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In The Morning Show, Jennifer Aniston plays a kind of angel to Billy Crudup's devil. Aniston's Alex Levy, an utterly dedicated and focused television news anchor, holds tight to a good-person identity, so she's floored when co-anchor Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell) is outed for sexual misconduct, and she's forced to…

After their comedy Emmy nom record, Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell landed their first lead Drama Primetime nominations today for their respective turns in AppleTV+’s The Morning Show as news anchors Alex Levy and Mitch Kessler. Aniston has been nominated 6x before in the comedy category –5x for Friends– winning…

Coming off a coronavirus pandemic dominated second quarter, Netflix today revealed not just strong subscriber and revenue growth, but also a lot of eyeballs for some key series and films. “In Q2, we notched successes in many of our key content verticals,” the the now Ted Sarandos co-CEO'd streamer circumspectly noted…

Former football quarterback turned activist Colin Kaepernick is setting up a legal defense fund to help protesters arrested in Minneapolis’s street confrontations. In his NFL playing days, Kaepernick started a movement by kneeling before the national anthem to protest injustice and alleged police violence. After…

Here’s another notable theatrical release to hit PVOD due to COVID-19: Focus Features’ Jon Stewart-directed political comedy Irresistible. Originally scheduled for a May 29 theatrical release, the Steve Carell-Rose Byrne-Chris Cooper movie now will play in homes starting Friday, June 26. Irresistible will be available…

The posthumous accolades are pouring in for comic actor Fred Willard, whose career spanned 50 years in film, television, stage and nightclubs. A four-time Emmy nominee, Willard was known for characters who appeared slightly off and outside the norm. But his real-life personal warmth and quick wit made him a Hollywood…

Netflix has set Friday, May 29 for the premiere of Space Force, its new workplace comedy from The Office duo Steve Carell and Greg Daniels, which may have drawn inspiration from President Donald Trump's Space Force initiative. The streamer also revealed the casting of Friends alum Lisa Kudrow. Co-created by Carell and…

Focus Features said Wednesday that it has set a May 29, 2020 domestic release date for Irresistible, the new film written and directed by Jon Stewart. The political satire, produced by Stewart and Plan B Entertainment, revolves around what happens when a small Wisconsin town becomes the main attraction of our…

"We're just beginning," said The Morning Show star and exec producer Reese Witherspoon. However, the cast and creatives of the Apple TV+ drama offered few hints about the second season of the show during its TCA press tour panel. Witherspoon was joined by co-star Aniston, who also exec produces, Billy Crudup, director…

Those Office reboot rumors will never go away. In an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, when asked by Ellen whether a reboot of the hit NBC comedy was in the offing, former star Steve Carell had a unique idea for bringing it back. “You know what I thought would be a great for The Office?, not reboot The Office,…

John Malkovich (The New Pope), Ben Schwartz (Parks and Recreation, House of Lies), Diana Silvers (Booksmart, MA) and Tawny Newsome (Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, Brockmire) are set as series regulars opposite Steve Carell in Space Force, Netflix’s new workplace comedy from the former Office star and The Office…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Chris Cooper (Adaptation) is joining Steve Carell and Rose Byrne in Jon Stewart’s sophomore feature as writer-director Irresistible, which we can confirm will be backed by Focus Features. Set amidst a heated political campaign trail, the comedy is being produced by Vice and Moonlight producers…