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If you happened to grow up in a particular section of Brooklyn in the '70s and played a game called Hot Peas and Butter with neighborhood kids, you might still have the welts to show for it. As the Oscar-contending animated short The Originals reveals, that old time-y outdoor game involved the…

Actor Joseph Morgan announced via his Instagram page that he will be appearing in the last episode of the CW’s Legacies. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Joseph Morgan (@therealjosephmorgan) In the Vampire lineage there is: CW’s The Vampire Diaries, its spinoff The…

EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Cole, best known for her roles in Hallmark’s “Making Spirits Bright” and CW’s The Originals, has signed an exclusive multi-picture overall deal with Crown Media Family Networks. “We are thrilled to have Taylor on board to star in multiple movies for Hallmark,” said Lisa Hamilton Daly, Executive Vice…

EXCLUSIVE: ICM Partners has signed Danielle Campbell, who currently stars as Kayla Powell on the CBS All Access thriller, Tell Me A Story. The Chicago native first broke out on TV with a five episode-guest starring role on Fox’s Prison Break and soon followed with a starring role in the Walt Disney feature Prom. On CW…

There was a lot of love and bookending for the end of The Originals (0.3/1) last night as The Vampire Diaries spinoff closed out five seasons with a bit of bite. Matching its ratings result among adults 18-49 of last week, the New Orleans-set supernatural show pulled off the increasingly rare feat of being even with…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details from tonight’s episode of The Originals. The time has come. The Originals has bitten its last neck, howled at its last full moon and cast its last spell. Wednesday night marked the series finale of the popular supernatural Vampire Diaries spin-off series and there definitely…

Facing a lot of encores on the rest of the Big 4 and the CW last night, Fox was served up another Wednesday primetime ratings victory by Gordon Ramsay. Both MasterChef (0.9/4) and the second week of Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back (1.0/4) were down a tenth from their June 13 airings. However, the simmer…

The beginning of the NBA Finals tonight on ABC and the fourth consecutive face-off between the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers will undoubtedly dominate the Big 4 but last night belonged to another warrior. The highest rated and third most watched (5.35 million) show of an Empire-less Wednesday, Ameri…

A special Wednesday The Voice (1.4, 8.24M) gave Empire (1.7, 5.32M) and Survivor (1.6, 7.70M) a run for their ratings, and landed in the No. 1 spot for the night in total viewers, propelling NBC’s  nightly win in that metric. Fox’s Empire maintained its rule over the demo. Basking in the Voice lead-in boost, Law & Orde…

After Life Sentence hit another Live+same day low this week, the CW has decided to move the dramedy to Fridays, a move the network also recently applied to Life Sentence‘s predecessor in the post-Riverdale Wednesday 9 PM slot, Dynasty. The Originals, originally slated to return on April 20 and air its final season on…

The Vampire Diaries and The Originals showrunner Julie Plec, the CW and Warner Bros. TV are firming up their plans for a potential new series in The Vampire Diaries/The Originals universe centered around the character of Hope Mikaelson, the tribrid daughter of Niklaus Mikaelson and Hayley Marshall-Kenner. TVD/The Origi…

The CW has firmed up its schedule for the rest of the 2017-18 season, slating new comedy Life Sentence and returning dramas iZombie, The 100 and the final season of The Originals. The announcement was made at the top of the CW’s TCA presentation today. As part of the plans, the Dynasty reboot, which has performed…