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Only Murders in the Building Season 5 Premieres September 9; Apple TV+ Stick Renewed for Season 2

Only Murders in the Building returns for Season Five — and your favorite crime-solving trio is back for another killer case! The series premieres on Tuesday, September 9, with three episodes, followed by new episodes weekly on Hulu. After their beloved doorman, Lester, dies under suspicious circumstances, Charles, Oliver, and Mabel refuse to believe it was an accident. Their investigation plunges them into the shadowy corners of New York and beyond — where the trio uncovers a dangerous web of secrets connecting powerful billionaires, old-school mobsters, and the mysterious residents of the Arconia. The trio discovers a deeper divide between their storied city they thought they knew and the new New York evolving around them — one where the old mob fights to hold on as newer, even more dangerous players emerge.

Season Five Cast: Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Michael Cyril Creighton, and special guest stars include Meryl Streep, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Richard Kind, Nathan Lane, Bobby Cannavale, Renée Zellweger, Logan Lerman, Christoph Waltz, Téa Leoni, Keegan-Michael Key, Beanie Feldstein, Dianne Wiest, Jermaine Fowler and more.

Apple TV+ announced that its widely celebrated, beloved sports comedy hit, Stick, starring and executive produced by Owen Wilson and created by Jason Keller, has been renewed for a second season with more heart, laughs and new characters, as well as the return of the ensemble cast including Wilson, Peter Dager, Marc Maron, Mariana Treviño, and Lilli Kay. The season one finale of Stick is now streaming globally on Apple TV+. In this week's finale episode, "Déjà Vu All Over Again," an unexpected visitor shakes things up while Santi's golf dreams hang in the balance.

In Stick season one, Wilson stars as Pryce Cahill, an over-the-hill, ex-pro golfer whose career was derailed prematurely 20 years ago. After the collapse of his marriage and while working at an Indiana sporting goods store, Pryce hedges his bets, and future, entirely on a troubled 17-year-old golf phenom named Santi (Dager). Stick is a heartfelt, feel-good sports comedy about a found family and their relationships set within the world of golf as it has never been shown before.

In addition to Wilson and Dager, the season one ensemble cast includes Maron, Treviño, Kay, Judy Greer and Timothy Olyphant, and features guest appearances from golf superstars such as Collin Morikawa, Keegan Bradley, Max Homa, Wyndham Clark and more. Additional cameos include broadcasters Jim Nantz and Trevor Immelman, Good Good’s Matt Scharff, Brad Dalke and Garrett Clark, as well as golf enthusiast Dan Rapaport.

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Labels: Apple TV+, Hulu, Only Murders in the Building, Stick

Marc Maron Gets Second HBO Comedy Special; Outlander Prequel Renewed for Season 2 Ahead of Series Premiere

Marc Maron's second HBO Original comedy special Marc Maron: Panicked debuts Friday, August 1 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max. In his second HBO special, comedian and podcaster Marc Maron offers up his nuanced perspective on our increasingly uncertain world.

This will be Maron's sixth stand-up special. His past specials have garnered WGA Awards and Critics Choice Awards nominations, as well as critical and audience acclaim. Maron has a peerless reputation in the podcasting world through his landmark podcast WTF with Marc Maron. Launched in 2009, and coming to an end this fall, this interview-style podcast has over 50 million listeners every year with over 1,600 episodes recorded to date.

Maron starred in the Netflix series GLOW, for which he received a Critics Choice Award nomination and SAG Award nomination, as well as the scripted series Maron, which aired for four seasons on IFC. Most recently, Are We Good?, a documentary chronicling his career and journey of overcoming grief and loss, premiered at SXSW and screened at the Tribeca Festival. Currently, Maron stars alongside Owen Wilson in the Apple TV+ golf comedy series Stick.

STARZ announced an early Season Two renewal of its epic romantic saga, Outlander: Blood of My Blood, ahead of its summer premiere. Season One of the highly anticipated prequel series will debut on Friday, August 8, with new episodes available to stream weekly on Fridays on the STARZ app, and all STARZ streaming and on-demand platforms. Production on Season Two of Outlander: Blood of My Blood has begun in Scotland on the same stages where the legacy series Outlander filmed for the past ten years.

A stand-alone prequel series set in the Outlander universe, Outlander: Blood of My Blood follows the romance between Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater) and Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy), and Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield) and Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine). From the battlefields of World War I to the rugged Highlands of 18th century Scotland, two fated couples must defy the forces that seek to tear them apart, unfolding in surprising and unforeseen ways.

Outlander: Blood of My Blood features new cast, characters and stories, welcoming viewers unfamiliar with the "Outlander" universe, while also providing existing fans with origin stories of fan-favorite characters from early seasons of Outlander, offering new perspectives that will change what they think they know. In addition to Corfield, Irvine, Slater and Roy, Outlander: Blood of My Blood stars Tony Curran (Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat), Rory Alexander (Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser), Séamus McLean Ross (Colum MacKenzie), Sam Retford (Dougal MacKenzie) and Conor MacNeill (Ned Gowan).

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Labels: GLOW, HBO, Starz, Stick

Peacock Orders Dig from Amy Poehler; Apple TV+ Comedy Stick Premieres June 4; Remembering Ruth Buzzi

Peacock has announced the series pickup of the new comedy Dig, from Emmy Award-winning executive producer Mike Schur (A Man on the Inside, The Good Place, Parks and Recreation) and Emmy Award-winning actor and executive producer Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation, Inside Out 2). Schur and Poehler will co-write the pilot episode and executive produce the series, with Poehler set to star. The series marks the first collaboration between the pair since Parks and Recreation, which aired its series finale in 2015. In the series, four women working at an archeological dig in Greece are at wildly different crossroads in their lives. When the team uncovers a long-buried secret with the potential to rewrite history, they find themselves at the center of a high-stakes international conspiracy.

Produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, the series is an adaptation of Kate Myers' bestseller Excavations. J.J. Philbin (Only Murders in the Building, Single Parents) also serves as a writer and executive producer on the series. Morgan Sackett (Hacks, The Good Place, Parks and Recreation) is executive producing, along with Dave Becky (Loot, Russian Doll, Insecure) and David Miner (Hacks, Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock) for 3 Arts, Sharon Jackson (Life & Beth) for Ocean Avenue, and Kate Arend (Russian Doll) and Jordan Grief (Lucy and Desi) for Paper Kite. Author Kate Myers (Excavations, Salty) is co-executive producer.

Apple TV+ unveiled the trailer for its new sports comedy, Stick, starring and executive produced by Owen Wilson and created by Jason Keller. The 10-episode series will make its global debut on Apple TV+ with the first three episodes on Wednesday, June 4, followed by one new episode every Wednesday, through July 23, 2025. In Stick, Wilson stars as Pryce Cahill, an over-the-hill, ex-pro golfer whose career was derailed prematurely 20 years ago. After the collapse of his marriage and getting fired from his job at an Indiana sporting goods store, Pryce hedges his bets, and future, entirely on a troubled 17-year-old golf phenom named Santi (Peter Dager). Stick is a heartfelt, feel-good sports comedy about a found family and their relationships set within the world of golf as it has never been shown before.

In addition to Wilson and Dager, the ensemble cast includes Marc Maron, Mariana Treviño, Lilli Kay, Judy Greer and Timothy Olyphant, and features guest appearances from golf superstars such as Collin Morikawa, Keegan Bradley, Max Homa, Wyndham Clark and more. Additional cameos include broadcasters Jim Nantz and Trevor Immelman, Good Good's Matt Scharff, Brad Dalke and Garrett Clark, as well as golf enthusiast Dan Rapaport.

Actress and comedienne Ruth Buzzi, who starred on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and had a recurring role as Margie "Pete" Peterson on That Girl, has died. She died at her home in her sleep in hospice care in Stephenville, Texas, on May 1, of complications from Alzheimer's disease. Ms. Buzzi was 88.

Buzzi had a recurring role as Margie "Pete" Peterson in five episodes of the second season (1967-1968) of the CBS sitcom That Girl. Margie "Pete" Peterson is a friend of Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas).

She was a regular performer on the 1968-1973 NBC comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. She was known for her role as "spinster" Gladys Ormphby, clad in drab brown with her bun hairdo covered by a visible hairnet knotted in the middle of her forehead. Among her recurring characters on Laugh-In were Flicker Farkle, youngest of the Farkle family; Busy-Buzzi, a Hedda Hopper–type Hollywood gossip columnist; Doris Swizzler, a cocktail-lounge habituée who always got smashed with husband Leonard (Dick Martin); and one of the Burbank Airlines Stewardesses, inconsiderate flight attendants. She won a Golden Globe Award in 1973 and received five Emmy nominations for her work on the series.

Some of her other sitcom guest appearances included The Monkees, That's Life (1969), Here's Lucy (1972), Love, American Style (2 episodes), Lotsa Luck!, Alice, Aloha Paradise, Gun Shy, Down to Earth, Check It Out!, Life with Lucy, The Love Boat (2 episodes), Saved by the Bell, The Munsters Today (2 episodes), They Came From Outer Space, Out of This World (3 episodes), Major Dad, The Jamie Foxx Show, Cousin Skeeter, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd.

Buzzi starred with Jim Nabors as the time-traveling androids Fi and Fum in the 1975 ABC children's series The Lost Saucer, which was produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. In 1979, she co-starred on the Canadian children's comedy show Whatever Turns You On.

She joined the cast of Sesame Street in 1993 as shopkeeper, Ruthie, as part of the "Around the Corner" set expansion. She played the role of Ruthie from 1993 to 2001 but segments featuring Suzie Kabloozie and Feff were repeated on the show until 2008.

Some of her other television guest appearances included Night Gallery, Emergency!, Medical Center (2 episodes), CHiPs (2 episodes), Trapper John, M.D. (1982), Days of Our Lives (6 episodes), and Masquerade. In 2003, she appeared as the eccentric Nurse Kravitz in six episodes of the NBC daytime soap opera Passions.

She was also known for her voice work. She was the voice of Mama Bear in the 1985-1986 CBS animated series The Berenstain Bears. She was the voice of Nose Marie in the 1986-1987 ABC animated series Pound Puppies. Some of her other voice credits included Baggy Pants and the Nitwits, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Paw Paws, Cro, and Sheep in the Big City.

Ms. Buzzi was a talented and funny actress. She was the only featured player to appear in every episode of Laugh-In including the pilot for the show and the Laugh-In television special. We thank her for the laughs and entertainment that she brought us during her career. She will be sorely missed.

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Labels: Apple TV+, Dig, Laugh-In, Obits, Peacock, Stick, That Girl