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Spyglass Media group, according to Variety The original NBC sci-fi TV series created by Glen A Larson followed the adventures of Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff), a former police detective under a new identity to be the primary field agent for a pilot program for the Foundation for Law and Government (FLAG) Helping him on his[...]

As excited as the cast and crew behind Steve Carell (The Office) and Greg Daniels' upcoming Netflix comedy Space Force is for its May 29 premiere, they were also dealt a major blow this week with the passing of legendary comedy actor Fred Willard. Carell admired Willard's ability to be funny by not even realizing […]

Chu, who told Variety that the film has to release on the big screen.In The Heights Demands the Big Screen “I hate the word ‘indefinitely’ because it’s sort of open-ended We’re gonna have a date It’s just about if we choose a date now, we’d probably have to shift it later[...]

Leave it to FOX and iHeart to get creative in this time of need and give everyone a little bit of cheer – and artists a bit of a creative outreach that's not just the internet – with iHeart Living Room Concert for America. Hosted by Sir Elton John, loads of singers and a few […]

The star of Hulu’s High Fidelity spoke to Variety on how things changed for the actor.[caption id="attachment_1103042" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com[/caption] “I was excited when I got the role Usually when you get a job, the people who are excited about it are you, your parents, agent, friends, and that’s kind of[...]

The film reunites Statham with his The Expendables 3 director Patrick Hughes, according to Variety.[caption id="attachment_1154898" align="aligncenter" width="600"] L - Markus Wissmann / Shutterstock.com/ R - Photo by Tinseltown / Shutterstock.com[/caption] Other Work Hughes comes off his success of 2017’s Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L Jackson action-comedy The Hitman’s Bodyguard for Lionsgate[...]

Netflix's Nailed It host Nicole Byer took a break from her partner-in-bad-baking-judging chef Jacques Torres to make a guest appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden earlier this week to recreate the catastrophe-fueled baking competition where three amateur bakers compete to replicate masterpieces and well… let's just say the show's title is meant […]

Penske Media, the parent company of Variety, will be shutting down its gaming editorial branch next month The news leaked earlier today and was later confirmed by Video Game Editor Brian Crecente who revealed that the game section of the publication will close after E3 in June.https://twitter.com/crecenteb/status/1126943334503735296As the gaming staff of Variety was limited to just[...]

This week's edition of FOX's The Masked Singer "Touchy Feely Clues" saw another group performance showcasing Peacock, Monster, Raven and Bee's blended voices. Although Raven is clearly the weakest singer of the ensemble, she still held her own. The clues were definitely meant to throw us off track. We need to stick with our first […]

Welcome Back to BC's Late-Night Rewind! Buckle up, Late Night fans: we're delivering another action-packed "Top Ten" list of the creamiest of the crop from this past week. You may have already seen some of these, but we've also curated the best of the best that you might have missed. First up– We're breaking the […]

Inclusion and cocktails sounds like the perfect Twitter hashtag to support tonight's event, An Evening with Female Showrunners.Perhaps you'll recall Variety's.. faux pas...with their most recent version of their ongoing writers' room event Out of 12 gathered professionals, only one was a woman This, of course, caused a number of questions to be asked --[...]

Presidential Election…and the promise that each and every one of you takes a few minutes to make sure those you care about are doing okay - physically and mentally.https://youtu.be/Y4lOhKYIvYUhttps://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/06/05/2019-miss-america-swimsuit-gone/https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/06/05/1-female-writer-out-of-12-variety-writers-room-event/https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/06/05/whedon-freeform-pippa-smith-detective/https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/06/08/hbo-officially-orders-game-of-thrones-prequel-series-pilot/https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/06/08/kim-kardashian-west-kanye-west-rick-and-morty-birthday-card/Fox Prepares Liev Schreiber-Narrated Charles Manson Doc Special Based On Unseen Archive Footage Of The Cult EXCLUSIVE: Fox is exploring the gruesome murders carried out by Charles Manson’s[...]

One of the best interview series around this last year has to be Variety's Actors on Actors series presented by Shutterstock I mean, seriously -- Kate Winslet interviewing Gary Oldman, Michael B Jordan and Issa Ray  chatting, and Allison Brie talking with Jessica Biel, just to name a few.[caption id="attachment_862097" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Bill Hader attends Premiere Of HBO "Barry" at the Neuehouse, Hollywood, CA[...]

It appears that Variety's A Night in the Writers' Room event happening on June 14th has one lone female tv series writer out of the gathered 12 I thought we were getting better about this, Hollywood folks.The annual event will mix writers from both drama and comedy genres in a discussion about their processes and[...]

Margaret Atwood as earned the right to some strong opinions in her rather successful career as an author.  Perhaps you're familiar with one of her works in particular, "The Handmaid's Tale", which Hulu adapted into an award-winning tv drama series.[caption id="attachment_828051" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Editorial credit: Markus Wissmann / Shutterstock.com[/caption]In a recent interview Variety did with[...]

Serious accusations of assault and misconduct have been brought forth against Aziz Ansari, (winner of two Golden Globe awards for his Netflix series Master Of None) earlier this week.  The allegations were posted via Babe.net by a woman who has identified herself as "Grace", a 23 year old photographer from Brooklyn.[caption id="attachment_775245" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Credit: Kathy Hutchins[...]

Lookin' at my Gucci, it's about that time — so welcome back to The Weekly Static! Now just hold on, give me a second — I know it's around here somewhere… here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN5vhvIAqY8Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: "Fridays TV Show" (1981) [Show L-08] "Andy Kaufman, the Fight Incident" [09 of 12] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN5vhvIAqY8) […]

Here is the interview the three main cast gave Variety during the New York City premiere of the show: Variety: If you could travel in time, back to the day before filming on “Outlander” began, what advice would you give yourself?Balfe: Get sleep.Heughan: Yeah, me too.Balfe: You’re never going to sleep again[...]

Vanity Fair not VarietyA few weeks ago, Bleeding Cool ran a report that Marvel had chosen Ava DuVernay to direct Black Panther It was well sourced, though reported anonymously I was happy with the piece we ran.Today a newer rumour site MCU Exchange ran the story that she had accepted the offer, sourced to an unnamed[...]

On August 2nd, Variety reported that "Paul Feig in Talks to Direct ‘Ghostbusters’ Reboot With Women" I think we can now believe that this wasn't an officially approved story.Because we've been reading more of those Wikileaked Sony e-mails.So how did Sony co-chairman Amy Pascal react to that news? how did thoes f---ckers get this!!!!!its such a big[...]