Syndicated talk show host and cardiac surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz raised some eyebrows and prompted a not-so-flattering Twitter hashtag after an interview Tuesday as a guest on Fox News’ Hannity. As host Sean Hannity wondered what it will take top re-open the U.S., the host of Sony Television’s The Dr. Oz Show offered a solution:
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Breaking News “One of the topics covered in a Major League Baseball course at Arizona State is this player who broke the color barrier in 1947.” COME ON — EVERYONE KNOWS THE ANSWER … right? Wrong. Because when Xiaoke Ying buzz’d in on “Jeopardy” on Wednesday night — she replied, “Babe Ruth!” WHAT?! NOOO!!!! This
Steven Soderbergh, a former former DGA national vice president and the director of the pandemic thriller Contagion, will head a Directors Guild task force to address getting members – and the town – back to work. DGA president Thomas Schlamme and national executive director Russell Hollander told members Thursday evening that the task force has
EXCLUSIVE: The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez director Brian Knappenberger and his Luminant Media production company have signed with WME for representation in all areas. Knappenberg most recently directed and executive produced Netflix’s critically praised The Trials Of Gabriel Fernandez via his Luminant Media banner. The six-part true crime docuseries, based on the reporting by L.A.
For those of you who’ve been staring at Chicago P.D.‘s Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer) and Upton (Tracy Spiridakos) all season long while fighting the urge to smoosh their faces together, I’ve got some great news: Upstead is finally happening! When the NBC drama returns for Season 8, your favorite “when will they finally get together”
Sky, the Comcast-owned European pay-TV giant, has pledged to donate £500,000 ($624,000) to the COVID-19 Film and TV Emergency Relief Fund set up by the BFI and the UK’s Film And TV Charity. Sky’s announcement follows similar donations from the BBC, Netflix, the BFI and WarnerMedia to fund, which is providing grants of up to
On the premiere of Mrs. America, both feminist and anti-feminist women attempted to define gender equality with the rise of the Equal Rights Amendment. The three-part series premiere set up the show’s premise, as they gave the audience a sneak peek on how everything would play out. The miniseries could not have aired at a
Violett Beane, who starred as Cara Bloom on CBS’ God Friended Me, has taken to Instagram to share her feelings of sadness about the cancellation of the series and to say thank you to fans. Beginning with “Disclaimer: SADNESS 🙠Beane writes “Unfortunately this is the end of the road for the god squad. We
EXCLUSIVE: Saturday Night Live‘s Bowen Yang is set for a lead role opposite Joel Kim Booster in Trip, Quibi’s romantic comedy series set on New York’s Fire Island, from Booster (The Other Two, Sunnyside) and Jax Media (Russian Doll, The Other Two). Additionally Stephen Dunn (Closet Monster) is set to direct. Written by Booster, Trip,
Exclusive Matt Simmons, the star of Animal Planet’s docuseries “Wolves and Warriors” got busted for allegedly hoarding a massive cache of guns and ammo … a big no-no for convicted felons. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … Ventura County Sheriff’s deputies served a search warrant Monday at Simmon’s home for illegal possession of firearms and
BBC pre-school channel CBeebies has enlisted Tom Hardy to read six Bedtime Stories after the actor proved to be the most popular celebrity storyteller for the long-running strand when he appeared in 2016. The Peaky Blinders and Inception star will read one story a night over the course of a week later this month, while
It’s official: next week’s 18th episode of Empire’s sixth season, airing on April 21, will be the hip-hop family drama’s finale for the foreseeable feature, and quite possibly a series finale. In separate statements, Empire creators/executive producers Lee Daniels and Danny Strong addressed the abrupt ending of their show due to the coronavirus pandemic while
It’s official, the Oneders are getting the band back together for a good cause. That Thing You Do! stars Tom Everett Scott, Johnathan Schaech, and Ethan Embry all announced on their social media pages Monday that they will be reuniting online for a live watch party in support of the MusiCares COVID-19 relief fund on
UIPDATED, 8: 39 AM: One World: Together at Home, the eight-hour coronavirus relief event set to air Saturday on multiple networks, has added a number of big names. Newly set to appear on the special are Alicia Keys, Amy Poehler, Awkwafina, Camila Cabello, Celine Dion, Ellen DeGeneres, Jennifer Lopez, LL Cool J, Lupita Nyong’o, Matthew
The questions we’ve all been asking was finally answered on Roswell, New Mexico Season 2 Episode 5. Will Liz be able to bring Max back from the dead? On one of the strongest installments to date, Liz and Kyle race against the clock to make it possible. There had to be another reason why Max didn’t
It’s times like these that we need “Great Moments in Presidential Leadership.” In the meantime, Trevor Noah posted a clip from tonight’s The Daily Social Distancing Show to remind his viewers that “what we have here is failure to communicate.” Seated again at his home, Noah spent time talking about how the faithful celebrated Easter
EXCLUSIVE: Exoneree and journalist Amanda Knox, in collaboration with novelist/journalist Christopher Robinson, has teamed with Kary Antholis’ Crime Story Media on Incarceration and Exoneration In A Time Of Pandemic, a new regular interview series set amid the coronavirus crisis. The interview series explores stories from the criminal justice system told in the context of COVID-19.
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com The biggest mystery in Netflix’s ‘Tiger King’ is whether Don Lewis was murdered and, if so, who did him in. Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister tells TMZ, he’s convinced one person could NOT have committed the 1997 murder … he says someone must have helped and someone got paid. Although
Broadway musicians who performed at last November’s starry Celebrating 25 Magical Years of Disney On Broadway event want their union to back off and allow a streaming of the show to raise money for Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS’ COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund. In a petition posted Sunday on Change.org, 14 musicians and the orchestra
On the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver touched on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson going in and out of intensive care due to coronavirus and Bernie Sanders dropping out of the presidential race. However, the real story he wanted to unpack was how the coronavirus has impacted the unemployed and essential workers.
[Warning: The following contains light spoilers for Sunday’s episode of Outlander. Read at your own risk!] Outlander has cleverly snuck “earworms” into its time-traveling adventure story over the past five seasons, but Sunday’s episode, “Famous Last Words,” contains a version of the classic folk tune, “Oh My Darling, Clementine” that will stick with you long
World-renowned opera singer Andrea Bocelli took the stage in a deserted Duomo di Milano on Easter Sunday to perform a concert dubbed “Music For Hope” — but his moving performance was not left unseen. The concert was live-streamed on YouTube to more than 3.4 million viewers. Duomo di Milano is closed due to the pandemic
It’s a big week for television premieres. Despite our lockdown, we’re still highly entertained with the television schedule. Let us know if you’ve gotten out of your comfort zone and tested the waters with any of our suggestions. Is there anything else you’d like us to cover these days? We always want to hear from
NBC’s Saturday Night Live closed out its first “at home” edition with a heartfelt tribute to the show’s longtime sketch music producer Hal Willner who died Monday of complications related to COVID-19. He was 64. A slew of former and current Saturday Night Live cast members, including Adam Sandler, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler,
Let’s just say it’s too soon. Saturday Night Live‘s special “at home” quarantine edition, with cast members appearing remotely in pre-taped, Zoom-like, mostly solo bits, won’t exactly be remembered for contributing big laughs to a nation under lockdown. But we did get to see a few glimpses of where the stars live, so there’s that.
Exclusive Ex-“Deadliest Catch” star Jerod Sechrist has a trifecta — 3 arrests in 6 months … this time for theft, and cops say he admits he’s doing it to fuel his addiction. Sechrist was arrested this week at a Tampa residence for 2 outstanding felony warrants for grand theft. The first alleged heist was a
Laura Gordon, a rising star TV literary agent at ICM Partners, has left the agency and is finalizing a deal to join CAA. Gordon was a homegrown ICM talent. She started at the agency in 2011 as an assistant and was in its trainee program before becoming TV lit coordinator. Since her promotion to an
Hilary Heath, the star opposite Vincent Price in a series of American International Pictures horror films, died last week of COVID-19 complications. She was 74 and her death was confirmed by a post from her godson, Alex Williams, on Facebook. Heath, a British actress, appeared in the films Witchfinder General, The Oblong Box and Cry
Despite its intense focus on the “family” drama between Reddington (James Spader) and Liz (Megan Boone), The Blacklist has more successfully fleshed out supporting characters than in the early years. This is a function of being a long-running series with 22 hours to fill, but that reality doesn’t always dictate that detours from the main
Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a shout out to New Yorkers Friday night, saying, “We asked them to do something unimaginable” – social distancing in the most crowed place in the country. The Mayor appeared on HBO’s virtually reconstituted Real Time with Bill Maher just as things in the Big Apple – the epicenter of