Television

EXCLUSIVE: Nick Jonas is joining NBC competition series Dancing with Myself as Shaquille O’Neal exits. The move comes as technical difficulties during rehearsals for the non-scripted show hit production, forcing producers to push things a few days. Deadline understands that there were issues with some of the elaborate stage design. Jonas, who was a coach

We’ve got an exclusive clip of Shining Vale Season 1 Episode 4, and it speaks to my writer’s heart. When Pat and Terry moved their family to the Shining Vale, there were many reasons behind it. One of the most obvious was that their marriage was suffering. There wasn’t much offered as to what drove

Netflix is in early development on a scripted series inspired by the rock band U2, sources close to the project confirmed to Deadline. It hails from J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot Productions, and Warner Bros. TV, where Bad Robot is under a deal. Oscar-nominated screenwriter Anthony McCarten (Bohemian Rhapsody) is attached to pen the

Russian news channel RT’s licence to broadcast in the UK has been revoked with immediate effect by the regulator Ofcom, which said it “cannot be satisfied that RT can be a responsible broadcaster in the current circumstances.” RT has already been pulled by some UK platforms, by EU networks and on YouTube across the continent

Folks on the set of ‘NCIS’ are getting sick … and sources say the mystery illness has more than a dozen people who work on the show puking. The long-running CBS program is currently filming in Valencia, CA just outside of L.A. … and one source tells us at least 18 people on set fell

The Bachelorette will be making history this summer when it features not one but two women on rose duty, but executive producer Mike Fleiss seems to be downplaying any possibility of a pending catfight between the single ladies. Fleiss responded to a fan on Twitter who wondered whether Rachel Recchia and Gabby Windey would be

Paramount+’s rebooted Star Trek franchise has done an incredible job growing its audience, message, and genre over the last five years. Besides the five — count ’em, FIVE — series which will air this year, Simon & Schuster Audio has just released an all-new adventure, “Star Trek: No Man’s Land,” as an audio drama co-written

HBO Max revealed the second season of The Flight Attendant will premiere on April 21 with two episodes. The eight-episode season continues with two new episodes on April 28, followed by one episode weekly concluding May 26. In Season 2, Cassie Bowden (Kaley Cuoco) returns with a fresh start in Los Angeles. She’s sober and moonlighting

“We are seeing an increase in the proportion of BA.2 that is detected,” warned the World Health Organization’s technical lead on Covid-19, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove. “Of the sequences that are available, about 75% are BA.2 and 25% of those are BA.1,” which is the original Omicron strain. Just one month ago, WHO released a

Jussie Smollett is going free — at least for now — while he tries to get his sentence for the hoax attack overturned. The appeals court ordered Jussie’s release during the appeal process. He’s being released from Cook County Jail on his own recognizance, but if he misses any future hearings it’ll cost him $150,000.

Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, who has long espoused the benefits of streaming’s boom times, said he’s “not nervous” about Warner Bros Discovery possibly pumping the brakes as it looks to take on Netflix and Disney. Discovery chief David Zaslav, as Emanuel was reminded during Endeavor’s fourth-quarter earnings call, recently declared the company doesn’t want to

With the conclusion of This Is Us in sight, the cast is moving on to new projects. Chris Sullivan, who has been a part of the NBC juggernaut since the beginning, has been tapped as the lead of ABC’s new comedy pilot, The Son in Law. Deadline first reported the news, revealing that Sullivan will

EXCLUSIVE: TBS has put in development Stubs, a half-hour comedy from writer Lindsay Golder and The Mick creators Dave Chernin and John Chernin. Written by Golder, in Stubs, a small town’s former golden girl returns home 3/4ths the woman she was, and discovers that it’s much harder for her to run from her problems when

Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri, the creators of long-running CBS series The Amazing Race are among the investors in Northern Irish animation company Retinize. Retinize is run by CEO Phil Morrow, who worked with van Munster and Doganieri on ABC competition series Take The Money and Run, which was exec produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.

Spring break is back in full effect and celebs are taking advantage of the world opening up … they’re globe-trotting and getting away from it all, and making the rest of us jealous. Kristin Cavallari jetted down to Mexico, where she’s sipping on fresh coconut water and soaking in an ocean view … and Nicole

As The Walt Disney Company employees planned walkouts today over “the lack of compassion and advocacy” from the company in regard to its LGTBQIA+ workers and their rights, especially where Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill is concerned, Disney-owned Marvel Studios posted a statement to Twitter strongly denouncing “any and ALL legislation that infringes on

Disney+ has confirmed which Marvel series will premiere following Moon Knight. The streaming service confirmed Tuesday that Ms. Marvel will launch Wednesday, June 8. The latest MCU Disney+ series follows Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), a Muslim American teenager growing up in Jersey City. An avid gamer and a voracious fan-fiction scribe, Kamala is a superhero

EXCLUSIVE: Vice TV has unveiled a trailer for its six-episode series True Believers, examining the strange world of cults and the crimes they commit, announcing that the show will begin airing as part of its Investigative Night on April 11th at 10 p.m. ET/PT. True Believers is an immersive look inside the mind-bending stories of devotion

EXCLUSIVE: German major Leonine has rebranded its TV subsidiary Odeon Entertainment as Madame Zheng Production and appointed producer Tina Wagner as Managing Director as part of a restructure. Odeon Entertainment, which will continue to specialize in factual and reality TV productions, documentaries and live broadcasts, will be led by Wagner with Leonine’s Co-Head Of Entertainment Nina Etspüler

Taraji P. Henson is coming out in full defense of Jussie Smollett — but is making a strange comparison … invoking the Emmett Till case to try and describe what’s happening to him. The “Empire” star — who obviously appeared opposite Jussie through much of the show — took to IG this weekend with an

William Hurt — an Oscar-winning actor with a long tenure in Hollywood — has died. His son, Will, made the sad announcement Sunday — telling Deadline … “It is with great sadness that the Hurt family mourns the passing of William Hurt, beloved father and Oscar winning actor, on March 13, 2022, one week before

“Big Time Rush” star Stephen Kramer Glickman is going crazy over an offer from CeeLo Green, who wants him to be his opener for an upcoming gig … and it’s all thanks to TikTok. Stephen tells TMZ … CeeLo invited him to get the crowd warmed up at a charity event next month in Dallas,

Pete Davidson is officially taking off, not just in his celebrity status — but in space too … ’cause he’s now got a launch date for the next manned flight that Jeff Bezos sends up in the air … and he’s learned who his fellow passengers will be as well. The announcement was made Monday

Shaun White is starting off retirement with a bang … the legendary snowboarder took a trip to Costa Rica with his girlfriend, Nina Dobrev, and judging from the pics, life’s good. Very, very good. “It means no worries….🦁 #retired,” Shaun wrote on an Instagram post of himself on vacay. Waiting for your permission to load

Play video content TMZ.com Magic Johnson says he’s not tuning in to HBO’s new show about the “Showtime” Lakers, but the NBA legend should definitely reconsider — so says “Winning Time” actress Caitlin O’Connor, who tells TMZ Sports he’d love the series!! As we previously reported, the 5-time champ told us he was NOT looking

Jussie Smollett‘s lawyers have wasted no time demanding his release from jail — at least while his appeal plays out — claiming he risks being harmed (physically and microbially) every second he stays behind bars. The ‘Empire’ actor’s legal team filed an emergency motion Monday asking a judge to spring Jussie from behind bars while

Archer Gray, a New York production and finance company known for backing projects like the Oscar-nominated Can You Ever Forgive Me?, is branching out into alternative formats and non-scripted programming. Liza Keckler, who had most recently been SVP of development for Mark Wahlberg’s Unrealistic Ideas, is joining Archer Gray to lead the new area of

EXCLUSIVE: ABC’s Filipino American pilot Josep, starring Jo Koy, has added Kaden Alejandro to the cast. He also joins Mia Katigbak and Rory O’Malley. Josep, from 20th Television, follows the comedian as a recently divorced Filipino American nurse attempting to navigate dating, fatherhood and a very Filipino mother who loves to “help.” Alejandro plays Miles. The

EXCLUSIVE: Philemon Chambers (Single All The Way) is set as a series regular opposite Matt Barr in CBS Studios’ CW pilot Walker: Independence, executive produced by Jared Padalecki.Walker: Independence, a prequel to the CW/CBS Studios series Walker, is set in the late 1800s and follows Abby Walker, an affluent Bostonian whose husband is murdered before

EXCLUSIVE: Up-and-coming actor Kristian Flores (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent) has signed with Innovative Artists for representation, after attempts on the part of assorted major agencies to reel him in. Flores is a recent USC grad who can currently be seen in two films making their world premieres at the SXSW Film Festival: writer-director