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Will Smith started the night rapping — then settled in next to Spike Lee as a Hollywood star and now an author. Whatever he did onstage, the multi-talented actor was cheered by adoring fans in the filled-to-capacity 3,000-seat historic Kings Theatre, a grandly restored former 1929 movie palace-turned-performance space…

Will Smith, who revealed the title and cover of his upcoming autobiography Will, thanked fans today for the love: The book, to be published Nov. 9 by Penguin Press, was listed today as Amazon’s #1 Best Seller among actor and entertainer biographies. “I see all y'all gettin' your pre-orders in early for my book, THANK…

TNT has opted not to renew new drama series Will, which chronicled the young years of William Shakespeare to a rock music soundtrack. The series has been in limbo following its soft premiere, which drew paltry 633,000 total viewers and a 0.16 adults 18-49 rating in Live+same day on the linear network. The drama’s…

During Turner’s portion of the TCA summer press tour, TNT and TBS president Kevin Reilly gave an update on the status of TNT’s new drama Will and TBS’ sophomore comedy Wrecked. Plane crash comedy Wrecked, a sleeper hit when it launched last summer above expectations, started its second season down year vs. year but…

Despite its esteemed Elizabethan pedigree behind the camera, the July 10-debuting Will on TNT is not the stuff of which Peak TV stardust is made. With a late-20th century soundtrack and grand ambitions to tell the punkish tale of William Shakespeare's arrival in 16th century London in search of fame and a platform for…

“He was a hero torn between two worlds, two fates, two women.” TNT has released a new trailer for Will, its period drama series that tells the wild story of young William Shakespeare. Newcomer Laurie Davidson stars as the young bard, along with Olivia DeJonge, Ewen Bremner, Colm Meaney, Mattias Inwood, Jamie Campbell…

Not many viewers tuned in for the debut of TNT’s latest drama series, Will, which chronicles the young years of William Shakespeare to a rock music soundtrack. The 9 PM premiere drew 633,000 total viewers and a 0.16 adults 18-49 rating in Live + same day. A second original episode at 10 PM slipped to 477,000 viewers…

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: TNT has a premiere date for its young Shakespeare drama. The cable net is celebrating Sunday’s 453rd anniversary of the Bard’s birth by setting a 9 PM July 10 bow for Will, which stars newcomer Laurie Davidson as William Shakespeare and chronicles his wild 20s in…

TNT’s new Bard-as-rock-star drama Will takes that “dusty thing in history books” called William Shakespeare and drags him “kicking and screaming” into this century, says Laurie Davidson, the just-graduating-from-school actor who plays the young playwright. Asked at TCA about his models for this Shakespearean…

The Leftovers star Jasmin Savoy Brown has been cast as a series regular opposite Laurie Davidson in Will, TNT's upcoming drama series about the exploits of young William Shakespeare. Will tells the wild story of young Shakespeare's (Davidson) arrival onto the punk-rock theater scene in 16th century London – the…

British actor Max Bennett has been cast as a series regular opposite Laurie Davidson in Will, TNT’s upcoming drama series about the exploits of young William Shakespeare. Will tells the wild story of young Shakespeare's (Davidson) arrival onto the punk-rock theater scene in 16th century London – the seductive, violent…

UPDATED with trailer: TNT has picked up drama pilot Will, chronicling the wild 20s of William Shakespeare, to series with a 10-episode order for a 2017 premiere. The project, which comes from Craig Pearce, the longtime writing partner of auteur filmmaker Baz Luhrmann, stars British newcomer Laurie Davidson in the…