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In a syndication deal with a novel twist, Fox and Warner Bros. have reached multi-year renewals for Extra, TMZ, TMZ Live and The Real, with new formatting that eliminates the commercial breaks at the ends of each show. The hope is that by adjusting the timing of ad breaks — in a way that preserves the net ad load but…

Quibi is taking its Daily Essentials to the Thirty Mile Zone. Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s shortform digital platform is teaming with Harvey Levin’s TMZ on two daily celebrity news shows curated for millennials. Quibi said the untitled pop culture shows will be rich with news from hip-hop and basketball to…

Several prominent National Football League quarterbacks have gone down from injury and illness in the first two weeks of the season. But still, no one has called on former 49er Colin Kaepernick. Despite his agents contacting such teams as the Pittsburgh Steelers, New Orleans Saints, Indianapolis Colts and New York…

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…