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Hallmark Channel announced on Friday its popular series Good Witch will conclude after seven seasons, and star Catherine Bell shared her reaction to the news via social media. “I am so grateful for 7 seasons… and 13 years (of movies) of being a part of Good Witch, working with the KINDEST and most talented, cast

OMG! What is happening?! It seems they pulled out all the stops for the season finale, and in many ways, Virgin River left us asking some of the same questions we had after Virgin River Season 3 Episode 10. We’re going to need season four ASAP! Oh baby, before we get into babypaloozagate and the

Los Angeles County inn Friday reported 1,107 new Covid-19 infections, double the number it reported a week ago and the county’s highest daily figure since March. Those higher cases counts are being detected despite a big fall in testing since the start of the year. There are 320 people with COVID-19 currently hospitalized; an increase

Apple has been approached by the NFL about acquiring the rights for the league’s Sunday Ticket package, Deadline has learned. Rights to the slate of games are currently held by DirecTV but would move to Apple TV+. The agreement with the AT&T-owned satellite TV provider is up after the 2022 season. NFL Sunday Ticket currently

The #FreeBritney movement is feeling extra artistic after Britney Spears‘ impassioned testimony — a massive art display, made of yarn, is echoing her call to end the conservatorship. The artist behind the impressive yarn art, London Kaye, tells TMZ … she used about 36,000 feet of yarn to create 5 iconic Britney looks and the

Hello, and welcome to International Insider. Jake Kanter here, as usual, bringing you everything worth knowing from the past seven days in global film and TV. It’s been a memorable week, with the film biz reuniting for a little-known event by the French seaside and football fever gripping Europe. Apologies to readers in Italy, but

Nick, you’re in danger, sir! Rio’s poor brother/cousin may think he has the upper hand right now, but little does he know that the operation he helped shut down has now come back around full circle and has targeted him as the main man to bring down. Life comes at you fast. It wasn’t a

Fourteen-year-old Zaila Avant-garde took the top prize at the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday by correctly spelling the word “murraya.” For those who aren’t botanists — or brilliant 8th graders — murraya is “a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae,” according to Wikipedia. With her win, New Orleans resident Avant-garde

An official trailer for Hulu’s American Horror Stories anthology series is finally here with seances, scares, Santa and all. Just a day after series creator Ryan Murphy unveiled a stacked cast of stars both new and returning to the world of AHS, FX and Hulu dropped the official trailer for American Horror Stories. The series

Here’s Seth Rogen shooting scenes for the upcoming Hulu series on the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee romance … and his role’s got him rocking jean shorts and a mullet. Ya gotta see Seth in character as Rand Gauthier, the guy who famously stole a safe from Pam and Tommy’s house which contained their infamous

Jack Thorne, the prolific British writer behind His Dark Materials and Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, is to deliver the prestigious James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival next month. Thorne, who has been diagnosed with a condition called cholinergic urticaria, which means he is allergic to heat and his own body

Evidently, this will be a season unlike any other, and it’s exciting how In the Dark can keep viewers on our toes. Some of the stylistic choices during the anxiety-ridden In The Dark Season 3 Episode 3 were impressive. They creatively and effectively set a specific mood and tone, and it feels like we’re as

Tucker Carlson accused the National Security Agency of reading the emails he sent as part of a plan to secure an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin and then leaking them to news outlets. The accusation was the latest development in Carlson’s claims that the NSA was spying on him, triggering a rare statement from

EXCLUSIVE: A Quiet Place star Millicent Simmonds is leading a television adaptation of Sara Nović’s upcoming book True Biz – a coming-of-age story of a Deaf teenage girl. Deaf actress Simmonds, who broke through in Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck before appearing in John Krasinski’s horror film and its sequel, will star in and exec produce the

Bill Cosby is jumping right back into showbiz now that he’s out of prison — not shockingly, he’s working on a docuseries about himself, but more surprising is the fact he’s plotting a return to standup comedy. Cosby’s rep, Andrew Wyatt, tells TMZ … the comedian, at 83-years-old, wants to hit the road and tell

Shortly before tip off of the first game of the 2021 NBA Finals, league commissioner addressed the media. Specifically, he addressed the turmoil at one of the league’s premiere TV partners, ESPN, surrounding hosts Rachel Nichols and Maria Taylor. Asked about the controversy over Nichols leaked comments regarding ESPN and Taylor, Silver called the situation

College is a place where young people find themselves. Motherland: Fort Salem Season 2 Episode 3 proved that War College amped up that discovery process big time. Abigail, Tally, and Raelle came together as a unit during basic training on Motherland: Fort Salem Season 1. Now, just like at a regular university, these sisters are on

Alcon Entertainment has hired Striker Entertainment to handle the licensing of consumer products for the Blade Runner franchise (with a focus on upcoming animated series Blade Runner: Black Lotus) and The Expanse, which debuts season six on Amazon Prime Video this fall. For Blade Runner, Striker will oversee multiple categories for the franchise including fashion partnerships,

How would you like to find yourself living inside a classic movie musical? Your answer to that may very well determine how much you’ll enjoy Apple TV+’s new comedy Schmigadoon! (premiering Friday, July 16). It’s a very affectionate, very specific parody of Golden Age musicals, and theater nerds will undoubtedly adore it… but others might

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is joining the faculty of Howard University, having rejected a tenured position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize for her work on The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project, but her UNC tenure application was initially halted because of what she said was political

Play video content ESPN2 Rachel Nichols has apologized to fellow ESPN colleague, Maria Taylor, on national television — this after a bombshell NYT report — and ex-NBA stars Kendrick Perkins and Richard Jefferson were there to add their two cents. The veteran NBA anchor took a moment Monday on “The Jump” to address the Times’

The BBC has slashed its talent pay bill by around £2 million ($2.8M) after some of the UK broadcaster’s biggest names, including presenter Gary Lineker, agreed to salary cuts. The BBC will publish its annual report on Tuesday and the document will show that 10% has been knocked off the £21.7M it spent on star

If it’s not one thing, it’s another for the fledgling nation of Greylock. After Sarah outmaneuvered New Hampshire Gov. Taggert on The Republic of Sarah Season 1 Episode 3, the banks attacked on The Republic of Sarah Season 1 Episode 4. Of course, they did, with those hidden fees that are their specialties. It’s hard to

VH1 has set a Season 16 premiere date for its hit franchise Wild ‘N Out, created and hosted by Nick Cannon. The network has slotted Tuesday, August 10 at 8 PM ET/PT for the return of the comedy improv competition series. Following the premiere, new episodes will air every Tuesday and Wednesday night. Cannon reunited

Herbert G. Kloiber, former head of German distributor TMG, is teaming with Constantin Film to launch High End Productions, based in Vienna. The aim is for the new company to produce premium European fiction series for the international market under the guidance of MD Jonas Bauer. Bauer most recently worked at Studiocanal, where he was

Dan Schneider — the ex-king of Nickelodeon programming — has addressed a long-held theory that he’s into feet, and channeled that on his shows … something he says isn’t true. The one-time TV producer — responsible for creating a number of hit series on Nick over the years, including “iCarly,” “Drake & Josh,” “The Amanda

Winners have been announced for the 2021 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards, which took place virtually this year. Scroll down for the full list. Hit TV series Normal People dominated the small screen awards, winning nine from its 15 nominations. The show took prizes including Best Drama, Best Director Drama for Lenny Abrahamson, and

Diana’s magic is coming alive! On A Discovery of Witches Season 2 Episode 3, Diana continues her sessions with Goody and Susanna and friends to great effect, but her training has to take a backseat again as she’s about to make a long journey with Matthew. The history of science professor also found herself face

A quarter-century ago, Will Smith’s Capt. Steven Hiller was “a little anxious to get up there and whoop ET’s ass” and save Earth from alien invaders in Independence Day. In 2021, the actor paid it forward in a less-dramatic but equally cool way: He paid a reported $100,000 to save New Orleans’ Fourth of July fireworks

Britney Spears called 911 to report conservatorship abuse one night prior to presenting her testimony in court, according to a New Yorker exposé published on Saturday by Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino. “Members of Spears’s team began texting one another frantically,” Farrow and Tolentino wrote, in describing the events that followed. “They were worried about what