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The 77th annual Emmy Awards have come and gone, and “The Studio” was the big winner of the year. The Apple TV+ Hollywood satire became the most-awarded show of the year, picking up 13 total wins across the Primetime and Creative Arts Emmys, including best comedy series. The show came into the night with nine […]

Lady Gaga was the top winner at the MTV Video Music Awards, with four honors in a show telecast from New York’s UBS Arena Sunday night on CBS. Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter tied for the second-most with three each. Gaga appeared early in the show to pick up what would likely have been one […]

The cast shakeup at Saturday Night Live is turning into an earthquake. The latest performer to exit the show is Heidi Gardner, who will depart after eight seasons on SNL. She joined the NBC series in the 2017-18 as a featured player and moved up to the main cast two seasons later. Gardner is the fourth SNL castmember to leave the show in […]

Season 2 of “NCIS: Origins” will include a special episode dedicated to David McCallum, who played Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard for the first 20 seasons of the flagship “NCIS” series before his death in 2023. Titled “The Edge,” the tribute episode will feature Adam Campbell reprising the role of young Ducky, which he has played as a guest […]

Surprise! The three-hour Law & Order Thursday lineup will be back on NBC‘s fall schedule. Law & Order: Organized Crime, which moved from NBC to Peacock ahead of its fifth season a year ago, will return to the broadcast network. Its fifth season, which recently wrapped its run on the NBCUniversal streamer, will get a second window on NBC, airing […]

After Deadline reported a Murder, She Wrote reboot in the works at Universal, Jamie Lee Curtis has officially confirmed she’s on the case. The Oscar winner revealed she “a minute away” from taking over the late Angela Lansbury’s beloved middle-aged mystery writer and amateur sleuth role, Jessica Fletcher, in a feature adaptation of the CBS series that ran for 12 seasons from […]

Colton Underwood and Kaitlyn Bristowe will host a new reality dating series on Hulu titled “Are You My First?,” which will premiere on Aug. 18 with all 10 episodes. Per the official logline, the series will follow “the largest, hottest group of virgins ever assembled” as they “search for intimacy, love — and maybe their first — in a tropical […]

TV’s ongoing problems with late night have come for Stephen Colbert, with CBS announcing Thursday that it plans to end his “Late Show” after the next TV season, citing a “financial decision.” The decision — which ends years of original late-night programming at CBS that started when the network lured David Letterman from NBC in 1993 — comes as the […]

The 2025 Emmy nominations are here, and while plenty of heavy hitters received the expected nods, there were also a ton of unexpected moments. From the A-list actors who were passed over to the Cinderella stor ies of the season, campaigning is sure to heat up before the Sept. 14 ceremony. Check out Variety’s list of the biggest […]

Emmy voters sure know how to take a bite of the Apple. As the Television Academy unveiled nominations for the 77th Emmy Awards on Tuesday, Apple TV+’s hits “Severance” and “The Studio” led the tallies for both drama and comedy series, respectively. HBO Max, meanwhile, led the overall network tally at 142 — thanks to […]

Kendrick Lamar had a leading 10 nominations coming into tonight, winning four of his categories, including Album of the Year, Best Male Hip Hop Artist and Video of the Year. Doechii, Drake, Future and GloRilla followed with six nominations apiece, while Metro Boomin had five and SZA and The Weeknd had four each. Doechii and GloRilla clinched their […]

The 2025 Tony Awards saw a substantial rise in viewership compared to last year’s telecast on CBS. According to Nielsen’s time-zone adjusted data, the awards show drew 4.85 million viewers for CBS. That is up from 3.53 million in 2024, an increase of approximately 38%. That is also the largest audience for the Tonys since 2019, when […]

Maybe Happy Ending, Purpose, Sunset Blvd. and Eureka Day took the top prizes at the 2025 Tony Awards, winning best musical, best play (in a surprise), best musical revival and best play revival, respectively. The Cynthia Erivo-hosted ceremony also saw The Picture of Dorian Gray‘s Sarah Snook; Oh, Mary!‘s Cole Escola; Maybe Happy Ending‘s Darren Criss and Sunset Blvd.‘s Nicole Scherzinger win the lead acting awards for plays (Snook and Escola) […]

Hoda Kotb will visit the fourth hour of Today on Wednesday to serve as a guest co-host, this time to announce a new venture focused on wellness, the show announced. Kotb departed Today in January, having been teamed with Savannah Guthrie in the first two hours since 2018. In the fourth hour, which she also co-hosted, Jenna Bush Hager has been teamed with […]

In case of emergency, Byron Allen. CBS has found its post-Colbert series in Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen — again. Starting on Monday, Sept. 22, Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen will once more follow The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, as it did in a limited run in fall 2023. The @midnight spinoff After Midnight hosted by Taylor Tomlinson then took over the 12:37 a.m. hour. […]

Peacock has unveiled a new look at “Law & Order: Organized Crime” Season 5, featuring guest star Mariska Hargitay reuniting with Christopher Meloni. As the series makes the move from NBC to Peacock, the newest season takes place in New York City and follows the detectives of the Organized Crime Control Bureau as crime syndicates threaten lives. The official synopsis […]

NBC has ordered its third comedy pilot of the season. The network has picked up the Untitled Ornelas, Keliiaa and Wilson Project, an ensemble comedy set at a Native community center in Oakland, CA. In the comedy, the employees hustle to keep the lights on while lifting up those in need. The pilot joins previously announced Tracy […]