eccentrics, has spent a decade working with this beyond-peculiar subject, who wrote an entire self-published book (titled Duplicity) and even a screenplay — changing his last name and, wisely, those of others — about the extraordinary events he says occurred in his formerly humdrum life as an unhappily single dad in West Palm Beach, Florida. In each version, Paul presents himself as a wronged husband who accidentally stumbles across an international crime ring. (Credit: Evans Vestal Ward/Peacock) Despite his aggressively ...

In 2009, Paul Goldman self-published a book on Amazon called “Duplicity.” The 323-page volume outlines a one-man crusade against a failed marriage, filled with a blow-by-blow account and accusations of how a man named Paul Goldman came to be the target of a suburban housewife’s scandalous double life. After using his own life as the basis for the book, Paul pursued anyone who could help bring “Duplicity” to the screen.

A decade later, “Paul T. Goldman” is the appropriately convoluted result. It’s not quite the international blockbuster that Paul dreams out loud about at various points over the six-episode series. Instead, it’s a Peacock show from director Jason Woliner, mixing documentary and comedy that feels linked but not indebted to some of its peers that have tried that same combo. “Paul T. Goldman” goes a step further, casting Paul against an ensemble of actors to recreate his own life story,...

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If you follow a lot of screenwriters or showrunners on Twitter, you’ve probably seen one or all of them make a statement urging random fans not to send them unsolicited writing or pitches, explaining the variety of reasons why this practice is legally, professionally and personally problematic.

Credit Jason Woliner’s new Peacock comic docuseries, Paul T. Goldman, with serving as a six-part cautionary tale on what happens if you beg a reasonably powerful creative talent to take authorship of your story and, simultaneously, your life. Paul T. Goldman is an undeniably fascinating, invariably uncomfortable piece of television that could spark provocative conversations about the relationship between filmmaker and subject, between fact and fiction, and about the delicate process of blending real life and satire. Is it a probing and well told exploration of the delusions churned out by the Hollywood dream factory,...

In the spirit of the work of Nathan Fielder comes “Paul T. Goldman,” a hybrid docuseries about a genuine weirdo. Jason Woliner, a director of multiple episodes of Fielder’s “Nathan for You” as well as of the 2020 “Borat” sequel, encountered his subject after Goldman tweeted at Woliner indicating that he had a story that badly needed dramatization. Taking inspiration from Goldman’s book, which makes outsized characterizations of his ex-wife’s motives and behavior, Woliner begins shooting a fictionalized version of the Goldman tale, with actors playing everyone but Goldman, who plays himself.

Goldman’s story begins with his meeting a woman who proposes, first, that they pursue marriage and, second, that they only live as a married couple for part of the week. In his telling a trusting optimist, Goldman accedes, all before, his frustration growing, he uncovers a web of untruth.

Having Goldman play out his story...

Where to begin with Paul T. Goldman, the new Peacock docu-comedy largely written by and starring Paul T. Goldman himself? Perhaps it is necessary to explain who and what Paul T. Goldman is. He is a Florida man nearing the end of middle age, twice-divorced, father to a now-adult son, bouncing from boring job to boring job. But he is also — maybe? sort of? possibly? — the protagonist of a real-life suspense thriller involving deceit, fraud and sex trafficking.

Or perhaps he is simply the comic punching bag for Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm director Jason Woliner,...

Screen Rant presents an exclusive clip from Peacock's bizarre new series that incorporates real-life events, Paul T. Goldman. The series is based on Goldman's book Duplicity: A True Story of Crime and Deceit, which tells the unbelievably true story of lies that he found himself falling into as he grew suspicious of his second wife. He begins to suspect she only married him to con him out of his money, which leads Goldman down a rabbit hole the likes of which he never could have expected.

After his book was published, Goldman reached out to Jason Woliner, director of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, about adapting his story, and the director's interest was piqued. Woliner and Goldman have been filming Paul T. Goldman for over ten years, with Goldman starring in the project as himself. The project also includes real people in Goldman's life as well as Hollywood stars including Frank Grillo,...

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Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for Babylon, Avatar: The Way of Water, Emily in Paris and Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody.

Avatar: The Way of Water premiere

The Avatar sequel’s cast and crew continued its world tour on Monday with the Los Angeles premiere, and though writer-director James Cameron was forced to miss after testing positive for Covid-19, stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Joel David Moore, Jamie Flatters, Britain Dalton, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Jack Champion, Bailey Bass, Duane Evans, Jr. and producer Jon Landau still came out to celebrate. The Weeknd, who has a song in the film, also walked the carpet, as did Bob Iger, with the premiere marking his first since returning as Disney CEO.

Jamie Flatters,...

Exclusive: Universal and Working Title have set Melissa McCarthy to star in an untitled Christmas-in-New York movie that will be written by Love Actually scribe Richard Curtis and directed by Sam Boyd.

They’re making the film for Peacock, and Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce with Riva Marker through her Linden Productions banner.

The film is a fairy-tale comedy about a workaholic man who enlists the help of a magical genie to help win his family back before Christmas.

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"This story is as accurate as it is unbelievable." Peacock has revealed the first trailer for a very curious, mysterious, bizarre new series titled Paul T. Goldman. Apparently this has been in the works for 10 years, one of the latest creations from Borat Subsequent Moviefilm director Jason Woliner. "It'll make sense when you watch it," he says. This trailer gives us a hint at what's going on: Goldman seems to have been swindled into marrying a woman who then started taking his money, leading him to get caught in mafia shenanigans. Or maybe none of that is true? It's "a project that mixes fact and fiction to tell a bizarre and incredible tale." Paul T. Goldman seems to be a real person, but he also might be made up, too? This trailer also shows off a bunch of actors who are involved in the recreations, including Dennis Haysbert and Rosanna Arquette.

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm director Jason Woliner has an upcoming Peacock show, Paul T. Goldman, and it's really bizarre. Woliner is known for directing the acclaimed Borat sequel along with episodes of shows like The Last Man on Earth and Parks and Recreation. Still, given the strangeness of Paul T. Goldman, it's particularly notable that Woliner worked with Nathan Fielder on Comedy Central's Nathan For You. Fielder has since gone on to create and star in The Rehearsal for HBO, the hybrid of reality and fiction that became one of the most discussed series of 2022 for the way that it blurred the lines of scripted drama and documentary.

Peacock's new trailer for Paul T. Goldman might just be even more bizarre than The Rehearsal. The series, which debuts on January 1 with three episodes, with the remaining three premiering weekly every Sunday, looks like it tells a familiar story of an...

The new 6-episode comedy TV series "Paul T. Goldman", directed by Jason Woliner and executive produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, is described as "mixing fact and fiction to tell a bizarre tale", streaming January 1, 2023 on Peacock:

Cast includes Paul T. Goldman, Rosanna Arquette, Melinda McGraw, Frank Grillo, Dennis Haysbert, Dee Wallace, Christopher Stanley, Paul Ben-Victor, James Remar, W Earl Brown, Josh Pais, Irina Maleeva and Hilda Boulware.

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Peacock has unveiled the first trailer for Paul T. Goldman, a wild new comedy series from Borat Subsequent Moviefilm director Jason Woliner and Seth Rogen.

Woliner has been shooting the project for over a decade. It’s in the style of Woliner’s work on Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, a series “that fact and fiction to tell a bizarre and incredible tale.”

Woliner explains how he embarked on the project in a letter that accompanies that show’s announcement. He wrote that Goldman tweeted at him (and hundreds of others) in 2012 that he had written a book and screenplay about “an incredible tale” and was seeking help to bring it to the screen. Woliner ended up buying the book, and ten years later, we have the Peacock series which stars Goldman himself.

Woliner directs and executive produces the six-episode series. Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Loreli Alanis executive produce for Point Grey Pictures,...

Director Jason Woliner took over the "Borat" franchise from Larry Charles with the raucously hilarious follow-up "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm," making headlines around the world and sending shockwaves across the web. Since then, it sounds like he's been busy putting the finishing touches on a Peacock original series that follows in the same footsteps of the documentary style comedy that has made millions cringe and crack up at the same time. 

Peacock has just debuted the first trailer for a new series called "Paul T. Goldman." Who is this? Well, as far as we know, it's not a new character from Sacha Baron Cohen, though we wouldn't be surprised if you thought that after getting a glimpse at this peculiar man and the journey he's taken over the past decade. The streaming service describes the new series as "a groundbreaking project that mixes fact and fiction to tell a bizarre and incredible tale,...

It is not yet Christmas 2022, and we already have a contender for “Weirdest TV Show of 2023.” Peacock just debuted the trailer for New Year’s Day release “Paul T. Goldman” — the series, like Paul T. Goldman himself, looks positively nuts. And we mean that in the very best way possible.

A docu-comedy in the style of “The Rehearsal” or HBO’s two-season series “How to With John Wilson” — both produced by Nathan Fielder — “Paul T. Goldman” is the passion project of Jason Woliner. Best known for directing 2020’s “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” Woliner is a veteran comedy director, with episodes of “The Last Man on Earth,” “Parks and Recreation,” and Fielder’s Comedy Central series “Nathan For You” on his résumé.

As he explains in a letter that accompanied the show’s announcement, Woliner has been working on this series for 10 years. Goldman tweeted at Woliner (and hundreds of others) in...

Truth is stranger than fiction… but Borat-style comedy can be even stranger than that.

Peacock has released a trailer for Paul T. Goldman, a new comedy that blends fact and fiction in the style of Sacha Baron Cohen’s big-screen hits. In fact, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm director Jason Woliner serves as director and executive producer here. Woliner has been working on this project for over a decade, and the story “continues to pile on jaw-dropping new twists,” per the official description.

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Exclusive: In a competitive situation with multiple bidders, Apple TV+ has landed a comedy starring, co-written, directed and executive produced by Seth Rogen with a straight-to-series order, Deadline has learned. The project hails from Rogen, Evan Goldberg & James Weaver’s Point Grey Pictures and Lionsgate, where the company is based.

Related: 2022 Apple TV+ Pilots & Series Orders

Written by Rogen, Goldberg and Veep alums Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory and to be directed by Rogen and Goldberg, the untitled series is about a legacy Hollywood movie studio trying to survive in a world where it is increasingly difficult for art and commerce to live together.

Rogen, Goldberg and Weaver executive produce via Point Grey; Huyck and Gregory also executive produce and serve as showrunners. Alex McAtee and Josh Fagen also serve as executive producers and Frida Perez co-produces. Lionsgate Television is the studio.

This is the latest series to come out...

Exclusive: Monarch Media, Point Grey Pictures, Lylas Pictures and Giant Ant are teaming to produce an animated feature based on Sarah Leavitt’s acclaimed memoir, Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me.

The synopsis for Leavitt’s 2010 graphic novel: When Alzheimer’s disease begins to strip away her mother’s vibrant personality, a headstrong young woman is forced to return to her oddball family in the conservative small town she recently fled in order to care for her. She quickly realizes she must accept the cruel and warped reality of the disease – and the imperfect beauty of her family – in order to become the daughter they need.

The Tangles film will be directed by Giant Ant principal Leah Nelson. Vicky Patel, Steve Barnett and Alan Powell will produce through Monarch Media, along with Seth Rogen through Point Grey Pictures and Lauren Miller Rogen through Lylas Pictures.

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Alexander Skarsgård, Nicholas Braun, French actor Liliane Rovère and others have joined the cast for Season 53 of “Documentary Now!,” IFC announced Friday. The channel also released a first look teaser as well as final details for two new episodes to round out the season.

Known for paying homage to the world of documentaries, “Documentary Now!” Season 53 will debut with on Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 10 p.m. on IFC and on AMC+ the same day. New episodes will debut weekly on Wednesdays.

The two-part season premiere episode “Soldier of Illusion,” written by John Mulaney and starring Skarsgård, Braun and August Diehl, was inspired by the Werner Herzog-focused documentary “Burden of Dreams.” Set in the early 1980s, the episode follows a visionary German filmmaker (Skarsgård) as he tries to will his magnum opus into existence while working in the remote, punishing conditions of the Russian Ular mountains. Kevin Bishop, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Matthias Rimpler,...

Rosanna Arquette has joined the third season of ABC’s Big Sky in a key recurring role opposite Katheryn Winnick.

Arquette will play Virginia ‘Gigi’ Cessna, Jenny’s (Winnick) charismatic, fast-talking mother. She’s a world-class scam artist who used childhood Jenny in her grifts, much to present-day Jenny’s resentment. Gigi has an uncanny ability to charm her way into people’s lives and then disappear without a trace. When she returns to Helena to pull her latest con, Jenny catches onto her and mother-daughter must work through their difficult relationship.

In Season 3, titled ‘Deadly Trails’, private detective Cassie Dewell (Kylie Bunbury), undersheriff Jenny Hoyt (Winnick), and newly appointed sheriff Beau Arlen (Jensen Ackles) maintain order in Helena, Montana with their unparalleled investigative skills. But when a local backcountry trip led by charismatic outfitter Sunny Barnes (Reba McEntire) goes awry, the trio faces their most formidable mystery yet – in...

Prepare to take the deepest of dives into why Big Sky‘s Jenny is the way she is.

Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction) will guest-star as Jenny’s mother in the ABC thriller’s upcoming Season 3, TVLine has learned.

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The character, Virginia “Gigi” Cessna, is described as charismatic — which helps greatly in her chosen profession: scam artist. We’ll...

Rosanna Arquette has joined the Season 3 cast of David E. Kelley’s “Big Sky” as recurring guest star. She will portray Jenny Hoyt’s (star Katheryn Winnick) charismatic and fast-talking mother, Virginia “Gigi” Cessna.

Her character summary is as follows: “She’s a world-class scam artist who used childhood Jenny in her grifts, much to present-day Jenny’s resentment. Gigi has an uncanny ability to charm her way into people’s lives and then disappear without a trace. When she returns to Helena to pull her latest con, Jenny catches onto her and mother-daughter must work through their difficult relationship.”

The ABC series follows private detective Cassie Dewell (Kylie Bunbury) as she teams up with an ex-cop (Winnick) to solve a kidnapping case in Montana. The new installment, titled “Big Sky: Deadly Trials,” sees newly appointed sheriff Beau Arlen (Jensen Ackles) joining the duo’s efforts to maintain order in town.

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ABC’s Big Sky is adding to its season three cast.

Rosanna Arquette will recur on the David E. Kelley-created series, which has also acquired a subtitle: The show will be known as Big Sky: Deadly Trails for the coming season, as its primary case revolves around a backcountry hiking trip.

Arquette (Ratched, Pulp Fiction) will play Virginia “Gigi” Cessna, Jenny’s (Katheryn Winnick) charismatic and fast-talking mother. Gigi is also a world-class scam artist who used childhood Jenny in some of her grifts, much to the now grown Jenny’s resentment. When Gigi returns to Helena, Montana, to pull her latest con, Jenny catches on to her, and mother and daughter have to work through their relationship.

Big Sky will also feature new regulars in Jensen Ackles and Reba McEntire, who will also narrate the season. Jenny, Cassie (Kylie Bunbury) and...

Exclusive: Peacock has added to the cast of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm director Jason Woliner’s series, from The Disaster Artist‘s producers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Caviar.

Christopher Stanley (Mad Men), W Earl Brown (The Book of Boba Fett), Josh Pais (The Dropout), and Irina Maleeva (The Merchant of Venice) will recur, while James Remar (Yellowstone), Paul Ben-Victor (Pam & Tommy) and Hilda Boulware (Modern Family) are set for guest-starring roles.

There are few details about the series, which Peacock describes as a “mind-bending project” in the style of Woliner’s work on Borat Subsequent Moviefilm that “mixes fact and fiction to tell a bizarre and incredible tale.” Woliner, who has directed episodes of The Last Man on Earth and Nathan for You, has been shooting for more than a decade.

Previously announced cast members include Rosanna Arquette (Florida Man), Melinda McGraw (Mad Men), Frank Grillo (Kingdom), Dennis Haysbert (Lucifer) and Dee Wallace (E.

Exclusive: Griffin Dunne (This Is Us), Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction), Richard Benjamin (Michael Crichton’s Westworld), Miles Heizer (13 Reasons Why) and James Norton (Little Women) will lead the cast of an as-yet-untitled comedy from writer-director Noah Pritzker (Quitters).

Others joining the ensemble include Eisa Davis (Mare of Easttown), Marcia Jean Kurtz (If Beale Street Could Talk), John Ventimiglia (The Sopranos), Lou Taylor Pucci (You), Echo Kellum (Grand Crew), Ian Owens (Shrill), Pedro Fontaine (Spider), Simon Van Buyten (Chaussée d’Amour), Nate Mann (Licorice Pizza), Zora Casebere (On the Rocks) and Rachel Zeiger-Haag (Monsterland).

The film from Play Book Productions and Pimienta Films—marking Pritzker’s follow-up to the 2015 dramedy, Quitters—will center on Dunne’s character, Peter Pearce. Overwhelmed by his pending divorce from Maria (Arquette) and the declining health of his father (Benjamin), Peter plans a getaway to Tulum, insistent he knows nothing of his sons’ (Heizer and...

Rosanna Arquette, Melinda McGraw, Frank Grillo, Dennis Haysbert and Dee Wallace are the first to be cast in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm director Jason Woliner’s Peacock series, from The Disaster Artists producers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Caviar.

There are few details about the series, which Peacock describes as a “mind-bending project” in the style of Woliner’s work on Borat Subsequent Moviefilm that “mixes fact and fiction to tell a bizarre and incredible tale.” Woliner, who has directed episodes of The Last Man on Earth and Nathan for You, apparently has been shooting for more than a decade.

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The series will be produced by Caviar and Rogen and Goldberg’s Point Grey Studios, via their overall deal with Lionsgate.

Woliner will direct and exec produce. Exec producers also include Rogen, Goldberg, James Weaver, Loreli Alanis, Annapurna’s Megan Ellison and Caviar’s Michael Sagol and Bert Hamelinck.

Jason Woliner’s upcoming Peacock series has added five new cast members.

Rosanna Arquette, Melinda McGraw Frank Grillo, Dennis Haysbert, and Dee Wallace are all set to star in the untitled project.

The show was ordered straight-to-series at Peacock in May. The show is said to mix fact and fiction to tell a bizarre and incredible tale, per the official description. No other plot details are available at this time. Woliner has reportedly been shooting footage for the show for over a decade

Woliner is the director and executive producer on the series. Other executive producers include Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver and Loreli Alanis for Point Grey Pictures; Megan Ellison for Annapurna; and Michael Sagol and Bert Hamelinck for Caviar. Tyler Ben-Amotz also produces for Caviar. The series will be produced by Caviar and by Rogen and Goldberg through their overall deal with Lionsgate.

Peacock announced today the...

Dennis Haysbert (24), Frank Grillo (Kingdom) and Rosanna Arquette (Ray Donovan) are among the first to be cast in Jason Woliner’s untitled Peacock series that will be told “in the style of Woliner’s work on Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.”

Melinda McGraw (Mad Men) and Dee Wallace (E.T.) also have boarded the untitled project.

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Described as a “mind-bending” and “groundbreaking” project that “mixes fact...

Peacock’s upcoming untitled project from producer Jason Woliner has begun stacking up its cast.

The series has added Rosanna Arquette, Melinda McGraw, Frank Grillo, Dennis Haysbert, and Dee Wallace.

Details about the project are being kept under wraps. A description from the streamer reads: “In the style of Woliner’s work on ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,’ the series is a groundbreaking project that mixes fact and fiction to tell a bizarre and incredible tale.”

Woliner has been shooting the project for over a decade and promises to be a story that continues to pile on jaw-dropping new twists, according to Peacock.

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The series also comes from executive producers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Loreli Alanis (Point Grey Pictures), Megan Ellison (Annapurna), Michael Sagol, Bert Hamelinck (Caviar), and producer Tyler Ben-Amotz.

The project will be produced...

Jason Woliner, the director of "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" (or just "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" if ya nasty), has just nabbed a straight-to-series order for a mysterious project from the fine folks at Peacock. Woliner has allegedly been shooting the currently untitled series for over a decade, in between his other directorial efforts like episodes of "Nathan For You," and the trilogy of Brett Gelman specials on Adult Swim. The project comes from executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and Caviar, the...

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Peacock has a new project coming from filmmaker Jason Woliner (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) and executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, but we’re going to have to wait to hear any substantial details. The streaming service has given a straight-to-series order of the untitled project that is said to be “in the style of Woliner’s work on Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” It is described as “a groundbreaking project that mixes fact and fiction to tell a bizarre and incredible tale” as well as “a mind-bending series” with “a story that continues to pile on jaw-dropping new twists.” Woliner has been shooting it for over a decade. “We can’t wait to dive in with renowned filmmaker Jason Woliner, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and our partners at Lionsgate for this truly unique series that begins with betrayal and quickly becomes an epic, hilarious, action-packed journey,” Lisa Katz, president scripted content,...