Stephen Merchant News

In this 80s-tastic music video, Lip Sync Battle host LL COOL J & colorful commentator Chrissy Teigen are taking their turn at lip-syncing, performing the Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock hit "It Takes Two."  Also featured in the music video is special guest star John Witherspoon and a peek at some of the upcoming Season 5 competitors, including Darren Criss, Andy Roddick, Big Bird, Queer Eye's Fab 5, (Tan France, Antoni Porowski, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown and Jonathan Van Ness) and more! The new season of Lip Sync Battle returns January 17 at 9pm ET/PT on Paramount Network.

RYAN HANSEN SOLVES CRIMES ON TELEVISION*,  a meta comedy skewering Hollywood and police procedurals, returns for Season 2 on January 30, 2019 on YouTube Premium.  The show stars Hansen, as a ridiculous version of himself, who joins an LAPD task force partnering actors with homicide detectives so they can use their “actor skills” to help solve murders. In Season 2, Ryan's back, but after Detective Mathers, Ryan's partner from the first season (Samira Wiley), gets sidelined, rogue cop Vince Vincente (Avon Barksdale Wood Harris) steps in as Ryan's new partner. Together the two will have to buddy up to solve an array of puzzling crimes.

Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures presents, in association with Film4 and The Ink Factory A WWE Studios, Seven Bucks Productions, Misher Films Production, the first official poster and film stills for FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY.

Below is the Season 5 trailer for Paramount Network's hit series "Lip Sync Battle." The global multiplatform franchise returns January 17 at 9pm ET/PT featuring performances by some of today's biggest stars, includingQueer Eye's Fab 5 (Tan France, Antoni Porowski, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown and Jonathan Van Ness), Andy Roddick, Brooklyn Decker, Darren Criss, Big Bird, and Vanessa Morgan with special appearances by Mariah Carey, Serena Williams, and more! 

Based on a true story, FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY follows reformed gangster Ricky, wife Julia, daughter Paige and son Zak as they make a living wrestling together in tiny venues. When Paige and Zak get the opportunity to try out for WWE, the family grabs a once-in-a-lifetime chance to turn their wildest dreams into a dazzling future. However, brother and sister quickly discover that to become superstars, both their talent and their relationship will be put to the test.

Stephen Merchant (The Office, Extras, Hello Ladies) and Asim Chaudhry (People Just Do Nothing) star as two mismatched neighbours driving across the country to pick up the one toy that will make a little girl's Christmas dreams come true.

'The Girl in the Spider's Web' will premiere at the 13th Rome Film Fest. The festival's opening night film will be 'Bad Times at the El Royale.' Other films in the lineup include Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet's 'Beautiful Boy,' 'Halloween,' and 'The Miseducation of Cameron Post.' See the full lineup below!

DREAM CORP LLC returns for season 2 Sunday, October 21st at midnight on Adult Swim. Network greenlights Season 3 prior to new season premiere.

On the heels of its third-consecutive Emmy® nomination for Outstanding Structured Reality Program, the global multiplatform hit franchise, “Lip Sync Battle” is returning for a fifth season on Paramount Network.  Twelve new half-hour episodes will premiere in 2019.

YouTube announces star-studded Hollywood guest stars for Season 2 of RYAN HANSENS SOLVES CRIMES ON TELEVISION*.

The Donmar announces full casting for Artistic Director Josie Rourke's production of Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare. Joining the previously announced Hayley Atwell and Jack Lowden are Ben Allen, Matt Bardock, Nicholas Burns, Jackie Clune, Rachel Denning, Molly Harris, Adam McNamara, Raad Rawi, Sule Rimi, Anwar Russell and Helena Wilson.

The new Paramount Network today received its first-ever Emmy nominations as a network after successfully rebranding earlier this year.

Shakespeare's Globe has announced the all-female cast for Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's new play Emilia, directed by Nicole Charles. The play charts the life of Emilia Bassano, the poet, mother and feminist who is thought to have inspired the 'Dark Lady' in Shakespeare's sonnets as well as the Emilia characters who appear in Othello, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Winter's Tale and The Comedy of Errors. Emilia continues to thread her way through each of the plays in which she appears this summer season, excepting Emilia the Abbess in The Comedy of Errors.

Ramona Singer (“Real Housewives of New York”) is on this week's Lip Sync Battle to tell us what brings all the boys to the yard. LSB airs Thursdays 10:30/9:30c on Paramount Network. Check out the clip below!

Melissa Gorga (“Real Housewives of New Jersey”) goes all out for The Pussycat Dolls' “When I Grow Up” for her Lip Sync Battle with Ramona Singer (“Real Housewives of New York”). Check out the preview below!

Check out a preview of Derek Hough's performance of 'Any Man Of Mine' on a special Shania Twain themed episode of Paramount Network's “LIP SYNC BATTLE.” The highly anticipated Nicole Scherzinger vs. Derek Hough lip sync battle debuts Thursday, June 21 at 10:30pm ET/PT.

Nicole Scherzinger tells us the best thing about being a woman on this week's Shania Twain Tribute. Spoiler: it involves having fun! Lip Sync Battle, Thursdays 10:30/9:30c on Paramount Network. Check out the preview below!

Check out a preview clip of Mena Suvari's performance of 'Son Of A Preacher Man' on Paramount Network's “LIP SYNC BATTLE.” The highly anticipated Alicia Silverstone vs. Mena Suvari lip sync battle debuts Thursday, June 14 at 10:30pm ET/PT.

Check out a preview of Alicia Silverstone's performance of 'Fancy' on Paramount Network's “LIP SYNC BATTLE.” The highly anticipated Alicia Silverstone vs. Mena Suvari lip sync battle debuts Thursday, June 14 at 10:30pm ET/PT.

Lisbeth Salander, the cult figure and title character of the acclaimed Millennium book series created by Stieg Larsson, will return to the screen in The Girl in the Spider's Web, a first-time adaptation of the recent global bestseller. Golden Globe winner Claire Foy, the star of 'The Crown,' will play the outcast vigilante defender under the direction of Fede Alvarez, the director of 2016's breakout thriller Don't Breathe; the screenplay adaptation is by Steven Knight and Fede Alvarez & Jay Basu.