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Mike White and his revolving cast of characters are heading to Thailand for the third season of The White Lotus, Deadline has confirmed. The first season of the HBO series was filmed and shot in Maui, Hawaii and season two was in Sicily, Italy. White and his team are now heading to Thailand…

Mike White has pitched the idea for The White Lotus season 3 to HBO bosses – and it’s a hit with them already. In his keynote interview at Series Mania, HBO and HBO Max Chairman and CEO Casey Bloys revealed White has just talked him through the plan and gave it a major seal of approval. “He's just…

EXCLUSIVE: Adam DiMarco, the actor best known for his breakout role as Albie in Season 2 of Mike White's Emmy-winning HBO series The White Lotus, has signed with UTA.  DiMarco’s performance was met with critical acclaim, earning him a SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in…

The restructures, layoffs, cancellations and a maybe-strike currently impacting the U.S. TV industry rippled through the halls of the Berlinale Series Market this week as senior execs forecasted an international future. Mass redundancies at the likes of Disney, AMC, Paramount and Netflix in recent…

The White Lotus is almost certainly checking into an Asian hotel for its third season — and it’s been revealed Netflix’s Dahmer star Evan Peters nearly starred in the second run. Rumors the Mike White-created comedy-drama would be set in Asia have abounded for several weeks and the HBO series…

EXCLUSIVE: Italian actress Eleonora Romandini, known in the U.S. for her role as Isabella, a concierge in HBO’s The White Lotus, has signed with Stride Management for representation. Romandini shares a SAG Award nomination for Best Ensemble in a Drama Series for her role as Isabella, the object of…

EXCLUSIVE: The White Lotus breakout Sabrina Impacciatore has signed with Gersh and MGMT Entertainment for representation. Impacciatore is one of the Italian stars of the HBO smash’s second season, following the intertwining lives of employees and guests at a White Lotus luxury hotel in Sicily. The…

With The White Lotus star Aubrey Plaza as the Saturday Night Live host this week, a parody of the popular HBO anthology series appeared inevitable. It came in the form of The Black Lotus, featuring “eight wealthy tourists, one luxury hotel and a staff who has no time for this nonsense.” Chloe Fineman…

Aubrey Plaza reached new levels of notoriety after starring in the second season of The White Lotus. Years before landing on the acclaimed HBO series, Plaza auditioned to be a cast member of Saturday Night Live and recently opened up about the characters she created for that process. The actor made…

When Jennifer Coolidge claimed her first Golden Globe at the Beverly Hilton on Tuesday, she made an impassioned speech she’d initially planned to deliver in September. Coolidge has been in the midst of a dramatic, late-career breakthrough with the hugely popular satire The White Lotus. The first…

Netflix had four titles with over 1B viewing minutes for the week of December 5 to December 12, according to Nielsen’s U.S. streaming charts. Unsurprisingly, Wednesday was the top title of the week with another 3.3B minutes viewed. It far surpassed Firefly Lane, which was No. 2 on the list for the…

EXCLUSIVE: Rising Italian actress Simona Tabasco, known for her breakout role in season 2 of HBO's The White Lotus, has signed with WME for representation. Tabasco starred in The White Lotus as the tenacious and ambitious Sicilian local, Lucia, who frequents the hotel in search of both personal and…