Showbiz News

Upfronts season has come and gone, and that means broadcast networks have canceled many a show to make room for their newly-ordered series (Or because their lead star sent out a racially-charged tweet). But not every program that got the ax went out with bad Nielsen numbers. Here’s a look at the highest-rated shows didn’t […]

Reynolds had a falling out with his father, but his wife, Blake Lively, encouraged him to repair their relationship before he passed away. According to the actor, “She has a gift for foresight.” After their reconciliation, the couple named their first daughter after his father. “It felt right,” Reynolds says. “All family relationships come with some […]

Country Music Hall of Famer Willie Nelson came to Charlotte’s PNC Music Pavilion on Saturday night specifically to headline his Outlaw Music Festival, then left without ever playing or singing a single note — leaving fans confused, angry and disappointed. Live Nation issued a press release after 11 p.m. Saturday night, saying, simply: “Due to […]

Harvey Weinstein is expected to surrender to authorities on Friday following a probe into allegations of sexual misconduct by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and the NYPD, the New York Times and New York Daily News have reported. Benjamin Brafman, an attorney for Weinstein, declined to comment on the repots. The news comes months after an Oct. 5 New York […]

Morgan Freeman has been accused of sexual harassment by eight women in a new exposé published by CNN. The women include production assistants and workers who interacted with Freeman on movie sets and entertainment journalists, including CNN’s own reporter Chloe Melas and a journalist from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. CNN’s report begins with an accusation from a production […]

Following a blistering reaction on social media, Jason Bateman, one of the stars of “Arrested Development,” apologized on Thursday after an interview with The New York Times during which he defended Jeffrey Tambor, a co-star, and his on-set behavior toward another co-star, Jessica Walter. Critics accused Mr. Bateman of excusing Mr. Tambor’s verbal harassment at the expense […]

Moses Farrow, the son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, defends his father — and claims his mother was abusive towards him and his siblings, a charge she previously denied — in a detailed new personal essay, titled “A Son Speaks Out,” posted online Wednesday. Moses, who was adopted from South Korea as a toddler by Mia and then […]

Bill Gold, one of Hollywood’s best-known creators of film posters, has died aged 97. The veteran illustrator had a hand in more than 2,000 posters, including those for Casablanca, Dial M for Murder, and Dirty Harry. Mr Gold began work at the film production company Warner Brothers in the 1940s. The endangered art of the […]

Charlize Theron and director Jay Roach are teaming to tell the tale of disgraced Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. The project is being put together by Annapurna, which is already making a Dick Cheney biopic with helmer Adam McKay, and comes armed with a script by Charles Randolph, who won an Oscar for co-writing The Big Short. Annapurna […]

Jake Gyllenhaal is in talks to play the villainous Mysterio in Sony Pictures’ sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming. Talks are underway right now for Gyllenhaal to join the long line of Spidey villains. Gyllenhaal is booked to star this fall in The American, the BRON-financed and Cary Fukunaga-directed drama about the life of iconic composer Leonard Bernstein, which Gyllenhaal is starring […]

The return of Arrested Development on Netflix isn’t without a fair share of drama. Not only are members of the cast upset about the recut version of season 4 and payment they may be owed due to its expanded episode count, but there is also the matter of Jeffrey Tambor. The actor is still in the middle of the harassment controversy that led […]

The 2018 Cannes Film Festival came to an end as this year’s competition jury announced which films won the festival’s biggest prizes, including the Palme d’Or. Cate Blanchett served as jury president this year, with Kristen Stewart, Denis Villeneuve, Lea Seydoux, and Ava DuVernay all on the jury as well. This year’s Cannes competition included titles such […]

The highly anticipated wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Saturday will begin at noon London time, meaning that many international fans planning to watch the nuptials will have to schedule accordingly. Royal family devotees will have plenty of ways to tune into the royal wedding come the weekend, with CBS, ABC, BBC America, TLC, HBO, Hallmark, and E! all […]

Meghan Markle will make a striking feminist statement in her wedding to Prince Harry on Saturday, choosing not to be chaperoned for much of the procession down the aisle of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, CNN has learned. In an unprecedented step for a royal bride in the UK, Markle will walk unescorted down the aisle of the […]

When “NCIS: New Orleans” returns in fall 2018 for its fifth season, a key member of the CBS production might be conspicuously absent from the role he has held since 2016. And, no, we’re not talking about Scott Bakula’s main character, Dwayne Pride, whose future — without spoiling anything — was left very much up […]

CBS unveiled its Fall 2018 TV schedule early Wednesday morning, which is packed with premieres for the Eye’s newly-ordered revivals and reboots, like “Murphy Brown” and “Magnum P.I.,” and longtime network hits, like “NCIS,” “Big Bang Theory” and “Young Sheldon.” While the new iteration of the ’80s detective drama is landing a Monday time slot, […]

ABC’s new fall schedule features two unlikely network colleagues — Roseanne Barr and Alec Baldwin. The Alphabet’s “Roseanne” revival will bat lead-off on Tuesday nights this fall as part of the 2018-19 schedule released Tuesday by ABC. The multi-cam, which is poised to finish the current season as broadcast’s No. 1 show in the 18-49 demo, will lead […]

Dave Chappelle and Jon Stewart announced a joint stand-up tour for this summer. The comedic icons announced a seven-date June run spanning three cities: the 11th, 12th and 13th at Boston’s Wang Theatre, the 21st and 22nd at Houston’s Smart Financial Centre and the 23rd and 24th at El Paso, Texas’ Chavez Theatre. In order to deter scalpers […]

“Last Man Standing” is planting its feet once again on Friday nights. The Tim Allen comedy will return to its longtime perch at the end of the week in its return to television, this time on Fox — one of only three new scripted-series entries in the fall schedule that the broadcast network unveiled Monday. The multicam […]