The final game of the NHL‘s Stanley Cup Finals delivered both on the ice and in the ratings. The Florida Panthers’ 2-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in Monday night’s seventh game averaged 7.66 million viewers on ABC in the United States — the largest audience for an NHL game since 2019 (which was also …
Former KABC Los Angeles executive Tom Van Amburg has died. He was 83. Van Amburg died Monday, June 24 in Los Angeles at home after a short illness. Van Amburg is survived by his children, including Apple TV+ head of worldwide video Zack Van Amburg and marketing executive Chris Van Amburg. Van Amburg is best known …
Warner Bros. Discovery is putting some of the “premium” back into its premium cable outlet, HBO. In a branding strategy shift, several tentpole series that had been announced as original shows for streamer Max — including the in-development Harry Potter series and It prequel Welcome to Derry — will become HBO originals instead. The just-ordered Lanterns, based …
Top Chef is packing up its knives and aprons and heading to Canada for season 22. The Bravo series is making a rare foray outside the U.S. after the 20th season was shot in London and after the Wisconsin-themed 21st season. Top Chef judges Kristen Krish, Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons announced their Canadian road …
“The Bear is coming.” These four words were among the very last featured in the first season of FX’s The Bear, the Emmy-winning “comedy” about a highly accomplished chef who returns home to Chicago to take over his family’s sandwich shop after the death of his brother. And while season two fulfilled the promise of those …
HBO is at long last signing up with the Lantern Corps. The premium cable outlet has given a straight-to-series order for Lanterns, based on the long-running Green Lantern characters — specifically John Stewart and Hal Jordan — from DC Comics. Chris Mundy (Ozark) will serve as showrunner on the eight-episode drama and co-write the series with Damon …
The characters on Land of Women are, generally speaking, not having a great time. Gala (Eva Longoria) is a posh New Yorker who’s just discovered that her feckless husband (James Purefoy‘s Fred) is $15 million in the hole to loan sharks. Fearing for her life, she flees to rural Spain with her teenage daughter, Kate …
Think of it as a Vice Presidential edition of The Apprentice. Fox News on Wednesday will kick off a series in which its Fox & Friends co-hosts interview people who are on the short list to be former President Donald Trump’s VP picks. Fox says that Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, …
Amazon MGM Studios has landed zombie comedy film package I Used to Eat Brains, Now I Eat Kale. Ryan Gosling will produce the feature with Jessie Henderson, his partner at General Admission, the production banner the duo launched earlier this year. The project will fall under the company’s first-look deal with Amazon. Twins Adam and …
Four hundred and eighty seven members of the global film community — among them Killers of the Moon star Lily Gladstone, Past Lives filmmaker Celine Song, CAA managing partner Chris Silbermann and SAG-AFTRA national executive director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland — are receiving invitations on Tuesday to become members of the Academy of Motion Picture …