UPDATE: In her interview with ABC News, Mary Trump defended one of the headline-grabbing claims in her new book, that her uncle Donald Trump hired a friend to take the SAT as way to improve his chances of getting into the University of Pennsylvania. In a portion of the interview shown on Good Morning America
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In what would be the biggest get yet for the WGA in its yearlong standoff with the top agencies, the scribes’ union appears close tonight to an agreement with UTA. We hear that at a captains meeting Tuesday evening, WGA West president David Goodman revealed to members that the union were finalizing a deal with
“If someone had told me that my life would have been like this, early enough where I could have gotten out, I would have got out,” the late Gary Coleman says in an interview toward the end of HBO’s Showbiz Kids. The Diff’rent Strokes actor is just one of many former child stars who appear
The cause of Naya Rivera’s death is an accidental drowning, the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office has found. In the report released today, the Office confirmed the body found yesterday in Lake Piru near Los Angeles is that of the Glee actress. The identification was made by dental records. The report also indicates that there
Stars have turned to social media to pay tribute to Glee’s Naya Rivera, whose body was recovered Monday, five days after the actress was reported missing. During a press conference Monday, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department said, “we are confident the body we found is that of” the actress. The department searched the area in
The border between Canada and the U.S. looks set to remain closed to all non-essential travel until at least August 21, Canadian network CTV is reporting. Talks have been ongoing between the two countries, with the current closure set to expire on July 21. Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump had a call yesterday to discuss
Hillary Clinton was the guest Monday on The Daily Social Distancing Show with Trevor Noah, and the former Secretary of State and presidential candidate talked about Donald Trump, Roger Stone, voter suppression and the one thing one everyone’s mind — what she’s been up to in isolation. After discussing the 100th anniversary of American women
“Scooby-Doo” sleuth Velma is a lesbian — at least according to writer/director James Gunn, who says she was definitely gay in his initial 2002 movie script. Before the filmmaker rose to the ranks of director of the “Guardians of the Galaxy” films, he wrote the screenplays for the live-action “Scooby-Doo” and its 2004 sequel, ‘Monsters
The body of actress Naya Rivera was recovered in the lake where she disappeared nearly a week ago, the Ventura County Sheriff confirmed. She was 33. Officials announced Monday morning that divers had found a body but did not confirm until later in the day that it was that of Glee actress Naya Rivera, who went missing
Channel 4 orders Spice Girls docRob Coldstream and Clare Cameron, the directing team behind Channel 4’s hit documentary Jade: The Reality Star Who Changed Britain, are turning their attentions to the Spice Girls for their next project. Channel 4 has commissioned 72 Films to make Girl Powered: The Spice Girls (working title), which will tap
Power Book II: Ghost got set back a few months because of COVID-19, but it’s now moving ahead with full force, and judging by the teaser that aired Sunday, we can expect Power‘s first spin-off to have all the anxiety-inducing tension of the original series. Starz announced Friday that Power Book II: Ghost is coming out in September, and
“I need to know everything you know about Tariq St. Patrick,” declares Mary J. Blige’s drug queenpin Monet Stewart Tejada in the latest teaser for the forthcoming Power Book II: Ghost, and you get the impression it isn’t about the now Ivy Leaguer’s GPA. Having dropped earlier today on the Starz App, the adrenalized look
Places where women gather are always great settings for TV series. Like a tea party (if you’re British), or a nail or hair salon (if you’re American). Or a strip club, if you’re award-winning playwright Katori Hall. P-Valley, which debuts at 8 p.m. Sunday, July 12, on Starz, is the TV adaptation of Hall’s 2015
After the death of George Floyd and the protest aftermath, some films that came out in recent years take on added resonance, particularly those that involve the murder of black youths at the hands of quick triggered and fearful cops. Features include Fruitvale Station and The Hate U Give. I was fascinated by a most
Kenya Barris says he is working harder than he ever has in his life. The writer, who added actor to his resume with #blackAF, is working on a second season of the Netflix comedy, is plotting a feature-length music about Juneteenth with Pharrell Williams and is developing a multitude of comedies, dramas, films and documentaries
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Matt Lauer is enjoying himself as a newly-single bachelor … wining and dining his date and taking her for a ride on his $1.4 million floating escape that screams resilience. The fired “Today” show host pulled out all the stops this week while on a date with a mystery brunette
UPDATE, Saturday, 11 AM: The Ventura County Sheriffs Department is continuing its search today for Naya Rivera at Lake Piru. The murky and debris-strewn lake has made recovery efforts difficult for the search teams. The Tulare County Sheriffs and San Luis Obispo Sheriffs are also participating in the search for Rivera, who is presumed dead
UPDATE, SATURDAY, 12;45 PM PT: Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and Fox News Media President & Executive Editor Jay Wallace sent a memo to employees on Saturday calling the anonymous posts of one of Tucker Carlson’s writers “abhorrent conduct.” They also said that Carlson would address the incident on his show on Monday night. The
Times are tough! But when you’ve slogged through another day of working from home, eating at home, playing at home, and doing everything at home, sometimes you just want to virtually escape to a world that will make you feel good. Whether you’re in the mood for a sweet family sitcom, a goofy cartoon, or
The BBC has dropped the first trailer for A Suitable Boy, director Mira Nair’s “human, funny, political, sexy chronicle of India.” The six-part series premieres on BBC One at 9PM on July 26. Nair, director of Golden Globe-nominated Monsoon Wedding, worked with Les Misérables and War & Peace writer Andrew Davies, and author Vikram Seth,
As networks continue making changes to their upcoming lineups, they’re dropping good and bad news. This afternoon, premium network HBO was hard at work, as was broadcast network FOX. On HBO’s plate was a decision about the critically acclaimed comedy, Run. And on FOX’s plate was the consideration about the holiday-themed limited series, The Moodys.
UPDATED with the latest: With new coronavirus case and hospitalization numbers spiking this week, and with L.A.’s mayor announcing today that the city only has 113 ICU beds left, another key city official spoke out about the possibly of increased COVID-19 rule enforcement. Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer told local TV station ABC7 he
In HBO’s Euphoria, music supervisor Jen Malone found one of the most rewarding and challenging projects of her career—a frenetic series calling for wall-to-wall music, in a diversity of styles. Created by Sam Levinson, the teen drama centers on Rue (Zendaya), a 17-year-old recovering drug addict struggling to find her place in the world, following
Exclusive Details Naya Rivera is missing on a Southern California lake after her toddler son was found alive, but alone on a boat … TMZ has confirmed. Ventura County Sheriff’s deputies found the 4-year-old boy on the boat — presumably rented by Naya — shortly before 5 PM on Lake Piru, but Naya was not
EXCLUSIVE: Set in a dystopian reality in which an unstoppable force turns London’s streets into a deserted wilderness, it’s perhaps fitting of our times that War Of The Worlds will be the first UK television drama series to get cameras rolling in the pandemic era. Hollywood blockbusters Jurassic World and Mission Impossible are already shooting
One of the handful of originals that will launch NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming platform is Psych 2: Lassie Come Home. The second Psych followup movie, reuniting the cast and the creative auspices of the long-running USA Network crime dramedy, had been originally commissioned by USA but was shifted to Peacock. There, it may be be followed
Update 3:05 p.m. ET: Ventura County Sheriff’s Office officials are now calling the search for missing Glee star Naya Rivera a recovery effort, rather than a search and rescue. “That hasn’t changed anything, and the efforts that we’re putting forth to locate her,” Ventura County Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Dyer told CBSN Los Angeles. “It kind of changes the title
A member of the White House press corps who attended briefings this week has tested positive for the coronavirus. Jon Karl, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, said in a note to members that the reporter was asymptomatic and wore a mask during the briefing and while in the White House complex. He wrote
How did the end of the world begin? On The 100 Season 7 Episode 8, Clarke finally met Bill Cadodgan and there was a devastating development about the future. Meanwhile, Becca’s final journey to Earth was finally charted as we got to see what happened to her when she arrived on the ground. Who did she
EXCLUSIVE: Leading Russian animation outfit Riki Group has signed a deal with Beijing-based producer and distributor Joy Culture and Chinese platform Tencent Video to partner on season four of animated series The Fixies. Following its acquisition of the show’s third season, Tencent will now invest in the production of 52 new episodes of the series,