It’s officially the holiday season. Beginning Oct. 12, Great American Family kicked off their Great American Christmas 2024 event, while Hallmark Channel will start to roll out their new movies, as part of the 15th annual Countdown to Christmas event, on Oct. 18. This year, across the channel, Hallmark Mystery and Hallmark+, the company is […]

Mark Donovan, the president of the Kansas City Chiefs, is weighing in on his kicker Harrison Butker’s May commencement speech. While speaking to students at Benedictine College, Butker made polarizing remarks against the LGBTQ+ community and condemned abortion, IVF and surrogacy. Shortly after his speech, NFL senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer […]

Ryan Murphy and John Landgraf are very busy — but they’re both determined to get more “American Horror Story” on screen. “One of the reasons that I thought that ‘American Horror Story’ was such a brilliant idea was because Ryan loves to invent things. He loves to create worlds. ‘American Horror Story’ gave Ryan an […]

 If Hallmark’s business model were a Hallmark movie, the logline would be straightforward: Tired of the monotonous dating landscape, a hardworking woman is ready to try something different. As she opens herself up to new experiences, she envisions a future that no one saw coming. At Hallmark Media, executives know it’s a turbulent time in […]

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the seventh episode of FX’s “Grotesquerie.” Ryan Murphy recently shared that “Grotesquerie” is a personal project, about finding your way through a bleak time through hope and love. It’s safe to say that, so far, the FX horror drama has very little hope or love. However, in the Oct. […]

SPOILER ALERT: The following interview contains spoilers from “Herald Street,” the Oct. 15 episode of FX’s “American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez,” now streaming on Hulu. Although “American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez” is a dramatization of the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez, who took his own life in 2017 while serving life in […]

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the Season 2 finale of “Tell Me Lies,” now streaming on Hulu. Season 2 of “Tell Me Lies” came crashing to an end — in both the 2008 and the 2015 timelines. In an attempt to sum up everything that happened: Stephen (Jackson White) and Diana (Alicia Crowder) broke […]

The Oct. 15 episode of “Dancing With the Stars” was “Dedication Night,” which meant the tears were already flowing… and then Derek Hough and wife Hayley Erbert took the floor. The married duo celebrated her return to the ballroom with an emotional routine to “Beautiful Things” by Benson Boone, marking Erbert’s first time back following […]

It’s nearly time for “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime.” Lifetime’s annual holiday movie event will kick off on Saturday Nov. 16, airing 12 new movies every Saturday and Sunday through Christmas on December 25. This year’s new movies include actors Jennifer Love Hewitt, Tia Mowry, Maria Menounos, BeBe Winans, Deborah Joy Winans, Vivica A. Fox, Jackée […]

Mark Harmon holds Jethro Gibbs close to his heart. After 18 years of playing the special agent on “NCIS,” Harmon exited the show as a series regular in 2021 but remained a series regular. However, he was never far away — he cared too much to fully put it in his rearview mirror. So when […]

“I truly am Gibbs at this point.” Austin Stowell arrives at this conclusion 90 minutes into an emotional conversation about taking on the leading role in “NCIS: Origins,” the prequel series to the long-running procedural. Set in 1991, four months after special agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs’ wife and daughter are murdered, “Origins” (which premieres on […]

From sitcoms and dramas to limited series and revivals, fall TV is officially back with more new shows than in the past. But who’s creating this content? Here, Variety highlights the showrunners behind some of the new, most highly anticipated series coming in the next few months. Kevin AbbottWriter and executive producer of “Happy’s Place,” […]

BET+ will air eight original holiday films this season, kicking off on November 7. Starting the first Thursday in November and running each week until Christmas, BET+ will run original movies “filled with yuletide love, family forgiveness and comedy with a holiday twist.” One of the films goes international, with “A Wesley South African Christmas” […]