Showbiz News

On Tuesday, Kathie Lee Gifford revealed that her 11th season on the fourth hour of TODAY will be her last one, and her pal and co-anchor, Hoda Kotb, was clearly moved by that news. But there was another on-air partner — from Kathie Lee’s past — who had a special message for the beloved member of […]

Warner Bros’ A Star Is Bornsolidified its status this awards season this morning at the 25th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations, where it collected a film-side-leading four nominations including in the marquee ensemble category. Meanwhile on the TV side, Netflix dominated with 15 total nominations, paced by drama series Ozark (four noms) and comedies GLOW (3) and The Kominsky Method (3). […]

Actress Sophia Bush says she endured repeated abusive behavior on the set of “Chicago P.D.,” which ultimately caused her to quit the series. “I quit because what I’ve learned is I’ve been so programmed to be a good girl and to be a workhorse and be a tugboat, that I have always prioritized tugging the […]

Carol Burnett is already a legend in the hearts and minds of TV fans everywhere, but now the Golden Globes are making it official. The comedian is set to receive the inaugural Golden Globe television special achievement award named in her honor at the 76th annual ceremony in January for her outstanding contributions to television […]

Kathie Lee Gifford will leave “Today” after more than a decade co-hosting the fourth hour of the NBC morning franchise. Gifford wants to spend more time focused on a variety of media projects, and said during Monday’s broadcast that her decision was “bittersweet, as these things are.” She expects to stay with the program through April […]

Fans of beloved Modern Family actress Sarah Hyland know that she’s been candid in the past about her lifelong struggle with chronic illness, but there’s more to the story. In a new interview with Self published online Monday, Hyland bravely opened up about her second kidney transplant and subsequent failure, and how she handles chronic pain, mental health struggles, and […]

FX’s “The Americans” and “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,” along with Showtime’s “Escape at Dannemora,” led the Broadcast Television Journalists Assn.’s nominations for the 24th annual Critics’ Choice Awards, it was revealed Monday. Joining “The Americans” in the best drama series category was “Better Call Saul” (AMC), “The Good Fight” (CBS All […]

President Trump is known to be a big fan of Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program, but the show’s host is markedly cooler on the billionaire, he revealed in a new interview with the Swiss magazine Die Weltwoche. In the piece, Carlson said he didn’t think Trump was capable of executing his most significant campaign promises, saying he […]

Catherine Zeta-Jones is letting her father-in-law Kirk Douglas know how “beautiful” she thinks he is. The Spartacus actor turned 102 on Sunday, and Zeta-Jones posted a lovely video in his honor on her Instagram. In the video, old photos of Douglas overlap with a girl—presumably Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas‘ daughter, Carys Douglas—singing Christina Aguilera‘s song “Beautiful” while playing it on the piano. “Happy 102nd […]

Nick Cannon is calling out Hollywood for what he says is a blatant double standard following Kevin Hart’s Oscars resignation, retweeting old jokes by three female white comedians — Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman and Chelsea Handler — in which they used homophobic language. Cannon shared a 2010 tweet from Handler that included anti-gay slurs, telling his followers, […]

A draft of an outside investigation into misconduct at CBS — leaked to the New York Times — could offer some measure of closure for employees of embattled newsmagazine 60 Minutes, who have been laboring under a cloud of uncertainty since longtime executive producer Jeff Fager was abruptly fired in September, two weeks before the premiere of the show’s 51st season. […]

The 2019 Grammy nominees were announced Friday (Dec. 7) morning, which means hot on the heels of the congratulations and breathless exclamations of what an honor it is just to be nominated comes the inevitable sniping over perceived snubs. And this year is no different, as there are several A-listers shut out of the Big […]

Natalie Portman has apologized to Jessica Simpson after the singer called out Portman’s comments about Simpson posing in a bikini on a 1999 magazine cover that also declared that Simpson was a virgin. “I would never intend to shame anybody and that was absolutely not my intention,” Portman told Entertainment Tonight Wednesday night. “I was really talking […]

Laura Ingraham has many critics online, including it seems, her own brother. On Tuesday, Curtis Ingraham let loose on his sister after her most recent Fox News broadcast, calling her the “queen of snipe” and saying he could hear their father’s rage when she spoke. During an interview with Vice last month, Curtis Ingraham said he and Laura had […]

The 2019 Golden Globes seems to have finally found a host — or, rather, hosts. With only 32 days to go before NBC’s marquee awards telecast, Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh are set to take the Beverly Hilton stage on Jan. 6. Globes partners The Hollywood Foreign Press, producers Dick Clark Productions and broadcaster NBC took […]

Regina King will receive the Chairman’s Award at the 2019 Palm Springs International Film Festival, organizers announced on Tuesday. King is being recognized for her role in Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk.” “Whether she’s acting, producing or directing, Regina King is an amazing creative talent,” PSIFF chairman Harold Matzner said in a […]

ABC’s revealing a few of their midseason plans, including the debut of their long-awaited The Goldbergs spinoff. Schooled will make its series premiere Wednesday, January 9, according to Deadline. The show will displace fellow comedy series American Housewife from its 8:30/7:30c time slot putting it right after The Goldbergs‘ time slot. American Housewife will move to Tuesdays at 8/7c — the current time slot […]

Multi-platinum band Hootie & the Blowfish will return from a lengthy hiatus in 2019, embarking on their first full-scale tour in more than a decade and releasing a studio album for the first time in nearly 15 years. Dubbed the Group Therapy Tour, the trek will visit 44 North American cities with fellow Nineties stars Barenaked […]

Nominations for the 2019 Grammy Awards will be postponed two days until Friday, Dec. 7, due to scheduled memorial services for former President George H.W. Bush. The nominations originally were set for Wednesday, Dec. 5, but the Recording Academy announced today that the two-day delay is necessary to avoid conflict with the state funeral for Bush. Select Grammy nominees are  announced […]

Glenn Beck and Mark Levin are teaming up by merging TheBlaze and CRTV to create a conservative-media entity dubbed Blaze Media, which they say will reach 165 million people via television, digital platforms and social media. Beck and Levin are set to officially announce what they are calling a merger of equals on Monday, but […]

Kid Rock’s profane comments on live TV have gotten him booted from leading the Nashville Christmas Parade. Instead, parade organizers have invited James Shaw Jr., the man hailed as a community hero for wrestling a gun away from the shooter during a Nashville Waffle House shooting in April that killed four people and injured four […]

Ken Berry, a popular TV actor in the 1960s and ’70s who starred in “F-Troop,” “Mama’s Family” and “Mayberry R.F.D.,” died Saturday. His former wife, actress Jackie Joseph-Lawrence posted the news on Facebook. “F-Troop” co-star Larry Storch wrote on Facebook, “We hope you know how much you were loved. Goodnight Captain.” Berry played Captain Parmenter on Western […]