ABC/Ron Batzdorff Guest co-host Sherri Shepherd and her audience said goodbye to The Wendy Williams Show Friday, saluting the chat show’s host as an “icon.” Preceding the show’s Hot Topics segment, Shepherd commented, “You have to say — there is nobody like Wendy Williams. From her days on the radio, to ruling daytime talk for …
Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic Guy Ritchie is teaming up with ABC News’ parent company Disney once again, this time for a live-action version of the 1997 animated movie Hercules. Backing Ritchie, Deadline reports, is AGBO, the production shingle started by Joe and Anthony Russo, the sibling directors of four Disney-owned Marvel Studios blockbusters, including Avengers: Endgame. The …
Dana Hawley/Prime Video Get ready for a comforting coming-of-age at the beach. The new teen romance series The Summer I Turned Pretty drops its first season Friday on Prime Video. The seven-episode binge follows Isabel “Belly” Conklin, played by newcomer Lola Tung, a 16-year-old who finds herself in a love triangle between two boys who just …
HBO Max HBO Max evidently chose not to run “for your consideration” advertising to snag a possible Emmy for its sitcom The Garcias, but show creator Jeff Valdez wasn’t taking that sitting down. He and his creative team have branded New York City’s Times Square themselves — up to and including one of the location’s …
Donato Sardella/Getty Images for New York & Company — Warner Bros. Pictures The first look of Ryan Gosling as Ken in the Barbie movie caused a sensation online, and it wasn’t lost on his partner, Eva Mendes. The actress and entrepreneur retweeted Warner Bros. peek at Ryan’s bleach blonde locks and Barbie doll plastic-tanned eight …
HBO — Mathieu Bitton/Netflix (NOTE LANGUAGE) Comedian Jerrod Carmichael has flamed Dave Chappelle about jokes he made that some saw as transphobic. In a conversation with GQ about coming out in the HBO comedy special Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel, Carmichael didn’t hold back about the controversy surrounding Chappelle and his rallying against cancel culture. Netflix employees …
Marvel Studios In Ms. Marvel, Iman Vellani plays a superhero fan who becomes a superhero herself — something that happened to the real-life Marvel geek when she landed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe herself. The 19-year-old explains to ABC Audio that joining the ranks of big- and small-screen heroes came with quite the support group. …
L-R — Tyler James Williams, Quinta Brunson, Iyana Halley from “Abbott Elementary” — ABC/Temma Hankin ABC has announced its upcoming fall schedule: Wednesday, September 21, will kick things off with the premieres of The Conners at 8 p.m. ET, followed by The Goldbergs and Abbott Elementary‘s return for a sophomore year, on a new night, …
Warner Bros./Michael Rozman Newly-minted EGOT winner Jennifer Hudson will be “lighting up daytime” starting September 12. J Hud’s new eponymous chat show will launch in 95% of American TV markets and will be executive produced by Emmy-winning The Ellen DeGeneres Show vets Mary Connelly, Andy Lassner and Corey Palent. Warner Bros. Unscripted Television and Warner …
Netflix Ana De Armas is stunning as Marilyn Monroe, in the new teaser to Netflix’s biopic Blonde. The actress is shown being every bit the iconic bombshell on camera — but a wreck behind the scenes. De Armas is shown reimagining Monroe’s legendary Gentlemen Prefer Blondes “staircase scene,” and amid a haunting rendition of “Diamonds …