The Young and the Restless and Beyond the Gates lead Daytime Emmy nominations / Good Mythical Morning is coming to Netflix / TLC announces Double Lives of Suburban Wives
PLUS: World Cup Final pregame show will feature Tom Cruise, Jennifer Hudson, IShowSpeed, Nicole Scherzinger and more.
The Young and the Restless and Beyond the Gates lead Daytime Emmy nominations
The two CBS daytime soap operas topped the Daytime Emmy nominations announced this morning. The Young and the Restless earned 18 nominations, ranking No. 1 for the third consecutive year. Beyond the Gates, the first new broadcast network soap opera in decades, made its Daytime Emmys debut with 15 nominations. General Hospital earned 13 nominations, while Days of Our Lives received eight nods. The Bold and the Beautiful missed the Best Daytime Drama Series category for the third consecutive year, but still earned seven nominations.
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General Hospital Daytime Emmy winner Jeff Kober, who earned an Emmy nomination last week for The Pitt after self-submitting, earned another Daytime Emmy nod for the ABC soap
World Cup Final pregame show will feature Tom Cruise, Jennifer Hudson, IShowSpeed, Nicole Scherzinger and more
Cruise will make a “special appearance” at the World Cup Final at MetLife Stadium on Sunday, FIFA announced today. Hudson will perform the National Anthem. Cruise famously thrilled fans at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games closing ceremony by abseiling from the roof of the Stade de France. The World Cup Final pregame will also feature performances from Robbie Williams, Nicole Scherzinger, Italian superstar Laura Pausini and online influencer IShowSpeed, who is behind the song “World Cup (Champions).”
The Howard Stern Show reportedly lays off a dozen staffers as it prepares to go to one show per week
Last December, Howard Stern signed a three-year new deal with SiriusXM after a months-long standoff that gives him “more flexibility” That “more flexibility” means dropping his long-running radio show from three days a week to one day a week after he returns from summer break in September, reports Page Six, which adds that laid-off staffers received the news over Zoom on Monday.
Fox announces fall premiere dates
The network’s fall season kicks off on Sept. 21 with Celebrity Name That Tune. Best Medicine and Doc return for their respective second and third seasons on Sept. 22. Rob Lowe’s The Floor returns for its sixth season on Sept. 23, and Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen Season 25 premieres on Sept. 24.
Big Brother has its biggest debut since 2021
About 3.88 million watched last Thursday’s Season 28 premiere, the biggest season debut since 4.27 million watched the Season 23 premiere in 2021.
Little House on the Prairie debuts as the No. 3 most-watched English language series on Netflix’s weekly chart
The Laura Ingalls Wilder adaptation drew 6.4 million views in four days for the week of July 6-12, placing behind I Will Find You, in its fourth week at No. 1, and No. 2 Worst Neighbor Ever.
Good Mythical Morning is coming to Netflix
The YouTube variety show that co-hosts Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal launched in 2012 “will debut episodes on the subscription streaming giant day-and-date with their primary channel on YouTube, in a wide-ranging deal between Mythical Entertainment and Netflix,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. The partnership will include the daily Good Mythical Morning, Mythical Kitchen and Last Meals, which are led by Mythical chef Josh Scherer. “One of the things we’ve always believed is that great entertainment should meet people wherever they are,” McLaughlin and Neal said in a statement. “We’re excited to begin working with Netflix to bring Good Mythical Morning, Mythical Kitchen, and Last Meals to even more viewers, and we think this is just the beginning of a really fun collaboration.” The partnership is Netflix’s latest attempt to add YouTube content.
The Simpsons brings back Apu — on social media
The Fox animated series’ social media account posted an image over the weekend of Apu holding a “Squishie” with the caption “Frozen. Colorful. Questionably nutritious.” Hank Azaria’s controversial Indian immigrant convenience store owner hasn’t appeared on The Simpsons since October 2017, a month before comedian Hari Kondabolu’s documentary The Problem with Apu was released.
BBC boss is optimistic Doctor Who can have a creative revival
“I think that’s one of the great things about the 100-year history of the BBC,” said BBC director general Matt Brittin. “We can do that, and we can creatively renew shows that people love, and we’ll be working hard on that right now.” ALSO: BBC Studios will be bidding to become the next producer of Doctor Who “with gusto.”
Lifetime orders two Buried in Barstow sequel films, starring Angie Harmon and Kristoffer Polaha
Buried in Barstow: Blood for Blood and Buried in Barstow: The Reckoning will feature Harmon reprising her role as former assassin Hazel King. Polaha will return as Elliot and Lauren Ashley Richards will reprise her role as Hazel’s daughter. Additionally, Finley Sehorn, the daughter of Harmon and Jason Sehorn, will make her acting debut in the sequel films, portraying a young Hazel.
Adam Scott and two of his Severance colleagues are adapting sci-fi graphic novel Shifter for Hulu
Scott and Severance producers Ezra Claytan Daniels and Eli Jorné are developing a TV adaptation of the Hachette graphic novel from Koren Shadmi, who is a consulting producer on the project. “It is set in the near-future, where a banned cosmetic procedure lets people change their faces on the fly, creating a new underground industry of Shifters, who can become anyone you want, for any purpose you can imagine, for a fee,” per Deadline. “Rose is making a name for herself as one of the best, but the more she gives to her gigs, the more she risks losing herself.”
TLC announces Double Lives of Suburban Wives, a reality show about moms who film adult content as a side hustle
Premiering Aug. 9, Double Lives of Suburban Wives follows six housewives in St. Louis who dabble in raunchy side hustles as adult content creators to build a better life for their families. “On the surface, it may look like we are typical housewives, but we’re not,” one housewife says in the trailer. “Behind our perfect suburban lives are the secrets nobody sees.” Watch the trailer.
Syndicated game show Scrambled Up renewed for Season 2 with double the episodes
The Michael Yo-hosted game show has been picked up for 160 new episodes, doubling the show’s total episode count. Scrambled Up features four contestants who solve jumbled words and phrases as they unscramble.
Lego announces two new SpongeBob SquarePants-themed sets
The two sets include a Bikini Bottom set for $220 and a “BrickHeadz” SpongeBob SquarePants Figure for $13.
Ryan Murphy’s FX The Shards trailer promises sex, drugs and a teenage Bret Easton Ellis
The adaptation of Ellis’ 2023 autofictional book of the same name set in 1981 Los Angeles premieres Aug. 5. “Set against the vivid backdrop of 1980s Los Angeles, the series follows a group of privileged high school seniors at an elite prep school as they navigate identity, sex, jealousy, obsession and the dangers lurking beneath the surface of American adolescence,” reads the official description. The Shards stars Igby Rigney as Bret, plus Graham Campbell, Hayes Warner, Wes Bentley, Kaia Gerber and Richard Gere’s son Homer Gere in his first major acting role.