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The pot-growing Botwin family is heading to back to TV — in a new home. Starz is developing a follow-up series to Weeds, the Showtime series starring Mary-Louise Parker that ran from 2005-12. The sequel would pick up with Nancy Botwin (Parker, who’s attached to star and executive produce) and her family 10 years after the […]

On Wednesday, Stephen Colbert took yet another look at the ongoing impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump — and explained what he called “the five stages of Republican impeachment grief” to viewers. The bit came while Colbert talked about Sen. Lindsey Graham who, less than a month ago, when asked about accusations of quid pro quo […]

Kate McKinnon has scored her second starring role in a series based on a podcast. McKinnon has signed on to star in and executive produce a series adaptation of the Wondery podcast “Joe Exotic,” which is being developed at Universal Content Productions. It was previously announced that McKinnon would star as disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in a series […]

Two collectors said “You’re the one that I want” to Olivia Newton-John’s iconic Grease leather jacket and skintight pants at an auction Saturday in Beverly Hills. Julien’s Auctions says the combined ensemble, which Newton-John’s character Sandy wears in the closing number of the 1978 film, fetched $405,700 total. The leather jacket sold for $243,200 and the pants, which Newton-John […]

“Terminator: Dark Fate” shot past box office competition but fell significantly short of expectations as Paramount, Skydance Media and Disney’s sci-fi sequel debuted to $29 million in North America. The sixth installment in the “Terminator” franchise landed in first place on domestic box office charts, but the results are disappointing given the film’s $185 million […]

ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today were hopelessly devoted to Halloween on Thursday, with hosts on both of the rival morning shows dressed up as different versions of Olivia Newton-John. GMA‘s Ginger Zee provided a roller-skating take on the singer on the ABC morning show while a few blocks away Today‘s Savannah Guthrie took to Rockefeller Plaza […]

Aaron Sorkin won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for scripting David Fincher’s “The Social Network,” a scathing behind-the-scenes look at Mark Zuckerberg’s creation of Facebook. Nine years later, Sorkin has taken to The New York Times to publish an open letter slamming Zuckerburg and Facebook for allowing political candidates to post false ads. Zuckerberg has long cited the […]

Ten years after a former Late Night With David Letterman writer wrote a story excoriating the host for his treatment of women on the show, David Letterman has apologized to the writer and other women who worked for him. In a follow-up piece in Vanity Fair to her viral 2009 story “Letterman and Me,” comedy writer Nell Scovell describes a recent meeting between […]

The world of “Game of Thrones” will live on at HBO. A prequel series based on the “Game of Thrones” companion book “Fire & Blood” has been ordered straight-to-series at the premium cabler. The series will be titled “House of the Dragon.” Set 300 years before the events of “Game of Thrones,” the series tells […]

When Rachel Maddow called out her own bosses Friday over their handling of Ronan Farrow’s Harvey Weinstein reporting, she opened a new chapter in a two-year saga that has buffeted NBC News since Farrow took his Weinstein reporting to The New Yorker, where he would go on to share a Pulitzer Prize. Privately, Maddow earned cheers from […]

Jane Fonda was arrested (again) on Friday during an ongoing climate change protest in Washington D.C., and this time was joined by Ted Danson. “Today, the United States Capitol Police arrested 32 individuals for unlawfully demonstrating in the intersection of East Capitol and First Streets,” Capitol Police communications director Eva Malecki said in a statement to Variety. She […]

Kelly Ripa is not here for the “fake outrage” over a joke she made about her son’s living situation. Earlier this week, she told Jimmy Kimmel Live! that her eldest child, Michael Consuelos, a senior at New York University, is living on his own for the first time in a Brooklyn apartment. While he likes the “freedom” of having […]

Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli are feeling the heat after being hit with additional bribery charges for their alleged role in the nationwide college admissions scandal, a report said Wednesday. “This stress is about to break them,” a source close to the couple told People. “They feel like this is David versus Goliath. How do you go […]