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Hayden Panettiere is a petite American actress and singer best known for her roles as Claire Bennet in the TV series Heroes and Juliette Barnes in Nashville. She is 5 feet and ¼ inches (153 cm) tall and wears a shoe size 5 (US).

Her height is significantly below the average American woman’s height of 5 feet 4 inches (162.6 cm). Jasmin Savoy Brown, at 5ft 7 (170.2 cm), has a height advantage of roughly 17.2 cm (or about 6.77 inches) over Hayden Panettiere.

Hayden Panettiere, standing at 5ft ¼ in (153 cm), and Jasmin Savoy Brown, towering at 5ft 7 (170.2 cm), attended the world premiere of Paramount’s “Scream VI” at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on March 6, 2023, in New York City (Credit: Darla Khazei / INSTARimages / Cover Images)

Hayden Panettiere’s Go-To Heels and Towering Romance With Wladimir Klitschko

Hayden Panettiere has never let her petite frame define her confidence. As she puts it, ‘Beauty is an opinion, not a fact.’

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John Oliver wasn’t the only late night icon to crash this week. “The Tonight Show” started Monday off with a surprise appearance from the now-retired David Letterman, who poked fun at Jimmy Fallon while reuniting with bandleader Paul Shaffer.

Fittingly, there was no build up to Letterman’s surprise appearance. After Fallon debuted his Super Bowl Excuse Generator, the comedy legend pretended to wander onto the stage. “Is this the 23rd hour of the ‘Today’ show?” the former TV host asked once the crowd finally settled down.

Letterman stopped by as part of a reunion of sorts with his longtime sidekick, Shaffer. The musician stood by Letterman’s side during both NBC’s “Late Night With David Letterman” and CBS’ “Late Show With David Letterman.” Shaffer is currently filling in for The Roots this week since the house band is in rehearsals as they prepare for “SNL50: The Homecoming Concert.

David Letterman.

After years of publishing clips from his CBS late night talk show to YouTube, David Letterman is ready for his own 24-hour streaming television channel.

On Wednesday, Letterman’s production company, Worldwide Pants, announced a new partnership with electronics maker Samsung to launch a free, ad-supported streaming TV (Fast) channel on Samsung TV Plus that includes more than 4,000 hours of video content from the CBS program “Late Show with David Letterman.”

The show aired on CBS from 1993 to 2015 under a licensing deal with Worldwide Pants, with the latter retaining the rights to distribute the show on TV and digital platforms after the CBS run ended. The same is true with Letterman’s NBC show, called “Late Night,” which aired from the 1980s to the early 1990s, with Worldwide Pants acquiring the right to Letterman’s early foray into late night talk TV.

The Samsung TV Plus channel, called “Letterman TV,...

Harmony Korine met photographer Larry Clark while he was still a teenage skater bumming about Greenwich Village in New York. Clark and Korine began talking, and Clark revealed that he wanted a screenplay, written with an authentic point of view, all about modern, largely unsupervised teens and the way they wrestle with the AIDS crisis. Korine was happy to participate, and wrote the screenplay for the highly controversial "Kids," released in 1995. "Kids" was dark and edgy at the time, as it was incredibly frank about the sex lives of high school students. Even today, opinions on the film are mixed. 

Korine, however, instantly became a new Enfant Terrible in the indie cinema world, and made his directorial debut in 1997 with "Gummo," a stylized poverty drama about a random assortment of oversexed and undereducated Ohioans recovering from a recent tornado. He followed that film with "julien donkey-boy" in 1999, which he made...

Jerry Seinfeld is an icon in the comedy industry, and it is no mystery how he managed to establish himself as one of the best stand-up and improvisation actors on television. Over the years, he has also gotten himself in hot waters for some of his lines as well as other controversies.

Credits: Jerry Seinfeld in Seinfeld / NBC

His career started in 1976, and since then, he has worked his way into appearing on famed night talk shows, as well as starring in his own sitcom. He remained popular even after Seinfeld concluded, but it’s also worth noting that some of his scandals and issues affected his career.

Jerry Seinfeld Faced Defamation Case After Mocking An Author on TV

Jerry Seinfeld’s wife, Jessica, was accused of plagiarism by cookbook author Missy Chase Lapine for her published work entitled Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food.

Will Forte is a comedy superstar known for a variety of roles within the entertainment industry, but comedy and writing were not always his career path. Following in his father’s footsteps, he graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, and ultimately became a financial broker. Growing up, Will Forte had always shown interest in the comedy world and has referenced comedians such as Peter Sellers, David Letterman, and Steve Martin as some of his comedy idols. However, he had shown interest in comedy. Will Forte never really planned on making it into a career for himself until he convinced himself that being a financial broker was not all life could offer him. While working as a financial broker, Will Forte co-wrote a feature-length script and quickly realized that he had a passion for writing. While attending the University of California, people had encouraged Will Forte to take on comedy.

Lee Gabler, the talent agent and former co-chairman and managing partner at Creative Artists Agency who orchestrated pioneering television deals, died June 3 in Los Angeles of a brain injury. He was 84 years old.

His death was announced by a Sony Pictures rep. See some reactions from clients and friends below.

Gabler’s began his career in the early 1960s in the mailroom at Ashley Steiner Famous Artists in New York, and soon after was promoted to talent agent under the mentorship of agency founder Ted Ashley. One of Gabler’s first assignments in the Variety Show department was covering The Ed Sullivan Show.

The agency eventually evolved into ICM (International Creative Management) and by 1970 Gabler had risen through the ranks to executive vice president. He transferred to the Los Angeles office and became head of the worldwide Television Department, representing clients such as Weinberger-Daniels-Brooks, Mtm, and Bruce Paltrow. He helped...

The Wizards of Waverly Place actress Selena Gomez looked grown-up and ladylike when she appeared on the Late Night Show with David Letterman in July 2010.

Selena Gomez visits “Late Show With David Letterman” at the Ed Sullivan Theater on July 20, 2010, in New York City (Credit: Jdh / Jcp / WENN)

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The Disney star was dressed in a classy, elegant-looking two-tone strapless number that accentuated her young curves. She complemented the structured dress with a loose bun that gave her a more sexy appearance.

What do you think of Selena’s style and hairdo? Like it? Or was it too mature for her?

Selena rocks a Collette Dinnigan Spring 2010 striped bustier top with a Versace jersey knit skirt and Christian Louboutin Yolanda heels (Credit: Jdh / Jcp / WENN)

Reflecting on Selena Gomez’s Journey: From Wizards to Worldwide Stardom

Three years earlier, Selena debuted...

It’s a bit of an irony that just as NBC’s “Must-See TV” juggernaut took off in 1994, execs there found themselves right in the middle of a completely different kind of televised spectacle: The O.J. Simpson arrest, trial and eventual acquittal.

Not only was then-nbc West Coast president Don Ohlmeyer one of Simpson’s best friends, but just a month before the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman — followed by Simpson’s white Ford Bronco flight from justice and arrest — NBC had passed on a pilot starring the ex-football-star.

“It was just a strange time to be there because of Don’s loyalty to O.J.,” recalled Preston Beckman, who was NBC’s head of scheduling at the time, and one of Ohlmeyer’s and NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield’s key lieutenants. Ohlmeyer would occasionally bring up Simpson during the network’s afternoon meetings in their Burbank offices,...

Jerry Foley, who served as director of “The Late Show with David Letterman” from 1995 until the end of its run — died March 10 at the Albany Medical Center in Albany, N.Y. A family friend said he died following a ski accident in Vermont. He was 68.

Foley, who was the brother of director James Foley, directed nearly 4,000 hours of late-night television, including all 72 episodes of “Live on Letterman,” episodes of “The View,” and Broadway segments for “Good Morning America.” He also produced and directed the “America Salutes You” benefit concert.

The DGA remembered him on X, writing “His exceptional directing earned him 9 DGA Award noms & 24 Emmy nods.”

The Guild mourns the passing of Director Jerry Foley, whose 25 years on Late Show w/ David Letterman produced nearly 4,000 hours of iconic late-night TV. His exceptional directing earned him 9 DGA Award noms & 24 Emmy nods. Learn more about Foley here: https://t.co/D6JLu8cWMN pic.

Jerry Foley, the longtime director of David Letterman’s late night talk shows, has died. He was 68.

Foley died Sunday at Albany Medical Center in New York after a skiing accident in Vermont, TV producer Kim Reynolds, who began her career at Late Show With David Letterman alongside Foley, told The Hollywood Reporter.

The lifelong New Yorker was born in 1956 and raised in Staten Island. He served as the director and supervising producer of Letterman’s late night talk shows for 25 years — a control room feat considering Foley had to track and capture the host’s perpetual and unpredictable comedy antics.

“Your primary responsibility is not to get in the way. Don’t smother it. Don’t miss it,” Foley told DGA Quarterly in 2009 of capturing Letterman and his guests performing onstage, cutting back and forth between the smirking or mugging host and a guest or widening to two-shots — or...

Sad news to report. Jerry Foley, longtime director of The Late Show With David Letterman died suddenly late last week. He’s said to have been on a ski trip when he passed.

Foley began his career in broadcasting as a cameraman before being hired by NBC in 1980 as a graphics technician. In 1990, he was promoted to the role of technical director on NBC’s Late Night with David Letterman. He followed the late-night host to CBS, where he succeeded Hal Gurnee as the director of Late Show With David Letterman in 1995. He continued in that role until Letterman retired in 2015.

Foley directed over 3900 hours of late night television, earning a whopping 21 Emmy nominations–a record for a single person working on a talk show or variety series.

Foley’s death was announced by The Letterman Podcast Sunday.

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Richard Lewis, the wild, eccentric, ultra-neurotic stand-up comedian and comic actor who most recently served as a semi-regular alongside Larry David on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” is dead. He was 76. Lewis suffered a fatal heart attack Tuesday night less than a year after announcing in April 2023 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and was retiring from performing stand-up comedy. Lewis’ death was confirmed by his publicist Jeff Abraham, who noted, “His wife, Joyce Lapinsky, thanks everyone for the love, friendship and support and asks everyone for privacy at this time.”

He appeared this month on the 12th and final season of “Curb” after begging off of the show in its 11th season while recovering from a series of surgeries. But he wound up shooting a scene in an episode that year, anyway.

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Richard Lewis, the stand-up comedian who also starred alongside Larry David in “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” died Tuesday night at his Los Angeles home due to a heart attack, Variety has confirmed. He was 76.

Lewis announced last April he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and was retiring from stand-up comedy. He most recently appeared in Season 12 of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” currently airing on HBO.

In 2021, Lewis announced he would not appear in Season 11 of “Curb” in order to recover from three surgeries. He surprised viewers by returning to set for one Season 11 episode, telling Variety at the time, “When I walked in and they applauded, I felt like a million bucks. Larry doesn’t like to hug, and he hugged me and told me how happy he was after we shot our scene.”

Lewis, who played a semi-fictionalized version of himself throughout the 24 years of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” was known for his neurotic,...

Darlene Love’s annual television performance of “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” was essentially orphaned after “Late Show With David Letterman” went off the air in 2015, putting an end to the 28-year streak that had the music legend singing her signature holiday song with Paul Shaffer’s band on Letterman’s last original show before Christmas each December. But they all reunited — not over the air, but on YouTube — for a resumption of the tradition, nine years after the last time this particular caroling took place on CBS.

Watch the video, below.

Love has sung the modern standard she originated on “The View,” but her song has not had a regular nighttime slot since 2014. She recently sang it on the Rockefeller Center prime-time special with Cher, who also asked Love to perform it with her on her recent Christmas album. But Love still has some feelings about never having been...

The Screen Actors Guild has named its executive producers to lead the creative team for the group’s upcoming 30th awards ceremony, which will stream live on Netflix for the first time.

Baz Halpin, Mark Bracco and Linda Gierahn of Silent House Productions, the film, streaming and television production division of Silent House Group, are partnering to serve as executive producers alongside Jon Brockett, SAG-AFTRA executive producer, and liaison to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. This marks Brockett’s third consecutive year working on the annual acting celebration. In addition, Jeneine Doucette-White, who worked 23 years as a supervising producer at “Access Hollywood” and was aboard for Olympics coverage in London and Rio, will also serve as a co-executive producer.

“As we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the SAG Awards, a milestone marked by our streaming debut on Netflix, it’s critical we have a production partner like Silent House who stand as...

Former Saturday Night Live star Jon Lovitz blasted late-night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers for continuing to push a leftist political agenda during their shows.

While he admitted that hosts like these should have the freedom to talk about whatever they want, he still believed that these shows have become more political over time. He specifically focused on how divisive these shows have become ever since the Trump era.

“I don’t like it. I don’t like it,” the SNL alum told Fox News. “They were comedy shows. And now, except for Jimmy Fallon, they’ve all become very political. And for me, it’s just – it’s too much.”

“I mean, Johnny Carson would, you know, he would do two or three jokes about whoever was president then or what was going on then and that was it. But they were entertainment shows,” he continued.

Harmony Korine used to be a movie junkie, someone who’d watch anything and everything. These days, when people recommend a movie, “I’ll look at it and I feel nothing, like dead inside,” says the guy whose own films, from “Spring Breakers” to the controversial screenplay for Larry Clark’s “Kids,” are nothing if not disruptive.

“Watching a lot of this shit, you really feel the algorithms,” he says the day before receiving the Pardo d’onore Manor prize at the Locarno Film Festival. Whereas, “I’ll see a clip on TikTok that is so inexplicable, so outside the realm of what I even imagine someone creating. Like, I can have an experience with a 30-second clip that goes so far beyond” what movies do for him.

TikTok. YouTube. Video games. Those are the influences operating on Korine’s latest feature-length provocation, “Aggro Dr1ft,” which is premiering at the Venice Film Festival.

“The Talk” has found its new showrunner.

Hours after revealing that longtime executive producer Kristin Matthews is stepping down as showrunner after 13 years with the Emmy-winning talk show, CBS announced Friday that “The Late Late Show” executive producer Rob Crabbe will step up as showrunner for Season 14.

“I’ve loved my experience working with CBS these past eight years, and am thrilled and honored that George, Amy and David have trusted me with their signature daytime talk show,” Crabbe said in a statement obtained by TheWrap. “I’m excited by the opportunity to help bring some joy and thoughtful conversation to viewers with these five incredibly talented hosts.”

Crabbe, a multi-Emmy Award winner for his years-long television work (most recently on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” since 2015), Crabbe previously served as a supervising producer on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon,” as...

The sandwich shop made famous by its owner’s frequent appearances on the “Late Show with David Letterman” is looking to call it quits.

The New York Post is reporting that “Hello Deli” owners are heading for retirement after 31 years. One of them, Rupert Jee, appeared on the Letterman show more than 400 times.

“It has been a heck of an adventure,” Jee told The Post on Thursday. “The office workers were extremely loyal, the ‘Late Show’ fans were amazing. We got the best of both worlds.”

Jee and partner May Chin are looking to sell the deli. They announced the farewell with a simple statement on Instagram in March: “Hello Deli: Retiring.” Jee is 66. No age has been given for Chin. The business is still operating while it seeks a buyer.

There is no asking price listed for the business.

“We’re going to pick and choose. I want someone...

Hey, "Jimmy Kimmel Live" fans. We're back with more good news for you guys. Tonight, March 15, 2023, the folks over at ABC will be serving up another new edition of your favorite late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live. That's right, guys, and we've got a preview of it to run by you. In tonight's new episode, you guys are going to see a former late night talk show host legend, and an actress show up to talk with Jimmy tonight. So, let's get into it. The first description for tonight's new, March 15, 2023 episode reveals that 75 year old American television host, comedian, writer and producer David Letterman is going to show up to talk with Jimmy at some point. David hosted late night television talk shows for 33 years, beginning with the February 1, 1982 debut of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC and ending with the May 20, 2015, broadcast of the Late Show with David Letterman on CBS.

Comedian Jonah Ray discusses his favorite year in cinema (1994) with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Airport (1970)

Airport 1975 (1975)

Airport ’77 (1977)

Airplane! (1980)

Basket Case (1982)

Destroy All Neighbors (Tbd)

Satanic Hispanics (2022)

Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022)

Black Christmas (1974) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings

Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s franchise power rankings

Tales From The Crypt (1972)

Donnie Darko (2001)

Pooka! (2018)

Pooka Lives! (2020)

Harvey (1950) – Joe Dante’s trailer commentary

Ed Wood (1994)

Black Dynamite (2009)

Bride Of The Monster (1955) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s review

Glen Or Glenda (1953)

Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957)

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Frankenweenie (2012)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Dumb And Dumber (1994)

Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (1997)

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

The Mask (1994)

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)

Scream (1996)

Evil Laugh (1986)

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Forrest Gump (1994)

Clerks (1994)

The Search For One-Eye Jimmy (1994)

Cabin Boy (1994)

Scary Movie 2 (2001)

Scary Movie 4...

Beating the odds, Jason Sudeikis (“Ted Lasso”) won his second Emmy on Monday night in the Best Comedy Actor category. He was predicted to be bested by his old “Saturday Night Live” co-star Bill Hader (“Barry”), but managed to pull off the win. This is Sudeikis’ second consecutive acting trophy for playing the titular football coach on the Apple TV Plus hit comedy. Besides Hader, Sudeikis also beat out Steve Martin (“Only Murders in the Building”), Martin Short (“Only Murders in the Building”), Donald Glover (“Atlanta”) and Nicholas Hoult (“The Great”).

His episode submission this year was “No Weddings and a Funeral,” the 10th episode of the season. As the coaching crew of AFC Richmond learns of the passing of Rebecca’s (Hannah Waddingham) father, Ted says that he hopes wherever he is in death, he hopes that he’s happy. As he gets ready for the funeral (while dancing...

At Monday’s Primetime Emmys ceremony, Brett Goldstein (“Ted Lasso”) became the first person to repeat in the Best Comedy Supporting Actor category since Tony Hale (“Veep”) six years ago. Hale prevailed in 2013 and 2015, so his wins weren’t consecutive like Goldstein’s now are. Goldstein plays Roy Kent on the Apple TV Plus hit series and submitted the fifth episode from Season 2, titled “Rainbow,” to Emmy judges.

Goldstein took down fellow nominees Anthony Carrigan (“Barry”), Toheeb Jimoh (“Ted Lasso”), Nick Mohammed (“Ted Lasso”), Tony Shalhoub (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), Tyler James Williams (“Abbott Elementary”), Henry Winkler (“Barry”) and Bowen Yang (“Saturday Night Live”). Of those contenders, only Winkler and Shalhoub have won this category before, in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

See 2022 Primetime Emmys: Complete list of winners in all 25 categories

In Goldstein’s episode submission, Roy is seen on TV working as a pundit on a soccer preview program. When the...

One of this year’s surest Emmy bets paid off as “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” won the Best Variety Talk Series award for the seventh year in a row. The HBO program has nearly always dominated the category, having only lost the inaugural prize to “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” in 2015. The shows it beat this time were “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

By winning its seventh trophy, “Last Week Tonight” has now broken its tie with six-time champ “Late Show with David Letterman.” Prior to 2015, all variety talk and sketch series competed in the same category: Best Variety Series. The Jon Stewart-hosted “Daily Show” won that award every year from 2003 to 2012 before passing the baton to its spin-off, “The Colbert Report.” “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” still holds the category record with 11 wins.

Exclusive: Friday Night Dinner is coming to the U.S.

Amazon Freevee has handed a straight-to-series order to Dinner with the Parents, a remake of the long-running British comedy, which comes from former Late Show with David Letterman writer Jon Beckerman, The Outlaws producer Big Talk and CBS Studios.

It marks the fourth attempt to remake the show — which ran for nearly 10 years in the UK on Channel 4 — in the U.S. and the first to get past the development stage. It has scored a 10-episode order.

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The British series, which ran for six seasons from 2011-20, is centered around the regular dinner experience of the middle class British Jewish Goodman family every Friday night.

The U.S. version of the half-hour single-camera comedy will follow much of this. It is centered around two brothers in their 20s go to their mom and dad...

David Letterman celebrates his 40th anniversary as a late night talk show host today. His first episode of “Late Night with David Letterman” aired on February 1, 1982, following “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” for the next decade (plus an 11th year after Jay Leno‘s show). Letterman returns to his former NBC home tonight to visit “Late Night with Seth Meyers.”

He departed NBC in 1993 for a 22-year run as host of “Late Show with David Letterman” on CBS. His combined 33+ years on both NBC and CBS make him the longest-running late night talk show host in American history.

That remarkable length of service and his influence on younger hosts like Conan O’Brien, Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and others should make him a lock for induction into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. But they’ve never asked him to join. Several of his...

Kenton Allen, CEO of London-based outfit Big Talk Productions, has plenty to be pleased about. For the next two weeks, the company he has headed for over a decade will be dominating the Monday night primetime slot on BBC One in the U.K. First, at 8:30 p.m., with “The Goes Wrong Show,” and then at 9 p.m. with “The Outlaws,” about a group of small-time convicts completing community service together and which stars Christopher Walken in his first British television role.

“That doesn’t happen every day,” Allen tells Variety. “That’s quite a big thing for us to have an hour and a half of primetime on the nation’s biggest Psb.”

Allen is ostensibly here to talk about “The Outlaws,” which is written by and stars Stephen Merchant (“Jojo Rabbit”) alongside Walken and “Poldark’s” Eleanor Tomlinson, but in a wide-ranging conversation is happy to discuss everything from the U.

Alan Kalter, the “voice” of CBS’ “Late Show With David Letterman” for most of its run, has died, Variety has confirmed. He was 78.

According to Rabbi Joshua Hammerman of Temple Beth El in Stamford, Conn., Kalter died at Stamford Hospital, with wife Peggy and his daughters Lauren Hass and Diana Binger at his side.

Kalter took over as Letterman’s announcer on Sept. 5, 1995, replacing Bill Wendell, who had retired. Kalter remained with “Late Show” until Letterman ended his tenure in May 2015.

Although the gig centered on announcing the guests at the top of each show and other various introduction elements, Kalter soon became a pivotal part of “Late Show,” often in scripted segments in which he satirically flew off the handle and stormed off stage; played himself as deviant and creepy; and often being the butt of jokes.

“When our announcer of 15 years Bill Wendell retired, producer Robert Morton came...

It’ll be a New Year’s Countrified Eve on CBS this Dec. 31, as the network has just announced plans to fill the evening with no less than five hours of live country music performances from Nashville, now being plotted by a new production company put together by “CMA Awards” executive producer Robert Deaton and country artist manager Mary Hilliard Harrington.

Titled “New Year’s Eve: Nashville’s Big Bash,” the show will air from 8-11 p.m. Et, then resume after a half-hour local news break for two more hours, from 11:30-1:30 p.m. — a wholly ambitious night of nearly nonstop programming, into the wee hours, from a network that hadn’t tried to be competitive on that night for years.

“I think we’re at 50 performances now,” in the planning stages, Harrington tells Variety. So in other words, the initial artist lineup being rolled out in...

Matthew Mindler, a child actor best known for his role in the 2011 film “Our Idiot Brother,” was found dead on Saturday after being reported missing from his university. He was 19.

His college, Millersville University in Pennsylvania, announced the news in an email to its student body on Saturday.

“It is with a grieving heart that I let you know of the death of 19-year-old Matthew Mindler from Hellertown, Pennsylvania, a first-year student at Millersville University,” the email read. “Our thoughts of comfort and peace are with his friends and family during this difficult time.”

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— Millersville University (@millersvilleu) August 28, 2021

Mindler was reported missing on Wednesday evening after not returning to his room or returning phone calls from his family. He was last seen walking from his residence hall toward a parking lot area Tuesday night.

Police are asking for help in finding 20-year-old Matthew Mindler, a first-year student from Hellertown,...

Matthew Mindler, a child actor known for his role in the 2011 film “Our Idiot Brother,” was found dead on Saturday after being reported missing from his university. He was 19.

His college, Millersville University in Pennsylvania, announced the news in an email to its student body on Saturday.

“It is with a grieving heart that I let you know of the death of 19-year-old Matthew Mindler from Hellertown, Pennsylvania, a first-year student at Millersville University. Our thoughts of comfort and peace are with his friends and family during this difficult time,” the email reads.

Mindler was reported missing by the university on Aug. 26., and law enforcement agencies as well as the university police had been searching for him ever since. Mindler was found deceased in Manor Township on Saturday and was then transported to the Lancaster County Forensic Center for “further investigation.” A cause of death has not been disclosed.

Police...

After 28 years as a late-night talk show fixture, Conan O’Brien signed off as host when his TBS talker “Conan” left the airwaves on June 24. O’Brien was a virtual unknown — he had been an Emmy Award-winning writer on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” — when he was chosen to take over NBC’s “Late Show” franchise from David Letterman in 1993. Though the lanky redhead, whose comedy was a deft mixture of silly and sophisticated, started off slowly as host, the “Late Show” gathered steam. So much so that he was given the Cadillac of late-night series, “The Tonight Show,” in June 2009.” And “Ts” host Jay Leno moved to a weeknight series for the network. But neither did well in their new gigs. Leno went back to “Tonight” in early 2010. And O’Brien moved to TBS.

Just a few weeks after the end of “Conan,” the series received its first nomination in...

June 24, 2021, marked the end of an era as Conan O’Brien signed off for the final time with the series finale of “Conan.” And less that a month after his exit stage left from late night after 28 years — he was the longest-serving late-night host until bidding adieu — his namesake show scored an Emmy nomination for Best Variety Talk Series. Now, can he leave on the highest of notes and actually win?

“Conan” is currently in third place in our early odds, behind five-time reigning champ “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” and “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” and ahead of “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

But perhaps this is a case of the nomination being the harder part. This category can be very samey-samey, not just with repetitive winners, but nominees as well — if it weren’t for the proportional submission rule, we probably would’ve...

Last year’s 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards (affectionately known as the Pandemmys because it took place during the Covid-19 pandemic), rewarded a total of 23 contenders with trophies. Shows like “Schitt’s Creek” and “Succession” and actors like Billy Crudup and Zendaya all claimed victory from the safety of their own homes. But of those 23 winners, shockingly only two are eligible to repeat at the 2021 Emmys: “RuPaul’s Drag Race” for Best Competition Program and “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” for Best Variety Talk Series. And they’ll both probably win again.

So, what gives? Why are there so many ineligible shows this time around? It’s a mixture of some programs having ended last year and the coronavirus pandemic halting production on others. “Schitt’s Creek” accounted for all seven of the primetime comedy categories, so that means all of those are up for grabs this year. You can already hear the...

Photo: ‘My Next Guest Needs No Introduction’/Netflix David Letterman's 'My Next Guest Needs No Introduction': A Collection of Laughs, Insights, and Honest Journalism Netflix’s popular series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman returned for a third season on October 21st, 2020, with a slate of new guests including Lizzo, Dave Chappelle, Robert Downey Jr., and Kim Kardashian West, adding an impressive roster to the show’s already star-studded history of guests. Letterman is no stranger to interviewing celebrities, actors, and politicians, as he did on shows like The David Letterman Show (1980), Late Night with David Letterman (1982-1993), and his most well-known role hosting Late Show with David Letterman (1993-2015). Winner of multiple Emmys, a Peabody Award, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Letterman is a natural talent, effortlessly fusing his interviews with humor, politics, and a sense of genuineness that disarms his guests...

It was hard not to think of Hank Williams when Justin Townes Earle — who died this week at 38 — made his network-television debut on the Late Show With David Letterman in 2011. Dressed in a crisp brown suit and bowtie, and bending his well-over-six-foot frame into the microphone, the then-29-year-old sang with haunting conviction about putting old ghosts and troubled days well behind him. So confident in his newfound state of grace was Earle, that heaven just had to let him in — and he was going to test his theory by...

Justin Townes Earle, the singer-songwriter known for his mix of old-timey roots music and modern-day Americana, has died at age 38. A rep for Earle’s label New West Records confirmed the musician’s death to Rolling Stone, though a cause of death was not immediately revealed.

“It is with tremendous sadness that we inform you of the passing of our son, husband, father and friend Justin,” a post on Earle’s Instagram page read. “So many of you have relied on his music and lyrics over the years and we...

Chicago – In 2011, a unique award was conferred upon Regis Philbin, the talk show/game show host and sometimes actor. The Guinness Book of World Records acknowledged that Philbin had appeared on the most hours on American television, with an astounding 16,746.5 in the final tally. Philbin passed away on July 24, 2020, at the age of 88, in his home in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Regis Frances Xavier Philbin was born in New York City, served in the U.S. Navy and graduated from the University of Notre Dame. He began his career in 1955 in the early days of television, as a page on “The Tonight Show” (then hosted by Steve Allen). He worked in TV and news in Los Angeles, before landing his first talk show, “The Regis Philbin Show” out of San Diego. After a syndication attempt fell through in the mid-1960s, he signed on at ABC-tv as sidekick for the “The Joey Bishop Show,...

Megan Rapinoe has an inspiring message. During her virtual visit to The Late Show, the soccer pro opened up about the recent surge in activism across the nation in the wake of George Floyd's death. "Honestly, I'm really encouraged by it—I mean, and in the same breath, it's devastating that we have to get to this point," she told host Stephen Colbert. "But I think people are really getting it. They're like, 'Got it. We can't say all lives matter anymore because the all lives house isn't on fire right now; it's just the black lives right now.'" Rapinoe continued, "I feel like people have been sort of, whether consciously or unconsciously,...

The Flaming Lips shared their quirky vision of the Covid-19 concert experience on The Late Show with a truly quarantined performance of “Race for the Prize” that featured both the band and the audience in their own personal bubbles.

Giant inflatable bubbles have long been a staple of Flaming Lips’ gigs, with Wayne Coyne venturing into the crowd while trapped within its plastic confines. For the Late Show, the Flaming Lips placed everyone in their own individual bubbles to protect the crowd from the coronavirus pandemic.

Unfortunately, Flaming Lips’ ingenuity...

Stacey Abrams didn’t pussyfoot around about the problems that plagued Georgia’s presidential primary this week. “It was an unmitigated disaster,” the state’s former gubernatorial candidate told Stephen Colbert on tonight’s homemade episode of CBS’ The Late Show.

“What was it?” he asked her. “Why was it such a clustermunch?” The Fair Fight founder expanded on her “disaster” declaration by addressing the cries of voter suppression from some in Georgia and elsewhere: “The secretary of state, who is in charge of elections, claims that he had no responsibility for the actual performance of elections. So instead, it depended on the county you lived in if you had access to democracy.”

Mic drop moment No. 1.

Abrams, a Democrat who is on record as saying she would welcome the chance to be Joe Biden’s running mate, went on to add: “In some of our most populous counties, including some Republican-led counties,...

The movement to defund the police would force CBS to modify its entire primetime line-up, joked Stephen Colbert on The Late Show.

The comedian used his monologue to discuss the issue, brought on following the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent protests against police brutality.

He joked that ‘Defund The Police’ sounds like a radio friendly song by Nwa. “Defunding the police might sound a little scary to some people, like CBS, they’d have to change their entire primetime lineup. Swat would have to become Community Health Services and NCIS would stand for No Cops! Instead Soup. It would still have a lot of murders in it but it would also have a lot of bisques and chowders,” he said.

Elsewhere on the show, Colbert said he was proud of his bandleader Jon Batiste, who was interviewed on CNN at the protests, and joked about Mitt Romney’s appearance.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Allison Janney winning her first (of seven!) Emmy Awards. The future Oscar winner was part of “The West Wing” sweep at the 52nd Emmys, which took place September 10, 2000 in ABC’s ceremony hosted by Garry Shandling. Heading into the ceremony many awards pundits thought HBO’s “The Sopranos” would prevail after being bested the previous year by ABC’s “The Practice.” However, it was yet another victory for broadcast networks as NBC’s political drama triumphed for what would be a record-tying run of four consecutive wins. (“The Sopranos” would have to wait until 2004 to finally be named TV’s Best Drama Series.) Watch Janney’s Emmys flashback video above.

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Clutching her trophy at the podium, Janney proclaimed, “I’m standing here for one reason, because of the sheer inspiration I’ve received from watching other actresses over my life,...

Brian Wilson delivered solo renditions of the Beach Boys classic “God Only Knows” and his own “Love and Mercy” during a #PlayAtHome performance for Thursday’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

“I just want you guys to know that we’re all in this together,” Wilson told the audience from his piano. On the late-night show’s broadcast, Wilson performed an unadorned version of Pet Sounds’ “God Only Knows,” with the singer accompanied only by his piano. “I love you all, love and mercy to you all,” he added.

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At the end of a recent appearance of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert asked his guest, Run the Jewels rapper Killer Mike, what white people could do to be better allies in what has become a serious moment of reckoning in our country. The artist’s answer: go watch the work of Jane Elliott, an educator who’s been conducting classroom experiments involving race, role play and the pain of exclusion since the Sixties. We have no idea how many people took his advice and sought out the Frontline...

TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe played a solo quarantine rendition of the band’s “Love Dog” on Wednesday’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

Filmed in April, the #PlayAtHome performance featured Adebimpe delivering a lo-fi, stripped-down take on the Dear Science standout, with the singer layering his voice with prerecorded vocals.

“[Late Show have] been doing a play at home series and I was asked to contribute a song beginning of April, did it, had no idea when it’d be on, just found out,” Adebimpe tweeted Wednesday. “The song’s...

ICM Partners on Monday joined other music and Hollywood companies in pledging to observe the nationwide “Black Out Tuesday” initiative in response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Tomorrow’s event will be used as “a day to disconnect from work and reconnect with our community” via “an urgent step of action to provoke accountability and change.”

The company joins fellow agencies CAA, Wme, Apa and Pantheon in the move, which ICM announced after a speech this morning at the weekly all-agency meeting from partner Robert Gibbs, who spoke in a deeply personal way about racism and its effects on him, his children and extended family. He then introduced J. Cole’s performance of “Be Free” from the Late Show With David Letterman in 2014 after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. (See it below.)

After Gibbs, ICM Partners board member/department head Lorrie Bartlett, who last...

Beninese singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo performed a cover of Midnight Oil’s 1987 song “Beds Are Burning” for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s #PlayAtHome music series.

For their rendition, Kidjo and her socially distanced band offered up a decisively funky take on the synth-tinged Eighties rocker. While the song is about returning land and making reparations to Aboriginal communities in Australia, it has a universal urgency that feels particularly potent now, especially as Kidjo sang the chorus: “How can we dance when our earth is turning?/How do we sleep while our beds are burning?...

CBS News’ Gayle King is tackling the subject of romantic relationships in the time of the coronavirus pandemic in the latest episode of her SirusXM Radio show, she told “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert Tuesday night.

She’s used the show, “Gayle King in the House,” to chat about “The Last Dance,” Disney sing-a-longs, introspection in quarantine and more, but now, she says, she’s shifting to “dating in Covid.”

“Either Covid relationships are going to bring you closer together or they’re going to rip you apart,” she declared ominously. King was careful to point out that she’s sure her CBS colleague Colbert and his wife are doing great, and he responded that yes, in quarantine, they’re “tighter than ever.”

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Summing up how she sees the episode going, she said, “There’s either going...