AMC/Gene Page(ATLANTA) — With the start of the ninth season of The Walking Dead only a little more than a week away, fans are getting ready to say goodbye to Rick Grimes: As has been reported, this season is star Andrew Lincoln’s last. Although ending his run was difficult for Lincoln, the British actor says …
Rap mogul-turned ‘Night School’ star Fat Joe says acting is “very humbling”
ABC Radio(NEW YORK) — Fat Joe knows a thing or two about making music and running his own rap label, but when it comes to acting, Joe admits he had quite a few lessons to learn. In the new comedy, Night School, Joe plays Bobby, a prisoner focused on getting his GED while behind bars. Joe tells ABC …
Candice Bergen’s outspoken ‘Murphy Brown’ is back, and ready to take on Trump
Jojo Whilden/CBS ©2018 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved(LOS ANGELES) — One of the most anticipated new shows of the fall TV season premieres Thursday night — Murphy Brown returns to CBS. And just as she took on real political figures the first time around, including former Vice President Dan Quayle, don’t expect Candice Bergen’s titular …
Idina Menzel, Kristen Chenoweth, Ariana Grande to perform on ‘A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating 15 Years on Broadway’
Polk PR/, Universal Stage Productions(NEW YORK) — The hit musical Wicked is celebrating its 15 anniversary on Broadway next month, and NBC is bringing the show’s original stars, along with some big-name singers, together to mark the occasion. On October 29 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, NBC will air A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating 15 Years …
Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson on starring in the Queen of Soul’s biopic: “It’s always been my dream to play Aretha”
ABC/Heidi Gutman(LOS ANGELES) — For Dreamgirls star Jennifer Hudson, portraying The Queen of Soul in a biopic is her ultimate dream role. During an appearance Wednesday on The Ellen Degeneres Show, the Oscar and Grammy Award winner admitted that she was incredibly honored that Aretha Franklin chose her to star in the planned film. “Aretha said she wanted Jennifer Hudson to play her, …
Watch now: X-Men’s ‘Dark Phoenix’ trailer
TM & © 2017 Marvel & Subs. TM and © 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved. (LOS ANGELES) — The phoenix has risen. Star Sophie Turner helped debut the first trailer for the new X-Men movie, Dark Phoenix, Wednesday on the Late Late Show with James Corden. The two-minute clip opens with James …
Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz welcome baby daughter
Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Congratulations go out to Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz — the couple has welcomed their first child together, a baby girl, according to Us Weekly. The new baby, whose name hasn’t been revealed, is the second child for both. Craig shares a 25-year-old daughter, Ella, with ex-wife, actress …
Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Jurnee Smollett-Bell join Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn in ‘Birds of Prey’
Warner Bros. (LOS ANGELES) — Fargo‘s Mary Elizabeth Winstead and True Blood and Underground actress Jurnee Smollett-Bell have been added to the cast of the Harley Quinn stand-alone film, Birds of Prey, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Winstead will play longtime Batman character Huntress, while Smollett-Bell will play Black Canary, an expert fighter known for her …
Leighton Meester and Brad Garrett discuss the struggle of single parenting ahead of ‘Single Parents’ premiere
ABC/Richard Cartwright(LOS ANGELES) — Being a single parent is rarely glamorous, but ABC’s new sitcom Single Parents is shining a light on the funny side of raising kids alone. The ensemble cast stars Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester, Everybody Loves Raymond’s Brad Garrett, Saturday Night Live’s Taran Killam and more as single parents trying to raise kids, and …
Comedian Nikki Glaser on being the first contestant eliminated on this season’s “DWTS”: “You can’t be funny with your body!”
ABC/Eric McCandless(HOLLYWOOD) — On Tuesday night, comedian Nikki Glaser was the first contestant eliminated from the new season of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. She says she wasn’t surprised that she got voted off, because she couldn’t do what she’s best at — being funny — while dancing. “Comedians always go first or second, …