Month: February 2025

Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy will star in “The Good Daughter,” Peacock‘s upcoming limited series series based on the Karin Slaughter novel of the same name. Byrne also serves as executive producer.

Byrne and Fahy play Samantha and Charlotte Quinn, respectively.  Charlotte Quinn is a lawyer who witnesses a violent crime which brings bag back memories of the one she and her sister, Samantha, experienced 28 years before.

The official logline reads, “‘The Good Daughter’ is a suspenseful crime drama where sisters Charlotte (Meghann Fahy) and Samantha (Rose Byrne) Quinn have spent the last 28 years trying to piece together the lives that were fractured by a single night of violence. When another attack splinters the small town of Pikeville, Charlotte is the first witness on the scene. Now a lawyer like her father, she’s forced to confront her own demons as the case twists through one shocking revelation after another. In the end, both she and Samantha find themselves wondering if the price of being the good daughter was worth it after all.”

The Good Daughter was picked up straight-to-series by the NBCU streaming service in March, with Slaughter writing all episodes and executive producing the project. Fahy is taking on the role Jessica Biel was originally set to play following Biel’s exit from the project as star and executive producer.

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Uma Thurman is set to star with Michael C. Hall in the franchise’s next series, Dexter: Resurrection. 

Showtime revealed that Thurman has joined the cast as a series regular in the role of Charley, “the head of security for mysterious billionaire Leon Prater. A former Special Ops officer, Charley worked various high-level private security jobs before taking on her position as the resourceful and meticulous right-hand woman for Prater.”

Dexter: Resurrection stars Hall as titular serial killer Dexter Morgan; he will also be the narrator, as he was in the previous series. Paramount+ with Showtime already announced additional cast members including David Zayas as Detective Angel Batista, friend and co-worker to Dexter; James Remar as Dexter’s deceased father, Harry Morgan; and Jack Alcott, who played Dexter’s son, Harrison Morgan, in Dexter: New Blood.

The prequel series Dexter: Original Sin is currently airing on Showtime and streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. Showrunner Clyde Phillips, who ran the first four seasons of the original series, as well as the New Blood and Original Sin spinoffs, will also showrun and executive produce Resurrection.

Production on Dexter: Resurrection began this month in New York and will launch of Paramount+ with Showtime this summer.

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John Cena hits the road with his guests and their favorite vehicles for his new talk show for Roku Originals, titled ‘What Drives You.’

Cena’s guests include Logan Paul, Jelly Roll, Travis Barker and his former WWE rival Mike “The Miz” Mizanin in his first-ever talk series. The series will kick off with a road trip in Puerto Rico in Paul’s Ford Bronco; as well as an episode with Jelly Roll in Nashville (as they drive around in his RAM 1500 Laramie).

The third episode will see Cena head to Los Angeles, where he will hit the road with former WWE rival The Miz in his Tesla Model X Plaid, and later, Cena and drummer Barker show off his 1987 Buick GNX and collaborate with Cena on an original song in his studio after a drive in Barker’s Mercedes Benz G-Wagon 4X42.

Check out the trailer for What Drives You; with episodes available now on Roku.

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Paul McCartney and Kim Kardashian were just added to the star-studded lineup for the Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary special, celebrating 50 years of the late-night sketch comedy series.

Per a press release, SNL50: The Anniversary Special will also star Adam Driver, Ayo Edebiri, Bad Bunny, Dave Chappelle, John Mulaney, Martin Short, Miley Cyrus, Paul Simon, Pedro Pascal, Peyton Manning, Quinta Brunson, Robert De Niro, Sabrina Carpenter, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks and Woody Harrelson.

The three-hour show will air live from Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center on Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. EDT, following the Feb. 14 SNL50: Homecoming Concert, which will feature performances from the Backstreet Boys, Bad Bunny, Brandi Carlile, Chris Martin, David Byrne, Jack White, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Post Malone, Robyn and more. SNL alumnus Jimmy Fallon will be on hosting duties, while Lorne Michaels and Mark Ronson are the show’s executive producers. The concert will take place at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.

The lineup will also include Arcade Fire, Bad Bunny, Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carlile, Brittany Howard, David Byrne, DEVO, Eddie Vedder, Jack White, Jelly Roll, Lady Gaga, Mumford & Sons, Post Malone, The B-52s, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Robyn and The Roots.

Both anniversary specials will air on NBC and stream on Peacock.

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