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Peter Scolari, the prolific television and stage actor who found instant fame and a lifelong friendship with Tom Hanks when the two co-starred in the hit 1980 TV comedy Bosom Buddies, died early Friday morning following a two-year battle with cancer. He was 66. His death was announced by Ellen Lubin Sanitsky at Wright…

The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office’s has declined to move forward on criminal charges against Murray Miller, a former writer/executive producer on HBO’s Lena Dunham series Girls. He was accused last fall by actress Aurora Perrineau of sexually assaulting her in 2012 when she was 17. Miller’s case was one of…

With the candor that distinguishes both her personal life and her art, Girls creator Lena Dunham has disclosed that she underwent a total hysterectomy in recent months to end the years-long chronic pain of endometriosis. Dunham shares the personal information in an essay in the upcoming March issue of Vogue, portions…

Lena Dunham has backed down and apologized for defending Girls writer Murray Miller, who is being investigated for sexually assaulting actress Aurora Perrineau when she was age 17. Dunham issued a long tweet on Friday supporting Miller, adding Girls executive producer Jenni Konner’s name as another ally of Miller. “We…

UPDATED with statement from : HBO’s Girls has ended, but Hollywood’s sexual assault and harassment scandal certainly has not. The latest accusation comes today from actress Aurora Perrineau, who says former Girls writer/EP Murray Miller sexually assaulted her in 2012 when she was 17. Girls co-showrunners Lena Dunham…

Jordan Klepper’s The Opposition poked fun at Yahoo’s report claiming a Russian troll factory forced workers to watch Netflix’s House of Cards. Report author Michael Isikoff said he’d learned from a former troll that they binged the series, in English, in order “to know all the main problems of the United States of…

Working consistently since the 1980s in film, television and theater, Becky Ann Baker may forever be known for maternal turns in two iconic series, the blessing and occasional burden of extraordinary work. Both from executive producer Judd Apatow, those series would be cult classic Freaks and Geeks and Lena Dunham’s Gi…

Ineligible because of their late debut dates, past winners Game of Thrones and Orphan Black were nowhere to be found today among the nominees for the 69th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, but neither were the final seasons of The Leftovers and Girls nor The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. As Hollywood woke up this…

As viewers said goodbye to HBO original series Girls, Zosia Mamet’s Shoshanna Shapiro seemed confidently on her way to a new life—and so, it seems, is Mamet, appearing at the Tribeca Film Festival in support of Sophie Brook’s feature directorial debut, The Boy Downstairs. Told partially in flashbacks—watching the…

It wasn't the finale high of Girls’ first season that saw 1 million viewers watching on June 17, 2012. But Sunday's series ender of the Lena Dunham HBO show got close. On a busy night on cable that saw the Season 3 debut of The Leftovers plus the return of Veep on HBO and the dismal opening of John Ridley's limited…

Spoiler alert! This article contains details of tonight's series finale of HBO's Girls. Like Joan Didion fifty hears before her, Hannah Horvath said goodbye to all that. Goodbye to New York, to the friends that she’d invested in so heavily since college, and goodbye to the Big City dreams of a hopeful young writer…

Lena Dunham is Jimmy Kimmel’s guest tonight on ABC’s JLK, because the penultimate episode of her HBO series Girls debuts this Sunday. To mark the occasion, Dunham and her Girls colleagues shot what they billed as a spoof of The Golden Girls, the long-running, mid-’80s/early-’90s NBC sitcom that starred Betty White…