Four months after WarnerMedia’s company-wide pact with J.J. Abrams, NBCUniversal also has leveraged its multiple outlets to land Seth MacFarlane. The creator of multibillion-dollar franchise Family Guy left his decades-long home at 20th Century Fox TV on Jan. 10 for what sources say is a five-year, $200 million overall TV deal. Under the pact, MacFarlane will create […]
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Canada’s largest newspaper says Prince Harry and Meghan Markle aren’t welcome to live in the famously friendly country because it’s unconstitutional. In a scathing editorial, The Globe and Mail says the royal couple’s plan to move to the land of maple syrup and hockey violates laws that keep the once-British-ruled country at arm’s length from […]
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David Simon says he was first approached to adapt Phillip Roth’s The Plot Against America shortly after the 2012 election — but he didn’t think the novel, an alternate history in which Charles Lindbergh rides an isolationist and antisemitic wave to defeat Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, was timely. “I enjoyed the novel. It’s a […]
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The Peabody Award are moving to Los Angeles. For the first time in its 80-year history, the ceremony will take place in L.A. This year’s ceremony is set for June 18 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The Peabody Awards have been handed out in New York every year except for the 50th anniversary, when the […]
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The 2020 Academy Award nominations have landed — with a few shockers. Chiefly among them is a snub for Jennifer Lopez‘s Golden Globe-nominated performance in Hustlers. The actress, 50, failed to land a Best Supporting Actress nomination on Monday morning, with Little Women‘s Florence Pugh and Richard Jewell‘s Kathy Bates surprising in the competitive category. Lopez has been a […]
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“Parasite” made history on Monday, becoming the first South Korean movie to be nominated for best picture and best international film. Given South Korea’s rich film history, it’s remarkable that Academy Awards voters have largely ignored the country’s movies. In 2018, there was a great deal of optimism that Lee Chang-dong’s “Burning,” an acclaimed thriller, […]
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Rapper Cardi B appears to have backed off her desire to leave the United States and move to Nigeria as she is now floating the idea of running for U.S. Congress. Cardi B declared on January 3 that she was “picking” the “tribe” that she wanted to join upon moving to Nigeria after going off on President […]
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‘Days of Our Lives’ is in fact carrying on. NBC Entertainment chairman Paul Telegdy confirmed at the Television Critics Assn. press tour that the long-running daytime drama will be returning for another season on NBC. “We’re in the middle of knowing very soon [whether] ‘Days of Our Lives’ is going to carry on,” said Telegdy. “We love it. Millions of […]
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Edd Byrnes, who gained fleeting fame as Kookie, the ultra-hip, wisecracking parking attendant on the jazzy 1950s-’60s ABC detective series 77 Sunset Strip, has died. He was 87. Byrnes, who years later played the smooth-talking Vince Fontaine, a Dick Clark-like dance contest host, in Grease (1978), died unexpectedly Wednesday of natural causes at his home in Santa Monica, his son, […]
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Silvio Horta, creator of ABC’s popular series “Ugly Betty,” was found dead in a Miami motel room on Tuesday in an apparent suicide. He was 45. Sources tell Variety that Horta died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A representative for Horta confirmed his death, but declined to comment on the nature of it. The American version of […]
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The Producers Guild of America has revealed its nominees in the motion picture and television categories for its 31st Annual Producers Guild Awards; nominees include recent Golden Globe winners “1917,” “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,” “Missing Link,” “Succession,” “Fleabag” and “Chernobyl.” The PGA, which has about 8,200 members, has matched the Oscar for best picture in 21 […]
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During a deposition in November, Charlie Rose was pushed to address sexual relationships with co-workers. The ousted CBS Morning anchor admitted to having romantic relationships with women who worked for him, but his attorneys stopped him from providing details about the interactions or whether he felt any remorse about his conduct. Nevertheless, Rose did explain why those […]
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Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg has purchased a 60-second commercial slot during Fox’s broadcast of Super Bowl LIV next month, a rare move for a presidential campaign given the outrageous cost for advertising on TV’s most-watched show. Spokespeople for both Fox and Bloomberg’s campaign did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment. “The biggest […]
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Harvey Weinstein has been charged with four counts of sexual assault in Los Angeles County, deepening the legal peril faced by the fallen Hollywood mogul as his trial on similar charges in New York City is set to begin this month. The charges stem from accusations brought by a pair of women who say Weinstein […]
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David Stern, the former longtime commissioner of the NBA, died Wednesday following a brain hemorrhage, according to a statement from current NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. He was 77. “David took over the NBA in 1984 with the league at a crossroads,” Silver wrote. “But over the course of 30 years as Commissioner, he ushered in the modern […]
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The actor from the widely derided Peloton holiday advertisement gifted his actual girlfriend the $2,000-bike for Christmas. Sean Hunter posted a photo to Instagram with his girlfriend sitting on a Peloton with the caption: “Here’s hoping this goes over better the second time…. Merry Christmas to my actual girlfriend (pls don’t leave me).” In the ad, Hunter […]
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A Georgia jury has awarded $8.6 million to the family of a stuntman killed during the production of a The Walking Dead episode in 2017. The Daily Report reports the verdict Thursday comes after a weeklong trial before Gwinnett County State Court Judge Emily Brantley. Jurors began deliberations late Tuesday and handed up the verdict shortly before 6 p.m. Lawyers […]
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NBC has met with “Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara to discuss a variety of projects, including filling one of the two recently vacated “America’s Got Talent” judge positions, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap. The person told TheWrap that NBC is “actively talking to a number of people” about the open judge […]
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“Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” actor Brian Tarantina’s death was ruled an overdose from fentanyl, heroin, diazepam and cocaine by the New York City Medical Examiner, according to Entertainment Tonight. The 60 year-old actor was found dead in his apartment in New York City on Nov. 2, an NYPD spokesperson told TheWrap at the time. “On Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019 […]
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Olivia Wilde defended her role as journalist Kathy Scruggs in Clint Eastwood’s polarizing film “Richard Jewell” with a series of tweets Thursday. The movie dramatizes the story of Scruggs and her news coverage of Richard Jewell — a security guard during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta who found a bomb that killed one person and wounded more than […]
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NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke is preparing to step down from his post once his current contract expires in August 2020, according to media reports. A representative for NBCUniversal had no comment on the reports. NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment chairman Jeff Shell, who was promoted to that role in January, is considered the leading contender to […]
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Caroll Spinney, the actor and puppeteer who portrayed Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street over five decades, died Sunday at age 85. The Sesame Workshop said Spinney had died at home in Connecticut, and that he had long lived with dystonia, a disorder that causes involuntary muscle contractions. “Caroll and Big Bird are very similar in […]
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Ron Leibman, an actor whose career of more than six decades in film, television and the theater was highlighted by a Tony Award in 1993 for his electrifying performance as Roy Cohn in the first part of “Angels in America,” died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 82. A spokeswoman for the actress Jessica Walter, […]
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Leonard Goldberg, a prolific producer and TV executive who supervised movies and TV series that captivated viewers in two different centuries, died on Wednesday due to injuries sustained during a fall. He was 85. Goldberg most recently served as an executive producer on the popular CBS drama series “Blue Bloods,” which is in its tenth […]
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CBS and Viacom are finally, really, back to together. Less than four months after announcing their intentions to rejoin as one company, the companies closed their merger on Wednesday, beginning the new ViacomCBS era. The merger took effect following the closing bell on Wednesday. ViacomCBS Inc. will begin trading on the Nasdaq on Thursday under ticker […]
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