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BookTok is the go-to place for spicy romance reads, offering a range of steamy novels for fans of all levels of "spice". Popular books on BookTok, like Twisted Love and Priest, feature plenty of explicit content for readers to enjoy. Some BookTok romances are lighter on the spice but still worth reading, like Delilah Green Doesn't Care and The Love Hypothesis.

TikTok is a great place to get book recommendations across genres, but "BookTok" is especially useful for those looking for spicy romance reads. Some of the most popular books on BookTok are romance and romantasy novels featuring steamy moments. This explains the platform's reputation for promoting smut, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. It makes it the go-to place for romance readers looking to separate the tamer stories from the steamier novels they're looking for. BookTok also helps readers find their preferred "spice" level, matching them with their ideal books.

Good news: NBC's The Irrational will return for Season 2 in the fall of 2024. Even better, most of the cast will be returning.

The Jesse L. Martin-led police procedural stands out in a sea of crime dramas because it focuses on a behavioral scientist who moonlights as an FBI consultant. It is fun, entertaining, and easy to follow.

We've got you covered if you're playing catch-up now that the season has ended.

Our The Irrational Season 2 cast and character guide covers everything you need to know about the characters before you begin this unique series.

How The Irrational Is Different From Other Shows

The Irrational is not purely a police procedural.

Since the main character is a behavioral scientist, neuroscientific principles often come into play when solving each case.

It's not quite as gimmicky as Elsbeth, where the lead detective's quirkiness is the backbone of the show, but it...

Oprah Winfrey was a ratings powerhouse with her daytime show for many years but her cable channel, OWN, has had its challenges. OWN has had some very successful comedies and dramas but no show can last forever. Which series will be cancelled or renewed next? Stay tuned!

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It’s not every day that a filmmaker will rise up during an interview and recite Old Testament tales and sing out their favorite hymn. Well, hallelujah, brother Jeymes Samuel for spreading the gospel’s good news.

The director’s spectacular Jesus in the hood movie, The Book of Clarence, starring a mighty fine Lakeith Stanfield playing a charlatan wannabe Messiah, shakes up the toga and peepy toe genre.

Samuel’s movie has its world premiere Wednesday at the BFI London Film Festival. The Legendary Pictures production is released through Tristar with congregations taking their pews from January 12, 2024.

The movie’s thrilling prologue kicks off with a rip-roaring, wheel-screeching chariot race with Mary Magdalene thrashing the lads.

The moment was of course inspired by the iconic chariot scene between Charlton Heston’s Judah Ben-Hur and Stephen Boyd’s Messala in William Wyler...

10 August 2023 —Florence + the Machine unveil Under Heaven Over Hell today, a new collection of songs from across the band’s career personally curated by Florence Welch. The 39-track compilation is available as a digital download and on streaming platforms everywhere today.

Florence is spending the summer headlining festivals across Europe in celebration of her much-lauded 2022 album Dance Fever. See below for full routing.

Dance Fever, released last spring, was one of the most celebrated releases of 2022. The album was named to Best Of lists from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Consequence, Nylon, Billboard, Paste and a host of others.

Earlier this year, Florence’s iconic “Dog Days Are Over” was featured in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 at the personal request of director James Gunn. The song’s turn in the film led to a viral moment across streaming platforms, TikTok and beyond, followed by a summer...

Welsh veteran singer Sir Tom Jones has spoken out, questioning the decision to ban his classic song Delilah from being sung at national rugby matches.

It was announced by the venue’s owners in February that the song – whose lyrics feature a woman’s murder by her jealous partner – was no longer suitable to be sung by choirs at the national Principality Stadium in Welsh capital city Cardiff.

The song has been one of Jones’s most popular hits since its release in 1968 and, at a concert on Friday night at Cardiff Castle, the singer told the crowd he would continue to perform it.

The BBC reports him telling the audience, “You can’t stop us singing Delilah.

“Can you imagine… Who was the man who didn’t want us to sing Delilah?

“And we will keep singing it too.”

Rugby choirs ceased performing the song in 2015, and it was officially banned earlier this year.

One of the most culturally impactful shows on television of the 1990s, HBO's Sex and the City was revolutionary for its depiction of female sexuality and friendship. The show followed four single thirty-something women living in New York City and experiencing the dating scene. At the core of the show is the characters' love for New York City and fashion and their support of one another as they all have different opinions about sex and love. While the actors in Sex and the City had some name recognition, the success of the series made A-list stars out of its main cast.

Sex and the City was a massive critical success, and it won multiple Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards during its run. While the writing and themes of the show contributed to its appeal, the main cast members brought the likable Sex and the City characters to life. Fans'...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Olivia Rodrigo returns with a biting single, Lil Uzi Vert leans into his metal influences, and Tainy enlists all of the best of reggaeton for a star-studded debut.

Olivia Rodrigo, “vampire” (YouTube)

Lil Uzi Vert feat. Bring Me the Horizon, “Werewolf” (YouTube)

Young Thug feat. Juice Wrld and Nicki Minaj, “Money” (YouTube)

Tainy feat. Daddy Yankee, Feid, Sech, “LA Baby” (YouTube)

Alok and Ava Max, “Car Keys” (YouTube)

Paris Hilton,...

Jones sang ‘Delilah’ with opera star Luciano Pavarotti at the tenor’s annual charity concert in aid of Afghan refugees.

In 1992, Jones recorded a version of “All You Need Is Love” for ChildLine and performed in a live stage performance of Dylan Thomas’ “Under Milkwood” to benefit the Prince's Trust. He also supported the Prince’s charity in 2001 at the London fundraiser “Party In The Park”.

In 1993, Tom recorded version of the Rolling Stones’ classic “Gimme Shelter” to benefit the UK homeless charity, Shelter, and sang at Sting's annual show at Carnegie Hall to benefit his charity, The Rainforest Foundation.

Charities & foundations supported

Tom Jones has supported the following charities:

Bridge SchoolCash For KidsComic ReliefElton John AIDS FoundationGRAMMY FoundationHelp for HeroesHoping FoundationMusiCaresNordoff RobbinsPrince's TrustSmall Steps Project Read more about Tom Jones's charity work and events. Related articles Elton John, P. Diddy and Andrew Lloyd-Webber to Celebrate Life of Princess...

This post contains spoilers for A Million Little Things‘ series finale, which aired Wednesday. Proceed accordingly.

Fans expecting a little love in an elevator in A Million Little Things‘ series finale instead got heartbreak in a Boston apartment.

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If you read TVLine and are a fan of ABC’s ensemble drama, you might recall that in late April,...

Lionel Richie really did put it best at the end of Monday’s American Idol: “That f–ked me up. I can’t take this.”

The judge was referring to the final duet of Hollywood Week, which was supposed to be a performance of Adam Lambert’s “Whataya Want From Me” between Kaya Stewart and Fire. The catch? Duets require two voices, and only one came to the stage prepared to sing.

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The soundtrack for American Hustle, the David O. Russell-directed 2013 crime caper, contains songs by a wide range of legendary musicians, from Tom Jones to the Bee Gees to Duke Ellington. The movie tells a fictionalized account of the Abscam operation of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. Bradley Cooper stars as an FBI agent who recruits a pair of con artists, played by Amy Adams and Christian Bale, for a sting operation to catch crooked politicians. American Hustle was released to critical and commercial success. It was nominated for 10 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and all four acting categories.

In an interview with Esquire, Russell described American Hustle as “a propulsive kind of cinema that was driven by music.” The soundtrack was key to giving the movie its feel. Russell’s direction of American Hustle borrows heavily from Martin Scorsese’s signature style of fast-paced,...

Warning: This article features Spoilers for You season 4.

Joe Goldberg's #1 rule to getting away with murder is defeating anyone who might expose his truth, including Nadia, which helps explain her fate in You season 4. The London student was a refreshing addition to the show after fans spent all of You season 3 watching Love Quinn and her entitled neighbors. Nadia was similar to You season 2's Delilah in that viewers were actually rooting for her to escape and uncover Joe's secrets. She was also similar to Marienne, which is why she was so quick to help her escape Joe's glass box and return home to her daughter by making the You protagonist think she died.

After finding Marienne in You season 4, Nadia was determined to prove Joe was a killer but didn't think the police would believe her story about him. Instead of turning him in to authorities, she recruited...

Lukita Maxwell, who may be best known for playing Alice in 10 episodes of the Apple TV+ series Shrinking, Delilah in 16 episodes of the HBO Max series Generation, or Jillian in 4 episodes of the ABC series Speechless, has signed on to star in director Chris Weitz’s horror film They Listen. Maxwell joins previously announced cast members Katherine Waterston (Alien: Covenant) and John Cho (Searching). Deadline hears that Maxwell will have “a top-billed role” in the film.

They Listen is coming to us from Sony, Blumhouse, and Depth of Field. Weitz is producing the film with Jason Blum and Andrew Miano. Bea Sequeira, Dan Balgoyen, Britta Rowings, and Paul Davis serve as executive producers.

Filming was already underway in Los Angeles back in December, but plot details are still being kept entirely under wraps. So we have to gauge our interest in this one based only on the title and the...

CBS has given a pilot order to a multi-cam comedy series based on the “JumpStart” comic strip, Variety has learned.

The project hails from writer and executive producer Wayne Conley. Aaron Kaplan and Melanie Frankel of Kapital Entertainment also executive produce along with Bridget McMeel of Andrews McMeel Entertainment and Wendi Trilling of TrillTV. Robb Armstrong, the creator of “JumpStart,” will co-executive produce. CBS Studios will produce.

“JumpStart” is set in Philadelphia. Per the official logline, the show “follows Joe, a cop, his wife Marcy, a nurse, and Joe’s partner, Crunchy. Joe and Marcy are young, hip, urban parents with old school values who are willing to sacrifice for their kids and have some laughs while doing it.” The comic strip originally entered syndication in 1989.

A TV version of the comic has been in the works since at least 2014, when Kapital announced plans to develop a live-action version with 20th Century Fox.

CBS has handed a pilot order to JumpStart, a multi-camera comedy based on Robb Armstrong’s long-running comic strip. Wayne Conley (The Best Man) penned the TV adaptation. The project, from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, Wendy Trilling’s TrillTV and CBS Studios, was among the first CBS buys for the 2023-24 season made last June. The order caps an almost decade-long journey for Kapital to adapt JumpStart for TV.

Based on the popular comic strip that debuted in 1989, JumpStart is set in Philadelphia and follows Joe, a cop, his wife Marcy, a nurse, and Joe’s partner Crunchy. Joe and Marcy are young, hip, urban parents with old school values who are willing to sacrifice for their kids and have some laughs while doing it!.

Conley executive produces with Kaplan and Melanie Frankel of Kapital Entertainment, Trilling for TrillTV and Armstrong’s producer Bridget McMeel, who brought the property to Hollywood,...

While it’s easy enough to edit an expletive out of a song, there are many other reasons a track might fall foul of broadcasting standards or public opinion.

Some songs have been banned for referencing drugs, others for attacking the monarchy. Some were banned because it was believed they implied something sexual, despite not stating it outright.

One recent example of a song being banned is “Delilah” by Welsh crooner Tom Jones. In February, it was announced that choirs had been banned from singing the hit during their performances on rugby international matchdays at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff.

The song’s lyrics include reference to a woman being murdered by her jealous partner.

The Welsh Rugby Union – the governing body which has recently been hit by sexism and discrimination allegations – took the song off its half-time entertainment and music playlist during Test matches in 2015. Guest choirs have also...

Exclusive: We are hearing that in a competitive situation, Paramount Pictures has swooped in with a high six-figure deal to acquire the film rights to Matt and Harrison Query’s upcoming book, Wilderness Reform.

Wilderness Reform is the follow up book to the Query Brothers’ first novel, Old Country, which was published this July by Grand Central Publishing.

Wildernesses Reform tells the story of a group of teenagers who are shipped off to a juvenile reform camp only to discover the program has a far more sinister agenda than ever imagined. A highly coveted part in the project is that of Reid, the charismatic head counselor of the camp. The publishing rights to Wilderness Reform were auctioned off to publishers in a multi-bid bake off earlier this month with Emily Bestler/ Simon & Schuster winning out.

Harrison Query, who wrote War Party, which Andrew Dominik is attached to direct and Tom Hardy headline,...

Exclusive: 1883‘s Lamonica Garrett and Martin Sensmeier are the latest additions to the cast of the street racing action-thriller Takeover, led by Migos frontman Quavo, from Trioscope and Quality Films. The pair joins an ensemble which also includes Billy Zane and Serayah, as previously announced.

The film, currently in production in Atlanta, will implement Trioscope’s proprietary technology that blends live-action with CG, underscoring the fascination and controversy surrounding the city’s street takeovers — also known as “sideshows.”

Garrett portrays Sheriff ‘Herc’ Hitchens, public enemy #1 in the takeover community. Herc is a sadistic officer, whose life mission is to shut down the illegal racing scene and its major players — especially Guy Miller (Quavo), a recent parolee who’s attempting to rehabilitate his life when circumstances propel him back into Atlanta’s dangerous takeover scene.

Sensmeier plays Hilario, leader of an original takeover crew, The Jackals. Hilario is a silent-yet-predictable man...

The Paramount+ series Lioness has added three Taylor Sheridan-verse vets for Season 1: Dave Annable, Lamonica Garrett, and James Jordan

They join previously announced series leads Zoe Saldaña and Laysla De Oliveira.

Annable will play Neil, Joe’s (Saldaña) husband and the father of their two daughters. Jordan and Garrett will play Two Cups and Tucker, respectively, experienced CIA Special Activities Division operatives on Joe’s team.

Lioness is based on a real-life CIA program and follows Cruz Manuelos (De Oliveira), a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine recruited to join the CIA’s Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Saldaña will play Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program tasked with training, managing, and leading her female undercover operatives.

Saldaña will also serve as executive producer alongside Nicole Kidman and her production company,...

Taylor Sheridan’s upcoming CIA drama series “Lioness” at Paramount+ has added three new actors to its cast, Variety has learned exclusively.

James Jordan, Lamonica Garrett, and Dave Annable have all joined the show. All three have previously worked with Sheridan — Jordan and Annable on the hit Paramount Network series “Yellowstone” and Garrett in the “Yellowstone” prequel series “1883.” Jordan also appeared in “1883” as well as Sheridan’s Paramount+ series “Mayor of Kingstown” and in his features “Wind River” and “Those Who Wish Me Dead.”

The three join previously announced cast members Zoe Saldaña and Laysla De Oliveira.

The series is based on a real-life CIA program. Per the official logline, the show “follows Cruz Manuelos (De Oliveira), a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine recruited to join the CIA’s Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Saldaña plays Joe, the station chief of...

“The Boys” are getting two new Supes in Season 4 with Valorie Curry and Susan Hayward joining the cast. Cameron Crovetti, who plays Homelander’s son Ryan, has also been promoted to a series regular for the upcoming season.

Curry (“The Lost Symbol”) will be portraying the superhero Firecracker, and Heyward (“Delilah”) will portray Sister Sage. Neither of the characters are from “The Boys” comics, so nothing is known about the characters thus far. However, knowing “The Boys” and showrunner/head writer Eric Kripke, the duo is sure to be at the heart of some diabolical and violent schemes.

Crovetti’s character of Ryan has been becoming increasingly important in “The Boys,” with Antony Starr’s terrifying sociopathic Homelander becoming ever-attached to the boy. With the new promotion, it seems that Ryan will be instrumental in the next season. Viewers will be on the edge of their seats anxiously awaiting to...

More supes are joining The Boys. Amazon is rounding out cast for the upcoming fourth season of Emmy-nominated superhero series The Boys, from Sony Pictures TV and Amazon Studios. Valorie Curry (The Lost Symbol) and Susan Heyward (Orange Is The New Black) join as new series regulars for the upcoming season, and Cameron Crovetti, who recurred as Ryan, son of Homelander (Antony Starr) in Seasons 2 and 3, has been promoted to series regular for Season 4. Crovetti has appeared in eight episodes over both seasons.

Curry will portray Firecracker and Heyward will play Sister Sage.

Based on the bestselling comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, The Boys was developed by showrunner Eric Kripke, who also serves as writer and executive producer. Joining Kripke as executive producers are Point Grey Pictures’ Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver; Original Film’s Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty; and Phil Sgriccia, Craig Rosenberg,...

Can Delilah's and Tamara's friendship survive the first season of the Delilah TV show on OWN? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Delilah is cancelled or renewed for season two. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the first season episodes of Delilah here. Status Update Below.

An OWN drama series, the Delilah TV show stars Maahra Hill, Jill Marie Jones, Susan Heyward, Ozioma Akagha, Candace B. Harris, Kelly Jacobs, Khalil Johnson, and Braelyn Rankins. Delilah Connolly (Hill) is a headstrong and highly principled lawyer who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. She left a demanding white-shoe law firm a decade ago and hung up her own shingle so she could...

The Greenleaf TV series was a very successful show for the OWN cable channel. Now, that show's creator, Craig Wright, has created a new series called Delilah. Will it also be a big hit in the ratings? Will Delilah be cancelled or renewed for season two on OWN? Stay tuned. Status Update Below.

A drama series, the Delilah TV show stars Maahra Hill, Jill Marie Jones, Susan Heyward, Ozioma Akagha, Candace B. Harris, Kelly Jacobs, Khalil Johnson, and Braelyn Rankins. In the story, Delilah Connolly (Hill) is a headstrong and highly principled lawyer who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. She left a demanding white-shoe law firm a decade ago and hung up her own shingle so she could make raising her kids her top priority. Now, she takes on cases the big firms ignore and finds herself, more often than not, going head-to-head with the...

Court has been dismissed and so has Delilah Connolly. OWN has cancelled the Deliah TV series so we won't be seeing a second season.

A drama series created by Craig Wright, the Delilah TV show stars Maahra Hill, Jill Marie Jones, Susan Heyward, Ozioma Akagha, Candace B. Harris, Kelly Jacobs, Khalil Johnson, and Braelyn Rankins. Delilah Connolly (Hill) is a headstrong and highly principled lawyer who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. She left a demanding white-shoe law firm a decade ago and hung up her own shingle so she could make raising her kids her top priority. Now, she takes on cases the big firms ignore and finds herself, more often than not, going head-to-head with the powerful and privileged as she fights for the disenfranchised. In addition to raising her two kids, Maia (Jacobs) and Marcus (Rankins), Delilah also...

Maahra Hill, who played the titular role in the now-canceled OWN series Delilah, has landed a lead role opposite Jesse L. Martin (Law & Order) in the upcoming NBC drama pilot The Irrational. As reported by Deadline, Hill will play Marisa, an astute and intelligent FBI agent with a passion for work, who finds herself teaming up with Martin’s Alec Baker, a world-renowned professor of behavioral science. The series is written by Arika Mittman (Timeless) and based on the book Predictably Irrational by bestselling author Dan Ariely. The show revolves around Alec, who lends his expertise to a range of high-stakes cases involving governments, law enforcement, and corporations. He brings a unique and unexpected approach to understanding behavior, which proves useful in cracking a number of criminal cases. Hill most recently played the headstrong Delilah Connolly in the OWN series Delilah. Created by Craig Wright, the series premiered in March 2021 and ran for eight episodes.

OWN is moving on from Delilah.

The legal drama, which premiered in March 2021, has quietly been cancelled by the cable network, our sister site Deadline reports.

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Created and executive-produced by Greenleaf‘s Craig Wright, Delilah starred Maahra Hill (How to Get Away With Murder) as a dedicated lawyer who won cases despite juggling motherhood and other familial flareups in her life.

Exclusive: Maahra Hill, who played the title role in the OWN series Delilah, has been tapped as the female lead opposite Jesse L. Martin in NBC’s drama pilot The Irrational.

Created by Craig Wright, Delilah premiered in March 2021. It was quietly canceled several months ago, sources tell Deadline, making Hill available for pilots and series.

2022 NBC Pilots & Series Orders

Written by Arika Mittman, The Irrational is based on bestselling author Dan Ariely’s “Predictably Irrational.” The show follows on Alec Baker (Martin), a world-renowned professor of behavioral science, who lends his expertise to an array of high-stakes cases involving governments, law enforcement and corporations with his unique and unexpected approach to understanding human behavior.

Hill will play Marisa, an astute and intelligent FBI agent with a passion for her work who often finds herself teaming up with Alec (Martin) in one way or another.

Martin also is producing the pilot,...

Freedom is an escape from society’s invisible cages. Thus Seth (Chris Messina) teaches his followers at The Aviary to emancipate themselves from those walls. He serves as their quasi-psychoanalyst conducting what he’s coined “barrier therapy” (or BT), allowing them to open themselves to what they truly want outside of the norms civilization feeds them. And they love him for it. They embrace his teachings and enjoy his hugs while walking lockstep into the New Mexican desert to inhabit his new, fully immersive BT barracks. Outsiders might say Seth is merely leading them from one prison to another, preying upon their weaknesses to interject himself as their God. To hear Jillian (Malin Akerman) and Blair (Lorenza Izzo) talk is to realize those outsiders are correct.

The two have escaped his clutches this time, their awakening arriving courtesy of revelations they could no longer silently live with. Blair was there shorter than Jillian,...

For decades, WarnerMedia and Discovery had largely co-existed independently. They have lived in separate universes with virtually no business interactions, as unscripted television is their main area of overlap. The Discovery networks work primarily with independent producers and not studios like Warner Bros TV, which has only produced a handful of reality shows for Discovery nets via its Shed subsidiary

However, there is a close working relationship which has flown largely under the radar and creates instant synergy post-merger — that between Warner Bros. TV and OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network on the scripted side. Over the last five years, Wbtv has become OWN’s de-facto scripted studio, producing virtually all of its original scripted series, from Queen Sugar and David Makes Man to All Rise.

After the Discovery-WarnerMedia merger is complete, OWN and Wbtv will become vertically integrated, with HBO Max as OWN’s corporate sibling streamer. According to sources,...

There’s something about French films. The impeccably styled but lived-in interiors, the laid-back sensuality that feels like real-people sex, the cigarettes upon cigarettes upon cigarettes. The country’s entire oeuvre (has the word ever been more apropos?) feels like a smoky exhalation of the words “le cinéma.” That said, French films get away with certain things American films wouldn’t dare, for better or for worse. In “The Passengers of the Night” (“Les passagers de la nuit”), which stars Charlotte Gainsbourg as a newly divorced mother, meaning takes a backseat to mood, and character development happens on a whim. Still,

The film opens on election night in 1981. As the winds of change sweep the streets of Paris, bursting with youthful optimism, Elisabeth (Gainsbourg) is on the precipice of a less welcome change. Her marriage over, and she is filled with uncertainty about how to support her two teenage kids,...

Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films and Scarlett Pictures are partnering to co-produce The New Boy with Blanchett attached to star and Warwick Thornton writing and directing. Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair join Blanchett in the ensemble, which is set to begin filming in October in South Australia.

Roadshow Films will be distributing for Australia and New Zealand, CAA Media Finance and UTA will be handling sales for North America, and The Veterans is on board to manage sales for the remainder of the globe. Blanchett, Andrew Upton and Georgie Pym will be producing for Dirty Films, and Kath Shelper will produce for Scarlett Pictures.

“What a joy to finally be collaborating with Warwick — a filmmaker whose warmth, wit and humanity we have admired for so very long,” Blanchett said. “We can’t wait to be on the ground with him and the wonderful Kath Shelper to realise this startling story.

Some new chapters will begin for some of the gang when the series returns.

However, as evident by A Million Little Things Season 4 Episode 8, there are always some open-ended chapters that were incomplete, and they're rearing their heads, too.

It was mostly an understated midseason finale for this series, but the hour had notable heartfelt moments.

It's starting to wear on the series that they've opted to limit large group interactions among the cast and characters. When you have a series that always relied on the majority interacting at once, it becomes more noticeable whenever they stray from that. 

It was an installment where you were more aware than usual that many of the storylines are insular. Most of them don't overlap and connect anymore. And, of course, they'll rotate featuring characters in installments, so when a midseason finale happens, it's more apparent than ever when the entirety of the cast isn't prominent in it.

Charles Randolph-Wright, Debra Martin Chase and Olympic gold medalist Brian Boitano have teamed to produce the Netflix family movie “Take the Ice,” set in the world of synchronized ice skating.

Written by Deborah Swisher, “Take the Ice” follows a rebellious 15-year-old named Tisha Moore, who has dreamed of becoming an ice skater her entire life. According to the film’s logline, however, the closest the Black girl from Brooklyn has come is dazzling people with her roller skating routines while busking in the park. When Tisha gets the opportunity to join a local synchronized ice skating team, she is forced to come to terms with the root of her rebellious ways and must learn to trust others to achieve her dream of shining on the ice.

Randolph-Wright — whose career in TV, film and theater includes executive producing and directing the OWN series “Delilah,” “Greenleaf” and the hit show “Motown: The...

Olympic gold medalist Brian Boitano will co-produce and choreograph the new Netflix ice skating film “Take the Ice.”

The film will follow Tisha Moore, a rebellious 15-year-old who has dreamed of becoming an ice skater her entire life. Though, as a young, Black girl from Brooklyn, there isn’t much opportunity aside from doing her roller skating routines while she busks in the park. However, when Tisha gets the opportunity to join a local synchronized ice skating team, she must “come to terms with the root of her rebellious ways and must learn to trust others to achieve her dream of shining on ice,” per the film’s log line.

“I am excited to be a part of a movie that will bring attention to the sport of synchronized skating, Boitano said in a press release. “I also hope that kids and teens, who don’t typically see themselves represented in the traditional skating world,...

Exclusive: Alexis Ostrander, who has directed episodes of AppleTV+’s M. Night Shyamalan series Servant and Netflix hit series Sweet Tooth is set to direct Screen Gems’ Delilah, from screenwriters Harrison Query and Tommy Wallach.

The psychological thriller, which Deadline first told you about, is said to be in the spirit of Gone Girl and remains in development. Scott Strauss and Michael Bitar brought in Delilah for Screen Gems and Dan Primozic made the deal for the studio.

Scott Glassgold and his Ground Control Entertainment are producing the feature; the Query and Wallach spec having created a stir in its spec sale earlier this year.

Ostrander is repped by CAA and Range Media Partners, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.

Glassgold and Query sold their Reddit-inspired horror pitch My Wife and I Bought a Ranch… to Netflix for over $1 million in July, a story authored by Query’s brother,...

TV academy voters are faced with a daunting task when they fill out their 2021 Emmy Awards nominations ballot in that they have to consider 133 shows for Best Drama Series. On the bright side, the amount of entrants is down by 66 from last year, and members no longer have to winnow their choices down to just 10 favorites. As with the last several years, they are being told to “Vote for as many achievements in this category that you have seen and feel are worthy of a nomination.”

Last year’s champ, “Succession,” will not return to defend its title, as no new episodes of the HBO series have aired since its second season finale in October 2019. Of its seven rivals last year, four — “Better Call Saul,” “Killing Eve,” “Ozark,” and “Stranger Things” — also did not return in time to meet the eligibility window of June 1, 2020 to May 31, 2021. The remaining three — “The Crown,...

Roughly eighteen months since his mystifying Grey’s Anatomy exit, a barely recognizable Justin Chambers reunited with his former on-screen Bff Ellen Pompeo Friday night on the actress’ Instagram feed.

Sporting bleach blonde hair, Chambers — playfully taking on the role of waiter — can be seen interrupting Pompeo’s seemingly intimate dinner with fellow former co-star Eric Dane. “What would you like for dinner?” Chambers asks the pair, prompting Pompeo to break character. In a subsequent video (also posted to Pompeo’s Instagram stories — watch here before it disappears!), Pompeo captures Chambers and Dane sitting silently alongside each other.

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Exclusive: Amazon’s conspiracy thriller series The Terminal List welcomes a trio of actors to its cast with the addition of Lamonica Garrett, Alexis Louder and Tom Amandes in recurring roles.

They will join previously announced talent Chris Pratt, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Constance Wu, Riley Keough, Taylor Kitsch and Jeanne Tripplehorn.

Based on Jack Carr’s bestselling novel and written by David Digilio, The Terminal List follows James Reece (Pratt) after his entire platoon of Navy SEALs is ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission. Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability. However, as new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him, endangering not only his life but the lives of those he loves.

Executive producers are Pratt, Carr, Antonia Fuqua through Fuqua Films, and writer Daniel Shattuck. Digilio serves as showrunner and also executive produces. The Terminal List...

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Rome and Regina Howard’s wish finally comes true in this week’s A Million Little Things: They started a family.

Sure, the blessed event doesn’t happen the way they thought it would last season, when they planned for months to adopt Eve’s baby boy and then lost that chance in the space of a heartbeat. But when Tyrell’s mother, Martina, is deported to Haiti, an opportunity arises for the Howards to support the teen while his mom starts over from scratch in a country very far away.

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Exclusive: Lyriq Bent (She’s Gotta Have It), Shalini Bathina (Little Voice) and Ian Harding (Pretty Little Liars), in a recasting, are set as leads opposite Rose Rollins and Josh Lucas in Long Slow Exhale, Spectrum Originals’ upcoming drama series from L.A. Finest‘s Pam Veasey, Anton Cropper and John Dove and Paramount TV Studios.

Also joining the cast as series regulars are Enajite Esegine, Brittney Elena, Jazmine Stewart, Isabella Star Lablanc, Carmen Flood and Erin Croom (The Conners). Samantha Bartow, Brent Sexton, Tony Gonzalez and Gabrielle Byndloss (Falcon and the Winter Soldier) will recur. After a nine-month exclusive run on Spectrum, the series will air with a second window on BET.

Created by Veasey and to be directed by Cropper, Long Slow Exhale follows J.C. Abernathy (Rollins), the successful head coach of a competitive women’s college basketball team who finds herself in the middle of...

In the 25 years since she became the first Black lesbian to direct a feature film, the acclaimed “The Watermelon Woman,” Cheryl Dunye has lent her perspective to dozens of stories stretching across various genres on-screen. The NAACP Image Award-nominated director recently put her signature stamp on “Lovecraft Country’s” episode “Strange Case.” Now, she is lending her vision to OWN’s new series, “Delilah,” a legal drama centering Maahra Hill in the titular role as a lawyer trying to juggle her personal and professional lives.

Just as Delilah’s personal life begins to get more complicated she finds herself in the middle of a legal firestorm, facing off against her best friend, Tamara (Jill Marie Jones), for the first time in her career. Through her work on films like “Janine” and “Stranger Inside,” as well as her contributions to series like “All Rise,” “Dear White People,” and “Queen Sugar,” Dunye...

OWN has ordered a new series from “Claws” showrunner Janine Sherman Barrois, “The Kings of Napa.” Barrois will executive produce alongside NAACP Image Award-winner Michelle Listenbee Brown and Oprah Winfrey. The series was created by Sherman Barrois under her exclusive multi-year overall deal with Warner Bros. Television, which she inked in 2018. The series hails from Warner Bros. Television and Harpo Films.

Matthew A. Cherry, the Academy Award-winning director of animated short film “Hair Love,” is set to direct the first two episodes of “The Kings of Napa.” Production will begin later in 2021 for an early 2022 premiere on OWN.

“We’ve been captivated for years by Janine’s incredible body of work and welcome her into OWN’s family of dynamic drama storytellers,” said Tina Perry, president of OWN. “Janine’s created compelling characters that hook viewers right from the start, and we can’t wait for her to dive in...

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Airing on the OWN cable channel, the Delilah TV show stars Maahra Hill, Jill Marie Jones, Susan Heyward, Ozioma Akagha, Candace B. Harris, Kelly Jacobs, Khalil Johnson, and Braelyn Rankins. Delilah Connolly (Hill) is a headstrong and highly principled lawyer who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. She left a demanding white-shoe law firm a decade ago and hung up her own shingle so...

To be clear, the OWN legal drama Delilah (Tuesdays, 9/8c) is not a Greenleaf spinoff. But, as executive producer Craig Wright says, the new series was born out of something he observed while making the soapy megachurch show he created.

“One of the things that I had really noticed during the five years of working on Greenleaf was that all the Black women I met, both involved in the process but also the fans, were all managing so many different parts of their lives and really holding it together for everybody,” Wright tells TVLine. “Black women are literally holding so many worlds together,...

In May of 2020, OWN announced its long-running drama “Greenleaf” would be coming to an end with its then-upcoming fifth season. Immediately, executive producer Craig Wright tells Variety, he and Oprah Winfrey began talking about what they wanted to do next.

“I said, just in passing, ‘If I could do anything, I would do a show about –‘ and I pitched her a show about a couple that were in the throes of dealing with grief after their child died. And the husband is locked in — he can’t connect with the wife in the wake of the daughter’s death — and she says, ‘You have to figure out something to do or we’re not going to make it.’ And he’s a writer and then what you would do is, you would enter into a TV show where you would see the life of a girl they lost, and it...

In a year of quarantine isolation and global tumult, storytelling has never felt more necessary as a portal to the world.

To mark International Women’s Day, Variety offers a guide to female-centered stories that will reach big and small screens this year and at the creators behind them.

Take Malala Yousafzai, the trailblazing 23-year-old women’s advocate who was shot in her native Pakistan for championing the rights of women and girls to receive an education. Through a newly-formed production company, she will develop a diverse slate of scripted and unscripted content with Apple TV Plus designed to lift up women around the world.

“I believe in the power of stories to bring families together, forge friendships, build movements, and inspire children to dream,” Yousafzai said. “And I couldn’t ask for a better partner than Apple to help bring these stories to life. I’m grateful for the opportunity to support women,...

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