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While her Koosh ball-firing days may be behind her, Rosie O’Donnell seems to be quite busy lately. In addition to joining the cast of the Sex and the City spin-off And Just Like That…, she has reportedly written a new hour of stand-up material for a forthcoming comedy special. Why? To make Ellen DeGeneres look even worse than she already does.

According to In Touch Weekly, the same journalistic outlet that just cracked the case of Jessica Simpson’s weight loss, O’Donnell is “secretly finalizing a deal” for a new comedy special and is “vowing to outshine her longtime rival” Ellen DeGeneres. The outlet spoke with an anonymous insider who claims that O'Donnell's new hour will be “a lot like Ellen’s special, except it’s funny!”

They went on to say that “Rosie still has a swagger and still has real comedy chops, and thankfully, in her new material...

Rosie O'Donnell has been a longtime advocate for Lyle and Erik Menendez, who shot their parents dead in 1989. Long before the "TikTok Movement," Rosie was already a "big sister" to the incarcerated brothers after they had bonded over the similar abuse that they'd suffered at home.

Now, Lyle and Erik's murder case is up for review for possible resentencing following Ryan Murphy's Netflix drama series, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. Kim Kardashian has also penned an essay urging authorities to reconsider their life sentences after visiting them in prison alongside Cooper Koch, the actor who played Erik in the hit show.

There are even rumors about them getting offers to do reality TV if they ever get out. The Menendez brothers have been locked up for almost 35 years. During those years, they also got acquainted with O.J. Simpson amid his infamous murder trial. Here's why Rosie has...

On September 17, 2024, things took a very dark turn for Rosie O’Donnell‘s oldest daughter, Chelsea O’Donnell. Chelsea was arrested and charged with a slew of heartbreaking and inappropriate crimes. This news is a bit unexpected for TV lovers who’ve spent years watching Rosie on different beloved shows.

Rosie led the way on The Rosie O’Donnell Show from 1996 until 2002. She also starred on The Rosie Show from 2011 until 2012. Rosie consistently shared her insights and opinions on The View as a talk show host from 2006 until 2007. But Rosie’s television history is now being overshadowed based on the crimes of her daughter. These are the details about why Chelsea got arrested.

Why Was Chelsea O’Donnell Arrested?

According to In Touch Weekly, Chelsea‘s cause for arrest was more serious than anyone might’ve guessed. She was charged with four felony accounts of child neglect, maintaining a drug trafficking place, the possession of Thc,...

Despite his assigned role as the resident fat guy on Saturday Night Live, Chris Farley was a lot more than just a walking, talking, cartwheeling visual gag.

In the decades since Farley died of a drug overdose on December 18, 1997, the comedy legend’s contemporaries have had plenty of time to examine Farley’s oeuvre and come to their own conclusions about what his immaculate work on SNL meant for him as an artist and as a person. During Farley’s heyday in the 1990s, the greater comedy community still had a callous sense of humor when it came to performers of Farley’s size, and SNL cast members and writers from Farley’s era have since fiercely criticized the show for placing Farley in a compulsory position as the literal butt of the joke in sketches such as the enduringly popular but currently controversial “Chippendales Audition.”

Specifically, Bob Odenkirk has...

In the opening section of Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution, you might be forgiven for thinking this is an extended Pride Month promo to breathe new life into Netflix’s 2022 special, Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration. But in a Q&a following the rousingly received opening-night screening at the Provincetown Film Festival, director Page Hurwitz clarified the chicken-and-the-egg situation, explaining that she produced the event at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, which assembled 22 prominent queer comics on the same bill, as a foundational building block for this documentary surveying the rich history of LGBTQ+ comedians.

At a time when a new generation of queer comics from across the sexual and gender identity spectrum has emerged into what appears to be a thriving scene, this is an invaluable primer on the many performers who kicked down resistant doors to make today’s greater representation possible.

Even if it only served as...

Rosie O’Donnell is making her TV return on Max’s “And Just Like That.”

The comedian revealed she’s joining the cast of the “Sex and the City” spinoff on Wednesday, sharing a photo of the Season 3 premiere script via Instagram. The photo reveals she’s playing a character named Mary and that the episode is titled, “Outlook Good.” It will be written and directed by executive producer Michael Patrick King.

“Here comes mary #andjustlikethat @hbo,” she captioned the photo. She also shared a selfie of herself with gray curly hair, captioned, “U like?”

O’Donnell previously hosted her own talk show, “The Rosie O’Donnell Show,” from 1996 to 2002. She went on to serve as a moderator on “The View” for one year from 2006 to 2007. She last appeared on television in 2022 in Showtime’s “American Gigolo.”

Earlier in the day, Sarah Jessica Parker, who portrays lead Carrie Bradshaw, shared photos of scripts as well,...

In Wendy McMahon’s first major executive hire since the CBS News chief took oversight of CBS Media Ventures, she has brought in veteran producer and development executive Stacy Rader as SVP, First-Run Development and Brand Extensions at CBS Media Ventures.

In her new role, Rader, who will be based in New York, will work with senior leadership to create and coordinate Cmv’s content strategy across platforms.

She succeeds Elaine Bauer Brooks, who departed her post as EVP, Development and MultiPlatform Content at CBS Media Ventures in August after nine years at the company on the heels of CBS Media Ventures President Steve LoCascio’s retirement amid a corporate restructuring that saw the division become part McMahon’s portfolio.

“Stacy’s background as an experienced producer who has an eye toward creating compelling content, with an expertise in modernizing brands to meet audience expectations and create new business opportunities,...

Those following entertainment news in recent weeks will likely have heard about the Danny Masterson case. In September 2023, the former That '70s Show star was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on assault charges. Investigations into Masterson first began in 2017, leading to the effective end of his career. He was formally charged with three counts of assault in 2020, with the trial beginning in late 2022. After the jury deadlocked, a new trial began in April 2023, with Masterson convicted on two counts in May.

Masterson's actions have shed new light on other problematic actions by his '70s Show costars. With all this negative publicity, it doesn't seem like an ideal time to reboot the series. But that's exactly what Netflix did with That '90s Show. The show's first season dropped in January, and a second is set to go into production when the WGA and SAG strikes conclude. But is this really the best idea?...

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis haven't been able to catch a break ever since their letters in support of their former That '70s Show co-star Danny Masterson went viral, and now Chrissie Carnell Bixler, one of the accusers, is bashing them as well.

Despite all the character letters his friends and family sent to Judge Olmedo, Masterson, best known for his role as Hyde in That '70s Show, has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for raping two women in 2003. Even though over 50 people have shown support to Masterson in the letter form, Kutcher and Kunis currently seem to be the main targets of online backlash. Following their apology, Bixler called out the two actors on her Instagram Stories and shared a few cryptic details about the stars' involvement in decades-old incidents (via X).

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Both Kutcher and...

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis’ 2002 interview on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” resurfaced on social media after the two actors apologized for writing letters of support for Danny Masterson ahead of his sentencing for rape. In the viral clip, Kunis reveals that Masterson once bet Kutcher $10 to French kiss her while filming an episode of their Fox sitcom “That ’70s Show.” The actors are in good spirits about the incident, but the clip has amassed over four million views and counting in the days after Masterson was sentenced to 30 years to life for rape.

“She was 14 when we started the show. I was 19,” Kutcher says in the 2002 interview. “And they were like, ‘You guys are going to be making out in this scene.’ And I’m thinking, ‘Wait, this is slightly illegal.'”

“I’ve never kissed a guy,” Kunis adds. “I was a 14-year-old little girl and I was extremely scared for my life.

Chrissie Bixler outed herself as one of Danny Masterson’s victims in November 2017. She joined actress Bobette Riales and two anonymous women in filing a lawsuit against Masterson and the Church of Scientology in 2019, and on Saturday posted a series of interviews with Ashton Kutcher in which he revealed Masterson bet him $10 to French kiss a then-14-year-old Mila Kunis when Kutcher was 19.

By the time the first episode of “That ’70s Show” aired, putting together Kutcher and Kunis as then-fictional love interests, Kutcher was 20.

One of the clips is from a 2002 episode of “The Rosie O’Donnell Show,” where Kutcher and Kunis appeared together. Kutcher admitted to O’Donnell that he and Kunis were told they would be kissing a lot, and he wondered if “this is slightly illegal” due to Kunis’ age.

The actress then revealed that Masterson bet Kutcher $10 if he French kissed her when the pair had their...

The Season 2 premiere of “And Just Like That” opens with a montage with the three main characters — Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) — engaged in intimate acts with their respective lovers. And while the latter two appear in states of complete undress, Carrie does not.

Parker has talked openly about her “no nudity” stance in her career which dates back to her breakout role on “And Just Like That” predecessor “Sex and the City.” Davis, Nixon and Kim Cattrall all appeared nude on the show — which ran from the late ’90s to early ’00s on HBO — but Parker never did.

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Parker appeared on Howard Stern’s Sirius Xm show on Wednesday to discuss why she never appeared nude on the HBO show.

“I thought the script was really interesting,...

Rosie O’Donnell still isn’t in a great place with Ellen DeGeneres after the latter denied being friends with her.

O’Donnell told The Hollywood Reporter how the pair were among the young entertainers in Hollywood going to parties together all those years ago, so it was weird when DeGeneres said they weren’t pally.

The comedian shared of what the dynamic was like between her and DeGeneres as “two rising comics in the scene,” “It was a good relationship. We were friends. We supported each other. Which is why when she came on my show, I said, ‘Let me not have you standing there by yourself. Let’s get a joke in there.’ And we sat down and came up with that, ‘Oh my God, I love Casey Kasem. Maybe I’m Lebanese.’ It became a big thing.”

DeGeneres had gone on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” back in 1996, where she...

Mara Wilson disappeared from the public eye not long after 1996's Matilda. Wilson is one of the most memorable child actors from the 1990s, thanks in large part to roles in Mrs. Doubtfire and the 1994 Miracle On 34th Street remake. But of course, the role that stands out the most in Wilson's acting career is that of the titular character in Matilda.

As a child, Wilson was working with industry legends like Martin Short, Danny DeVito, and Robin Williams. She won a Young Artist Award in 1996 for her role in 1996's Matilda movie and another a year later for A Simple Wish. The star also appeared at the 1995 Academy Awards on the red carpet and as a presenter with Tim Curry. During a 1997 interview on The Rosie O'Donnell Show, the host praised Wilson for having so many acting roles under her belt at only 10 years old. But while this was...

Kevin Fortson, the Executive Vice President of Production & Administration for Warner Bros. Unscripted Television, will retire this summer after three decades with the studio.

“For the past 30 years, Kevin has been an indelible part of Warner Bros,” said Mike Darnell, President, Warner Bros. Unscripted Television. “His name has literally become synonymous with the company and the lot itself. Personally, I will miss him for his counsel, his friendship and his endless string of dad jokes. He truly is one in a million … although he would probably try to cut that budget down! He is as important to the studio as any movie or television show ever produced here, and if I had the power to do it, there would be a stage with his name on it, right next to Friends and The Big Bang Theory. He is known as the unofficial Mayor of the lot, and his constituents will miss him dearly…...

It’s hard to believe that over the 19 years The Ellen DeGeneres Show was on the air, Rosie O’Donnell was never a guest. (Jennifer Aniston was on 20 times! Justin Bieber a whopping 27!) So why was it that the comedian-actress never made her way to Ellen’s couch? The two have a lot in common as veterans of daytime television, with O’Donnell hosting The Rosie O’Donnell Show from 1996-2002, and as fellow openly gay comedians. So it’s a bit odd to consider O’Donnell never joining DeGeneres as a guest, and we found out exactly why when O’Donnell was a guest on Watch What Happens Live! with Andy Cohen this week. When Cohen read a fan-submitted question asking why O’Donnell never appeared on Ellen show, the American Gigolo star revealed that, years ago, DeGeneres hurt her feelings. “We had a little bit of a weird thing, and...

Rosie O’Donnell has explained why she was never really friends with Ellen DeGeneres after the presenter “hurt her feelings”.

DeGeneres famously appeared on The Rosie O’Donnell Show in 1996, where she alluded to rumours that she was a lesbian before publicly coming out on Ellen.

Appearing on Watch What Happens Live on Thursday (15 September), host Andy Cohen asked O’Donnell why she was never asked to appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show herself.

“We had a little bit of a weird thing, after my show went off the air and hers was coming on the air,” O’Donnell explained.

“Larry King was on with Ellen and he said, ‘What ever happened to Rosie O’Donnell? Her show went down the tubes! She came out as a lesbian and disappeared!’”

She continued: “And Ellen said, and I’m quoting, ‘I don’t know Rosie. We’re not friends.’”

O’Donnell said that...

Rosie O'Donnell is clearing the air about her strained relationship with Ellen DeGeneres. During the Sept. 15 episode of Watch What Happens Live, the American Gigolo actress—who hosted The Rosie O'Donnell Show from 1996 to 2002 and later fronted The Rosie Show before it got canceled in 2012 after one season due to low ratings—discussed why she never appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show and why she and Ellen are not close friends today. "After my show went off the air, and hers was coming on the air, Larry King was on with Ellen and he said, 'Whatever happened to Rosie O'Donnell? Her show went down the tubes. She came out as a lesbian and disappeared,'" Rosie shared....

Rosie O’Donnell revealed why she’d never been on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in its 20-year run as she chatted to Andy Cohen on Thursday’s “Watch What Happens Live”.

O’Donnell explained that she and DeGeneres “had a little bit of a weird thing.”

DeGeneres had gone on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” back in 1996, where she revealed her character was going to come out as “Lebanese,” months before she famously came out as gay on her “Ellen” sitcom.

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O’Donnell told Cohen, “After my show went off the air, and her’s was coming on the air, Larry King was on with Ellen and he said, ‘Whatever happened to Rosie O’Donnell? Her show went down the tubes. She came out as a lesbian and disappeared.’ And Ellen said,...

Rosie O’Donnell opened up about her feelings over the recently deceased Anne Heche, with whom she seemingly had a misunderstanding.

“I always sort of felt sorry for her but never reached out to her, so when she’s dying and all that happens I’m legitimately bereft,” O’Donnell told SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show”.

Read More: Rosie O’Donnell Says She ‘Feels Bad’ For Mocking Anne Heche In The Past After News Of Her Car Crash

The actress and comedian was shocked to learn that, last year, Heche had publicly accused O’Donnell of threatening to ruin her career back when Heche was a guest on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show”, which ran from 1996 to 2002.

“I called my nephew, who does all the tapes for us, I go, ‘Pull every Anne Heche interview,’” O’Donnell recalled, telling host Howard Stern about her reaction to Heche’s claims, which ultimately...

“I’m so sweaty. I’m gonna roll these Spanx off,” Kelly Clarkson exclaims in front of a live audience at Lincoln Center, having just belted out Mary J. Blige’s “Just Fine” — a song she learned only hours before. The crowd cheers her on and laughs as she announces, mid-performance, “I have to pee, so I’m gonna have an extra pep in my step.”

This is not a concert.

On this rainy, humid morning in August, Clarkson is on set for Season 4 of “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” which has relocated to New York City from L.A. for a week to pre-tape shows for its fall premiere. And things need to be more than ”just fine,” as this is not your ordinary season launch: The daytime star has been thrust into the lucrative 4 p.m. time slot, where Ellen DeGeneres built her empire. Now, NBC-owned stations and...

It’s one thing to grapple with having been a one-hit wonder, and another when that singular smash may have given the world a wrong impression of what you were all about … or just represented a moment in which selling out was quickly succeeded by flaming out. These are some of the matters troubling former Chumbawamba frontman Dunstan Bruce’s mind in “I Get Knocked Down,” wherein the singer takes part as narrator, co-director, primary subject and putative conscience of a swept-aside alt-rock generation. His intention with the film is to beat himself up a little and find some redemption, proceeding from the assumption that having been responsible for 1997’s globally massive “Tubthumping” is not its own eternal reward.

“I Get Knocked Down” — named for a line in the chorus of “Tubthumping,” which will be instantly familiar to just about anyone sentient in the late ’90s — quickly emerges out of...

Arthur Forrest, a television legend with a 75-year career that covered long-running hits such as “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” and “That’s Incredible!,” died on Oct. 25. He was 95.

Marcy Forrest, Arthur’s wife, confirmed the death to Variety.

Born in 1926 in Brooklyn and raised in the Bronx as a first-generation American, Forrest completed his education at NYU and landed a job at DuMont Network’s studio as a janitor. After learning the business, Forrest went from janitor to page, from page to studio assistant, all the way up to the cameraman on “The Honeymooners” and “Captain Video.”

After leaving DuMont and working for New York’s Channel 5, Forrest directed the popular children’s show, “Wonderama,” and stayed at the station until 1973, when he left to direct the late night “Dick Cavett Show.”

Moving to Los Angeles in 1975, Forrest established himself in the world of live television, finding success with...

Original “Blue’s Clues” host Steve Burns has finally clued the world into why he left the popular children’s show in 2002. In a viral clip posted to Nick Jr.’s Twitter account, Burns explained that he decided to go to college.

“You remember how when we were younger, we used to run around and hang out with Blue and find clues and talk to Mr. Salt and freak out about the mail and do all the fun stuff?” Burns said. “And then one day, I was like, ‘Oh hey, guess what? Big news, I’m leaving. Here’s my brother Joe, he’s your new best friend,’ and then I got on a bus and I left and we didn’t see each other for like a really long time? Can we just talk about that? Because I realize that was kind of abrupt.”

Burns continued, explaining that he left...

Having gone 10 rounds and then some against Donald Trump, Rosie O’Donnell isn’t afraid of Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. The former daytime talk show host notoriously spoiled the ending of “Fight Club” during an episode of “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” back in 1999, when the David Fincher film was newly released in theaters. Though the Tyler Durden twist is now infamous, once upon a time a person could walk into a movie theater and be completely surprised by the ending.

During an interview with “The Jess Cagle Show” on Sirius Xm radio, O’Donnell finally addressed the snafu, though she stopped short of an actual apology.

“I was just talking because I didn’t think [‘Fight Club’] was good and the ‘Sixth Sense’ was out. I don’t know. It annoyed me, the movie,” she said. “So I was saying — ‘the ‘Sixth Sense’ makes sense, but this one doesn’t...

Kelly Clarkson won Best Entertainment Talk Show Host at the 2020 Daytime Emmys for “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” and this year the series took off with eight bids in the first round of nominations, which were announced on May 25. Not only is she likely to win for hosting again according to the combined predictions of Gold Derby users so far, she’s favored to take Best Entertainment Talk Show as well. With “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” ending its run in 2022, is this the start of a new talk show dynasty in daytime?

Over the years the Daytime Emmys have usually been dominated by one talk show personality or another. “Donahue” won six times in nine years between 1978 and 1986. Then “The Oprah Winfrey Show” came along and prevailed nine times between 1987 and 1997, losing only twice during that period. “Oprah” remained on the air for more than a decade after that but Winfrey...

Scott Rowe, a longtime communications executive for Warner Bros. TV Group, is exiting the studio after nearly 30 years.

Rowe’s post as senior VP of communications and domestic market has been eliminated as part of the broader restructuring and downsizing that has transformed the storied studio and its WarnerMedia parent company. The depth of the changes at Warner Bros., once Hollywood’s undisputed leader in film and TV production, have been jarring to entertainment industry veterans.

Rowe joined Warner Bros. in early 1994 after seven years with Fox, starting out as manager of publicity for the Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution syndication unit. He steadily rose through the ranks and added marketing duties in addition to PR and communications on behalf of various Wbtv units. He worked closely with longtime Wbtv marketing chief Lisa Gregorian, whose departure amid the restructuring was confirmed Monday.

Among the many Wbtv shows that Rowe worked...

Scott Rowe is leaving Warner Bros. Television after 27 years, most recently as SVP, Communications & Domestic Marketing, for Warner Bros. Worldwide Television Marketing.

He is one of a number of longtime Warner Bros. executives departing the company as WarnerMedia is cutting down its workforce via layoffs and buyouts. (Rowe is believed to have taken a buyout.)

“I am eternally grateful for the nearly three decades of experiences, challenges and successes at Warner Bros., and especially for all of the people with whom I have had the incredible fortune to work – colleagues, clients, media, mentors and others,” Rowe said in a statement. “We’ve learned a lot, laughed a lot and I will miss them a lot, but I’m really excited to discover what comes next in my career. And, while I’ve written it hundreds of times in quotes for others, I can honestly say that for the next little...

In a year when all of entertainment was turned upside down, nobody saw it coming: The hottest property in daytime TV as America went on lockdown was a 62-year-old career politician holding court in Albany, N.Y.

On March 2, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo conducted a media briefing in an effort to spread vital news and information about the coronavirus outbreak that was just starting to be recognized as a massive public health threat. With fear across the country spiking, Cuomo’s briefing was carried live by New York’s local TV stations — and nationally on CNN and other news outlets.

That 12-minute introduction, part of a 34-minute session with other state leaders, was the first of 111 consecutive daily briefings for New Yorkers and the wider world about the grim progress of the worst pandemic to hit the U.S. in a century. Cuomo became the most unlikely TV star...

Exclusive: The Talk executive producer and showrunner John Redmann, one of the CBS’ daytime talker’s original auspices, is leaving after 10 seasons. There is no immediate replacement. The Talk is currently on summer hiatus and plans to return to production for Season 11 in September.

“2020 has been a year of reflection for all of us,” Redmann said. “While I have enjoyed every moment at The Talk, I realized over these past few months that the time has come for me to make a change. I launched The Talk 10 years ago and have been so proud to have built a long-running and successful show. After 10 career Emmys and 10 award-winning seasons of this show, I am excited to start a new chapter.”

In 2010, CBS was looking for a replacement for departing veteran daytime soap As the World Turns. As part of its search, the network ordered three pilots: two game shows and a...

Rolling Stone rolled out its list of the 100 Greatest Debut Singles of All Time this week, and it was packed with beloved classics like “Blitzkrieg Bop” by the Ramones, “Maybelline” by Chuck Berry, “Anarchy in the U.K.” by the Sex Pistols, and “Love Me Do” by the Beatles. The Jackson 5 had the number two slot with “I Want You Back,” but it was Britney Spears who topped the entire thing with her classic “…Baby One More Time.”

“One of those pop manifestos that announces a new sound, a new era,...

The Actors Fund has distributed a record-breaking $10.5 million over the past eight weeks to provide emergency financial assistance for performing arts and entertainment workers in need due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the Fund reported today. The figure reflects more than five times the amount typically distributed by the Fund in an entire year.

Brian Stokes Mitchell, actor and Chairman of the Board of The Actors Fund, said, “Looking at a number – even one as large as 10 million – doesn’t begin to tell the whole story. In an instant, our friends and supporters, people like Rosie O’Donnell, Seth Rudetsky & James Wesley and others, began dreaming of entirely new fundraising models that would prove to be nothing short of lifesaving. In all my years working with The Fund, I’ve never been so moved, so inspired, or so grateful.”

O’Donnell, Rudetsky and Wesley are among those in the Broadway community...

Unicef USA will host their first ever streaming event on Saturday, May 9th at 8pm Et. “Unicef Won’t Stop” will highlight Unicef’s Covid-19 response, frontline workers and experts and the children Unicef serves.

Unicef Won't Stop Virtual Event

The hour long special will be free to all and feature musical performances and celebrity appearances. The broadcast will air on www.unicefwontstop.org and on YouTube at www.youtube.com/unicefusa.

Cher will debut an exclusive performance of her new single, a Spanish language version of Abba’s “Chiquitita”. Proceeds from the song “Chiquitita” have benefited Unicef’s work since the 1979 Music for Unicef Concert.

“I am so proud to premiere this new version during the broadcast of Unicef Won’t Stop,” said Cher. “I’ve long admired Unicef, especially for their work with young women since I was a little girl. Now, more than ever, it’s critical...

The trailers for upcoming HBO miniseries “I Know This Much is True” advertise, “Academy Award nominee Mark Ruffalo, Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, Emmy winner Rosie O’Donnell, Emmy winner Archie Panjabi, with Academy Award nominee Juliette Lewis and Emmy winner Kathryn Hahn.” With such a deep bench and Ruffalo the Best Movie/Limited Actor front-runner for his dual role as twins Dominick and Thomas Birdsey, “I Know This Much is True” is a formidable contender for a Best Movie/Limited Supporting Actress nomination, but for which star?

SEEour rundown on the “Mrs. America” supporting actresses.

Honorable mention: Juliette Lewis as Nedra Frank

Nedra is a scholar whom Dominic hires to translate an Italian manuscript for an autobiography by his late grandfather. Anyone who tunes into the premiere might want to nominate Lewis, who is unhinged and unpredictable in an uncomfortable nine-minute scene when she shows up unexpectedly at Dominic’s door one night.

Talk show veteran Jason Kurtz has been named executive producer and showrunner of “The Drew Barrymore Show,” the syndicated daytime series coming from CBS Television Distribution in the fall.

Kurtz will take the reins of the celebrity and lifestyle series fronted the actor and entrepreneur who grew up in the public eye from her breakthrough role at the age of 7 in 1982’s “Et the Extra-Terrestrial.”

Kurtz has a long list of talk show credits. He most recently was an executive producer and showrunner of Harry Connick Jr.’s NBCUniversal talk show “Harry.” Previous credits include “Steve Harvey,” “The Nate Berkus Show,” “The Queen Latifah Show” and “The Bonnie Hunt Show.” He began his career as a talent assistant on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show.”

“We are thrilled to have Jason on board ‘The Drew Barrymore Show,’ ” said Elaine Bauer Brooks, executive VP of development for Ctd. “He not only has an enormous amount of daytime experience,...

Deirdre Dod, longtime talent producer at CBS daytime show “The Talk,” has left her position to join SiriusXM as senior director of talent relations. Based out of the satellite giant’s new Los Angeles complex, she will lead the talent department for SiriusXM’s west coast studios and the shows that broadcast from there.

Dod will report directly to Ross Zapin, senior vice president and general manager of west coast operations.

Via her position at Jb Talent, Dod spent five-and-a-half years at “The Talk” booking such guests and performers as Cher, Lionel Richie, Shania Twain, Stevie Nicks, Khalid and Charlie Puth, among many others. In addition, she booked musical guests and guest co-hosts on Fox’s “American Idol”, Vh-1’s “Hip Hop Squares,” ABC’s “To Tell The Truth,” an NBC primetime special for Red Nose Day, Kevin Hart’s “What The Fit” on YouTube and NBC’s “New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly.

When all this is over, one of the enduring cultural moments of the coronavirus pandemic will be the memories of the music. Across the world, people have been turning to music for comfort and community. Clips have gone viral of Italians holding nightly singalongs from their balconies and Spaniards jamming out together from a distance. And here in America, the performing arts community has been coming together to produce all sorts of remote content. The most high-profile of these to date is the one-off 'revival' of The Rosie O'Donnell Show, which streamed live on Sunday, Mar. 22. It was a testament to the power of community and the humor of technical problems.

We haven’t seen the last of Rosie O’Donnell — as a talk show host, that is.

The funny lady tells Variety that the one-night-only return of “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” on Sunday may have just been the beginning of her talk show comeback.

The stand-alone show, broadcast on Broadway.com and the website’s YouTube channel, raised $600,000 for The Actors Fund. Produced by “Madam Secretary” star Erich Bergen, the event featured dozes of guests including Patti LuPone, Ben Platt, Kristin Chenoweth, Billy Porter, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Chita Rivera, Darren Criss and many more.

Variety caught up with O’Donnell on Monday afternoon to talk about her return, why she wasn’t bothered by the show’s audio problems and the possibility of more fundraising shows with guests like Barbra Streisand.

Congrats on a great show. You raised more than $600,000.

It was so fun. We raised so much money. I’m so glad it all worked out.

Sunday’s one-night-only, celebrity-packed livestream return of The Rosie O’Donnell Show raised more than $600,000 in support of The Actors Fund during the Covid-19 pandemic, organizers say.

The special, hosted by O’Donnell and streamed live on Broadway.com and its YouTube channel, featured performances and appearances by numerous Broadway and TV stars, including Shoshana Bean, Tituss Burgess, Kristin Chenoweth, Gavin Creel, Darren Criss, Gloria Estefan, Jordan Fisher, Neil Patrick Harris, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald & Will Swenson, Katharine McPhee & David Foster, Alan Menken, Matthew Morrison, Ben Platt, Billy Porter and Barry Manilow, among others.

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Watch Alan Menken’s appearance below.

O’Donnell conducted remote interviews with Laura Benanti, Nate Berkus, Matthew Broderick & Sarah Jessica Parker,...

Beloved composer Alan Menken was one of many celebrities who joined Rosie O’Donnell on Sunday for the one-night-only return of “The Rosie O’Donnell Show,” a benefit to raise money for The Actors Fund to provide relief for members of the entertainment industry affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The benefit raised $600,000 for the fund and is still accepting donations.

And Menken’s offering to those who tuned in to the special — recorded remotely by O’Donnell and her guests, who are all on lockdown in different locations due to the Covid-19 outbreak — was a delightful medley of some of his classic Disney songs, along with a little bit of “Little Shop of Horrors” thrown in for good measure.

You can watch Menken’s performance via the video above, in which he plays bits of “Under the Sea” from “The Little Mermaid,” “Be Our Guest” from “Beauty and the Beast,” “Suddenly Seymour” from “Little Shop of Horrors,...

Broadway's biggest and brightest stars got together for a special edition of The Rosie O'Donnell Show on Sunday night. During a livestream on Broadway.com's YouTube channel, your favorite musicians put on performances, talked about their careers, and discussed how they're staying positive during the coronavirus outbreak. Not only did the special give us some much-needed entertainment, but it also helped raise 500K for The Actors Fund to support members of the entertainment industry. Ben Platt sang "Make You Feel My Love," Darren Criss played his guitar, and Jordan Fisher gave a lovely rendition of "Waving Through a Window" from Dear Evan Hansen. Set aside a few hours and watch all the incredible performances above.

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are keeping busy while practicing self-distancing.

The couple were some of many famous guests who participated in the one-night only return of The Rosie O’Donnell Show, a live streaming fundraiser for The Actors Fund amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has resulted in Broadway canceling all performances until April 13.

Although like many across the world, the two actors are spending a lot of time at home, they’re not watching a lot of television shows.

“We haven’t been bingeing as much I guess as we hear tell,” Parker, 54, said with a laugh. “We’ve...

It's been about 18 years since The Rosie O'Donnell Show ended. On Sunday, Rosie O'Donnell brought back the classic talk show for one night only to help raise money for The Actor's Fund amid the global coronavirus pandemic. The 58-year-old host certainly had a star-studded guest list, too. Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Kristin Chenoweth, Darren Criss, Gloria Estefan, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Cynthia Erivo, Patti LuPone, Ben Platt, Katharine McPhee, David Foster, Neil Patrick Harris, Barry Manilow, Erich Bergen, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tituss Burgess, Billy Porter, Jordin Sparks and Miranda Sings were just a few of the big names to make virtual cameos on the YouTube...

“The Rosie O’Donnell Show” is back.

O’Donnell’s talk show returned for one night only on Sunday to serve as a fundraiser for The Actors Fund, an organization that provides numerous services for people in need in the performing arts and entertainment business.

The evening raised more than $500,000, which included $100,000 from O’Donnell.

The 3 1/2 hour show, produced by O’Donnell and “Madame Secretary” star Erich Bergen, was broadcast live on Broadway.com and the website’s YouTube channel.

She opened the show by explaining she was hosting from her garage/art studio in New Jersey and then introduced her former musical director John McDaniel.

She also insisted she didn’t want to talk about President Donald Trump because she wanted to focus on people getting through the pandemic. “We’re going to come through it,” O’Donnell said.

O’Donnell’s first guest was Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who recalled...

“The Rosie O’Donnell Show” is returning for a one-night-only special benefitting a good cause. O’Donnell will be hosting the special, which will be a live-streaming fundraiser dedicated to raising money for The Actors Fund amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “Everybody who knows me knows that Broadway has been one of the brightest lights in my life since the time I...

Update: As previously reported, Rosie O’Donnell is bringing back her talk show from the ’90s for one-night-only as a benefit for the Actor’s Fund. The event will be live-streamed starting at 4 pm Pt/7pm Et and you can watch the stream below.

O’Donnell partnered with Erich Bergen and Broadway.com for the event which benefits The Actor’s Fund, which helps everyone who works in theatre, film, television, radio, music, dance, opera, the circus, among many others in the industry. Whether it is on stage, camera, behind the scenes or below the line, the fund is here to help support to help the thousands of our colleagues who are affected by the pandemic.

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Watch the live stream below.

“The Rosie O’Donnell Show” is coming back for one night only to benefit The Actors Fund amid the coronavirus pandemic. The star-studded fundraiser will stream Sunday, March 22, at 7 p.m. Et on Broadway.com and Broadway.com’s YouTube channel.

“Everybody who knows me knows that Broadway has been one of the brightest lights in my life since the time I was a little girl. It has also been the lifeblood of New York City for generation after generation. After all Broadway has given to the world, now – in this time of tremendous need – it’s our turn to give something back. There is no better way to support this community than via The Actors Fund. And, with a line-up like this, I dare you not to tune in,” O’Donnell said in a statement accompanying the announcement that the Emmy-winning talk show was making a special reappearance.

“The Rosie O’Donnell Show...

Time to get the Koosh balls out of storage: Rosie O’Donnell is reviving her Emmy-winning daytime talk show for a one-night-only, star-studded fundraiser that will stream live online this Sunday night.

Per our sister site Deadline, the fundraiser will stream live on Sunday, March 22 at 7/6c via Broadway.com and that site’s YouTube channel, and will feature interviews and appearances from Matthew Broderick, Kristin Chenoweth, Darren Criss, Gloria Estefan, Billy Porter, Morgan Freeman and more. Erich Bergen (Madam Secretary) will co-produce with O’Donnell.

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“The Rosie O’Donnell Show” is returning for one night only, featuring some of the biggest names in Broadway.

O’Donnell will live-stream a special on Sunday, March 22 at 7 p.m. Et, to benefit The Actors Fund, which provides resources to those in the entertainment community in need. The special comes after Broadway canceled all of its performances through April 13 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The performers, who will all participate from home, include Sebastian Arcelus, Skylar Astin, Beth Behrs, Erich Bergen, Nate Berkus, Stephanie J. Block, Matthew Broderick & Sarah Jessica Parker, Tituss Burgess, Norbert Leo Butz, Kristin Chenoweth, Gavin Creel, Darren Criss, Gloria Estefan, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Harvey Fierstein, David Foster, Morgan Freeman, Neil Patrick Harris, Megan Hilty, Judith Light, Barry Manilow, Rob McClure, Audra McDonald, Katharine McPhee, Alan Menken, Idina Menzel, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kelli O’Hara, Lauren Patten, Ben Platt, Billy Porter, Randy Rainbow, Andrew Rannells, Chita Rivera, Seth Rudetsky,...

Brace yourself for rogue koosh balls. The Rosie O’Donnell Show is back.

The actress and comedian’s juggernaut talk show of the 1990s is getting a one-night revival on Sunday to raise money for The Actors Fund and the growing number of performing arts and entertainment professionals put out of work by the coronavirus pandemic. The special will air live, on YouTube and Broadway.com, and has already assembled an A-list roster of guests to appear from the socially distant comforts of their own homes.

“Everybody who knows me knows that Broadway has been one of the brightest lights ...