Showtime has picked up On Becoming A God in Central Florida, a one-hour dark comedy series starring Kirsten Dunst. The project, from George Clooney and Grant Heslov's Smokehouse Pictures and Sony's TriStar Television, was ordered to series last year by YouTube to debut this year. Sony TV started conversations about…

Serial killer Ted Bundy continues to fascinate the American public even decades after his execution. The latest demonstration of that comes with the popular success of the Netflix docuseries Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger. The four-part series is…

Users of Gmail — from individuals to large corporations — were left in the lurch for a chunk of the day Monday due to an outage on the Google platform, the second snag of the past two weeks. The flare-up affected mostly incoming emails, prompting waves of Twitter messages with the “#Gmaildown” hashtag before service…

EXCLUSIVE: Leslie Mann is set to star as Elvira in Blithe Spirit, the adaptation of the 1941 Noel Coward play that already had Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher and Judi Dench set to star, and Ed Hall to direct the script by Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard and Piers Ashworth. The new film re-imagines the Coward play, as a writer…

The USA triumphed over Chile during their Women’s World Cup Match Sunday and, in turn, it racked up another win for Fox Sports with 5,408,000 viewers across TV and streaming services. Sunday’s match garnered a 3.8/11 metered market rating for Fox and is the best overnight rating for any soccer telecast…

Broadway’s The Prom has a date with the road: The Tony-nominated musical will launch a first national tour in February 2021 in Providence, Rhode Island. The tour was announced today by producers Bill Damaschke, Dori Berinstein and Jack Lane. Other dates and additional cities will be announced at a later date. In…

Oxygen has given a green light to Killer Motive, a new eight-episode true-crime series from the producers of NBC’s Dateline. Hosted by NBC News correspondent Stephanie Gosk and Emmy-winning journalist Troy Roberts, each hourlong episode will uncover dark and twisted motives — from vengeance to jealousy to greed — that…

Debra Messing will return to Broadway next year in a spring production of playwright Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles. The Roundabout Theatre Company production will mark the New York premiere of the play. Directed by Vivienne Benesch, Birthday Candles will begin previews April 2, with an opening on April 21 at the…

CAA announced today that they will host their third annual CAA Amplify June 24 in Ojai, Calif. The invitation-only event is a convening of diverse leading artists and executives from the most impactful organizations in entertainment, sports, media, brands, technology, and social justice. Hosted in partnership with the…

UPDATE, with attorney response The Notebook author Nicholas Sparks has released a lengthy, 500-word-plus statement in which he expresses “regret” and apologizes for his words that “have potentially hurt young people and members of the LGBTQ community, including my friends and colleagues in that community.” But an…