Netflix has acquired the rights to comedian Iliza Shlesinger’s Freezing Hot. The one-hour stand-up special explores the universal struggles between men and women. It follows Shlesinger’s 2013 special, War Paint. Freezing Hot premieres on the streaming service on Friday, January 23.
ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder has snagged Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Cicely Tyson for a guest spot. She’ll appear in one episode when the drama returns on January 29 for the remaining six episodes of its first season. No details have been revealed on the character she’ll portray.
James Corden has a team. CBS announced the Late Late Show host and exec producer Ben Winston will be joined by exec producer Rob Crabbe (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon), co-exec producer and head writer Mike Gibbons (Tosh.0), supervising producer Sheila Rogers (Late Show with David Letterman) and producer Josie Cliff (One Night with […]
Is Charlie Sheen making an appearance on the February 19 series finale of CBS’s Two and a Half Men? Asked on Friday’s The Ellen DeGeneres Show if the prodigal son was returning, Sheen’s replacement, Ashton Kutcher, didn’t say yes – but it wasn’t a firm no, either. “If you’re working on the Warner Bros. lot, […]
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Nominees for the 2015 Golden Globe Awards were announced Thursday morning. Among the TV nods: for best drama series, it’s Showtime’s The Affair, HBO’s Game of Thrones, CBS’s The Good Wife and Netflix’s House of Cards. Competing for best comedy series are HBO’s Girls and Silicon Valley, CW’s Jane the Virgin, Netflix’s Orange Is the […]
Limited series Betty White’s Smartest Animals in America premieres on White’s 93rd birthday, Saturday, January 17, at 8p, on Great American Country. Said animal lover White, who communes with the likes of dolphins, elephants and badgers in the special, “Any excuse to be around animal, I’ll take it!”
David Letterman’s last day as host of CBS’s Late Show has been set for Wednesday, May 20. “It’s going to be tough to say goodbye, but I know we will all cherish the shows leading up to Dave’s final broadcast,” said CBS CEO Les Moonves. Letterman, who has hosted the Late Show for 22 years, […]
Television nominees for the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards include the casts of Boardwalk Empire, Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones, Homeland and House of Cards in the drama series category, and Big Bang Theory, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Modern Family, Orange Is the New Black and Veep in comedy. HBO topped the list with 14 nominations, […]
Police drama Rizzoli & Isles will make it to season six on TNT, with a largest-yet order of 18 episodes. This summer, the show was the number one basic cable drama in total viewers with 7.6 million average viewers in Live+7. Seems like a no-brainer, but the renewal was reportedly delayed by the exit of […]