TV

Top Chef is packing up its knives and aprons and heading to Canada for season 22. The Bravo series is making a rare foray outside the U.S. after the 20th season was shot in London and after the Wisconsin-themed 21st season. Top Chef judges Kristen Kish, Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons announced their Canadian road trip on Instagram on Tuesday, with Kish at […]

Move over Anxiety, there’s a new dominant emotion at the box office: Joy! Disney and Pixar‘s expressive animated sequel “Inside Out 2” scored a mighty $155 million in its first weekend of release, overtaking “Dune: Part Two” ($82.5 million) and “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” ($80 million) as the biggest opening of the year. It’s also the […]

The Outsiders and Stereophonic took home the top prizes of best musical and best play at the 77th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday. The best musical race had been one of the closest categories heading into Sunday’s ceremony, with The Outsiders, a story about young boys growing up in a rough setting, based on S.E. Hinton’s best-selling novel, and Hell’s Kitchen, featuring a score […]

Kristen Stewart will make her TV series-starring debut in The Challenger, a limited series in which she’ll play Sally Ride, the astronaut and physicist who became the first American woman to fly in space. She did this as part of a NASA space shuttle astronaut class of 1978 that was the first to be diversified and not […]

Pat Sajak hosted his final episode of Wheel of Fortune on Friday, and took time to thank the viewers of the enduringly popular game show he’s hosted for more than 40 years. “The time has come to say goodbye,” Sajak said during the episode. “I have a few thanks and acknowledgments before I go, and I want to […]

“The Voice” will return for its 27th season next spring, with new additions to its coaching team. Original coach Adam Levine will reclaim his red chair, alongside new coach Kelsea Ballerini and returning coaches Michael Bublé and John Legend. Ballerini, a multiple Grammy Award-nominated, multi-platinum artist and Grand Ole Opry inductee, is no stranger to “The Voice,” previously serving […]

As Hollywood continues to adjust to the steady march of AI into the business, SAG-AFTRA has debuted a waiver for performers who are working on personalized audio commercials incorporating the technology. The actors union’s “Dynamic AI Audio Commercials Waiver,” announced to members on Tuesday, seeks to manage how voice performances from union members are used and compensated in AI-assisted […]

Steve Martin, Mark Hamill, Lynda Carter, George Takei and Sheryl Lee Ralph are among those in Hollywood who have taken to social media to share their reaction to Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in his New York criminal hush money trial. A jury found the former president, who could face four years in prison or probation, guilty on […]

Glenn Close is the latest star to board the new Knives Out mystery movie. The actress has joined the all-star cast of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Rian Johnson’s  thriller headlined by Daniel Craig. The Netflix feature has been on a casting tear in the past week, furiously sewing up deals as it heads toward an […]

Hollywood A-listers took to social media this weekend to honor Sam Rubin, the beloved KTLA anchor who died on Friday. “Your professionalism was unmatched by your kindness and humanity,” Viola Davis wrote on Instagram. “I will miss your presence on The Red Carpet. God bless your loved ones. Godspeed.” Rubin was a popular entertainment anchor on KTLA-TV’s morning […]

Law & Order is losing another veteran actor. The NBC drama will bid farewell to star Camryn Manheim on May 16, the season 23 finale. The actress was a key part of the cast when Dick Wolf revived the flagship procedural for its 21st season. Manheim becomes the second star to depart L&O this season with her upcoming exit coming […]

Andy Cohen is continuing on with Watch What Happens Live. Bravo has renewed his much-buzzed-about late night talk show through 2025 after completing an investigation into accusations from former stars of The Real Housewives, the franchise on which he is also an executive producer. “The outside investigation into the recent allegations made by Brandi Glanville and Leah McSweeney against […]

Kim Godwin, the ABC News president who was the first Black woman to run a broadcast network news operation, is leaving the Disney unit amid increasing concern about the way she was managing the home of shows like “Good Morning America” and “World News Tonight.” Godwin told staffers in a memo Sunday that she planned to “retire […]

The “Night Court” sequel series has been renewed for Season 3 at NBC, Variety has learned. The multi-cam comedy aired its second season between December 2023 and March 2024, with the season finale airing on March 26. Per NBC, the 13 episode season has reached 24 million viewers combined across all platforms to date. It ranks as the […]

TikTok is capping off this week of NewFronts in New York with an even larger extravaganza than its first-ever edition in 2023. The show is scheduled to kick off at 7 p.m. ET, and this post will be updated as things unfold. While it is highly unlikely to be referenced during the event, TikTok has been under a […]

While announcing its schedule for the 2024-25 TV season Thursday, CBS also got a head start on the season after that. The network has formally greenlit Sheriff Country, a spinoff of its second-year drama Fire Country. Morena Baccarin (Deadpool, Gotham) will star, reprising her role from an April Fire Country episode that set up the spinoff. Sheriff Country won’t premiere, however, until the 2025-26 season. […]

Good news for The Conners fans. The Roseanne follow-up, which just marked its 100th episode, will be getting a seventh season. The renewal is being finalized, with a short order to wrap the story expected, sources said. I hear it will be around six episodes, and the main cast, including John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert and Lecy Goranson, is expected to return. Six […]

O.J. Simpson died April 10. But the media age ushered in by his presence, his saga and his white Bronco, remains very much with us. An all-time great NFL running back-turned-actor, Simpson was a minor celebrity and part of a circle of fame-adjacent Los Angeles hangers-on in the 1990s. (Notably, Simpson’s close friends included the Kardashian […]

Richard Lewis, the stand-up comedian who also starred alongside Larry David in “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” has died due to a heart attack, Variety has confirmed. He was 76. Lewis announced last April he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and was retiring from stand-up comedy. He most recently appeared in Season 12 of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” currently airing on […]