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Freeform Developing Late-Night Show With Comedian Iliza Shlesinger (Exclusive)
23 September 2016 10:00 AM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Freeform is stepping into the late-night arena.
The cabler is developing a late-night series with comedian Iliza Shlesinger, Variety has learned exclusively.
The late-night show will feature Shlesinger’s unique voice that reflects the audience and “what’s happening in the moment” with a fresh comedic spin. Shlesinger says the series will set itself apart from other shows in the genre because her voice has a feminine side to it, but she’s not afraid to be unabashed in her opinions.
“It has been my goal since I was a kid,” Shlesinger tells Variety of hosting a late-night show. “I used to take a recorder around and interview my parents and do impressions of my classmates as guests on my show. I started working on this goal in Hollywood years ago. I think comedy and the perception of women in comedy has evolved to a place where this show can finally be a reality on my own »
- Elizabeth Wagmeister
Criminal Minds: Jane Lynch to Return in Season 12
22 September 2016 3:13 PM, PDT | TVSeriesFinale.com | See recent TVSeriesFinale news »
After eight long years, Jane Lynch is returning to Criminal Minds on CBS, as Reid's (Matthew Gray Gubler) mom, Diana, TV Guide reports. The actress recently starred in the Angel From Hell TV show, which was cancelled during its first season on CBS, after only five of thirteen episodes aired.Executive producer Erica Messer told the news outlet, "We're really excited. It's a fun Reid story and she's really excited to come back and reprise her role. She's been a busy lady and we're still here, so we're happy to be able to offer that opportunity for her to come back." Lynch is returning for two episodes in a Reid-centric storyline. The procedural drama also stars: Kirsten Vangsness, A.J. Cook, Joe Mantegna, and Paget Brewster.Read »
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Criminal Minds' Thomas Gibson Details Kick That Got Him Fired, Hopes 'Good Work Is What People Will Remember'
22 September 2016 7:07 AM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Thomas Gibson has for the first time shared his take on the on-set incident that resulted in him first getting suspended, and then fired, from CBS’ Criminal Minds, after an 11-year run.
VideosCriminal Minds Season 12 Promo: Which Familiar Face Is Missing?
Aaron “Hotch” Hotchner’s portrayer tells People.com that on July 26, while filming the second episode of the upcoming 12th season, he questioned a line of dialogue, but was overruled by co-executive producer/writer Virgil Williams. Later, when Gibson was relating the differing of opinions to castmates, Williams “came into that room and started coming towards me. As he brushed past me, »
Zac Efron, Melissa McCarthy, Chris Evans, Kate Hudson, Ryan Gosling and More Stars Read Mean Tweets on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
22 September 2016 3:55 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
The twit-wits of Twitter are at it again. Jimmy Kimmel Live! presented the 10th installment of celebrities reading mean tweets Wednesday, featuring Hugh Grant, Kate Hudson, Greg Kinnear, Melissa McCarthy, Chris Evans, Jane Lynch, Norman Reedus, Margot Robbie, Anthony Mackie, Judd Apatow, Olivia Wilde, Paul Rudd, Ryan Gosling, Zac Efron, Wanda Sykes, Russell Crowe, Bryan Cranston and Kiefer Sutherland. "The Internet, as you know, is both a wonderful and horrible place, a place where people will go to show their love and also their hate," host Jimmy Kimmel said before he introduced the recurring bit. "From time to time, we like to call the haters out by inviting well-known people to read some of the not so nice »
Big Brother Recap: And the Winner Is...
21 September 2016 7:54 PM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
In no less than seven days, Big Brother will already have returned for its next cycle, Over the Top — the series’ first-ever streaming-only season that will air exclusively on CBS All Access.
But first… Before this summer’s cast fades from your memory in a week, the winner of Season 18 was crowned on Wednesday night, at the end of a super-sized finale.
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So, who walked away $500,000 richer?
Spoiler alert!
Indeed, after Paul triumphed in the final Head of Household competition and sent James out the door, he and Nicole fielded questions »
Criminal Minds: Jane Lynch to Return for Season 12 Arc as Reid's Mother
21 September 2016 2:00 PM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
More than eight years after her last Criminal Minds visit, Jane Lynch is set to reprise her role as Reid’s schizophrenic mother.
VideosCriminal Minds Promo: ‘Some Things Never Change’ (And Yet…)
Lynch in fact will return as Diana for a pair of episodes, to air in early 2017, as part of a “heavy Reid story,” showrunner Erica Messer told TVGuide.com.
Lynch first guested as Diana in the long-running thriller’s Season 1 finale. She last played the role in back-to-back Season 4 episodes, when a case sent the Bau to Las Vegas, where the character lives.
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Blue Bloods Sneak Peek: Lori Loughlin Asks Frank to Do the Unthinkable
21 September 2016 1:41 PM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
The typically unflappable Frank Reagan is unexpectedly put on the spot in this exclusive sneak peek from the Season 7 premiere of CBS’ Blue Bloods (airing Friday at 10/9c).
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In the season opener, titled “The Greater Good,” Lori Loughlin (Full House) guest-stars as Grace Edwards, a slain police officer’s widow. She, Frank and her son — who is about to graduate the academy himself — are going over the plan to dedicate a street sign in her husband’s honor, when Grace asks for a moment alone with the NYPD commish.
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Superior Donuts Nets CBS Series Order
21 September 2016 11:00 AM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Judd Hirsch is cooking up — actually, make that baking up — something big at CBS.
The network has ordered 13 episodes of Superior Donuts, which stars the two-time Emmy winner as the thick-skinned owner of a small donut shop in a rapidly gentrifying Chicago neighborhood, TVLine has learned.
The half-hour, multi-camera comedy also focuses heavily on Hirsch’s “enterprising young employee,” played by The Eric Andre Show‘s Jermaine Fowler, who also serves as an executive producer.
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Additional stars include David Koechner (The Goldbergs), Maz Jobrani (Better Off Ted), Anna Baryshnikov »
Emmys the Perfect Time to Showcase Season’s Big Fashion Trends
15 September 2016 9:45 AM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Last year, fashionable lead-actress nominees Claire Danes and Taraji P. Henson picked looks flaunting chains, Kerry Washington dazzled in a metallic dress (hot off Marc Jacobs’ New York Fashion Week runway), and Tatiana Maslany nailed menswear in a Bouchra Jarrar couture cream tux. Here, top celebrity stylists weigh in on which trends will dominate the 2016 Emmy red carpet.
Prints
Micaela Erlanger, who’s previously styled fashion-forward Emmy contenders Tatiana Maslany and Michelle Dockery, predicts we’ll see plenty of prints. “Romantic florals and intarsia were all over the runways,” she says, also noting the trend’s migration onto the red carpet. “Take, for instance, Margot
Robbie’s Gucci gown from her ‘Suicide Squad’ tour.”
Bold Hues
“The Emmys are always about color,” says Cristina Ehrlich, who has worked with Allison Williams, Anna Kendrick, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and expects this year’s nominees to take risks. Tara Swennen, who styled Julie Bowen in the lime-green Monique Lhuillier she »
- Jasmin Rosemberg
Mascots review: latest from Spinal Tap's Christopher Guest does not go up to 11
15 September 2016 3:37 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
If you liked Best in Show and A Mighty Wind, you’ll enjoy the familiarity and warmth of Guest’s latest mockumentary, in which he uncovers the men and women in fluffy suits
In Christopher Guest’s Mascots, Jane Lynch addresses the camera and explains why she is among the most celebrated plush-suited minor league sports mascots of all time. During one clutch baseball game she led the fans in cheer while doing a split for an entire inning, dressed as a moose. Her dedication caused a tear in her inner tendon forcing her to undergo four hours of surgery and spend the rest of her days with one leg considerably longer than the other. You can read all about it in the book she’s selling, A Moose-ing Grace: An Ex-Mascot’s Guide to God and Success in Real Estate.
There are a lot of real estate gags in »
- Jordan Hoffman
Industry Insiders Cheer Creative Arts Emmys’ New Two-Night Strategy
13 September 2016 10:15 AM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
After four and half hours of Creative Arts Emmy Awards action — a two-night affair dubbed “the junior prom” by presenter Jane Lynch — what have we learned?
• Emmy voters really, really love “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.”
• They’re hopelessly devoted to “Grease Live.”
• “The Late Late Show With James Corden” is the late-night phenom to watch.
• “Making a Murderer” got under the skin of TV Academy voters.
• “Game of Thrones” is prepared to scorch everything in its path in a valiant quest for back-to-back Emmy domination.
The final tally for the 80-plus awards presented during the Sept. 10-11 Creative Arts ceremonies, as always, is a good bellwether of the victories to come at the main event — the Primetime Emmys on Sept. 18.
But this year, the TV Academy can count itself among the big winners, as industryites seemed to have universal praise for the decision to spread out the Creative Arts presentation over two »
- Cynthia Littleton
Tiff Movie Review: Mascots
12 September 2016 9:53 PM, PDT | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »
On Saturday, expert mockumentarian Christopher Guest served up his latest treat, Mascots, to his devoted fan base at the Toronto International Film Festival. While devoted lovers of the famed Waiting for Guffman director will likely jump up and down and cheer the new offering, the rest of the world will find it simply recycles old materials and wonder what the big deal is about.
The film interviews and follows an assorted cast of eccentrics with a common passion: being mascots for a local minor league team. A world championship of mascots is being held in Anaheim, and all the pep squad ralliers with ambition are there for a chance to be discovered and make it big.
There’s an oversized plumber that plays with poo, a violent hockey fist that can give you the finger, and an aged dancer. They reflect in a way the personalities of their equally quirky portrayers. »
- J Don Birnam
The Real O'Neals: Celebrity Chefs to Guest in Season Two
12 September 2016 1:35 PM, PDT | TVSeriesFinale.com | See recent TVSeriesFinale news »
The Alphabet Network is cooking up a yummy holiday episode. TV Insider reports season two of The Real O'Neals TV show on ABC will feature celebrity chef guest stars: Graham Elliot, Alex Guarnaschelli, and Antonia Lofaso will appear as themselves in a fantasy sequence, which occurs when Kenny (Noah Galvin) sets out to make Thanksgiving dinner for the family.The Real O’Neals also stars Martha Plimpton as Eileen, Jay R. Ferguson as Pat, Matt Shively as Jimmy, Bebe Wood as Shannon, and Mary Hollis Inboden as Aunt Jodi. Other guest stars set for the second season of the family sitcom include Jane Lynch, Lance Bass, and Tyler Oakley. Read More… »
- TVSeriesFinale.com
RuPaul Wins His First Emmy: "I Feel Like I'm in a Dream"
12 September 2016 5:05 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
RuPaul was the queen of the Creative Arts Emmys. In July, the RuPaul's Drag Race host received his first-ever Emmy nomination for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program, and on Sunday, he won that award, beating American Idol's Ryan Seacrest, Dancing With the Stars' Tom Bergeron, Hollywood Game Night's Jane Lynch, Little Big Shots' Steve Harvey and Project Runway's Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn. No one semmed more surprised than Ru himself. "I'm in a state of shock right now. I really did not expect this," he exclusively told E! News' Erin Lim during the Winners Walk backstage. "Honestly, I feel like I'm in a dream and it's not really »
Creative Arts Emmys 2016: Complete List of Winners
12 September 2016 4:00 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
The 2016 Creative Arts Emmys have been awarded. The annual ceremony—which honors outstanding artistic and technical achievement in a variety of television program genres—was split into two nights for the first time in history. HBO's Game of Thrones was the big champ with 16 wins, followed by FX's The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story with 12 wins. Taped at the Microsoft Theater in L.A., the annual awards will be televised Saturday at 8 p.m. on Fxx. Presenters included Derek Hough, Julianne Hough, Heidi Klum, Jane Lynch and Ryan Seacrest. Here is the full list of the winners from Saturday and Sunday's ceremonies: Outstanding Casting – Limited Series The People v O.J. »
RuPaul Makes Herstory, Wins Emmy for Outstanding Reality Show Host
11 September 2016 6:56 PM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Condragulations, RuPaul, you are the winner of this year’s challenge.
The RuPaul’s Drag Race headliner scored an upset victory at Night 2 of the Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday, winning Outstanding Reality Show Host over Dancing with the Stars‘ Tom Bergeron, Project Runway‘s Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, Hollywood Game Night‘s Jane Lynch, American Idol‘s Ryan Seacrest and Little Big Shots‘ Steve Harvey.
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This was RuPaul’s first-ever Emmy nomination and win.
Other major winners from Sunday’s ceremony (click »
Emmys: RuPaul Charles Named Best Reality Host, Marks First-Ever Win
10 September 2016 7:48 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
RuPaul Charles won the Emmy Award for outstanding host of a reality or reality competition series on Sunday night for Logo's RuPaul's Drag Race. American Idol's Ryan Seacrest, Dancing With the Stars' Tom Bergeron, Hollywood Game Night's Jane Lynch, Little Big Shots' Steve Harvey and Project Runway's Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn also were in the running for the award. "I really didn’t expect this," Charles said backstage after accepting the statuette. :I came here thinking I got invited to the prom and I’m going to dance my ass off tonight, but i didn’t expect that I would have
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- Joey Mendolia
Toronto Film Review: ‘Mascots’
10 September 2016 11:11 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
In Christopher Guest’s “Mascots,” there’s a funny scene in which the judges for the 8th World Mascot Association Championship in Anaheim, Calif. — a competition known as “the Fluffies” — call one of the 20 competing finalists onto the carpet for an alleged sin of political incorrectness. The judges include the ever-beaming Michael Hitchcock as a persnickety control freak in a sweater vest, Ed Begley Jr. as an old curmudgeon with a “micro-penis,” Don Lake as a geek version of J.K. Simmons, and Jane Lynch, with her never-less-than-hilarious cutthroat hauteur, as the author of a book called “A Moose-ing Grace: A Mascot’s Journey to God.”
The finalist who’s in hot water is Cindy Babineaux (Parker Posey), a broken-down belle in a frowzy dye job whose mascot character is Alvin the Armadillo, from a college in the heart of Mississippi. The trouble is that the team was once named the Leaping Squaws. »
- Owen Gleiberman
Facebook Live Q&A with the Cast of Netflix’s ‘Mascots’ – Watch Now
9 September 2016 10:48 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Join us at 1:30pm Et/10:30am Pt for a live conversation with the cast of Netflix’s mockumentary “Mascots.”
On hand for the Q&A will be stars Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Susan Yeagley and Jim Piddock.
Submit your questions below or like us on Facebook to join the fun!
“Mascots,” directed by Christopher Guest, arrives to Netflix October 13.
The Variety Studio at the Toronto Film Festival is presented by Airbnb.
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- Variety Staff
Latest Creative Arts Emmys Presenters Include Ryan Seacrest, Neil deGrasse Tyson & Mel B – Update
8 September 2016 4:03 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
2Nd Update, 4:03 Pm: The third group of presenters for this weekend’s two-night Creative Arts Emmys has been announced. The TV Academy said today that Tichina Arnold, Mel B, Reg E. Cathey. Joanne Froggatt, Carrie Preston, Rhea Seehorn and Peter Scolari will appear on Saturday's Night 1 of the annual event. The second night on Sunday will feature Lori Greiner, Erinn Hayes, Marilu Henner, Jane Lynch, Bethany Mota, Tyler Oakley, Chris Parnell, Ryan Seacrest and Neil deGrasse… »
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