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Peacock Mixes Bravo-lebrities, QR Codes for ‘Shop What Happens,’ a Show That Sells and Streams

NBCUniversal is betting you’ll want to watch what happens when it launches “Shop What Happens,” a new Peacock series with a heavy dose of Bravo and just a hint of what may lie in TV’s future. The program looks a lot like an “after show,” one of those talk-fests in which the stars of the […]

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Hollywood Reporter

‘Love Story’ Breakout Paul Anthony Kelly Joins Sydney Sweeney in ‘The Housemaid 2’

'The Housemaid’s Secret' is dated for a wide release on Dec. 17, 2027.

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Hollywood Reporter

‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ Adds Levon Hawke to Season 2 Cast (Exclusive)

He joins Mark Eydelshteyn, Talia Ryder, Francesca Scorsese and Matt Rogers in the spy series.

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Hollywood Reporter

‘Love Island USA’ App Users Were Up Nearly 350 Percent When Season 8 Fan Vote Crashed

Following the hit Peacock reality show's premeire week, the companion app is now the No. 1 app in the App Store.

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Variety

Emmy Voting Begins With 555 Series Entering Program Categories, Down 7.5% From Last Year

Emmy voting has begun. After weeks of For Your Consideration events and nonstop campaigning from studios, voting for the 2026 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations is officially underway. Members of the Television Academy — nearly 24,000 industry professionals divided among 31 peer groups, including directors, producers and artisans — now hold ballots in hand. Each member […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Ellisons Sell Redstone Family’s Movie Theaters In $30 Million Deal

Harbor Lights Entertainment, the successor to National Amusements controlled by the Ellison family, sold its 13 movie theaters in the northeast and midwest to Kinepolis.

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Variety

Jeff Shell Settles Litigation With Gambler Whom He Accused of ‘Shakedown’

Jeff Shell, the former president of Paramount Skydance, has resolved litigation with a gambler who accused him of leaking confidential company information and who sought $150 million for off-the-books crisis PR work. The gambler, R.J. Cipriani, sued Shell, his wife, Paramount, Larry and David Ellison and others in March, claiming that he was owed millions […]

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Alliance of Women Directors and Starz Reveal Creative Leadership Lab’s Inaugural Class Designed to Support Female TV Directors (EXCLUSIVE)

Starz #TakeTheLead and Alliance of Women Directors have announced the fellows for the inaugural class of The Creative Leadership Lab, a four-week program designed to support women and gender-expansive directors during the early stages of their careers. This year’s fellows are Josie Andrews, Tiffany Frances, Cris Gris, Christina YR Lim, Alejandra López and Tessa Slovis, […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Catskills Theater Camp Stagedoor Manor to Be Celebrated at Milestone One Night Concert Event

Stagedoor Manor, founded in 1976, has hosted the likes of Natalie Portman, Robert Downey, Jr., Mandy Moore, Sebastian Stan, Lea Michele, Beanie Feldstein, Ansel Elgort, Zach Braff and more.

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Pixar’s New Movie ‘Gatto’ Adds Mark Ruffalo and Laurence Fishburne, Drops Trailer About Mobster Cats

After the success of “Hoppers” from earlier this year and a week before “Toy Story 5” hits theaters, Pixar is revealing its next animated movie, titled “Gatto.” It will star Mark Ruffalo and Laurence Fishburne as two cats prowling around Italy. Ruffalo will voice Nero, a scrappy black cat, and Fishburne will play Rocco, a […]

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The Guardian Culture

Dynamic duo: dance legends León and Lightfoot at the Royal Ballet – in pictures

The programme So Are We marks the first time a British company has performed the work of choreographers Sol León and Paul Lightfoot. Tristram Kenton took a first look at Covent Garden Continue reading...

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Why TV’s Small Towns Are Having a Huge Season

The creators behind ‘The Burbs,’ ‘Widow’s Bay’ and ‘The Boroughs’ explain why stories on the fringes are an award season hit: “People are inherently weird.”

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Variety

Inside ‘Long Story Short’: Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s Animated Family Saga for Netflix

Raphael Bob-Waksberg returns to Netflix with another animated series full of down-to-earth humanity and empathy, “Long Story Short.” The series follows the Schwooper family — parents Naomi and Elliot, and kids Avi, Shira and Yoshi — through different years and even decades, as the family members evolve, navigating highs and lows, grief, anxiety and the […]

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Variety

Lionsgate Takes Equity Stake in Runway AI, Plans to Draw on Existing Franchises for AI-Generated Short-Form Series

Lionsgate has taken an equity stake in the generative AI video company Runway and plans to pull from its existing catalogue of franchises for an AI short-form series, expanding a partnership the two companies struck in 2024 and cementing the studio’s bullish approach to the technology. The expansion will also see Lionsgate and Runway start […]

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Kate Steinberg, Erin Miller, Nicole Story Dent to Launch ‘You Had 2 Be There’ Nostalgia Podcast Reveling in ’90s and 2000s Pop-Culture Moments

Three big millennial influencers — Kate Steinberg, Erin Miller and Nicole Story Dent — are teaming for “unapologetically” nostalgic podcast series “You Had 2 Be There,” celebrating pop-culture touchstones from the ’90s and 2000s. The trio’s “You Had 2 Be There” podcast premieres June 18 across all major platforms. The show will feature Steinberg, Miller […]

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Alex Cooper’s Unwell Signs Georgia Hassarati and Isabel Timerman’s ‘Girls, Disrupted’ to Podcast Network

“Girls, Disrupted,” the podcast hosted by reality star Georgia Hassarati and influencer Isabel Timerman, is joining the family at Alex Cooper’s Gen Z-focused media company, Unwell. The duo will return with their first “Girls, Disrupted” episode under the Unwell umbrella Tuesday, June 16, across YouTube and all major podcast platforms. New episodes will drop weekly […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Raye, Mumford & Sons, John Summit Among Performers for Cannes Lions Spotify Beach (Exclusive)

Mike D, Central Cee and Lykke Li round out this year's lineup for the annual nighttime showcase.

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Sylvia Rhone To Receive “Ultimate Icon” Honor at BET Awards

"She championed artists and executives, shattered ceilings that had never been broken and redefined what leadership looks like for women and people of color in every boardroom that followed," BET head of programming Connie Orlando said.

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Nat Geo Spins Off ‘Tucci in Italy’ With ‘Tucci in Great Britain’ (Exclusive)

You can probably figure out the key difference.

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Keke Palmer Heading to UCLA With New Artist-In-Residence Program

Students at the School of Theater, Film and Television will have the opportunity to learn from the 'I Love Boosters' star, who will serve as a mentor, participate in quarterly workshops and produce select projects under her KeyTV banner.

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