Bill Maher called the Clintons “huge distractions” and wondered Friday if and how the Democrats should deploy them in the presidential campaign. “Now, Bill Clinton — people are saying that there are witnesses who saw him on Jeffrey Epstein’s sex island. Obviously it’s denied,” Maher said on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher. Guest Paul Begala shrugged it
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Exclusive When it comes to love, Kamal “Chance” Givens is living up to his name … ’cause he’s returning to TV for a dating show, and this time … he’s the star. Chance — best known for pursuing Tiffany “New York” Pollard on VH1’s “I Love New York” — is back in the game with
On Friday, California’s top health official was sent out by his boss to face the music. Dr. Mark Ghaly, director of the state’s Health and Human Services Department, admitted that multiple on the state’s part had caused a backlog of 250,000-300,000 records in its data reporting systems. That system is used primarily to parse and
EXCLUSIVE: Fulwell 73, the production company that counts James Corden among its partners, is planning to get back into production on HBO Max’s Friends reunion and the Camila Cabello feature Cinderella this month after producing around 50 hours of primetime television at the height of the pandemic. In an interview with Deadline, Fulwell 73 partner Leo
When you think of characters on screen perusing a copy of Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo or Bram Stoker’s Dracula, you may instantly conjure up images of white male protagonists at the center of a haunting narrative. And to that end, road trip films and TV series also typically have white male leads.
EXCLUSIVE: This could get messy. The TV Academy this morning announced the rundown for the virtual 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards, which includes five nights of Creative Arts Emmy Awards, followed by the 72nd Emmy Awards telecast on Sept. 20. There is a major shakeup in the lineup for the Sept. 20 show which aires on
As far as episodes go, Doom Patrol Season 2 Episode 9 is solid. It’s exciting — full of conflict and intriguing developments. It’s a not a proper finale, though, and it was never meant to be. COVID-19 shutdowns meant that the intended tenth episode of the season was never completed, and this became the last
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran TV and film writer Dana Stevens has signed with UTA for worldwide representation in all areas. Most recently, Stevens wrote the upcoming Sony Pictures drama Fatherhood, directed by Paul Weitz and starring Kevin Hart. The film is an adaptation of Matt Logelin’s memoir which details Logelin’s life after his high school sweetheart passed
ViacomCBS has pulled the curtain back on plans to launch a premium international streaming service, which will premiere new Showtime and CBS All Access originals, and will go live across three big territories in early 2021. The yet-to-be-named streamer was discussed on the ViacomCBS second-quarter earnings call on Thursday, with the company drawing up plans
Drew Drechsel, the reigning “American Ninja Warrior” champ, is now facing federal charges for luring an underage girl for sex. Last year’s ‘ANW’ winner allegedly began a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl in New Jersey back in 2015 … according to legal docs, obtained by TMZ. Drechsel, nicknamed the Real Life Ninja, was arrested
Sixteen Big Brother alumni returned to the house tonight for the show’s upcoming All-Stars season. CBS announced the cast of returning fan favorites, past winners and notable personalities Wednesday. The Big Brother: All-Star cast features past winners Nicole Franzel and Ian Terry, fan favorites Da’Vonne Rogers and Kaysar Ridha, and others playing for another shot
Lovecraft Country is a big-budget, epic genre adventure that wouldn’t have been possible without movies like Get Out and TV series such as Lost, according to showrunner Misha Green. Speaking at HBO’s panel session at the virtual TCA press tour, Green said, “I think this would have been incredibly hard to get on screen if
Issa Rae has officially lined up her next project at HBO. It was announced today that Rae has signed on to executive produce the two-part documentary Seen & Heard for the premium cable network. The documentary will explore the history of Black television and will tell the stories of the people who created, worked on, and
As part of a major push into adult animation, Comedy Central has given a series green light to a reimagening of the cult Emmy-nominated The Ren & Stimpy Show. Comedy Central has been tapping into IP across ViacomCBS to build an original animated slate around stalwart South Park. The Ren & Stimpy Show will join
Ellen Pompeo has been the leading lady on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy since it launched in 2005. The actress has opened up about why she has stuck with the series for so long in a new interview, and it appears that the financial security that comes with being a part of one of the biggest shows
American Ninja Warrior winner Drew Drechsel was arrested Tuesday following accusations of having an inappropriate relationship with an underage girl. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of New Jersey, Drechsel, who won the last season of NBC’s athletic competition show, was arrested in his Florida home. The office’s official press release detailed
Disney reported 57.5 million subscribers to Disney+, the direct-to-consumer streaming service that launched last November. After rising from 54.5 million subscribers as of the beginning of May, Disney+ is on the verge of the 60 million to 90 million range it told investors it would get to by 2024. Hulu, the company said, now has
Clare Crawley‘s journey on “The Bachelorette” is a short one, it turns out, and now her replacement, Tayshia Adams, will be the 2nd black leading woman on the show. TMZ has confirmed the 39-year-old ‘Bachelorette’ (who was getting a second shot at love) apparently found her perfect match early on during taping. Sorry, spoiler alert
AMC Networks’ net income plunged to $15 million, or $0.28 a share for the second quarter, versus $129 million or $2.25 the year before, hit by hefty write downs for $130 million. Revenue dipped 16.3% to $646 million on softer advertising – down 18% in the U.S. and 10% abroad. But the numbers beat Wall
During the newest episode of Late Night, Seth Meyers criticized President Donald Trump for his plans to ban TikTok, even as the coronavirus continues to the spread in the United States and as millions of U.S. residents lose unemployment benefits. “I’m betting TikTok is one of the answers he wrote on his cognitive test,” the
Reality television has been go-to comfort watching for many of us during the global pandemic and one of the most uplifting, faith-restoring shows to come along is CBS’s Tough as Nails, hosted and produced by Phil Keoghan. The show celebrates Americans who get their workout on the job and in the course of the show’s
“Rebuilding Paradise” initially felt too optimistic of a title for a documentary about the devastating 2018 Camp Fire, Ron Howard said about his new film. The National Geographic title features devastating first-hand footage of the violent wildfire ripping through the Butte County town and emphasizes the immense feelings of loss and grief Paradise residents faced.
The Bachelorette’s next season looks set to be another twist-filled affair. Clare Crawley’s season was supposed to enter production in March ahead of a summer premiere, but the series was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the series has been in production for a few weeks, but it appears the ABC reality juggernaut is
EXCLUSIVE: Above is the first sneak peek of John Boyega in Steve McQueen’s hotly-anticipated series Small Axe, which will drop on the BBC and Amazon later this year. McQueen’s anthology drama, which has been in the works since 2014, tells five stories from within London’s West Indian community between the 1960s and 1980s. Boyega’s episode
BBC America is merging the beauty of nature and majesty of music for the beautifully majestic four-network television event Planet Earth: A Celebration. The special will premiere on BBC America, AMC, IFC and SundanceTV on August 31 at 8pm ET. It will debut on the same day in the U.S., UK and China. From lions to
Exclusive Wilford Brimley — an iconic actor who was the face of Quaker Oats for years, as well as a spokesperson for diabetes education — has died … a rep tells TMZ. We’re told Brimley passed away Saturday morning at his home in Utah. Sources with direct knowledge of Wilford’s health tell us he was
Donald Trump, even after taking on the new role of President of the United States in 2016, still makes big Hollywood bucks. The president’s financial disclosure report, released late Friday, broke down his various income streams for 2019. While the document displayed a majority of income coming in from his numerous properties including his Mar-a-Lago
The NASA–SpaceX Demo-2 mission will come to an end Sunday when the spacecraft completes its two-month journey to the International Space Station and back. The two-man SpaceX Crew Dragon is expected to splash down at 2:48 p.m. ET, with the target landing area the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, FL, after Hurricane
[Warning: The following contains spoilers from Season 2 of The Umbrella Academy. Read at your own risk!] The Umbrella Academy may have avoided the apocalypse for the second time at the end of Season 2, but the adopted siblings face a potentially more menacing threat in Season 3. After causing havoc in early 1960s Dallas
Wilford Brimley, the actor known for his work in Cocoon, The Natural and The Thing, has died. He was 85. Brimley, whose additional credits include The Electric Horseman and The Hotel New Hampshire, died Saturday at an ICU in St. George, Utah, a rep for the actor confirmed to Deadline. The actor had been on