Thursday, May 13, 2021

Ratings: SEAL Team and Million Things Hold Steady in Demo, Dip in Viewers

In the latest TV show ratings, CBS’ Kids Say the Darndest Things this Wednesday drew 3.1 million total viewers and a 0.3 demo rating, ticking down from last week’s Season 2 premiere. Leading out of that, on-the-bubble SEAL Team dipped to an audience low (3.4 mil) while posting its fourth straight 0.4 rating. The already-renewed […]

For Bosch, It's 'Lights Out' in Final Season Teaser — Get Premiere Date

It’s “lights out” for Detective Harry Bosch, quite literally, at the close of a teaser trailer for the seventh and final season of the Amazon Prime drama, which will release all eight episodes on Friday, June 25. Based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling 2014 novel The Burning Room and the real-life arson case that inspired it, […]

Mae Whitman Addresses Good Girls' Precarious Fate: 'We Would Like Very Much to Not Get Cancelled'

With Good Girls very much on the bubble for renewal, Mae Whitman — who stars in the NBC dramedy alongside Christina Hendricks and Retta — is rallying fans in an effort to stave off cancellation. “We would like very much to not get cancelled,” the actress wrote to her 1.1 million Instagram followers late Wednesday. […]

Law & Order: OC's Chris Meloni, Dylan McDermott Tease Stabler/Benson 'Healing' in New SVU Crossover

Tonight’s two-hour Law & Order crossover event (NBC, 9/8c) once more puts SVU‘s Olivia Benson and Organized Crime‘s Elliot Stabler in each other’s circles, as the squad and the specialized task force look into a significant death from last season. So, naturally, TVLine wanted to talk with OC stars Chris Meloni and Dylan McDermott to get to […]

Hacks Premiere: Jean Smart Takes On the Misogynist World of Stand-Up in HBO Max's Latest Comedy — Grade It!

It’s no secret that stand-up comedy has long been a boys’ club. Not only does a talented female comic have to work twice as hard to reach the top, but once she’s there, she’s got to grab tight and hold on. Such is the premise of Hacks, HBO Max’s latest comedy (two episodes now available), […]

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

A Million Little Things Recap: Protests, Police and Priorities

Most of the Friends of Jon attend a Black Lives Matter protest in this week’s A Million Little Things, which leads to casualties both physical (Regina — though it’s scary, she winds up fine) and emotional (Eddie and Katherine — definitely not fine). The horrific death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers […]

Ellen DeGeneres Addresses Decision to End Talk Show: 'I Always Knew in My Heart' Season 19 Would Be the Last

Ellen DeGeneres will tell fans on Thursday that she always planned to end her eponymous daytime talk show after Season 19. DeGeneres spends the monologue from Thursday’s episode, which the show released Wednesday evening, talking about the news that broke Wednesday: Her chat fest will wrap after next season. “You may wonder why I’ve decided […]

Masked Singer Recap: Beak Perfection

After this week’s episode, four performers are left in The Masked Singer‘s current season… and I’m fairly certain all of them aresuccessful recording artists. That hypothesis certainly proved correct at the end of Wednesday’s episode, the results of which we’ll get to in a moment. And while I don’t begrudge the competition from including some […]

Handmaid's Tale Recap: Chicago Hope

I’ve likely still got some ringing in my ears and dust in my eyes after that episode-ending bombing, so fellow Handmaid’s Tale viewers, please help me confirm what I think I saw at the close of this week’s hour: Is June maybe sorta kinda going to get rescued? And could it really be so perfect […]

Barry Jenkins on How The Underground Railroad Counters the Black Trauma Debate: 'These Things Happened'

Oscar winner Barry Jenkins doesn’t want his new limited series The Underground Railroad to get lost in the debate over how and when Black trauma should be shown. When all 10 episodes of the Amazon Prime escape-from-slavery drama premiere this Friday, the Moonlight director says he hopes viewers keep in mind that it is based […]

American Idol: Caleb Kennedy Out of Season 19 After Racist Video Surfaces

Caleb Kennedy is no longer in the running to become the next American Idol after a video surfaced online in which the contestant is seated next to someone wearing what looks like a Ku Klux Klan hood. “Hey y’all, this is gonna be a bit of a surprise but I am no longer gonna be […]

Yaya DaCosta on Chicago Med Exit: 'I'm Going to Miss Everyone Dearly'

Yaya DaCosta is speaking out following the news that she will be leaving Chicago Med after playing nurse April Sexton since the NBC medical drama’s debut in 2015. “After six amazing seasons of working with some of the most dedicated people in the business, learning wild medical jargon, growing as an actor and as a […]

Annie Live! Set as Next NBC Musical

The sun will come out this holiday season on NBC. Annie Live!, produced by Bob Greenblatt and Neil Meron, will air later this year, the network announced on Wednesday. “As we look to drive big live audiences for NBC, we could think of no better way than to bring back the network’s holiday musical tradition,” […]