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Actress Brittany Murphy poses for portraits on December 3, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.

HBO Max orders Brittany Murphy documentary series

March 18, 2021 at 1:51 p.m.

HBO Max has ordered a documentary about the late actor Brittany Murphy. The two-part series hails from Blumhouse Television and Pyramid Productions. The documentary will explore the life and death of Murphy,...

MTV’s ‘The Real World’ franchise being revived at Paramount Plus

February 12, 2021 at 2:58 p.m.

The streaming wars are about to stop being polite and start getting real. ViacomCBS is reviving "The Real World" for streaming service Paramount Plus. The venerable reality TV franchise will be...

The CBS program The Price is Right is looking for contestants in the Chicago area. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

CBS All Access crashes as Super Bowl kicks off

February 7, 2021 at 6:29 p.m.

Viewers looking to stream the Super Bowl took a blindside hit Sunday. As the Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicked off against the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday ViacomCBS' streaming app, CBS All Access, experienced technical issues and outages...

‘Santa Clarita Diet’ canceled by Netflix

April 27, 2019 at 8:29 a.m.

Netflix has canceled dark-comedy series "Santa Clarita Diet" after three seasons. "The world had never known a 'zom-com' until Santa Clarita Diet, and we're indebted to creator Victor Fresco for...

‘Saturday Night Live’ accused of plagiarizing New York comedy duo’s sketches

March 15, 2019 at 5:18 p.m.

"Saturday Night Live" aired last October a sketch about a pumpkin patch where the employees, much to the consternation of the proprietor, engage in sexual intercourse with the product. "The...

Reese Witherspoon arrives at the 23rd annual Critics' Choice Awards at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif., on Jan. 11, 2018.

Salaries of TV’s top stars revealed, from Reese Witherspoon to Dwayne Johnson

December 12, 2018 at 11:31 a.m.

The state of California barred employers this year from asking prospective workers how much money they made in previous jobs. The new law was designed to redress wage disparity; women...

‘Luke Cage’ canceled by Netflix

December 12, 2018 at 9:04 a.m.

Netflix has canceled "Luke Cage." News of the cancellation comes four months after the superhero action drama from Marvel Television debuted its second season on the streaming service -- and...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read the full review.</a>

Karlie Kloss to host, Christian Siriano to mentor in new season of ‘Project Runway’

December 17, 2018 at 4:02 p.m.

Model Karlie Kloss and designer Christian Siriano will take over as host and mentor, respectively, of reality franchise "Project Runway." Kloss will also serve as executive producer on the series,...

Kelly Clarkson gets her own daytime talk show

December 12, 2018 at 5:04 p.m.

Kelly Clarkson is venturing into the daytime-talk arena. NBC Owned Television Station Group has picked up "The Kelly Clarkson Show" from NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution. Clarkson will host. She and...

Emmy Rossum attends the 68th Annual Writers Guild Awards at the Edison Ballroom on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016, in New York.

‘Shameless’ star Emmy Rossum says she’s leaving Showtime series

December 17, 2018 at 4:06 p.m.

Emmy Rossum appears set to exit "Shameless." In an open letter to fans of the series posted on Facebook Thursday, Rossum wrote, "I know you will continue on without me,...

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