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Hulu has put legal drama Reasonable Doubt on a script-to-series development track with the opening of a writers room. The project, originally set up at ABC during the 2019-20 development season, hails from writer Raamla Mohamed (Scandal), Kerry Washington's Simpson Street Productions, Larry Wilmore's Wilmore Films…

EXCLUSIVE: Laurence Fishburne will play The Schoolmaster and Michelle Yeoh Professor Anemone in The School For Good And Evil, joining Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Sofia Wylie and Sophia Anne Caruso in the Paul Feig-directed pic for Netflix. Finding Neverland scribe David Magee and Feig adapted the bestselling…

Kerry Washington and Charlize Theron have joined the cast of The School For Good And Evil, the Paul Feig-directed adaptation of the fantasy YA novel from Soman Chainani. The powerhouse duo join Sofia Wylie and Sophia Anne Caruso who had already been set to topline the pic. Feig made the announcement Friday on Twitter…

"Good evening, America, proud to be here in cold Washington D.C.," Bruce Springsteen said Wednesday night, kicking off the Celebrating America apogee of today's unprecedented inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. If you had any questions about the tone the concert special was going to aim for, the Boss' choice…

Lady Gaga may be belting out the National Anthem at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' inauguration on January 20, but the Boss will be hitting the stage for the new Commander in Chief in primetime that very night. Bruce Springsteen has signed on to the Celebrating America TV special that will air on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN…

In what might be a land speed record for bringing a Broadway musical to the screen, Netflix’s holiday treat for lovers of the genre, The Prom, probably has set that mark. It took just two short years, including being shut down toward the end of filming due to the coronavirus pandemic, to bring this delightful old…

EXCLUSIVE: When I saw The Prom early in its run on Broadway a couple of years ago, I was blown away. Pure delight and a real crowd-pleaser. The plot revolved around a group of flamboyant, self-obsessed Broadway actors, badly in need of good publicity after a huge flop, who converge on a small, conservative town in…

REFRESH FOR UPDATES…. The death of Chadwick Boseman tonight has sent shockwaves through Hollywood at the loss of a man who was as full of grace as he was talent. The Black Panther star passed away Friday from colon cancer at age 43. Boseman had been battling the disease since 2016, the year he first appeared as…

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit. Just as the 10-day kickoff for final Emmy voting started in earnest at 9 a.m. Friday, an unprecedented two regular issues of Emmy magazine, the exclusive mag sent to all 23,000 voting members of the Television Academy, arrived in tandem. Both are…

"Hey everybody, it's me, Kamala." The history making Vice-Presidential nominee for the Democrats broke from tradition tonight with a pre-speech appearance at the party's virtual convention. Less than two hours before Kamala Harris is set to give her acceptance speech as the first woman of color on a major American…

Democrats will intersperse their lineup of speakers and musical acts at this week’s convention with four entertainment figures who long have been active in party politics: Eva Longoria, Tracee Ellis Ross, Kerry Washington and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Longoria will appear on Monday, Ross on Tuesday, Washington on Wednesday…

Last year, Norman Lear became the oldest Emmy winner in history when his special, Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family and The Jeffersons, won for Outstanding Variety Special – Live. Jimmy Kimmel, another executive producer on the show, came to Lear with the idea of redoing selected episodes from his…