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Another Saturday Night Live cast member is exiting the show.

Ego Nwodim has announced her decision to leave the late-night comedy sketch series ahead of its upcoming season 51. The comedian shared the decision to her Instagram on Friday.

“The hardest part of a great party is knowing when to say goodnight. But after seven unforgettable seasons, I have decided to leave SNL,” Nwodim wrote. “I am immensely grateful to Lorne [Michaels] for the opportunity, to my castmates, the writers, and the crew for their brilliance, support, and friendship.”

Nwodim said being on the stage at Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center week after week “taught me more than I could have ever imagined, and I will carry those memories (and that laughter) with me always.”

“Now invite me to your weddings please!!!” she ended her statement.

Four other SNL cast members are also not returning for season 51. Heidi Gardner, Devon Walker, Michael Longfellow and Emil Wakim have all departed the cast ahead of the new season.

New cast members include Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Culhane, Kam Patterson and Veronika Slowikowska. Please Don’t Destroy member Ben Marshall has also joined the show’s cast. The sketch comedy trio will be split up, with Martin Herlihy on the SNL writing staff and John Higgins departing the show.

Many celebrities sent Nwodim love in the comment section of her announcement post. Former SNL cast member Cecily Strong wrote, “I just texted you but I also want to say it loud and proud here: it was an honor and a total joy to get to work with you. One of the best to ever do it.” SNL cast member Chloe Fineman echoed that statement, writing, “One of the best to ever do it my friend. GOAT.”  

SNL season 51 premieres Oct. 4 on NBC.

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The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards are just days away.

The annual awards show — celebrating the best in television that aired between June 2024 and May 2025 — will take place on Sunday. Ahead of television’s biggest night, we’re sharing everything you need to know about who is hosting, who is nominated and more.

Nate Bargatze is hosting this year’s show. When the news was announced, the actor and comedian called it a “huge honor” and said he’s “beyond excited” in a press release.

Leading up to the Emmys, he told Stephen Colbert in June that he “wants everyone to have a good time” and will try to make the show “lively and fun in the moment.”

Severance leads the pack with 27 nominations, the most of any show nominated this year. 

In the comedy category, The Studio came out on top with 23 nominations. The series, which stars and was created by Seth Rogen, tied the record for the most nominations for a comedy in a single year, according to a press release. The record was originally set by The Bear in 2024.

The Television Academy announced the list of Emmys presenters on Tuesday. Presenters include Sydney Sweeney, Angela Bassett, Jason Bateman, Kathy Bates, Kristen Bell, Sterling K. Brown, Stephen Colbert, Jennifer Coolidge and Alan Cumming.

Also listed as presenters are Eric Dane, Colman Domingo, Tina Fey, Walton Goggins, Kathryn Hahn, Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Jude Law, James Marsden and Jenna Ortega.

The Emmys may also see a Gilmore Girls reunion with Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham, who are slated to present.

The 77th Emmy Awards will broadcast live Sunday on CBS. It will also be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.

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Foundation is coming back for a fourth season. Apple TV+ has renewed the sci-fi series for season 4, with production on the upcoming season set for early 2026. This announcement comes ahead of the season 3 finale of the show, which is based on Isaac Asimov’s series of novels. Emmy-nominated actors Lee Pace and Jared Harris star in the show …

Ricky Gervais is bringing a brand-new adult animated series to Netflix. The comedian has created the show Alley Cats, which follows a group of feral, British cats who seek companionship and complain about the struggles of their everyday lives. The show will head to the streamer in 2026. Tom Basden, Andrew Brooke, David Earl, Kerry Godliman, Jo Hartley and Diane Morgan join Gervais in the show’s voice cast …

Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal are reuniting to develop a new TV series. Deadline reports that the actors are teaming up to adapt the coming-of-age horror novel Jawbone. The book tells the story of Fernanda and Annelise, who are inseparably close friends, until one ends up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin and the other is held hostage by one of her teachers …

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After six seasons on TV and two movies, Downton Abbey is saying goodbye with a third and final film, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. Series creator and writer Julian Fellowes says there’s a good reason he decided the story needed one more film.

He tells ABC Audio that after the last movie, where they said goodbye to Maggie Smith‘s Dowager Countess of Grantham, he felt that after 15 years fans needed a goodbye to the rest of the cast.

“I felt they were entitled to have a clearer idea of where they were all headed,” he says, “and that’s what I hope we’ve given them in this film.”

The movie is set in the 1930s, and as the times change, the family and the staff are going through some major changes themselves. Fellowes says he wanted fans to know they were all going to be OK in this new era and were going to “make a place for themselves.”

And while it may have been bittersweet saying goodbye to these characters, Fellowes believes it was the right time to do so.

“Knowing when it’s time to bring something to an end, whether it’s a romance or a TV show, it’s something that, on the whole, it’s good to accept, that everything earthly is finite and the end will come,” he says.

And Fellowes hopes fans come away with a simple message from the film.

“I hope what they take away is that what we all have to do is accept that we must deal with change and that if we can do that, we may be OK. But if we dig in, and refuse to accept change, we won’t be OK.”

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale is in theaters now.

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The Last of Us co-creator Neil Druckmann is opening up about his decision to exit the HBO series adaptation of his video game.

Druckmann served as co-showrunner of HBO’s The Last of Us before he announced his decision to step away from his creative involvement in the show in July 2025. In a recent interview with Variety, Druckmann said he did not exit the series on a whim. Rather, it was because he accomplished the goal he set out when he began adapting the video game for the screen.

“I had multiple goals, some of them were selfish. I wanted to elevate The Last of Us beyond the people that have played the game,” Druckmann said. “I felt like that story could find a bigger audience for people that will never play video games.”

He called the goal “crazy,” saying he “wanted someone to watch this show and have no idea it was based on the video game, and then be like, ‘Wait, that’s based on a video game?’”

Druckmann says there is data to show that people have watched the show and it led to them buying a PlayStation or a PC to start playing The Last of Us video game.

“That has become this gateway for them, for this medium that I love so much,” Druckmann said.

Now, Druckmann said, his hard work on season 1 and 2 has paid off and it is time to get back to putting his focus on making video games.

“It was time to go back to the thing that started it all, which is just full-time video game work. But other things are coming and we can announce more things soon,” Druckmann said.

HBO renewed The Last of Us for season 3 in April.

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There’s nothing little about this Big Little Lies update.

The HBO series is officially returning for a third season, ABC Audio has confirmed. Mr. & Mrs. Smith showrunner Francesca Sloane has been tapped to executive produce season 3 of Big Little Lies and write its first episode.

She takes on executive producing duties along with the series’ creator, David E. Kelley, and its stars Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon.

Zoë Kravitz, Laura Dern and Shailene Woodley also starred in Big Little Lies, which featured Alexander Skarsgård, Adam Scott, James Tupper, Jeffrey Nordling and Meryl Streep as part of its star-studded ensemble cast.

Sloane has signed an exclusive two-year overall TV deal with HBO. She moves from Amazon MGM Studios, where she had previously been under overall deals since 2020. At Amazon MGM Studios, Sloane co-created Mr. & Mrs. Smith with Donald Glover. That series, which was previously greenlit for season 2, has been delayed indefinitely, Deadline reports.

Season 1 of Big Little Lies debuted in 2017. It won eight Emmys and received 16 nominations. The show is based on the bestselling book of the same name by Liane Moriarty. It follows the darkly comedic story of the secrets that take place in the lives of three seemingly perfect mothers living in Monterey, California.

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Sydney Sweeney is a boxing champion in the trailer for Christy.

Black Bear released the official trailer for the new film based on the life of boxer Christy Martin on Thursday.

David Michôd co-wrote and directed the movie, which also stars Ben Foster, Merritt Wever, Katy O’Brian and Chad Coleman.

“Christy Martin (Sweeney) never imagined life beyond her small-town roots in West Virginia — until she discovered a knack for punching people. Fueled by grit, raw determination, and an unshakable desire to win, she charges into the world of boxing under the guidance of her trainer and manager-turned-husband, Jim (Foster),” the film’s synopsis reads. “But while Christy flaunts a fiery persona in the ring, her toughest battles unfold outside it—confronting family, identity, and a relationship that just might become life-or-death. Based on remarkable true events, Christy Martin’s story is one of resilience, courage, and the fight to reclaim one’s life.”

The trailer shows off the physical transformation Sweeney went through to play Martin in the film. We also see scenes of her in the boxing ring taking punches and throwing swings.

“I think I found my thing,” Sweeney’s Martin says in the trailer. “I bet most people go their entire lives and they don’t even know what their thing is.”

Christy arrives in theaters on Nov. 7.

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A couple of family-friendly movies are making their way to streaming. The animated Pixar film Elio will head to Disney+ on Sept. 17, while Universal Pictures’ live-action How to Train Your Dragon flies over to Peacock on Oct. 10. Elio follows a young boy who is sent up to outer space and mistakenly identified as Earth’s ambassador to the rest of the universe, while How To Train Your Dragon is about Hiccup, a young Viking who befriends a dragon named Toothless …

The new cast of Love is Blind has been announced. Netflix has released the names of the singles from Denver, Colorado, who are taking part in season 9 of the reality dating experiment show. The ages of the contestants range from 27 to 41, with the zodiac signs Aries and Gemini being the most popular among them. As for the professions of this group of contestants, there are a couple nurses, some real estate agents and several hairstylists …

Lucy Liu is joining Charles Melton in a live-action film adaptation of the novel Audition. Deadline reports that former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama‘s production company is teaming up with LAIKA for the movie, which will be based on the novel by Katie Kitamura. The Farewell director Lulu Wang is set to direct from a script she co-wrote with Martyna Majok …

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Heading into the 77th Emmy Awards Sunday, the Apple TV+ series Severance is the leading nominee with 27 nods, including outstanding drama series. The show follows employees at the cult-like corporation Lumon, who’ve volunteered for “severance,” a procedure that makes them forget their home lives while at work and vice versa.

Among the recognition for the series are nominations for the show’s lead actors: lead actor and lead actress in a drama series for Adam Scott and Britt Lower; supporting actor in a drama for John Turturro, Zach Cherry and Tramell Tillman; and supporting actress in a drama for Patricia Arquette.

Turturro’s nominated for his role as Irv, specifically for the episode “Woe’s Hollow,” where the severed employees leave the office for the first time for a team-building exercise in the woods. What follows is a violent confrontation with a co-worker who Irv assumes to be a spy, leading to his termination from Lumon.

Turturro says of the episode, “We got to be outside, which was a big relief for me.” He says he “put a lot of work” into playing Irv both as an “innie” — his severed persona at Lumon — and “outie,” the person he is outside of work.

But, he notes, “It’s a bit of a roller coaster, the show, and sometimes you yourself are confused, saying, ‘Would he know this? Would he not know that?'”

Arquette has been nominated for her role as Harmony Cobel [koe-BELL], the villain of season 1, who switches loyalties when she becomes disenchanted with how Lumon has treated her.

“Cobel’s really been knocked off her axis. She’s in a very weird position that she’s never been in before,” Arquette says of her season 2 journey. “And I think she’s in a bit of [an] interior cyclone of, what does she want to do? What does she believe in? How does she feel about this corporation?” 

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Overcompensating has been renewed for a second season.

Prime Video has announced that the hit comedy series from creator and star Benito Skinner will return for season 2. Skinner will once again write, star in and executive produce this upcoming new season of the show.

“I have been so overwhelmed by the insane response to the show, and feel so damn lucky to go back to Yates University with Amazon MGM Studios, A24, Strong Baby, and this legendary cast for season 2!! PLAY SUPER BASS :),” Skinner said in a press release.

The first season of Overcompensating followed Benny (Skinner), a closeted former homecoming king who heads to college and “becomes fast friends with Carmen (Wally Baram), a high school outsider on a mission to fit in at all costs,” according to its official synopsis. “With guidance from Benny’s older sister (Mary Beth Barone) and her campus-legend boyfriend (Adam DiMarco), Benny and Carmen juggle horrible hookups, flavored vodka, and fake IDs. Deeply funny and personal, the show explores the lengths to which we all overcompensate while on the path to finding out who we really are.”

Rish Shah, Owen Thiele, Connie Britton, Kyle MacLachlan and Kaia Gerber also appeared in season 1. Charli XCX guest starred in the first season and served as its executive music producer.

Skinner took to Instagram to celebrate the season 2 renewal news.

“WE’RE OFFICIALLY GOING BACK 2 SCHOOL,” he captioned his announcement post. “Thank you so much for all your insane love for this show … And thank you for being so patient while Daddy’s been cooking season 2. One guy at Hudson News told me he’s watched it 7 times… that’s mental illness my love <3.”

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