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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 […]

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 […]

“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. […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Bette Midler, Ben Stiller, Kerry Washington, Nancy Sinatra and more are paying to Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton, who died at 79 on Saturday. Keaton’s “The First Wives Club” co-star Bette Midler posted on Threads a carousel of photos of them together and wrote, “The brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary Diane Keaton has died. I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this […]

With her farewell tour ended and her CBS special A Grammy Salute to Cyndi Lauper: Live from the Hollywood Bowl in the rear-view mirror, Cyndi Lauper is on to her next project: Her first-ever Las Vegas residency. Lauper, who has said she doesn’t plan on touring again, will settle down at the The Colosseum at Caesars Palace from April 24 […]

In a competitive situation, Paramount+ has given out a straight-to-series order to the legal drama “Discretion” starring Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning, Variety has confirmed. The project is based on the short story of the same name by Chandler Baker (“Whisper Network,” “The Husbands”) and will be produced by A24 for Paramount. The show has received an eight-episode order and will begin […]

Jimmy Kimmel’s return from an ABC suspension did not dull his edge In his first show back after the network took Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air on Sept. 17 following remarks he made about the alleged killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Kimmel walked out to an ovation and chants of “Jimmy! Jimmy!” that lasted for a couple minutes. […]

Jimmy Kimmel is getting back on the air. The ABC late night host is returning to broadcast on Tuesday following a brief but monumental suspension that sparked a national debate over the Trump administration’s pressure tactics and the modern limits and consequences of free speech. “Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further […]

Jimmy Kimmel‘s late night talk show is being suspended by ABC over his viral comments about Charlie Kirk. A network spokesperson said Wednesday that Jimmy Kimmel Live! will be “preempted indefinitely.” The network’s action came just after Nexstar, one of the biggest owners of local TV stations in the country — including 28 ABC affiliates — said it […]

CBS‘s telecast of the 77th Emmy Awards brought in 7.4 million viewers on Sunday night. That average marks an 8% increase from the 6.9 million viewers achieved by last year’s ceremony, which aired on ABC in September 2024, and the most-watched Emmys since 2021. CBS has two reasons to celebrate: Not only was last night’s show a ratings […]

The 77th annual Emmy Awards have come and gone, and “The Studio” was the big winner of the year. The Apple TV+ Hollywood satire became the most-awarded show of the year, picking up 13 total wins across the Primetime and Creative Arts Emmys, including best comedy series. The show came into the night with nine […]

Lady Gaga was the top winner at the MTV Video Music Awards, with four honors in a show telecast from New York’s UBS Arena Sunday night on CBS. Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter tied for the second-most with three each. Gaga appeared early in the show to pick up what would likely have been one […]

The cast shakeup at Saturday Night Live is turning into an earthquake. The latest performer to exit the show is Heidi Gardner, who will depart after eight seasons on SNL. She joined the NBC series in the 2017-18 as a featured player and moved up to the main cast two seasons later. Gardner is the fourth SNL castmember to leave the show in […]

Season 2 of “NCIS: Origins” will include a special episode dedicated to David McCallum, who played Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard for the first 20 seasons of the flagship “NCIS” series before his death in 2023. Titled “The Edge,” the tribute episode will feature Adam Campbell reprising the role of young Ducky, which he has played as a guest […]