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ABC/Heidi Gutman(LOS ANGELES) -- For Dreamgirls star Jennifer Hudson, portraying The Queen of Soul in a biopic is her ultimate dream role. During an appearance Wednesday on The Ellen Degeneres Show, the Oscar and Grammy Award winner admitted that she was incredibly honored that Aretha Franklin chose her to star in the planned film. "Aretha said she wanted Jennifer Hudson to play her, and its always been my dream to play Aretha, and its actually happening," Hudson said. […]

Polk PR/, Universal Stage Productions(NEW YORK) -- The hit musical Wicked is celebrating its 15 anniversary on Broadway next month, and NBC is bringing the show's original stars, along with some big-name singers, together to mark the occasion. On October 29 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, NBC will air A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating 15 Years on Broadway, a concert tribute hosted by Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth, who, respectively, originated […]

Jojo Whilden/CBS ©2018 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved(LOS ANGELES) -- One of the most anticipated new shows of the fall TV season premieres Thursday night -- Murphy Brown returns to CBS. And just as she took on real political figures the first time around, including former Vice President Dan Quayle, don't expect Candice Bergen's titular character to hold back when it comes to President Donald Trump. So, how is Bergen […]

ABC Radio(NEW YORK) -- Fat Joe knows a thing or two about making music and running his own rap label, but when it comes to acting, Joe admits he had quite a few lessons to learn. In the new comedy, Night School, Joe plays Bobby, a prisoner focused on getting his GED while behind bars. Joe tells ABC Radio it wasn't necessarily an easy transition. "[It] takes a lot of hard work," Joe […]

Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Congratulations go out to Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz -- the couple has welcomed their first child together, a baby girl, according to Us Weekly. The new baby, whose name hasn't been revealed, is the second child for both. Craig shares a 25-year-old daughter, Ella, with ex-wife, actress Fiona Loudon. Weisz shares son Henry, 11, with her ex, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky. Craig, 50, […]

TM & © 2017 Marvel & Subs. TM and © 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved. (LOS ANGELES) -- The phoenix has risen.  Star Sophie Turner helped debut the first trailer for the new X-Men movie, Dark Phoenix, Wednesday on the Late Late Show with James Corden.  The two-minute clip opens with James McAvoy reprising his role as Professor X, as he speaks to a young Jean Grey, […]

Warner Bros. (LOS ANGELES) -- Fargo's Mary Elizabeth Winstead and True Blood and Underground actress Jurnee Smollett-Bell have been added to the cast of the Harley Quinn stand-alone film, Birds of Prey, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Winstead will play longtime Batman character Huntress, while Smollett-Bell will play Black Canary, an expert fighter known for her "canary cry." Margot Robbie reprises her Harley Quinn role from 2016's Suicide Squad.  Birds of Prey, […]

ABC/Eric McCandless(HOLLYWOOD) -- On Tuesday night, comedian Nikki Glaser was the first contestant eliminated from the new season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars.  She says she wasn't surprised that she got voted off, because she couldn't do what she's best at -- being funny -- while dancing.   "Comedians always go first or second, generally, and so I knew I was at risk, but I thought I was gonna […]

ABC/Richard Cartwright(LOS ANGELES) -- Being a single parent is rarely glamorous, but ABC's new sitcom Single Parents is shining a light on the funny side of raising kids alone.  The ensemble cast stars Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester, Everybody Loves Raymond's Brad Garrett, Saturday Night Live's Taran Killam and more as single parents trying to raise kids, and shows how difficult -- and funny -- that can be. Meester -- who has one […]