Monday, May 18, 2026
Music icon Elton John already had an award named after him. Now it has become a bigger awards program: The Elton John Impact Awards, which are being presented to influential members of the L…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 13, 2026
YouTube once funded creator-driven original content — but the streaming giant wound that down several years ago and instead embarked on a strategy to promote shows YouTubers are already pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Fresh-in-the-saddle Disney boss Josh D’Amaro is pushing forward on an initiative already underway to make Disney+ the primary touchpoint for Mouse House customers and fans worldwide. “Di…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Disney’s first earnings with Josh D’Amaro as CEO are out — and he has generally good news to report in his Wall Street debut. The Mouse House pulled in revenue of $25.17 billion, up 7%…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:50AM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2026
Robert Smigel is launching a podcast in which he and his comedian friends — including David Letterman, Bob Odenkirk, Ellie Kemper and Jim Gaffigan — try to help zhuzh up the hilarity of …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 28, 2026
The FCC is reportedly gearing up to launch a formal review of the broadcast licenses granted to Disney’s eight owned ABC stations — coming after a MAGA uproar over Jimmy Kimmel’s joke …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:51AM[SHARE]Kate McKinnon’s gloriously unhinged Queen Mortuana from audio series “Heads Will Roll” and her raven sidekick JoJo, voiced by McKinnon’s sister Emily Lynne, are back for more medieva…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 27, 2026
Matt Buechele’s new podcast “That Sounds Like a Lot” might have music. It might veer into absurdity. But he promises it will always deliver laughs. Buechele’s weekly video podcast, p…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2026
Julia Louis-Dreyfus' popular podcast "Wiser Than Me" is returning with new batch of episodes featuring the Emmy-winning actress' interviews with older women. "Wiser Than Me," a production of…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Kelly Marie Tran and Rob Benedict lend their voices to "Saigon," a new scripted drama podcast for iHeartMedia's iHeartPodcasts billed as "an epic story of love, war and power set against the…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Kerry Washington's Simpson Street will premiere "Between Me and You," a new scripted audio drama starring Jurnee Smollett, Jack Falahee and Stephanie Hsu, on April 16, exclusively from Audib…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2026
YouTube is coming back to TV upfronts week with Trevor Noah serving as emcee of its 2026 Brandcast presentation for advertisers, along with a big group of YouTube creators including Dude Per…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2026
The "Trump Kennedy Center" earlier this month followed through on its threat to sue acclaimed jazz musician Chuck Redd, after he backed out of a Christmas Eve 2025 concert over the Washingto…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Maya Hawke and KJ Apa meet cute in the Hamptons in Audible original romantic comedy "The Summer Oath" " a modern twist on Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost." Starring Hawke ("Stranger Thin…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2026
Jean-Luc Picard is doing The Bard. Sir Patrick Stewart is lending his iconic voice to an audiobook in which he reads William Shakespeare's sonnets " all 154 of them " and "shares reflections…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 17, 2026
CBS said it did not force "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" to pull an interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico from its TV broadcast Monday, contrary to the way the late-night host…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:51PM[SHARE]Stephen Colbert said CBS's legal department spiked his interview with a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate because of the FCC chairman's recent warning that the agency would pursue enf…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Wyatt Cenac will be grabbing the mic to host the 6th annual Awards for Excellence in Audio " aka the Ambies " in Brooklyn later this month. The Ambies will be presented on Monday, Feb. 23, a…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:34PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 1, 2026
President Donald Trump, after affixing his name to Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center and prompting multiple artists to cancel engagements at the famed arts center, said he has decided that t…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PM[SHARE]Friday, January 30, 2026
Ariana Grande got a digital enhancement on the latest cover of Vogue Japan. The "Wicked" star and pop singer is the cover subject of the magazine's latest issue. But fans quickly spotted a p…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 29, 2026
Kevin Couch, a veteran live entertainment exec and musician, was announced as the head of artistic programming at the newly rechristened Trump Kennedy Center on Jan. 16. Less than two weeks …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Several well-known music artists have turned to ElevenLabs' AI as a virtual muse " and record producer. ElevenLabs on Wednesday launched "The Eleven Album," which the artificial-intelligence…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Listen up: iHeartMedia announced nominations for the 2026 iHeartPodcast Awards in partnership with South by Southwest, to be hosted by comedian and podcaster Ego Nwodim. For the second strai…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:20AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 11, 2026
Amy Poehler won the inaugural Golden Globes podcast award for her talk show "Good Hang," which features her freestyle riffs with fellow comedians, friends and celebs. "I know that I am new t…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 7, 2026
A sing-along " but make it super short. In a new wrinkle in the microdrama trend, Hannah Stocking, a hugely popular digital creator and comedian with more than 72 million followers, is starr…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Oscar-winning actress Jessica Chastain is returning for a second season of Audible's "The Space Within," an audio thriller set in a world of alien mysteries, government conspiracies and alte…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 27, 2025
Ambassador Richard Grenell, the Trump-appointed president of the Kennedy Center, said the organization will seek $1 million in damages from noted jazz musician Chuck Redd after Redd abruptly…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:49AM[SHARE]Friday, December 26, 2025
Last week, President Donald Trump's name was emblazoned across the Kennedy Center's building façade, website and social media accounts. The organization's new name, after what the White H…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 24, 2025
On Tuesday night, after CBS aired the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony " hosted by President Donald Trump " Trump was focused not on his historic turn as emcee of the event, which took place e…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:48AM[SHARE]Friday, December 19, 2025
The Kennedy Center, which first opened its doors more than 50 years ago, on Friday got a new addition: Donald Trump's name, which is being added above the name of John F. Kennedy on the buil…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 18, 2025
The Kennedy Center is being renamed the "Trump-Kennedy Center," after President Donald Trump ousted the previous Democratic board members and management team and installed himself as chairma…
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