Brian Bowen SmithGerry Turner’s journey to find love as the first Golden Bachelor finally begins Thursday, September 28, and the 71-year-old Indiana native says he remembers getting the call from host Jesse Palmer like it was yesterday. “I remember the morning it happened very vividly. My family was with me, we were all at the lake, we were enjoying…… Read More…
NBCUniversalAnything to get Magic Mike co-star Joe Manganiello in a Hawaiian shirt: NBC has announced the hunky actor will host Deal or No Deal Island, a tropical island spin on the show that once featured duchess-to-be Meghan Markle. NBC teases the new spin on the classic game show will have 13 players “transported to the…… Read More…
Paramount NetworksAfter scoring a 6.6 million-person audience by bringing Yellowstone to CBS on September 17, a deep dive into the numbers revealed 50% of those viewers had never seen the Paramount Network show. The Taylor Sheridan drama starring Kevin Costner was called up by CBS from its sister network in part to make up for a content shortfall stemming from the SAG-AFTRA and WGA…… Read More…
Vogue/Annie LeibovitzCovering Vogue’s November 2023 issue, Oscar winner Angelina Jolie opens up about her family, her new fashion outlet and the importance to her of being a mom. “I was 26 when I became a mother. My entire life changed,” Jolie expressed. “Having children saved me — and taught me to be in this world…… Read More…
L-R – Co-stars Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Robert Hays in 2013 – Paul Archuleta/FilmMagicSurely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! will be released on October 3, but the audio version of the behind-the-scenes book has lined up some impressive comedic talent. The 1980 comedy from siblings David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams was…… Read More…
Fallon – NBCUniversal Media; Kimmel – ABC; Meyers – NBC/Lloyd Bishop; Colbert – Mary Ellen Matthews/CBS; Oliver – NBCUniversal MediaThe so-called “Strike Force Five” — Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, John Oliver and Stephen Colbert — are still united now that the writers strike that brought them together has ended. The group announced that…… Read More…
ABC Audio/Stephen IervolinoIt looks like Bill Maher’s HBO series Real Time will be the first nighttime chat show back to work following the cessation of the writers strike Wednesday, September 27. On Tuesday evening, the Emmy winner took to X, formerly known as Twitter, and declared, “My writers and Real Time are back! See you…… Read More…
John Kisch/Getty ImagesThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced it will replace a lost Oscar award that was presented to the first Oscar-winning Black performer, Hattie McDaniel. In 1939, when she won for her performance in Gone with the Wind, the Best Supporting category winner was presented with a plaque, not the…… Read More…
FreeformHalloween is just around the corner and so is Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween. The annual spellbinding television event begins Sunday, October 1, with a lineup that includes Scared Shrekless, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, Tim Burton’s stop-motion classic The Nightmare Before Christmas and the family-friendly haunter Hocus Pocus. Monday, October 2, will see Hotel Transylvania…… Read More…
After 148 days, leaders of the Writers Guild of America have unanimously voted to lift its strike, allowing writers to return to work on Wednesday, September 27. “The WGAW Board and WGAE Council also voted unanimously to lift the restraining order and end the strike as of 12:01 am PT/3:01 am ET on Wednesday, September…… Read More…