The in-theater dining chain Studio Movie Grill is ready to set up shop in Los Angeles — Glendale to be exact. The flagship location will plant roots in Glendale’s Downtown Arts & Entertainment District conveniently located near Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. in the fourth quarter of 2019. This will be Studio Movie…

A hard-partying doctor is heading to Chicago Med. Dominic Rains (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) is set for a recurring role on the upcoming fifth season of NBC’s hit drama series. Rains will play Dr. Marcel Crockett, Chicago Med's newest ED doctor who hails from Louisiana. He gambles, drinks and parties all night but hooks…

WGA West presidential candidate Phyllis Nagy says the guild's ongoing standoff with the Association of Talent Agents threatens to "permanently destroy the primacy writers have enjoyed in television" and will lead to a strike. In her latest campaign statement, posted on her slate’s WGA Forward Together site, she also…

Emmy-nominated actresss Niecy Nash will take the stage at the BET’s 2019 Black Girls Rock! Awards as host. The celebration will tape on August 25 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, NJ and will have its broadcast premiere on September 8 on BET. The star-studded lineup of celebrants and attendees that…

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains details of the final season of Game of Thrones. Alfie Allen joined nine of his Game of Thrones cast-mates with Emmy nominations this year—his first recognition from the TV Academy—as the blockbusting HBO megaseries drew to a close. He self-submitted, feeling the time was right to…

EXCLUSIVE: German actor, DJ and comedian Flula Borg we hear is joining James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad.  Borg’s role is being kept under wraps, but we hear he’s playing a love interest to one of the characters in the Warner Bros. release. He joins returning castmembers Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn), Viola Davis (Amanda…

Fox continues to add to the cast of Empire, which will send the musical drama go out with a bang. The latest to join the roster of the sixth and final season is actress/singer Diamond White, who will appear in the series as a recurring guest star. White will play Lala, a soft-spoken SoundCloud singer who sounds great…

The 9th annual Streamy Awards are about to get a little more muscle behind them. YouTube is partnering with Tubefilter, which oversees the yearly event, and dick clark productions for the awards ceremony, which will take place at the Beverly Hilton on December 13.  The event will stream live globally on YouTube…

Streamer HBO Max has set its pilot slate, handing out pilot orders to three projects — one-hour drama The Rules of Magic, from writer Melissa Rosenberg (Marvel’s Jessica Jones); half-hour dramedy Generation, from 17-year-old Zelda Barnz, her father Daniel Barnz and executive producer Lena Dunham; and hourlong YA drama…

It’s no surprise that Big Brother continues to dominate as the head of household when it comes to broadcast network primetime ratings. The CBS reality series boasted a season high in viewers Sunday, earning a season-ratings-high 1.3 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 5.04 million sets of eyeballs. At Fox, the network…