CNN is branching out and giving humor another try. On Monday at 9 p.m. – in the last hours of Memorial Day – the cable-news outlet will air an hour-long show featuring comedian Colin Quinn, who will perform a version of his recent Off-Broadway show, Red State Blue State, with limited commercials. CNN viewers may […]
Sydney to the Max has been renewed for a second season at Disney Channel. The series is set in the present day with flashbacks to the 1990s and follows outgoing middle schooler Sydney Reynolds (Ruth Righi) who lives with her single dad Max (Ian Reed Kesler) in the house he grew up in, along with […]
ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience pulled in a 1.7 rating in adults 18-49 and 10.4 million viewers. For comparison, its closest competition in the demo were the season finales of Chicago Med and Chicago Fire, which each drew a 1.1 rating. Its closest competition in total viewers was also Med and Fire, […]
CBS All Access released a poster and a teaser trailer for the highly anticipated Star Trek: Picard on Thursday, which also marks the 25th anniversary of the Star Trek: The Next Generation finale episode. This is the first glimpse of Patrick Stewart reprising the beloved role. Stewart, 78, helmed the USS Enterprise as Picard for […]
Martin Short has joined the cast of Good People, the Amazon comedy pilot from Lee Daniels and Whitney Cummings. He joins recently cast Greg Kinnear and Lisa Kudrow, as well as Cummings, who will star, direct and co-write. Per Amazon, the half-hour comedy follows three generations of women working in the Ombudsman’s office of a […]
The Lonely Island comedy troupe has dropped a half-hour Netflix special featuring a musical tribute to baseball greats Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire. The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience features Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer as the former Oakland Athletics teammates who became known as “the Bash Brothers” for their prowess at […]
In an interview with 660 City News, one of the original Ghostbusters films’ stars Dan Aykroyd has revealed that he’s already written a prequel film which would feature Peter, Ray and Egon during their high school days: “I’ve written Ghostbusters High where they meet in New Jersey in 1969 and we’re looking to do that […]
101 Studios has sent word the long-delayed The Current War drama will have a limited release on October 4th ahead of a wide opening a week later on the 11th Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon as rival George Westinghouse in the story of the race to create a marketable and sustainable […]
Amazon’s comedy pilot Good People, from creators Lee Daniels and Whitney Cummings, has signed a second star. Oscar and Emmy nominee Greg Kinnear will join Lisa Kudrow in the show, which revolves around three generations of women working in a college ombudsman’s office. Cummings will also have an onscreen role. Kinnear will play Dr. Paul […]
A new winner was crowned on The Voice Tuesday night. But did that champion emerge from a dark chrysalis as the world’s largest and most glittery butterfly? Sorry, Madelyn Jarmon — that is a parking spot that is still very much reserved for overall life champion Taylor Swift, who took to the NBC telecast to […]