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SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about Episodes 509 (Angel’s Peak) and 510 (Labor Day) of Netflix’s series Virgin River. Part 1 of Virgin River‘s fifth season came to a close with eventful last two episodes. In typical Virgin River, there were bombshell revelations — Lizzie is pregnant, baddie Calvin is the father of Charmaine’s

UPDATED with L.A. Local results: Fran Drescher has been reelected president of SAG-AFTRA in a landslide. Drescher, winning a second two-year term in votes counted Friday, handily defeated independent candidate Maya Gilbert-Dunbar. Drescher received 23,080 votes to Gilbert-Dunbar’s 5,276, with 22.84% of the guild’s 124,477 eligible members casting ballots. Drescher’s unity slate running mate, Joely

Comedian Matt Rife has had an astronomical rise. Last summer, the 27-year-old from North Lewisburg, Ohio struggled to sell a hundred tickets a show. But earlier this year, when he announced his ProbleMATTic World Tour, he sold around 600,000 tickets over the span of just 48 hours. Now, after two self-released specials, he has scored

Just minutes after Danny Masterson was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for multiple rapes Thursday, an old late-night clip with the actor resurfaced on X, instantly going viral to amass 2.6M views within hours. In the video from a 2004 appearance on NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Long Island native Masterson

Charter CEO Chris Winfrey indicated that little progress has been made in the week-long carriage fight with Disney and he said a leaner, ESPN-free TV bundle “could stick” with price-sensitive Spectrum customers. The exec gave an update on the epic distribution battle during a keynote session at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Tech Conference in

The roller coaster of ESPN staffing news continued today, as NFL analyst Mina Kimes is set for what’s reported to be a massive new deal. The agreement is worth more than $1.7 million, according to the New York Post’s Andrew Marchand, and puts Kimes over seven figures for the first time. “Kimes’ role with ESPN

Prime Video has released first-look images of the long-awaited Lulu Wang’s limited series Expats set to be released in early 2024. The world premiere screening of its feature-length penultimate episode will take place at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8. The 6-part limited series, based on the internationally best-selling novel The Expatriates, by Janice

Gayle Hunnicutt, whose best-known work came as Vanessa Beaumont, the mother of J.R. Ewing’s illegitimate son, in the final three seasons of Dallas, has died per multiple U.K. reports. Hunnicutt died last Thursday at a hospital in London, according to her ex-husband Simon Jenkins. She was 80 years old. That Hunnicutt would find fame playing

CBS Studios will launch Star Trek: very Short Treks, five new animated promotional shorts, as part of its salute to the 50th anniversary of Star Trek: The Animated Series. Also set to be unveiled is the new comic book, Star Trek: The Animated Celebration Presents The Scheimer Barrier. Both will debut on Friday, Sept. 8 as part of the

UPDATED with Sunday statement. Disney offered an updated statement Sunday on its thorny carriage dispute with Charter, urging customers to explore switching pay-TV services if they want access to ESPN and other networks. “Consumers should also know that they have many options today and can choose from competing pay TV providers that offer Disney’s entire

Longtime CBS New York chief medical correspondent Dr. Max Gomez, affectionately known as Dr. Max, died Saturday after a long illness, the station reported. He was 72. Gomez was a medical reporter and health editor for WCBS-TV from 1994-1997 before he returned as CBS New York’s chief medical correspondent in June 2007. He previously served

Lionel Messi and Inter Miami, fresh off of winning the Leagues Cup trophy, made their way to L.A. to face off with the current MLS champions LAFC. Some of the biggest Hollywood stars were in attendance to watch the World Cup champion do his thing on the soccer field Sunday night. Messi had two assists

The “Hot Topics” on The View are going to get even hotter as their podcast Behind the Table gets an expansion along with the premiere of Season 27 on Tuesday, September 5. Behind the Table, a podcast produced in partnership with ABC Audio, is se to feature daily episodes that will give listeners insider perspectives

John Cena is talking about his future at the WWE and is teasing that his retirement could be “soon” but not that soon. Fans can rest assured that Cena will continue making appearances for the time being. Involved in acting and entrepreneurial endeavors, Cena has only been involved in WWE on a part-time basis and

How I Met Your Father EP Craig Thomas bid farewell to his colleagues and supporters today via an X post, noting that cancellations are a part of TV life. Thomas is also is the co-creator of the original series, How I Met Your Mother, which aired on CBS for 9 seasons. Its spin-off lasted two

The Pac-12, formed in 1915 and spending subsequent years as one of the top athletic conferences in the U.S., is down to two teams, and likely finished. Today, the ACC extinguished any small hopes that the Pac-12 could soldier on by attracting some new teams, announcing that it has accepted the Pac-12’s Stanford and the

Addressing Thursday night’s carriage impasse with Disney, Charter Communications executives told Wall Street investors on a conference call today that their linear video business is “at the edge of a precipice.” Charter CEO Chris Winfrey said any resolution to the outage, which left almost 15 million customers in the dark at the start of football

Bethenny Frankel doesn’t have any dragons, but she’s ready to burn things to the ground in support of her fellow reality stars. The Real Housewives of New York City alum appeared on Team Coco’s Literally! with Rob Lowe podcast this week to talk up her “reality reckoning” plan, which calls for fairer treatment for reality

Lionsgate has promoted Adam Frank and Jill Anderson to lead worldwide transactional home entertainment as it hit a market share milestone in the business, which includes transactional EST (electronic sell-through), VOD and packaged media. The company said its 11.9% market share through the first half of calendar 2023 was the studio’s highest for a six-month

The Church of Scientology haven’t yet responded in court to Leah Remini’s harassment lawsuit filed earlier this month, but, according to the Emmy winner, the David Miscavige-led organization has made some harsh moves in reaction.   “In the short period of time since Ms. Remini’s Complaint was filed, Ms. Remini and others have been subject to