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Mean Girls won’t be back when Broadway reopens, producers announced today. The musical based on Tina Fey’s 2004 film suspended production when Broadway went dark due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The musical, with a book by Fey, music by Jeff Richmond, lyrics by Nell Benjamin and direction and choreography by Casey…

Apple TV+ is in final negotiations for Carrie & Me, a new film adapted from Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story, Carol Burnett's bestselling memoir about her daughter Carrie Hamilton. Tara Miele will write and direct the project, which will be produced by Apple Studios along with iconic entertainer Burnett…

Tina Fey narrates a new video for today's launch of #SaveNYCMusicians – a campaign by Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians to save the city's music industry and its legion of musicians who are out of work because of the Covid-19 pandemic. "With no relief in sight," she says, "musicians have lost jobs…

Tina Fey will host NBC’s One Night Only: The Best of Broadway, a two-hour special on Dec. 10 celebrating Broadway and featuring street performances from some of its most popular shows. Fey, Tony-nominated for her musical Mean Girls, will welcome the casts of Ain't Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations, Chic…

Disney and Pixar dropped the second official trailer for its upcoming Jamie Foxx-led animated title, Soul. The first clip since the Disney moved the film’s release date to Christmas Day due to COVID-19, the teaser starts by giving viewers a glimpse into the musical life of Joe Gardner. “Music’s all I think about, from…

There are moments, watching Disney-Pixar's latest release Soul, in which the ambition of the Emeryville-based animation house astounds in ways it hasn't quite achieved in years. Moments of abstract expression that feel entirely unique to its new film, and yet wholly in keeping with the DNA that has made Pixar the…

Paula Pell (A.P. Bio, SNL) has joined the band in Girls5eva, Tina Fey, Robert Carlock and Meredith Scardino's original series for NBCU's Peacock. Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sara Bareilles and Busy Philipps also star. Created and written by Scardino, Girls5eva kicks off when a one-hit-wonder girl group from the 90's gets…

On October 3rd, he asked me to go vote. Mean Girls Day, being exactly one month before Election Day, served a timely opportunity for the cast and crew of Mean Girls to remind fans of their civic duty. The 16th anniversary of Mean Girls Day saw the cast – Tina Fey, Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried, Tim…

Hamilton alum Renée Elise Goldsberry is set to star opposite Sara Bareilles in Girls5eva, Tina Fey, Robert Carlock and Meredith Scardino’s original series for NBCU's Peacock. Created and written by Scardino, in Girls5eva, when a one-hit-wonder girl group from the 90's gets sampled by a young rapper, its members…

Sara Bareilles will lead the cast of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock’s Girls5eva original series for NBCU’s Peacock. Bareilles’ casting was announced today during Peacock’s CTAM virtual press tour. Written by Meredith Scardino, in Girls5eva, when a one-hit-wonder girl group from the 90's gets sampled by a young rapper…

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association on Monday revealed the timeline for the 78th Golden Globe Awards, which are scheduled for February 28, 2021 at the Beverly Hilton in a live ceremony to be hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on NBC. The group said nominations will be announced February 3, while it also officially…

We’re getting the first look at the 30 Rock reunion special episode in a just-released teaser trailer. It opens with Tina Fey’s Liz Lemon, who is clearly not happy when she runs into a man without a mask on a New York City street during the coronavirus pandemic. “No mask hotshot? You scared of the virus now?” she…