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Season 4 of Godfather of Harlem is just days away, set to premiere Sunday on MGM+. Though Rome Flynn is new to the cast this season, he tells ABC Audio he was very familiar with the show.

“Kelvin Harrison is one of my homies. So he told me about the show when he was filming it. And I was like, I’ll start watching it just for him. And then I got hooked,” Rome shares.

Now he stars as a young Frank Lucas, a real-life drug lord in the 1960s and ’70s, portraying him “at a stage of his life where we haven’t seen him.” To prepare for the role, Rome says he “looked into the average everyday life of a man during that time period,” as well as the experience of a man in his early 20s and a man from the South, and integrated those “to create this amazing storyline of [Frank] kind of coming out of his cocoon and being a butterfly.”

“He’s about to ascend into Harlem and he has no idea what he’s going to become, but he has big plans for himself in the future,” Rome says of Frank. He notes his character is an integral part of the story of crime boss Bumpy Johnson, portrayed in the show by Forest Whitaker.

Much like he did when he worked alongside Viola Davis on How to Get Away with Murder, Rome says he took mental notes from their time on set together.

“I learned just his professionalism but also his approach to the work,” he says of acting with Forest. “When you see people who are great at what they do, I think part of it is just allowing them to do that and staying out the way and just watching it happen.”

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Jon Hamm stars in the new Apple TV+ series Your Friends & Neighbors.

Premiering Friday, the series follows Hamm as Andrew “Coop” Cooper, a hedge fund manager who gets fired amidst dealing with his recent divorce. Coop resorts to stealing from his wealthy neighbors’ homes in the fallout of losing his job and discovers dangerous secrets behind his community’s facade of wealth along the way.

So, what was it about this show that made Hamm want to take on his first leading TV role since Mad Men? He told ABC Audio that the show’s creator, Jonathan Tropper, was a big part of the appeal.

“I was a fan of Jonathan Tropper’s writing, and not only his television and film writing, but his novels and his short stories. I knew I was in good hands from a storytelling standpoint,” Hamm said. “When we talked about what the world might look like and what the character might be and what kind of the gist of the story would be, it seemed like something very compelling to me.”

Hamm also liked that his character, Coop, continuously defied the usual stereotypes of a man working in finance.

“I think we all have kind of an idea of what the basic, bougie finance bro seems to be like, right? And Coop maybe starts in that direction, but also has a moment where he sort of figures it out and realizes that, oh, all of these things that he’s been pursuing maybe aren’t the things that he should be emphasizing in his life,” Hamm said. “The more important things are the relationships and the emotional attachments that he has, and in some cases, has lost touch with, that he really needs to go back and sort of emphasize in his life.”  

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FX has revealed the season 4 premiere date for Welcome to Wrexham.

The fourth season of the docuseries from Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney will premiere with two episodes on May 15. The episodes will also be available to stream the next day on Hulu.

The Emmy-winning show follows the famous friends, who navigate running the third oldest professional football club in the world. They first purchased the underdog team the Red Dragons in 2020 in hopes of turning it into a success story.

The fourth season will follow the team as they take on the English Football League’s League One for the first time in 20 years.

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Live from London, it’s Saturday night!

Saturday Night Live is set to launch its first-ever British edition of the series. In partnership with Sky, the NBC late-night sketch show will premiere Saturday Night Live U.K. in 2026, according to Sky News.

The original show’s creator, Lorne Michaels, will be an executive producer on the new version of the show as he continues to run the American version. Based in London, the new edition of the show will follow the exact same format as its U.S. counterpart.

British comedians will get the spotlight on this new show. While there are no announcements about its cast, hosts and premiere date at this time, those details can be expected in the coming months.

Cecile Frot-Coutaz, the chief executive of Sky Studios, said the network is thrilled to bring the late-night series across the pond.

“For over 50 years Saturday Night Live has held a unique position in TV and in our collective culture, reflecting and creating the global conversation, all under the masterful comedic guidance of Lorne Michaels,” Frot-Coutaz said. “The show has discovered and nurtured countless comedy and musical talents over the years and we are thrilled to be partnering with Lorne and the SNL team to bring an all-British version of the show to UK audiences next year — all live from London on Saturday night.”

Saturday Night Live U.K. will air on Sky Max and the streaming service NOW in 2026.

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Viola Davis has been immortalized at Madame Tussauds Hollywood, where her new wax figure was recently revealed. It features her look from the Academy Awards in 2017 — a red Giorgio Armani Privé gown — when she won best supporting actress for her role in Fences. Intricate details were included, like her platform sneakers, gold jewelry and her wedding ring.

“This is what art is supposed to do. This is how art is supposed to make you feel,” said Viola, who worked with the Madame Tussauds’ creative team to get every detail of her look right. “It’s transcendental. It goes far beyond anything you could imagine in an earthly realm.”

She shared on Instagram her initial reaction to seeing her wax figure, alongside the caption, “No words. Just….love. LOVE. Thank you @madametussaudsusa!”

In the clip, she’s captured walking toward the figure and admiring the end result. “[They] got everything right. I mean, she looks alive. My teeth, my lips,” Viola said. “This dress I believe is Armani, but it’s more than the Armani. … It’s like a dream I had when I was 28 when I was looking at myself in the subway station, but it was a dream. This is just, like, ‘Whoo!'”

“There are signs in your life where you feel worthy, and they help the inside feel worthy. I keep saying that saying of ‘Your purpose is not what you do. It’s what happens to people when you do what you do.’ And sometimes the people that it happens to is you,” she continued. “And it’s what I did. I can’t believe that little Viola pulled it off.”

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a streaming service in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a Pride and Prejudice adaptation.

Emma Corrin, Jack Lowden and Olivia Colman will star in a limited series adaptation of Jane Austen‘s classic 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice for Netflix. Dolly Alderton will pen the series, which will be helmed by Heartstopper director Euros Lyn.

This new six-part limited series will stick close to the original source material, with Corrin starring as Elizabeth Bennet and Lowden taking on the romantic hero Mr. Darcy. Colman will play Elizabeth’s mother, Mrs. Bennet.

“Once in a generation, a group of people get to retell this wonderful story and I feel very lucky that I get to be a part of it,” Alderton said. “Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is the blueprint for romantic comedy — it has been a joy to delve back into its pages to find both familiar and fresh ways of bringing this beloved book to life.”

Corrin said taking on the role of Elizabeth Bennet “is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

“To be able to bring this iconic character to life, alongside Olivia and Jack, with Dolly’s phenomenal scripts, is truly the greatest honor,” Corrin said. “I can’t wait for a new generation to fall in love with this story all over again.”

Netflix executive Mona Qureshi said the streamer is delighted to share the classic story with their audience.

“Pride and Prejudice is the ultimate romantic comedy,” Qureshi said. “Dolly’s fierce intelligence and enormous heart, twinned with her genuine love of the Austen novel, means she is able to bring new insights, whilst celebrating all that the generations of fans hold so dear.”

Alderton, Corrin and Lyn will also executive produce the series. It begins production in the U.K. later in 2025.

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Alexander Skarsgård stars in the new trailer for Murderbot. Apple TV+ released the trailer for the upcoming TV series on Wednesday. The show will span 10 episodes; the first two premiere on May 16. Based on the book from Martha Wells, the sci-fi show follows a self-hacking security construct who finds human emotion horrifying, yet drawn to its vulnerable clients …

The list of Colleen Hoover film adaptation cast announcements never ends (with us). Tyriq Withers is set to star alongside Maika Monroe in the film adaptation of the Hoover novel Reminders of Him, as Deadline reports. Vanessa Caswill will direct the film, which is about motherhood, forgiveness and the power love has to heal a broken heart …

The trailer for Brett Goldstein‘s debut comedy special has arrived. The special, called Brett Goldstein: The Second Best Night of Your Life, will premiere April 26 on HBO. It will also be available to stream on Max. According to the official logline, the new comedy special finds Goldstein shedding “his testy Roy Kent façade to share his hilarious insights on love, sex, masculinity, Sesame Street, and everything in between” …  

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Rami Malek stars as a CIA “computer nerd” turned unlikely action hero in The Amateur, out in theaters Friday.

After his wife is brutally murdered in a terrorist attack, Charlie Heller decides to take matters into his own hands when his bosses at the CIA don’t seem interested in tracking down her killers.

“Very much an underdog story,” Malek tells ABC News affiliate WPVI. “A very unexpected hero in this genre doing some pretty extraordinary things out of his element.”

Heller teams up with retired Colonel Henderson, played by Laurence Fishburne, who tries to train him for the field, as well as a hacker named Inquiline, played by Caitriona Balfe, who bonds with him over his grief.

“What she does is sort of hold up this sort of mirror to him and kind of questions the morality of what he’s doing and whether or not, you know, revenge is something that will actually give you solace,” Balfe says.

While the film is “full of surprises,” according to Fisburne, the action is ultimately motivated by the love Heller has for his wife, played by Rachel Brosnahan, and we get to see glimpses of that relationship through flashbacks.

“They’re opposites, but they bring out the best in each other,” Brosnahan says. “And I think then when you see that, you feel the weight of that loss as [Charlie] moves through the rest of the film.” 

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Netflix may just have found its Mr. Darcy.

Jack Lowden is in talks to play the romantic hero in the streamer’s TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, according to Variety.

Fitzwilliam Darcy is the iconic literary character made famous for his relationship with protagonist Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen‘s classic 1813 novel.

Netflix did not comment on the casting news. The streamer announced the project in October 2024. This new adaptation is being written by Dolly Alderton.

No official casting has been announced so far, though there were unconfirmed rumors in the British press that Daisy Edgar-Jones is being eyed to play Elizabeth Bennet.

If Lowden were to take on the role, he’d join a roster of iconic portrayals of the character, including Colin Firth‘s performance in the 1995 BBC miniseries and Matthew Macfadyen‘s portrayal in the 2005 film by Joe Wright.

Peter Cushing and Laurence Olivier have also famously played the romance icon on screen.   

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Anjelica Huston is opening up about her secret battle with cancer.

The actress revealed she had “a bout with cancer” after she made the 2019 film John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum in an interview with People shared Wednesday.

“I managed to survive it, and I’m proud of myself,” Huston said. “It’s not something that came lightly.”

Huston has decided to keep the type of cancer she had private. She said her diagnosis came as a big shock.

“It made me conscious of what I shouldn’t do, of places I shouldn’t go. One of those places was taking life too seriously. So now when the opportunity arises, I laugh, and I try not to make a big deal out of things,” Huston said.

She also confirmed that she’s now “in the clear,” meaning fully cancer-free.

“I’m at the four-year mark, and that means so much to me,” Huston said. “It’s a fantastic thing. I’m very proud of myself, and I’ve been very lucky. My doctors have been wonderful.”

Huston had a simple celebration after she found out she was cancer-free, saying she “just walked in my garden and smelled the roses and thought how clever I was.”

Now, Huston said she is ready to share what she has been through in order to hopefully help others.

“Sometimes you feel like you don’t want to talk about it for the obvious reasons, but there’s a lot to be said for talking about it and getting it out there and celebrating the fact that one’s come through,” Huston said. “Life is tenuous and wonderful. It also gives you the idea that the world is big and you can somehow match up to it. That you’re ready for whatever happens.”

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