Television

You know what Julie Chen says: Expect the unexpected. But this is 2020, so Big Brother All-Stars, played exactly the opposite of how many of us Big Brother fans would like: It’s been expected. After being part of The Committee—the large alliance who dominated the house nearly the entire season—Nicole Franzel and Cody Calafiore found themselves in the final three along

Pedro Almodovar, Agnieszka Holland and Paweł Pawlikowski are among 592 signatories to a letter calling for the introduction of a levy that would see streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon be forced to re-invest at least 25% of their turnover in European countries back into local independent industry. This debate is raging across Europe.

Coroner is no stranger to repressed trauma, but Coroner Season 2 Episode 4 brought things to a whole new level. Repression has been at the center of the show since we first saw that black dog on Coroner Season 1 Episode 1. Usually, it’s just Jenny repressing things. In recent episodes, we’ve seen a bit

EXCLUSIVE: The next projected layoffs stemming from NBCUniversal’s recent restructuring are starting next month, sources tell Deadline. November 12 is penciled in as the target date as company brass are eying mid-next month for the second wave of staff reductions to begin, we hear. The cuts will likely come in waves, one in mid-November and

Craig Robinson is set to host Fox’s newest celebrity competition series The Masked Dancer. A fresh take on Fox’s Emmy-winning The Masked Singer, the show will see celebrity contestants show off their best moves while disguised the original series’ original grand and campy costumes. Set the join the Dolemite Is My Name actor as panelists

Exclusive “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” just became even more of a family affair … because Kathy Hilton is officially joining the show. The sister of ‘RHOBH’ star Kyle Richards and former star Kim Richards — and of course, Paris and Nicky’s mother — finalized her deal in the last week … production sources

The Plot Against America actor Anthony Boyle and Toby Jones, the star of Captain America and The Girl, are to topline a BBC Two drama that will tell the real-life story of how a war hero goes on to be accused of murder. Working titled Danny Boy, the feature-length film is made by Expectation (producer

It seemed like fires popped up everywhere in Southern California on Tuesday: Topanga, Glendale, Acton, Riverside, San Diego. Most of them were quickly extinguished, but the each one likely rattled nerves of local residents who have been looking at images of the bigger fires that sparked Monday in Orange County. The larger of the two

Season 18 of NCIS is moving full steam ahead and is now officially scheduled to be back on screens late this fall. That means answers to big questions, including how Sloane (Maria Bello) will say farewell from the show, are just on the horizon — not to mention the milestone 400th episode, airing not long after the Season

The Mediator with Ice-T, a weekday, half-hour legal series hosted by the veteran rapper and actor, will get a limited four-week run on Fox-owned stations, including stations in New York and Los Angeles, premiering in March 2021. In the program, Ice-T will virtually seek resolutions between two feuding civilian parties. Each side will plead their

Did a political commercial derail everything for the family? On Filthy Rich Season 1 Episode 5, Reverend Paul and Eric went back on their word to Margaret and it caused a wild argument.  Meanwhile, Margaret learned a shocking home truth about what someone she thought was close to her really thought of her.  With the family

EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios is working with U.S. outfits Nice Media Studios and Windowseat Pictures to develop CJ Tudor’s novel The Chalk Man into a six-part TV series. BBC Studios has attached The Boy With The Top Knot and Single Father writer Mick Ford to adapt the Sunday Times bestseller. The project is housed with BBC

Chicago P.D. star Jason Beghe said that following the murder of George Floyd and the nationwide Black Lives Matter movement, the NBC series will touch on issues of police brutality and racism in the upcoming season. “I think we feel a certain sense of responsibility to address these issues, which is fun and challenging. Thankfully

Exclusive “Unsolved Mysteries” is once again bringing about renewed interest in an old case gone cold, but more importantly … it might lead to the capture of a killer on the run for 47 years. Volume 2 of Netflix’s revival of the show features an episode called “Death Row Fugitive,” which focuses on the escape

MTV has dropped the official trailer for Season 4 of Jersey Shore Family Vacation, filmed entirely in a quarantine bubble. For the first time ever, cast and crew took over an entire resort where a bubble was created with series producer, SallyAnn Salsano’s 495 Productions, adhering to local, state and federal COVID-19 health and safety

The president of Fox News and several of its anchors and on air personalities were advised to quarantine after possible exposure to COVID-19, The New York Times reported on Sunday. The exposure came from an infected person who was on a chartered flight from Nashville to New York, the Times reported. The plane was carrying

There was no question that Saturday Night Live would tackle the final Donald Trump-Joe Biden presidential debate in the cold open, with Alec Baldwin reprising his role as Trump and Jim Carrey returning as Biden. Maya Rudolph also showed up — not to play Kamala Harris, but instead to take on the moderator, Kristen Welker,

Stand-up comedian and actor Kumail Nanjiani is mostly known for bringing the funny and joy, but in a recent Twitter thread the Silicon Valley actor got real, expressing his concern for the pandemic and how the United States has handled it poorly compared to other countries. Nanjiani is married to Emily V. Gordon, who is high risk

Lifetime has snagged the rights to a movie based on a book by Ruth Clampett, titled Mr. 365. As part of their It’s a Wonderful Lifetime celebration, Forever Christmas airs on Sunday, October 25 at 8/7c. My friend, Gary Goldstein, optioned Ruth’s book for adaptation, and he jumped on the phone with me to chat

The Oct. 24 telecast of Saturday Night Live, featuring Adele in her hosting debut and musical guest H.E.R., drew a 5.0 rating household Live+Same Day rating in the 44 metered local markets and a 2.4 adults 18-49 rating in the 25 markets with local people meters. The episode, which opened with a parody of the

Adele made her Saturday Night Live hosting debut tonight, but instead of bringing her musical talent to the Studio 8H stage, the Grammy-winning singer brought it to The Bachelor mansion. In a skit inspired by the ABC dating series, Adele joined a number of cast members a potential matches for Beck Bennett’s bachelor. “I’m here

Exclusive ‘Bachelorette’ contestant Dale Moss had some tricks up his sleeve before becoming a contestant on the show. We found these pics of Dale who was modeling costumes for Party City Halloween.  The costumes are, well, interesting. Check out Dale in a taco get, a jacked Superman and an adult centurion. He posed for the

Los Angeles Department of Public Health has confirmed 17 new deaths and 2,173 additional cases of coronavirus on Saturday. The latest numbers of new cases also include an estimated 1,200 backlogged cases, officials say. Along with the new deaths and positive cases, L.A. Public Health also reported 770 COVID-19 hospitalizations, with 29% of patients receiving

When the Wisconsin Democratic Party announced a cast reunion of Happy Days for this Sunday, all to raise money for the final sprint until election day, one member was noticeably absent: Scott Baio. The Donald Trump supporter wrote on Twitter that the show was being used as a “political pawn.” The result, though, was more

Amazon is spicing up your November with a whole lot of new programming to stream. Heading to Prime Video next month are series you love, like Seasons 1-6 of Community, all of which lands on the platform on Nov. 8, and new shows and movies to check out, including the new anthology film series Small Axe, from

Bill Maher Friday compared Democrats trying to vote to an obstacle course competition show “where a contestant has to get across a terrain of giant bouncy balls and slippery balance beams and swing on frigging ropes like Tarzan.” “It occurred to me while watching this, watching Ricardo lose his grip on a foam roller, that

Seventeen years ago, screen legend Bill Murray and then filmmaking prodigy Sofia Coppola got together (with Scarlett Johansson) for Lost in Translation — an enormously beloved flick. With Apple+’s On the Rocks, Murray and Coppola have joined forces yet again (with Rashida Jones this time) to tell the most touching, sometimes hilarious, and often endearing

Donald Trump was decidedly less combative in the final debate of the 2020 presidential campaign. He even held back from threats to contest the election results should he lose. Joe Biden, for his part, actually managed to get in a few words edgewise, including a convoluted bit about curtailing domestic oil production, which his opponent

Late Show With Stephen Colbert veterans Tanya Michnevich Bracco and Opus Moreschi will be expanding their roles on the late-night show with promotions to co-executive producer. Bracco, who has been with The Late Show since its debut in September 2015 previously serving as supervising producer/executive in charge of production, will expand her responsibilities of integrating

Exclusive Zachery Ty Bryan beat the hell out of his girlfriend over missing phone charging cables … at least according to her, and prosecutors heard enough to charge him with felonies. The ‘Home Improvement’ star was charged with strangulation and coercion — both felonies — plus 6 misdemeanors, for the alleged violence that went down