TV News Desk - Page 166

Just off a run in THE CRUCIBLE on Broadway, Ben Whishaw, also well known for his role as 'Q' in the new James Bond films, is in talks to join Disney's upcoming sequel to the beloved 1964 film, MARY POPPINS RETURNS.

Announcing the release of the 2nd season of the comedy series, THE PIONEERS! Eight episodes are out online as of August 10th. THE PIONEERS is a comedy series about a young engaged couple who (try to) open up their relationship before they tie the knot. Check out two videos from the new season below!

Starring Tony nominee Brian J. Smith (Sense8, Quantico, The Glass Managerie - Broadway), Gayle Rankin (Cabaret - Broadway, The Meyerowitz Stories - dir. Noah Baumbach), Patrick Murney, Elizabeth Alderfer and Nick Choksi, THE PASSING SEASON premieres this week at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, the same week during which its director Gabriel Long moves back to his home state via Brooklyn, NY.

Baz Luhrmann's all-new music-driven drama THE GET DOWN premieres part-one globally on Netflix today, August 12, 2016 at 12:01am PT.

Actresses Tricia O'Kelley (Devious Maids, The Mick, The New Adventures of Old Christine) and Alex Kapp (The New Adventures of Old Christine) join Elysabeth Alfano for an episode of The Dinner Party with Elysabeth Alfano podcast from her house in Venice Beach.

The cryptic, highly anticipated sixth season of AMERICAN HORROR STORY has just released a new promo poster that fills in a little more of the web. Check it out below!

New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) and IRIS, a collective of women filmmakers, are pleased to announce the selected screenwriters to participate in the second year of The Writers Lab.

Haitian-American director Patrick Ulysse / UNIMIX Films  2015 feature release “Forever Yours” will be honored and screened at two separate events in Newark, New Jersey tonight, August 3, 2016. 

NBC has announced that today, August 3rd, Tony Award winner Leslie Odom Jr., who recently departed the hit Broadway musical HAMILTON, will perform on TODAY during the 10 am hour.

Episode 2, 'Hollywood & Race,' of A&E's first-ever original comedy series, the racially charged, bitingly funny BLACK AND WHITE airs Wednesday night August 3rd at 9:30/10:30c with special guest David Alan Grier (In Living Color, NBC's The Wiz). The show is hosted by Christian Finnegan and Sherrod Small. Check out a sneak preview of the interview below!

Tillman Management Group, and The Andretta Tillman Estate in association with Dousic Film & Television, are pleased to announce that it has completed the filming of 'A Child of Destiny,' the new documentary about the life of Andretta Tillman, the driving force behind Beyoncé and Destiny's Child rise to fame and her battle with Lupus.

Legendary leading ladies Elizabeth Taylor, Greta Garbo, Rita Hayworth and Barbra Streisand are featured in the July Reel 13 schedule. Tonight, watch Funny Girl with Streisand!

Get ready for an evening of music and film at Storm King on Friday, Saturday, August 13, presented by Rooftop Films and lululemon athletica.

Museum of the Moving Image will present Kartemquin at 50, a major retrospective devoted to the not-for-profit documentary collective Kartemquin Films, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

The 27th annual Donald M. Ephraim Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival begins January 19, 2017 at the Kravis Center of Performing Arts in the Cohen Pavilion.

BWW has learned that Bernadette Peters will stop by LIVE WITH KELLY today, July 27th to help give makeovers to some lucky shelter dogs.

The Ad Council, the largest producer of public service advertisements in the U.S., announced today that James Corden will host its 63rd Annual Pubic Service Award Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City on November 16, 2016.

The highly anticipated Disney animated feature film MOANA, with music from HAMILTON Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda and featuring fellow stage star Phillipa Soo, includes another stage vet in its voice cast: Nicole Scherzinger.

Stage and screen star Kristin Chenoweth, who will soon appear as 'Velma Von Tussle' in NBC's HAIRSPRAY LIVE and recently took the Broadway stage in ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, is headed for a divine new role.

Starring Jonathan Groff (Tony Award nominee for 'Hamilton,' HBO's 'The Normal Heart'), Frankie J. Alvarez ('Smash') and Murray Bartlett ('August'), LOOKING: THE MOVIE wraps up the story of three close friends who explore the options available to a new generation of gay men seeking fulfillment in love and life.