News writers and producers at MSNBC have voted overwhelmingly to be represented by the WGA East for the purpose of collective bargaining. The vote, which was conducted by the National Labor Relations Board, was 141 and 58 opposed. The 300-member bargaining unit includes writers, producers, booking producers, and other editorial staff at every program airing on MSNBC and The […]
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Showtime is going back to court. The premium cable network has renewed limited series Your Honor for a second season. The news comes after the CBS Studios-produced series from exec producers Peter Moffat and Robert and Michelle King was billed as a limited series and recently submitted in the same category for Emmys consideration. (It was snubbed.) Production on another […]
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During the last eight years since Dexter Morgan faked his own death and went off the grid in Showtime’s serial killer drama, he has lived a “nomadic” existence according to star and executive producer Michael C. Hall. But when the continuation limited series, “Dexter: New Blood,” picks back up with him, he has settled down in the fictional […]
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Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is losing his International Emmy award following his resignation and a sexual harassment investigation. “The International Academy announced today that in light of the New York Attorney General’s report, and Andrew Cuomo’s subsequent resignation as Governor, it is rescinding his special 2020 International Emmy Award. His name and any reference to his receiving […]
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Megan Mullally and Michelle Buteau have joined the cast of a high-school coming-of-age romance from Hulu, Maya Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne’s Animal Pictures, and American High. Rowan Blanchard and Auli’i Cravalho will lead the feature that has also added Tyler Alvarez (Never Have I Ever), Aasif Mandvi (Evil), Teala Dunn (All Night) and Isabella Ferreira (Love, Victor). […]
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Tony winner Rachel Bay Jones (Dear Evan Hansen) has been tapped for a major recurring role on the upcoming fifth season of ABC’s medical drama series The Good Doctor. Details about her character are being kept under wraps. They will be revealed in the Season 5 premiere, airing Sept. 27, when Jones will make her debut on the […]
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Mayim Bialik will be the first guest host of the weekday edition of “Jeopardy!” in the wake of Mike Richards’ abrupt departure from the job. Bialik will host the episodes that are taped this week, sources familiar with the matter told CNN Business. Since the game show typically tapes a week’s worth of episodes on a single […]
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Rachel Maddow will stay at MSNBC, according to two people familiar with the matter, after negotiating a new pact that will keep her at the cable-news outlet beyond 2022. Maddow, who is the linchpin of the network’s primetime lineup, had been considering her own independent content ventures, and had enlisted top executives at Endeavor to make her case […]
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How did “Jeopardy” screw this up? The departure of Mike Richards, announced only last week as the new host of the venerable game show, is the culmination of the greatest PR crisis in the show’s history — casting into disarray a new season that’s meant to be in production right now and calling into question Sony […]
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Hank Azaria will play Apple CEO Tim Cook in Showtime’s anthology series “Super Pumped.” The first season tracks the rise of Uber. Based on Mike Isaac’s book “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber,” the series will “depict the roller-coaster ride of the upstart transportation company, embodying the highs and lows of Silicon Valley,” according to […]
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Amazon is getting into the awards show business. The tech and retail giant’s Prime Video streaming platform will stream the Academy of Country Music Awards live in 2022. The awards, produced by MRC’s Dick Clark Productions, are moving to the streamer from their long-time home at CBS, which has aired ACM Awards since 1998. “We’re excited to continue […]
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It seems that Alan Dershowitz’s ties to the Trump administration have made him persona non grata among the Martha’s Vineyard elite — including Larry David. A Page Six spy spotted the Harvard Law professor — who was once, like David, a fully paid-up member of the Democrat cool kids — bumping into the comic on […]
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Since restarting his tour in July, Garth Brooks has played to over 300,000 fans in five cities. Now, citing “a new wave of the Covid-19 virus spreading across the nation,” Brooks has canceled dates in the stadium tour’s next five cities. In a statement, the country superstar called it a “very difficult decision,” saying he would be issuing […]
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Tim Robbins has signed onto the series adaptation of Hugh Howey’s “Wool” at Apple, Variety has learned. Robbins will star alongside previously announced cast member Rebecca Ferguson. “Wool” is a set in a ruined and toxic future where a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full […]
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It’s baby joy for Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost. The Tony winner, 36, and her Saturday Night Live star husband, 39, recently welcomed their first baby together, Johansson’s rep Marcel Pariseau exclusively confirms to PEOPLE. Johansson is also mom to daughter Rose Dorothy, who turns 7 years old this fall. Jost briefly mentioned their pregnancy news during a stand-up performance at The […]
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In response to increased COVID-19 cases, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has expanded its existing mask mandate to include events in large outdoor venues like SoFi Stadium and the Hollywood Bowl. The order, which will go into effect just before midnight on Thursday, will require operators of concerts, sports games and other […]
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An appeals court on Tuesday threw out a defamation lawsuit that accused Rachel Maddow of defaming One America News by calling the network “paid Russian propaganda.” The 9th Circuit Court of Appeal held that Maddow’s commentary was protected by the First Amendment, as she was simply offering her opinion based on a Daily Beast story that revealed […]
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FX chairman John Landgraf shared an update on the long-awaited return of Donald Glover’s Atlanta, set for release in early 2022, during the network’s TCA presentation on Friday. “We haven’t locked down the scheduling for Season 3 yet as it just finished shooting — it’s shot primarily in Europe,” Landgraf revealed during the executive session. “It’s in post-production and it’s a […]
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Britney Spears’ father, Jamie Spears, says in a court filing he will step down as her conservator after an “an orderly transition.” “There are, in fact, no actual grounds for suspending or removing Mr. Spears as the Conservator of the Estate … and it is highly debatable whether a change in conservator at this time […]
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Kelly Clarkson can “Breakaway” from Brandon Blackstock with more money in her pocket. A judge has fully upheld the “Stronger” singer’s prenuptial agreement with Blackstock in their highly contentious divorce, TMZ reported Thursday. The agreement reportedly segregated all assets and income derived during her marriage to the former entertainment manager. Blackstock had been fighting the prenup in order to […]
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AT&T is in talks to sell WarnerMedia’s celebrity gossip site TMZ to Fox, Deadline has confirmed, in yet another deal paring down the telco’s entertainment assets, one that comes as it prepares to spin off Warner and merge it with Discovery. That $43 billion-deal was announced in May and may not close until the middle of next year. Meanwhile, until then, the […]
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Former Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly decided to share his thoughts on the sexual harassment scandal that caused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign Tuesday, but the conservative broadcaster’s own checkered past has people wondering why he thought this was an appropriate subject to discuss online. In a tweet, O’Reilly seemed to criticize Cuomo for […]
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday he will resign in two weeks. His announcement comes a week after the state attorney general issue a report concluding that the governor had engaged in sexual harassment against 11 women. He was not criminally charged. Now, according to reporting from The New York Times, his brother Chris Cuomo may have convinced him to […]
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Peacock has rounded out the supporting cast for its original holiday movie The Real Housewives of the North Pole. Jearnest Corchado (Sneakerheads, Little America), Kyle Selig (Welcome to Flatch, Broadway: Mean Girls), Tetona Jackson (Boomerang, All Night), Carlos Ponce (Julie and the Phantoms, Spy), Alec Mapa (Doom Patrol, Ugly Betty) and Damon Dayoub (Stitchers, NCIS) will join Real Housewives of Beverly Hills stars Betsy Brandt and Kyle Richards in the movie spawned by the reality franchise. […]
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The Television Academy is taking the Emmys outdoors. The org announced Tuesday afternoon that the Emmy ceremonies, both Primetime and Creative Arts, will be held on the Event Deck at L.A. Live, next to the Microsoft Theater — marking the second year in a row that the Emmys were not actually held inside the Microsoft. More from the org: […]
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