No ship or crew gets anywhere without its captain, and in truth, that captain dictates the tone of the journey, not only the success of the mission. As Captain Christopher Pike, in command of the USS Enterprise on Paramount+’s new series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Anson Mount steps into a role previously taken on
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We are 10 days away from the start of the traditional upfront week and a day into the new series pickup window, which kicked off yesterday with NBC’s order to the Quantum Leap pilot. Getting intel on broadcast pilots is harder than ever as that marketplace has contracted over the last five years but here
Star Trek TV shows are multiplying like Tribbles these days. Starting with 2017’s Star Trek: Discovery — the first Trek show in more than a decade — the iconic sci-fi franchise has rolled out five new shows on Paramount+ in the past five years. As a lifelong Trekkie, it’s been a pleasure to navigate this wealth
Hollywood’s unions have reached an agreement with management’s AMPTP on revised Covid-19 protocols. In a statement, the unions said that the new agreement “creates a more flexible set of protocols for areas of the United States and Canada with low Covid hospital admissions, while maintaining core elements to keep sets safe. The unions — SAG-AFTRA,
Mike Hagerty, a character actor famous for his work on “Friends” and “Somebody Somewhere,” is dead. Mike died Thursday in Los Angeles, according to his ‘Somebody’ co-star Bridget Everett. The cause of death is unclear. Everett’s remembering Mike as a beloved character actor and devoted husband, saying she “loved Mike the instant I met him.
The 33rd annual GLAAD Media Awards took place in New York City tonight celebrating LGBTQ+ excellence in Hollywood. Honorees include FX’s Pose and Lil Nas X. The event is a continuation of the Los Angeles celebration that took place on April 2. The east coast ceremony was hosted by celebrity Peloton Instruction Cody Rigbsy and
Did Travis turn on Jenny? On Big Sky Season 2 Episode 16, the truth came out and it was time for Jenny to make a decision about what was next. Meanwhile, Ren and Jag’s suspicion of their father and Alicia mounted. Elsewhere, Cassie, Jerrie, and Lindor found themselves at a crossroads. With a new enemy
Did Bailey manage to prove the program was still fit for business? Catherine returned on Grey’s Anatomy Season 18 Episode 16 as details about all of her hospitals were put under scrutiny. Meanwhile, Addison returned to Grey Sloan to help out following a big staff shortage. Elsewhere, Meredith and Richard were at odds over her
Are you ready to get back in the dojo? Netflix surprised Cobra Kai fans Thursday in Los Angeles at Cobra Kai: Live & Bad Ass with a first look teaser for the upcoming fifth season. This one-night-only celebration marked Night 7 of Netflix Is A Joke: The Festival and brought together cast and producers for
Don’t you just love it when a story comes together? That could be said about Dan and Kirby’s story about the murders or Shining Girls in general. Shining Girls Season 1 Episode 4 went a long way to add context to the murders and the murderer. There were consequences of Dan and Kirby’s foray into
FX has rounded out the cast of its Justified sequel. Aunjanue Ellis (Lovecraft Country), Marin Ireland (Sneaky Pete), Boyd Holbrook (Narcos), Adelaide Clemens (Rectify), Norbert Leo Butz (Bloodline), Vondie Curtis-Hall (For the People), Victor Williams (The Affair), and Vivian Olyphant have all joined the cast of the limited series. Justified: City Primeval is the name
Tehran Season 1 was an international hit for a reason. Focusing on the Israel-Iran conflict through Mossad agents infiltrating Iran to stop their development of nuclear power, Tehran offers edge-of-your-seat conflict and compelling character studies. It’s not easy to point fingers and determine good and evil on Tehran, and it’s all the better for it.
Victor Strand, what are you doing? AMC shared an exclusive look ahead at Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 12, which promises to be another shocking episode. Howard is in a bit of a pickle in the clip after spending much of his time on the show by Strand’s side. We learn that someone
ABC’s scripted shows returned Thursday for the first time in over a month. Grey’s Anatomy secured 3.8 million and a 0.6 rating in the demo, ticking up a bit. Spinoff Station 19 had 4.1 million viewers and a 0.5 rating, marking its lowest total viewer tally to date. Big Sky returned steady at 2.4 million
The first season of Disney+’s newest Marvel series, Moon Knight, is a challenging story to follow, to say the least. Yesterday’s final installment continues the show’s examination of trauma, justice, and supernatural interference while providing tantalizing hints at even more depths to plumb. As with all shows that feature an unreliable narrator, Moon Knight delights
Kevin Hart commended the apparent security beat-down of the man who tackled Dave Chappelle on stage at the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday evening, telling Jimmy Kimmel Live guest host Mike Birbiglia last night, “It’s one of those things that needed to happen.” Viral photos of the 23-year-old Isaiah Lee (see below) show the suspect’s battered and
Rita Ora and James Hong have joined the voice cast of Netflix’s Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight. The upcoming animated series features Jack Blank in his original film role of Po the Panda. When a mysterious pair of weasels set their sights on a collection of four powerful weapons, Po (Black) must leave his
Saturday Night Live is preparing for its final three episodes of the season. Selena Gomez will make her hosting debut on Saturday May 14 with Post Malone also making his musical debut. This comes as the actor and pop star’s Only Murders in the Building, in which she stars alongside Steve Martin and Martin Short,
Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches has found its Lasher. Jack Huston (House of Gucci) has been tapped to play the series regular role in the AMC Networks series. Lasher is one of Rice’s most mysterious and sensual characters — a powerful, shape-shifting entity who has been bound to the Mayfair witches for hundreds of years. Huston
EXCLUSIVE: Ben Younger (Snowfall) has been tapped to direct and executive produce ABC drama pilot The Company You Keep, starring Milo Ventigmilia and Catherine Haena Kim, from 20th Television. The project, which is based on Korean format My Fellow Citizens that ran for more than 30 episodes on KBS2, follows con man Charlie (Ventimiglia) and
EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Robinson’s The Nemesis Saga novel series is getting the small screen treatment. Project Nemesis, the first book in Robinson’s series, is being developed for television by Sony TV and Neal H. Moritz’s Original Film (The Boys), with John Wick helmer Chad Stahelski set to direct and executive produce. Project Nemesis, based on Robinson’s
EXCLUSIVE: Andrea Savage is going from comedy to drama in her latest role – opposite Sylvester Stallone in Paramount+’s mob series Tulsa King from Taylor Sheridan. Savage, best known for creating and starring in truTV’s comedy I’m Sorry, plays Stacy Beale, an ATF agent who has swapped the bustling New York Bureau with its Anti-Terror
Mike Hagerty, best known for his roles on Somebody Somewhere, as the building super Mr. Treeger on Friends and as the owner of a used-clothing store on Seinfeld, has died. His death April 29 was confirmed by Bridget Everett, who plays his daughter on the HBO comedy. No cause was given. “With great sadness, the
After a weeks-long break, ABC’s Station 19 and Grey’s Anatomy returned to Thursday primetime with new episodes. With its first new episode since April 8, Grey’s Anatomy tied with Law & Order: SVU for the evening’s highest demo rating. Per fast affiliates, Grey’s Anatomy and the latest Law & Order: SVU both earned a 0.6
Former Partridge Family actor Danny Bonaduce, 62, announced on Twitter today that he is taking a medical leave from his Seattle radio program “The Danny Bonaduce & Sarah Morning Show” on KZOK. “Some news to share,” the actor wrote above a photo of himself with a red cane in hand. “I’m taking a temporary medical
F1 superstar Daniel Ricciardo brought his signature “shoey’ celebration to “The Daily Show” on Thursday … chugging champagne out of a shoe with Trevor Noah!! The McLaren driver — who commemorates every podium finish by downing bubbly out of his sweaty ass boot — reenacted the iconic Australian tradition on the desk alongside the host
The Directors Guild of Canada BC’s strike deadline has now passed. Asked if the guild is on strike, a spokesperson told Deadline that “the answer isn’t as simple” in British Columbia, where in 2008 the BC Labor Board imposed safe harbor agreements upon the industry to provide for labor stability during collective bargaining. In any
We all have those characters we endlessly adore, where everything they do makes us smile. Similarly, there are those we’d prefer to see thrown into a fire rather than hear them talk, or at least we’d like to see them suffer in some capacity that doesn’t necessarily need to involve arson. Here is a list
Matt Blank, interim CEO of AMC Networks, made just shy of $7 million in total compensation in 2021, according to a proxy filing with the SEC. Blank’s predecessor, longtime company veteran Josh Sapan, took home nearly $15.3 million, up from his 2020 level of $11.8 million but below his $20.2 million package in 2019. Sapan
OK, Ausiello, you were right. Heartstopper was amazing. Beyond. When my boss told me to watch Netflix’s teenage romance, insisting that I’d like it, I said what I usually do when he makes suggestions — “Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, you betcha” — with every intention of ignoring him. But this week, I gave it a shot. Dunno