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“Family Guy” star Seth Green is a big “Dungeon Crawler Carl” fan who wants it to be known he’d love to join the cast of the live-action TV series — but doesn’t want to use his personal connections to land the part. The show, which was ordered to series at Peacock last month, is b

X Games is partnering with Electronic Arts, the maker of interactive sports gaming favorites like “Madden NFL,” and Full Circle for its San Vansterdam takeover experience. Running July 21 through Aug. 25, the adrenaline-fueled X Games will transform skate.’s virtual stadium (whic

Electronic Arts’ “Skate.” will launch an in-game collaboration with the X Games this month. Running July 21 through Aug. 25, the adrenaline-fueled X Games update will transform the virtual stadium in EA and developer Full Circle’s “skate.” with X Games-inspired challenges and tas

Fornite players can play as Matt Damon’s Odysseus from Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” Epic Games announced. Earlier this week, the company teased a short clip on its official X account showing Odysseus walking through a massive hallway lined with towering statues, captioned w

Amelia Dimoldenberg is taking another lap with “Passenger Princess.” The “Chicken Shop Date” host’s Formula 1 series, in which she interviews some of the sport’s biggest stars while also learning to drive, is set to return to YouTube this month for a new batch of episodes. This s

Anna Konkle, Taegen Burns, Tory Kittles, Brianna Reed, J.J. Nolan and Paul Scheer have been cast in Netflix’s new comedy series “I Suck at Girls.” Konkle and Burns will both be series regulars, while Kittles, Reed, Nolan and Scheer will have recurring roles. They join previously

Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland got concerned on “The Odyssey” set when they heard their leading man, Matt Damon, screaming over and over again in his trailer. Was Damon in pain? Or having a blowout fight over the phone? Pattinson had questions and later discovered that Damon wa

Cricket properties dominated Ormax Media’s new Ormax StreamView report, with the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 drawing an estimated 246 million viewers on JioHotstar between January and June 2026, more than any other title tracked in the measurement framework. The Indian Premier L

UFC’s July 11 main card telecast featuring the 69-second fight between Conor McGregor and Max Holloway averaged 6.5 million viewers across the U.S. and Latin America on Paramount+. The two-and-a-half-hour broadcast peaked with 8 million concurrent streams, which, according to Par

Chloe Fineman is leaving “Saturday Night Live.” The actor-comedian best known for her impressions exits the NBC sketch comedy series after seven seasons. “After 7 wonderful seasons at SNL I have decided it’s time for my next chapter,” Fineman wrote in a lengthy Instagram post ann

Whatever its other breezy benefits might be, Santa Monica has not been much of a music destination since the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium stopped hosting concerts and especially since the beachside city’s famous Twilight Series on the pier came to an end a dozen years ago. But t

“Family Guy” star Seth Green is a big “Dungeon Crawler Carl” fan who wants it to be known he’d love to join the cast of the live-action TV series — but doesn’t want to use his personal connections to land the part. The show, which was ordered to series at Peacock last month, is b

Spain’s government is investing €6.4 million ($7.3 million) in newly established Canary Islands animation company Amuse Labs, accelerating the archipelago’s push to become a global base for children’s IP. The deal, structured through state-backed technology investment vehicle SET

Electronic Arts’ “Skate.” will launch an in-game collaboration with the X Games this month. Running July 21 through Aug. 25, the adrenaline-fueled X Games update will transform the virtual stadium in EA and developer Full Circle’s “skate.” with X Games-inspired challenges and tas

Vox Media Studios (VMS) has signed a multi-year first-look deal with 20th Television, Variety has learned exclusively. Under the deal, VMS and 20th TV will work together to produce scripted and unscripted TV series across all platforms with an emphasis developing shows based on t