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Before Ryan Seacrest hosted Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve for the 21st time, he celebrated the New Year by ringing in Nasdaq’s closing bell. The longtime TV host visited Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square on Wednesday ahead of the night’s broadcast, where he teased a literally record-breaking show. With the show’s length being extended…
Did Netflix not learn from last time? When the series finale of Stranger Things premiered on Netflix at 5 p.m. PT on New Year’s Eve, it appears the streaming platform crashed briefly. This was likely caused by the influx of fans logging on to watch the highly anticipated final episode of the Duffer Brothers-created show,…
The Kennedy Center is defending the ratings performance for the 2025 Honors, hosted by Donald Trump, which saw the show reach an all-time viewership low. “Comparing this year’s broadcast ratings to prior years is a classic apples-to-oranges comparison and evidence of far-left bias,” Roma Daravi, vp of public relations for the Kennedy Center, said in…
The Kennedy Center is ending the year with a new round of artists saying they are canceling scheduled performances after President Donald Trump‘s name was added to the facility, prompting the institution’s president to accuse the performers of making their decisions because of politics. The Cookers, a jazz supergroup that has performed together for nearly…
The Kennedy Center Honors ratings indicate a drop in viewership this year, with the 2025 telecast averaging 3.01 million viewers, according to a Nielsen report CBS shared with The Washington Post. One year earlier, the 2024 Kennedy Center Honors reached an all-time ratings low of 4.1 million viewers. In total, the 2025 show decreased in…
In 2024, progress in streaming profitability and renewed deal talk helped the stocks of some Hollywood conglomerates. In 2025, mega-deals materialized, but questions about the sustainability of streaming profit gains, pressure on cable networks, which were once the sector’s huge profit engine, and the rise of AI caused investor worries. The U.S. stock market rose…
Chappell Roan took down her tribute to Brigitte Bardot after learning about the provocative French actress’s controversial political views. After it was announced that Bardot had died at age 91, the Grammy winner initially took to her Instagram Story on Sunday, writing, “Rest in peace Ms. Bardot. She was my inspiration for red wine supernova.”…
Diane Lane hadn’t shot a film since the pandemic until Anniversary came her way — a break that turned out to be unfortunately, eerily appropriate for the dystopian thriller, which covers five years and examines an American family’s unraveling amid the rise of an authoritarian regime. Directed by Jan Komasa (the Oscar-nominated Corpus Christi) and…
Two of imprisoned rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sons are set to follow in their father’s footsteps with a docuseries of their own, one that promises to platform their perspective on their hip-hop royalty father’s fall from grace in 2024 and his subsequent federal trial the following summer. On Sunday night, Zeus Network released a…
Quick, who would you say are the biggest winners in entertainment this year? Maybe Netflix, for continuing its streaming domination and securing Warner Bros.? Perhaps YouTube, which cemented itself as a true force in the industry? Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy, who salvaged the Warners film studio? Or Taylor Sheridan, who leveraged his many…
