CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil landed an interview with Donald Trump on Tuesday, and one of the unusual moments came when the president talked of what would have happened if Kamala Harris had won the 2024 election. The president was claiming Harris would have continued what he called a “mess” of an economy under […]
Hwang Dong-hyuk, the creator of Squid Game, Netflix’s most-watched series, is rolling out a new drama series for the streamer. Netflix has ordered Korean series The Dealer, which comes from Dong-hyuk’s Firstman Studio. It is a crime series that follows Geonhwa, a brilliant casino dealer whose wedding plans suddenly fall apart, forcing her to unleash […]
Amazon’s Prime Video set a new NFL streaming record, drawing 31.61 million viewers last Saturday night to a wild card playoff game between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers. Helped by the Bears’ thrilling comeback, and the fact that it was just the third playoff meeting between the two storied franchises, the game shattered […]
Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella Train Dreams might be a short clip, and one which is a stream of consciousness in its narrative about the plight of early 20th Century loggers and railroad workers in the Pacific Northwest, but producers Ashley Schlaifer, Will Janowitz and Marissa McMahon knew there was a movie in it, and sought […]
Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser appeared on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show this morning and shared what jokes she cut from her opening monologue Sunday. Here’s one: “You know, people just aren’t going to the theaters to see things and if you don’t believe me, there was a movie this year where Sydney Sweeney played […]
NBC is hitting the ground running with a second pilot order less than two weeks into January. The network has greenlighted drama Protection, from Quantico creator Josh Safran, Today with Jenna & Sheinelle‘s Jenna Bush Hager and Universal Television. Protection joins a reboot of The Rockford Files, which received a pilot greenlight earlier today. As […]
EXCLUSIVE: Gabe Hogan (Tacoma FD, Lincoln Lawyer) and Aida Osman (Rap Sh!t, The Young Wife) are set for recurring roles in Netflix’s untitled Will Ferrell golf series. They join the previously announced cast of Ferrell, in his first scripted comedy TV series, Molly Shannon, Jimmy Tatro, Fortune Feimster, Chris Parnell, Katelyn Tarver, David Hornsby, and Luke […]
Timothy Busfield, who turned himself in today to face child sexual abuse charges, has been officially arrested and booked by the Albuquerque Police Department. The thirtysomething actor has proclaimed he is innocent of the accusations. Looking at potentially decades in New Mexico prison if found guilty, on the felonies, Busfield was booked at 1:08 pm […]
Tony Dokoupil’s debut week as anchor of CBS Evening News averaged 4.17 million viewers, down from 23% from the same period in 2025. In the 25-54 demo, CBS Evening News averaged 533,000, compared to 690,000 in the same week of January a year ago. The broadcast averaged 5.4 million viewers in the first full week […]
Netflix has discussed revising its cash-and-stock deal for the Warner Bros. studios and streaming assets to all cash, according to a Bloomberg report. The shift would come as Paramount continues to tout its hostile $30-a-share all-cash offer for Warner Bros. Discovery as superior to the deal the David Zaslav-led company inked with the giant streamer. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Bridgerton creator Chris Van Dusen has signed an overall deal with Netflix, Deadline has learned. The pact formalizes and expands Van Dusen’s return to the streamer where he has been developing They Both Die At The End, executive produced by Bad Bunny, and recently joined another high-profile series in the works, Calabasas, executive produced […]
EXCLUSIVE: A famous PI is plotting an NBC return. The network has given a drama pilot order to The Rockford Files, a reboot of the classic Stephen J. Cannell series starring James Garner that ran on NBC from 1974-80. The project comes from writer Mike Daniels (The Village), producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly (Elementary) […]
Broadway box office was solid and clear-headed last week after the previous week’s lucrative holiday-fueled numbers, with receipts for the 31 productions settling at a solid $34,320,229. That’s a 34% drop from the week that contained New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day Attendance for the week ending January 11 was 272,911, down about 13% […]
EXCLUSIVE: The stirring soundtrack to Oscar-shortlisted documentary Yanuni, recorded on three continents, will be released on major music streaming platforms on Wednesday, including Spotify and Apple Music. The soundtrack is composed by H. Scott Salinas with the support of Argentinian composer Tomás Videla, in collaboration with Indigenous leader and musician Eric Terena, an executive producer […]
EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the Saban Films release of her debut feature Sweetness, scheduled for February 13, writer-director Emma Higgins has signed with Verve. Premiering to critical acclaim at SXSW — the film is currently rated 95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes — Sweetness is billed as a coming-of-age story for the digital age which the question: […]
“No Children Beyond This Point” says the sign in the dilapidated water park, the shabby but perfect place to start the fourth instalment of the 28 Days franchise. Directed by Nia DaCosta, who more than earned her horror spurs with the 2021 remake of Candyman, 28 Days Later: The Bone Temple is certainly the nastiest […]