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Ellen Pompeo to Return for More Episodes on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
The executive producer who stars as Meredith Grey will be back onscreen for at least seven hours of season 21.
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‘SVU’ Season 26, ‘Chicago’ Shows Set Premiere Dates at NBC
The network will roll out 'The Voice' and its dramas at the start of the fall season and hold back its comedies for a few weeks.
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TV Ratings: ‘House of the Dragon’ Hits Season High With Bloody Battle
The season two premiere of the series has grown to nearly 25 million viewers, HBO says.
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Jeff Daniels on That Knee-Jerk ‘A Man in Full’ Finale and Getting the Shot in One Take
Jeff Daniels says he isn’t giving much thought to metaphor in his performances. But his recent role as Charlie Croker in Netflix’s A Man in Full was swimming in them. Based on Tom Wolfe’s 1998 novel of the same name — which shook up Atlanta’s high society, thanks to Croker’s striking likeness to the city’s […]
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‘The Chi’ Boss on How That Major Finale Death Sets Up Season 7
[This story contains major spoilers from the season six finale of The Chi.] To say that Otis “Douda” Perry, played by Curtiss Cook, had a target on his back by numerous people on The Chi would be a major understatement. For five seasons on the Paramount+ with Showtime series Douda has served as the ultimate, […]
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Simon Pegg on Returning to ‘The Boys,’ Why a ‘Shaun of the Dead’ Reboot Would “Incense” Him
It took a few seasons, but last week Simon Pegg was finally in and amongst the violent bloodshed that makes The Boys so special. On Thursday, episode five of season four dropped and gave viewers a heart-wrenching tale audiences aren’t quite used to seeing in Amazon’s beloved comic adaptation: a teary father-son moment. In the […]
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‘Outer Range’ Canceled After Two Seasons at Amazon
Prime Video won’t be headed back to Outer Range. The Amazon-owned streamer has canceled the series, which featured a blend of Western and sci-fi storytelling, after two seasons. The news comes not quite two months after the show’s second season premiered with a binge release. Outer Range stars Josh Brolin as a Wyoming rancher who […]
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‘Clipped’ Boss on If the Sterlings Paid for Their Sins, Why LeVar Burton Was in the Sauna and How Barbara Walters Helped Shelly Sterling
[This story contains spoilers from the FX limited series Clipped.] Adapting true narratives is often a tricky proposition. And it gets even trickier when it’s as unbelievable and unprecedented as the fallout from 80-year-old Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s viral racist comments against Black people back in 2014 — just as Instagram and Twitter […]
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‘The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin’ Renewed for Season 2 at Apple TV+
Apple TV+ has given the green light for a second season of the adventure comedy The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, starring Noel Fielding. The British series, which debuted worldwide on March 1, has comic and actor Fielding playing 18th century highwayman Dick Turpin alongside his merry band of outlaws. “Together with his gang […]
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How Josh Hartnett Became a Surprise Guest Star on ‘The Bear’
[This story contains spoilers from season three of The Bear.] When Josh Hartnett appeared onscreen in the new season of The Bear, revealing himself as one of this year’s surprise guest stars, fans experienced it as a delightful and seemingly random casting. But, like everything in the world of The Bear, it was actually a […]
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Jeremy Irons Joins ‘The Morning Show’ at Apple TV+
Apple TV+ is adding another high-profile actor to The Morning Show. Oscar and Emmy winner Jeremy Irons is joining the show’s cast for its upcoming fourth season. He’ll play Martin Levy, the father of Jennifer Aniston’s Alex Levy. It will be his first TV role since Netflix’s The Pentaverate in 2022. Irons joins Marion Cotillard […]
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Why Ryan Serhant Returned to Real Estate Reality TV With Netflix’s ‘Owning Manhattan’
To be lured back from his hiatus from the reality TV universe after 10 seasons on Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing: New York, NYC-based celebrity broker Ryan Serhant knew he wanted to do something different. “I didn’t want to make Million Dollar Listing: New York 2.0, or a spinoff of Selling Sunset, which has its own […]
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‘The Bear’ Premieres to Its Biggest Audience Yet, Hulu Says
The Bear is eating for Hulu. The Disney-owned streamer says the third season premiere of the Emmy winner racked up 5.4 million views worldwide over its first four days of release (it premiered June 27). The show streams on Disney+ outside the United States and hasn’t premiered in every territory yet. That 5.4 million figure […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘Bridgerton’ Reign Continues
The rule of Bridgerton — and Shonda Rhimes — on the streaming charts continued into the first two days of June. Bridgerton declined about 37 percent in viewing time from a week earlier, but the Regency-era drama still ranked No. 1 overall on Nielsen’s charts for May 27-June 2 with 1.38 billion minutes of watch time on […]
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‘The Bear’ Star Gillian Jacobs on Tiffany’s ‘Past Lives’ Moment, Taylor Swift Easter Eggs and That Fiancé Reveal
[This story contains spoilers from season three of The Bear.] After Gillian Jacobs first debuted as Tiffany on season one of The Bear, she didn’t know if she was going to get another shot at the show. The actress recorded a voice memo from her apartment in Marseille, France — she was on location for […]
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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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‘House of the Dragon’ Had a Literal Daenerys Targaryen Easter Egg in Episode 3
It’s not often a show’s Easter egg is an actual egg, let alone three of them. But that’s just what HBO’s House of the Dragon had during the second season’s third episode, “The Burning Mill,” on Sunday night. In the scene, Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) sends Rhaena (Phoebe Campbell) off to the Vale, and afterwards […]
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Julianne Moore, Meghann Fahy, Milly Alcock to Lead Netflix’s ‘Sirens’
Netflix has found the three leads for its upcoming limited series Sirens. Julianne Moore, Meghann Fahy and Milly Alcock will star in the series, which comes from Maid creator Molly Smith Metzler and LuckyChap, which also produced Maid. Fahy (The White Lotus) and Alcock (House of the Dragon) will play sisters drawn into the world […]
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Richard Gere Cast in Showtime’s ‘The Agency,’ His First Major TV Series Role
Richard Gere is joining several other major stars headlining the Showtime political thriller The Agency. The casting marks the 74-year-old Chicago and Pretty Woman actor’s first major TV series role (he’s previously been in a couple miniseries over the years, including his Emmy nominated turn in 1994’s And The Band Played On). Gere will play […]
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