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Focus Features will open Champions on March 24, 2023. In the movie, Woody Harrelson plays a former minor-league basketball coach who, after a series of missteps, is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with intellectual disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go…

EXCLUSIVE: Ernie Hudson (Grace and Frankie, Ghostbusters: Afterlife) is the final addition to the cast of Champions, the recently-wrapped Special Olympics film that Bobby Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber, There’s Something About Mary) directed for Focus Features and Gold Circle Entertainment. He’ll star alongside the…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Woody Harrelson (True Detective, Zombieland), Emmy nominee Kaitlin Olson (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Hacks), Grammy nominee Cheech Marin (Born in East L.A, From Dusk Till Dawn) and Matt Cook (Man With a Plan, The Comeback) will lead Champions, a recently-wrapped film…

Champions, a basketball-themed comedy, and The Realm, a political thriller, emerged as the top winners in Spain’s 33rd annual Goya Awards. Roma, which was also taking the top prize across the Atlantic at Saturday night’s DGA Awards, won a Goya for Best Iboamerican Film. The Realm took home seven trophies, for…

While submitting an Asghar Farhadi feature to the Oscar’s foreign film category might be considered a no-brainer, Spain chose differently, passing over two-time Oscar winner’s Cannes Film Festival opener Everybody Knows, which was produced with the country’s money and starred two Oscar-winning national treasures…

Josie Totah, who was billed as J.J. Totah while starring on NBC’s midseason comedy Champions this year and the ABC sitcom Back in the Game, announced today that she is a transgender female. The 17-year-old broke the news in an essay for Time magazine headlined, ‘My Name Is Josie Totah — And I’m Ready to Be Free.’ “I…

NBC has made a final decision on Champions, opting not to renew the freshman comedy for a second season. The call came down to the wire, with the options on the cast expiring this weekend. I hear there had been discussions with Netflix about picking up the series. The streaming giant has international rights to Champio…

It is the stuff of legend and champions, as LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers made the statement Friday that they would not be going quietly into the NBA playoffs elimination night. In the Cavs’ epic 109-99 Game 6 victory over Boston to force a deciding Game 7, the 2016 champions showed the Celtics it ain't…

Last year, Timeless celebrated a miracle the weekend before the upfronts after NBC uncanceled the time-travel drama that Saturday. This year, it’s a nail-biting pre-upfront weekend with no word yet on the fate of the bubble drama ahead of its Season 2 finale tonight. At NBC’s upfront call this morning, NBC chairman…

UPDATED with final stats: The opening nigh off the NCAA men’s basketball tournament led CBS to a primetime victory Thursday. Basketball underwent a notable shuffle due to the live nature of broadcast, causing CBS to slide to a 1.5 demo rating and 4.98M viewers, though that still bested last year’s 4.47M and 1.2 demo…

UPDATED with final ratings 2:20 PM: NBC’s new comedy series Champions had a quiet debut last night with a 0.7 adults 18-49 rating and 2.7 million viewers (Live+same day) at 9:30 PM. Because of college basketball pre-emptions on NBC, CBS and the CW, there have been downward adjustments for their shows, with all NBC…

NBC is making a small change to its Thursday night schedule. Beginning Thursday, March 8, A.P. Bio will air at 8:30 PM ET/PT, and Champions, which premieres that night, will air at 9:30 PM ET/PT. A.P. Bio aired in the 9:30 PM ET/PT slot on its premiere night February 1. That preview telecast earned a 1.3 rating in…