Tony Predictions Edition of THEATER TALK Set for This WeekendMay 27, 2015The annual Tony® Awards ceremony celebrating “Broadway's best” will be on June 7, and THEATER TALK, for the 23rd consecutive season, convenes a panel of journalist-critics to give their award predictions. This year, Jesse Green (New York Magazine), entertainment columnist Michael Musto (Out.com), Patrick Pacheco (The Los Angeles Times) and Elisabeth Vincentelli (New York Post), explain who will win the Tonys and why the winning candidates will triumph over all the others.
ABC Family's YOUNG & HUNGRY Hits New Series High in Adults 18-49May 26, 2015One week ahead of its Spring finale, “Young & Hungry” scored a new series high in Adults 18-34 (604,000/0.89 rating), rose to season highs in Total Viewers (1.4 million), Adults 18-49 (855,000/0.67 rating) and Viewers 12-34 (863,000/0.93 rating) and delivered its No. 2 telecast of the season among Females 12-34 (632,000/1.38 rating).
LA VOZ KIDS Semifinalists RevealedMay 26, 2015During the second night of the Final Phase of TELEMUNDO's “La Voz Kids” (The Voice Kids), the 18 finalists were once again welcomed to the stage at Universal Orlando Resort by hosts Daisy Fuentes and Jorge Bernal, and their Coaches Daddy Yankee, Natalia Jimenez and Pedro Fernandez. 12-year-old Dominican singer and second season winner Amanda Mena returned to the stage for the premiere of “Alma Gemela” (Soulmate), her first single under Universal Music Latin Entertainment, the recording contract granted as part of her winning prize. The 18 finalists also joined her on stage to perform “Uptown Funk” (Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars). Following the show, the music video of Amanda's “Alma Gemela”, premiered on “Suelta la Sopa Extra.”
STAGE TUBE: Watch Highlights from Starry World Premiere of EVER AFTER at Paper Mill Playhouse!May 26, 2015Paper Mill Playhouse presents the world-premiere musical Ever After, directed and choreographed by three-time Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall (Anything Goes, Nice Work If You Can Get It), featuring a book and lyrics by Marcy Heisler and music by Zina Goldrich. Ever After began performances last night, May 21, 2015, and runs through Sunday, June 21, 2015. Below, check out highlights from the production!
AMERICA'S GOT TALENT Sets Partnership with Dunkin' DonutsMay 26, 2015NBC and FremantleMedia NORTH AMERICA today announced their partnership with Dunkin' Donuts for the network's hit show, 'America's Got Talent' (AGT). As part of this season-long, multiplatform partnership, Dunkin' Donuts will be featured throughout the season with on-air integrations and digital activations.
STAGE TUBE: Play SURVIVOR with National Tour of SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS: Part 2May 22, 2015What better thing to do on a day off than play through a full season of SURVIVOR? Join the cast of the National Tour of 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' as they play through challenges, form alliances, go to tribals, and vote cast mates 'off the island' in 'Survivor: Brides vs Brothers vs Suitors', hosted by Survivor super-fan, Marty Craft!
ABC Wins May by 31% in AD18-49May 21, 2015ABC won its 2nd-consecutive May Sweep in Adults 18-49, marking its first back-to-back May victories in more than 23 years – predating the start of Nielsen's electronic database in September 1991. The Net dominated May 2015 by strong double-digit percentages in Adults 18-49 (1.7/6), beating runner-up CBS by 31% (1.3/4) and NBC by 42% (1.2/4) and Fox by 70% (1.0/3). In fact, the Net won all 4 weeks of the sweep.
VIDEO: First Trailer for TEEN WOLF Season 5May 21, 2015“Teen Wolf” returns with a special Two-Part Premiere Monday, June 29 (10:00 p.m. ET/PT) and Tuesday, June 30 (9:00 p.m. ET/PT). Check out a first trailer for the new season below!
Discovery to Premiere THE MAN WITH NO PENIS, 6/13May 20, 2015After forty years of secrecy, Andrew Wardle has decided to reveal the truth: he was born without a penis. It's a shocking secret that he kept hidden from most of his family, his friends and more than 100 women he's slept with... until now. On Saturday, June 13 at 10/9c, the Discovery Life Channel will premiere THE MAN WITH NO PENIS, a captivating hour-long documentary about Andrew's life-long struggle to overcome a rare birth condition that left him with testicles but no penis.
Bruce Greenwood Boards AMERICAN CRIME STORY: THE PEOPLE V. O.J. SIMPSONMay 20, 2015Award-winning actor Bruce Greenwood has joined the cast of American Crime Story: The People V. O.J. Simpson, portraying Gil Garcetti, the Los Angeles County District Attorney who prosecuted O.J. Simpson for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Greenwood (Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek, Thirteen Days, Flight) joins an all-star cast that includes Cuba Gooding Jr. as O.J. Simpson, John Travolta as defense attorney Robert Shapiro, David Schwimmer as defense attorney Robert Kardashian, and Sarah Paulson as prosecutor Marcia Clark. Greenwood is represented by Gersh and Binder & Associates.
Tate Donovan Joins Showtime's MASTERS OF SEXMay 20, 2015Tate Donovan will guest star in two episodes of the third season of MASTERS OF SEX premiering July 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME. Starring Emmy(R) and Golden Globe(R) nominee Michael Sheen and Emmy nominee Lizzy Caplan as real-life pioneers of human sexuality, William Masters and Virginia Johnson, MASTERS OF SEX chronicles their unusual lives, romance and pop-culture trajectory. Masters and Johnson's research touched off the sexual revolution and took them from a mid-western teaching hospital in St. Louis to the cover of Time magazine. Donovan plays Graham, a confident scientist whose relationship with Margaret Scully (Allison Janney) brings them to Masters and Johnson's clinic.
NBC's 2015 FRENCH OPEN Coverage Begins SundayMay 20, 2015NBC's coverage of the 2015 French Open begins this Sunday, May 24, at 1 p.m. ET with live opening-round coverage, and culminates with the live Women's Final on June 6 and the live Men's Final on June 7.
THEATER TALK to Welcome FUN HOME's Alison Bechdel, Lisa Kron & Jeanine Tesori This WeekendMay 20, 2015An all-new THEATER TALK welcomes the key creative artists behind the new musical hit Fun Home – composer Jeanine Tesori, librettist/lyricist Lisa Kron, and author Alison Bechdel, who wrote and drew the bestselling graphic memoir that inspired the production. The show, now selling out at Circle in the Square, deals with the true story of Bechdel's relationship with her demanding father, her coming out in college as a lesbian that led her to learn of her father's closeted homosexuality, and his suicide, which followed this revelation.
EL REY NETWORK PRESENTS: THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR Now on iTunesMay 19, 2015El Rey Network announced today the launch of their original series 'El Rey Network Presents: The Director's Chair' on iTunes. The hour-long series features the industry's most notable directors engaging in a revealing and unexpected exchange with filmmaker and El Rey Network founder, Robert Rodriguez. Episodes at launch will include the previously-aired Quentin Tarantino Volumes 1 & 2 (Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, From Dusk Till Dawn), John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape from L.A., They Live) Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy, The Strain), Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now); and Luis Valdez (La Bamba, Zoot Suit).
National Geographic to Air T. REX AUTOPSY, 6/7May 19, 2015This summer, dinosaurs will again capture the world's imagination with a trip to 'Jurassic World.' And though National Geographic Channel cannot bring any dinosaurs back to life (at least not yet!), we will make our own attempt to crack the paleontological code with the new two-hour world premiere special T. rex Autopsy, premiering Sunday, June 7, at 9 p.m. ET/PT.