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Bill Maher Is Amazed By Taylor Swift and George Clooney’s Influence on 2024 Election
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TV Ratings: NFL Returns in Dominating Form
Week one and the first 'Thursday Night Football' of the season brought in big numbers for the league's TV partners.
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Roland Emmerich Hopes for a ‘Godfather II’-Style Season 2 of ‘Those About to Die’
The 'Independence Day' director says another season could follow dual timelines — and reveals he is about to shop 'Lawrence in Arabia.'
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Netflix In Talks for Live Episodes of ‘Hot Ones’
The streaming giant is interested in streaming live versions of the popular YouTube talk show, hosted by Sean Evans.
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Bill Maher Is Amazed By Taylor Swift and George Clooney’s Influence on 2024 Election
Bill Maher eventually got to the “big news this week” on the latest episode of HBO’s Real Time — Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. The host appeared amazed at the pop superstar’s influence on the 2024 presidential election, as it was previously reported that her endorsement drove more than 400,000 people to Vote.gov, a […]
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TV Ratings: NFL Returns in Dominating Form
That the NFL attracted big audiences over its first week of the 2024 season is no surprise — it’s the biggest show on TV, after all. But the league’s opening slate of games in week one (and the first night of week two) are performing at even higher levels than usual. The week one slate of […]
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Roland Emmerich Hopes for a ‘Godfather II’-Style Season 2 of ‘Those About to Die’
[This story contains spoilers from Those About to Die season one.] Roland Emmerich traveled back to 79 AD for season one of his gladiator drama Those About to Die. For season two, he has dreams of traveling back even earlier. “We hope to do a little bit what Godfather II did,” Emmerich told The Hollywood […]
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Netflix In Talks for Live Episodes of ‘Hot Ones’
Netflix wants to heat up its live programming slate with a red-hot talk show. The streaming giant is in talks to pick up some live editions of the popular YouTube talk show Hot Ones, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The show, which is hosted by Sean Evans and produced by BuzzFeed’s First We Feast, sees […]
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Tim Meadows to Star in CBS Comedy ‘DMV’
CBS’ comedy pilot DMV is starting to staff up. Tim Meadows will star in the single-camera show, which comes from CBS Studios and creator Dana Klein (Friends, CBS’ 9JKL). As the title implies, DMV is set in a department of motor vehicles office and follows the people who work there. Saturday Night Live and The […]
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‘Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist’ Cast and Creators Explain Why They Made a (Hit) Series About “Dreamers”
Near the end of the second episode of Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist’s three-episode debut, one of New York City’s fiercest and deadliest gangsters, Frank Moten, played by Samuel L. Jackson, hovers over a petrified small-time Atlanta hustler known as Chicken Man, played by Kevin Hart, after leaving a historic boxing match in that […]
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Colin Farrell Doesn’t Know if He Would Return for Potential ‘Penguin’ Season 2: “I F***ing Wanted It to Be Finished”
While Colin Farrell was “grateful” to play the Penguin in the upcoming HBO show of the same name, he isn’t sure if he would ever want to “put that fucking suit and that fucking head on again.” The actor got candid about the intensity of the role in a recent interview with Total Film magazine, […]
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Julie Chen Moonves to Miss ‘Big Brother’ Eviction Episode Due to COVID; Jerry O’Connell Will Replace
Julie Chen Moonves will miss the live Big Brother eviction episode after being diagnosed with COVID-19, the CBS host announced Thursday. Moonves wrote that she woke up with a sore throat last Friday, and then went to see a friend who is an ENT. She was diagnosed with COVID that same night. “Thankfully this is […]
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Netflix Grabs Silicon Valley Thriller Starring Rosamund Pike
Netflix will explore Silicon Valley in its next drama series. The streamer won a bidding war by giving a straight-to-series order to Thumblite, set in the epicenter of the tech industry. The series comes from The Morning Show and Pachinko producer Media Res and creator Scott Z. Burns (The Report, Apple TV+’s Extrapolations); NYU marketing […]
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‘Emily in Paris’ Boss on Emily’s New Adventure and “Up and Down” Relationship After Season 4
[This story containts spoilers from Emily in Paris season four, part two.] Emily Cooper’s Roman holiday took her not only on a vacation, but also on a new adventure in love and life. Emily in Paris season four, part one ended with Emily (Lily Collins) and Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) in a great place. They had […]
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‘The White Lotus’: Everything We Know About Season 3
After welcoming viewers first to The White Lotus: Hawaii and then to The White Lotus: Sicily, the hotel chain at the center of Mike White’s Emmy-winning HBO series is continuing to expand its global footprint as it heads to Thailand for season three. The White Lotus series sets each season around a different property within […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘Emily in Paris’ Opens Lower With Half-Season Release
Netflix released the first half of Emily in Paris‘ fourth season Aug. 15, and as a result got just over half of the tune-in for the show’s last full-season premiere. The dramedy starring Lily Collins gathered 792 million minutes of viewing in the United States for its premiere week, according to Nielsen’s streaming ratings. That […]
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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Season 21 Sneak Peek Confirms Return of Jackson Avery, Sees Tensions Rise at Grey Sloan
A new sneak peek at Grey’s Anatomy season 21 sees the return of Jesse Williams’ beloved Jackson Avery and tensions rising at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital after season 20’s dramatic finale. In the clip, exclusively provided to People, fans get their first glimpse at Dr. Sydney Heron (Kali Rocha) and “all her passive-aggressive glory” since […]
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Joan Vassos Says Her “Goal” as Golden Bachelorette Isn’t to Get Engaged
Joan Vassos doesn’t need her stint as the Golden Bachelorette to end with an engagement. In an interview with People magazine ahead of the Golden Bachelor spinoff’s premiere, Vassos noted, “I said all along I didn’t need to leave engaged.” Instead, her goal was “to leave in a committed relationship.” “I wanted to have somebody […]
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Tim Robinson Comedy Snags HBO Series Order
His job is tables chairs. HBO has placed a series order for The Chair Company, a comedy series co-created by and starring Tim Robinson of Netflix’s Emmy-winning sketch show I Think You Should Leave. Zach Kanin, a longtime collaborator of Robinson’s on ITYSL, Saturday Night Live and Comedy Central’s Detroiters, co-created the show with Robinson; […]
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Tyler Perry Netflix Series ‘Beauty in Black’ Gets Release Date, Trailer
The contrasting lives of different women played by Taylor Polidore Williams and Crystle Stewart become intertwined by intrigue, fast cars and romance in the official trailer for Beauty in Black, Tyler Perry’s first drama for Netflix. Though they have diverging paths in life — Acrimony star Stewart as Mallory has riches running her own business, […]
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