The Thursday debate between California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Fox News — the talk of the political world this past week — delivered a decent bump in the channel's ratings.

Billed as the "The Great Red State vs. Blue State Debate," the event moderated by Fox News host Sean Hannity averaged 4.75 million viewers, ...Read more

"No offense, I can think whatever the f— I want right now."

When "The Golden Bachelor" debuted in September, featuring a 72-year-old widower named Gerry Turner on a quest to find the next great love of his life, it promised that a kinder, gentler version of reality TV was not only possible but that it could also be a hit with viewers looking...Read more

LOS ANGELES — This is Beyoncé's house, and we're just living in it.

Queen Bey dropped a new single, "My House," on Friday to herald the opening weekend of her much-anticipated concert movie, "Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé."

"A gift from the queen," exclaimed Apple Music in an Instagram post with a photo of Beyoncé dressed in metallic ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Kelly Clarkson will receive a multimillion-dollar payday in her latest legal victory against ex-husband Brandon Blackstock.

Earlier this month, a California labor commissioner ruled that Blackstock owes the talk-show host and Grammy-winning singer more than $2.6 million in commissions for overstepping his managerial duties. The ...Read more

They work on different planets, and they do their superstar thing in very different ways, but the recent Taylor Swift concert film was, you know, fine. Whereas “Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé” is really good.

Beyoncé's outrageously lavish five-month 2023 concert tour’s mixture of spectacle, spangle, video immersion and dance party has ...Read more

Shane MacGowan was a troubled genius.

He struggled with drugs and alcohol, as well as numerous health problems, and fans spent decades worrying about his seemingly self-destructive behavior. Yet, he was also a Celtic punk poet of the highest order, who, at his best, would lift his main band — the legendary Pogues — to such incredible ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Felicity Huffman knows she took extreme and illegal measures to ensure her daughter's academic success. But the actor says that she "felt like I would be a bad mother if I didn't do it."

The "Desperate Housewives" star was among the numerous high-profile parents caught up in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal of 2019...Read more

Loads of social media users are wondering what just came out of Julianna Margulies' mouth.

The "Good Wife" and "Morning Show" actor is in hot water for comments she made about antisemitism and what she says is the lack of support by the Black and LGBTQ+ communities for Israel in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.

Critics have a few choice ...Read more

Just when I thought I was never going to have to review another body-switching movie, along comes “Family Switch” from Netflix for the holidays. Directed by the filmmaker known as McG, whose credits include “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” and “Terminator Salvation,” and scripted by Victoria Strouse (“Let It Snow”), Adam ...Read more

[This article contains spoilers for the season finale of "The Golden Bachelor."]

LOS ANGELES — Gerry Turner vowed to find love and happiness when he was named "The Golden Bachelor." Although the 72-year-old widower has reached his goal, his happy ending was nearly overshadowed by a woman's shattering heartbreak.

After starting out with a ...Read more

André 3000 was clearly not trying to generate a pop hit single from his “New Blue Sun” instrumental album, but one song debuted this week on the Billboard Hot 100 and it is now officially the longest-running song to ever make it on the chart over its 65-year history.

His comically titled “I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ ...Read more

Of course, everyone is going to compare the new Beyoncé film to the other concert movie put out this fall by a heavily sequined pop megastar with one of the biggest tours of the century. Forget Taylor Swift, though.

Better comparisons for "Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé" might be to "Captain Marvel," "Spider-Man," "Ant-Man" and "Guardians of ...Read more

Sure it's a concert film, but it's so much more than that: "Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé" is a startlingly intimate portrait of the 42-year-old singer, cultural icon and singular force of nature, capturing her during and behind the scenes of her 2023 Renaissance World Tour.

The concert footage is remarkable, much of the movements performed ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Stevie Nicks has been in a select class since she sang and spun her way to stardom in the mid-1970s as a member of Fleetwood Mac. Five decades later, she has risen to an even more select class as her often-stirring Wednesday night concert at San Diego State University's Viejas Arena reaffirmed.

Along with fellow Rock & Roll Hall ...Read more

ATLANTA — NBC is giving freshman drama “Found” a second season.

The show, starring Shanola Hampton (”Shameless”) and Mark-Paul Gosselaar (”Saved By The Bell”) and shot in metro Atlanta, received positive reviews when it debuted last fall and garnered solid ratings. It averaged 5.18 million viewers on traditional TV after seven ...Read more

A reading from the book of Shane MacGowan:

It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank

An old man said to me, "Won't see another one"

And then he sang a song: "The Rare Old Mountain Dew"

I turned my face away and dreamed about you

Have you ever heard a better opening to a song than that one, from "Fairytale of New York" by MacGowan's ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Oprah Winfrey believes the new film version of "The Color Purple" is "divinely touched."

And at the movie's first public screening, held a couple of weeks ago at the film academy's Samuel L. Goldwyn Theater, nobody was going to argue with her. About half of the thousand people in the room, in fact, rose to applaud the closing ...Read more

In "Silent Night," the new holiday movie from action auteur John Woo, a grief-stricken, revenge-minded father hunts down the gang members who shot his child on Christmas Eve.

In 'It's a Wonderful Knife," the teen heroine wishes at Christmas that she'd never been born, and discovers that a serial killer she'd killed in her real life is still ...Read more

Ho ho ho! Lifetime Channel might be on Santa's naughty list this year.

This season's "It's a Wonderful Lifetime" lineup of 12 new holiday movies includes "A Cowboy Christmas Romance," a Christmas flick a la "Yellowstone" that includes a first for the franchise: a steamy sex scene.

"We think that there's an audience out there that's hungry for ...Read more

Who is Eileen? To ask the various cranks, lechers, layabouts and scoundrels in her small Massachusetts hometown, she's barely interesting enough to warrant the question. A soft-spoken 20-something played by a wistful, watchful, Boston-accented Thomasin McKenzie, Eileen has no boyfriend, no husband and no apparent prospects, romantic or otherwise...Read more