It appears increasingly likely that Jeff Zucker will step down as CNN president, with Vanity Fair reporting on Friday that it could happen early next year. According to the report, which cites someone familiar with the matter, Zucker is widely expected in the senior ranks at WarnerMedia to step down sometime during the first quarter of […]
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Universal Filmed Entertainment Group has unveiled a multi-year agreement with Canada’s Cineplex chain to shorten the theatrical window and bring movies more quickly to the home. The pact, announced Friday, mirrors similar agreements that the studio reached on July 28 with AMC Theatres and on Nov. 17 with the Cinemark chain. Under the terms of the new agreement, Universal […]
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A Wipeout contestant died Wednesday after completing the course for the TBS show, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed. The unidentified male contestant suffered an undisclosed medical emergency on the Santa Clarita set. “We are devastated to have learned of his passing and our deepest sympathy goes out to the family,” a TBS spokesperson said in a statement. The contestant was treated […]
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When Drew Barrymore launched her talk show this fall, she had no clue that she wouldn’t be chatting with her guests face-to-face. But since debuting in September, she’s conducted digital interviews with A-listers such as Reese Witherspoon, Anne Hathaway and Cameron Diaz. If you watched the premiere episode of “The Drew Barrymore Show” at home, […]
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With a second wave of COVID-19 impacting many parts of the globe, Wonder Woman 1984 is changing course yet again. The tentpole is all but giving up on a traditional theatrical release and will instead bow in whatever cinemas remain open on Dec. 25 as well as stream on HBO Max that day. In international markets where […]
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Rachel Bloom brings humor and transparency to her debut book, I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are (Grand Central Publishing), a collection of comic essays, accounts of her childhood, school years and her journey into Crazy Ex-Girlfriend success. In the book, out Tuesday, Bloom particularly opens up about her mental health journey, including experiencing the onset of obsessive-compulsive […]
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Conan O’Brien is no longer a night owl. The comedian is ending his run as a late-night talk show host after nearly three decades. O’Brien, 57, announced Tuesday that he’ll finish his TBS series “Conan” at the completion of its 10th season in June 2021. However, he has signed on for a new, weekly variety […]
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ABC is bringing three comedy kings together. The Disney-backed broadcast network has handed out a straight-to-series order for an untitled multicamera comedy starring Alec Baldwin and Kelsey Grammer and from Modern Family co-creator Chris Lloyd. The series is earmarked for the 2021-22 broadcast season. Written by Lloyd and his longtime Modern Family cohort Vali Chandrasekaran, the series revolves around […]
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Reality TV is getting the behind-the-scenes treatment. E! has greenlit the limited event series “For Real: The Story of Reality TV,” hosted and executive produced by Andy Cohen, which will recall famous moments from “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” “The Bachelor,” “The Real World,” “The Real Housewives,” “Survivor” and other well-known unscripted series. The seven-part series […]
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Sarah Paulson has offered the first glimpse of her portrait of Linda Tripp, the woman whose recordings of conversations with President Bill Clinton’s mistress, Monica Lewinsky, almost ended his administration. Paulson said on social media that filming has begun on the Impeachment series of episodes on American Crime Story. Paulson plays the frumpy Tripp in the episodes, which examine how Tripp, […]
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File under Tweets With a Bad Shelf-Life: Kellyanne Conway’s 2016 tweet hyping President Donald Trump’s 306-vote electoral college victory as a “landslide” has come back to haunt her now that CNN has projected president-elect Joe Biden has defeated Trump with, yes, 306 electoral votes. “306. Landslide. Blowout. Historic,” wrote Conway, who was Trump’s campaign adviser when he […]
Read moreCCH Pounder talks with Ross Crystal about her role as Dr. Loretta Wade on the CBS Series “NCIS New Orleans” and returning to work during COVID-19, following the area’s most recent hurricane.
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Casey Wilson has joined the increasingly stacked cast of Apple TV+’s The Shrink Next Door, which is based on the popular podcast. The eight-episode limited comedy series details the bizarre dynamic between psychiatrist-to-the-stars Dr. Isaac “Ike” Herschkopf (played by Parks and Rec alum Paul Rudd) and his longtime patient Martin “Marty” Markowitz (Will Ferrell). Over the course of […]
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Call it Super Bowl Weeknd. Pepsi just announced that Grammy-winning singer The Weeknd will be performing at the upcoming Super Bowl halftime show. “We can’t wait to welcome multi-award winning artist The Weeknd to the Pepsi Super Bowl LV Halftime Show stage,” said Adam Harter, senior vice president of PepsiCo’s Sports, Media and Entertainment division. […]
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This hasn’t been the best month for the 45th president of the United States. On Wednesday, a Georgia federal court judge rejected a defamation lawsuit brought by Donald Trump against CNN. Trump’s campaign filed its complaint back in March. It targeted an opinion piece from Larry Noble, a former general counsel at the Federal Election Commission […]
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Maren Morris won a leading three awards at Wednesday’s 2020 CMA Awards, bringing home three, for single of the year, song of the year and female vocalist of the year. It was the first win in any of those categories for Morris, whose song “The Bones” was a smash in both the pop and country fields during […]
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Jeffrey Toobin has been fired by The New Yorker following an investigation into last month’s incident in which he exposed himself on a work Zoom call. Toobin announced his dismissal in a tweet on Wednesday, writing: “I was fired today by @NewYorker after 27 years as a Staff Writer. I will always love the magazine, will miss my […]
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The cast and crew of Saturday Night Live is used to rolling with the punches, but this weekend was particularly hectic. After the networks finally announced that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had won the election, the costume department had just under three hours to re-create Harris’s all-white acceptance-speech look for impersonator Maya Rudolph. The vice-president-elect stepped onto the stage around 8:30 p.m. […]
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As news of the passing of beloved “Jeopardy!” game-show host Alex Trebek continues to ripple through the entertainment industry and trivia community alike, many are wondering: After nearly four decades at the helm, who could possibly replace Alex Trebek? For one out of two of the respondents to a 2019 Morning Consult poll, that answer is: no one. […]
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Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto abruptly cut away from a Trump campaign press conference led by Kayleigh McEnany Monday afternoon. The White House Press Secretary was speaking in her dual role as campaign spokesperson and was addressing President Donald Trump’s continued efforts to refuse conceding the election, after news outlets projected he has lost. “There is only one party in America […]
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Norm Crosby, the deadpan mangler of the English language who thrived in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s as a television, nightclub and casino comedian, has died. He was 93. Crosby’s daughter-in-law, Maggie Crosby, told the New York Times that the comic died Saturday of heart failure in Los Angeles. Early in his career, Crosby realized he needed […]
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Alex Trebek, the polished host of Jeopardy! who for more than three decades was the man with the answers — all in the form of a question, of course — has died. He was 80. Trebek died early Sunday morning surrounded by family and friends, Jeopardy! confirmed on social media. On March 6, 2019, the game show icon revealed that he had been […]
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Norman Lear on Saturday morning said in all his 98 years, he never had a “more joyous” morning than when he learned Joe Biden had defeated Donald Trump to become the next president-elect of the United States. The iconic television show creator and producer said in a video posted to social media, “I could not […]
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Billionaire media mogul Barry Diller told CNBC on Wednesday he “hoped for a repudiation” of President Donald Trump but “that has not happened.” Diller also said he doesn’t think the outcome of the undecided presidential election will have “any effect on business.” If anything, “government’s going to be divided. That’s probably good for business,” Diller, a major […]
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Fox News Channel’s primetime coverage of Election Night 2020 topped all television networks and set a record for the most-watched Election Night coverage in cable news history, according to early data from Nielsen Media Research. FNC’s primetime coverage averaged 13.7 million total viewers and nearly 5 million in the 25-54 demographic, beating ABC, NBC, CBS and all […]
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