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Jonnie Davis Exits as ABC Signature President
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Aaron Paul Talks Traumatic ‘Black Mirror’ Episode, ‘Breaking Bad’ Reunions and Why He Gravitates to Heavier Roles
The actor (who had a voice role in an earlier episode) shares his casting story with creator Charlie Brooker and reaction to Bryan Cranston’s recent retirement talk while talking about Dos Hombres and reviving his Jesse Pinkman.
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Ariana Madix Joins ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Cast After Scandoval Controversy
The 'Vanderpump Rules' star has also begun filming the next season of the Bravo reality series.
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‘TV’s Top 5’: NBCUniversal Shake-Up and Emmy Nominations Preview
This week’s podcast also looks at another wave of cancellations, including a big ax that came down at Showtime.
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Jonnie Davis Exits as ABC Signature President
Jonnie Davis, a longtime studio fixture at Fox and Disney, is stepping down from his role as president of ABC Signature. Davis informed his Disney colleagues of his decision to depart the studio behind Grey’s Anatomy in a memo to staff Friday with the recently installed Disney Television Studios president Eric Schrier sending an internal […]
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Aaron Paul Talks Traumatic ‘Black Mirror’ Episode, ‘Breaking Bad’ Reunions and Why He Gravitates to Heavier Roles
[This story contains spoilers for the Black Mirror season six episode “Beyond the Sea.”] Aaron Paul’s live-action debut on Black Mirror has been five-and-a-half years in the making. In December 2017, Paul had a voice cameo on one of Black Mirror’s signature episodes, “USS Callister,” as series creator Charlie Brooker wanted to add another wrinkle […]
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Ariana Madix Joins ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Cast After Scandoval Controversy
Ariana Madix is continuing her post-Scandoval re-emergence by booking a gig on Dancing With the Stars. The Vanderpump Rules star joins season 32 of the ABC ballroom dancing competition series, meaning she will pull double duty this summer to film both DWTS and the Bravo reality series, which is currently in production on its 11th […]
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‘TV’s Top 5’: NBCUniversal Shake-Up and Emmy Nominations Preview
Welcome to the 221st episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast. Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as […]
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“The Best Gift Ever”: Ayo Edebiri and Robert Townsend on Playing Father and Daughter in ‘The Bear’
[This story contains mild spoilers to The Bear season two.] For as long as Ayo Edebiri can remember, Robert Townsend has been a part of her life. “He literally was my dad for a period,” says The Bear star, referencing the pioneering actor and director’s role as Robert Peterson on the WB sitcom The Parent […]
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Ryan Murphy, With 3 Shows in Production, Threatens to Sue Writers Guild Strike Captain (Exclusive)
Ryan Murphy, in a letter from his attorney to the leadership of the Writers Guild of America, threatened litigation against Warren Leight, an East Coast strike captain and Strike Rules Compliance Committee member who has subsequently forfeited those positions. The flap started June 21, when Leight, a former Law & Order: SVU showrunner and playwright, alleged in […]
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‘Bachelorette’ Star Charity Lawson on Getting Called “Classless,” Show Diversity and Why Her Season Has Been “A Little Overwhelming”
[This story contains spoilers from season 20 of ABC’s The Bachelorette.] Charity Lawson has been getting to see a different side of an early front-runner during her current stint as star of The Bachelorette. The 27-year-old child and family therapist from Columbus, Georgia, was a standout on Zach Shallcross’ season of The Bachelor earlier this […]
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‘Reservation Dogs’ Return Home in Season 3 Trailer
A new trailer for the the third — and final — season of Reservation Dogs sees the group returning home after finally making it to California. The critically acclaimed FX series from Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi centers on four Indigenous teens (Devery Jacobs, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Paulina Alexis and Lane Factor) living in rural Oklahoma and dealing […]
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‘The Bear’: Inside Sydney’s Food Tour and Season 2’s Love Letter to Chicago
[This story focuses on The Bear season two, episode three “Sundae” but contains some full-season spoilers.] Midway through its second season, The Bear loads the viewer up with an abundance of high-profile actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Bob Odenkirk and John Mulaney, to name just three. And while the bone-chilling holiday episode (titled “Fishes,” as in […]
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Da’Vine Joy Randolph on ‘The Idol’ Finale Plot Twist: “In a Weird Way, it’s Feminine Empowerment”
[This story contains spoilers from The Idol finale.] After five episodes, Sam Levinson’s latest drama The Idol has come to an end. But the controversy surrounding the hotly debated Max series created with Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye and Reza Fahim continues. After four episodes of building a narrative that appeared to be about a young […]
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‘Sex Education’ to End With Season 4 on Netflix
Netflix’s Sex Education is coming to an end. The streaming giant on Wednesday announced that the upcoming fourth season of the international favorite starring Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson as sex therapists will be its last. The final season will debut Sept. 21, nearly two years since the third season arrived, on Netflix. In a […]
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Wendell Pierce on His Spy Portrayal and CIA Prep for Final Season of ‘Jack Ryan’
Jack Ryan, the action-filled Prime Video series based on bestselling book author Tom Clancy’s fictional CIA analyst and field agent of the same name, starts its march to the end with the final season’s first two episodes, now streaming. And through a total of four seasons it might be argued that, along with the main […]
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Netflix Adds HBO’s ‘Insecure’ as ‘Six Feet Under,’ ‘Ballers’ Headed to Rival Streamer
HBO’s Insecure is now streaming on Netflix, marking the first time an HBO original series is available on a rival streaming platform in the U.S. All five seasons of the Issa Rae-fronted series, which aired its series finale in 2021, landed on the rival platform on Monday, confirming reports that the show could be among […]
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‘Swagger’ Creator Reggie Rock Bythewood on How Emmett Till Painting Influenced the Narrative of Apple TV+ Series
When Francie Calfo, then-president of television at Imagine Entertainment, first reached out to Reggie Rock Bythewood to gauge his interest in the sports drama that would become Swagger, he wasn’t immediately on board. “There was something really interesting happening during that time,” recalls Bythewood, the creator, writer, director and executive producer of the Apple TV+ […]
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‘Platonic’ Star Luke Macfarlane on Turning Down ‘Barbie,’ ‘Bros’ Disappointment and Bias Against TV Comedy
It’s been an eventful year for Luke Macfarlane, who reunites with Bros director Nick Stoller for Apple TV+’s comedy series Platonic alongside Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne. In the show that hails from co-creators Stoller and Francesca Delbanco and is currently streaming, Macfarlane plays attorney Charlie, who is raising three children with wife Sylvia (Byrne) […]
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Freeform Cancels ‘Single Drunk Female,’ ‘The Watchful Eye’
Freeform is shedding a pair of scripted originals. The Disney-owned cable network has canceled sophomore comedy Single Drunk Female and rookie drama The Watchful Eye. The news comes four months after Disney’s Dana Walden shuffled her executive ranks and gave oversight of Freeform to Simran Sethi, the ABC development executive who previously headed up originals […]
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