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One year after “Everything Everywhere All at Once” became the third film to ever merit three acting Oscars, the recipients of those trophies all have their sights set on Emmy glory. As candidates in three separate 2024 races, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Ke Huy Quan are headed for an exciting reunion that could very well lead to one or more of them winning the TV academy’s favor in September.

Curtis, whose Oscar victory caught more predictors by surprise than those of her two cast mates, is now the strongest Emmy contender of the three according to our racetrack odds. Indeed, her guest stint as alcoholic mother Donna Berzatto on the FX comedy series “The Bear” is widely expected to bring her her first Emmy win, even in the face of formidable opponents from the same show (like Olivia Colman and Sarah Paulson) and returning champion Maya Rudolph (“Saturday Night Live...

Every two years, at the biennial D23 Expo, The Walt Disney Company honors the most remarkable contributors to the Disney legacy, recognizing them as official Disney Legends. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Disney Legends Awards. The first Disney Legend was Fred MacMurray (The Shaggy Dog, The Absent-Minded Professor, The Happiest Millionaire), who was honored in 1987. Today Disney proudly announced the names of the nine gifted individuals who will be joining past Disney Legends such as Julie Andrews, George Lucas, Alan Menken, Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Walters and Robin Williams. said Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger.

"The Disney Legends Award is the highest honor our company can bestow on an individual, reserved for those few who have truly made an indelible mark on the history of The Walt Disney Company. It's a celebration of talent, a recognition of achievement, and an expression of gratitude to the men...

Julia Stiles is returning to TV in what could be her first series regular gig.

According to TVLine, Stiles, who co-starred in "Dexter" Season 5 as Lumen, will star in NBC's "Midnight Run."

In the pilot, Stiles will play Leah Kafka, a cult specialist with the FBI who investigates a string of disappearances within a cult-like commune in Alaska. "Midnight Run" also stars "The Walking Dead" veteran Emma Bell, "Lost" and "The Good Wife" actor Titus Welliver and "Terriers" star Michael Raymond-James.

Stiles was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy for her guest star work on Showtime's "Dexter." Her other TV roles include episodes of "Chicago Hope," "Ghost Writer" and the TV movie "Before Women Had Wings."

In other casting news ...

Another "Cougar Town" star has signed for a new pilot. Dan Byrd will co-star opposite Ashley Tisdale in Louis C.K.'s untitled CBS comedy about a group of...

Julia Stiles is returning to TV in what could be her first series regular gig.

According to TVLine, Stiles, who co-starred in "Dexter" Season 5 as Lumen, will star in NBC's "Midnight Run."

In the pilot, Stiles will play Leah Kafka, a cult specialist with the FBI who investigates a string of disappearances within a cult-like commune in Alaska. "Midnight Run" also stars "The Walking Dead" veteran Emma Bell, "Lost" and "The Good Wife" actor Titus Welliver and "Terriers" star Michael Raymond-James.

Stiles was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy for her guest star work on Showtime's "Dexter." Her other TV roles include episodes of "Chicago Hope," "Ghost Writer" and the TV movie "Before Women Had Wings."

In other casting news ...

Another "Cougar Town" star has signed for a new pilot. Dan Byrd will co-star opposite Ashley Tisdale in Louis C.K.'s untitled CBS comedy about a group of...

Do you remember the summer of 1981 when a strange form of “gay cancer” began to sweep through the New York community? Do you remember when the government refused to fund research to learn about the unknown disease that was decimating a generation of gay men? Do you remember when there was no medical way to find out if you were a carrier of this mysterious illness? Do you remember fearing that you could be the one spreading it to everyone else? Do you remember when you would run into a friend on the street and learn a week later they were dead? Do you remember watching someone you love decompensate and die right in front of you?

If you are younger than 40, then you may not have a memory, much less knowledge, of any of these happenings that were so common in the early years of the AIDS epidemic. That,...

Ellen Barkin has been tapped for her first starring role in a TV series - playing an older woman who finds herself newly single after ending her high-profile marriage. Ironically, the 54-year-old actress walked out on her second husband, billionaire investor Ron Perelman, in 2006.

The actress, whose role in 1997 miniseries Before Women Had Wings earned her a Golden Globe nomination, will also produce the untitled half-hour pilot episode for U.S. cable network HBO.

Scriptwriter Shauna Cross says, “You have this character in her early 50s... whose life explodes unexpectedly. Her nerve and life experience allows her to tell the world to go screw itself, and they love her for it.”...