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The boy who lived is back. HBO on Wednesday revealed the release date and released a trailer for its new “Harry Potter” series offering the first glimpse into the new version of Hogwarts, the fictional school for young wizards and witches. The show will premiere on HBO Max on Christmas Day. The show, written and…

Performing their solo show in a comedy club was an intimidating experience for Brigham Mosley, a genderqueer person. “I often perform comedy and stand-up in this kind of drag, and I will go to open mics, and you do a set and then you get off stage and people come on stage and start making…

Taylor Frankie Paul might have whiplash in the wake of a leaked video that derailed her “Bachelorette” debut, but she says her kids are also feeling the sting. Last week, the embattled reality TV star was gearing up for Sunday’s launch of “The Bachelorette” when a video of a 2023 domestic dispute between Paul and…

The announcement of the end of CBS News Radio last Friday was met with elegiac tributes to the service that built the foundation of William Paley’s company nearly 100 years ago and brought the heroic work of journalists such as Edward R. Murrow to millions of listeners. But for the 700 affiliates carrying CBS News…

Two days after reality TV personality Joseph Duggar was arrested on suspicion of molesting a minor in Florida, Arkansas police arrested his wife, Kendra Duggar, on misdemeanor child abuse charges. Kendra Duggar, 27, and Joseph Duggar, 31, face four counts each of endangering the welfare of a minor and second-degree false imprisonment. According to KNWA,…

Valerie Perrine, the Las Vegas showgirl turned Oscar-nominated actor best known for playing Lenny Bruce’s wayward wife Honey Harlow in “Lenny” and Lex Luthor’s secretary Eve Teschmacher in the 1978 and 1980 “Superman” films, died Monday morning. She was 82. Perrine’s death was confirmed by Stacey Souther, her close friend and the director of the…

The last time Eric Idle’s “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” spoof musical “Spamalot” landed at a major L.A. venue a decade ago, he played the show’s tweedy historian, who sets the scene for the Arthurian legend with a seriousness entirely unfit for the absurdist romp to follow. It was a perfect role for the…

A soccer star has accused a pop star of making the daughter of a movie star cry. Chappell Roan — who, in recent years, called out fans’ “creepy behavior” and said she “pumped the brakes” on fame to protect her own privacy — was accused over the weekend by soccer star Jorginho of rough treatment…

California’s economy might see a boost from the state’s expanded film and TV tax credits, but local lawmakers say it’s not enough. Despite Gov. Gavin Newsom authorizing an expanded $750-million film and TV tax credit program last summer, the impending merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. and the projected budget cuts that are expected to…

Like the mythical city of Brigadoon, Lisa Kudrow’s “The Comeback” has returned to television after many years away, with the difference that time has not stood still for its inhabitants, older in a changing world that values them less and which they navigate with less assurance. Kudrow, who created and writes the series with Michael…