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CBS’ CSI event series has been quietly moving forward, I have learned. William Petersen and Jorja Fox are in negotiations to star in CSI: Vegas, which serves as a sequel to the mothership CSI series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Casting is under way for four new characters who will join Petersen’s Gil Grissom and Fox’s Sara Sidle. Petersen also is expected to serve as an executive producer. […]

Larry Wilmore is headed back to late night. The former Nightly Show host is set to lead a weekly show on Peacock, joining the previously announced Amber Ruffin Show to form a topical comedy block on the streamer. Peacock has ordered 11 episodes of Wilmore’s show and nine of Ruffin’s; both are set to premiere in September. “I’m honored […]

“Succession” could be back in production before the end of the year (with a big emphasis on could). Season 3 of the hit HBO series, which recently garnered a whopping 18 Emmy nominations, was originally scheduled to start shooting in April, but for obvious COVID-19 related reasons, production has been delayed indefinitely. The plan, at least for […]

CBS’ late-night hosts are planning to return to in-studio filming next week. Stephen Colbert and James Corden have been filming The Late Show and The Late Late Show from their homes for the last several months due to the coronavirus pandemic, but they’re set to start taping inside the studio on Monday. Corden will return to a redesigned Late […]

ABC gameshow The $100,000 Pyramid is returning to the studio in the last week of August. The Michael Strahan-hosted series shoots in New York and it is thought that it is one of the first major non-scripted entertainment shows to return to the studio in New York, where Strahan films Good Morning America. It comes after The Tonight Show starring Jimmy […]

HBO Max has some very flexible Friends. The upstart streamer’s postponed Friends reunion special has been delayed yet again, TVLine has learned. According to an HBO Max insider, the ongoing shutdown related to the coronavirus pandemic has pushed production of the special into fall (at the earliest). Last month, co-star David Schwimmer announced to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show that HBO Max was eyeing a […]

HBO Max has wrapped one of its first productions during the pandemic. Upcoming dog-grooming competition series Haute Dog has completed its four-week-long shoot in Simi Valley, California. The project, from producers Jax Media, followed full union guidelines and COVID protocols, and made it to the finish line with zero positive test results from cast, crew and producers. “Jax is […]

HBO Max and WarnerMax hosted a virtual premiere event Tuesday night for the platform’s first feature film release, An American Pickle, and though you couldn’t actually see all of the stars in the room, dozens were there to check out Seth Rogen’s dual performance. Adapted by Simon Rich from his 2013 New Yorker piece Sell Out, American Pickle stars […]

Paul Telegdy is exiting his post as NBC Entertainment chairman as NBCUniversal today unveiled the new centralized structure under Mark Lazarus, Chairman of NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. It includes a larger role for Lifestyle Networks president Frances Berwick. As expected, the reorganization is consolidating all NBCU English-language linear networks into one group, overseen by Berwick on the business side […]

Sixteen Big Brother alumni returned to the house tonight for the show’s upcoming All-Stars season. CBS announced the cast of returning fan favorites, past winners and notable personalities Wednesday. The Big Brother: All-Star cast features past winners Nicole Franzel and Ian Terry, fan favorites Da’Vonne Rogers and Kaysar Ridha, and others playing for another shot at the top title including Janelle Pierzina […]

Facebook removed one of Donald Trump’s posts on its platform on Wednesday, concluding that it contained misinformation about the coronavirus. The post was a clip from a Fox News interview in which the president said that children are almost immune from the coronavirus. On Fox & Friends earlier on Wednesday, Trump said, “If you look at children, children are almost […]

One of the most beloved television comedies is making a comeback. A Who’s the Boss? sequel is in development at Sony Pictures Television. Tony Danza and Alyssa Milano are on board to reprise their iconic roles as Tony and Samantha Micelli, a father/daughter relationship that families around the world grew up with over the course of 196 episodes on ABC […]

 Judge Judy is heading back to court, but not in the way the fans of the soon-to-end syndicated series probably assume, and it looks to partially be Les Moonves’ fault. Less than six months after CBS and Rebel Entertainment Partners settled their long-running legal battle over big bucks in missed contractually obliged payments from the show that has aired for more than […]

Amy Adams is reteaming with “Vice” director Adam McKay for a new Netflix limited series about the class action lawsuit against Walmart, the streamer announced on Tuesday.The “Kings of America,” which Adams will star in and executive produce, centers on the stories of three powerful women whose lives were inextricably intertwined with the world’s largest company: […]

NBCUniversal is beginning layoffs as it carries out a planned restructuring designed to emphasize its streaming operations. CEO Jeff Shell confirmed the overhaul was coming last week during Comcast’s second-quarter earnings call, but he didn’t mention any specifics or timeline. A person close to the company confirmed to Deadline that the cuts were under way. Telemundo and the theme-park […]