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‘Homeland’ Season Finale Ratings Rise From 2014, ‘The Affair’ Hits Viewership High
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There was a foiled terror attack in the Berlin subway, a lot of raw emotion and what seems to have been the end for a major character on the Season 5 finale of Homeland on Sunday. Amidst all that, there was good news for the Showtime series ratingswise and some very good news for The Affair, which had its Season 2 ender on Sunday too. Airing just after 9 Pm, the December 20 Homeland snagged 2.073 million total viewers and a 0.7 rating among adults 18-49. That means this… »
Steve Harvey Invited Back To Host Miss Universe & Pageant In Belize – Update
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Updated throughout: Steve Harvey has gotten an invitation to return as the host of the Miss Universe pageant next year, despite Sunday’s snafu in which he announced the wrong winner. In an interview today on Jim Rome’s CBS Sports Radio Show, Mark Shapiro, chief content officer for Wme | Img said the Family Feud host was “very remorseful” about the error and that Harvey was “absolutely” welcome back to host the 2016 pageant. Shapiro said Harvey "did a great job. He was… »
Burt Reynolds Has Tales To Tell: Passing On ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’, 007, ‘Die Hard’; Bonding With Eastwood, McQueen, Newman & Carson But Not Brando
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The wide press pickup of Burt Reynolds saying Charlie Sheen got what was coming when his reckless lifestyle led to an HIV diagnosis has skewed the perception of his new memoir But Enough About Me. I got to this book late, and it is just a ripping Hollywood read, full of not only triumphs but regrets. When I was a kid and we first got HBO and started watching R-rated films, Reynolds was the man. His memoir tells of his rise where he was the world’s biggest movie star five… »
Netflix Sets ‘Mindhunter’ Drama Series From David Fincher & Charlize Theron
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The House of Cards executive producer/director David Fincher is expanding his Netflix portfolio with a second drama series, Mindhunter, we have learned. Like House of Cards, which Fincher developed with Kevin Spacey, on Mindhunter the Gone Girl and The Social Network director also is collaborating with an Oscar-winning actor, Charlize Theron. Also like with House of Card‘s Beau Willimon, we hear Fincher has recruited a playwright/screenwriter for the new series, Brit Joe… »
‘Monday Night Football’ Ratings Tumble To Match Season Low, ‘Great Christmas Light Fight’ Up In Finale
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It was a sweet pre-Christmas victory for the Detroit Lions over the New Orleans Saints on Monday Night Football last night, but Espn was the real loser. With a 7.4 rating in metered market results, last night's 35-27 Lions win from 8:15-11:45 Pm matched Mnf's season low of November 30, when the Baltimore Ravens beat the Cleveland Brows 33-27. The 8.8 Mm rating peak from 9:45-10 Pm was up 4% from the peak of the Ravens-Browns game, though, and Espn and Mnf will top a very… »
‘Into The Badlands’ Ratings Down In Finale; Penultimate Episode Sees Big Live+3 Jump
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In the end there was a battle with a baron, secrets revealed and a whole lot of setup for a second season on the Season 1 finale of AMC’s Into The Badlands. On a competitive night of other cable finales, Sunday Night Football and the Miss Universe pageant, the last show of the postapocalyptic martial arts series’ first season stumbled from its fifth episode of December 13. However, that penultimate episode kicked it up a notch in delayed viewing for Badlands – a sign of… »
Warner Bros’ Josh Berger To Succeed Greg Dyke As BFI Chair
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Warner Bros’ Josh Berger has been appointed new chair of the British Film Institute, making him the first American to sit atop the most powerful film body in the UK. He will succeed the current chair Greg Dyke when his term expires in February. The well-respected Berger is the president and managing director of Warner Bros in the UK, Ireland and Spain. His appointment comes after a recruitment process overseen for the first time by the Office of the Commissioner for… »
BBC One Orders Second Series Of ‘Ordinary Lies’
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BBC One has commissioned a second series of Danny Brocklehurst’s Ordinary Lies. The first series, which debuted this year, reached an average consolidated audience of more 6 million viewers. The second series will feature six hourlong episodes and goes into production next year. The show is produced by StudioCanal-owned and UK-based production company Red and follows the lives of an everyday workforce. The second series will be set in the headquarters of a large national… »
Michelle Yeoh Joins Netflix’s ‘Marco Polo’ For Season 2
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Michelle Yeoh is joining the Season 2 cast of Netflix drama Marco Polo in a recurring role. Based on the famed 13th Century explorer, the story follow's Marco Polo's (Lorenzo Richelmy) adventures, as he fights greed, betrayal and rivalries in Kublai Khan's court. Yeoh will play a mysterious figure from Hundred Eyes’ (Tom Wu) past. Yeoh played a Bond girl opposite Pierce Brosnan in Tomorrow Never Dies and had starring roles in films including Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon… »
‘Mistresses’ Returns To Los Angeles For Season 4; Will Alyssa Milano Come Back?
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ABC’s Mistresses exemplified the runaway production issue when the summer drama last year left Los Angeles, where it filmed its first two seasons, for Canada in an effort to trim costs. In the process, the series lost its original star Alyssa Milano. The void was filled by Jennifer Esposito, who played a new character in Season 3 but announced she won’t be returning when Mistresses was renewed for a fourth season. Today, Mistresses became the only series to get tax… »
John Singleton’s ‘Snowfall’ Pilot Eyes FX Series Order
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Snowfall, John Singleton’s 1980s cocaine-epidemic drama pilot, got a boost in its pickup chances today when the California Film Commission approved its application for tax incentives should it go to series. I hear FX brass only received the pilot last week and are not close to making a decision. But observers point to the network’s track record of the vast majority of its pilots going to series. And the tax breaks application alone underscores FX’s high hopes for the… »
Bill Cosby Countersues Beverly Johnson, Denies Drugging Model In 1980s
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Updated, 5:03 Pm: The strategy of Bill Cosby’s new lawyers is becoming clear: attack the accusers. With dozens and dozens of women alleging that the comedian sexually assaulted or drugged them over the decades, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan today went after Beverly Johnson for defamation. This comes less than a week after Cosby’s team did the same thing to seven women in federal court in Massachusetts. Today’s filing against model and actress Johnson in Los Angeles… »
Dan Fogelman & Rick Singer’s Baseball Drama Nears Pilot Order At Fox
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Dan Fogelman had a good day at the California Film Commission, with both approvals for TV tax incentives in the pilot category going to hourlong projects from the Galavant and The Neighbors creator. But while the NBC dramedy pilot already has been cast, with Mandy Moore and Milo Ventimiglia starring, Fogelman’s Fox baseball drama has not been picked up to pilot yet. The project, on which Fogelman has teamed with veteran comedy writer Rick Singer (American Dad!), landed… »
Patricia Elliott Dies; Tony Winner & Soap Actress Was 77
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Patricia Elliott, who won a Tony for "A Little Night Music" and appeared for many years on One Life to Live, has died. She was 77. The actress died Sunday of cancer at her Manhattan home, according to her niece, Sally Fay. Elliott made her Main Stem debut in 1968 as Regan in "King Lear" and returned the next season in another Shakespeare play, "King Henry V." She went on to appear in a pair of revival plays in 1971 — "A Doll’s House" and "Hedda Gabler" — before making her Broadway… »
ABC Greenlights ‘When We Rise’ Lgbt Rights Mini With Gus Van Sant Directing
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ABC is reassembling the team of the 2008 movie Milk for another project about the gay rights movement, eight-hour miniseries When We Rise. Milk director Gus Van Sant has joined the mini, written/executive produced by Milk writer Dustin Lance Black and executive produced by the film’s producer Bruce Cohen. The project, which had been in development at ABC for more than two years, has now been officially greenlighted for production with Van Sant directing the first two-hour… »
Mike Newell To Direct Amazon Pilot ‘The Interestings’, Lifting Contingency
21 December 2015 2:04 PM, PST
I have learned that Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire director Mike Newell has been tapped to direct Amazon drama pilot The Interestings, an adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s bestselling book. The pilot, originally picked up as director-contingent, is now cleared for production. The Interestings received a pilot order alongside fellow drama The Last Tycoon last month. The Last Tycoon, originally cast-contingent, also recently lifted its contingency with the casting of Matt… »
Sarah Palin Rocks Tina Fey Impression In ‘30 Rock’ Spoof
21 December 2015 1:27 PM, PST
Sarah Palin gets to turn the tables on Tina Fey, doing her own impression of Fey’s 30 Rock character Liz Lemon in a spoof video. The video, from Independent Journal Review, was posted following Fey’s appearance on Saturday Night Live over the weekend, where she reprised her dead-on impersonation of Palin. In 31 Rock, the former Alaska governor and Gop vice presidential candidate plays a high-strung TV writer who moves to New York City to work on a variety show. “But she’s… »
‘Code Black’, ‘Rosewood’ & Relocating ‘Mistresses’ Among 11 TV Projects Scoring California Tax Credits
21 December 2015 1:08 PM, PST
ABC’s Mistresses, rookie dramas Code Black and Rosewood and the Syfy telepic Sharknado 4 are among the 11 TV projects that received an early Christmas gift from the state of California today. With the program’s heavy emphasis on job creation in the Golden State, the relocation of Mistresses from Vancouver is a very good get in that many U.S. shows and pics are made up there due in part to the lower Canadian dollar. Also making the list are a pair of upcoming drama series… »
Reese Witherspoon Producing Drama Project ‘Please Don’t Go’ For ABC
21 December 2015 1:00 PM, PST
ABC has put in development Please Don’t Go, an hourlong drama from We Are Your Friends scribe Meaghan Oppenheimer. Reese Witherspoon will executive produce with her producing partner at Pacific Standard, Bruna Papandrea. Created/written by Oppenheimer, Please Don’t Go follows the personal and professional life of a ruthless divorce attorney in Dallas. Raised in the trailer parks of Texas, she has left behind a life of struggle amid squalor, working her way into a corner… »
Jerry Seinfeld Makes It ‘Comedians & Presidents In Cars Getting Coffee’, Books Obama For Season 7 Bow
21 December 2015 12:11 PM, PST
President Barack Obama will be the first guest on the Season 7 premiere of Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, the Crackle series that now will have its season bow December 30. The episode featuring Obama was shot at the White House this month and features the president and Seinfeld driving a 1963 Corvette Stingray split-window coupe. Other guests in the upcoming six-episode season include Will Ferrell, Steve Martin, Garry Shandling, Kathleen Madigan and… »
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