Scorpion creator Nick Santora, showrunner of Skydance Television’s upcoming Jack Reacher series, is expanding his relationship with the studio, signing an exclusive, multi-year overall deal. Under the pact, Santora will create, develop and produce event-level original scripted series for Skydance TV. Santora currently serves as showrunner and executive producer on the studio’s upcoming series Jack
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The scorned women of Salem are fighting back. On Days of Our Lives during the week of 5-04-20, three women fight for what they want, and not always in the most ethical ways. While Kayla will undoubtedly use her words to try to deal with Hope being with Steve, Sarah will get violent, and Gabi
Tina Fey will host virtual telethon Rise Up New York! next Monday, May 11, raising money for New Yorkers hit by COVID-19 and the shutdown, with telethon guests set to include Governor Andrew Cuomo, Bette Midler, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Robert De Niro, Spike Lee, among many others. Presented by the anti-poverty organization Robin Hood along with
After taking a week break Last Week Tonight with John Oliver returned and there was a lot to address. Actually, it was all about coronavirus because that is the only thing really making headlines these days. From Oliver’s “Great White Void”, he touched on Alex Jones talking about eating his neighbors due to the pandemic before jumping
Exclusive Heather Locklear‘s ready to make nice. And, the feeling’s mutual with cops 2 years after she went on the attack against them. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … Heather’s recently been working to repair her relationship with law enforcement, starting with simple acts like stopping Sheriff’s deputies around town and saying hello. She’s
Former longtime CBS chief communications executive, novelist and humorist Gil Schwartz passed away Saturday morning at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. at the age of 68. His passing was unexpected, but he died of natural causes. Schwartz retired as Senior EVP and Chief Communications Officer of CBS Corporation, in November 2018 following nearly 40
EXCLUISVE: This is a shocker — CBS is not proceeding with The Lincoln Lawyer, its high-profile legal drama from The Practice creator David E. Kelley, based on Michael Connelly’s series of bestselling novels.. The project had a massive series production commitment. I hear The Lincoln Lawyer‘s studios, A+E Studios and CBS TV Studios, were informed
In the post-Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) era of The Blacklist, the show has occasionally hinted at a will they/won’t they between FBI colleagues Liz Keen (Megan Boone) and Donald Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff), and Friday’s 17th episode of Season 7, “Brothers,” teased that tantalizing possibility again. In the episode, Ressler went to his hometown of Detroit
Sam Lloyd’s widow is expressing her gratitude for the kind words and support she has received since the Scrubs actor died earlier this week. “The overwhelming outpouring of love and sharing your stories about working with or knowing Sam keeps his memory alive and our hearts strong,” Vanessa Lloyd said in a statement to Deadline
Love is many things and everything. Love comes in many forms, and that’s what made The Half of It a different kind of love story. It starts with a standard concept, and then it turns the tradition on its head to become something beautiful and unexpected. Netflix’s The Half of It is a coming of
EXCLUSIVE: In the wake, of MGM’s recent cuts and the departure of co-Presidents of Production, Cassidy Lange and Adam Rosenberg yesterday, Deadline has learned that the studio’s EVP, Talent and Casting, Seth Yanklewitz, is also leaving. Yanklewitz, a 20-year-plus casting veteran, whose career credits include such blockbusters as The Hangover and Fox TV’s New Girl, arrived at MGM
UPDATE: Nick Cordero had a successful tracheostomy that will help him ease away from mechanical ventilation. His wife, Amanda Kloots, updated the actors condition on her Instagram. Cordero has been battling severe health complications related to COVID-19, and almost lost a leg. He has been hospitalized for a month. The news was much better in the latest
Exclusive Joe Pantoliano is in a Connecticut hospital after he was struck by a car while out for a walk … TMZ has learned. Joe’s wife, Nancy, tells TMZ … the ‘Sopranos’ star was walking with family Friday in their neighborhood when a Porsche skidded across the road and hit him. She says the Porsche
Bill Maher slammed a microbe-obsessed nation, Joe Biden and even Quibi on his show Friday night. “You dont have to tell me what Quibi is. I was sort of interested for a second but it passed,” said the host of HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher of the short-form video service created by Jeffrey Katzenberg.
EXCLUSIVE: Blindspot creator Martin Gero has closed an overall deal with Universal Television, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios. Under the major multi-year pact, which was negotiated before the start of the current Hollywood production shutdown, Gero will develop new series for Universal TV through his Quinn’s House production company. He is moving from his
[Warning: The following contains spoilers for Season 4 of Better Things. Read at your own risk!] The characters on Better Things love to cook. Any fan of Pamela Adlon‘s bittersweet, semi-autobiographical series will know that: Throughout the FX show’s four seasons, countless scenes have found Sam, the show’s heroine, played by Adlon, in the kitchen,
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden denied Tara Reade’s claim that he sexually assaulted her in a Senate office building in 1993. In an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe anchor Mika Brzezinski, Biden said of the allegations, “It never, never happened.” Reade claims that Biden pinned her up against a wall and penetrated her with his fingers.
Well, the secret’s out. Or more accurately, all of the secrets are out, as Station 19 Season 3 Episode 14 concluded with everyone putting all their cards on the table, whether they wanted to or not. In a way, it’s a clean slate, with everything out in the open, but that also means that everything is now
SPOILER ALERT: This recap contains details, guest cameos and several jokes from tonight’s Parks and Recreation COVID-19 fundraiser special on NBC. As Parks and Recreation co-creator Mike Schur promised, tonight’s reunion special to benefit COVID-19 relief efforts was very much a standalone episode, one that wouldn’t ruffle the canon of what already was established. Many zingers more than comedy plot
I’ll say this about Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix drama Hollywood: The costumes are fantastic. With its characters decked out in fedoras, three-piece suits and bejeweled ball gowns, the 1940s period piece co-created by Murphy and his Glee co-writer Ian Brennan — debuting this Friday, May 1; I’ve seen all seven episodes — gives us a
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed 55 new deaths and 733 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday. That’s about 800 fewer new infections than were announced Wednesday. L.A. County Director of Public Health Dr. Barbara Ferrer noted that Wednesday’s number included results from new testing in institutional settings and also a lag
Daniella Baltodano was only 5 years old when she was slung into the limelight after landing the role of the strong and silent middle sibling Celia Solis on the final 5 seasons of the dramatic suburban television series “Desperate Housewives.” Danielle Baltodano was cast alongside her on-screen big sister Juanita Solis played by Madison De
Baby Cow Productions, the UK film and TV outfit with credits including Alan Partridge, Stan & Ollie and The Trip, has named Sarah Monteith as Managing Director. In the newly-created role, which she will take up in mid-May, Monteith will work alongside CEO Christine Langan. Monteith was most recently interim Chief Marketing Officer for BBC
Trevor Noah kicked off his monologue for tonight’s The Daily Social Distancing Show by noting that the U.S. has recorded it millionth case of COVID-19. But let’s stick with the comedy. The Comedy Central late-night host spent a few minutes talking about the news that grabbed Hollywood’s attention on Tuesday. No, not the latest windows
Amazon Prime Video is making it a little harder for you to decide what to watch next month by adding even more original shows and movies to its library. In May, Amazon will debut several new originals, including its new sci-fi series Upload, starring Robbie Amell, a four-part docuseries called The Last Narc, and Jimmy
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed 56 new deaths and 1,541 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday. That’s nearly 1,000 more new infections than were announced on Tuesday. L.A. County Director of Public Health Dr. Barbara Ferrer attributed this jump to new testing in institutional settings and also a lag in test
If you were an avid watcher of primetime soaps in the 1990s, there’s a good chance you watched some Melrose Place. It was one of the wildest shows out there, with headspinning twists that made us question everything we were watching. The show’s cast assembled Tuesday for a great cause. Marcia Cross (Kimberly Shaw), Heather
Jill Gascoine, the English actress who played Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes in Brit series The Gentle Touch, has died at the age of 83. The actresses’ son confirmed the news on Facebook in a post where he said she had been suffering from Alzheimer’s for 10 years. “Today was a thankful release,” he wrote, “The
Cast members from the 1990s prime time soap Melrose Place – Josie Bissett, Thomas Calabro, Marcia Cross, Laura Leighton, Heather Locklear, Doug Savant, Grant Show, Andrew Shue, Courtney Thorne-Smith and Daphne Zuniga – have reunited for the Stars in the House benefit series for The Actors Fund. Hosted by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley, the
Newport Beach boy, David Denman, has a laundry list of impressive television credits. But, on the top of that list (preferably written on Dunder Mifflin paper stock) is his role as the warehouse worker and Pam Beesly’s ex-fiance, Roy Anderson, in the first few seasons of the US version of the hilarious TV series, “The