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TV Ratings: ‘Yellowjackets’ Hits Series High With Season 2 Premiere
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Disney Layoffs Hit TV Production, Acquisitions Departments
The first names of those impacted by staff cuts have emerged as CEO Bob Iger plans to eliminate 7,000 jobs companywide.
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Lena Headey to Topline Kurt Sutter’s Netflix Western ‘The Abandons’
The 'Game of Thrones' star will play the matriarch of an adoptive family in the series.
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‘Saturday Night Live’: All the Season 48 Hosts and Musical Guests
The 2022-23 season will be one of change after the departure of several long-standing regulars.
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TV Ratings: ‘Yellowjackets’ Hits Series High With Season 2 Premiere
Showtime’s Yellowjackets buzzed its way to a series high in viewers for its second season premiere. The Emmy-nominated drama debuted to about 2 million viewers across all platforms, a series high for the show and more than double the audience for the series premiere in November 2021. It was also up 40 percent over the […]
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Disney Layoffs Hit TV Production, Acquisitions Departments
Layoffs have begun in Disney’s television divisions. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Monday’s layoffs focused production and acquisitions. Among the notable staffers let go Monday are Jayne Bieber, senior vp production at Freeform/Onyx Collective; Mark Levenstein, head of production and postproduction at Hulu; and Elizabeth Newman, head of Disney’s acquisitions department. Sources note Newman’s […]
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Lena Headey to Topline Kurt Sutter’s Netflix Western ‘The Abandons’
Game of Thrones star Lena Headey is headed west — specifically, to the Oregon of the 1850s — for her next TV series. Headey will star in The Abandons, a western from Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter. The show, which received a straight-to-series order in October 2022, follows a group of outlier families in 1850s […]
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‘Saturday Night Live’: All the Season 48 Hosts and Musical Guests
Saturday Night Live will enter a season of transition in 2022-23. When the NBC late night fixture begins its 48th season Oct. 1, it will do so without longtime castmembers Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon and Kyle Mooney, who all departed the show at the end of season 47. Regulars Alex Moffat and Melissa […]
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‘Shrinking’ Star Christa Miller Talks Finale Cliffhanger and How Her Real Marriage Inspires Liz’s Arc
[This story contains spoilers for the finale of Apple’s Shrinking, “Closure.”] For Shrinking viewers who want more of Liz and Derek, look no further than Christa Miller. The actress plays Liz in the Apple grief comedy, the helicopter neighbor with a big heart to Jason Segel’s grieving therapist Jimmy. She’s also the series’ music supervisor […]
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‘Firefly Lane’ Season 2, Part 2 Trailer Has Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke Testing Whether Friendship Truly Is Forever
Can a true friendship survive the test of time? The season two, part two, Firefly Lane trailer shows Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke trying to find that answer in the series’ final episodes. The Maggie Friedman-created Netflix drama, based on the bestselling novel by Kristin Hannah, follows a more than 30-year friendship between two women […]
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Jessica Chastain to Lead Apple Limited Series ‘The Savant’
Jessica Chastain is the latest A-lister to score her own show at Apple. The Oscar-winning The Eyes of Tammy Faye actress will star in The Savant, an eight-episode limited series based on a true story published by Cosmopolitan. While Apple is remaining mum on details, Andrea Stanley — who is attached as a consultant on […]
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‘Succession’ Star Jeremy Strong Plants “Seeds of Destruction” in Final Season Premiere
(This story contains spoilers for the final season premiere of Succession, “The Munsters.”) Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) isn’t alone anymore. After a turbulent ride through three seasons of HBO’s Succession, the second eldest son of Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and former heir apparent to the Waystar empire now has actual allies on his side: siblings […]
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‘Succession’: Sarah Snook, Matthew Macfadyen Break Down a Tragic Nonconfrontation
[This story contains spoilers for the fourth-season premiere of Succession on HBO.] Most of Sunday’s Succession premiere was taken up by a bidding war between media mogul Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his three younger children, Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Roman (Kieran Culkin). After their dad (with an assist from their mom) […]
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‘Succession’ Begins Final Season With the World’s Glummest Birthday Party
[This story contains spoilers for the fourth-season premiere of HBO’s Succession.] Succession has always loved a party: The HBO series has staged a number of set pieces over its three previous seasons that gets a host of characters in the same space to play off one another, break into their own subgroups, and gossip and […]
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‘Arrested Development’: Netflix Gains Exclusive Streaming Rights to All Seasons
Netflix will be the exclusive streaming home to all five seasons of Arrested Development in the U.S. later this year, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed on Friday. Though the final two seasons of the sitcom were created as a co-production between Netflix, 20th Century Fox Television and Imagine Entertainment, Netflix was previously expected to lose all […]
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Gwyneth Paltrow Grilled on Witness Stand in Ski Crash Trial
Gwyneth Paltrow took the witness stand Friday in the civil trial that has pitted the Oscar winner against a retired optometrist with whom she collided during a ski trip in 2016. A 76-year-old optometrist, Dr. Terry Sanderson, has accused the actress and wellness guru of a hit-and-run crash — slamming into him while skiing on […]
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Jason Katims on ‘Dear Edward’ Finale, ‘As We See It’ Cancellation and What’s Next
[This story contains spoilers to the season finale of Dear Edward, “Shelter.”] Apple’s adaptation of Dear Edward has wrapped its first season with an upbeat finale that jumped 10 weeks forward and set up a potential second season of the plane crash drama from Friday Night Lights and Parenthood showrunner Jason Katims. While Apple has […]
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‘Vanderpump Rules’ Star Raquel Leviss Plans to Drop Restraining Order Against Scheana Shay
Vanderpump Rules star Raquel Leviss says she plans to drop the temporary restraining order she had filed against co-star Scheana Shay, speaking out one day after the Bravo cast filmed its highly anticipated reunion show that involved both stars in Los Angeles. “I can confirm that my attorney took my case off the court calendar […]
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Netflix’s ‘You’ Renewed for Fifth and Final Season — With New Showrunners
Joe Goldberg will stalk one last time. Netflix has handed out a fifth and final season renewal to its Penn Badgley drama You. Showrunner Sera Gamble, who has steered the series through its first four seasons (including its original run on Lifetime), is stepping back from her day-to-day role on the series. Fellow exec producers […]
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Kiefer Sutherland on ‘Rabbit Hole’ and Looking Back at ‘The Lost Boys’
Kiefer Sutherland returns to TV on Sunday with his new Paramount+ series Rabbit Hole — the actor’s latest thriller following Fox’s iconic 24 and his ABC/Netflix series Designated Survivor. The 56-year-old Sutherland delivers his trademark mix of charm, intensity and desert-dry humor as he plays John Weir, a morally shady corporate spy who finds himself […]
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