The nominations for the 74th Emmy Awards are being announced live Tuesday, July 12 at 8:30 a.m. PT. Curb Your Enthusiasm actor JB Smoove and Brooklyn Nine-Nine alum Melissa Fumero — who also appear together in the upcoming Netflix comedy Blockbuster — will host the nominations along with Television Academy Chairman and CEO Frank Scherma. […]
Los Angeles County’s daily tally of new Covid cases has topped 8,000 for the first time since January and, like many local industries, Hollywood is not immune. Warner Bros. has recorded what may be the biggest showbiz outbreak of the pandemic, with 31 employees listed as infected on the official L.A. County Public Health Department […]
Matt and Ross Duffer (Duffer Brothers) had much more sinister plans for Max Mayfield in the latest season of Stranger Things. If you’ve already watched the show, then you know the season ended with Max (Sadie Sink) in a coma with several broken limbs. The show creators and brothers went on the Stranger Things 4 […]
SAG-AFTRA and the NFL Players Association have launched a voting rights and voter registration campaign “to protect the right to vote in every state and encourage every American to register to vote as soon as possible.” The campaign, called “Actors & Athletes: Unions for Democracy,” will hold an inaugural brunch on July 17 at Jean-Georges […]
K-Pop superstars BTS are getting into business with The Walt Disney Company. The Korean band have lined up a number of projects with Disney including a docuseries and a concert film. The projects come out of a wide-ranging agreement between BTS studio Hybe and The Walt Disney Asia Pacific, out of its Korean division. The […]
When Dwayne Johnson takes the stage at San Diego Comic-Con next week, it would be truly seismic if he was to announce that Warner Bros was moving up the release date for its New Line/DC movie Black Adam from October 21 to earlier in the fall. However, that’s not going to happen. A pileup of big […]
Netflix’s The Crown, HBO’s Westworld, Prime Video’s The Boys and Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale are among this year’s buzzy TV series that won’t be on Tuesday’s Primetime Emmy nominees list—but it won’t be because they were snubbed. The eligibility period set by the Television Academy for its 2022 awards calls for shows to have aired […]
EXCLUSIVE: Marlyne Barrett has signed a new, multi-year deal to remain on NBC’s Chicago Med. Barrett, who is an original cast member, is about to begin her eighth season on the series. She plays Nurse Maggie Lockwood. Last year, original cast members S. Epatha Merkerson, Oliver Platt, Nick Gehlfuss and Brian Tee reupped their deals on the Chicago […]
Johnny Depp may find himself facing off again with Amber Heard in Virginia in the ex-couple’s big-bucks defamation battle, but he seems to have put an end to the assault and battery case about to go to trial in the City of Angels. Two weeks to the day before the scheduled start of the trial brought […]
Just weeks after its June 24 premiere, Apple TV+ has renewed workplace comedy series Loot, starring and executive produced by Maya Rudolph, for a second season. The renewal of the series from Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard also follows on the heels of Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne’s Animal Pictures’ first-look deal with Apple TV+. Cancellations/Renewals […]
EXCLUSIVE: Christina Elmore (Insecure) is set as a lead opposite Melissa Benoist and Natasha Behnam in The Girls On The Bus, HBO Max’s political drama series from Warner Bros. TV. The series centers on Sadie McCarthy (Benoist), a journalist who romanticizes Tim Crouse’s Boys on the Bus book and who scrapped her whole life for […]
Former Attorney General William Barr has been subpoenaed in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, brought by the election systems company last year against the network over claims that the company rigged the results of the 2020 presidential election. Barr has given deposition testimony to the January 6th Committee in which […]