America’s favorite Scottish-born late-night host, who in April announced his plans to step down from “The Late Late Show,” begins presiding over “Celebrity Name Game” (10 and 10:30 p.m. weekdays and 5 and 5:30 p.m. Saturdays, KVMY-TV, Channel 21).
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Craig Ferguson approached his first TV game show host’s job with a subversive attitude. Then came the simple matter of his wardrobe for “Celebrity Name Game.”
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is pulling ads for the Fox television show “Red Band Society” from nearly 200 buses amid complaints they are racist and offensive to women.
Bad news, “Honey Boo Boo” fans — Mama June and Sugar Bear have broken up.
Henderson 9-year-old triplets Dominic, Phoenix and Lyric Evans, known as Dom the Bom’s Triple Threat, performed this season on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” for a chance to win $1 million. Although the triplets were eliminated during the quarterfinals, the Ohio transplants soon realized that “when one door shuts, another opens.” “We weren’t even out of New York City yet, and I was getting emails from companies who wanted to support us,” Krissi said. “We were on the ‘Today’ show. Upper Deck has contacted us. The New York Knicks want us to perform at their halftime.
The series has the name recognition, history and premise to peak curiosity, and “if that gets people to watch, I’ll take it,” the 36-year-old actor said in a recent interview.
New Yorker Kira Kazantsev won the coveted 2015 Miss America Pageant crown on Sunday, a “three-peat” for contenders from the Big Apple.
Netflix is tapping into six new markets Monday hoping to gain a big subscriber base around Europe, but is facing a frosty welcome in France. Well-established French competitors are trying to head off a Netflix wave, the government wants oversight and the cinema industry wants Netflix to invest heavily in French productions.
Tim Tebow has another job. Not in the NFL as a quarterback but as a contributor to “Good Morning America.”
His bio reads like those of many up-and-coming actors. But one thing separates Henderson’s Mace Coronel from the rest: He’s 10.
The fall season starts Sept. 21 (for a complete rundown, see that day’s Life section), but two dramedies debut Wednesday hoping to stand out.
Lori Harrigan-Mack, former UNLV softball star and three-time Olympic gold medalist, gets back into shape on “The Biggest Loser: Glory Days.” And former Eldorado lineman Howard “Woody” Carter also takes the challenge.
Some things are just meant to be.”I’ve been walking on those stars my whole life,” says L.A. native Katey Sagal of the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. Now, to celebrate her 40-plus year career in the business, the actress is getting a star of her own – an honor she calls “humbling.”
British actor James Corden will replace Craig Ferguson as host of “The Late Late Show” on CBS next year, part of a complete overhaul of the network’s late-night talk show lineup put in motion by the impending retirement of David Letterman.
AMC is moving forward with a “Walking Dead” companion series, greenlighting a pilot written by Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson.