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CBS has canceled “Instinct” after two seasons. Series creator Michael Rauch broke the news on his Twitter account Saturday morning. “I’m very sad to relay the news that @instinctcbs won’t be renewed for a 3rd season. We will double up this Sunday and our season/series finale will be Aug 25. Endless thanks to @Alancumming & […]

The Federal Communications Commission’s Enforcement Bureau has brought down the hammer on several networks that, according to the agency, misused the Emergency Alert System or Wireless Emergency Alert tones on episodes of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” among other programs. The programs were accused of violating the FCC’s rules on actual or simulated alert […]

Promotions for streaming shows have been known to backfire, but Amazon might not be complaining too loudly about this incident. Santa Monica police made Amazon suspend a one-day Marvelous Mrs. Maisel promotionthat charged people 30 cents for gas at a station to reflect prices in 1959 (when the show is set) due to sheer demand. Apparently, the traffic snarls from lined up […]

“Landline” actress Abby Quinn has been cast as Mabel, the grown-up daughter of Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie (Helen Hunt) Buchman on Spectrum Originals’ “Mad About You” revival, TheWrap has learned. Charter’s Spectrum ordered the limited series back in March, revealing that Reiser and Hunt would reprise their roles from the ’90s NBC sitcom for the […]

Awkwafina will star in the fantasy-adventure feature film “The Last Adventure of Constance Verity” for Legendary. The production company has acquired the feature film rights to adapt the eponymous series written by A. Lee Martinez. John Raffo has written the script. Jon Shestack, who brought the project to Raffo and attached Awkwafina, is producing. Jon Silk will […]

The Crown is finally heading back to Netflix with the third season of the royal drama climbing onto the throne on November 17. This comes nearly two years on from the second season of the British drama, which launched on December 8, 2017. Season 3 of The Crown starts in 1964 and will cover events such as the rise of […]

 Bill Cosby’s lawyers urged a panel of Pennsylvania appellate judges Monday to overturn his sexual assault conviction, setting the stage for a ruling that could shape the future of the #MeToo movement’s push to hold celebrity abusers accountable in court. For roughly an hour, attorneys jockeyed before a panel of Superior Court judges on two key […]

The teenagers have spoken! The 2019 Teen Choice Awards are being handed out live on Fox on Sunday, August 11, broadcast from Hermosa Beach, California, for the first time in the awards show’s two-decade history. Pretty Little Liars alum Lucy Hale and YouTube star David Dobrik are hosting the star-studded affair, which honors teens’ favorite stars and titles from movies, […]

Taylor Swift will perform at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) just three days after the release of her new album “Lover.” The show will broadcast live from Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on Aug. 26 and will be her first televised performance following the album’s release. Swift, who earned 10 VMA nominations for her […]

Veteran casting director David Rubin has been elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Rubin, whose 100-plus film credits include “The English Patient,” “Get Shorty,” and “Men in Black,” is the first casting director to assume the role. He replaces outgoing Academy president John Bailey. Also elected by the board of […]

E!’s flagship news program is getting a new home, in more ways than one. E! News, which has aired at 7 p.m. ET/PT from Los Angeles for most of its life, will transition to a morning show in 2020. It also will switch coasts and originate from NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Center studios in New York. […]

James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems is buying a majority stake in Tribeca Enterprises from The Madison Square Garden Company, Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Craig Hatkoff and other investors, Lupa Sytems, Attention Capital and Tribeca Enterprises, announced on Monday. This partnership will bring together Murdoch, Attention’s CEO and co-founder Joe Marchese and Tribeca Enterprises’ Jane Rosenthal and […]

During ABC’s TCA executive session Monday, the network’s entertainment president Karey Burke was asked to comment on the bombshell claims by former The Rookie co-star Afton Williamson, who said she walked away from the show after being sexually harassed and racially discriminated against. The leading studio behind the series, Entertainment One, which co-produces with ABC Studios, said Sunday afternoon that it has “initiated an […]

D.A. Pennebaker, the documentary filmmaker who helped pioneer cinema verité in films like the 1967 Bob Dylan film “Don’t Look Back” and 1993’s “The War Room,” died Thursday at his home at age 94, Pennebaker’s son and executive producer and distributor for nearly all Pennebaker Hegedus films, Frazer Pennebaker, told TheWrap. The celebrated cinematographer and […]

Howard Lapides, a producer and talent manager who repped and worked with such clients as Dr. Drew Pinsky, Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Carolla and Carson Daly, died Thursday at his home in Encino, Calif., after a battle with colon cancer, a publicist announced. He was 68. As CEO of Lapides Entertainment, he also represented Tom Green, […]

The CW’s executive vice president of communications, Paul Hewitt, took a moment to pause and reflect on the mass shooting that took place early Sunday morning in Dayton, Ohio, before beginning the network’s day of panels at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour Sunday. “Welcome everyone, thank you for joining us. You know, I’m […]

“The 100” is the latest long-running CW series to reach the end of its run. Series creator Jason Rothenberg announced Sunday that the show’s previously announced seventh season will be its last. “With #The100 Season 6 finale just days away, I have some bittersweet news to share: Season 7 will be our last,” Rothernberg tweeted. “We […]

Universal’s Hobbs & Shaw sped to the top of the North American box office chart with $60.8 million from 4,253 theaters, while opening to a far more muscular $120 million overseas for a worldwide launch of $180.8 million. The Fast & Furious spinoff, teaming Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, came in on the modest end of expectations domestically. While […]

Under a barrage of criticism at the Television Critics Assn. press tour on Thursday, CBSEntertainment executives defended the network’s decision to keep “Bull” on the airdespite the harassment allegations against star Michael Weatherly, and addressed concerns about racial insensitivity on the set of “Big Brother.” CBS network head Kelly Kahl told the reporters and critics in the audience that Weatherly […]

Woodstock 50 is officially off, multiple sources tell Variety. Vendors and stakeholders were notified this morning, July 31, that the beleaguered festival was not going on. The festival was originally scheduled for Aug. 16 through 18. Yesterday it was reported that headliner Miley Cyrus had pulled out of the festival, joining the Raconteurs, the Lumineers and original Woodstock […]

Entertainment industry public relations and brand marketing powerhouse agencies Rogers & Cowan and PMK*BNC have announced they will operate as one entity. They are pooling a collective client roster that exceeds 30 corporate brands and 500 individual clients that include Denzel Washington, Brie Larson, Robert Redford, Felicity Jones, Elton John, Sly Stallone, Steph Curry, Robert […]

Al Franken worked with former “Saturday Night Live” colleague Chris Rock to help punch up a new script that Rock wrote, the former senator told TheWrap on Monday. Franken, the subject of a recent New Yorker profile that cast doubt on the sexual harassment accusations that led to his resignation from the U.S. Senate in December 2017, […]

Netflix continues to invest in food programming. Next up for the streamer is a second series from Ugly Delicious star David Chang and more episodes of Jon Favreau and Roy Choi’s The Chef Show — both of which are expected to drop globally for subscribers in the fall. Chang’s new entry is called Breakfast, Lunch & Dinnerand will feature Chang […]

John Ferriter, the former powerhouse William Morris Agency EVP/Worldwide Head of Non-Scripted TV and the only WMA board member to vote against the merger with Endeavor, died Thursday, according to sources. He was 59. A former close associate of his shared the news with some of Ferriter’s former colleagues today. We are still trying to confirm cause […]