Walt Disney chief executive Bob Chapek said the company’s global net paid subscribers will rise “by low single-digit millions” for its current fiscal fourth quarter from the third, and he put Wall Street on notice that long-term targets are still on track but they shouldn’t assume growth will be a straight line. “A quarter-to-quarter business
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Tarek El Moussa has COVID-19, which means his TV show is pausing production, but it’s also making waves for his fiancee, Heather Rae Young‘s hit show on Netflix. The HGTV star’s rep tells TMZ … Tarek came back with a positive result recently, and after consulting with his doc — he’s decided to quarantine and
Nielsen is adopting a way of transacting advertising buying and selling that is favored by many top local TV station groups. Impressions-based buying and selling of advertising will be the new focus, as broadband-only households get set to be added to the statistical mix in January 2022. The change follows a period of pointed criticism
Welcome to Hawaii! NCIS: Hawai’i Season 1 Episode 1 introduced us to Jane Tennant, her team, and the conflicts plaguing this group investigating high-stakes crimes involving military personnel, national security, and the mysteries of the island. There was a decent amount of exposition into the past of these characters for a series premiere, so we
Mario Camus, the acclaimed Spanish writer-director behind La colmena, Young Sánchez, The Holy Innocents and more, died in his hometown of Santander on September 18. He was 86. Spain’s Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, the organization behind the Goya Awards, confirmed the news with a post published on Saturday to their official Instagram page.
Netflix is canceling another original series. Per Deadline, the streamer has canceled Hit & Run after a single season. In this action thriller,” a happily married man’s life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a mysterious hit and run accident in Tel Aviv,” reads the logline. “Grief-stricken and confused, he searches
Netflix has renewed My Unorthodox Life for season 2. The unscripted reality series follows the lives of businesswoman Julia Haart, her second husband Silvio Scaglia Haart, and her four children—Batsheva, Shlomo, Miriam, and Aron— as they navigate life after leaving the ultra-orthodox Jewish faith and the religious community of Monsey, NY where she and her
While the top series categories awarded on the main Emmy telecast all went to the projected overwhelming favorites in The Crown (drama series), Ted Lasso (comedy series, The Queen’s Gambit (limited series) and RuPaul’s Drag Race (reality competition series), there were also a few surprises along the way tonight. Ewan McGregor was an unexpected winner
Play video content TMZ.com Jamie Foxx gave a street eulogy for Michael K. Williams, and it was emotional, stirring and clearly heartfelt. Jamie was leaving Caffe Roma Friday in Bev Hills, and our photog asked if Williams, who died earlier this month of an apparent drug overdose, should finally win an Emmy. That opened the
Larry King, Norm Macdonald, Michael K. Williams and no fewer than three cast members of The Mary Tyler Moore Show were among the stars remembered during this year’s Emmy In Memoriam segment, as the photos of those we lost scrolled by to the tune of Leon Bridges lovely “River.” A few names were left out
That little snowball rolling down the hill is on its way to something quite dangerous. I don’t watch The Good Fight, but by reading the reviews, I know it dove headfirst into crazytown by the end of the latest season. If EVIL Season 2 Episode 10 is any indication, we’re in for one hell of
The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards will air live Sunday beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS and, for the first time on a streaming service, Paramount+. Cedric the Entertainer is hosting the awards ceremony, which will take place in an air-conditioned tent on The Event Deck at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles
Lesli Linka Glatter has been elected president of the DGA at the guild’s biennial convention, held today at DGA national headquarters in Los Angeles. Glatter, who was the guild’s 1st vice president, is only the second woman ever elected president of the DGA. Martha Coolidge held the post from 2002-03. Twenty-two men have served as
Madonna, Teyana Taylor and Normani have triggered complaints to the FCC … over what some say were raunchy displays at the VMA’s. TMZ’s obtained the complaints, and it seems like these folks primarily had two artists in their crosshairs … Normani and Teyana for their performance of Normani’s hit single, “Wild Side.” Someone from Kansas
On Saturday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 29 new deaths from Covid-19, along with 2,130 new positive cases. The number of deaths and confirmed cases reported today may reflect delays in weekend reporting, but today’s tallies bring the County to a total of 25,828 deaths and 1,442,808 positive cases. Hospitalizations resulting
This is the movie musical adaptation everyone should be talking about, and you don’t even know it. Newcomer Max Harwood shines very brightly, as does the rest of the cast. Harwood owns the role of Jamie New, and his performance stands out in this movie musical. Everybody’s Talking About Jamie follows Jamie New, a 16-year-old
IATSE, which has made brutally long workdays a key safety issue in its negotiations for a new film and TV contract, says that between January and July of this year it “received well over 50 reports of workdays 14 hours or longer, and it is likely that is just the tip of the iceberg. Nobody
As cultural activities have begun drawing crowds again after the Covid-19 abyss of 2020, masks and other protocols have been a work in progress — especially when red carpets are involved. Real Time host Bill Maher, during tonight’s panel segment on the show, criticized what he saw as a disconnect at this week’s Met Gala
Play video content TMZ.com Darnell Ferguson has come a long, long way to become a Food Network star and big-time restaurateur — success not a lot of people would’ve predicted when he was living out of his car. The man best known as SuperChef joined us Friday on “TMZ Live” to break down his new
UPDATED: ViacomCBS has become the first major Hollywood film and television conglom to set a January date for all employees to return to the office. ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish made the announcement in a company memo last Friday, saying that the “Green phase” of the return-to-office process “will now launch no sooner than January 10,
The synopsis for We Had It Coming says, “In this allegorical tale of woman versus man, Anna looks to avenge her younger sister who was tormented by an abusive pimp.” Writer, producer, and director Paul Barbeau has crafted a tale in which Anna, in her course for vengeance, is subjected to a torrent of unwarranted,
UPDATE: Paramount+ has unveiled the trailer for Kate Beckinsale’s upcoming comedy series Guilty Party. In the trailer Beckinsale’s Beth Burgess looks to defy all personal and professional expectations, embarking on a dramatic, yet whimsical journey to discover the truth behind a a young mother’s crimes. The clip teases Beths’ trigger-happy adversaries, romance, and rising tensions
Netflix Reveals Italian Series Slate Netflix has revealed a handful of new series out of Italy and confirmed the imminent start of shoot on Elena Ferrante adaptation The Lying Life Of Adults, which will star Valeria Golino. Scroll down for the series (synopses translated from Italian). Netflix’s VP of Italian Originals Tinny Andreatta, the former
Wendy Williams was taken to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation one day before it was announced that the new season of her show would be delayed due to COVID issues … TMZ has learned. Sources close to Wendy tell us the talk show host was voluntarily admitted to an NYC hospital Tuesday for a
SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the series finale of NBC’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine. After a combined run of eight seasons on two networks, Fox and NBC, which included a brief cancellation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine came to an end tonight with a finale that brought back a slew of familiar faces from the series’ past. Brooklyn
Grey’s Anatomy stunned fans when it killed off Patrick Dempsey’s Derek Shepherd during its 11th season. There have been reports of bad blood between Dempsey and creator Shonda Rhimes for years, and thanks to Lynette Rice’s How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey’s Anatomy, we might finally get some answers. A snippet
America’s Got Talent and Big Brother ruled a finale-filled Wednesday, winning the top viewership and ratings spot, respectively. On the tails of its Tuesday-topping performance, the Season 16 finale of America’s Got Talent drew in a 0.7 rating in the 18-49 demo and 6.13 million viewers, per fast affiliates. The season ender, which as the most-watched
TV’s reboot and revival craze is showing no signs of slowing down — they have to run out of old shows to redo at some point, right? Right?!? — and ABC’s new take on The Wonder Years ups the ante by offering a double dose of nostalgia: a wistful remembrance of an ’80s TV show
Tim Davie, the BBC’s Director-General, has said the broadcaster needs “a really serious dialogue with government” in the context of Nadine Dorries replacing Oliver Dowden as the UK’s new Culture Secretary. Dorries has been an outspoken critic of the BBC in the past. In 2018 she tweeted that the broadcaster was “a biased leftwing organisation
Julianne Hough‘s blackface scandal is resurfacing … some 8 years later as she faces new criticism over her role on a new CBS reality show that has her judging real activists. The dancer and actress addressed the backlash Tuesday, saying many people are just now becoming aware she wore blackface in 2013 when she dressed