Roy Horn, the masterful showman who captivated the Las Vegas Strip for more than a quarter-century as one-half of Siegfried & Roy, only to see his career end abruptly as the result of a horrible accident during a 2003 performance, died Friday in Las Vegas of complications from COVID-19. He was 75. “Today, the world […]
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Fox is targeting a fall premiere for Season 4 of “The Masked Singer,” Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch said during the company’s earnings call Wednesday. Though the show had yet to be formally renewed for a fourth season, its strong Nielsen returns all but guarantees it will live to sing another day. Despite shutdowns due […]
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For the past seven decades, the show has always gone on for the Tony Awards, which honor the best Broadway performances and productions. But with the 74th edition being postponed from its planned June 7 date due to the coronavirus, there’s a real chance that the ceremony will be scrapped altogether this year, multiple sources tell Variety. As the […]
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Tribeca is taking audiences back to the drive-in this summer. Tribeca Enterprises, Imax and AT&T said Wednesday that they are partnering to launch “Tribeca Drive-In,” a summer programming series of new and classic films, music and sporting events. It will take place in drive-in theaters and “other exclusive venues” nationwide starting Thursday, June 25. The […]
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President Donald Trump is seeking a broader national audience and leaving his Fox News comfort zone, granting a taped interview to ABC News anchor David Muir that will air Tuesday night. Trump’s announcement on Twitter came before ABC News officially announced the interview. The president called it a “major interview.” Muir said that he interviewed […]
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Raymond Reddington has always been an animated guy — but The Blacklist is about to take that literally. The drama’s makeshift Season 7 finale (airing Friday, May 15 at 8/7c) will include scenes with graphic novel-style animation, NBC announced Tuesday, as a workaround to the pandemic-induced production shutdown. The show was halfway through filming Episode 19 — […]
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“Fox & Friends” has consistently bested “Morning Joe” and “New Day.” In March, it was the highest-rated morning show in cable news with 1.7 million average viewers, of whom 332,000 were in that key demo. At the end of the first quarter of 2020, “Fox & Friends” marked 73 consecutive quarters as the highest-rated morning show in […]
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NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell is reorganizing his senior leadership team at the company, marking the first major executive restructuring since succeeding Steve Burke at the beginning of the year. Mark Lazarus, who currently oversees NBC Sports Group and the company’s local stations, will now oversee the company’s entertainment businesses as well, including Peacock. The new streaming service, which […]
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Nicolas Cage is set to star in a scripted series centered on Joe Exotic, the subject of the Netflix docuseries “Tiger King,” Variety has learned exclusively. The eight-episode series is being produced by Imagine Television Studios and CBS Television Studios. It will be taken to market in the coming days. It is based on the Texas Monthly article “Joe Exotic: A Dark […]
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Gil Schwartz, former chief communications officer for CBS and a longtime executive for the company, has died. He was 68. The network on Sunday announced that Schwartz died Saturday morning of natural causes at his home in Santa Monica. “For the better part of three decades, Gil Schwartz led CBS Communications with creative flare, craftsman-like […]
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The Television Critics Association’s summer press tour, an annual marketing ritual held at LA’s Beverly Hilton, has become the latest industry event to be canceled by the coronavirus. In a memo sent Friday to its members, the TCA said it is “working with the networks to explore virtual alternatives both within the original press tour time frame […]
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Adam Driver will star in an adaptation of “Yankee Comandante,” Variety has learned. “Mud” director Jeff Nichols is writing and helming the pic, marking a reunion for the pair, who worked together on 2016’s “Midnight Special.” While production start dates are up in the air due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has shuttered the industry, sources say shooting is expected […]
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Fox is gathering a group of celebrities to talk about television. The network has greenlit 10 episodes of an unscripted series called Celebrity Watch Party, which as its name implies will feature famous people in their homes discussing the biggest shows and news events on TV in the past week. It is based on the BAFTA-winning […]
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Michael O’Neill talks to Ross Crystal about his role in the NBC Series “Council of Dads” and what makes the show special.
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Fan conventions have gone on hiatus as COVID-19 continues to keep the world on lockdown, but that isn’t preventing New York Comic Con and Star Wars Celebration organizers ReedPop from marking next week’s Star Wars Day. The two-day An Online Revelry: May the 4th Be With You and Revenge of the 5th celebration features multiple […]
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The 2020 Daytime Emmys, Sports Emmys, News & Documentary Emmys and Technology & Engineering Emmys will be replaced by virtual ceremonies, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced on Wednesday. The Technology & Engineering ceremony had originally been scheduled for April 19 in Las Vegas, and had been postponed until October due to […]
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has tweaked its Oscar eligibility rules in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. During a meeting on Tuesday, the board of governors approved a temporary hold on the requirement that a film needs a seven-day theatrical run in a commercial theater in Los Angeles County to qualify for the Oscars. Instead, films […]
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AMC Theatres on Tuesday delivered a blistering message to Universal Pictures, saying the world’s largest cinema chain will no longer play any of the studio’s films in the wake of comments made by NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell regarding the on-demand success of Trolls World Tour and what it means for the future of moviegoing post-coronavirus pandemic. Earlier […]
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Orange Is The New Black creator Jenji Kohan is working up a quarantine anthology series for Netflix. Kohan and her team including Hilary Weisman Graham, Diego Velasco, Tara Herrmann and Blake McCormick have created Social Distance for the streamer. This comes as the production shutdown caused by the COVID-19 continues. Weisman Graham, who worked on the Netflix prison drama […]
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Tyler Perry has always been a maverick, rising from a struggling writer-performer to a film and TV mogul and studio owner. Speaking with Deadline over the weekend, Perry shared a plan to get production on his multiple TV series up and running in June at his Atlanta-based Tyler Perry Studios with a strict protocol that involves testing and […]
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Howard Stern on Monday said he will support Joe Biden for the 2020 presidential election. The SiriusXM host made the comment while taking a call from a Donald Trump supporter in New York who defended the president’s Thursday remarks about ingesting disinfectant to kill the novel coronavirus. Trump, after being skewered in the media, walked the comment […]
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“The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” will start airing supersized episodes this week, Comedy Central announced Monday. Starting Monday, April 27, the satirical news show will expand to 45-minute episodes in its regular 11 p.m. time slot. Noah and the team will continue to produce episodes remotely under the “Daily Social Distancing Show” banner. “The […]
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With COVID-19 shuttering film fests worldwide, YouTube has stepped in to launch a 10-day digital film festival this spring with 20 partners — streaming free to cinema fans everywhere. We Are One: A Global Film Festival is being produced and organized by New York’s Tribeca Enterprises. The YouTube-hosted event will feature programming from 20 top film festivals […]
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NBC has set a premiere date for its flagship summer series America’s Got Talent, but just what the bulk of the season will look like remains up in the air. The 15th season of America’s Got Talent will debut at 8 p.m. May 26. It will be paired on Tuesday nights with World of Dance, which premieres at 10 […]
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Fans may not have been ready to say goodbye to one of the best dramas on television but Homeland has come to an end and surprisingly, Claire Danes’ bipolar CIA operative got a happy ending. Developed for American television by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon, Homeland was based on the original Israeli series Prisoners of War by Gideon Raff. There was an […]
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