Entertainment

Photo by: Dominic Valente/Hulu(LOS ANGELES) -- Padma Lakshmi is branching out with her new Hulu food and travel program Taste the Nation, debuting on Thursday.  It features the Top Chef host hitting the road to visit and cook with chefs in immigrant communities across the U.S.A. Lakshmi tells ABC Audio that one of the main things on which the series will focus is how our food tastes better because it comes from all over the […]

Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for HISTORY(TEXAS) -- Matthew McConaughey lost his father at the beginning of the eventual Oscar winner's career, but the family patriarch is still very much with him.  "In 1992, I was five days into shooting Dazed and Confused and I got a phone call that my father had passed on," the actor tells Town & Country. "I drove to Houston to be with my family. I was with them […]

Anthony Anderson in "black-ish" -- ABC/Bonnie Osbourne(LOS ANGELES) -- FX Networks will air a special collection of feature films and television episodes simultaneously across its three networks on Friday, June 19, in honor of Juneteenth, the nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the U.S.  Beginning at 7 a.m. ET/PT and continuing for nearly 24 hours, the three networks -- FX, FXX and FXM -- will simultaneously air […]

Christopher Polk/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Chris D'Elia is shutting down claims he "knowingly" engaged in any inappropriate activity with minors.  "I know I have said and done things that might have offended people during my career, but I have never knowingly pursued any underage women at any point," the 40-year-old comedian explained in a statement to TMZ.  "All of my relationships have been both legal and consensual and I have never met or […]

ABC/Eric McCandless(LOS ANGELES) -- As people around the world sheltered at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, actor Josh Gad helped bring the comfort while raising money for noteworthy charities with his nostalgia-packed YouTube series Reunited Apart. However, it looks like the series has run its course... for now. Fresh off reuniting the Ghostbusters' cast, the Artemis Fowl star announced on Monday that, up next, he'll next be featuring the stars […]

Kevin Winter/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Kristen Stewart is going from playing an angel to a princess. Specifically, the Charlie's Angels actress will be playing Diana Spencer, aka Lady Diana, Princess of Wales in an upcoming drama.  The Hollywood Reporter says the period piece, called Spencer, will have Stewart playing Diana over a crucial Christmas holiday during which she plotted her divorce from Prince Charles, and began charting a life away from the British royal family. Princess Diana was killed in 1997 after […]

Photo by Bruce Glikas/Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic(NEW ZEALAND) -- James Cameron and company are back at work in New Zealand on the Avatar sequels, following production shutdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.  As previously reported, the shooting location of the four sequels was the key to getting back to work. The island nation took early, methodical steps to limit COVID-19's spread. Producer Jon Landau posted a snap of the first shot of the newly-restarted production: It shows Cameron perched behind a […]