Orange Is The New Black creator Jenji Kohan is working up a quarantine anthology series for Netflix. Kohan and her team including Hilary Weisman Graham, Diego Velasco, Tara Herrmann and Blake McCormick have created Social Distance for the streamer. This comes as the production shutdown caused by the COVID-19 continues. Weisman Graham, who worked on the Netflix prison drama […]
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“The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” will start airing supersized episodes this week, Comedy Central announced Monday. Starting Monday, April 27, the satirical news show will expand to 45-minute episodes in its regular 11 p.m. time slot. Noah and the team will continue to produce episodes remotely under the “Daily Social Distancing Show” banner. “The […]
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NBC has set a premiere date for its flagship summer series America’s Got Talent, but just what the bulk of the season will look like remains up in the air. The 15th season of America’s Got Talent will debut at 8 p.m. May 26. It will be paired on Tuesday nights with World of Dance, which premieres at 10 […]
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Fans may not have been ready to say goodbye to one of the best dramas on television but Homeland has come to an end and surprisingly, Claire Danes’ bipolar CIA operative got a happy ending. Developed for American television by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon, Homeland was based on the original Israeli series Prisoners of War by Gideon Raff. There was an […]
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Nickelodeon is going ahead with the Kids’ Choice Awards, making it the first remotely produced awards show to take place amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. The annual awards have a slightly amended title this year: Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards 2020: Celebrate Together. They’re set to air May 2, six weeks after their initially scheduled date of March […]
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Game shows may be in jeopardy of running out of new episodes as a result of the production shutdown brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The syndicated hit “Jeopardy!,” which typically wraps production on its full season of shows in April, has already begun to make adjustments to stretch its depleting batch of in-the-can episodes. […]
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A few years before Roger Ailes was ousted from Fox News, he boasted how the influential cable news network had never taken down a story because it was wrong. That wasn’t exactly true, but nevertheless, one doesn’t need to consume hydroxychloroquine to know that admitting error happens very rarely in Fox Nation. Of course, few journalists like to […]
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It takes more than a pandemic to keep “Saturday Night Live” off the air. The venerable NBC late-night program will air a new “remote” episode this weekend, according to the show’s Twitter feed, despite conditions under the coronavirus pandemic that make its normal production impossible to accomplish. “SNL” typically runs live in front of an in-studio audience whose reactions […]
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Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Tiffany Haddish and more comedians have signed on to perform comedy sets from home for the “Feeding America Comedy Festival.” Put together by Bryon Allen through Entertainment Studios, the television division of his Allen Media Group, the charity event is seeking to raise money for Feeding America and is co-produced by […]
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It is customary in Hollywood for the casts of hit series to get salary increases after Season 2. Succession, which, after the end of Game Of Thrones, has emerged as HBO’s most acclaimed drama, fits that bill. And, while its Season 3 production has been delayed because of the COVID-19 health crisis, when it eventually commences, the main cast will […]
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A new “Star Wars” series is in the works at Disney Plus, Variety has learned from sources. The series hails from Leslye Headland, the co-creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the critically-acclaimed Netflix series “Russian Doll.” Details of the exact plot of the series are being kept under wraps, but sources say it will be a female-centric series that […]
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Netflix added a net 15.77 million paid streaming customers in the first quarter of 2020 — blowing away prior estimates thanks to the coronavirus pandemic and setting a record for quarterly gains. The streamer said it had 182.9 million paid subscribers globally as of the end of Q1, up 22.8% from a year earlier. Netflix had previously told […]
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The cast of Friends is joining the All In Challenge. The six stars are offering six tickets to the taping of their forthcoming HBO Max reunion special as well as a cup of coffee at “Central Perk” as part of the Warner Bros. Studio Tour. “Hey, it’s us…your FRIENDS. And We Are All In! Some of you may […]
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Hours after President Donald Trump announced Monday night he would be temporarily suspending all immigration, “Fox & Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt questioned on-air what that meant for her and others like her, given her au pair is foreign-born. Earhardt, recently divorced and a now operating as a single mom, reflected on how the immigration ban […]
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AT&T will offer WarnerMedia’s HBO Max free or via promotion to “tens of millions” of its U.S. wireless, video and internet customers The news follows the announcement earlier Tuesday that the streaming service will launch on May 27. The new service, which features 10,000 hours of original shows, library titles and the full existing HBO offering, will retail for $15 a month. […]
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When “American Idol” returns with new episodes next Sunday, it will adapt to these coronavirus quarantine times by taking place for the first time in the homes of the show’s contestants, musicians, judges, mentors and host. After two weeks of airing clip specials — giving producers enough time to rethink and readjust “Idol” to our new stay-at-home […]
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Chris Cuomo isn’t the only CNN anchor with a nasty case of COVID-19. On Sunday, “CNN Newsroom” host Brooke Baldwin published a “coronavirus diary” detailing her own “relentless, scary and lonely” battle with the respiratory illness, which “took a full two-week beating” on her body. “I thought ‘Do I show everyone these photos of me taken at […]
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John Oliver once again devoted most of Last Week Tonight to the novel coronavirus, this time taking on conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and Fox News Channel for spreading inaccuracies about the disease. Oliver showed a clip of Limbaugh downplaying the coronavirus threat. “All of this panic is just not warranted,” Limbaugh says in the clip, equating […]
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Following their collaboration on Sundance doc Rebuilding Paradise, National Geographic Documentary Films is teaming with director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer on a film about world-renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés. The untitled documentary will focus on Andrés’ work with his nonprofit, World Central Kitchen, which helps communities reeling from disaster by providing healthy food […]
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Chris Cuomo’s wife Cristina Greeven Cuomo has tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19). The CNN anchor, who is still recovering from the virus, made the revelation of his wife’s diagnosis Wednesday on his show Cuomo Prime Time whilst speaking to his brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “Cristina now has COVID, she is now positive and it just […]
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Fox is set to deliver long-gestating reality series Labor of Love, about the road to motherhood, fronted by Sex and The City star Kristin Davis. The network will launch the eight-part series, which is produced by Howard Owens and Ben Silverman’s Propagate Content and Project Runway’s Full Picture, at 9 p.m. May 21. It comes nearly three years after Deadline revealed that the show was […]
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It’s official: next week’s 18th episode of Empire’s sixth season, airing on April 21, will be the hip-hop family drama’s finale for the foreseeable feature, and quite possibly a series finale. In separate statements, Empire creators/executive producers Lee Daniels and Danny Strong addressed the abrupt ending of their show due to the coronavirus pandemic while holding out hope that they could film […]
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American Idol is moving ahead with its live shows, with contestants, judges and host Ryan Seacrest all filming from their homes. The live rounds will begin April 26 on ABC with the top 20 contestants. Seacrest will host from his home in Los Angeles, and judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan and in-house mentor […]
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The Walking Dead villain-turned-antihero Negan won’t be swinging his barbed-wired baseball bat at zombies anytime soon, but the man behind Lucille will be back in front of viewers in no time at all. AMC has announced the launch of Friday Night In With the Morgans, a new weekly half-hour video-chat-based series hosted by Walking Dead star Jeffrey Dean Morgan […]
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The cast of Friends will be there for HBO Max … at some point. The WarnerMedia-backed streaming service said Friday that the highly anticipated unscripted Friends reunion special will not be available when the platform launches at a date to be determined in May. Given that the industrywide production shutdown is remaining in place for the foreseeable future, the six original […]
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