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Madonna Is Performing at the 2015 GRAMMYs
13 hours ago | Entertainment Tonight | See recent Entertainment Tonight news »
The Material Girl is headed back to the Grammy stage!
After weeks of speculation, Madonna officially confirmed that she will be hitting the GRAMMYs for what we’re hoping will be an unforgettable performance at the 57th annual awards show, taking place Feb. 8.
Pics: Madonna and Miley Cyrus Can't Stop Gushing Over Each Other!
Rebel Hearts see you Feb 8th @TheGRAMMYs #Grammy's ❤️#rebelheart pic.twitter.com/r6jb11zepW
— Madonna (@Madonna) January 13, 2015
Madonna’s Grammy performance will come just one year after she graced the stage with Macklemore, Ryan Lewis and Mary Lambert for a moving performance of “Same Love” and “Open Your Heart."
Over the holidays, Madonna dropped six new songs on iTunes following leaks of in-progress demos, and she revealed to Billboard that “a few more songs are going to come out during the time of the GRAMMYs.”
Pics: Madonna Is 56 and Isn't Showing It
She had also hinted at the time that a Grammy »
Twin Peaks: More Cherry Pie & Coffee In Store for Agent Cooper
17 hours ago | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
My log tells me that Kyle MacLachlan is coming back to Twin Peaks. Or rather, The Hollywood Reporter.Earlier today, Agent Cooper appeared in full character --- at Showtime's panel at the Television Critics Association press tour. MacLachlan joined Showtime president David Nevins onstage, as Nevins announced: "He'll (MacLachlan) be leading the show, and there'll be more cast coming on as we roll through.""You look like you need a damn fine cup of coffee," MacLachlan said to Nevins. While Nevins didn't appear to comment on his own caffeine intake, any plot, actors, or directors, he did mention show creators David Lynch and Mark Frost. "I think it's something they've been toying with for a long time. I think in David's mind, 25 years seemed like the magic number." "I'm very excited to...
[Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...]
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Stephen Colbert Sets 'Late Show' Start Date
23 hours ago | Rollingstone.com | See recent Rolling Stone news »
When we last saw Stephen Colbert, the late night host was riding off into the sunset alongside Santa Claus, Abraham Lincoln and Alex Trebek, as the curtain closed on The Colbert Report. Today, CBS revealed when we'll have Colbert back on television on a nightly basis again as the host of The Late Show: September 8th. CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler confirmed Colbert's return date at the Television Critics Association panel.
Tassler added that some members of The Colbert Report staff will accompany the host, as he makes the »
In defense of Janice: 'Friends' alum Maggie Wheeler on the character 'you love to hate'
42 minutes ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Janice knows you're binge-watching Friends. In fact, she's doing it with you. As part of EW's Friends binge guide (on stands now), we caught up with recurring guest star Maggie Wheeler, who gave life to Chandler Bing's erstwhile arm candy over the course of 10 seasons. With her nasal voice and grating "Oh my Gawd"s, Chandler's ex-girlfriend was the on-again, off-again lover everyone (especially Chandler) despised. But Wheeler knows that, deep down, you actually have a soft spot for her. »
- Marc Snetiker
Mike Schur’s 10 Favorite ‘Parks and Recreation’ Character Names
45 minutes ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
“Parks and Recreation” showrunner Mike Schur takes particular pleasure in coming up with wacky names.
“I have this belief that most people you meet in life aren’t named Bill Smith,” Schur says. “From early on I thought, ‘Part of what’s going to make (the city of Pawnee) feel real is if people have weird names.'”
Over the years some of the silliest and strangest “Parks” names weren’t even heard on the show.
“There’s a whole family, the Lerpiss family,” Schur explains with delight. “You’ve never heard the name Lerpiss on the show, but there’s probably ten or twelve characters who have had the last name. It doesn’t play into any episode and there’s no plot that relates to it.
“If you look up Lerpiss on IMDb, we wrote character descriptions for them and how they’re related to each other. A »
- Geoff Berkshire
'Fresh Off the Boat' writer Eddie Huang says he feared the show would be 'reverse yellowface'
47 minutes ago | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
Chef Eddie Huang wrote a memoir titled Fresh Off the Boat in 2013, and now it's an ABC sitcom about a Taiwanese family's experience in America—but taking his story from page to screen wasn't easy, as Huang himself explains in the latest issue of New York magazine. He writes about the obstacles he faced in trying to put an authentic portrayal of his life as an Asian-American on television, including a producer who seemed to want to make, as Huang puts it, "A Chink’s Life … With Free Wonton Soup or Soda: A reverse-yellowface show with universal white stories played out by Chinamen. »
- Ariana Bacle
Community Season 6 Gets Premiere Date on Yahoo! Screen
48 minutes ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
It was announced Tuesday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour that Community Season 6 will debut in its new home on March 17, with two episodes, and then release a new one each Tuesday thereafter.
Stay tuned for more updates from the resurrected comedy’s TCA session….
Related storiesCommunity Season 6: Is Chevy Chase Returning? It Depends Who You AskTVLine Items: Ron Perlman Is Blacklist Super Villain, Community 'Rents & MoreCommunity Season 6: Paget Brewster, Keith David Added as Series Regulars »
Digital Audience Ratings: ‘Agent Carter’ Goes to Work, January Premieres Heat Up
53 minutes ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Provided by ListenFirst Media, Dar – TV measures what entertainment content is resonating most across Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Tumblr, YouTube and Wikipedia combined. For more on the methodology behind Dar – TV, scroll to the bottom of the article.
Digital Audience Ratings (Dar) – TV Broadcast Monday Jan 5, 2015 – Sunday Jan 11, 2015 Rank Last Week Program Rating(000) 1 1 The Voice 10,715 2 4 America’s Funniest Home Videos 5,774 3 5 Glee 4,475 4 2 America’s Got Talent 4,171 5 - Agent Carter 2,334 6 - American Idol 2,313 7 9 Empire 2,128 8 3 The Simpsons 1,627 9 8 The Vampire Diaries 1,547 10 - Arrow 1,055 -
Cable/Streaming Monday Jan 5, 2015 – Sunday Jan 11, 2015 Rank Last Week Program Rating(000) 1 3 The Walking Dead 5,937 2 4 Pretty Little Liars 5,500 3 1 Top Gear 4,552 4 2 Key and Peele 4,319 5 - Game of Thrones 2,017 6 5 WWE Raw 1,571 7 - Man Seeking Woman 1,570 8 - Untold Stories of the ER 1,561 9 - Keeping Up with the Kardashians 1,286 10 - Impact Wrestling 1,260 -
Late Night Monday Jan 5, 2015 – Sunday Jan 11, 2015 Rank Last Week Program Rating(000) 1 1 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 47,278 2 2 Jimmy Kimmel Live 12,217 3 3 Conan 12,183 4 - »
- Jason Klein
“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” “Game of Thrones” Lead Visual Effects Society Nominations
53 minutes ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” nabbed six nominations, most among feature films, as the Visual Effects Society announced its 2015 Ves Award nominees.
“Apes” will compete with “Interstellar” (4 noms), “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” (4 noms); “Guardians of the Galaxy” (2 noms), “Maleficent” (2 noms) and “X-Men: Days of Future Past” for the org’s top honor: “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture.”
“Apes” has two characters nommed for “Outstanding Performance of an Animated Character in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture”: Its hero, Caesar, and its villain, Koba.
“Big Hero 6″ and “The Boxtrolls” lead animated films with five Ves noms.
In the feature film supporting f/x category, nominees are: “Birdman,” “Divergent,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “The Imitation Game” and “Unbroken.”
Among TV series, “Game of Thrones” collected the most noms, with five. Its episode “The Children »
- David S. Cohen
‘Parks and Recreation’ Boss On the Bumpy Ride and Big Finish
53 minutes ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Over six years on the air, “Parks and Recreation” experienced more highs (acclaim, awards, 100 episodes) and lows (a rocky launch, near-cancellation) than the audience at a Mouse Rat concert.
Co-creator and showrunner Mike Schur talks Variety through twelve of the show’s biggest turning points.
April 9, 2009
“Parks and Recreation” premieres to incorrect assumptions that it’s a spinoff of Peacock lead-in “The Office.”
“(Co-creator) Greg Daniels is very fond of saying, and I think he’s right, that the cast was great before the show was great. … It didn’t matter how many times we gave interviews or talked about how it wasn’t an ‘Office’ spinoff. I think there were probably a number of people who watched the pilot and were like, ‘I don’t understand. Is this a different branch of Dunder Mifflin somehow?’ (‘Parks’) was a little bit brighter and a little bit louder and a little bit sillier probably. »
- Geoff Berkshire
Disney Xd Renews ‘Kirby Buckets’ For Season 2 (Exclusive)
54 minutes ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Disney Xd has ordered a second season of comedy series “Kirby Buckets.”
Execs are calling the show about a boy who dreams of becoming a famous animator “a defining new property” for the boy-centric Disney Xd channel. “Kirby Buckets” blends live-action and animation and ranks as the channel’s highest-rated original series since its October bow.
“Thanks to the talented creative team behind this breakout series, we have a unique and defining new property for Disney Xd,” said Adam Bonnett, Disney Channels Worldwide’s exec VP of original programming.
Jacob Betrand stars as the preteen title character. Mekai Curtis, Cade Sutton, Olivia Stuck and Tiffany Espensen round out the cast.
“Kirby Buckets” was created by Gabe Snyder and Mike Alber (“Supah Ninjas”), and is exec produced by Kristofor Brown (“Beavis and Butt-head”).
Production resumes in Los Angeles this month.
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- Elizabeth Wagmeister
Espn Sets Cable Ratings Record With College Football Title Game
1 hour ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
The first ever College Football Playoff was a rousing ratings success for Espn, whose coverage of the national championship game on Monday between Ohio State and Oregon set a cable record in the overnights.
Nielsen estimates that the Buckeyes’ 42-20 victory over the Ducks averaged an 18.5 overnight household rating, a 21% jump above last year’s Bcs National Championship on Espn between Auburn and Florida State (15.3). It’s also a sizable 20% improvement over this year’s two semifinal games held on Jan. 1 (Alabama-Ohio State and Oregon-Florida State), which averaged a 15.4 in the overnights on Espn and ended up averaging more than 28 million viewers in the nationals.
The previous cable high in the overnights was a 16.1 on Espn for the 2011 Bcs National Championship (Auburn-Oregon), which averaged 27.3 million total viewers in the nationals.
By comparison, Espn’s first-ever NFL playoff game, an afternoon game on Jan. 3 between Arizona and Carolina, netted a 13.1 overnight. »
- Rick Kissell
Ratings: State of Affairs Drops, Castle Steady Versus Espn's Record-Setting College Football Championship
1 hour ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Espn’s broadcast of the inaugural College Football Playoffs National Championship (“O-h-i-o!”) set a network record with a 18.5 rating in the metered markets — trumping the New Year’s Eve bowl games.
Versus last year’s Bcs National Championship, the Cfpnc (which really needs a catchier/sexier name at some point e.g “Super College Bowl Extreme”) improved 21 percent in metered markets. (Check back later for total audience and demo numbers.)
Opposite football, ABC’s The Bachelor drew 6.4 million total viewers and a 1.7 rating, down 18 and 23 percent from its bloated three-hour premiere (to a demo low). Castle returned to 6.8 mil/1.4, dipping »
TV Review: ‘Man Seeking Woman’
1 hour ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Mashing up Terry Gilliam-like fantasy with early Woody Allen, “Man Seeking Woman” uses the tagline “Love is strange,” and as created by Simon Rich based on his short stories, this Fxx comedy is indeed that. Starring Jay Baruchel as the lovelorn protagonist, the early installments of this 10-episode run embark on bizarre flights of fancy, more peculiar than fall-down funny, but worth watching nevertheless. Counting Lorne Michaels among its producers, the show possesses a decidedly male tilt that meshes with the network’s profile, although whether those qualities translate into Show Finding Audience might be another matter.
Baruchel is certainly well-cast as Josh, a sad-sack sort who, at 27, is both a bit directionless and still pining for Maggie (Maya Erskine), the girlfriend who dumped him after six years (or four, depending on who’s keeping score). Yet when he agrees to be set up on a blind date by »
- Brian Lowry
Stephen King, David E. Kelley Team for ‘Mr. Mercedes’ Limited Series
1 hour ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Sonar Entertainment is developing a limited series based on the Stephen King novel “Mr. Mercedes,” with David E. Kelley on board to write and Jack Bender tapped to direct.
The novel revolves around psychopath who commits mass murder by driving his Mercedes into a crowd and the retired cop who makes it his mission to bring him down. “Mr. Mercedes” was published last June.
“This is an amazing opportunity to adapt a script from material penned by one of the world’s most acclaimed and accomplished authors,” said Kelley. ” ‘Mr. Mercedes’ is a great story that will translate beautifully to the screen if I don’t mess it up.”
King, Kelley and Bender are exec producing along with Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey of Temple Hill Entertainment and Sonar CEO Gene Stein.
Bender, an alum of “Lost,” worked with King most recently on the CBS drama “Under the Dome,” also based on a King tome. »
- Cynthia Littleton
Kyle MacLachlan Reprising His Role For Showtime’s Twin Peaks Revival
1 hour ago | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
Twin Peaks fans, if you weren’t already excited for the show’s return to TV, this news will probably change that. Yesterday, at the Television Critics Association winter press tour, it was announced that Kyle MacLachlan will be reprising his role as Special Agent Dale Cooper in Showtime’s upcoming revival of the cult classic series. The news of MacLachlan’s return was revealed as the actor suddenly appeared on stage during Showtime’s presentation at the TCA winter press tour. He told the crowd that he is “very excited to return to the strange and wonderful world of Twin Peaks,” before jokingly saying, “May the forest be with you.” Since Twin Peaks ended, MacLachlan has appeared on numerous different series, including Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives, How I Met Your Mother, and The Good Wife. Most recently, he has been recurring in Season 2 of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. »
- Chris King
New Girl's Max Greenfield Talks Wooing Fawn, Krumping With Twitch — Plus: Why Is Schmidt Swaddled?
1 hour ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
New Girl‘s Schmidt has a powerful new lady and an even more powerful burning sensation in his gut, and those two things will make for much hilarity in the Fox comedy’s next few episodes.
“The stuff with Zoe Lister-Jones” — who debuted last week as smooth-talking city councilwoman Fawn Moscato — “is really funny,” star Max Greenfield tells TVLine during a visit to the show’s set, adding that “the Fawn/Schmidt relationship is just full of sex.”
Among the (Sfw) moments: In an upcoming installment, “we go to an anti-gang initiative, and I krump,” Greenfield previews.
Don’t worry; he did his homework. »
‘Barber Battle’ Producer Mark Efman Inks Overall Deal with ITV Studios America
1 hour ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Television vet Mark Efman has signed an overall deal with ITV Studios America to develop unscripted projects through his Big Energy Prods. banner.
Efman, who is exec-producing the CW’s upcoming “Cedric’s Barber Battle,” which was presented by star Cedric The Entertainer at Sunday’s Television Critics Assn., has also been at the helm of projects for History, A&E and MTV2, over the last year.
“I’m excited to have Mark bring his unique sense of programming to add to our continually expanding slate,” said Bruce Robertson, exec VP of creative strategy at ITV Studios America. “His track record just in the last year is a testament to the breadth of content that he’s able to craft.”
Efman said he’s looking forward to “adding to (ITV’s) extremely diverse and entertaining programming line up.”
Prior to Big Energy Prods., Efman was a partner in MarkMark Productions »
- Elizabeth Wagmeister
Woody Allen Teams With Amazon For His Ever TV Series
2 hours ago | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
It’s been a good week for Amazon. After the studios’ new series Transparent took home two Golden Globes on Sunday night (one for Best Comedy or Musical Series and one for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical Series for Transparent star Jeffery Tambor), Amazon has now announced that legendary filmmaker Woody Allen will be the creator of one of its next brand new shows. Currently called Untitled Woody Allen Project, this will be Allen’s first ever TV series, and Amazon has already ordered a full season of the project, which will be written and directed by Allen himself. “I don’t know how I got into this,” Allen said in a statement. “I have no ideas and I’m not sure where to begin. My guess is that Roy Price will regret this.” There are no specific detail yet about the series, aside from the fact that, »
- Chris King
Woody Allen to Create, Write and Direct New Series for Amazon
2 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
In what can only be another sign that TV trumps movies, four-time Oscar winner Woody Allen has signed on to create his first-ever series for Amazon Studios.
Currently being referred to as the Untitled Woody Allen Project, the half-hour series received a full-season order. Allen will write and direct the episodes, which will be available to U.S. viewers exclusively on Amazon’s Prime Instant Video.
Information about casting and the show’s logline will be made available in the future, the streaming service added — although from the sounds of it, Allen may still be in the brainstorming stages. “I »
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