Hacks is back for one final curtain call. HBO Max announced on Monday that the upcoming fifth season of the Emmy-winning comedy starring Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder would also be its final season. Hacks Season 5, which consists of 10 episodes, will premiere on April 9 and run through the series finale on May […]
Jean Smart is opening up for the first time about undergoing triple bypass surgery on her heart while filming Season 3 of Hacks. The 74-year-old Golden Globe and Emmy winner, who had previously disclosed that she had undergone an unspecified heart procedure, shared the extent of her health scare in a new conversation with Variety […]
By the time Hacks reached its fifth and final season, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) was still Deborah Vance — big earrings, bold looks and all. But for costume designer Kathleen Felix-Hager, it was Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) whose wardrobe told the story of just how much the young writer had changed since Season 1. As […]
A few lucky Hacks fans will have one last chance to see Jean Smart as Deborah Vance, Hannah Einbinder as Ava, along with other memorable characters from the acclaimed HBO Max comedy, when they take the stage for Deborah Vance & Friends & Enemies Live!, an FYC event, Friday night. The sold-out production set inside […]
Now that Hacks has concluded its five-season run, Andy Cohen had a bone to pick with showrunner and star Paul W. Downs on live TV. During Tuesday’s episode of Watch What Happens Live, the talk show host called out Downs over a joke at his expense, which Jean Smart’s Deborah Vance told in the recent […]
Leslie Bibb hates to think of herself as having a moment. “I don’t like to say moment, because it can be over like that,” she says. “It feels like I have been preparing for this my whole career, and the stars are aligning for the parts.” From her breakout role as Brooke McQueen on Popular, […]