Dawson and Mike Colter in “Luke Cage”-Myles Aronowitz/Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — Rosario Dawson has jumped from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to the live-action DC universe. According to Variety, Dawson has been cast as the lead in the upcoming HBO Max pilot DMZ. As previously noted, Ava DuVernay is already on board to direct and Roberto Patino will serve as showrunner. DMZ, based on …
Facebook Watch renews Jada Pinkett Smith’s ‘Red Table Talk’ and adds spinoff, ‘Red Table Talk: The Estefans’
Photo: Stan Evans/Facebook Watch(LOS ANGELES) — Thanks to Facebook Watch, Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk is sticking around for another three years. In an announcement on Wednesday, Facebook Watch shared that they have signed a three-year deal for Red Table Talk with with Smith and Westbrook Studios. The renewal will keep the Emmy-nominated series streaming exclusively on the platform …
Whoopi Goldberg accepts Patrick Stewart’s invitation to reprise her ‘Star Trek’ role in ‘Picard’
ABC/Lou Rocco(NEW YORK) — Whoopi Goldberg was overcome with emotion after receiving a personal invitation from Sir Patrick Stewart to reprise her role as Guinan, the alien bartender she played from 1988-1993 on Star Trek: The Next Generation, for the second season of his new show Star Trek: Picard. Stewart, 79, sweetly extended the invitation to his former costar during …
‘Station 19’ co-stars Jaina Lee Ortiz and Boris Kodjoe promise a wild ride in season three
ABC/Allyson Riggs(LOS ANGELES) — The ABC drama Station 19 returns Thursday night for the start of season three, and stars Jaina Lee Ortiz and Boris Kodjoe tell ABC Audio that the stories we’re going to see will be a gutsier this time around. “This sort of new season of storytelling where we’re taking real life events and, you know, the situations …
Tyler Cameron tells Jennifer Garner he’d swipe right on her Tinder
Presley Ann/WireImage(NEW YORK) — After breaking up with model Gigi Hadid, Bachelorette star Tyler Cameron has apparently set his sights on Jennifer Garner. Here’s how it happened. Wednesday saw the celebrity-driven viral bandwagon, started by country star Dolly Parton, about how one would appear or conduct his or herself on certain websites — LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Tinder — by using different self-portraits to represent each. For Garner’s …
‘A Million Little Things’ returns tonight with a promise of a “Chernobyl-style fallout”
ABC Studios(LOS ANGELES) –At long last, fans left hanging at the jaw dropping mid-season finale of ABC’s A Million Little Things will finally get their answers when the show returns tonight. In case you don’t remember where things ended when the show went on hiatus a few of months ago, star David Giuntoli gave ABC Audio a little recap. “We left …
Channing Tatum and Jessie J reportedly back together again
Elena Brovko/iStock(LOS ANGELES) — After splitting about two months ago, Channing Tatum and singer Jessie J have rekindled the flame and are giving love another shot. E! News spoke with an insider who claims the couple is “fully back together” after taking a break from their relationship. The source continues, “They took a few weeks apart but ultimately decided they really …
Robert Downey Jr. claims “90 percent” of his black friends thought he was “great” in blackface in ‘Tropic Thunder’
ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) — During an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Robert Downey, Jr. claimed that his controversial blackface role in Tropic Thunder was apparently a fan favorite among his “black friends.” In the 2008 film, Downey Jr. dresses up in blackface to portray Kirk Lazarus, an Australian method actor who undergoes a pigmentation procedure that allows him to play a black …
Watch new trailer now: Final season of ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ debuts February 21 on Disney+
Lucasfilm(LOS ANGELES) — For Star Wars fans, the announcement that Star Wars: The Clone Wars would be resurrected on Disney+ rocked last summer’s San Diego Comic Con. Now, Disney+ has dropped a brand-new trailer, revealing the seventh season of the Emmy-winning animated series will debut on the streaming service February 21. ABC Audio has learned there will be twelve episodes in …
Ellie Kemper on witnessing her first ‘Manhattanhenge,’ and what fans can expect of the ‘Kimmy Schmidt’ special
Photo courtesy MullenLowe(NEW YORK) — Actress Ellie Kemper is best known as the the eternally sunny Erin on The Office and the title character of the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, so she seems like the perfect person to take in a very famous sunrise. That’s exactly what she did Wednesday morning in New York City, watching a ‘Manhattanhenge’ sunrise. The phenomenon happens, …