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Writers and their allies hit the picket lines today carrying creatively-crafted signage and offering up very well thought-out opinions about the work stoppage. Protests began first in New York City outside the Peacock NewFront Presentation and later in Los Angeles outside Netflix and the offices of other prominent entities. Scroll through the photos below for

Funny Girl star Lea Michele and 2022 Tony Award Winner Myles Frost (MJ) will announce the 76th Annual Tony Award Nominations on Tuesday. The nominations announcement will air live from New York on the Tony Awards official YouTube page. A selection of categories will be read live on CBS Mornings at 8:30 a.m., ET. A complete list of the 2023 nominations will be

Jerry Springer was laid to rest in a private ceremony this weekend among family and friends, with plans in place for a public celebration of life in the near future … TMZ has learned. Sources with direct knowledge tell us the legendary talk show host — who died last week after a battle with pancreatic

Nightly talk shows including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, are set to go dark starting on Tuesday after writers agreed to strike. Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Daily Show, which had correspondent Dulcé Sloan host this week, also will be hit, while such weekly shows

Big news, 9-1-1 Fanatics. The hit procedural drama has been renewed for Season 7… but it won’t air on FOX. As revealed Monday, the series will move over to the Disney-owned ABC for its next season, meaning the drama is wrapping up very soon on FOX. “Thanks to the creative drive of Ryan Murphy, Brad

Mock the Week, which ran for over 20 seasons on the BBC in the UK, is coming to the U.S. Amazon Freevee has greenlit a U.S. version of the show exec produced by Trevor Noah and Dan Patterson, who was responsible for the British series. It comes after the show, which is a mix of

Jock Zonfrillo, the MasterChef Australia judge and award-winning Scottish chef, has died unexpectedly aged 46. His family confirmed he passed yesterday in a statement: “With completely shattered hearts and without knowing how we can possibly move through life without him, we are devastated to share that Jock passed away yesterday. “So many words can describe

Play video content Good Guys Podcast Jennette McCurdy owes Josh Peck and his podcast partner for scrapping their debut episode at her request — so says Josh Peck … who’s now catching flak over this. The ex-Nickelodeon child star is trending this weekend over an episode of his pod, ‘Good Guys,’ that aired earlier this

Seth Meyers got serious during his “Corrections” Late Night segment and talked about the possible writers strike. The late-night talk show host started off by saying that if he was good at one thing it was writing, “I love writing so much.” “I am deeply proud of the fact that I get to be a

Is it possible to elevate and modernize a cult classic film? Fatal Attraction attempts to do just that, taking an iconic ’80s thriller and giving it more depth and nuance, expanding on a universe we’re familiar with, grounding it, and bringing it close to home. The slow burn quality of Fatal Attraction Season 1 Episode

Mike Shannon, a radio broadcaster for 50 years and two-time World Series champion for the St. Louis Cardinals, died Saturday at age 83 from complications stemming from long-haul Covid-19, his family said. After a playing career with the Cardinals that was cut short by kidney disease, Shannon spent 50 years as a member of the

Sunny Hostin is reacting to the fiery column former The View co-host Meghan McCain posted airing out her grievances from her time on the daytime talk show. While promoting her new book Summer on the Bluffs: A Novel on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, a fan asked Hostin for her thoughts on McCain’s column. “Oh,

Amid rumors of health issues that keep him confined to his home, Jack Nicholson made his triumphant return to the public eye Friday night, attending an LA Lakers playoff game. The 3-time Oscar-winning actor got a hero’s welcome of sorts as he sat with his son, Ray, courtside to watch the Lakers trounce the Memphis

Victoria Grace, who plays Wendy Shin on Days of Our Lives, is withdrawing her nomination from the Daytime Emmys. Grace scored a nod in the Outstanding Younger Performer in a Daytime Drama Series category but was mistakenly submitted in the category. According to official rules for the Daytime Emmys, performers must be “no older than

This Sunday, Fatal Attraction returns. The famed IP is getting the series treatment, which allows for a much deeper dive into the story and its characters. Like you, we have IP refreshing and reboot fatigue, but we’ve seen Fatal Attraction Season 1 in its entirety and believe that further exploration has merits. Dan Gallagher (Joshua

Before there was New Kids on the Block and New Edition, Latin boy band Menudo was dominating the global stage with its bubble-gum pop sound and youthful vibrancy. Behind the scenes, however, everything was not as perfect as it seemed. In the HBO Max documentary , filmmakers Angel Manuel Soto and Kristofer Ríos chronicle the

As a retelling of both J.M. Barrie’s novel and Disney’s 1953 animated classic, Disney+‘s Peter Pan & Wendy is a mixed bag. But as a retelling via director David Lowery, it’s totally on-brand. The first half-hour of the 106-minute movie (streaming now on Disney+) suggests a beat-for-beat retread (à la Jon Favreau’s The Lion King),

Hank Azaria has previously expressed his regret for playing the character Apu in The Simpsons, with a stereotypical Indian accent.  Now he has revealed that he was “afraid” to appear in the 2017 documentary The Trouble With Apu, where Indian comedian Harry Kondabolu called out all the problems with the depiction, including the real life

Jerry Springer and his family chose to keep his cancer battle hidden from the public so his health struggle wouldn’t become a burden to many of those who cared so deeply about him … TMZ has learned. Jene Galvin, a rep for the Springer family, tells us Jerry was sick for months, running through a

Who could forget Sheryl Lee Ralph’s Emmy acceptance speech last year, where she sang a rousing celebration of her womanhood and artistry, followed by these words: “To anyone who has ever had a dream and thought your dream wasn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t, come true, I am here to tell you this is what believing looks like,

David Arquette has had a remarkable career playing interesting and sometimes off-kilter characters in a range of films and TV shows. In his latest role in Peacock’s Mrs. Davis, he plays Monty, the magician father to Betty Gilpin’s globetrotting nun searching for the Holy Grail to end a God-like AI. It’s a perfect role for

Carol Burnett received quite the celebration on NBC Wednesday night. The network aired Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love from 8 to 10 p.m. ET/PT, averaging the highest broadcast audience of the night with 7.6M viewers, according to live+same-day Nielsen data. It marks NBC’s most-watched primetime entertainment special since the 2020 Golden Globes. This

Fatal Attraction was a huge box office hit back in 1987, but it didn’t age all that well, with Glenn Close’s spurned mistress turning into a crazed horror movie villain intent on hacking her former lover to bits. Paramount+’s new series adaptation — debuting this Sunday; I’ve seen the first four episodes — aims to

Canada has brought its Online Streaming Act into law after years of heated debate. The key impact of Bill C-11 is that streamers such as Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ will now be regulated by similar laws to those overseeing the country’s networks. In practice, the streaming services are now required to “contribute to the

Play video content TMZ.com Steve Wilkos is opening up about his final time seeing Jerry Springer — a night they both got very emotional — but he says his dear friend never let on that he was battling cancer. Steve, who spent 10 seasons working on “The Jerry Springer Show” from ’94 to ’07, joined

Big improvements to New York’s film and and television production incentives, included in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget proposal are still in place as lawmakers reached a handshake deal today, according to people familiar with the bill. The legislature is expected to vote formally next week to approve the budget. As Deadline has reported, the incentives

Did the school ban comic books? On Riverdale Season 7 Episode 5, Principal Featherhead took aim at the negative influence of comic books on the school. Meanwhile, Jughead was tasked with writing four comic books by Pep Comics. Elsewhere, Archie and Cheryl’s relationship ruffled a lot of feathers. Use the video above to watch Riverdale

Call Me Kat is adding another big name to its guest-starring roster this week. Thursday’s new episode promises to be another comical episode, and we have an exclusive first look. Margaret Cho appears as Val, a local cat lover preparing to compete in the Pretty Kitty Cat show. Her first meeting with Kat is anything

Bob Hearts Abishola landed an early renewal at CBS in January. The show’s continued resilience in the face of an ever-changing broadcast TV market meant that it was all but guaranteed a renewal. As new details trickle out about Bob Hearts Abishola Season 5, it’s clear the show is preparing a major overhaul when it

Is Chef Richard Blais the kitchen whisperer? His skills have successfully gotten many Next Level Chefs out of the basement and on their way to the top again. This Thursday, Chef Blaise might have his work cut out for him. Chefs often have specialties. Not every great chef can both whip together a perfect meal