Category Archives: News
Video Game Actors Contract Ratified: SAG-AFTRA Leaders Talk Gaming Execs’ Reckoning With Hollywood’s AI Standards, 11-Month Strike’s Turning Point
Following an 11-month strike plagued by back-and-forth disputes over Generative AI, SAG-AFTRA has ratified its new contract with major video game companies including Activision, Disney Character Voice...
Jennifer Maas Jul 09, 2025
Cierra Ortega Apologizes After ‘Love Island USA’ Exit, Claims ICE Was Called on Her Family Amid Backlash: ‘I Genuinely Had No Idea That It Was a Slur’
Former “Love Island USA” contestant Cierra Ortega has spoken out after her surprising exit on the July 6 episode. Narrator Iain Stirling said that she left the reality dating show for R...
Jordan Moreau Jul 09, 2025
‘It’s Always Sunny’ Stars on Getting ‘Abbott Elementary’ Actors to Cuss — Including the ‘C-Word’! — in Their Season 17 Premiere
"Abbott Elementary" fans, you've never seen sweet and innocent school teacher Janine Teagues like this. But on Wednesday's Season 17 premiere of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," Janine - and much ...
Varietyschneider Jul 09, 2025
Writers Guild of America West Leaves X After Grok’s Antisemitic Posts
The Writers Guild of America West is leaving X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk. In a post to Instagram on Wednesday, the organization wrote, “Writers Guild of America West will no ...
Jack Dunn Jul 09, 2025
Academy of Country Music to Celebrate Jelly Roll, Eric Church, Cody Johnson, Rissi Palmer, Ben Vaughn and Others at ACM Honors Show
The Academy of Country Music announced the special honorees for the 2025 ACM Honors show on Wednesday, with honorary awards set to go to top songwriters and executives in Nashville as well as a number...
Chris Willman Jul 09, 2025
‘Heartstopper’ Star Joe Locke to Make London West End Debut With Samuel D. Hunter’s ‘Clarkston’
Joe Locke, the Emmy-nominated star of Netflix’s “Heartstopper” and Marvel’s “Agatha All Along,” is set to make his London West End debut this fall in the U.K. premi...
Naman Ramachandran Jul 09, 2025
Daytime Emmys Reveal 2025 Nominations (UPDATING LIVE)
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is slowly rolling out its list of nominations for the 52nd annual Daytime Emmy Awards, which will take place this year in October (moving from th...
Varietyschneider Jul 09, 2025
‘Solo Leveling’ Live-Action Series in Production at Netflix With Byeon Woo-seok to Star
Netflix is producing a live-action series adaptation of the global phenomenon “Solo Leveling,” with rising star Byeon Woo-seok attached to lead the project as protagonist Sung Jinwoo. The ...
Naman Ramachandran Jul 09, 2025
‘Fallout 76’ Developers Tease Game Tie-Ins for Season 2 of Amazon TV Series, Why It Was Finally Time to Go Fish
No, there’s still no word yet on exactly when Amazon’s Prime Video will debut “Fallout” Season 2 — but the team that never stops working on ongoing action RPG game “...
Jennifer Maas Jul 09, 2025
‘Boston Blue’ Recasts Sean Reagan: Mika Amonsen Takes Over Role in ‘Blue Bloods’ Spinoff
Although “Boston Blue” is a direct offshoot of “Blue Bloods,” the Reagan family will look a bit different this time around. Mika Amonsen has joined the CBS drama in a series re...
Emily Longeretta Jul 09, 2025