Victor Rasuk talks with Ross Crystal on ‘Showbiz Express’ about his role as Daniel Garcia in the ABC series “The Baker and The Beauty.” ‘The Baker and The Beauty’ airs Monday nights at 10pm Eastern on ABC
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NBCUniversal’s streaming service, Peacock, is hatching a new short-form series called “The At-Home Variety Show.” Beginning Monday, May 11, at 7 p.m. ET, the series will stream every weekday for four weeks. “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane will introduce each segment, which will generally be under 10 minutes and will feature performances from NBCU stars […]
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Shares of AMC Entertainment surged Monday amid speculation that the country’s largest exhibition chain could be an acquisition target for Amazon. Both companies did not immediately return requests for comment, and the report in the Daily Mail that goosed share prices indicated that Amazon’s interest may have waned. It noted, for instance, that it was unclear if talks between the […]
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Jerry Stiller, the shorter half of the famed husband-and-wife comedy team Stiller and Meara who was the father of the famous (Ben Stiller) and the fictitious (Seinfeld nebbish George Costanza), has died. He was 92. “I’m sad to say that my father, Jerry Stiller, passed away from natural causes,” actor-director Ben Stiller tweeted. “He was a great […]
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Under Los Angeles County’s Safer-at-Home directives aimed at curbing the spread of the novel coronavirus, red carpet events have been shut down since mid-March. The ban has been a huge blow to the events industry, and insiders have floated several proposals to get Hollywood’s once-booming red carpets back on track, everything from interview pods and […]
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HBO Max has given a series order to an animated show set at the North Pole during the Christmas season — but it’s decidedly not for kids. The soon-to-launch WarnerMedia streaming platform has greenlit eight episodes of Santa Inc., an adult animated show that will star Sarah Silverman and Seth Rogen. The series, created by Shrill showrunner Alexandra […]
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Lori Loughlin will still go to trial in October for her supposed role in the college admissions scandal. On Friday, a federal judge denied the defense’s motion to dismiss charges against the Full House star, her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, and other parents. The defense was looking to get the case thrown out due to alleged investigatory […]
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Flamboyant singer-instrumentalist Little Richard, whose high-voltage, keyboard-shattering R&B singles supplied lift-off for the ’50s rock ‘n’ roll revolution, has died. The musician, whose birth name was Richard Penniman, was 87, although some sources say he was older. His death was confirmed by his son, Danny Jones Penniman, who told the New York Times the cause was cancer. Richard’s […]
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Roy Horn, the masterful showman who captivated the Las Vegas Strip for more than a quarter-century as one-half of Siegfried & Roy, only to see his career end abruptly as the result of a horrible accident during a 2003 performance, died Friday in Las Vegas of complications from COVID-19. He was 75. “Today, the world […]
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Fox is targeting a fall premiere for Season 4 of “The Masked Singer,” Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch said during the company’s earnings call Wednesday. Though the show had yet to be formally renewed for a fourth season, its strong Nielsen returns all but guarantees it will live to sing another day. Despite shutdowns due […]
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For the past seven decades, the show has always gone on for the Tony Awards, which honor the best Broadway performances and productions. But with the 74th edition being postponed from its planned June 7 date due to the coronavirus, there’s a real chance that the ceremony will be scrapped altogether this year, multiple sources tell Variety. As the […]
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Tribeca is taking audiences back to the drive-in this summer. Tribeca Enterprises, Imax and AT&T said Wednesday that they are partnering to launch “Tribeca Drive-In,” a summer programming series of new and classic films, music and sporting events. It will take place in drive-in theaters and “other exclusive venues” nationwide starting Thursday, June 25. The […]
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President Donald Trump is seeking a broader national audience and leaving his Fox News comfort zone, granting a taped interview to ABC News anchor David Muir that will air Tuesday night. Trump’s announcement on Twitter came before ABC News officially announced the interview. The president called it a “major interview.” Muir said that he interviewed […]
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Raymond Reddington has always been an animated guy — but The Blacklist is about to take that literally. The drama’s makeshift Season 7 finale (airing Friday, May 15 at 8/7c) will include scenes with graphic novel-style animation, NBC announced Tuesday, as a workaround to the pandemic-induced production shutdown. The show was halfway through filming Episode 19 — […]
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“Fox & Friends” has consistently bested “Morning Joe” and “New Day.” In March, it was the highest-rated morning show in cable news with 1.7 million average viewers, of whom 332,000 were in that key demo. At the end of the first quarter of 2020, “Fox & Friends” marked 73 consecutive quarters as the highest-rated morning show in […]
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NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell is reorganizing his senior leadership team at the company, marking the first major executive restructuring since succeeding Steve Burke at the beginning of the year. Mark Lazarus, who currently oversees NBC Sports Group and the company’s local stations, will now oversee the company’s entertainment businesses as well, including Peacock. The new streaming service, which […]
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Nicolas Cage is set to star in a scripted series centered on Joe Exotic, the subject of the Netflix docuseries “Tiger King,” Variety has learned exclusively. The eight-episode series is being produced by Imagine Television Studios and CBS Television Studios. It will be taken to market in the coming days. It is based on the Texas Monthly article “Joe Exotic: A Dark […]
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Gil Schwartz, former chief communications officer for CBS and a longtime executive for the company, has died. He was 68. The network on Sunday announced that Schwartz died Saturday morning of natural causes at his home in Santa Monica. “For the better part of three decades, Gil Schwartz led CBS Communications with creative flare, craftsman-like […]
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The Television Critics Association’s summer press tour, an annual marketing ritual held at LA’s Beverly Hilton, has become the latest industry event to be canceled by the coronavirus. In a memo sent Friday to its members, the TCA said it is “working with the networks to explore virtual alternatives both within the original press tour time frame […]
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Adam Driver will star in an adaptation of “Yankee Comandante,” Variety has learned. “Mud” director Jeff Nichols is writing and helming the pic, marking a reunion for the pair, who worked together on 2016’s “Midnight Special.” While production start dates are up in the air due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has shuttered the industry, sources say shooting is expected […]
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Fox is gathering a group of celebrities to talk about television. The network has greenlit 10 episodes of an unscripted series called Celebrity Watch Party, which as its name implies will feature famous people in their homes discussing the biggest shows and news events on TV in the past week. It is based on the BAFTA-winning […]
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Michael O’Neill talks to Ross Crystal about his role in the NBC Series “Council of Dads” and what makes the show special.
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Fan conventions have gone on hiatus as COVID-19 continues to keep the world on lockdown, but that isn’t preventing New York Comic Con and Star Wars Celebration organizers ReedPop from marking next week’s Star Wars Day. The two-day An Online Revelry: May the 4th Be With You and Revenge of the 5th celebration features multiple […]
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The 2020 Daytime Emmys, Sports Emmys, News & Documentary Emmys and Technology & Engineering Emmys will be replaced by virtual ceremonies, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced on Wednesday. The Technology & Engineering ceremony had originally been scheduled for April 19 in Las Vegas, and had been postponed until October due to […]
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has tweaked its Oscar eligibility rules in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. During a meeting on Tuesday, the board of governors approved a temporary hold on the requirement that a film needs a seven-day theatrical run in a commercial theater in Los Angeles County to qualify for the Oscars. Instead, films […]
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