Exclusive: A new student will be enrolling at Essex College. Mitchell Slaggert has joined the cast of Mindy Kaling’s HBO Max series The Sex Lives of College Girls as a new series regular for the upcoming second season.

Slaggert will join returning series regulars Pauline Chalamet, Amrit Kaur, Reneé Rapp, and Alyah Chanelle Scott in the half-hour dramedy.

Created by Kaling and Justin Noble, College Girls follows the lives and affairs of four roommates attending New England’s prestigious Essex College. Slaggert will play Jackson, a transfer student, arriving at Essex College after two years at a big party school. He is a former Division I athlete with natural confidence and a depth that begins to show over time.

Noble serves as showrunner and executive produces with Kaling along with Charlie Grandy, Howard Klein, and Matt Warburton. The series is produced by Kaling International in...

The Bipartisan Policy Center, the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate is launching a series of debates between leading U.S. senators. Dubbed “The Senate Project,” the debates will launch 12 p.m. Et on June 13, with Senators Lindsey Graham and Bernie Sanders engaging in a one-hour policy debate. The topics of the debate will be announced one week prior to the event.

“The Senate Project” says the goal of its debate series is “to reintroduce the culture of seeking common ground and consensus that has been the essence of the Senate since it was conceived in 1789.”

The debate will be moderated by Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier. The Kennedy Institute will host the debate in its full-size replica of the U.S. Senate Chamber, and it will be streamed on Fox Nation. The Bipartisan Policy Center will host the second...

Tony winner Andrew Burnap (The Inheritance) will star alongside Rachel Zegler (West Side Story) and Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman franchise) in the live-action remake of Snow White that Marc Webb is directing for Disney—playing a new male lead character, rather than The Prince or the Huntsman of past iterations.

The latest adaptation of Disney’s classic 1938 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, featuring original songs from the La La Land duo of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, will naturally have Burnap sing. Zegler is portraying Snow White, with Gadot as the Evil Queen and Oscar nominee Marc Platt producing, as previously announced. The project will head into production in the UK this spring.

Burnap is primarily known for his stage work, having earned a Tony just last year for his turn as Toby Darling in The Inheritance. The actor has also taken part in productions of This Day Forward,...

Exclusive: Sony Pictures Entertainment has become the fourth major studio to sign the Ruderman Family Foundation’s pledge to audition actors with disabilities for each of its new productions. The Foundation says that Spe’s commitment also furthers its campaign to continue to improve the portrayal of disabilities in films and TV shows.

“Sony Pictures values the partnership and relationship we have with the Ruderman Family Foundation and their tremendous support in furthering opportunity for the disability community,” said Paul Martin, Spe’s chief diversity officer.

The Ruderman Foundation is one of the nation’s leading advocates for the disabled – and, for many years, was one of the harshest critics of Hollywood’s portrayal of people with disabilities.

CBS Entertainment was the first to sign the pledge, in June 2019, followed by NBCUniversal in January of this year, and Paramount Pictures in May.

The pledge states that “We recognize that disability is central to diversity,...

Martha Pinson’s “Tomorrow” took the narrative feature prize at the Scad Savannah Film Festival on Saturday, while Matthew Testa’s “The Human Element” won the documentary award. Other winners were the short “Geoff” and its directors and “Hold the Night” for editing. Skyler Samuels won the acting Jury Award for “Spare Room,” while “One Cambodian Family Please for My Pleasure” won the Jury Award for screenwriting. “Facing the Dragon” took the Unheard Voices trophy. The awards were given at a brunch at the Olde Pink House on Saturday.

The 21st edition of the fest kicked off with Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” on Oct. 27 and honored John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Jackman, Armie Hammer, KiKi Layne and Chloe Grace Moretz, among others. In all, 164 films, including 33 narrative films, 16 documentary films and 115 shorts unspooled at the Savannah fest, which ended Saturday. The festival also screened several awards hopefuls, from...