It all starts with a song, as the music business axiom reminds us. But if the song remains the same, the ways to watch the 64th annual Grammy Awards this Sunday are multiplying. The event airs live from Las Vegas on Sunday, April 3 at 8 PM ET/ PM PT, with red carpet coverage beginning […]
For thousands of years, Everealm has been a land of unrivaled beauty and powerful magic. Now, the realm is threatened by a powerful evil Sorceress. So who you gonna call? If you’re Disney+ (or the noble Fates of the series), you turn to eight teenage strangers known as the Paladins. They must face a series […]
There will be no Daniel Craig appearances in the latest Broadway staging of Shakepeare’s Macbeth for a while. The Longacre Theater announced that the actor has tested postive for Covid-19 and will be out for a while Ticket refunds are available at place of purchase, according to the show producers. “We apologize for the inconvenience […]
Denzel Washington was one of the first people to talk with Will Smith after his Oscars slap and before his Best Actor award. On Saturday, Washington made his initial public comments on the incident, appearing with Pastor T.D. Jakes at a Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. Although he was short on specifics, he did reveal […]
C.W. McCall, best known for his massive 1975 hit Convoy, died Friday in Ouray, Colo. at age 93 from cancer. His death was first reported by the Washington Post. McCall, real name Bill Fries, was working in advetising when he devised the character of C.W. McCall for a 1973 advertising spot for Old Home Bread. […]
The ill-fated run of Rocketman and Kingsman star Taron Egerton in the London play Cock has apparently come to an end. Show producers announced that Egerton has withdrawn from the starring role in the production for “personal reasons.” Egerton fell ill and couldn’t complete the show’s preview, and then pulled out for a week after […]
Musical stars lined up to pay homage to Joni Mitchell in Las Vegas on Friday evening, with the tireless artist and activist being named Person of the Year at the 2022 MusiCares gala. Performers on the night included Beck, St. Vincent, Chaka Khan, Allison Russell, Billy Porter, John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Jon Batiste, Leon Bridges, […]
Figures from the world of fashion and celebrity have been paying tribute to Patrick Demarchelier, whose death was announced on Friday. The French photographer was best known for his photographs of Diana, Princess of Wales, one of which appeared on the cover of Vogue’s 1991 December issue and was credited with updating her image and […]
ABC has no current plans to bring its Match Game revival hosted by Alec Baldwin back for another season. The game show, which last aired in summer 2021, was not renewed last May when ABC made the bulk of its pickups for the 2021-22 season. Match Game also was not renewed in late fall when […]
Why was Tina Fey trending on Twitter Friday night? It’s because Sarah Palin, the former 2008 vice presidential candidate who was Fey’s doppelgänger and constant foil on Saturday Night Live, is throwing her hat in the national politics ring once again. Palin, also the former Alaska governor, said Friday that she was entering the race for […]
You knew going into Friday’s Real Time on HBO that Bill Maher would cover the topic that everyone in Hollywood is talking about. And did he ever, starting from the top. “Thank you all for coming and putting on a brave face,” Maher said right at the start, adding that he knew everyone was still […]
Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel have long had to face the challenge of similar names, hosting similar shows. Now the late-night hosts have teamed up for an epic April Fool’s prank that will see Kimmel hosting The Tonight Show and Fallon hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live. Kimmel will be in New York hosting the NBC show […]
If Will Smith is to be disciplined by SAG-AFTRA for slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, the union’s constitution spells out in great detail how that disciplinary process will play out. SAG-AFTRA covers performers at the Academy Awards, where Rock was a presenter Sunday night and, as such, deems it a workplace incident subject to […]
EXCLUSIVE: Dave Annable is set as a lead opposite Matt Passmore and Floriana Lima in Blank Slate, NBC’s drama pilot from Dean Georgaris, John Fox, Davis Entertainment and Universal Television. Created by Georgaris and Fox, written by Georgaris and to be directed by Richard Shepard, Blank Slate draws some parallels to Davis Entertainment’s long-running NBC […]
UPDATED: It appears unlikely that at least one of two CBS Media Ventures-distributed syndicated daytime talk shows, The Doctors and Daily MailTV, will continue beyond this season. We hear CBS employees were told today that both shows hailing from Jay McGraw’s Stage 29 Prods., are facing a possible end. There is conflicting information but we also […]
Redbox, which went public via a SPAC last year, said it will lay off 150 employees, about 10% of its workforce. In an SEC filing, the company said “a number of potential strategic alternatives with respect to the company’s corporate or capital structure.” The “ongoing adverse effects” of Covid are to blame for the measures, […]
In what marks some major momentum for the long-awaited reboot of The Crow, Bill Skarsgard, who played Pennywise the Clown in the It franchise, has been tapped to star as Eric Draven in a new reimagining of The Crow. Rupert Sanders will direct the pic with Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter FKA twigs also starring. The revenge thriller is written by Academy Award-nominated […]
EXCLUSIVE: For the second consecutive year in a row, the GLAAD Media Awards will count on Hulu as its official streaming partner. The streamer will air highlights from the LGBTQ awards show—taking place in Los Angeles on April 2— beginning on April 16. The celebration will honor media for fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of […]
EXCLUSIVE: After not speaking for 13 years, Oscar-winning Precious star Mo’Nique has been set by that film’s director Lee Daniels to replace Octavia Spencer in Demon House, an exorcism film package that Netflix acquired after a brisk auction in January. Spencer had to bow out of the star-studded film because of a scheduling conflict with […]
UPDATED with AMPAS statement: Two days after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors initiated self-described “disciplinary proceedings” against Will Smith over his slap of Chris Rock at Sunday’s Oscars, the “heartbroken” King Richard Best Actor winner today has pre-empted the harshest punishment that he could have received and left the organization […]
In his 2019 HBO special, Home Videos, comedian Jerrod Carmichael asks his mother if she has ever done cocaine or had a same sex relationship. When she says no, Carmichael says bluntly, “I’ve hooked up with dudes before.” It turns out that delving into family secrets while revealing his own was not a one-time thing […]
The Drew Barrymore Show has been renewed through the 2022-2023 season, CBS Media Ventures announced today. Stations owned by CBS, Sinclair, Nexstar, Gray, Scripps, Tegna and Weigel are among those signing on for another season of the syndicated daytime talk show, hosted and executive produced by Barrymore. Cancellations/Renewals Scorecard: TV Shows Ended Or Continuing In […]
After two-plus years of the Covid pandemic and drought, the largest fires in recorded history and a recall election in California, Governor Gavin Newsom left yesterday for two-weeks to Central and South America with his family. Bad timing. Numbers released by the state to the media today indicate that Covid test positivity is once again […]
The Human Rights Campaign is demoting Fox Corporation from its list of top workplaces following Fox News’ coverage of Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill and LGBTQ+ issues. Aryn Fields, HRC’s senior press secretary, said that HRC has deducted 25 points from Fox Corp.’s score in its Corporate Equality Index. Fox Corp. had been among the […]
After succumbing to the demise of physical home entertainment and then being housed in a mountain village in Sicily, the eclectic holdings of New York City mainstay Kim’s Video have returned home. Alamo Drafthouse has launched Kim’s Video Underground, a new outpost of the downtown indie film temple, which closed for good in 2014 after […]
