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EXCLUSIVE: Longtime CBS casting executives, Los Angeles-based SVP Lucy Cavallo and New York-based SVP Amy Herzig, are leaving the network. Herzig most recently served as SVP Casting, East Coast, overseeing casting out of New York. She worked with VP Casting, East Coast, Katharina Eggman, who also is out, leaving CBS temporarily without a New York

TMZ.com Kurt Sutter — the showrunner and co-creator of “Mayans M.C.” and “Sons of Anarchy” — is out at FX, and he says it’s all because word around the studio is he’s an “abrasive dick.” His words. Kurt wrote a letter to his ‘Mayans’ cast explaining why he’d been axed and said, “At least being

EXCLUSIVE: Gayme Show is coming to Quibi honey! The comedy competition series hosted by Las Culturistas podcast co-host Matt Rogers and stand-up comedian Dave Mizzoni has been greenlit by the mobile platform and will be produced by Jax media. Gayme Show, which has existed as live comedy show, uplifts and celebrates the LGBTQ+ community and its allies.

Like comedy or horror, “thriller” is a genre of entertainment that’s meant to provoke a physical response in the viewer: In this case, stress. A great thriller will raise your blood pressure and make you forget to breathe. In the same way you watch a horror movie to feel controlled fear, you watch a thriller

Quibi is adding two more programs to its Daily Essentials lineup. Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s shortform digital platform is teaming with Rotten Tomatoes and E! for respective entertainment and celebrity shows to be developed and produced in collaboration with the NBCUniversal Digital Lab. Rotten Tomatoes will launch Fresh Daily on Quibi, a deep dive

By the end of “Red Dawn,” the sun has risen at Camp Redwood and AHS:1984 has blown up its entire premise. Or is beginning to reveal its actual premise, depending on how you look at it. Either way, by the end of the hour pretty much everyone is dead — Chet (Gus Kenworthy), Xavier (Cody

The latest episode of South Park once again touched on China — this time by taking a swipe at LeBron James’ comments about the controversy that has dogged the NBA. The episode, called “Let Them Eat Goo,” takes aim at the plant-based food craze, as lunches at South Park Elementary are replaced with faux meat.

Here is a wrap-up of all the news you need to know from Wednesday, October 16.  Netflix has confirmed what many expected: Stranger Things Season 3 is the streamer’s most-watched original series ever, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The hit series racked up 64 million viewers in its first 28 days on the air following

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has given a script commitment with penalty to The Service, a one-hour drama from writer Drew Lindo (The 100, Reign), Blindspot creator Martin Gero and Warner Bros TV, where Gero and his Quinn’s House production company are under an overall deal. The project is a co-production between WBTV and Fox Entertainment. Written by

Remember Reese Witherspoon’s Madeline Mackenzie screaming “I want more!” midway through Season 1 of Big Little Lies? That was me, after the all-too-brief freshman season wrapped up. Seven episodes just wasn’t enough time to spend basking in the Monterey sun with these marvelously complicated women. I was wary, though, when HBO renewed it for a

Fox Entertainment in May launched an in-house unscripted studio to provide reality series for the newly independent broadcast network, starting with Season 2 of flagship The Masked Singer. The network’s CEO Charlie Collier said at the time that the company’s overall mission to keep a lid on costs. In line with that, instead of building

Jennifer Aniston just joined the world of Instagram by reminding everyone some of her best friends are their “Friends.” Translation: First class clout chasing! Jen created her first account Tuesday morning on the social media platform, and her first post was a pic of herself hanging out with Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David

If there are two things that we learned tonight from the fourth Democratic debate of this primary season it is that Senator Elizabeth Warren is the frontrunner now and these double-digit candidates and multi-hours yak fest make the Academy Awards look like the Indianapolis 500. The former may be a true upturning of conventional wisdom

To better prepare for his role as young Tony Soprano in the upcoming Sopranos prequel movie Newark, Michael Gandolfini went back to the place where it all ended: the iconic booth at the Bloomfield, New Jersey, diner Holsten’s that was the setting for The Sopranos‘ enigmatic final scene. People shared a photo of the younger

It was blood sport all round on Sunday and not just that Pittsburgh Steelers win over the L.A. Chargers and the cable topping New York Yankees and Houston Astros game on Fox Sports 1. No, The Walking Dead and Succession both had sacrifices, new messy alliances and some telling ratings. For the AMC zombie apocalypse

This year’s One Chicago crossover feels like the zombie apocalypse. In an exclusive sneak peek at the three-way event, which airs Wednesday, Oct. 16 on NBC starting with Chicago Med at 8/7c, the Windy City’s embattled first responders discover a gruesome scene while hanging out at a Chicago Bears game. In the preview, Chicago Fire‘s

Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment has teamed with former IDW Entertainment President David Ozer to launch Landmark Studio Group. The new company will be focused on the ownership, development and production of entertainment franchises in both TV and film. Ozer will serve as CEO for the company, which will be headquartered in New York

The issue of free speech is a tricky one. On Bluff City Law Season 1 Episode 4, Elijah compares hate speech to shouting “fire” in a crowded theater. But are they the same? Yelling “fire” inside a crowded theater when there is none is taken from a 1919 case where a man’s conviction for distributing flyers

Jimmy Kimmel Live! is packing its bags in a couple of weeks. ABC’s late-night talker will head east to Brooklyn for a week of shows starting October 21. The starry lineup of guests will include Eddie Murphy, Bruce Springsteen, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Alicia Keys, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kelly Ripa, Ellie Kemper and John Krasinski. Keys also

If adding Paul Rudd to any film or TV project makes that project better — and I think we can all agree it does — Netflix doubles down on that notion with its new series Living With Yourself, debuting next Friday, Oct. 18 on the streamer. (I’ve seen all eight episodes.) The immensely likable Rudd

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has given a script commitment with penalty to The Two Dolls, a one-hour drama from writer Katie Wech (BH90210), McG’S Wonderland Sound & Vision and 20th Century Fox TV, where Wonderland is under a deal. Written by Wech, The Two Dolls revolves around the “Two Dolls,” who dominate the cutthroat world of high-end

Exclusive TMZ.com Lilly Ghalichi might not be heading to split city with her husband after all — either that, or they just play nice around their daughter … VERY nice. The former “Shahs of Sunset” star and Dara Mir — her estranged hubby who filed for divorce from her in August — threw their daughter,

Amazon has urged producers to bring it more international non-scripted formats on the back of unveiling The Bachelor in Japan and Hunted in Italy. International content chiefs James Farrell and Georgia Brown opened up about what the SVOD service is looking for outside of the U.S. at a Deadline-moderated keynote at Mipcom and how the

The Jane the Novela pilot currently in development at The CW will feature a familiar face from the Jane the Virgin family. Ivonne Coll, who plays Alba on the flagship series, is heading to the spin-off in a completely new role. According to Deadline, Coll will be playing Camilla, the adoptive mother of the first

SPOILER WARNING: This article contains major plot details about the Season 2 finale of HBO’s Succession. In the season 2 finale of Succession, which aired tonight on HBO, corrupt media mogul Logan Roy (Brian Cox) spent day and night on his Mediterranean yacht, considering who would take the fall for his many misdeeds—only to select

[embedded content] [Warning: The following contains spoilers for El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. Read at your own risk!] Sure, the return of Bryan Cranston as Walter White was a monumental Breaking Bad throwback that needed to happen in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie to satisfy most fans, but there was another major character

UPDATE, SUNDAY 10 AM:  With Santa Ana winds dying down and firefighters getting a handle on the Saddleridge Fire, evacuation orders have been lifted for most people in the Sylmar, Porter Ranch and other communities in the north San Fernando Valley areas. The first is now reportedly 41% contained, with onshore breezes and elevated humidity

The war against the one-percent will be televised and laughed at a lot. Grab your Rosé and pumpkin-spiced crappaccinos, lovelies. Lifetime had The College Admissions Scandal plotted and cast by the time Aunt Becky perp-walked into the courthouse smiling and signing autographs. They hammed it up in glorious fashion, too. Sadly, the movie was highly-fictionalized,

“Yeah dude, it’s lit, right?” were nearly the first words Pete Davidson has said all season so far on Saturday Night Live and the late-night landscape went from Upside Down to alright tonight. Showing up in host David Harbour’s Stranger Things themed monologue for the third SNL of the show’s 45th season, the absence of

HBO’s Euphoria should come with a reverse parental warning: Anyone over the age of 30 is advised to watch it with a fainting couch and some smelling salts nearby. Boldly provocative and shockingly explicit, the new drama series offers an unflinching portrait of teen life today that’s teeming with graphic sex, drug use and violence.