Peyton and Eli Manning Will Co-Host ‘Monday Night Football’ on ESPN2

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHulu has given a series order to the drama “Tell Me Lies,” based on the book of the same name by Carola Lovering. Grace Van Patten will star in the series with Emma Roberts executive producing.The series follows a tumultuous but intoxicating relationship as it unfolds over the course of 8 years.

Coming off her role in the upcoming Hulu limited series Nine Perfect Strangers, Grace Van Patten has been tapped as the lead of the streamer’s drama Tell Me Lies, which has received a straight-to-series order.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor“Saturday Night Live” impresario Lorne Michaels has an intriguing offer for veteran cast members thinking of leaving the show: Don’t.Each summer brings with it an annual “SNL” ritual in which Michaels and top producers try to figure out which members of the current troupe of the show’s “Not Ready for Prime Time Players” will leave and which will remain.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorKyle Hamiton, Cam Hart, Conor Ratigan and KJ Wallace have another game to play while attending Notre Dame.The four students are members of the university’s football team, and they are getting ready to give fans and Notre Dame sports aficionados their own take on sports and whatever else they might find interesting.Stating Wednesday, the quartet will hold forth on “Inside The Garage,” a twice-weekly podcast in which active players from the college’s 2021 football

LONDON -- A British journalist and her publisher faced defamation claims in a London court on Wednesday from billionaire Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich and other wealthy Russians over a book about the rise of President Vladimir Putin.Catherine Belton’s book, “Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West,” charts the rise to wealth and power of former KGB agent Putin and a circle of associates after the breakup of the Soviet Union.Abramovich says the book’s

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorHGTV fans usually get to see some of the nation’s most beautiful homes, but a new series from the Discovery-owned cable outlet will instead feature domiciles their owners believe are some of the ugliest.Comedian and actor Retta will host “Ugliest House in America,” a new series slated to debut in early 2022.

ESPN and The Walt Disney Company will feature Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks Peyton Manning his brother, Eli, in “megacasts” of Monday Night Football across ESPN2 and other Disney outlets.

ESPN is finally getting Peyton Manning behind the mic. The former NFL quarterback and his younger brother Eli (who also played a little football) will headline an alternate telecast option for “Monday Night Football” that will be available on ESPN2.The alternate viewing option will be available for 10 games during each of the next three seasons, beginning this fall with the first three “MNF” games of the season.

Football fans will love this news! Retired star quarterbacks Peyton Manning and Eli Manning, who are brothers, will lead the new Monday Night Football broadcast on ESPN2 this fall.

**Spoilers ahead for “Loki.”** Marvel‘s “Loki” series aired the season finale last week and they announced that Season 2 would be moving forward. However, director Kate Herron has already explained why she won’t be coming back as she will focus on other projects instead.

Shortly after this morning’s nominations for the 73rd Annual Emmys were released I joined our TV Critic Dominic Patten for a special Emmy TV Talk Podcast to assess the hits and misses, what the Television Academy got right, what it may have gotten wrong, plus our individual choices for the biggest snub of the day. With the Emmys there is always controversy, and today’s massive list of nominees had plenty of that depending on which side you are on.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJedediah Bila has moved from the weekend edition of “Fox & Friends” to a collecting letters to her son, citing a desire to help people find common ground through simple conversations.Bila, who also did a stint as a co-host on ABC’s “The View,” has a new book, “Dear Hartley,” billed as a collection of 52 letters to her son that address “everything from character and empathy to parenting and friendship, from education and family to fitness and food.” The book is

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorExecutives at Fox News Channel believe one of the core elements behind the durability of the network’s late-afternoon panel program, “The Five,” is the connection between founding panelists Dana Perino and Greg Gutfeld.

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Tucker Carlson accused the National Security Agency of reading the emails he sent as part of a plan to secure an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin and then leaking them to news outlets.

Sir Salman Rushdie was, for a brief time, “Mr. Padma Lakshmi.” The author — who won the Booker Price in 1981 with his second novel, Midnight’s Children – married the actress and culinary icon in the early 2000s. Unfortunately, internal and external issues resulted in their marriage going sour. Before the decade was up, they had gone their separate ways, searching for the next chapter in their respective stories.