Peacock announced that the Knives Out filmmaker will serve as creator, writer and director on the streaming service's mystery series Poker Face. Natasha Lyonne is attached to star.
Awkwafina has been tapped for more projects than I can keep track of but the one we shouldn't let get lost in the midst of it all is her upcoming 10-episode series for Comedy Central. The show's title has been confirmed as Awkwafina is Nora From Queens, which indicates the very loosely autobiographical nature of a show based on the rapper-turned-actor's life (her birth name is Nora Lum and she's actually from the NYC borough of Queens). The real coup for Awkwafina is Nora From Queens is the fact that the episode directors …
While fans are clearly elated that Russian Doll Season 2 has officially been ordered by Netflix, it appears we could be just as easily nearing the end of the series, as Russian Doll Season 3 is being planned as the endpoint. The wholly original character-focused sci-fi series was created by Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler, and Leslye Headland and kind of came out of nowhere when its eight-episode first season premiered on Netflix this past February. Broadly described as a twist on the premise of Groundhog Day, the series finds Lyonne playing a woman who keeps dying, only …