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Viacom has agreed to acquire streaming service Pluto TV for $340 million in cash, the latest piece of its strategy to build a streaming business. The company calls it another way to build its direct-to-consumer business. Viacom says buying the 6-year old company is a way of avoiding the capital intensive task of competing directly against […]

CBS has sacked a Super Bowl ad by a cannabis company that calls for the legalization of medical marijuana. Acreage Holdings, the US-based company backed by former House Speaker John Boehner, said the network nixed the proposed 30-second spot after seeing a rough outline, according to Bloomberg News. The ad aimed to “create an advocacy campaign […]

Savannah Guthrie is being called out for her latest high-profile interview. On Tuesday, the “Today” co-anchor took to Twitter to reveal that she had sat down with Nicholas Sandmann, the student at the center of the recent incident at the Lincoln Memorial involving students from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky. Sitting down with Nicholas Sandmann – the […]

Chad Stahelski, director of the John Wick films, has been attached to a potential Highlander reboot since 2016, but we’ve heard very little on the project over the years. Now, ahead of the release of John Wick: Chapter 3, Stahelski has offered an update: He thinks his planned movie reboot of Highlander could morph into a TV show instead. The original Highlander starred Christopher Lambert […]

Kaye Ballard, the singer, actress and comedienne best known for starring as one of the meddling title characters on the 1960s NBC sitcom The Mothers-in-Law, has died. She was 93. Ballard, a popular nightclub entertainer and star on Broadway who was the first to record the popular tune “Fly Me to the Moon,” died Monday at […]

Netflix movie “Roma” and British historical romp “The Favourite” from Fox Searchlight led nominations for the Oscars on Tuesday with 10 nods apiece in a history-making best picture lineup. They will compete for the top prize of best picture with musical romance “A Star is Born,” superhero movie “Black Panther,” 1960s segregation-era comedy “Green Book,” […]

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are now Razzie nominees. The Golden Raspberry Awards, as the show is known in full, honors the year’s worst films.   The Trumps were nominated for their screen time in the conservative political documentary from Dinesh D’Souza, “Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second […]

Julie Chen returned for another edition of Celebrity Big Brother for the first time since more allegations were made about her husband, former CBS CEO Leslie Moonves. “Good evening, I’m Julie Chen Moonves. Welcome to the Celebrity Big Brother two-night premiere event,” she said smoothly, five days after the network held a town hall during which employees wanted to […]

CBS’ freshman series “Magnum P.I.” scored season highs in total viewers and among adults 18-49 in its special post-AFC Championship game time slot on Sunday, according to preliminary numbers. Of course, it helped that the show’s home network posted a seven-year high in early ratings for its late-window conference game between the New England Patriots and Kansas […]

Believe it or not, but Goop founder and wellness pro Gwyneth Paltrow may be one of the funniest people on the internet. Here are five times Paltrow proved herself to be one of the funniest people to slide into the comments section. 1. Single-track mind: For starters, let’s take the time when one meme used a photo of her smiling with a […]

Lionel RichieOpens a New Window.’s son, Miles Brockman Richie, was detained by police at London’s Heathrow Airport after allegedly getting into an altercation with officials and claiming he was in possession of a bomb. TMZ reportsOpens a New Window. that the model was annoyed after he wasn’t allowed onto a flight. According to the website, he became […]

Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin made a rare television appearance on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS Sunday morning. The West Wing creator spoke about the new “crop” of young Democrats elected to Congress. “They need to stop acting like young people,” he said. “I think there’s a great opportunity here for Democrats to be the non-stupid party, to point […]

BuzzFeed has issued a new statement saying that it has “re-confirmed” its report about former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, standing by the reporting despite a denial from the Special Counsel’s office. “As we’ve re-confirmed our reporting, we’ve seen no indication that any specific aspect of our story is inaccurate. We remain confident in what […]

A pair of R. Kelly accusers detailed their allegations of sexual abuse against the singer in a Datelinespecial that aired Friday night on NBC. “Accused: The R. Kelly Story” featured new interviews with Tracy Sampson, who first spoke to theWashington Post in May 2018, and Jerhonda Pace, the subject of an August 2017 Buzzfeed exposé. Both women claim that they were underage […]

Greta Van Fleet rocked Saturday Night Live out with two performances during the winter premiere. As they prepare to start a world tour in Japan, the rock group stopped by the long-running NBC variety sketch series to perform two songs off their debut album, Anthem of the Peaceful Army, which was released in October 2018. The Grammy-nominated group […]

In his first episode of “Real Time” in two months, Bill Maher and former Democratic Rep. Barney Frank got into heated (but still civil) disagreement over Bernie Sanders campaign workers who were recently accused of sexual harassment. Earlier this month, several women who worked on Sanders’ 2016 campaign said they were sexually harassed by male […]

A Palm Beach County man is appealing for help after hundreds of rare Batman comic books worth more than $1 million were recently stolen from his storage unit in Boca Raton. “I know that many of you have experienced items being stolen in the past,” said Randy Lawrence in a letter to his friends posted on social media. “But for me […]

Netflix is bringing back the true crime/paranormal series “Unsolved Mysteries.” The revival is being led by the show’s original creators, alongside “Stranger Things” executive producer Shawn Levy. Terry Dunn Meurer is showrunning this new version that she co-created with John Cosgrove, who will executive produce. Levy and Josh Barry are executive producing for 21 Laps. Robert Wise will […]

Wendy Williams is taking an extended absence from her eponymous daytime talk show due to health complications after ongoing surgery for a shoulder fracture she said she sustained in December. “Over the past few days, Wendy has experienced complications regarding her Graves’ Disease that will require treatment,” according to a note from her family. “Wendy will be under the […]

Sony and R. Kelly have agreed to part ways, sources tell Billboard. The news comes on the heels of the Lifetime documentary Surviving R. Kelly, which details allegations against the singer of domestic abuse and having sex with minors. Kelly had been signed to Jive since the beginning of his career in the early 1990s, and when Jive became part of […]

NBC has handed a pilot order to Lincoln (fka The Bone Collector), a drama based on the bestselling book series by Jeffery Deaver which had been previously adapted into the 1999 movie of the same name starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. According to the network, the drama will follow “legendary forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme, who was seriously injured […]

F— it, Viceland is doing it live. The cable network will revamp its primetime lineup next month to launch a nightly two-hour live show that will serve as a showcase of sorts for all things Vice. “Vice Live” will air Mondays through Thursdays from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET, starting Feb. 25, and reps Viceland’s most ambitious programming […]

In response to Donald Trump reaching the mid-point of his term as the 45th U.S. President, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel is set to air a special parody “Halftime Tribute to Trump” later this month. Throughout the episode, Kimmel will focus on Trump’s “bigly” successful first term. According to ABC, the show will include “celebrities and […]

Oscar winner Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables, Ocean’s 8, Serenity) will be starring in Robert Zemeckis’ The Witches adaptation for Warner Bros. Pictures as the Grand High Witch, Variety has confirmed. Zemeckis will be directing the project, based on Roald Dahl’s novel. Backed by Warner Bros, the project will be produced by Oscar-winning directors Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro. RELATED: Robert […]