“Today” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie is taking on a second challenge at the network, merging joy and obsession in a family-friendly game show based on Wordle, the newscaster announced Monday alongside “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon, an executive producer. “This is very exciting,” Fallon said, perched next to Guthrie on the “Today” sofa. “We’ve been developing Wordle as a game show for the past ...
In a recent episode of “Your Friends & Neighbors,” Mel Cooper (Amanda Peet) wakes up one morning drenched in sweat. She blows air down the front of her soaked tank top to cool down after a fitful night’s sleep. She goes about her morning, listlessly attempting a strength workout and procrastinating on a writing project by googling “perimenopause symptoms insomnia.” As she scans the hyperlinks – Hot flashes! Irritability! Sexual dysfunction! Night sweats! – her eyes widen in recognition as she clicks on ... Rage.
Stephen Colbert is revealing he sent a note of congratulations to Byron Allen after CBS announced that "The Late Show" will be replaced by the producer's show "Comics Unleashed."
If it ever feels like April and May bring a rush of new TV releases, know that it’s dictated by the Emmys schedule. For the annual Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awards show, which will take place in September, the eligibility window closes on May 31, which means lots of buzzy new series and seasons arrive in the spring, and there are a lot of new TV shows to choose from and catch up with if you haven’t had the time.
The cause of death for “Storage Wars” star Darrell Sheets has been confirmed as suicide, according to reports. While the full autopsy has yet to be released, the Mohave County Medical Examiner’s Office in Arizona confirmed Sheets’ cause of death to TMZ on Tuesday. Sheets was discovered dead inside his home on April 22, after officers with the Lake Havasu City Police Department were called to ...
"Full House" alumna Jodie Sweetin is setting the record straight on the "normal" life she lives, despite being a child star. The 44-year-old actress revealed in the April 21 episode of "The McBride Rewind" podcast that she received "a one-cent check the other day," her royalties from starring as middle child Stephanie Tanner during the show's eight-year run. Sweetin reprised her character in the 2016 to 2020 Netflix reboot, "Fuller House."
NEW YORK – Each episode of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” over the past few weeks has offered a fresh reminder that the final one is rapidly approaching.
Donald Trump Jr. could be poised to succeed his father. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Amazon is mulling a reboot of “The Apprentice” with Don Jr. as the potential star.
Back in the mid-aughts, the height of glamour for a woman’s cinematic career was at a fashion magazine, best seen in the iconic fashion film “The Devil Wears Prada,” based on the thinly veiled novel by Lauren Weisberger, who once worked for Anna Wintour at Vogue. Anne Hathaway starred as Andy Sachs, an aspiring journalist who ends up working as the assistant for the powerful Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the editor-in-chief of “Runway” magazine, learning a lot about herself, and fashion, in the process.
Shortly after hosting the Grammy Awards broadcast on Feb. 1, Trevor Noah took a relaxing flight home. Yet any sense of peace that he was feeling wouldn’t last long.
Screenwriter John Logan has achieved named recognition in Hollywood working with some of the biggest names and franchises in the business, and he’s the writer behind Antoine Fuqua’s “Michael,” a musical biopic of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, that uses some creative screenwriting to skirt more than a few controversial topics in the singer’s life. But Logan’s career as a screenwriter is ...
In David Lowery’s latest film “Mother Mary,” Anne Hathaway plays the titular international pop superstar, proving the actress can do anything. She’s legitimately great in the concert scenes — unsurprising since she won her best supporting actress Oscar playing Fantine in the movie musical adaptation of “Les Misérables.” She has the pipes for it. But she also has the stage presence and moves of ...
British actor Riz Ahmed is an Academy Award winner, but it still feels like he somehow goes under the radar. Perhaps because he’s not in many blockbusters (“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “Jason Bourne” aside). Still he’s built a quietly excellent career always working with interesting filmmakers and selecting quality projects. With his electrifying performance as the title role in “Hamlet” in theaters this week, check out the best of Ahmed’s career so far on streaming.
CBS is outsourcing its late night hours to media mogul Byron Allen in a move aimed at reducing programming costs. The Paramount-owned network announced Monday that Allen's programs "Comics Unleashed" and "Funny You Should Ask" will take over the 11:35 p.m. and 12:35 a.m. time slots after "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" ends its 11-year run on May 21.
There are tons of video game adaptation movies, and even TV shows (“The Last of Us”) but they’ve tended to skew more adult – “Resident Evil,” “Assassin’s Creed,” “Mortal Kombat,” “Tomb Raider,” etc. Even the first “Super Mario Bros.” in 1993 was more racy cyberpunk nightmare than kid-friendly entertainment.
