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The 2016 Writers Guild Awards were handed out Saturday night in Los Angeles and New York City, and the final salvo of AMC’s Mad Men claimed the top drama prize, while HBO’s Veep beat out the comedy competition.

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AMC’s Better Call Saul and HBO’s Silicon Valley earned individual episode accolades. USA Network’s critical darling Mr. Robot walked away with the New Series award.

TV’s major winners are listed below.

Drama Series

The Americans

Better Call Saul

Game of Thrones

Mad Men — Winner

Mr. Robot...

Fox’s Last Man on Earth just got even lonelier.

The Writers Guild of America released its 2016 nominations Thursday, and the Will Forte comedy is the only broadcast series in the running for the New Series prize. Meanwhile, shows like Game of Thrones, Mr. Robot and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt received various nods.

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The winners will be announced on Saturday, Feb. 13, during simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York City.

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Drama Series

The Americans

Better Call Saul

Game of Thrones

Mr. Robot...

It's Tom Cruise on the side of a plane! Wait, what?

The first trailer for Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation makes it look like the franchise is upping the ante for jaw-dropping stunts.

In the one-minute clip, Cruise kangaroo-kicks bad guys in the chest, runs people off the side of a mountain on a motorcycle, and clings to a jet during takeoff. Watch:

Tom Cruise does all his own stunts -- including that death-defying airplane move.

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In addition to the airplane scene, Cruise jumps into what looks like a bottomless fountain and drives a car through the air. Just another day in the life of an action star!

Also spotted in the trailer: Jeremy Renner and Simon Pegg working with Cruise again (the two starred alongside Cruise in 2011's Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol); Alec Baldwin in a suit, and Rebecca Ferguson ("The Red Tent," "The White Queen") wielding...

Lifetime has ordered two-hour special “The Women of The Bible” from Roma Downey and Mark Burnett. Downey (“Touched by an Angel”) will narrate the December special, which will also serve as the lead-in in for miniseries “The Red Tent.” “Women of The Bible” will tell the stories of Eve, Sara, Rahab, Mary Magdalene and Mother Mary, and feature interviews from women in the faith community, including Christine Caine, Priscilla Shirer, Victoria Osteen, Eva Rodriguez, Kay Warren and Joyce Meyer. See video: Bill Maher Mocks Jesus Christ and Stephen Colbert in ‘Funny Or Die’ Skit “The Bible is an inspiring source of some of the most.

Darlene Love will sing "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” on Letterman for a 29th time, and that’s it Love, who has been singing the Christmas classic every year on Letterman’s "Late Night" and "The Late Show" since 1986, says she will retire the holiday tradition after this year, opting not to continue it on another late-night show. "They never told me not to, but it was an unspoken thing. They couldn't ask me not to sing 'Christmas (Baby)' on another show, but after 10 years, then 15 years, of doing this one song on this one show, I felt I had an obligation to be true to them," she tells Billboard. Plus: Watch Love sing “Christmas” in 1986 and in 2013. Kaley Cuoco receives a Hollywood Walk of Fame star “The Big Bang Theory” star may only be 29 years old, but she’s already been on two long-running sitcoms. Facebook: Republicans and...

Owain Yeoman is a traitor.

The Mentalist alum has come on board AMC’s historical spy drama Turn as a series regular for Season 2, playing Benedict Arnold, per The Hollywood Reporter.

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Arnold, of course, was an American Continental Army general during the Revolutionary War, who defected to the British side.

Yeoman exited CBS’ The Mentalist last season after the show underwent a bit of a creative makeover, jumping ahead two years.

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Lifetime is adapting The Red Tent into a two-night miniseries, the network announced today. The book, by Anita Diamant, explores figures from the Hebrew Bible, and centers on Dinah, the daughter of Leah and Jacob. The White Queen's Rebecca Ferguson will play Dinah, About a Boy's Minnie Driver will play Leah, Homeland's Morena Baccarin will play Rachel, Game of Thrones's Iain Glen will play Jacob, relative newcomer Will Tudor will play Joseph, and Debra Winger will play Rebecca. (Lifetime did not announce who will be playing Zilpah and Bilhah, but they factor into the story, too.) The movie will air later this year, so if you're planning on erecting a menstrual tent in celebration, it's time to get on that.

Sleepy Hollow

Fox is reportedly extending the length of the second season of its supernatural-historical drama "Sleepy Hollow". The show's first season ran for thirteen episodes and initially the second was renewed for the same.

Producers now say that at least fifteen episodes will be produced for the second season, and plans are underway for a potential total of eighteen episodes. [Source: EW]

The Red Tent

Lifetime is slated to produce a four-hour Biblical mini-series adaptation of Anita Diamant's 1997 novel "The Red Tent". Rebecca Ferguson, Minnie Driver, Iain Glen, Will Tudor, Morena Baccarin and Debra Winger lead the cast with filming to begin this month in Morocco.

Ferguson plays Dinah, the daughter of Leah and Jacob, who goes on to marry a prince and fall out with her murderous brother Joseph (Tudor). [Source: Deadline]

Extant

CBS has posted the first full trailer for their summer event series "Extant" starring Halle Berry as an astronaut...

Add Lifetime to the number of broadcast and cable networks prepping religious-themed programming. The female-skewing cable network is adapting Anita Diamant's best-selling book The Red Tent, setting an all-star cast for the two-part miniseries, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The White Queen's Rebecca Ferguson, Homeland's Morena Baccarin, About a Boy's Minnie Driver, Terms of Endearment's Debra Winger and Game of Thrones' Iain Glen and Will Tudor round out the cast. Story: The 'Bible' Effect and the Resurrection of TV Miniseries Red Tent is a first-person story of Dinah, the daughter of Leah and Jacob

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The network miniseries has been making a comeback recently and that means singular opportunities for actors. Two miniseries set to shoot in the coming months now have casting directors attached, Backstage has learned. NBC’s “The Slap,” the story of a man who slapped a child who was unrelated to him at a family gathering, will be cast by New York-based Avy Kaufman. It’s set to begin shooting July 14 in Toronto. Meanwhile, Lifetime’s “The Red Tent,” a Biblical drama, is set to be cast by Burbank-based Marcia Ross. The miniseries, which will be directed by Bronwen Hughes, follows a young woman who is widowed at the hands of her jealous brothers, and begins a journey to find her place as an independent woman in a world ruled by men. It shoots March 17–May 16 in Morocco.

The last thing I need in my life is another reality TV show. And yet I find myself inexplicably drawn to the promised antics of these Staten Island Four. (Particularly Drita, the blonde-ish one who looks straight out of a Dennis Lehane novel.) A couple questions before tonight’s premiere: Can I write “bitch” on this blog or will my editors make me type b^#!% over and over and over again? How much do tips cost these days? Is Renee’s I’ma-being-choked face real or a put-on? Do these broads make the Real Housewives of New Jersey look like your average suburban book club?...

Elizabeth Banks talks about her love triangle between Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore on the hit NBC sitcom

On an all-new episode of 30 Rock entitled Episode 4.22: I Do Do, which airs this Thursday, Liz (Tina Fey) questions fate when she meets the man of her dreams, while Jack's (Alec Baldwin) love triangle between high school love, Nancy Donovan (guest star Julianne Moore), and CNBC anchor, Avery Jessup (guest star Elizabeth Banks), comes to a head. Meanwhile, Jenna's (Jane Krakowski) boyfriend is confronted with a similar dilemma when his desire for another woman threatens to ruin their relationship, and Kenneth (Jack McBrayer), with the help of Tracy (Tracy Morgan), tries to avoid a promotion that would land him in La.

We recently caught up with Elizabeth Banks to get the lowdown on this incredibly funny upcoming episode of 30 Rock. Here's what she had to say:

Since you spend so much...

By Fred Topel

Hollywoodnews.com: This week’s 30 Rock is not only the season finale, but it’s part two of a cliffhanger. The last episode ended with Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) asking Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) to stall her wedding speech while he figures out what to do about his love triangle. He’s just told Nancy (Julianne Moore) that he’s also seeing Avery (Elizabeth Banks), who already was pressuring Jack to choose between them. Elizabeth Banks gave a conference call with the media to discuss the season finale.

“I will tell you that Julianne Moore and I do have a scene together,” Banks said. “I don’t know if it’s quite the face off that you’re expecting but we do have a scene together.”

Avery Jessup is a CNBC political pundit who shares Jack’s views on business. Nancy is an old flame who just...