Donald Trump’s acceptance of his party’s nomination for president drew the biggest ratings of the 2020 Republican National Convention, but it came in well behind the 2016 gathering. His acceptance speech also trailed that of Joe Biden at the Democratic convention last week. The six major networks covering the convention at 10 p.m. ET Thursday […]
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Nicole Byer, the host of the twice Emmy-nominated Netflix reality competition baking series Nailed It!, will host all five nights of the first-ever virtual Creative Arts Emmy Awards, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced on Thursday. It was announced earlier this month that the celebrations of creative and technical achievements will take place between Sept. 14-17, […]
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson received immediate backlash on Twitter after saying Kyle Rittenhouse, who was arrested and charged with first-degree intentional homicide for the shootings of two protesters in Kenosha, Wis., “decided to maintain order when no one else would.” “Are we really surprised this looting and arson accelerated to murder? How shocked are we that […]
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Blake Lively, Richard Gere and Diane Keaton are attached to star in the romantic comedy “The Making Of,” with Endeavor Content handling sales at the upcoming Toronto Intl. Film Festival. Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz are producing through their Bedford Falls Company banner with production planned for the spring. The duo is also writing the script, which revolves […]
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Fox is moving up its unscripted series I Can See Your Voice to the fall, pairing the new show with The Masked Singer on Wednesday nights. The broadcaster filmed the entirety of I Can See Your Voice during the summer, following production guidelines to ensure safety for cast and crew during the coronavirus pandemic. The Ken Jeong-hosted […]
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Netflix has set the full cast for Social Distance, its upcoming quarantine anthology series from Orange is the New Black creator Jenji Kohan. Danielle Brooks (Orange is the New Black), Mike Colter (Luke Cage), Oscar Nunez (The Office), Guillermo Diaz (Scandal), Asante Blackk (When They See Us), Peter Scanavino (Law & Order: SVU), Lachlan Watson (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Max Jenkins (Dead […]
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Arnold Spielberg, a pioneering computer designer who encouraged his only son, Steven Spielberg, to become a filmmaker, has died. He was 103. Spielberg died Tuesday of natural causes in Los Angeles, his family announced. In 1960, Arnold Spielberg helped design the GE-225 mainframe computer that enabled researchers at Dartmouth College to develop the coding tool […]
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The Milwaukee Bucks basketball team has decided to boycott its Wednesday NBA playoff game with the Orlando Magic over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin, Variety has confirmed. Tip off between the two teams was scheduled for 1 p.m. PT, but as of present the Bucks team is refusing to take the court. The Magic had been warming up for the […]
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The first night of the Republican National Convention drew 15.8 million viewers across six networks, a significant falloff from the 18.7 million who tuned in to the Democratic National Convention’s debut evening. Fox News was way ahead of its rivals in coverage during the 10 PM ET hour, with 7.1 million total viewers, followed by CNN with 2.01 million, ABC […]
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Gail Sheehy, the journalist, commentator and pop sociologist whose best-selling Passages helped millions navigate their lives from early adulthood to middle age and beyond, has died. She was 83. Sheehy, widow of New York magazine founder Clay Felker, died Monday of complications from pneumonia in Southampton, New York, according to her daughter, Maura Sheehy. Passages: Predictable Crises […]
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The cast and creators of “The West Wing” are reuniting to perform together for the first time in nearly two decades in a special set at HBO Max, Variety has learned. “A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote” will debut on the streamer this fall. It will feature a theatrical staging of the “Hartsfield’s Landing” […]
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Viewers will be seeing more of Sami Brady on NBC’s Days Of Our Lives. Alison Sweeney is set to reprise her role as the fan-favorite troublemaker when the show resumes taping next month, producer Corday Productions revealed to Deadline. Since she left Days Of Our Lives as a full-time cast member in 2014 after 21 years, Sweeney has been coming back […]
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Amy Poehler will direct a documentary with the working title “Lucy & Desi” about the marriage between comedy icons Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz for Imagine Documentaries and White Horse Pictures, the two companies announced Monday. Poehler is making her documentary feature directorial debut on the project, and she will also produce the film through […]
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Solstice Studios’ Unhinged rode to a domestic debut of $4 million in a win for the revival of moviegoing in the U.S., where theaters have begun reopening in earnest. The Russell Crowe road-rage thriller, playing in roughly 1,823 theaters, is the first new wide release to hit the big screen since cinemas went dark in March amid […]
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A Connecticut town’s officials are showing comedian John Oliver what they think about his expletive-filled rant about their city — they’re naming the local sewage treatment plant after him. Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton announced the tongue-in-cheek move in a video posted on his Facebook page on Saturday that shows him at the plant. “We are going to […]
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On Friday Page Six reported that two of Larry King’s children have tragically died in the last three weeks. And on Sunday the legendary broadcaster spoke about their passing for the first time. In a post on Facebook, King wrote, “It is with sadness and a father’s broken heart that I confirm the recent loss of two of […]
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The ViacomCBS-owned premium cable network has axed Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, the so-called “spiritual descendant” of creator John Logan’s original three-season story. From Logan and Michael Aguilar (Kidding), the new chapter starred Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones) and was set in 1930s L.A. and was infused with Mexican-American folklore. Rooted in the conflict between characters connected […]
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Former Vice President Joe Biden’s speech accepting the Democratic party’s nomination for president was met with wide praise from across the entertainment industry. “Nothing ‘sleepy’ about that speech,” said writer-producer Damon Lindelof (“Watchmen”) to Variety. Lindelof was a vocal supporter for Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the primary election, but he said that Biden’s speech left him convinced that […]
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The star of “Veep” brought some bite to her role at the Democrats’ virtual convention. Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the celebrity host for the convention’s final night Thursday, took some pointed shots at President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. “I’m proud to be a nasty, nasty woman,” said the 11-time Emmy winner. Promotion of […]
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In a competitive situation, CBS has given a script commitment with penalty to How To Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings, a single-camera comedy inspired by TikTok star Sarah Cooper’s bestselling book of the same name. The project hails from Cooper, Cindy Chupack (Sex and the City), Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi’s PatMa Productions and CBS Television Studios. Thanks to her breakout online […]
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Barack Obama laid bare the stakes of the upcoming election, urging citizens on Wednesday to not allow their “cynicism” about government to allow those in power to take advantage of them. “Look, I understand why many Americans are down on government. The way the rules have been set up and abused in Congress make it […]
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Apple TV+ has renewed its Jason Sudeikis soccer comedy from prolific showrunner Bill Lawrence for a second season. The tech giant says the 10-episode series from Warner Bros. TV and Universal TV will return in 2021. The news arrives days after the series launched its first three episodes on the subscription platform. Episode four launches […]
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Judge Judy is still on the air, but on Wednesday the long-running successful syndicated series launched a new spinoff – in court. Just more than two weeks after Rebel Entertainment Partners filed a $5 million breach of contract complaint against former Manhattan family court judge Judy Sheindlin and a collection of CBS entities, the small-screen judicial heavyweight has instigated a big-bucks […]
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The woman at the center of NBCUniversal vice chairman Ron Meyer’s abrupt exit is the same actress whose involvement with Warner Bros. chief Kevin Tsujihara led to the executive’s ouster last year. Sources say Charlotte Kirk, the actress whose affair with Tsujihara had been detailed in a March 2019 Hollywood Reporter story, also had been in a romantic relationship […]
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show is attempting a behind-the-scenes course correction. Three of the daytime talk show’s senior producers — executive producers Ed Glavin and Kevin Leman, as well as co-executive producer Jonathan Norman — have been fired, our sister publication Variety reports. Meanwhile, Mary Connelly, Andy Lassner and Derek Westervelt will continue to executive-produce. Ellen DeGeneres reportedly shared this news […]
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