Fred Armisen to Star on Hulu’s “Deli Boys” for Season Two

Posted on August 26, 2025 by Tom Castaneda

Fred Armisen has landed a deli-ghtful role…

The 58-year-old half-Venezuelan American actor, comedian and former Saturday Night Live star, has joined the cast of Hulu’s Deli Boys for the show’s second season.

Armisen will join the series regular cast alongside Asif Ali, Saagar Shaikh and Poorna Jagannathan.

Deli Boys follows Mir and Raj Dar (Ali and Shaikh), a pair of pampered Pakistani American brothers who lose everything and are forced to reckon with their Baba’s (Iqbal Theba) secret life of crime as they attempt to take up his mantle in the underworld.

Jagannathan stars as Naveeda “Lucky,” Baba’s confidant and a crime boss auntie.

Armisen will play a legendary gambling savant with an uncanny ability to read people like cards in the half-hour series. His casino empire is global, but his crown jewel is in Philly. He is uniquely brilliant and deeply unhinged — a deadly combo if you cross him.

Deli Boys was created by Abdullah Saeed and developed by Jenni Konner and Nora Silver under Jenni Konner Productions.

Michelle Nader will return as showrunner and executive producer of Season 2. She will EP alongside Saeed, Konner, and Silver. Nisha Ganatra served as executive producer and director of the pilot.

20th Television produces the comedy series.

Armisen most recently reprised the role of Uncle Fester in Season 2 of Netflix’s Wednesday, starring opposite Jenna Ortega. In May, he concluded his time voicing Elliot Birch in the eighth and final season of Netflix’s Big Mouth.

Armisen is perhaps best known for his 11 seasons on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, as co-creator and co-star of IFC’s Portlandia, and co-writer, co-star, and EP of HBO’s Spanish-Language series Los Espookys.

On the film side, he recently voiced a character in The Super Mario Bros. Movie and starred in Judd Apatow’s The Bubble.

He’s currently touring “Comedy For Musicians But Everyone Is Welcome” and just wrapped his Broadway debut in All In: Comedy About Love.

Adrienne Bailon-Houghton to Compete on Season 5 of “Celebrity Name That Tune”

Posted on August 19, 2025 by Tom Castaneda

Adrienne Bailon-Houghton is ready to test her music skills.

Fox has unveiled the complete list of stars taking part in Celebrity Name That Tune Season 5, with the 41-year-old Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian American actress, singer and television personality among the competitors.

The competition show premieres on Monday, September 15, at 8 p.m. ET and is available to stream the next day on Hulu.

The hour-long game show tests contestants’ music knowledge as they battle it out in an assortment of challenging musical games for a chance to win over $100,000.

Jane Krakowski hosts the game show with former American Idol judge Randy Jackson serving as band leader. Each episode of Celebrity Name That Tune is comprised of two stand-alone half-hour contests, each pitting two players—either celebrity or civilian pairings—against each other as they test their knowledge of songs, performed by the live band.

Each contest features a rotating variety of games from the original format, before the iconic Bid-a-Note round. The player with the most money at the end of Bid-a-Note wins the game and takes his or her bank into the Golden Medley bonus round, for a chance to win additional cash and potentially the life-changing $100,000 grand prize. The celebrity contestants compete for their chosen charities in each episode.

In addition to Bailon-Hougho, who will be playing for Birthfund, the other stars of Season 5 include Modern Family alums Jesse Tyler Ferguson (“Pronoun” Nick Leung) and Ariel Winter (SOSA).

Former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Rinna (St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital) and Comedian Matteo Lane (Doctors Without Borders) will be featured in the same episode.

Other celebrities that will take part in Season 5 include Actress Aisha Tyler (Planned Parenthood), Actress Mira Sorvino (UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons), Lil Jon (Pencils for Promise), Chord Overstreet (A Sense of Home), Omar Epps (The Creative Coalition), Kal Penn (World Central Kitchen), Chris Harrison (Experience Camps), Emily Osment (Project Angel Food), Nia Vardalos (Hope 4 Kids), Jillian Michaels (ASPCA), Ron Funches (Next For Autism).

Former Real Housewives of New York City alum Sonja Morgan (The Trevor Project) and Project Runway mentor Christian Siriano (GLAAD) will also be part of the new season.

Other stars in the game show include Debi Mazar (World Central Kitchen), Reggie Watts (Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund), Rob Riggle (Riggle Foundation), Finesse Mitchell (Ora Lee Smith Cancer Research Foundation), Torrey Devitto (SafeBae) and Craig Robinson (Saint Leonard’s Ministries).

Celebrity Name That Tune is produced by Fox Entertainment Studios, Prestige Entertainment and BiggerStage.

Hulu Releases First Trailer for Season 5 of Selena Gomez’s “Only Murders In The Building”

Posted on August 12, 2025 by Tom Castaneda

Selena Gomez is feeling mobbed…

Hulu‘s Only Murders In The Building, starring the 33-year-old Mexican American actress and singer, will premiere its fifth season on September 9, and the comedy’s first official trailer is setting up fans for hilarious chaos.

In the Season 4 finale, a new dead victim was revealed: doorman Lester Coluca (Teddy Coluca), a character that had been part of the story since day one. Poor Lester was found deceased in a water fountain just outside the Arconia by the unluckiest trio, Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin), Oliver Putnam (Martin Short) and Mabel Mora (Gomez), Arconia residents who have a knack for getting caught up in murder mysteries.

In the trailer and back in the present day, a police report says Lester’s death was accidental.

However, Charles, Oliver and Mabel know better, so they question everything. They’ve helped investigate four murders thus far, of course, all of which were covered extensively on their hit podcast “Only Murders in the Building.”

One thing everyone can agree on is that Lester died under suspicious circumstances, and it was definitely not an accident. As their investigation begins, their leads take them into the shadowy corners of New York and beyond. The trio uncovers a dangerous web of secrets that connects powerful billionaires, old-school mobsters, and the mysterious residents of the Arconia, like Howard Morris (Michael Cyril Creighton).

The mobster storyline seems important, as it’s revealed that Lester had a run-in with them the night of his death. Detective Donna Williams (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) steps in and points the trio in the right direction when she discovers a finger someone has left behind. Will the appendage help them nail a killer?

Various previously announced guest stars make their big debut in the trailer including Bobby Cannavale, Renée Zellweger, Christoph Waltz, Beanie Feldstein, Dianne Wiest, Logan Lerman, Jermaine Fowler and Keegan-Michael Key among others.

It also features the return of Téa Leoni, who first appeared in the final moments of the Season 4 finale. She plays Sofia Caccimelio, wife of Nicky “The Neck” Caccimelio, a missing person with ties to the Caputo crime family.

The trailer implies Charles and Sofia may have had an affair, which makes sense because who can resist Brazzos?

Additional actors returning from prior seasons include Nathan Lane as Teddy Dimas, last seen in Season 2; Richard Kind, who played Vince Fish in Season 4; and Meryl Streep as Oliver’s wife Loretta Durkin, from Seasons 3 and 4. It is as yet unknown if clever series co-creator John Hoffman has found a way to bring back Paul Rudd this season, following appearances in seasons 2 to 4.

Three episodes will be released on premiere night, with new episodes to follow weekly on Tuesdays via Hulu.

Chris Estrada to Star in NBC Warehouse-Themed Comedy “Forklift”

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Tom Castaneda

Chris Estrada has reached a fork(lift) in the road.

The Mexican American comedian, writer and producer will headline, co-write and executive produce Forklift, a single-camera warehouse comedy in development at NBC.

Former top Comedy Central executives Kent Alterman and Sarah Babineau will executive produce for Good Walk, the company they launched after leaving the cable network in the wake of the Viacom-CBS merger.

In Forklift, co-written by Estrada and Rick Cisario, Victor (Estrada), a forklift driver promoted to warehouse supervisor, finds that upward mobility comes with a cost when his friends and co-workers go from viewing him as their brother to now being part of “Big Brother.”

The series is inspired by real-life experiences by Estrada, who was still working at his warehouse job when he got the call that Hulu had taken his comedy series This Fool in for development.

Estrada and Cisario executive produce with Good Walk’s Alterman and Babineau as well as Jordan Tilzer. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.

The sale of Forklift comes amidst a major comeback for comedy series built around standup comedians.

Touring comedian Estrada, who has appeared on Comedy Central standup specials during Alterman and Babineau’s tenure there, previously co-created, executive produced and starred in the 2022 Hulu comedy series This Fool, which ran for two seasons.

He recently guest starred on the NBC/Universal TV sitcom Lopez vs. Lopez; co-wrote and starred in 5th of July; and will be seen in the upcoming Neon feature Wrong Girls opposite Kristen Stewart, Seth Rogen and Lakeith Stanfield.

Cisario is the writer of the upcoming feature Old Pals with Brian Cox, Henry Winkler, Emma Roberts and Evan Rachel Wood. His screenplay Supported is on the 2024 Blacklist’s Disability list.

Eva Longoria to Direct Film Adaptation of Xochitl Gonzalez’s Novel “Anita de Monte Laughs Last”

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Tom Castaneda

Eva Longoria is laughin’ last…

The 50-year-old Mexican American actress, director and producer will re-team with Searchlight Pictures to helm author Xochitl Gonzalez’s film adaptation of her novel Anita de Monte Laughs Last.

Longoria also will produce the film through Hyphenate Media Group, her production company with Cris Abrego, along with Jada Miranda.

The New York Times bestseller tells the story of a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death. Anita de Monte Laughs Last is a propulsive examination of power, love, and art, daring to ask who gets to be remembered and who is left behind in the rarefied world of the elite.

The book was on Reese’s Book Club Pick and listed as Best Book of 2024 by Kirkus, Time, NPR, Goodreads, Electric Lit and more.

Longoria and Searchlight last teamed on the 2023 feature Flamin’ Hot, which served as the multi-

hyphenate’s feature directorial debut. Based on the novel A Boy, a Burrito and a Cookie: From Janitor to Executive by Richard Montañez, the feature stars Jesse Garcia, Annie Gonzalez and Tony Shalhoub. The dramedy received written by Yvette Chávez and Lewis Colick earned multiple awards and nominations, including an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.

SVP Production’s Taylor Friedman and creative executive Daniel Yu will be overseeing Anita de Monte Laughs Last for Searchlight Pictures, reporting to co-heads of production and development DanTram Nguyen and Katie Goodson-Thomas.

Gonzalez published her debut novel Olga Dies Dreaming in 2022, which became a New York Times bestseller and was ordered to pilot by Hulu, which Gonzalez adapted.

She is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her work there

Longoria’s recent work also includes Eva Longoria: Searching for Spain, an eight-part CNN Original series chronicling her immersive gastronomic journey across Spain, following the success of her previous Searching for Mexico.

It was also recently announced that Longoria will expand the “Searching For” franchise with Searching for France, which is in production.

Through her Hyphenate Media Group, Longoria champions creator-led stories for global audiences.

She has a history of directing over the last decade, with past credits including the boxing documentary La Guerra Civil for DAZN.

Up next, she will also direct the Paula Pell-penned Netflix comedy The Fifth Wheel with Gloria Sanchez producing.

Liza Colón-Zayas to Star in Onyx Collective’s Untitled Real Estate Drama for Hulu

Posted on July 12, 2025 by Tom Castaneda

Liza Colón-Zayas is ready to bring the drama…

The 52-year-old Puerto Rican Emmy-winning actress has landed a recurring role in the as-yet-untitled real estate drama pilot ordered by the Onyx Collective for Hulu.

Colon-Zayas, the first Latina to win the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Tina Marrero in the comedy-drama series The Bear, is among a roster of new cast additions that includes William Fichtner, Alfredo Castro and Jared Paul Abrahamson.

Production begins in Toronto on July 14.

They join the previously announced leads Edgar Ramirez and Jacob Scipio, as well as series regulars Leslie Grace, Mariana di Girolamo, Liz Caribel Sierra and Armando Rivera.

From Roberto Patino and Cassius Corrigan, the drama follows a cutthroat battle to dominate the Manhattan skyline, where two rival real estate developers (Ramirez and Scipio) risk everything — wealth, family and their souls — as their ambition turns into obsession, and their partnership turns into war.

Colón-Zayas will play Rosie, as the beloved and socially minded head of a community board in her Lower East Side city district. Rosie finds herself at the center of an explosive real estate development project that inspires as much rage as it does admiration and threatens to destroy the heavily Puerto Rican community she calls home.

Castro will play Jacobo Saladín, the imposing patriarch of the Saladín corporation. Jacobo is a legendary, self-made billionaire and real estate mogul who has built vast communities that house millions of people throughout Latin America, and who suddenly finds his empire at risk of collapse.

Patino, who serves as showrunner, Corrigan, Ramírez and pilot director Alonso Ruizpalacios executive produce alongside Oly Obst and Luke Maxwell of 3 Arts, Ramirez, Liz Tigelaar and Stacey Silverman of Best Day Ever, as well as real estate developer Donahue Peebles III, who will serve as technical consultant.

Raúl Esparza to Star in Hollywood Bowl Production of “Jesus Christ Superstar”

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Tom Castaneda

Raúl Esparza has landed a Superstar role…

The 54-year-old Cuban American actor, considered one of Broadway‘s most prominent leading men since the 2000s, has joined the cast of next month’s Hollywood Bowl production of Jesus Christ Superstar, starring the Cynthia Erivo and Adam Lambert.

Esparza will play Pontius Pilate. Erivo is playing Jesus and Lambert is Judas.

Additional casting will be announced.

Sergio Trujillo directs.

The Andrew Lloyd Webber–Tim Rice musical will be performed on Friday, August 1, at 8:00 pm; Saturday, August 2, at 8:00 pm; and Sunday, August 3, at 7:30 pm.

Esparza’s many stage credits include Tony-nominated performances in Broadway’s Taboo (2005), Company (2007) The Homecoming (2008), and Speed-the-Plow (2009).

Other theater credits include Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, Assassins and Evita.

On television, Esparza can currently be seen in Hulu’s limited series Candy, and he is perhaps best known for his long-running role of Rafael Barba in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

His film credits include Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene, Jonathan Ullman’s Trouble in the Heights, Wes Craven’s My Soul to Take and Sidney Lumet’s Find Me Guilty.

Dominic Colón Signs with M88 for Representation

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Tom Castaneda

Dominic Colón has new representation.

The 49-year-old Puerto Rican award-winning actor, writer, producer and filmmaker has signed with M88 for representation.

Colón, who hails from the Bronx, New York, made The Blacklist’s inaugural Latinx TV List with his television pilot Papi.

As one of the top three finalists, he received a blind pilot deal at Hulu. He has had projects in development at Hulu, ABC & UTV and is a 2024 WGAE Showrunner Training Academy graduate.

Colón has been set as the co-writer/creator of the television adaptation of Joseph “Fat Joe” Cartagena’s memoir The Book of Jose, alongside Kenya Barris, which is currently in pilot development at Starz with BET Studios. The series will follow the rags-to-riches story of Grammy-nominee Fat Joe and chronicle his evolution from growing up in the Bronx to becoming a global superstar with a career spanning over three decades.

Colón was a writer on the Netflix series, Boots (fka The Corps), the final project produced by Norman Lear, set to premiere later this year. In collaboration with Steven Canals, Colón recently developed a one-hour medical drama for ABC and UTV. In the podcast space, he wrote the episode “Our Lady of the Six Train” for the GLAAD-nominated scripted podcast anthology, Love In Gravity.

As a playwright, Colón’s plays have been developed by Atlantic Theater Company, LAByrinth Theater Company, Latinx Playwrights Circle, The SOL Project and The National Queer Theater. His play The War I Know received the inaugural Write-It-Out Prize, a cash award given to a playwright living with HIV.

Additionally, his play, The Empty Space or White People Ruin Everything, was a finalist for the Relentless Award.

As an actor, Colón has appeared in over 60 television shows and movies. He will soon be seen in a recurring role on Brad Inglesby’s upcoming HBO limited series Task, starring Mark Ruffalo.

In addition to his career as a professional writer and actor, Colón has taught acting and playwriting at various high schools, hospitals, prisons, and juvenile detention facilities throughout NYC.

Felipe Rodriguez Signs with Paradigm for Representation

Posted on May 8, 2025 by Tom Castaneda

It’s a paradigm shift for Felipe Rodriguez.

Paradigm has signed the Montreal-born Spanish Virgin River and The Good Doctor director for representation.

Rodriguez is known for his work at U.S. networks and streamers, and is currently directing the season finale of Netflix’s romantic drama series Virgin River.

He has directed pilots such as Citytv’s Hudson & Rex, BYUtv’s Ruby and the Well and full seasons of Netflix horror Slasher: Guilty Party and Omni crime drama Blood and Water: Fire & Ice, as directing episodes of ABC medical drama The Good Doctor.

Most recently, he completed a stylistic overhaul for Hudson & Rex‘s seventh season.

Last year, he earned three Canadian Screen Award (CSA) nominations, including a win for Best Director in a Youth Series for Hulu’s The Hardy Boys.

His feature Never Too Late to Celebrate for Hallmark Channel was nominated for Best TV Movie at the CSAs and for Best Direction at the DGC Awards, where he also picked up a nomination for Ruby and the Well, which brings his total to six DGC nods in five years.

Rodriguez originally made his name as cinematographer on Nat Geo’s Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary, which captured an illegal crossing of the Rio Grande for the first time on camera.

That inspired his debut feature, Kidnap Capital.

He works in English, French and Spanish and is known for his visual style that was influenced by his time as a DOP.

“I’m honored to join the incredible team at Paradigm, whose reputation for championing bold, diverse voices truly resonates with me,” said Rodriguez. “Their global outlook and deep industry reach align perfectly with the kinds of ambitious, visually driven projects I’m drawn to, and I’m excited to build on the momentum of recent years with such a dynamic team.”

ABC Renews Ramón Rodríguez’s Hit Police Drama “Will Trent” for Fourth Season

Posted on April 3, 2025 by Tom Castaneda

Where there’s a Will (Trent), there’s Ramón Rodríguez.

ABC has renewed its hit police drama Will Trent, starring the 45-year-old Puerto Rican actor for a fourth season.

Season 4 will consist of 18 episodes, per Deadline sources.

The news comes as little surprise following another stellar season led by Rodríguez, who plays the titular GBI detective with a complicated personal life and an adorable sidekick, his dog Betty.

New episodes air on Tuesdays and via streaming the next day on Hulu.

Based on Karin Slaughter’s New York Times bestselling Will Trent series, Special Agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta’s overwhelmed foster care system. Now, he uses his unique point of view in the pursuit of justice and has the highest clearance rate in the GBI.

The series also stars Erika Christensen as Angie Polaski, Iantha Richardson as Faith Mitchell, Jake McLaughlin as Michael Ormewood and Sonja Sohn as Amanda Wagner.

Gina Rodriguez joined the Season 3 cast as Marion Alba, Will’s new love interest following his blow-up with Angie, with whom he had an on-and-off relationship since they were kids.

Scott Foley is also a Season 3 newbie, stepping in as Seth McDale to fill the empty spot in Angie’s heart.

Executive producers include Liz Heldens, Daniel Thomsen, Karin Slaughter, Oly Obst, Howard Deutch, Ellen Marie Blum and Rodriguez. Heldens and Thomsen also serve as showrunners.

Will Trent is produced by 20th Television.

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