The number slipped in 2019, and the trend might continue this year as the networks get more patient in sticking with modestly rated existing series because launching a new series involves big marketing costs but often results in similar ratings.
Music’s biggest night is turning into music’s most litigious night.
Joey Kramer, the longtime drummer for Aerosmith, lost Wednesday in his efforts to have a judge rule that he can participate with the band in weekend activities.
Kramer, who has played with the band for 50 years and came up with its name, was…
The autopsy results on 21-year-old rapper Juice WRLD, who died last month in a Chicago airport, showed he accidentally overdosed.
The Cook County Medical Examiner said traces of Oxycodone and codeine were found in Juice WRLD’s system.
The rapper died after his group was subjected to a drug bust upon arriving at Midway…
The most powerful superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is officially ramping up for her big-screen encore. Disney’s Marvel Studios has officially begun production on the sequel to Captain Marvel (2019), the billion-dollar hit that energized and expanded the hitmaker studio’s young female constituency.
Brie Larson…
A quintet of notable names in television accepted the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award at NATPE on Wednesday.
It was the 17th annual edition of the awards, but this year’s class collectively displayed one of the strongest connections of any group of honorees with the late NBC executive. Actress Christine Baranski, ABC…
Today was a chance for Congressman Adam Schiff to lay out the Democrats case to the Senate on the impeachment of Donald Trump. What he had to say resonated with The Late Show host Stephen Colbert.
“It was gratifying to see someone taking the Constitutional responsibility of their office seriously,” said Colbert, who…
NBC has ordered two more drama pilots: At That Age from writer Carla Banks-Waddles (Good Girls), Night School and Girls Trip director Malcolm D. Lee and his Blackmaled Productions and Debra Martin Chase; and Echo, from writer JJ Bailey and Davis Entertainment. Universal TV is the studio for both.
This marks the second…
EXCLUSIVE: A24 is re-teaming with filmmaker duo Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for the sci-fi adventure comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once. A24 just closed a deal to distribute and finance the film, which begins production in Los Angeles this week. It stars Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu (The Marvelous Mrs…
EXCLUSIVE: Claws co-star Dean Norris is set as a series regular opposite Adhir Kalyan and Parker Young in The United States Of Al,CBS' multi-camera comedy pilot from The Big Bang Theory co-creator/executive producer Chuck Lorre, fellow Big Bang executive producers David Goetsch and Maria Ferrari, TV personality and…
EXCLUSIVE: As we step foot on the ground at the Sundance Film Festival today, we’ve confirmed that 12 people of the near 30-person staff at Aviron Pictures were pinkslipped on Friday and issued their final paychecks. Domestic theatrical distribution president Greg Forston and his team were eliminated, in addition to…
EXCLUSIVE: Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating adaptation of Charles Brandt’s 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses, later retitled The Irishman for the film, has been a fixture this awards season, and now you can watch the first table read for the project from nearly seven years ago. Check it out above.
It is fascinating…
EXCLUSIVE: One of the most fruitful TV production partnerships in the past five years is over. The first-look/co-financing deal between Paramount Television Studios and Anonymous Content expired at the end of 2019 and was not renewed. This does not mean an abrupt end to the companies’ relationship — they have several…
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and an all-star ensemble take a powerful deep-dive into the downfall of Roger Ailes, with director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph.
