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Variety reports: Don Lemon is getting his name above the title on his late-night program on CNN. The WarnerMedia cable-news outlet will rename the two late-evening hours he has hosted for the past several years “Don Lemon Tonight,” replacing “CNN Tonight with Don Lemon.” CNN spokespersons did not respond immediately to queries seeking comment, but the new show moniker reflects …

Variety reports: The “Joe Exotic” series at Peacock is rounding out its cast with the addition of Brian Van Holt, Variety has learned. Van Holt will star as John Reinke, the zoo manager at Joe’s zoo, a loyal worker and friend until things go too far. Reinke famously appeared as himself in the hit Netflix docuseries “Tiger King.” Van Holt …

Deadline Hollywood reports: HBO has cancelled this week’s episode of Real Time With Bill Maher after the comedian tested positive for Covid-19. Maher, who is vaccinated and asymptomatic, tested positive during the premium cable network’s weekly PCR testing ahead of the show. It is a blow for the late-night show, which was set to entertain Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist with …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Disney+’s The Proud Family revival has added a trio of actors to its cast with Billy Porter, Zachary Quinto and EJ Johnson set to play new characters. Emmy-winning Pose actor Billy Porter and Zachary Quinto will take on Randall and Barry-Leibowitz-Jenkins. They are the mixed-race adoptive parents to 14-year-old- activist Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins, voiced by Keke Palmer. Rich …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Days of Our Lives, produced by Corday Productions in association with Sony Pictures Television, has been picked up for two more years, which will take the iconic soap through record 57th and 58th seasons. This marks a happy ending to another down-to-the wire renewal for Days and the first time since 2014 that the show has snagged …

USA Today reports: NBC dropped the biggest hammer on the scandal-plagued Hollywood Foreign Press Association Monday, announcing it will not broadcast the HFPA’s Golden Globes ceremony in 2022. The 87-member HFPA has been immersed in issues ranging from preferential treatment sought and received by its members to lack of racial representation in its ranks, which included no Black members, according …

Variety reports: Elon Musk’s turn as “Saturday Night Live” host brought the NBC late-night mainstay its third-highest ratings of the season. The May 8 edition of “SNL” averaged a 4.8 household rating in Nielsen’s overnight metered markets and a 2.7 rating in adults 18-49. That put Musk’s episode at No. 3 behind Dave Chappelle’s outing as host on Nov. 7 …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Tawny Kitaen, an actress whose stunning presence in two Whitesnake videos helped propel that band’s multiplatinum albums to No. 1 in the late ’80s, died Friday in Newport Beach at age 59. No cause of death has been determined, according to numerous reports. Whitesnake’s hits Here I Go Again and Is This Love from the album Whitesnake …

The Hollywood Reporter reports: The Daily Mail is telling a New York federal judge not to give Mike Lindell a chance to amend his defamation suit over a story that claimed the MyPillow CEO secretly dated actress Jane Krakowski. “Plaintiff takes the new position that statements describing a consensual romantic relationship imply that he is a ‘hypocrite,’ based on the …

The New York Daily News reports: “The Phantom of the Opera,” Broadway’s longest running show, will resume on Oct. 22 — one of several mainstay productions on the Great White Way that plan to open up in the fall. Tickets for the show will go on sale Friday, the show’s website noted. Other shows, including “Aladdin,” “Hamilton,“ “Chicago,” and “Come …

NBC News reports: Nasty replies on Twitter will require a little more thought to send. The tech company said Wednesday it was releasing a feature that automatically detects “mean” replies on its service and prompts people to review the replies before sending them. “Want to review this before Tweeting?” the prompt asks in a sample provided by the San Francisco-based …

Variety reports: With “The Bad Batch” now available on Disney Plus, a new, even larger wave of “Star Wars” content is starting to roll out onto streaming and into theaters. All together, Lucasfilm is planning at least 16 film and TV titles for 2021 and beyond. “The Mandalorian” serves as the foundation for a connected series of upcoming spin-offs such …

New from our pal Matt Baume: In 1993, Fran Drescher took the zany antics of Lucille Ball and the sexy vamping of Mae West, and combined them with her own original spin as a flashy girl from Flushing to create The Nanny. The character was bold and audacious and lived in a world where queer people were a part of …

Variety reports: “I love you more than my luggage,” Olympia Dukakis’ Clairee Belcher says to Shirley MacLaine’s Ouiser Boudreaux in the beloved 1989 movie “Steel Magnolias.” With the news of Dukakis’ death, Hollywood flocked to social media to express similar sentiments and pay their respects to the character actors’ illustrious legacy. Dukakis died on Saturday at age 89 in New …

Variety reports: Florence Welch will journey into the Jazz Age for her new musical project, one that will offer up fortune seekers and flappers, rum runners and rich dilettantes, self-made men and high society standard bearers. In short, it’s F. Scott Fitzgerald’s glittering masterwork, “The Great Gatsby,” which will provide the spine of a new stage show that is eyeing …

Deadline Hollywood reports: It seems hard to overstate. Disneyland and California Adventure reopened Friday after 13 months, a tangible sign of a return to normalcy and an upbeat revival at an iconic site – albeit at 25% capacity, for California residents only, and with social distancing and mask wearing. A line formed outside the gate before the 9 am opening …

Ars Technica reports: Verizon is reportedly ready to give up on Yahoo and AOL after spending a combined $9 billion on the once-dominant Internet brands that fell from prominence years before Verizon bought them. “Verizon is exploring a sale of assets including Yahoo and AOL, as the telecommunications giant looks to exit an expensive and unsuccessful bet on digital media,” …

Variety reports: Apple smashed Wall Street expectations for the first three months of 2021, reporting its highest-ever revenue for a March quarter and biggest-ever quarterly haul for the Services business. The company posted revenue of $89.6 billion, up 54% on a surge of iPhone sales, for the quarter ended March 27. Net income more than doubled (up 110%) to $23.6 …

Today marks the seventeeth blogiversary of this here website thingy. Counting this one, we’re at 111,095 posts over 17 years, the last 13 of which have been without a day off. As I’ve said on this day every year, whether I am insanely committed or am insane and should be committed – that is entirely your call. The news never …

Deadline Hollywood reports: The Season 13 finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race was a clear winner for VH1. Friday’s final episode of the season drew 772,000 total viewers in Live+SD, making it the most-watched episode of the Emmy-winning reality drag queen competition series since the Season 10 finale in 2018. Shot under strict health guidelines during the Covid-19 pandemic, Season 13 …