In brief: 'Ellen Degeneres: For Your Approval' trailer, 'SNL' vets reunite for 'Platonic' and more

So what's Ellen DeGeneres been up to lately? "I decided to take up gardening. I got chickens. Oh yeah, I got kicked out of show business," the comedian jokes in the new trailer for what's being billed as her final stand-up special, Ellen DeGeneres: For You Approval , coming to Netflix Sept. 24. "The 'be kind' girl wasn't kind, that was the headline," she added. Here's the problem: I am comedian who got a talk show and I ended the show every day by saying, 'Be kind to one another.' Had I ended my show by saying 'go f*** yourselves,' people would've been pleasantly surprised to find out I'm kind." After a bombshell 2020 expose of a "toxic" work environment behind the scenes at her eponymous talk show, where "be kind" was the mantra" ...

Saturday Night Live vets Aidy Bryant , Kyle Mooney and Beck Bennett have landed recurring roles in season 2 of the Apple TV+ comedy series Platonic , according to Deadline . Platonic stars Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne as "a platonic pair of former best friends approaching midlife who reconnect after a long rift," per the streaming service. "The duo's friendship becomes all consuming — and destabilizes their lives in a hilarious way." A premiere date for season 2 has yet to be announced ...

The trailer for Small Things Like These , Cillian Murphy 's first film since winning an Oscar for Oppenheimer , has just been released. The movie, based on Claire Keegan 's bestselling novel, stars Cillian as a devoted father who, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, "discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent — and uncovers truths of his own — forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church," according to the film's official synopsis. Cillian also serves as a producer, along with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck ...