Dan Harris is stepping back as co-anchor of ABC News’ Nightline after nearly six years, the network said Tuesday. He will continue to report stories for the late-night newsmagazine as well as for other ABC News outlets, and will continue co-anchoring the weekend edition of Good Morning America. Harris plans to devote…

Ta-Nehisi Coates is the latest name to be added to the roster of keynote speakers for the 2018 South by Southwest Conference and Festival. The journalist and author joins previously announced SXSW keynoters in Academy Award-winning Barry Jenkins, psychotherapist and bestselling author Esther Perel, and technology…

Nightline co-anchor Dan Harris has been tapped as host for Season 2 of ABC's event game show 500 Questions, from Mark Burnett and Mike Darnell. Produced by MGM Television in association with Warner Horizon Television, the series will return this year. Harris is currently co-anchor of Nightline and the weekend edition…

The Goldbergs star Wendi McLendon-Covey has joined the cast of Sycamore Pictures' teen comedy Speech & Debate. The film follows a misfit trio of high school students who, frustrated by the hypocrisy of their authority figures, revive their school’s long since shut-down speech and debate club. Blogging, blackmail and…

UPDATE, 7:30 A.M.: Sarah Steele also stars in the world premiere of  Karam’s The Humans, slated to begin performances September 30 at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s off-Broadway mainstage, the Laura Pels Theatre. Directed by Tony winner Joe Mantello, the play’s cast also includes Cassie Beck, Reed Birney, Jayne…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed writer/director Dan Harris, who’s currently scribbling X-Men: Apocalypse with Michael Dougherty and Simon Kinberg for director Bryan Singer. Harris, who’d been repped by CAA, moves over to the same agency that reps his often writing partner Dougherty, with whom he worked on Fox's X-Men 2 and…

UPDATE, 2:15 PM: When ABC News put out word this morning that Nightline anchor Bill Weir was leaving ABC News for “another opportunity in the news business,” The Reporters Who Cover Television began preparing their “Weir Heads To CNN” reports, figuring there was a high likelihood he would follow colleagues Jake…

ABC News President Ben Sherwood made the announcement this morning, noting that Bill Weir gave notice that he was departing “for another opportunity in the news business.” Dan Harris, who has co-anchored the weekend edition of Good Morning America since 2010, will replace Weir as co-anchor of Nightline alongside…