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| Charlie Sheen, dad Martin to star in AMC comedy 'Happy Jack' | Two and a Half Men alum Charlie Sheen and his West Wing icon dad Martin are set to star in a new AMC comedy, Happy Jack. The actors will play father and son in the show, which is expected to premiere with a six-episode first season in 2027. Production is slated to begin early next year in Los Angeles. The co-showrunners will be Jim Patterson and Matt Ross, who previously worked together on Two and a Half Men and The Ranch. "I've always heard the moments that truly matter happen when they're supposed to. The good folks at AMC have played a huge hand in deciding that moment is now," Charlie Sheen said in a statement Tuesday. |
| Katherine Waterston: 'Uprising' character was 'queen not heard' | Katherine Waterston says it was a fascinating challenge to play a royal medieval woman trying to influence her powerful son without verbally articulating her intentions in The Uprising. "In the makeup trailer one morning, I said, 'Queen and not heard,'" Waterston, 46, told reporters in a recent virtual press conference. "But, actually, I really wasn't complaining. It was one of the great treats of the character that she's there and unable to speak and what that communicates and what it accurately, I think, portrays about the period," she explained. |
| Owen Wilson discusses his 'walk-the-plank' moment in 'Rolling Loud' | Night at the Museum, Zoolander, Wedding Crashers, Armageddon and Cars icon Owen Wilson said it was nerve-wracking to take the stage with rapper Travis Scott in front of 100,000 screaming fans for a scene in the comedy, Rolling Loud: The Movie. "It was a little bit terrifying. Had my two boys not been there backstage, I might have chickened out," the 57-year-old father of two sons told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. "These guys, I'm always making them do stuff that they're uncomfortable [with] or don't want to do, so, when it was my time to go out there, I had no choice," he said of his dancing and stage-diving. "It was kind of a 'walking-the-plank' that I felt like out there. |
| 'Saturday Night Live UK' taps Cynthia Erivo, Danny Dyer as hosts | Wicked star Cynthia Erivo and Rivals actor Danny Dyer are headed to Saturday Night Live UK. Producers announced Tuesday that Erivo, Dyer and House of the Dragon alum James Norton will host new Season 2 episodes of the late-night sketch comedy series. Dyer, who plays Freddie Jones on Rivals, will guest host the Oct. 10 episode of SNL UK, with Sasha Keable to perform as musical guest. Norton, who portrayed Ormund Hightower in House of the Dragon Season 3, will host the Oct. 17 episode featuring musical guest The Streets. Erivo, who starred with Ariana Grande in the two-part film adaptation of Wicked, will host the Oct. 24 episode, with Blossoms to perform as musical guest. SNL UK is a British spinoff of long-running U.S. |
| Liev Schreiber, Stephen Graham face off in 'Nocturne' trailer | Apple TV is teasing the new series Nocturne. The streaming service shared a trailer for the show Tuesday featuring Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan) and Stephen Graham (Adolescence). Nocturne is a thriller based on the Lars Kepler novel The Sandman. The show follows Jonah Lynn (Schreiber), a soldier-turned-homicide detective whose small Pennsylvania town is upended by "the diabolically cunning serial killer Jurek Walter (Graham)." "When the desperate search for Jurek's last missing victim forces Jonah to send his surrogate daughter FBI Agent Saga Bauer (Zazie Beetz) up against Jurek, how far will Jonah go?" an official synopsis reads. |