Natalie Morales, who announced today she is leaving NBC News after 22 years, is expected to join CBS’ The Talk as a permanent co-host, sources confirmed to Deadline. CBS declined comment on the news reported by The Daily Mail Friday. Morales would take up the last open spot on the daytime talker, joining fellow co-hosts Sheryl Underwood, Amanda Kloots, Jerry O’Connell […]
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Scarlett Johansson and Disney have settled a breach of contract lawsuit over the star’s Black Widow payday, a source tells The Hollywood Reporter. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The explosive suit, filed by the actress in July in Los Angeles Superior Court, claimed that the studio sacrificed the film’s box office potential in order to grow […]
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Straight outta Inglewood comes word that Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem and Mary J. Blige will perform during the 2022 Super Bowl Halftime Show at SoFi Stadium near Los Angeles. The five artists have never before appeared together onstage, according to the official announcement of the show. Among them, they have 43 Grammys and 22 No. 1 albums on the Billboard charts. […]
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Tommy Kirk, the actor best known for his childhood roles in Disney classics like “Swiss Family Robinson” and “Son of Flubber,” has died. According to a Facebook post written by “The Donna Reed Show” actor Paul Petersen II, the “intensely private” 79-year-old lived alone in Las Vegas at the time of his death on Tuesday night. “Please […]
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Disney’s ‘Aladdin’ Cancels Broadway Performance Due To Breakthrough Covid Cases On Second Night Back
Disney’s Aladdin on Broadway canceled tonight’s performance – the show’s first since reopening last night – after breakthrough Covid cases were detected within the musical’s company. In a tweet posted shortly before 7 p.m. ET, the production stated, “Through our rigorous testing protocols, breakthrough COVID-19 cases have been detected with the company of Aladdin at The New Amsterdam Theatre. Because the wellness and […]
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“All Rise” has officially been brought back at Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), with the cabler ordering a 20-episode third season of the legal drama. The series aired two seasons on CBS before being canceled in May 2021. Series lead Simone Missick is returning as Judge Lola Carmichael and will also serve as an executive producer […]
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Britney Spears will no longer have to deal with her father handling her business affairs. An L.A. judge on Wednesday granted the artist’s petition to suspend him from his role as conservator of her estate immediately, finding the arrangement was no longer in her best interest. Spears’ conservatorship was established in 2008, after she was hospitalized […]
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Lifetime has set its 2021 holiday movie slate, which will see 35 films rollout this season, including the channel’s first-ever project with a lesbian couple as the focus. Here’s the official description for the “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” movie, titled, “Under the Christmas Tree”: Marketing whiz Alma Beltran (Elise Bauman) and Christmas tree whisperer Charlie […]
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Curb Your Enthusiasm returns to HBO for Season 11 on Oct. 24 starting at 10:40 p.m. ET/PT with new episodes to be released subsequent Sundays at 10:30 p.m. ET. Debuting on HBO in 2001 and presenting 100 episodes to date, Curb Your Enthusiasm stars Seinfeld co-creator Larry David as an over-the-top version of himself in an unsparing but tongue-in-cheek depiction of his fictionalized […]
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Lori Loughlin is returning to acting. The former When Calls the Heart star will reprise her popular character from the Hallmark Channel series, Abigail Stanton, on spinoff When Hope Calls, which is coming back for a second season on a new network, GAC Family. Loughlin will appear in the two-part Season 2 premiere titled When Hope Calls: A Country Christmas, slated […]
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The network has handed out a straight-to-series order for a revival of the procedural that launched Wolf’s multibillion-dollar franchise. Rick Eid, one of Wolf’s frequent collaborators, will serve as showrunner on what is being billed as the drama’s 21st season. “There are very few things in life that are literally dreams come true,” said Wolf, […]
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NBC didn’t just win Fall TV Premiere Week (Sept. 20-26, 2021) in ratings and in total viewers — it obliterated the competition. With a 57% advantage in the key demo (adults 18-49) ratings over No. 2 and a 49% margin in total viewers, NBC just set a new record for the widest gaps between any […]
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Don Roy King, the veteran “Saturday Night Live” director who has helped guide the show behind the scenes since 2006, is set to retire and will be replaced by Liz Patrick, who has directed Ellen DeGeneres’ long-running talk show. An NBC spokeswoman for “SNL” confirmed details of the switch. King is just the fourth director in […]
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After much fanfare, a change in director, a rewrite, several well-documented release delays and a major global pandemic, the world premiere for the 25th James Bond film kicked off at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall, just shy of six years since the last 007 installment, Spectre, was given the same treatment. “This is amazing,” Daniel Craig said on the red […]
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Beck Bennett, the versatile “Saturday Night Live” player who has won notice for his impressions of Russian President Vladimir Putin and former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence over eight seasons at the show, will leave the venerable NBC late-night series even as it welcomes back a number of senior cast members who hinted they might be ready […]
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After Deadline broke the news Monday that CAA said was acquiring ICM Partners in the first major Hollywood agency tie-up since the WMA-Endeavor deal in 2009, the bombshell news has began sinking in around the industry. One sector that will be interested are the Hollywood unions, and SAG-AFTRA became the first to react with a statement by […]
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R. Kelly on Monday was found guilty on each of the felony charges he faced, which included eight counts of sex trafficking and one count of racketeering based on the sexual exploitation of children and violating the Mann Act, which bars the transportation of people across state lines for prostitution. Kelly also faced 14 underlying […]
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The Tony Awards honoring the 2019-20 Broadway season were finally handed out Sunday night, with Moulin Rouge! The Musical named best musical, The Inheritance best play and A Soldier’s Play best revival of a play. After a long delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 74th annual Tony Awards returned to the stage as part of a four-hour event airing across CBS and Paramount+. “We’re a little […]
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Chris Cuomo’s former boss Shelley Ross accused him of sexual harassment in a New York Times op-ed published Friday. Ross, under whom Cuomo worked while at ABC News, claimed that the CNN anchor grabbed her butt while at a bar in New York City’s Upper West Side. “I was at the party with my husband, who sat behind me on an […]
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Actor Scott Bakula says “significant conversations” are happening about the possibility of a reboot of his early ’90s sci-fi series Quantum Leap, though whatever talks are happening seem to be in the very early stages. On the podcast Bob Saget’s Here For You yesterday, guest Bakula suggested that the 1989-93 NBC fantasy series – in which his character time-hopped through […]
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Melvin Van Peebles, the groundbreaking filmmaker behind “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song,” and father of director and actor Mario Van Peebles, has died. He was 89. “Sweet Sweetback” was a groundbreaking film a few times over. Van Peebles financed and released the film independently, paving the way for an entire ecosystem of indie cinema. Because he couldn’t […]
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Owen Wilson, Kim Kardashian, Jason Sudeikis and Rami Malek will host during the next season of “Saturday Night Live,” as the show livestreams on Peacock for the first time. For decades, the traditional home of “Saturday Night Live” has been the NBC broadcast network — after the late local weekend news. As young viewers find new ways to watch […]
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In the wake of Willie Garson’s death on Tuesday, many Hollywood figures took to social media to share memories and tributes to the late Sex and the City actor. Garson, who was best known for playing Carrie Bradshaw’s stylish best friend Stanford on the HBO comedy, died after a short illness at the age of 57. The late actor’s son, […]
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Can we talk? Because Variety has learned Kathryn Hahn is attached to play Joan Rivers in “The Comeback Girl,” a limited series in development at Showtime, produced by Warner Bros. Television, Atlas Entertainment and Berlanti Productions. In addition to starring as Rivers, Hahn will executive produce “The Comeback Girl,” Greg Berlanti will direct and executive produce and Cosmo Carlson will write and […]
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Betty Gilpin has joined the upcoming Showtime drama series “Three Women.” Gilpin joins previously announced cast members Shailene Woodley and DeWanda Wise. The series is based on the book of the same name by Lisa Taddeo. The series is described as a portrayal of American female desire, in which three women are on a crash course to radically […]
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