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Sandra Lee Is Back on TV — and Still Concerned About Your Grocery Bill
The doyenne of pantry hacks discusses Roku foray 'Dinner Budget Showdown,' lessons from her tenure as the de facto First Lady of New York, "tablescape" pushback and sharing a name with Dr. Pimple Popper.
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Elizabeth Banks, Jessica Biel to Lead Amazon Thriller ‘The Better Sister’
Olivia Milch and Regina Corrado will serve as showrunners on the drama, based on the book by Alafair Burke.
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Telemundo Scores Two-Month Ratings Winning Streak in Spanish-Language TV
Reality series 'La Casa de los Famosos' and drama 'El Senor de los Cielos' have been consistent winners.
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‘Palm Royale’ Director Recalls Getting Kicked Out of Exclusive Palm Beach Club (Like Maxine) During Pre-Production: “I Felt Like Trash”
[This story contains mild spoilers from episode nine of Palm Royale.] Tate Taylor might be the male version of Palm Royale’s Maxine Dellacorte-Simmons. The executive producer and director behind the Kristen Wiig-starring comedy had his own experience trying to get into an exclusive Palm Beach club during pre-production on the Apple TV+ series. And just […]
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Sandra Lee Is Back on TV — and Still Concerned About Your Grocery Bill
A Monday afternoon FaceTime with Sandra Lee quickly turns into a shopping intervention. Anybody who wants to lower their grocery bill, says the Semi-Homemade Cooking host, needs a Costco membership and an affinity for Trader Joe’s. When I counter that the crowds at the latter are a real turn-off, she’s having none of it. “You […]
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Elizabeth Banks, Jessica Biel to Lead Amazon Thriller ‘The Better Sister’
Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel are going to play siblings in a new Amazon series. The online retailer/streamer has handed out a series order for The Better Sister, based on the book of the same name by Alafair Burke. The thriller revolves around Chloe (Biel), who moves through the world with her lawyer husband Adam […]
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TV Premiere Dates 2024: The Complete Guide
Hundreds of TV series — new and old, scripted and not, on streaming, broadcast and cable outlets — will premiere in the next 12 months. As production ramped up in the final weeks 2023 following the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, pipelines started to get refilled, which could lead to a crush of premieres in […]
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Telemundo Scores Two-Month Ratings Winning Streak in Spanish-Language TV
Telemundo is riding the longest ratings winning streak it’s ever had in Spanish-language television. The NBCUniversal-owned network has topped Univision in primetime for two consecutive months, closing out April with substantial leads over its rival. Telemundo averaged 1.2 million total viewers and 344,000 adults 18-49 for the month, topping Univision by margins of 21 percent […]
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Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Nat Faxon and Ron Funches Talk ‘Loot’ Romances, Bromances and Who’s a Real-Life Swifty
[This story contains mild spoilers from season two, episode six of Loot.] Maya Rudolph’s Loot is as much about a woman coming into her own identity post-divorce as it is an office comedy, thanks to the characters at Molly Novak’s (Rudolph) charitable organization, The Wells Foundation. When Molly, the ex-wife of tech giant John Novak […]
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How ‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Proves There’s Life After Network TV for the YA Genre
Twenty years ago, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s breakout hit The O.C., about a group of teens coming of age in Newport Beach, premiered on Fox. By the time the 27-episode first season aired its finale in the spring of 2004, the show was the highest-rated drama on TV among adults 18 to 34 and […]
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Ty Burrell to Star in Roku Comedy ‘Tightrope!’ From EP Bryan Cranston
Ty Burrell and Bryan Cranston are set to walk a Tightrope! for the Roku Channel. The two Emmy winners are teaming up for a comedic reworking of a short-lived detective drama from the late 1950s (exclamation point very much included). Burrell will star in and executive produce the six-episode series, while Cranston is an executive […]
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Alex Cross Series Gets Early Season 2 Pickup at Amazon
Amazon is doubling down on its Alex Cross series. The tech giant’s Prime Video streaming platform has ordered a second season of Cross, a drama starring Aldis Hodge and based on James Patterson’s best-selling novel series about a detective and forensic psychologist who delves into the minds of killers in order to catch them. The […]
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Netflix’s Jude Law-Jason Bateman Drama ‘Black Rabbit’ Rounds Out Cast
Netflix’s forthcoming drama Black Rabbit, starring Jason Bateman and Jude Law, is filling out its cast. Oscar winner Troy Kotsur, Abbey Lee, Odessa Young and Robin De Jesús will have regular roles in the limited series, which comes from creators Zach Baylin and Kate Susman. Seven actors — Amir Malaklou, Don Harvey, Forrest Weber, Francis Benhamou, […]
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How ‘The Sympathizer’ Cast Represents a Portrait of the Modern Vietnamese Diaspora
Projects about the Vietnam War and its aftermath are so plentiful as to be practically their own genre, and they’ve starred a who’s who of Hollywood icons, including John Wayne, Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, Robin Williams, Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson and Christian Bale. Notably missing from the casts — at least among the substantive […]
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‘Scooby-Doo’ Live-Action Series in the Works at Netflix
Greg Berlanti and Netflix are going for a ride in the Mystery Machine. The streaming giant is near a deal for a live-action TV series based on the beloved Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon Scooby-Doo. The project has a script-to-series commitment at Netflix, meaning if the script is well received, it would trigger a straight-to-series order for […]
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International Audiences Drive ‘Fallout’ to Big Showing on Amazon
Fallout has become one of Prime Video’s biggest series ever — according to Prime Video. The well-reviewed show, based on the video game franchise of the same name, has become the second-most-watched title ever on the Amazon streaming service over its first 16 days of release, the company says. Prime Video says 65 million viewers worldwide […]
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CBS’ ‘NFL Today’ Shakes Up Host Roster
A few days after an NFL draft that featured a run on first-round quarterbacks, CBS is making some QB changes at its long-running NFL Today studio show. Matt Ryan, a former league MVP who was a game analyst for the network last year, will move to the pregame desk for the 2024 season, joining James […]
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‘Last Week Tonight’: Past Seasons Will Be Available for Free on YouTube
Last Week Tonight fans hankering for their John Oliver fix this week won’t have a new episode to satiate them, but the show is making up for that by offering the first season for free on YouTube. The show’s official X (formerly Twitter) account posted the news Friday. “There’s no new episode this week!” the […]
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Ian Bohen Teases ‘Yellowstone’ Will Have the “Best Series Finale in History”
Ian Bohen is hoping to get fans excited about the forthcoming series finale of Yellowstone. The actor, who plays Ryan in the hit Western show, recently teased in an interview with Entertainment Tonight that “fans are going to get the [best] conclusion that could possibly be written.” “Everything will land in a way that is […]
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