Netflix has ordered a coming-of-age comedy series from Mindy Kaling. The untitled series, which is created by Kaling and Lang Fisher, is about the complicated life of a modern-day first-generation Indian American teenaged girl, inspired by Kaling’s childhood. Howard Klein and David Miner will executive produce with Kaling and Fisher. Kaling is attached only as […]
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“Days of our Lives,” “General Hospital” and “The Young and the Restless” lead the list of shows with the most Daytime Emmy nominations in 2019. Variety has also received a nom in the special class series category for “Actors on Actors.” “Days of our Lives” has received the largest total number of nominations across series in all […]
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NBC just landed one of the biggest names this pilot season. Andy Garcia, who has fielded multiple broadcast offers over the past few pilot seasons, has been tapped to star alongside Kenan Thompson in NBC’s comedy pilot from Lorne Michaels. Formerly called Saving Kenan and now called The Kenan Show, the single-camera comedy stars the Saturday Night Live favorite as a […]
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Ariana Grande opened a world tour with music by the late Jewish rapper, Mac Miller, who had dated the pop star for nearly two years before overdosing on alcohol and drugs last year. Grande started the tour for her blockbuster album “Sweetener” in an arena in Albany, New York, on Monday. Some of Miller’s songs played in the stadium after […]
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The Walt Disney Co. has closed its $71.3 billion acquisition of large parts of 21st Century Fox, expanding its global reach and content portfolio ahead of the planned launch of its own video streaming service. With the mega-deal, Disney, led by chairman and CEO Bob Iger, is adding the Fox film and TV studio, the […]
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After taking a two-month hiatus from her show, Wendy Williams revealed Tuesday she’s been recovering from addiction-related issues and is living in a sober house. “For some time now, and even today and beyond, I have been living in a sober house,” Williams said through tears on Tuesday’s episode of The Wendy Williams Show. “And you know, I’ve had […]
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Two days before Disney closes a $71.3 billion acquisition of most of the Fox empire, Rupert Murdoch sent a wistful note to staff thanking them for their contributions to the business and promising that his new, slimmed-down Fox Corp. will “invest in high growth initiatives.” “When this transaction is complete, I anticipate tremendous opportunity for […]
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At first, it was hard to imagine American Idol without Simon Cowell. The most brutally honest – and some say honestly brutal – judge of all started out with the singing competition show from the beginning back in 2002 and quickly became the most notorious on the panel. Getting a vote of approval from Cowell? That’s what made contestants feel […]
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Kevin Tsujihara is exiting his role as chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment, a job he’s held for six years. “It is in the best interest of WarnerMedia, Warner Bros., our employees and our partners for Kevin to step down as Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros.,” said WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey on Monday. […]
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It’s pilot season — when broadcast networks decide which of dozens of prospective shows should become full-fledged series. TheWrap’s complete network pilot guide will keep you up to speed on the status of every project under consideration by ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC. In cases where they’ve already ordered a show to series, we’ll say […]
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On Tuesday, Jay Leno said on the “Today” show that he doesn’t miss being a late night host because “everyone has to know your politics.” At his Paleyfest deep dive into being a late night host on Saturday, which was moderated by Pete Holmes, Stephen Colbert said he agrees with Leno that today’s late night hosts have […]
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Donald Trump threatened “Saturday Night Live” and other late-night shows with a federal investigation for poking fun of him, calling it in a Sunday tweet, “one sided [sic] media coverage.” “It’s truly incredible that shows like Saturday Night Live, not funny/no talent, can spend all of their time knocking the same person (me), over & […]
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Captain Marvel easily stayed No. 1 in its second weekend, earning another $69.3 million in North America and $119.7 million overseas for a mighty worldwide total of $760.2 million. The pic’s global tally includes $266.2 million in domestic ticket sales, and $494 million from overseas. The first female-led superhero pic from Marvel Studios and Disney — […]
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Michael Jackson‘s daughter, Paris, reportedly attempted to commit suicide Saturday morning. But she quickly tweeted a denial: “f–k you you f—king liars.” The report from TMZ quoted family sources blaming the fallout from ”Leaving Neverland,” a documentary in which two men, Wade Robsonand James Safechuck, accuse her late superstar dad of molesting them when they were kids. Paris slit her wrists at […]
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Two months to write and two months to shoot an entire season of television is a daunting task. But for Saturday Night Live veteran Aidy Bryant, a couple of months to work on Shrill was a luxury. Shrill, about a Portland woman learning how to feel more confident in both her personal and professional lives, allowed Bryant to not […]
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Though the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones will be the show’s shortest yet with just six episodes, it’ll compensate by making four of those episodes super-sized. HBO announced on Friday that while the first two episodes of Season 8 will be under an hour each, the final four will run 82 minutes, 78 minutes, […]
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced that the 2020 Golden Globe Awards will take place on Sunday, Jan. 5, the earliest date that the Globes have ever been held. As usual, the ceremony will be broadcast live on NBC and will be produced by Dick Clark Productions. While the Globes show has been steadily […]
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Marvel Studios has seen an unprecedented climb in popularity in the last eleven years. They were able to turn a film like Iron Man into the groundwork for a franchise that has gone on to earn over $17 billion, and yet it’s taken them eleven years to earn an Oscar. Superhero films are nothing new […]
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Lilly Singh, who first amassed fame as a YouTube star, has been tapped to replace Carson Daly as the host of NBC’s 1:35 a.m. talk show. The retitled “A Little Late with Lilly Singh” will launch in September, and as noted by NBC, will make her the only female to currently host a late-night talk show on […]
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Howard Bragman, a longtime PR strategist and crisis manager, weighs in on the college admissions scandal that has ensnared “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman and “Fuller House” actress Lori Loughlin. Neither actress is a client of Bragman’s. Seeing your spin doctor is just like seeing your medical doctor after a scary diagnosis: Everyone wants to know how bad […]
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe has just gotten a lot bigger, and a whole lot weirder, in all the best possible ways. Captain Marvel, starring Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, and Jude Law, managed to burn through a bunch of story in a fun, fast-paced adventure that sets up some exciting things for Avengers: Endgame. Not […]
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Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert on Wednesday both hit back at President Donald Trump for his tweeted attack on late-night TV comedians. Trump ranted about the “one-sided hatred” of the “unwatchable” shows Wednesday morning in response to a “Fox & Friends” discussion, which many people on Twitter noted the irony of. Kimmel said he and […]
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Whoopi Goldberg made a surprise return to “The View” Thursday, her first appearance since Feb. 5 when she took an extended leave to recover from pneumonia. “The only way it’s going to get better is if I begin, so this is my beginning,” she said. Her fellow co-hosts were stunned by her arrival and Goldberg was greeted […]
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Jussie Smollett continues to maintain his innocence. Wearing a navy dress coat and suit, the embattled Empire star entered a Chicago court on Thursday, where he pleaded not guilty to charges of filing a false police report. According to a tweet from Chicago’s CBS affiliate, Smollett will be allowed to travel to New York and Los Angeles without […]
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