Veteran TV agent and producer Michael Carlton “Cal” Boyington, whose credits included helping package MTV’s “The Osbournes,” has died. He was 53. Boyington was found unresponsive at his home in San Pedro on Nov. 18. The TV talent and packaging agent founded his own firm, the Vital Artists Agency, in 2020. Before that, he was […]

Matt Gaetz is out as Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, and late night reacted with glee. That included the Thursday audience at “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” which provided thunderous applause and cheers when Colbert announced the news. “We have something to be thankful for, because this afternoon, Matt Gaetz withdrew as Trump’s […]

Good grief! “The Masked Singer” pays tribute to Charlie Brown, Snoopy and friends next week with “Peanuts Night.” The event will also air one day later than usual, Thursday, Nov. 28, as a Thanksgiving special. Variety has a first look at the Thanksgiving “Peanuts Night” edition of “The Masked Singer,” which kicks off with panelists […]

Before his death in May, songwriter Richard M. Sherman’s final gig for Disney was to write a new, bonus verse for “It’s A Small World.” Now, a new ABC special is set to unveil that verse for the first time. In “The Last Verse,” a three-and-a-half-minute short film airing next Wednesday on ABC, the new […]

The entire country of Chile has a vested interest in the success of Ted Danson’s new Netflix comedy, “A Man on the Inside.” In the series, Danson plays Charles, a retired widower who answers a help wanted ad — and is then hired by a P.I. to embed in a retirement community and spy on […]

SPOILER ALERT: Details follow for Season 12, Episode 8 of “The Masked Singer,” “Miley Cyrus Night,” which aired November 20 on Fox. Drake Bell got a bit serious on Wednesday night’s episode of “The Masked Singer,” revealing what it felt like to be at the center of a media firestorm earlier this year. Bell, who […]

Serendipity seems to follow Ralph Macchio — and it most recently took him to Australia. In October, Coldplay released the song “The Karate Kid,” and it’s exactly what you think it’s about, down to the lyrics about “Daniel.” That, of course, is the name of the lead character played by Macchio in three “The Karate […]

NBC has landed on a February premiere for “Suits LA,” the follow-up to smash hit procedural “Suits”, as well as a date that month for its “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary special. As the network unveiled its winter and midseason lineup, that also includes the ten-part docuseries “The Americas,” narrated by Tom Hanks, and the […]

PBS is expanding its presence in the linear, free streaming channel business. The public broadcaster has sealed a deal with Amazon to stream its PBS Kids channel, as well as 150 local PBS stations, as part of the Prime Video FAST channel offerings. “FAST” stands for free, ad-supported TV — but the PBS channels will […]

Despite the inaccurate reporting and speculation that Oprah Winfrey was personally paid by the Kamala Harris campaign to participate in the “Unite for America” livestream rally in September, Winfrey has once again confirmed that the $1 million spent by the campaign went directly to Harpo Prods.’ production fees. Harpo, after all, required the fees for […]

SPOILER ALERT: Details follow for Season 12, Episode 7 of “The Masked Singer,” “Who Are You Fest Night,” which aired November 13 on Fox. It may have been a wipeout, but surfer Bethany Hamilton told Variety that she still enjoyed her brief appearance on “The Masked Singer.” Hamilton was the latest celebrity to be unmasked, […]

The election results weighed heavily last week on “The View” hosts — and perhaps its viewers as well, as they tuned in en masse to give the daytime talker its best week-long ratings in more than three and a half years. According to ABC analysis of Nielsen data, “The View” averaged 3.078 million viewers during […]

A fourth season of “The White Lotus” could already be in the works. HBO and Max boss Casey Bloys told reporters Tuesday that he visited creator Mike White on the show’s Season 3 Thailand set earlier this year, and that White already has ideas percolating for Season 4. “Mike, obviously — if he wants to […]

HBO and Max head Casey Bloys has responded to the estate of Michael Crichton, and its lawsuit arguing that the upcoming Max series “The Pitt” is an unauthorized reboot of “ER,” telling reporters he doesn’t expect it to have an impact on the show’s early 2025 rollout. “I’m sure I’m not supposed to talk about active […]

The lines between Hulu and ABC (already programmed jointly under head Craig Erwich) continue to blur, as the Alphabet web unveiled a midseason schedule heavy on repurposed hits from the streamer. That includes the addition of Hulu’s “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” which will air on Mondays at 10 p.m. starting Jan. 27 following […]

Prime Video’s “Fallout” didn’t forget Macaulay Culkin. The “Home Alone” star has booked a recurring role in Season 2 of the Emmy-nominated drama, Variety has confirmed. There are no details yet to Culkin’s character on the series, but Deadline, which broke the news, wrote that it will be a “crazy genius type.” Based on the […]

Jimmy Fallon generally does fewer political jokes or references than his late night competitors, and that remained true on Wednesday night following the re-election of Donald Trump. Fallon opened with a few, mostly light-hearted jokes without wading too deep into the partisan waters. Perhaps his most biting line was more of a pun than any […]

“Jimmy Kimmel Live” hit the airwaves on Wednesday night with a sharp take on the election, spelling out during host Jimmy Kimmel’s Wednesday monologue all that was lost when Donald Trump was re-elected as president: “It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hard working immigrants who make […]

As the only woman in late night, comedian Taylor Tomlinson’s monologue was particularly pointed and honest on Wednesday night. The host of CBS’ “After Midnight” (who had added an opening monologue to her show at the start of its second season), Tomlinson darkly joked that “it is an honor to be on television while women […]