CBS’ previously announced competition series The Activist — to be hosted by Usher, Priyanka Chopra-Jonas, and Julianne Hough — is shifting its format to documentary special amid criticism, producers Global Citizen and Live Nation revealed on Wednesday. “The Activist was designed to show a wide audience the passion, long hours, and ingenuity that activists put
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We are just days away from the beginning of the 2021-22 TV season. We’ve already delved deep into how ABC’s shows will pick up, and now it’s time to take a look at CBS. We have plot details for NCIS, FBI, S.W.A.T, and more. Let’s take a look. NCIS – Monday, September 20 at 9/8c
Miles Fowler (Women of the Movement) is set as a new series regular on the upcoming fifth season of Fox’s hit medical drama series The Resident. Fowler will play Trevor, the estranged son of Billie (Jessica Lucas). Trevor is a medicinal chemistry major who has edge and thinks the system is screwed up. He’s hotheaded
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings was in Berlin this morning to open the streamer’s new DACH Headquarters (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). Greeting a room of executives and content creators – including Jantje Friese (Dark, 1899), Anna Winger (Unorthodox), who just signed an overall deal with Netflix, Matthias Schweighöfer (Army of Thieves), Christian Schwochow (Munich – The
Michael Che made a bad call when he did a “homegrrl” sketch on his HBO Max show, because he jacked it from a TikToker’s “HomeGirl Hotline” bit … or so she claims in a new lawsuit. According to legal docs, obtained by TMZ … Kelly Manno says she’s a popular TikTok creator who came up
Succession isn’t back on HBO for its third season until next month, but the HBO media mogul drama is already driving more than Roy family politics. To be specific, one of the stars of the wonderfully verbally dexterious Jesse Armstrong created series was putting pedal to the well within the speed limit metal for a
Grey’s Anatomy is looking to the future. The beloved medical drama returns for its 18th season on September 30. To celebrate, ABC shared new key art for Grey’s Anatomy Season 18 across its social channels. “A New Tomorrow, Today” is the choice tagline, and it makes sense when you consider what we know about the
The CW is continuing its interest in international series. The youth-skewing network has acquired Professionals, a loose remake of the Christian Slater-fronted action movie Soldiers of Fortune for Scandinavian SVOD service Viaplay. The series, which was first revealed by Deadline in 2019, stars Smallville’s Welling as Vincent Corbo, a top-tier security operative, who is paid to protect the interests
The classic Chucky film horror franchise is making the leap to television with the upcoming USA/Syfy series from Child’s Play creator Don Mancini and Channel Zero creator Nick Antosca, with Brad Dourif returning as the voice of Chucky alongside the movies’ Jennifer Tilly. In the eight-episode series, which premieres Oct. 12 for a Halloween run, after a
The Met Gala is back after a year off due to COVID, and it looks like the stars were chomping at the bit to put on their best suits and dresses in a return to normalcy. This year’s hosts include Keke Palmer, Billie Eilish, Amanda Gorman, Timothee Chalamet and Naomi Osaka — and they’ve already
Robin French, a talent agent who worked with legends including Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor and later headed production at Paramount Pictures in the late 1970s, has died. His family said he had been in declining health for the past few months and died September 6 in Palm Desert, CA. “Dad left knowing that we
The fall season is almost underway, and ABC has dropped a wealth of plot details for its returning shows. We’ll start with Grey’s Anatomy, which looks set to leave COVID-19 behind. “As the city of Seattle revels at the Phoenix Fair celebrating the city’s rebirth post-COVID, the Grey Sloan doctors treat a patient who encounters
Good health news from Jeff Bridges. The star and executive producer of FX on Hulu’s upcoming drama series The Old Man has shared an update on Instagram, captioned “feeling better.” “My cancer is in remission — the “9 X 12″ mass has shrunk down to the size of a marble,” Bridges writes, and “my covid
Netflix and Unorthodox creator Anna Winger and her production company Airlift Productions have set a multi-year creative partnership. The overall deal will see Winger and Airlift develop and produce international drama series for the streamer. The first project for the partnership will be Transatlantic (working title), a drama series set during the 1940 refugee crisis
Canadian-born artist Yanic Truesdale is best known for playing the crotchety concierge Michel Gerard — who graced the Independence Inn with his French finesse and deranged dietary drama — on The WB’s classic American dramedy “Gilmore Girls.” Yanic Truesdale shared the small screen with a cool cast of characters including Melissa McCarthy as the bossy
Claire Foy won a Creative Emmy Award for Guest Actress in a Drama Series on Sunday for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, her second for the Netflix drama but in a different category. Foy, who appeared in 21 episodes between 2016-2017 and later in 2020, was honored with the Outstanding Lead
EVIL is at its best when it’s mired in gray areas. EVIL Season 2 Episode 9 portrayed that gray area beautifully, failing to offer a good explanation for anything but suggesting plenty of reasons to don your conspiracy theory hats. The stories had many facets, and discussing them should be a good time. Kristen’s children
Months before the chaotic final weeks of the withdrawal from Kabul, CNN had started work on America’s Longest War: What Went Wrong in Afghanistan, debuting at 9 PM ET on Sunday and hosted by Jake Tapper, in which eight of the 11 commanding generals were interviewed and their remarks offer a candid assessment of the
The first of three 2021 Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremonies is in the books, and Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit has lapped the field with seven wins. The streamer also topped the network/platform field with 12 trophies. See the lists of wins by program and by network/platform below. This year’s second and third ceremonies set for 1 p.m.
Play video content TMZ.com Andre Royo — one of Michael K. Williams‘ co-stars on “The Wire” — says the entire ‘Wire’ family is feeling the loss … but he’s encouraging people to keep spreading the late actor’s positivity. Andre — who played the drug addict and informant “Bubbles” on the popular HBO series — was
The first of three 2021 Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremonies is underway, and Deadline is updating the winners list live as they are announced. Have a look at the trophy recipients and the night’s remaining nominees below. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will hand out Emmys in 37 categories tonight, with this year’s
Mark Pellegrino plays the bad guy you hate to love so well that you have to wonder how much of his personality seeps into the many characters he’s played. We had the chance to find out, as we interviewed Pellegrino in conjunction with the release of American Rust on Showtime. If you read my review
Editor’s note: One in a series of stories tied to the 20th anniversary of 9/11. It seemed like a small thing, stopping for a yellow light. But it may have made all the difference for Jane Rosenthal on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Her car was a block and half away from the Twin Towers when the
Bill Maher donned a checked weatherman’s sport jacket for a moment tonight – actually – to stand in front of a simple map of fire and floods and make a simple request — “Just build pipelines from where the water is to where the water isn’t.” “On this side of the country, it doesn’t rain,
Play video content TMZ.com Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp‘s relationship is under a microscope in Ryan Murphy‘s ‘Impeachment’ series — and the journalist who first got the real-life story says there’s no way to soft-pedal how Monica was stabbed in the back. Author and journalist Michael Isikoff joined us Thursday to recount his 1997 meetings
EXCLUSIVE: Suits alum Patrick J. Adams is set for a key recurring role opposite Abbi Jacobson in Amazon’s A League Of Their Own, a reimagining of Penny Marshall’s 1992 film, from co-creators Jacobson (Broad City) — who also stars — and Will Graham (Mozart in the Jungle) and Sony Pictures TV. The hourlong series, described
Titans Season 3 has put the characters through the wringer in recent weeks. As everyone arrived in Gotham City, big deaths have set the stage for a thrilling second half of the season. TV Fanatic got the chance to chat with Joshua Orpin, who plays Conner, aka Superboy. Scroll down to find out what the
EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actor, writer, and producer X Mayo in all areas. Most recently, The Daily Show writer shared a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for “Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series.” As an actress, Mayo will next appear in the upcoming NBC comedy series, American Auto. On the big screen, she played supporting roles in
CBS’ CSI revival, CSI: Vegas, features a cast mixing original stars William Petersen, Jorja Fox and Wallace Langham, joined by several newcomers, Paula Newsome, Mandeep Dhillon, Matt Lauria and Mel Rodriguez. In addition to Petersen, Fox and Lanhgam, original cast member Paul Guilfoyle is set to reprise his role as Brass in two episodes. And
Art Metrano — the stand-up comedian known for his role in the “Police Academy” sequels — has died of natural causes … according to his family. Art’s son, Harry, tells TMZ … his father passed at his home Wednesday in Aventura, Florida. Harry says he didn’t just lose his dad, but also his best friend