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Lynette Rice
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Before joining Deadline in 2022, Lynette spent 22 years at Entertainment Weekly where she covered the TV business for the magazine and website. Before that she worked for The Hollywood Reporter and Broadcasting & Cable. The San Diego State graduate is the author of the 2021 bestseller "How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey's Anatomy."
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‘Dancing With The Stars’: How The Mirror Ball Trophy Was First Created With Lamp Parts & Packing Tape
When Dancing with the Stars crowns the season 34 winner tonight, the victor will receive a fancy and rather heavy trophy that was named after the late Len Goodman. But when the show first kicked off 20 years ago, the prize for outlasting other celebrities in ABC’s makeshift ballroom looked and felt…
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‘Dancing With The Stars’: BBC Studios Chief Talks Unprecedented Integration With Universal’s ‘Wicked’ & How It May Not Be The Last
Wicked night in the Dancing with the Stars ballroom was such a success that fringe fans probably didn’t process (or realize) how the Disney-owned network was promoting IP from a rival studio — and getting paid for it.
It was the first time the 20-year-old dance competition had agreed to a…
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‘Dancing With The Stars’: 20 Breakout Performances From The First 20 Years
The pros of Dancing With the Stars never let up when it comes to creating show-stopping numbers, but there are a select few numbers that will forever remain in the hearts and minds of fringe lovers everywhere.
1. Season 33 Argentine Tango with Derek Hough and Mark Ballas
In no…
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‘Dancing With the Stars’ At 20: How The Show’s Attitude Toward Talent Has Evolved & Helped Usher In A New Generation Of Viewers
They could get Patrick Swayze to do it, or better yet — John Travolta.
Back when Dancing With the Stars was nothing more than a glint in the eye of most ABC executives, the network’s current unscripted chief Rob Mills recalls how he "stupidly" suggested recruiting two of Hollywood's biggest…
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‘Tulsa King’: 26 Crew Members, Including Sylvester Stallone’s Stunt Double, Abruptly Replaced On Eve Of Season 4 Shoot
EXCLUSIVE: Before it was revealed that Taylor Sheridan was jumping ship to NBCUniversal and Paramount was preparing to lay off 1,000 staffers, several crew members on Sheridan’s Paramount+ drama Tulsa King experienced their own level of shock and awe when it came time to address their future with the…
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‘Dancing With The Stars’ Week 7: Injured Elaine Hendrix Scares Up Great Scores While A Reality Star Is Sent Packing
It’s Halloween Night, and a couple of scary things already happened before the first goblin hit the floor. First, ex-pro Maks Chermkovskiy tried to scare up a little attention for himself recently by dragging poor Jan Ravnik over his lack of ballroom experience. Then, host Alfonso Ribeiro opened…
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‘Dancing With The Stars’: Elaine Hendrix Is MIA On Halloween Night Due To Injury
Alfonso Ribeiro started off Halloween Night on Dancing with the Stars with a scary piece of information: Elaine Hendrix won’t be competing tonight.
Ribeiro opened Tuesday’s show on ABC by revealing the Freakier Friday actress suffered an injury and is currently in the hospital. Hendrix remains a…
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‘NCIS: Origins’ To Feature Guest Appearance By Mark Harmon During Crossover Event With ‘NCIS’
The original Leroy Jethro Gibbs is about to make a comeback.
Mark Harmon is set to reprise the role he played for 18 seasons during the first crossover event between NCIS and NCIS: Origins set for Nov. 11 on CBS.
The Veterans Day crossover will feature the younger Gibbs (Austin Stowell) and…
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French Producer Jean-Luc Azoulay Expands To North America; Former Bell-Phillip TV Exec David Gregg To Head Los Angeles Office
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran French producer Jean-Luc Azoulay is expanding JLA Groupe — his prolific, Paris-based TV and music production company — into the United States.
JLA Groupe is the No. 1 independent producer of TV content in the City of Light, and leads in the ratings on TF1, France 2 and France…
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‘Dancing With The Stars’ Alum Cheryl Burke On Her Big Return As Guest Judge: “Pros Know What They’re Talking About Because We’ve Been There”
For the first time since 2022, Cheryl Burke on Oct. 28 will return to Dancing with the Stars ballroom — not to perform but to guest judge alongside Derek Hough, Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba.
Burke, who competed for 26 seasons under the mirror ball, returns with a special set of skills…
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‘The Count Of Monte Cristo’: PBS Masterpiece Reveals Premiere Date For Sam Claflin Starrer — First Look
PBS Masterpiece has revealed the premiere date for its adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo tsarring Sam Claflin (Daisy Jones and the Six) and Jeremy Irons (The Borgias).
The latest version of the Alexandre Dumas novel will premiere via streaming on the PBS app and PBS Masterpiece on Prime…
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‘Task’ Star Emilia Jones On Getting Lost In Role As Robbie’s Niece & How No One Recognized Her From ‘CODA’
SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from the season finale of Task on HBO.
Emilia Jones considers it a compliment that, while playing the emo niece of a criminal uncle in Task, no one realized that she previously played the only hearing member of a deaf family in the 2021 Oscar winner COD…
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