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Bill Maher Reacts to Donald Trump’s Guilty Verdict: “For He’s a Jolly Good Felon”…
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Sony Shutters TriStar TV, Jennifer Turner Among Duo Leaving (Exclusive)
Nicole Norwood will also depart as the division will be folded into the larger TV studio.
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Charlie Brooker on Predicting the Future, ‘Black Mirror’ Season 7 and His “USS Callister” Sequel
The AI-focused episode "Joan Is Awful" wasn't the first time the writer/creator saw the writing on the wall with his Netflix show, but it was the timeliest: "I feel like I'm living in a simulation," he recalls.
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Charlie Hunnam to Star in Ed Brubaker’s ‘Criminal’ for Amazon
The 'Sons of Anarchy' grad joins a cast that also includes Richard Jenkins, Adria Arjona and Kadeem Hardison.
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Bill Maher Reacts to Donald Trump’s Guilty Verdict: “For He’s a Jolly Good Felon”
Bill Maher had quite a lot to say on his latest episode of Real Time about Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in his criminal hush money trial. On Thursday, a New York jury found the former president guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records. Throughout the five weeks of testimony, the jury heard from […]
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TV Premiere Dates 2024: The Complete Guide
Hundreds of TV series — new and old, scripted and not, on streaming, broadcast and cable outlets — will premiere in the next 12 months. As production ramped up in the final weeks 2023 following the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, pipelines started to get refilled, which could lead to a crush of premieres in […]
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Sony Shutters TriStar TV, Jennifer Turner Among Duo Leaving (Exclusive)
Sony Pictures Television is shuttering its TriStar TV banner. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that TriStar TV exec vp Jennifer Turner and senior vp development Nicole Norwood are leaving as the division is being folded into the larger Sony TV fold. No additional layoffs are expected to come as part of the move. Reps for […]
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Charlie Brooker on Predicting the Future, ‘Black Mirror’ Season 7 and His “USS Callister” Sequel
Charlie Brooker anticipates a lot of things. As the creator and writer of Black Mirror, his Emmy-winning sci-fi Netflix series has predicted everything from new Apple technology to the election of a certain U.S. president. With the season six episode “Joan Is Awful,” Brooker knew the AI-centered story would be timely. But even his dystopian […]
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Charlie Hunnam to Star in Ed Brubaker’s ‘Criminal’ for Amazon
Amazon has found its criminal. Charlie Hunnam has been tapped to star in Amazon’s adaptation of Ed Brubaker’s comic series Criminal. Picked up to series in January after nearly a year in development, Criminal is described as an interlocking universe of crime stories based on the multiple Eisner Award-winning graphic novel series created by Brubaker […]
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‘The Rings of Power’ Actor Confirmed Not Returning for Season 2
A series regular from the first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is not coming back for the second season. Nazanin Boniadi, who played Bronwyn in the Prime Video show’s first season, won’t be in the upcoming episodes, a source close to the show exclusively confirmed. Bronwyn is a human […]
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‘Hacks’ Star Hannah Einbinder Teases Her Debut Stand-Up Special: See the Trailer (Exclusive)
Hannah Einbinder doesn’t perform the stand-up comedy in Hacks — that falls to Jean Smart, who stars with Einbinder as veteran comic Deborah Vance — but that was her primary job before she landed the role on the Emmy-winning Max series as Ava, a struggling writer who reluctantly takes a job with Deborah and, over the course […]
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‘We Are Lady Parts’ Creator on Scaling Up in Season 2
Welcome to the 261st episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast. Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as […]
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‘9-1-1’ Star Ryan Guzman Breaks Down That Emotional Finale Goodbye
[This story contains spoilers from the season seven finale of 9-1-1, “All Fall Down.”] Eddie Diaz (Ryan Guzman) has been known to play with fire in his personal life on 9-1-1. But he had always somehow managed to keep his son, Christopher (Gavin McHugh), from getting burned. That all changed in the penultimate episode of […]
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Streaming Ratings: Tom Brady Roast Hits Top 10 Originals After One Night
The Netflix special roasting NFL great Tom Brady made it onto the streaming charts for the week it premiered — despite it only being up for a few hours of that week. The Roast of Tom Brady racked up 279 million minutes for the week of April 29-May 5, good for 10th place among original […]
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‘The Vince Staples Show’ Renewed at Netflix
Netflix is staying in business with Vince Staples. The streamer has handed out a second season renewal for The Vince Staples Show. The five-episode scripted comedy from exec producer Kenya Barris was initially billed as a limited series. An episode count for season two has not yet been determined. “The Vince Staples Show is back! […]
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Amazon Orders Animated Comedy From Aubrey Plaza
Amazon is making biscuits with Aubrey Plaza. The online retailer/streamer has handed out a series order for Kevin, an animated comedy from Aubrey Plaza and Joe Wengert (Big Mouth). The series revolves around a lifelong house cat who decides that he doesn’t want to live with people anymore. The comedy is loosely inspired by a […]
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‘Hacks’ Scores Season 4 Renewal at Max
Hacks is headed back to the stage at Max. The streamer has ordered a fourth season of the Emmy-winning comedy starring Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder. The renewal comes on the day Hacks concludes its nine-episode third season (just under the wire for Emmy eligibility this year). “We congratulate Hacks’ brilliant cast and crew, and […]
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‘Rick and Morty’ Team Lands Adult Animated Series at Netflix
Netflix’s latest animated series order comes from several people behind Rick and Morty. The streamer has ordered The Undervale from creator and showrunner Matt Roller, a former writer for the Adult Swim mainstay and current co-executive producer of Fox’s Krapopolis. Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon and executive producer Steve Levy are also exec producing, […]
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard on Her New Lifetime Docuseries, Post-Prison Life, Taylor Swift and Setting the Record Straight
Gypsy Rose Blanchard knows what people have read about her in the media, and she’s ready to share the truth behind those stories in her new Lifetime docuseries, Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up. As a reminder, Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2016 after she pleaded guilty to persuading Nicholas Godejohn, […]
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‘Ultimatum’ Shows Renewed as Netflix Loads Up on Reality Programming
Get ready for more Ultimatums at Netflix. The streamer has picked up new seasons of both The Ultimatum and its companion show, The Ultimatum: Queer Love, as part of its ongoing expansion of reality programming. Netflix has also ordered another show in its Selling … franchise; a competition show called Battle Camp that’s reminiscent of […]
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