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ABC News’ Good Morning America, will expand to three hours. The new third hour will air at 1 PM. EDT, noon CDT/PDT. The extra hour will replace ABC’s daytime food-themed program The Chew which, after seven seasons, 1454 episodes, multiple Emmy nominations and two Emmy Awards, will cease production at the end of this season but will continue to air as […]

Around this time 21 years ago, “Roseanne,” the groundbreaking sitcom about the blue-collar Conner family, came to an end after a successful 10-year run. The notion that it’d be pulled out of retirement more than two decades later and become the success story of the 2017-18 television season would have likely elicited a Roseanne-like cackle from the […]

Voters crowned singer-songwriter Maddie Poppe the newest winner of “American Idol” on Monday night, bringing the show’s first season on ABC to a close. Part two of the finale included performances some top-shelf artists. The night kicked off with judge Lionel Richie joined by the top ten Idols, performing his song “All Night Long,” followed by acts […]

Former President Barack Obama formally announced on Monday a multiyear production deal with Netflix in which he and the former first lady, Michelle Obama, will produce television shows and films for the streaming service. The deal will give Mr. Obama an international television platform during his post-presidency, allowing him to reach millions of people in […]

Atrium TV, the drama-commissioning club for pay-TV platforms and telcos, has set out a new slate that includes shows from Michael Douglas, Ava DuVernay, David Simon, and the producers of “Sherlock.” “Quasimodo,” which was shown to Atrium members last October, will also move forward, joining the already-announced moon-landing project “One Giant Leap” from veteran producer Mike Medavoy. Atrium […]

Superheroes continued to dominate the box office over the weekend as Ryan Reynolds and Fox’s Deadpool 2 bowed to $125 million domestically and $301 million globally after scoring the biggest foreign debut ever for an R-rated title. After falling off more than expected on Saturday, the sequel couldn’t match the North American opening of the first Deadpool, which […]

The Twitter data is in and the social-media users of the world have spoken: Bishop Michael Curry’s sermon and Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s performance of the “Ave Maria” on cello were the most tweeted-about moments of the royal wedding on Twitter. With 40,000 tweets per minute and 28,000 tweets per minute, respectively, the bishop and musician were surprise […]

“We have the queen, and you have Donald Trump,” says Nigel Lythgoe. The U.K.-born reality producer won’t be attending Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s May 19 wedding. But as a close royal observer and occasional collaborator (he’s been a dancer, choreographer, director and executive producer for the Royal Variety Performance, an annual televised fundraiser), he’s toasting […]

It’s official. The CW’s comedies Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend will end after their upcoming fifth and fourth seasons, respectively. Additionally, the network revealed this season that the upcoming fifth season of comedic drama iZombie also will be its last, making for string of farewells on the CW next season. It will start with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which is on the fall schedule, and […]

The CW is bigger and better than ever.” Those were CW president Mark Pedowitz’s parting words during a clip-heavy upfront presentation that still managed to clock in at less than an hour — a marked changed from the 120-minute-plus NBCUniversal pitch-fest that kicked off the week. Pedowitz’s declarative statement followed several others about the young-skewing […]

There’s no denying the success of Grey’s Anatomy. The show is one of the most popular on the planet, from the mind of genius showrunner Shonda Rhimes, and starring some brilliant talents such as Ellen Pompeo, Justin Chambers, and Chandra Wilson. This year, ABC’s renewal of the series even saw it set a record for a […]

“The biggest devil is me,” Whitney Houston told Diane Sawyer in her most infamous interview. It was an exchange confirming years of speculation that the pop superstar had struggled with substance abuse, a dependency that ultimately contributed to her death at age 48 in 2012. By the time the interview — the same one where […]

Nikki Bella is finally providing a window into what caused her to break off her engagement to John Cena. The WWE star says she began to feel differently about her relationship with her fellow wrestler as they neared their wedding day. “A lot of us that go through the wedding planning process … are forced […]

Photofest Seinfeld , a show about nothing, remains today as something that people can return to time and time again. Some come for the humor and writing, simple observations about the funny in everyday life. Others love the main characters, selfish and self-involved though they may be. From one simple conversation that started between two […]