Friday, April 19, 2024

Television

Jean Smart’s Cup Runneth Over: Actress Will Miss Opening of Breakout Toronto Film So She Can Be at Emmy Awards

Jean Smart is really having an extraordinary moment. Last year she was nominated for two Emmy Awards-- for "Mare of Easttown" and "Hacks." And...

UPDATE Stephen Colbert Announces Jon Batiste Leaving to Make a New Record and Get More Grammys

Last month, Jon Batiste announced he was taking the summer off as Stephen Colbert's band leader. Last night, Colbert dropped the other show: Batiste is...

Report: NBC Trading One Soap Opera (Days of our Lives) for Another, the Golden Globes to Return January 2023

We thought NBC was getting out of the soap opera business-- they cancelled "Days of our Lives" from the network. But they're bringing back an...

Tragic Jinx: Both Anne Heche and Actress Who Followed Her in Soap Role Have Had Tragic, Drunken Car Accidents

A sharp eyed fan pointed this out to me. This could only otherwise have happened on an actual soap opera. There's a tragic link between Anne...

RIP Clu Gulager, 93, Veteran of TV Series, Westerns, and In the End, Quentin Tarantino

In "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," the great 2019 movie by Quentin Tarantino, Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate visits a bookstore to buy...

ABC Throws Hail Mary Pass for “Big Sky”: Casts Rosanna Arquette, Plus Jensen Ackles to Play Ryan Phillippe, and Desmond from “Lost”

"Big Sky" is a show no one watches or knows anything about. But ABC owns it, so they keep renewing it despite low ratings...

UPDATE Warner Discovery Stock CLOSES DOWN 16.5% as Zaslav Backs Off Bad News But It’s Still Taken That Way

UPDATE: Stock closed down 16.5%, at 14.50 down 1.00 from Monday. Yesterday afternoon's earnings call for Warner Discovery was like a wild opera. You...

Pay Up! Judge Reaffirms Kevin Spacey’s $31 Million Judgement from “House of Cards” Producer

You may recall last November Kevin Spacey was ordered to pay the producer of "House of Cards" $31 million. I wrote about it here. Today, a...