“Saturday Night Live” took on the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal in its cold open, with Cecily Strong as Fox News’ Judge Jeanine Pirro weighing on the verdict with the trial’s controversial judge, dueling political commentators and former President Donald Trump. “That loveable scamp was put through a nightmare of a trial,” Strong as Pirro said. She […]
Read more
A two-part docuseries about the high-profile divorce between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard has been ordered at Discovery+, the streaming service said Friday. Commissioned by Discovery UK, “Johnny vs Amber” will tell “the story of the breakdown of their relationship and how it tipped into the celebrity court case of the decade” and follows “this […]
Read more
Frank Scherma has been re-elected for a second term as Chairman and CEO of the Television Academy, which announced its newly elected board and governors for 2022-23 today. Joining Scherma, who’s from the Academy’s Commercials and Producers peer groups, for two-year terms starting January 1 are Vice Chair Sharon Lieblein (Casting Directors), Second Vice Chair Rickey Minor […]
Read more
Norman Lear is heading back to the Sony lot. The television veteran and Jimmy Kimmel will revive their Emmy-winning Live In Front of a Studio Audience series on Dec. 7 with live episodic reenactments of the classic sitcom Diff’rent Strokes and its spinoff The Facts of Life. As Kimmel first revealed onhollywoodreporter.com/t/norman-lear his late night show Thursday evening, the former will be led […]
Read more
IATSE members have ratified their new film and TV contracts, averting a showdown with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers after contentious negotiations that began six months ago. However, union leadership suffered a harsh rebuke as L.A. locals rejected the deal in the popular vote. “From start to finish, from preparation to ratification, this has been a […]
Read more
CBS got big ratings from its Adele concert special on Sunday, outdrawing everything other than the NFL in primetime. The show also drew the biggest Sunday night audience for any network entertainment program so far this season. Adele One Night Only, which featured the singer performing past hits and songs from her upcoming album 30 — and […]
Read more
Gavan O’Herlihy, who played Chuck Cunningham on Season 1 of “Happy Days,” has died, according to Metro UK. He was 70. Chuck Cunningham, the older brother of Richie (Ron Howard) and Joanie (Erin Moran), appeared in 9 episodes of Season 1. By Season 2, the part was recast to be played Randolph Roberts. But after two […]
Read more
Dominion Voting Systems filed a new lawsuit against Fox Corp this week Dominion Voting Systems Inc. sued Fox Corp. this week in an effort to get access to executive-level documents about Fox News’ coverage of the 2020 election. The company sued Fox News in March of this year and the network has since filed a […]
Read more
Alanna Ubach (Bombshell, Euphoria) has joined the Season 2 cast of HBO Max’s critically acclaimed series The Flight Attendant as a recurring guest star. She’ll appear in the new season—which is currently in production—alongside returning series regulars Kaley Cuoco, Zosia Mamet, Griffin Matthews, Deniz Akdeniz and Rosie Perez; new series regulars Mo McRae, Callie Hernandez and JJ Soria; returning recurring guest […]
Read more
Jerry Douglas, who played patriarch John Abbott on CBS’ The Young and the Restless for more than 30 years, died November 9 after a brief illness, his family announced Wednesday. He was 88. Born Jerry Rubenstein on November 12, 1932, in Chelsea, MA, Douglas launched his acting career upon graduating from Brandeis University, studying acting with Uta […]
Read more
The Good Fight and Evil creators Robert and Michelle King have set their next series at Paramount+. The married showrunners are adapting the Happy Face podcast as a live-action scripted original series for the ViacomCBS-backed streamer. The straight-to-series order, which has been in the works for more than a year, is inspired by the true-crime podcast that itself is based on the […]
Read more
Brian Williams, anchor of the MSNBC nightly program “The 11th Hour,” will not sign a new contract with NBC News and will leave the company after 28 years. Williams confirmed his planned departure in a statement to The Times. “Following much reflection, and after 28 years with the company, I have decided to leave NBC upon the […]
Read more
Scott Bakula, who co-starred with the late Dean Stockwell in the beloved sci-fi series Quantum Leap, remembers castmate as a dear friend and mentor in this statement provided to Deadline. Recalling how the two actors met when Stockwell auditioned for the show in 1988, Bakula says their personal connection was immediate, and the two grew close during the […]
Read more
Alanis Morissette’s life is going to be the foundation for an ABC comedy. The Disney-backed broadcast network has inked a script deal for Relatable, a single-camera comedy inspired by the family life of the Grammy-winning “Jagged Little Pill” singer-songwriter. Relatable follows a 40-something woman, married with three kids, who spent her young adult life as an international rock […]
Read more
Travis Scott will not perform at this weekend’s Day N Vegas Festival, Variety has confirmed. The headlining appearance at Las Vegas Festival Grounds was scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 13, less than a week after his own Astroworld festival took place at Houston’s NRG Park, where eight attendees died, ranging in age from 14 to 27. Sources describe Scott as “too distraught to […]
Read more
Tamron Hall’s syndicated talk show is sticking around. The ABC News-produced show has scored a two-season renewal that will take it through the 2023-24 season. The network’s owned and operated stations, including those in top 10 markets New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Houston, will serve as Tamron Hall‘s lead station group. “Tamron […]
Read more
Oscar winner and “American Idol” alum Jennifer Hudson is adding something completely different to her resume: Talk show host. Hudson, most recently seen on the big screen playing Aretha Franklin in “Respect,” is pitching a new daytime talker to be produced by the team from “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” Variety has learned. Although not technically an “Ellen” replacement — […]
Read more
Netflix announced that Dolly Parton will guest star on “Grace and Frankie’s” seventh and final season. The streamer did not announce who she would be playing or how she would interact with stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, though. In the show, Fonda and Tomlin play rhe titular characters who found their lives turned upside […]
Read more
Challenge accepted. Guy Fieri said “yes” to Kristen Stewart’s request to officiate her wedding when she ties the knot with long-time girlfriend Dylan Meyer. Fieri shared the news with Stewart Thursday morning on the fourth hour of the “Today” show, surprising the actress with a video message. “Hey Kristen! Guy Fieri here, and I’ve heard through […]
Read more
Queens star Eve is going on a maternity leave as she is preparing for the birth of her first child in February 2022, Deadline has learned. The singer-actress, who plays one of the leads on the new ABC drama, Brianna, announced her pregnancy Oct. 15. Eve has been commuting to Atlanta, where Queens films, from the UK where her family home is. ABC and […]
Read more
Pete Davidson’s BDE got Kim Kardashian to his native Staten Island. The Skims founder and “Saturday Night Live” star dined at Campania’s Tuesday night, Page Six confirmed. “Pete arranged a dinner on the rooftop privately,” a restaurant source told us. “It was just the two of them.” Our source also added that they didn’t have any […]
Read more
Sofía Vergara is set to star in a Netflix limited series about notorious drug trafficker Griselda Blanco, Variety has learned. Titled “Griselda,” the series chronicles the real life of savvy and ambitious Colombian business woman who created one of the most profitable drug cartels in history. A devoted mother, Blanco’s lethal blend of charm and unsuspecting savagery helped her […]
Read more
Kristen Stewart has announced her engagement to screenwriter Dylan Meyer. On Tuesday’s episode of SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show, the Spencer star said: “We’re marrying, we’re totally gonna do it.” The 31-year-old actor said previously that she’d met Meyer on the set of a movie but lost touch until they reconnected at a mutual friend’s birthday party six years […]
Read more
“Inventing Anna” — the first show Shonda Rhimes has written for Netflix, and the first show she’s created since “Scandal” made its debut in 2012 — will premiere in February. “Inventing Anna” follows the massive success of “Bridgerton,” which Rhimes and her company Shondaland executive produced. Season 2 of “Bridgerton” will also premiere in 2022. In May 2018, […]
Read more
After signing his new overall deal with Netflix, Zack Snyder is moving fast to get that first film under the deal in front of cameras, as sources tell Deadline he has set Sofia Boutella to star in Rebel Moon. Snyder is directing the film as well as co-writing it with Shay Hatten and Kurt Johnstad, based on a story by Snyder […]
Read more