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Dallas & Robo is heading to Syfy. The NBCU cable network has acquired the eight-episode adult animated comedy starring John Cena and Kat Dennings to air during its TZGZ late-night animation block. The YouTube series will launch Saturday, August 8, at midnight-ish ET/PT. Episodes will also be available on Syfy on…

EXCLUSIVE: John Cena, Search Party's Meredith Hagner and Lil Rel Howery are attached to lead the comedy film Vacation Friends from 20th Century Fox and Hulu. Clay Tarver, an executive producer of HBO’s Silicon Valley, will helm the film as his first feature directorial outing. Todd Garner is producing the project…

Paramount released the first trailer for Playing With Fire, the upcoming family comedy starring John Cena as a firefighter who, along with his team (Keegan-Michael Key, John Leguizamo and Tyler Mane) rescue three children and, unable to locate the siblings’ parents, become inadvertent and unlikely babysitters. Think…

Nickelodeon’s revival of Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader, with new host John Cena, got off to an OK start in its Monday night premiere, drawing 1.1 million total viewers. The viewership total is up double digits over the prior four-week averages with kids and adults in the 7 PM time slot where the network most…

Vin Diesel teased about John Cena’s casting in the ninth installment of Fast & Furious back in April on Instagram, and Universal officially confirmed Friday that the Blockers actor is a lock. Cena’s character is under wraps, the only word coming to us is that he plays “a badass.” Dwayne Johnson, we hear, will not be…

The series that made some parents blush and their kids beam is coming back to wreak more havoc at the dinner table. Nickelodeon has set 7 p.m. Monday, June 10, for the premiere of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? with new host John Cena. The game show will relaunch with a week-plus of new episodes through June 19…

EXCLUSIVE: Judy Greer is set to star opposite John Cena in Paramount Players’ upcoming Playing With Fire from director Andy Fickman. The Halloween star will play Dr. Amy Hicks in the pic who is the love interest to Cena’s John Carson. In Playing With Fire, a depot in the remote Eastern Sierras becomes an unlikely safe…

John Cena, one of the WWE’s household names and a crossover star in Hollywood films like Trainwreck, will not take part in Friday’s Crown Jewel event in Saudi Arabia. The company last week confirmed that it will move ahead with the event despite other media and entertainment companies and individuals pulling back or…

If wrestlers with the WWE are indeed expressing “discomfort” with plans to perform in Saudi Arabia next month, as an anonymous-sourced Sports Illustrated article says today, last night’s excoriating report by HBO’s John Oliver could only have pumped them up even more. In a nearly 20-minute segment on Sunday’s Last Week…

Maybe Volkswagen axed the Beetle from its future a bit prematurely: The beloved little Bug gets a trunkful of love and visibility in this new trailer for Bumblebee, the next chapter in the Transformers series. Set in the 1980s, director Travis Knight’s prequel entry stars Hailee Steinfeld as Charlie, just about to…

Laser lights, smoke machines and a video presentation set to live musical stylings of Stan Bush singing “The Touch” set the tone for Paramount’s Bumblebee panel at San Diego Comic-Con with some major and totally tubular ’80s flair. Bumblebee marks the live-action feature debut for two-time Academy Award-nominated…

John Cena has hopped aboard the Jackie Chan express with the previously untitled action film Project X, which is being directed by Scott Waugh (Need for Speed). The script, written by Arash Amel, follows a Chinese private security contractor who must help get oil workers out of peril when the refinery is attacked in…