Comedy Central today unveiled a promo and first-look photos teasing South Park‘s Season 25 return on February 2 at 8 p.m. PT/ET. In the first episode of the new season, titled “Pajama Day,” PC Principal revokes Pajama Day privileges for the entire 4th grade class after they fail to show respect for their teacher. Cartman […]
Dollface showrunner Michelle Nader is developing a hybrid multi/single-camera comedy at Fox. Nader, who previously was showrunner of CBS’ 2 Broke Girls, has scored a pilot presentation for an untitled comedy set in the world of witness protection. The series, which comes from Fox Entertainment, will be written, directed and exec produced by Nader, who […]
EXCLUSIVE: Cynthia Bailey (The Real Housewives of Atlanta) and Reginae Carter (Growing Up Hip Hop: Atlanta) have joined the Season 2 cast of AllBlk‘s horror anthology series Terror Lake Drive in recurring roles. The 7 episode new season premieres in June. Bailey will portray the character Rose, a down on her luck single mom who […]
Tech stocks and the beleaguered Nasdaq jumped today in a rally led by streamers Spotify, Netflix and Roku. All have seen their shares pummeled, with Netflix in particular being hit by disappointing subscriber numbers last quarter and Spotify embroiled in a Joe Rogan controversy. Spotify is up 12% at $193, Netflix by more than 10% […]
Roy Kent is staying with Warner Bros FC. Ted Lasso star, writer and co-exec producer Brett Goldstein has struck an overall deal with Warner Bros. Television. The Brit, best known for his on-screen role as the hardman of AFC Richmond, will develop and produce new series with the studio as part of the multi-year agreement. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Sugar23 has signed multi-hyphenate entertainer Rudy Mancuso. He joins a roster of top Sugar23 talent that includes Keanu Reeves, Steven Soderbergh, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Diane Lane, Jeremy Strong, Josh Gad and Sarah Cooper. A self-taught musician, Mancuso has released five singles, opened for Justin Bieber in his native Brazil on the Purpose World Tour, performed […]
Rachel Maddow plans to announce on her show on Monday that she will be taking a hiatus to work on other projects. An MSNBC source said that Maddow will focus on a new podcast and feature film for NBCUniversal, with her final show before the hiatus on Friday. A rotating series of hosts will take […]
Donald May, a major Daytime actor during the 1960s and ’70s through his longrunning role as attorney Adam Drake on The Edge of Night, died Friday, Jan. 28, at his home in Kent, New York. He was 92. His death was announced by his family on a Facebook page devoted to The Edge of Night. […]
The Animation Guild’s negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers for a new film and TV contract will resume February 14. The talks, which began November 19 but were paused December 3, will wrap up Hollywood’s current three-year collective bargaining cycle, which saw film and TV deals reached with the DGA shortly […]
EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Grevioux, the screenwriter and comic book creator behind the Underworld franchise, has partnered with filmmaker Erik Bernard to launch Gemini Filmworks, a production company backed by BondIt Media Capital. Their shingle focused on creating high-quality, low-budget genre films will also work within the mediums of television, comics and video games, among others. “Kevin […]
Toward the end of a riveting NFC Championship game at SoFi stadium in Inglewood yesterday, the camera singled out a number of famous names in attendance. They included Leo DiCaprio, Jessica Alba, Magic Johnson and California Governor Gavin Newsom. None of them was wearing a mask. Johnson later tweeted a series of photos from the […]
Valari Staab has been promoted to chairman of NBCUniversal Local, becoming the first executive to hold the title. Mark Lazarus, Chairman of NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, announced the move. Staab, a broadcast TV veteran, joined NBCU in 2011 to head the company’s station group. Along the way, she had added oversight of Telemundo stations and […]
BBC Three Orders Comedy From ‘People Just Do Nothing’ Team As BBC Three gears up for tomorrow’s highly-anticipated linear launch, the channel has unveiled a three-part comedy from the team behind People Just Do Nothing. Peacock follows Andy, played by People Just Do Nothing lead Allan Mustafa, a personal trainer at Sportif Leisure in the midst of an identity […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Berlin Film Festival and accompanying European Film Market may be all about the big screen but, over the past few years, the Berlinale Series has been growing in stature. Series Head Julia Fidel has watched as the barriers between film and TV have broken down and more and more stars, writers and execs […]
EXCLUSIVE: UK viewers spent triple the time watching the BBC compared to Netflix last year, according to a report from leading media analyst Enders Analysis that marks the streamer’s 10th anniversary in the nation. Enders’ in-depth report set out to “provide context” to Netflix’s rapid UK growth since 2012, finding that the proportion of total […]
A partially contrite Joe Rogan admitted today that he doesn’t “always get it right” on his podcast and promised to “do better” going forward as Spotify scrambled to contain the growing backlash to the ex-Fear Factor host’s take on Covid-19 vaccines. The same day that CEO Daniel Ek announced adding content warnings and disclaimers to […]
The Los Angeles Rams will officially face off against Cincinnati Bengals at Super Bowl LVI in a true home game on Sunday, Feb. 13, and Hollywood is reacting to the news. Governor Gavin Newsom celebrated the big win via Twitter. “Congrats to the NFC champion @RamsNFL– California is well represented in #SuperBowlLVI! And thanks to […]
It’s official. Super Bowl LVI in Los Angeles will have a true “home” team, as the Los Angeles Rams topped the stubborn San Francisco 49ers today 20-17, thanks to a field goal with under two minutes to play. The Rams will be joined by the upstart Cincinnati Bengals, who surprised the Kansas City Chiefs in […]
Cheslie Kryst, who was crowned Miss USA in 2019 and was a correspondent on Extra, died by suicide in New York City on Sunday. She was 30. Her family confirmed the news in a statement released to the Washington Post. Police told the outlet she jumped from an apartment building. “In devastation and great sorrow, […]
Collective earned an Oscar nomination last year for documenting the work of brave investigative reporters in Romania. This year, one of the feature documentaries in contention for Oscar recognition focuses on another group of crusading journalists — the staff of Khabar Lahariya, India’s only newspaper run entirely by women. Writing With Fire, directed by Rintu […]
BBC Three has commissioned its latest factual drama from the BAFTA-winning BBC Studios team behind Killed By My Debt, Murdered By My Father and Murdered For Being Different. Life and Death in the Warehouse from highly-regarded BBC Studios Drama exec Aysha Rafaele stars Peaky Blinders’ Aimee-Ffion Edwards, In My Skin’s Poppy Lee Friar and Line of Duty’s Craig Parkinson as workers and […]
The “NFL on CBS” broadcast crew may have delivered brilliant insights at halftime of the AFC Championship game today between the Cincinnati Bengals and Kansas City Chiefs. Unfortunately, it was almost impossible to hear what they had to say. That’s because the halftime show music from country artist Walker Hayes overpowered the sound levels in […]
Spotify subscribers will notice a new content warning airing ahead of any podcast episodes discussing Covid-19, CEO Daniel Ek announced on Sunday. The news arrives on the heels of Neil Young removing his catalog from the service in protest of Joe Rogan‘s podcast which has been criticized for spreading misinformation. In solidarity with Young, Joni Mitchell […]
Cinemas from Philly to New York State and Boston (Coolidge Corner Theatre, you were missed) shuttered all or part of Sat., rattling but not routing the specialty box office. And a shout-out to theaters in NYC proper where all stayed open – sparse by day but picking up in the evening thanks to “younger people […]
