Lester Holt, the NBC News anchor known for his ability to lead hours of breaking news coverage without pause, is finally ready for a breather. The NBC News veteran plans to step away in early summer from his anchor duties on “NBC Nightly News,” which he has held since 2015. After that, he plans to devote himself […]
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“Conclave,” a thriller about the election of a new pope, triumphed at the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, winning the top prize for best motion picture cast. “Shōgun,” an epic look at feudal Japan, and “Only Murders in the Building,” a mystery satire, won the TV ensemble prizes in the drama and comedy […]
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No stranger to Broadway‘s Tony Awards, Cynthia Erivo has been announced as the host of this year’s 78th Annual Tony Awards, broadcasting live on CBS from Radio City Music Hall Sunday, June 8. The announcement was made today by The American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League. The 78th Tonys will honor productions from the 2024-2025 Broadway season. “I […]
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CBS is heading back to the world of Blue Bloods — at least partially. The network has given a straight-to-series order to a drama titled Boston Blue, which will see Donnie Wahlberg reprising his Blue Bloods role as Danny Reagan. The new show — CBS is calling it a “universe expansion” of Blue Bloods — is set to premiere in the 2025-26 season. It will follow Danny as […]
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The 2025 Grammys were handed out Sunday, with Beyoncé taking home the top award of the night for album of the year and Kendrick Lamar sweeping all the categories in which he was nominated, including song and record of the year. Beyoncé won album of the year along with best country album for Cowboy Carter. During the premiere ceremony, […]
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“Emilia Pérez,” a musical about a drug kingpin who undergoes gender affirming surgery, topped the 2025 Oscar nominations with 13 nods. It was followed closely behind by “The Brutalist,” a historical epic the examines the immigrant experience, and “Wicked,” the hit screen version of a long-running Broadway sensation, which both nabbed 10 nominations. “Conclave,” a […]
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“Abbott Elementary” has made it to the fifth grade. Quinta Brunson’s scholastic sitcom has been renewed for Season 5 at ABC. Season 4 of “Abbott Elementary” is currently airing on Wednesdays on ABC at 8:30 p.m. ET and streaming the next day on Hulu. The series recently hit a viewership peak with 8.05 million people […]
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The Neighborhood universe is eying further expansion with a second spinoff. The upcoming Season 7 finale of the hit CBS comedy series starring Cedric the Entertainer will serve as a planted spinoff headlined by Marcel Spears and Sheaun McKinney. The premise of the offshoot echoes that of the mothership in reverse. It follows Marty (Marcel Spears) and Malcolm (Sheaun McKinney) Butler […]
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At Bob’s Big Boy Thursday night, coffee and chocolate milkshakes were raised in honor of David Lynch. Fans flocked to the Los Angeles landmark to pay tribute to the late filmmaker, who died at age of 78 and who once revealed that he ordered the quintessential menu items “for seven years every day at 2:30” after lunch and scribbled notes […]
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The 2025 Golden Globes were handed out Sunday night. Emilia Pérez was named best motion picture — musical or comedy and best non-English language film, while Zoe Saldaña took home the best supporting actress award for her performance. The movie’s song “El Mal” won best original song. Meanwhile, The Brutalist was named best motion picture — drama. Brady Corbet […]
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Linda Lavin, the beloved veteran stage and TV actress known for her Emmy-nominated role in the 1976 sitcom Alice and for her Tony-winning performance in the 1986 play Broadway Bound, died today, Dec. 29. She was 87. The news comes as a shock as Lavin has been working as recently as this month, promoting her new Netflix series No […]
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A young Jimmy Carter was no stranger to gospel music growing up in the small rural town of Plains, Georgia during the ’20s and early ’30’. He heard it sung by Black tenant farmers working on his father’s land. He heard it too during 24-hour gospel sings that occurred every fifth Sunday, where quartets, local and distant […]
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To mark the 10th anniversary of the “Mad Men” series finale, Jon Hamm will join the ATX TV Festival for the first time for a retrospective panel, Variety can exclusively announce. He will discuss his Emmy-winning performance of Don Draper, the series’ legacy and influence. Hamm portrayed the iconic protagonist for 92 episodes of the AMC series, which ran from 2007 […]
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Bad Monkey is coming back. The Bill Lawrence series, based on Carl Hiaasen’s novel of the same name has been renewed for season two at Apple TV+ with Vince Vaughn set to return. “I hope that people know that Carl Hiaasen is an idol of mine and an inspiration for me as a writer,” the showrunner and executive producer said in a […]
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Kristen Bell is set to host the 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The actress/producer will taking on hosting duties for a second time. In 2018, Bell served as the first SAG Awards host since the ceremony’s inception in 1995. Megan Mullally took over hosting duties the following year. While the SAG Awards boasts numerous celebrity presenters, the show […]
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“Emilia Pérez” has a lot more to sing and dance about, raking in 10 nominations at Monday’s 2025 Golden Globe Awards nominations. Jacques Audiard’s charming drug cartel musical, acquired by Netflix out of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, scored the most nods out of any feature film contender. It’s up for best motion picture – […]
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Beyoncé continues her reign as the queen of the Grammys: She leads the 2025 awards with 11 nominations, even sweeping all four country categories with her historic Cowboy Carter album. Beyoncé is up for album of the year and best country album, while her No. 1 country hit “Texas Hold ‘Em” is nominated for song of the year, record of the […]
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Quincy Jones, who distinguished himself over the course of a 70-year career in music as an artist, bandleader, composer, arranger and producer, has died. He was 91. Jones died Sunday night at his home in Bel Air, Calif., according to a statement shared with Variety by his rep Arnold Robinson. A cause of death was not disclosed. […]
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Surprise! Téa Leoni has joined the cast of Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building for Season 5, sources close to production confirm to Deadline. Leoni appears in the final minutes of the Season 4 finale as Sofia Caccimelio, wife of Nicky “The Neck” Caccimelio, a missing person with ties to the Caputo crime family mentioned previously in […]
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Michael Keaton, Paul Feig and David Letterman are among the Hollywood figures paying tribute to Teri Garr after she died on Tuesday at 79. The Oscar-nominated actress was known for films like Tootsie and Young Frankenstein, among many others, before her career was derailed by multiple sclerosis, which she revealed she was diagnosed during an appearance on Larry King’s CNN […]
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William H. Macy has joined the ever-growing cast of The Running Man, Paramount’s adaptation of the Stephen King story from director Edgar Wright. Glen Powell tops the call sheet that also includes names such as Josh Brolin, Katy O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding), Lee Pace (Guardians of the Galaxy), Michael Cera and CODA star Emilia Jones. King’s Running Man, published in 1982 and written […]
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More than 200,000 people have canceled their subscriptions to the Washington Post — about 8% of its base — after Jeff Bezos, the paper’s owner and founder of Amazon, barred the editorial board from running a presidential endorsement, according to a report. NPR, citing anonymous sources, cited the figure in a report and said the number of cancelations “continued to […]
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Howard Stern said during an interview with Kamala Harris today that she’ll have his vote this November. Harris visited Stern as part of her media blitz, with less than a month until the presidential election. The interview had a number of moments where Stern riffed on Trump, including the former president’s absence from Monday’s 60 Minutes election special. “It just […]
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Anne Hathaway is returning for Princess Diaries 3. The actress confirmed the news on Instagram hours after Deadline exclusively reported that director Adele Lim had boarded the threequel. In the video she posted, Hathaway counted to three with cuts of her younger self as Mia Thermopolis and Julie Andrews as Queen Clarisse Renaldi both saying “Shut up!” Lim, who wrote […]
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“The Nanny” star and SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher has joined the cast of Josh Safdie’s table tennis movie “Marty Supreme.” She will play the mother of Timothée Chalamet’s character. Starring alongside Chalamet and Drescher are Gwyneth Paltrow (in her first on-screen movie role since 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame”) and Tyler, the Creator (in his film debut). Odessa A’zion also stars alongside magician Penn […]
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