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EXCLUSIVE: SAG and Tony Award nominee Arian Moayed (Succession), Grammy-nominated musician and composer Este Haim (Licorice Pizza), actor-writer Lionel Boyce (The Bear), and actor-comedian Ziwe (ZIWE) are among cast to have joined Elisabeth Moss, Kate Hudson, and Kaia Gerber in psychological thriller Shell…

Ziwe premiered her interview with George Santos on her YouTube channel after the congressman was expelled from Congress. During the one-on-one interview, Ziwe asked Santos to weigh in on Bowen Yang’s impression of him on Saturday Night Live. “I think he deserves an EGOT,” Santos…

George Santos has had some doors open, and other doors close following his expulsion from Congress following a scathing report from the House Ethics Committee that concluded he used campaign funds to afford personal luxuries. On Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver pled to Andy…

Felipe Torres Medina, a writer on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, organized a comedy writers picket outside 30 Rock in New York that saw the cream of the late-night crop turn up to fight for a "fair" deal. Stars such as John Oliver, Amber Ruffin, Ziwe, Jason Sudeikis and Phoebe Robinson were…

EXCLUSIVE: Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance’s film Heist 88, which had been earmarked for Paramount+, will be moving to Showtime, Deadline has learned. Additionally, I hear the network has made decisions on two of its three comedy pilots, handing a six-episode series order to Seasoned, starring Mandy…

Ziwe is back with the second half of the second season of her namesake talk show and she has declared a “diversity war.” “Diversity training isn’t enough, I’m ready to go to diversity war,” Ziwe says in the trailer as she raises an electric chainsaw, which you can watch in the video posted…

EXCLUSIVE: Ziwe is returning to Showtime for the second half of her second season and has set her guest list. The late-night series returns to the premium cable network in November with six new episodes. The first six episodes of season two premiered in May. Drew Barrymore and Julia Fox are among the guests, who also…

Ziwe is returning for her second season on Showtime. The premium network will air the late-night series on its streaming service two days ahead of its linear launch. It will return to streaming and on-demand platforms on Friday April 29 before airing on the channel on Sunday May 1 at 11pm. Each episode will stream on…

Ziwe is heading back to Showtime with a bumper Season 2. The premium cable network has ordered 12 episodes of the late-night variety show, with the season set to be split into two installments. It comes after the first six-episode season launched in May and ran through June 13. "This show has exceeded my wildest…

Late-night television hasn't changed a great deal since Johnny Carson took over The Tonight Show nearly 60 years ago. There's been the odd exception, such as Arsenio Hall's syndicated show finding a young audience and bringing Bill Clinton's saxophone licks to the country, or Joan Rivers briefly interloping on Fox…

With her Instagram Live and YouTube talk series Baited, writer and comedian Ziwe Fumudoh didn’t shy away from having uncomfortable conversations of hard truths with people like Caroline Calloway, Alison Roman, Jeremy O, Alyssa Milano and many, many others. Fast forward to 2021, and Fumudoh has now expanded what she…

ATX Television Festival revealed the first handful of titles set to take center stage for its virtual season 10 event. Showtime’s Ziwe, Steve McQueen’s Small Axe and Fox’s HouseBroken will be among the featured titles for the annual television event, which will run from June 11 to 20. The 2021 edition will be the…