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I t was a particularly tense day on the set of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The host, known for his warm and congenial presence onscreen, was acting especially dismissive and irritable during production meetings, a former longtime employee tells Rolling Stone. Then he stumbled through rehearsal in front …

In an ordinary TV year, this would be the kind of column that writes itself: a rundown of somewhere between 10 and 20 of the new and returning shows we’re most excited to see this fall. But as you may have heard, this is not an ordinary TV year. The …

Of course Futurama is back with a new season today, 10 years after the last episode aired. It is a show whose main character spent 1,000 years in cryogenic slumber, and its ensemble has defied death at least as often as the series has. You have to go back nearly …

Disney CEO Bob Iger angered members of the Writers Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, and, seemingly, half of Hollywood when he chided striking workers’ demands during an interview from the so-called “summer camp for billionaires.” Particularly pissed were a number of writers and staffers who’ve worked on Disney …

When The Kelly Clarkson Show debuted on NBC in the fall of 2019, the talk show immediately became a beloved, fresh addition to the traditional daytime lineup. With a built-in fan base from Kelly Clarkson’s singing career who have been rooting for her since she won the first-ever American Idol …

Just before before the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards, the show need a new host. Drew Barrymore was originally booked to lead the awards ceremony, scheduled to air live from Los Angeles’ Barker Hangar on May 7, but has backed out in support and solidarity with the striking Writers …

It’s never been funny to tell the same joke twice. If the material on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Live! wasn’t already stale by the time it left the host’s mouths, it certainly will be when those same episodes are looped back into rotation as production …

Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz has been working in television writing and production for over 12 years. But the script for the HBO Max original series Gordita Chronicles was the first time she’d ever seen a TV series that mirrored her own family’s story. “My mother came to the US from Colombia in …

When Netflix announced its reality game show Squid Game: The Challenge, it immediately drew the ire of fans who’d sat through the original twisted South Korean thriller, about a group of poor people recruited to compete in a series of deadly games for millions in prize money, and wondered: How …

Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, Chris Stein, and many more artists have paid tribute to Tom Verlaine, the influential singer and guitarist for punk legends Television, who died following a “brief illness” at the age of 73. Smith — Verlaine’s former partner and regular collaborator — posted a photograph of them …