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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Reese Witherspoon is expanding both her relationship with Apple and her portfolio of unscripted shows. The actress and producer will executive produce a country music competition for Apple TV+. My Kind of Country is the first competition series to land at the 9-month-old streamer. Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine and Done + Dusted will produce the series. “Well, it’s […]
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Robert Trump, the younger brother of Donald and a former real estate developer-executive at the Trump Organization, died on Saturday. He was 71 years old. “It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight,” Donald Trump said in a statement. “He was not just my brother, he was […]
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Taylor Swift is slamming President Donald Trump over his handling of funding for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The 30-year-old pop superstar took to Twitter on Saturday to criticize Trump over reports that he is deliberately withholding billions of dollars in funding for the USPS as part of a […]
Read moreComscore Sr. Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian joins Ross Crystal on ‘Showbiz UpFront’ to discuss the financial fallout in the movie industry amid the COVID-19 crisis, and where we go from here.
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The Simpsons got out a response to a Trump adviser’s swipe at Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s new running mate. Jenna Ellis, senior legal adviser to the Trump campaign, tweeted on Wednesday, “Kamala sounds like Marge Simpson.” Harris had been making her first appearance with Biden since he selected her as running mate. In the new post by the […]
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Facebook announced that it’s letting businesses, creators, artists, educators and media publishers generate cash from holding online events on the platform. The social-media giant is promising to not collect any fees for paid online events for at least the next year. However, for payments Facebook users submit through the app for Apple’s iOS app, Apple will […]
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It appears Miley Cyrus kept a big secret from her ex-husband Liam Hemsworth for the majority of their 10-year on-and-off relationship. The “Nothing Breaks Like A Heart” singer spilled details about her sexuality in a new candid interview, revealing that she lied about not being a virgin to the man she ultimately lost her virginity to. “I didn’t go […]
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In his forthcoming book “Disloyal,” former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen takes readers deep inside his close relationship with the president that, according to Cohen, eventually made him fear for his life when he agreed to testify against the man he once thought of as a father figure. Cohen released the foreword to the book […]
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More than 1,300 angry SAG-AFTRA members have signed a petition calling on the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan to overturn changes that will leave many members without health coverage during the coronavirus pandemic. The Plan says that the changes, which go into effect January 1, are needed to keep the Plan solvent in the face of staggering […]
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AMC Theatres has just endured one of the most traumatic periods in its hundred-year history. As the theater chain looks to reopen 100 of its locations on Aug. 20 after shutting them down last spring during the coronavirus pandemic, it has hit on a novel way to bring back audiences while paying tribute to its past. […]
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The coming season of The Bachelorette will see Chris Harrison cede hosting duties for the first time in the long history of the franchise. Former Bachelorette JoJo Fletcher will fill in for Harrison for a few episodes of the season, which is currently in production. Harrison had to enter a 14-day quarantine earlier this week after taking […]
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What’s the path forward for ViacomCBS after media mogul Sumner Redstone’s death at 97? Most Wall Street observers expect no strategy changes given that the executive didn’t have any involvement in major company decisions in recent years. But some suggest there will be less soap opera-type focus on the Redstone family than in the past, which has […]
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Tribune Publishing Company, which owns some of the most storied newspapers in American journalism, said Wednesday that it is closing the newsrooms at five of them, including New York’s Daily News and The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. The company said the newspapers — including the Orlando Sentinel in Florida, The Morning Call in Allentown, […]
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President Donald Trump has criticized Bill Maher in the wake of HBO’s Real Time host delivering a mock eulogy for the sitting POTUS. “He’s totally SHOT, looks terrible, exhausted, gaunt, and weak,” Trump tweeted on Wednesday, five days after the Real Time installment aired. “If there was ever a good reason for no shutdown, check out this jerk. He never had much going […]
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Sumner Redstone, a towering figure in media who built his father’s drive-in theater business into an empire that included Viacom, Paramount Pictures and CBS Corp., only to see his legacy tarnished in his final years by corporate battles and sordid allegations by former girlfriends, died Aug. 11 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 97. National […]
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Sarah Cooper is about to learn how to variety. The author and comedian, who has broken out during the pandemic on TikTok for her Trump impersonations, including her viral “How to Medical” video, has landed a variety special at Netflix. Titled Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine, the special will feature vignettes focusing on issues related to politics, race, […]
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‘I said what I meant, it was hurtful’ – Kamala Harris on jab at Biden While many people are celebrating Kamala Harris being picked as Joe Biden’s 2020 running mate, Maya Rudolph has more reason than most. The Saturday Night Live alum played Harris during the Democratic Presidential debates and today’s news means that she’ll have more opportunities to reprise her […]
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Kamala Harris returns to the 2020 race, this time as Joe Biden’s running mate. Upon hearing Tuesday’s news, Hollywood and Washington D.C. were quick to react. “Finally, a Presidential ticket that looks like America!,” Rob Reiner tweeted, summing up the overwhelming Hollywood sentiment. Biden announced his pick for vice president over Twitter on Tuesday. After months of speculation […]
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