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EXCLUSIVE: Amy Ryan is set as a lead opposite Colin Farrell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste in the Apple TV+ series Sugar. Details regarding the plot and characters remain under wraps, but Deadline hears it's an L.A.-set contemporary take on the private detective story. Hailing from Apple Studios, the genre-bending series…

Kirby Howell-Baptiste (The Sandman, The Good Place) will star opposite Colin Farrell in the Apple TV+ series Sugar. Deadline revealed  exclusively in December that the genre-bending series was in development with Farrell set to star and executive produce. Sugar is created by Mark Protosevich, whose feature work…

EXCLUSIVE: Kirby Howell-Baptiste (The Sandman), Darrell Britt-Gibson (We Own This City) and Taissa Farmiga (The Gilded Age) will star in the upcoming romance She Taught Love, which music video helmer Nate Edwards is directing for Marginal Mediaworks, in his feature debut. The film written by…

EXCLUSIVE: Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Barry, Killing Eve) is the latest addition to the cast of Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, Netflix's film adaptation of the short story by Stephen King, from Blumhouse and Ryan Murphy Productions. In the feature written and directed by John Lee Hancock (The Little Things, The Founder), she will…

EXCLUSIVE:  Another big streamer sale of a finished film! Paramount+ and Showtime won an auction for U.S rights to Queenpins, the STXfilms comedy that stars Kristen Bell, Kirby Howell Baptiste, Paul Walter Hauser, Vince Vaughn, Bebe Rexha, Dayo Okeniyi, Joel McHale, Nick Cassavetes, Jack McBrayer and Annie Mumolo…

STXfilms has acquired global rights to Queenpins, a comedy that reteams The Good Place and Veronica Mars stars Kristen Bell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste. The movie, about the largest coupon counterfeit scam in U.S. history, also reunites STX with Bad Moms franchise star Bell, and it puts the studio in possession of…

Kirby Howell-Baptiste, who stars in the new CBS All Access series Why Women Kill, has joined Disney’s live-action Cruella prequel, which has Emma Stone in the titular role. Craig Gillespie is directing the film, which centers on the iconic black-and-white-spotted-coat-wearing villain. The studio remains tight-lipped…

Seated at the dinner table, the tie-sporting man compliments his wife’s meatloaf and says, “Penny for your thoughts.” Instead he gets a hundred bucks worth: “I was wondering when you’ll die. You could be hit by a bus or have a stroke or gets stabbed in the chest.” During that exchange we see a clip of her catching his…

This summer we’ll find out exactly Why Women Kill. CBS All Access has set Thursday, August 15, for the premiere of Marc Cherry’s darkly comedic drama starring Lucy Liu, Ginnifer Goodwin and Kirby Howell-Baptiste. Check out some Season 1 photos above and below. The series details the lives of three women living in…

Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Barry, Killing Eve) has been tapped to star in CBS All Access' Why Women Kill, a darkly comedic drama from Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, Imagine Television Studios and CBS TV Studios. Howell-Baptiste joins previously announced cast members Lucy Liu, Ginnifer Goodwin, Sam Jaeger, Reid…

EXCLUSIVE: Kirby Howell-Baptiste (HBO’s Barry, BBC America’s Killing Eve), has joined the cast of Hulu’s revival of Veronica Mars in a recurring role. The eight-episode limited series is scheduled to premiere in 2019. The reboot returns star Kristen Bell, Enrico Colantoni and Jason Dohring to the series that ran for…

Sophia Di Martino (Flowers) and Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Downward Dog) are set as the leads in Girls Code (working title), a half-hour women-in-the-workplace comedy from playwright/New Girl writer-producer Kim Rosenstock, Freaks and Geeks creator and Ghostbusters helmer Paul Feig, Paramount Television and Anonymous…