DC Comics has canceled its latest “Red Hood” series after its creator, Gretchen Felker-Martin, appeared to make multiple Bluesky comments celebrating conservative influencer Charlie Kirk’s death. The comic book company told retailers they were canceling orders of “Red Hood #2” and “Red Hood #3” and would credit them for copies of “Red Hood #1,” which came out on Wednesday, even if they …
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EXCLUSIVE: The long awaited third season of HBO‘s star-studded series Big Little Lies has taken a major step forward with the hire of Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-creator, executive producer and showrunner Francesca Sloane to write the first episode of Season 3, currently in development at the premium network, Deadline has learned. She will executive produce the new installment with …
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The Please Don’t Destroy boys are being split up on “Saturday Night Live.” Ben Marshall, who makes up one-third of the comedy trio responsible for several viral “SNL” digital shorts over the last four seasons, was one of five new additions to the featured cast announced on Tuesday. Following the news of his promotion, Variety learned that while Martin Herlihy …
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The football gods were on Lee Corso’s side this weekend. As Corso wound down his legendary broadcasting career with one final appearance on College GameDay this past Saturday, he made one final round of picks. And as fate would have it, Corso nailed each one. He went six-for-six, even picking a major upset in Florida State, his alma mater, beating Alabama …
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Even as a food and travel journalist who finds herself on distant shores more often than not, I am forced to admit that until recently, I was still playing a silly game with a same set of travel adapters I bought for my first trip abroad some 25 years ago. You know the set: a cheap drawstring bag with individual …
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Lauren Gunderson — who is credited for contributing “additional screenplay material” for “Lightyear” — revealed on Threads that she “created” the lesbians when, while writing early versions of what would later become the film back in 2018, “a key character needed a partner.” “It was so natural to write ‘she’ instead of ‘he,’” wrote Gunderson in part of a series …
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Saturday Night Live writer Celeste Yim is leaving the long-running NBC show after five years in the writers’ room. Yim, who revealed the news on Instagram, joined the show in 2020 and was promoted to writing supervisor in 2023. Yim, who wrote sketches including L’Eggs and We’re Trying, said, “After five seasons, I’m leaving my job at Saturday Night Live. Lorne …
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Dave Ketchum, who played the exasperated, always-hidden Agent 13 on the beloved 1960s comedy Get Smart, has died. He was 97. Our sister publication THR reported that Ketchum died August 10, but the family did not provide details. Born on February 4, 1928, Ketchum toured with USO and had a local radio show in California before getting his acting start …
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Bob Odenkirk could have treated the production of “Nobody 2” as a European vacation. The original draft for the sequel to his 2021 sleeper hit, “Nobody,” had Hutch, the suburban dad/secret mercenary played by Odenkirk, and his wife Becca (Connie Nielsen), getting away from it all in grand style. “On page one, Hutch is in a gondola and he throws …
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Screenwriter Eric Pearson once spent an entire week watching Captain America: The First Avenger in five-minute increments. His mission: find split-second moments in which star Chris Evans could add lines such as “head to the base!” during ADR to help tie the movie together. Massaging dialogue into a movie that’s essentially completed is considered grunt work for a screenwriter. There’s …
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