Well, now this is a treat: guest host Billy Porter got to open week 8 with a performance of “How Will I Know” to kick off Whitney Houston night. A way better opener than some of those silly skits from weeks and years past! Porter even had the chance to …
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After Drew Barrymore, Bill Maher, Jennifer Hudson and The Talk reversed course on premiering their talk shows, some WGA members are now focusing on Dancing with the Stars and questioning why the dance competition is moving forward with its Sept. 26 return to ABC. Picketing writers like David Slack have …
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EXCLUSIVE: Central Casting is responding to online chatter about its 20-year-old photo release form, which has suddenly drawn the ire of SAG-AFTRA members who worry that background actors are signing away control of their digital likeness. At a time when both SAG-AFTRA and WGA have legitimate concerns about the increased …
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Among the drama directors vying for an Emmy this January is Peter Hoar, the helmer behind the memorable episode from The Last of Us that starred Murray Bartlett (Frank) and Nick Offerman (Bill) as two men who fall in love far from the horrors of the QZ zone. Here, the …
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Spoiler alert! Do not read this story unless you’ve seen Wednesday’s season one finale of Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars on Fox. Chef and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay had a tough decision to make during Wednesday’s finale of Food Stars: should he give his $250,000 angel investment to Malibu’s Pizza Girl? Was …
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UPDATED, 5:45 AM: Netflix has dropped the first-look teaser for Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (official title), its upcoming anime series based on the classic graphic novels and 2010 film starring Michael Cera. Cera reunites with many of the film’s cast including Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza …
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Editor’s note: One in a series of stories marking the 100th day of the WGA strike. Since the start of the WGA strike in early May, screenwriter Joe Syracuse (Parental Guidance, Amateur Night) has walked the picket line outside the corporate offices of Netflix. Traversing Sunset Boulevard on an almost …
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HGTV personality Tarek El Moussa is responding to complaints that he’s behind a plan to evict a small group of tenants from a rent-controlled property in North Hollywood so he can build a 138-unit apartment building. After tenants Clare Letmon and her husband JonPaul Rodriguez went public with multiple instagram …
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Maybe refrain from tweeting on set while a strike is happening, Kim Kardashian. On Friday, the reality show superstar decided to check in with her 74.9 million followers by writing “I’m on the set of AHS and we have some time between shows. What are you all up to????” Kardashian …
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UPDATED, Day 46: After visiting many, many picket lines over the last month, we’ve learned that lots of pickets signs are reused for conservation purposes. And to that we say — screw the recycling. Bring on more of those sweet corporate burns! Fortunately, many of the scribes haven’t lost their …
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EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Berg, a 25-year CBS veteran, is departing as Senior Executive Vice President, Production, CBS Network Television Entertainment. The departure is part of the ongoing consolidation across CBS Studios with Paramount TV Studios, which started when the two studios were put under the purview of George Cheeks last October. …
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SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher took some heat for comments she made on the picket line May 8, including how she doesn’t think what is “very important to writers … is the kind of the stuff that we’re [the actors] going after.” But while guesting Tuesday on SiriusXM’s The Julie Mason Show, …
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