Netflix is trying it seems to create their own Ted Lasso style series and their latest effort in that field is new comedy series RUNNING POINT set in the world of basketball with Kate Hudson in the lead role. The ten episodes that will be available for streaming February 27th also have Brenda Song, Drew Tarver, Scott MacArthur, Fabrizio Guido, Toby Sandeman, and two insanely hot hunks Chet Hanks and Jay Ellis in the cast. You can check out the brand new trailer for the upcoming comedy series below and tell us what you think, will you be watching?
WHAT'S THE STORY?
When a scandal forces her brother to resign, Isla Gordon (Kate Hudson)
is appointed president of the Los Angeles Waves, one of the most storied
professional basketball franchises, and her family business. Ambitious
and often overlooked, Isla will have to prove to her skeptical brothers,
the board, and the larger sports community that she was the right
choice for the job. Max Greenfield and Justin Theroux are some of the
names that will guest star in some of the episodes.
It will be his feature film debut, and Jerry Seinfeld has got himself a rather stellar cast for his Netflix comedy movie UNFROSTED: THE POP TART STORY a tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar and menacing milkmen, set in 1963 Michigan where sworn cereal rivals Kellogg’s and Post race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever. James Marsden, Melissa McCarthy, Hugh Grant, Jim Gaffigan, Max Greenfield, Christian Slater are all slated to star next to Seinfeld who is also directing and producing.
ISABEL SANDOVAL TO HELM
TROPICAL GOTHIC 16TH CENTURY PHILIPPINES SET MOVIE
Isabel Sandoval will both helm and star
Deadline reports that Isabel Sandoval will direct and star in TROPICAL GOTHIC movie. She was the first trans woman of colour to ever compete at Venice Film Festival when she was there with her previous feature Lingua Franca. TROPICAL GOTHIC will be an allegory on Western colonialism about a Native Priestess who convinces her Spanish master that she is possessed by the spirit of his dead bride, in order to manipulate him into returning the farmland that the Spaniards seized from the native community.
Thanks to corona, we had no comedies this season on the small screens, the first one to appear two weeks ago, B-Positive, hasn't been overly
Call me Kat will air over at Fox
successful (even I as a renowned fan of sitcoms couldn't stand the atrociously bad femalelead in it), but we have two popular sitcoms returning tomorrow and then Call Me Kat and Last Man Standing finale season coming two days after New Year's Eve!
CALL ME KAT AT FOX
Is
probably the most anticipated multicamera sitcom this season, the
expectations are high as it is based on popular British comedy Miranda and
it has a number of comedy legends in the cast from Mayim Bialik in the
lead to Swoosie Kurtz and everybody's favourite Leslie Jordan. There
will also besome eyecandy in it too as
Leslie Jordan is returning to sitcoms after Cool Kids
beautiful Vanessa Lachey and
sinfully handsome Cheyenne Jackson will also star. And as you can see
from the photos, the series will stay true to its title and will have a
cat as a part of the cast as well! The series will start on Sunday
January 3rd and will then move to its weekly spot on Thursday nights
Good news is that Mayim Bialik's Kat will have a pet cat!
which will become the strongest comedy night as Katwill be paired up on
Fox with Tim Allen's Last Man Standing. Should be a ratings heaven for
Fox. In the comedy, Bialik plays a 39-year-old woman called Kat who
struggles every day against society and her mother to prove that you can
not have everything
Mayim Bialik returns to sitcoms after Big Bang Theory
you want yet still be happy. So she spends the
money her parents set aside for her wedding to open a cat café in
Louisville, Kentucky. With Swoosie as Kat's mother, Kat's coworkers at
the café include Phil, played by Leslie Jordan,
Vanessa Lachey returns to sitcoms after Truth Be Told
who recently broke up
with his longtimepartner, and Randi (Kyla Pratt), a confident
millennial and self-proclaimed non-cat person. Cheyenne Jackson plays
Max, Kat's former crush and good friend who returns to town
The series will air on Thursday nights after the Sunday premiere
and accepts a
bartending job at a piano bar. Vanessa Lachey will be Tara, Kat's BFF
since kindergarten. Married with 3 children, Tara has a very different
life than Kat’s but their shared history has created a bond that can’t
be broken.
LAST MAN STANDING FINALE
Finally getting a good Thursday evening sidekick at Fox in Call Me Kat is America's best watched sitcom LAST MAN STANDING which will also roll its final, ninth season on January 3rd! After breaking tons of records in first seven years, the sitcom had a massive drop in ratings last year with the arrival
Tim Allen and Nancy Travis are retiring in Last Man Standing
of television's most annoying character Jen and a change in scripts which made the show less funny to the point of it being even unwatchable. Hopefully, the final season will bring the sitcom to its old glory. Tim Allen's sitcom will have 194 episodes in total and will have a time jump at the beginning of the final season, as we will meet the characters a few months after the events in
The final season will have a lower number of episodes due to corona
the catastrophic season 8. When we see the Baxters again, Kristin (Amanda Fuller) will have welcomed the baby, Mandy (Molly McCook) will be further along in her pregnancy, and Mike and Vanessa will be contemplating next steps. For Mike, that means retirement and choosing a successor.
BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA AND NEIGHBOURHOOD RETURN TOMORROW AT CBS
But
if you cannot wait till January for your weekly comedy fix, the good
news is that CBS's most watched sitcoms BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA, with the
second season, and NEIGHBOURHOOD, with the third season, are returning
as of tomorrow evening! The second season of Bob Hearts Abishola
Bob Hearts Abishola comes from comedy legend Chuck Lorre
will
start with Bob (Billy Gardel) enlisting Uncle Tunde's help to buy an
engagement ring for Abishola! However, his plans are upended because
Abishola does not believe in a traditional marriage. Meanwhile, in the
third season of NEIGHBORHOUD, the Johnson and Butler families had
already
The Neighborhood returns with its third season tomorrow
overcome the awkwardness that arose at the time of the first
meeting, they found a lot in common, but prejudice and pride sometimes
still prevail over common sense. Max Greenfield and Beth Behrs return as
the lovely and kind Johnsons, with Cedric the Entertainer as their
racist neighbour Calvin Butler.
Not much to show you in the post festive days, people, but I do have for you a trailer and poster for new drama movie I'M NOT HERE (previously known
I'm Not Here opens next March!
as Steve's Umbrella) which arrives into cinemas next March starring J.K. Simmons, Sebastian Stan, Mandy Moore and Max Greenfield.
Steve is haunted by his past as every object in his home, every sound
he hears reminds him of a specific event in his life. Steve connects
the events of his life to discover how he ended up alone and broken. As
he relives each significant memory, he understands the generational
issues that have held him captive like his father before him. Can he
move past the pain and forgive his trespassers, and more importantly,
forgive himself?
'AD ASTRA' SF MOVIE
FIRST PHOTO WITH BRAD PITT!
You can also check out the first photo from sf movie AD ASTRA which is out next May starring Brad Pitt as astronaut Roy McBride who travels to the
The Lost City of Z director James Gray is helming this one
outer edges of the solar system to find his missing father (Tommy Lee Jones) and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. Donald Sutherland and Ruth Negga also star!
MAX GREENFIELD ARRIVES TO CEDRIC ENTERTAINER'S HOOD!
Neighborhood will have 13 episodes in its first season
The spy is updating you with this Autumn's new multi camera sitcoms, starting with the new trailer and cast photos for NEIGHBOUR HOOD which starts airing at CBS Monday, October 1st in their new comedy lineup! Max Greenfield plays Dave (taking the role over from Josh Lawson who was cast in it in the pilot), the nicest guy in the Midwest who moves his family into a tough neighbourhood in L.A. where not everyone appreciates his extreme neighbourliness. Cedric the Entertainer is his
Cedric The Entertainer and Tichina Arnold are the Butlers!
next door neighbour Calvin Butler, who regards the new family with disdain and as a pack of interlopers, with Tichina Arnold as his wife who judges
Beth Behrs and Max Greenfield are the lead stars
them by their knowledge of Scripture (non existent) and their church attendance record (shockingly poor!). Beth Behrs plays Dave's wife Gemma.
'HAPPY TOGETHER' TRAILER
NEW DAMON WAYANS JR SITCOM!
Also hitting CBS this Autumn, October 1st, is new multicamera sitcomHAPPY TOGETHER about a 30 something happily married couple who begin to reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when a young pop star
Airing from October 1st, Happy Together will have 13 episodes
(Felix Malard) drawn to their super ordinary suburban life unexpectedly moves in with them. Jake (Damon Wayans Jr.), an accountant, and his dream wife, Claire (Amber Stevens West), a restaurant designer, are very
Amber Stevens West, Damon Wayans and Felix Malard lead the cast
comfortably settled into their marriage, enjoying evenings together on the couch watching TV and scheduling time to change their outgoing voicemail message. Their tame routine gets a makeover when Jake’s client, exuberant
Happy Together is produced by pop star Harry Styles
music superstar Cooper James, arrives on their doorstep looking for refuge from the paparazzi following a high-profile breakup with his girlfriend. Jake and Claire quickly discover there’s no way they can keep up with their world-famous houseguest’s effortlessly cool, fast-paced lifestyle. Cooper, however,
Chris Parnell, Victor Williams and Stephnie Weir star in Happy Together
enjoys Jake and Claire’s more relaxed way of life, discovering that a touch of ordinary can be extraordinary for all three of them. Stephnie Weir stars as Claire’s mother, Bonnie; Victor Williams stars as Claire’s father, Gerald; and Chris Parnell stars as Cooper’s agent, Wayne.
Fun and light topics today, spylings, beginning with gorgeous Max Greenfield who has just boarded Taraji P. Henson's movie WHAT MEN WANT which is the female version of classic hit What Women Want which starred Mel Gibson.
In this new version, directed by Adam Shankman, Taraji P. Henson
plays a woman boxed out of the sports agents profession who gains an
unexpected edge when she finds out she can hear men's thoughts. She uses
this to her advantage and races to sign the NBA’s next superstar. The
movie is currently scheduled for next January.
SEAN RUBIN'S 'BOLIVAR'
THE LAST DINOSAUR TO MOVE ONTO THE BIG SCREENS
Something positively enchanting: graphic novel from lovely Sean Rubin BOLIVARhas been bought by Fox for a movie adaptation! The novel which became a hit after its release last November and which won awards and praise
Bolivar is nominated for Eisner Award for best Children's Comic
all around, tells the story of a little girl living in New York City who discovers that her next-door neighbour is the world’s last living dinosaur.
'A SIMPLE FAVOUR' TRAILER
IN WHICH ANNA KENDRICK IS SEARCHING FOR BLAKE LIVELY
The movie has been scheduled for September
When it comes to new trailer releases, check out the first teaser for Paul
Feig's mystery thriller
A SIMPLE FAVOR, which is out this September revolving around Stephanie (Anna Kendrick), a mommy vlogger who seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily's (Blake Lively) sudden disappearance from their small town. Stephanie is joined by Emily's husband Sean (Henry Golding) in this stylish thriller filled with twists and betrayals, secrets and revelations, love and loyalty, murder and revenge.
Just a week ago she got one husband and now she's got another one: after Jack Lawden was cast as Lord Darnley in MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, in which Saoirse Ronan plays the title role, British actor Martin Compston has been cast as her third husband Earl of Bothwell! She was first married to king of France, then moved over to Scotland after his death where she had to fight for her throne marrying nobles in the process and also trying to take away the throne of England from Queen Elizabeth who in the end had her royal head chopped off, although Mary did win in the way that her son James I became Elizabeth's heir and managed to unite England and Scotland under his royal rule. Margot Robbie plays the English monarch.
'ASSASSINATION OF VERSACE'
FIRST PHOTOS REVEALED!
Meanwhile, FX and Entertainment Weekly have uncovered the first glamorous photos of the lead stars of the second season of AMERICAN
The series will air early next year
CRIME STORY titled THE ASSASSI- NATION OF GIANNI VERSACE. Exploring the shocking murder of famous fashion designer Gianni Versace by serial killer Andrew Cunanan, its ten episodes will be based on Maureen Orth's book Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History! With Edgar Ramirez starring as Gianni Versace, Penelope Cruz will put a platinum wig to portray his sister Donatella, with pop star Ricky
Penelope Cruz as Donatella Versace
Martin as his long time lover Antonio D'Amico and Max Greenfield (as their brother Santo Versace) and Darren Criss also in the cast.
THE FINAL MURDER VICTIM To air sometime early next year, with parts of it shot in Versace's
former villa, THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE will chronicle the
1997 murder of Versace which shook the world. Serial killer Andrew
Cunanan shot Versace dead on the steps of his luxurious
Edgar Ramirez is shockingly similar to Versace
Miami Beach home
after committing several other murders. He committed suicide eight days
later. A violent psychopath, Cunanan’s lifestyle was promiscuous and
drug fueled, and he became notorious for
Ricky Martin as Antonio D'Amico, Versace's lover
picking up rich men in bars by
making claims about a lifestyle he never lived. He claimed Versace as
his fifth and final murder victim.
Female stars news, today, people: beside the news of Sandra Bullock possibly leading an all female version of OCEAN'S ELEVEN, there's yet another movie adaptation to announce: as 'The Hollywood Reporter' writes today, Jennifer Aniston will lead the cast in the movie version of Liane Moriarty's WHAT ALICE FORGOT bestselling book over at TriStar. She is set to play Alice, a 40-year-old who suffers head trauma at the gym and awakens believing that she is still 25 and that her life is far better than it actually is. She thinks she's 25, in love with her husband and her career and pregnant with her first child, but instead she's a mother of three who is about to get divorced and her life's different.
NICOLE KIDMAN
TO BECOME 'SILENT WIFE' Meanwhile, another Hollywood lady, Nicole Kidman is said to have
taken the lead role in Adrian Lyne's new movie SILENT WIFE, his first
one after 2002's UNFAITHFUL with Diane Lane! Again, it will be a big
screen adaptation of a book, this time of based on the bestselling 2013
A.S.A. Harrison novel of the same name, in which, as 'Deadline' reports,
the story revolves around a husband who starts an affair with the early
20ish daughter of his best friend. That’s dangerous enough, but the
least of his worries. His wife (Kidman) discovers the affair, and plots
his murder.
'HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS'
FIRST TRAILER WITH SALLY FIELD AND MAX GREENFIELD
The first trailer has been released for comedy drama movie coming out this spring HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS in which Sally Field plays a sixty something woman who decides to have a run for her much younger co worker played by Max Greenfield.
professional basketball franchises, and her family business. Ambitious
and often overlooked, Isla will have to prove to her skeptical brothers,
the board, 
and the larger sports community that she was the right
choice for the job. Max Greenfield and Justin Theroux are some of the
names that will guest star in some of the episodes.
professional basketball franchises, and her family business. Ambitious
and often overlooked, Isla will have to prove to her skeptical brothers,
the board, 
and the larger sports community that she was the right
choice for the job. Max Greenfield and Justin Theroux are some of the
names that will guest star in some of the episodes.
