Paramount+ recently greenlighted Clueless as an event series, and is looking to pull all the stops making it an event by reassembling the original cast.

As Deadline reported, the project, a sequel to the cult-classic 1995 Paramount Pictures teen comedy film starring Silverstone, landed at Paramount+ after getting a pass at Peacock, with Silverstone set to reprise her role as the Beverly Hills’ it-girl Cher Horowitz.

“We decided to make it an event series because it deserves to be an event,” Paramount+ Head of Originals Jane Wiseman told Deadline in a wide-raging interview about the streamer’s programming strategy. “We feel like this is going to be something that people are going to come to in droves — already you can tell — if you want to get the cast back together, if you want to see where everyone is.”

According to sources, Clueless was picked up off of a pilot script. While the rest of the episodes have not been written yet, I hear the plan is to bring as many of the film’s stars — which include Paul Rudd, Stacey Dash, Donald Faison, Wallace Shawn, Jeremy Sisto and Breckin Meyer — back. (Fellow cast member Btittany Murphy died in 2009.)

“Oh, we would love it,” Wiseman said about the idea, confirming that no other OG actors besides Silverstone have deals to come back.

According to sources, some actors have not even been approached yet. Filming is slated to begin in Los Angeles in 2027.

From Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Jordan Weiss and CBS Studios, Clueless picks up 30 years after the original film. Beloved Beverly Hills icon Cher Horowitz (Silverstone) has figured out a lot: She’s successful in business and has mastered motherhood — that is, until her daughter’s high school years, and Cher finds that parenting a teenager makes her feel “clueless” all over again.

“It’s a mother-daughter story, which I don’t want to overlook because we’re really excited about the next generation of Clueless,” Wiseman said. “Sitting across the table from Alicia Silverstone and hearing her talk about the character, it just makes so much sense. We really wanted to get the band back together and celebrate it in an event series, and that really is what hit home for us.”

As for whether Clueless could continue beyond the initial limited series, Wiseman left the door ajar.

“If I can leave it open-ended, I’d like to,” she said. “But the idea is that this particular version of the show is supposed to be an event. It’s supposed to be open and closed where Cher is in her life and what she and her daughter are up to, and how we can bring the cast back to celebrate it.”

Schwartz, Savage and Weiss are writing the series, which is executive produced by Schwartz & Savage viaa their Fake Empire banner, Weiss, Silverstone and the original film’s writer-director Amy Heckerling and producer Robert Lawrence.

Industry is rounding out the cast for the financial thriller’s upcoming fifth and final season with a whole host of guest and supporting roles.

The series has added Cary Elwes, Dianna Agron, Sam Riley, Jessica Brown Findlay, Luke Manley, Bally Gill and Eduard Poliakov, HBO revealed Monday. The castings also give a slight indication as to the direction for Season 5, building on the previously announcement that Zosia Mamet has joined Season 5 as Carmen Dame, a fitness influencer-turned-wellness tech founder and CEO.

Agron is playing Skip Binksy, CFO of a wellness tech company — whether its one and the same, or a rival wellness tech company, remains to be seen. Elwes will play Padgett Stillman, an investor.

Riley has been cast as Solomon Kerr, an elusive British businessman who made his fortune in Silicon Valley. Brown Findlay is Marina St. Clair, a family friend of Sir Henry Muck. Gill has snagged the role of Nikesh Shah, a charistmatic left-wing politician.

There is also a few new traders in the mix. Manley is set to play Stevie Delmonte, an execution trader. And last but certainly not least, Poliakov has been cast as Olexij Kovalchuk, also a trader.

Industry has transcended extremely humble beginnings as a modest series about a group of young financial professionals on the trading floor at a prestigious global investment firm.

Global viewing for Season 4 has outpaces the third season by roughly 30%, per the network. In the U.S., episodes were averaging 1.7M viewers by the time it was renewed for its fifth and final season ahead of the Season 4 finale. That’s after the Season 4 premiere jumped 20% over that of Season 3 in just three days with 800,000 U.S. cross-platform viewers.

Industry is created, written, and executive produced by Mickey Down & Konrad Kay. They pen the series will writer Joseph Charlton.

In Season 4, at the top of their game and living the lives they set out to have as Pierpoint grads, Harper (Myha’la) and Yasmin (Marisa Abela) are drawn into a high stakes, globetrotting cat-and-mouse game when a splashy fintech darling bursts onto the London scene. As Yasmin navigates her relationship with tech founder Sir Henry Muck (Kit Harington) and Harper is pulled into the orbit of enigmatic executive Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella), their twisted friendship begins to warp and ignite under the pressure of money, power, and the desire to be on top. 

The Season 4 cast also included Ken Leung, Miriam Petche, Sagar Radia, Toheeb Jimoh, Charlie Heaton, Amy James-Kelly, Roger Barclay, Andrew Havill, Kiernan Shipka, Kal Penn, Jack Farthing, Stephen Campbell Moore, Claire Forlani, and Edward Holcroft. 

The series is a Bad Wolf Production for HBO/BBC and is executive produced by Jane Tranter, Kate Crowther, and Ryan Rasmussen for Bad Wolf; Kathleen McCaffrey for Little Gems; and Rebecca Ferguson for BBC. Directors include Mickey Down & Konrad Kay, Michelle Savill, and Luke Snellin.

Elwes is represented by Link Entertainment and Independent Artists Group (IAG). Agron is represented by Paradigm & Hansen, Jacobson, Teller. Riley is represented by Florence Rose at Independent Talent and Tapestry London. Brown Findlay is represented by Tapestry. Manley is represented by Authentic Talent & Literary Management. Gill is represented by Max Latimer at JAG. Poliakov is represented by R Talent 

Apple TV’s Your Friends and Neighbors has been nominated this year in the marquee Emmy category of Outstanding Drama Series. It marks the first-ever Emmy nomination for the series, and it has been achieved in just its second season. It also made a kind of Emmy history as becoming only the second series to score the prestigious nomination without being nommed in any other category in the same season (the first was Big Love in 2009). That indicates the series, which will be heading into its third season in 2027, is becoming a word-of-mouth hit, not just with audiences but also with Television Academy voters.

It is well deserved, and creator/showrunner/writer/executive producer Jonathan Tropper joined Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees Studio to talk about how it got to this point and how much might have had to do with the wild second season. Joining him was co-star Hoon Lee, who plays series star Jon Hamm’s cohort Barney Choi.

Watch the conversation below and scroll down for photos from the event.

The series sees Hamm, back in a suit a la Mad Men’s Don Draper, being fired as a hedge fund manager, dealing with a recent divorce, and trying to pick up the pieces in wealthy Westchester’s Westmont Village, where he turns to stealing from his neighbors’ homes only to discover a host of secrets and affairs hidden within those compounds. In the second season he continues the practice only to be confronted by a new neighbor (James Marsden) who threatens to expose him, an act that once again could put his whole family at risk.

“I’m not sure what it is about the second season specifically that made it catch on. I think in some cases, it’s just the fact that we came after the first season. You know, if I sat down and thought about it, second seasons are generally a little denser,” Tropper mused. “There’s more character complexity because we’ve already built the world. And so I think in the binge culture, the fact that people can sit down and watch 19 episodes as opposed to just the first nine episodes probably gave us a little more staying power. And I think it’s one of those shows that just had a wonderful word-of-mouth spread.”

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Indeed. And was he surprised by that single Emmy nomination? It WAS surprising and surreal. “We were in Europe, so it was the end of the day for us. We had no idea they were being announced that day and my phone just started to blow up. And, you know, I couldn’t really wrap my brain around it until I really started hearing from a lot of friends in L.A. who in real time were learning with the nomination. And then I began to realize that we were in that conversation [which] was really exciting. It’s really great,” he said.

As for his initial desire to tackle this particular world, it was something that had been on his wish list. “This is a show I really wanted to do for a long time. I just had to get to a point where people would let me make this show. Due to a handful of circumstances. I came up more on the side of television action shows, but I had been writing novels that were more set in worlds like this, and that dealt with these types of situations and journeys,” he said. “And I think I was just biding my time till somebody trusted me enough to do a show like this. I lived in Westchester for 15 years. I knew this world really well, and I know it’s really right to me for exploration, and I think it was just a combination of my own maturation and the ideas coinciding to to bring this show forward.”

Jonathan Tropper

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Hoon Lee

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Jonathan Tropper

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As for the casting, and notably getting Hamm, as Andrew Cooper, to return to world later than but still in the universe of a Don Draper? “I mean having Jon Hamm in that role is interesting because you really can’t shake the specter of Don Draper. I think that follows him the minute you put him in a suit, you see. And the way I viewed it is kind of a deconstruction of that character. Or, you know, as John likes to say, you know, ‘Don Draper sold the American Dream and Andrew Cooper bought it.’ And I think we started from there,” Tropper said.

Lee is just one of a sterling cast of supporting players getting rich roles, Barney Choi being one of the buzziest. What did Lee think of the opportunity?

“I think the great appeal of it is being able to give voice to sort of all of your inner turmoil and your inner chaos,” he said. “A lot of the times I’ve been asked to play characters for Jonathan that are sort of organizers of the world or as fixers or operators, and that necessitates a kind of level-headed approach, so to be able to let fly with neuroses after neuroses and sort of allow the character to really spin out was incredibly fun for me to start to, to dabble in, And now that’s just building as the stakes go up for the entire situation, as it becomes more invested in Coop’s world, he starts to really unfurl. And that’s proven both fun but also challenging. And that challenge is always interesting. Like the general feel of the show, it’s incredibly fun to do.”