‘Dr. Phil’ Lays Off 25 Staffers As the Daytime Talk Show Returns For Season 21 (EXCLUSIVE)

The “year of change” at Saturday Night Live continues.

Naman Ramachandran Revered writer-director Paul Schrader is enjoying a late career renaissance, with “Master Gardener” being his third successive film to premiere at Venice after “First Reformed” and “The Card Counter.” The film follows Narvel Roth (Joel Edgerton), the conscientious horticulturist of the historic Gracewood Gardens estate, which is owned by wealthy dowager Norma Haverhill (Sigourney Weaver). When she demands that he take on her troubled biracial great-niece Maya (Quintessa Swindell) as an apprentice, Roth’s spartan existence turns chaotic. Schrader made Roth, a man with a past, a gardener because he felt that the profession is a “rich metaphor” for both good and evil. “On one hand, a white supremacist can say ‘We’re the gardeners, we pull out the weeds.’ On the other hand a humanist can say, ‘We’re gardeners, we help things grow.’ And both are using the gardening metaphor — one is evil and one is good,” Schrader told Variety.

new clip posted Tuesday to her official YouTube channel.Shepherd had several memorable stints on ABC’s daytime mainstay over the years, appearing on about 600 episodes and even scoring the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 2009.The “30 Rock” star also shared sage words from her former “The View” moderator Goldberg, 66: She advised that being a host is “never about you, it’s always for someone else… [and] know that you’re taking people on a journey.”However, Shepherd revealed that O’Donnell, 60, gave her “the best advice” out of all of her former co-hosts. “She told me how much money she makes,” Shepherd said with a smile.As for TV interview icon Walters, 92, she directed the Chicago native to “always be curious” and “ask questions, never take no for an answer.”Late stand-up legend and talk show pioneer Joan Rivers also dropped a nugget of advice before she died at 81 in 2014, telling Shepherd that “funny girls will always work!”“Sherri” is set to premiere on Sept.

 are losing one of their own. Michael Fishman, who played DJ on all 10 seasons of and the first four seasons of the spinoff, is not returning for season 5 of the ABC sitcom, ET has learned. Additionally, Jayden Rey, who plays his daughter, Mary, is not slated to return as a series regular when picks back up with new episodes.

Talk Show have shared an energetic new song called ‘Leather’, taken from upcoming EP ‘Touch The Ground’.The London quartet’s new EP is set to come out on September 23 via Missing Piece, and is produced by Hot Chip duo Joe Goddard and Al Doyle.Speaking about the new track, frontman Harrison Swann said: “[Drummer] Chloe [MacGregor] took the lead on this one bringing a big breakbeat style drum part, and we just ran with it.“Vocally it felt natural to sit back and let the other parts sit more at the front. With the sharp guitar and heavy bass lines, we didn’t wanna compete with each other, so it helped having small repeating phrases, fitting in the gaps. We were trying to build an atmosphere, something dynamic, rather than tell a story.”Swann added: “We wanted something that had a bit of bite to it, that was really gonna show what we’d actually been listening to for inspiration.

Paul Rudd is checking in to for the upcoming season! According to, the actor has officially joined the cast of the Hulu mystery-comedy for season 3, after making a surprise appearance in the season 2 finale.“Paul Rudd, after making an auspicious entrance into the world of our show at the end of season 2 as Ben Glenroy, is someone we clearly want to know more about and see in our upcoming season 3 — as he is a clear source of many upcoming questions and, as ever with our show, many twists yet to come!” co-creator John Hoffman said in a statement to .After the show's central trio — Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin), Oliver Putnam (Martin Short), and Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez) — solved their second murder in as many years, the last moments of the finale flashed forward a year to opening night of Oliver's triumphant directorial return to Broadway. With Mabel in the audience to support her friends, and Charles-Haden taking the stage as one of the stars, Oliver first had some fires to put out with his leading man, Ben Glenroy (Rudd).Ben insinuated that he and Charles-Haden had been feuding over the course of the production so far, and even went so far as to threaten, «I just might [kill him], I'm warning you.»The pair exchanged tense words as they took the stage together, with Charles-Haden cautioning ominously, «Be smart, stay away from her… I know what you did.» Ultimately, Ben's rage didn't amount to much more than a new mystery, as he dropped dead on stage in the show's opening moments, leaving the central trio in disbelief that murders don't  happen in the building at the Arconia.«Season 3 is set up,» Martin shared with ET of the  to come.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeComedian Nick Kroll is returning to standup — and doing it via Netflix, the home of his animated comedy “Big Mouth.” Kroll’s first stand-up special in a decade — and his first for Netflix — is titled “Nick Kroll: Little Big Boy,” and will premiere globally on September 27.The special will air a month before the Season 6 return of “Big Mouth,” which returns Oct. 28. For “Little Big Boy,” Kroll shot the special in June at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C.“I could be wrong, but I don’t know if people think of me really as a stand up, because I’ve been doing sketch and animation and acting and the writing stuff,” said Kroll, who beyond “Big Mouth” and his voicework is perhaps best known for “The League” and “The Kroll Show,” as well as playing the geriatric Gil Faizon, opposite John Mulaney, in the “Oh, Hello” sketches that eventually turned into a Broadway show (also taped for Netflix).

Julianna Margulies is set to return for Season 3 of Apple TV+’s in the role of UBA news anchor Laura Peterson. Production on the new season is currently underway.

“Ink Master” Season 14 is nearly here, and the brand new trailer, exclusive to TheWrap, promises that when it arrives on Paramount+, the competition will be fierce.A host of fan favorites are returning for this season’s installment. TheWrap can also exclusively reveal the contestants.

It’s no secret that Wendy Williams is battling some major health issues.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentFor the second year in a row, “The View” is the most-watched daytime talk show across both network and syndication, Variety has learned.For the 2021-2022 television season, the ABC series ranked No. 1 in both households and total viewers, topping all other network and syndicated daytime talk shows with a 1.7 rating, tied with “Dr. Phil” in households, and an average of 2.411 million total viewers for the season, per Nielsen.In total viewers for the full season, “The View” came ahead of “Dr.

Married At First Sight UK will be making a return to our TV screens later this year, and we've got a sneak peek at the singletons who are set to walk down the aisle on the 2022 series. The hit show is back with an even bigger and better series than the last, and there's a whopping 30 episodes packed full of drama and romance this time round. The contestants will meet their partner for the very first time on their wedding day before going on to put their relationship to the ultimate test when they head on a luxury honeymoon together, before going on move in with each other and their fellow couples.

More drama! 90 Day: The Single Life is coming back for a third season, Us Weekly can exclusively confirm.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeGabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias’ landmark standup event at Dodger Stadium is finally making its way to Netflix. “Gabriel Iglesias: Stadium Fluffy Live from Los Angeles” will premiere globally on the streamer on October 18.The special, which was filmed as part of the “Netflix is a Joke” festival on May 6, made history as Iglesias became the first comedian to ever perform at Dodger Stadium.In the special, Iglesias talks about growing up in the Los Angeles region (he’s a native of Long Beach), a recent attempt at extortion towards him, and where he holds the record for receiving the highest fine on stage.