Like its comics source material, Amazon Prime Video’s new original series “The Boys” sets out to explore “what would happen it you combined the worst of celebrity with the worst of politics,” according to showrunner Eric Kripke. At the world premiere, held at the Tribeca Film Festival on Monday night, Kripke explained that he took
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SPOILER ALERT: Do not keep reading unless you’ve seen “Game of Thrones” Season 8 Episode 3, titled “The Long Night.” “Game of Thrones” fans waited seven and a half seasons for the full strength of the Night King and his army to descend on the living. The moment he unleashed his full power was always going
April 29, 2019 5:09PM PT “Grey’s Anatomy” comfortably came out as the highest-rated scripted show in Live+7 for the week of April 8. The ABC show saw an 80% increase from a 1.5 to a 2.7 rating in the key 18-49 demographic after a week’s delay, beating “Modern Family,” which came in second with a
Promoting strong female characters was very much on brand for several of Disney Channel’s star characters at Saturday’s Disney Channel Fan Fest held at California Adventure Park, a day-long event that treated kids and their families to a bevy of fan-focused activities, from Q&A sessions to musical performances and meet and greets with Disney Channel
April 29, 2019 4:07PM PT AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan saw his 2018 compensation fall 30% from the previous year to $20.5 million. Sapan earned a salary of $2 million and a bonus of $4.6 million, according to AMC Networks’ annual proxy filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Sapan also received stock awards valued
This year, the MTV Video Music Awards are heading across the Hudson River to Newark, N.J. — hitting the Garden State for the first time ever — and the 2019 VMAs will feature a unique Twitter live-streaming video angle. The VMAs are set for Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, to be held at Newark’s Prudential Center
April 29, 2019 3:39PM PT Netflix has renewed “On My Block” for a third season. The second season of the series debuted on March 29. The third season will consist of eight episodes while the first two seasons were both 10 episodes. The series is a coming of age comedy about four friends navigating their
In today’s TV news roundup, CBS will air a “Big Bang Theory” special after the series finale and Showtime expands “Desus & Mero” to two nights per week this summer. DATES Showtime will expand its new late-night talk show “Desus & Mero” to two nights per week starting this summer. The show will air on Mondays
Natalie Morales’ character on the new NBC sitcom “Abby’s” is believed to be the first bisexual lead on a primetime sitcom. But Morales notes that it’s not the character’s defining characteristic. “It’s one of the many things about her but it doesn’t define our show,” she told Variety‘s “My Favorite Episode” podcast. “I’ve been really
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read before watching “The Long Night,” the third episode of “Game of Thrones’” final season. There’s never been an episode of TV like “The Long Night.” The long-awaited Battle of Winterfell delivered 82 minutes of heart-stopping, overwhelming, and extremely chaotic warfare on a truly massive scale, bringing the ultimate showdown of
SPOILER ALERT: Do not keep reading unless you’ve seen “Game of Thrones” Season 8 Episode 3, titled “The Long Night.” In last night’s episode of “Game of Thrones,” Lyanna Mormont — played by Bella Ramsey — once again stole the show and proved, for the last time, that standing up to giants is what she
Welcome back to Tune In: our weekly newsletter offering a guide to the best of the week’s TV. Each week, Variety’s TV team combs through the week’s schedule, selecting our picks of what to watch and when/how to watch them. This week, the animated comedy “Tuca & Bertie” and the documentary “Knock Down The House”
Showtime has renewed the comedy series “Black Monday” for a second season. The show stars Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells, Regina Hall, and Paul Scheer as employees of a Wall Street trading firm in the year leading up to Black Monday, the day international stock markets crashed in 1987. It’s the story of how a group
Producer Will Packer and Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury have teamed with Fox Television Stations for a test run of a newsmagazine focused on entertainment and pop culture. “Central Ave” is billed as targeting a multicultural audience with reporting delivered through a “provocative, socially conscious and diverse lens,” per Fox. Julissa Bermudez (BET’s “106 & Park”) and Olympic
April 29, 2019 9:45AM PT CBS All Access has renewed “The Twilight Zone” for a second season, Variety has learned. The series, a reboot of the timeless anthology series created by Rod Serling, features Jordan Peele as host, producer and narrator. Episodes to date have featured such thesps as Ike Barinholtz, John Cho, Taissa Farmiga, Ginnifer Goodwin,
Charles Roven’s Atlas Entertainment has acquired the rights to Joseph Finder’s thriller “Judgment,” and plans to adapt the novel into a series, Variety has learned exclusively. The novel centers on Juliana Brody, a formidable judge in the Superior Court of Massachusetts. After a one-night affair with a man she meets at a conference, Juliana quickly realizes
“Saturday Night Live” fans will scan the next episodes of the show for all the usual stuff: the surprise guests in the cold open and the kooky characters who pop up during “Weekend Update.” But they may want to focus on something else. Kate McKinnon, the popular “SNL” cast member who has won plaudits for
The much-anticipated “Dracula” series from the BBC and Netflix is showing more of its fangs, with the directors now set and new cast members added. Jonathan Aris (“Black Mirror: Bandersnatch”), Sacha Dhawan (“The Boy With the Top Knot”), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (“Misfits”) and Catherine Schell (“On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”) will be joining the already-announced Claes
“Veep” has, for most of its run, steered clear of explicit real-world references: Its characters are interviewed by fictional journalists, as opposed by CNN stars dropping by for a cameo, and never seem to reference presidents more recent than Nixon. They don’t have stated political parties. Against this backdrop of simplified surreality, the show earned
April 29, 2019 5:00AM PT Last week’s telecast of the annual NFL Draft was the most watched in the event’s history, according to statistics provided by the National Football League. More than 47.5 million TV viewers tuned in to some part of various broadcasts of the Draft, which was televised across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Deportes,
(SPOILER ALERT: Do not read on unless you’ve seen Season 8, Episode 3 of “Game of Thrones,” which contained the Battle of Winterfell. Seriously, don’t do it.) The living won. In what was unarguably the biggest episode in “Game of Thrones” yet, the living of Winterfell not only held their ground against the white walkers.
April 28, 2019 8:19PM PT The much-anticipated third episode of “Game of Thrones‘” final season aired Sunday night, titled “The Long Night.” And boy, was that an apt call. Almost as soon as the episode kicked off at 9 p.m. ET, the Internet was flooded with tweets about the lighting of the show, with complaints
The so-called Battle of Winterfell was, perhaps, the culmination of the path “Game of Thrones” has trod over its past several seasons; a show that has grown relentlessly in scope, dazzle, and cruelty reached its apotheosis in some eighty-plus minutes of slaughter and dragon-flight that forced characters through a gauntlet whose punishing nature was the
SPOILER ALERT: Do not keep reading unless you’ve seen “Game of Thrones” Season 8 Episode 3. Everybody, breathe. After just under an hour and a half of sheer terror, “Game of Thrones” fans have been left with virtually no nails and only three episodes of the show to go. Here are the most shocking moments from
Actions speak louder than words, which certainly rang true on Sunday night’s epic installment of “Game of Thrones.” But it also featured some great, albeit short exchanges between key characters as the fiery Battle raged on. Here were our favorite lines from Season 8, Episode 3, titled “The Long Night”: Spoilers ahead! “There’s no need
April 28, 2019 7:34PM PT SPOILERS: Do not read on unless you’ve seen episode three of season 8 of “Game of Thrones,” which aired Sunday April 28. The Battle of Winterfell has ended and “Game of Thrones” fans were forced to say goodbye to several fan-favorites, from Theon Greyjoy to Beric Dondarrion. After the final shock-inducing
April 28, 2019 3:49PM PT Avid “Game of Thrones” fans may be able to glean some insight into the third episode of season 8 before it even airs. Photos from the third episode of the final season of “Game of Thrones” have begun to hit the Internet ahead of the episode’s Sunday night premiere. Rest
“Mr. Robot” creator Sam Esmail has confirmed the fourth and final season of his USA drama will come to an end in a way that will pay homage to British television series. “You know what they typically do at the end — like [in] the British ‘Office’ — they tend to do a Christmas special.
All men must die –– in pretty spectacular fashion. The Battle of Winterfell in this week’s episode of “Game of Thrones” will reportedly be the longest recorded battle sequence ever filmed (for both TV and movies), and it was directed by Miguel Sapochnik of “Hardhome” and “Battle of the Bastards” fame. Last week’s calm before
April 27, 2019 8:15PM PT During a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin on Saturday night, Donald Trump called Jussie Smollett a “third-rate actor” whose highly-publicized case was a “disgrace to our Nation.” “It’s MAGA country,” he told the crowd. “I didn’t hear that term until that third rate actor in Chicago went out and