Kim Kardashian’s legal drama All’s Fair has been renewed for a second season.
Disney+ has ordered a second series of Ryan Murphy’s show – which also features Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts, Teyana Taylor, Matthew Noszka, Sarah Paulson and Glenn Close – after it was the biggest Hulu Original scripted series premiere in three years, based on the first three days of streaming.
The show launched this month and a two-episode series finale will air on December 9 internationally on the streaming service.
All’s Fair – which is written and executive produced by Murphy, who also directs – is about a team of female divorce attorneys who quit their male-dominated company to open their own practice.
Despite the programme’s impressive ratings, it has been bashed by critics.
At the time of writing, All’s Fair has a 3% rating on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer, a measurement of critical entertainment recommendation by professional critics.
However, All’s Fair is rated at 66% on the website’s Popcornmeter, which features audience reviews.
Close recently told how she has seen the whole first series of All’s Fair, and insisted it is “pretty f***ing good”.
She told The Guardian newspaper: “I swear to God, I’ve seen all nine episodes and it’s pretty f***ing good.
“It is what it is: it’s juicy and outrageous at times and touching.”
And the Fatal Attraction star admitted Kardashian is “lovely” to work with and is “very smart”.
Close added: “She’s lovely! And very smart. Very, very conscientious with her kids.
“When we were filming, she was going through working towards her law degree, and near the end, she would have flashcards.
“She now has her law degree, and I asked her, ‘Are you going to practise? And she said, ‘No, I just want it in my back pocket.’ ”
Close also recently admitted she was “very impressed” with Kardashian when working alongside her, telling Newsweek: “I hope when they see the show that they get value from it.
“And I have to say, I’m very impressed with Kim.”
Ray Romano has confirmed the Everybody Loves Raymond: 30th Anniversary Reunion will not lead to a revival.
The 67-year-old actor – who was reunited with co-stars Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Monica Horan, and Madilyn and Sullivan Sweeten on the special CBS show – and the sitcom’s creator Phil Rosenthal have reiterated that the classic series can never be brought back.
Romano told fans early in the programme: “Let’s get one thing out of the way – this is a reunion.”
Rosenthal added that it’s “not a reboot”, while photos of late castmates Peter Boyle, Doris Roberts and Sawyer Sweeten appeared on screen.
Romano explained: “We’re never going to do one, because we’re missing three cast members, three family members.
“We’d never try to do the show without them.”
Boyle – who played Romano’s on-screen dad Frank Barone – died aged 71 in 2006 from multiple myeloma and heart disease, while the TV family’s matriarch Roberts (Marie Barone) died aged 90 a decade later.
Child star Sawyer Sweeten, who played Geoffrey Barone – one of Ray’s twin sons on the show – tragically took his own life in 2015, aged 19.
Rosenthal insisted it “wouldn’t be the same”, and that everyone involved is happy the legacy lives on in reruns.
He said: “We have too much respect for the show itself and for the beautiful audience.
“And thankfully, the show is still on every day, all over the world.”
During the special, a woman in the audience revealed she actually learned English by watching Everybody Loves Raymond while she was growing up in the Philippines.
Rosenthal quipped, “You learned how to speak English from Ray Romano? So were your first English words ‘Ohhh nooo?’”
Brad Garrett – who played Romano’s brother Robert on the show – previously joined Rosenthal and Romano in dismissing the idea of a reboot.
He told PEOPLE magazine: “There won’t be. And I’m just saying that because that’s something that Ray and Phil [Rosenthal] have always said.
“There is no show without the parents. They were the catalyst, and to do anything that would resemble that wouldn’t be right to the audiences or to the loyal fan base.
“And it was about two families, and you can’t get around that.”