The official trailer for Apple TV+’s WeCrashed charts the journey of WeWork’s Adam Neumann (Oscar winner Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club) and his wife, Rebekah (Oscar winner Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables), from the founding of the billion-dollar company to the Neumanns’ eventual crash and burn.
The cast of the eight-episode limited series also includes Kyle Marvin as Miguel McKelvey, America Ferrera as Elishia Kennedy, and O-T Fagbenle as Cameron Lautner.
WeCrashed is inspired by true events and was created by Emmy nominee Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello, the series’ writers, executive producers, and showrunners. This Is Us‘ John Requa and Glenn Ficarra direct and executive produce the limited series, with Anne Hathaway, Charles Gogolak, Natalie Sandy, and Paradox’s Jared Leto and Emma Ludbrook also executive producing. In addition, Wondery’s Hernan Lopez, Marshall Lewy, and Aaron Hart serve as executive producers.
Apple TV+ has set a March 18, 2022 global premiere date for the first three episodes. New episodes will arrive on Fridays leading up to the April 22nd finale.
The Plot, Courtesy of Apple TV+:
WeCrashed is inspired by actual events — and the love story at the center of it all. WeWork grew from a single coworking space into a global brand worth $47 billion in under a decade. Then, in less than a year, its value plummeted. What happened?
Sarah Lancashire as Julia Child (Photograph by Courtesy of HBO Max)
HBO Max’s new comedy series Julia explores the personal life and professional career of Julia Child, the extraordinary woman whose The French Chef TV show revolutionized public television. Premiering on March 31, 2022, Julia stars Sarah Lancashire (Happy Valley) as the iconic chef, bestselling author, and larger-than-life television personality who continues to fascinate us nearly 20 years after she passed away at age 91.
So, why are we still so interested in Julia Child? The cast of Julia and executive producers Chris Keyser, Daniel Goldfarb, and Kimberly Carver shared their thoughts on Julia’s lasting appeal during the 2022 Television Critics Association’s winter press tour.
David Hyde Pierce, who stars as Julia’s supportive husband, Paul, believes Julia was one of a kind. “I think that’s why people have stayed interested in her throughout changing fashions and styles and foods and everything else, and why so many different versions of her have occurred, because she’s one of a kind and eternally fascinating.”
Brittany Bradford (Broadway’s Bernhardt/Hamlet) plays Alice Naman, a producer who wholeheartedly supported Julia and The French Chef. Bradford thinks it was Julia Child’s authenticity that continues to drive her popularity.
“She [had] a great sense of humor. She’s somebody that we can really connect to and a joy to be around as well,” added Fiona Glascott who stars as Judith Jones, the editor who championed Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. “I think that’s what makes her so popular, too.”
Bebe Neuwirth plays Julia Child’s good friend, neighbor, and staunch supporter Avis DeVoto. Neuwirth recalled that as a child the real Julia was fascinating to watch. Audiences of all ages got a kick out of her show.
“She was goofy. She was brilliant. She was profound. She was funny-looking, but she was also beautiful. And she did these incredible things and then fed you. It was sort of like quicksilver. She’s sort of like everything, a very, very multifaceted…like you can’t not look at her and say, ‘What is going on there?’ At least, as I say, from a kid’s perspective watching TV and we all are kids watching TV. That’s in all of us, that element,” said Neuwirth.
Fran Kranz, hot off his critically acclaimed directorial debut with Mass, plays The French Chef’s producer and director Russ Morash. “I thought the more I learned about her in doing this show and being so lucky to be a part of it, I saw her as an artist. And great artists are eternal. They stick around. We pay attention to them for years and years, centuries,” said Kranz. “There was an artist inside of her and I really love that.”
Bebe Neuwirth and Sarah Lancashire in ‘Julia’ (Photograph by Courtesy of HBO Max)
Finding Their Julia Child
Series creator and executive producer Daniel Goldfarb said they were lucky to find Sarah Lancashire and fortunate she was able to work on Julia and Happy Valley at the same time. Goldfarb describes Lancashire’s performance as Julia Child as full and rich, and executive producer Chris Keyser believes they wouldn’t have had a series if Lancashire hadn’t said yes.
Asked how she approached the role, Lancashire replied, “There’s such an awful lot of source material available online, so that was a starting point to reference her, plus reading the books about her and the letters between her and Avis. But at some point for me, I actually put the written material away. It didn’t necessarily make sense with what we were trying to do, which was a drama as opposed to a documentary.
I worked with a vocal coach for a very short period of time who, we were looking at accent, really. And then for me, I pulled away from that and started looking at trying to create a parallel voice, really, that would essentially create the essence of her vocal eccentricity and her singularity but was harmonized with the physical. And that’s important to find a place which is comfortable. That’s just a matter of time, really, of playing around and trying to find something which works.”
Lancashire continued: “I’m not a mimic. I can’t impersonate. And, also, she did have this extraordinarily complex vocal change, which I don’t share with her. And, therefore that, unfortunately, wasn’t an in for me. I had to find something which worked in parallel and was comfortable.
But really, I spent many, many hours just watching her. There’s so much source material available and really that’s what I was doing. But that’s not a hardship. She’s a joy to watch. You kind of want to be in her company and, yeah, she makes you feel better about the world, really. She’s a tonic.”
David Hyde Pierce and Fiona Glascott in ‘Julia’ (Photograph by Courtesy of HBO Max)
Julia Child’s Fierce Female Squad
Alice Naman and Judith Jones played pivotal roles in getting The French Chef on air at a time when the network brass were inclined to pass on the project. Brittany Bradford was thrilled to explore Alice’s part in The French Chef’s success and to learn more about Black producers in the 1960s.
“That was what excited me about the pilot as well, was not only getting to explore – you don’t get to hear a lot about Black producers at this time, which they were around, I just want to say – sometimes you want to think that something that’s improbable is impossible, but it’s not. And so getting a chance to learn about who Alice could have been and the Alices of the world and then getting an opportunity to interact with Julia… They’re two women that are going through life and working in completely different ways but they are complementary towards one another,” explained Bradford.
Executive producer Chris Keyser felt it was important to also fully explore the relationship between Julia Child and Judith Jones. Jones was already a highly respected editor when she discovered Julia Child.
“It was an extraordinary thing that they got together. I mean Judith Jones, her body of work before she comes to the cookbooks, is extraordinary,” said Fiona Glascott. “The amount of serious, heavy-hitting literary works that she has done and at the time was looking for – without even realizing it, she was looking for a way of French food particularly to be taught in America and cooked at home. And then when this manuscript fell on her desk, it’s like worlds collided.
She also is an extraordinarily generous woman who was really interested in bringing people together and elevating them. And I think not only did she fall in love with Julia’s work, but she fell in love with her. I mean, who couldn’t? And so together they started to elevate each other.
Julia was an answer for Judith’s wishes for years. They found each other and then Julia brought Judith again into this world of cookbooks. Judith, always being a huge fan of food and cooking, then ended up years later writing her own cookbooks, which I think was hugely owed to Julia and these women coming together and finding each other and then gathering more around them.”
Owen and T.K. are passengers on a plane that has a midair emergency on Fox’s 9-1-1: Lone Star season three episode eight. “In the Unlikely Event of an Emergency” will air on Monday, February 28, 2022 at 8pm ET/PT.
Season three stars Rob Lowe as Owen Strand, Gina Torres as Tommy Vega, Ronen Rubinstein as T.K. Strand, Sierra McClain as Grace Ryder, and Jim Parrack as Judd Ryder. Natacha Karam plays Marjan Marwani, Brian Michael Smith is Paul Strickland, Rafael Silva is Carlos Reyes, Julian Works is Mateo Chavez, and Brianna Baker plays Nancy Gillian.
“In The Unlikely Event Of An Emergency” Plot: When T.K.’s mother, Gwyn, has an emergency, Owen and T.K. travel to New York. But the flight is anything but smooth when the plane experiences a mechanical failure. Meanwhile T.K. reflects back when Gwyn helped get him into rehab years ago.
The Season 3 Plot:
In the third season, a slight time-jump takes place after the events of the previous season finale found the 126 shut down and the crew dispersed across the city. In the multi-episode opening storyline, a massive and unexpected arctic front hits Austin. As the ice storm causes widespread chaos, Owen and Tommy must not only save the city but find a way to resurrect and reunite the former 126.
FX’s first teaser trailer for Under the Banner of Heaven introduces Andrew Garfield’s Detective Pyre as a Mormon elder whose investigation of a double murder leads him to question his faith and his community. The limited series is inspired by Jon Krakauer’s true crime bestseller and will air later this year on Hulu.
In addition to two-time Oscar nominee Andrew Garfield as Detective Pyre, the ensemble includes Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) as Brenda, Sam Worthington (Avatar) as Ron Lafferty, Denise Gough (the upcoming Rogue One prequel series) as Dianna Lafferty, and Billy Howle (The Serpent) as Allen Lafferty. Wyatt Russell (Lodge 49) is Dan Lafferty, Gil Birmingham (Yellowstone) is Bill Taba, Adelaide Clemens (Rectify) plays Rebecca Pyre, Rory Culkin (Halston) is Samuel Lafferty, and Seth Numrich (Turn) is Robin Lafferty.
Chloe Pirrie (Kindred) plays Matilda Lafferty, Sandra Seacat (Enlightened) is Josie Pyre, and Christopher Heyerdahl (Van Helsing) is Ammon Lafferty.
The much-anticipated limited series was created by Academy Award-winner Dustin Lance Black (Milk). Black executive produces along with Gillian Berrie (Hell or High Water, Starred Up) and Imagine Television’s Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, and Anna Culp. In addition, Aggregate Films’ Jason Bateman (Ozark) and Michael Costigan (A Teacher), along with David Mackenzie (Hell or High Water), executive produce. Mackenzie also directs.
FX released the following description of the limited series:
A devout detective’s faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be connected to an esteemed Utah family’s spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government. Andrew Garfield stars as Detective Pyre, an LDS elder who is committed to his Church and family but begins to question some of the Church’s teachings through his contact with a suspected murderer. Daisy Edgar-Jones plays a young faithful Mormon who is the victim of a brutal murder.
K-pop superstars BTS are adding four stadium concerts to their “Permission to Dance on Stage” tour, announcing they’re set to play four dates at Allegiant Stadium – home of the Las Vegas Raiders – which seats 65,000 people. The confirmed concert dates are April 8, 9, 15, and 16, 2022.
BTS will also host the in-person live broadcast event “Live Play in Las Vegas,” similar to what they did during their sold-out Los Angeles concerts. “Live Play in Las Vegas” will be held on all four dates at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Registration is now open at Ticketmaster to purchase tickets for just-added Las Vegas stadium shows. Registration ends on Saturday, February 26pm PT. For more information, visit Weverse.
The Las Vegas news comes hot on the tail of their recently announced concert dates in their home country, South Korea. BTS hasn’t performed in South Korea in over two years due to COVID-19 and South Korea’s stricter guidelines for COVID-19, which prohibited live concerts.
The BTS South Korea concerts will take place under strict restrictions. South Korea’s Ministry of Culture will allow the group to have 15,000 in-person attendees at each concert, meaning a total of 45,000 attendees will be allowed to see the group perform live at the outdoor Seoul Olympic Stadium. The South Korea concerts will take place on March 10, 12, and 13, 2022. In addition, the March 10th and 13th concerts will be live broadcast online. Fans can catch the March 12th concert in cinemas worldwide.
BTS returned to touring in the United States this past November after being forced to take time out by the COVID-19 pandemic. The popular group returned to the stage by selling out four nights at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, the location of 2022’s Super Bowl won by the LA Rams.
The Grammy-nominated group announced after their LA concerts they would be taking an extended break until further notice. March will kick off their “return” from a well-deserved break. The group’s expected to be part of the 2022 Grammys that were pushed back from January to April 3rd due to Omicron. No official announcement has been made by their label Big Hit Music or the Grammys, but fans pointed out the big show was moved from LA to Las Vegas. In addition, fans also noticed in the concert news that at the bottom of the Weverse announcement it states, “We place the artists’ and fans health as our top priority in order to keep the 64th Grammy Awards participation and ‘BTS’ Permission to Dance on Stage – LAS VEGAS’ concert as safe as possible.”
The trailer for The Andy Warhol Diaries begins by declaring Warhol’s greatest work of art was the artist himself. The six-part documentary series explores the world of Warhol by bringing to life his diary via AI technology approved by the Andy Warhol Foundation.
Ryan Murphy executive produces and Andrew Rossi directs the docuseries which will reveal parts of Warhol’s life kept hidden from the public. Additional executive producers include Josh Braun, Stanley Buchthal, Andrew Rossi, Alexis Martin Woodall, and Scott Robertson.
Netflix has set a March 9, 2022 premiere date for the documentary series.
The Andy Warhol Diaries Description, Courtesy of Netflix:
From executive producer Ryan Murphy and director Andrew Rossi, this breathtakingly expansive, six-part portrait of a legend chronicles the remarkable life of Andy Warhol from the intimate vantage point offered by the artist’s own posthumously published diaries. Beginning with his childhood in Pittsburgh, the series traces Warhol’s almost unbelievably diverse journey fluidly moving between mediums and through eras as an artist — both revered and reviled — director, publisher, TV producer, scene maker, celebrity, and much more.
While he was a larger-than-life figure, Warhol was intensely private regarding his personal life. This series truly reveals much about the very complex man through his own words — often in his own voice through the use of cutting-edge AI techniques — and those who worked, created, and played alongside him from the subversive to the mainstream, from John Waters to Rob Lowe.
Executive produced by Murphy, Josh Braun, Stanley Buchthal, Alexis Martin Woodall, Scott Robertson and Rossi and written and directed by Rossi, The Andy Warhol Diaries deftly validates Warhol’s belief that the idea is not to live forever but to create art that will.
Netflix isn’t going to keep fans waiting for the final seven new episodes of Ozark. The streaming service confirmed the critically acclaimed, award-winning drama will release season four part two on April 29, 2022.
The premiere date announcement was accompanied by a short teaser video featuring Julia Garner as Ruth Langmore talking about the Langmore curse.
The first half of the final season found key characters murdered, Wendy betraying pretty much everyone, and Ruth out for revenge and ready to take on the cartel all by herself. Part two has a lot of storylines to still wrap up, including more details on the horrific car crash that began the season.
Ozark season four stars Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Julia Garner, Sofia Hublitz, Skylar Gaertner, Jessica Frances Dukes, and Felix Solis. Damian Young, Alfonso Herrera, Adam Rothenberg, John Bedford Lloyd, Joseph Sikora, Richard Thomas, Bruno Bichir, Katrina Lenk, CC Castillo, Veronica Falcón, and Ali Stroker also star.
Chris Mundy writes, executive produces, and is the showrunner. Jason Bateman, Mark Williams, John Shiban, Patrick Markey, and Bill Dubuque also executive produce.
The Plot, Courtesy of Netflix:
Marty and Wendy are rid of Helen and climb to the top of Navarro’s empire. They find another opportunity to get out of the Ozarks but some past sins won’t stay buried and the most dangerous threats come from blood.
Michael Cera, Amy Schumer, and Yamaneika Saunders in ‘Life & Beth’ (Photo by: Scott McDermott/Hulu)
Amy Schumer writes, directs, executive produces, and serves as showrunner on Hulu’s Life & Beth, a new comedy series set to premiere on March 18, 2022. Oh, and Schumer also stars in the series which draws its title from her middle name.
Discussing her new series during the 2022 Television Critics Association’s winter press tour, Amy Schumer confirmed Life & Beth is based on a side of her personality. “I think one of the things that surprised people is that I actually am an introvert. I think so many of us have these conflicting sides of ourselves. And I, as myself, feel supremely confident and also I do consider myself as someone with really low self-esteem,” said Schumer. “I just think we’re all hopefully evolving and trying to become the best versions of ourselves. So, I wanted to show that dynamic.”
The series follows Beth, a Manhattan wine distributor who sets out on a journey to discover her true self and embrace a more authentic life. The first season incorporates a few real events from Schumer’s life, and that helped keep the comedy grounded and real. It also meant there’s a healthy helping of drama tossed in with the comedy.
“I think any show that evokes emotion and thought is worth people’s time, and we really wanted to make something special and grounded in reality but also having fun. Because that’s life is major trauma and pain, and then being able to laugh about it and grow from it is like all we can do. So we wanted a show that represented that,” explained Schumer.
During the TCA panel, Schumer had an interesting answer when asked how she’s managed to nail female loneliness in her comedy. “I think in the trailer there’s a moment where he says, ‘Do you have any pre-existing conditions?’ and she just says, ‘I’m a woman.’ And that’s a very loaded statement. And I can only speak as a white woman, but women have been such an afterthought in everything,” said Schumer. “I had hyperemesis while I was pregnant. I have endometriosis. There’s no studies. There’s next-to-no studies on any female illnesses. You can look at it in that way.
And then also this little girl Alice Tapper, she wrote a book for her Girl Scout Troop that got published called Raise Your Hand because girls stop raising their hands in class. And it’s just part of the culture – the culture I definitely grew up with where it was like the boys are supposed to be funny and the men are supposed to speak, and you just try and look pretty and we’ll call you when we need you. So, all your value is placed on how you look, and you feel pretty powerless.”
Schumer continued: “It can all feel really grim. So the thing that empowered me when I was younger was seeing other women being funny and putting themselves out there, and these strong female characters in stories and the honesty about that struggle. That’s what’s on my mind – just that.”
Schumer hasn’t shied away from sharing her life with audiences. In fact, she views the sharing of her vulnerable or darker moments as a way to alleviate her pain.
“It is sort of therapeutic,” explained Schumer. “I’m careful about what I share about other people and always make sure that they greenlight it and whatever I’m writing, whatever I’m sharing, I make sure that it’s okay with them. But in terms of me sharing stuff about myself, yeah, I don’t know. I’m sure I’ve shared more than some people would have cared me to. But I think it’s helpful. I do. And it feels really great and powerful to feel like you might be making somebody laugh and feel better about themselves.”
Schumer believes comedians who aren’t willing to open up to audiences have a limited shelf life, for the most part. Of course, there are those who managed to withhold everything personal (like Jerry Lewis), but Schumer really enjoys when comedians pull the curtain back and allow audiences into their lives.
“Because however great of a joke writer that you are, that formula is you have to love the person,” said Schumer. “When Lucy stepped out on stage or Totie stepped out on stage, it was like you loved them. I think that’s a powerful thing about comics. The ones you like, you kind of love them and so you want to know who they really are, not just them showing off how great they are at writing jokes.”
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Life & Beth season one stars Amy Schumer, Michael Cera, Susannah Flood, Violet Young, Kevin Kane, Yamaneika Saunders, Laura Benanti, Larry Owens, Michael Rapaport, Rosebud Walker, and LaVar Walker.
All 10 episodes will be available for binge-watching on Hulu on March 18, 2022.
Evan Rachel Wood speaks out and stands up for herself, as well as other domestic abuse survivors, in the official trailer for Phoenix Rising. Directed by Amy Berg (The Case Against Adnan Syed), Phoenix Rising had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and will air on HBO as a two-part documentary.
Part one will air on March 15, 2022 at 9pm ET/PT followed by part two on March 16, 2022.
HBO’s provided the following description of the documentary:
Phoenix Rising delves behind familiar headlines and explores the often-misunderstood aspects of domestic abuse, helping to shed light on the many factors that prevent survivors from coming forward with their stories as they deal with years of aftershocks and emotional trauma.
At age 18, Wood was pursued by then 37-year-old Brian Warner, known to the world as the rock icon Marilyn Manson. In sway to his status, image, and persuasive personality, she began a relationship with him that spanned over four years. As the relationship progressed, Wood went from a teenager flattered by his attention, to a young woman terrified of the man who claimed to love her, and she experienced escalating emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Looking back, she recognized a pattern of grooming and control tactics similar to those experienced by other survivors who told their stories of harrowing experiences at the hands of Warner.
Connecting the dots between the progression of her relationship with Warner and phases of the clinical domestic violence cycle, Wood successfully lobbied for The Phoenix Act, which was signed into California State Law in 2019, extending the statute of limitations for domestic violence felonies from three years to five years.
Using archival footage, intimate home videos and candid testimony from Wood and other survivors, Phoenix Rising charts Wood’s journey from silent victim to vocal survivor and her rise to a domestic violence advocate. Amid rising public controversy and an active law enforcement investigation, Wood stands in solidarity with other survivors. On February 1st, 2021, Wood publicly named Brian Warner, aka Marilyn Manson, as her abuser, free from the burden of silence, even as the promise of justice remains ambiguous. To date, no charges have been filed against Warner, who denies abusing Wood or any other person.
Michael Chiklis as Dr. Scott Corbett in ‘Accused’ episode 1 (Photo Credit Steve Wilkie 2022 Fox Media LLC)
Emmy winner Michael Chiklis (The Shield) will star in the premiere episode of Fox’s Accused. Emmy winner Michael Cuesta (Homeland) is confirmed to direct the first episode of the crime anthology drama which received a straight-to-series order from the network.
According to Fox, Michael Chiklis will play Dr. Scott Corbett, “a successful brain surgeon with a seemingly perfect family. He faces the limits of unconditional love when he discovers his teenage son may be planning a violent attack at school.”
The series is executive produced by Howard Gordon (24, Homeland), Alex Gansa (24, Homeland), and David Shore (The Good Doctor, House). Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Glenn Geller, Erin Gunn, All3Media America’s Jacob Cohen-Holmes, and All3Media International’s Jimmy McGovern, Sita Williams, Roxy Spencer, and Louise Pedersen also serve as executive producers.
“Michael Chiklis and Michael Cuesta, teamed with Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa and David Shore, make a powerful combination for Accused,” stated Michael Thorn, President of Entertainment, FOX Entertainment. “They each are synonymous with high-stakes television, engaging drama and compelling performances, striking the perfect tone required for a series of this caliber.”
“We are thrilled to have Michael leading our first episode. He was the first actor we thought of when casting Accused. He’s been a valued member of our Sony family since The Shield and we couldn’t be happier to be working with him again,” said Dawn Steinberg, EVP Worldwide Talent & Casting, Sony Pictures Television.
Accused is based on a BBC One series created by Jimmy McGovern.
Fox released the following description of the new series:
Accused opens in a courtroom on the accused, with viewers knowing nothing about their crime or how they ended up on trial. Told from the defendant’s point of view through flashbacks, Accused holds a mirror up to the current times with evocative and emotional stories.
In Accused, viewers discover how an ordinary person gets caught up in an extraordinary situation, ultimately revealing how one wrong turn leads to another until it’s too late to turn back.
