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Sex Lives of College Girls Season 3 Trailer With Renee Rapp, RBG Goals

The suitemates in Max‘s Intercourse Lives of Faculty Women are working laborious and taking part in tougher within the trailer for the present’s third season, out in November.

The most recent have a look at the upcoming set of episodes within the Mindy Kaling- and Justin Noble-created coming-of-age sequence options quite a few clips of exiting actress Reneé Rapp‘s Leighton alongside her roommates Kimberly (Pauline Chalamet), Bela (Amrit Kaur) and Whitney (Alyah Chanelle Scott).

However as Rapp is ready to depart the sequence this season, showing in a number of episodes as a recurring visitor star to arrange Leighton’s departure from the present’s fictional Essex Faculty, the remaining three primary characters are additionally proven coping with tutorial challenges.

The Sex Lives of College Girls Season 3 | Official Trailer | Max

Bela is seemingly recommitted to Essex after saying she needed to switch colleges on the finish of season two saying, “That is sophomore 12 months. We’ve acquired to step up our sport.”

However she nonetheless seems self-conscious about her low GPA when somebody asks her about it in a gathering, just for it to be revealed that she tweeted the quantity.

In the meantime, Whitney confesses that she’s been feeling “overwhelmed” and is proven swallowing an espresso bean like a capsule, which she calls a “life hack.”

For her half, Kimberly is overheard saying she’s “chosen programs that ought to result in turning into a Supreme Courtroom justice by the age of 53,” as she sports activities a Ruth Bader Ginsburg-inspired collar and holds up a needlepoint pillow of the late Supreme Courtroom justice. However her professor, performed by Tig Notaro, isn’t fooled.

The professor asks, “Are you carrying the factor they promote Asian pears in?”

Kimberly, eradicating her collar: “Not precisely”

Later Bela, who additionally expressed she felt like she was turning folks away on the finish of season two, expresses her dedication to her pals.

“Who wants males once you’ve acquired good music, nice vibes and the most effective gals,” she says.

However when Kimberly says she advised a man she’ll discuss to him later as a result of “tonight is for the ladies,” Bela says, “Very dumb. I might’ve taken him to the laundry room and gone by means of all the bases twice.”

Season three of The Intercourse Lives of Faculty Women returns Thursday, Nov. 21, with one new episode within the 10-episode set dropping every week at 9 p.m. ET by means of Jan. 23.

The Max sequence additionally stars Christopher Meyer, Ilia Isorelýs Paulino, Renika Williams, Gracie Lawrence and Mia Rodgers.

When requested about her exit from the present in a February Hollywood Reporter cowl story, Rapp stated the choice to depart “was laborious for therefore many causes” and recalled the tough expertise of coming to phrases along with her sexuality in her private life as her character was doing so within the sequence.

“On TikTok, [I watched] this scene in season one, the place I come out to a different character as a lesbian, and I’m crying, sobbing,” she advised THR. “And I hadn’t seen that scene in years. It’s so fascinating that on the time I wasn’t even conscious that what I used to be experiencing in my very own private life was really precisely what I used to be doing onscreen. I used to be in a relationship with a person, extremely confused, uncertain of myself, feeling so insecure in my appearing. And I watched the scene the opposite day, and I used to be like, ‘Wow, I really feel so fortunate to have that.’ That’s one thing I might present my youngsters. So after I watched it again, I used to be like, ‘Yeah, that’s laborious to depart that.’ And I’m additionally so grateful that I used to be capable of have that second. Not solely was it useful for different folks, it was loopy for me; loopy useful and likewise loopy laborious. As a result of I’m like, ‘Why am I freaking out on a regular basis?’ I might go dwelling, and I might name my pals, and I’d be like, ‘I feel I’m a lesbian, however I actually love my boyfriend. I might need to be with him, however I see him extra as a good friend.’ So not solely was I doing that on the present, publicly, in an enormous approach to so many individuals, and my household, who had no concept that I used to be homosexual, I used to be additionally going by means of it personally. It’s fucking loopy to look at that again.”

She added, “Being celebrated for being out due to a TV present or superstar or success or one thing was actually fascinating as a result of I feel it pressured lots of people in my life and my household to have to just accept me in a bizarre manner, and in some methods which might be twisted, like, ‘Rattling, we might have finished that a very long time in the past with out her being on a TV present.’ Nevertheless, I feel it made it so much simpler in ways in which pissed me off, however I’m additionally actually grateful for. That [show] was probably the most parallel expertise in my life, and I keep in mind doing that particular coming-out scene and never appearing in any respect. In any respect. I used to be simply sobbing. I see that, and I don’t see a personality. I’m like, ‘That’s me.’”

Whitney Cummings to Host ‘Friends’ Game Show for Max

Whitney Cummings is ready to host the upcoming Max Mates fan-competition sport present, titled Quick Mates.

The four-part particular, introduced earlier this week amid the thirtieth anniversary of the hit NBC sitcom’s 1994 premiere date, is ready to start out filming subsequent month in New York on the metropolis’s flagship location of the Mates Expertise interactive exhibit.

The placement options a lot of Mates set items, creating a well-known backdrop for collection superfans to check how nicely they know the beloved present.

The present’s description reads, “From racing by means of Rachel and Monica’s condominium to darting throughout Joey and Chandler’s bachelor pad and grabbing a espresso at Central Perk, followers will re-live their favourite moments whereas being put to the check with trivia, puzzles and video games that can preserve even essentially the most die-hard Mates followers on their toes. The quickest staff will win the title of ‘Final Mates Fan.’”

In a press release, Cummings stated she was “past thrilled” about her new gig, referring to herself as a “longtime fan” of Mates.

“After 30 years, the fandom surrounding this beloved collection solely continues to develop and now I’ve the good pleasure of awarding the final word followers with bragging rights for all times,” she added.

Friends premiered on NBC on Sept. 22, 1994, working for 10 seasons and turning into one of many community’s greatest exhibits, with followers persevering with to observe the present in syndication and streaming. Max turned the unique streaming residence of the collection in 2021 and has additionally marked the Mates thirtieth anniversary with themed collections of episodes.
 
Along with her work as a comic, Cummings is an actress, author, producer, director and host of the Good for You podcast. She created and starred within the collection Whitney, which ran from 2011-2013 on NBC, and co-created and co-wrote the CBS sitcom Two Broke Women, which ran from 2011-2017. She launched her memoir, I’m Tremendous … And Different Lies, in 2017 and her sixth stand-up particular Mouthy in 2023.

Cummings is repped by UTA and Jackoway Austen.

Quick Mates is produced by Warner Bros. Unscripted Tv in affiliation with Warner Horizon. The present is govt produced by Dan Sacks, Bridgette Theriault and Dan Norris, with Richard Burgio serving as co-executive producer.

‘Friends’ 30th Anniversary Celebrated by Max With Best of Collections

Oh… my… God!

In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of Pals on Sunday, Max is specifically curating collections from the present’s 10-year run for people who find themselves within the temper to observe particular episodes.

The collections are The Most Watched Episodes; Chandler Bing, the King of One-Liners (Better of Chandler); How YOU Doin’? (Better of Joey); We Had been On A Break (Ross and Rachel Highlights); On Monica’s Menu (Better of Monica); Friendsgiving (Thanksgiving Episodes); Phoebe Buffay, AKA Regina Phalange (Better of Phoebe); and The One With The Movie star Visitor.

The anniversary celebration will even embrace interviews with the present’s inventive staff in three completely different featurettes: Pals From the Begin, exploring the event of the present, casting for it and the challenges that arose within the early years; When Pals Develop into Household, diving into the inspiration and growth of among the most iconic and memorable moments from the present; and The Legacy of Pals, discussing bringing it to an finish, its ongoing popular culture affect and lasting legacy.

Whereas the anniversary is an thrilling time for followers of the present, it may also be somewhat bittersweet, with it coming virtually a yr after Matthew Perry’s demise. The beloved actor starred as Chandler alongside Courteney Cox’s Monica, Jennifer Aniston’s Rachel, Lisa Kudrow’s Phoebe, David Schwimmer’s Ross and Matt LeBlanc’s Joey.

Forward of the Pals anniversary on Sunday, creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane, in addition to government producer Kevin S. Shiny, spoke to the At this time present about how his tragic demise from the consequences of anesthetic ketamine has forged a little bit of a shadow on what would in any other case be a celebratory time.

“It’s an enormous loss and it does make the thirtieth somewhat fraught,” Kauffman stated within the interview, as Shiny added, “He made us snicker every single day.”

‘Pretty Little Liars’ Canceled at Max After 2 Seasons

The Fairly Little Liars sequel/reboot at Max is finished after two seasons.

The streamer has canceled the present, a horror-inflected take of the 2010s ABC Household/Freeform thriller. The choice comes about three months after PLL’s second season, subtitled Summer time College, completed its run in June.

“Whereas Max is not going to be shifting ahead with a 3rd season of Fairly Little Liars, we’re so grateful to our co-creators, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lindsay Calhoon Deliver, in addition to the crew at Warner Bros. Tv, for reintroducing followers to this new iteration of liars who band collectively to battle the newest creepy villain terrifying Millwood,” reads an announcement from Max. “Their distinctive and trendy inventive imaginative and prescient — mixed with the immense expertise of our forged and crew — gave the sequence a enjoyable, horror-filled viewpoint that paid tribute to its unique Rosewood roots.”

Season two ended with a tease of extra potential frights, exhibiting a gaggle of ladies carrying masks resembling the 5 Liars strolling down the hallway of their highschool. That picture shall be left hanging, nevertheless.

The Fairly Little Liars revamp scored a straight-to-series order at what was then referred to as HBO Max in September 2020. The sequence, whose first season was titled Fairly Little Liars: Unique Sin, premiered on July 28, 2022, and earned a season two renewal shortly after its finale.

Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Zaria, Malia Pyles, Maia Reficco, Mallory Bechtel, Sharon Leal, Alex Aiono, Jordan Gonzalez and Elias Kacavas starred in season two. Aguirre-Sacasa (Riverdale) and Deliver govt produced the Warner Bros. TV sequence with PLL creator Marlene King, Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo of Alloy Leisure and Michael Grassi.

TVLine first reported the cancellation.

Aubrey Plaza Reveals Why She Hasn’t Watched ‘The White Lotus’ Yet

Aubrey Plaza‘s efficiency in The White Lotus could have earned her an Emmy nomination, however she truly hasn’t even seen it but.

The actress revealed in a current video interview for The Wall Road Journal that she hasn’t watched any episodes of her season of Mike White‘s hit HBO anthology sequence. She performed Harper Spiller in season two.

“I nonetheless haven’t, however I’m going to,” Plaza admitted. “To be sincere, I had hassle opening my HBO Max account after I was making an attempt to look at it initially. I couldn’t determine the password and I often simply quit after I can’t determine the passwords. I simply can’t deal with issues like that.”

“I’d love a DVD, however they don’t ship DVD units anymore,” she added. “I ask them each time.” 

Within the Parks and Recreation alum’s protection, she’s by no means been an enormous fan of streaming platforms. She truly instructed Self-importance Honest final yr that she will get “actually offended” at any time when she has to make use of the providers.

“I used to be making an attempt to look at Prime Chef season 20. Couldn’t determine how you can fucking get Hulu + Stay. I quit! I can’t. I simply can’t,” Plaza mentioned on the time. “And so what I love to do is go on iTunes and purchase films which might be previous. Or I’ll go on iTunes and simply, like, purchase the entire Sopranos sequence, after which my husband can be like, ‘You actually can watch that at no cost on HBO Max.’”

Plaza scored an Emmy nod for greatest supporting actress in a drama sequence final yr for her efficiency within the present.

The White Lotus is about to return for season three in 2025.

‘We’re Here’ Star Priyanka on Process Behind New Album ‘Devastatia’

Queen Priyanka, the inaugural winner of Canada’s Drag Race, has launched a brand new album, Devastatia.

The We’re Right here star has been working onerous at creating the hyper-pop album, which opens with a catchy and self-confident anthem, “I’m a Star,” that options the drag queen turned pop star telling the listener: “You might be ok / Now look within the mirror and say / I’m a star.”

The eight-track album, launched Friday, has been within the works for a very long time. “I’m so used to quick turnarounds and content material is content material that I didn’t count on for it to take this lengthy,” Priyanka tells The Hollywood Reporter, noting it’s been two years since she launched her EP Style Check. “I didn’t additionally count on to undergo what I went by.”

The singer says that trying again, she feels dangerous for herself and that’s “loopy to consider.” Nevertheless, she tries to remind herself to not throw a pity get together. “It takes a really harm individual to put in writing a tune referred to as ‘No New Mates,’” the singer says, referring to the album’s sixth observe. “It takes a really harm individual to put in writing a tune referred to as ‘Shut It Down,’ and it made me be like, ‘Huh, these have been a very robust few years since successful Drag Race, since releasing my first report, doing all of the issues that I’ve carried out.’”

Priyanka jokes that she beforehand didn’t perceive when artists would say issues akin to “this album is a web page out of my diary” when songs can be about ingesting or being in golf equipment. “Now I do know what these artists are speaking about,” the drag queen says.

Queen Priyanka for her new ‘Devastatia’ album.

Nick Merzetti

“There’s a lot me within the tales by way of the overarching theme is that this Devastatia character,” Priyanka provides, saying it was usually recommended she make stereotypical drag queen music. “[I was] like, ‘No, I wish to speak about my real-life expertise.’ When it got here to writing Devastatia, it was nearly like throwing that concept again into folks’s faces.”

Priyanka provides: “You need me to be in a field, and also you need me to say ‘tens throughout the board.’” She notes that the pre-chorus (“I can’t management myself / I’m reckless / you need to go save your self / The clock is ticking”) has a deeper which means. “That’s the devastation I felt with having to must put myself in any type of field,” she explains.

The We’re Right here star can be making ready for a tour throughout Canada and the U.S., which she says has been “actually onerous” as a result of she at the moment doesn’t have a supervisor. “I’m at the moment mainly doing all the things myself,” she explains.

“I’m doing a lot that making ready for a tour. It’s robust,” Priyanka says. She provides that the most important pop stars have been proper, saying: “You don’t get success except you do it your self, and as a lot as I hate that, it’s robust to search out those who perceive what it takes to placed on these type of reveals.”

Priyanka for her new album ‘Devastatia.’

Shaun Vadella

The Drag Race winner notes that she turned down the drag queen solid tour to pursue her personal tour. And when making ready for her stint throughout North America, the pop star additionally got here to the conclusion, “I’d truly make much less cash than simply happening a drag queen solid tour.”

“You truly lose lots by selecting your self generally, however you achieve ultimately as a result of I’m making a challenge that’s going to be one among many in laying down that basis work,” she says, including that Priyanka the drag queen and Priyanka the singer, though the identical individual, are completely different. “I didn’t know that a part of this business, and now I’m studying it, being like, ‘Oh, shit.’” She emphasizes that she liked her Drag Race expertise and also will be performing Drag Race songs.

Priyanka provides that her time on the award-winning HBO collection We’re Right here in 2024 has additionally knowledgeable how she makes selections and lives life since filming. “The whole lot that I’ve approached after it has been very… I’ve been extra sure,” she says. “Right here you’ve these queer youngsters dwelling in small-town America being like, ‘No, no, no, no, I don’t wish to run away to the large metropolis. I reside at house.’ I’m like, ‘Properly, I’m a bitch then as a result of I ran away to the town.’”

Olympics Supercharges Max Streaming Growth in Europe

Warner Bros. Discovery is Max-ing out on the Olympics.

Over the primary 5 days of the Paris Olympics, viewership and subscriber progress on WBD’s Max streaming platform in Europe has outpaced expectations, boding nicely for the streamer’s prospects because it expands its continental footprint.

Official figures, equipped to The Hollywood Reporter, present that, thus far, greater than 4 million viewing subscribers have tuned in for the Paris Olympics on Max and WBD’s Discovery+ platform in Europe. Seventy-seven % of these have been on Max. Throughout all platforms (streaming, linear TV and on-line), some 100 million individuals in Europe engaged with WBD Olympics content material.

“We had excessive expectations [going into the Olympics] however this has blown away our expectations,” mentioned JB Perrette, CEO and president, world streaming and video games. “The early stats, on Max particularly, have been unbelievable. Within the first 4 or 5 days, new paid streaming subscribers exceeded that for the totality of Tokyo [2020 Olympics].”

WBD has lots using on the Paris Olympics. This yr’s video games are the primary for the reason that merger of Discovery and WarnerMedia into WBD and the community timed the launch of its standalone streaming service Max in Europe to capitalize on the eye across the occasion. Max launched in its first 20 European nations on Could 21 and in France on June 11. WBD is carrying the Olympics throughout 47 markets in 20 languages in Europe on its streaming platforms Max and Discovery+, and on linear TV and on-line by its Eurosport channels.

Perrette mentioned in comparison with the U.S. launch of Max final yr, “Once we have been out of cycle with a few of our greatest tentpole HBO and Max collection… once we simply didn’t have our greatest stuff” the European launch has been “from a content material perspective to the very best world” with the brand new season of Home of the Dragon and the Olympics offering a one-two punch.

Key to WBD’s long-term success with Max in Europe can be holding on to these Olympics followers post-Paris. Perrette mentioned preliminary indicators are constructive, pointing to sturdy engagement by new Max subscribers, which WBD mentioned watched greater than thrice the leisure programming as a proportion of their whole viewing that subscribers acquired on Discovery+. Perrette additionally famous that the variety of new subscribers who had saved the auto-renew operate on, suggesting they may hold their subscriptions after the Olympics, was “considerably higher” than forecast, although he didn’t give particular figures.

On ad-supported conventional TV and on-line, WBD mentioned advert gross sales for Paris 2024 have been greater than double these for Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 mixed.

Fake And Just Like That Filming Notices Around NYC Leave Fans Confused

Faux And Simply Like That manufacturing notices are taking on New York Metropolis, leaving followers with a number of questions.

Followers have lately been discovering faux filming notices for Max‘s Intercourse and the Metropolis reboot posted across the metropolis and sharing them on social media. Lots of them characteristic wild plot particulars in regards to the third season, which is at the moment being filmed.

“After getting hit by a Citi Bike, Carrie retains Fletcher Reede (Jim Carrey) from Liar Liar as her lawyer,” one discover learn, whereas one other added, “Carries goes on a nasty date with Mr. Bean (the character) after which unintentionally sends him a nude.”

A 3rd flyer shared on-line additionally included a faux storyline about Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) telling her associates at brunch that “she is Garfield the cat.”

Some followers have been confused about what’s happening and have taken their inquiries to social media. “WHO is making these faux And Simply Like That filming notices,” one particular person wrote on X, previously Twitter, whereas one other particular person posted, “New season of intercourse and the city is gonna be wild.”

It wasn’t instantly clear who was chargeable for the faux notices however The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to And Simply Like That reps for remark.

Season three of the hit present is ready to premiere in 2025. And Simply Like That follows Carrie, Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) as they navigate the difficult actuality of affection and friendship now of their 50s.

The subsequent installment not solely sees Parker, Nixon and Davis returning to town but additionally a number of new faces together with Rosie O’Donnell, Mehcad Brooks, Jonathan Cake and Logan Marshall-Inexperienced. It was beforehand introduced that Sara Ramírez and Karen Pittman wouldn’t be returning for the brand new season.

Judge Dismisses ‘Fake Famous’ Idea Theft Lawsuit

A New York choose has dismissed a lawsuit towards Warner Bros. Discovery from a producer, who claimed that he originated an concept for the premise behind HBO‘s Pretend Well-known documentary and Max actuality collection FBOY Island.

The producer, Jack Piuggi, mentioned he shopped a actuality TV present titled Instafamous, which was pitched as “a documentary-style TV present incorporating an underlying faux-dating present competitors” to “expose the superficiality” of Instagram courting tradition.

His lawsuit, filed final 12 months in New York district court docket, alleged that defendants, which embody Good For You Productions LLC, Grand Avenue Media Inc., HBO, and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc., conspired towards him to create “equally themed” TV initiatives, which resulted in Pretend Well-known and FBOY Island.

Piuggi, whose banner is titled Flipp Productions, introduced claims for copyright infringement, breach of contract and unjust enrichment.

In a July 2 order, U.S. District Decide Victor Marrero dismissed the lawsuit, discovering that Piuggi’s “imprecise and conclusory allegations of unspecified copying are inadequate” to “plausibly plead a considerable similarity between Instafamous and HBO’s reveals at subject.”

The court docket granted Piuggi a chance to repair the claims inside 30 days from July 2.

The grievance concerned allegations that, 19 days after Piuggi pitched the thought for his present to Grand Avenue, HBO launched a trailer for Pretend Well-known. Individually, he claimed that he recommended that Garrett Morosky, who was finally solid on FBOY Island, ought to star in his undertaking.

Piuggi “observed on a number of events, that lots of his ideas for Instafamous had been appropriated by Pretend Well-known,” the lawsuit mentioned.

‘Teen Torture, Inc.’ and Paris Hilton Bring Abusive Industry to Task

The so-called “troubled teen trade” is dealing with a contemporary spherical of scrutiny this summer time with the July premiere of Teen Torture, Inc., the brand new Max documentary in regards to the billion-dollar trade related to the kidnapping, abuse and brainwashing of younger Individuals. Paris Hilton spoke final week earlier than Congress to advocate for the Individuals with out the means to cease the tough practices she skilled herself. 

The doc will premiere July 11 and the just-released trailer provides a preview of the harrowing tales the film tells by way of those that are advocating for it to be shuttered for good. Rapper Bhad Bhabie is considered one of a number of survivors showing within the new documentary from filmmaker Tara Malone who recall the abuse they skilled after being torn from their houses and brought to weeks of utmost behavioral remedy remedies that they are saying cross a line into too excessive.

Powerful love is the secret at these camps and amenities, which are sometimes dubbed “youth residential therapy facilities.” However, as the topics of Max’s documentary clarify, the therapy has led to deaths, suicides, PTSD, and different lifelong psychological and bodily well being points. 

“When youngsters are in bother, it’s an excessive state of affairs for the dad and mom, what these applications supply is an ‘excessive’ answer,” one of many movie’s topics says within the trailer. 

Teen Torture, Inc. | Official Trailer | Max

The temporary clip is a collection of interviews with survivors of the camps and advocates discussing the torture and humiliation they underwent of their teenage years after being despatched by dad and mom who discovered themselves at a loss on appropriate the habits of teenagers amid a few of the most tough years of their adolescence. What seems to be reenactment footage of what survivors say occurred to them is reduce all through the clip, as advocates and survivors break down in tears. 

The movie then seems to comply with the cash to clarify how entrenched energy retains an trade that so many see as abusive afloat and carrying on with its alleged abuse. This abuse at “youth residential therapy facilities” was what led aughts icon Hilton to talk earlier than Congress’ Methods and Means Committee on June 26. 

Hilton, a mom of two, testified about how whereas at considered one of these amenities, she was violently restrained, stripped nude and thrown into solitary on the amenities, 4 of which she was despatched to in her youth. In a Washington Publish opinion article from 2021, Hilton writes of being “choked, slapped throughout the face, spied on whereas showering and disadvantaged of sleep” at these camps. Now, just like the advocates in Teen Torture, Inc., she’s useless set on making certain this abuse not occurs. 

“I can’t cease till America’s youth is protected,” Hilton mentioned in her testimony. “In case you are a baby within the system, hear my phrases: I see you. I imagine you. I do know what you’re going by way of, and I received’t quit on you.”