Nikki Finke, the polarizing entertainment journalist who founded the website Deadline and wielded immense power by focusing an acerbic and unrelenting lens on Hollywood, has died. She was 68. Finke died Sunday in Boca Raton, Florida, following a prolonged illness, a family spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter. At L.A. Weekly, Finke headed its Deadline Hollywood Daily column from 2002-09. In 2006, she […]
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Kanye West has suffered a second social media exile. Twitter confirmed today that the rapper’s Twitter account was locked on Sunday for a violation of the social media platform’s policies, according to the company. This time, there were specifics. West was locked out in response to a tweet he posted on Saturday that said he was going “death con 3 […]
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Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank announced on Wednesday that she’s expecting twins with her husband entrepreneur husband Philip Schneider. The soon-to-be-first-time-mom announced the news on Good Morning America, saying, “This is something that I’ve been wanting for a long time, and my next thing is I’m gonna be a mom. And not just of one, but of two. I can’t […]
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Nicolle Wallace asked New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who has reported extensively on former President Donald Trump, if she believes Trump is a racist. The conversation on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House kicked off on Wednesday with Wallace asking Haberman what is motivating Trump to stand behind embattled Senate candidate Herschel Walker in Georgia. Does Trump just “want the Hershel Walkers to win to prove […]
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On Monday night’s edition of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, anchor John Berman interviewed Haberman on the eve of the release of her controversial but much-buzzed-about book Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. Berman noted that the book addresses Trump’s “casual racism,” and asked Haberman to apply it to the current situation. Haberman took pains to point […]
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Chris Cuomo debuted his new NewsNation show on Monday with a pledge that his nightly hour “won’t be typical.” Cuomo, who was fired from his CNN primetime show in December, also said that he had “learned lessons good and bad” since then. “I’ve relied on my friends, my family, my therapist, and thankfully, it’s been the case that what doesn’t […]
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Ana Navarro reminded Trump on Monday that, like Mitch McConnell’s, his ex-wife and current wife weren’t born in the U.S., but that doesn’t mean they love America any less than others. “Let me remind Donald Trump, ’cause obviously what he’s trying to do here is say that those of us who are Americans born somewhere […]
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NATPE, which has convened annual gatherings of producers, syndicators, station owners and other TV stakeholders for decades, has decided to file for bankruptcy. The organization cited the impact of Covid and said it planned to continue holding events, including its annual January conference, which is shifting to the Bahamas from its longtime Miami base. The official Chapter 11 […]
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A week of delayed viewing via Hulu, DVRs and other platforms has given a sizable ratings bump to the Season 2 premiere of “Abbott Elementary” Live + Same Day data after the episode premiered on Sept. 21 pointed to a 0.6 rating among adults 18-49, but after seven days of multiplatform viewing, that number has […]
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Trevor Noah is nearing his last laugh on “The Daily Show.” The comedian, who came out of near anonymity to take over the program from Jon Stewart in 2015, plans to exit the flagship Comedy Central series after a seven-year tenure that saw him transform it for a new generation of viewers who are more at home on […]
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Actress and singer Patti LaBelle is set the guest star in ABC’s “The Wonder Years” for its upcoming season in a two-episode arc. The new season is set to premiere midseason, but a premiere date has not been announced. LaBelle will play the mother of Bill Williams (Dulé Hill), Shirley Williams, who serves as the local church’s choir […]
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Wisconsin Democrats are getting another election season boost from Hollywood. Castmembers from The West Wing and Veep are confirmed to appear during a live-streamed WisDems fundraiser on Oct. 9. Per intel from those involved, the event will feature games, jokes, performances and other entertainment. A donation of any dollar amount returns a link to watch and participate in the event. Joining […]
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In October 2020, Melissa Francis, a popular host on both Fox News and Fox Business, seemingly disappeared from the airwaves. As co-host of one of the network’s biggest shows, Outnumbered, Francis wasn’t seen on her regular time slots for weeks until in late October 2020 it was announced that, after nine years with the company, she had […]
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Expect more banana-in-the-tailpipe high jinks in Netflix’s new Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley as the castmembers from the original franchise are coming back including Judge Reinhold and John Ashton’s Detective Billy Rosewood and Sgt. Taggart, sidekick cops to the Eddie Murphy character; Paul Reiser; and Bronson Pinchot. Reiser played Axel Foley’s Detroit cop partner, Jeffrey Friedman, in the first two films, and […]
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Jimmy Kimmel is no longer vacillating. The comedian is staying in late-night after extending his contract with ABC for a further three years. The deal ends a year of speculation within the late-night community after Kimmel told Howard Stern that he was debating whether to stick or twist. The pact will keep Kimmel as host and exec producer […]
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The Golden Globe Awards are officially returning to NBC for the 80th edition of the awards ceremony. The TV network announced on Tuesday that it is bringing the awards ceremony back to its airwaves on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023 — as The Hollywood Reporter exclusively reported back in August that it would — “as part of a one-year agreement, which allows the HFPA and dcp to explore […]
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Tucker Carlson characterized the Jan. 6, 2021 gathering at the U.S. Capitol as “a nonviolent election justice protest” and downplayed the violence committed there as mere “vandalism.” On that day, a mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol as lawmakers were certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election won by Joe Biden. Trump falsely claimed the election […]
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Sarah Paulson is set to star and exec produce the HBO Max scripted adaptation of its docuseries The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin. Deadline broke the news in April that the streamer was adapting its documentary about the cult-like figure, who died last year, as a scripted series. Paulson will play Shamblin, who rose to fame […]
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Oscar winners Alan Arkin and Kathy Bates, as well as Teyana Taylor have joined Casey Affleck in indie heist thriller The Smack. The trio join a growing cast that already includes Marisa Tomei, Isabel May and Yul Vázquez. David M. Rosenthal, who directed thrillers The Perfect Guy and the remake of Jacob’s Ladder, is helming the feature that starts shooting in L.A. later this fall. […]
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Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner will serve as executive producers of the 95th Oscars, which will take place in March 2023. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Bill Kramer announced the producing duo, both of White Cherry Entertainment, on Saturday morning. Along with producing, Weiss will serve as director for the ceremony for an eighth consecutive year. The 2023 […]
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CNN is shaking up its morning show and its primetime lineup in CEO Chris Licht’s first programming shake-up since taking over the channel in May. CNN says that it will launch a new morning show later this year, anchored by Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow, and Kaitlan Collins. Lemon will step aside from his 10 p.m. program to lead the new […]
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During Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue on Wednesday evening’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” the late-night host was interrupted by “Abbott Elementary” creator Quinta Brunson — a comedic bit of retaliation after Kimmel faced criticism for his appearance during the Emmys. “You know how when you win an Emmy you only have 45 seconds to do an acceptance speech?” Brunson said […]
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Former world chess champion and pro-democracy activist Garry Kasparov lit into Fox News’s Tucker Carlson on Wednesday after Russian state propagandists admitted this week that the war in Ukraine is not going well for Vladimir Putin. “Tucker Carlson used to merely echo Putin’s propaganda. Now he has surpassed it in sycophancy, with bizarre claims about Ukrainian defeat that even Moscow’s […]
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The Emmy Awards fell to an all-time low in viewers for the third time in the past four years. NBC’s broadcast of the 74th Primetime Emmys averaged 5.92 million viewers, the first time it has fallen below the 6 million mark. The previous low came in 2020, when 6.36 million people watched ABC’s telecast. Monday’s show averaged […]
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The 74th annual Emmy Awards are in the books following a tight three-hour telecast on NBC that saw several repeat winners, along with quite a few surprising upsets. During Monday’s Kenan Thompson-hosted ceremony, Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” won best comedy series for the second year in a row, HBO Max’s “The White Lotus” took top […]
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