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Emmy Award nominee Ramy Youssef is bringing even more of his genius to Netflix.

The writer, director, comedian, and actor is entering into a creative partnership with Netflix in which he will develop and create serialized first look projects through his production company Cairo Cowboy.

This new deal deepens the Golden Globe winner’s relationship with Netflix, which began with the Peabody- and Gotham Award–winning comedy Mo. Youssef co-created the series about a Palestinian refugee’s life in Houston, with its star, Mo Amer, and serves as an executive producer. Mo’s second season brought the titular character’s asylum journey to an end.

Youssef is probably best known for creating, directing, producing, and starring in Ramy, a comedy about a first-generation Egyptian American Muslim millennial on a spiritual journey in New Jersey. Over the course of three seasons, the show has received three Emmy nominations and won a...

Emily Rudd is the latest Hollywood celebrity to join the Artists for Ceasefire initiative. The initiative seeks a permanent ceasefire during the Gaza war. Rudd has shared a post from the collective on her Instagram stories, which called for the delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians.

The photo in the post from @artists4ceasefire read, “Speak up now. Gaza is being starved.” The hashtag #LetAidIn also appeared on the photo. Mark Ruffalo and other actors, including Hannah Einbinder, Nicola Coughlan, Natasha Rothwell, and Mo Amer, were tagged in the post from the initiative.

Emily Rudd’s Instagram story supporting Artists for Ceasefire | Credits: @emilysteaparty / Instagram

By sharing the post, Rudd has joined the movement that wants Israel to lift the blockade on food, water, fuel, and medicine. The initiative shared in the caption, “We call on our fellow artists to speak up in the name of our shared humanity, for...

The comedic stylings of writer, actor, stand-up comedian, and executive producer Ramy Youssef tend to be laced with tragedy. His A24 Hulu series "Ramy" is as heartbreaking as it is humorous, following its Egyptian-American protagonist Ramy (Youssef) as he tries to navigate his faith and identity to mostly tragic ends. Similarly, his executive-produced A24 Netflix series "Mo," about Mo (Mo Amer), an undocumented descendant of Palestinian refugees living in Houston, is also frequently rather sad as it confronts the terrible reality of being undocumented in America. Both shows use a bit of surreal humor and absurdity to help make the more depressing elements slightly more palatable and blend the comedic and tragic tones, but Youssef's newest show takes this concept to brand new heights. 

On the A24-produced Prime Video series "#1 Happy Family USA," Youssef and co-creator Pam Brady tackle what it was like to grow up as an Egyptian-American...

Variety’s “Actors on Actors” Season 22 was the franchise’s most successful social campaign ever for an Emmys season.

The video series, which pairs actors in conversation with one another to discuss the top contenders of awards season, drew 98.2 million views across TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X. The total viewership numbers exceed the figure for last year’s “Actors on Actors” for the Emmys season. The social campaign was spearheaded by Harper Mays, Variety’s social media coordinator, with key contributions from Abigail Lee, Variety’s social media and editorial intern.

“We are so proud that ‘Actors on Actors’ continues its unstoppable run, cementing its status as one of the biggest interview series on the internet,” says Variety co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh, who serves as an executive producer of the series. “It’s become a can’t-miss stop on the awards campaign trail thanks to our journalists’ relentless drive to reinvent...

We will update this article throughout the season, along with all our predictions, so make sure to keep checking IndieWire for the latest news from the 2025 Emmys race. The nomination round of voting takes place from June 12 to June 23, with the official Emmy nominations announced Tuesday, July 15. Afterwards, final voting commences on August 18 and ends the night of August 27. The 77th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are set to take place on Sunday, September 14, and air live on CBS at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt.

The State of the Race

There are a couple categories that are brutal this year because they lost one nomination slot, and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series is one of them. Funny enough, the whole reason the category had six nomination slots last year was because there was a tie. That is not something contenders can count on, though it is...

Ramy Youssef seems to have a banner year every year.

The last time he appeared on Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast, he was promoting his HBO standup special “More Feelings” and a hosting stint on “Saturday Night Live,” having just come off of a press campaign for his first movie role in “Poor Things” — plus Netflix had just set a comedy series co-created by Youssef and Will Ferrell.

This time around, he’s outdone himself with four projects to promote simultaneously: The animated Amazon Prime Video series “#1 Happy Family USA”; the second and final season of Netflix’s “Mo,” which he co-created with Mo Amer; his role in Jesse Armstrong’s HBO movie “Mountainhead”; and his guest appearance in “The Studio” on Apple TV+. He’s also doing stand-up again, on a tour called “Love Beam 7000.” We talk all about that and more on the latest edition of the Awards Circuit Podcast — listen below!

Vin Diesel and Laverne Cox are among those speaking at the 2025 CAA Amplify Summit, the agency announced Monday.

The summit, an annual event, brings together influential leaders from media, entertainment, social justice, sports, technology, nonprofits and other industry sectors.

The lineup of speakers and attendees for Tuesday’s Laguna Beach summit also includes former prime minister of New Zealand Dame Jacinda Ardern, CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman, CNN anchor and senior national correspondent Sara Sidner, ACLU executive director Anthony D. Romero, Ford Foundation president Darren Walker, Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (Glsen) executive director Melanie Willingham-Jaggers and entrepreneur and philanthropist Byron Allen.

“CAA Amplify is more than a convening,” CAA Foundation executive director Natalie Tran said in a release, adding the summit “is a catalyst for building a fortified network of culture influencing leaders who are shaping the future across industries.”

“This year’s gathering reflects our unwavering commitment...

When The Sopranos debuted in 1999, the series moved the cultural needle in innumerable ways — not least with its depiction of a hypermasculine man in a therapist’s office.

Over six seasons, the series featured eponymous mobster Tony Soprano’s regular visits with Dr. Jennifer Melfi — a subplot so socially impactful that actress Lorraine Bracco was once honored by the American Psychoanalytical Association.

In the decades since the HBO series challenged white men’s historical aversion to the therapist’s couch, men of color have remained largely absent from that needle-shift. Shows like Atlanta and This Is Us are among the few hits in the past quarter century in which a man of color visited a therapist.

But at least three series this season — Netflix’s Survival of the Thickest and Mo, and Apple TV+’s Shrinking — have devoted significant time to unpacking men of color’s complicated history with psychotherapy.

When George Carlin hosted the first-ever Saturday Night Live, he made Lorne Michaels livid when he went rogue doing a comedy monologue. During the live show, Carlin swapped out a stand-up bit from his new album for the one he’d performed during rehearsals. “That fucker,” growled Michaels from the control room. It wasn’t that Michaels preferred the original set of jokes — he was worried that Carlin’s unrehearsed routine could go long (or short), screwing up the show’s timing.

So it was mind-boggling to learn that Michaels gives free rein to Dave Chappelle when he hosts SNL — at least when it comes to the comedian’s monologue. “As a tradition, I never do my actual monologue in rehearsal,” Chappelle told fellow comic Mo Amer during a conversation for Variety. “To Lorne Michaels’ credit, he never knows what I’m going to say.”

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Dave Chappelle and Mo Amer became close during the pandemic, when Chappelle managed to secure a Covid testing machine and created a bubble at his Ohio home to bring in comedians to perform. Amer was one of them. “We spent all the summer of 2020 together doing shows,” Chappelle says. “The best comedians in the world flew into Ohio, and we had a blast.”

Those early comedy shows were held in a cornfield, while the comedians were tested every day. But beyond that, Amer was mostly holed up in his Airbnb as he started writing Season 1 of “Mo,” his critically acclaimed Netflix series, which wrapped this year after two seasons.

“It was so nerve-racking because everything was so unsettling,” Amer recalls. “It was Covid; it was civil unrest; it was my own personal stuff. And every one of my writers was juggling things emotionally. It was really overwhelming. But you really saved my life.

A group of more than 350 international actors, directors and producers have signed a letter published on the first day of Cannes condemning the killing of Fatma Hassona, the Palestinian photojournalist and protagonist of the festival-bound documentary “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,” in an Israeli airstrike.

The letter, signed by names such as Mark Ruffalo, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, Melissa Barrera, Yorgos Lanthimos, Javier Bardem, Hannah Einbinder, Pedro Almodóvar, David Cronenberg, Alfonso Cuarón, Mike Leigh, Alex Gibney, Viggo Mortensen, Cynthia Nixon, Tessa Ross and many more, also called out the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ for its “lack of support” for “No Other Land” co-director Hamdan Ballal.

Just three weeks after winning the Oscar for the documentary, Ballal was assaulted by settlers and kidnapped by the Israeli army. After being criticized for its silence over the incident, AMPAS eventually publicly apologized. “We are ashamed of such passivity,...

ABC shared some unwelcome news about Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday. The late-night TV show's audience is in for a long week, beginning tonight, May 12.

Jimmy Kimmel has done as good a job as anyone in late-night staying on top of President Donald Trump and his administration. So much so that Kimmel even becomes part of the story.

But don't expect anything like that to happen this week. ABC announced Jimmy Kimmel Live! will go dark this week with no new episodes.

Instead, rerurns are scheduled for Monday through Friday. It seems as if Kimmel and his team have been given a break as we quickly approach the summer months.

The good news for late-night TV fans? There are always plenty of options. And this week, Jimmy Kimmel Live! is the only show off the air.

That means new episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers,...

Kristen Zolner, who has served as Head of Television at Imagine Entertainment since 2022, has left the company, sources close to the situation confirm to Deadline.

We hear Zolner’s exit is amicable and the role will not be filled.

After taking over for Samie Kim Falvey, who left Imagine in 2021, Zolner oversaw projects such as Peacock’s series remake of The Burbs starring Keke Palmer and its Friday Night Lights reboot, as well as Netflix’s upcoming Gringo Hunters, among others.

Prior to joining Imagine, Zolner served as Director of Original Series, at Netflix, where she oversaw such series as Emily in Paris — which is produced by Jax Media — Dead To Me, Big Mouth, The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, Maniac, Master of None andThe Pentaverate starring Mike Myers, Uncoupled and Untitled Mo Amer. She also initiated the optioning of Michelle Buteau...

Jimmy Kimmel welcomes a trio of talent to the stage this Tuesday. Comedy icon Julia Louis-Dreyfus gearing up for the Marvel Cinematic Universe with “Thunderbolts,” is sure to have plenty to discuss. Joining her is comedian Mo Amer, the star of Netflix’s “Mo,” whose unique brand of humor always makes for a lively interview. And […]

Jimmy Kimmel Live: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mo Amer, Tucker Wetmore...

CBS Mornings is serving up a diverse mix of comedy, acting, literature, and sports this Tuesday, April 1st, with guest appearances by comedian Mo Amer, actor Román Zaragoza, author Dr. Becky Kennedy, and NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace. With Vlad Duthiers joining as guest co-host, the morning is set to bring laughs and insightful conversations. Amer’s […]

CBS Mornings Tuesday April 1: Mo Amer, Román Zaragoza, Dr. Becky Kennedy & Bubba Wallace...

The 2025 Emmy nominations won't be announced until July 15, but Gold Derby already has a head start on handicapping the races.

First things first, we are predicting last year's Best Comedy Series champion, Hacks, to win again for its upcoming season, which premieres April 10 on Max. After all, the Emmys love repeats. The Season 4 plot follows legendary stand-up comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) as she gears up for her nightly talk show with the help of her on-again/off-again comedy writer Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder). Both Smart and Einbinder are also leading their respective Emmy contests for Best Comedy Actress and Best Comedy Supporting Actress.

Severance is back for Season 2 after a three-year delay, and it's expected to receive a goat-load of Emmy love. Adam Scott, Britt Lower, John Turturro, and Zach Cherry play office workers at the sinister Lumon Industries, who all agree to separate their workplace memories from their external memories.

Ramy Youssef is back on television, and he's not steering clear of controversial subject matter. The acclaimed creator and star of Hulu's Ramy is getting a bit more, uh, animated in his next outing, via the comedy #1 Happy Family USA for Prime Video. Because, frankly, it's about time someone made an adult animated series following a Muslim family living in New Jersey in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks.

As the official synopsis puts it:

"From creator Ramy Youssef comes '#1 Happy Family USA,' an adult-animated series following the maniacally upbeat Husseins — the most patriotic, most peaceful, and most definitely-not-suspicious Muslim family in post-9/11 "Amreeka." With satire and absurdity, it redefines finding humor in hardship as they navigate the early 2000s under the watchful eyes of their terrified neighbors."

And we now have a release date — April 17, 2025 — and an official trailer for the series; the latter of...

Exclusive: UTA has signed comic, actor, writer, and producer Jonnie “Dumbfoundead” Park for representation in all areas.

Park, who first gained recognition in the battle rap scene, made his on-screen debut in Joseph Kahn’s award-winning feature film Bodied and has since built a career both in front of and behind the camera.

He most recently produced and starred opposite Anderson .Paak in K-pops!, which premiered at TIFF last year. The family comedy follows a washed-up musician who jumps at the chance to capitalize on his long-lost son’s stardom for his renaissance, but ultimately learns that fatherhood is much more than stardom.

Park also played the villain, ‘Ken’, in Hulu’s Emmy-winning comedy series Quiz Lady, starring Awkwafina, Will Ferrell, and Sandra Oh; starred in Lije Sarki’s 2024 comedy feature Sweet Dreams opposite Johnny Knoxville, Mo Amer, Theo Von, Bobby Lee, and Kate Upton; and starred in the All...

You know you’re up to something special when your job involves replicating the kind of chocolate that “The Shawshank Redemption” used to create the mud that Andy Dufresne breaks through to freedom. But that is exactly what production designer Carmen Navis needed to do to make Mo Najjar’s (Mo Amer) own escape from an immigration detention facility — in a dream sequence, anyway — work as such a hilarious, heightened, poignant part of “Mo” Season 2.

The dream sequences throughout the final season of the Netflix comedy use cinematic signifiers and genre conceits to help tell the story of the big emotions that Mo’s feeling as he goes from being stranded in Mexico City to being deported but monitored in America to finally getting legal status and being able to visit his extended family in the West Bank. For every twist and turn of the story, Navis and her team...

The Peabody Awards has announced the sophomore season of its We Disrupt This Broadcast podcast, along with a star-studded lineup of guests.

Hosted by Gabe González and co-produced by the Center for Media & Social Impact, the first episode is now available, featuring Shrinking and Ted Lasso‘s Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, with more disruptive, creative voices in new episodes dropping every three weeks.

Other episodes this season will feature interviews with Peabody winners and other talent, including Mo Amer (Mo), Ben Stiller and Adam Scott (Severance), Sharon Horgan (Bad Sisters), Tony Gilroy (Andor), Jen Statsky (Hacks) and more.

“We are so excited in Season 2 to share more fascinating conversations on topics such as the changing representations on TV of masculinity, immigrants, corporate culture, and women in comedy with the writers and showrunners who are disrupting traditional TV narratives in newly creative ways,” said Peabody Awards executive director Jeffrey Jones in a statement.

“We Disrupt This Broadcast,” the television podcast co-produced by the Peabody Awards and the Center for Media & Social Impact, will feature several top TV showrunners for its second season, which launched on Thursday.

The first episode features an interview with “Shrinking” and “Ted Lasso” executive producers Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein; new episodes will follow every three weeks, with guests including Ben Stiller and Adam Scott (“Severance”), Sharon Horgan (“Bad Sisters”), Tony Gilroy (“Andor”), Jen Statsky (“Hacks”) and Mo Amer (“Mo”). According to an official release, the podcast focuses on shows “that are re-imagining the world and tackling the big issues that move us forward” and “highlights the inner workings and cultural relevance of the shows that are changing all the rules and shaping the future.”

“We are so excited in Season 2 to share more fascinating conversations on topics such as the changing representations on TV of masculinity, immigrants,...

The Peabody Awards and Center for Media & Social Impact have unveiled the all-star lineup for the second-season of their We Disrupt This Broadcast podcast.

Season two, the first episode of which is out today for free across all major podcast platforms, will feature the creatives behind Shrinking, Mo, Severance, Bad Sisters, Andor and Hacks along with more industry figures.

Shrinking showrunner Bill Lawrence and co-creator and writer Brett Goldstein, who joined the cast of the Jason Segel-led Apple TV+ series in season two, are the first guests on We Disrupt This Broadcast.

Subsequent episodes, released every three weeks, will feature Mo Amer (Mo), Ben Stiller and Adam Scott (Severance), Sharon Horgan (Bad Sisters), Tony Gilroy (Andor) and Jen Statsky (Hacks).

The podcast, distributed by public media organization Prx, is hosted by actor-writer-comedian Gabe González with contributions from Peabody Awards executive director Jeffrey Jones and Center for Media & Social Impact executive director Caty Borum.

[This story contains spoilers from season two of Mo.]

“The way I would describe the season is bittersweet. Everything was bittersweet, and it felt that way throughout the entire season,” Mo Amer, the star, creator, writer and first-time director tells The Hollywood Reporter about the Netflix show’s second and final season.

The groundbreaking series, which debuted in 2022 and is executive produced by Ramy Youssef, centers Mo Najjar, a Palestinian refugee, and his family awaiting asylum for two years in the heart and heat of Houston, Texas. Celebrated not only for its rare centering of Palestinians, the show has been lauded for its expert balance of drama and comedy while exploring issues around immigration, religion, language and disability.

Following a critically acclaimed first season, Netflix announced in early 2023 that the half-hour comedy would be returning for a final eight episodes — an endeavor that took nearly two years. “We started the writing room, I believe, in late March, the first week in April.

I am still coming off the high caused by The Muslim House activation at the Sundance Film Festival in late January. It was an inspiring space for fostering inclusion and elevating creative voices from American-Muslims and other emerging communities.

Despite President Donald Trump’s executive order around Dei programs, there is still momentum in what television audiences will soon witness. For the first time in American television history, three series that portray Muslim communities will premiere within the first three months of 2025, marking a pivotal moment in the continued evolution of Muslim portrayals in Hollywood. This marks a victory for Muslim creatives working to combat the lingering impact of the decades-old vilification, racism and harmful depictions of Muslims — and as we can see from deleted racist tweets by Karla Sofía Gascón supporting a ban of Islam in Europe despite being a member of a vulnerable community herself, there is still much work to do.

The end of January 2025 brought us a great conclusion to Mo on Netflix, with the last episode of season 2 being the series finale. Going in before the show returned, we did know this would be the final season. And though it ends on a bittersweet note, I think the ending was great and what Mo has set out to do since season 1 was achieved.

Though Netflix has brought the show to an end, the creator, Mo Amer, still has more ideas for a potential Mo season 3 if Netflix, or maybe even another platform, would be interested. Ahead of the finale, Amer spoke with Variety about the season and that he "can't believe" it's the final one. Here's what he told the outlet:

“There’s so much to give, so it’s kind of ridiculous to only fit it into two seasons. All the love that we got the first season...

“Mo” season 2 returns with compelling storytelling and well-crafted humor, following Mo Najjar, portrayed by comedian Mohammed Amer. Stranded in Mexico while wrestling through U.S. asylum process bureaucracy, Mo represents immigrant experiences—suspended between cultures and dreams.

The season’s depth emerges from its narrative continuation after a two-and-a-half-year pause, exploring identity and belonging during societal divisions.

The series confronts statelessness, revealing Mo’s challenges as an undocumented immigrant. Contrasting his vibrant surroundings with personal emotional struggles, the show exposes the complexities of America’s immigration system.

Using dark comedy and authentic experiences, “Mo” pushes viewers to understand displacement, creating space for empathy while highlighting the critical demand for genuine representation in media that mirrors diverse human stories.

Navigating Identity: Character Development and Performances in Mo Season 2

In “Mo” Season 2, Mohammed Amer’s portrayal of Mo Najjar exemplifies deep character growth, as he moves through the challenging landscape of statelessness while seeking belonging.

Mohammed Amer’s “Mo” is one of those shows that can make you laugh and cry at the same time. Centered around the life of a Palestinian refugee in Houston, Mo is funny, a little crazy, and deeply emotional. The show is loosely based on Amer’s life and his experience navigating the system in the United States as a Palestinian. While season one was a fun watch, the second season hits it out of the park and is simply one of the best comedy shows to binge-watch on Netflix.

Mo highlights how the situation in Palestine has always been challenging, and how it only worsened after October 7th, 2023. Mo and his family were refugees who had been waiting for twenty-two years for their asylum status. The idea of home thus becomes crucial and the constant uncertainty resulted in emotional outbursts and a sense of hopelessness. But instead of portraying...

Mohammed Amer’s Mo is an underrated gem on Netflix—a show that is unafraid to ask the tough questions and always answers them with a touch of comedy. At the end of the first season, Mo ended up stranded in Mexico after climbing into a truck carrying olive trees that he hoped he would bring home to Houston. It has been six months since Mo mistakenly entered Mexico, and he had a tough time trying to convince the American embassy to allow him to return home to attend his asylum hearing. Mo did not have a passport since he was still awaiting his asylum status, and his only option was to beg the embassy to grant him a laissez-passer (a travel permit). Returning home legally started to seem like a far-fetched dream to Mo, when suddenly one of his customers (he was staying afloat selling falafel tacos), Camilla, mentioned she was Ambassador Lewis’ wife.

When we last saw Mo, it was the summer of 2022, and the comedy series, created by Mohammed Amer and Ramy Youssef, had just completed an excellent first season by stranding Amer’s Mo Najjar — a Palestinian asylum seeker living in Houston — on the wrong side of the U.S.-Mexico border. There was periodic talk of Mo’s Muslim faith and of his family’s hope that they could one day return to their homeland, but the show was primarily a light, wry comedy about the logistics of life as an undocumented immigrant.

Netflix’s acclaimed comedy-drama series Mo returns with its second and final season on January 30, 2025. All eight episodes will be available for streaming simultaneously, allowing fans to binge-watch the entire season. Here’s what we know about Mo Season 2 and its telecast.

Release Date & Time

Netflix typically releases new content at 12:00 a.m. Pacific Time (Pt). Here’s when Mo Season 2 will be available in various time zones:

Pacific Time (Pt): 12:00 a.m. Mountain Time (Mt): 1:00 a.m. Central Time (Ct): 2:00 a.m. Eastern Time (Et): 3:00 a.m. Brasília Time (Brt): 5:00 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT): 8:00 a.m. Central European Time (Cet): 9:00 a.m. Eastern European Time (Eet): 10:00 a.m. Moscow Standard Time (Msk): 11:00 a.m. Indian Standard Time (Ist): 1:30 p.m. China Standard Time (Cst): 4:00 p.

After an extremely long hiatus, Mo returns in the new year, with Season 2 finally getting a release date and trailer from Netflix.

Mohammed Amer’s comedy series will return for its second and final season on Thursday, Jan. 30, with all eight episodes, TVLine has learned. Mo’s first season released back in August 2022, and it was later renewed for Season 2 in January 2023.

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Mo Amer’s meta Netflix series “Mo” is back for Season 2, and this time, Amer is joined by more than a few comedy pals.

Hannibal Buress, Liza Koshy, Matt Rife, Ralph Barbosa, and Slim Thug join the eight-episode season of the critically acclaimed show co-created by Amer and Ramy Youssef (who also has his own eponymous semi-autobiographical series).

Amer plays alter-ego Mo Najjar in the show, a character who straddles the line between two cultures, three languages, and “a ton of bullshit as a Palestinian on the path to U.S. citizenship,” according to the logline.

Season 2 finds Mo stranded across the border and desperate to get back to Houston before his family’s asylum hearing; but as a stateless refugee without a passport, Mo “needs all the hustle and charm he can muster,” as the synopsis reads. “Little does he know that the journey home is just the start of his troubles,...

Mo, an acclaimed Netflix comedy endorsed by Steven Spielberg, has revealed its Netflix release date. Premiering in August 2022, the single-camera comedy stars Mohammed Amer as a fictionalized version of himself. The actor and comedian portrays Mo Najjar, a Palestinian refugee who constantly seems just one step away from obtaining asylum in the U.S. Najjar lives with his family in Houston, Texas, and, across eight episodes, Najjar hilariously adjusts to wild circumstances even as he faces some very specific struggles. Amer previously spoke of how Spielberg expressed his support for the show.

After a wait of more than two years, Netflix has confirmed that Mo season 2 will be released on January 30, 2025.

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After an extremely long hiatus, Mo finally returns in the new year, with Season 2 getting a release date from Netflix.

Mohammed Amer’s comedy series will return for its second and final season on Thursday, Jan. 30, with all eight episodes, TVLine has learned. Mo’s first season released back in August 2022, and it was later renewed for Season 2 in January 2023.

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Mo Amer will return with new episodes of his eponymous Netflix dramedy series on January 30, with all 8 making up the show’s second and final season. First-look photos can be found below.

Created by Mohammed ‘Mo’ Amer and Ramy Youssef, Mo follows the character of Mo Najjar, a Palestinian on the path to U.S. citizenship who straddles the line between two cultures, three languages, and a ton of bullshit.

Season 2 finds him stranded across the border and desperate to return to Houston before his family’s asylum hearing. But as a refugee without a state or a passport, he will need all the hustle and charm he can muster. His return home would be only the start of his troubles, as a new guy in town is looking to steal his longtime love Maria (Teresa Ruiz) and his falafel taco recipe.

In addition to Amer and Ruiz, Mo stars Farah Bsieso,...

Since the Golden Age of Hollywood, fantasy has been a cornerstone of the film industry's success, from Greek mythology epics like Clash of the Titans to '80s cult classics like Labyrinth. Covering everything from wizards, knights, and dragons to ancient gods and superhero stories, the genre continues to prove itself one of the most diverse in the industry -- and studios continue to establish their new big thing.

Fantasy movies are typically the flagship blockbuster projects of major studios, with many of the industry's record-high budgets being spent on the genre. While iconic hits like The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter carried studios to billion-dollar box office draws, attempts by rival studios to emulate this success have often fallen short. From disastrous book adaptations to attempts at new shared universes, filmmakers usually miss the mark when giving a studio their next big hit.

Black Adam Failed to...

While its always great for audiences to show their support for the hard work the production crew and stars put into a movie, some post-credits scenes truly were not worth the wait. To make a feature film is a major endeavor, so its important to give the crew their due and stick around for the credits, but if the only reason a viewer was watching them was to see the final scene or catch a hidden Easter egg, plenty of films would leave them disappointed. As post-credits scenes have become more common in recent years, in some cases, they feel needlessly tacked on and without much depth or interest.

The best post-credits scenes offer something new and exciting for viewers to look forward to. This could be the introduction of a long-awaited character, a new plot point that lays the groundwork for a sequel, or even just one final gag...

The Bear has to be one of the best series ever created. The FX comedy-drama series is intense, funny, tragic, and has some of the most beautiful-looking food I’ve ever seen. Created by Christopher Storer, The Bear follows the story of Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, an award-winning working in one of the best restaurants in the United States, as he moves back to Chicago to run his family-owned sandwich shop after a tragic incident. The Bear aired its third season recently, and I’m happy to say that the series is getting better with every new season. We are also happy that The Bear was renewed for a fourth season ahead of its Season 3 premiere. The Bear stars Jeremy Allen White in the lead role, with Ayo Edebiri, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Abby Elliott, Matty Matheson, Jon Bernthal, Oliver Platt, L-Boy, and Edwin Lee Gibson starring in supporting. So, if you love The Bear’s intensity,...

Queenie is a British comedy-drama series created by Candice Carty-Williams. Based on a novel of the same name by author Carty-Williams, the Hulu series follows the story of a young woman in South London who has a messy breakup with her long-time boyfriend and before she can move on she must come to terms with her past. Queenie stars Dionne Brown in the lead role with Jon Pointing, Tilly Keeper, Samuel Adewunmi, Joseph Marcell, Laura Whitmore, and Sally Phillips. If you loved the comedy, drama, and romantic elements in Queenie, here are some similar shows you could watch next.

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Ramy is a comedy-drama series created by Ramy Youssef, Ari Katcher, and Ryan Welch. The Hulu series follows the story of a first-generation American Muslim as he struggles to find his footing between his religious family who want him to follow in their...

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson vowed to change the "hierarchy of power" within the Dceu with 2022's Black Adam. The movie was meant to be a fan-pleasing blockbuster which launched a new version of this shared world that, in Johnson's eyes, revolved around his anti-hero. 

He reportedly went behind the backs of executives to bring Henry Cavill back as Superman, refused to share the screen with Zachary Levi's Shazam, and hoped to launch everything from a Justice Society movie to Hawkman as part of a slate he and Seven Bucks Productions would oversee. 

Black Adam proved to be a mess of a movie with murky visuals and hit-and-miss CGI. Crucially, box office numbers weren't good, reviews were even worse, and Johnson soured people on this already struggling franchise enough to impact 2023's Dceu titles negatively. 

Warner Bros. Games recently released MultiVersus, a free-to-play crossover fighting game which pits the...

Most people love an uplifting sports movie, but what if the story were to focus on more than just a bunch of guys trying to win some sort of championship? Paramount's new film Sweet Dreams gets its title from the name of a rehab facility that houses men on the path of sobriety, men who ultimately try to keep their lights on by competing in a softball league with a cash prize.

From writer-director Lije Sarki (producer on The Peanut Butter Falcon) and starring Jackass icon Johnny Knoxville as a recovering boozer who checks into "Sweet Dreams," the hard-hitting new dramedy also features some familiar faces like Bobby Lee (Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle) and GaTa (Anyone But You). We recently caught up with the two gents in a paired interview to learn more about how their real-life experiences tied to addiction helped fuel their standout performances.

You might know him best from MTV's hilarious, groundbreaking, and painful show Jackass, with its latest movie receiving the most acclaim the franchise has ever experienced. Millennials may remember his fun little supporting turn in Walking Tall (2004) alongside Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. But more recently, Johnny Knoxville has tackled a role he was perhaps born to play, a dramatic turn with shades of humor and hard R-rated banter about this cruel world we live in.

In Sweet Dreams, a new feature from Paramount and writer-director Lije Sarki (producer on The Peanut Butter Falcon), Knoxville plays a recovering alcoholic who joins a rehab home that the film is named after. We recently caught up with Knoxville and Sarki in a paired interview to learn more about their heartfelt new drama, which features a stellar cast that also includes familiar faces like Bobby Lee, Mohammed Amer, GaTa, and Kate Upton.

Getting...

Paramount Pictures hosted a ‘Friends & Family’ screening for its new Johnny Knoxville-starrer Sweet Dreams at L.A.’s Laemmle Royal on April 1. Even with a handful of comedians in the building and a date that coincided with April Fool’s Day, the world premiere of filmmaker Lije Sarki’s recovery-centered softball dramedy was no joke.

The scene mirrored much larger Hollywood premieres as members of the starry cast and their friends (Anderson .Paak, Bobby Lee, Lil Dicky) mingled with movie stars (Josh Brolin, Shia Labeouf). Guests took advantage of a red carpet complete with a veteran Tinseltown photographer (Todd Williamson) while others waited in long lines simply to get into the Laemmle (an overflow theater was added to accommodate the number of RSVPs).

Three days later, Sarki was still soaking it in. “It’s wild to me to have that much support,” said the filmmaker over coffee on the...

Johnny Knoxville always seems to display an aching vulnerability, and it’s not just because he’s voluntarily endured years of intense bodily suffering as a result of his Jackass movies. So he seems the perfect choice to play the central character in Lije Sarki’s raucous black comedy that plays like a Bad News Bears featuring recovering addicts rather than precocious children.

Knoxville plays Morris, whose sad state of affairs is made immediately apparent in the opening scene: He’s shown waking up nearly naked and bloody on a park bench, having clearly been on one hell of a bender the night before. Even worse, he had apparently left his eight-year-old daughter home alone, making him realize he’s a danger to others as well as himself.

To try to get his life back on track, Morris signs up for a 90-day stint at Sweet Dreams, a rehab center...

To celebrate Johnny Knoxville’s upcoming film, Sweet Dreams, Wamg is giving away two prizepacks with some terrific swag!

Johnny Knoxville, Mo Amer, Bobby Lee and Kate Upton unite in this wild and off-the-wall journey of second chances from the producer of The Peanut Butter Falcon. Forced into rehab at Sweet Dreams recovery center, Morris (Knoxville) struggles to confront the wreckage of his life. But when their house goes up for auction, he reluctantly agrees to coach their misfit softball team of recovering addicts to win a cash prize and prove that everyone, despite their past, can hit a home run.

Check out the Official Sweet Creams Jerseys, inspired by the jerseys the cast wore in the film!

Written & Directed by Lije Sarki, the film stars Johnny Knoxville, Mo Amer, GaTa, Bobby Lee, Theo Von, Brian Van Holt, Jonnie Park, Shakewell, Adam Faison, Erik Anthony Gonzalez, Beth Grant with Jay Mohr and Kate Upton.

In his “Saturday Night Live” monologue, Ramy Youssef called for a free Palestine and for the release of the hostages taken in the Israel-Hamas War.

At the top of his monologue, Youssef joked, “This is an incredibly spiritual weekend. We’re in the holy month of Ramadan. Tomorrow is Easter. And yesterday, Beyoncé released a new album. There’s just so many religions celebrating all at once.”

He went on to talk about the power of prayer, and joked that “In my friend group, I’m one of the only guys who prays. I’m friends with a lot of sinners, like, just disgusting people. And they call me when they’re in trouble because they want me to pray for them.”

Youssef recalled getting a call from his friend Ahmed, who asked him to pray for his family in Gaza.

“I’m like, ‘Dude, I got you,'” Youssef said.

“Sweet Dreams” the new R-rated comedy feature, written and directed by Lije Sarki, stars Johnny Knoxville, Mo Amer, GaTa, Bobby Lee, Theo Von, Brian Van Holt, Jonnie Park, Shakewell, Adam Faison, Erik Anthony Gonzalez and Beth Grant, with Jay Mohr and Kate Upton, opening April 12, 2024 in theaters:

“…forced into rehab at the ‘Sweet Dreams’ recovery center, ‘Morris’ (Knoxville) struggles to confront the wreckage of his life.

‘But when their house goes up for auction, he reluctantly agrees to coach their misfit softball team of recovering addicts to win a cash prize and prove that everyone, despite their past, can hit a home run…”

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“Sweet Dreams” the new R-rated comedy feature, written and directed by Lije Sarki, stars Johnny Knoxville, Mo Amer, GaTa, Bobby Lee, Theo Von, Brian Van Holt, Jonnie Park, Shakewell, Adam Faison, Erik Anthony Gonzalez and Beth Grant, with Jay Mohr and Kate Upton, opening April 12, 2024 in theaters:

“…forced into rehab at the ‘Sweet Dreams’ recovery center, ‘Morris’ (Knoxville) struggles to confront the wreckage of his life.

‘But when their house goes up for auction, he reluctantly agrees to coach their misfit softball team of recovering addicts to win a cash prize and prove that everyone, despite their past, can hit a home run…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

"You got 10 guys that need this place." Paramount has revealed an official trailer for a sports comedy called Sweet Dreams, a new film directed by the producer of sleeper hit The Peanut Butter Falcon previously. Opening in theaters in April this spring to enjoy. This fresh new comedy is a wild journey of second chances. Forced into rehab, Morris agrees to coach a misfit softball team of recovering addicts from his own house to prove that everyone, despite their past, can hit a home run. And maybe he will get his own life back on track, too. Johnny Knoxville stars as Morris, with an ensemble cast featuring Mo Amer, GaTa, Bobby Lee, Theo Von, Brian Van Holt, Jonnie Park, Shakewell, Adam Faison, plus Jay Mohr & Kate Upton. This doesn't look like it has the most original script, but it still does seem quite wholesome and amusing in an obnoxiously entertaining way.

HBO will premiere the comedy special “Ramy Youssef: More Feelings” on March 23.

Per the official description, the trailer sees the actor, writer and comedian “offer his unique reflections on our divided world, the unexpected perils of charitable giving and more,” hitting on topics including “the 2024 presidential election, the importance of prayer, and a childhood book report that changed the course of his life.”

“I’m done apologizing. I’m done saying that we’re peaceful,” Youssef says in the trailer. “For 20 years, we’ve had to prove to people that we’re safe. Every time you turn on CNN, there’s some Arab dude talking about how ‘Islam’ means ‘peace.’ You know that guy? But he’s always shouting it. He’s always like, ‘We come in peace!'”

“You’re like, ‘Bro, that’s the slogan for aliens,'” he continues. “‘That’s what aliens say before they take over the fucking planet,...