CBS Entertainment Head Kelly Kahl Talks ‘Ghosts’ Success, More ‘CSI: Vegas’ as Midseason Schedule Takes Shape

Piers Morgan wasn’t invited to the An Audience With Adele concert special but he decided to criticise the singer anyway — resulting in him getting heavily roasted online. Adele recently released her long-awaited new album 30, and the singer commemorated the milestone with a special performance at the London Palladium.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterA new “Earthworm Jim” animated TV series is in development, Variety has learned exclusively.The project hails from Interplay Entertainment Corp., which owns the rights to the “Earthworm Jim” games. Interplay has partnered with APA to bring the project to television.Like the games, the series would follow the adventures of the titular Jim, a worm in a futuristic robotic suit who fights evildoers.

which just released a trailer Tuesday morning, as well as a sequel to the Gerard Butler disaster film “Greenland,” a rock biopic about Joey Ramone starring Pete Davidson, Guy Ritchie’s next thriller “The Interpreter” and a Vin Diesel action movie “Muscle.”

Joe Otterson TV ReporterRichard T. Jones is launching an independent production company dubbed Prophecy Pictures Entertainment, Variety has learned exclusively.Jones is starting the company with producing partners Jeremy Loethen and Kristy Horiuchi.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNetflix has ordered the hybrid comedy series “Saturday Morning All Star Hits” from Kyle Mooney and Ben Jones.The series will feature a combination of adult animated segments as well as live-action. It is described as a celebration of all that is 80s and 90s television.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterViewers have watched over 166 billion minutes of CBS programming through the first seven weeks of the 2021-2022 broadcast season, according to Nielsen total day most current data.That number covers all dayparts, with approximately 59 billion of those minutes coming from CBS primetime entertainment programming. CBS sports programming, namely the NFL on CBS, accounts for 45 billion.

Celebrity Big Brother is set to return in 2022 and CBS revealed the news in a press release revealing the midseason schedule.

CBS has unveiled its midseason schedule with the return of a long-delayed The Amazing Race and freshman hospital drama Good Sam taking the place of the 10-episode revival of CSI: Vegas. The network also has set season premiere dates for Winter Olympics counter-programming Celebrity Big Brother and unscripted veteran Undercover Boss.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe upcoming David E. Kelley crime drama “The Missing” at Peacock has cast Jeff Wilbusch in the lead role.The series, which Variety exclusively reported had been ordered at the streamer, is based on the Dror A.

Lorraine Kelly's biggest regret is not having more children. The 61-year-old television presenter has one daughter Rosie Smith - who she hosts new podcast ‘What If?' alongside - with her husband Steve Smith, a TV cameraman, but she wishes that she'd had more kids but it wasn't possible because she got pregnant with Rosie later in life.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterLegendary Television and Scholastic Entertainment are developing a TV series based on “The Royal Diaries” books, Variety has learned exclusively.“The Royal Diaries” is a series of 20 fiction books published by Scholastic Press between 1999 and 2005. Each book is written as the fictional diary of a real female royal at a key moment in history as well as her adolescent years.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterRegina King and David E. Kelley are teaming to adapt the Tom Wolfe novel “A Man in Full” as a Netflix limited series, Variety has learned exclusively.The drama project has received a straight-to-series order at the streamer, with Netflix ordering six one-hour episodes.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterWonwoo Park, the creator of “The Masked Singer” format, has signed a first-look deal with Fox Alternative Entertainment.Under the deal, Fox and Park’s Seoul-based production company, dI turn, will jointly develop series for global territories and the American market.