In Brief: ‘Saw’ franchise grinds on, and more

Hacks' Megan Stalter and The White Lotus' Will Sharpe have been tapped to star in Too Much, an upcoming Netflix comedy series from Girls creator Lena Dunham and her husband, Luis Felber. Stalter plays a 30-something workaholic New Yorker nursing a broken heart. Looking... Read More.

In Brief: HBO skewering superhero movies with ‘The Franchise’, and more

HBO has greenlit The Franchise, a half-hour comedy from Sam Mendes, the Oscar-winning director of American Beauty, and Veep and Avenue 5 creator Armando Iannucci that pokes fun at superhero movies. Himesh Patel and Aya Cash star in the series about "the crew of an unloved franchise movie fighting for their place in a savage and unruly... Read More.