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Zendaya could have been part of Disney Channel‘s Descendants franchise. Former Vice President of Casting and Talent Relations at the children’s network Cornelia Frame revealed that the Euphoria star wanted to be part of the franchise and auditioned multiple times. “Zendaya did audition many times for Descendants, and that was a big deal,” Frame said

John Carroll Lynch has been cast as a series regular opposite Maggie Q in Prime Video‘s Untitled Renee Ballard Series, a Bosch spinoff. The Untitled Renée Ballard series follows Detective Renée Ballard (Q), who is tasked with running the LAPD’s new cold case division—a poorly funded, all-volunteer unit with the largest case load in the

Access Entertainment, financial backers of 2024 Oscar-winner The Zone of Interest, has turned attention to a BBC doc titled The Last Musician of Auschwitz. Access’ Danny Cohen and Emily Blavatnik will EP the feature telling the extraordinary story of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch who, along with other victims of Auschwitz, played and created music amidst the terrors

Full House alum Jodie Sweetin is defending the 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony after conservatives attacked a portion of the show featuring drag queens. During the opening ceremony for the Olympics in Paris, a segment featuring drag queens caught the attention of Christian-identifying viewers. They believed that the performers were “mocking” Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” painting.

After just missing the launch of Kamala Harris‘ presidential campaign last weekend, John Oliver kicked off Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight by unpacking the week of Brat. The comedian roasted Jake Tapper over his confusion around Charli XCX‘s meme-worthy endorsement of Harris while promoting her sixth studio album Brat, which “unfortunately set off days

Paris Olympics organizers apologized Sunday to anyone offended by an image of drag performers that evoked Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” during the opening ceremony. The scene during Friday’s ceremony featured LGBTQ+ icon, DJ and producer Barbara Butch flanked by drag artists and dancers. Religious conservatives decried the segment, with the French Catholic Church’s

KCET topped the list of Los Angeles TV stations with the most wins,10, at the 76th local Emmy Awards handed out by the Television Academy Saturday. It was followed by KVEA and Spectrum News 1 with 4 each, ABC7 and CBS2/KCAL9 with 3 and KTLA5 and Spectrum SportsNet with two. One of KTLA5’s two Emmys

Ghosts fans got quite a bit of information about the upcoming fourth season of the CBS comedy during Saturday’s Comic-Con panel, including the surprise announcement that Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) will finally get to see his invisible housemates at Woodstone Manor. That’s right, Jay is seeing the ghosts in Season 4. Even Ambudkar was shocked by

We’re getting the first extended look at Season 3 of MGM+s thriller sci-fi drama From in a new trailer unveiled today during the show’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con. It also was announced that the series will return for its third season on September 22, with Robert Joy (CSI: NY) and Samantha Brown (Y: The

A trailer for Zero Day, a Taiwanese TV series portraying a Chinese attack on the island has stirred a tide of emotional response. The nearly 18-minute teaser depicts China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) landing in Taiwan after a presidential election, where a “political power vacuum” has also left society vulnerable. China then creates a blockade

The 2024 Paris Olympics gets underway in earnest with the Opening Ceremony on Friday, July 26, with coverage beginning at noon p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT. It will serve as the official kickoff of the games, which runs for 16 days of competition through August 11. NBC and Peacock will present live coverage of the ceremony

Sky Content MD Zai Bennett is heading to BBC Studios. The UK programs chief of the Comcast-owned pay-TV giant will run BBC Studios Productions, a job that has been vacant for several months and one of the most talked about in the British industry. He replaces Ralph Lee. Bennett will oversee a production arm that

EXCLUSIVE: Multi-hyphenate actress and comedian Lisa Ann Walter has signed with Gersh for representation. Walter, one of the stars of ABC’s Emmy-winning comedy series Abbott Elementary, has earned a Peabody award and shares a SAG award for her role as Melissa Schemmenti on the show which is entering its fourth season. Her other credits include

Controversial French free-to-air channel C8, a subsidiary of Vivendi’s Canal Plus Group, is set to lose its TNT frequency, following a bombshell decision by France’s Arcom audiovisual and digital communication authority. The body is in the process of renewing the 15 licenses for France’s terrestrial frequencies and has been auditioning existing frequency holders and new

To summit Mount Everest requires incredible tenacity, fitness and a willingness to negotiate the risk of death. For Lhakpa Sherpa, who has climbed the world’s tallest peak more than any other woman, it has required even more: overcoming poverty, defying her family and Nepali culture that did not support her ambition and surviving an abusive

Alfonso Cuarón’s Apple TV+ Series Disclaimer, based on Renée Knight’s bestselling novel, will world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The psychological thriller features a star-studded cast headed by Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline and Sacha Baron Cohen and also featuring Lesley Manville, Louis Partridge, Leila George, Indira Varma and Kodi Smit-McPhee. The show is among

A social media post from Chadwick Boseman has resurfaced after Kamala Harris ramps up her efforts to earn the nomination for the Democrat party after Joe Biden stepped down from the 2024 presidential race. Harris has the support of Biden for the nomination to face off against Donald Trump in the November presidential election. The

Amazon Prime Video has taken another big leap into the UK film and TV industry by acquiring the 70-year-old studios where Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is filmed. Financials were not disclosed on the deal for Bray Film Studios, with the first Amazon production rolling cameras there set to be the second

Thom Brennaman will be returning to the airwaves this fall as their lead play-by-play broadcaster for nationally televised  games this coming season, according to The Athletic.  Brennaman will make his season debut Aug. 31 when Oregon State meets Idaho State.  Brennaman, age 60, was sidelined from broadcasting since 2020, when he made a homophobic slur on a

Richard Simmons is continuing to spread love as fans mourn his passing. One week after his death, the late fitness guru’s team shared a previously approved post that Simmons had prepared before he died at age 76 on Saturday, August 13 at his home in Los Angeles. “Richard worked very hard on his posts for

He may not be fighting in the ring anymore, but Dave Bautista still has some moves in his back pocket. The WWE alum confirmed that he snuck his signature Bautista Bomb into a fight scene in his new action comedy sequel My Spy: The Eternal City, which is now available to stream on Prime Video.

The lawyer of the woman suing Netflix for how she is allegedly portrayed in its hit drama Baby Reindeer has called its haul of Emmy nominations “a slap in the face.” Fiona Harvey, a Scottish woman who used to know Richard Gadd, the writer and lead actor of the drama, is suing Netflix for, among

Ariana Madix joined Love Island USA Season 6 as host for the Peacock reality competition. The Vanderpump Rules star has injected new life into the reality series, and every time she enters the villa to deliver important news to the Islanders, she makes a grand entrance. RELATED: ‘Love Island USA’ Season 6 Finale Date Set On Peacock

Sky News and other international broadcasters suffered outages on Friday morning amid a global tech meltdown linked to Microsoft systems. The Comcast-owned news channel was off air for around an hour, restoring a service just before 9am local time but with a stripped-back studio, a lack of chyrons, and presenters apparently reading from printed papers

Paramount+ has cancelled Halo, Deadline has confirmed. The news comes a few months after Season 2 of the live-action video game adaptation premiered on the streamer in February. Amblin Television, Xbox and 343 Industries are currently shopping Halo in hopes of finding it a new home, Deadline understands. “We are extremely proud of this ambitious

Viaplay Results: Focus On Core Ops Working Slowly Viaplay’s focus on doing what it does best willed out in its latest quarterly results, with total turnover down slightly but turnover in core operations increasing by a similar margin. Since the exit of former CEO Anders Jensen amidst financial turmoil last year, the Scandi outfit has been focused

Hulu announced on Wednesday that Roy Wood Jr. (The Daily Show) will tape his first comedy special for the streamer at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. in early September, seeing it launch on Hulu and Disney+ internationally. The as-yet-untitled special comes on the heels of three for Comedy Central: Imperfect Messenger (2021), No One

CAA Signs Gary Neville CAA has signed British former soccer player and pundit Gary Neville. The U.S. agent’s sports division has signed the ex-Manchester United and England international for exclusive representation in all areas. Neville was part of one of the most successful Man United teams of all time and has subsequently been a fixture

EXCLUSIVE: Hannah Einbinder has signed with CAA for representation. Einbinder currently stars as Ava Daniels in Max’s Hacks, which premiered its third season this summer. She has been nominated for two Emmy and two Golden Globe Awards for her performance in the comedy. Her debut comedy special, Everything Must Go, also premiered this summer on Max with The

Ex-Strictly contestant Zara McDermott has broken her silence on the firing of her former partner Graziano Di Prima, saying that watching videos back of her time on the show has been “incredibly distressing.” Di Prima has left the lineup of the BBC stalwart this year after allegations of “gross misconduct” against one of his female