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‘Game Of Thrones’ Is Once Again The Most Pirated TV Show Of The Year
15 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
It figures that the most popular TV shows will be the ones that are most pirated, but it’s still a bit surprising that for the fifth year running, “Game Of Thrones” remains at the top of the list of the most stolen series.
HBO‘s juggernaut has captured a global audience, and the network is certainly aware that many viewers are finding other ways to watch the show without buying a subscription.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
‘The Grand Tour’s’ Richard Hammond Sparks Controversy With ‘Ice Cream Is Gay’ Remark
13 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
“The Grand Tour” was expected to provoke controversy, and the sixth episode of Amazon Prime’s flagship motoring show has delivered with a gag from co-host Richard Hammond suggesting that “eating ice-cream is gay.”
Hammond’s comment came as Jeremy Clarkson, addressing a live audience, pointed out that you “couldn’t enjoy a chocolate Magnum ice cream” in a Volvo with white seats.
“It’s alright, I don’t eat ice cream,” Hammond said. “It’s something to do with being straight,” he added, to applause and cheers from the audience.
Probed by Clarkson — “You’re saying all children are homosexual?” — Hammond went on to maintain that “Ice cream is a bit… you know. There’s nothing wrong with it, but a grown man eating an ice cream — it’s that way, rather than that way.”
U.K. newspapers The Independent and The Guardian, which called “The Grand Tour” a “zombified corpse” of “Top Gear,” have »
- John Hopewell
Carrie Fisher Set to Appear in Two New ‘Family Guy’ Episodes
23 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Carrie Fisher, who died Tuesday, is set to appear in two forthcoming episodes of Fox’s animated comedy “Family Guy.” Variety confirmed that Fisher completed voice-acting work for the two episodes, which will premiere on dates yet to be determined.
Fisher first guest starred on the animated comedy as Angela, supervisor to Seth MacFarlane’s Peter Griffin at the brewery where he works, in 2005. She voiced the character in 20 episodes that have aired, most recently last season in an episode that premiered Jan. 3. »
- Daniel Holloway
‘The Walking Dead,’ Super Bowl, Oscars, Olympics Lead the Top-Rated Telecasts of 2016
11 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Veteran hits like “The Walking Dead” and “Empire” may be experiencing ratings declines, but make no mistake: Negan and Cookie are still monsters.
All 16 of “The Walking Dead” episodes that aired in 2016 made it on to the list of the most-watched telecasts of 2016 among adults 18-49 (the demographic still preferred by advertisers). No other TV show can boast that stat. “The Big Bang Theory” landed 14 episodes on the list, while “Empire” had 10 and “Game of Thrones” had three.
Sports telecasts dominated the list – no surprise, given some of this year’s thrilling championship series. As always, the Super Bowl was by far the most-watched program of the year in all of TV, as Denver’s win over Carolina – quarterback Peyton Manning’s finale – averaged 112,576,000 total viewers.
Read More: Most-Watched Television Networks: Ranking 2016’s Winners and Losers
But right behind it, the history-making Game 7 of this year’s World Series, featuring »
- Michael Schneider
Carrie Fisher: Behind the Scenes of What Would Be Her Final TV Role
27 December 2016 3:14 PM, PST | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
The death of Carrie Fisher is hitting everyone hard, including the woman behind Fisher’s final TV role.
Fisher played mother-from-hell Mia on Amazon’s UK comedy Catastrophe, and star/co-creator Sharon Horgan (who plays Mia’s daughter-in-law on the show) took to Instagram on Tuesday to mourn the loss, calling Fisher “the most generous, fun, gifted, smart, kind, funny funny funny person I’ve ever met.”
Catastrophe just finished filming Season 3 in London, and the show was the last on-camera project Fisher worked on before suffering a heart attack »
‘BoJack Horseman’ Creator Reflects on the Value of the Stories We Tell, Especially With Season 4 in the Works
27 December 2016 8:54 AM, PST | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
“BoJack Horseman” creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg is about midway through the making of a new season of his critically acclaimed comedy, but he also isn’t exactly sure how he feels about it.
“Let me ask you this about art,” he said to IndieWire. “This is something I really go back and forth on a lot, and in the show we kind of go back and forth with this a lot: Do you think art is good? You know what I mean? Are we in ‘Cabaret’ right now and we’re like, distracting ourselves?”
The question came during an open and honest conversation about Season 3 of the show, Bob-Waksberg’s personal reaction to America’s changing political climate and even a little bit about the in-progress Season 4.
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However, we first began by discussing the second anniversary of the “BoJack Horseman” Christmas special, released in »
- Liz Shannon Miller
Sam Champion Says So Long To Weather Channel
27 December 2016 1:25 PM, PST | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Sam Champion will say so-long to The Weather Channel in just a few hours, ending his three-year run with the network. Champion’s departure is no surprise; his contract with the Atlanta-based network was expiring and he was not expected to re-up. "Sam Champion has decided to leave The Weather Channel at the end of this year to pursue new challenges," the network’s statement reads, thanking him for his “contributions and leadership” as managing editor and anchor/creator of… »
Inside Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher’s Upcoming HBO Documentary: ‘It’s a Love Story’
41 minutes ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
The deaths of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher over the past 48 hours have left the team behind the upcoming HBO documentary on the mother and daughter reeling from shock.
“Bright Lights: Starring Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher” is a chronicle of the extraordinary bond that mother and daughter forged over six decades in the unrelenting glare of showbiz’s spotlight. Documentary vets Fisher Stevens and Alexis Bloom directed and produced the film, which screened in October at the New York Film Festival and before that in Cannes.
“It’s a love story,” said HBO Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins told Variety Wednesday night after the news broke of Reynolds’ death at the age of 84.
“Carrie wanted to make ‘Bright Lights’ for Debbie and Debbie wanted to make it for Carrie,” Nevins said. The sudden loss of two women only magnify the importance of Fisher and Bloom capturing the material for the movie when they did.
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- Cynthia Littleton
Watch: Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher’s Amazing ‘Oprah’ Interview from 2011
1 hour ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, who both died this week, rose to some of the highest peaks in Hollywood during their fabled movie careers. But life wasn’t always glamorous for this mother-daughter duo. In fact, both Reynolds and Fisher became almost as famous for their off-screen challenges as for their onscreen triumphs: Debbie’s relationships with men, Carrie’s drug abuse and mental health issues, the Elizabeth Taylor scandal.
In this interview in which they appeared together on “Oprah” in 2011, Reynolds and Fisher show off their razor-sharp wit and humor in recalling the darker days and show why, as a family, they have been so resilient.
In the 40-plus minute footage, the duo also perform a medley of “You Made Me Love You” and “Happy Days Are Here Again” to the delight of the audience.
Reynolds, 84, died suddenly on Wednesday only one day after her daughter, 60, died of heart failure.
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- Variety Staff
Will & Grace Mom Debbie Reynolds Was 'Pure Light,' Says Debra Messing
2 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
In the wake of Debbie Reynolds’ death on Wednesday, the Hollywood vet was mourned by TV daughter Debra Messing.
After first reacting to the “devastating” news on Twitter, Messing expressed her sorrow in an extended Instagram post, where she described her Will & Grace mom as “loving, and bawdy, and playful.” (As you’ll recall, Reynolds recurred as the outrageous Bobbi Adler, for which she earned an Emmy nomination in 2000.)
“My heart is literally broken,” Messing wrote. “For eight years she was my mom. She was pure energy and light when she came on stage. She was… a consummate pro — old-school »
‘Vikings’: Ep Michael Hirst on Ragnar’s Fate (Spoilers)
2 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Spoilers abound for those who haven’t seen the Dec. 28 episode of “Vikings.”
“Vikings” began with Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel), but it was never just his story. There was shieldmaiden Lagertha, and Ragnar’s brother Rollo, and, later, his sons. Yet Ragnar bound all threads together. And now, as history — or, at least, his story — told us would happen, Ragnar is dead, cast into a snake pit by the vengeance-seeking King Aelle of Northumbria (Ivan Kaye) after being handed over by his friend (and enemy) King Ecbert of Wessex (Linus Roache). “Vikings” showrunner Michael Hirst talked to Variety about putting Ragnar and Fimmel through hell, and what comes next.
When did you tell Travis Fimmel this was coming? Presumably he knew just from the historical nature of the series.
Travis came to the show late because I was very unhappy about the people they were trying to cast. I didn’t want a loud Viking, I »
- Oriana Schwindt
Debbie Reynolds Dies A Day After Daughter Carrie Fisher – Update
3 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Updated: Debbie Reynolds has died after being taken to a Los Angeles hospital this afternoon, only a day after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher. A family source confirmed Reynolds’ death to Deadline. She was 84. TMZ first reported the news of her being transported to the hospital and had audio of the dispatch call, which sent an ambulance to an address on Coldwater Canyon in Beverly Hills that coincides with a compound Reynolds shared with Fisher. NBC News said… »
Debbie Reynolds Dead at 84, Day After Daughter Carrie Fisher's Passing
3 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Debbie Reynolds, famed film and TV actress and the mother of Carrie Fisher, died on Wednesday following a stroke. She was 84 years old.
“I miss her so much, I want to be with Carrie,” Reynolds said hours before her stroke, son Todd Fisher shared with TMZ.
TMZ reported that Reynolds was rushed to the hospital on Wednesday afternoon after suffering a “medical emergency” at Todd Fisher’s Beverly Hills home. Reynolds and her son were reportedly discussing funeral plans for her daughter Carrie, who died just one day earlier, following a heart attack.
Video: Carrie Fisher Presents Debbie Reynolds With »
Debbie Reynolds, ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ Star and Carrie Fisher’s Mother, Dies at 84
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Debbie Reynolds, the Oscar-nominated singer-actress who was the mother of late actress Carrie Fisher, has died at Cedars-Sinai hospital. She was 84.
“She wanted to be with Carrie,” her son Todd Fisher told Variety.
She was taken to the hospital from Carrie Fisher’s Beverly Hills house Wednesday after suffering a stroke, the day after her daughter Carrie Fisher died.
The vivacious blonde, who had a close but sometimes tempestuous relationship with her daughter, was one of MGM’s principal stars of the 1950s and ’60s in such films as the 1952 classic “Singin’ in the Rain” and 1964’s “The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” for which she received an Oscar nomination as best actress.
Reynolds received the SAG lifetime achievement award in January 2015; in August of that year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences voted to present the actress with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Nov. 14 Governors Awards, but she was unable to attend the ceremony due »
- Carmel Dagan
TVLine Items: Legends Try to Save Star Wars, Switched Farewell Vid and More
3 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Legends of Tomorrow‘s next time aberration might be its scariest yet: a world with no Star Wars.
When the CW series returns on its new night — Tuesday, Jan. 24 (at 9/8c) — the Waverider crew will discover that a young George Lucas (played by Sweet/Vicious‘ Matt Angel) quit film school, meaning he never made Star Wars or Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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“As a result, Ray, who became an engineer because of Star Wars, and Nate, who became a historian because of Raiders, slowly start to lose their brilliance, »
‘Castlevania’ Animated Series May Finally Happen Thanks to the Executive Producer of ‘Adventure Time’
4 hours ago | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
“Castlevania” is among the most enduring of all video-game series, with 1997’s “Symphony of the Night” often ranking as one of the greatest games ever made. The franchise may soon make the leap from console to cable, as one of the minds behind “Adventure Time” has hinted that he’s developing a “super violent” animated series on what deductive reasoning suggests might very well be “Castlevania.”
Read More: ‘Adventure Time’ Is Ending, But Its Legacy Is Secure
Fred Seibert is working on an “unnamed” project based on “one of the most world-famous video games of the last 30 years” under the banner of his own Frederator Studios, the animation house behind both “Adventure Time” and “The Fairly OddParents” — as well as the company with the adaptation rights to “Castlevania.” He made the vague announcement during an appearance on Nickelodeon’s Nick Animation Podcast, explaining that Frederator has owned the rights for »
- Michael Nordine
Brother of JonBenet Ramsey Sues CBS for $750 Million Over TV Special
4 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
The brother of JonBenet Ramsey has filed a $750 million defamation lawsuit against CBS and Critical Content in connection with the four-hour documentary series “The Case of JonBenet Ramsey” that aired in September.
Burke Ramsey, 29, asserts in the complaint filed in Michigan’s Wayne County state court that CBS and series producer Critical Content sought to generate ratings by pointing the finger at him as the killer of his younger sister, who was found dead in the family’s Boulder, Colo., home on Dec. 26, 1996. The mystery of the Ramsey murder was revisited by CBS and a number of other outlets this year as the 20th anniversary of the 6-year-old’s brutal death approached.
The suit also names as defendants seven individuals who were featured in the documentary series as criminal experts or students of the case: Jim Clemente, Laura Richards, Henry Lee, A. James Kolar, James Fitzgerald, Stanley Burke and Werner Spitz. Kolar »
- Cynthia Littleton
JonBenét Ramsey’s Brother Sues CBS For $750M Over Program That Pegged Him As Her Killer
4 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Three months after CBS aired its true-crime docuseries The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey, the slain girl’s older brother is suing the network for $750M over the program that laid blame for the killing on him. Burke Ramsey, who was 10 when his 6-year-old beauty queen sister was found dead in the family’s Boulder, Co, home at Christmastime in 1996, also is suing production company Critical Content and a number of consultants involved with the program. Saying his reputation was… »
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