Executive Producer Mona Scott Young chats with Ross Crystal about her latest project, a new six-episode Amazon Original Series “Everybody Loves Natti” about Natti Natasha, one of the world’s most streamed and listened to Latin singer songwriters with over 6 billion YouTube views.
Read more
There she is … but not on TV. When the Miss America Pageant returns this year for its 100th anniversary after being scuttled by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, it won’t air on a traditional television network — the latest indication how TV culture is radically changing in the face of broadband technology that gives entertainment seekers […]
Read more
An arbitrator has ordered Kevin Spacey and his companies to pay nearly $31 million to MRC, the production company behind “House of Cards,” after finding that Spacey breached his contract by violating the company’s sexual harassment policy. MRC severed its relationship with Spacey and scrapped a season of the show in 2017, after multiple people came forward […]
Read more
The American Music Awards hosted its annual celebration live from Los Angeles on Sunday night and winners include Cardi B, BTS, Taylor Swift, Megan Thee Stallion, Doja Cat, and Bad Bunny, among others. The awards show was hosted by Cardi B and featured performances by BTS and Coldplay; New Kids on the Block and New Edition; Jennifer […]
Read more
Fox News contributors Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes have opted to leave the network in protest of Tucker Carlson’s special “Patriot Purge” about the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol out of concern that it will “lead to violence,” according to a report in Sunday’s New York Times. The Times reports that Goldberg and Hayes exchanged […]
Read more
Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan took Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to task over his support of the Big Lie in a tense interview on CBS. During a contentious exchange on the Sunday morning program, Brennan confronted Cruz over revelations from the recent Bob Woodward and Robert Costa book “Peril” detailed in conversations Cruz had with former President Donald Trump. According to the book, Cruz knew full […]
Read more
“Saturday Night Live” took on the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal in its cold open, with Cecily Strong as Fox News’ Judge Jeanine Pirro weighing on the verdict with the trial’s controversial judge, dueling political commentators and former President Donald Trump. “That loveable scamp was put through a nightmare of a trial,” Strong as Pirro said. She […]
Read more
A two-part docuseries about the high-profile divorce between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard has been ordered at Discovery+, the streaming service said Friday. Commissioned by Discovery UK, “Johnny vs Amber” will tell “the story of the breakdown of their relationship and how it tipped into the celebrity court case of the decade” and follows “this […]
Read more
Frank Scherma has been re-elected for a second term as Chairman and CEO of the Television Academy, which announced its newly elected board and governors for 2022-23 today. Joining Scherma, who’s from the Academy’s Commercials and Producers peer groups, for two-year terms starting January 1 are Vice Chair Sharon Lieblein (Casting Directors), Second Vice Chair Rickey Minor […]
Read more
Norman Lear is heading back to the Sony lot. The television veteran and Jimmy Kimmel will revive their Emmy-winning Live In Front of a Studio Audience series on Dec. 7 with live episodic reenactments of the classic sitcom Diff’rent Strokes and its spinoff The Facts of Life. As Kimmel first revealed onhollywoodreporter.com/t/norman-lear his late night show Thursday evening, the former will be led […]
Read more
IATSE members have ratified their new film and TV contracts, averting a showdown with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers after contentious negotiations that began six months ago. However, union leadership suffered a harsh rebuke as L.A. locals rejected the deal in the popular vote. “From start to finish, from preparation to ratification, this has been a […]
Read more
CBS got big ratings from its Adele concert special on Sunday, outdrawing everything other than the NFL in primetime. The show also drew the biggest Sunday night audience for any network entertainment program so far this season. Adele One Night Only, which featured the singer performing past hits and songs from her upcoming album 30 — and […]
Read more
Britney Spears has been freed from her longstanding conservatorship, as an L.A. judge on Friday granted a petition to terminate the 13-year arrangement. Despite the rise of the #FreeBritney movement, and years of speculation from fans that the singer was unhappy in the conservatorship, nothing changed until this summer — and then everything did. Spears on June […]
Read more
Paris Hilton is a married woman. The media personality and heiress tied the knot with fiancé Carter Reum on Thursday in a lavish ceremony at a private estate in LosAngeles, People reported. On Friday morning — in her first Instagram post as a wife — Hilton shared a shot of herself posing behind her veil, giving fans a glimpse of […]
Read more
Gavan O’Herlihy, who played Chuck Cunningham on Season 1 of “Happy Days,” has died, according to Metro UK. He was 70. Chuck Cunningham, the older brother of Richie (Ron Howard) and Joanie (Erin Moran), appeared in 9 episodes of Season 1. By Season 2, the part was recast to be played Randolph Roberts. But after two […]
Read more
Dominion Voting Systems filed a new lawsuit against Fox Corp this week Dominion Voting Systems Inc. sued Fox Corp. this week in an effort to get access to executive-level documents about Fox News’ coverage of the 2020 election. The company sued Fox News in March of this year and the network has since filed a […]
Read more
Alanna Ubach (Bombshell, Euphoria) has joined the Season 2 cast of HBO Max’s critically acclaimed series The Flight Attendant as a recurring guest star. She’ll appear in the new season—which is currently in production—alongside returning series regulars Kaley Cuoco, Zosia Mamet, Griffin Matthews, Deniz Akdeniz and Rosie Perez; new series regulars Mo McRae, Callie Hernandez and JJ Soria; returning recurring guest […]
Read more
Jerry Douglas, who played patriarch John Abbott on CBS’ The Young and the Restless for more than 30 years, died November 9 after a brief illness, his family announced Wednesday. He was 88. Born Jerry Rubenstein on November 12, 1932, in Chelsea, MA, Douglas launched his acting career upon graduating from Brandeis University, studying acting with Uta […]
Read more
The gaffer on “Rust” felt a whoosh of air and heard the loudest shot he had ever heard on set, and then watched helplessly as his friend Halyna Hutchins faded away in his arms, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday. Serge Svetnoy provided a detailed, first-hand account of the Oct. 21 shooting in a negligence suit against […]
Read more
Thirty years ago, Billy Crystal brought the story of Buddy Young Jr., a stand-up comic whose talent can’t outrun his self-destructive tendencies, to the big screen with “Mr. Saturday Night.” The film, which Crystal co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in, was a modest critical success but a box office bomb. Despite the mixed reception something about the […]
Read more
The Good Fight and Evil creators Robert and Michelle King have set their next series at Paramount+. The married showrunners are adapting the Happy Face podcast as a live-action scripted original series for the ViacomCBS-backed streamer. The straight-to-series order, which has been in the works for more than a year, is inspired by the true-crime podcast that itself is based on the […]
Read more
Brian Williams, anchor of the MSNBC nightly program “The 11th Hour,” will not sign a new contract with NBC News and will leave the company after 28 years. Williams confirmed his planned departure in a statement to The Times. “Following much reflection, and after 28 years with the company, I have decided to leave NBC upon the […]
Read more
Scott Bakula, who co-starred with the late Dean Stockwell in the beloved sci-fi series Quantum Leap, remembers castmate as a dear friend and mentor in this statement provided to Deadline. Recalling how the two actors met when Stockwell auditioned for the show in 1988, Bakula says their personal connection was immediate, and the two grew close during the […]
Read more
Alanis Morissette’s life is going to be the foundation for an ABC comedy. The Disney-backed broadcast network has inked a script deal for Relatable, a single-camera comedy inspired by the family life of the Grammy-winning “Jagged Little Pill” singer-songwriter. Relatable follows a 40-something woman, married with three kids, who spent her young adult life as an international rock […]
Read more
Travis Scott will not perform at this weekend’s Day N Vegas Festival, Variety has confirmed. The headlining appearance at Las Vegas Festival Grounds was scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 13, less than a week after his own Astroworld festival took place at Houston’s NRG Park, where eight attendees died, ranging in age from 14 to 27. Sources describe Scott as “too distraught to […]
Read more