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Queen Latifah kicked down the door and showed us her vigilante side with the premiere of The Equalizer on CBS. The crime drama debuted after the Super Bowl last week, but this past Sunday marked its time slot premiere. The series delivered a 0.9 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and netted 7.98 million…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS’ The Equalizer, coming off its high-profile premiere after the Super Bowl, has suspended filming. According to sources, a positive Covid-19 test result was produced yesterday as part of the show’s rigorous safety protocols. Immediate contact tracing began as outlined in the guidelines set by…

There was a lot of history at Super Bowl LV on Sunday. Unfortunately, not all of it looks good when it comes to how many people actually watched  – and we’re not just talking about Nielsen’s unprecedented delay in getting the actual data out. In figures released Tuesday morning by CBS Sports, the big game had a total…

CBS’ new drama The Equalizer dedicated its premiere to the series’ executive producer Richard Lindheim, who died Jan. 18 of heart failure at the age of 81. The post-Super Bowl debut, which likely attracted tens of millions of viewers, ended with a card that read, “Dedicated to the memory of Richard Lindheim.” (You can…

CBS dropped new trailers for its upcoming reboot for The Equalizer reboot starring Queen Latifah and the Silence of the Lambs follow-up series Clarice and during Super Bowl LV Sunday. The Equalizer hails from Take Two creators Andrew Marlowe & Terri Miller, Davis Entertainment, Flavor Unit, Martin Chase Productions…

EXCLUSIVE: In a sign of more streaming synergy to come, ViacomCBS is making use of its growing Pluto TV streaming service to amplify awareness of soon-to-debut CBS dramas The Equalizer and Clarice. The free, ad-supported platform will stream a two-week sampling of the premiere episodes of each show after their…

CBS is one of the networks that believes in the traditional pilot season – Kelly Kahl is a noted fan of the process. But the Covid-19 pandemic forced it to pivot and hand out a handful of straight-to-series orders for the 2020-21 season including The Equalizer, starring Queen Latifah, and Silence of the Lambs sequel Cl…

Queen Latifah seeks to stake her claim in The Equalizer franchise as she takes on part-time mom and part-time hero Robyn McCall in CBS’ reimagining of the classic 1985 series. While the Girls Trip actress may be the first Black woman portraying the Equalizer in the franchise’s span, powerful Black women seeking to do…

Richard Lindheim, a veteran TV executive who co-created the 1985 series The Equalizer and served as an executive producer on the upcoming CBS reboot, passed away earlier today, Jan. 18, of heart failure. He was 81. Lindheim spent more than four decades in the entertainment industry, serving as a TV executive at NBC…

Queen Latifah makes her debut as an under-the-radar crime fighter in the teaser for CBS’s The Equalizer. The teaser, which dropped on Saturday, unveils the secret life of Latifah’s Robyn McCall. When Robyn’s daughter asks her about abrupt departure from work, Robyn shares the ever-popular nonanswer: “It’s complicated.&#8221…

New CBS drama The Equalizer starring Queen Latifah has landed a plum post-Super Bowl slot for its series premiere. It will air immediately following CBS Sports' broadcast of Super Bowl LV on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/7:00-8:00 PM, PT; time approximate after post-game coverage) on CBS. It will move to…

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Goldberg has been tapped as a lead opposite Queen Latifah in The Equalizer reboot, which has a straight-to-series order at CBS to launch this season. A reimagining of the classic series, The Equalizer stars Queen Latifah as Robyn McCall, an enigmatic woman with a mysterious background who uses her…