Finally, some good news for those who like a sprinkling of fact in their films: barely a month past the mid-year mark, Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan's World War II drama, appears poised to outperform last year's top-selling historical movie, Theodore Melfi's Hidden Figures.

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When Ryan Murphy's creepy-sexy series American Horror Story was submitted as a miniseries for its first season in 2012, it caused a stir among pundits that lasted well into the 2013 Emmy race. Cynics said it was a way to avoid competing in the more-competitive drama race, despite how Murphy's concept of putting new…

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EXCLUSIVE: Reality powerhouse A&E has teamed with Ryan Seacrest and top British self-help guru Paul McKenna for a new reality project, tentatively titled The Incurables. I hear the cable network, home of such docu series about afflictions as Intervention, Obsessed and Hoarders, has ordered a pilot for The Incurables,…

Jason Hervey and Eric Bischoff’s reality production company Bischoff Hervey Entertainment TV has signed an overall international distribution deal with Shine International, which will handle distribution for BHE TV's formats. Shine International already distributes BHE TV's CMT series Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championshi…

Bravo's new series “Bethenny Getting Married?" last night scored the highest-rated series premiere on the network ever, averaging 2.1 million total viewers, 1.35 million of them in the adults 18-49 demographic. Meanwhile, the Bravo series that spun off Bethenny, The Real Housewives of New York City, averaged 2.24…

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