ABC brought two reality TV show universes together as American Idol saw a former star of The Bachelor during the last episode of the auditions round. On Sunday night’s episode of the reality show competition, Camila Galavis got the opportunity to audition in front of judges Katy Perry, Luke Bryan, and Lionel Richie. Camila Galavis
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Station 19 is gearing up to premiere its seventh and final season tonight and showrunners Zoanne Clack, MD, MPH and Peter Paige have tips for viewers that echo the passionate fans trying to save the show. “They gotta watch,” Paige told Deadline during a recent chat when asked what else fans can do. Added Clack,
Midseason is the new fall. As Hollywood and the broader industry continue to recover from the debilitating dual actors and writers strikes, the 2024 television landscape is coming into focus. All of the broadcast networks have set return dates for most of their shows, with the postponed Emmy Awards now set for January 15 and no
EXCLUSIVE: Planned protests to disrupt the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday could find themselves thwarted by Oscar organizers’ contingency plans. “We are well aware of the protesters, we have a number of back-up scenarios we can activate quickly if needed,” a senior security official working for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said of
EXCLUSIVE: Tim Allen, star of Home Improvement and Last Man Standing, is returning to ABC with a new multi-camera sitcom. The network has handed a pilot order to a family comedy headlined by the veteran actor-comedian. Tentatively titled Shifting Gears, the project comes from Duncanville co-creators Mike Scully and Julie Thacker Sully who executive produce
EXCLUSIVE: Rick Cosnett is joining the upcoming seventh season of 9-1-1 in a key recurring role. In its first season on ABC after its cancellation by Fox, the new season is set on a cruise ship with harrowing experiences ahead. A recently released teaser trailer (you can watch it below) gives us a glimpse of
SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from Monday night’s episode of The Bachelor. When tonight’s episode of The Bachelor opens, we find Joey and Maria in a car, on a date, speaking French to one another as best they can. Are they in France? Or perhaps Switzerland or Belgium? Non, non, non. Of course, as
Christmas is history, but there’s still some holiday celebrating to be done. New Year’s Eve festivities are being broadcast across the country Sunday, December 31 from Puerto Rico to Los Angeles to the famous Times Square ball drop in New York City. The official Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration will kick off at 6
Chris Harrison is reflecting on his tumultuous exit from The Bachelor franchise with a bit of gratitude. More than two years ago, Harrison stepped away from the franchise following backlash for defending Season 25 contestant Rachael Kirkconnell, who had received her own share of criticism for attending an antebellum-themed party in college. Now, during an
EXCLUSIVE: Audiences appear eager to see how Gerry Turner’s journey toward a second chance at love pans out on ABC‘s The Golden Bachelor. For the third consecutive week, the show grew its audience with the November 2 hometown dates episode. According to live + three-day Nielsen data, the episode managed about 5.58M (about a million
SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Thursday’s episode of Bachelor in Paradise on ABC. Buckle up, folks. We finally have another rose ceremony in Paradise. Five weeks in, and this is only the second rose exchange. The men are on pins and needles, since it looks like five of them are going home. As
EXCLUSIVE: Dancing With The Stars sashayed its way to a self-proclaimed ratings win on Disney100 Night. The October 17 episode saw the remaining 11 couples celebrate the Mouse House’s 100th anniversary with performances to popular Disney songs. After three days of cross-platform viewing, the episode frew to a 0.97 rating among adults 18-49 (up from
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from tonight’s episode of Bachelor in Paradise. It’s week two of ABC‘s Bachelor in Paradise, and the men have the power of the rose. First up on the docket for viewers tonight is the love triangle between Olivia, Will and Kylie, which over the course of the episode
ABC will proceed as planned with the Sept. 26 season premiere of Dancing with the Stars in light of the WGA and the studios reaching a tentative agreement Sunday night. The reality competition will kick off its thirty second season with its full celebrity cast, including Veep star Matt Walsh, a dual SAG-AFTRA and WGA member,
Tom Carter, a longtime former Nexstar exec who is now a senior advisor to the CEO and board of directors, says the company could acquire Disney’s local ABC TV stations with “little friction” if they become available. Disney CEO Bob Iger spurred talk of a potential sale of the eight stations over the summer when
Dancing with the Stars will return to ABC this month with a lineup that includes a supermodel, an NFL all-star, an Oscar winner, and a member of the Brady Bunch. Three of this season’s participants have already been revealed — Jamie Lynn Spears, Ariana Madix and Charity Lawson. The rest were announced live this morning
The “Hot Topics” on The View are going to get even hotter as their podcast Behind the Table gets an expansion along with the premiere of Season 27 on Tuesday, September 5. Behind the Table, a podcast produced in partnership with ABC Audio, is se to feature daily episodes that will give listeners insider perspectives
Disney CEO Bob Iger shook up the entertainment industry and Wall Street last month when he declared to CNBC at Sun Valley that linear television may be non-core and that he’s looking for partners for ESPN as the company pivots to streaming. He’s still all in on filmed entertainment, television content studios and theme parks.
SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Monday’s episode of ABC’s The Bachelorette. Charity Lawson’s quest to fall in love has officially left the United States…for Fiji! If all goes according to plan, Charity will be getting engaged in just a few short weeks. Last week, she met the families and narrowed down her final
SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Monday’s episode of ABC’s The Bachelorette. With Brayden finally gone, will Charity finally get a peaceful week to explore her connections with her remaining six suitors? Only time will tell, but from the looks of this week’s preview, it seems as though there’s plenty more drama headed Charity’s way
SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Monday’s episode of ABC’s The Bachelorette. It’s Week 3 on The Bachelorette, and there are 14 suitors left vying for Charity Lawson’s heart. At this point, all of the men seem interested in keeping the peace after last week’s tension between Adrian and Brayden. Both of them are
SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Monday’s episode of The Bachelorette. Charity Lawson officially made it through night one on her journey to find love. Now, with 19 men left, the real journey begins. Episode 2 of The Bachelorette kicks off with the first date of the season. It’s the only one-on-one of the
Some possible optimism here for the future of ABC’s Home Economics. We’ve learned that cast options have been extended beyond the June 30 deadline, possibly indicating that renewal prospects are good for the comedy series that remains on the bubble. There has been no decision on a renewal yet, however, we hear. ABC, Lionsgate and
The second season of Claim to Fame on ABC started off with a huge meltdown from Tom Hanks’ niece. Carly Reeves was the first one eliminated after a fellow contestant guessed she was related to the Forrest Gump star. Hugo correctly guessed that Reeves’ famous relative was Hanks after identifying the park bench from the
Iam Tongi was crowned the winner of American Idol Season 21 with Megan Danielle taking second place and Colin Stough taking third. Following Tongi’s win, there has been debate among some fans that the show was “rigged” for him to win. Now Danielle is opening up about the controversy and pushing back on the unfounded
After waving their sports flags proudly last week at their upfronts pitches to ad buyers, Disney and Warner Bros Discovery are confronting a head-scratching situation with the NBA and NHL playoffs. The conference finals in both basketball and hockey — broadcast by WBD’s TNT and Disney’s ESPN and ABC — have been remarkably lopsided. Until
Station 19 is set to hit its 100th episode in the 2023/24 season after ABC renewed the first-responders drama series for a seventh season. The network has also confirmed that Zoanne Clack and Peter Paige will serve as showrunners and exec producers after Deadline revealed that Krista Vernoff was stepping down from Station 19 and Grey’s
Another night of American Idol saw another contestant dropping out of the competition. It’s the second consecutive night a singing hopeful exits the ABC reality series after Sara Beth Liebe opted to quit the show a night before. Hollywood Week ended with a shock as Kaya Stewart announced she was leaving the competition. She was
Spring has sprung, which means the 2022-23 TV season is in its homestretch. Now ABC has set the season-finale dates for its series — including Ellen Pompeo’s return to Grey’s Anatomy — along with the final episodes of long-running comedy The Goldbergs and drama A Million Little Things. See the full schedule below. The first
SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Monday’s episode of ABC‘s The Bachelor. It’s hometown week on The Bachelor, and Zach is ready to meet the families of his four remaining suitors — each of whom he says he has a very strong connection with. He just hopes that the families will understand that he’s