Betsy Brandt News

CBS announced today the season finale storylines for 2017-2018, featuring big reveals, dramatic conclusions and pending nuptials!

Wendy Wasserstein's witty, award-winning comedy, The Sisters Rosensweig, wraps up the 2017-18 season at South Coast Repertory. The production, directed by Casey Stangl, runs May 5-June 2 on the Segerstrom Stage. Tickets are now available at www.scr.org.

The Suncoast Credit Union Gasparilla International Film Festival (GIFF) is proud to announce the dynamic 2018 Feature Film Competition Lineup. The festival includes 35 U.S., international and documentary features, as well as other programming, to kick-off its 12th festival season. GIFF will begin on Tuesday, March 20th with the opening night musical/drama, Stuck, starring Giancarlo Esposito, Amy Madigan and Ashanti. 

BroadwayWorld has teamed up with Broadway alum Ilana Levine, who makes her entrance onto the podcast stage with her new show Little Known Facts. Ilana's unique brand of celebrity interview, 'Podcast Verite,' is unfiltered, raw, honest and uniquely funny.

Soaking Wet 2017-18 series opens with September  14-17 performances. Curated by David Parker and Jeff Kazin, performances take place Thursday-Sunday at the West End Theater.

Thursday-Sunday, September 14-17 West End Theater, 263 West 86th Street (2nd floor of the Church) Tickets: $20 Reservations: www.brownpapertickets.com  or 1-800-838-3006

Harvard University's ART Institute, the university's graduate-level theater program within the American Repertory Theater, recently announced a three-year admissions suspensions while administrators implement a strategic plan to stabilize the troubled program. On July 30, the A.R.T. Institute Alumni Association sent a letter to the leaders of the Institute criticizing Diane Paulus's 'little respect or interest in the program' and 'negligence in her duty to the Institute.'

Lifetime ups its premium scripted content with new season greenlights of the critically-acclaimed drama series UnREAL for a fourth season and freshman drama Mary Kills People for a season two, it was announced today by Liz Gateley, EVP and Head of Programming for Lifetime.

AMC is celebrating the holiday season and ringing in the New Year with marathon events of the award-winning series 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Walking Dead' beginning Monday, December 26th.

  CBS announced today that it has renewed freshman comedy LIFE IN PIECES for the 2016-2017 season. LIFE IN PIECES is this season's #1 new comedy in viewers (10.53m), adults 18-49 (2.7) and adults 25-54 (3.7).

Winners of the 18th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards were announced last night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Betsy Brandt served as host.

Talent joins Shawn Mendes and Jason Derulo, who were previously announced as performers at the 2016 show, and host Jane Lynch. The People's Choice Awards are the only major awards show where fans determine the nominees and winners across categories of movies, music, television and digital.

CBS has given a full-season, 22 episode order to LIFE IN PIECES, television's #1 new comedy.

CBS FALL PREVIEW, hosted by the Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winner Jane Lynch, star of CBS's new comedy series ANGEL FROM HELL, is a primetime special highlighting the Network's five new fall series. It will be broadcast Monday, Sept. 7 (8:30-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and CBS All Access, the Network's digital subscription service.

Vince Gilligan is finally answering some of BREAKING BAD fans' most pertinent questions.

The new fall dramas are: the heart-pounding medical series CODE BLACK, set in the busiest, most notorious ER in the nation; the fast-paced LIMITLESS, based on the feature film with Bradley Cooper, starring Jake McDorman as an average guy who can suddenly access 100% of his brain capacity with a mysterious pill; and SUPERGIRL, starring Melissa Benoist in the title role based on the DC Comics superhero.

Variety writes that stage vet Dianne Wiest and actress Zoe Lister Jones have joined the cast of CBS's comedy pilot LIFE IN PIECES.

According to Deadline, BREAKING BAD alum Betsy Brandt has signed on to join Colin Hanks in CBS' upcoming comedy pilot LIFE IN PIECES.

Following the fanfare that was bestowed upon the first installment of score music, SpaceLab9, in partnership with Madison Gate Records, is thrilled to announce the release of the 'BREAKING BAD (Original Score From The Television Series) Volume 2' double LP, which will be available at fine retailers throughout NORTH AMERICA today, November 25, 2014, and in the U.K. and Europe on December 5, 2014.