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EXCLUSIVE: Quibi has put in development Black Coffee, a single-camera comedy from writer Morgan Cooper, L.A.’s Finest star Gabrielle Union and her I’ll Have Another production company, as well as Sony Pictures TV, where Union and I’ll Have Another are under a deal. Written, directed and executive produced by Cooper…

Simon Cowell is on the brink of inking a record deal for Britain’s Got Talent, as NBC investigates the workplace culture on the U.S. version of the show, America’s Got Talent. A source said Cowell is in the final stages of talks with ITV over a new five-year agreement for the variety show, which will be the longest…

Simon Cowell is beefing up his legal team amid NBC’s investigation into Gabrielle Union’s complaints of a "toxic" workplace culture at America’s Got Talent. Cowell — who created the series and serves as an executive producer — retained Los Angeles-based litigator Larry Stein late last week, a source close to the…

Julianne Hough is breaking her silence on her and Gabrielle Union’s sudden departures from America’s Got Talent. In an appearance on Today‘s third hour Thursday, Hough did not respond directly when asked by host Craig Melvin what her own experience was as a judge on NBC’s hit summer competition series. “I commend…

UPDATE, 3:05 PM: Now both NBC and Gabrielle Union are calling their sit down yesterday over America’s Got Talent “productive,” but it looks like all roads could lead to Simon Cowell. “The initial conversation was candid and productive,” said the network this afternoon after a nearly five-hour meeting on Tuesday about…

Sharon Osbourne unloaded on Simon Cowell and America’s Got Talent Tuesday in the wake of Gabrielle Union’s firing from the series. Osbourne – who spent six years as a judge on the NBC competition show — said it’s run like a “boys club.” "It is a boys club, okay, it is," Osbourne said Tuesday on The Talk. "And the boys…

EXCLUSIVE: Gabrielle Union is set to sit down with NBC this week over what really happened on America's Got Talent and why she was sacked from the Simon Cowell-created show. The purpose of the meeting is to improve the culture and atmosphere on the competition series, however, and Union will not be returning to AGT…

Time’s Up has weighed in on the much-talked-about and controversial dismissal of Gabrielle Union from NBC’s America’s Got Talent after she called out incidents of workplace toxicity she encountered and witnessed while she was a judge on the reality competition series. "Gabrielle Union's experience at America's Got Tale…

Former America’s Got Talent judge Howard Stern is blasting the show’s creator and judge Simon Cowell for NBC’s firing of Gabrielle Union and Julianne Hough from the competition series, bluntly stating that Cowell “orchestrated” the explosive situation. Stern, after admitting he has never heard of Union, addressed the…

Stumbling from bad to worse, NBC now has a potential labor landmine under its feet with Gabrielle Union's forced-march exit from America's Got Talent. Just hours after the Comcast-owned network finally put out a statement that seemed to recognize the gravity of the situation and the allegations of racial and other disc…

In the wake of a conciliatory statement from the companies that produce America’s Got Talent – NBC, Fremantle and Simon Cowell’s Syco – Gabrielle Union has issued her own statement, of sorts. Union retweeted and gave resounding approval to a tweet from journalist Joelle Monique, who laid out the steps for “a solid…

With the controversy over the firing of Gabrielle Union from America’s Got Talent showing no signs of subsiding, and the wave of support for the actress growing every day, NBC and the companies behind AGT, Fremantle and series creator Simon Cowell’s Syco, on Sunday issued a new statement about the situation. "We…