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Veronica Mars is not only back, she’s back early — and she’s getting down and dirty. The once-and-future private investigator portrayed by Kristen Bell is back on the job in Hulu’s revival of the cult-favorite series, which retains the show’s trademark wit but adds a considerable amount of adult-themed spice to the…

The fourth season of Hulu/WBTV’s Veronica Mars is no longer premiering on July 26. It’s literally today, right now. Star Kristen Bell announced today at Comic-Con at the end of the series’ panel that season 4 in its entirety is being made available a week in advance. Bell reprises her role as the super sharp sleuth of…

Having aired in June, the current third season of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale may not be eligible for Emmys, but nonetheless, due to the Academy’s ‘hanging episode’ rule, Season 2 has 11 nominations this year. The rule means that while the final three episodes of Season 2 fell outside of the Emmy eligibility window for…

Last year Netflix for the first time ever beat HBO in noms, 112 to 108, but in the end both took home 23 wins total. This year, HBO took the Emmy nom crown back and set a new network nom record for a single season with 137 Emmy noms. Netflix counts 117 noms today, still an all-time high for the streaming service which…

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu has added four new series regulars to the cast of its femme fatale thriller Reprisal, from The Handmaid’s Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield and A+E Studios. Craig Tate (12 Years a Slave), Wavyy Jonez (Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.), Shane Callahan (Outsiders) and Rory…

Westworld and Borgen star Sidse Babett Knudsen has joined Channel 4 and Hulu drama The Light (w/t). Babett Knudsen, who plays Theresa Cullen in the HBO sci-fi thriller, is joining Happy Valley star Sarah Lancashire in the four-part series, which is the follow-up to National Treasure and Kiri. The cast also includes…

Hulu has boarded Aisling Bea comedy This Way Up as The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi, The Crown's Tobias Menzies and Game of Thrones' Indira Varma join the Sharon Horgan-exec produced series. The U.S. digital service has partnered with Channel 4, which ordered the series, previously known as Happy AF, last year. The…

Hulu has handed a straight-to-series order to James Purefoy-fronted Fertile Crescent (w/t), an eight-episode drama from Fremantle and The Young Pope producer Haut et Court TV. The digital platform is co-producing the series with French broadcaster Arte France. The drama was originally pitched at French festival Series…

There's an hour to go before the pilot episode of Catch-22 unspools to Emmy voters at the Television Academy in the San Fernando Valley, and George Clooney is feeling pretty confident. He and his Smokehouse partner Grant Heslov have completed work on their six-part miniseries based on Joseph Heller's classic World War…

In a sign of changing times, both in terms of industry consolidation and shifting technology and release platforms, Hulu and FX are teaming up to take over streaming and linear rights to Lionsgate theatrical films starting in 2020. Details of the arrangement, which replaces a long-term pact with Epix, were confirmed…

Huang Lu (She, A Chinese) and Geoff Stults (Unforgettable) are set for recurring roles opposite Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Rosemarie DeWitt and Joshua Jackson in Little Fires Everywhere, Hulu's upcoming limited series based on Celeste Ng's bestselling book. Hulu also released a first-look photo for the…

Ramy Youssef discovered a gaping hole in comedy. Not only were Muslim people vastly underrepresented, but stories of first-generation Americans always seemed to involve a flat-out rejection of parents' religion or cultural values. Cue hilarious clashes and misunderstandings. Instead, Youssef's Hulu comedy Ramy…