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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains certain spoilers about Live in Front of a Studio Audience, which aired live on the East Coast on ABC. After four decades, cameras rolled once again on the classic ’70s/’80s comedies, Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life, as part of ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience tonight. Airing live

Johnny Sequoyah plays Audrey Bishop, the strong-willed activist daughter of Iron Lake’s police chief on Dexter: New Blood. We caught up with Johnny to discuss her role on Showtime’s wildly successful series. This interview contains spoilers, including Dexter: New Blood Season 1 Episode 5. Content warning: Discussion of some topics that may upset sensitive viewers/readers,

Henry Golding is set to star in a series adaptation of Dean Koontz’s thriller books Nameless. The Crazy Rich Asians star is teaming up with SK Global, co-financers and producers of the blockbuster feature film, to develop the series. It comes after he struck a first-look film and TV deal earlier this year. Koontz’s series of

Thierry Lachkar, the Founder of Shine France and currently MD of French indie Deeply Superficial, has been named CEO of ITV Studios France, with Deeply Superficial set to be subsumed by ITVS France. Lachkar, who launched The Voice and MasterChef in the nation, replaces Franck Firmin-Guion, who stepped down in July to become President of French producer Mediawan.

Jussie Smollett just took the stand in his own defense, talking about his career and his sexual encounters with one of the men he says is responsible for attacking him. Smollett was called as a witness for the defense Monday, and opened up about his family, the loss of his dad and finding success on

Disney has hired Geoff Morrell, the EVP of Communications & Advocacy at oil and energy giant bp, to take over the duties of Zenia Mucha, Disney’s longtime Senior EVP and Chief Communications Officer. Mucha, along with fellow veteran Disney exec Alan Braverman, the Senior EVP and Corporate General Counsel, announced in July that they would

A.P. Bio has reached the end of its life. Peacock has canceled the comedy series after four seasons, according to series creator Mike O’Brien. “I’m sad to announce that A.P. Bio will not be renewed for a fifth season,” O’Brien wrote on Twitter. “But mostly I’m feeling grateful right now. To all the fans who

Veteran  publicists Maria Herrera and Rachael Reiss have exited Narrative to form their own shingle, Herrera-Reiss Strategies. They will be partners in their new firm, and they will continue to represent a strong list of filmmakers, showrunners, production companies, authors and other creatives. That includes James Gunn, Phil Lord & Chris Miller, Hiro Murai, Olivia

EXCLUSIVE: Big Brother is returning to South Africa 20 years after it debuted in the nation on M-Net channel Mzansi Magic. Banijay Rights’ smash format has experienced a Covid-induced sales boost and is currently airing 31 productions in 21 markets, with MultiChoice-owned network Mzansi taking the South African version for the first time since 2015.

Play video content TMZ.com Toccara Jones is defending Tyra Banks from being canceled over what some are seeing as exploitation on “America’s Next Top Model” … saying it’s unrealistic to pay contestants. The ex-“America’s Next Top Model” contestant tells TMZ … Tyra did nothing wrong by collecting a fat paycheck on the long-running modeling competition

The Boys is receiving a wicked treatment. At the Brazil Comic-Con, Prime Video announced The Boys: Diabolical, a new eight-episode animated anthology series set in the universe of the The Boys. The new series, set to premiere in 2022, will reveal untold stories in the world of The Boys. The stories in it come from

Autumn Best is a young, up-and-coming actor who has lots of passion for her craft. Now she’s carving out a place for herself in the film and television industry.   Autumn spoke to us about how she got started, what inspires her, working on 4400, and what she hopes to achieve with her work as a

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Alloy Entertainment has secured the rights to How Ted Bundy’s Killing Spree Launched a Legion of Feminist Karate Masters, a story about The Feminist Karate Union, by Ivana Rihter, which was published on the Narratively media platform in October 2020. Alloy Entertainment president and CEO Leslie Morgenstein and EVP of

Play video content TMZ.com The debate over an artist’s responsibility to stop their show amid an emergency in the crowd had landed at George Lopez‘s feet … although this one may not be cut and dried. The comedian was performing Friday at the Majestic Theater in San Antonio, when at one point during his set

CNN announced today anchor Chris Cuomo has been terminated, “effective immediately.” “Chris Cuomo was suspended earlier this week pending further evaluation of new information that came to light about his involvement with his brother’s defense,” CNN said in a statement. “We retained a respected law firm to conduct the review, and have terminated him, effective

Some people sleep on their sides, others on their back. But a frustrating number have slept on The Big Leap, which is easily one of the cleverest breakout series on network TV. No other series thus far has adequately captured the perfect, most resonant, and necessary (post) pandemic tone. And whether it was always the

Awards revenue took a sharp hit in the last fiscal year at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, but rebounding investment income boosted finances even as viewers turned away from the Oscar show, according to the Academy’s annual report. Awards-related revenue declined 10.8 percent, to about $117.7 million from $131.9 million, in the

The Animation Guild’s contract negotiations with the AMPTP have broken off without a deal but will resume later next year. “An agreement was not reached today,” Alexandra Drosu, the guild’s director of communications and content, told Deadline tonight. “We will have to continue negotiations in the New Year though no date has been set.” The

Dr. Mehmet Oz will be back on the air hosting his TV show much sooner than he’d like … so says one of his opponents, who has some fighting words for the talk-show host turned politician. Everett Stern — CEO of a private intelligence agency, and one of at least 7 other Republican candidates vying

Hip hop is a multi-billion-dollar musical movement that is now at the center of mainstream culture. It’s grown into something bigger than anyone who attended Cindy Campbell’s 1973 end of summer party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the West Bronx – widely considered ground zero for hip hop – could ever have expected. That night,

Diana Bishop’s journey will conclude in 2022. Shudder, AMC+, and Sundance Now revealed Friday that A Discovery of Witches Season 3 will launch on all three platforms Saturday, January 8, 2022. The final chapter finds “Matthew (Matthew Goode) and Diana (Teresa Palmer) returning from 1590 to present day and combating what they left behind,” according

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran film and television exec Gary Glushon has joined Bach Enterprises, the production company of actor, comedian and digital creator Andrew Bachelor—otherwise known as King Bach—as Executive Vice President of Development. In his new role, Glushon will be responsible for cultivating the company’s overall relationships in the entertainment space and building its film, television,

Annie Live! is NBC’s 10th annual telecast of a Broadway musical (following The Wiz!, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Rent Live!). The show has gone through a variety of adaptations. First, the 2014 Annie film starring Quvenzhané Wallis, and now Annie Live! starring Celina Smith in the titular role. So how does it stack up among the rest? Well, it’s somewhere

Play video content TMZ.com Faith Evans sounds exhilarated about being back on stage after taking a long break from performing … even though it meant wearing a heavy costume on “The Masked Singer.” The Grammy Award-winning singer joined us Thursday on “TMZ Live” to talk about her Wednesday night elimination in the show’s semi-final round.

UPDATED: Lebron James has been cleared to return to the basketball court after “two negative PCR tests conducted 24 hours apart,” according to a statement from the NBA Communications team. “James was originally placed in the Protocols on Tuesday, November 30, after a series of tests delivered conflicting results,” read the statement. One test did

Will Julien ever learn? Gossip Girl (2021) Season 1 Episode 12 ended with one of the most bonkers conclusions you could imagine, and it’s hard not to feel like a forced attempt to reinvent the wheel when the series returns. When I initially reviewed Gossip Girl ahead of its debut, I wasn’t fond of the

Banijay UK has acquired Hells Kitchen and Love Island creator Natalka Znak’s indie Znak TV, as she takes the reins of Banijay stablemates Entertainment and Initial. Znak will continue running US producer Znak TV, which she set up earlier this year after leaving Sky-backed Znak & Co, while leading an “entertainment powerhouse” at Banijay, according to

Play video content TMZ.com Kenny G says he’s not sweating the heavy criticism in a new documentary about his music career … because he knows some real jazz legends are in his corner. The famous saxophonist joined us Wednesday on “TMZ Live” and we asked him about his reaction to the new HBO doc, “Listening

For the first time in 26 years, Major League Baseball players have been locked out by owners after the two sides failed to reach a new collective bargaining agreement. The old CBA expired at 11:59 p.m. ET Wednesday. The last work stoppage in the sport came in 1994-1995. That impasse saw the 1994 World Series

Some new chapters will begin for some of the gang when the series returns. However, as evident by A Million Little Things Season 4 Episode 8, there are always some open-ended chapters that were incomplete, and they’re rearing their heads, too. It was mostly an understated midseason finale for this series, but the hour had