The View unveils a state-of-the-art new set / ManningCast gets the musical treatment / Ellen DeGeneres sets her final standup special
The View unveils a state-of-the-art new set / ManningCast gets the musical treatment / Ellen DeGeneres sets her final standup special
PLUS; Wheel of Fortune reveals new Ryan Seacrest-era changes, including ditching index cards and puzzle board sensors.
The View unveils a state-of-the-art new set
"New digs, new season, new View. We're live right now. Let's get started!" moderator Goldberg said Tuesday from a platform atop The View’s new multi-story studio in the Walt Disney Company's new building in Manhattan, which was introduced via an extended drone shot. Good Morning America, Live with Kelly and Mark and Tamron Hall are all expected to move into the building in the coming months. The new View also features a new theme song "New Version," written by Oscar-nominated lyricist Diane Warren and performed by pop star Leona Lewis. The only thing left from the original View set is the iconic table. Not only is the audience closer, but so is executive producer Brian Tata. "Brian is on a much different plane. He's closer! And you all are closer, it's quite something," Goldberg said, referencing the new audience stands. "We have to talk about the fact that we're in a brand new space, because it's very different. It's a big change for us, too, because when I came, the set was vastly different, we were on a big old thing, now we're on even space, we're all on the same space!" As Tata explained to People: "Our graphics team is like kids in the candy store right now. There's so much that we're still going to need to get acclimated with and play with. I think at first, it'll be The View you know and love, but as time goes on, we'll have a lot of fun with some of the things we can do."
Wheel of Fortune reveals new Ryan Seacrest-era changes, including ditching index cards and puzzle board sensors
With Seacrest taking over the syndicated game show from longtime host Pat Sajak, Wheel of Fortune "has a revamped set, which includes new lighting, additional space and a lot of gold metal laminate," says John Koblin, who toured the revamped set. "The puzzle board got an update not long ago, too: Now all Vanna White has to do is move her fingers near a lit up panel, and a letter will appear. Touching a panel — let alone turning it — is no longer necessary." As White explains: "It was time for a change" Seacrest, says Koblin, "has already brought a new energy to the set. He can break into a salsa dance. He moves easily around the stage. And he does not require index cards — one of Mr. Sajak’s hallmarks — when he introduces each new contestant." Tony Vinciquerra, the chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, says in picking Seacrest, "we want to have the continuity of the host, someone who is well known, and who will travel with the show through that transition. I can't think of a better person to do that with than Ryan.”
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Peyton and Eli Manning star in a 10-minute star-studded “ManningCast: The Musical”
The brothers filmed an elaborate promo for the fourth season of ESPN’s ManningCast, featuring Snoop Dogg, Kevin Hart, Jimmy Kimmel, Pete Davidson and Bill Burr and NFL players and coaches like Andy Reid, Sean McVay and Ja’Marr Chase. "The film begins with the brothers enlisting help from Disney CEO Bob Iger, who agrees to give them 'just one night' to put on a show," says Deadline's Dade Hayes. "They do so with gusto, in a maximalist micro-production complete with splashy costumes, puckish lyrics, onstage pyrotechnics and original music contributions from an actual Tony-winner – Tom Kitt (Next to Normal)." ALSO: Here's the 2024 ManningCast schedule.
Ellen DeGeneres' final standup special, For Your Approval, gets a Netflix premiere date
Premiering Sept. 24, Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval promises to tackle the comedy legend being "kicked out of show business" after her daytime talk show ended after allegations of intimidation, racism and sexual misconduct. “To answer the questions everyone is asking me — Yes, I’m going to talk about it. Yes, this is my last special. Yes, Portia really is that pretty in real life,” DeGeneres said in a statement.
Peacock sets its first-ever live comedy special, hosted by Colin Jost and Michael Che
The SNL colleagues will star in Colin Jost & Michael Che Present: New York After Dark, streaming live from The Bell House in Brooklyn on Sept. 12 at 9 p.m. ET. Watch the trailer.
DirecTV says it will fight Disney “as long as it needs to” amid carriage dispute
Disney channels went dark on Sunday, a day ESPN showed the U.S. Open tennis tournament and ABC aired the LSU-USC college football game. “This dispute is not a run-of-the-mill dispute," said DirecTV CFO Ray Carpenter on Tuesday. "This is not the kind of dispute where we’re haggling over percentage points on a rate. This is really about changing the model in a way that gives everyone confidence that this industry can survive." Carpenter said the satellite TV company is pushing for “skinny, genre-based” packages, where customers can choose the kind of content they want to pay for.
T.J. Hooker's James Darren dies at 88
The former teen idol and pop singer who played the dreamy surfer Moondoggie in three Gidget movies before starring on the TV series The Time Tunnel and T.J. Hooker died Monday. Darren joined ABC-CBS cop drama T.J. Hooker in its second season in 1982 as Officer Jim Corrigan, who was partnered with Heather Locklear's inexperienced Officer Stacy Sheridan. Darren also starred as the headstrong Dr. Tony Newman, an electronics genius, on the 1966-67 ABC adventure series The Time Tunnel. Darren also had recurring roles on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as holographic lounge singer Vic Fontaine and Melrose Place as Tony Marlin. Darren also worked behind the scenes, directing episodes of Melrose Place, Beverly Hills, 90210, Silk Stalkings, Hunter and The A-Team.
Obi Ndefo, Dawson's Creek and Stargate SG-1 actor, dies at 51
Ndefo, who died Aug. 28, recurred on 10 episodes of Dawson's Creek as Bodie Wells, the boyfriend of Joey Potter’s (Katie Holmes) older sister, Bessie Potter (Nina Repeta). Ndefo also recurred as the Jaffa warrior Rak’nor on “Stargate SG-1” from 2000 to 2005. Ndefo also had guest roles on NCIS: Los Angeles, Star Trek: Voyager, NYPD Blue and The West Wing. In 2019, Obi Ndefo lost both his legs after a hit-and-run accident in a parking lot in Los Angeles. Katie Holmes paid tribute to Ndefo, writing on her Instagram Stories that he “was wonderful to work with and such a kind man. I send prayers and grace to his family. Rest in peace.”
FX releases the first teaser and logline for Alien: Earth
In Noah Hawley's Alien: Earth, "when a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat."
Manny Jacinto is making it his life goal to get The Acolyte Season 2 made
Asked at Atlanta Dragon Con what his personal life goal was, Jacinto said: “Season 2 of The Acolyte.” His answer was met with thunderous applause.
Modern Family is joining Nick at Nite's lineup
The Emmy-winning 2009-2020 ABC sitcom will join Nickelodeon late night programming block on Sept. 9, airing daily from 2-4 am ET/PT.
Atsuko Okatsuka's second standup special lands at Hulu
The comedian, whose first special The Intruder was released on HBO in 2022, will tape her second special at Hollywood’s El Capitan Theatre in early November as Hulu prepares to launch its “Hularious” standup brand that same month.
YouTube is the first streamer to claim the No. 1 spot in Nielsen’s media distributor rankings
Viewing of YouTube on televisions accounted for 10.4 percent of all TV usage in July, topping Disney.
Kit Connor: We filmed seven hours of Hearstopper sex scenes for Season 3
In discussing collaborating with co-star Joe Locke and an intimacy coordinator, Connor told The Sunday Times of London: “We’ve been taking baby steps. Season 1, he would be there making sure that we were comfortable holding hands. And now we’re doing the sex scenes,” Connor told The Sunday Times. “We shot a lot of footage for them. Not much actually ended up in the show. But we shot the sex scenes for about seven hours!”
Joey Chestnut defeats Takeru Kobayashi in Netflix's first-ever live Unfinished Beef eating contest
Longtime eating champion Chestnut beat his Guinness World Record of 76 hot dogs by downing 83 hot dogs in 10 minutes. Former champ Kobayashi consumed 66 hot dogs.
Nikki Garcia co-hosted Netflix's Unfinished Beef days after her husband Artem Chigvintsev's domestic violence arrest
Garcia, who co-hosted the live Labor Day special with Rob Riggle, told viewers she was “happy to be here" as one audience member shouted "I love you." Chigvintsev was arrested last Thursday on California penal code 273.5(a), which makes it illegal to injure a spouse, cohabitant or fellow parent in an act of domestic violence.
The Sex Lives of College Girls co-creator: We haven't seen the last of Reneé Rapp‘s Leighton
Co-creator Justin Noble confirms to Teen Vogue that the singer-songwriter will be back for a few episodes in Season 3 following her departure as a series regular. “(She) definitely still has some lessons and room to grow ahead of her,” says Noble. “She’ll be faced with a couple of big choices and she’ll have to make a couple of big decisions in all aspects of her life.”
Survivor alum Ryan Medrano wins silver medal at 2024 Paralympics
Medrano, who was born with mild cerebral palsy and who placed ninth on Survivor 43 in fall 2022, came in second place in the men's 100-meter T38 event.
Brazil's ban on Twitter/X comes days before the NFL is scheduled to play its first-ever Brazilian game in São Paulo
Reporters and other attendees at Friday's game between the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles, which will be shown on Peacock, won't be able to legally tweet from the game after Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes has blocked all of X/Twitter across that country as part of an escalating fight with Twitter/X's owner Elon Musk.
Tennis star Frances Tiafoe reveals he's a Scandal fan in a U.S. Open shout-out to Tony Goldwyn
“Yo, I’m a huge fan of you, bro,” Tiafoe told Goldwyn from the court on Sunday night. “Me and my girl used to watch Scandal all the time.”
Stephen King keeps pushing for Evil to be un-canceled
After declaring his love for the canceled Paramount+ series last week, King tweeted over the weekend: "Dear Paramount+: More EVIL, please."
David E. Kelley to be honored with the 2024 International Emmy Founders Award
The prolific showrunner and TV show creator behind shows like L.A. Law, Ally McBeal, Big Little Lies, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Doogie Howser, M.D. and The Lincoln Lawyer will be honored with a black tie gala will take place on Nov. 25 in New York City.
Bill Murray introduced Jason Reitman SNL film Saturday Night at the Telluride Film Festival
Murray, who joined Saturday Night Live with its second season, was a surprise guest for Saturday Night's premiere on Saturday night.
1,000-Lb. Sisters star Amy Slaton arrested for drug possession and child endangerment
The longtime TLC star was taken into custody on Monday at Tennessee Safari Park.
Eric Gilliland, writer and producer on Roseanne and My Boys, dies at 62
Gilliland, who died Sunday of colon cancer, was a writer and producer on Roseanne from 1992 to 1996, earning a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for the show’s 1992 episode, “The Dark Ages.” He was also an executive producer on My Boys, a consulting producer on The Connors and a writer on Doogie Howser, M.D., That '70s Show and Matthew Perry's Mr. Sunshine.
K.C. Fox, Emmy-nominated Criminal Minds set decorator, dies at 70
Fox, who died Aug. 28, earned an Emmy nomination for her work on the 1993 CBS Bette Midler-led TV movie Gypsy. Fox was a prolific TV and movie set decorator whose credits include Criminal Minds, Shameless, Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. and United States of Tara, as well as Speed and The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
ABC unveils the trailer for the Kaitlin Olson-led High Potential
Based on a French format and premiering Sept. 17, High Potential "follows Morgan (Olson), a single mom with three kids and an exceptional mind, who helps solve an unsolvable crime when she rearranges some evidence during her shift as a cleaner for the police department. When they discover she has a knack for putting things in order because of her high intellectual potential, she is brought on as a consultant to work with a by-the-book seasoned detective Karadec (Daniel Sunjata), and together they form an unusual and unstoppable team."
Watch Bill Gates discuss social issues with Lady Gaga and more in Netflix's trailer for What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates
The five-part series, dropping on Sept. 18, will feature the Microsoft co-founder discussing artificial intelligence, online conspiracies, inequality and other issues with such big names as Lady Gaga, Bono, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Dr. Anthony Fauci and James Cameron.
Kathy Bates-led Matlock trailer promises this is “not the Matlock you’re expecting"
Bates's Matlock reboot premieres on CBS on Sunday, Sept. 22 before moving to its regular Thursday timeslot on Oct. 17.
Nicole Kidman hosts a deadly wedding weekend in Netflix's The Perfect Couple trailer
Eve Hewson also stars in the six-episode limited series murder mystery, dropping on Netflix on Thursday.
Bravo teases Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills Season 14 and Real Housewives of Potomac Season 9
Watch a promo for Bravo's Real Housewives offerings this fall.
Hulu releases the trailer for Australian limited series Last Days of the Space Age
Chicago Fire alum Jesse Spencer is among the stars in the 1979 Western Australia-set eight-part series with the following description: “A power strike threatens to plunge the region into darkness, while the city hosts the iconic Miss Universe pageant and the U.S. space station, Skylab, crashes just beyond the city’s suburbs. Against this backdrop of international cultural and political shifts, three families in a tight-knit coastal community find their marriages, friendships and futures put to the test.” Last Days of the Space Age premieres Oct. 12.