Mamiya Shotaro leads a Japanese remake of CJ ENM‘s Korean hit drama “Quiz From God,” which will stream exclusively on Prime Video from Dec. 4.

The Prime Original series casts Mamiya as Hatsushima Haruto, a neurosurgeon turned forensic pathologist whose brilliance has earned him a reputation as a heaven-sent genius.

Having quit neurosurgery for reasons that remain unexplained, Haruto now works at the National Forensic Autopsy Center, where he reads the clues the dead leave behind. The cases that land on his table are among Tokyo’s strangest: a divisive underground idol who dies during a performance, a young man who ends up dead after accepting illegal side work, and someone who dies without warning on a first date.

Each investigation leads Haruto to uncommon diseases concealed behind deaths that at first seem to defy explanation, and to the social problems that sit beneath them.

Haruto has a puzzle of his own to solve. He lives with a rare illness and never knows how much longer his body will hold up. A secret buried in his past could also turn everything on its head.

The Korean original, fronted by Ryu Deok-hwan, was a major success at home and got viewers talking. It went on to run for five seasons. The Japanese version keeps the elements that made the original popular while giving the story a new setting, a different mood and its own point of view.

Mamiya said his manager had first floated the idea of him starring in the drama more than a decade ago, when he was in his early 20s, prompting him to seek out the Korean series. “After many twists and turns, the project finally began moving forward last autumn, and before I knew it, we were already filming,” he said.

“I’m especially happy that we were able to bring this project to life with the three producers, all of whom have known me well for many years,” Mamiya added. “This was my first time working with the director, but we were able to build a relationship of trust through our meetings, script readings, and filming. I hope you enjoy watching the drama.”

“Saturday Night Live” alums Jay Pharoah and Cheri Oteri, as well as “Workaholics” star Adam Devine, are among the guest stars set to appear on the upcoming Season 3 of Fox’s animated series “Universal Basic Guys.”

Also set to join in on the universal basic fun this season: Thomas Lennon (“Reno 911!”), Brandon Wardell (“Wonder Man”), David Alan Grier (“In Living Color”), Joe Lo Truglio (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) and William Stanford Davis (“Abbott Elementary”).

The news was revealed Thursday at the SCAD Animation Fest in Atlanta, where “Universal Basic Guys” creators Adam Malamut and Craig Malamut teased the show’s Season 3 and screened the season premiere episode, “Rhoda.”

On the show, which comes from Sony Pictures TV and Fox Entertainment, Pharoah will play “Hugh Truckner,” Oteri appears as “Renee,” Devine is “Chase Waters,” Lennon plays “Antoine Shmegmin,” Wardell shows up as “Darren,” Grier plays “Ferris,” Lo Truglio is “Bouchard” and Davis plays “Earl.”

Pharoah’s credits also include “White Famous,” while Oteri is additionally known for “Scary Movie” and Devine is also known for “Pitch Perfect,” among other projects.

Additional guest voices this season include Brian George, Dana Snyder, Taylor Ortega, Matt Dusk, Chris Elliott, Carlos Alazraqui, Will Sasso, Jon Glaser, Echo Kellum, Kimberly Brooks, Krizia Bajos, Rachel Kaly, Eric Ladin, Rose Abdoo, Jimmi Simpson, Jessica McKenna, Leon Chen, Secunda Wood, Holmes, Eric Bauza, Brianna Gentilella, Tommy Pope, Susie Essman, Liam Cullagh, Will Angus, Anthony Gorgano, Jorge Garcia, Reid Scott, Rob Corddry, Ken Jeong, Retta, Michelle Ortiz, Joe Conklin, Danny Trejo, John Early, Lou Diamond Phillips, Yamaneika Saunders, André Sogliuzzo and Matt Dusk.

Season 3 of “Universal Basic Guys” premieres Sunday, Sept. 27, at 9 p.m. ET on Fox, streaming on Hulu the next day. Adam Malamut and Craig Malamut are the creators and executive producers.

“Universal Basic Guys” centers on two brothers, Mark and Hank Hoagies (both voiced by Adam Malamut), “who lose their jobs to automation and are given $3,000 a month in a new basic income program,” per the show’s logline. Now, they’re using their free time and free money to find purpose in a world where they’re no longer needed. This season, the Hoagies face their most chaotic chapter yet when the arrival of a new family member turns their lives upside down.”

Besides Adam Malamut, the show also stars Talia Genevieve as Tammy Hoagies, Ally Maki (“Wrecked”) as Andrea and Fred Armisen (“Saturday Night Live,” “Portlandia”) as David.

Fox Entertainment, via its animation studio Bento Box Entertainment, and Sony Pictures Television are the production companies behind the show. Besides Adam Malamut and Craig Malamut as co-creators and executive producers, Shane Kosakowski is also an executive producer.

Here’s a first look at the guests:

Amid more layoffs and contraction and renewed going-discless discourse, we are facing no shortage of opinions about what strategies will finally rightsize the global-gaming-industry ship. Apart from relying on the highly anticipated release of “Grand Theft Auto VI” to solve for the nearly $350 billion industry’s problems, a new book by Xsolla president Chris Hewish has a few clear suggestions.

Titled “Durable Advantage: Five Pillars of the Modern Game Business,” the book debuted last month at Gamescom 2026 in Cologne, the annual meeting of the minds for the bigwigs in the gaming industry. In the text, Hewish outlines a handful of areas that, when utilized to the fullest, make up a healthy gaming business: relationships, commerce, intelligence, trust and time.

“Not just great games, but they’ve really built up this business around these five framework pillars,” Hewish tells Variety. “They are governing those pillars when it comes to their business. They’re not completely reliant completely on somebody else for all of those. So the direct analogy is companies that are only working through platforms like the app stores are completely reliant on them for the relationships with their players, for the commerce, for the business, behavioral intelligence on the players and it can slow down building trust with the players because of all of that.”

As current president of a fintech company that makes payment software for video games, including its PayStation payment-integration tools and former exec at Activision and DreamWorks, Hewish wants those in the gaming industry to examine their first-party vs. third-party models and ask, “Are they actually owners or are they just renters of all of the different parts of their business?”

When considering the “intelligence” pillar, Hewish says the gaming industry can “get off that hit-driven hamster wheel of always just being reliant on the next big hit” by taking a deeper look at more-informed data. This also requires looking for gaps in intelligence created when a company doesn’t have proprietary numbers for all aspects of its business, including monetization.

“Companies all have dashboards,” Hewish says. “They know the number of active users. They know the revenue from those users. They know the revenue per user in a particular country. But right now, if they’re only looking at a dashboard, they haven’t really governed all of the intelligence of the data because if you put everything through another platform, the payment data, the commerce data, it stays with the platform, it doesn’t come through.”

An example Hewish offers is a company noticing revenue dropping in one country and making incorrect assumptions based on its own incomplete data.

“You may assume, oh my gosh, we need to make more content for that country because it’s just not relevant or we need to localize more in that country,” Hewish says. “And so you spend resources in that direction. The intelligence pillar is saying, well, hold on, you need a complete picture of what’s happening because what you have missed is the fact that there was a new payment method that was introduced in that country and it blew up. Like, Venmo came on the scene and 20% of your players have moved over to that new payment method, but your platform has not integrated it. So they literally have stopped using their old payment methods. They can’t use the new ones, so you see a drop in revenue and you erroneously think it’s a content problem and spend resources on that content.”