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Fans of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher shouldn’t be worried about the comedian quitting his weekly show.

He was joking around, according to HBO exec Nina Rosenstein.

On a recent episode of his Club Random podcast, Maher told guest Jane Fonda that he was “sh*tting his pants” over Donald Trump’s second, upcoming Presidency.

“It’s hard to believe,” he said. “I mean, I may quit because I don’t want to do another. I did Trump. I did all the Trump stuff before anybody. I called him a con man before anybody. I did. He’s a mafia boss. I was the one who said he wasn’t going to concede the election. I’ve done it.”

Asked whether she was worried that he might actually leave the show, Rosenstein, who is EVP, HBO Programming, Late Night and Specials, told Deadline, “So many people have asked that.

The talk/variety series “Real Time with Bill Maher,” hosted by Bill Maher, has been running for nearly two decades now, and is showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, HBO has already renewed the series to continue through 2026. So don’t expect Maher to leave airwaves anytime soon.

Fans of the show may be wondering – is “Real Time with Bill Maher” new tonight? No, “Real Time” is not airing a new episode on Friday, Dec. 6.

The last new episode features a one-on-one interview with Neil Degrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist, host of the “StartTalk” podcast, and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller “Merlin’s Tour of the Universe: A Traveler’s Guide to Blue Moons, Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Everything Far.” The panel discussion includes Donna Brazile, Democratic political strategist and ABC News contributor; and Andrew Sullivan, writer of “The Weekly Dish” newsletter on Substack and author...

Bill Maher is considering throwing in the towel.

The comedian revealed that he is considering quitting Real Time with Bill Maher, his HBO show that has been on the air since 2003.

Speaking on his Club Random podcast alongside guest Jane Fonda, Maher said he was “sh*tting his pants” over Donald Trump’s upcoming second presidency.

“It’s hard to believe,” he said. “I mean, I may quit because I don’t want to do another. I did Trump. I did all the Trump stuff before anybody. I called him a con man before anybody. I did. He’s a mafia boss. I was the one who said he wasn’t going to concede the election. I’ve done it.”

Fonda then asked, “Well, then how come he’s so hostile to Jimmy Kimmel and not to you?”

“He’s very hostile to me. He tweets about me every week,...

Cast and executive producers of ‘Shogun’ on stage at the 2024 Emmys (Disney/Frank Micelotta)

Father and son Eugene and Dan Levy did a respectable job of hosting the 2024 Primetime Emmys, popping in just enough throughout the two-hour running time to guide the show without overstaying their welcome. Their opening bit avoided any controversial topics, and Dan Levy got a big laugh when he described the Emmys as broadcast TV’s biggest night for honoring movie stars on streaming services. Eugene also earned solid applause when he joked, “In the true spirit of The Bear, we will not be making any jokes,” while addressing the show’s controversial classification as a comedy.

Speaking of The Bear, the series was awarded four Emmys during the broadcast in the Actor (Jeremy Allen White), Supporting Actor (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), Supporting Actress (Liza Colón-Zayas), and Outstanding Directing categories. But Hacks pulled off a surprise win, snagging the Comedy Series Emmy.

The 2024 Emmy nominations were announced Wednesday, July 17 at 8:30 a.m. Pt / 11:30 a.m. Et. Nominations for the 76th Emmy Awards were revealed by Emmy winners Tony Hale and Sheryl Lee Ralph, alongside the academy’s chair, Cris Abrego, at a live ceremony streaming on Emmys.com/nominations. See the complete 2024 Emmy nominations list below (Creative Arts categories can be seen at the Emmys website).

This season, the Emmy Awards celebrates its 76th anniversary. What began as a modest ceremony with five awards at the Hollywood Athletic Club has evolved into television’s biggest night, celebrating excellence throughout the industry. In the age of “peak TV” with close to 600 original scripted series, the nominations recognize the importance of the writers, performers and all those who worked on television programs in the past year.

As a reminder, last year’s big Emmy winners were HBO’s “Succession” for Best Drama...

This year, for the first time since 1982, the last three consecutive Best Comedy Writing Emmy winners are nominated in the category simultaneously. Looking to emulate “Taxi’s” defeat of “M*A*S*H” and “Barney Miller” is reigning victor “The Bear,” which faces its most serious challenges from “Hacks” and “Abbott Elementary.”

The current comedy writing lineup is also the first since 2013 to include no new programs, with the six nominees having lasted for an average of three seasons so far. In this category alone, these half dozen shows boast a collective total of 17 nominations dating back to 2020.

In order to determine the likeliest outcome of this contest, let’s take a closer look at each nominee. Be sure to make your predictions in this and 24 other Primetime Emmy categories by September 15.

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Reigning Best Comedy Actress champ Brunson has bounced back in this...

Just call them double trouble: Showrunners Issa López, Christopher Storer, Lucia Aniello, Noah Hawley and Steve Zaillian landed nominations in writing and directing categories for the 76th annual Emmy Awards, unveiled Wednesday with FX’s “Shōgun” and “The Bear” dominating the overall race.

Notable directing nominees this year include helmers Gus Van Sant (FX’s “Feud: Capote Vs. the Swans”), Guy Ritchie (Netflix’s “The Gentlemen”), Rob Reiner (HBO’s “Albert Brooks: Defending My Life”), Ron Howard (Disney+ “Jim Henson Idea Man”), Millicent Shelton (Apple TV+’s “Lessons in Chemistry”) and Mimi Leder (Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show”).

“Shōgun” showrunner/executive producer Rachel Kondo is also a double nominee for drama series writing.

“True Detective: Night Country” showrunner and exec producer López landed a limited series writing nomination for the “Part 6” final episode of the HBO drama anthology. She’s also up for directing all six episodes of the series,...

Exclusive: Molly Shannon (The Other Two) has signed on to star alongside Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser in Balls Up, the action comedy that Peter Farrelly is directing for Amazon MGM Studios and Skydance.

Details as to her role are under wraps. Written by Paul Wernick & Rhett Reese (Deadpool & Wolverine), the film follows two American marketing executives who are fired for blowing a client sponsorship opportunity and decide to use their free tickets to a major soccer match. Their drunken debauchery leads them to be hunted by every person across the country.

Producers include Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger and Andrew Muscato, as well as Wernick and Reese.

A three-time Emmy-nominated alum of Saturday Night Live, Shannon most recently starred in Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider’s The Other Two, which ran for three seasons across Comedy Central and Max, earning a Critics Choice Award nomination...

The HBO Original documentary Moviepass, Moviecrash, directed by award-winning filmmaker Muta’Ali (HBO’s “Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn”), is streaming now on Max. For Movie Geeks, it was the greatest thing to own and you could see your favorite films an unseemly amount of times. But there’s more to the story.

MoviePass was a movie lover’s dream, offering access to movie theater tickets at a discounted monthly subscription rate. In 2017, with a “too good to be true” promotional deal of $9.95 a month, subscriptions exploded, the company’s stock soared, and investors rushed to get in on the venture. However, the co-founders, who had built the pop culture phenomenon from scratch, were cast aside and forced to watch from the sidelines as new executives seized control.

In a span of eight years, MoviePass went from being the fastest growing subscription service since Spotify to total bankruptcy, losing over $150 million in 2017 alone.

If you’ve been keeping up with distribution news recently, there’s been one name you’ll have seen pop up again and again: Vertical.

Since the pandemic, the bottom has fallen out of the film business, with more quality indie packages hitting the marketplace than there are distributors willing to take them on. Stepping up, in the years since, to offer many of them a home, is this indie distributor, which appears to be in the midst of its biggest year yet.

Founded in 2012 by Rich Goldberg and Mitch Budin, Vertical comes from humble beginnings, according to partner Peter Jarowey, who notes that the team at one point operated out of “a literal broom closet.” Initially working to establish itself as a resource in securing ancillary revenue for indies, the company has of late has become a theatrical player in its own right. Aspiring from the beginning to be a purveyor of “commercial,...

The rise and fall of theater subscription service MoviePass is captured in new HBO documentary “MoviePass, MovieCrash.”

Dubbed “the Netflix of the movie theater” in the trailer, MoviePass was founded by Stacy Spikes and Hamet Watt in 2011 before former CEOs Mitch Lowe and Ted Farnsworth allegedly utilized fraudulent business tactics; the duo were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a 2022 lawsuit. The lawsuit additionally named ex-MoviePass Vice President Khalid Itum as a defendant, with Itum being accused of submitting false invoices for the company.

MoviePass filed for bankruptcy in 2020 after launching a $9.99 per month subscription in 2017 allowing people to see a movie a day. Upon moving to the $9.99 one movie per day model, subscriptions went from 20,000 to 100,000 users within two days, ultimately capping at more than 3 million subscribers in 2018. Yet the company still lost more than $150 million in 2017 alone. MoviePass filed for bankruptcy in 2019.

The company later...

Molly Shannon just might be HBO’s newest muse. As Deadline reports, the Emmy-nominated actress is set to star in an as-yet-untitled new comedy series for the cable network, which will be written by her former Saturday Night Live colleague Steve Koren. The duo will co-executive produce the new series.

As far as the plot goes, Deadline writes that Shannon will play a woman who is “deeply addicted to celebrity news and gossip. After friends and family finally confront her, she agrees to get help. Where? The same place where the stars get help—a fancy celebrity rehab in Malibu.”

Think of it as immersion therapy, Hollywood-style. Once there, Shannon’s character actually gets the chance to meet the celebrities she’s only read about—and manages to befriend a famous young actress who encourages her to ditch her family and follow her back to L.A.

It sounds like...

Exclusive: Almost 30 years after they first started working together on Saturday Night Live, Molly Shannon and Steve Koren have re-teamed for a comedy series, which is in development at HBO. Shannon and Koren are executive producing the untitled project, written by Koren and starring Shannon.

This is a story about a woman (Shannon) deeply addicted to celebrity news and gossip. After friends and family finally confront her, she agrees to get help. Where? The same place where the stars get help – a fancy celebrity rehab in Malibu. Instead of confronting her demons, she behaves as if it’s the Four Seasons. Once there, she connects with her favorite young starlet and must decide whether to return to her family or join her in Hollywood.

Executive producing alongside Shannon and Koren is Shannon’s longtime manager, Steven Levy.

Shannon and Koren first met in 1995 when they were both on SNL and...

HBO’s venerable “Real Time with Bill Maher,” survived the strike and despite a late start last fall, it continues to run new episodes on a nearly weekly basis. And while they might not be weekly, those new episodes will continue for quite a while to come, as HBO has already renewed the show through 2026.

But you probably already know about the renewal, which means you’re here because you’re wondering – is “Real Time with Bill Maher” new tonight? We have an answer for you, fear not.

And the answer is: Nope. “Real Time With Bill Maher” has taken the week off. Instead, HBO is airing a repeat of last week’s March 29 episode. But the break won’t be long — the show will be back on April 12.

The March 29 episode of “Real Time” featured a one-on-one interview with Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist at the NYU Stern School of...

“Real Time With Bill Maher” is expanding its reach across Warner Bros. Discovery. Episodes of the long-running HBO show will be available on CNN the Saturdays after they premiere on HBO.

The show will still be available to watch live and on demand on Max. The second showings will begin this coming weekend on March 23.

“The addition of ‘Real Time With Bill Maher’ to CNN’s weekend primetime lineup marks the start of a commitment and investment into topical entertainment programming that we’re bringing to the weekends,” Amy Entelis, CNN executive vice president of talent for CNN Originals and creative development for CNN Worldwide, said in a press release. “We’ve seen that audiences enjoy Bill’s perspective and approach to news and information, and we’re looking forward to the show now being on CNN.”

The post-show segment for “Real Time,” titled “Overtime,” will continue to be available...

One of HBO’s longest-running series ever will further extend its time on the premium cable channel.

HBO has picked up two more seasons of Real Time With Bill Maher, which will take the weekly talk show through its 24th season in 2026. The show’s current order was due to expire at the end of this year.

The renewal comes a few months after HBO also extended its other late-night staple, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, through 2026.

“Two more years in the dream job of a lifetime, on the network so many dream of being on — I think that’s what we call a no-brainer,” Maher said in a statement.

Real Time, which premiered in 2003, is second in HBO history only to the recently ended Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel in the number of seasons it has produced. Curb Your Enthusiasm’s premiere predates Real Time by three years,...

Bill Maher is getting more time for “Real Time” at HBO and its parent, Warner Bros. Discovery.

HBO has renewed the program for two more season, meaning that it will be served up via HBO and its streaming counterpart, Max, through 2026. “Two more years in the dream job of a lifetime, on the network so many dream of being on — I think that’s what we call a no-brainer,” Maher said in a statement.

The renewal keeps the acerbic comedian and commentator dishing out “New Rules” for the foreseeable future, which includes the 2024 presidential election, and, most likely, developments on issues close to Maher’s heart, including climate change, Donald Trump’s proposed political polices and liberal overreach.

“For 22 seasons and counting, Bill Maher remains a uniquely powerful voice in politics and culture. ‘Real Time’ is the rare place where people can both disagree and find common ground, which is more vital than ever,...

HBO is staying in the Bill Maher business.

The Warner Bros. Discovery-owned cable network has renewed Real Time with Bill Maher for two more seasons. It means Maher will stay on the network through the end of 2026 and take him close to 700 episodes of the show, which launched in 2003.

It’s somewhat of an early renewal for HBO, given that his previous contract signed in September 2021 brings him through to the end of this year.

“Two more years in the dream job of a lifetime, on the network so many dream of being on – I think that’s what we call a no-brainer,” said Maher.

The move comes after the comedian caused controversy last year during the writers strike by saying that he was bringing Real Time back to air without its writing staff. On September 13, he announced that he was returning to air on September 22, but after the...

Exclusive: We have the first major cast addition for the upcoming fourth season of Only Murders In the Building. Molly Shannon has been tapped for a season-long arc on the mystery comedy.

Per usual, the producers are keeping the storyline under wraps but, as Disney Television Group President Craig Erwich revealed in a Deadline interview, the Only Murders In the Building trio of Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short) and Mabel (Selena Gomez) will kick off the new season with a trip to Los Angeles before returning to The Arconia in their search of Saz’s killer.

I hear Shannon will play a high powered LA business woman who finds herself drawn into the world of the investigation in NY.

Shannon, a three-time Emmy nominee, spent six seasons as a member of the repertory company on Saturday Night Live, creating a gallery of memorable characters such as schoolgirl Mary Katherine Gallagher,...

The Directors Guild of America held its 76th annual awards tonight at the Beverly Hilton. Christopher Nolan took home the night’s top honor for Oppenheimer. Celine Song took home the prize for first-time theatrical film for Past Lives.

The DGA is a strong predictor of Oscar success historically, missing the eventual Best Director winner only eight times in 75 years. The group handed its top trophy to the Daniels for Everything Everywhere All at Once last year, and Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert went on to snag the Academy Award a month later, becoming only the third duo to claim that prized statuette.

Related: ‘American Fiction’ Filmmaker Cord Jefferson Teases Plan For New Erotic Thriller Movie – DGA Awards

Here are the winners at the 2024 Directors Guild Awards:

Feature Film

Christopher Nolan

Oppenheimer

(Universal Pictures)

Directoral Team:

Unit Production Managers: Thomas Hayslip, Nathan Kelly, Rafael Lima (New Jersey / New York Unit) First...

Some of the most beautiful music ever recorded has come when two complementary voices join together, sometimes resulting in a love duet, other times a dance hit and many times a top ten hit that becomes ingrained in the pop culture movement of that generation. There are solo singers, bands and vocal groups, but there is something unique and special about a duo harmonizing.

Since the early days of rock and roll, duos have found great success across all genres, with brothers Don and Phil Everly charting with singles like “Wake Up Little Susie” in the late 1950s, and influencing the generations of rock and pop artists that have followed. In the 1960s, with the creation of Motown, duos like Sam and Dave led the way for Black musicians to appeal to white audiences with hits like “Soul Man,” while California musicians Jan and Dean were influential in popularizing “surf music.

Emmys 2024: The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri & Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen Win For Their Outstanding Performances ( Photo Credit – IMDb )

The wait is finally over, and the 75th Emmy Awards are finally happening after being delayed for several months. HBO series Succession is leading with the most nominations, followed by The White Lotus and Beef. Succession, The Bear and Beef took home most of the awards at the Emmys 2024. Host Anthony Anderson kickstarted the night with a bang.

The actors and the fans waited eagerly to find out which television stars made it this time. It’s a neck-to-neck fight between the stars who got nominated. Scroll below to get more details.

The first award was presented at night for the best actress in a supporting role in a comedy series, and The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri took home the award for her outstanding performance. The second award of the night was Lead Actress,...

The 75th Primetime Emmys offer the biggest night in television, as the stars and creators of entertainment on the small screen gather to celebrate each other. Anthony Anderson hosted the 2024 Emmys broadcast, which honored the finest in drama and comedy on television, as well as some love for limited series, variety shows, and even reality television.

"Succession" came away as the big winner with the trophy for Drama Series, as well as a couple of major acting awards for Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook. On the comedy side, "The Bear" won the top Comedy Series prize, while stars Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach all won acting awards too. Finally, in the limited series category, "Beef" walked away with the major award for Limited Series, with Steven Yeun and Ali Wong taking home acting awards. Plus, the directors and writers for all of those shows took home trophies too.

Not wasting any time, just a couple of minutes after the WGA announced that the strike is ending, Bill Maher revealed that his Real Time will return this week. It will be the first late-night show to come back.

“My writers and Real Time are back! See you Friday Night!,” Maher wrote on X.

The news comes after the WGA Negotiating Committee, the Wgaw Board and Wgae Council all voted unanimously Tuesday to recommend the tentative agreement the studios, which was sent to the guild’s membership for a ratification vote. The strike was to officially end at 12:01 a.m. Pt Wednesday.

Related: ‘Saturday Night Live’ Could Return Next Month; Casting Still To Be Determined As NBC Show Set To Lean Into Non-Acting Hosts

Maher initially planned to bring his late-night show back “sans writers” on Sept. 22, saying that it was “time to bring people back to work”. He made the announcement Sept.

Bill Maher is the latest host to postpone his return to work.

Maher said that Real Time with Bill Maher will not, as previously planned, return to HBO on September 22.

He joins the likes of Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Hudson and The Talk in delaying returning to the studio.

Over the weekend, a slew of hosts including Barrymore, reversed their decision to return to work, following criticism from writers and actors. Hudson made the same decision, while CBS’ The Talk also reversed course.

Last week, Maher said that he was bringing his late-night show back “sans writers”, saying that it was “time to bring people back to work”.

The WGA had called Maher’s decision “disappointing” and revealed it would picket his show.

He has now cited optimism around talks between the WGA and the AMPTP, which is set for later this week, for his change of mind.

While Barrymore and...

Bill Maher is going back to work without his writers.

The comedian said on social media Wednesday that Real Time with Bill Maher will return to HBO. The show will be back with an original episode on Friday September 22 at 10pm.

Maher becomes the first late-night host to return to air, although if the Strike Force Five podcast hosted by Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver is any indication, they will not be joining him anytime soon.

It’s a controversial move given that his show is written by a team of late-night writers, who are currently in the fourth month of their strike. Other talk show hosts such as Drew Barrymore have faced ire from writers, while The Talk was picketed today at CBS Radford as they were doing a run-through.

The comedian already caused controversy last week when he voiced his opinions on...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:

Oscars | Emmys | Grammys | Tonys

2023 Emmy Predictions:

Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin from “Succession” (HBO)

Weekly Commentary: Official commentary coming soon.

The final Emmy voting rounds open on Aug. 17 at 9 a.m. Pt and close on Aug. 28 at 10 p.m. Pst.

Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit...

New Delhi, Aug 1 (Ians) Dell Technologies on Tuesday introduced new artificial intelligence (AI) offerings to help customers quickly and securely build Generative AI models on-premises to accelerate improved outcomes and drive new levels of intelligence.

Dell Generative AI Solutions include a new suite of Dell products and services, in collaboration with chip maker Nvidia, to help businesses gain real-time insights and enable innovation through intelligence.

“Our new suite of solutions help deliver and scale GenAI projects to enable business transformation, unlock productivity gains, and allow for trusted insights from company-proprietary data and IP,” Chris Kelly, senior vice president, Data Center Solutions, Asia Pacific and Japan, Dell Technologies, said in a statement.

The ‘Dell Validated Design’ for Generative AI with Nvidia is an inferencing blueprint optimised to speed the deployment of a modular, secure and scalable platform for GenAI in the enterprise, according to the company.

It is now available globally...

by Christopher James

The most joyfully surprising Emmy nomination of the year was a writing nod for The Other Two. This is the first (and unfortunately last) Emmy nomination for the uproarious satire. It was recently canceled amid workplace complaints towards creators Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider. As Team Experience team noted, The Other Two is one of the more underrated shows in the past few years. It started at Comedy Central before moving to Max, nee HBO, for seasons two and three.

A lone writing nomination at the Emmys for an underappreciated show is actually somethign of a tradition. Why is this one special and what other fan-favorite shows managed a similar feat? Read on...

The 2023 Emmy nominations were announced Wednesday, July 12 at 8:30 a.m. Pt / 11:30 a.m. Et. Nominations for the 75th Emmy Awards were revealed by Emmy nominee Yvette Nicole Brown and Academy Chair Frank Scherma at a live virtual ceremony streaming on Emmys.com/nominations. See the complete 2023 Emmy nominations list below (Creative Arts categories can be seen at the Emmys website).

This season, the Emmy Awards celebrates its 75th anniversary. What began as a modest ceremony with five awards at the Hollywood Athletic Club has evolved into television’s biggest night, celebrating excellence throughout the industry. In the age of “peak TV” with close to 600 original scripted series, the nominations recognize the importance of the writers, performers and all those who worked on television programs in the past year.

As a reminder, last year’s big Emmy winners were HBO’s “Succession” for Best Drama Series and Apple TV...

Editor’s Note: The following interview took place before HBO confirmed “The Other Two” would end with Season 3 and The Hollywood Reporter revealed that showrunners Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider were the subject of an Hr investigation.

“The Other Two” may have definitively ended at HBO Max, but the series’ star-studded celebrity roster unique and untouchable. Season 3 included appearances from Simu Liu, Fin Argus, Ann Dowd, Edie Falco, Ben Platt, Dylan O’Brien, Lukas Gage, Kiernan Shipka, Lawrence O’Donnell, Spike Einbinder, Andrea Boehlke, and Dana Delany — some as themselves, others as hyperspecific characters.

In their three seasons with the show, casting directors Allison Estrin and Henry Russell found the right balance in casting the very meta, very weird, but beloved cult series created by Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider. In a joint Zoom interview with IndieWire, Estrin and Russell talked about the unique logistics of their roles, a balance between planning...

Welcome to the 220th 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’s episode features a look at two beloved comedies and their respective end games and checks in on the latest news in Hollywood’s labor wars. Here’s how everything plays out:

1. Headlines

Ryan Seacrest, the purge at Paramount+, Breeders, From and another beloved CW executive leaving the Nexstar-controlled network lead the week’s top industry headlines.

2. The Other Two hangs it up

Comedy Central-turned-Max cult favorite The Other Two has wrapped its run as this week’s season three...

Network: Comedy Central, Max

Episodes: 30 (half-hour).

Seasons: Three.

TV show dates: January 24, 2019 — June 29, 2023.

Series status: Cancelled.

Performers include: Drew Tarver, Heléne Yorke, Case Walker, Molly Shannon, and Ken Marino.

TV show description:

From creators Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider, former co-head writers of Saturday Night Live, The Other Two TV show centers on an aspiring actor and a former professional dancer, whose worlds are rocked when their little brother skyrockets to fame.

Cary Dubeck (Tarver) wants to book better auditions than for parts like "Man At Party Who Smells Fart." Life as a 28-year-old struggling actor was ever thus.

On the other hand, his 30-year-old sister,...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers for the series finale of “The Other Two,” titled “Brooke & Cary & Curtis & Lance,” now streaming on Max.

In the season — and now, officially, the series — finale of “The Other Two,” Brooke Dubek (Heléne Yorke) makes an analogy. After months spent chasing proof she’s a good person, Brooke is finally set to win an award for a mental health fundraiser, but she’s terrified of a backlash. “Don’t you remember when Jameela Jamil launched that body positivity app and then everyone accused her of lying about being attacked by bees?” she asks. Her assistant does not.

“The Other Two” was a show for people who do remember the minutiae of minor celebrities and the social media skirmishes surrounding them. For three seasons, the series thrived on specificity, speaking directly to viewers who understood Brooke perfectly (and could throw out a few alternate Jamil...

The Other Two has ended with the release of its third season finale earlier today on Max. The dark comedy series, created by Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider, will not return for a fourth season.

Starring Drew Tarver, Heléne Yorke, Case Walker, Ken Marino, and Molly Shannon, The Other Two follows a pair of siblings, actor Cary (Tarver) and former dancer Brooke (Yorke), as they deal with their younger brother's sudden rise to fame. Season three finds the pair dealing with their own fame.

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Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers for the series finale of “The Other Two,” titled “Brooke & Cary & Curtis & Lance,” now streaming on Max.

Farewell, “The Other Two.”

The day before it aired its Season 3 finale, co-creators Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider announced there will not be a fourth season of the beloved comedy series, adding that they “always knew” this was “where we wanted to end” the stories of Brooke and Cary Dubek.

In the series finale, the siblings, after nine episodes of selfishness and depravity, finally show up for the ones they love. On a desperate mission to win an Academy Award for playing gay Albert Einstein, Drew Tarver’s Cary chooses to take a break from acting — despite the movie landing Harry Styles as a love interest — in order to heal himself and repair his friendship with Curtis (Brandon Scott Jones). Meanwhile, as her famous family members’ talent manager,...

Note: This episode contains spoilers for “The Other Two” Season 3, Episode 10.

Romance and redemption abounded in the series finale of “The Other Two.” Though the third season of the Max comedy series saw Brooke (Heléne Yorke) and Cary Dubek (Drew Tarver) take a morally questionable turn at times, both siblings took the chance to make things right in the show’s concluding chapter.

For Brooke, that meant making a big sacrifice for her family and reuniting with her fiancé Lance (Josh Segarra). As Brooke and the family attended the Peabody Awards, where Brooke was set to win an award for her telethon for mental health awareness headlined by her brother ChaseDreams (Case Walker), a scandal erupted when Chase was caught trying to boost his album sales through the project. Controversy also swirled around Pat (Molly Shannon), after she mistakenly posted a series of tweets maligning her Ohio friends — and essentially...

The Other Two, one of Max's buzziest shows, is coming to an end.

The streaming service revealed this week that Thursday's The Other Two Season 3 finale will serve as the series finale.

Yes, that means the final episode is available to stream.

While the decision to end the show comes right before the series finale's debut, it seems the endgame had been planned for quite a while.

"It is bittersweet to say goodbye to the Dubek family after three seasons, but we always knew, both creatively and personally, that this was where we wanted to end their stories," co-showrunners Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider shared.

"And because we are quite literally out of ways to humiliate Drew Tarver, so what's the point?"

"We are deeply grateful to everyone (gays) who watched the show, to Max for giving us a second home and life, and to our writers, producers and crew,...

The Other Two, Max’s beloved sitcom on the absurdity of celebrity culture, will not return for a fourth season. Rolling Stone has learned that “The Other Two creators have chosen to end the Max series with Season Three.”

The unexpected (and rather heartbreaking) ending follows staff complaints surrounding creators Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider, former Saturday Night Live head writers, throughout productions, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Sources involved with the show alleged to THR that the co-creators were the subject of Hr complaints regarding conduct on set and in the writers room,...

The Other Two is ending at Max after three seasons. The Thursday, June 29 finale will be the last episode of the series. The cult favorite show stars Drew Tarver as Cary Dubek and Heléne Yorke as Brooke Dubek, the two elder siblings of teen brother, ChaseDreams (Case Walker), who became a pop music sensation overnight. Molly Shannon plays their mother, Pat. Both struggling artists, “the other two” Dubek siblings, struggle for their own fame in the comedy, which is a satire of Hollywood and the music industry. Ken Marino (Streeter), Josh Segarra (Lance), and Brandon Scott Jones (Curtis) also star. The Thursday, June 29 finale will be a clear end to the series. “It is bittersweet to say goodbye to the Dubek family after three seasons, but we always knew, both creatively and personally, that this was where we wanted to end their stories,” showrunners Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider said...

“The Other Two” is coming to a close after three seasons amid reports of a toxic workplace.

The beloved and critically acclaimed series will conclude with its current third season, making the June 29 episode the series finale. “The Other Two” was created by former “SNL” writers Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider, who shared a press statement clarifying the decision to end after Season 3 was not due to being canceled.

However, The Hollywood Reporter credited sources saying there were “multiple staff complaints” about showrunners Kelly and Schneider over the course of the production. Per the THR report, the Hr complaints stemmed from behavior on set and in the writers’ room, including allegations that Kelly “verbally abused writers and overworked crew and claims that Schneider enabled his behavior.”

A source tells IndieWire that the report was unfounded and not connected to the series ending. Max representatives did not provide comment to THR.

We’ve got bad news for fans of The Other Two: Thursday’s third season finale will now serve as the comedy’s series finale.

Co-showrunners Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider maintain that the seemingly abrupt decision to end the series was a creative one.

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“The Other Two” will end with its third season on Max, TheWrap has confirmed.

The Hollywood satire series, which stars Heléne Yorke, Drew Tarver and Molly Shannon, will end with its Season 3 finale, which will air on Thursday. The decision to end the show came from creators Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider, according to an individual with knowledge who spoke with TheWrap.

“It is bittersweet to say goodbye to the Dubek family after three seasons, but we always knew, both creatively and personally, that this was where we wanted to end their stories,” Kelly and Schneider said in a joint statement. “And because we are quite literally out of ways to humiliate Drew Tarver, so what’s the point? We are deeply grateful to everyone (gays) who watched the show, to Max for giving us a second home and life, and to our writers, producers and crew, who gave so much of their time,...

The Other Two, the comedy series starring Heléne Yorke, Drew Tarver and Molly Shannon, is coming to a close with its third season on Max.

However, rather than being canceled, the decision was made by Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider, co-creators of the buzzy comedy, who said that they have run out of ways to “humiliate” Tarver.

“It is bittersweet to say goodbye to the Dubek family after three seasons, but we always knew, both creatively and personally, that this was where we wanted to end their stories,” the pair said. “And because we are quite literally out of ways to humiliate Drew Tarver, so what’s the point?”

The move comes ahead of the third-season finale, which sees Shannon’s billionaire mogul mom Pat and her ex-lover/manager Streeter (Ken Marino) strategize how to broach difficult conversations with her kids, Cary (Tarver) and Brooke (Yorke). The episode airs Thursday,...

“The Other Two” will not return for a fourth season, as series creators Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider announce that they “always knew” Thursday’s Season 3 finale is “where we wanted to end” the stories of Brooke and Cary Dubek.

Debuting on Comedy Central in 2019 before moving to HBO Max (and now Max), the series offered a scathing satire of Hollywood and the corruptive nature of fame. It starred Heléne Yorke and Drew Tarver as disillusioned millennial siblings Brooke and Cary, who attempt to make it in New York City after their teenage brother becomes a Justin Bieber-esque pop star and their mother a daytime TV host. In Season 3, Cary, an actor, finally works his way up to C-list celebrity status, while Brooke, after talent managing her famous family members, decides to leave the industry to “do good.”

Molly Shannon, Josh Segarra, Ken Marino, Case Walker, Wanda Sykes and...

The Other Two, the cult Max comedy about the inner workings of Hollywood, will conclude June 29 with its season three finale. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the ending comes following multiple staff complaints about creators and showrunners Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider over the course of the production, though several insiders say that there is no causal connection between the complaints and the decision to end with season three.

Multiple sources involved with The Other Two confirm Kelly and Schneider were the subject of complaints to human resources over behavior on set and in the writers room. These include allegations that Kelly verbally abused writers and overworked crew and claims that Schneider enabled his behavior.

According to sources, the production conducted a formal investigation into the behavior, during which Kelly and Schneider were not permitted on set for a period. Kelly and Schneider were formally cleared of wrongdoing and allowed to return.

Heléne Yorke knew playing Brooke Dubek in the third season of “The Other Two” would challenge her. The Max comedy series took a few chaotic turns this year, as it charted the Dubek family’s hilarious, at-times dark-sided climb to the top of Hollywood’s food chain.

From breaking off her engagement and becoming invisible — literally and metaphorically — at a Hollywood party, to almost chloroforming Ben Platt and accidentally setting an apartment on fire, the actress recalled feeling “flattered” that the show’s writers would trust her with material that “always ups the ante and makes things funny that feel so deeply sad.”

“It’s incredibly rare as an actor to be given the opportunity to give a 360 performance in that way,” Yorke told TheWrap ahead of the show’s Season 3 finale. “I can’t believe how lucky I am to be on this show and be given the opportunity to do that.

Talking to Heléne Yorke really doesn’t feel like an interview. Sure, during a Friday afternoon Zoom we mostly focus on The Other Two, the criminally underrated Max comedy she stars in, but there’s enough bantering about life and mom things that it quickly shifts into chatting. And it certainly doesn’t hurt that she’s funny and relatable, not entirely unlike her on-screen persona.

One half of the titular Two, Brooke Dubek is a former professional dancer who’s searching for her purpose and examining her identity after her youngest brother becomes a pop sensation overnight. At this point in the series’ third season, she’s managing the careers of ChaseDreams (Case Walker) and her mother-turned-media mogul Pat Dubek (Molly Shannon) after temporarily leaving the industry because the pandemic made her feel guilty about not being a professional do-gooder, and middle child Carey (Drew Tarver) is on the...

Heléne Yorke has one word that comes to mind when describing her character, Brooke Dubek, in the third season of the Max series, “The Other Two,” and that is insecurity. “I think that she’s displaying her truest, deepest, darkest insecurity in this season. She’s gone about things confidently, blindly and I think this season she gets existential in a way and goes down a path that she can’t get out of,” she tells Gold Derby during our recent webchat (watch the exclusive video interview above). She attributes this to the wide variety of humor that show creators Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider bring to the show and its characters. “I would be more surprised if I was not surprised by the creators of the show. I think they are incredibly deft in the writing and their storytelling.”

“The Other Two,” which is currently streaming on Max, centers on two siblings,...

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