Darren Star
‘Emily in Paris’ Season 4 Trailer Sees Lily Collins Trying to Move on After Bombshell Finale
Emily is back, and Netflix promises she’s ready to chic things up. Emily in Paris‘ long-awaited fourth season finally has a trailer (below). The season will put one stiletto in front of the other to walk the path set out by some of the streamer’s other biggest hits (Stranger Things, Cobra Kai and Bridgerton, to […]
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Darren Star Exits Paramount for Universal TV Overall Deal
Darren Star is on the move. The creator of hits including Netflix’s Emily in Paris and TV Land’s Younger has departed his longtime home at Paramount Global’s MTV Entertainment Studios for a rich overall deal with Universal Television. Star has a carveout in his new eight-figure deal and will remain showrunner on Emily in Paris […]
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‘Uncoupled’ Canceled at Netflix After One Season
Netflix is separating from Uncoupled. The streamer has to decided to cancel Darren Star and Jeremy Richman’s rom-com series after one season, which premiered on July 29, 2022. The news doesn’t come as a total surprise, since the show didn’t make waves on Netflix the way some of its other originals have in the last […]
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Jessica Klein, ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ Writer and Producer, Dies at 66
Jessica Klein, who spent six seasons on Beverly Hills, 90210 as an invaluable writer, producer and story editor, has died. She was 66. Klein died July 13 of pancreatic cancer at her home in Beverly Hills, her daughter, Shira Rose, announced. Klein joined the Darren Star-created Fox primetime soap for its second season (1991-92) and […]
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Neil Patrick Harris, Darren Star and Jeffrey Richman on Releasing “Universal” Rom-Com ‘Uncoupled’ Amid Challenges to LGBTQ+ Rights
Exactly the kind of rom-com story audiences have seen again and again for middle-aged straight, white characters — and that Hollywood has recently shown more interest in with younger LGBTQ+ characters in projects like Love, Victor, Fire Island and Anything’s Possible — Uncoupled delivers the kind of narrative treatment middle-aged gay men are rarely on the […]
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‘Uncoupled’ Review: Darren Star’s New Netflix Series Is a Fizzy Take on Gay Dating Scene
Neil Patrick Harris leads Darren Star and Jeffrey Richman's rom-com series as Michael, a 40something gay man who finds himself newly single after getting dumped by his partner of 17 years.
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Lily Collins on ‘Emily in Paris’ Season Two: “Amp Everything Up But Really Keep It French”
More than a year after becoming one of the buzziest pandemic-era hits, Emily in Paris is back for season two, as Lily Collins’ Emily dives deeper into her new life in France. “This season we really wanted Emily to immerse herself more in the French culture, everything from the language to different spots around the […]
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Darren Star Talks ‘Emily in Paris’ Backlash, ‘Sex and the City’ Reboot and ‘Younger’ Spinoff
In mid-July, Darren Star’s 10-year-old son, Evan, called to make sure his father had remembered to tune in for the 2021 Emmy nominations. But Star — the Hollywood vet behind such culture-defining hits as Sex and the City, Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place — said he’d be skipping the annual reveal, and he urged […]
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“Fear and Desperation Drive a Lot of Comedy”: Bill Lawrence, Chuck Lorre, Darren Star and the Comedy Showrunner Roundtable
Showrunning isn’t for the faint of heart. And yet, for three of the six gathered for The Hollywood Reporter‘s annual Comedy Showrunner Emmy Roundtable — PEN15‘s Anna Konkle, Chad‘s Nasim Pedrad and The Upshaws‘ Wanda Sykes — it’s only half the job. “I think I’ve tried to hire all three of you individually to [star […]
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‘Younger’ Boss Darren Star on the Open-Ended Optimism of the Series Finale and Movie Potential
[This story contains spoilers for the series finale of Younger, “Older.”] In the world of Sutton Foster’s Liza, it might appear that everything has come full circle by the end of Younger. But, upon further inspection with creator Darren Star, the series finale of the Paramount+ comedy does so in a “limitless” way. Seven seasons […]
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Darren Star Aims to Tell a Timeless Story With COVID-Free Final Season of ‘Younger’
The seventh and final run of the TV Land and Paramount+ dramedy is set before the pandemic: "It’s a dream of what I hope New York will be looking like again soon."
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‘Younger’ Debuts First Look at Final Season
The seventh season of the Darren Star series starts streaming April 15 on Paramount+.
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