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Billy Eichner has joined the cast of FX’s “American Crime Story: Impeachment,” where he’ll play Matt Drudge, the founder of the Drudge Report, the network confirmed.

The third season of FX’s “American Crime Story” centers on the impeachment of Bill Clinton, following his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinksy. It was Drudge Report that first broke the news of the affair in 1998.

Clive Owen will play Clinton, joining Sarah Paulson, Beanie Feldstein and Annaleigh Ashford. The third season of the anthology “unravels the national scandal that swept up Paula Jones (played by Ashford), Monica Lewinsky (Feldstein) and Linda Tripp (Paulson) as principal characters in the country’s first impeachment proceedings in over a century.”

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Sarah Burgess writes and will executive produce alongside Murphy, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Brad Falchuk, Larry Karaszewski,

“This Is Us” lost a little ground in the TV ratings on Tuesday night, however, it still managed to lead NBC to a narrow victory on the night.

The acclaimed drama scored a 1.4 rating among adults 18-49 and drew 6.5 million viewers, down fractionally on last week’s 1.5 rating and 6.7 million viewers. The episode was marked by a disturbing moment for Sterling K. Brown’s Randall Pearson, an incident whose impact he discussed at length with Variety. Earlier in the night, “Ellen’s Game of Games” was even week-to-week at a 1.0 rating, and gained around half a million viewers from last time around to hit 4.7 million.

Apple TV Plus is nearing a series order for “Extrapolations,” a new climate change anthology from Scott Z. Burns, the writer, director and producer known for “An Inconvenient Truth” and “The Report,” Variety has learned exclusively. The streaming platform is developing the anthology with an eye toward a series order, amid a competitive bidding situation.

The scripted series is being produced by Michael Ellenberg’s Media Res, which also produces Apple TV Plus’ high-profile “The Morning Show” and has partnered with the streamer on the forthcoming “Pachinko” and a Brie Larson CIA drama.

Burns is attached to exec produce “Extrapolations,

Nearly a year after “Grey’s Anatomy” made television history by becoming the longest-running primetime medical drama, the ABC series is taking on a new challenge on Thursday, Jan. 23: becoming more immersed with its spinoff, “Station 19,” for a more unified two-hour weekly block.

But while there are natural ties between the two dramas, trying to line up storylines, share casts — who film on different lots — and find the right balance for the shows is a constant juggle.

“It was for sure the greatest challenge of my career and everyone around me has been saying the same thing,” Krista Vernoff,

Here’s a little good news about our latest renewal update: Not a single CW series is in danger of getting cancelled. Earlier this month, the network picked up its entire lineup for the 2020-21 season.

But the remaining four broadcast nets have yet to follow The CW’s early-renewal lead, which means a dozen-plus series on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC remain vulnerable ahead of May’s upfront announcements. The fate of a handful of struggling series have already been decided (R.I.P., NBC’s Bluff City Law and Sunnyside), while several others are all but certain to relocate to

In an emotional moment on Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” Patrick Stewart invited Whoopi Goldberg to appear on the second season of CBS All Access’ “Star Trek: Picard,” reprising her character of Guinan from “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

Goldberg — who quickly and gladly accepted — appeared to be totally surprised by Stewart’s offer, which he said was a “formal invitation” from himself and “Picard” executive producer Alex Kurtzman.

“‘Star Trek’ was one of the great experiences from the beginning to the end,” Goldberg said with an enormous grin. “I had the best, best, best time. Best time ever!

Veteran CBS Television Studios business affairs executive Allison Brightman has been elevated to executive vice president of business affairs and operations at the studio. She succeeds Dan Kupetz, who is joining 20th Century Fox Television to lead its business affairs unit following the retirement of Fox’s Howard Kurtzman.

“Allison’s skill sets are extraordinary,” said Deborah Barak, president of business operations for CBS Entertainment, CBS Television Studios and CBS News. “She’s a natural leader and master negotiator with great relationships within and outside the company. She’s the obvious choice and we are delighted she accepted.”

Brightman has

Unscripted TV production company Magical Elves has made two key changes to its executive team, bringing on board veteran television producer and development exec Joel Zimmer as executive vice president of development, and promoting longtime Elves casting exec Samantha Hanks to executive vice president of casting and talent relations.

“With the addition of Joel, and the elevation of Samantha, Magical Elves has the right leadership in place to continue our growth, and further evolve our slate of quality, aspirational programming,” said Magical Elves co-CEOs Casey Kriley and Jo Sharon in a statement. “Samantha’s contributions to casting and attracting high-caliber

Rosario Dawson has been cast as the lead in the upcoming HBO Max pilot “Dmz,” which has Ava DuVernay on board as a director and Roberto Patino in place as writer-showrunner.

The prospective series, which is based on the DC comic books of the same name, is described a futuristic drama set in an American civil war. Filming on the Warner Bros. Television pilot is set to begin in soon.

In the near future, the aforementioned civil war leaves Manhattan a demilitarized zone (Dmz), destroyed and isolated from the rest of the world. “Dmz” chronicles the journey of female medic

Billy Eichner has joined the growing cast of “Impeachment: American Crime Story” at FX.

Variety has confirmed that Eichner has been cast in the role of Matt Drudge, who first broke the news of what would become the Monica Lewinsky scandal on his site, The Drudge Report. Drudge learned that Newsweek was sitting on a story by investigative reporter Michael Isikoff about the affair at the heart of the scandal.

Season 3 of “American Crime Story” will tell the story of the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Beanie Feldstein will star as Lewinsky, with Clive Owen as Bill Clinton, Sarah Paulson

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) has hired Ryan Tracey as an agent in the television department, Variety has learned exclusively.

Tracey comes to CAA from UTA, where he had most recently served as head of TV Production. He has represented an numerous television producers during his career, including Aida Rodgers, Kathy Ciric, Anna Dokoza, Ellen Kuras, Mark Winemaker, Joe Incaprera, Paul Garnes, Patrick Markey, Jill Footlick, Julie Herrin, and Sarah Caplan. Tracey began his career in the mailroom at UTA in 2003. He served a brief stint at Paramount Vantage, before returning to UTA in 2008.

In his new role, he will be

Superstore‘s Sandra and Jerry are soon set to tie the knot — and TVLine has your exclusive first look at the momentous occasion.

Cloud 9’s resident sad-sack will say “I do” to her on-again/off-again boyfriend in a wedding officiated by onetime boss-turned-fellow sales associate Glenn, and airing Thursday, Jan. 30 on NBC. The bride and groom are all smiles in the photos above and below, but there is cause for concern leading up to their holy matrimony.

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Arrow‘s planted spinoff pilot on Tuesday night drew 921,000 total viewers — a season high, excepting the crossover episode — and a 0.3 rating, holding steady in the demo versus its fall finale. TVLine readers gave the series’ penultimate episode an average grade of “B,” with 65 percent saying they would “absolutely” watch Green Arrow and the Canaries.

Continuing The CW’s night, Legends of Tomorrow opened Season 5 with 721K and a 0.2 (TVLine reader grade “A-“), down from both its Season 4 average (950K/0.3) and finale (1.05 mil/0.3) to hit and match series lows.

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The first season of Netflix’s Sex Education was notable for its honest, raunchy and humorous approach to talking frankly about teenagers and their relationships to sex. The series continued this trend into its second season, which is currently streaming, by widening its scope and exploring even more topics with cleverness and candor — not to mention a specificity that might make you cringe from secondhand embarrassment. Within eight episodes, the British comedy-drama found room for discussing pansexuality, vaginismus, asexuality, anal douching, dirty talk, mutual masturbation, and so much more. It also manages to do this while also functioning as an

Facebook is doubling down on dishy, daytime TV-style programming: The social media giant announced a three-year renewal of “Red Table Talk” with Jada Pinkett Smith and Westbrook Studios and ordered a new offshoot of the multi-generational family talk-show format with singer Gloria Estefan.

The pact will keep “Red Table Talk,” one of the most popular shows on Facebook Watch, exclusively on the platform with new episodes of the talker streaming through 2022. The series features host and executive producer Jada Pinkett Smith, her daughter Willow Smith and mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris (aka “Gammy”).

In addition, Facebook Watch greenlit a second “Red Table

The Sundance Film Festival, South by Southwest, Tribeca, Bentonville, Athena, Atx Television Festival, and the Toronto International Film Festival have committed to allot a portion of their credentials to members of the Time’s Up Critical database, Variety has learned exclusively. The online hub aims to increase representation of women, people of color, people with disabilities and the Lgbtq community in the television and film critics space.

“By encouraging industry leaders to be more intentional about who gets invited to their press junkets, screenings, red carpets, and other events, this database is one way they can work to dismantle the

Global distributors group Cisneros Media Distribution has announced two telenovelas to be made available on Amazon Prime Video for Latin America, “Amore Secreto” and “Gata Salvaje,” as well as three Mobius.Lab-produced titles, “Cursed Bloodlines,” “Mysterious Earth” and “Super Genios.”

Written by César Sierra and starring Miguel de León and Alejandra Sandoval, “Amore Secreto” follows Irene, an adept secretary, good at all aspects of her job except that she is an introvert with low self-esteem who has strong feelings for her boss Leonardo.

Driven by a desire for professional success and admiration for Leonardo, she takes on more than most secretaries,

In a podcast interview that was interrupted by a panic attack suffered by its guest, Arrow lead Stephen Amell spoke candidly about the “rut” he hit during 2019, how the conditions for shooting Oliver’s (first) death scene were “unacceptable,” and the reasons why he was compelled to return for the CW series’ 10-episode farewell run.

Asked by Inside of You podcast host/Smallville alum Michael Rosenbaum about the highs and lows of filming crossovers, Amell conceded, “They come out great, the fans love them… [but] I always think of what we leave on the table because we try and do something

One year since the final season of “Broad City” debuted, Comedy Central is releasing its heir apparent. “Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens” makes a few tweaks to the formula, including a singular borough (rather than Queens and Brooklyn), a singular lead (Awkwafina steps in for the double act of Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson), and a familial backdrop over a singular friendship. But the new comedy is still about a wonderfully weird young woman sifting through her stagnant twenties, trying to find a direction for her life as she snags odd jobs, gets high, and lives as large as possible on a tight budget.

Setting aside the comparison, which does “Nora From Queens” zero favors, there are still nagging problems that hinder even Awkwafina’s awkward charms. Nora’s arcs are thin and change sporadically, while the bloated editing can’t capture the zany comedic energy it’s chasing. Fans

It’s the beginning and the end for the Clone Wars revival: Disney+ on Wednesday confirmed that the Star Wars offshoot’s seventh and final season will premiere on Friday, Feb. 21.

In addition, the streamer has released the above trailer. The animated series’ 12-episode swan song comes nearly six years after Season 6 landed on Netflix.

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“It is [the final season],” supervising director Dave Filoni previously told EW.