Would you like shows with that? Chick-fil-A reportedly looking to cook up a streaming platform
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The popular franchise Chick-fil-A is reportedly cooking up plans for its own streaming platform.
ABC Audio’s request for comment has yet to be answered, but Deadline says the company is investing in family-friendly programming with the intention of using it to populate its own streaming service.
The trade notes the company has tapped Top Gear and The X Factor veteran Brian Gibson to acquire programming, including a gameshow and other unscripted programming — but scripted fare and animation are also on the table.
Glee alumna Lea Michele and her husband Zandy Reich shared the news on Sunday that they’ve welcomed their second child, a girl named Emery Sol Reich.
“Our hearts are so full,” Instagrammed Michele, bracketing the baby’s name in a heart emoji. The post included a photo of the newborn’s foot surrounded by three hands, one of which is a child’s hand.
Michele first announced her pregnancy in March via an Instagram post, featuring photos from a maternity shoot.
“Mommy, Daddy and Ever are overjoyed,” she captioned the post.
In May, Michele indicated she was carrying a girl with a Mother’s Day Instagram post. “The most beautiful Mother’s Day today, holding my son who made me a mama…and carrying my daughter,” she wrote.
Michele and Reich are already parents to a 4-year-old son, Ever Leo, whom they welcomed in August 2020. The couple have been married since March 2019.
Michele starred as Rachel Berry on Glee from 2009 to 2015 and since emerged as a Broadway star, playing the role of Fanny Brice in the show Funny Girl from 2022 to 2023.
“I got a wild career, man,” former Entourage star Jerry Ferrara tells ABC Audio. “I’m not even saying it’s like the best career ever, but I think it’s one of the more unique ones, that’s for sure.”
Indeed, the guy who got famous playing fast-talking dealmaker Turtle in Entourage has appeared opposite Robert De Niro and Morgan Freeman in Last Vegas, was directed by Clint Eastwood in Sully and recently appeared on the smash series Power.
He now has a new project: Throwbacks, a sports, entertainment and lifestyle podcast he’s co-hosting with Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart.
Ferrara was early to the podcasting game, having started one with his wife back in 2012, but he explains the new project combines some of his great loves. “My side hustles … have always been about, ‘Hey, how can I figure out how to semi earn a living talking and doing things that I like do for fun,’ which was always like video games, golf and talking sports, right?”
He and Leinart share interests in each other’s respective careers, and with kids the same age, they’re “becoming friends in real time.”
Entourage turned 20 years old in July, and Ferrara describes how fondly he looks back at it. “It’s a lot easier to appreciate it now because when it was going on, I remember just being … always worried it was going to get taken away because it was too good to be true, you know?”
He adds, “So now knowing that, hey, look, there’s nothing that could happen. No one can take it away. … It’s nice to look back on it. I have a 16-year-old nephew who’s watching it now … and it’s so funny to see a young person nowadays watching it.”
Jordan on the set of ‘Creed III’ – Amazon MGM Studios
Michael B. Jordan will not only star in and produce a remake of the stylish thriller The Thomas Crown Affair, Deadline says he’ll be directing it, as well.
Jordan was already attached to star in and produce the film through his Outlier Society production company, but the trade says he’ll be following his blockbuster directorial debut Creed III with the project — which, despite Amazon’s ownership of MGM Studios and MBJ’s deal with the company, won’t be released on Prime Video, but in theaters worldwide.
The Thomas Crown Affair was initially a 1968 film starring Steve McQueen and centered on a millionaire who steals rare paintings not for money, but for a hobby. He soon gets into a cat-and-mouse game with a beautiful and smart insurance adjuster, played by Faye Dunaway in the original.
A 1999 remake saw Pierce Brosnan as the charming thief and Rene Russo in Dunaway’s role.
