Good Omens to end with a single Season 3 episode / “Kornacki Cam" coming to Peacock / Sebastian Maniscalco moves from Netflix to Hulu
PLUS: Los Angeles County's D.A. is expected to announce that Lyle and Erik Menendez be resentenced, paving the way for their possible freedom.
Good Omens to end with a single Season 3 episode following Neil Gaiman sexual misconduct accusations
The third and final season of the Amazon Prime Video fantasy comedy, based on Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s novel of the same name and starring Michael Sheen, David Tennnant, will consist of just one, 90-minute episode, the streamer announced today. Even though Gaiman contributed writing to the episode, he wasn't involved in its production. The decision comes after Gaiman was accused of sexual abuse by several young women in the Tortoise Media podcast Master: The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman. Gaiman had been serving as showrunner, but he offered to step back from production, Deadline reported last month. The 90-minute finale “will bring to life a serendipitous conversation from almost 35 years ago, between Neil Gaiman and the late Sir Terry Pratchett, where they mapped out ‘what happens next’ to the wonderful characters in the world of their internationally best-selling novel,” Amazon Prime Video said in announcing the series’ end.
Los Angeles County's D.A. is expected to announce that Lyle and Erik Menendez should be resentenced, paving the way for their possible freedom
George Gascón, the embattled district attorney who may not be reelected on Nov. 5, has scheduled a press conference at 1:30 p.m. PT today to announce his decision on resentencing. The announcement comes as Netflix's Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story has brought renewed attention to the brothers' 1989 killing of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, and the alleged abuse they suffered from their parents. According to The New York Times, Gascón will ask that the brothers be resentenced, which could lead to their release from prison after being sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
Peacock’s multiview, featuring a “Kornacki Cam," is coming to Election Night
The sports multiview feature that proved successful during the 2024 Paris Olympics will be used on Nov. 5, with a main feed, a feed focused on Steve Kornacki and a decision desk feed.
Sebastian Maniscalco is the latest big-name comedian to head to Hulu
Maniscalco, whose last two standup specials were for Netflix, has set his next special at Hulu as part of the streamer's "Hularious" initiative that has drawn famous comedians like Bill Burr and Jim Gaffigan. Maniscalco’s special will be filmed as part of his “It Ain’t Right” tour.
TV networks are planning to cover the 2024 presidential election for days after Nov. 5
NBC will offer its stations 24 hours of coverage starting on the evening of Nov. 5. “We are going up earlier than we ever have on the network, and we are staying up continuously longer than we ever have on the network,” says Janelle Rodriguez, executive vice president of programming for NBC News. “We are prepared to go from GMA to GMA if need be" on Wednesday and into Thursday, said Marc Burstein, senior executive producer of ABC News’ special-events coverage, said of ABC News' election coverage.
CNN accuses Fox News of editing out Donald Trump's "rambling comments and false claims" from Monday’s Fox & Friends Bronx barbershop visit
As the Trump campaign has slammed CBS News' 60 Minutes for editing Kamala Harris' comments, Fox News has done something similar with Trump, according to CNN's Brian Stelter and Liam Reilly, who add: "Trump was seen taking questions and making small talk with Black and Hispanic barbershop customers and workers, some of whom were wearing “Make Barbers Great Again” shirts. The visit was part of Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones’ ongoing barbershop interview series. But the version of the visit shown on television was, to borrow a hairstyle metaphor, a crop cut. Fox edited out many of Trump’s rambling comments and false claims. Participants had to repeatedly follow up when Trump meandered away from the original point of their questions. CNN reviewed a more complete video of the barbershop visit that was uploaded to Instagram on the day of Trump’s appearance in the Bronx and compared it to the segments that were shown on Fox & Friends on Monday. Fox’s edits omitted numerous Trump tangents and exaggerations – a striking decision given Trump’s recent attacks on CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes for editing an interview with his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, earlier this month.
Lorne Michaels says NBC decided to fire Shane Gillis from SNL: "I was angry"
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Michaels again made it clear that he disagreed with Gillis' 2019 firing for using anti-Asian and homophobic slurs, saying it was NBC's decision to drop the comedian days after his hiring announcement. “He said something stupid, but it got blown up into the end of the world,” Michaels said. “I was angry. I thought, ‘You haven’t seen what we’re going to do, and what I’m going to try to bring out in him, because I thought he was the real thing.'” Michaels said it was NBC’s decision to fire Gillis and not his own, adding: “That was very strong from the people in charge. And obviously I was not on that side, but I understood it.” In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published in September, Michaels said of Gillis' firing: "the overreaction to it was so stunning...And the velocity of cancellation — and lots of people deserved to not be liked — it just became not quite the Reign of Terror, but it was like you’re judging everybody on every position they have on every issue as opposed to, 'Are they any good at the thing they do?' I do think that period is winding down and, I believe, the people who do awful things will still be punished."
Fortune Feimster sets her third Netflix special
Crushing It, premiering Dec. 3, follows 2022's Good Fortune and 2020's Sweet & Salty. In her new special, Feimster “shares hilarious stories from her life, including her ‘romantic’ honeymoon with her wife and her reflections on no longer being her mom’s surrogate husband,” per Netflix.
Study: Teens and young adults want to see fewer sex scenes in TV and the movies
The "Teens & Screens" study from UCLA's Center for Scholars & Storytellers surveyed 1,500 respondents, ages 10 to 24. "Researchers found that 63.5% of adolescents said they preferred that big and small screen stories focus on friendships, while 62.4% said sexual content isn’t needed as a plot device," according to Variety. "Those are big jumps from the previous year when 51.5% of those surveyed said they wanted more content about people in platonic relationships, and 47.5% said that they didn’t seek out shows or movies where sex was a major plot point. The survey did not poll respondents between the ages of 10 to 13 about their attitudes on sexually explicit content."
Hasan Minhaj releases "fact-checks" of his new Netflix comedy special
Not only does the comedian address his New Yorker fact-checking controversy in his new Off With His Head special, but he has posted brief clips accompanied by corrections or confirmations by a fact-checker by the name of Katie.
Leo Woodall-led Apple TV+ thriller Prime Target gets a premiere date and first-look photos
The One Day and The White Lotus star’s conspiracy thriller series premieres Jan. 22, 2025.
The Simpsons will answer a 35-year-old mystery on Sunday's episode
"This Sunday a new (Simpsons) will solve a mystery that has puzzled (me at least) since the beginning of the show…" tweeted longtime executive producer Al Jean.
Former Bachelor host Chris Harrison blasted as a "jerk" and "piece of sh*t" by Matt Rogers and Rachel Bloom
On Rogers' Las Culturistas podcast, which he co-hosts with Bowen Yang, the comedian and actor recalled a negative experience with Harrison when the former Bachelor host was host of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. “No one needed to expose him for being whatever way because he kind of unveiled himself as a little bit of a jerk," said Rogers, as he recounted his experience on the show. “Everyone knows he’s a piece of sh*t,” Bloom said in response.
HBO docuseries to follow the U.S. men’s national soccer team as it prepares to host the 2026 World Cup
HBO promises an “unprecedented” look into the team’s preparations for the World Cup, following the team from the 2022 tournament in Qatar (where the USMNT made the round of 16), through the hiring of new manager Mauricio Pochettino and the team’s preparation for 2026.
Kevin Frazier and Amanda Kloots to host CBS' Family Film and TV Awards, which will honor Leave it to Beaver's Jerry Mathers
The 27th annual ceremony, airing on Saturday, Nov. 9, will celebrate Mathers with the Icon Award.
Roland Emmerich developing a Space Nation live-action series based on the online roleplaying video game
According to Space Nation Inc., “the series will map out the origins of the epic story that began with the recent soft launch of Space Nation Online, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that sends players to a distant star cluster where humanity has settled following Earth’s destruction.” Space Nation may not be made available to a streamer or network, at least at first. “We might sell a second window to one of the streamers, but all on a licensing basis,” says Marco Weber, Emmerich's producing partner. “We’re not looking for a streamer to come in and outright buy the IP. And our goal is to be able to finance a significant portion of the budget ourselves through our own (in-game) economy and our own token.”
Andy Richter reveals he and Jay Leno patched up their late-night feud amid an awkward restaurant encounter
“I actually sat down at the diner counter a couple of years ago and it was a busy Sunday morning at a very popular restaurant in Burbank,” Richter recently told CinemaBlend while discussing his appearance on last week's The Masked Singer. “There was one seat left at the counter, and I sat down, and I turned to my right and there was Jay Leno eating breakfast.” He added: “It was like, ‘Well, I guess we're gonna chat now.’ And it was fine, you know, I mean, all of that showbiz rivalry is like high school rivalry. Once you're past it, it’s not that important.”
Survivor spent 38 minutes this week dunking on one contestant
"Survivor is built on a sense of uncertainty," says James P. Frank. "Typically, the editors will set up multiple story lines in each episode that ultimately coalesce by the time the contestants reach Tribal Council into two or three potentialities. This week, however, all that went out the window and was replaced with the question 'How many times can the contestants, editors, and producers make fun of this one guy in a 38-minute span?' The answer, it turned out, was quite a lot." ALSO: This week's eliminated contestant says watching on TV has been eye-opening.
Fox Sports signs Nick Wright to a new extension
The FS1 First Things First co-host has re-upped with Fox Sports as he's become one of the biggest stars in sports media.
Machine Gun Kelly to perform at halftime of the NFL's Giants-Panthers game in Germany
The Giants will play the Panthers on Sunday, Nov. 10 at 3:30 p.m. local time (9:30 a.m. ET) from Munich, Germany.
The L Word creator Ilene Chaiken and star Jennifer Beals are teaming up to launch an LGBTQ-themed media company
Their company, Run-A-Muck, is described as a cross-platform queer media brand designed to produce content across film, TV and live events.
Oxygen to examine the killing of Drew Carey's ex-fiancée
The cable network's new true-crime series A Plan to Kill examines the stories of disturbing killers who have spent weeks, months, or even years laying out a murder. One episode will revolve around the 2020 killing of Amie Harwick, a successful Los Angeles-based sex therapist who was killed by an ex-boyfriend. Harwick was previously engaged to Carey. A Plan to Kill premieres Sunday.
Michael Fassbender is a burnt out and damaged CIA agent in Showtime's The Agency trailer
The espionage thriller, premiering on Nov. 29 for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers before its on-air debut, is based on the French drama series Le Bureau des Légendes.
Amazon's Cruel Intentions trailer is filled with Easter eggs and callbacks to the 1999 movie
The Cruel Intentions TV series is set at Manchester College, with Sarah Catherine Hook playing the Sarah Michelle Gellar-esque role of Caroline Merteuil and Zac Burgess playing the Ryan Phillippe-like Lucien Belmont. The eight-episode Cruel Intentions premieres Nov. 21.
A new killer is on the loose in Based on a True Story’s Season 2 trailer
Melissa Fumero joins the cast for Season 2, premiering on Peacock on Nov. 21.