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Trailblazer. Shock jock. Media mogul. Icon. Those descriptions of syndicated talk veteran Wendy Williams flash across the screen in the first trailer for Lifetime’s Wendy Williams: The Movie.  Yes, the “Queen of Gossip” is getting the biopic treatment, and she played the footage on her talk show Thursday. Check it out below. “Wendy Williams is […]

SPOILER ALERT: The story includes a detail about tonight’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy. The promo for tonight’s fourth episode of this season’s ABC hit medical drama Grey’s Anatomy teased that “another person returns from Meredith’s past.” As Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) continues to battle Covid-19, her dreams have been taking her to a beach where the […]

Byron Allen’s recently-acquired MGM over-the-air broadcast television network Light TV will transition to TheGrio.TV television network on January 15, 2021. The newly-rebranded broadcast television network will feature African American-focused content reaching over 100 million US households via over-the-air broadcast television stations, cable/telco/satellite platforms, and free digital streaming. TheGrio.TV has as its new network brand slogan […]

AMC Networks has realigned its UMC streaming service and WE tv network under a shared leadership team headed by Brett Dismuke. The executive, who became head of content for UMC in 2019, will now be general manager of the service as well as WE tv, reporting to Miguel Penella, president of SVOD for AMC Networks. Penella, […]

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Helena Zengel, who will next be seen in Paul Greengrass’ News of the World starring opposite Tom Hanks. She garnered critical acclaim for her performance in System Crasher and won Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the German Film Awards, becoming the youngest actress in history to do so. […]

Gloria Estefan followed the pandemic rules. She claims she “rigorously” complied with health and safety measures, limiting her exposure to others. But the 63-year-old singer admitted during an Instagram video chat that she was “one of the victims of Covid.” Despite her adherence to protocols, Estefan said she dined outdoors at a restaurant in Miami with […]

The co-hosts on Fox News Channel’s The Five went to a remote format Thursday, with reports that Juan Williams tested positive for the coronavirus. Williams, who had been in studio on Wednesday socially distanced from the show’s four other panelists, told The Daily Beast that “I’m not great but I’m not dying or anything. I’m […]

UPDATED with additional info: In a release late Thursday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced his Regional Stay-at-Home order would go into effect on Saturday at 12:59 p.m. PT. The triggering metric for the order would be when a region of the state has under 15% of its ICU beds left. That region would then have […]

EXCLUSIVE: Open Road Films has another Liam Neeson action movie, The Marksman, and they’ll be going wide with the pic on Jan. 22, 2021. Directed by Robert Lorenz, Neeson plays Jim in The Marksman, a hardened rancher in an Arizona border town who helps a young boy escape across America while being chased by the leaders of […]

Jeff Dunham’s Completely Unrehearsed Last-Minute Pandemic Holiday Special was a hit for Comedy Central. The special, which aired over Thanksgiving weekend, drew 1.8 million viewers in its Friday, November 27, 8 pm premiere, making it Comedy Central’s most-watched stand-up special in five years, according to the network and Nielsen. Across five telecasts (Friday, November 27 […]

“There is no way to sugarcoat this for the theater operators,” said one Wall Streeter as exhibition stocks plunged Thursday on WarnerMedia’s bombshell – a reimaging of its entire 2021 release slate that hit an exhibition industry already teetering on the brink. Cinemark shares– up earlier in the session — lost nearly 22% of their […]

EXCLUSIVE: Upstart management company Range Media Partners has added two more boldface names to its roster of actor clients. Marvel superstar Chris Hemsworth and Narcos alum Boyd Holbrook (Predator, Logan). Hemsworth and Holbrook are reuniting with their former CAA agent, Range principal Jack Whigham, who will be their manager. Both remain repped by CAA on […]