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Kara Killmer Isn’t Grieving the End of ‘Chicago Fire’: “I Had a Lot of Time to Process…
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Sydney Sweeney Doesn’t Quite Have a Meet-Cute in ‘Saturday Night Live’ Promo
The 'Anyone But You' star will make her hosting debut on the show this week, with musical guest Kacey Musgraves.
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Nick Offerman, Betty Gilpin Join ‘Death by Lightning’ Series From ‘Game of Thrones’ Creators
‘Succession’ Emmy winner Matthew Macfadyen and Michael Shannon star in the drama about James Garfield.
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Andy Cohen Denies Claims In ‘Real Housewives’ Star Leah McSweeney’s Lawsuit
The denial from the Bravo reality TV kingpin regarding claims of coercion from the former star from 'Real Housewives of New York' comes amid several other legal cases surrounding his shows.
BY Kevin Dolak
Matty Matheson Shares Why He Refused to Play a Chef on ‘The Bear’
Canadian chef Matty Matheson not only serves as producer and culinary consultant on The Bear, but he also has a standout role as Carmy’s childhood friend Neil Fak, who is the restaurant’s clueless-yet-lovable handyman. While it would make sense for Matheson to also cook onscreen, the restaurateur turned actor shared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! why […]
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‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 4: Everything to Know About the Next Whodunnit
[This story includes major spoilers for season 3 of Only Murders in the Building.] Only Murders in the Building season 3 went out with a bang — literally. After revealing that the (spoiler alert!) producers of Death Rattle Dazzle, Cliff (Wesley Taylor) and Donna (Linda Emond), were the ones who killed Ben Glenroy (Paul Rudd) […]
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Eugene Levy Joins ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 4
Eugene Levy is the newest castmember to join Only Murders in the Building season four. The Emmy-winning actor will have a recurring role in the series’ upcoming season, marking his first regular television role since Schitt’s Creek ended. While details of Levy’s character are being kept under wraps, he will become integral to the twists and […]
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As ‘The Rookie’ Reaches Its 100th Episode, Nathan Fillion Mulls Over the Show’s Hard-Won Success
The Rookie has graduated from primetime newbie to veteran TV show as it reaches its 100th episode, a milestone star and executive producer Nathan Fillion says tells you, “Whatever you’re doing, you’re doing something right.” Since debuting in 2018, the ABC police procedural has sustained faithful viewership amid both internal and industrywide obstacles, including the […]
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‘Young and the Restless’ Renewed Through 2027-28 on CBS
The longest-running scripted series in CBS’ history will add several more years to its total. The network has ordered four more seasons of its daytime soap The Young and the Restless. The renewal — which comes as a previous four-year pickup is about to end — will take the show through its 55th season in 2027-28. […]
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Wendy Williams Guardianship Explained by Experts in Wake of Lifetime Doc
In the first episode of the four-part documentary, Where is Wendy Williams?, which aired on Lifetime Feb. 24 and 25, the former daytime talk show host makes a haunting observation about the state of her financial affairs. “I have no money and I’m going to tell you something,” Wendy Williams states to the cameras, “if […]
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Joe Biden Jokes That Taylor Swift Endorsement Is “Classified Information”
President Joe Biden said a potential 2024 endorsement by pop superstar Taylor Swift is “classified information” during a joke-filled 10-year reunion appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers on Monday night. “I will tell you, she did endorse me in 2020,” a grinning Biden added about Swift, amid widespread conspiracy theories that the singer and […]
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‘Wendy Williams Show’ Producer Speaks Out on Host’s Diagnosis: “There Were Early Signs”
The Wendy Williams Show‘s co-executive producer is reflecting on working with her former talk show host following the news of her diagnosis being made public. Suzanne Bass says there were early signs pointing to what has now been publicly revealed to be primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia diagnosis (FTD). “You can go back and see the show, […]
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Benito Skinner Coming Out Comedy a Go at Amazon
Amazon is moving forward with its Benito Skinner comedy. The streamer has handed out a series order for Overcompensating, which has been in development at the retail giant and streamer since November 2022. Skinner, better known as comedian Benny Drama, stars in the college-set ensemble comedy that Amazon describes as being about the “wild, chaotic […]
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NBC Sets Jimmy Fallon ‘Tonight Show’ Primetime Special for 10-Year Anniversary
Jimmy Fallon is coming to primetime, at least for one night. NBC has set a two-hour primetime special commemorating 10 years of The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. The special is slated to air on NBC on Tuesday May 14, and will stream on Peacock the following day. Fallon announced the news on the Tonight […]
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Taylor Sheridan’s Most (and Least) Watched TV Shows, Ranked
When it comes to corralling viewers, Taylor Sheridan is hardly all hat, no cattle. The ultra-prolific writer-director’s Yellowstone universe shows and his other Paramount+ dramas perform quite strongly, helping to heavily prop up the streamer with its 63 million subscribers. Naturally, however, some shows outpull others. Here, The Hollywood Reporter takes a closer look at […]
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‘And Just Like That’: Sara Ramírez Won’t Return for Season 3
Che Diaz is moving out of And Just Like That. Sara Ramírez, the star who has played the controversial character on Max’s Sex and the City offshoot for its first two seasons, will not return for the upcoming third season of the series. Sources caution that while scripts are still being written, there’s always a […]
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Wendy Williams Doc Producers: “If We’d Known She Had Dementia, No One Would’ve Rolled a Camera”
“At a certain point,” says Where Is Wendy Williams? producer Mark Ford, “we were more worried about what would happen if we stopped filming than if we continued.” So, for the better part of a year, his cameras kept rolling, documenting the increasingly fragile state that the former talk show host had found herself in, […]
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Bending the Elements: How ‘Avatar’ VFX Team Brought Aang, Koizilla and Animated World to Life for Netflix’s ‘The Last Airbender’
It’s no easy task to bring the world of animation into live-action. When it comes to Avatar: The Last Airbender, with its expansive kingdoms, mystical creatures and deities (and of course physical-defying bending abilities), the task might almost seem insurmountable. But VFX supervisors Jabbar Raisani and Marion Spates proved to be more than up for […]
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Seth Meyers Discusses “Constantly Shifting Sands” Over 10 Years of ‘Late Night’
When Seth Meyers inaugurated his version of Late Night in 2014, the guests on his first show were Amy Poehler and then Vice President Joe Biden. Meyers will celebrate 10 years of as host of Late Night on Monday, when his guests will be … Amy Poehler and Joe Biden. NBC confirmed Monday afternoon that the […]
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Netflix Orders Shane Gillis Scripted Series Based on His YouTube Pilot ‘Tires’
Shane Gillis has struck a deal for his first scripted series: a Netflix workplace comedy set in an auto repair shop. The streamer has ordered six episodes of Tires, which is based on a pilot concept Gillis had previously posted on YouTube. The setup: “Will (Steven Gerben), the nervous and unqualified heir to an auto […]
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