127 stories by "Michael Schneider"
Stars Harvey Guillén ("What We Do in the Shadows") and Brenda Song ("Running Point") have been tapped to announce this year's major Emmy nominations on Tuesday, July 15, at 8:30 a.m. PT/11:…
Keep an eye peeled during Emmy nominations for shows that are managing to include important messages of climate crisis " and how to advance sustainability. You may not even realize it, but s…
Brett Goldstein has had a busy month on the Warner Bros. lot. As "Shrinking" Season 3 finishes filming there, he's also busy in the writers' room for the highly anticipated return of "Ted La…
If this winds up being the final Kennedy Center Mark Twain Humor Prize, it couldn't have gone out in a bigger, funnier and more profound way. Now streaming on Netflix (and an Emmy contender …
There's nothing quite like working on "The White Lotus," where cast members live on the same hotel set where they're filming for as long as six months. And for Season 3 stars Carrie Coon, Le…
When John Mulaney announced that he was doing a week of live talk show episodes from Los Angeles for the "Netflix Is a Joke" festival, I knew it would be must-see TV. But then he went and go…
Dave Chappelle and Mo Amer became close during the pandemic, when Chappelle managed to secure a COVID testing machine and created a bubble at his Ohio home to bring in comedians to perform. …
Bridget Everett isn't quite sure how she could ever top "Somebody Somewhere." The show ended its three-season run at the end of 2024 with a moving gathering of the show's characters and a st…
Hollywood seems to always take that cliché "write what you know" to heart when it comes to producing scripts about Hollywood. I enjoy those tales, of course, but that's because my chosen pr…
Add Candice Bergen to the list of icons appearing on Apple TV+'s "Shrinking," co-creator Bill Lawrence revealed Saturday night during a panel at Austin's ATX TV Festival. During the "Bill La…
The fact that "Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band" even exists goes against everything the Boss used to believe. Up until a few years ago, he admits he was "very superstitio…
The long-running Newport Beach Film Fest is set to launch a TV counterpart this June. The org revealed Wednesday that it will hold the inaugural Newport Beach TV Fest from June 5 to June 8 a…
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from "The Killing Season," the Season 2 premiere of "1923," now streaming on Paramount+. Anyone who steps foot on the Dutton clan's front porch bet…
More than 30 years after they worked together on the seminal coming-of-age TV series "My So-Called Life," star Claire Danes and creator Winnie Holzman are aiming to reunite, Variety has excl…
Matt and Ross Duffer want to clear up any confusion: Yes, the fifth and final season of "Stranger Things" is coming this year. As a matter of fact, it may be even sooner than expected. "We'r…
America loves a parade. America also loves to learn from Oprah, to rock with Ryan Seacrest on New Year's Eve and to belt out the hits with Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden. The list of th…
"A Transparent Musical" is heading to New York and Broadway. The show, the first stage play from Amazon Studios, premiered in Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum in May " becoming the last s…
As the Tony Awards return for the first time in more than two years, CBS and White Cherry Entertainment's Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss faced a challenging task: How to hand out awards, cel…
Amazon Prime Video's "Small Axe" is among the final batch of this year's Peabody Award winners, which have been announced throughout the week. Variety also has a first look at actor Cynthia …
As Broadway and local stages remained closed over the past year of the pandemic, it was television that kept the spirit of theater alive. Watching a taped version of a stage performance does…
Peacock has unveiled a "Girls5eva" Emmy FYC plan that includes sending a karaoke bus around the streets of Los Angeles and West Hollywood, and also taking over the marquees of two landmark m…
Those sweatpants you've been wearing the past 14 months are comfy, no doubt about it. But it may be time to dust off that formal wear " or at least see if it still fits. In-person events are…
"Derek DelGaudio's 'In & Of Itself'" is finally hitting the big screen. The Hulu special will run at the IFC Center in New York from May 28 to June 3, marking the first time audiences ca…
This year's SAG Awards are keeping it short and sweet in recognition of this socially distanced age of COVID-19. Executive producers Todd Milliner, Sean Hayes and Kathy Connell have revealed…
Olympic gold medalist gymnast Gabby Douglas is the first-ever winner of "The Masked Dancer," having scored the show's diamond mask trophy after being revealed as Cotton Candy. Douglas was vi…