TVLine Items: SNL Vets Re-Team for HBO Comedy, Katt Williams Netflix Trailer and More
Saturday Night Live veterans Molly Shannon and Steve Koren (Superstar, A Night at the Roxbury) are again joining forces for a new comedy currently in development at HBO, our sister site Deadline reports.
Koren will pen the project starring Shannon as a woman deeply addicted to celebrity news and gossip who finally agrees to get help after her friends and family stage an intervention. But she checks into a fancy celebrity rehab center in Malibu, which she treats more like a stay at the Four Seasons rather than a place to confront her demons.
“Once there, she connects with her favorite young starlet and must decide whether to return to her family or join her in Hollywood,” per Deadline’s description.
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* Netflix has released a trailer for the upcoming stand-up special Katt Williams: Woke Foke, which will stream live from Los Angeles as part of Netflix Is A Joke Fest on Saturday, May 4 starting at 10 p.m. ET:
* After the release of Beyoncè’s critically acclaimed Cowboy Carter album, Max will explore the racial reckoning currently underway in country music with the documentary Beyoncè and Nashville’s Renaissance, premiering Friday, April 26.
The special will feature interviews with several country musicians, including Rhiannon Giddens (banjo player on Beyoncè’s lead single “Texas Hold ‘Em”), John and T.J. Osborne of Brothers Osborne, Rissi Palmer, Aaron Vance and Denitia.
* Garcelle Beauvais will produce and star in a currently untitled Terry McMillian Presents Lifetime movie as a renowned chef living in Europe who rushes home to care for her elderly aunt in South Carolina and forms a connection with her handsome driver, who is 20-years her junior.
* Prime Video has unveiled a trailer for the upcoming drama Maxton Hall, adapted from Mona Kasten’s bestseller Save Me and premiering Thursday, May 9:
* Kelly Marie Tran (of the Star Wars sequel trilogy) and Miles Robbins (The X-Files) will star in the Hulu original film Control Freak, a body horror/psychological thriller about a motivational speaker plagued by an uncontrollable itch on her head, who becomes infected with a parasitic demon from her homeland.
* The FX pilot The Sensitive Kind from Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harjo has added five more to its ensemble, including rapper-turned-actor Killer Mike, Kaniehtiio Horn (Reservation Dogs), Cody Lightning (Echo), Michael Hitchcock (Black Monday, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) and Ryan Kiera Armstrong (Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Anne with an E), according to Deadline.
