Casey Durkin/PEACOCK Nick Cannon and Kevin Hart recently announced a game show poking fun at Nick’s many children, but it turns out it was part of E!’s marketing plan. The prank was the network’s way of promoting its new competition series, which Nick and Kev will host together. Celebrity Prank Wars, airing April 6 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, will capture …
History Channel collaborating with Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman and Bradley Cooper for documentary projects
Momodu Mansaray/FilmMagic History Channel has snagged some Oscar-caliber talent for three separate documentaries: Academy Award winners Morgan Freeman and Kevin Costner, and nominee Bradley Cooper. Cooper is executive producing FDR with Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Doris Kearns Goodwin. The new three-night documentary will premiere on Monday, May 29, at 8 p.m. The project is being …
Road to the Oscars: Brian Tyree Henry reveals what he’s scared will happen if he wins
Courtesy Apple Brian Tyree Henry is on the road to the Oscars for the first time. The Causeway star is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for playing a disabled car mechanic dealing with serious emotional and physical trauma, opposite Jennifer Lawrence. The 40-year-old Yale School of Drama graduate tells ABC Audio he’s here now with …
HBO’s ‘Barry’ to end with season 4
Courtesy HBO Barry, the Emmy-winning dark comedy series, will end with its upcoming fourth season, premiering April 16, HBO confirmed on Tuesday. “It’s been an amazing journey making this show, and it’s bittersweet that the story has come to its natural conclusion,” Barry star, co-creator, writer, and director Bill Hader said in a statement. A …
Celeb designer Christian Siriano’s dresses “ruined” just days before the Oscars
Bravo/Monica Schipper Attention celebrities: If Christian Siriano made your dress for Sunday’s Academy Awards, you may want to have your people call his people. The star designer and Project Runway season four winner told his Instagram followers on Monday that a plumbing mishap at his studio made it rain — literally. “Well it’s 6 days …
In Brief: Anthony Anderson goes from ‘black-ish’ to ‘Public Defenders’ for ABC, and more
Black-ish alum Anthony Anderson has been tapped to star in the ABC comedy pilot Public Defenders, according to Variety. The pilot follows “four inexperienced public defenders” swimming in student loan debt and “working tirelessly to keep their clients out of jail,” according to the show’s official logline. “Along the way, they have to rely on …
Jason Sudeikis and Brett Goldstein on the possibility of more ‘Ted Lasso’ following show’s third and final season
Apple TV+ Will the upcoming season 3 of Ted Lasso be the end? The first episode debuts a week from Wednesday on Apple TV+, and the answer about an ending is complicated. It seems as if this is the end of the story they want to tell, but the show could continue on in either a different …
Tessa Thompson looks back on some of her iconic characters
Terence Patrick 2023 CBS Broadcasting Tessa Thompson‘s range has been displayed as she’s taken on a variety of characters. In the latest issue of Look Back At It, she reflects on some of her iconic roles, including Nyla in For Colored Girls, Diane in Selma and, of course, Bianca in the Creed series. When Tessa portrayed Nyla, she worked with an “incredible ensemble” featuring Janet Jackson, Whoopi …
Scoreboard roundup — 3/7/23
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SPRING TRAINING INTERLEAGUE Pittsburgh 7, Toronto 2 Detroit 16, St. Louis 3 Tampa Bay 7, Philadelphia 3 Chi White Sox 5, Milwaukee 2 LA Angels 5, San Diego 4 Chi Cubs 9, Texas 6 Oakland 9, Arizona 3 Boston 10, …
Nicolas Cage doesn’t “need” the MCU: “I’m Nic Cage”
ABC/Randy Holmes While the gravity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has pulled in a galaxy of Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated stars, Nicolas Cage isn’t eager to join them. According to Variety, while he received the trade’s Legend & Groundbreaker Award at the Miami Film Festival on Sunday, Cage was asked about the superhero movie boom. The …