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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on September 2 but eager fans will get a chance to watch the first two episodes on the big screen days before. Amazon teamed up with Cinemark to screen the debut episodes on August 31 for one night

The biggest marketing campaign in HBO’s history, reaching 130M people in the U.S., culminates this weekend with the premiere of the long-awaited Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon. Like Thrones, House of the Dragon has a massive cast. It cost $200 million to make, per Warner Brothers Discovery CEO David Zaslav. Based on

The ex-girlfriend of Daren Kagasoff, star of “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” has obtained a temporary restraining order against the actor … this after she claimed he threatened to leak nude pictures of her online and allegedly sent some to her parents. According to legal docs, obtained by TMZ, Breanna Trupiano claims they

Dr. Dre is opening up about how severe his health was when he was hospitalized for a brain aneurysm. The rapper and music producer made an appearance on the Workout the Doubt podcast where he made revelations about what happened and how close to death he was. “I’m at Cedars-Sinai hospital and they weren’t allowing anybody to

We have an exciting week ahead with some new shows! We have the highly anticipated Game of Thrones spinoff, new series Everything I Know About Love, and more! Scroll down to find out what we recommend. Saturday, August 20 8/7c Temptation Under the Sun (Lifetime) A detective embarks on a steamy affair with an ex-pat

SAG-AFTRA‘s national board voted overwhelmingly today to approve a new agreement with the AMPTP that will sharply limit exclusivity terms in actors’ personal service agreements that hold series regulars off the market and unable to work for unreasonably long periods of time. The vote was 95.5% in favor, 4.5% opposed, and does not require membership

David Zaslav is fond of his motor racing analogies. The Warner Bros. Discovery President and CEO recently said, “If the linear business is a racecar, we’ve got a team of racecar drivers”. “When we hear a noise or it’s in third gear, we know how to fix it. It’s a business we know well,” he

“Selling Sunset” producers are racing to fill the void left by Christine Quinn‘s departure … they need a new villain for the show, and they need to figure it out ASAP. Production sources tell TMZ … the folks who run the popular Netflix show are scrambling behind the scenes to figure out who is going

More cuts at Warner Bros. Discovery, this time at the Oprah Winfrey Network. Deadline has confirmed that Karen Grant-Selma, Jennifer Giddens, Mary Beth Cunin and Nicole Nichols are leaving the network. Cunin was the head of programming and scheduling at OWN while Grant-Selma was general counsel and Giddens, the chief marketing officer. Nichols, who was exec

ABC might take viewers back to the world of Ally McBeal. Almost 18 months after it was first reported that a revival of sorts could be in the works, Deadline revealed that a sequel series is in development. According to the outlet, the project would be written and executive produced by Karin Gist, and would

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. In this column: interviews with the director who guided Chadwick Boseman to a posthumous Emmy nomination for his final performance ever and a chat with Amanda Seyfried on the challenges met and conquered in playing Elizabeth Holmes, for which she received her first Emmy nomination.

HBO has to walk a very fine line with its new Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon: First, of course, it has to bring back all the viewers who made Thrones such a smash hit for the network, but it also has to win back disgruntled fans who were sorely disappointed by the

EXCLUSIVE: As streaming leaders Netflix and Disney prepare to roll out ad-supported subscription tiers, new research from Fandom indicates a majority of paying customers plan to take a wait-and-see approach before trading down to a cheaper plan. About 57% of the 1,000 entertainment fans in the study agreed with this statement: “I am not interested

Play video content TMZ.com Jason Oppenheim is NOT stressing about Christine Quinn leaving “Selling Sunset” … he says there are no hard feelings and has “zero concerns” about how her exit will affect the show. We got Jason leaving Equinox Thursday and he was chill about Christine’s departure … at least on the surface. Jason

EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios is rolling out an initiative to prevent bullying and stop “inappropriate behaviour” to all of its productions. The BBC’s commercial arm has been using what it has titled The Pledge on select shows this year including Strictly Come Dancing, EastEnders and Good Omens and, on its anniversary, the move will become mandatory for all programs,

Ever since the news that Grey’s Anatomy Season 19 would feature much less Ellen Pompeo, there have been questions about who would return. Thankfully, ABC has revealed who will be back and in what capacity. Original stars Chandra Wilson (Bailey) and James Pickens, Jr. (Richard) will be back as series regulars. Kevin McKidd (Owen) and

A confluence of hard bargaining and legislative lobbying helped secure significant gains in two new agreements SAG-AFTRA reached earlier this month covering exclusivity, which are standard provisions in TV contracts that can hold TV series regulars off the market and unable to work for unreasonably long periods of time, guild leaders said in a podcast

EXCLUSIVE: Olli Haaskivi (Oppenheimer) is the latest actor to join Apple TV+’s six-episode Huey P. Newton series The Big Cigar in a recurring role. He joins an ensemble fronted by André Holland, which also includes the previously announced Alessandro Nivola, Tiffany Boone, PJ Byrne, Marc Menchaca, Jordane Christie and Moses Ingram. Based on the Playboy

Dog the Bounty Hunter is getting a slew of tips on the disappearance of 16-year-old Kiely Rodni — the girl who vanished near the Lake Tahoe area earlier this month — but he’s reluctant to do anything right now because of the blowback he got in the Gabby Petito murder investigation. Dog’s rep tells TMZ,

EXCLUSIVE: Ori Elon, writer and co-creator of Shtisel, is currently working on a biographical mini-series about Austrian-Jewish journalist and playwright Theodor Herzl, who played a significant role in founding the modern state of Israel, Deadline has learned. I’m hearing the series, which is at early stages, is said to be based on Herzl’s personal diaries and

FOX’s sudsy new primetime drama will have some popular Country Music Stars on its roster when it premieres next month. The multi-generational musical drama about America’s leading family of country music, starring Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon (Feud, Thelma & Louise), multi-Platinum country music star and three-time Academy of Country Music (ACM) Award winner Trace

For the first time since an old video of him shopping for crudité went viral, Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz has spoken out. “I’m at Wegner’s,” Oz says in the video, apparently mixing the names of two separate grocery chains, Wegmans and Redner’s. (Signs in the background of the video clearly indicate he’s at

There are two things to know going into She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Disney+’s first Marvel comedy series. One, it is very much a comedy, and two, it is very much a TV series. Yes, Hawkeye may be competing at the Emmys as a comedy (and it did have moments both fwip!py and quippy), but She-Hulk

That sigh of relief you just heard was from execs at the NBA, TNT, ABC & ESPN after LeBron James’ two-year contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers was announced. The deal will keep the league’s marquee player in the league for at least two more years — health permitting. It means James, who is

Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul are forever enshrined in bronze in the city of Albuquerque — something conservatives there are up in arms about, claiming the statues glorify meth. Late last month, Mayor Tim Keller unveiled 2 statues to honor the ‘Breaking Bad’ stars — they’re now on display at the Albuquerque Convention Center —

Stephan Schäfer is exiting his post at German media giant RTL Deutschland after less than a year, amid a management restructure that follows the takeover of publishing company Gruner + Jahr (G+J). A new look management board will see Bertelsmann and RTL Group CEO Thomas Rabe taking over as Chairman of the German operation, with other

When Freeform officials decided to cut short this story of the witches of Fort Salem, they should have given Eliot Laurence 12 episodes for its final season instead of the usual 10. That way, Motherland: Fort Salem Season 3 Episode 9 wouldn’t have had to be so jam-packed with storylines. As a result, storylines on which viewers

UPDATE: Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), soundly defeated in her primary against a Trump-backed challenger, said that “now the real work begins,” as she vowed to prevent the former president from returning to the presidency. As pundits weighed the possibility that Cheney would wage a 2024 presidential run, she used her concession speech to reinforce how

UPDATED with cause of death: Actress Lindsey Pearlman’s death has been listed as a suicide, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. The body of the 43-year-old actress, whose credits included roles on General Hospital, Empire, and Chicago Justice, was found by Los Angeles police on Feb. 18 in a vehicle near Runyon Canyon

Comedian Teddy Ray‘s death this past week shocked the entertainment industry, and we’ve learned his cause of death was an apparent drowning. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office tells TMZ they responded to a call Friday morning around 10 AM at a private residence in Rancho Mirage, where a maintenance worker reported finding a man floating