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Every journalist who covered Hollywood in the Golden Era that stretched roughly from Risky Business (1983) through Top Gun: Maverick (now) has had a Tom Cruise moment. I had mine in 2002. My father had just died. It was a rough death, not quick, and as I was driving back for the last time from attending him in…

A video showing a white woman calling police on a black man after he simply asked her to leash her dog dominated social media on Tuesday. In response, Trevor Noah and The Daily Show crew dreamed up a scathing satire of white paranoia. Called “Minorities Report,” the video offering a clever riff on the Tom…

Sleepy Hollow will get a post-Abbie chapter. Fox has renewed the supernatural drama series for a fourth season. Additionally, the network has formally canceled freshman dramas Minority Report and Second Chance. While no first-year Fox comedy made it to a second season, three hourlong series did, dramas Rosewood and Luc…

Jessie Mueller has booked a recurring role in ABC’s midseason drama series The Family, written by Jenna Bans. It follows the return of a politician's (Joan Allen) young son, who was presumed dead after disappearing over a decade earlier. Mueller, repped by Innovative Artists, will play Fran, a cherubic and sweet…

Following a slow start, Minority Report‘s original 13-episode order has been trimmed to 10 episodes. Fox is stopping short of canceling the futuristic thriller, though there will be no additional episodes ordered beyond the 10, with production slated to wrap after that. Fox had scheduled Minority Report for a…

UPDATE 5 PM: The Big Bang Theory (3.9 in 18-49) was once again adjusted up .2 and is now running ahead of last week in Live+same day. Its lead-out, Life In Pieces (1.9) held onto its fast national rating for a 100% hold. Adjusted up a tenth was The Voice (3.3) drawing even with last week, while Blindspot slipped a…

UPDATE 3:30 PM: As expected, The Big Bang Theory went up in the finals, by 0.2, to a 3.8 in 18-49, while Life In Pieces slipped by a 0.1 to a 1.9, bringing its lead-in retention to 50%. The Voice also went up a tenth to a 3.4, while the ABC series fell more from the NFL-inflated fast nationals than the network’s…

UPDATE 2:30 PM: Only one change in the finals on the Big 4 nets, with The Big Bang Theory rising to a 4.7 in 18-49 and 18.2 million viewers and Life In Pieces slipping to a tenth 2.6 as well as 11.3 million viewers. The freshman’s lead-in retention also slipped, to 55%. Snapshot: New series premieres: Blindspot (3.1 in…

Premiering after the Season 2 debut of Gotham on September 21, the small-screen version of the 2002 film starring Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell comes loaded with legacy. But though it is based on a Philip K. Dick story, like the movie, and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, who directed the movie, Minority Report…

In a perverse – and certainly extra-legal – popularity contest, Fox’s Minority Report pilot was the hands-down winner among Internet thieves Monday, scoring about 210 links by mid-afternoon, within 12 hours of being leaked by pirates to a torrent website. In addition to Minority Report and Lucifer, NBC’s upcoming…

In 2065 Washington D.C., as depicted in the Fox TV series adaptation of Steven Spielberg’s hit movie Minority Report, the local NFL team is called the Washington Red Clouds, rather than the slur currently used as the name of the football team. Red Cloud was a “renowned Indian chief” the EP’s explained to reporters at…

After Fox unveiled the first 20 minutes of the Steven Spielberg-executive produced show Minority Report to great applause today at Comic-Con, executive producer Kevin Falls quickly teased that Tom Cruise’s appearance is “something that may or may not happen.” However, per one insider on the show who was clarifying…