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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 50 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century (So Far)
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Critic’s Notebook: Fox News Plays Knight in Shining Armor to a Beleaguered Trump-on-Trial
Donald Trump faced the first of what could be many criminal cases this week, as CNN and MSNBC covered the trial exhaustively and the usual right-wing apologists fretted about the former president's well-being.
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Joey King Met Real-Life Daughter of Her ‘We Were The Lucky Ones’ Character
"What I hope can happen is that people can watch the show and whatever their feelings may be, just attach some more compassion," King tells The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the Holocaust survival drama's finale.
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Poppy Harlow to Exit CNN
Harlow, a veteran of the cable network, told colleagues about her departure Friday morning, a couple of months after 'CNN This Morning' was effectively canceled.
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Ellen DeGeneres Says She “Hated the Way” Her Talk Show Ended
Ellen DeGeneres took a moment to acknowledge the controversy that surrounded her talk show, Ellen, when it concluded in May 2022. She is currently on a comedy tour called Ellen’s Last Stand… Up. During her stop in Los Angeles on Wednesday, DeGeneres joked that she was “kicked out of show business” for being “mean,” according […]
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How The CW’s ‘Sight Unseen’ Built a Production For and Driven By Blind and Low Vision Creatives
When Orphan Black co-creator John Fawcett read Kat and Niko Troubetzkoy’s new The CW show Sight Unseen, his response gave the half-sisters, who were producers on his own Peabody-winning BBC America series, a jolt of confidence. “We showed him the pilot [script] and he said, ‘This is one of the best detective thrillers I’ve read […]
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Luke Grimes on Kevin Costner’s “Unfortunate” ‘Yellowstone’ Exit: “You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do”
Luke Grimes is sharing his thoughts on his onscreen dad Kevin Costner’s exit from Yellowstone. During a recent interview with The Independent, Grimes addressed Costner’s seemingly controversial departure from the hit Western series, saying while it was “unfortunate,” he understands the actor’s decision. “Whatever happened there is unfortunate if it’s changed anything about how the show […]
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‘Shogun’ Star Hiroyuki Sanada Delves Into Finale’s Deeper Message: “We Need the Hero Who Brings About Peace”
[This story contains major spoilers from the season finale of FX’s Shōgun.] It’s easy to picture Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada gazing toward the horizon with a beatific sense of satisfaction over everything he has achieved with FX’s smash-hit miniseries Shōgun. His character, Lord Yoshii Toranaga, enjoys several such moments in the show’s 10th and last episode, […]
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Jerry Seinfeld Says ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Finale Cameo Elevated ‘Seinfeld’ Conclusion: “We’re in the Conversation Now”
Jerry Seinfeld was delighted to join his friend Larry David for Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s finale, the comedian said this week, adding that the series’ Seinfeld tie-in helped elevate his own show’s conclusion. “I think connecting the two finales [was the way to go],” Seinfeld told Vanity Fair. When Curb Your Enthusiasm concluded earlier this month, […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘3 Body Problem’ Repeats as Overall No. 1
Netflix’s 3 Body Problem delivered its second straight No. 1 showing among streaming titles, leading the rankings for the last week of March. The acquired series top 10 had several new entrants, thanks in part to a change in how Nielsen reports the numbers. The ratings service says it made an “enhancement” to its Streaming […]
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‘Beef,’ ‘The 1619 Project’ Among 2024 Television Academy Honors Winners
The Television Academy has announced its recipients for the 17th Television Academy Honors, which recognizes seven television programs and their producers “who have leveraged the extraordinary power of storytelling to propel social change,” according to the Academy. The honorees are four non-scripted series and three scripted series: 1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed, The 1619 Project, […]
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Dan Rather Returning to CBS News for First Time Since Bitter Exit 18 Years Ago
Dan Rather is returning to CBS News. Nearly 20 years after stepping down as the anchor of the CBS Evening News, and 18 years after he last appeared on the network, the anchor will return to a CBS program. This time, he will be the subject of an interview on CBS Sunday Morning. Per a […]
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Leanne Morgan-Chuck Lorre Sitcom Lands Big Netflix Order
Netflix is investing in Leanne Morgan. The streamer has handed out a 16-episode, straight-to-series order for an untitled multicamera comedy starring the stand-up comedian. Comedy kingpin Chuck Lorre (Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men) co-created the series alongside Morgan and Susan McMartin. Netflix says the untitled comedy revolves around Leanne, whose life “takes […]
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The CW, Miss USA Pageant Ink Multi-Year Broadcast Deal
The CW is adding the Miss USA Pageant to its roster of programming. The network has signed a three-year deal to broadcast the pageant, beginning with the 73rd annual competition in August. The new agreement comes after The CW aired Miss USA in a one-off deal in 2023, which delivered the biggest audience (811,000 same-day […]
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‘Mayor of Kingstown’ Official Season 3 Trailer Shows Jeremy Renner Back in Business
Jeremy Renner looks like he hasn’t lost a step in the first full official trailer for the long-awaited third season of Mayor of Kingstown. Below, Renner is back in business as a Michigan crime boss in the Paramount+ series, which is from co-creators Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillon. The season marks Renner’s acting comeback following […]
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John Oliver Confesses to “Sporadic Acts of Journalism”
In an alternate universe, there’s a John Oliver who renewed his Daily Show contract in 2013, stuck around to replace Jon Stewart and eventually burned out — like so many with a nightly telecast. Of course, that’s not what happened. The British comic was courted by HBO, where he launched Last Week Tonight on April […]
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How Many Showrunners Does It Take to Write a Hit Comedy?
In 2009, Lucia Aniello decided it was time to introduce her two comedy crushes. She’d recently started dating Paul W. Downs, now her husband, whom she met in an Upright Citizens Brigade class, and struck up a budding friendship with Jen Statsky, the only other woman in her sketch group. One fortuitous Gramercy Park coffee […]
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