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Kelsey Grammar won’t have David Hyde Pierce at his side when he returns in the Frasier reboot later this year. Instead, he’ll have as his co-lead actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, whom British fans will know has all the requisite experience and know-how to set up the gags in a TV double act.  Lyndhurst played Rodney, younger

Elon Musk is courting other television news anchors to pivot to Twitter just like Tucker Carlson after his firing from Fox News. The Twitter owner shared on the digital platform that he would like to balance out the personalities delivering the news on the social network with left-leaning hosts. “It’d be great to have [Rachel

Makers of The Crown have reportedly decided to pay tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II in the hit drama’s final season. The Sun newspaper – which has previously been on the money with its scoops as to which actresses will play the monarch – suggests that producers have decided to recruit all three actresses

What was it that Homer once said? “Lisa, if you don’t like your job you don’t strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way.” But that’s not the WGA way. So Friday, the creative team behind The Simpsons (present and past!) hit the picket line at Fox

Made in Chelsea and That’s My Jam producer Monkey’s co-founders are stepping down after more than two decades at the helm. In a note shared with staff, owner Universal International Studios President Beatrice Springborn said Creative Directors David Granger and Will Macdonald have “announced their decision to leave.” “In addition to building a compelling premium

Popular “SportsCenter” anchor Neil Everett is reportedly leaving ESPN after 23 years. Front Office Sports has written that the 61-year-old Everett is leaving, the latest on-air talent to depart the network. “Bartender…last call,” Everett said in a statement to Front Office Sports. “ESPN changed my life, but now it’s time for me to change my

Clarkson’s Farm producer Expectation is adapting comedian Pope Lonergan’s memoir about a decade spent caring for the elderly for TV. In I’ll Die After Bingo, the award-winning author provided a no-holds barred account, whether initiating a coup d’état against new regulations with the residents or forging a bond with a 98-year old who once called

The Tribeca Festival announced “De Niro Con,” a three-day fan event this fall in celebration of Robert De Niro’s 80th birthday. Martin Scorsese gave a loving tribute to his close friend and collaborator, whom Mayor Eric Adams presented with the key to the city at a reception tonight. The event at festival headquarters on Greenwich

Netflix has greenlighted an Italian edition of its hit rap competition Rhythm + Flow, following in the wake of the hit U.S. original and the successful French version Nouvelle École which is now in its second season.   Bannered Rhythm + Flow Italy, the Italian version of the rap music competition will be produced by

Pete Davidson is seemingly having second thoughts on a big purchase he made with his former Saturday Night Live co-star Colin Jost. The duo bought a decommissioned Staten Island ferry boat back in 2022 and since then have not found a use for it. During the Transformers: Rise of the Beasts premiere, Davidson gave an

EXCLUSIVE: Apple is continuing its drive for original podcast series. The tech giant is launching Under Cover of Knight, a series about a mysterious woman living in Athens, Texas. Under Cover of Knight tells the story of Sue Knight, who was found dead in 1996 in her home. Her will named a loose acquaintance –

Editor’s note: These interview was done outside of the FYC event as there was no cast or creatives panel as a part of the event. “It was a really lovely collective feeling of really being pushed and pushing ourselves,” says director Mark Mylod of the magic behind the scenes on the now concluded Succession. “For

Britain’s Got Talent is no longer the ratings banker it once was. Simon Cowell’s star format is losing its shine after the latest season bowed out with 5.3M viewers, the lowest-rated finale in the ITV show’s 16-year history. The figure does not include catch-up or online viewing and is perhaps unsurprising in an era when

The WGA has detailed its plans to target Apple to coincide with its Worldwide Developers Conference. As Deadline revealed earlier today, the writers guild is planning action against the tech giant on Monday June 5. It has now sent members a list of targets where its members will be leafleting (see below). It has also

The Directors Guild and the studios have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract. The deal comes on the 33rd day of the Writers Guild strike, and just four days before SAG-AFTRA sits down at the bargaining table with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers – and two days before Monday’s

Neil Patrick Harris is reprising his role of Michael Lawson for the second season of Uncoupled, the Darren Star and Jeffrey Richman series that was picked up by Showtime after Netflix canceled it after one season. While visiting The View to promote his Hulu show Drag Me to Dinner, Harris revealed that filming for the

A string of race horse deaths has prompted fabled Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky to suspend its racing operations beginning June 7. The suspension will ontinue throughout the Spring Meet schedule, according to a release from the racetrack. In the last month, 12 horses died at the home of the Kentucky Derby. “What has happened at

Joe Biden may have stumbled yesterday at the US Air Force Academy graduation, but the President had some swagger tonight. “There were extreme voices threatening to take America for the first time in our 247-year history and a default on our national debt,” said Biden with a swing at Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans in

Nick Mohammed still can’t believe how lucky he was to have scored the role of Nate Shelley in Apple’s multi-Emmy Award-winning series Ted Lasso—but it almost didn’t happen. Mohammed had set his sights on a different role which he didn’t land but at the time he didn’t realize it didn’t work out for a reason.

The question on the mind of all Ted Lasso fans, and some of its stars, is will there be a Season 4 or any spin-offs of the Apple TV+ series. Brendan Hunt, who plays Coach Beard in the Warner Bros. Television-produced series, is the latest to respond. “My pat answer, that is also 100% true:

EXCLUSIVE: ITV Studios has struck its 17th I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! territory sale and is heading out on a renewed U.S. pitching drive. The Greek version of the 20-year-old format will launch on free-to-air network Skai TV in the autumn and be filmed in the Dominican Republic. Produced by Acun Medya,

EXCLUSIVE: The Season 2 finale of Yellowjackets was a buzzy one for Showtime. The season came to an end over the weekend, alongside the series finales for HBO’s Succession and Barry. The finale episode drew 1.5M total viewers over its premiere weekend based on Nielsen, comScore, and internal streaming data. Episodes of Yellowjackets were available

Prime Video Australia is remaking The Office as a female-led comedy starring stand-up Felicity Ward in the role Ricky Gervais first made famous. Gervais’ David Brent will become Hannah Howard in the series, with Ward putting her own spin on bad team management at packaging company Flinley Craddick. When she gets news from Head Office

In a split ruling today, a state appeals court panel reinstated a grant of parole for former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, overturning an earlier decision by Gov. Gavin Newsom to block her release. Tuesday’s decision does not automatically mean Van Houten will be released. The state could still appeal the ruling to the

Lisa Rinna announced back in January that she was exiting The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills after eight seasons. The Days of our Lives alum is now revealing that getting “death threats” from some viewers also weighed on her to make the decision to leave the Bravo reality series. “I think the world itself has

While Succession patriarch Brian Cox has called co-star Mark Strong’s method acting “f***ing annoying” and last week complained Logan Roy was killed off “ultimately too early,” it seems those irritants did not define Cox’s experience on the show. Quite the opposite. In an Instagram story posted after the series finale last night, Cox had nothing

SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from the series finale of HBO‘s Barry. “Wow.” Not only is this the title of the Barry series finale, written and directed by co-creator and star, Bill Hader. It’s also, naturally, the sentiment with which we, as an audience, are left. By the end of the episode, Hader’s

Billie Eilish is tired of her style critics. Morphing from baggy clothed teen to Met Gala fashion sensation has brought out the social media haters. The 21-year-old Eilish fired back on an Instagram Story this weekend. “I spent the first 5 years of my career getting absolutely OBLITERATED by you fools for being boy ish

Kelly Clarkson is opening up about the reason she is relocating her eponymous daytime talk show to New York City after four seasons in Los Angeles. The American Idol winner was interviewed by Nancy O’Dell for TalkShopLive where the singer said she told the staff about her decision in January. “I talked to them because

The long-running saga of a potential move by Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletics to Las Vegas has another milestone. A bill introduced late Friday in the Nevada legislature would provide up to $380 million in public funding for a potential 30,000-seat, $1.5 billion retractable-roof stadium on the Las Vegas Strip. The breakdown would see the