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Ellen DeGeneres will continue her top-rated daytime talk show for the next three seasons, she announced today. The deal extends The Ellen DeGeneres Show‘s run through 2022. "I'm excited to announce that I'll be doing my show for three more years," DeGeneres told her audience during today’s show. "Mostly because I love…

Olivia Wilde’s femme teen comedy Booksmart had a blitzkreig social media push today to a potential 221M followers prior to the pic’s early access paid sneaks tonight at 800 locations. That combined reach is comprised from social media pushes on EW, Ellen DeGeneres’ channels as well as Annapurna’s and Booksmart’s…

Ho Ho Ho. Ellen DeGeneres is bringing her annual holiday giveaway tradition to primetime. NBC has set Ellen’s Greatest Night of Giveaways, a three-episode special event series, for premiere this holiday season. Over the course of three hourlong primetime specials, DeGeneres, along with her celebrity friends, will…

Ellen DeGeneres is not yet ready to give up her daytime show, she told Deadline ahead of Netflix’s FYSEE screening of her special Relatable on Wednesday. Saying she’s “torn" on how long to keep the show, she joked, “I don’t know what I’m doing.” While her wife Portia de Rossi wants her to have a chance to relax more…

Following a global backlash and an outcry from celebrities including George Clooney, Elton John and Ellen DeGeneres to boycott the nine luxury hotels he owns around the world, the Sultan of Brunei today pulled back on extreme laws against LGBTQ citizens of his country, extended a moratorium on a death penalty that…

Ellen Digital Network (EDN) has slated its lineup of new and returning original programming during the 2019 Digital Content NewFronts. Highlights include a collaboration with actress, singer and author Lea Michele, who bows in a new series called Well, Well, Well with Lea Michele. The wellness enthusiast will provide…

Ellen DeGeneres, Elton John and Billie Jean King are among celebrities to follow George Clooney’s lead in calling for a boycott of hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei, who on Wednesday introduced strict new laws in his country including sentences of stoning to death for adultery and homosexual sex. Starting today…

Netflix likes Green Eggs and Ham, judging by the top-flight voice cast assembled for the new animated series set for a debut next fall. The Ellen DeGeneres-produced adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic will feature Michael Douglas, Adam DeVine, Diane Keaton, Ilana Glazer, Eddie Izzard, Tracy Morgan, Keegan-Michael Key…

With The Big Bang Theory coming to its big bye-bye, the cast gets together for something of an early exit interview on today’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The long-running sitcom is taping its final episodes leading up to the May departure, and stars Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki, Mayim Biyalik…

Just a week in to Season 2, NBC has renewed top-rated alternative series Ellen’s Game of Games for a third season. No word yet on the number of episodes. The renewal for the Ellen DeGeneres-hosted game show comes amid strong ratings. Ellen’s Game of Games returned to the NBC schedule on Tuesday, Jan. 8 as the night's…

In the latest chapter of the Kevin Hart/Ellen DeGeneres/Oscar hosting saga, the daytime talk show host’s brother, Vance DeGeneres has come to the defense of his sister’s support of Hart despite the controversy surrounding him regarding resurfaced homophobic tweets that caused him to lose the Oscar hosting gig. CNN’s Do…

EXCLUSIVE: Despite the efforts of former host Ellen DeGeneres, Kevin Hart will not reemerge as host of the 91st Academy Awards, multiple sources are telling Deadline. While this situation is still fluid and he could possibly change his mind, this looks like his final answer, I’m told. The Academy will continue on its…