Television

In the final weeks before Viacom and CBS’ latest reunion becomes a $30 billion fact, Showtime boss and rising corporate star David Nevins today had praise for the launch of Disney+ and promised surprises with the remerged media giant. “I think it is impressive,” the CBS Chief Content Officer bluntly noted of the 10 million
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David Schwimmer’s new Sky One comedy, about a maverick American intelligence agent and a hapless British computer analyst, will premiere on February 18, 2020. Schwimmer tweeted about Intelligence‘s launch on Monday, offering a first look at his NSA officer character and his inept counterpart Nick Mohammed, who wrote the show, which is set in the
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Character development is almost always a death sentence for second-tier characters on The Walking Dead. When a previously peripheral character suddenly gets a meaty storyline or an interior life, it usually means they’re about to die. The show has always operated like this. But when done well, it’s still effective. Siddiq’s (Avi Nash) final moments
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On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver wasted no time Sunday night diving into this past week’s House impeachment hearings. Referring to the Trump-Ukraine scandal as “Stupid Watergate II,” the HBO host ripped Republicans — both on Capitol Hill and on Fox News, for trying to discredit the House investigation into President Donald Trump’s phone call
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Days of Our Lives hit the fast forward button so we didn’t have to and sent all of its stories one year into the future! What were our favorite surprises? Biggest disappointments? And who would we bring back from the dead (or the convent) if we could? Our TV Fanatics Jack Ori and Christine Orlando
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The Soul Train Awards are taking place tonight at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. The annual celebration recognizes the best in Soul, R&B and Hip-Hop music from both industry legends and the next generation of performers. The awards will air on BET and BET HER, with Tisha Campbell and Tichina Arnold returning as hosts
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Hollywood film and television makers and Washington lawmakers gathered in DC on Thursday for the “Beyond the Red Carpet: Movies and TV Magic Day,” an event that offered lawmakers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the creativity and innovation of the film and TV industries. The event, which included interactive trade booths, live demonstrations, and meet and
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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has assembled the core cast for Brand New Cherry Flavor, an eight-episode horror-thriller revenge series it had been quietly putting together for the past few months. Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel, Undone) leads the cast of the drama, based on the cult horror novel by Todd Grimson and produced by Netflix and UCP.
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HBO Max, the upcoming WarmerMedia streaming service, has given pilot orders to single-camera comedy Gumshoe, from writers Aaron Brownstein & Simon Ganz, director Randall Einhorn (The Kids Are Alright) and Conan O’Brien’s Conaco; and 1990s drama Vegas High, from writer Sarah-Raquel Jimenez, director Gillian Robespierre (Mrs. Fletcher) and Michael Showalter’s Semi-Formal Prods. HBO Max is
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Gary Oldman is to star in spy drama Slow Horses for Apple with Justified’s Graham Yost exec producing. The nascent digital TV service has ordered an adaptation of Mick Herron’s spy novels from Top of the Lake producer See-Saw Films. Slow Horses, which was first published in 2010, features Jackson Lamb, a brilliant but irascible
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EXCLUSIVE: Platform Media, a Boat Rocker company, has signed a first-look deal with Oscar-nominated producer Jennifer Fox (The Report, Michael Clayton, Nightcrawler) and her Jennifer Fox Productions. Under the pact, Platform One, the Los Angeles-based global television production and distribution studio led by founder and chairman Katie O’Connell, will work on Fox and Erin Simon, who recently
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Spoiler Alert: This recap contains major reveals from tonight’s American Horror Story season 9 finale “AHS 1984: Final Girl”  Tonight’s season 9 finale of AHS 1984 didn’t end like your run-of-the-mill ’80s slasher movie. There was no protag looking over their shoulder, worried the killer was still out there. There wasn’t a bad dream that the
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EXCLUISVE: Julie Anne Robinson has set up five projects —  three dramas — through her CannyLads production company. They include hourlong Snap at Fox, from Whiskey Cavalier creator David Hemingson; Love And… at NBC, from Greek creator Sean Smith; and The Bunker at NBC, from graphic novelist and writer Joshua Hale Fialkov; as well as
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Byron Allen’s racial discrimination case against Comcast comes before Supreme Court today — and that very fact has elevated his industry-centric litigation into one with legal and political implications. The justices will be considering what the legal threshold is for a plaintiff to bring a racial discrimination complaint, after Allen sued Comcast and other multichannel
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With the House impeachment hearings just hours away, the late-night comedians are zeroing in on the latest developments out of Washington. On NBC’s Late Night, host Seth Meyers found humor in newly released testimony from Laura Cooper, the Pentagon’s deputy assistant secretary for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia. Cooper told impeachment investigators President Trump directed government
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