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Both Law & Order and Law & Order: Organized Crime will be back for new seasons. NBC has renewed Law & Order for a 22nd season and spinoff Organized Crime for a third season. The renewals are not unexpected as both series were expected to continue. NBC previously renewed Law & Order: SVU as part of a three-year renewal for what will be its 24th season, extending its record as the longest-running primetime live-action series of all time, and making it three-for-three for the Dick Wolf series. Law & Order was revived for a 21st season last year, eleven and a half years after it was abruptly canceled by NBC. The renewals mean that Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television have six series from the venerable creator renewed at the network; Chicago Fire...

The first teaser trailer for James Cameron’s sequel Avatar: The Way of Water rode a huge wave of interest when debuting online early Monday after playing exclusively in cinemas over the weekend. The teaser finished its first 24-hour online window with 148.6 million views, including 23 million from China alone, according to Disney and 20th Century. That’s ahead of all recent Star Wars films, including Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Like Avatar 2, the teaser trailer for that film also played exclusively in theaters first. Avatar 2’s views on YouTube and across social media don’t include the millions of people watching the teaser on the big screen before Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which opened to an enormous $180.5 million domestically and nearl...

Fred Savage's on-set behavior has come under scrutiny after he was fired as executive producer and director of The Wonder Years reboot earlier this month amid accusations of misconduct. Savage, 45, who has worked extensively as a director in addition to his acting efforts, is 'quick to anger' and 'can have a temper and occasional outbursts' while in charge of productions, sources told People on Tuesday. An insider told the outlet that Savage is partial to overshooting scenes, which puts crews under more pressure, leads to longer days and gives him 'more opportunities to snap at people.' The latest: Fred Savage's on-set behavior has come under scrutiny after he was fired as executive producer and director of The Wonder Years reboot earlier this month amid accusations o...

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Halsey is giving fans an update on their health after revealing they spent much of April “in and out” of the hospital. “Obviously my health has changed a lot since I got pregnant and gave birth,” the singer, who is mom to 9-month-old son Ender, said in videos posted via Instagram Stories on Tuesday. “I started getting really, really, really, sick… I was hospitalized for anaphylaxis, a few times, and I had some other stuff going on.” Halsey, who uses “she/they” pronouns, went on to reveal that they’ve also been diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Sjogren’s syndrome, mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is defined by Mayo Clinic as a group of inherited disorders that affe...

Blac Chyna thinks the deck was stacked against her in her fierce legal battle with the Kardashians ... she accuses the judge of harboring an extreme bias. According to new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, Chyna is accusing Judge Gregory W. Alarcon of showing an "undeniably hostile and extremely biased" attitude against her and her attorney. Chyna claims the judge's alleged bias worked against her ... specifically in regards to the judge's jury instructions Chyna thinks led to the eventual verdict, which went in the Kardashian's favor. Play video content ...

Actress Leah Jeffries was cast to play Annabeth Chase in the Disney+ adaptation of Rick Riordan's beloved novels. In the books, Chase is described as White, and some fans have criticized the casting of Jeffries for not visually aligning with the books. Riordan was quick to defend Jeffries and condemn the haters in a blog post published Tuesday. "You are judging her appropriateness for this role solely and exclusively on how she looks. She is a Black girl playing someone who was described in the books as white," he wrote. "Friends, that is racism." Since the casting announcement was revealed last week, Riordan said Jeffries has been on the receiving end of racist bullying and other online harassment. In his post, Riordan called these comments "out of line" and demanded they sto...

Our favorite killer android, Delores (Evan Rachel Wood), is back in the upcoming fourth season of HBO's sci-fi series Westworld.HBO dropped the first teaser trailer for the upcoming fourth season of its visionary sci-fi drama, Westworld, and it looks like we're in for another wild, convoluted ride. (Spoilers for first three seasons of Westworld below.) As I've written previously, the titular Westworld is one of six immersive theme parks owned and operated by a company called Delos Inc. The park is populated with a "cast" of human-looking androids, called hosts. The park's well-heeled visitors can pretty much do whatever they like to the hosts and don't generally view the hosts as anything more than unfeeling props in their private dramas. But ...

The man who allegedly attacked comedian Dave Chappelle during a show in Los Angeles was denied his shot at freedom by a judge on Tuesday. Isaiah Lee, 23, appeared in a Los Angeles County courtroom, where Judge Armenui Ashvanian rejected his public defender’s bid for him to be released on his own recognizance and left his bail unchanged at $30,000. Lee did not speak and sat next to his attorney, Chelsea Padilla, who told the judge her client was on track to receive housing, which he could lose if he remained in jail, she said. Padilla also told Ashvanian the popularity of Lee’s alleged victim shouldn’t be a factor in her client’s right to be released since a protective order has already been placed on him regarding Chappelle. “It would be a significant hard...

Rick Riordan, author of the popular YA adventure novel series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, is speaking out amid backlash in casting one of his characters in Disney+’s upcoming series adaptation. In a blog post Tuesday, Riordan criticized those “who have a problem with the casting of Leah Jeffries as Annabeth Chase,” saying “It’s a shame such posts need to be written, but they do.” Jeffries, whose credits include Empire, was cast last week along with Aryan Simhadri to to star alongside Walker Scobell who will play Percy Jackson in the 20th Television-produced series. Simhadri and Jeffries will play Percy’s friends Grover and Annabeth, respectively. Production is starting soon in Vancouver. In the book series, Annabeth is a true daughter of the Greek goddess Athena,...