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Jake Johnson’s feature directorial debut, titled “Self Reliance,” is coming to Hulu on Sept. 8.

EXCLUSIVE: The Talk may be wrapping up after 15 seasons in December, but Executive Producer Rob Crabbe and his team are not going down without a fight.

Nominations are being rolled out Thursday and Friday for the 51st annual Daytime Emmy Awards, with winners to be announced in a ceremony live in June on CBS and Paramount+.

The Talk is coming to an end: CBS revealed Friday that its daytime talk show has been picked up for a 15th and final season and will wrap its run in December.

The Talk is coming to an end after almost 14 years!

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large “The Talk” is going silent. CBS is ending the long-running daytime chat show, which will get an abbreviated final season (its 15th) this fall, before signing off for good with what it’s calling a “celebratory sendoff” in December.

White Collar is headed to Netflix this week!

EXCLUSIVE: Filipino actress and singer Lovi Poe (Seasons) is joining Adam Beach (Windtalkers) in the untitled Paul Fullerton project produced and directed by Garry A. Brown (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.).

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer When “My Dead Friend Zoe” filmmaker Kyle Hausmann-Stokes set out to adapt his own experiences as an Army vet onto the big screen, he made two very big changes: gender-flipping the main characters and two women of color in the roles. Starring Sonequa Martin-Green and Natalie Morales, “My Dead Friend Zoe” is a dark dramedy that follows Merit (Martin-Green), a U.S. Army Afghanistan veteran who is at odds with her family thanks to the presence of Zoe (Morales), her dead best friend from the Army.

The 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards are set to take place Sunday, February 25 on the beach in Santa Monica, celebrating the year’s best in independent film and television.

Fresh off a Super Bowl win, Travis Kelce is on his way to Hollywood.Or, at least, to Austin, Texas.The Kansas City Chiefs tight end, and famous boyfriend of pop star Taylor Swift, will make his executive-producing debut with the new indie “My Dead Friend Zoe,” which will have its world premiere at the South by Southwest fest in early March.The dramedy, directed by Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, stars Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman, and is about a veteran reuniting with her Vietnam-vet dad — while having conversations with her deceased best friend.Interestingly, the film was financed with the help of green energy tax credits through President Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. According to Variety, it’s the first film to do so.“Hollywood is risky, right? On a scale of one to 10, Hollywood, it is a 9.5.

Tatiana Siegel Joe Biden didn’t score an endorsement from Taylor Swift on Super Bowl Sunday, as some had predicted. But her boyfriend Travis Kelce is using the president’s renewable energy tax credits to finance the film “My Dead Friend Zoe.” The SXSW-bound indie, which stars Natalie Morales, Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman, marks Kelce’s first foray into movies, with the Kansas City Chiefs tight end serving as an executive producer.

“Dope as Usual” podcast that he narrowly missed a 1988 school shooting after his mom barred him from going in.Johnson attended Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, Illinois, and on May 20, 1988, a woman named Laurie Dann walked into a second grade class and began firing shots.“I was sitting next to my mom, I was in fourth grade,” Johnson said. “Out of nowhere, my mother turns to me and goes, ‘You’re not going to school tomorrow.’”The “Mummy” star explained that he was set to go on a field trip that next day and begged her to let him go since he wouldn’t physically be in class.He noted that she had a “gut feeling” that she would “never” see him again if he attended that day.Johnson recalled how Dann, who reportedly suffered from mental illness, “walked into the school wearing a robe and nothing underneath” and went into his class.“The room was empty, she walked through, walked down the hall, walked into another room, shot seven kids, killed one of them.

Fans are freaking out over the New Girl reunion that happened this week!

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Jake Johnson‘s survival comedy “Self Reliance” will play on the big screen for one day before it lands on Hulu. Neon is releasing the film in 225 North American theaters on Jan. 3 in partnership with the cinema chain AMC Theatres.

Self Reliance. The film will land on the streamer soon with Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Natalie Morales, Andy Samberg, GaTa, Emily Hampshire, Mary Holland, Boban Marjanovi?, Christopher Lloyd, and Wayne Brady among the main cast.This one premiered at SXSW earlier in the year and will land on Hulu stateside on 12th January.

Alex Edelman‘s Broadway hit Just For Us is now playing in Los Angeles and he celebrated with a star-studded opening event over the weekend!

The Talk is finally coming back.

The Talk is not coming back amid the Hollywood strikes, after all.

EXCLUSIVE: In a continuation of a recent signing hot streak, Independent Artist Group has brought in Sonequa Martin-Green, the star of Star Trek: Discovery, who has made history in recent years as the first Black woman to topline a project in the Gene Roddenberry franchise, as well as its first Black female Starfleet Captain.

BreAnna Bell Insiders say CBS’ daytime series, “The Talk” is eyeing a return for Sept. 18 despite the ongoing WGA strike. CBS has declined to comment.

EXCLUSIVE: Drew Barrymore is not the only daytime talk show host returning to air.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor The headlines coming out of CBS News will soon be guided by a new executive. Neeraj Khemlani, who arrived at the Paramount Global unit in 2021 to oversee CBS News and local stations along with Wendy McMahon, is leaving his role running the unit that produces “60 Minutes,” “CBS Evening News” and “Face The Nation,” among other programs.

Sophia Scorziello editor Award-winning broadcast journalist Tamron Hall is the latest addition to the UTA and Range Media Partners rosters. Hall signed with UTA and Range ahead of Season 5 of her talk show “Tamron Hall Show,” where she serves as host and EP. “Tamron is a multifaceted talent and creator whose resume includes everything,” said Jay Sures, UTA vice-chair, in a statement.

is almost back!On Thursday, Apple TV+ shared the first trailer for the anticipated third season of the Apple TV+ drama. Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon return for the new season, which premieres Wednesday, Sept. 13 with the first two episodes.

EXCLUSIVE: Rob Crabbe, who has served as exec producer on The Late Late Show with James Corden for eight years, is moving from late-night into daytime.

EXCLUSIVE: The Talk will have new leadership.

Hulu has acquired the U.S. rights to Jake Johnson’s feature directorial debut Self Reliance, in a competitive deal with MRC and Paramount Global Content Distribution.

has an official return date!Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon are back for the anticipated third season of the Apple TV+ series, which premieres Wednesday, Sept. 13 with the first two episodes, it was revealed Thursday.

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Kyle Hausmann-Stokes has continued rounding out an impressive cast for his debut feature, the dark veteran dramedy My Dead Friend Zoe, bringing Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption), Gloria Reuben (Mr. Robot) and Utkarsh Ambudkar (Brittany Runs a Marathon) aboard for roles.