In a full-circle moment, Kenan Thompson is returning to NBC’s America’s Got Talent as guest judge for the Quarterfinals Round 3 episode on Sept. 1. He will be filling in for judge Simon Cowell, also AGT‘s creator/executive producer, who has been sidelined by back surgery. Cowell was not on the…

Several of the major broadcast networks paid tribute to Dolly Parton this week after the prolific singer died Tuesday at the age of 80. ABC and CBS turned their specials around fairly quickly, going head-to-head in the 10 p.m. hour later that very same night, August 25. ABC News’ Dolly…

Pierce Thiot, a creative executive at Ryan Reynolds’ production and marketing company Maximum Effort and two-time Emmy nominee who also worked on the launch of Apple TV+, has died. He was 40. The company said he died August 24 of a pulmonary embolism at his home in Orem, Utah. Thiot…

A major scandal that has rocked the golf world has impacted the debut season of The Golf Channel’s reboot of The Big Break reality competition series. The new season, which was due to premiere August 25, has been canceled after Good Good announced it would be stepping away as title sponsor of…

2026 has been a busy year for Jacob Elordi. Coming off of his Oscar nomination for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, which arrived on Netflix at the end of 2025, the Euphoria alum has starred in two major movies this year, Emerald Fennell's take on Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and the…

Dissney+ has greenlighted Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch'd & Pichu, a new stop-motion series as part of a just-announced global distribution deal with The Pokémon Company International. Created by animation studio Aardman, the series will debut on Disney XD and stream exclusively…

EXCLUSIVE: Al Madrigal (The Daily Show, Lopez vs. Lopez) has joined the recurring cast of NBC’s Newlyweds, from writer, showrunner, and executive producer Gail Lerner. He will star opposite series leads Téa Leoni and Tim Daly, as well as recurring guest star Jamie Lee Curtis. Newlyweds is a…

SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about Episode 6 of HBO Max's Stuart Fails To Save the Universe. In Episode 6 of HBO Max’s Stuart Fails To Save the Universe, the quartet of accidental heroes Stuart Bloom (Kevin Sussman), Denise (Lauren Lapkus), Bert (Brian Posehn) and Barry Kripke (John…

EXCLUSIVE: Michelle MacLaren (The Morning Show, Breaking Bad) will direct the first two episodes and serve as executive producer on Disavowed, a new, action-packed thriller created by Art Marcum & Matt Holloway (Iron Man, Uncharted) for Apple TV. She executive produces alongside Rebecca Hobbs via her…

EXCLUSIVE: ABC is developing The Undertaker, a police procedural based on the Swiss series Der Bestatter, from writer Gabriel Garza (The Winchesters, The Flash), director Hanelle M. Culpepper (Paradise, Star Trek: Picard), 20th Television and Elevate Entertainment. The Undertaker will follow…

The queen of creating luxury experiences, Lisa Vanderpump, is heading to Salzburg, Austria, as Hulu renews Vanderpump Villa for a fourth season. Vanderpump will be joined by House of Stassi star Stassi Schroeder once again, with cast and guests for Season 4 being revealed at a later…

It’s 8/28, time for Manifest news. Exactly five years to the minute after Netflix announced it was reviving Manifest for a fourth and final season following its NBC cancellation, the streamer is resurrecting the series again, this time with a spinoff. Netflix has greenlighted Arrivals: A New Manifest…