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Busy is back: Busy Philipps’s late-night talk show “Busy This Week” will return with its second season this spring at QVC-owned streamers QVC+ and Hsn+.

Hosted by Philipps and Caissie St. Onge, the show’s second season will premiere May 21 at 10 p.m. Et.

Per QVC’s description for “Busy This Week” Season 2, “Join Busy and Caissie on the couch for a new season of unscripted takes on whatever the heck kept us busy this week. From celebrity guest interviews and laugh-out-loud moments to personal stories – Busy and Caissie are giving everyone something to talk about. Don’t miss the late-night talk show where everything is on the table. And if there’s not enough room… well, they know where to buy a bigger one.”

Executive produced by Philipps, St. Onge and Michael Gleason, the first 10 episodes of “Busy This Week” Season 2 will be released weekly on Wednesdays...

QVC has given a second season order to its late-night talk series “Busy This Week” as the home shopping giant expands its content mix to reach new viewers via its QVC+ and Hsn+ streaming platforms.

Hosted by actor Busy Philipps, “Busy This Week” has been a high-profile example of efforts within Qurate Retail Group, parent company of QVC and Hsn, to embrace a new generation of celebrities and a wider range of programs and genres for its shopping-centric programming. The brands in recent months have pacted with personalities including Jennie Garth and Ana Gasteyer, for recurring appearances on the services. Garth and Gasteyer will serve as judge’s on the second season of QVC+/Hsn+ series “The Ultimate Gift Wrapping Challenge,” which bows Nov. 2.

Qurate Retail Group also recently pacted with USA Pickleball to handle coverage of games and tournaments of the fast-rising sport, including a live stream of the...

Busy Philipps is getting a new late-night talk show. The host of short-lived E! talker “Busy Tonight,” Philipps will return to the genre with “Busy This Week,” which will stream on shopping network QVC’s streamer, QVC+.

Per QVC+, “During each half-hour episode, viewers will join Busy on the couch to get an unscripted take on whatever has kept us busy this week. From celebrity guest interviews and laugh-out-loud moments to personal stories and her favorite curated shopping finds, Busy will give her audience a healthy dose of [retail] therapy.”

The show will launch May 8 at 10 p.m. Et. QVC+ says Season 1 will be “split,” with the first 10 episodes released weekly on Wednesdays, and then four holiday-themed episodes premiering later this year in November and December for a total of 14 episodes.

“Busy This Week” is executive produced by Philipps, Caissie St. Onge and Michael Gleason.

QVC+ picked up Philipps’ “Busy This...

Robert Butler, the co-creator of “Remington Steele” and a veteran television director who worked on such series as “Hill Street Blues,” “Star Trek” and “Batman,” died Nov. 3 in Los Angeles. He was 95.

Butler’s career spanned nearly five decades, during which he directed many notable series, including “Hennesey,” “Star Trek,” “Batman,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “Bonanza,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Gunsmoke,” “Hawaii Five-o” and more. He won three Primetime Emmy Awards: two for “The Blue Knight” in 1974 and the other for “Hill Street Blues” in 1981. He also received Emmy nominations for episodes of “Moonlighting,” “Sirens” and “Lois & Clark The Adventures of Superman.”

Butler and Michael Gleason co-created “Remington Steele,” starring Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist, which ran from 1982 to 1987 on NBC. Butler directed five episodes of the detective procedural series between 1982 and 1983, including the pilot.

He also directed several feature films and TV movies, including “Now You See Him, Now You Don’t,...

Michael Gleason, the co-creator of Remington Steele and producer of such popular series as Diagnosis Murder and Rich Man Poor Man Book 2, died Friday at the age of 78. His death was confirmed on his Facebook page; no cause was listed. Gleason, a novelist as well as veteran producer, started as a writer for such 1960s series as Rawhide, Laramie, My Favorite Martian, The Big Valley and Peyton Place, continuing through the ’70s with Marcus Welby, M.D., Cannon, McCloud and Ric…...