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EXCLUSIVE: It’s official. Entertainment veteran Mario Lopez (Extra) is the new host of NBCUniversal’s Access Hollywood. Beginning September 9, Lopez will join Kit Hoover and Scott Evans as host of both Access Hollywood and its daytime counterpart, Access Daily (formerly Access Live). Additionally, Lopez has signed an…

Netflix has ordered 16 episodes of The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia, a multi-camera Latinx comedy series co-created by Mario Lopez and Speechless and Melissa & Joey producer Seth Kurland. The news comes after Netflix in March opted to cancel another Latin-centered family comedy, a remake of Norman Lear’s One Day…

The 46th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards take place today at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. The show will be hosted by Extra’s Mario Lopez and The Talk‘s Sheryl Underwood, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced last month. Days of Our Lives leads all shows with 27 nominations. CBS is the leading…

In August, it will be 30 years since the popular teen sitcom Saved By the Bell premiered on NBC and some of the cast got together this past weekend to celebrate their 30 years of friendship that followed. (See original cast photo above). Mario Lopez, who played A.C. Slater, and Tiffani Thiessen, who portrayed Kelly…

Mario Lopez and Sheryl Underwood have been named hosts for the 46th annual Daytime Emmy Awards on May 5 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Organizer the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences unveiled the news today when it also revealed that David Osmond will host the Daytime Emmy Creative Arts ceremony May…

Extra alum Tanika Ray is returning to the veteran entertainment news show as co-host, along with Renee Bargh and AJ Calloway, and British TV personality Mark Wright has signed on as correspondent. They join Mario Lopez for the 24th season of the Emmy-winning show which premieres September 5. Ray, who served as a host…

Mario Lopez and Sheryl Underwood have been tapped as hosts of the 44th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards set for Sunday, April 30 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, CA. Lopez is in his ninth consecutive year as host of Emmy-winning entertainment news program Extra. As an actor, he recently guest-starred on NBC’s…

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former California governor-turned-Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice replacement, dinged Trump’s temporary ban on immigrants from seven countries with majority Muslim populations saying the executive order was “vetted badly.” “I know what he’s trying to accomplish — his fear about people…

Last year, those walking the red carpet contended with near triple digit temperatures, with medical assistance on hand in case anyone passed out. Even though no one is collapsing from lack of hydration, it’s still 90 degrees outside. And if you’re coming from the Toluca Lake area and the A.C. is broken in you limo…

Kurtwood Smith has joined the Season 2 cast of ABC’s action-drama series Marvel's Agent Carter. Smith will play Vernon Masters, a veteran of the War Department with a keen understanding of how to work the system. Hayley Atwell stars as Agent Peggy Carter, the unstoppable secret agent for the Strategic Scientific…

NuvoTV has unveiled a full slate of original programming that includes six music and entertainment series and specials, three unscripted dramas, two comedy series, and live sports specials. Among the new series is two from Jennifer Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions, stemming from her role as the network’s chief creative…

Sarah Palin has a new reality series, Amazing America, on Sportsman “Red, Wild & Blue” Channel that this week features the world championship duck calling contest in Arkansas.  So, naturally she and Mario Lopez discussed abortion and Hillary Clinton‘s pregnant daughter on Extra. Watch here: video platformvideo manageme…