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“The Real Housewives of the White House.” Those seven words about the sordid reality TV franchise were really all Bill Maher had to say tonight on HBO’s Real Time of the Oval Office shouting match Friday after showing footage of the very undiplomatic exchange. Everybody gets it. A fiasco that saw a flattery seeking Donald

EXCLUSIVE: Lauren Tsai (Legion) rounds out the main cast of HBO‘s untitled comedy series from Bill Lawrence, Matt Tarses and Warner Bros. TV. She joins fellow series regulars Steve Carell, Charly Clive, Phil Dunster, Danielle Deadwyler and John C. McGinley. The single-camera comedy is set on a college campus, centering on an author’s (Carell) complicated

EXCLUSIVE: My Octopus Teacher producer Off The Fence is going deeper into true crime through a development deal with investigative journalists Robin Carter and Gloria Gomez, and is making doc about an unsung modern warfare specialist. Under terms of the pact, OTF will develop and produce true-crime series based on the contacts, intelligence and access

EXCLUSIVE:  Netflix has acquired the wildly popular Spotify and Audible Originals podcast Impact Winter, to be developed for series with Hunger Games helmer Francis Lawrence directing. The series is created by Travis Beacham, whose script work includes Carnival Row, Pacific Rim and Clash of the Titans. The ambition of the series is 30 Days of

Although Maria Shriver remained blissfully ignorant of her son Patrick Schwarzenegger‘s NSFW debut on The White Lotus, not everyone in the family is so modest. Patrick’s actor brother-in-law Chris Pratt, who is married to Katherine Schwarzenegger, recently commented on the HBO star’s nude scene in the Season 3 premiere, as well as his performance in

The UK’s new anti-bullying reporting body for TV and film has unveiled the standards it will uphold when it becomes fully operational. The Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (CIISA) will work from four standards, which were drawn up after an eight-week consultation that concluded last month. The body is in the process of securing its

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is to broadcast a live Eid service from a mosque for the first ever time on British terrestrial TV. Eid Live and Celebrity Eid will come from Bradford, a city with a large Muslim population that is this year’s UK City of Culture, and is the setting for new BBC thriller Virdee.

Fox Corp. CFO Steve Tomsic sought to clarify the company’s surprising announcement earlier this month that it plans to launch a general-interest subscription streaming service later this year. “Our thesis hasn’t changed,” Tomsic insisted Tuesday in an appearance at the Barclays Communications and Content Symposium. “We’re not trying to chase the SVOD dream of Netflix

The leadership team and much of the creative staff of The Mill, a unit of bankrupt Technicolor, has joined forces with Dream Machine FX on a new venture called Arc Creative, a bright spot in the shocking meltdown of an historic name. “The Mill US was an undeniable creative force, setting the gold standard in

DC Studios co-chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran emphasized that the release date for Season 2 of the hit Max series Peacemaker is still on track for August. Meanwhile the other Suicide Squad spinoff series, Waller, starring Oscar winner Viola Davis as the amoral U.S. government espionage director who dispatches the criminal misfit Suicide Squad

Heading into this year’s SAG Awards, Martin Short had five previous nominations. Tonight, the veteran actor-comedian won his first SAG Award at the age of 74 in the Male Actor In a Comedy Series category for his role as Oliver Putnam on Only Murders In the Building. An hour or so later, he won a

The second season premiere of 1923 paid tribute to the late Cole Brings Plenty, who was found dead last April in Kansas. He was 27. The season 2 premiere begins with an In Memoriam photo of Brings Plenty, the nephew of Yellowstone star Mo Brings Plenty who played Pete Plenty Clouds for two episodes in the drama’s freshman

One month into Donald Trump’s second term, not a lot of people can follow Kamala Harris at the NAACP Image Awards, but Dave Chappelle can and did Saturday night. Receiving the President’s Award during Saturday’s 56th NAACP Image Awards not long after the former Vice President was given the Chairman’s Award, the 2019 Mark Twain

Lynne Marie Stewart, the actress known for roles in Pee-wee’s Playhouse and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, has died. She was 78. Elvira star Cassandra Peterson was one of several to pay tribute to the actress Friday on Instagram after coming up together at The Groundlings in Los Angeles and appearing in Elvira: Mistress of

The 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are set to take place Sunday, February 23 at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles, in a ceremony streaming live on Netflix. The ceremony, to be hosted by Kristen Bell, is the last major Hollywood guild to reveal its winners ahead of the Oscars on

RELATED: Saying Goodbye: A Video Tribute To The Hollywood And Media Figures We’ve Lost In 2024 Wayne Osmond, musician, 73 Image Credit: Everett Collection; Getty Images August 28, 1951March 31, 1941 Jack Waddell, singer & opera coach, 83 March 31, 1941 – January 1, 2025 Read the obituary here. Brenton Wood, musician, 83 July 26, 1941 –

Eric Mabius has been arrested for alleged battery in Nassau County, New York. The Ugly Betty actor was arrested just after 2am in the early hours of Thursday morning before he was booked at Nassau County Jail and Detention Center at 5:45am on two misdemeanor charges. He’s facing a battery charge and resisting arrest without

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu announced this morning that Matteo Lane: The Al Dente Special, its first hour of stand-up from comedian Matteo Lane, is set to premiere on the streamer on Friday, May 16. Marking Lane’s first special for a major service, The Al Dente Special comes on the heels of self-released specials including Hair Plugs &

Although Chloe Fineman has been known to serve hilarious impersonations of Drew Barrymore, Britney Spears and Timothée Chalamet, not everyone is a fan. The Saturday Night Live star recently revealed that Harry Styles was less than enthused with her impression of the One Direction alum when he hosted and performed on the NBC sketch comedy

Investigation Discovery, the network behind Quiet on Set and The Curious Case of Natalia Grace, has found is next case. The cable network has greenlit A Body In The Snow: The Trial of Karen Read. Watch the trailer above. Read is accused of killing her boyfriend John O’Keefe, a local police officer. On a cold

Bookie, the comedy series Chuck Lorre and Nick Bakay created, has been canceled at Max after two seasons. The series, which premiered on the Warner Bros. Discovery streamer in November 2023 and premiered its second season in December 2024, was not renewed for a third season. “For two seasons creators Chuck Lorre and Nick Bakay

Two years after relocating to Hollywood, BBC Studios exec Mark Linsey had a week he wouldn’t forget. On January 5, 2025, the seasoned Brit beamed in the crowd at the Beverly Hilton Hotel as BBC Studios took home multiple gongs for hits including Baby Reindeer and Conclave at the Golden Globes. Richard Gadd mused on

Jamie Campbell Bower is looking forward to doing away with eight-hour special effects makeup applications for Vecna — and some of the other weight that comes with playing the arch-villain on Netflix‘s Stranger Things that aren’t so easy to wash off at the end of the day. During a fan event for MegaCon Orlando, The

In the blizzard of executive orders, Resolute desk pronouncements and mass firings of President Donald Trump‘s first weeks in office, it’s easy to lose sight of what has been happening at the FCC and its chilling effect on the media. The agency typically gets few headlines, engaged as it is in policy calls over arcane

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the Season 3 premiere of HBO‘s The White Lotus. The Season 3 premiere of HBO’s The White Lotus lays the foundation for yet another poignant and timely commentary on class consciousness. Set at the fictional resort chain’s Thailand location, the episode introduces audiences to the four major storylines

Saturday Night Live is no stranger to mythologizing, and no episode has been as elevated to the stuff of legend as the late-night sketch comedy series’ inaugural showing. A tricenarian Lorne Michaels, half a century yet removed from becoming the preeminent juggernaut of television — before SNL produced such comedic powerhouses as Tina Fey and

The Bachelorette alumna Katie Thurston took to Instagram today to share that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. In a lengthy and emotional post, the Season 17 star said she is “ready to fight” and thanked her husband, comedian Jeff Arcuri, for his support. Thurston, who began her Bachelor Nation career as a contestant

Celebrated film actor Jesse Plemons is appearing in his first TV series Zero Day for Netflix, and he has shared why it has been left deliberately vague whether the political characters on screen are Democrats or Republicans. Plemons co-stars alongside Robert De Niro and Connie Britton, and he plays aide Roger Carlson to former US

Yellowjackets‘ Sophie Thatcher is in negotiations to star opposite Mark Eydelshteyn in Season 2 of Prime Video’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith, sources tell Deadline. If her deal closes, the duo would be playing the eponymous Mr. & Mrs. Smith. As Deadline has reported, Billie Eilish had been approached for the female lead but that didn’t

Welcome back to your weekly International Insider. Jesse Whittock on the buttons to guide you through the top TV and film news. Click here to subscribe to the newsletter. Berlin Begins Straight to a snowy Berlin, where Zac has this report… Tilda’s the talk of the town: The Berlin Film Festival kicked off Thursday evening