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Photo: Rob Lewine On Thursday evening at the Norman Lear Center in Los Angeles, a collection of television shows will be hailed for their ability to “inform, educate and motivate viewers to make choices for healthier and safer lives.” Original Saturday Night Live cast member Laraine Newman will host the Lear Center’s Hollywood, Health & Society’s Sentinel […]

NBC/Getty Images FILE Ted Danson is making amends with Kelsey Grammer several years after a dispute while the pair acted on Cheers together. Grammer appeared on Danson and Woody Harrelson‘s SiriusXM podcast Where Everybody Knows Your Name on Wednesday, where he reunited with his former co-stars. “I feel like I got stuck a little bit with you, during the Cheers years,” […]

HMD Timed to the release of Venom: The Last Dance, cellphone company Human Mobile Devices has melded with the titular alien symbiote seen in the hit franchise.  Calling its new mobile device, Fusion, the world’s first “symbiotic smartphone,” HMD has created a glass case for it that contains a crawling, oozing Venom-like black liquid that squiggles and […]

Universal Theatre Group This is heavy: Back to the Future: The Musical will officially close on Broadway on Jan. 5, 2025.  The musical won an Olivier Award in the U.K. — where it has been playing for four years — and sold $80 million in tickets over its 18 months and over 500 performances at the Winter […]

Prime Video Cruel Intentions, the cult classic film, is getting a new spin. The trailer for the upcoming series, which is a new adaptation of the popular 1999 film, was released Thursday. Like the film, the series packs a lot of drama and scandal and follows a similar plotline. According to a press release for the […]

Chris Hemsworth, star of Marvel’s Thor and Avengers films, is in talks to play the titular character in Disney’s upcoming Prince Charming movie, according to Variety. Plot details have yet to be revealed, including whether the film will be live or animated. Wonka filmmaker Paul King is set to direct. Disney is the parent company […]

This week on The Golden Bachelorette, Joan Vassos left Malibu, California, for hometown dates. Vassos was introduced to the families of each of the remaining men, Guy, Pascal, Jordan and Chock, and was shown around each of their hometowns. Vassos’ first hometown date was with Guy in his hometown of Reno, Nevada. They cruised Lake […]

Harvey Weinstein has been diagnosed with a form of bone marrow cancer, sources told ABC News. Weinstein has been diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia, sources said, adding that the former Hollywood producer is receiving treatment while jailed. Weinstein’s authorized legal health care representative in New York, Craig Rothfeld, declined to comment, saying, “Out of respect […]

NBC/Frank Ockenfels The title of the forthcoming biography of Lorne Michaels says it all: Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live. The book, from New Yorker veteran Susan Morrison, will hit stores in February 2025, and the Random House release is being teased as the “definitive” biography of the show’s executive producer.  “Over the […]