Netflix has announced a June 10 premiere date for A Tribute To Bob Saget, a celebration of the comedian and actor’s life in comedy with his friends and family. The date was unveiled as part of the Netflix Is A Joke festival. The event was filmed at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood following Saget’s January 9 death. […]
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CBS has renewed the “FBI” dramas — “FBI,” “FBI: International” and “FBI: Most Wanted” — for two more seasons each. The Dick Wolf-created “FBI” franchise has been a major source of ratings success for CBS. Their back-to-back airings have made CBS the No. 1 primetime network on Tuesdays, with each show topping its respective time slot. […]
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Having previously won an acting Oscar (for Dreamgirls in 2007), two performing Grammys (best musical theater album for The Color Purple, in 2017, and best R&B album for Jennifer Hudson, in 2009) and a Daytime Emmy (as executive producer on the VR animated film Baby Yaga), the Tony would give her the final major awards show trophy she needs to join the elite award-winning Hollywood […]
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Country star Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas honky-tonk inspired the 1980 film Urban Cowboy and a nationwide wave of Western-themed nightspots, has died. He was 86. Gilley died Saturday in Branson, Missouri, where he helped run the Mickey Gilley Grand Shanghai Theatre. He had been performing as recently as last month, but was in failing health over […]
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It was a night of surprises at the 2022 BAFTA TV Awards, with some of the top favourites missing out on honors as the ceremony saw statuettes handed to a broad spread of winners. That being said, Killing Eve star Jodie Comer expectedly claimed her second leading actress BAFTA, this time for Help, the Jack Thorne penned drama about the crisis in British […]
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Michael Keaton is set to star in and direct the noir thriller Knox Goes Away, which was written by Gregory Poirier and is being produced by Brookstreet’s Trevor Matthews and Nick Gordon and Sugar23’s Michael Sugar and Ashley Zalta. Carter Stanton will executive produce for Brookstreet and Jillian Kay for Sugar23. The film follows a contract killer who, […]
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Mike Hagerty, best known for his roles on Somebody Somewhere, as the building super Mr. Treeger on Friends and as the surly owner of a used-clothing store on Seinfeld, has died. His death April 29 was confirmed by Bridget Everett, who plays his daughter on the HBO comedy. No cause was given. “With great sadness, the family of Michael G. Hagerty […]
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Don’t expect an “Emancipation” for Oscar winner Will Smith in 2022. Originally expected to drop on the fall festival circuit later this year, the actor’s next film from Apple, and co-produced by his production company Westbrook Studios, is planning to delay the film’s release to sometime in 2023. Directed by Antoine Fuqua (“Training Day”), the movie would have […]
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Tucker Carlson revisited the 2020 presidential election on Thursday night and falsely claimed the Biden administration has made it a “crime” to question the results. In that election, Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump, who has baselessly and incessantly claimed it was rigged against him. There is absolutely no evidence of this, yet he has convinced a majority of Republicans that Biden was elected […]
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It’s official: Quantum Leap is returning to NBC. Nearly 30 years since the Scott Bakula-led original series signed off after a five-season run on NBC, the broadcast network has handed out a formal series order to the sequel series starring Raymond Lee. The drama, which was formally picked up to pilot in January, recently wrapped production and is one […]
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His barb was quickly met with a bevy of condemnations, including multiple attacks on Gaetz for his own controversial past involving women – including an ongoing federal investigation regarding alleged sex crimes involving a minor. MSNBC anchor Katie S. Phang replied to the tweet, “Your type of woman rallies behind Venmo payments.” Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall questioned, “they […]
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Dave Chapelle has released a statement after an armed man tackled him on stage at the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday night. “The performances by Chappelle at the Hollywood Bowl were epic and record-breaking and he refuses to allow last night’s incident to overshadow the magic of this historic moment,” his rep, Carla Sims, said in a statement […]
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HBO Max is cooking up another season of Julia. The streamer has renewed the comedy series, inspired by the life and TV career of Julia Child, for a second season. The pickup comes a day before the Lionsgate TV-produced show, which stars Sarah Lancashire and David Hyde Pierce, ends its first season. “Julia Child tends to make […]
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David Birney, who starred on the first season of the buzzy medical drama “St. Elsewhere,” as well as the short-lived, controversial sitcom “Bridget Loves Bernie” — about a Catholic woman marrying a Jewish man — has died at 83. His life partner Michele Roberge confirmed the news to The New York Times, and said he died […]
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The stars are out tonight at the Met Gala, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual fundraising event for its Costume Institute. As part two of “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” the theme for this year’s Met Gala is Gilded Glamour. The Met co-chairs include Regina King, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds and Lin-Manuel Miranda. […]
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Nicolle Wallace hosted Nicholas Confessore and Karen Yourish of the New York Times to discuss their three-part series on Tucker Carlson that dropped over the weekend. Confessore wrote the story while Yourish handled the graphics. Both watched countless hours of Tucker Carlson Tonight as part of their deep dive into the popular Fox News host. He stated the network is fashioning its daytime news programming into something more akin to […]
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NBC News revealed today that 11 articles written by one of its reporters during a recent five-month period “did not meet our standards for original material,” adding that the stories “contained passages from other news organizations that were used without attribution.” It also said “the passages that were plagiarized have been removed,” and an editor’s note […]
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The cutbacks at Netflix have touched Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The royal couple’s animated series, Pearl, has been scrapped by the streaming giant. The series, created by the Duchess of Sussex, is the third animated kids’ project to be axed before its debut at the conglomerate. The series, about a young girl inspired by influential women in history, counted David […]
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Jimmy Kimmel is the latest talk show host to test positive for COVID-19. “Our daughter brought us covid (even though we specifically asked her not to),” Kimmel tweeted on Monday. “All feeling fine, I am double vaxxed and boosted but the show must not go on. Apologies to @TomCruise & @iliza and thanks to Mike Birbiglia @birbigs who’ll be filling in for me […]
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Although White House Correspondents’ Dinner host Trevor Noah is used to delivering political comedy every night on “The Daily Show,” President Joe Biden debuted a surprisingly witty comedy set during the April 30 event in Washington D.C. Biden poked fun at journalists, Republicans, Rudy Giuliani and even himself, but he delivered some of his biggest laughs while […]
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In a room where every media failure becomes magnified for comic fodder, the Quibian downfall of CNN+ figured to be a most inviting target at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner for emcee Trevor Noah. And sure enough, the Daily Show host went hard after the ill-fated streamer. During a particularly singeing portion of his set on Saturday night at […]
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On Friday, CNN reported that Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo supplied former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows with questions in advance of interviewing former President Donald Trump. “In one noteworthy text, Bartiromo messaged Meadows on the morning of November 29, less than an hour before she was set to conduct Trump’s first interview since Election […]
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Comic and pundit Bill Maher said President Joe Biden needs to realize immigration is a “big fucking deal” for U.S. elections, and cited the presidential election in France as evidence. On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the host spoke with guests former Senator Doug Jones and MSNBC host Ali Velshi about the prospect of a Democratic bloodbath in the midterms. Maher […]
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When news broke on Saturday that Naomi Judd had died, figures from across the music industry voiced their mourning of the country music legend, remembering the life of the Judd family matriarch. Judd died at the age of 76. No cause of death was immediately given, although in a statement daughters Wynonna Judd and Ashley Judd attributed […]
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Batwoman’s time in Gotham has come to an end. The CW has canceled the DC Comics drama after three seasons. Showrunner Caroline Dries shared the news on social media Friday. “Just got the sad news that Batwoman will not be seeing [season four],” Dries wrote on Twitter. “I am bummed, but full of gratitude. What an honor to make […]
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