Taylor Swift won three American Music Awards Sunday night, including the top “favorite artist” honor — explaining her absence as due to being busy in the studio re-recording her entire Big Machine catalog. The climactic favorite artist award came as something as a surprise, since Swift’s name had not come up as a winner any time earlier in […]
Read moreIt appears increasingly likely that Jeff Zucker will step down as CNN president, with Vanity Fair reporting on Friday that it could happen early next year. According to the report, which cites someone familiar with the matter, Zucker is widely expected in the senior ranks at WarnerMedia to step down sometime during the first quarter of […]
Read moreUniversal Filmed Entertainment Group has unveiled a multi-year agreement with Canada’s Cineplex chain to shorten the theatrical window and bring movies more quickly to the home. The pact, announced Friday, mirrors similar agreements that the studio reached on July 28 with AMC Theatres and on Nov. 17 with the Cinemark chain. Under the terms of the new agreement, Universal […]
Read moreA Wipeout contestant died Wednesday after completing the course for the TBS show, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed. The unidentified male contestant suffered an undisclosed medical emergency on the Santa Clarita set. “We are devastated to have learned of his passing and our deepest sympathy goes out to the family,” a TBS spokesperson said in a statement. The contestant was treated […]
Read moreWhen Drew Barrymore launched her talk show this fall, she had no clue that she wouldn’t be chatting with her guests face-to-face. But since debuting in September, she’s conducted digital interviews with A-listers such as Reese Witherspoon, Anne Hathaway and Cameron Diaz. If you watched the premiere episode of “The Drew Barrymore Show” at home, […]
Read moreWith a second wave of COVID-19 impacting many parts of the globe, Wonder Woman 1984 is changing course yet again. The tentpole is all but giving up on a traditional theatrical release and will instead bow in whatever cinemas remain open on Dec. 25 as well as stream on HBO Max that day. In international markets where […]
Read moreRachel Bloom brings humor and transparency to her debut book, I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are (Grand Central Publishing), a collection of comic essays, accounts of her childhood, school years and her journey into Crazy Ex-Girlfriend success. In the book, out Tuesday, Bloom particularly opens up about her mental health journey, including experiencing the onset of obsessive-compulsive […]
Read moreIn April, Parton announced she was giving the money to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. That was one of the trial sites for the Moderna vaccine, which is nearly 95% effective, according to early data. A Vanderbilt spokesperson said Parton’s “generous” gift was helping “several promising research initiatives”. A portion of the singer’s money went […]
Read moreConan O’Brien is no longer a night owl. The comedian is ending his run as a late-night talk show host after nearly three decades. O’Brien, 57, announced Tuesday that he’ll finish his TBS series “Conan” at the completion of its 10th season in June 2021. However, he has signed on for a new, weekly variety […]
Read moreJason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde split earlier this year, a source confirmed to People this week. The couple, who were together for nine years and engaged for more than seven, share a son Otis, 6, and a daughter, Daisy, 4. They had their reasons, of course, for wanting to end their romantic relationship. The source said that the […]
Read moreABC is bringing three comedy kings together. The Disney-backed broadcast network has handed out a straight-to-series order for an untitled multicamera comedy starring Alec Baldwin and Kelsey Grammer and from Modern Family co-creator Chris Lloyd. The series is earmarked for the 2021-22 broadcast season. Written by Lloyd and his longtime Modern Family cohort Vali Chandrasekaran, the series revolves around […]
Read moreSome 17 months after Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings LLC acquired Big Machine Label Group and all of its recorded music assets, sources tell Variety the veteran manager and entrepreneur has sold the master rights to Taylor Swift’s first six albums. The buyer, an investment fund, is as yet unknown but the deal is believed to be north of $300 […]
Read moreReality TV is getting the behind-the-scenes treatment. E! has greenlit the limited event series “For Real: The Story of Reality TV,” hosted and executive produced by Andy Cohen, which will recall famous moments from “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” “The Bachelor,” “The Real World,” “The Real Housewives,” “Survivor” and other well-known unscripted series. The seven-part series […]
Read moreSarah Paulson has offered the first glimpse of her portrait of Linda Tripp, the woman whose recordings of conversations with President Bill Clinton’s mistress, Monica Lewinsky, almost ended his administration. Paulson said on social media that filming has begun on the Impeachment series of episodes on American Crime Story. Paulson plays the frumpy Tripp in the episodes, which examine how Tripp, […]
Read moreFile under Tweets With a Bad Shelf-Life: Kellyanne Conway’s 2016 tweet hyping President Donald Trump’s 306-vote electoral college victory as a “landslide” has come back to haunt her now that CNN has projected president-elect Joe Biden has defeated Trump with, yes, 306 electoral votes. “306. Landslide. Blowout. Historic,” wrote Conway, who was Trump’s campaign adviser when he […]
Read moreCCH Pounder talks with Ross Crystal about her role as Dr. Loretta Wade on the CBS Series “NCIS New Orleans” and returning to work during COVID-19, following the area’s most recent hurricane.
Read moreCasey Wilson has joined the increasingly stacked cast of Apple TV+’s The Shrink Next Door, which is based on the popular podcast. The eight-episode limited comedy series details the bizarre dynamic between psychiatrist-to-the-stars Dr. Isaac “Ike” Herschkopf (played by Parks and Rec alum Paul Rudd) and his longtime patient Martin “Marty” Markowitz (Will Ferrell). Over the course of […]
Read moreCall it Super Bowl Weeknd. Pepsi just announced that Grammy-winning singer The Weeknd will be performing at the upcoming Super Bowl halftime show. “We can’t wait to welcome multi-award winning artist The Weeknd to the Pepsi Super Bowl LV Halftime Show stage,” said Adam Harter, senior vice president of PepsiCo’s Sports, Media and Entertainment division. […]
Read moreThis hasn’t been the best month for the 45th president of the United States. On Wednesday, a Georgia federal court judge rejected a defamation lawsuit brought by Donald Trump against CNN. Trump’s campaign filed its complaint back in March. It targeted an opinion piece from Larry Noble, a former general counsel at the Federal Election Commission […]
Read moreMaren Morris won a leading three awards at Wednesday’s 2020 CMA Awards, bringing home three, for single of the year, song of the year and female vocalist of the year. It was the first win in any of those categories for Morris, whose song “The Bones” was a smash in both the pop and country fields during […]
Read moreJeffrey Toobin has been fired by The New Yorker following an investigation into last month’s incident in which he exposed himself on a work Zoom call. Toobin announced his dismissal in a tweet on Wednesday, writing: “I was fired today by @NewYorker after 27 years as a Staff Writer. I will always love the magazine, will miss my […]
Read morePut Mads Mikkelsen atop the list of actors being considered to replace Johnny Depp in the David Yates-directed Fantastic Beast 3, the third installment of the Harry Potter spinoff based on the JK Rowling fantasy franchise. Sources said he is Yates’ choice to play Grindelwald and he is in early talks. The aim is to keep on track a picture […]
Read moreThe cast and crew of Saturday Night Live is used to rolling with the punches, but this weekend was particularly hectic. After the networks finally announced that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had won the election, the costume department had just under three hours to re-create Harris’s all-white acceptance-speech look for impersonator Maya Rudolph. The vice-president-elect stepped onto the stage around 8:30 p.m. […]
Read moreAs news of the passing of beloved “Jeopardy!” game-show host Alex Trebek continues to ripple through the entertainment industry and trivia community alike, many are wondering: After nearly four decades at the helm, who could possibly replace Alex Trebek? For one out of two of the respondents to a 2019 Morning Consult poll, that answer is: no one. […]
Read moreShut down for almost two weeks because of positive coronavirus results among the crew, Reagan is back in front of the cameras, and with the 40th POTUS’ first wife cast. The Dennis Quaid-starring movie resumed production on November 5 in Oklahoma after getting the green light from medical officials. I’m told that the film directed by Sean McNamara restarted with […]
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