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“At this point, let’s call ABC what it really is, Disney-,” quipped Jimmy Kimmel in a scathing roast of all thing small screen at Disney’s Virtual Upfront. “Isn’t there something to be said for dying with dignity,” the Live! host added. “Somehow when everyone’s stuck in their houses with nothing to do but watch TV for the past 14 month and we […]

A year after the BET Awards became one of the first major awards to take place during the pandemic (two days after the Daytime Emmys ran via a virtual event), the ceremony will return next month as the first to invite vaccinated fans to be a part of the audience. BET announced Tuesday that the 2021 BET […]

Things got extra heated on “The View” on Tuesday, as hosts Meghan McCain and Joy Behar got into a yelling match over Republican representative Matt Gaetz and why he hasn’t been removed from his position amid allegations of trafficking and having sexual relationships with underage girls. This week, Joel Greenberg, a former Florida tax collector and close […]

All Rise will not be returning to CBS for a third season. CBS has canceled the Simone Missick-fronted legal drama. It comes after a number of behind issues on the show including the departure of creator and showrunner Greg Spottiswood. It is one of two cancelations announced by the Eye today after The Unicorn was also axed. It follows a busy 24 […]

All four of ABC’s remaining bubble shows have been canceled as ABC has also passed on four of its remaining pilots. New ABC Entertainment president Craig Erwich has opted to cancel veteran comedy American Housewife (after five seasons), Black-ish’s sophomore spinoff Mixed-ish, freshman drama Rebel and second-year drama For Life. They join Kyra Sedgwick multicam Call Your Mother as scripted originals that will not return to […]

CBS and former entertainment chairman Leslie Moonves have resolved their dispute over $120 million that Moonves was set to collect as part of his exit from the company in 2018. In an SEC filing on Friday, CBS said that money, which had been held in a trust while they settled the dispute, will revert back […]

A quintet of scripted ABC series can breathe long-awaited sighs of relief. The Alphabet Net on Friday handed renewals to The Rookie, A Million Little Things and comedy trio The Conners, The Goldbergs and Home Economics. Both drama series, as well as The Conners, will be heading into their fourth seasons, while The Goldbergs will be back for Season 9 and Home Economics for Season […]

NBC unveiled a 2021-2022 fall season lineup that will feature a stack of “Law & Order” series on Thursdays — giving producer Dick Wolf two full nights of shows on the schedule — as the network courts audiences with dependable procedurals and nary a comedy until mid-season. Thursday nights this fall mark a real turn from […]

The CW is aiming to go where few broadcasters dare travel these days: Saturday nights. The netlet plans to add a two-hour Saturday primetime block to its schedule this fall, programming a full seven nights a week for the first time in its 15-year history. The CW chairman/CEO Mark Pedowitz announced the expansion on Thursday. The additional two […]

HBO has cancelled this week’s episode of Real Time With Bill Maher after the comedian tested positive for Covid-19. Maher, who is vaccinated and asymptomatic, tested positive during the premium cable network’s weekly PCR testing ahead of the show. It is a blow for the late-night show, which was set to entertain Neil deGrasse Tyson, Max Brooks and Dan […]

If you thought Kat Dennings and Andrew W.K.’s engagement was the wildest celebrity dating news you’d get today, you’ve got another thing coming. A newly single John Mulaney is reportedly dating TV star Olivia Munn, sources told People, “Page Six,” and Us Weekly. “They’re taking it slowly,” a Mulaney source told People, adding that their relationship “is very new.” The news comes three days after […]

The long-delayed “Friends” reunion special at HBO Max will finally be there for you, with the streamer announcing the official premiere date. “Friends: The Reunion” will debut on HBO Max on May 27. In addition, HBO Max debuted the first teaser trailer for the special, which can be viewed above. “Friends: The Reunion” will now debut on […]

NBC will broadcast the holiday musical event Annie Live!, with Robert Greenblatt as executive producer along with Neil Meron, who has served as executive producer on such NBC’s live musicals The Sound of Music Live! and Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert. Annie Live! will be directed by Lear deBessonet, Artistic Director for New York’s revival series Encores and creator of […]

“This Is Us” will be ending with its upcoming sixth season, TheWrap has learned. The Season 6 end to the hit family drama — which revolves around Jack and Rebecca Pearson and their kids, Randall, Kevin and Kate, aka “The Big Three,” in the past, present and future — shouldn’t come as much of a […]

Ellen DeGeneres is ending her long-running daytime talk show, Variety has confirmed. “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” will officially end after the upcoming 2021-22 season. DeGeneres has hosted the series since 2003, meaning the show will have run for 19 seasons by the time it ends. The show has been a major fixture of the daytime TV landscape throughout […]

LeVar Burton is joining “Tom Swift,” The CW’s potential spinoff to “Nancy Drew.” Well, at least his voice is. Burton will voice Tom’s A.I.-powered companion Barclay in an upcoming episode of “Nancy Drew” that is planned as a backdoor pilot for “Tom Swift.” Created by the young genius when Tom was eight years old, Barclay […]

Aubrey Plaza, Danny DeVito and Lucy DeVito, his daughter and fellow actor, are among the voice cast of “Little Demon,” an upcoming animated horror sitcom on FXX. Per the logline, the show follows a reluctant mother (Plaza) 13 years after being impregnated by Devil (Danny DeVito). She and her Antichrist daughter (Lucy DeVito) attempt to live an ordinary […]