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Damar Hamlin has been released from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and has returned home to Buffalo after spending a week under intensive care. Hamlin has been transferred to Buffalo General Medical Center, where he will continue his recovery, per his doctors. Physicians at the UC Medical Center made the announcement Monday, saying Hamlin

Quinn Redeker, the actor who was best known for his role on NBC’s “Days of Our Lives,” died Dec. 20 in Los Angeles. He was 86. Redeker was a guest star staple on American television for more than three decades from the 1960s through the 1980s, best known for his portrayal of Alex Marshall on

For the first time since his 2021 exit from the “Bachelor” franchise, Chris Harrison is speaking out at length. During the first two episodes of iHeartRadio’s “The Most Dramatic Podcast Ever…With Chris Harrison,” which dropped on Sunday evening, he admitted that he was “heartbroken” and “gutted” by the controversy. “I was embarrassed. I was mad

Fox is developing the comedy series “Dicks” with Mary Beth Barone and Jared Goldstein, Variety has learned exclusively. The single-camera series will star both Barone and Goldstein. It is described as “a field-based, comedic take on the true crime format. Best friends and amateur private investigators Mary Beth Barone and Jared Goldstein travel the country,

Gadi Schwartz, best known for NBC News’ Snapchat show, is getting a streaming 8 p.m. hour all his own. Schwartz will anchor an 8 p.m. newscast from Los Angeles. on the free, ad-supported NBC News Now streaming service, according to a memo issued Monday by Janelle Rodriguez, the NBC News senior vice president who oversees

During its presentation at the Television Critics Association’s 2023 winter press tour, Paramount+ debuted new teaser art for the third and final season of “Star Trek: Picard,” which premieres on Feb. 16. During the panel about the series however, the team behind the series didn’t seem so sure that this would be the end. “Who

Marc Pos, the creator and producer of “The Traitors,” may have taken six years to sell his Dutch psychological format, but his patience has been rewarded. Not only was the reality show a huge hit when it eventually landed on RTL4 in the Netherlands, but it’s beginning to take Europe and the rest of the

One of the biggest media-industry battles in recent months has been the one for control of how TV audiences are counted. Some TV networks are escalating the fight. Fox, NBCUniversal, Paramount, TelevisaUnivision, and Warner Bros. Discovery have launched a joint industry committee they intend to use to vet and certify a dizzying array of audience-measurement

The official trailer for “You” Season 4 has been released by Netflix, revealing that Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) is not the only murderer with their sights set on London. Posing as a literature professor named Jonathan Moore at a London university, Joe is surprised to find he enjoys teaching, despite being surrounded by egocentric socialites.

Longtime top AMC Networks execs Ed Carroll and Lisa Schwartz have found their new C-suite home: The former cable channel leaders have joined Kino Lorber, with Carroll set as chief strategy officer and Lisa Schwartz as chief revenue officer. The former colleagues will be working close with Kino Lorber chairman and CEO Richard Lorber and

“Elvis,” “Babylon,” “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Top Gun: Maverick” are among the films nominated by the Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800). The guild announced the nominations for its 27th Excellence in Production Design Awards in motion pictures, television, commercial and music video categories. Winners will be

Netflix has swung the axe on “Inside Job,” the adult-animation conspiracy comedy, after one season, according to creator and showrunner Shion Takeuchi. Takeuchi, a writer on “Gravity Falls” and other shows, announced the cancellation Sunday evening on Twitter. “I’m heartbroken to confirm that Netflix has decided to cancel season 2 of ‘Inside Job,’” she wrote.

Jemma Redgrave will reprise her role and Aneurin Barnard will join the cast of long-running and ever-popular BBC series “Doctor Who.” “UNIT returns! Jemma Redgrave returns as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, and UNIT, the long-running organisation set on defending the Earth, returns in the next series of #DoctorWho. Aneurin Barnard also joins the series as the mysterious

Streaming service Paramount+ has swooped for the Canadian rights to Prince Harry’s ITV interview. The service will be the exclusive Canadian home for “Harry: The Interview,” which aired in the U.K. on Sunday night and drew an average audience of 4.2 million. In the interview, the Duke of Sussex speaks with journalist Tom Bradby about

Prince Harry’s first TV appearance since his memoir, “Spare,” triggered headlines worldwide thanks to its revelations about his drug-taking, sex life and rift with his family, was watched by an average of 4.2 million U.K. viewers across TV and streaming on Sunday night. The audience for “Harry: The Interview” peaked at 4.6 million, making it

Canal + has reached a deal to acquire OCS and Orange Studio, the pay TV arm and film division of Orange, France’s leading telco group. Under the agreement, Canal + will be the sole shareholder of both OCS and Orange Studio, which handles series production, as well as co-production and theatrical distribution of movies. Canal

“A Sunday Affair,” a feature film from Nigeria’s EbonyLife Media, will bow on Netflix on Feb. 14. Set against the backdrop of Lagos, two best friends, Uche and Toyin, fall in love with Sunday, a charming, yet flawed eligible bachelor. A love triangle ensues with the women unaware that they are dating the same man.

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Justified & Ancient,” the series finale of Showtime’s “George & Tammy.” In the end, George Jones and Tammy Wynette rode off into the sunset — at least on television. Showtime’s record-breaking limited series “George & Tammy” came to a close Sunday night with the country music legends singing

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the series premiere of “Mayfair Witches,” now airing Sundays on AMC and streaming on AMC+. Rowan Fielding is a mess, and that’s before she inherits a dangerous power from a lineage of witches that she can’t control. The San Francisco neurosurgeon at the center of AMC’s latest Anne

Serving in the military “saved me,” Prince Harry told “60 Minutes” correspondent Anderson Cooper in a revealing interview that touched on his struggle to mourn the loss of his mother, his fight to defend his wife, his conflicts with his father and older brother and his experiments with using psychedelics for trauma therapy. Harry, on

Prince Harry has made his first TV appearance since his highly-anticipated memoir, “Spare,” leaked on Thursday. The pre-recorded interview, which aired over 90 minutes in the U.K. at 9pm local time on public service broadcaster ITV, saw Harry address some of the most explosive claims in the book, included his drug-taking and his fractured relationship

AMC Networks will not be continuing its animated science-fiction series “Pantheon,” though a second season has already been produced. There remains a possibility that the series could be licensed or sold to another platform. The decision regarding “Pantheon” was made months ago, declared in a list of programming write-offs in early December of last year.

Adam Rich, a former child actor best known for starring as Nicholas Bradford on the ABC series “Eight Is Enough,” died Saturday, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. He was 54. No further details about Rich’s death are available at this time, though reports state that law enforcement has not indicated to signs

It’d been this critic’s assumption that “Alert: Missing Persons Unit,” a new drama launching on Fox, would resemble “Without a Trace,” the case-of-the-week crime story that aired on CBS during what we might call that network’s Golden Age of police procedurals. There, each week brought a new intrigue around a person who’d disappeared, and, eventually,

The nation’s hottest political TV drama came to an end early Saturday when California Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy was finally elected Speaker of the House after a wild climax to the chaos that has unfolded on the floor of Congress during the past week. McCarthy prevailed on the 15th election for the powerful post that

Amid mounting recession concerns in Hollywood and a potential labor strike to contend with, Pearlena Igbokwe is shining with a great deal of optimism in her position as chairman of Comcast’s Universal Studio Group. Igbokwe spoke with Variety’s co-editor in chief Cynthia Littleton Friday during her headlinder conversation at Variety‘s Entertainment Summit at CES about

The energy was high at the “BMF” Season 2 premiere at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood on Thursday night. But, one person’s presence was dearly missed among the cast and crew. After attendees filed into the screening room from the black carpet, Starz president Kathryn Busby opened the event with a tender message thanking

Luis Guzmán is launching his own production company, Mascot Camp Productions, Variety has learned exclusively. Mascot Camp has already formed a partnership with Rescue Dog Productions, Matthew Dwyer and Michael Hollingsworth, to finance the first two years of productions, consisting of plans to make six feature films and four television series. The company plans to

Shannon Buck has been named executive vice president of publicity of Peacock, where she will oversee publicity, events and activations for Peacock original and exclusive content. Her hiring comes after the December promotions of NBCUniversal communication executives Chip Sullivan and Allison Rawlings, which was intended to help “bring the Television & Streaming portfolio closer together.”

Nicole Maines (“Supergirl”), François Arnaud (“The Borgias”) and Nia Sondaya (“Truth Be Told”) have been added to Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” Season 2 in recurring roles. They join Emmy nominee and Critics Choice Award winner Melanie Lynskey, Oscar and Emmy nominee Juliette Lewis, Emmy nominee Christina Ricci and Tawny Cypress. Lauren Ambrose (“Six Feet Under,” “Servant”) and