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Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the office, meet what may be TV’s true boss from hell in the darkly comic thriller, The Consultant. He’s steel-eyed Regus Patoff (played with gusto by two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz), who walks into financially strapped Los Angeles gaming company CompWare and, after a shocking death, suddenly calls all the shots. (Credit: Prime Video) Lining up the staff to sniff them each because he senses someone doesn’t smell right? Calling a worker into the office…at 3am? That’s not in any employee handbook we know of. Trying to uncover the potentially villainous ways Patoff came into power drives ambitious CompWare employees Elaine (Brittany O’Grady) and Craig (Nat Wolff). However, knowing he can break or make a career leaves the pair with a devil of a dilemma over how much to compromise and play along. “They

In the latest TV ratings, Fox’s SmackDown topped the night in the demo while ABC’s Shark Tank drew the largest crowd.

Fox | Friday Night SmackDown drew 2.3 million total viewers and a 0.5 demo rating, dipping week-to-week.

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ABC | Shark Tank (3.7 mil/0.4) was down from its last fresh airing.

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George Trumbull Miller, an Australian film and television director whose most notable credits include “The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter” and “The Man From Snowy River,” died of a heart attack in a hospital in Melbourne. He was 79 years old.

Miller’s death was confirmed by the Sydney Morning Herald. No details regarding a date of death are available at this time.

Miller reached national prominence for his 1982 Western “The Man From Snowy River,” starring Kirk Douglas. The film grossed 17.2 million in Australia and reached more than 20 million worldwide, inspiring a sequel as well as an arena attraction. More than 40 years on,

If you have hunger pangs for more episodes of The Food That Built America, you’re in luck because Adam Richman is serving up another fresh batch of delicious origin stories. The menu for season 4 tackles a wide assortment of products and brands from Chick-Fil-a and Pop-Tarts to Kool-Aid and buffalo wings to, yes, even Cat Chow. For Richman, there is so much to feast upon. “This season is fascinating because we not only focus on certain specific meals but actually break away from just iconic brands or iconic foods within those brands going into pet food, spirits, sporting goods, coffee,” the culinary expert tells TV Insider. “It’s really adding great dimensionality.” Here the Man v. Foodie gives us a taste of what you’ll want to sink your teeth into this season. The first episode explores the history and innovation behind breakfast in a box. One of the

After a decades-long career in television — and nearly a century on this planet — composer Gerald Fried has died at age 95. Fried died of pneumonia on Friday, February 17, at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut, according to Variety. After getting his start in the early 1950s, Fried scored some 40 films, episodes of 40 TV shows, and three dozen TV movies and miniseries. Fried earned an Emmy Award in 1977 for his music composition for the landmark TV miniseries Roots, 10 hours of which he scored after Quincy Jones provided music for the first two hours. His other TV work includes music for Gilligan’s Island, Mission: Impossible, Lost in Space, Gunsmoke, and Dynasty. Fried also scored five episodes of the original Star Trek TV series, and his music for the episode “Amok Time” has turned up everywhere from The Simpsons to The Cable Guy. In a 2013 interview with StarTrek.com, Fried said he was “shocked,

After a decades-long career in television — and nearly a century on this planet — composer Gerald Fried has died at age 95. Fried died of pneumonia on Friday, February 17, at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut, according to Variety. After getting his start in the early 1950s, Fried scored some 40 films, episodes of 40 TV shows, and three dozen TV movies and miniseries, the publication adds. Fried earned an Emmy Award in 1977 for his music composition for the landmark TV miniseries Roots, 10 hours of which he scored after Quincy Jones provided music for the first two hours. His other TV work includes music for Gilligan’s Island, Mission: Impossible, Lost in Space, Gunsmoke, and Dynasty. Fried also scored five episodes of the original Star Trek TV series, and his music for the episode “Amok Time” has turned up everywhere from The Simpsons to The Cable Guy. In a 2013 interview with StarTrek.com, Fried said he was “shocked,

Yellowstone fans thinking that cooler heads might ultimately prevail can go ahead and think again. Jamie is as likely to make peace with his adoptive father and sister as a horse is to fly.

“Kelly [Reilly] and I have always had this sort of secret hope that there would be some reconciliation, some love reconnection [between Beth and Jamie], or at least [some circumstance in which] they worked together in some way,” Wes Bentley told TVLine at the recent Scad TVFest. But when they’ve mentioned the idea to series-co-creator Taylor Sheridan, “he’s just like ‘No, no, no. Hate, hate, hate.’ So I think that is kind

Disney+ has canceled two of its sports series, blowing the whistle on Big Shot and The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers. Neither show will get a Season 3, according to Deadline. Big Shot starred John Stamos as Marvyn Korn, a basketball coach who loses a job as NCAA head coach and becomes a coach for an elite, all-girls private high school, quickly learning that he’ll need to cultivate empathy and vulnerability for the post. “By learning to connect with his players and his daughter, Marvyn starts to grow into the person he’s always hoped to be,” Disney+ added in a synopsis. “The girls learn to take themselves more seriously, finding their footing both on and off the court.” The Big Shot cast also included Jessalyn Gilsig, Sophia Mitri Schloss, Nell Verlaque, Tiana Le, Tisha Custodio, Cricket Wampler, Sara Echeagaray, and Yvette Nicole Brown. The series — an ABC Signature production — was created by David E. Kelley,

“1923” is one of the most progressive shows on TV right now.

That may come as a shock to the many people who think Taylor Sheridan’s “Yellowstone” universe is inherently for Red Staters. Sheridan’s burgeoning constellation of Western TV series draws the kind of viewership numbers usually reserved for “NCIS” and other, older-skewing broadcast shows that the critical class usually ignores. “Yellowstone” and its first prequel “1883” are series that largely focus on grizzled white people in 10-gallon hats carrying guns, after all.

Each of the “Yellowstone” series features Native American characters. But “1923” has been startling for the time and the emphasis it’s given to the storyline of Teonna (Aminah Nieves), and what that storyline implies about how historic structural inequities continue to govern outcomes for Indigenous Americans today. It’s “critical race theory,” the term wildly mischaracterized by political opportunists that refers to the idea

The 29th annual SAG Awards, at which actors honor their peers, is set for 5 p.m. Pt/ 8 p.m. Et Feb. 26. While the ceremony will take place at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, the show will be livestreamed on Netflix’s YouTube channel for all to watch. Variety offers a primer on the kudos and what they portend for other awards.

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How do the SAG Awards line up with Oscars?

Unlike most other kudos bodies, the SAG Awards actually overlap with Academy voters. This is one reason the SAG Awards are often seen as a major

The gavel will soon come down for the last time on two long-running, syndicated court shows. Warner Bros. has canceled Judge Mathis, which will end after its current 24th season, and The People’s Court, which will wrap up at the end of this 26th season. The cancellations come as local TV stations prioritize cheaper news broadcasts over syndicated programs and as advertisers pay less for spots in daytime syndication, Variety reports. Judge Mathis and The People’s Court are both produced by Warner Bros. Unscripted Television and Telepictures Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. The former is also produced by And Syndication Productions, while the latter comes from Ralph Edwards-Stu Billett Productions. With Greg Mathis holding court, Judge Mathis premiered in 1999 and won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program in 2018. Mathis, a former judge for Michigan’s 36th District Court, is the longest-serving

Composer Gerald Fried, who won an Emmy for the landmark miniseries “Roots” and whose 1960s scores, from “Star Trek” to “Gilligan’s Island,” left an indelible impression on a generation of TV watchers, died of pneumonia Friday at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, Ct. He was 95.

His wide-ranging career included scoring five early Stanley Kubrick films, including “Paths of Glory” and “The Killing”; receiving the only Oscar nomination ever given for a documentary score, 1975’s “Birds Do It, Bees Do It”; and earning five other Emmy nominations for music in specials, TV movies and miniseries.

The prolific Fried scored approximately 40 films,

Kyle Jacobs, husband of former American Idol and Dancing With the Stars contestant Kellie Pickler, was found dead at the couple’s home in Nashville, Tennessee, on Friday, February 17. The songwriter was 49 years old. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department reported (via Variety) that a 911 call from the home came in at 1:21 p.m. local time on Friday and that the fire department personnel who reported to the scene found Jacobs’ body in a room upstairs. “Mr. Jacobs’ wife, Kellie Pickler, reported that she awoke a short time earlier, did not see her husband, and began looking for him,” the Mnpd statement said. “After she and her personal assistant were unable to open the door to the upstairs bedroom/office, the assistant telephoned 911.” The statement added that Jacobs’ death is “being investigated as an apparent suicide.”  Along with his collaborations with Pickler, Jacobs co-wrote Garth Brooks’ No. 1 song “More Than

Kyle Jacobs, husband of former American Idol and Dancing With the Stars contestant Kellie Pickler, was found dead at the couple’s home in Nashville, Tennessee, on Friday, February 17. The songwriter was 49 years old. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department reported (via Variety) that a 911 call from the home came in at 1:21 p.m. local time on Friday and that the fire department personnel who reported to the scene found Jacobs’ body in a room upstairs. “Mr. Jacobs’ wife, Kellie Pickler, reported that she awoke a short time earlier, did not see her husband, and began looking for him,” the Mnpd statement said. “After she and her personal assistant were unable to open the door to the upstairs bedroom/office, the assistant telephoned 911.” The statement added that Jacobs’ death is “being investigated as an apparent suicide.”  Along with his collaborations with Pickler, Jacobs co-wrote Garth Brooks’ No. 1 song “More Than

CNN may be getting ready to take a new swing at fixing its long-running 9 p.m. problem.

CNN is getting ready to launch a new show in that hour called “CNN Primetime,” which is described with a logline that says, “Join CNN’s top anchors for special events and unique conversations about the issues that matter the most.”

Both the show title and the programming descriptions are on display in interactive schedules that subscribers to cable and satellite services can call up to examine programming options. On Thursday, CNN is set to offer a “CNN Town Hall.” Another entry describes

Netflix co-ceo Ted Sarandos revealed a continued investment push in the Indian market on Saturday.

In a freewheeling chat with Indian filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali in Mumbai to promote the latter’s upcoming Netflix series “Heeramandi,” Sarandos was bullish about India, repeating what he said on Friday to local media about the market’s growth. “India is the fastest growing Netflix market in the world this year and because of that, we’re able to continue to invest in great storytelling. And I think when you see ‘Heeramandi,’ you’re gonna see why it has been such the honor of

Court is adjourned: Daytime courtroom shows The People’s Court and Judge Mathis have both been cancelled after more than two decades on the air each, according to our sister site Variety.

The decision came down on Friday from producers Warner Bros. Unscripted Television and Telepictures Productions, who cited “the declining nature of the daytime syndication landscape” in making their decision, per Variety.

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The current version of The People’s Court,

The verdict is in: Syndicated court staples “Judge Mathis” and “The People’s Court” will both end their run at the end of this season, Variety has confirmed. “Judge Mathis” will wrap after 24 seasons, while this most recent iteration of “The People’s Court” wraps after its 26th season. Season 24 and Season 26, respectively.

Both shows come from Warner Bros. Unscripted Television in association with Telepictures Productions and are distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. According to insiders, the decision was made due to the declining nature of the daytime syndication landscape. As local TV stations shrink their syndication dollars and

Netflix has dropped the trailer for the eight-episode second season of “Shadow and Bone.” The second season depicts Alina Starkov, played by Jessie Mei Li, on the run in an effort to bring down the Shadow Fold and save Ravka. However, General Kirigan (played by Ben Barnes) is also back and this time has an army of shadow monsters behind him.

The Season 2 cast includes also includes Archie Renaux, Freddy Carter, Amita Suman, Kit Young, Danielle Galligan, Daisy Head, Calahan Skogman, Lewis Tan, Anna Leong Brophy, Jack Wolfe and Patrick Gibson.

Eric Heisserer and Daegan Fryklind serve as showrunners and executive producers,

We’ve got to hand it to RuPaul — after 15 seasons of Drag Race, she still has plenty of genuine surprises up her sleeve. Even when she’s not wearing any sleeves!

Friday’s episode pit the remaining 10 queens against each other in a LALAPaRuza lip sync smackdown, one that ended with a three-part twist that left us so gagged we could vomit. (In a good way!)

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