Esther Scott, whose film, TV and stage career included roles in Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation and John Singleton’s Boyz n the Hood, died February 14 in Los Angeles after suffering a heart attack, Deadline has confirmed. She was 66. Scott appeared in dozens of TV series including playing Delma on CW's Hart of Dixi…

Showtime has confirmed development of half-hour series The Auteur, starring Jude Law (The Young Pope) and directed by newly minted Oscar winner Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit), who will also write with Peter Warren (Ghost Team). Signaling its intention to pick up the project to series, the network has ordered multiple…

As NBCUniversal’s new streaming service Peacock ramps up for the forthcoming revival of the classic teen series Saved by the Bell, there is one character that we won’t be seeing the fashionable gossip queen Lisa Turtle played by Lark Voorhies. On Wednesday’s episode of The Dr. Oz Show, the actress addressed how she…

Oscar winner Melissa Leo will play the lead in Fox’s drama pilot Blood Relative, lifting the cast-contingency on the pilot order. Originally picked up as cast-contingent, Blood Relative is a forensic genealogy-themed crime drama from writer-producer Chris Levinson and producer Liza Chasin, Paramount Television Studios…

If you are on the Westside of Los Angeles today, you might want to use lunch to start that commute home early, because Donald Trump's whirlwind visit to town today is going to make a. parking lot out of the area very soon. With the former Celebrity Apprentice host expected to touch down at LAX around 3:25 p.m., the LAP…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has inked Portuguese actress Daniela Melchior, who will next star as supervillain Ratchatcher in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad for Warner Bros. The character in DC lore is known for its ability to control rats and stage a variety of crimes throughout Gotham City. Melchior is known for her roles in the…

Eric Newman, who has been examining the drug trade in Colombia and Mexico as showrunner of Netflix’s Narcos and Narcos: Mexico, is turning his attention to the opioid crisis in America with Painkiller, a limited drama series for the streamer where he is under an overall deal. Peter Berg (The Leftovers, Friday Night Lig…

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor and Celebrity Apprentice contestant, while giving pardons to such high-profile figures as former San Francisco 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo, financier Michael Milken and former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik. As he…

EXCLUSIVE: Solstice Studios has made two key hires with Sam Speiser as VP of Production and JD Black as SVP of Digital Marketing and Media. Speiser most recently worked as sole development executive under veteran studio head Rob Friedman, and previously under President of Production Lisa Ellzey at EuropaCorp. She…

Hollywood therapist Amie Harwick died from blunt force injuries of the head and torso after being attacked in her home Saturday, the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner said in a report Tuesday. The report, which classifies Harwick’s death a homicide, said the injuries occurred when she fell from…