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Ever since “The Bachelor” alum Ashley Iaconetti was announced as one of the seven women anchoring Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Rhode Island,” fans of the long-running ABC franchise — which featured the reality star on at least four iterations — have been eager to see what she’s up to now. Iaconetti is somewhat of […]

As Mitski played a five-night engagement at Hollywood High School this past week, any teachers who might have made it into the school auditorium for the shows must have been insanely jealous of how hushed her audiences were, at least between songs, when a hush was called for. Surely no school assembly ever held on […]

Dan Levy told CBS Sunday Morning that he was considering a “Schitt’s Creek” sequel series before the death of his co-star, Catherine O’Hara. Although he asserted that a sequel series “can’t” be done now, Levy said he was “thinking about it” before O’Hara died. During his interview, Levy visited the Rose Apothecary location from “Schitt’s […]

The UCLA women’s basketball team has scored the school’s first-ever women’s NCAA championship title, dominating the South Carolina Gamecocks 79-51 in a hard-fought Easter Sunday game that capped several years of momentum for the Bruin squad that features superstar player Lauren Betts. Betts, the team’s 6’7″ center, and guard Kiki Rice led the Bruins to […]

The Boy Who Lived is back – in a behind-the-scenes documentary of HBO’s upcoming adaptation of the “Harry Potter” books. Released April 5, the 30-minute special, titled “Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic,” gave viewers a glimpse at the creation of Season 1, which is currently being filmed at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in […]

Savannah Guthrie joined Good Shepherd New York’s digital Easter gathering on Sunday morning to share a message of hope amid her mother’s unsolved abduction. “Good morning, everybody. Happy Easter,” Guthrie said. “And Easter is happy. It is flowers and pastels and baby bunnies. It is sunshine and joy and hope. It is rebirth and second […]

BTS has outpaced Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, to land a second week atop the Billboard 200. The K-pop group’s latest album “Arirang” holds steady at No. 1 on the albums chart with 187,000 equivalent album units, down 71% from its opening week with 641,000. Last week, “Arirang” became BTS’ seventh No. […]

Lisa Kudrow said during a recent Interview Magazine profile that she’s “not drawn” to new multi-camera sitcoms. The “Friends” star thinks it’s because new shows are “too afraid” to make jokes that make audiences “uncomfortable.” When asked if the sitcom genre is evolving or dying, Kurdrow said, “I wish they were evolving. ‘30 Rock’ and […]

The “Malcolm in the Middle” revival will not feature the return of Erik Per Sullivan, despite the show’s efforts to pull him away from his studies at Harvard University to play Dewey, Malcolm’s younger brother. In an interview with The Guardian, star Jane Kaczmarek, who played Per Sullivan’s on-screen mother, said the retired actor is […]

It’s-a blockbuster, again! “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” towered over the global box office with $372.5 million, including a notable $182.4 million internationally. Those ticket sales easily capture the title for the biggest worldwide debut of the year over Amazon MGM’s space odyssey “Project Hail Mary,” which bowed to $33.1 million overseas and $97.2 million […]

Kam Patterson played Professor Snape from “Harry Potter” during “Weekend Update” on “Saturday Night Live.” Patterson’s casting as Snape is a reference to HBO’s upcoming “Harry Potter” series, in which the previously white character is being played by Black actor Paapa Essiedu. After being introduced by Colin Jost, Patterson’s Snape began by speaking overly formally, […]

After Charles Barkley spoke about immigrants during a recent segment covering March Madness, this week’s “Saturday Night Live” cold open began with him opining on other issues. Barkley, as played by Kenan Thompson, was quick to venture from the topic of college basketball and into hot topic current events, such as American intervention in Iran […]

The April 4 episode of “Saturday Night Live” marked Jack Black’s fifth hosting stint, granting him entry into the exclusive “five-timers club.” Several comedy legends made cameos during his monologue to celebrate. First was Jonah Hill, who told Black that there was “something wrong with the five-timer’s club” as they entered a lounge that has […]

When Mitski wraps up a five-night residency at Hollywood High School this weekend, it will conclude an engagement that follows in a very limited tradition of rock or pop stars doing shows in the school’s 1,900-seat auditorium, preceded most famously by Elvis Costello in 1978 and Morrissey in 2013. But in a broader sense, the […]

Longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Kroft recently told Bill O’Reilly on his “We’ll Do It Live!” podcast that he “hated” his time on the CBS news show. “’60 Minutes’ was really appealing, and I thought I wasn’t really sure I was ever going to get there. I didn’t really seriously think about it. When I […]

Riz Ahmed took aim at the British during his opening monologue as host on “Saturday Night Live U.K.” on April 4. “We like it when things are a little bit crap,” he said. Ahmed started with a dig at his own eclectic credit list: “I’m an actor, I’m a writer, I’m a producer, and I’m […]

‘Saturday Night U.K.’ took aim at a number of public figures in this week’s faux news segment Weekend Update, with one particularly spicy joke invoking Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s death by suicide. “It’s been revealed that meta billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is building a bunker under his compound in California,” said Weekend Update co-host Ania Magliano. […]

In an epic bout for the championship, Premier Boxing Champions travels “Down Under,” where Australian boxer Tim Tszyu (26-3-0) takes on Albanian Denis Nurja (20-0-0) for the vacant WBO International Middleweight belt. Tszyu vs. Nurja takes place on Saturday, Apr. 4 at Wollongong Entertainment Centre in Wollongong, Australia with a start time of 9 p.m. […]

‘Saturday Night Live U.K.’ opened with another Keir Starmer sketch for its third episode, with the British Prime Minister calling upon the services of the country’s biggest celebrities – soccer star Harry Kane, actor Olivia Colman and cartoon character Peppa Pig – to cheer up the nation amid fears of war and a cost of […]

With Season 3 of “Shrinking” nearing its finale, co-creator Bill Lawrence is already setting expectations for what comes next. The showrunner revealed that the upcoming fourth season will mark a creative reset, introducing a fresh narrative while keeping the ensemble cast intact. Lawrence explained that the series was originally designed around a three-season arc focusing […]