Lifetime is doubling down on the work of V.C. Andrews. The cabler announced Wednesday that it had acquired rights to the author’s entire library of best-selling novels. News of the landmark deal broke during Lifetime’s turn at the Television Critics Association, where Lifetime also announced some exciting projects based on the late author’s work. On
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Maybe some topics are just too hot. On today’s episode of ABC’s The View, co-host Joy Behar opened the show with a quick – very quick – reference to moderator Whoopi Goldberg’s two-week suspension over her comments about the Holocaust. “You all saw the news,” Behar said. “Whoopi will be back here in two weeks.”
Amid the mounting pressure on Spotify over allegations of Covid misinformation presented on its Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the show’s host made an apology of sorts — “if I pissed you off, I’m sorry” — and garnered support from Dwayne Johnson, Kevin James, Jewel, Jamie Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard, Troy Aikman, Kat Von D, Domanic Monaghan,
Tommy Dorfman‘s husband apparently has some reasons why they should end their marriage … because the “13 Reasons Why” star’s spouse just filed for divorce. Peter Zurkuhlen beelined it to a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday and filed divorce docs after more than 5 years of marriage to Tommy … according to online court records. Tommy
EXCLUSIVE: Brian DePersia, a partner at WME, is leaving to become a manager. He will launch Cognition, his own company. At WME DePersia was on teams for many bright stars straddling both film and TV. They include Pedro Pascal, Kate Mara, Caitriona Balfe, Lizzy Caplan, Mahershala Ali, Peter Sarsgaard, Bobby Cannavale, Dylan O’Brien, Tessa Thompson,
The final season of Killing Eve is almost upon us. AMC and BBC America dropped the official trailer for Killing Eve Season 4 Tuesday, and it looks like things between the two women at the core of the show are more complicated than ever. If you watch Killing Eve online, you know the pair parted
AMC is moving forward with its series adaptation of Invitation to a Bonfire and sci-fi drama Demascus. The cable network has handed series orders to both projects, which had writers’ rooms opened last August as part of the broadcaster’s ‘scripts-to-series’ model. Both series have been given six episode orders and will launch next year on
Tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live! The host talks about the teams headed to the upcoming Super Bowl which will have the L.A. Rams are going head to head against the Cincinnati Bengals, which according to him is the “lowest Super Bowl match in NFL History.” “The teams that oddsmakers least expected to make it this
Moses J. Moseley, famous for playing one of Michonne’s zombies in “The Walking Dead,” has died at just 31 years old … and cops are investigating the circumstances surrounding his death. A family member tells us the family found Moses’ body Wednesday in the Hudson Bridge area of Stockbridge, GA … the bridge covers a
EXCLUSIVE: Teresa Hsiao, co-creator, executive producer and showrunner of Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens, has signed an overall deal with Sony Pictures Television to develop comedy and animation for cable streaming platforms via her Red 136 Productions. This marks a return to Sony for Hsiao who started her career in TV development at the studio
The forthcoming Party Down revival will have some new faces. Deadline is reporting that Jennifer Garner, Tyrel Jackson Williams, and Zoë Chao will be new series regulars. on the forthcoming series. Additionally, James Marsden has closed a deal to recur. As previously reported, Adam Scott, Jane Lynch, Ken Marino, Martin Starr, Ryan Hansen, and Megan
Starz has set the new cast additions for its upcoming Party Down revival. Jennifer Garner (Yes Day), Tyrel Jackson Williams (Brockmire) and Zoë Chao (The Afterparty) have been tapped as series regulars and James Marsden (Dead to Me) has signed on for a key recurring role in the new iteration of the cult comedy. They
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
Howard Hesseman, best known as Dr. Johnny Fever on “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Saturday in Los Angeles. Hesseman’s wife, Caroline Ducrocq, tells TMZ he was at Cedars-Sinai in L.A. for colon surgery last summer … but when it resulted in complications … that’s when things started to go south. Caroline says he was hospitalized January
On Sunday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 40 new deaths from Covid-19, as well as 16,835 new positive cases. The number of deaths and confirmed cases relayed today may reflect delays in weekend reporting. But today’s data brings the County to a total of 28,923 deaths and 2,648,751 positive cases. 3,852
Being a part of this wagon train is changing everyone. Whether it’s finding love, grieving the loss of what’s left behind, or forming new friendships, 1883 Season 1 Episode 6 shows that this experience will profoundly affect everyone whether they realize it or not. These new bonds will not be easily broken. Understandably, Elsa was
Seth Meyers used to hold the most appearances behind Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update desk. The Late Night host left SNL with 154 appearances behind the desk but was surpassed by Colin Jost in October. He has now been pushed back into third place as tonight Michael Che became the second longest-tenured Weekend Update host
On tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Live, former NFL player Peyton Manning stopped by the Weekend Update desk under the guise of discussing this weekend’s playoff games, but ended up spending most of his segment gushing about his obsession with the Netflix series Emily in Paris. After introducing the Hall of Fame quarterback and two-time Super
Dr. Oz drew on his medical background for a medical emergency at a political meeting … jumping in to help a man who fell unconscious. Sources close to the situation tell TMZ … Oz was next in line to speak at Saturday morning’s Pennsylvania Republican Caucus Meeting outside Pittsburgh when suddenly a state committee member
Netflix Co-CEO Reed Hastings bought $20 million shares of the streaming giant after a big drop in the stock price following quarterly earnings. The stock’s volatility — since recent financial results showed lighter than expected subscriber growth – is viewed as a buying opportunity by Hastings and others investors with faith in the long-term success
Action, comedy, drama, and little something in between. There’s a lot of excitement on the schedule this week, including premieres on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon with Murderville, Pam & Tommy, and Reacher. Get ready to plan your schedule with what to watch this week! Saturday, January 29 8/7c Janet Jackson. (Lifetime) The conclusion of the
Saturday Night Live‘s Alex Moffat has joined Bill Lawrence’s Apple TV+ series Bad Monkey in a key recurring role opposite Vince Vaughn. Written and executive produced by Lawrence based on Carl Hiaasen’s popular 2013 novel, Bad Monkey tells the story of Andrew Yancy (Vaughn), a one-time detective demoted to restaurant inspector in Southern Florida. A
A tentative agreement has been reached for a new film and TV contract covering Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 and the Basic Crafts. The agreement was reached this evening, and the unions’ bargaining committee is unanimously recommending it for ratification. The deal, which covers union work in 13 Western states, must now be ratified by the
Play video content @tishacampbellmartin / Instagram Tisha Campbell is pissed off about a scary run-in with men she believes were sex traffickers, and she’s got a warning for any others in the town where she’s currently working. A source close to Tisha tells TMZ the incident went down in Brownsville, Texas, about 10 minutes from
EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Ashmore, a series regular on Netflix’s Locke & Key is moonlighting as a key recurring character on another Netflix series, YA drama Ginny & Georgia. Starring Brianne Howey and Antonia Gentry, the mother and daughter drama stars Gentry as angsty and awkward 15-year-old Ginny Miller, who often feels she doesn’t measure up to
Carisi’s family will expand on an upcoming episode of Law & Order: SVU. TV Line is reporting that Beverly D’Angelo has closed a deal with the NBC procedural to play Serafina Carisi, the mother of Dominick “Sonny” Carisi. The outlet teases that the big episode is set to air in March and will focus on
UK TV regulator Ofcom is to investigate Channel 4 over an extended outage to its subtitling, signing and audio description services last year that left millions unable to watch TV for several weeks. Following an incident at subtitling provider Red Bee Media’s facility, the network was without these services for around two months up until
Netflix was left out of an annual index of corporation’s inclusive policies and practices for LGBTQ+ workers, as the HRC Foundation cited how the company handled the release of the Dave Chappelle special The Closer. The Corporate Equality Index is an annual rating of hundreds of companies. “Given the harm experienced by transgender workers at
Play video content TMZ.com Chrishell Stause would love for her next boyfriend to be someone far from famous, but she says that’s a tall order at the moment … and she’s gonna need help from her friends. The “Selling Sunset” star joined us Thursday on “TMZ Live” and we asked how the dating life’s going
Apple topped Wall Street forecasts on just about all metrics for its latest fiscal first quarter earnings, with revenue of $123 billion (up 11%, an all time record), EPS of $2.10 (up from $1.68 the year earlier) and iPhone sales of $71.6 billion (vs $65.5 billion). The services sector, which includes AppleTV+, saw revenue of