Entertainment - Monday, August 17, 2026

Duane Keith Davis is on trial for orchestrating the 1996 shooting, which he described in a memoir that he has since disavowed.

NYT Arts • 27 days ago

“Crystal Lake” star Linda Cardellini is teasing the upcoming “Friday the 13th” prequel television series. Cardellini stars in the Peacock series as the franchise antagonist Pamela Voorhees. The show, premiering Oct. 15 on the streamer, follows Voorhees’ life prior to the events of the first “Friday the 13th” film. It also stars William Catlett as […]

Variety • 27 days ago

“Pep playing himself is a bit like having Robert De Niro play a football coach.” Those are the musings of Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald, who has just spent two years charting the exploits of Pep Guardiola and Manchester City for A Beautiful Obsession and yet had barely heard of Guardiola before he was brought on […]

Deadline • 27 days ago

Prosecutors said Duane Keith Davis participated in the shooting as an act of gang retaliation, while the defense pointed to what it described as a lack of hard evidence.

NYT Arts • 27 days ago

Season 5 of Apple TV’s The Morning Show has begun adding new faces to its already stacked cast. Season 4 left off with a major character and actress making their departures about midway through. Already, three names have been added to the mix of the news network world and beyond. For everything we know about […]

Deadline • 27 days ago

Alexa PenaVega’s “heart is heavy” after the death of Hayden Panettiere, most notably because it marks the third passing of a fellow child star in 2026. The “Spy Kids” actor noted in a statement on social media that she rose to fame with and grew up alongside the likes of Panettiere, Michelle Trachtenberg and Daveigh […]

Variety • 27 days ago

After the authorities responded to a 911 call in Greenville, S.C., an initial police investigation found no evidence of “foul play or suspicious circumstances.”

NYT Arts • 27 days ago

The culture clash will continue in Season 4 of Julian Fellowes’ HBO period drama The Gilded Age, based on the turn-of-the-century time period in America that lasted between 1870 and 1900. Some familiar faces have been promoted to series regulars since Season 3, and some new faces are joining the cast to play big-name historical […]

Deadline • 27 days ago

Of all the feedback she’s received on All Her Fault, there is one comment that sticks with creator and showrunner Megan Gallagher: “Those are two of the worst husbands I’ve ever seen on television, and neither one of them were having an affair.” It certainly would’ve been easy (and predictable) to fuel audiences’ distaste for […]

Deadline • 27 days ago

President Donald Trump grew angry at CNN’s Kristen Holmes during a press briefing at the White House Monday, after she asked whether he had spoken with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. “Quiet,” Trump told Holmes, CNN’s senior White House correspondent, after she queried the president about if Jong-un had asked Trump to curtail U.S. military […]

Variety • 27 days ago

Abby Phillip has signed a new deal at CNN, where she has hosted the nightly show CNN Newsnight. A network spokesperson declined to comment on talent contracts. According to a source, Phillip recently renewed her deal to remain at the network, which she joined in 2017. CNN NewsNight‘s roundtables frequently land clips on social media, […]

Deadline • 27 days ago

The California attorney general’s office fired back against Paramount’s request for a $1.88 billion bond on Monday, saying the company is seeking a “do-over” on its agreement to delay the Warner Bros. merger until an antitrust trial next March. In a statement, the A.G.’s office argued that Paramount is a “sophisticated” company that knew it […]

Variety • 27 days ago