Padma Lakshmi to host America's Culinary Cup on CBS / Piper Perabo to visit Grey's Anatomy / Joel Kinnaman joins Imperfect Women
PLUS: Lee Corso will spend August celebrating his 90th birthday and retiring from ESPN's College Gameday after 38 years.
Padma Lakshmi to host CBS cooking competition America’s Culinary Cup
The former Top Chef host is returning to the culinary competition world with America’s Culinary Cup, a format that she created and will executive produce. America’s Culinary Cup will feature “the nation’s most decorated chefs” competing in a format “designed to challenge their creativity, endurance, presentation, leadership and more,” according to the show’s logline. America’s Culinary Cup is expected to premiere in the 2025-2026 season. “We’re inviting elite chefs from across the country to represent their unique culinary style and battle it out,” Lakshmi said in a statement. “This competition echoes the thrill of sports and the American spirit as we cheer on our favorite chefs.” America’s Culinary Cup marks CBS' first food competition in more than a decade.
Emily in Paris to begin Season 5 production in Rome with one cast member not returning: Camille Razat
Lucas Bravo, Lucien Laviscount and Eugenio Franceschini will all be back when the Netflix hit drama series begins production in Rome next month, before later returning to Paris. "Missing from the list of returning cast is Camille Razat, who had been a series regular for the first four seasons as Camille, Emily’s onetime friend and main rival for Gabriel’s heart," says Deadline's Nellie Andreeva. "This is not surprising as Camille packed up and left toward the end of Season 4 after one last go at a relationship with Gabriel under false pretenses as she faked a pregnancy."
Pacific Rim prequel series lands at Amazon
The television adaptation of the science fiction monster film franchise from Arrival writer Eric Heisserer, first revealed in 2024, is now in development at Prime Video in a deal between lead studio Legendary Television and Amazon MGM Studios. The show is expected to serve as a prequel to the movies.
Piper Perabo to guest on Grey's Anatomy
The former Covert Affairs star and Yellowstone alum will recur in three episodes a "a fierce mother who will do anything for her 9-year-old daughter Dylan, who is at Grey Sloan for a high-risk brain surgery."
Joel Kinnaman joins Apple TV+'s Imperfect Women
Kinnaman will star opposite Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington and Kate Mara in the psychological thriller. He'll play the husband of Mara's character.
Lee Corso will spend August celebrating his 90th birthday and retiring from ESPN's College Gameday after 38 years
The college football broadcasting icon, who was part of College Gameday's launch in 1987, will sign off with the college football pregame show's season premiere on Aug. 30. His final appearance will come weeks after his 90th birthday on Aug. 7. "My family and I will be forever indebted for the opportunity to be part of ESPN and College GameDay for nearly 40 years," Corso said in a statement released by ESPN. "I have a treasure of many friends, fond memories and some unusual experiences to take with me into retirement." Corso is most famous for his headgear segment, which he began in 1995. It’s unclear if ESPN will continue the tradition with somebody else. As Awful Announcing's Matt Yoder explains, "Corso has been one of the defining figures in college football’s rise in popularity over the last few decades. His joy and exuberance on the College GameDay set helped make the show one of the defining studio shows of our time. And ESPN’s decision to send Lee Corso and company on the road to campuses across the country for College Gameday has proven to be one of the best moves in the history of sports media." The college sports world paid tribute to Corso, including videos released by former longtime College Gameday host Chris Fowler, current host Rece Davis and analyst Kirk Herbstreit, who has become closest to Corso. "We've had so many great moments on the show. Off the show," said Herbstreit, calling Corso "a once in a lifetime broadcaster." ALSO: ESPN faces a tough decision for where to go for Lee Corso's final College Gameday.
Stephen Colbert sticks up for PBS and NPR amid Trump administration's defunding plan
“The White House says PBS funding does not ‘align with the Trump administration’s priorities,’ including a PBS program from 2022 about a transgender woman who comes out to members of their bowling league in Ohio," said The Late Show host. "OK, well I get that, ’cause America can’t be allowed to find out that trans people bowl. Because then, other trans bowlers might bowl as well, and if the bowling alleys allow — the pins are women, the pins clearly are women, and the balls are boys, if you use two balls, and then, and then, and then where do the fingers go? I’m not sure where that — and the bowling shoe spray turns my feet into women? I don’t … What would the problem be?”
Kelly Ripa calls out a Live audience member who interrupted Christopher Meloni’s interview to ask a question
"We'll handle the questions, ma'am," said Ripa this morning after an audience member in the back of Live's new studio asked a question to Meloni.
Temptation Island renewed for a second season on Netflix
The reality show has been picked up for a second season on Netflix and 10th season overall after premiering on the streamer last month. Temptation Island originally premiered on Fox in 2001.
Peacock orders Love Island USA spinoff Love Island: Beyond the Villa
Premiering this summer, the spinoff will “follow everyone’s favorite season six Islanders around Los Angeles as they navigate new careers, evolving friendships, newfound fame and complex relationships outside of the Love Island villa,” Peacock announced Wednesday.
Tika Sumpter joins Watson
The Haves and the Have Nots vet will guest as a romantic interest for Morris Chestnut’s titular character.
David Letterman’s visit to John Mulaney's Everybody's Live was a "meeting of two masters of showbiz irony"
"Almost exactly a decade after Letterman said goodbye to his reign as all-time iconic talk show host, seeing the carelessly bearded Dave bantering with the natty Mulaney on this week’s Everybody’s Live is to watch past and present confront each other with different shades of ironic laughter, says Dennis Perkins of Letterman's second visit to Mulaney's couch after appearing on Everybody's in L.A. last year. “Letterman, in his long and storied career, was a consummate put-on artist in the guise of a traditional talk show ringleader. He peppered interviews with visiting movie stars with a glinting detachment from the usual chat show scripted banter and canned anecdotes. Dave was always Dave, his midwestern skepticism uncowed by tradition and glamor, yet reveling in the comic possibilities afforded by his unlikely position. John Mulaney, weaned as he was on Letterman’s style as generations of comics have been, presides over his own version of the late-night show. His is a mutant offshoot of the form that relishes in the largesse of streaming ubiquity while still affording the longtime stand-up and TV writing maestro freedom to indulge his own take-me-or-leave-me vision. Everybody’s Live is a late-night show untroubled by the need to chase ratings or the latest stars—it’s Mulaney, with Netflix cash and a career’s worth of comedy cred, viewing the genre as a toy chest of bits, skits, and people he just wants to hang out with. His show is at once deeply personal and airily offhand." ALSO: John Mulaney explains why being a parent to a toddler is like working on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
The White Lotus' Walton Goggins and Amy Lou Wood are expected to reunite amid feud rumors
CNN correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister said on The Viall Files that she has no idea if there is an actual feud, "but there is something professionally that they are doing in the coming weeks together. So if there really is a feud, this has not stopped them... It's not like they can't be in the same room, is my point. Because I feel that there is something on the books." Wagmeister also explained that Goggins and Wood will have to be part of The White Lotus' Emmy campaign trail.
The Sandman's second and final season gets two premiere dates and teaser
The Netflix Neil Gaiman series will drop Season 2 in two parts: Episodes 1-6 on July 3 and Episodes 6-11 on July 24.
Twisted Metal returns for Season 2 in July
The Anthony Mackie-starring video game adaptation returns for its second season on July 31. Watch Peacock's Date Announcement trailer.
The Daily Show turns Jon Stewart "World's Most Dad" mug that he smashed into merch
Fans can now buy a copy of the mug that Stewart injured himself smashing in February.
Transplant's fourth and final season to get a supersized season premiere
NBC plans to air the first two episodes of Season 4 of the Canadian medical drama on Friday, May 22, followed by a weekly release.
Ramy Youssef: Jesse Armstrong's HBO movie Mountainhead is funny "in the same way" as Succession
"Succession is one of the best comedies ever made — and this film is certainly funny in the same way,” says Youssef, who stars in the TV movie alongside Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman and Cory Michael Smith. “Jesse’s writing is on another level. It’s really hard to find something of that caliber, so getting to do it was such a joy.”
Survivor winners "Boston" Rob Mariano and Amber Mariano celebrate 20 years of marriage
The couple, who met filming Survivor: All-Stars in 2003, got engaged on the finale reunion's live show in 2004, and got married one year later. The couple have four daughters.
Patrick Adiarte, actor on M*A*S*H and The Brady Bunch, dies at 82
Adiarte, who died Tuesday, is best known for recurring as Ho-Jon, the orphaned Korean houseboy who assisted Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John McIntyre, on seven episodes of M*A*S*H's first season. Adiarte was also featured on The Brady Bunch's Season 4 visit to Hawaii, playing the construction gofer who gives the kids a tour before things get chaotic when Bobby discovers a small tiki idol that could be cursed.
Ginny & Georgia's Season 3 teaser asks: "What happens when everything falls apart?"
The hit Netflix drama series returns after nearly 2-1/2 years on June 5.
Jersey Shore Family Vacation's Season 8 teaser celebrates the franchise's 15 years
The MTV reality show returns May 29.
Netflix unveils the trailer for Turning Point: The Vietnam War
The five-part docuseries, premiering April 30, "offers an unfiltered look at one of the most defining and divisive conflicts in modern history and the profound, lasting impact it has had on America’s global identity and on the lives of countless people," says Netflix.