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Peacock has renewed “Love Island USA” for Season 9, with Ariana Madix set to return as host following a record-breaking eighth season.  To accompany the news, Peacock has also released a sneak peak at the “Love Island USA” Season 8 reunion, which airs Monday at 6 p.m. PT and is c

Gary Oldman received the Edinburgh TV Festival’s Global Icon Award on Wednesday and, unsurprisingly, spent much of the time in an on-stage conversation discussing his most famous — and current — TV character. “For the last six years, I’ve had the pleasure of inhabiting Jackson La

In her upcoming third feature “Brace Your Heart,” Amanda Kernell follows a survivor, not a victim.  “We’re all different, and some people who experience really difficult things can’t recover. But there are others who survive and find there’s light on the other side,” she told Var

Beyoncé has paid tribute to country icon Dolly Parton, who died on August 25, calling her “the barometer” and thanking her for the impact she had on the world. In a statement posted to her website, Beyoncé wrote, “Dolly, you were the barometer. The north star. Bold and brilliant.

Kevin Langue, the YouTube comedy creator who boasts that he’s “the world’s best guesser,” is the latest internet content creator to sign a deal with Netflix. Netflix announced a pact with Langue to bring his two YouTube channels — The Kevin Langue Show and Kevin Langue 2 — to the

USA Network has added a third original drama series to its lineup: The cabler has given a straight-to-series order for “Diplomatic Immunity,” an hour-long medical drama written by Matt Corman and Chris Ord. The series joins “The Rainmaker” and the recently launched “Anna Pigeon”

What do you do when you think your movie will never see the light of day? Have a “funeral screening,” of course. That’s exactly what the team behind “Coyote vs. Acme” did when they feared the live-action-animation hybrid comedy was locked in the Warner Bros. vault for good. Lucki

Apart from the special show he performed with an orchestra in London, Harry Styles has played basically the same set since his “Together, Together” tour opened in Amsterdam 33 shows and nearly three months ago. But for the opening night of his unprecedented 30-show stand at New Y

COL Group, Virtue Asia and V47 Entertainment have unveiled Inside Microdramas, billed as the first upfront event built around microdramas and the broader vertical entertainment business. The event will take place in Singapore on Oct. 27. The initiative is expected to draw senior

Country queen and national treasure Dolly Parton may have physically left the world on Tuesday, but her indelible mark on the world and the industry will never be forgotten. And luckily, she’s not done yet. Parton has several posthumous projects to look forward to, one of which i

“Dugout Dads,” the nine-episode series streaming on YouTube, is seeking a bigger playing field. The short-form series, created by Patrick Renna and Kyle Howard’s Hambino Media, reunites the cast of 1993 hit “The Sandlot” for a new coming-of-age sports story. The comedy, which dro