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Just a few hours shy of the deadline set in late July by hundreds of top female writers and showrunners on abortion safety protocols, most of Hollywood's biggest studios and streamers today opted to sidestep specifics. In a response letter full of boiler plate remarks on sharing "your concerns around the health…

EXCLUSIVE: Ellen Barkin has been tapped to star in an episode of Peacock's Poker Face, a mystery drama series from Rian Johnson, his T-Street banner and MRC Television. Details of Barkin’s role, as well as plot details of the anthology-like series are being kept under wraps. She joins previously announced cast…

Amazon Studios has handed a two-season order to The Hospital, an adult animated sci-fi comedy from Maya Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne’s Animal Pictures. Rudolph and Lyonne also are set to star in the series, created by Cirocco Dunlap (Russian Doll), along with Kieran Culkin (Succession), Keke Palmer (Alice), Greta Lee (Ru…

Saturday Night Live combined 9 to 5 with Weekend at Bernie’s tonight for one of Kyle Mooney’s final sketches. Set as a spinoff to the beloved Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton classic, SNL‘s 9:15 to 5:10 followed what would have happened if three disgruntled women employees – played by Cecily Strong, Ego Nwodim…

Russian Doll‘s co-creator and star Natasha Lyonne tonight hosted her first episode of SNL, speaking in her opening monologue about her Netflix series—which is back now for its second season following Covid delays—and more. “Gosh, will you look at this? I’m hosting the season finale of Saturday Night Live. For a real…

It’s the end of Season 47 of Saturday Night Live, which also means its time for the final promo of the half-year. Host Natasha Lyonne ((Russian Doll, Poker Face) and musical guest Japanese Breakfast are on this weekend’s SNL menu. But there was one thing for cast members Kenan Thompson and Kate McKinnon to grok: why…

One of the last roles for legendary actor Marlon Brando involved holding the breast of young actress Natasha Lyonne in the horror-comedy parody Scary Movie 2.  Sadly, the scene never made it into the final cut.  Speaking to Entertainment Weekly’s video series “Role Call,” Lyonne said Brando dropped out of the project…

Stephanie Hsu (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) has been cast opposite Natasha Lyonne and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Peacock's Poker Face, a mystery drama series from Rian Johnson, his T-Street banner and MRC Television. Details of Hsu’s role, as well as plot details of the series are being kept under wraps. This marks the…

Russian Doll Season 2 introduces a new time bending aspect to the Netflix comedy, which also speaks Nadia’s (Natasha Lyonne) new life crisis. Lyonne and co-creator/EP Amy Poehler spoke about the upcoming season on a Deadline Contenders panel on Saturday. In season 1, Nadia repeated her birthday every time she died. In…

Netflix revealed Russian Doll‘s second season will premiere on April 20. Set four years after Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) and Alan (Charlie Barnett) escaped mortality's time loop together, Season 2 of Russian Doll will continue to explore existential thematics through an often humorous and sci-fi lens. Discovering a fate…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first clip from Sirens, the first feature from Natasha Lyonne and Maya Rudolph’s Animal Pictures which will make its world premiere at Sundance in World Cinema Documentary competition on January 23. The film directed by Rita Baghdadi follows members of the Middle East’s first all-female…

EXCLUSIVE: Irish indie feature Extra Ordinary, a horror comedy about a ghost-busting duo, premiered in 2019 at SXSW to rave reviews. It is now being adapted as a half-hour comedy series for TBS. The Turner-owned cable network has put the project into development with Animal Pictures, the production company run by Maya…