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‘Jeopardy!’ looking into how Holzhauer’s losing game leaked online day before being aired Monday

June 4, 2019 at 1:17 p.m.

This past weekend, "Jeopardy!" executive producer Harry Friedman was looking forward to Monday, when millions of viewers would eagerly tune in to see if phenom James Holzhauer would break champion...

The Backstreet Boys accept the Album of the Year Award during the 1999 Billboard Music Awards show at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Dec. 8, 1999.

Has ‘I Want It That Way’ been stuck in your head for the past 20 years? Join the club

April 11, 2019 at 2:33 p.m.

n a scene on "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" last season, detective Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) asks a witness if she recognizes any men in a police lineup. The witness says no, because...

Caelynn Miller-Keyes and Colton Underwood in an earlier episode of "The Bachelor."

‘The Bachelor’ turns serious, as a contestant reveals she was raped in college

January 29, 2019 at 9:50 a.m.

"The Bachelor" was more serious than usual Monday night. Caelynn Miller-Keyes, a 23-year-old from North Carolina, told Colton on a one-on-one date that she was drugged and raped during her...

Conan O’Brien aired his first half-hour show Tuesday night. Here’s what was different.

January 23, 2019 at 11:38 a.m.

After a three-month hiatus, Conan O'Brien returned to television Tuesday night - as he announced last fall, after 25 years of hosting an hour-long late-night program, his TBS show "Conan"...

‘You’ was ignored on Lifetime, then it blew up on Netflix — what does it mean for TV’s future?

April 5, 2019 at 6:12 a.m.

This past fall, Ashley Thomas of Los Angeles got quickly hooked on a new Lifetime drama titled "You," starring Penn Badgley of "Gossip Girl" as a psychotic stalker who becomes...

Cassidy Black and CMA nominee Dierks Bentley

CMA Awards 2018: Best and worst moments

December 17, 2018 at 3:59 p.m.

At the end of the Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday night, presenter Lionel Richie paused dramatically before he announced entertainer of the year, the show's biggest prize. In the...

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">Read the full review.</a>

American Music Awards: 10 things to know, from Taylor Swift’s speech to the Aretha Franklin tribute

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

At the beginning of the American Music Awards on Tuesday, host Tracee Ellis Ross had some exciting news to share about Taylor Swift: "If she wins three awards tonight, she...

Yes, Harry Styles (that Harry Styles) will executive produce a sitcom on CBS this fall

December 13, 2018 at 9:49 a.m.

The most unusual executive producer on a new fall show for CBS? Harry Styles. Yes, that Harry Styles. The 24-year-old pop artist, the breakout star of boy band One Direction....

Fox picked up ‘Last Man Standing’ after being ’emboldened’ by response to ‘Roseanne’

March 30, 2019 at 7:29 a.m.

The "Roseanne" Effect has started. Fox confirmed on Monday that the network picked up a new season of "Last Man Standing" - the previously-canceled ABC comedy starring Tim Allen -...

Why ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ fans are taking its cancellation so hard

December 13, 2018 at 9:29 a.m.

On Thursday afternoon, Fox axed comedy "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" after five seasons. Less than an hour later, the show was trending worldwide on Twitter with two different spellings. Soon, even celebrities...

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