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15 Years Later, ‘The Vampire Diaries’ Co-Creator Talks Casting Secrets, TV Romances and Building a “Timeless” Supernatural Franchise
It’s been 15 years since audiences were first introduced to Mystic Falls and its vampires, love triangles and teenage drama. And still, The Vampire Diaries holds a special place for many viewers. Vampire Diaries premiered on The CW on Sept. 10, 2009, and ran for eight seasons,. Now, to celebrate the milestone anniversary, showrunner Julie Plec […]
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‘Walker’ Star Lindsey Morgan Reveals Why She Left the Show (Exclusive)
Walker star Lindsey Morgan is opening up about what caused her to leave The CW show in its second season. On this week’s I’ve Never Said This Before podcast, host Tommy Didario asked her about her departure from the show, which was announced on Oct. 29, 2021. At the time, Morgan cited “personal reasons” for […]
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Courtney B. Vance Was Intimidated to Portray Johnnie Cochran. Now He’s Playing Another Attorney in ’61st Street’
In the first season of the legal drama 61st Street, Courtney B. Vance stars as Franklin Roberts, a public defender on the brink of retirement who refuses to leave Black high school track athlete Moses Johnson’s (Tosin Cole) fate up to the corrupt criminal justice system when he’s accused of killing a Chicago police officer […]
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Awkwafina to Appear on The CW’s KCON L.A. Live Broadcast (Exclusive)
Actress Awkwafina is set to appear during The CW’s upcoming live broadcast of the 2024 edition of KCON Los Angeles, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. The 36-year-old actress will appear as a special guest with host Kim Soo Hyun, a wildly popular Korean actor, during the K-pop festival’s primetime broadcast. Earlier this month, the […]
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Daniel Ezra Unpacks the ‘All American’ Season 6 Finale and Stepping Down as Series Lead
[This story contains spoilers from the two-episode season six finale of All American.] Two couples in the vortex, as the group of friends at the center of CW’s All American call themselves, have forever changed their relationship statuses from will-they-won’t-they romances to ‘til-death-do-us-part bonds in season six of the sports drama. After Jordan Baker (Michael […]
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K-Pop Hits Primetime: The CW to Broadcast Portion of L.A.’s KCON Festival Live
The CW is bringing the 2024 edition of K-pop festival KCON to television, Korean entertainment giant CJ ENM announced Thursday. The Nexstar-owned broadcast network and CJ ENM are partnering for a live broadcast of the festival’s Sunday night concert, which is set to air at 8 p.m. ET July 28. The broadcast will be the […]
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Bill Belichick Joins ‘Inside the NFL’ at The CW
Bill Belichick, CW star? Believe it. Belichick, widely regarded as one of the greatest NFL coaches of all time, is joining the panel for Inside the NFL, which airs on The CW. The weekly highlights-and-analysis show, produced by NFL Films, is set to begin its season on Aug. 30. Belichick will join former NFL players […]
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TV Ratings 2023-24: Final Numbers for (Almost) Every Network Series
The 2023-24 TV season was blown apart before it ever began. Two labor strikes and media companies’ refusal to budge on the demands of writers and actors wiped out a couple dozen fall premieres for scripted series on the broadcast networks. When management did agree to new terms with writers and actors (largely accepting the […]
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‘All American: Homecoming’ Ending With Season 3 at The CW
The CW is cutting ties with another of its pre-Nexstar original series. The network announced Wednesday that the forthcoming third season of All American: Homecoming will be its last. The college-set spinoff of All American is set to premiere July 8. The news comes a few days after The CW renewed All American for a […]
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‘All American’ Renewed for Abbreviated Seventh Season at The CW
All American has survived another round with Nexstar — but there’s a catch. The CW, currently controlled by station group Nexstar, has renewed All American for an abbreviated 13-episode seventh season that won’t arrive until 2025. A decision on the future of its spinoff, All American: Homecoming, has not yet been determined as the show […]
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How ‘All American’ Showrunner Became One of a Tiny Handful of Black Women Whose Shows Made It to 100 Episodes
On a wall in the top corner of Nkechi Okoro Carroll’s office hangs a photo from THR‘s 2018 Women in Entertainment issue. In it, the All American showrunner appears alongside 61 fellow Black women writers who are part of the Black Women Who Brunch group she co-founded with Lena Waithe and Erika L. Johnson in […]
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‘Walker’ Canceled at The CW After Four Seasons
Walker will turn in his badge at The CW. The network has canceled the Jared Padalecki-led Walker after four seasons. The show will finish out its run on The CW, ending with what will now be a series finale on June 26. “We want to thank the entire cast, crew, writers, directors and producers of […]
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