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Amanda Peet has up to this point been known as quite a successful actress with a knack for picking a lot of smart movies in which to appear. The list includes Syriana, Something’s Gotta Give,  The Way Way Back, Identity Thief, Please Give, The Whole Nine Yards, Changing Lanes, and many more. On television her credits…

Amanda Peet has joined the cast of Fatal Attraction, Paramount+’s series reimagining of the classic 1980s psychosexual thriller film. She joins previously announced series leads Lizzy Caplan and Joshua Jackson. Written by Alexandra Cunningham from a story she co-wrote with Kevin J. Hynes, the Paramount Television…

USA Network has set a pre-summer premiere for Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story, the second season of its true-crime anthology series. Starring Amanda Peet and Christian Slater, the tale of love, betrayal and death will bow with two back-to-back episodes on Tuesday, June 2. Watch the new trailer above. Moved from…

There are two sides to every murder and Amanda Peet is looking to tell her side as Betty Broderick in Dirty John: the Betty Broderick Story. Set in the ’60s and well into the ’80s, the second installment of the Dirty John anthology series follows the titular Betty Broderick and the wild downward spiral of her marriage…

Netflix has ordered The Chair, a new six-episode half-hour dramedy starring and executive produced by Killing Eve‘s Sandra Oh and co-starring Jay Duplass (Transparent, Outside In). It hails from Amanda Peet (The Romanoffs) and Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. It marks the first series to come out…

The Good Fight star Christine Baranski, Sex and the City alumna Cynthia Nixon, Amanda Peet (The Romanoffs) and Morgan Spector (The Plot Against America) will lead the cast of Julian Fellowes’ The Gilded Age drama series at HBO. The project, which moved from NBC to HBO earlier this year, is a co-production between HBO…

Amanda Peet (The Romanoffs) and Mr. Robot’s Christian Slater are set to headline the second season of anthology series Dirty John, which will air on USA Network and be titled Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story. Like the first installment, which aired on Bravo and starred Connie Britton and Eric Bana, the second…

According to the new teaser trailer for Amazon Prime Video’s forthcoming anthology series The Romanoffs, it is possible for anyone and everyone to be a descendant of the famed Russian royal family. Amazon’s first anthology series comes from the Emmy Award-winning Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner and features eight…

As it gets set to wind down its debut season on Wednesday, IFC’s Brockmire already ranks as the network’s highest-rated new series, as well as cable’s most time-shifted new comedy. Since launching April 5, the show starring Hank Azaria has averaged more than 500,000 live-plus-three-day viewers, according to Nielsen…

Brockmire is getting off to a great start. The critically-praised new original comedy series has already notched more than two million digital views one week ahead of its linear debut on IFC. The network made the premiere episode of the series, created with Funny or Die, available to watch on platforms including VOD…

Amanda Peet, coming off a starring turn on the HBO comedy series Togetherness, is set as the female lead opposite Hank Azaria in IFC’s comedy series Brockmire. Based on a Funny Or Die short, Brockmire centers on a famed Major League Baseball announcer (Azaria) who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown on…

In their arthouse feature oeuvre, from feature directing projects such as Cyrus to productions such as last summer’s quirky The One I Love, Jay and Mark Duplass have shown a knack for capturing the eccentricities and foibles of romance. “I received a compliment from a fan after they saw our film The Puffy Chair and…