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Peacock’s ‘Office’ Follow-Up Adds Trio to Cast
Melvin Gregg, Chelsea Frei and Ramona Young will be regulars in the comedy from Greg Daniels and Michael Koman.
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Larry David Is Going on Tour — Watch His Sales Pitch
The 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' comedian announced his A Conversation With Larry David tour in a very Larry David way.
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‘JonBenet Ramsey’ Series at Paramount+ Finds Its Title Character
Emily Mitchell will play the girl in the drama; Garrett Hedlund, Alison Pill and Owen Teague have also joined the cast.
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Floriana Lima Joins ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Season 21 Cast (Exclusive)
A new face will soon be walking the halls of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. Floriana Lima, most recently seen on A Million Little Things, has been added to the season 21 cast in a recurring role. She’ll play Nora, a childhood friend of Owen (Kevin McKidd) and Megan Hunt’s (Abigail Spencer), who comes to Grey […]
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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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‘The Perfect Couple’ Killer (Actor) Talks Finale Reveals, Avoiding Suspicion and That Dance
[This story includes spoilers for the finale of The Perfect Couple.] In hindsight, Dakota Fanning’s line from that first trailer for the Netflix miniseries — “The key to this family is to just stay on the periphery” — said a lot. Though, maybe not in the way her character intended. Neither the victim nor the murderer in The […]
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Bill Maher Slams “Obnoxious Posers” for Criticizing Cheryl Hines After Husband RFK Jr. Endorses Trump
Bill Maher is coming to Cheryl Hines’ defense as she continues to face criticism over her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to endorse Donald Trump for president. While the comedian made it clear on the latest episode of HBO’s Real Time that he “couldn’t support” RFK Jr.’s campaign for the White House, he slammed […]
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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Final Season Goes Into Production (At Last)
The final season of The Handmaid’s Tale is finally underway. Hulu on Friday shared an image of series lead Elisabeth Moss holding a slate from the opening day of filming on the show’s sixth and last season. The slate shows that cameras began rolling on Sept. 3 — and that Moss is directing the first episode […]
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How the ‘Perfect Couple’ Director Talked Her Mutinous Cast Into That Choreographed Dance
As unexpected choices go, few in recent TV memory approach the opening title sequence to The Perfect Couple. Netflix’s six-part adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s Nantucket-set novel kicks off with a suspicious death on the eve of a wedding — casting doubt on every have and have-not in the deceased’s orbit. But before they get to the […]
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Kevin Hart Hopes ‘Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist’ Will Be “the Big Thing of the Year”
In the opening monologue of the first episode of Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, Gordon “Chicken Man” Williams, played by Kevin Hart, lays the foundation for Peacock’s eight-part limited series (which is now streaming its first three episodes). “You know they burned Atlanta to the ground,” Chicken Man tells his friend, who runs a […]
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NBC’s ‘Tonight Show’ to Drop Friday Show in Shift to Four-Day Schedule
The late night TV landscape continues to shrink, with NBC’s Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon the latest entry to change its production schedule. NBC says that beginning with the new fall season, the Tonight Show will only run four new episodes per week on Mondays through Thursdays, and will run a repeat on Friday evenings. […]
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Maria Georgas Breaks Her Silence Following ‘Bachelorette’ Finale: “My Heart Goes Out to Jenn”
“Put it to REST,” former Bachelor contestant Maria Georgas wrote in her latest TikTok caption. The reality star is breaking her silence following Tuesday’s heartbreaking Bachelorette finale. The ABC reality show’s 21st season came to a teary end Tuesday night, following the revelation that Jenn Tran, the season’s leading lady, and Devin Strader, her pick, […]
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‘Bosch: Legacy’ Ending With Season 3 at Amazon
Harry Bosch is about to work his last case at Amazon. Author Michael Connelly, creator of the character and an executive producer of Bosch: Legacy, announced on Instagram Friday that the series will end with its forthcoming third season. That season is slated to premiere in March 2025. “I’m happy to announce that the third […]
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Murdaugh Murders Drama Starring Patricia Arquette a Go at Hulu
Hulu will dramatize one of the most talked about criminal cases of the past few years. The streamer has greenlit an untitled limited series based on the Murdaugh murders case. Emmy winner Patricia Arquette is set to star in the project as Maggie Murdaugh; the series comes from co-creators Michael D. Fuller and Erin Lee […]
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Inspire Lifetime Holiday Movie
The most followed celebrity relationship of the moment — that of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce — has inspired a Lifetime Christmas movie. The cable network will air a movie called Christmas in the Spotlight later this year as part of its annual “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” slate of holiday programming. The story centers on — […]
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‘Tulsa King’ Writer Terence Winter on Season 2 Changes: “This Is Where the Fun Starts”
The Emmy winner on the Paramount+ hit's new season, a possible New Orleans spinoff, and working with Sylvester Stallone: "This is basically who he is, right?"
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Rashida Jones on a Second Season of ‘Sunny’: “There’s Things You’re Going to Want to Know”
[The story contains mild spoilers from the season finale of Sunny.] In less than five years of its existence, Apple TV+ has carved a niche out for itself as a home to evocative, well-made and interesting science fiction, and the streamer has delivered once more with Sunny, the dark Japan-set retrofuturist comedy that wrapped its […]
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Lisa Frank Docuseries ‘Glitter and Greed’ Set at Prime Video
Prime Video is adding a little extra color to its premiere schedule. A Lisa Frank docuseries has been ordered at the streamer about the once-popular brand from director Arianna LaPenne and Sony Pictures Television’s Maxine Productions, which was behind Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. According to its description, “Glitter and Greed: […]
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‘The Burbs’ Series Remake Starring Keke Palmer a Go at Peacock
Peacock is packing up for The Burbs. The NBCUniversal streamer has given a straight-to-series order for a comedic mystery series based on the 1989 Tom Hanks-Carrie Fisher movie of the same title. Keke Palmer is attached to star in The Burbs, which counts Brian Grazer and Seth MacFarlane among its executive producers. Grazer and Ron […]
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