Judith Light has joined the cast of “Presumed Innocent” Season 2 at Apple TV, Variety has learned exclusively. Light will appear alongside previously announced season lead Rachel Brosnahan as well as cast members Matthew Rhys, Courtney B. Vance, Fiona Shaw, Jack Reynor, John Magaro, Michael Hsu Rosen Lesley-Ann Brandt and Ji-young Yoo. Exact character details for Light are being kept under […]
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Felix Solis is the latest addition to the “Rockford Files” reboot pilot at NBC, Variety has learned. Solis will appear alongside previously announced lead David Boreanaz and fellow cast members Michaela McManus and Jacki Weaver. The official logline for the show states, “Newly paroled after doing time for a crime he didn’t commit, James Rockford (Boreanaz) returns to his life […]
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“One Battle After Another,” a political thriller set in a police state version of America, triumphed at the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday, winning six Oscars, including best picture. Paul Thomas Anderson, the creative force behind the film, was named best director and picked up an Oscar for best adapted screenplay. “I wrote this movie […]
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“Sinners,” a vampire movie that unfolds in the segregated South, triumphed at the 2026 Actor Awards on Sunday night, winning the top prize for best ensemble in a motion picture while its star Michael B. Jordan was named best lead actor. “The Studio,” a sendup of many of the powerbrokers in the show’s audience, won a leading […]
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Grey’s Anatomy lost one of its own today. Eric Dane, one of the venerable ABC medical drama’s most popular cast members, died Feb. 19 at the age of 53 after battle with ALS. “We are deeply saddened by the loss of Eric Dane,” the network and series producer 20th Television said in a joint statement Thursday night. “His remarkable […]
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Anderson Cooper is ending his time at 60 Minutes. The CNN anchor, who has been a correspondent at the CBS newsmagazine for nearly two decades, opted not to renew his contract with 60 Minutes, sources say. Cooper’s final segment for the show, an interview with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, aired Sunday. Cooper remains with CNN, where he anchors […]
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Hollywood tributes are pouring out for Robert Duvall, who died on Monday at the age of 95. Duvall’s death was announced on Facebook via a statement from his wife, Luciana Duvall. Adam Sandler, who appeared alongside Duvall in the 2022 film “Hustle,” shared a heartfelt remembrance on Instagram. He wrote that the Hollywood icon was “one of the greatest actors we ever […]
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The 41st Film Independent Spirit Awards took place Sunday afternoon at the Hollywood Palladium as the organization recognized the year’s best in indie movies and TV. Favorites Train Dreams and Sorry, Baby were multi-award winners, with the former taking home Best Feature, Director and Cinematography and the latter being awarded with Best Screenplay and Supporting Performance. Alex Russell’s Lurker also won twice, for […]
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Hollywood is in mourning once again after the news broke that Dawson’s Creek alum James Van Der Beek died Wednesday morning. The actor had colorectal cancer, a diagnosis he made public in 2024. Chad Michael Murray, Sarah Michelle Gellar and more flooded to the comments section of the Instagram post shared by Van Der Beek’s family to announce his […]
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The Walt Disney Co., after a more than two-year saga, has landed on its next CEO: Josh D’Amaro, head of the company’s theme parks and consumer products division. D’Amaro will take over the top job at Disney from current CEO Bob Iger, who cumulatively has served in the post for nearly two decades. The Disney board on Tuesday […]
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The final Grammy Awards on CBS took a small ratings hit compared to the previous year. Sunday’s telecast of the 68th Grammys averaged 14.41 million viewers, according to big data plus panel same-day ratings from Nielsen. That’s down a little more than 6 percent from the 15.4 million who watched the 2025 show. The Grammys audience shrank some for […]
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Kendrick Lamar came into the Grammys with the most nominations — nine — and to the surprise of few, he exited with the most wins: an impressive five, including record of the year for “Luther,” his collaboration with SZA. But the love was very much spread around at the 2026 ceremony, with different winners in each of the […]
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Tributes are pouring in for Catherine O’Hara, the multi-award-winning actor who died Friday at her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness. She was 71. O’Hara had a versatile career spanning comedy and drama. She was known for her role as Delia Deetz in Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice” and its 2024 sequel, as well as voiced Sally […]
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Netflix is keeping The Lincoln Lawyer on retainer for another season. A week ahead of the show’s season four premiere, Netflix has renewed The Lincoln Lawyer for a fifth installment. The drama based on Michael Connelly’s novels stars Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Los Angeles attorney Mickey Haller. “We’re so excited to share the upcoming fourth season with the audience on Feb. […]
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Big news just in from the folks at the Acme Corporation: TCM has become “the ongoing television home” of the iconic Looney Tunes library from Warner Bros. In late 2022, HBO Max eliminated 256 Looney Tunes shorts from 1950-2004 when its license expired and the streaming arm of Warner Bros. Discovery chose not to renew it, Vulture reported. Last year, another […]
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Bay Area natives Green Day will kick off Super Bowl LX’s opening ceremony, the NFL announced on Sunday. It all takes place at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. According to the announcement, the band “will open Super Bowl LX by ushering generations of Super Bowl MVPs onto the field with a dynamic […]
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Focus Features’ Hamnet won Best Motion Picture — Drama, and Warner Bros.’ One Battle After Another won Best Picture — Comedy or Musical and three other prizes to lead the 2026 Golden Globes, which were handed out Sunday night in Los Angeles. See the full list below and the lists of wins by film, series, distributor and TV platform here. […]
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One Battle After Another won Best Feature at the 31st annual Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night, after Paul Thomas Anderson pulled off an upset for Best Director and won Best Adapted Screenplay for the Warner Bros thriller. Timothée Chalamet won Best Actor for A24’s Marty Supreme, and Jessie Buckley won Best Actress for Focus Features’ Hamnet. Best Supporting Actor […]
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Lainey Wilson, Ella Langley and Riley Green each scored three honors at the 59th annual CMA Awards show Wednesday night, with Wilson taking away the most coveted prize, entertainer of the year. Surprises were in order in some of the categories considered long held by intractable repeat winners, Cody Johnson won for best male vocalist, finally moving Chris Stapleton […]
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Jimmy Kimmel opened Tuesday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” with a heartfelt tribute to his childhood friend and late-night bandleader Cleto Escobedo III, who died Tuesday at 59. “We’ve been on the air for almost 23 years, and I’ve had to do some hard monologues along the way,” Kimmel said, crying. “But this one’s the hardest because late […]
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“Nobody Wants This” has been renewed for its third season at Netflix. The news comes just two weeks after the Season 2 release of the rom-com series, which stars Kristen Bell as Joanne, an agnostic woman with a podcast about sex and dating, and Adam Brody as Noah, the rabbi she falls in love with. […]
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Paramount didn’t want to keep Stephen Colbert at CBS, but the company has signed Jon Stewart for another year of hosting “The Daily Show” once per week on Comedy Central. Stewart will continue to serve as executive producer for the series through December 2026, the company said Monday, with the show’s pack of contributors taking the helm of […]
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“CBS Evening News” co-anchor John Dickerson said on Monday he would leave the network in December, signaling the start of a refresh at CBS News just weeks after editor-in-chief Bari Weiss began her tenure. Dickerson’s exit marks the first high-profile talent departure from the network since Weiss took hold of the network earlier this month. Dickerson […]
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What’s in a name? On November 15, MSNBC will quickly find out. The cable-news outlet, slated to be spun out of NBCUniversal in the next few months and become part of a new publicly traded company called Versant, will change its name to MS NOW in mid-November. The maneuver comes because NBCUniversal felt a news operation that was about to […]
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Jim Carrey is zooming toward a live-action feature version of The Jetsons. The actor is in talks to star in the project from Warner Bros. Pictures that has Colin Trevorrow attached to direct. Trevorrow and Joe Esptein are in talks to pen the script. The Jetsons, which debuted as an animated comedy series on ABC in 1962, centered on a futuristic family comprised […]
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