With NBC’s return to NBA coverage now just a day away, we’re learning more about the role that Michael Jordan will play on its broadcasts. During Sunday’s broadcast of Sunday Night Football, NBC ran a promo previewing Tuesday night’s season-opening doubleheader. And that included footage of Mike Tirico interviewing His Airness, which marked the first look at Jordan in his …
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One of America’s most famous families is getting the Netflix treatment. A new drama series titled “Kennedy,” based on Fredrik Logevall’s book titled “JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956,” is coming soon, the streaming giant announced Monday. The series will star Michael Fassbender as the family patriarch, Joe Kennedy, Sr., and will “explore the triumphs and tragedies …
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Netflix will delve into the origins of the longest-running political family dynasty in the United States, the Kennedys. The streamer has greenlit a series, titled Kennedy, that will star Michael Fassbender as patriarch Joseph Kennedy Sr. The show comes from Chernin Entertainment and showrunner Sam Shaw (Castle Rock, Manhattan). Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round) is attached to direct. The series is …
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Netflix and Chernin Entertainment have greenlit a drama series centered on the lives of the highly influential Kennedy family, Variety has learned. Titled “Kennedy,” the show is based on the Fredrik Logevall’s book “JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956.” Michael Fassbender is attached to star as Kennedy family patriarch Joseph Kennedy Sr. Netflix has commissioned an eight …
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Netflix and Chernin Entertainment have set the new drama series Kennedy, which will explore the triumphs and tragedies of the Kennedy family. Michael Fassbender (The Agency, Black Bag) has been cast as patriarch Joe Kennedy Sr. Kennedy is based on Fredrik Logevall’s book JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956, and will be showrun by Sam Shaw (Manhattan, Masters of …
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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy,” now streaming on Peacock. When Michael Chernus signed on to stand at the center of Peacock’s new anthology series “Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy,” he wasn’t just landing another role. He was agreeing to be associated with one of the most vile, irredeemable killers in American …
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TALLADEGA, Ala. — Michael McDowell will lead the field to the green flag for Sunday’s Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway. Only three of the eight playoff drivers qualified in the top 10 for Sunday’s race (2 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock). McDowell earned his second pole of the season and eighth of his career with a lap of 182.466 …
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Kristen Bell is the lady in red at the season two premiere of her series Nobody Wants This held at The Egyptian Theatre on Thursday (October 16) in Hollywood. The 45-year-old actress was joined by her co-star and on-screen beau Adam Brody at the event, ahead of the show’s return on Netflix next week. Also hitting the carpet were fellow …
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Marking the 40th anniversary of Back to the Future (1985), Michael J. Fox recently went back to the ’80s to reminisce about making the time-travel classic. In his new memoir Future Boy, now available, the 4x Golden Globe winner recalled how his co-star Crispin Glover “created friction” behind the scenes with his scrambled approach to portraying Marty’s (Fox) hapless dad …
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Michael J. Fox reveals in his new memoir, “Future Boy,” that he wrote a letter to Eric Stoltz asking to finally meet 40 years after Fox replaced Stoltz as Marty McFly in the blockbuster “Back to the Future.” As the infamous story goes, Stoltz was already in production for six weeks on the Robert Zemeckis-directed blockbuster when the decision was …
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