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Isabella Gomez is set to lead the “Head of the Class” reboot pilot currently in the works at HBO Max, Variety has confirmed.

News of Gomez’s casting comes just one day after it was announced that “One Day at a Time” had been canceled for a second time. Gomez has starred on the show throughout its four season run.

The new version of “Head of the Class” is about a group of overachieving high school students who meet their greatest challenge — a teacher (Gomez) who wants them to focus less on grades and more on experiencing life.

Gomez takes

Longtime stunt coordinator Jery Hewitt, known for his work on the Coen Brothers’ films, including “The Big Lebowski” and the Academy Award-winning “No Country for Old Men,” along with Wolf Entertainment shows such as “Law & Order,” died Saturday, his family confirmed. He was 71.

Over the past 30 years, Hewitt worked on more than 300 episodes of Dick Wolf programming, including “Law & Order,” “New York Undercover” and “Law & Order: Svu.” Known as one of New York’s most prominent stunt coordinators and performers, he was working on the 22nd season of “Law & Order: Svu” prior to his death earlier this month.

Hewitt worked on 14 of the Coen Brothers’ films, with his efforts bringing iconic moments to life, such as teaching actor Tex Cobb how to ride a motorcycle in 1987’s “Raising Arizona” to sending his wife and collaborator for the past 25 years, Jennifer Lamb, hurtling into a snake pit

“One Day at a Time” has been canceled at Pop.

This now marks the second cancelation for the reboot of the classic 1975 Norman Lear sitcom of the same name. “One Day at a Time” was originally canceled at Netflix in early 2019 after three seasons. Pop rescued the show a few months later and began airing Season 4 earlier this year.

According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, series producer Sony Pictures Television will shop the series to other outlets yet again.

The move to end the series is not altogether surprising given the post-merger landscape that has taken shape at ViacomCBS,

Dave Chappelle has leveraged his relationship with Netflix to get Chappelle’s Show removed from the streamer.

In a video from a recent stand-up set released Tuesday, the comedian — who has made several specials for Netflix — said he spoke with executives there, and they agreed to pull the show from the service, Netflix reps confirm to The Hollywood Reporter. Chappelle’s Show had been streaming on Netflix in the United States since Nov. 1; it also streams via ViacomCBS properties Comedy Central (where the show originally aired) and CBS All Access, and HBO Max, which recently licensed the show, which Chappelle ...

“One Day at a Time” is one and done on Pop TV. The ViacomCBS cable network does plan on ordering any additional episodes of the comedy after just one season, an individual familiar with the network’s plans told TheWrap.

Pop TV picked up the reboot of Normal Lear’s classic sitcom after it was initially canceled by Netflix after three seasons. Pop TV premiered its one and only season in March, which had to be cut short due to the pandemic shutting down production this spring (though they did scrape together a special animated episode). CBS aired the fourth season of the show this fall in primetime as a schedule filler while it waited for its normal primetime lineup to get the cameras rolling again.

A separate individual familiar with the situation told TheWrap that the show’s producers Sony TV are trying to find another new home for “One Day at a Time.

“The Expanse” has been renewed for a sixth and final season by Amazon Studios ahead of the sci-fi show’s fifth season premiere Dec. 16 on Prime Video, the streaming service revealed Tuesday.

Season 6 of the show, which aired its first three seasons on Syfy before being rescued by Amazon after cancellation, will star returning cast members Steven Strait, Dominique Tipper, Frankie Adams, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Cara Gee and Wes Chatham, and be led by showrunner Naren Shankar. “The Expanse” actor Cas Anvar, who was the subject of sexual misconduct investigations over the summer, will not be included in the final season, but he is in the upcoming fifth.

Based on the books by James S.A. Corey (the pen name used by writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), “The Expanse” is set in a future “where humanity has colonized the solar system and the people of Earth, Mars and the Asteroid

Gabrielle Union is executive producing a comedy series in development at Showtime called “New Money,” a spokesperson for the premium cable channel tells TheWrap.

Along with Union and her I’ll Have Another production company, Lodge Freeway Media’s Jemele Hill and Kelley Carter will also executive produce the potential series, which is “centered around Black women who have solidified their careers, achieved financial independence and moved past the awkwardness and money struggles of their twenties,” per its description.

Now in their 30s, the women “must deal with the repercussions their ‘new money’ brings – including hangers-on, false friends, unwanted media attention, and greedy relatives – while also navigating the treacherous world of dating.”

The script for the comedy will be written by Patrik-Ian Polk, who will executive produce alongside Union, Hill and Carter. Holly Shakoor Fleischer is set as a co-executive producer on the project.

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“Doctor Who’s” Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) is set to return to the Whoniverse in a holiday special on BBC America.

In the upcoming special, titled “Revolution of the Daleks,” Captain Jack will be on hand to help the Thirteenth Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and her companions as they uncover an unsettling plan by one of the Doctor’s formidable enemies, the Daleks. With the Doctor locked away in a space prison, it’s up to Captain Jack to help save planet Earth.

“Putting on Jack’s coat and setting foot back on the set of ‘Doctor Who’ was just like going back home,

NBC is developing a series adaptation of the 2000 film “Finding Forrester,” Variety has confirmed.

The film version followed a high school basketball star (Rob Brown) with a secret passion for writing who develops a friendship with a reclusive author (Sean Connery) who published a hit novel years before but then disappeared from public life.

The NBC version explores the unique bond between two gifted black writers: a homeless 16-year-old orphan who leverages his basketball skills to hustle his way into an ultra-competitive elite boarding school, and a reclusive lesbian author whose career was ruined by a public scandal.

Tj Brady and Rasheed Newson are writing and executive producing the project. Tim Story is attached to direct and executive produce, with Sharla Sumpter Bridgett of The Story Co. also executive producing. Stephen Curry and Erick Peyton will executive produce via Unanimous Media. Sony Pictures Television will produce. Unanimous is currently under a first-look deal at Sony.

Saturday Night Live has announced its remaining hosts for 2020, which include an Emmy winner, an Oscar nominee and a beloved former cast member.

First up, on Dec. 5, is Ozark star Jason Bateman. He’ll be joined by musical guest Morgan Wallen, who was originally penciled in for October, but failed to adhere to Covid safety protocols.

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“Saturday Night Live” is giving country singer Morgan Wallen a second chance.

The sketch comedy show has slated Wallen as the musical guest for Dec. 5, with host Jason Bateman, following the cancellation of a scheduled October appearance after videos surfaced of Wallen partying and kissing fans without a mask, an apparent breach of “SNL” Covid-19 safety protocols.

NBC announced the “SNL” slate for the last three shows of the year, with Timothee Chalamet set to make his hosting debut on Dec. 12, alongside musical guest Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Kristen Wiig and Dua Lipa are slated to take the “SNL” stage on Dec.

I didn’t think I could love and admire Rachel Maddow any more than I already did. That is, until last Thursday night.

At the top of her cable-news hour, the MSNBC star anchor took the highly unusual step of getting extremely personal with her viewers as she revealed the hell that she had been living through these past weeks when her partner, Susan Mikula, became so ill from Covid-19 that the couple initially feared for her life.

While Maddow was exposed to the virus, she did not test positive on the day her partner did, and she continues to be disease-free.

With Covid-19 percolating across the United States and much of the country on lockdown, there’s never been a better time to hunker down at home and partake of TV series befitting the entire family — whether that involves kids, parents or even pets. The following shows have a little something for everyone, whether it’s food (“MasterChef Junior”) acrobatic flips (“American Ninja Warrior”) or characters from the iconic and beloved “Star Wars” franchise.

“American Ninja Warrior”

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The show’s mixture of amazing athletic feats and hosts Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbajabiamila’s infectious enthusiasm has inspired fans of all

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Saved by the Bell,” streaming now on Peacock.

School is officially back in session at Bayside High and while a few things may have changed — the man behind the principal’s desk, for one — Peacock’s “Saved by the Bell” sequel series proves a few things are timeless classics.

The first 10-episode season of “Saved by the Bell,” from showrunner Tracey Wigfield, introduces a new class of students, some of whom are Bayside legacies and some of whom literally step through the doors for the first time in the

In the months since HBO Max launched, a majority of the attention given to the platform has centered on what’s available. That has often meant sifting through the vast HBO Max library, mainly the relative strength of its haul of animation, classic film, and comics-centered offerings.

Amidst all of the questions about what films might make the jump from theatrical to streaming, the HBO Max Originals brand has included a handful of TV series as well. Those shows getting the full bus stop ad/billboard push have been a mixed bag at best, ranging from wildly ambitious heady sci-fi gambits to aggressively safe star-driven romantic dramedies.

But much like its competitors’, HBO Max’s definition of what constitutes an “Original” is flexible, combining those aforementioned streaming tentpoles with a collection of overseas imports and co-productions. They may not have broken through to the general pop culture consciousness (or made

Mere hours after One Day at a Time‘s second cancellation was made official, one of the beloved sitcom’s stars already has a Class-y new gig lined up.

Isabella Gomez — who played Elena Alvarez, daughter of Justina Machado’s Penelope, on Odaat — has landed the starring role in HBO Max’s in-the-works reboot of Head of the Class. She will play Alicia Adams, a whip-smart, funny and blunt high school teacher. She succeeds Howard Hesseman, who starred as the teacher in the original ABC version.

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Getting to play Selena, one of the most popular Mexican American entertainers in modern times, was reason enough for Christian Serratos to take the titular role in Netflix’s new bio series “Selena.”

But more than that, Serratos wanted her 3-year-old daughter, Wolfgang, to see her portray the late singer.

“I grew up loving Selena so much,” she says during this week’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “She has crossed so many generations, and new generations are going to fall in love with her. I know my daughter is going to be no different.

The Saved by the Bell franchise’s 20-year timeout came to an end with Wednesday’s debut of the highly anticipated revival, which follows a new generation at Bayside and catches up with the Class of ’93.

The new Sbtb immediately establishes a more tongue-in-cheek tone. A political ad for California governor Zack Morris reveals that the beloved slacker went on to become a successful trial attorney, then shows a photo of Mark-Paul Gosselaar on the TNT legal dramedy Franklin & Bash.

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In the latest TV show ratings, ABC’s Big Sky delivered 4.4 million total viewers and a 0.7 rating (read recap), building on its premiere audience while holding steady in the demo. Opening the network’s night, The Bachelorette (4.3 mil/1.2) dipped a bit yet dominated Tuesday in the demo.

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Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not seen the Season 11 finale of “Great British Bake Off,” which debuted on Channel 4 on Tuesday and will stream on Netflix on Friday.

The season 11 finale of U.K. broadcaster Channel 4’s popular baking competition “The Great British Bake Off” has set viewing records for the channel.

The episode attracted a record-breaking average audience of 9.2 million viewers and a 39.7% share of the viewing audience from 8pm to 9.15pm on Tuesday night, with a five-minute peak of 10.4 million, making it the show’s biggest ever overnight audience on Channel 4.

The previous highest-rating