The Daily Dish – Wednesday, August 26

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Decider magazine says Kate McKinnon’s new Tiger King series is going to air on NBC, Peacock and the USA Network. The Saturday Night Live star is going to play Carole Baskin.
The show’s description reads, “She sets out to shut down his venture, inciting a quickly escalating rivalry. But Carole has a checkered past of her own and when the claws come out, Joe will stop at nothing to expose what he sees as her hypocrisy. The results prove dangerous.”
 Nicolas Cage is going to play Joe Exotic in a Tiger King series for CBS

The cast of The West Wing — including Rob Lowe, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford and Martin Sheen — will reunite for an HBO Max special to encourage voting in the 2020 Election. (People)

Home Improvement stars Tim Allen and Richard Karn will re-team for a new competition series called Assembly Required on the History channel. According to People magazine, the show, which will debut next year, will have contestants “rebuilding everyday household items in desperate need of fixing.”

Comedian Kevin Hart reveals he tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this year — but jokes that he kept it quiet because he was outranked by a much bigger star.
At Dave Chappelle’s stand-up show in Yellow Springs, Ohio on Saturday, Kev joked that the “problem is…I had it around the same time as Tom Hanks, and I couldn’t say anything because he’s more famous than I am.”
Hanks and wife Rita Wilson announced on March 11th they tested positive for COVID-19 while in Australia. They were the first well-known celebs to be diagnosed.