TV

Salma Hayek’s first project for HBO Max is a comedy where a 40-year-old woman’s boobs start talking to her. The streaming service is developing an adaptation of Leslie Lehr’s upcoming novel, “A Boob’s Life: How America’s Obsession Shaped Me–and You,” which is due out March 2. The series will be a half-hour comedy about Leslie, […]

Elliot Stabler is back. NBC has set a premiere date for its high-profile new Dick Wolf series Law & Order: Organized Crime, which features the return of Christopher Meloni as the NYPD detective he played for years in Law & Order: SVU. And he will be reunited with Olivia Benson as the series debuts April 1 as part of a two-hour […]

Voting machine company Smartmatic filed a lawsuit Thursday against Fox News and several of its top stars, along with Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, for pushing a false conspiracy theory involving the company’s machines, becoming the second voting company to seek retribution against the far right for using the voting machines in their attempt to overturn the […]

The Screen Actors Guild Awards spread the wealth when the organization announced nominations Thursday for its 27th edition, failing to signal there were any clear frontrunners in either the film or television races. “Minari,” the story of an immigrant family trying to build a life in the rural South, “Da 5 Bloods, a Vietnam epic, […]

The CW is bringing back the majority of its current slate next season after making a bumper renewal order including a second season of Walker. The network has made the early decision to hand renewals to 12 current series with Mark Pedowitz sticking with stability as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to have an impact on network’s schedules, […]

The 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards is going bicoastal. Hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, returning to helm the the ceremony for the first time since 2015, won’t be in the same room together: Instead, Fey will broadcast live from The Rainbow Room (at the top of Rockefeller Center) in New York City, while Poehler will host from […]

An anchor for right-wing cable outlet Newsmax tried to fact-check MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s unfounded voter fraud allegations during a live interview Tuesday, eventually storming off camera after Lindell refused to stop talking about Dominion Voting Systems, which has threatened to sue both Newsmax and Lindell — marking Newsmax’s latest attempt to shy away from […]

Frasier‘s long-in-the-works return to TV is getting closer to reality. Paramount+ is eying a 10-episode order for a followup to the Emmy-winning NBC series produced by Frasier studio CBS TV Studios, sources said. Frasier star and executive producer Kelsey Grammer, who has been leading the efforts to revive the iconic series over the past two and a half years, […]

The cast of classic teen comedy Saved by the Bell expressed their sadness on Monday over the death of Dustin Diamond, best known for his work as the lovable, bombastic and eccentric Samuel “Screech” Powers on numerous iterations of the NBC sitcom Diamond died Monday morning of carcinoma. He was 44. The actor was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer three weeks […]

Emmy and Tony winner Hal Holbrook, an actor best known for his role as Mark Twain, whom he portrayed for decades in one-man shows, died on Jan. 23. He was 95. Holbrook’s personal assistant, Joyce Cohen, confirmed his death to the New York Times on Monday night. Holbrook played the American novelist in a solo show called “Mark […]

It’s hard to believe now, but it took until 1996 for the broadcast networks to finally hire their first-ever female entertainment president, when ABC recruited Jamie Tarses away from NBC to take the job. There had been a handful of other women in powerful slots, including Lucie Salhany, who was briefly chair of the Fox Broadcasting Co. […]

NBC is developing a reboot of the comedy, created by Sherry Coben, that originally aired on CBS between 1984 and 1989. It comes from Erica Oyama and Nahnatchka Khan, two of the team responsible for NBC’s upcoming comedy Young Rock. The network has handed the project a put pilot commitment. The move comes the same day that ABC handed a pilot […]

Universal is set to open Dear Evan Hansen, its adaptation of the Broadway musical that stars Amy Adams, Julianne Moore and Amandla Stenberg, on Sept. 24, 2021. The Stephen Chbosky-directed movie, which also has Ben Platt reprising on screen his Broadway character of Evan Hansen, will take the place of an Untitled Universal event movie amid a Hollywood […]

Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto have signed on to star in Apple’s scripted WeWork project, which has been ordered to series at the streamer. The series is titled “WeCrashed,” based on the Wondery podcast of the same name. It is described as following the greed-filled rise and inevitable fall of WeWork, one of the world’s most valuable startups, and the narcissists […]

Armie Hammer will no longer star in the upcoming Paramount Plus series “The Offer,” which tells the behind the scenes story of the making of “The Godfather,” Variety has learned from sources. It was announced in early December that Hammer was attached to lead the show in the role of Al Ruddy, who produced “The Godfather” back in 1972. The […]

Sonny Fox, the beloved pioneer of kids television who demonstrated an amazing one-on-one rapport with children as the host of the New York-based Sunday morning program Wonderama, has died. He was 95. Fox died Sunday of pneumonia induced by COVID-19 in a hospital in Encino, his daughter, Meredith Fox, told The Hollywood Reporter. A native of Brooklyn […]

MTV Entertainment Group is marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a public-service spot across all its brands. In a memo to staff Wednesday, group president Chris McCarthy wrote, “Today we stand with our Jewish colleagues, talent and audiences around the world to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day which the United National General Assembly designated to commemorate […]

Oscar winner and multiple Emmy winner Cloris Leachman, best remembered as the delightfully neurotic Phyllis Lindstrom on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and her own subsequent sitcom, died of natural causes on Tuesday in Encinitas, Calif. She was 94. “It’s been my privilege to work with Cloris Leachman, one of the most fearless actresses of our time,” her […]

Less than five days after the Daily Mail turned heads by reporting romance between MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and 30 Rock actress Jane Krakowski, he’s filed a defamation suit. In New York federal court, Lindell lodged claims on Monday. Lindell is represented by Charles Harder, who notably has appeared for Donald Trump in libel actions. Lindell advertises heavily on […]

Two CBS local television executives are on administrative leave starting Monday night after a report by the Los Angeles Times alleges the bosses of inappropriate conduct towards women and people of color. A statement from CBS confirmed that President of the CBS Television Stations Peter Dunn and Senior Vice President, News David Friend have been placed on leave, pending the results […]