Apple’s animated series Central Park has cast a new actress to play a biracial character previously voiced by Kristen Bell. Emmy Raver-Lampman (The Umbrella Academy, Hamilton) will take over the role of Molly Tillerman in the show’s second season. The recasting comes a month after the show’s creative team said it would look for a Black or […]
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It looks like not even Halloween is immune to the curse that’s the Covid-19 pandemic On Friday, Universal Studios announced that its parks in Florida and California would not be holding their annual Halloween Horror Nights events in 2020. Halloween-themed events have become a popular stap le at amusement parks. But with their emphasis on packing […]
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Leslie Jones will host the 72nd Emmy nominations on Tuesday, July 28, the Television Academy announced Thursday. The “SNL” alum turned “Supermarket Sweep” host be joined by presenters Laverne Cox, Josh Gad and Tatiana Maslany for a virtual ceremony, which is replacing the physical one due to social gathering and production restrictions amid the coronavirus […]
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Taylor Swift made a surprise announcement that she will be releasing her eighth studio album, “Folklore,” Thursday midnight. In a social media posts, Swift explained that the album is the result of many of her plans for 2020 — including a short stadium tour supporting her 2019 album “Lover” — were scrapped due to the pandemic. […]
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Disney is making some major changes to its release calendar that include delaying “Mulan” from its Aug. 21 release indefinitely and pushing back the debuts of future Star Wars and Avatar movies by a year. On Thursday, the company said that theater closures and production shutdowns during the global coronavirus pandemic caused it to make a […]
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Clint Eastwood wants it known that, contrary to what you may have seen on the internet, he is not endorsing CBD products. The director filed two federal lawsuits on Wednesday, alleging that his name has been illegally used to sell oils, gummies, and other products containing cannabidiol — a compound derived from hemp and marijuana. In […]
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Comedian Sarah Cooper says her TikTok videos have allowed her to get inside the president’s head. The writer and actress, famous for her short videos where she lip-syncs to excerpts of Donald Trump’s speeches, interviews and press briefings, has learned what the man in charge enjoys or hates talking about. “Any time he had to […]
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The showrunner and executive producer of “Grey’s Anatomy” revealed the medical drama will home in on the novel coronavirus during its next season. “We’re going to address this pandemic for sure,” Krista Vernoff said during a recent virtual panel hosted by the Television Academy, according to Entertainment Weekly. “There’s no way to be a long-running medical show […]
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Academy Award–winning actor Natalie Portman and a group of predominantly female founders were awarded the rights to bring a National Women’s Soccer League team to Los Angeles in 2022, Variety’s sister site Sportico reports. Portman and tech venture capitalist Kara Nortman, media and gaming entrepreneur Julie Uhrman and venture capitalist Alexis Ohanian, who led the investment with his fund, Initialized Capital, […]
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Alex Trebek is revealing plans for how “Jeopardy!” will be taped when production on the syndicated game show resumes in a few weeks. “We’ve redesigned our set to separate the contestants and myself a little bit more from them,” Trebek said in an interview Tuesday on “Good Morning America.” “So we are taking all kinds […]
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Idris Elba is set to be honored at the upcoming BAFTA TV Awards. The Luther star, who rose to prominence as Stringer Bell in The Wire, will receive the BAFTA Special Award, one of the British Academy’s highest honors, for creative contribution to television. Alongside his other notable roles, which away from the small screen have included Mandela: Long […]
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Johnny Depp accused ex Amber Heard of having affairs with stars such as “pumpkin-head” Leonardo DiCaprio and “potato-head” Channing Tatum — nicknames he would use to “taunt” the actress, the court heard Monday. The “Aquaman” actress, 34, revealed that the “very jealous” actor considered nearly all of her male co-stars a “sexual threat” in a […]
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Fox News’ Ex-Host Ed Henry Accused of Rape, Hannity & Tucker Carlson of Sexual Harassment in Lawsuit
Fox News and some of its top on-camera stars face new accusations of misconduct in a lawsuit filed by Monday by two women. One woman accused Ed Henry, a host who was fired by Fox News earlier this month, of sexual assault as well as harassment — while a second woman who frequently appeared as […]
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Netflix has a come out on top of a hot bidding war that will see Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington reunite for the first time since 1993’s The Pelican Brief. The streaming giant has landed Leave the World Behind, an upcoming novel by Rumaan Alam, with Sam Esmail, the creator of Mr. Robot and Homecoming, set to write the adaptation and […]
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“Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace challenged Donald Trump in an interview this weekend on several hot button issues, including the reopening of schools, the COVID-19 mortality numbers and his November opponent, Joe Biden. First up, Wallace challenged the president’s boast that Biden would not do as well on a cognitive test as he did. […]
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Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid and the original cast of 1998’s “The Parent Trap” will reunite on July 20, director Nancy Meyers announced via her Instagram. The virtual reunion will be the first time the cast has gotten together since its release exactly 22 years ago. Meyers, who directed the remake wrote, “Sorry for the mini delay but the […]
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Nick Cannon’s daytime talk show, which was scheduled to premiere later this year, has been pushed to 2021 in the aftermath of anti-Semitic comments he made on a podcast. The show’s producer, Lionsgate-owned Debmar-Mercury, confirmed the news in a statement obtained by Variety, saying that it is “standing by” Cannon given that his “public comments don’t reflect his […]
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Lisa Vanderpump’s love of animals will be highlighted in a new “Vanderpump Dogs” series on Peacock, NBC’s streaming service that launched this week. The reality TV star and animal rights activist — an original cast member of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” — seemingly confirmed the announcement, tweeting Friday “Well good morning …I’ve known about this […]
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NBC has ordered the unscripted series “Home Sweet Home,” which hails from Ava DuVernay. In the 10-episode hour-long series, two families who lead very different lives go through a full-immersion cultural experiment. The show chronicles walking a mile in another person’s shoes by challenging racial, religious, economic, geographic, gender and identity assumptions as participants exchange homes for […]
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The four Primetime Emmy Awards won by the late actress Valerie Harper will not be sold to the highest bidder — at least not on Friday morning, as had been scheduled to occur. On Thursday, the United States District Court serving the Central District of California granted a temporary restraining order, requested by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, […]
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Simon Cowell is to take full control of “Got Talent” and “The X Factor” producer Syco Entertainment after agreeing to buy out Sony Music Entertainment’s stake in the joint venture. Cowell is personally buying out the stake and the move will give him sole ownership of the entertainment company. It is the result of a […]
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Peacock, the NBCUniversal streaming service that launched in April in Comcast homes, started expanding nationally overnight as Tuesday turned to Wednesday on the East Coast. Along with Comcast’s X1 and Flex, Peacock will be available on Apple and Google platforms, Microsoft’s Xbox, Vizio and LG smart TVs, Cox Contour and, starting next week, Sony PlayStation. Talks are ongoing with major […]
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Apple has acquired Justin Timberlake’s ‘Palmer,” the company announced on Wednesday. “Palmer” was directed by Fisher Stevens. “Palmer” joins Apple’s expanding film slate, which includes “Greyhound” and the upcoming 2020 Sundance US Grand Jury Prize Award-winning Documentary “Boys State”– as well as “Emancipation,” “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Snow Blind.” “Palmer” is about a […]
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ViacomCBS has cut ties with “Wild ‘N Out” host Nick Cannon after a podcast episode which the company said “promoted hateful speech and spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.” “While we support ongoing education and dialogue in the fight against bigotry, we are deeply troubled that Nick has failed to acknowledge or apologize for perpetuating anti-Semitism, and […]
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Sean Hannity Takes Issue With Fox News Colleague Tucker Carlson On-Air Then Apologizes On Twitter
Fox News host Tucker Carlson seemed buoyant as he ended his show on Tuesday. But then, as he was handing the reins to Sean Hannity, Hannity started speaking. Carlson’s face did a quick dance as he began to realize that Hannity was criticizing his previous segment. Carlson’s mouth tightened. His eyes narrowed. He turned in Hannity’s direction, brows knitted, […]
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