Black Mirror topped Nielsen’s streaming chart for the week of June 12-18 following its season 6 premiere, according to Deadline. Netflix’s dystopian series topped both the overall and streaming originals charts, racking up 1.4 billion viewing minutes over its 27 episodes of season 6. S.W.A.T. took second place with 1.2 billion viewing minutes this week …
Lea Michele remembers former boyfriend Cory Monteith 10 years after ‘Glee’ co-star’s death
Michael Buckner/Getty Images For Chrysalis Lea Michele is paying tribute to Cory Monteith 10 years after the actor’s tragic death. “Hey you. 10 years. It feels like only yesterday that you were here and yet a million years ago all at the same time,” Michele, 36, wrote in a heartfelt Instagram post shared on Thursday, July 13, exactly a decade …
‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ soars to $15.5 million opening day
Paramount Pictures Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, which officially opened on Thursday, July 13, is off to an estimated $15.5 million start — including the $7 million it made in previews the previous Tuesday, according to Variety. The seventh film in the Tom Cruise-led franchise is projected to gross another $60 million more between Friday …
CW Network and Roku tap ‘Survivor’, ‘American Ninja Warrior’ vets as part of upcoming ‘Fight to Survive’
CW/Roku Roku and CW Network announced Thursday they’ve joined forces for a new survival reality show. The call it “a social experiment in primitive survivalism — with a competitive twist. 17 competitors, including former Survivor, Alone, Naked and Afraid and American Ninja Warrior contestants must survive 25 days on a remote tropical island combatting brutal …
“We are being victimized”: SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher blasts studios after Hollywood strike vote
Frazer Harrison/Getty Images As an actress and author, Fran Drescher was never one to mince words, and as the president of SAG-AFTRA, she had some choice ones Thursday afternoon for Hollywood studios’ offers to try — in vain, as it turns out — to avoid a strike. After the national board of SAG-AFTRA voted to …
SAG-AFTRA national board votes to approve strike
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images The national board of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or SAG-AFTRA, voted Thursday to go on strike, summoning its 160,000 members to hit the picket lines, union officials said. But even before the announcement, the stars of Oppenheimer made their voices heard. Matt Damon, Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt walked out …
‘Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures’ dropping new episodes August 2
Lucasfilm On Thursday, July 13, Lucasfilm and Disney+ announced that six new episodes of its kid-skewing cartoon Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures will debut on August 2. The first batch of seven shows following the adventures of the Jedi-in-training dropped on May 4, known colloquially as Star Wars Day. The full first season will have …
Rob McElhenney shares diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders and learning disabilities
FX/Patrick McElhenney Rob McElhenney is opening up about being diagnosed recently with “a host of neurodevelopmental disorders and learning disabilities.” The Welcome to Wrexham and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia star shared the news Tuesday, July 11, on Twitter. “I was recently diagnosed with a host of neurodevelopmental disorders and learning disabilities! At 46!” he …
‘The Golden Bachelor’ will reportedly be revealed July 17 on ‘Good Morning America’
ABC In a quick promo shared with Variety, it was reported that the single senior looking for love in The Golden Bachelor will be revealed Monday, July 17, on Good Morning America. As ABC previously reported back in May, the forthcoming show “showcases a whole new kind of love story,” one in which “one hopeless romantic is given a second …
‘What We Do in the Shadows’ returns Thursday night on FX
FX On Thursday, July 13, at 10 p.m., FX’s hit vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows returns for its fifth season. Like the 2014 movie of the same name from Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, the Emmy-nominated comedy centers on a group of vampires living in the New York City borough of Staten …