Year: 2017

ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) -- Jordan Peele is teaming up with Underground showrunner Misha Green and J.J. Abrams for HBO's new horror series Lovecraft Country. Deadline reports that the trio will executive produce the project, based on Matt Ruff's anthology of the same name. As in the book, the series will follow Atticus Black, a young man who embarks on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America with his friend and his uncle to locate his […]

(L-R) TIM ALLEN, JONATHAN ADAMS (ABC/Tony Rivetti)(LOS ANGELES) -- While arguably not everybody's cup of tea, it's obvious that Tim Allen's affable family sitcomLast Man Standing has a following: it wouldn't have lasted six seasons if it didn't.  The Friday night show had been getting solid ratings, but ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey announced at the network's "up fronts" gathering Tuesday that the series, which she admitted was a "steady performer," was being cancelled for […]

ABC/Jay Goldman(LOS ANGELES) -- News of Katy Perry joining American Idol and confirmation that Scandal will be ending after next season weren't the only revelations ABC had Tuesday.  The network also announced a spate of new shows including another Shondaland series, spinoffs from two of its high-profile reality competition shows, live specials and a reboot of a classic family sitcom. The Bachelor Winter Games will see past Bachelor and Bachelorette cast members move into a luxury winter resort and compete in […]

ABC/Ida Mae Astute(NEW YORK) -- Kerry Washington described the cast of Scandal as “sad” that the hit TV show is ending,  but she managed to find a silver lining.  “Sometimes as an actor you don’t know when you’re going to be out of a job and so it’s nice actually to go into the last season knowing that it’s our last season,” Washington said today on Good Morning America. "We’re already talking about how […]

NBC/Trea Patton(LOS ANGELES) -- On Tuesday’s episode of The Voice, the eight artists who performed Monday learned that TSoul, from Team Blake Shelton, Vanessa Ferguson from Alicia Keys’ team and Hunter Plake and Brennley Brown – both from Team Gwen Stefani -- were sent home. Plake and Brown were eliminated on a one-hour results show. They lost an "Instant Save" vote to Team Adam Levine’s Jesse Larson. Prior to the vote, Brown, Plake and Larson sang for an opportunity to be saved by the viewers. […]

ABC/Jay Goldman(LOS ANGELES) -- News of Katy Perry joining American Idol and confirmation that Scandal will be ending after next season weren't the only revelations ABC had Tuesday.  The network also announced a spate of new shows including another Shondaland series, spinoffs from two of its high-profile reality competition shows, live specials and a reboot of a classic family sitcom. The Bachelor Winter Games will see past Bachelor and Bachelorette cast members move into a luxury winter resort and compete in […]

Courtesy Buchanan County Sheriff's Office(BUCHANAN COUNTY, Iowa) --Former Bachelor Chris Soules has pleaded not guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of a fatal accident, which occurred last month in Iowa. In paperwork obtained by ABC News, Soules waived his right to be arraigned in open court and instead filed his plea via his legal team Tuesday. According to the official police report from the accident and later Soules himself in released […]