Former President Donald Trump’s social media app isn’t getting off to the start he may have envisioned. Despite Trump’s overwhelming support from far-right voters, the former president’s new social media platform Gettr, according to TheWrap, has only managed to get 1.2 millman downloads. When the app was made public on President’s Day, it quickly reached 800,000 downloads. […]
Read more
Days after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock during the 94th Oscars telecast, the Board of Governors held an emergency meeting to discuss the best actor winner’s consequences. He faces “suspension, expulsion, or other sanctions permitted.” The statement coming from the Academy is highly damning, citing the standards of conduct and Smith’s violations of “inappropriate physical contact, abusive or threatening behavior, and […]
Read more
Oscars co-host Wanda Sykes says she’s “still traumatized” by Will Smith slapping Chris Rock onstage and is disappointed by how the show handled the incident, as well as the industry’s reaction in the audience. “I just felt so awful for my friend Chris. And it was sickening, absolutely sickening,” Sykes tells Ellen DeGeneres in a clip from her visit to The Ellen DeGeneres […]
Read more
Hollywood is rallying behind Bruce Willis after the actor’s family announced on Wednesday that he will be stepping away from acting after being diagnosed with the cognitive brain disorder aphasia. “To Bruce’s amazing supporters, as a family we wanted to share that our beloved Bruce has been experiencing some health issues and has recently been […]
Read more
Kelly Clarkson has finalized her name change and will now be legally known as Kelly Brianne. A California judge granted the talk show host, 39, her new moniker, according to court documents obtained by Page Six. “There being no objections, the petition for change of name is granted,” the docs read. “The Decree is signed […]
Read more
Gina Rodriguez is returning to broadcast television. The Jane the Virgin grad will lead the cast of ABC comedy pilot Not Dead Yet, the single-camera comedy from This Is Us scribes Casey Johnson and David Windsor. Not Dead Yet revolves around Nell Stevens (Rodriguez), a broke, newly single and self-described disaster who restarts the life and career she left behind a decade ago. […]
Read more
Will Smith has issued an apology after slapping Chris Rock on the Oscars stage Sunday night. “Violence in all of its forms is poisonous and destructive. My behavior at last night’s Academy Awards was unacceptable and inexcusable. Jokes at my expense are part of the job, but a joke about Jada’s medical condition was too much for me to bear […]
Read more
Apple made history by nabbing Hollywood’s most coveted honor, as “CODA” won the Oscar for best picture at Sunday’s Academy Awards. Apple Original Films’ “CODA,” which has a predominantly Deaf cast, marks the first time a streaming service has won the best picture Oscar — with Apple TV Plus beating rival Netflix to the punch. “CODA” took the […]
Read more
Movie’s biggest night lured Hollywood’s brightest stars to the red carpet on Sunday. Jessica Chastain, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lily James, Tracee Ellis Ross, along with co-host Wanda Sykes and co-producer Will Packer, were among the first stars to arrive at the Oscars, the 94th annual awards show honoring the year’s best films. In an Oscars-first, the Academy Awards will have three hosts […]
Read more
Chris Wallace spent nearly two decades at Fox News before shifting to the new streaming service, CNN+. In an interview with the New York Times on Sunday, Wallace gave what is believed to be his first public statements on the reason he left his longtime media home. Wallace claimed Fox News shifted in the months following Donald Trump’s […]
Read more
Just when you think Ted Cruz couldn’t make a bigger ass out of himself, there he is—jetting off to Cancun while his constituents freeze to death. But even by Ted’s standards, this has been a doozy of a week. It started off with him going full Karen on an airline employee at a Montana airport when the Texas senator was […]
Read more
Fox News’ late-night political comedy show, Gutfeld!, continues to grow its audience and has dominated broadcast network late-night shows in recent weeks to become the most-watched late-night show on television. Gutfeld! pulled in its largest audience yet on March 15, bringing in some 2.372 million average viewers. While the Greg Gutfeld hosted show has been a hit at 11 […]
Read more
In an 18-page long ruling, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that Dustin Hice, who is accusing Don Lemon of assault and battery, must pay Lemon $77,000 in attorney fees. The ruling outlines U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Locke’s decision, basing it on Hice’s violation of court rules. More documents recently filed have further brought the plaintiff’s credibility […]
Read more
Ahead of Sunday’s Oscar ceremony, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences sent a letter Friday updating COVID protocols for those attending the event. The updates follow a number of COVID cases attributed to the BAFTA awards last week as well as an uptick in the BA.2 variant in the Los Angeles area over […]
Read more
It’s an interesting time to be the executive producer of a network late night show. In the span of less than a year, the 11:30 programs on NBC, ABC and CBS will have undergone leadership changes at the top. On Friday The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon announced that Chris Miller would become the new showrunner starting in May, […]
Read more
The Daily Show correspondent Desi Lydic mocked Fox News’ coverage of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing in another hilarious spoof. As part of the recurring Daily Show segment “Foxplains,” Lydic is often tasked with watching Fox News for hours at a time in order to explain certain topics the way the network’s hosts and personalities do. In this edition of […]
Read more
The White House sent Dr. Mehmet Oz a letter demanding his resignation from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition, and informed the U.S. Senate candidate from Pennsylvania that if does not resign by 6 p.m. Wednesday he will be “terminated. In response, Oz said former President Donald Trump appointed him to two terms on the council and […]
Read more
Ron Perlman freewheelingly berated Ted Cruz on Wednesday in a profane video over the Texas senator’s comments at the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Ketanji Brown Jackson. “Hi Ted, Ron here,” the “Hellboy” actor began in a video posted to social media. “Listen, I know how tempting it is to appeal to the real lowest […]
Read more
NYPD Blue alum Jimmy Smits is returning to the cop drama beat, signing on as the male lead opposite Amanda Warren in the CBS hourlong pilot East New York. Co-written by William Finkelstein and Mike Flynn and directed by Mike Robin, the project centers on Regina Haywood (Warren), the newly promoted deputy inspector of East New York, an impoverished, working-class neighborhood […]
Read more
After a messy and low-rated 13th season of the iconic “Real Housewives of New York City,” which concluded in September without even holding a reunion, Bravo’s “Housewives” braintrust decided to regroup. Fixing this important cornerstone of the franchise was, after all, crucial for the network. This week, Andy Cohen — the longtime executive producer of “The Real Housewives” — […]
Read more
“The Love Boat” soon will be making another run, promising something for everyone — but this time as a reality dating series. CBS and its sister Australian broadcaster Network 10 have both ordered local versions of “The Real Love Boat,” set to air in the U.S. and Australia later this year. The show is exactly what it sounds […]
Read more
The story of one of America’s most beloved TV personalities, Johnny Carson, may finally be coming to the screen. A high-profile series, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Carson, written by Deadwood creator David Milch and to be directed by Jay Roach, was recently taken out and has been heating up the premium marketplace. The project, titled King Of Late Night, is a co-production between wiip and […]
Read moreActors Bobby Moynihan & Mike Cabellon talk with Ross Crystal on ‘Showbiz Express’ about their roles in the latest season of NBC’s ‘Mr. Mayor.’
Read more
Christina Ricci, the actress who played Wednesday in the iconic ’90s franchise “The Addams Family,” is returning to the universe by joining Netflix’s “Wednesday” series in a mystery role, Variety has learned. The live-action series from Tim Burton stars “You” and “Jane the Virgin” alum Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams. “Yellowjackets” star Ricci will not be playing an older version […]
Read more
At Sunday’s WGA Awards, late-night host, comedian and writer Dick Cavett received the Evelyn F. Burkey Award, speaking in his acceptance speech about what writing means to him. “Writing is one of the great bastions of civilizations. It’s a branch of the art that needs preserving,” he said in the pre-taped segment, “and I thought I’d try to […]
Read more