Pop singer Britney Spears is not going to work until her mental health improves, says her longtime manager Larry Rudolph, telling TMZ that her medications have “stopped working.” Spears canceled a residency in Las Vegas in January and later checked into a mental health facility. She is now out of the facility but…

Updated with Griffin apology: Kathy Griffin has apologized for her photo shoot in which she held up a “decapitated” head of President Donald Trump, after being blasted both by the left and the right. "I sincerely apologize. I am just now seeing the reaction of these images,” Griffin says in a video released Tuesday…

Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution has renewed Telepictures' daily syndicated TV series TMZ and TMZ Live through the 2019-20 season on Fox Television Stations. The extension includes all of the owned-and-operated Fox affiliates, such as WNYW New York, KTTV Los Angeles and WFLD Chicago. TMZ debuted in…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. BART: It's Oscar time in LA, which translates into hell week for publicists but a moment of delicious opportunity for bartenders…

Near daily news about NBC News anchor Brian Williams’ conflation of facts caused more viewers to tune in to syndicated entertainment magazines the week ending February 8. Magazine leader Entertainment Tonight (3.8 live plus same day national Nielsen rating, up 9% week-to-week) clocked its strongest numbers in four…

Inside Edition announced this morning Zoey Tur is joining the program as “special correspondent” for the month of February which, the program claims, makes her the country’s first transgender TV reporter. Tur formerly known as Chopper Bob, is best known as the helicopter pilot who covered the OJ Simpson police…

A few days before TMZ creator Harvey Levin came to the Winter TV Press Tour to plug his new ReelzChannel show TMZ Hollywood Sports, Bryant Gumbel came to the tour to remind reporters he has an HBO sports show. During his panel, Gumbel tipped his hat to TMZ for being first with the video of Ray Rice clocking his…

UPDATED 3:22 PM: More fallout from the Stephen Collins audiotape that surfaced yesterday. ABC said today that the former 7th Heaven star’s scenes have been cut from an upcoming episode of the Shonda Rhimes D.C. drama Scandal. “We can confirm that we will not be airing any footage with Stephen Collins,” a network rep…

Talk about great timing — Reelz  said today it has bought TMZ Hollywood Sports to anchor its weekday primetime lineup, at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, starting Monday, September 29. Reelz called the newly created program “one of the freshest, most respected and energizing journalism brands in the country.” Everyone else is…

Apparently there are limits to even TMZ’s ability to make just anyone famous. The Artiaga family of Beaumont, CA, learned that this week when the CW pulled the plug on the Artiagas’ series, Famous In 12 — after just five episodes. In the CW reality series/social experiment, the family moved to L.A. where, guided by…

The youth-targeted network’s summer fling with TMZ has a launch date. The CW said today that Famous In 12, which it’s billing as an “unscripted series/social experiment,” will premiere June 3. The series follows an unknown family’s move to L.A. and subsequent 12-week quest for fame. Guided by the TMZ machine, the…

Without realizing it until days later, TMZ managed to obtain an extremely rare commodity over the weekend — video of the notoriously publicity-averse director Terrence Malick. TMZ cameras cornered Benicio Del Toro to ask the actor what he thought about, for example, whether Cuba should be a state. What they didn’t…