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Lasagna for dinner to celebrate?

A brand-new Garfield series, based on the original comic strip by Jim Davis, is coming to Paramount+.

The streaming service announced that the new show about the lasagna-loving orange cat will be created using 2D animation. It currently has the working title of Garfield.

Lamorne Morris will provide the voice of Garfield in this new series, which Paramount+ says will feature “the chonky feline at his finest, with each episode featuring the pop culture icon’s signature sarcasm and hilarious lackadaisy.”

Nickelodeon Animation Studios will produce the show, while Dave H. Johnson and John Trabbic III will serve as its executive producers.

According to Paramount+, Garfield has over 200 million daily comic readers and millions of social media followers. The brand has spanned over multiple generations since the comic’s debut in June 1978.

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To all the sisters she’s visited before.

Lara Jean Song Covey, as portrayed by Lana Condor, will appear in season 3 of Netflix’s XO, Kitty.

Jenny Han announced the news on Instagram Friday. The video she posted finds Min Ho (Sang Heon Lee) walking down a path before looking ahead of himself and saying, “Covey?”

The camera then flips to find both Condor and the show’s star, Anna Cathcart, sitting in director’s chairs. “Yes?” Condor says in response.

“’I don’t have to be so afraid of good-bye, because good-bye doesn’t have to be forever.’ Our Lara Jean is back!!” Han’s video is captioned.

XO, Kitty is a spinoff series inspired by the popular To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before film trilogy, which itself is based on Han’s bestselling books. Season 3 will consist of eight 30-minute episodes. Valentina Garza serves as the showrunner, executive producer and writer, while Han executive produces.

Season 3 of XO, Kitty finds Kitty Song Covey (Cathcart) returning “for her final year at KISS with her perfect senior year mapped out. She’s going to make meaningful memories with her friends, grow closer to her relatives in Korea, and make big decisions about her future.”

“And she’s going to define her relationship with Min Ho. For real this time,” the synopsis continues. “But when surprise revelations throw her plans, and relationships, off course, Kitty will have to learn to embrace the unexpected.”

XO, Kitty season 3 arrives to Netflix on April 2. 

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Heated Rivalry and Stranger Things won big at the GLAAD Media Awards on Thursday night.

The popular Crave and HBO Max show Heated Rivalry won outstanding new TV series, while Netflix’s Stranger Things won outstanding drama series for its fifth and final season.

While Hudson Williams couldn’t make it to the awards ceremony, Heated Rivalry‘s other stars Connor Storrie, François Arnaud and Robbie Graham-Kuntz took to the stage to accept one of the evening’s top awards.

Other TV winners include The Traitors for outstanding reality competition program and Southern Hospitality for outstanding reality program.

On the film side of things, it was Kiss of the Spider Woman that took home the prize for outstanding wide theatrical release, while outstanding limited theatrical release was a tie between Nice Indian Boy and Plainclothes.

Additionally, Liza Minnelli made a surprise appearance at the end of the ceremony to accept the inaugural Liza Minnelli Storyteller Award. The crowd sang “Happy Birthday” to her ahead of her 80th birthday, which is on March 12.

“I’m so glad to be here with you, all of you. You make me so proud, ‘cause you’re strong, and you stand up for what you believe in,” Minnelli said.

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Blimey!

Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Felton reunited on Broadway in New York City this week, where the two actors are starring in separate productions.

The two previously shared the screen in all eight Harry Potter films, which were released between 2001 and 2011.

Radcliffe played the titular wizard Harry Potter in the beloved franchise, while Felton portrayed Potter’s nemesis Draco Malfoy.

Felton shared several snapshots of the pair’s reunion on Instagram, writing in the caption, “Broomsticks to Broadway @brilliantbway @cursedchildus,” adding tags for both his and Radcliffe’s respective shows, Every Brilliant Thing and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

The Cursed Child show team also commented on Felton’s post: “The Slytherin and Gryffindor reunion we’ve all been waiting for,” referring to Malfoy’s and Potter’s houses in the fictional Hogwarts school, respectively.

The reunion is particularly meaningful, as Felton previously told Good Morning America he was inspired to reprise his role as Malfoy in the Broadway production of Cursed Child after seeing Radcliffe’s Broadway success in the years since they both wrapped the Harry Potter films.

“l’ve taken a few tips from Potter,” Felton said ahead of his Broadway debut last November. “He’s one of the early inspirations for me to come to Broadway.”

Radcliffe also appeared on GMA later that month and said he was blown away to have been able to give Felton, once considered the “cool kid” on the Harry Potter set, advice about being on Broadway.

Every Brilliant Thing, a one-man show, stars Daniel Radcliffe and is playing at the Hudson Theatre.

The ensemble play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is playing at the Lyric Theatre. Felton’s Cursed Child appearance will run until May 10.

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Ready, set, binge! Here’s a look at some of the new movies and TV shows coming to theaters and streaming services this weekend:

Prime Video
Young Sherlock: Watch the new series that shows the origin story of the iconic detective. 

Peacock
Ted: Tune in to season 2 of the series that shows the beginnings of the foul-mouthed teddy bear and his best friend, John. 

Netflix
Vladimir: This limited series stars Rachel Weisz as a passionate professor obsessed with her colleague, played by Leo Woodall.

Starz
Outlander: The final season of the historical fantasy romance series makes its premiere. 

Movie theaters
The Bride!: Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley are Frankenstein’s monster and his betrothed in the new film.

Hoppers: Pixar’s latest animated film follows scientists who are able to put human consciousness into robotic animals.

That’s all for this week’s Weekend Watchlist – happy streaming!

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The new Pixar film Hoppers has jumped its way into theaters.

It follows an animal lover named Mabel, voiced by Piper Curda, who uses brand-new technology to insert her consciousness into a robotic beaver capable of communicating with animals.

The film is funny, emotional and full of meaning — and Curda told ABC News those are distinct qualities of Pixar movies.

“That’s what’s so cool about Pixar,” Curda said. “One of my most visceral in-theater memories is the first 10 minutes of Up. Just being a child and sobbing. And to be also in a Pixar movie that has those first 10 minutes really just grab you like that is so, so special.”

Jon Hamm takes on the role of the smooth-talking local mayor Jerry Generazzo in Hoppers. Even before reading the script, he knew the film would have emotional depth.

“I knew from friends that had worked on previous [Pixar] films how long they spend developing their stories. It’s five, six years in some instances, and they don’t put it out until it’s ready,” Hamm said. “I’m also pleased that’s it’s an original story. It’s not based on a board game or a video game or this or that. It’s just a story about community and the environment and how we all can protect each other and lean on each other.”

Bobby Moynihan lends his voice to the charismatic beaver King George in the film. He said you can watch it multiple times and experience it differently.

“There’s a beautiful message in this movie, but I don’t think it hits you over the head with it,” Moynihan said. “The more I see the movie, the [more] different things happen for me. It’s absolutely beautiful to watch, but if you just watch it for the storyline itself and just for the heart, it’s equally as useful.”

Disney is the parent company of ABC News and Pixar. 

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The official trailer for the fifth and final season of The Boys has arrived. It will premiere its first two episodes to Prime Video on April 8, followed by one new episode every week until the series finale on May 20. The show, which posits what happens when superheroes use their powers for bad instead of good, stars Antony Starr, Karl Urban and Jack Quaid …

Saturday Night Live fans, make sure to watch the official trailer for Lorne. Focus Features has dropped the trailer for its upcoming documentary on Lorne Michaels. Director Morgan Neville directs the movie, which arrives in theaters on April 17 …

Even more actors have joined the cast of Frisco King. Paramount+ has announced that Asa Germann, Kai Caster, Lilah Pate and Savanna Gann have joined the ensemble of the new series from Taylor Sheridan. They all join the previously announced series lead, Samuel L. Jackson …

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The time has come to say goodbye to the time travel romance Outlander. The series’ eighth and final season premieres on Starz Friday.

It promises to be an emotional conclusion to the Fraser family’s story, which began with Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire’s (Caitriona Balfe) years-spanning love story and expanded to include their daughter, Brianna (Sophie Skelton), and her husband, Roger (Richard Rankin).

The first couple of episodes are a family reunion of sorts with the characters coming back together after some time apart. Skelton says “every scene had a bittersweet feeling” as members of the show’s large cast began to wrap.

“It was almost like death by a thousand cuts really,” Rankin adds. “You had one person wrap one day, then the next day, and then the next day. And people did get quite emotional.”

Multiple endings for the series were shot, and while Rankin says he knows which one was chosen, Skelton says she’s still in the dark.

“I actually, I’m kind of intrigued to see it with the fans,” she says. “I actually haven’t even asked, so I don’t know. Yeah, I’m in it with you guys.”

While the end is near, Skelton and Rankin both say if they could time travel to relive any moment on set, they’d go back to the beginning.

“Maybe my first day, I feel,” Skelton, who joined the show in season 2, says. “It might be cool to go back and just, I don’t know, relive what I was thinking. … It’d be fun to go back now with the knowledge I’ve got and just be like, ‘Mate, just go for it. Do something rogue with Brianna.’”

Rankin agrees, adding that he was “perhaps a little shy” when he first started and would go back to “just maybe have a little word with myself and, you know, maybe be a bit bolder.” 

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The official teaser trailer for the second season of Beef is here.

Netflix has shared the first trailer for season 2 of the popular Emmy-winning anthology series from A24 and creator Lee Sung Jin.

This season features a brand-new story with a completely different cast of characters. Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny star in season 2. The incident that sparks the new “beef” is a Gen Z couple witnessing an alarming fight between their millennial boss and his wife.

“Newly-engaged Ashley Miller (Spaeny) and Austin Davis (Melton), both lower-level staff at a country club, become entangled in the unraveling marriage of their General Manager, Joshua Martín (Isaac), and his wife, Lindsay Crane-Martín (Mulligan),” according to its official synopsis. “Through favors and coercion, both couples vie for the approval of the elitist club’s billionaire owner, Chairwoman Park (Youn Yuh Jung), who struggles to manage her own scandal involving her second husband, Doctor Kim (Song Kang Ho).”

The teaser trailer begins with Issac’s Joshua Martín giving a voice-over monologue.

“Our members, do you know why they pay so much to come here?” he says. “The courts, the exclusivity, the discretion. People need a place where they can feel safe. Where they can pretend everything is OK. It’s the land of make believe.”

The cast also includes Seoyeon Jang as Eunice, William Fichtner as Troy, Mikaela Hoover as Ava and the musician BM in his acting debut as Woosh.

There will be eight 30-minute episodes in season 2. Lee returns as its creator, showrunner and executive producer. The first season’s stars, Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, also return to executive produce season 2, joined by Mulligan, Isaac, Melton and Spaeny as executive producers.

Beef season 2 arrives to Netflix on April 16.

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Even more stars have been announced as presenters at the 98th Oscars.

Will Arnett, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Robert Downey Jr., Anne Hathaway, Paul Mescal and Gwyneth Paltrow will take to the Oscars stage to present awards at this year’s ceremony, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday.

They join the previously announced presenters Javier Bardem, Chris Evans, Chase Infiniti, Demi Moore, Kumail Nanjiani and Maya Rudolph.

Also presenting are Adrien Brody, Kieran Culkin, Mikey Madison and Zoe Saldaña, who will all return to the awards ceremony after winning Oscars last year.

The producers for the Oscars will continue announcing the talent who will present at the show throughout the coming week, they announced.

Conan O’Brien will host the awards ceremony for the second time, while Raj Kapoor serves as executive producer and showrunner and Katy Mullan executive produces.

The Oscars will take place on March 15 at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. The show will air live on ABC and will also stream live on Hulu.

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