RHONJ bringing back three cast members for Season 15 / Paul Walter Hauser joins Netflix’s live-action Scooby-Doo / School Spirits renewed for Season 4
PLUS: Criminal Minds: Evolution renewed for Season 20 — Season 19 guest-stars will include Heated Rivalry’s Connor Storrie.
Real Housewives of New Jersey bringing back three cast members for Season 15: Teresa Giudice, Melissa Gorga and Dolores Catania
“The three longtime Housewives are the only castmembers who starred in season 14 that Bravo has confirmed are rejoining the series for the upcoming installment,” says The Hollywood Reporter’s McKinley Franklin. “Confirmation of their return also comes after a brief pause in production on the series. The latest episode of RHONJ, the disastrous season 14 finale, aired in August 2024, with no official news about the show being announced since then. Teresa, Melissa and Dolores will be joined by a slate of fresh faces, who have not been announced yet, marking a mini RHONJ revamp. Production on the upcoming installment will begin filming later this spring.” As Franklin notes, RHONJ “went on a hiatus after a disjointed 14th season, with the cast completely divided by the show’s final episode. Bravo forgoed a season 14 reunion due to the distance among the cast, which included Giudice, Gorga, Catania, Margaret Josephs, Jennifer Aydin, Danielle Cabral and Rachel Fuda, plus non-fulltime castmembers Jackie Goldschneider and Jennifer Fessler.” Giudice has been with RHONJ since the beginning, Melissa, Teresa’s sister-in-law, joined the series with Season 3. Dolores joined the full-time cast with Season 7.
NCIS boss on celebrating 500 episodes: The show may outlive me
The CBS police procedural series, a spinoff of JAG that premiered in fall 2003, tonight celebrates its 500th episode. Showrunner Steven D. Binder thinks the show may yet outlive him, and maybe anyone else currently involved. ”I know this sounds like hubris,” he tells Variety, “but if the sun comes up every day for 20 years, you just feel like there’s a good chance it’s gonna come up tomorrow! And that’s sort of how I feel about the show. It’s not even an adjudication of quality or judgment or how awesome our numbers are or how much people love it. It’s just, literally, there has always been NCIS, it feels like there’s always going to be NCIS,’ and I don’t see any reason why that’s gonna change. Other than the utter and complete total collapse of the network broadcast business model. Other than that.”
OpenAI shutting down Sora: Disney exits three-year deal
“OpenAI is planning to pull the plug on its Sora video platform, a product it released to great fanfare last year that has since fallen from public view,” reports The Wall Street Journal’s Berber Jin. “The move is one of a number of steps OpenAI is taking to refocus on business and coding functions ahead of a potential initial public offering as soon as the fourth quarter of this year.” Sora launched last September, and quickly angering copyright holders. But last December, Disney inked a three-year deal with OpenAI allowing the use of its characters in Sora while investing $1 billion in the company. That deal is now dead. “We’re saying goodbye to Sora,” OpenAI said in a statement. “To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing.”
Paul Walter Hauser joins Netflix’s live-action Scooby-Doo series
The Emmy-winning actor’s role is being kept under wraps. He joins Mckenna Grace as Daphne Blake, Tanner Hagen as Shaggy Rogers, Abby Ryder Fortson as Velma Dinkley, and Maxwell Jenkins as Fred Jones. As EW points out, Hauser is “the most Scooby-Doo actor who has ever existed.”
Criminal Minds: Evolution renewed for Season 20 — Season 19 guest-stars will include Heated Rivalry’s Connor Storrie
Paramount+ has ordered a 20th season for the Criminal Minds series to premiere in 2027. Meanwhile, Season 19 will kick off on May 28 with guest-stars including Connor Storrie, Justin Kirk, Yvette Nicole Brown, Clark Gregg, Paul F. Tompkins, Cress Williams, Kofi Siriboe, Lyndon Smith, Richard Cabral, Jeri Ryan, Rob Yang, Nicholas Gonzalez, Inny Clemons, Nicole Pacent, Dash Mihok, Joseph Cross and Cara Jade Myers.
Paramount+ renews School Spirits for Season 4
The Peyton List-led hit supernatural drama series has been picked up for a fourth season after concluding its third season on March 4.
Summer House alums Hannah Berner and Paige DeSorbo to star in a Netflix comedy series from Amy Poehler and Kay Cannon
The Giggly Squad podcast co-hosts are set to become comedy stars in the untitled series produced by Poehler and co-written by Pitch Perfect screenwriter Cannon, who will serve as showrunner. “Set in NYC, the Untitled Hannah and Paige project stars Berner and DeSorbo as fictionalized versions of themselves as they become the ultimate ride-or-dies, helping each other shed their baggage and emerge as the people they’ve always wanted to be,” per Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva, who adds: The project stems from an idea by Berner and DeSorbo who first met while working briefly for the same company in New York.”
Netflix source denies comedian Mark Normand’s claim an executive called Muslims “dangerous people”
On his Tuesdays with Stories! podcast, Normand said executives, during a conference call, at first said he should cut a joke about Muslim people from his upcoming Mark Normand: None Too Pleased standup special to avoid “death threats.” Normand then said the Netflix executives backpedaled and insisted that he not use the joke to promote the special. “They said, ‘We’ve got to get it off socials … socials is where all the shit starts,’” said Normand, who added that he got an executive to agree to say that Muslims are “dangerous people.” According to The Hollywood Reporter’s James Hibberd, “a Netflix source strongly denies most components of Normand’s story. The kernel of truth, the source said, is ‘we advised him that we’re a global company and to be careful with the clips and jokes he used to promote the special on his own social channels.’ But the source says the idea that a Netflix executive would portray Muslims as a dangerous threat on a conference call, let alone verbally agree with Normand that they’re a ‘dangerous people,’ is ‘not true, not correct, completely false.’ What’s more, the source says Normand wasn’t even on the call, only his reps. So the idea of a back-and-forth dialogue between Normand and the executives didn’t happen (’It’s an embellishment’).”
CNN’s Kara Swisher vows to leave the network if Paramount takes over: “I’m not working for you hacks”
The tech journalist, star of the upcoming CNN docuseries Kara Swisher Wants to Live Forever, expressed her thoughts on a David Ellison takeover Monday at Syracuse University. “On some level, I don’t have to because I’ve created my own media organization where I make a lot of money,” she said. “So I don’t have to. And so for me stand up to say, I’m not working for you hacks, I’m just not doing it, and it’s not worth it to me. Especially in a business, television, which is the audiences are going like this and aging like this. So, I do a lot better direct to consumer kind of thing. And so it just doesn’t hurt me because I can wander over to MS if I feel like having a television, I can wander anywhere else. But it doesn’t matter because I reach, right now, Pivot has a bigger demo in the 25-to-45 range than all the cable networks in prime time, right?”
The Pitt casts ER vet Mary McCormack and Noah Wyle’s wife Sara Wyle
McCormack, who recurred on six episodes of ER as Darfur clinic physician Debbie., will guest as neurosurgeon Dr. Linda Conley. The role reunites The West Wing alum McCormack with executive producer John Wells. Sara Wyle, will guest-star as ER patient Ashley Davis. Wyle’s previous acting credit was on a Leverage: Redemption episode directed by her husband.
HBO and HBO Max boss Casey Bloys on his lunch with Netflix’s Ted Sarandos: “Sometimes lunch is just lunch”
Asked about his recent lunch with the Netflix co-CEO, Bloys tells The Hollywood Reporter, Bloys says: “Well, anybody I have lunch with now is going to be through this prism. Sometimes lunch is just lunch.” The lunch has fueled speculation that Bloys, whose contract is up in 2027, could leave after the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger is completed.
ESPN will tell its origin story in documentary Sports Heaven: The Birth of ESPN
Premiering April 6, the documentary will take viewers back to the pioneering sports cable channel’s creation in the late 1970s. Watch the trailer.
HBO reveals the first image of Harry Potter series
The first image shows the back of Dominic McLaughlin’s Harry as he approaches the Quidditch pitch with a Griffindor cloak on a snowy day. The image was revealed with the announcement that the first trailer will be released on Wednesday. “The world that has been created is absolutely extraordinary,” HBO Max head of original programming Sarah Aubrey said Tuesday at Series Mania.
Investigation Discovery announces a docuseries on the 1990s boy band boom from ‘N Sync’s Joey Fatone
Premiering April 13, the Fatone-produced two-part Boy Band Confidential will reveal “how the industry transformed young performers into marketable commodities while exposing untold stories of abuse, addiction, and financial manipulation.” Interview subjects include ‘N Sync’s Lance Bass, Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean and 98 Degrees’ Nick Lachey.
Grey’s Anatomy’s Caterina Scorsone and E.R. Fightmaster confirm real-life relationship years after onscreen romance
Three years after their Dr. Amelia Shepherd and Dr. Kai Bartley briefly dated, the pair confirmed their real-life romance during an outing in Los Angeles on Monday.
Hallmark is taking its actors on the road with Hallmark Stars Live 10-city tour
Nikki DeLoach will host the tour kicking off July 22. “Hosted by Nikki DeLoach (A Grand Ole Opry Christmas), each stop will feature a group of actors serving up stories and behind-the-scenes dish on how they create that signature Hallmark movie magic,” per People. “Among those joining her are Ashley Williams, Jonathan Bennett, Andrew Walker, Kimberley Sustad, Paul Campbell and Tamera Mowry-Housley, with appearances varying by date and location.”
Phoebe Dynevor to star in British Amazon crime drama series Dirty
The Bridgerton alum is teaming with Bridge of Spies co-writer and Hostage and Treason creator Matt Charman on the eight-episode crime series Dirty. “The show is set in Manchester, England and follows a mother and daughter who also serve on the police force and see each other as their biggest obstacle on the job,” according to Deadline’s Justin Kroll. “Dynevor is from Manchester, and sources close to the project said she had a distinct connection to the show after reading the script. The city is a character unto itself in the series, and it was important to Charman that the leads understood that as well. When coming up with the idea for the show, Charman saw his own wife and daughter’s relationship and how close it was,. He began to wonder what would happen if it wasn’t so close, and what dynamics would result in such a relationship — especially if they were both police officers.”
Christy Carlson Romano announces her memoir
The Disney Channel alum of Even Stevens and Kim Possible has written The Fall and Rise of a Child Star, which will be published by Simon & Schuster on Oct. 6. “It took me two grueling years to write this memoir. I had to relive my lowest lows, my highest highs, and find the courage to share my most vulnerable moments with you,” writes Romano. “It’s risky. It’s honest. It’s the most empowered I’ve ever felt.”
Adolescence earns 12 BAFTA TV nominations as it begins winding down its award season dominance
The Netflix limited series’ nominations include Emmy winner Owen Cooper going against co-star Ashley Walters in the supporting actor category. Adolescence premiered March 13, 2025, so its many potential awards is close to coming to an end.
Check out Kit Harington in the first look at MGM+’s A Tale of Two Cities
The four-part limited series is an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel, which MGM+ is making with the BBC, also stars François Civil and Mirren Mack.
SNL alum Kevin Nealon calls out cast members who break out into laughter
“I never broke character on SNL. I knew how much time the writers put into those scripts. You don’t want to be the one who throws it off,” the former “Weekend Update” anchor and 1986-1995 SNL cast member, tweeted this morning. “Lorne doesn’t like when the cast breaks. Even if the audience laughs, it doesn’t work for the sketch. If I could get through the Chippendales sketch, I could get through anything.” While Nealon didn’t specifically reference a particular sketch or cast members, his tweet comes weeks after the Ryan Gosling-Ashley Padilla “Passing Notes” sketch that was designed to make its cast members break.
Alan Ritchson captured his confrontation with his neighbor on his body cam
The Reacher star and his kids were riding their motorcycles when his neighbor, Ronnie Taylor, was shown blocking him in the middle of the street, resulting in their confrontation and fight. ALSO: Police won’t charge anyone in Alan Ritchson fight with his neighbor.
Mel Schilling, psychologist who starred on Australia’s Married at First Sight, dies at 54
Schilling dies Tuesday, three years after announcing a colon cancer diagnosis.
Euphoria reveals its Season 3 poster
“May God Have Mercy,” reads the tagline for the third and final season, premiering on HBO on April 12.
Netflix unveils the trailer for Untold: Jail Blazers
The sports anthology docuseries will tackle the early 2000s Portland Trail Blazers, whose “off court lives became the subject of scandal, controversy, and relentless media attention.” Untold: Jail Blazers premieres April 14.
Lauren Conrad and Kristin Cavallari come face-to-face in The Roku Channel’s The Reunion: Laguna Beach trailer
Original MTV Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County cast members Lauren Conrad, Stephen Colletti, Kristin Cavallari, Trey Phillips, Talan Torriero, Christina Schuller, Lo Bosworth, Dieter Schmitz, Jessica Smith, Alex Hooser and Morgan Olsen reunite in The Roku Channel special premiering April 10.