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Getty Images Variety has compiled its list of the year’s 100-most-watched telecasts, and as always, the NFL remains unchallenged for broadcast viewer supremacy: In fact, 19 of the top 20 in that 100 were football matchups, starting with the most-watched show of every year, the Super Bowl. Fox’s Super Bowl LVII coverage of the game […]

Disney This year’s edition of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest is bigger than ever: In addition to Times Square and Hollywood, Ryan Seacrest and co-host Rita Ora will manage performances and countdowns from Puerto Rico, Miami, Las Vegas and South Korea. “I think the challenging part, honestly, is keeping it on time,” Seacrest told ABC Audio. “Because […]

Lorenzo Sisti Michael Mann’s latest film, Ferrari, raced its way into theaters on Christmas Day. It stars Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari and follows a brief period of the founder of the Italian car company’s complicated life. The film also shows the glamour and danger in the company’s racing history. Driver told ABC Audio that he loves cars, but that […]

Irvin Rivera/Getty Images for IMDb Eric Stonestreet and Gabriel Iglesias can be seen, respectively, as the Mad Santa and Kris Kringle in the second season of Disney+’s hit The Santa Clauses, but the pair previously collaborated on Stonestreet’s former show Modern Family.  In one season 9 episode, Iglesias pretended to be Manny’s biological father in an elaborate April Fools’ Day prank on Rico […]

The heart wants what it wants, as the saying goes, and the same goes for Hollywood: Here’s a timeline of the stars who won’t be kissing their former significant others on New Year’s Eve: March After 12 years of marriage, Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth announced in a now-deleted Instagram post that “with a great […]

Arguably, the biggest story of the year in Hollywood was what the entertainment industry wasn’t making. For the first time since 1960, the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists went on strike in 2023, and the protracted work stoppages meant production on movies and TV shows […]

Barry Brecheisen/Getty Images Actor Lee Sun-kyun, who played a main role in the Oscar-winning film Parasite, was found dead in his car in Seoul, South Korea on December 27. He was 48. Officials were investigating the death as a possible suicide, police said. The actor had reportedly been under police investigation since late October on […]

Getty Images for Warner Bros. In a wide-ranging interview with the SAG-AFTRA Foundation about her career, Taraji P. Henson says she “fired” her entire team for not helping her capitalize on her Empire fame. Henson was Emmy nominated for playing fan favorite Cookie Lyon on the one-time Fox phenomenon, but the actress expressed frustration with […]

Disney+ The first episode of Percy Jackson and the Olympians debuted on Disney+ on December 19, and by Christmas Day it had drawn an audience of some 13.3 million viewers across Disney+ and Hulu. The numbers put the adaptation of author/producer Rick Riordan‘s bestselling books in the top five season premieres of the year for […]

Prime Video While his onscreen character Jack Reacher certainly can’t stand bullies, the actor who plays him, Alan Ritchson, says he “obliged” a former high school bully who wanted a picture. In a chat with The Wall Street Journal, Ritchson talked about his “strict” childhood, his first brush with fame as an American Idol hopeful […]