Trevor Noah to say goodbye to Grammys with final CBS broadcast / Timothy Busfield surrenders to police, denies child sex abuse accusations / Nikki Glaser opted not to tell ICE and Trump jokes
PLUS: Bari Weiss wants CBS Evening News to tell stories with “viral potential."
Trevor Noah to host the Grammys for sixth and final time, departing with the awards show’s final CBS broadcast
Noah will host the Grammys for the sixth consecutive year on Feb. 1, marking the final the awards show’s final CBS broadcast after 54 ceremonies. The Grammys, which will air from Los Angeles’ Cryto.com Arena, will move to ABC in 2027. Noah began hosting the Grammys in 2021 amid the pandemic as part of a corporate synergy move while he was still hosting The Daily Show. The Grammys have been a CBS staple since 1973. “I am beyond thrilled to welcome Trevor Noah back to host the Grammys for his sixth, and sadly, final time,” said Grammys executive producer Ben Winston in a statement. “He’s been the most phenomenal host of the show. He’s so smart, so funny, and such a true fan of the artists and music. His impact on the show has been truly spectacular, and we can’t wait to do it together one last time.”
Timothy Busfield surrenders to police, denies child sex abuse accusations
The Emmy-winning Busfield, who was wanted on an arrest warrant accusing him of engaging in unlawful sexual contact with two 11-year-old twin boys on The Cleaning Lady set, turned himself into police today, four days after the arrest warrant was issued. Busfield had disappeared, resulting in U.S. Marshals joining the search for him. In a video obtained by TMZ, Busfield said “I did not do anything wrong.” “Hi everybody, it’s Tim,” the video begins. “I’m sure most of you know, that are watching this, that I was ordered to come to Albuquerque – I’m here now. I got the call Friday night, I had to get a lawyer. Saturday I got in the car, drove 2,000 miles to Albuquerque. I’m gonna confront these lies. They’re horrible...They’re all lies and I did not do anything to those little boys and I’m gonna fight it. I’m gonna fight it with a great team, and I’m gonna be exonerated, I know I am, because this is all so wrong and all lies.” He concluded by saying: “So hang in there and hopefully I’m out real soon and back to work. I love everybody for supporting me, thank you.”
Nikki Glaser opted not to tell ICE and President Trump jokes in my Golden Globes monologue
“You just don’t say that guy’s name right now. I just want to give it space,” Glaser said this morning on The Howard Stern Show, referring to scrapping a “Trump Beverly Hilton” joke. Glaser told Howard Stern that she largely avoided politics because “it’s not funny,” according to Variety. “I was going to come in at some point and say, ‘I’m hearing from the bar that we’re out of ice. And you know, we don’t really need ice. And actually, I hate ice,’” Glaser said, in a double entendre about the federal immigration enforcement agency. “It just felt like, oh, even that’s just being too trivial. … It’s hard to strike the right tone.”
Stranger Things 5 becomes Netflix’s No. 6 most-popular English-language season, but it has already been dethroned by His & Hers
The final season of Stranger Things has jumped from No. 9 to No. 6 in the past week, surpassing Seasons 1 and 2 of Bridgerton and The Queen’s Gambit with a total of 115 million views. Yet Stranger Things is no longer the No. 1 show on Netflix. His & Hers, a thriller series starring Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal that premiered last week, debuted with 19.9 million views to take the No. 1 spot.
William Jackson Harper joins FX limited series Cry Wolf
Harper joins the previously announced Olivia Colman, Brie Larson, Shawn Hatosy, Alyvia Alyn Lind and Jack Greig on the psychological family thriller series. He’ll play the husband of Larson’s character and stepfather of Lind’s character.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is getting a British TV adaptation on Sky
Production is set to begin on the Stieg Larsson novel adaptation this spring, with plans to have it distributed in the U.S. “In the novel, disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander investigate the mysterious disappearance of a girl from a wealthy family 40 years earlier,” per Variety, which adds that the series “will bring the story ‘into the present, grounded in the characters and investigative DNA of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium novels, with themes that carry heightened relevance today.’”
Severance and Beef vet Anna Ouyang Moench tapped as showrunner for Mr. & Mrs. Smith Season 2
Moebch succeeds series co-creator Francesca Sloane, who served as showrunner for Season 1 and moved to HBO for a new overall deal. “At least some of Season 2 had been written before the pause button was hit, and Anora‘s Mark Eydelshteyn and Yellowjackets‘ Sophie Thatcher were cast as the new installment’s eponymous Mr. and Mrs. Smith in December 2024 and February 2025, respectively,” says Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva.
Bari Weiss wants CBS Evening News to tell stories with “viral potential”
“Let’s make sure every single night has something with viral potential,” the CBS News editor in chief wrote in a memo ahead of Tony Dokoupil’s as CBS Evening News anchor, according to The New York Times. The “viral potential” started with Dokoupil going on a 10-city road show. “The goal for this road show is not to deliver the news so much as it is to *drive the news*,” Weiss wrote in a note obtained by The Times. “We need to *be the news* for these 10 days.” As The Times’ Michael M. Grynbaum and Benjamin Mullin point out, Weiss has indeed made CBS Evening News go viral, but “perhaps not in the way she hoped. Her reimagining of CBS News has faced heavy scrutiny, and even became a punchline on her own network: At Sunday’s Golden Globes, broadcast by CBS, the host, Nikki Glaser, earned one of her biggest laughs when she declared that CBS News was ‘America’s newest place to see BS news.’ (David Ellison, the technology heir who controls CBS and installed Ms. Weiss, was in the audience.) That Ms. Weiss’s news division merited a mention at a Hollywood awards show speaks to how the disruptions at CBS have penetrated the culture beyond the media in-crowd — and underscored questions already hanging over her bumpy stewardship of a major news institution.” Weiss’ micromanaging led to Dokoupil’s teleprompter gaffe on his official debut last Monday, Grynbaum and Mullin report. “The blunder occurred in part because Ms. Weiss and her aides were rewriting the Evening News script up until minutes before the 6:30 p.m. airtime, three people with knowledge of the events said,” they report. The CBS Evening News negative headlines come on the heels of Weiss controversially pulling a 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment at the last minute. “Privately, Ms. Weiss has been deeply frustrated by the negative reaction to her decisions, and has blamed some subordinates for not stanching the criticism, three people familiar with internal discussions said,” report Mullins and Grynbaum. “Ms. Weiss’s wife, Nellie Bowles, a former reporter at The Times, openly mocked the objections of the 60 Minutes staff who had clashed with her spouse in a column published by The Free Press, which Ms. Weiss continues to oversee.” “My lovely wife asked some 60 Minutes producers to report out a story a little more, literally Hey guys make a couple more phone calls and then we’ll run the piece in a week or two,” Bowles wrote. “No! the media collectively shrieked. We shan’t!”
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Ricky Gervais had the worst Netflix standup special of 2025: How did he win the Golden Globe for best standup comedy?
Gervais won for the third second time in three years, for his 2025 special Mortality. “That his dismal, meandering laundry list of jokes was even nominated was absurd. That it won, perverse,” says Jason Zinoman. “Imagine if Steven Seagal received the Oscar for best actor — twice. Or if The Alto Knights won for best picture. Taste is subjective, of course, but how can anyone who watched more than a dozen stand-up specials this year think that Ricky Gervais’s pretentiously titled Mortality set the standard? Maybe the fact that he hosted the Globes five times earned him good will. Amy Poehler, another former host, won the first Globe for podcasting on Sunday. And yet, this celebration of one of the worst Netflix specials of the year sends a different message, about the lack of respect afforded stand-up. Out of thousands of hours sweated over by comedians, the one that receives the Globe includes a joke that bombed so badly, Gervais himself says, ‘Needs a bit of work that one.’ I am a huge admirer of his version of The Office, and while he has never been an elite stand-up, he has made me laugh. But in Mortality, Gervais is mailing it in, getting some of his biggest laughs with lines delivered years ago at the Golden Globes. Is that what persuaded the organization’s voters? It couldn’t have been when he tells the audience to expect his ‘most honest and confessional show so far,’ then proceeds to say nothing we don’t already know.”
Is She-Hulk’s Tatiana Maslany out at Marvel?
Maslany who starred in Disney+ Marvel series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law in 2022, has reportedly split from the Marvel franchise. But a split hasn’t been confirmed. “Given the latest reports on her departure, any appearance of She-Hulk in the future would have to include a recasting of the role, an unfortunate reality for the many fans who enjoyed Maslany’s playful and strong-yet-vulnerable take on the character opposite Mark Ruffalo, the acclaimed actor known as Bruce Banner a.k.a. The Hulk in the MCU,” says CBR.com’s Patrik Walker. The news also puts to bed any ties Charlie Cox’s Daredevil might have to She-Hulk, after a mild crossover event in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law that now ends in Disney sending that connection to its room for the night with no dessert — but why?”
Law & Order: SVU promotes Corey Cott
The Detective Jake Griffin actor will become a full-time cast member after joining the NBC procedural earlier this season.
Andre Agassi is getting the Apple TV docuseries treatment
The untitled docuseries on the retired tennis star, directed by Tiger King’s Chris Smith, will tell “the thrilling, complex, inspiring story of an American legend.”
Emilia Clarke says she had a “full mental breakdown” after Game of Thrones ended
Clarke tells The New York Times the breakdown occurred after her Game of Thrones duties ended with the 2019 Emmys and before the pandemic started in early 2020. “It was the first time in my professional life that I stopped,” she said. “I had a full mental breakdown. It was almost as if the timing of the pandemic was bang on.”
Mike Tomlin steps down as Pittsburgh Steelers head coach after 19 years: Will he join Fox Sports?
“With Mike Tomlin deciding he no longer wants to be an NFL head coach, he can likely pick his TV studio job,” The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand says of the Super Bowl-winning Tomlin. “Fox, ESPN, NBC, CBS and Amazon Prime Video would all be better with Tomlin to impart his Tomlin-isms via the small screen. He can likely receive multi-million dollar offers from all of them. Fox is considered the favorite, as it has not filled Jimmy Johnson’s seat on Fox’s NFL studio show following Johnson’s retirement.”
Heated Rivalry appears “sped up” for British viewers
The steamy Canadian Crave hockey drama series appears to running at faster speeds on Britain’s Sky, where it premiered in the UK on Jan. 10. “The change also means that the episode is shorter. For example, on Sky and NOW, episode one runs for 47 minutes and 51 seconds, whereas the original episode ran for over 49 minutes,” says The Independent’s Louis Chilton, adding that “the likely reason for the speeding up of the show has to do with UK broadcast formats – with the practice historically being commonplace when it comes to imported US television. Over in the US, TV shows broadcast at a speed of 24 frames per second, and American (and Canadian) TV productions are filmed to this format. In the UK, however, TV is broadcast at 25 frames per second – a small change, but one that means US shows are often required to air slightly faster.”
NCIS: Sydney sets a Season 3 return date
The CBS drama’s third season will resume on March 3 after going on midseason hiatus on Dec. 16.
Ian Ziering-hosted The Great American Road Rally: Celebrity Edition gets a CW premiere date
The Great American Road Rally: Celebrity Edition premieres May 13. “Set against a cross-country journey along iconic Route 66, the series blends competition, storytelling, and real-world impact as the country prepares to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, the 100th Anniversary of Route 66, and other defining cultural moments in 2026,” per The CW.
The Bear appears to be using the code name “The Fugitive”
The Hulu series is currently filming Season 5 in Chicago.
The Beauty trailer sets an FX viewership record
The trailer for Ryan Murphy’s new series has now amassed nearly 190 million views across social media platforms in seven days.
Scott Adams, Dilbert creator who became a controversial online figure, dies at 68
Adams, who died today after announcing he had an aggressive form of prostate cancer last May and had months to live, used his experience as a bank and phone company middle manager to create Dilbert. Launched in 1989, the daily comic strip satire of corporate life became a sensation but was dropped by more than 1,000 newspapers after he made racist comments on his podcast in 2023. From January 1999 to July 2000, Dilbert aired as an animated series on UPN that Adams created with Seinfeld legend Larry Charles. Dilbert also became the star of a $30 million advertising campaign for Office Depot in 1997. Adams suggested that Dilbert gave voice to isolated cubicle dwellers. “That’s the amazing thing I found when I went on line a couple of years ago,” he told The New York Times in 1995. “I heard from all these people who thought that they were the only ones, that they were in this unique, absurd situation. That they couldn’t talk about their situation because no one would believe it.” As The New York Times’ Richard Sandomir notes, “over the years, Mr. Adams made remarks about women and Jews that brought him negative attention outside the silo of beloved cartoonist. He used his podcast, Real Coffee With Scott Adams, to offer free-flowing commentary on the news, a platform that led to the comic strip’s downfall. In February 2023, he was discussing a new Rasmussen Reports poll that found that only 53 percent of Black Americans agreed with the statement, ‘It’s OK to be white,’ a phrase that has been promoted by white supremacists, according to the Anti-Defamation League.”
Kaley Cuoco stars as a woman searching for her missing boyfriend in MGM+’s Vanished trailer
Sam Claflin also stars in the four-part mystery series premiering Feb. 1.
Mina Kimes competing against NFL legends Antonio Gates, Von Miller, and Julian Edelman on The Great American Baking Show: Big Game Season 2
Watch the trailer for The Roku Channel baking reality show, premiering Feb. 1.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 trailer introduces the debut of Titan X
The brand new Titan expands Legendary’s Monsterverse and gives Kong and Godzilla something even bigger to worry about when Season 2 of the Apple TV series premieres Feb. 27.
HBO unveils the trailer for Portobello, its first Italian original
The limited series tells “the true story of popular Italian TV host Enzo Tortora who, among other programs, conducted a primetime game show by the same title that aired on Italian state broadcaster RAI for seven seasons starting in 1977,” per Variety. “The six-episode show is a vivid account of how Tortora, in 1985, went from being a top-rated TV star to being wrongly convicted of conspiring with the Neapolitan crime syndicate known as Camorra.”
Watch Queer Eye’s 10th and final season trailer
The Fab Five are taking on the nation’s capital in style when Season 10 premieres Jan. 21.
Netflix promises “no room for error” in the trailer for Skyscraper Live
World-renowned American rock climber Alex Honnold will attempt to become the first person to free solo one of the tallest buildings on the planet: Taipei 101 on Jan. 23 live event.