During a press conference on Monday regarding the season 2 finale of its Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon, showrunner/co-creator Ryan Condal says the show will end after a fourth season.
Condal says the forthcoming third season is being written, with a debut expected in “earlyish 2025.”
The show was renewed for season 3 in June, ahead of the debut of its sophomore frame.
Based on author George R.R. Martin‘s Fire & Blood, the series is set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones and centers on House Targaryen. The HBO Original drama series includes Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Rhys Ifans, Emma D’Arcy, Steve Toussaint and Eve Best.
Clinton Kelly and Stacy London, the dynamic duo of stylists who starred in the hit TLC reality series What Not To Wear, are reuniting for an eight-episode “style transformation” series for Prime Video.
Wear Whatever The F You Want will be executive produced by and star the pair, who return to TV for “this new style transformation show, giving people the confidence and style savvy to wear whatever they want.”
Prime Video adds, “Over the course of a couple of days, they will empower each client to live out their fashion fantasy and find their style truth in the journey of a lifetime.”
The show will get a rollout in 240 countries.
The pair shared in a joint statement, “The world has changed a lot since the run of What Not to Wear, and, thankfully, so have we. These days, we have zero interest in telling people what to do, based on society’s norms — because there are no more norms!”
The fashionistas add, “However, style is still an important form of communication, and we’re excited to show new clients how to align their personal messaging with their life goals. It’s time to celebrate individual style, not prescribe it.”
ABC is presenting the 76th annual Emmy Awards on Sunday, hosted by Eugene Levy and his son, Dan Levy — Schitt’s Creek Emmy winners both and the first father-son duo to host the show.
FX’s Shōgun leads the pack for drama with 25 nominations, while another FX show, The Bear, leads the comedy category with 23 — despite the fact that pretty much nobody, except apparently the Television Academy, thinks the series is a comedy.
Shōgun is already a big winner: It led the recent Creative Arts Emmys with 14 wins, including Outstanding Guest Actor in a drama for Nestor Carbonell. In fact, its performance broke Game of Thrones‘ record for the most Emmys won by a show in a single year.
In the drama category, the seriesis up for more trophies with awards-night mainstay The Crown; the acclaimed video game adaptation Fallout; Mr. and Mrs. Smith; The Gilded Age; The Morning Show; Slow Horses; and the sci-fi book adaptation 3 Body Problem.
As for comedy, The Bear is in a cook-off against previous winners Abbott Elementary, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Hacks, in addition to Palm Royale, What We Do in the Shadows, Reservation Dogs and Only Murders in the Building.
The Bear also sizzled at the Creative Arts Emmys, taking seven, including one for Outstanding Guest Actress for Jamie Lee Curtis.
The 76th Emmys could see some records set, too. According to factoids compiled by VegasInsider.com, if he takes home a trophy Sunday night, Robert Downey Jr., nominated for playing three roles on HBO’s The Sympathizer, could be the first actor ever to win an Oscar, a Daytime Emmy and a Primetime Emmy in the same year.
Abbott Elementary star and creator Quinta Brunson could become the first Black actress to win Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series category two times. But if Selena Gomez bags her first-ever acting trophy for Only Murders In The Building, she could be just the second Latina performer to win in that category, after America Ferrera.
Every Saturday at 11:30 p.m., Saturday Night Live will be on — but 49 years ago, that was impossible to imagine.
That’s the central thrust of the new trailer to Saturday Night, director Jason Reitman‘s look back at the evening of Oct. 11, 1975: The very first night of the show that would become an icon of comedy.
Before the curtain rose on that first show, however, there was chaos. A green, 30-year-old producer named Lorne Michaels had to convince a skeptical, even hostile, NBC that he had what it took to control a rowdy cast of comedic talent, including John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner and Garrett Morris, and somehow pull off a live, 90-minute comedy show.
Cooper Hoffman plays Dick Ebersol, then the young producer of late-night programming for the network. “You ever wonder why they said yes? They want you to fail!” he tells Gabriel LaBelle‘s Michaels.
In addition to the volatile combination of Matt Wood as Belushi, Ella Hunt as Radnerand particularly Cory Michael Smith as an egomaniacal Chase, backstage that night was a fiery George Carlin (Matthew Rhys) and a confused Jim Henson (Nicholas Braun), who laments some of the comics left Big Bird hanged in effigy outside the Muppets creator’s dressing room.
Dylan O’Brien stars as Dan Aykroyd, whose last name was unpronounceable to emcee Don Pardo (Brian Welch), and Finn Wolfhard appears as a lowly NBC page.
Willem Dafoe also appears as a network executive, who seethes at Michaels, and J.K. Simmons appears as a smug Milton Berle.
“We just have to make it to air,” Michaels insists as the clock ticks to 11:30.