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Succession‘s Jeremy Strong will star in playwright Amy Herzog’s new Broadway adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People. Tony-winning director Sam Gold will direct in early 2024. The Broadway venue, complete cast and design team will be announced at a later date. The new production was announced today by producers Seaview and Patrick

Knowing producer Bill Lawrence has plenty of benefits, including access to his address book full of connections. That’s according to composer Tom Howe, who worked with Marcus Mumford and Ben Gibbard on the themes songs for two of Lawrence’s shows, Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso and Shrinking, respectively. “When we started in Season 1 [of Ted

During yesterday’s episode of The View, co-host Joy Behar disagreed with fellow panelist Sunny Hostin’s objection to CNN’s town hall event featuring Donald Trump. She’s changed her mind. “I was wrong,” Behar said to kick off The View‘s Hot Topics discussion of the Kaitlan Collins-moderated event, explaining that her first impulse was to champion CNN’s

Netflix’s first upfront presentation to advertisers will be a virtual event. The streamer sent notes to attendees this evening to inform them of the last-minute shift. It is the first 2023 upfront event to pivot to a remote format. Netflix in January announced its plan to crash the broadcast upfront week with an in-person presentation

We’re getting the first look at new CBS fall dramas, The Good Wife spinoff Elsbeth, and Matlock, starring Kathy Bates. You can read about each and watch below. Elsbeth Elsbeth stars Carrie Preston (The Good Wife) as Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney who, after her successful career in Chicago, utilizes her singular point of view

An ex-boyfriend of Elizabeth Lyn Vargas, a former cast member of The Real Housewives of Orange County, has pled guilty to attacking her and was immediately sentenced to six years in prison. Ryan Matthew Geraghty was arrested by Newport Beach police back in February 2022 after a two-hour standoff with authorities at Vargas’ home. The

Actors’ Equity Association, the union representing theater actors and stage managers, is inviting its members and allies to join the WGA picket line outside HBO and Amazon offices tomorrow. In tweets last night and this morning, Equity writes, “New York Members (and allies): Join us on Wednesday, May 10 from 11 .m. to 2 p.m.

Shonda Rhimes is hinting that she is not done with Grey’s Anatomy anytime soon and fans seemingly have the last word in all of it. “I might be a very old lady by the time we reach its last season because it doesn’t seem to be stopping which is wonderful and I feel the world

George R.R. Martin is expressing his full support for the Writers Guild and the ongoing strike. In a blog post, the Game of Thrones co-creator revealed the “The writers room on GoT spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Night has closed for the duration.” Beginning his blog post with “The strike is on,”

The writers strike is now impacting overall deals. Just days into the work stoppage, major TV studios have started sending out letters to writer/producers under overall agreements, telling them that their deals are being suspended. No one would comment but I hear Warner Bros. Television, Universal Studio Group, CBS Studios and Disney Television Studios’ 20th

Vida Blue, a dominating left-hander who helped the Oakland Athletics win three straight World Series championships from 1972-74, died on Saturday. He was 73. “There are few players with a more decorated career than Vida Blue,” the A’s said in a statement. “He was a three-time champion, an MVP, a six-time All-Star, a Cy Young

Christina Applegate says she’s done with acting in front of a camera after wrapping up Dead to Me amid her multiple sclerosis diagnosis. The Emmy award-winning star opened up about filming the last season of the Netflix dramedy opposite Linda Cardellini when she hinted she was not going to act in front of a lens

The Oakland Athletics promised to take action against their play-by-play broadcaster, Glen Kuiper Jr., who apologized Friday after an on-air slip that resulted in an apparent racial slur. Kuiper later apologized during the sixth inning of the A’s game against the Kansas City Royals. The situation happened during the pregame, when Kuiper and broadcast partner

UPDATE: Texas medical examiners said Friday that 30-year-old Sara Lee’s death was a suicide. The 30-year-old ingested a fatal combination of alcohol and drugs. Lee died last October in her San Antonio, Texas home. The medical examiners said she had a mixture of amphetamines, doxylamine and alcohol in her system, a spokesperson for the Bexar County Medical

Doctor Who has added Jonathan Groff to its growing cast list. The Frozen and Glee actor will join BBC and Disney+’s iconic sci-fi drama in a “mysterious guest” as filming continues in Wales. The BBC declined to offer further detail, but did say that Groff would “jump aboard the TARDIS,” suggesting his character could become

Reality star and restaurateur Lisa Vanderpump is closing her Pump restaurant in West Hollywood, California.  “It’s with heavy hearts that we announce that the lease at Pump restaurant is expiring, and we will be closing its doors on July 5th, after 10 years of beautiful evenings under our olive trees,” reads the statement posted on

EXCLUSIVE: India’s Screenwriters Association (SWA) has expressed support for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike and asked its members to down tools on U.S. films and series.  The SWA, the country’s major industry guild for writers with more than 57,000 members, emailed its membership on Thursday night to explain the WGA’s reasons for calling

Barbara Bryne, a British actress who worked in stage, television, and film during a decades-long career, died Tuesday at age 94. Her death was confirmed by the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, but no cause was given. Bryne’s best-known stage roles were in the original Broadway productions of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George and Into the

Allison Holker Boss, the widow of The Ellen DeGeneres Show deejay Stephen “tWitch” Boss, says she’s speaking out about her husband’s suicide to raise awareness about mental health and “hopefully to make people feel comfortable asking for help.” Holker Boss, in her first major TV interview since her husband’s death in December, sat down with

EXCLUSIVE: Jon Stewart is the latest star to cancel promotional duties as part of the writers strike. The comedian has pulled an FYC event for his Apple series The Problem with Jon Stewart next week as the fallout from the strike continues. Stewart was set to take part in a conversation about the second season