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At the height of New Kids on the Block’s early stardom, Jordan and Jonathan Knight grew accustomed to smitten fans turning up to their homes, weeping at shows and tossing bras on stage. What Jon never fathomed was that decades later, at 56, he would experience a different kind of fandom – 80-year-old HGTV viewers cruising past his Massachusetts farm and shouting praise for his home renovation work.

“It’s a whole new demographic,” the Farmhouse Fixer star, chatting to THR from his greenhouse, says with a laugh. “I have 60, 70, 80-year-old women driving by, rolling down the window and yelling, ‘I love your show! What you do is so pretty!’ And when I walk through the airport, instead of people saying, ‘Hey, you’re one of the New Kids,’ it’s now, ‘You’re that guy on HGTV.’ People are always asking me to renovate their homes. I wish I had six of me,...

From celebrity cameos to out-of-the-box approaches to a host who wanted to preside over a competition series from inside a giant hamster ball, producers of reality TV series thought creatively to ramp up production mid-pandemic.

“Producers produce. They’ll find a way to get it done,” says Clay Newbill, executive producer of ABC’s “Shark Tank. “But this was different. It was difficult to produce in a landscape where the rules are constantly changing. And by rules, I don’t mean the safety protocols. I just mean everything because this impacted every single aspect of production.”

Newbill says “Shark Tank” producers started looking at other locations out of concern that Los Angeles County would still be locked down when the show needed to film in August to get on ABC’s fall schedule. After regular Shark and NBA Mavericks owner Mark Cuban saw an impressive presentation by Las Vegas’ Venetian...

Exclusive: PBS announced today that journalist and The View alum Meredith Vieira will host the forthcoming series The Great American Read. The eight-part series will debut with a two-hour special event on Tuesday, May 22 at 8 Pm.

As host of The Great American Read, Vieira will take viewers on a journey across the country to uncover the nation’s 100 most-loved novels, the people who love them and their authors. Joining Vieira on the series will be a notable roster of authors, celebrities and figures in the entertainment, sports, news and literary worlds including Margaret Atwood, Jenna and Barbara Bush, Chelsea Clinton, Junot Díaz, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, John Green, Gayle King, George R. R. Martin, Shaquille O’Neal, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jason Reynolds, Gabrielle Union, Ming-Na Wen and others. They will share their personal stories and connections to their favorite titles throughout the series.

During the series, viewers will be able...

Fyi has greenlit six one-hour episodes of new culinary series Midnight Feast and has ordered two hour-long pilots, Say It To My Face and Reverse Course. Set at New York’s Chelsea Market, Midnight Feast is hosted by chef, restaurateur and TV personality Spike Mendelsohn. Each episode will feature three chefs who are given free rein to use any ingredient found in the famous food hall to execute judged dishes. By the end of the night, the winner walks away with a cash prize – while the losers walk away paying their own tabs. Say It To My Face gives chefs and restaurant owners a chance to defend themselves before their toughest online critics, and Reverse Course”follows chef and restaurateur, Sam Talbot, as he takes the farm-to-table concept to the extreme and tells the story of food like no one else has – in reverse, It begins with the final meal and works backwards,...