In brief: ‘Rivals’ renewed, ‘Hexed’ trailer, and more
Heated Rivalry’s François Arnaud is joining the cast of the Lindsay Lohan Hulu series Count My Lies, Deadline reports. He’ll play Danny, a friend of Lohan’s character, Violet. The project, based on the 2025 book of the same name by Sophie Stava, also stars Shailene Woodley and Kit Harington …
Get ready for more rumors and romance. Rivals, starring David Tennant and Alex Hassell, has been renewed for a third season. You can catch the first two seasons on Hulu in the U.S. …
The first trailer has been released for Disney’s new animated feature Hexed. The magical coming-of-age story features the voices of Hailee Steinfeld, Rashida Jones, Tracey Ullman and Stephen Fry. The film hits theaters Nov. 25 …
Disney is the parent company of Hulu and ABC News.
Off Campus may be a couple weeks out from debuting its first season, but Prime Video has already announced two new additions for season 2. India Fowler is set to play Grace Ivers, who is the love interest of John Logan, in the show’s second season. The Off Campussocial media accounts shared the news, writing, “We’ve found our Grace Ivers. Obsessed with our newest Briar U addition, India Fowler!” in the caption. Variety reports that Hamilton star Phillipa Soo will also join the show’s cast in season 2 …
The trailer for It’s Not Like That has arrived. Prime Video released the first trailer for the family drama series starring Scott Foley. The series “explores multigenerational family dynamics and the complexities of rebuilding life after loss,” according to an official synopsis. Foley plays Malcolm, a pastor and recently widowed dad of three who navigates a new relationship with parenthood. It premieres on May 15 …
ABC has renewed its revival of Scrubs for a second season. Original cast members Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke star in the revival. Additionally, the Tim Allen sitcom Shifting Gears has been renewed for season 3 on the network. Kat Dennings co-leads the series, for which she also serves as a producer …
Robert Pattinson attends the world premiere of ‘The Odyssey’ at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on July 6, 2026, in London, England. (Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images)
Robert Pattinson may be Edward Cullen, but he says his character from The Odyssey is more like Jacob Black.
Pattison referenced Twilight in a recent interview with MTV on the red carpet at The Odyssey‘s U.K. premiere.
The actor famously played the perpetual teenage vampire Edward in all five of the Twilight films. He evoked the franchise that made him into a star when he was asked if it is fun to play a character that everyone isn’t rooting for.
“I think they will be rooting for him,” Pattinson said. “I keep comparing. It’s kind of like Jacob in Twilight.”
Pattinson plays Antinous in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of Homer’s epic poem. His character pursues Penelope after her husband, Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, fails to return home almost a decade after the Trojan War. Eventually, Penelope assumes Odysseus must have died during the treacherous journey.
“What The Odyssey is about, Penelope just can’t make her mind up between the two guys,” Pattinson said. “And I’m just trying to help her make a decision.”
Pattinson then looked right into the camera before he said, “It’s like, it’s fine, he’s dead. Get over it.”
The Odyssey has a star-studded cast that also includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o and Charlize Theron. It opens in movie theaters on July 17.
Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal speak during the 25th Tribeca Festival Bloomberg reception on June 1, 2026 in New York City. (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)
The 25th anniversary edition of New York’s Tribeca Festival kicks off Wednesday night with a screening of a new Earth, Wind & Fire documentary, followed by a performance by the legendary band. The festival, which runs through June 14, features TV, movie and documentary screenings, plus premieres, panels, reunions and stars galore. Not bad for an event that started as a one-off.
The festival was founded in 2002 by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal as a way to revitalize downtown New York City after the 9/11 terror attacks. “It was only, how could we bring people back downtown, how we could give our neighbors something to look forward to. As far as I was concerned, it was one and done,” Rosenthal told ABC Audio. “Bob always believed we were gonna do it again, though.”
“I felt very positive about it once it happened,” De Niro said. “My feeling was it’d be great if it could be part of the fabric of New York, a New York tradition that just goes on forever, you know?”
De Niro will also appear at one of this year’s special events: a 50th anniversary Taxi Driver screening and conversation with him, director Martin Scorsese and co-star Jodie Foster. De Niro said celebrating any of his films — even a classic like Taxi Driver — after the fact isn’t something he ever thought would happen.
“When you’re doing a movie, a project, you don’t ever think that it would be received in the way you’re saying Taxi Driver’s been received, ever,” he told ABC Audio. “You just don’t think that. So it’s nice, but you just don’t ever expect it … it’s just, you do the project and that’s it.”
The festival will close with the documentary Alicia Keys: Girl from Hell’s Kitchen; Keys will appear after the screening.
