It’s just about time for Hollywood’s biggest night. The 92nd Oscars are Sunday, February 9, with the ceremony beginning at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT live on ABC from the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland. The network is also making the ceremony, which is going host-free again this year, available on ABC.com and via
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‘Wild Wild West’ star Robert Conrad has died. The 1960s and ’70s TV and film actor passed away Saturday due to heart failure at his home in Malibu, according to family spokesperson Jeff Ballard. Ballard, on behalf of the Conrads, tells TMZ … “He lived a wonderfully long life and while the family is saddened
CBS News President Susan Zirinsky has addressed the fallout from Gayle King’s interview about Kobe Bryant, calling threats against the CBS This Morning co-anchor “reprehensible.” “We fully support Gayle King and her integrity as a journalist,” Zirinsky told the Associated Press Saturday. “We find the threats against her or any journalist doing their job reprehensible.”
There’s good news for those who just can’t get enough Oscars glitz and glamour: “Live From Hollywood: After the Awards” is making sure Hollywood’s biggest night doesn’t end too soon. The one-hour live broadcast from outside the Governors Ball will highlight the best moments of the evening, from the red carpet to the main show.
It’s been eight years since Homeland premiered, and as much has changed in the real world as it has within the Claire Danes-led spy drama. When the show first debuted, 10 years after 9/11, the threat of suicide bombers and fear of the Middle East was the prevalent worry in America. Now, we’re far more
The X Factor won’t air on ITV in the UK this year as Simon Cowell figures out how to breathe new life into his once all-conquering talent show. Cowell recently signed a five-year deal with ITV for Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor, with the plan being to broadcast a final season of the
This week’s episode was packed full of the action, drama, and cliff-hanger moments I’ve come to love! On Charmed (2018) Season 2 Episode 12, we gain a much better understanding of the relationship between Whitelighters and Darklighters. It makes sense that Whitelighters and Darklighters should not be able to kill each other. We all have light and
UPDATE: Joe Biden paid tribute to Alexander Vindman, the lieutenant colonel who was removed from his White House post on Friday after testifying in the impeachment inquiry. Biden said that President Donald Trump “should be pinning a medal on Vindman, and not on Rush Limbaugh.” That was a reference to Trump’s award of the Medal
NBC’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine returned Thursday for its Season 7 premiere, topping a slew of newcomers to the midseason landscape including the series debuts of CBS’ Edie Falco cop drama Tommy, NBC’s Fran Drescher comedy Indebted and the CW’s Riverdale spinoff Katy Keene. Overall, Grey’s Anatomy was the night’s top-rated show, scoring a 1.1 rating in the
Exclusive TMZ.com Gayle King got set up to look like an insensitive troll because her network posted a salacious promo … that’s how some staffers at “CBS This Morning” feel anyway. Sources connected to the show tell TMZ … some of Gayle’s coworkers are incensed over the backlash she’s getting because a promo clip of
EXCLUSIVE: Kew Media Distribution, the British sales arm of the beleaguered Canadian TV group Kew Media, is on the precipice of closure as it stares down the barrel of a winding-up order. Kew Media Distribution represents high-profile shows including HBO’s Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland, made by Amos Pictures, and World Productions’ hit BBC drama
Months after the 25th anniversary of its launch, the cast of the iconic comedy series Friends is expected to get together for an unscripted reunion special. It will help launch the upcoming streaming platform HBO Max, where the Friends library is one of the main attractions. Following tough negotiations, I hear Friends stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney
Dust off your Penny Can and put your Dr. Acula fangs in, because the cast and producers of classic comedies Scrubs and Cougar Town are reuniting at the ATX Television Festival this June, the festival announced Thursday. The panels will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Scrubs finale and the 5th anniversary of the Cougar
Fox laid the first brick in its Will Arnett-hosted competition Lego Masters on Wednesday, building a 1.6 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 4.84 million viewers. The premiere series premiere benefited from The Masked Singer (2.0, 7.40M) as its lead-in, with the singing series returning to earth from the 8.1 rating and 23.7 million viewers who
Who did not survive the battle against Scandinavia? On Vikings Season 6 Episode 10, Bjorn prepared a treaty with King Harald that would keep them safe in the face of great disaster. Meanwhile, Ingrid was attacked when someone tried to get more details about her marriage to Bjorn. Elsewhere, Bjorn and Ivar had a deadly reunion
EXCLUSIVE: Amirah Vann was revealed as the mysterious and devious string puller Parker Campbell at the end of Queen Sugar’s fourth season last year, and now the NAACP Image Awards nominee is pulling some other intergalactic strings too. As fans of Star Trek: Picard will find out when the latest episode drops tomorrow, Vann is
RELATED STORIES With so much television to choose from, networks are struggling to find ways to make their series stand out. This is the case with CBS All Access’ Interrogation, a gimmicky procedural that allows viewers to watch episodes in any order they please. “When cold case detectives reopen an unsolved case, they abandon the
On the heels of New Amsterdam landing a massive three-season renewal by NBC, the studio behind the medical drama, Universal Television, has signed creator/executive producer David Schulner into a big new four-year deal. Under the pact, believed to be in the eight-figure range, Schulner will continue as executive producer/showrunner on New Amsterdam, now in its second
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com ‘Vampire Diaries’ actress Alice Evans lost her s**t on a YouTuber who claims she hit her car in a parking lot and drove away — and the confrontation between the two is wild. The vlogger is Kayla Lashae, and she captured the British star leaving her vehicle Monday afternoon in
Zach Gilford (The Purge: Anarchy), Kate Siegel (The Haunting of Hill House) and Hamish Linklater (Legion) are set as leads in Netflix’s Midnight Mass, a seven-episode horror series from The Haunting of Hill House‘s Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy and their Intrepid Pictures. Annabeth Gish (The Haunting of Hill House), Michael Trucco (Hunter Killer), Samantha
EXCLUSIVE: House Productions, the British producer behind Benedict Cumberbatch’s drama Brexit: The Uncivil War, has nabbed the screen rights to the remarkable true story of an Auschwitz hero. The film and TV company, run by former Film4 head Tessa Ross and ex-Working Title TV chief Juliette Howell, has optioned former war reporter Jack Fairweather’s The
Fans who were hoping to catch the next installment of This Is Us and New Amsterdam on Tuesday night found a big helping of politics instead of family drama. Donald Trump’s State of the Union address caused the programming shift, but your shows will be back in due time. Both This Is Us and New
Gene Reynolds, a former child actor who went on to be a TV director and producer who worked on M*A*S*H, Lou Grant, Room 222 and others and was a two-term DGA president, died Monday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Centerin Burbank. He was 96. Reynolds won six Emmys — from more than two dozen nominations —
It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since Patrick Dempsey exited ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy. Now, the actor is lining up his return to broadcast TV — this time at CBS, according to THR. Dempsey has been added to the cast of the pilot of the political drama Ways & Means, a project that was
Grey’s Anatomy alum Patrick Dempsey is returning to broadcast television as the star and executive producer of Ways & Means (fka The Whip), a Washington DC drama, which has been picked up to pilot by CBS. The project comes from former SEAL Team showrunner Ed Redlich, Republican political consultant Mike Murphy, Nina Tassler and Denise
The fact that USA’s new murder-mystery Briarpatch is set in a steamy Texas border town known as Saint Disgrace is a big clue about what’s to follow. It’s a conspicuously quirky setting for a conspicuously quirky show: a funky neo-noir full of eccentric characters that has atmosphere to burn. There’s plenty to like about the
British lawmaker Dame Margaret Hodge has piled into Netflix over its tax affairs after a report last month accused the streamer of funneling as much as $430M of its international profits into tax havens. Hodge secured a debate on Netflix in British Parliament late on Monday evening, and said the company was carrying out a
Backgrid Mario Lopez and Elizabeth Berkley are back on campus for another round of “Saved By The Bell” … which means they’re back in character as A.C. Slater and Jessie Spano. Mario and Elizabeth started shooting the reboot Monday in Los Angeles, over 30 years after they first started starring in the hit series way
After a year of presidential campaigning, primary debates and town halls, Iowa voters finally arrived at caucus sites to cast actual votes in the 2020 race. All day long, news networks reported from throughout the state, albeit with little to say other than the countdown to the actual event, being held in hundreds of precincts
EXCLUSIVE: The UK Screenings are due to kick-off in London and Liverpool next week, with U.S. studios and big British players showcasing their wares to buyers from all over the world. The BBC’s commercial arm, now known as BBC Studios, has been holding an annual sales event for hundreds of international buyers for more than