Brandon Sklenar has opened up about wearing the same pin as his It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni. The actor, who played Blake Lively‘s character’s love interest in It Ends With Us, had internet sleuths investigating after he showed up to the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscars party sporting a pink, floral brooch that appeared to match the one Baldoni …
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Jean Smart will return to Broadway this summer in a one-woman show. Smart, the Emmy Award-winning star of Hacks, will star in the world premiere of the dark comedy Call Me Izzy, written by Jamie Wax and directed by Sarna Lapine. The play will run at Studio 54 starting May 24, with an opening night June 12. Call Me Izzy …
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Amazon’s Prime Video has begun streaming The Apprentice, the reality show that arguably helped propel Donald Trump toward the presidency. The streamer will roll out seven seasons of the show — all of the non-celebrity versions featuring Trump — on Mondays beginning March 10. The Apprentice will be available to Prime Video subscribers in the United States only. Amazon declined to comment …
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The BBC has acquired Families Like Ours, the debut TV drama series from Oscar-winning director Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round). The series, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year, imagines a near future where rising sea levels force Denmark to evacuate the entire population of the country, turning their six million citizens into refugees, forced to seek shelter in …
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Casting director An Dorthe Braker, known as “casting queen” of German cinema, will receive an honorary German Film Award for outstanding contributions to German cinema, the German film academy announced Monday. Braker was a pioneer in Germany, bringing a U.S.-style casting approach to the German film industry in the early 1990s, before the profession was formally recognized in Germany. Through …
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“Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema 1945-1960” is the theme of this year’s Locarno Film Festival Retrospective, unveiled in London on Monday. It follows the festival’s 2024 look back at Columbia Pictures at 100. Described as “a tribute” to British cinema from that period promising to be “painting a rich and diverse picture of life in the postwar years as reflected …
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John Oliver spent the opening segment of Sunday’s Last Week Tonight talking about President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress last week and the Democrats’ response to it. The HBO host began by noting House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) had said before the speech that he wanted to “frame it in gilded gold.” Oliver’s response: “This isn’t …
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American Idol kicked off Sunday night with its annual promise: to serve as a launching pad for aspiring young musical talent. But some contestants already have a head start with a familiar advantage: the lineage of a famous family. Season 23 rolled out its first “nepo baby” with Baylee Littrell, son of Backstreet Boys member Brian Littrell, who auditioned in …
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[This story contains spoilers from the season premiere of The Righteous Gemstones, “Prelude.”] Fans of The Righteous Gemstones who tuned into Sunday’s season four premiere were probably anticipating more of what they expect from the show: commercialized Christianity, well-timed dick jokes and an undercurrent of criminal activity that makes each season unpredictable. Well, there may have been some nefarious behavior …
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The Real Housewives of Atlanta returned for a surprisingly normal season 16 premiere Sunday night given the behind-the-scenes drama that has plagued the reality series in the last year— save for a lengthy set of introductions bringing the majority new cast into the fold. “Welcome Back Peaches” is the title of the episode, which sees Porsha Williams and Cynthia Bailey …
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