60 Minutes shakeup with new executive producer / Tom Hardy is reportedly in talks to return to MobLand / A drama series on Céline Dion’s childhood is in the works
PLUS: Zac Efron to lead HBO drama series Angel Heart from Black Rabbit creator.
60 Minutes shakeup: Bari Weiss hires Nick Bilton, a tech journalist and veteran of HBO’s The Idol and Fake Famous, as new executive producer
CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss is formally putting her stamp on 60 Minutes today by ousting executive producer Tanya Simon, the daughter of legendary 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon who became the storied newsmagazine’s fourth executive producer a year ago after Bill Owens’ resignation. Correspondents Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi have also been dropped from 60 Minutes, as well as Draggan Mihailovich, the executive editor who had spent decades on the show. Replacing Simon is Nick Bilton, a longtime tech journalist and documentarian who has never worked in traditional broadcast news. Bilton, 49, is a former New York Times technology columnist, Vanity Fair correspondent and author whose books include the story of Twitter. Bilton was a staff writer on Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye and Sam Levinson’s short-lived much-criticized 2023 HBO drama series The Idol. He also wrote and directed the 2021 HBO documentary Fake Famous on influencers faking their fame. Last year, Bilton was tapped to write a Martin Scorsese-directed untitled film that would star Dwayne Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt about organized crime in Hawaii. “The overhaul at 60 Minutes is by far the largest gamble of Ms. Weiss’s tenure,” says The New York Times’ Benjamin Mullin. “The program remains appointment viewing for millions every Sunday night, and finished this season as the top rated weekly newsmagazine show on television. Its viewership this season rose 9 percent from the year prior, according to Nielsen.” Bilton told The Times that his experience in documentary film and TV was in keeping with the founding ethos of the program, which he called “the most important news brand in American life.” “Look at Don Hewitt and how he came up with the idea for this,” Bilton said. “He loved documentaries, but he did not have the patience to watch two-hour long versions of them. So he came up with 60 Minutes, which was a series of short documentaries.” Bilton said that the recent furor around 60 Minutes was “just noise,” chalking it up to routine fallout spurred by disruption at a legacy business. He added that the “end result” of the change that the show must undergo would be “quite frankly phenomenal.” In a memo to staff, Weiss said of Bilton: “Nick is one of the most entrepreneurial journalists of our time and the perfect leader for one of the most entrepreneurial news brands of all time.” ALSO: Read Nick Bilton’s memo to the 60 Minutes staff.
Tom Hardy is reportedly in talks to return to MobLand for Season 3: “Tom was not fired”
“Despite rumors swirling since last week that the actor would not return for a third season, sources confirmed discussions are underway to find a way for Hardy (who plays gangster Harry Da Souza in the Paramount+ show) to come back,” reports Variety’s K.J. Yossman. “Tom was not fired, the door is not closed for Season 3 and things are being worked through creatively,” a source close to production told Variety. Puck News’ Matt Belloni first reported Hardy’s firing, which Variety and Deadline confirmed. Last Friday, The Hollywood Reporter said Hardy’s future was “in limbo,” but he had not been fired.
Zac Efron to lead HBO drama series Angel Heart from Black Rabbit creator
Efron will star in and executive produce Black Rabbit creator Zach Baylin’s adaptation of William Hjortsberg’s 1978 horror novel Falling Angel, which was adapted as the 1987 Mickey Rourke-Robert De Niro movie Angel Heart. The book’s 2020 sequel Angel’s Inferno will also be part of the adaptation. Here’s the logline: “A down-and-out NYC paparazzi, who makes his living finding and photographing people who don’t want to be found, is hired by a mysterious man to find a missing woman. But the deeper he digs to find her, the more it looks like a group of powerful elites, and maybe something supernatural, are covering up the disappearance.”
Stranger Things was the No. 1 show in Nielsen’s 2025-2026 multiplatform ratings, followed by His & Hers and Marshals
Netflix claimed the No. 1 series for the second consecutive season as measured across platforms over 35 days of viewing, while Marshals was the No. 1 network show of the 2025-2026 season.
Tony Shalhoub reuniting with Monk team on CBS’ Einstein
Shalhoub will recur as Jack Einstein, the father of Matthew Gray Gubler’s Lewis Einstein on the CBS drama series. The role reunites Shalhoub with Monk creator Andy Breckman and executive producer Randy Zisk.
A drama series on Céline Dion’s childhood is in the works
Tentatively titled Growing Up Dion, the potential series “marks the first time the ‘My Heart Will Go On’ singer’s family has formally supported a dramatized adaptation of her childhood, with her brother Jacques Dion producing and the show based on Dion, A Family Saga, written by her nephew Jimmy Dion,” reports Deadline’s Max Goldbart. “Zoë Green (Sirens, Carnival Row) is showrunning the project, which traces Dion’s childhood in Quebec and formative years growing up in a modest, music-filled household, where her bond with her mother Thérèse and close-knit dynamic of 14 sibling relationships shaped her path to global superstardom. The project, which comes from LA’s Diamant Rouge Entertainment, is being taken out now to international buyers.”
Friday Night Lights is getting the docuseries treatment in honor of its 20th anniversary
According to Deadline, Texas Forever: The Legacy of Friday Night Lights, which will film at FNL’s reunion at the ATX TV Festival on Friday, “will feature new interviews, behind-the-scenes stories, and an exploration of the show’s lasting legacy.” The documentary will feature Texas football icons, including Alex Okafor, Derrick Johnson and Colt McCoy.
Karen Gillan joins Shrinking
Details of Gillan’s character are being kept under wraps, but she is expected to recur in Season 4 of the hit Apple TV series.
The Simpsons to premiere three new original episodes on Disney+ this summer that includes a Black Mirror spoof and guest-stars Laufey and Betty Gilpin
The three episodes kicks off with double episode “Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition” on June 17, followed by “Simpsley” on July 3 and “Yellow Mirror” on Aug. 26. “Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition” will feature guest stars Betty Gilpin, Laufey and Tegan and Sara, plus a Joker parody. “Simpsley” is described as “Simpsons noir.” And “Yellow Mirror” is a parody of Black Mirror.
Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show finale viewership jumps to 9.1 million with delayed viewing
Nielsen live-plus-three-day ratings has upped last Thursday’s finale viewership from the same-day audience of 6.74 million to 9.123 million total viewers, according to LateNighter. ALSO: Stephen Colbert turns his Only in Monroe appearances into a fundraiser.
Mary McDonnell boards Baywatch
The Battlestar Galactica alum and The Boroughs star will recur as Gayle, the mother of Stephen Amell’s protagonist Hobie Buchannon. Her character is described as a “sophisticated woman with a wryly funny presence.”
Bishop adds 10 including Bronson Pinchot and Rick Hoffman
The Joel Kinnaman-led Amazon Prime Video thriller series has also added Ron Lea, Kaniehtiio Horn, Hunter Dillon, Dillon Casey, Brett Donahue, Jorja Cadence, Ishan Davé, and Adam J. Harrington.
X-Men ‘97 Season 4 is already in the works
Executive producer Larry Houston tells EW that following Season 3’s early renewal, work has begun on Season 4 of the Marvel series.
Sherlock Holmes’ arch nemesis James Moriarty is getting his own series
The potential series, with the working title Moriarty, will be a “modern reinvention of the crime procedural, based on the most famous villain in all of detective fiction,” per Deadline, which adds: “Moriarty is a Professor of Criminal Psychology at Durham University but leads a secret double life as the mastermind behind every crime of sophistication in the North of England. When a rival criminal begins an assault on his underground empire, Moriarty will have only one choice: to join the police as a consultant, using the law as a weapon to dismantle his foe while keeping his true identity hidden from the police. Paired with Detective Imogen Burrows, a stoic Yorkshire detective, they’ll form a fearsome team, but Moriarty will soon realize that the real threat isn’t the rival criminal faction he’s dismantling.”
Off Campus sets Allie and Dean as Season 2’s central couple
Mika Abdalla’s Allie Hayes and Stephen Kalyn’s Dean Di Laurentis will be the focus of the Amazon adult romance series’ second season. Allie and Dean’s relationship blossomed in Season 1.
Nat Geo buys Titanic Sinks Tonight, a BBC docu-drama that will re-create the final hours of the tragic disaster
Titanic Sinks Tonight “tells the story of the final hours of the most famous sea disaster of all time,” per Deadline. “From the crucial seconds before the ship hit the iceberg, to the final moments when the hull sank beneath the waves, the show uses virtual production technology to piece together the events, in real time, to reveal exactly what happened to the 2,208 passengers and crew on the night of April 14, 1912. It recreates dramatic elements using actors from Northern Ireland and combines this with documentary testimony.”
Guy Fieri to host Food Network talk show Guy’s Feast Club on YouTube
Premiering June 11 on Food Network’s YouTube channel, Guy’s Feast Club will release four episodes for its first season. “From local joints to home-cooked spreads, Fieri caters to his guests’ cravings by connecting over what he knows best – food,” reads the official description. “In each episode off-the-hook dishes lead to in-depth conversations that are fueled by flavor, fun and even a little competition. When hunger calls, Guy answers, so pull up a chair and get ready to feast!”
CNN sues A.I. firm Perplexity, alleging “massive copyright infringement”
The federal lawsuit filed this morning accused Perplexity of scraping more than 17,000 CNN stories, photos, videos and other content and using that to train its products, according to Variety. Asked for comment, a Perplexity spokesperson said in an emailed statement to Variety: “You can’t copyright facts.”
Sex and the City’s Jason Lewis is living in Costa Rica writing a nine-book fantasy epic series
The model and actor best known for playing Sex and the City’s Smith Jerrod, who recently returned to social media after three years, moved from California to Costa Rica, “where he now spends his days surfing, learning Spanish and waking up at 4 a.m. to work on a sprawling fantasy epic book series that has quietly consumed years of his life. Not one novel. Nine.,” according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Seth Abramovitch, who recently caught up with Lewis. The books are “three interconnected trilogies set across different eras in the same universe, all exploring themes of power, agency, tyranny and redemption. The first book he plans to release is technically book seven,” says Abramovitch, adding: “Lewis describes the series as ‘epic fantasy,’ closer to Lord of the Rings than science fiction, though with a “hard magic” system rooted in physics rather than traditional spellcasting. He casually references quantum theory, multiverse concepts and Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman while explaining the underlying logic of his world-building, though he insists readers won’t need a background in theoretical physics to follow along.”
SNL releases another cut-for-time sketch from the season finale
Watch Jeremy Culhane play a son who visits his estranged father, played by James Austin Johnson, in the sketch written and directed by Martin Herlihy.
Sugar is still hiding its big twist in its Season 2 trailer
The Colin Farrell-led Apple TV private eye drama returns June 19.
Watch All American’s final season trailer
The CW drama will return for Season 8 with a two-hour premiere on July 13.