It’s the end of a TV era! Pat Sajak is getting ready to walk away from the big wheel and retire as host of “Wheel of Fortune”.

Sajak, 76, took to Twitter on Monday to announce that the forthcoming season of the long-running and beloved gameshow will be his final one as host.

“Well, the time has come. I’ve decided that our 41st season, which begins in September, will be my last,” Sajak wrote. “It’s been a wonderful ride, and I’ll have more to say in the coming months. Many thanks to you all.”

Sajak ended the post by joking, “If nothing else, it’ll keep the clickbait sites busy!”

Well, the time has come. I’ve decided that our 41st season, which begins in September, will be my last. It’s been a wonderful ride, and I’ll have more to say in the coming months.

From Argentina to New Zealand, support for the Writers Guild of America is officially going global.

Wednesday marks an International Day of Solidarity for the writers strike that is being branded “Screenwriters Everywhere,” with events planned in major cities including Paris and London.

The Writers Guild of America has enlisted members from the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds, Federation of Screenwriters in Europe and Uni Global Union to demonstrate global support for the union’s strike against Hollywood’s largest producers. The unprecedented rallying behind the WGA is especially relevant during this strike given the globalization of content, and the...

Paramount+ shows might be heading from streaming to broadcast, courtesy of this fall’s CBS primetime lineup.

“We’re looking at some of the Paramount+ originals” to fill in gaps in the fall schedule, CBS president and CEO George Cheeks said during a keynote speech on Tuesday, our sister site Deadline reports. Those gaps are there, of course, due to the ongoing Hollywood writers’ strike, which is well into its second month and is forcing networks to scramble to replace the scripted shows they would usually roll out in the fall.

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HBO’s “The Last of Us” took home the program of the year award at the 44th Banff World Media Festival. The series was awarded at the 2023 Rockie Award Gala on Tuesday evening alongside other individuals, programs, films and media outlets. The event is held annually in Banff, Alberta in the Canadian Rockies.

Craig Robinson, actor and producer with credits on programs like “The Office,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Killing It,” was awarded with the Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award. Robinson was also the host of the festival’s flagship awards program.

The Grand Jury Prize was awarded to “Eternal Spring...

Fire Country is guaranteed to be spreading, in the form of NCIS-like spinoffs.

Season 1 of the Max Thieriot-led firefighter drama averaged 8.4 million total viewers and a 0.8 demo rating (with Live+7 playback), ranking fifth in audience among the 14 dramas CBS aired this TV season, while tying FBI for No. 1 in the demo.

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Fire Country also easily reigned as the TV season’s most-watched and highest-rated freshman series.

An overcast June gloom day couldn’t cast a cloudy spell on the gala celebration held June 12 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles for the youth-focused arts nonprofit Everybody Dance LA!

Hosted by Melvin Roberts, anchor of Kttv’s “Good Day L.A.” and a weekend anchor for “Extra,” the event was full of fancy footwork and fevered energy, with kids grabbing honorees and attendees to participate in impromptu flash mobs. That set the tone for an evening filled with fun, inspiration, and gratitude.

Edla was created to honor the memory of Gabriella Axelrod, daughter of Edla founder Liza Bercovici,...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:

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[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the June 13 episode of Jeopardy!] In the June 13 episode of Jeopardy!, five-day champion Suresh Krishnan had to defend his $53,999 total winnings against nonprofit fundraiser Laura Blyler Scanland and graduate student Joe Siebert. But as the game went on, people began to notice all the triple stumpers going on throughout, especially one that involved The Lord’s Prayer. As the game kicked off, host Mayim Bialik began to read the clue “Matthew 6:9 says, ‘Our Father, which art in heaven, [this] be thy name,” leaving all three contestants stumped on “hallowed.” This caused an uproar on Twitter, with users calling questions toward the contestants. “That’s “hallowed,” you heathens! #Jeopardy,” one user tweeted. Others went on to say, “Jeez these #Jeopardy contestants can’t solve clues about The Lord’s Prayer, Big Daddy and Elizabeth Taylor – I give up .” Going into Double Jeopardy, Krishnan had $5,000, Laura $200, and Joe 3,200. Joe begrudgingly got the Daily Double, which ...

Stephen Colbert is staying put at CBS, having extended his contract as host of The Late Show through 2026, our sister site Deadline reports.

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Colbert’s deal extension comes following the end of James Corden’s run at The Late Late Show, which wrapped up April 27 on the Eye network. That late-night talker will reportedly be replaced in the 12:37 am timeslot by a reboot of Comedy Central’s @midnight,...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:

Oscars | Emmys | Grammys...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Based on a True Story Season 1.] Peacock’s new series Based on a True Story takes the true crime genre and flips it on its twisted head in this dramedy thriller starring Kaley Cuoco, Chris Messina, and Tom Bateman. If you have yet to tune into the series, we suggest turning back now as we’re about to dive into some season-shattering spoilers. For those who did binge the series, you’d know that married couple Ava (Cuoco) and Nathan (Messina) attempted to blackmail their plumber Matt (Bateman) into doing a podcast with them after uncovering the fact that he’s a wanted serial killer. Agreeing to the endeavor, the season sees them put together episodes, and their lives become increasingly entangled. (Credit: Elizabeth Morris/Peacock) When their secret arrangement is discovered by Ava and Nathan’s pal Ruby (Priscilla Quintana), Matt kills her and leaves her corpse in a...

The wolf pack is hoping for Emmys love.

“Teen Wolf: The Movie,” Paramount+’s adaptation of the MTV supernatural-thriller series, has been submitted for the Primetime Emmy Awards for outstanding television movie, Variety has learned exclusively.

Moreover, the streamer also submitted the film in five other categories: lead actor in a limited or anthology series or movie (Tyler Posey), directing (Russell Mulcahy), writing, prosthetic makeup and original music and lyrics (“Lemon” by Tyler Posey). This provides Posey, who plays the True Alpha werewolf Scott and produces the film, three chances for recognition.

Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Emmy predictions in all categories.

Update (6/13/2023): CBS CEO George Cheeks confirmed the @midnight reboot during a panel at the Banff World Media Festival on Tuesday, June 13, in Alberta, Canada. He said it was a natural program to air directly after The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “The 12:30 a.m. slot is ripe for reinvention,” he said, per Variety. “There aren’t a ton of people watching at that hour, you really do need to think about what is the true cross platform version? What we ended up doing, first of all, it’s Funny or Die and Stephen Colbert, so the auspices couldn’t be any better. But when we sat down and talked about it, we talked about @Midnight, and it’s sort of been an irreverent comedy game show with stand-up comics and celebrities as guests. To me, it has a really nice feel coming out of Colbert.” Cheeks said the...

Professionals, like many a onetime show on The CW, isn’t part of the new ownership’s game plan. But the action-drama might still have “one in the chamber,” as they say.

“The CW hasn’t renewed us for a second season,” Professionals co-creator Jeff Most, of Jeff Most Productions, informs TVLine. “However, we are shopping the second season of Professionals to other networks and streaming platforms.”

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A spinoff of the 2012 movie Soldiers of Fortune and...

James Corden and Trevor Noah may have both left late-night TV in 2023, but Stephen Colbert is sticking around. The Emmy-winning host has extended his contract with The Late Show by three more years, through 2026. His contract with CBS was set to expire this year. CBS CEO George Cheeks revealed the extension during the Banff World Media Festival on Tuesday, June 13, in Alberta, Canada. “We just extended him for three more years and I was praying for that to happen,” Cheeks said during his panel appearance, per Deadline, noting that Colbert is still “absolutely crushing it” and the show is still “firing on all cylinders.” The Late Late Show with James Corden ran on CBS immediately after Colbert’s program for eight years. As previously reported, the network was seriously considering a reboot of @midnight, executive produced by Colbert, for the time slot. Cheeks confirmed the @midnight reboot during this panel,...

What’s going on when we meet up again with The Wonder Years’ tight-knit Williams family? In the comedy’s sophomore season, it’s the summer of ’69, and patriarch Bill (Dulé Hill) is in New York City working with Marvin Gaye and the artist’s team, trying to make his songwriting dreams come true. “Will Bill be as cool as he is in Alabama?” Hill queries. “He has achieved this goal he’s desired for so long. But oftentimes it can be way more appealing from the outside. We’ll see Bill struggle a little and maybe lose a bit of his swagger.” With his dad occupied, impressionable 13-year-old Dean (Elisha “Ej” Williams; Don Cheadle continues voicing adult Dean’s narration) is free to explore the Big Apple. “New York is not Alabama, and Dean interacts with a lot of new personalities and experiences,” Hill reveals. Those include some not-so-friendly...

CBS chief George Cheeks has said the broadcaster is maintaining a “fluid and active” approach as it curates its fall programming schedule amid month two of the writers strike.

The executive, who took on his new remit at CBS just weeks before the pandemic struck in March 2020, said the streamers’ series model poses “serious challenges” for writers that the whole industry will need to “figure out” in the long term.

Cheeks was speaking as part of a wide-ranging keynote session at the Banff World Media Festival in Alberta, Canada, where Paramount Global has been the most prominent studio on the ground.

HBO Go, HBO Now, HBO Max, Max — the name may change, but the search for compelling new shows to watch remains the same. Primetimer is taking some of the guesswork out of the equation with our weekly feature To the Max, where we'll share recommendations for classic shows, underrated gems, and water-cooler series.

There’s a scene during the first episode of Sort Of that touches upon the core of the series. The show’s protagonist Sabi (Bilal Baig), a non-binary Pakistani millennial, is working their shift at a LGBTQ+ bookstore/bar as Bessy (Grace Lynn Kung) laments over her husband’s recent decision to let Sabi go from their part-time nannying gig. “I’m going to miss you,” Bessy earnestly tells them. “Are you going to miss me?” But Sabi evades answering, not yet ready to confront the weight of their emotions.

Spoiler Alert: This story contains minor spoilers from the second episode of HBO’s “The Idol,” titled “Double Fantasy,” now streaming on Max.

If that sex scene at the end of Episode 2 of HBO’s “The Idol” made you uncomfortable, then Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye accomplished his goal.

Tesfaye, who co-created “The Idol” with “Euphoria’s” Sam Levinson, spoke with GQ after the scene, which features his character Tedros verbally seducing pop star Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp), sparked controversy online.

“There’s nothing sexy about it,” Tesfaye told GQ. “However you’re feeling watching that scene, whether it’s discomfort, or you feel gross,...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:

Oscars | Emmys | Grammys...

City on Fire extinguishes its first season on Friday, June 16, and huge revelations and reversals are in the offing. As fans of the intricately plotted Apple TV+ drama know, the July 4th shooting of enigmatic Samantha (Chase Sui Wonders) remains unsolved, her smitten pal Charlie (Wyatt Oleff) has exposed the arson ring she was connected to, druggie musician William (Nico Tortorella) — after getting clean and reuniting with his uptown sister Regan (Jemima Kirke) — has been stabbed by their bitchy, shifty step-uncle (John Cameron Mitchell), and, oh yeah, New York has been plunged into the Northeast Blackout of 2003. It’s been quite the journey for this disparate group, from the grungy underground music scene and murder-for-hire plots to a crumbling marriage and a gorgeously directed, wordless exchange between estranged siblings. Along the way, the characters have crisscrossed and collided in ways we never saw coming, especially back in January ...

The national championship goes Hollywood with the year’s third major, the 123rd U.S. Open, taking place at The Los Angeles Country Club June 15-18. Top challengers this year include 2023 Masters champion Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele, Max Homa, 2023 PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka and defending U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick (pictured). NBC Sports’ broadcast team is led by play-by-play announcer Dan Hicks, joined by analysts Paul Azinger and Brad Faxon. John Wood is the lead on-course reporter. It’s the U.S. Open’s first visit to Los Angeles in 75 years, so expect the tournament to take on a little additional glitz and glamour. “Los Angeles is a great sports town. It is just an incredible sports town,” Hicks says. “Look at all the great history you’ve got there, all the iconic moments. We start it off, this is only the second U.

FX‘s upcoming mystery series set at the remote and isolated compound of a reclusive billionaire has a new title. Formerly known as Retreat, it is now titled A Murder at the End of the World and will premiere in August exclusively on Hulu. FX has also released two photos, which you can check out above and below, of Emma Corrin and Harris Dickinson. The seven-episode limited series, which also stars Clive Owen and Brit Marling, was filmed in Iceland, New Jersey, and Utah. Courtesy of Christopher Saunders/FX A Murder at the End of the World is described as “a mystery series with a new kind of detective at the helm.” Corrin plays Gen Z amateur sleuth and tech-savvy hacker Darby Hart, who, along with eight other guests, is invited by a reclusive billionaire (Owen) to participate in a retreat at a remote and dazzling location. When one of the guests is found dead,...

Cormac McCarthy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who endured decades of obscurity and poverty before film versions of “All the Pretty Horses,” “No Country for Old Men” and “The Road” brought him a wide readership and financial security, died Tuesday in Santa Fe, N.M. His publisher, Penguin Random House, said his son John McCarthy announced his death from natural causes. He was 89.

Extremely reclusive, McCarthy shunned publicity so effectively that one critic observed, “He wasn’t even famous for it.” But Joel and Ethan Coen’s 2008 adaptation of 2005 novel “No Country for Old Men” put him momentarily in the limelight; the crime thriller,...

Some shows are action-packed. Others are laugh-a-minute. “The Diplomat” is talk, talk, talk — and then a little more chatter.

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“The first reaction to reading that much dialogue and diplomatic speak was only panic,” Keri Russell said, recalling her initial impression of “The Diplomat” pilot. “How many acronyms can there possibly be in government language? […] How many times can we say the prime minister’s name wrong? […] It takes a second to memorize all the ‘fake’ names.”

“It was definitely worse for you,” Rufus Sewell said to his co-star. “You were the one who had to carry all that stuff.”

“Luckily, I have this incredible natural talent for sweating excessively,” Russell said. “So I could just sweat out the massive amount of memorization...

Donald Trump surrendered himself to U.S. marshals at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Courthouse in downtown Miami on Tuesday afternoon, where he and valet/alleged co-conspirator Walt Nauta were arrested, arraigned and officially charged with 37 felony counts related to Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents after he left office in January 2021.

The historic arraignment marks the first time a former U.S. president has been indicted on federal charges. Trump pleaded not guilty.

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“Fatal Attraction” production designer Nina Ruscio’s visual challenge was taking on an iconic movie, paying homage to it and finding a way to put her creative stamp on it by taking it into 2023.

In the eight-part Paramount+ series, Joshua Jackson stars as Dan Gallagher with Lizzy Caplan as Alex Forrest, roles originated by Michael Douglas and Glenn Close in the original film. And while it’s not a remake, the creative team stressed, it’s an expanded adaptation that provides more insight into Alex’s behavior after an affair with a married man drives her to obsession. The series...

Netflix is creating a pop-up restaurant on June 30 in Los Angeles featuring dishes by some of the streamer’s most popular chef and drink masters.

The dining experience will spotlight chefs from Netflix’s beloved culinary shows including “Chef’s Table,” “Is It Cake?” and “Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend.” For the first time, attendees will be able to get a taste of their favorite Netflix series.

Netflix Bites will be staged at Short Stories Hotel at 115 S Fairfax Ave.

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It’s a bittersweet goodbye for “Manifest” as Season 4 returned to No. 1 on the Netflix Top 10 during the June 5-11 viewing window. The series picked up 78.15 million hours viewed with the release of its final episodes, making it the most viewed title this week.

After landing on Netflix on June 2, the second half of the season didn’t perform as well as Part One — the first half opened with 57.1 million hours viewed while Part Two recorded 39.4 million hours in its first three days of availability. Fans also revisited Season 1, which had 18.18 million hours viewed

Coming in at No. 2, “Never Have I Ever...

The Bold and the Beautiful is headed to the perfect place for an upcoming magically romantic storyline. The CBS daytime drama is traveling to Rome, Italy for the first time in its 36-year history, for seven episodes, airing Friday, June 16 to Monday, June 26. Among the highlights we already know about: legendary Italian operatic tenor Andrea Bocelli guest stars and performs his iconic song “A Te,” which you can watch above, and there will be a glamorous haute-couture Forrester Creations’ ‘Hope for the Future’ fashion preview. In these episodes, Thomas Forrester (Matthew Atkinson), Liam Spencer (Scott Clifton), Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye), Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang), Hope Logan (Annika Noelle), Carter Walton (Lawrence Saint-Victor), and Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) head to Italy, and love is very much in the air. With preparations underway for the Hope for the Future preview, fashion icon Hope Logan gears up to showcase the elegant...

If you’re an Outlander novels fan looking forward to Jamie and Claire holding a — how shall we say this? — private garden party in the show’s upcoming season, we’ve got some disappointing news.

The subject at hand: a steamy scene that Diana Gabaldon’s readers have been fanning themselves over ever since An Echo in the Bone — aka Book 7 in the Outlander novel series — was released in 2009. The interlude finds Mr. and Mrs. Fraser suddenly enjoying some unexpected privacy in a secluded, walled garden. [Warning: As family-friendly-as-we-can-make-them descriptions of marital relations ahead.]

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While at the Annecy Animation Film Festival, Mediawan Kids & Family unveiled a raft of new youth-centric shows, including “Karters” and “Witch Detectives,” on top of a licensing pact with DeAPlaneta Entertainment.

Spearheaded by animation veteran Julien Borde, Mediawan Kids & Family is a division of the international film and TV powerhouse Mediawan whose recent acquisitions include Brad Pitt’s Plan B.

Mediawan Kids & Family is partnering up with Warner Bros. Discovery Emea on the production and distribution of its animated series “Karters” for the linear and non-linear services of Warner Bros. Discovery. The action-packed series will premiere on Cartoonito for Emea,...

“Run the Burbs” producer Pier 21 Films has partnered with Canadian stand-up comic Julie Kim on a half-hour comedy series.

The development deal marks Kim’s debut at the helm of a sitcom, which Kim will co-write with “Strays” alum, Clara Altimas. The project comes on the heels of her gala performance at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, her debut at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and a 40-theater North American tour with Ronny Chieng (“Crazy Rich Asians”).

“Julie Kim is one of today’s freshest stand-up performers with an impeccable track record for creating comedy gold,” said Karen Tsang,...

The seventh and final season of “Workin’ Moms,” created by and starring Catherine Reitman, first aired on April 26th, 2023. With much glorification from viewers, many consider it the best season yet, even compared to the sixth season. (I’m right there with them).

The series follows four moms, Kate (Reitman) and Anne (Dani Kind), married to Ryan Belleville, Frankie (Juno Rinaldi), and Valerie (Sarah McVie). In this series, they realize that their lives will move forward despite their challenges with their children.

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Everyone I know who has watched “Workin’ Moms” can’t stop singing its praises, and I am with them.

It’s easy to see why the show has been receiving rave reviews! With its reflection on real-life issues, such as postpartum depression, the difficulties of teenage years, and the need for balance between parenting and personal ambition, and a triumphant finale.

“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Garcelle Beauvais has said the new season of the Bravo reality series will drop in November — and will be a kinder edition of the franchise.

“I’m hearing November is our release date. It’s back to fun and glamour and friendships,” said Beauvais of Season 13. “It’s not as toxic as it was. I think the last season was pretty hardcore on everybody.”

Season 12 has been described by Variety’s resident “Real Housewives” correspondent Kate Aurthur as “grisly,” and ultimately led to the departure of long-time provocateur Lisa Rinna this past January.

If your sister was being abused by her husband, what would you do? For Bad Sisters‘ Garvey siblings, the answer was simple. But killing their brother-in-law proved more difficult than they expected, not that they ever thought it’d be a walk in the park. Eve Hewson plays the youngest of the five sisters, Becka Garvey. The women were raised by eldest sister Eva after the deaths of their parents years prior. Becka is the first to volunteer to kill J.P. (Claes Bang), but through two timelines and many failed murder attempts, J.P.’s killer remains a mystery until the final episode. The Apple TV+ dark comedy will be back for Season 2. Here, Hewson shares how she, Horgan, Anne-Marie Duff (Grace), Eva Birthistle (Ursula), and Sarah Greene (Bibi) made the Garvey sisters’ closeness so believable, what to expect in Season 2, and why she feels Becka was the role...

Hulu is retreating from its original title for its forthcoming Knives Out-esque mystery starring The Crown‘s Emma Corrin. The seven-episode limited series — formerly known as Retreat — will now be called A Murder at the End of the World.

Slated to debut in August on the streamer, the miniseries finds Corrin playing Gen Z amateur sleuth Darby Hart, who is one of nine guests invited by a reclusive billionaire (Clive Owen) to participate in a retreat at a remote and isolated compound. When one of the other guests is found dead, Darby must use all of her skills to prove...

The line to succeed Pat Sajak as Wheel of Fortune host forms behind Whoopi Goldberg (and perhaps also Ryan Seacrest).

Tuesday’s episode of ABC’s The View featured Jeopardy! “co”-host Ken Jennings as a guest, and in the immediate wake of Pat Sajak announcing that his turn at the Wheel will end after the upcoming Season 41, the talk show’s panelists expectedly sought Jennings’ Pov.

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There are many reasons why Silvio Berlusconi’s death, at 86 due to complications from chronic leukemia, represents the end of an era.

Berlusconi single-handedly created the concept of private national network television in Italy. He was part of that rare breed of Logan Roy-esque media moguls to emerge in Europe in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including Rupert Murdoch and Germany’s Leo Kirch. At a time when Italy’s airwaves were monopolized by state broadcaster Rai’s stodgy channels, his Mediaset TV platform imported Hollywood series such as “Dallas” and “Baywatch” and movies like “Rambo” and “Conan the Barbarian.

In the latest TV show ratings, ABC’s coverage of what would be the deciding game in this year’s NBA Finals — in which the Nuggets beat the Heat to claim their first title — dominated the night with 10 million total viewers and a 3.0 demo rating.

Opposite the hoops-la….

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NBC | American Ninja Warrior (3 mil/0.3) dipped from last week’s season opener.

Fox | Stars on Mars (970K/0.2) lost 25% of its premiere audience.

So, whatever happened to Captain Daly in Manifest?

That’s what we’ve been wondering about the embattled pilot, who was killed in Episode 14, titled “Fata Morgana.” As you’ll recall, Angelina faked a Calling as Daly’s son and convinced him to charge at a group of officers, who then shot him dead.

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Variety‘s Emmy studio returned this year, with many contenders stopping by the Los Angeles studio. From “Beef” actors Ali Wong and “Queen Charlotte” stars Arsema Thomas, India Ria Amarteifio and Corey Mylchreest to “Party Down” comedians Adam Scott and Ken Marino and “Shrinking” breakouts Christa Miller, Lukita Maxwell and Luke Tennie, the studio was filled with those vying for an Emmy ahead of nominations.

Each of these portraits first ran in our special Emmy issues, available now.

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Remember when Josh Dallas told TV Insider that there was more to the Manifest series finale? Well, now we know exactly what it entailed, thanks to Tudum posting it. The Manifest series finale saw the passengers, on their Death Date, re-board Flight 828, face their judgment, then find themselves disembarking in New York on April 7, 2013, as they would have if their plane hadn’t disappeared. But Vance (Daryl Edwards) still had a mystery to solve: What happened to the 11 passengers who vanished from the flight? After raving that he’d love to work with Edwards again and therefore hopes that Ben does track down Vance anyway, Dallas shared with us that there was a teaser scene he was not in that was filmed but cut from the finale. “It sort of opens the story a little bit — or a lot — for further journeys to happen,” he said, admitting at the time...

Tough as Nails is returning to CBS‘s summer programming. Season 5 will premiere this July on CBS, the network announced Tuesday, and the reality competition series will air two episodes per week on Sundays and Fridays. The show will also be filmed in Canada for the first time in its run. The Phil Keoghan-hosted series aired in the fall and winter for Seasons 2-4. Season 1 first debuted in July 2020. Tough as Nails Season 5 will return to summer airings with a two-hour season premiere on Sunday, July 2 at 8/7c on CBS. Episodes will be one hour long after that. Friday episodes will also air at 8/7c on the network. Amid the ongoing WGA writers strike, this change could be part of CBS’s attempts to beef up its summer schedule. The season will be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+. Paramount+ Premium subscribers will have access to...

“Euphoria” actor Colman Domingo stars in the trailer for AMC’s upcoming travel series ”You Are Here.” As host of the show, Domingo shares personal and national stories as he takes viewers through four American cities: Savannah, Philadelphia, New York and Chicago. The first two episodes premiere on June 19 at 7 p.m.

Domingo is an award-winning actor, writer and director. He has directed episodes of “Fear of the Walking Dead” and starred in the 2021 “Candyman.” “You Are Here” is produced by Domingo’s Edith Production and ZeroPointZero, and it was created in partnership with Johnnie Walker.

Watch the trailer below.

If you thought the summer was gonna be easy, know now that it in fact will be Tough as Nails.

CBS has announced that the Phil Keoghan-hosted competition will get its first summertime showcase when Season 5 premieres Sunday, July 2, at 8/7c, with a two-hour opener.

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Another new episode will air on Friday, July 7, at 8 pm, after which the season will roll out every Sunday and Friday.

The year was 2001. Catherine Zeta-Jones had yet to do the table read for Rob Marshall’s “Chicago” or even meet co-star Renée Zellweger. But she recalls being in Toronto, walking down a long hallway and entering costume designer Colleen Atwood’s fitting space: “There was an explosion of costumes and fishnet tights.”

And thus an enduring collaboration between thespian and costume designer was born. Both would go on to win Oscars for their work on the film. Zeta-Jones would call on Atwood to design her outfit for the 2002 Academy Awards when the actor was days away from giving birth.

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Everwood creator Greg Berlanti has shared a heartfelt memory of his first time meeting Treat Williams, who suddenly died on June 12 from injuries sustained during a motorcycle accident.

Berlanti on Tuesday morning posted to Instagram a 2002 photo of Williams with Berlanti’s sister Dina, taken at the WB Upfronts after Everwood was picked up to series.

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In the caption, Berlanti reflects on his first lunch meeting with Williams,...

“Reginald the Vampire” producer December Films has inked a first-look deal with Cineflix Studios (“Tehran”).

The first project to come out of the deal is a new ten-part series, “Carpe Demon” from showrunner Emily Andras (“Wynonna Earp”). Based on the Julie Kenner novels of the same name, the series about a demon hunting suburban mom is in development for Paramount+ Canada.

Canada and LA-based December Films launched in 2020, founded by Julie Dicresce and Todd Berger.

The company has numerous series in productions and is in post on feature “Out Come the Wolves” for IFC Films, Altitude Films and Level Film and rom-com “Bootcamp.

After making a splash on the big screen, Disney’s reimagined Little Mermaid is returning to TV with a self-titled series aimed at a preschool audience.

“Set in the fantastical Caribbean-inspired underwater kingdom of Atlantica,” Disney Junior’s Ariel follows King Triton’s youngest daughter as she “embarks on fun-filled, action-packed adventures with her friends,” according to the official synopsis. “Driven by a deep and unending curiosity about the world around her, Ariel discovers land treasures, like a big floppy hat, squeaky rubber ducky and whisk, that she collects and keeps safe in her crystal cavern. Sometimes, Ariel uses the treasures to help solve problems.