Television

A successful sitcom boils down to two things: characters and chemistry. Even the most inspired premise doesn’t matter after the first few episodes, if the show doesn’t have characters we care about and actors who work well together. Case in point: CBS’ new fall sitcom B Positive, debuting this Thursday, Nov. 5 at 8:30/7:30c. (I’ve

It will be a true family affair on the set of The Walking Dead. Hilarie Burton will be joining her real-life husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan on the show, portraying his character Negan’s wife, Lucille in a recurring role. “Been pretty hard to keep this a secret,” Burton tweeted Tuesday. “But I love working with @JDMorgan.

Exclusive Cameron Monaghan‘s quick-thinking neighbor told cops he caught a woman red-handed doing a shameless act … and now the suspect is in jail. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … LAPD got a call last month around 9 AM from a man telling the dispatcher he was following a woman on foot, claiming he witnessed

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television-backed Eleventh Hour Films is gearing up to start shooting the second season of Anthony Horowitz’s spy thriller Alex Rider from the start of next year. Sony is yet to officially confirm Season 2, but Deadline understands that the drama is slated to begin a 22-week shoot from January 25 in Bristol,

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details from tonight’s episode of ABC’s The Good Doctor. In The Good Doctor’s two-part Season 4 opener, the residents of St. Bonaventure Hospital are thrust onto the “Frontline” of the coronavirus pandemic. Spanning a number of months, the episodes pick up early in 2020, when little was known about COVID-19,

Jeannie Mai has left Dancing With the Stars due to a health concern. Mai announced the news on Good Morning America, saying that she has been diagnosed with epiglottitis, which causes inflammation and swelling to the throat. She has since been hospitalized to treat the condition. In her statement, Mai said, “My doctors discovered a

EXCLUSIVE: NBC has put in development Uncivil, a comedy from Roast Battle creator Rell Battle, Mideast Minute creator and star Pardis Parker, Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner’s Hazy Mills and Universal TV, where Hazy Mills is based. Written by Battle and Parker, Uncivil centers around a pair of friends – a city prosecutor and public

Was there hope for Peter and Lois? On Family Guy Season 19 Episode 4, the couple started a running gag with a cutaway, but things took wild turn when they were transported into the painting.  With Bryan leading the household, things started to fall apart quickly.  Meanwhile, Meg and Chris realized they could survive with no

EXCLUSIVE: You’ve Been Trumped, the 2011 documentary chronicling Donald Trump’s disruptive efforts to build a golf course in the middle of a treasured Scottish nature reserve, has been optioned for a TV series dramatization by Bulletproof and Britannia outfit Vertigo Films. The show will retell how the Trump Organisation caused a storm in the local

UPDATE: On Sunday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) reports that there are 1,590 new COVID-19 cases and 4 new deaths. This brings the total cases in Los Angeles to 309,190 and 7,074 deaths. There are 799 people currently hospitalized wth 28% are in the ICU. Of the 3,140,000 individuals tested,

Play video content Exclusive TMZSports.com Like it or not, Floyd Mayweather is a genius — and played the “game of boxing” better than anyone else in the history of the sport … changing it forever, so says Max Kellerman. There will always be an argument about who’s the best pure boxer of all time —

The Halloween edition of Saturday Night Live, marking John Mulaney’s fourth turn as host, drew a 4.7 rating household Live+Same Day rating in the 44 metered local markets and a 2.2 adults 18-49 rating in the 25 markets with local people meters. That was down a bit from last week’s show, featuring Adele in her

Scottish actor Sean Connery, who first became a household name originating the film version of James Bond, has died. He was 90 years old. Connery died in his sleep surrounded by his family at his home in the Bahamas, per the Associated Press. His eldest son Jason Connery said his father had been “unwell for some

For the traditional curtain call at the end of tonight’s episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, host John Mulaney came out wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with the name HAL. It was a tribute to longtime SNL sketch music producer Hal Willner who died in April of complications related to COVID-19. He was 64. Former

It’s that magical time of year where you can believe that maybe love, or happiness, or hope is right around the corner. And in the case of Candy Cane Christmas, you can bump into it over and over again until everything works out for the best. Phoebe and Eric (Yes, another Eric) bumped into each

John Mulaney returned to host Saturday Night Live for the fourth time tonight and took on America’s politicians in his opening skit. He started his monologue by stating that he’d spent quarantine bingeing a new comedy series: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 press briefings. He described the briefings as one would a movie storyline

Sophie Turner has been added the voice cast of HBO Max animated series The Prince as Princess Charlotte, the daughter of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Creator and executive producer Gary Janetti made announced on his Instagram account, which inspired the series, with a clip tied to Halloween. It features Prince George and his younger

Exclusive Lori Loughlin‘s started her 2-month stint of hard time, and while the place she’s incarcerated in certainly ain’t the Ritz-Carlton … it doesn’t sound TOO terrible. As we reported … Aunt Becky surrendered Friday to begin serving her sentence at California’s FCI Dublin — a low-security prison — and we’ve obtained its handbook outlining

Trailing in the polls and sprinting through up to four campaign stops a day, Donald Trump was grumpy this week. And TV’s late night hosts took notice. From complaining about the weather to belittling a Republican Senator campaigning with him topointing out friends in the audience and then, in the same breath, insulting them, the

In what was the final Real Time with Bill Maher episode before the 2020 election, the host welcomed Al Franken, former U.S. senator from Minnesota and one of the original writers and sometimes player on Saturday Night Live. The meeting of joke-telling veterans wasn’t always comedy gold — far from it — but they engaged on a

Our long intergalactic nightmare is finally over: The Mandalorian Season 2 has landed, continuing the adventures of Mando (Pedro Pascal) as he protects everyone’s favorite Christmas toy, Baby Yoda, from the bad guys who want him. But after watching the latest episode there’s MORE waiting? The weekly rollout of the Disney+ sci-fi series means we’re all going

A funny thing happened at HBO Max today. The WarnerMedia streamer has inked with Comedy Central to run all episodes of the cable net’s comedies Chappelle’s Show, Inside Amy Schumer, Key & Peele, Nathan for You and the original Reno 911! The nonexclusive streaming deal adds to HBO Max’s trove of Comedy Central content that

Did Amy manage to say goodbye ahead of her new job? On Superstore Season 6 Episode 1, tensions mounted as the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way everyone lived.  With employees learning that their roles were changing, it was down to Jonah to help everyone through a tough time.  A big exit loomed, but everyone worried about

Global soccer star David Beckham and his family have reportedly agreed to take part in a Netflix documentary series that will spotlight their careers and current lives. Netflix is not commenting on the show, but neither is it denying a report in The Sun that Beckham’s Studio 99 will co-produce the project, which will feature

Each episode of FX on Hulu’s A Teacher is preceded by a content warning I’ve never seen before: It warns about “sexual situations,” but also “depictions of grooming that may be disturbing.” And it’s needed, too, because A Teacher — debuting Tuesday, Nov. 10; I’ve seen all ten episodes — is certainly disturbing, depicting a

Beloved M*A*S*H star Alan Alda says in a piece for the Washington Post on Thursday that he made a vow 37 years ago “to keep much quieter in public about my political opinions.” Alda, who calls himself “a formerly famous person,” writes that he often wondered in those decades what could actually get him to

Exclusive The “60 Minutes” interview President Trump cut short over what he felt was unfair questioning from Lesley Stahl has left her, and her family, in a dangerous situation … TMZ has learned. Multiple sources tell us … CBS is now providing Stahl with around-the-clock security due to a death threat made to the home

Judith Sheindlin is headed to streaming. The Judge Judy star’s untitled new court show (aka Judy Justice) has been greenlighted by Amazon Studios to stream exclusively on IMDb TV, Amazon’s free, ad-supported streaming service. The Untitled Judge Judy Sheindlin Project, distributed by Scott Koondel’s Sox Entertainment, will feature no-nonsense, expeditious Sheindlin’s signature adjudication style with a

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.