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Kate McKinnon has scored her second starring role in a series based on a podcast. McKinnon has signed on to star in and executive produce a series adaptation of the Wondery podcast “Joe Exotic,” which is being developed at Universal Content Productions. It was previously announced that McKinnon would star as disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in a series […]

Two collectors said “You’re the one that I want” to Olivia Newton-John’s iconic Grease leather jacket and skintight pants at an auction Saturday in Beverly Hills. Julien’s Auctions says the combined ensemble, which Newton-John’s character Sandy wears in the closing number of the 1978 film, fetched $405,700 total. The leather jacket sold for $243,200 and the pants, which Newton-John […]

“Terminator: Dark Fate” shot past box office competition but fell significantly short of expectations as Paramount, Skydance Media and Disney’s sci-fi sequel debuted to $29 million in North America. The sixth installment in the “Terminator” franchise landed in first place on domestic box office charts, but the results are disappointing given the film’s $185 million […]

ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today were hopelessly devoted to Halloween on Thursday, with hosts on both of the rival morning shows dressed up as different versions of Olivia Newton-John. GMA‘s Ginger Zee provided a roller-skating take on the singer on the ABC morning show while a few blocks away Today‘s Savannah Guthrie took to Rockefeller Plaza […]

Aaron Sorkin won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for scripting David Fincher’s “The Social Network,” a scathing behind-the-scenes look at Mark Zuckerberg’s creation of Facebook. Nine years later, Sorkin has taken to The New York Times to publish an open letter slamming Zuckerburg and Facebook for allowing political candidates to post false ads. Zuckerberg has long cited the […]

Ten years after a former Late Night With David Letterman writer wrote a story excoriating the host for his treatment of women on the show, David Letterman has apologized to the writer and other women who worked for him. In a follow-up piece in Vanity Fair to her viral 2009 story “Letterman and Me,” comedy writer Nell Scovell describes a recent meeting between […]

The world of “Game of Thrones” will live on at HBO. A prequel series based on the “Game of Thrones” companion book “Fire & Blood” has been ordered straight-to-series at the premium cabler. The series will be titled “House of the Dragon.” Set 300 years before the events of “Game of Thrones,” the series tells […]

When Rachel Maddow called out her own bosses Friday over their handling of Ronan Farrow’s Harvey Weinstein reporting, she opened a new chapter in a two-year saga that has buffeted NBC News since Farrow took his Weinstein reporting to The New Yorker, where he would go on to share a Pulitzer Prize. Privately, Maddow earned cheers from […]

Jane Fonda was arrested (again) on Friday during an ongoing climate change protest in Washington D.C., and this time was joined by Ted Danson. “Today, the United States Capitol Police arrested 32 individuals for unlawfully demonstrating in the intersection of East Capitol and First Streets,” Capitol Police communications director Eva Malecki said in a statement to Variety. She […]

Kelly Ripa is not here for the “fake outrage” over a joke she made about her son’s living situation. Earlier this week, she told Jimmy Kimmel Live! that her eldest child, Michael Consuelos, a senior at New York University, is living on his own for the first time in a Brooklyn apartment. While he likes the “freedom” of having […]

Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli are feeling the heat after being hit with additional bribery charges for their alleged role in the nationwide college admissions scandal, a report said Wednesday. “This stress is about to break them,” a source close to the couple told People. “They feel like this is David versus Goliath. How do you go […]

NBCUniversal renewed NBC News President Noah Oppenheim’s contract in recent months as the company prepared for bombshell allegations made in former contributor Ronan Farrow’s new book Catch & Kill. A source close to the situation confirmed to Deadline that Oppenheim inked a new multi-year contract with the Comcast-owned network. While corporate winds can blow in many directions, the new deal […]

Lori Loughlin’s daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Giannulli, are no longer enrolled at the University of Southern California. The university registrar said in a statement Monday that the sisters aren’t enrolled at the school, but couldn’t provide additional information, citing student privacy laws. Prosecutors have said their parents, “Fuller House” star Loughlin, 55, and her fashion-designer hubby, Mossimo Giannulli, forked […]

Dennis Quaid is officially engaged. The 65-year-old actor proposed to girlfriend Laura Savoie, 26, after several months of dating, the star confirmed to Extra over the weekend. “I had the ring in my pocket,” gushed Quaid to the outlet. “It has been kind of a month-and-a-half plan — I wanted it to be private.” The “Parent Trap” actor revealed […]

An attorney for President Donald Trump has sent a letter to CNN that threatens to sue the AT&T-owned cable-news network for violating the Lanham Act and making misrepresentations to the public and advertisers about its content, but the network says the missive isn’t worth discussing. “This is nothing more than a desperate PR stunt and doesn’t merit a response, CNN said in […]

Food Network and celebrity chef Guy Fieri are teaming up again, this time on a culinary competition program. The five-episode “Tournament of Champions” will feature 16 chefs going head-to-head in a series of challenges using ingredients and special cooking tools and equipment  while racing against the clock. The difficulty of the challenges increases with each round of the […]

Paul Dano is in talks to join Robert Pattinson in Matt Reeves and Warner Bros. “The Batman,” sources tell Variety. Though the studio would not confirm the role, insiders believe that Dano would be playing the classic comic book villain The Riddler. Dano’s casting comes on the heels of Jonah Hill turning down an offer to join the cast. […]

Disgraced “Today” anchor Matt Lauer allegedly had an affair with a famed and well-respected broadcaster, Page Six is exclusively told, representing a “clear imbalance of power.” The woman signed a nondisclosure agreement when she left NBC. We have agreed not to name the broadcaster at her request, but a TV source said: “Matt had influence over everyone’s […]

Felicity Huffman reported to federal prison in Dublin, Calif., on Tuesday morning to begin her two-week sentence for paying to cheat on her daughter’s SAT test. Huffman pleaded guilty to one count of fraud, admitting that she paid $15,000 to consultant Rick Singer to boost her daughter’s SAT score. Judge Idira Talwani sentenced her last month […]

Fox News’ Shepard Smith will step down from his position as chief news anchor, managing editor of Fox’s breaking news unit, and anchor of “Shepard Smith Reporting,” according to a Friday announcement from Fox News President and Executive Editor Jay Wallace. Smith has been one of the network’s rare critics of President Donald Trump. Friday […]

Drew Barrymore is officially coming to daytime TV. The actress will headline and executive produce a syndicated talk show for CBS Television Distribution, set to launch in the fall of 2020, it was announced today. The news comes after Barrymore, who recently starred on Netflix’s zombie comedy Santa Clarita Diet and was one of the judges on CBS’ […]

Rip Taylor, the exuberant comedian whose zany shtick and over-the-top delivery made him a television and nightclub mainstay for more than six decades, has died. He was 84. Taylor died Sunday in Beverly Hills, publicist Harlan Boll announced. Taylor became a comedy legend through pure exhilaration. Believing that the more exaggerated the gag, the bigger […]

The CW’s new “Batwoman” series sent up the signal for someone to play a radio personality with a “penchant for snark,” and Rachel Maddow answered the call. The MSNBC host has been cast in the role of Vesper Fairchild, who is described as a TV and radio figure who once had a romantic relationship with Bruce Wayne. […]

NBC is developing a drama series on which CNN political correspondent Dana Bash will serve as a consulting producer, Variety has learned. Titled “The Hill,” the series is described as a character drama that lives at the supercharged intersection of media and Capitol Hill where everything is transacted: information, sex, love, fame and power. The series focuses on the people […]