Nick Ruggia and Ryan Hoffman of the sketch comedy troupe Temple Horses uploaded a video about employees at a pumpkin patch having sexual intercourse with a pumpkin in October 2014. When they saw Saturday Night Live do a similar sketch in October 2018, they decided not to pursue any action in response. “We felt like nothing good would come from addressing it, and also we were afraid of potential repercussions, and we were kind of afraid of being dismissed by our peers, even though everyone we showed it to said it was blatant,” Hoffman tells Variety. “So we decided to let it go.” But they changed their mind last month after seeing SNL air a "Pound Puppy" sketch during Don Cheadle's episode that bore a resemblance to their "Pet Blinders" sketch that was uploaded in 2011 -- about a fictional product sold to prevent pets from watching their owners perform sex act. "It was twice in the same season, and we felt that at this point, that we didn’t really have a choice but to address it,” says Hoffman. “And we don’t really want to be involved in a mess like this, but there’s a certain point you have to stand up for yourself and your work.” NBC declined to comment to Variety, but a source told the publication that NBC found that different writers worked on each digital short. “This is not ‘parallel construction’: Two separate instances of wholesale lifting of concept, setting, characters, plot, and outcome in the same season do not happen by coincidence,” their attorney, Wallace Neel wrote in a letter to NBC, “Someone(s) at SNL is plagiarizing material.”

The first two episodes will wrap up in less than an hour, with 54- and 58-minute runtimes, respectively. The remaining four episodes will run around 1 hour and 20 minutes. Slate did the calculations and found that the seven-episode Season 7 had combined running time of 440 minutes, while the six-episode Season 8 will run a total of 432 minutes. The runtimes go against rumors that go back as early as from summer 2017 of runtimes of two hours in length.

The actor will play Carson Drew, a dynamic attorney who became "estranged from Nancy following the recent death of his beloved wife. But Carson’s attempts to reconnect with his daughter run aground when Nancy’s murder investigation reveals unsettling secrets from his own past."

"My heart is broken," tweeted Waititi, whose upcoming FX series What We Do In the Shadows is based on the mockumentary of the same name that was filmed in New Zealand. "My country is weeping and so am I. I am dying knowing that this kind of hatred can happen in my homeland. All my love goes out to Christchurch, the victims, the families, the Muslim community, and all who have chosen our islands as their home. This is not us." Crowe tweeted: "Senseless, pointless, cruel deaths. My heart breaks for all the families involved, and for the beautiful people of New Zealand to whose hearts this pain will attach, for a long time. Kia Kaha."

Malek returned to the USA series to film the third and final season shortly after picking up his best actor Oscar award last month for Bohemian Rhapsody. He says of filming the final episodes: "I trust Sam (Esmail) implicitly, so if that is the way he thought he could close out this story line, then I’m with him. I can say this, it is a very impactful, emotional, and I think clearly well thought out way to end this story and this series. It’s remarkable. I’m in awe of the man and what he has done this season.”

The 77th Golden Globe Awards broadcast is scheduled for Jan. 5, 2020, which is the closest the annual ceremony has ever been to New Year's Day . The Golden Globes have been inching closer to New Year's Day, with this year's ceremony on Jan. 6 and last year's on Jan. 7. Earlier this decade, the Globes were held as late as Jan. 17. The earlier Globes date comes as the Oscars moves to the earlier date of Feb. 9 next year.

The president was quoting Fox & Friends when he tweeted about late-night hosts on Thursday morning without mentioning any names. “First of all, sir, ‘three very weak and untalented late-night hosts?’” Stephen Colbert responded last night in his Late Show monologue. “It is not just 11:30 on network anymore: James Corden, Seth Meyers, Sam Bee, Conan, Desus and Mero... are just as weak and untalented as me and the double Jim-Jims. I mean, for Pete's sake, John Oliver is so weak he has to wear a hidden whale-bone strut in his jacket just to hold up his giant British noggin.”

Producers IDW Entertainment is "struggling to find the capital to justify filming a promised fourth and fifth season," reports The Hollywood Reporter's Jessica Toomer, adding: "While the company has negotiated a deal with Syfy to air the series in the U.S., that agreement leaves IDW still footing major production costs. What's worse, while IDW has managed to house the first two seasons on Netflix, taking care of its international licensing needs and generating enough capital to cover the costs of previous seasons, there are no deals as of yet for a third, fourth or fifth season to be licensed to the streaming platform. So, what does all of this mean? In a nutshell: That IDW isn't in a place financially to continue supporting Wynonna Earp."

New host Karlie Kloss and new mentor Christian Siriano aren't the only new aspects of Project Runway's first season on Bravo in more than a decade. "Most stark," says Caroline Framke, "is how much the show is tripling down on inspirational inclusivity in a way that feels distinctly 2019. The new season’s models, like those of season 16, are of varying sizes (though I’d hesitate to say they’re quite as wide-ranging as the show itself implies). The judges and designers alike emphasize the importance of being able to tailor to every body, which makes for a downright jarring difference from the earliest Project Runway seasons in which 'real women' challenges were presented as catastrophic curveballs." Framke adds: "Still, the message is clear: this is a warmer, fuzzier Project Runway that wants to be for the people instead of decreeing the grand laws of fashion from somewhere above them. So far, that doesn’t make for especially fascinating reality TV, a genre that is usually better off for allowing a little more room for rougher edges. But if the vanguards of the fashion world are truly finding it in their hearts (or at least their savvy business brains) to open the doors for talent and designs alike just a little bit wider, it makes for an intriguing new direction nonetheless."

ALSO:

• Bravo took an “if it ain’t broke” methodology to Project Runway's makeover
• Whereas Lifetime's Project Runway felt mass-manufactured, Bravo's feels more hand-crafted -- for better or for worse

"The Bachelor can’t exist in a vacuum, and it always has to evolve," says Rob Mills, ABC's senior vice president of alternative series, who's been overseeing The Bachelor franchise for a long time. "Maybe on this new WarnerMedia streaming service they’ll put all the seasons of The Bachelor on there and you can see how The Bachelor in 2002, 2007, 2012 and then in 2019 all look very different. You absolutely see the evolution. I don’t think we want to abandon the fairy-tale aspect, just because we love it and it is the belief in true love." As for picking Hannah Brown to become the next Bachelorette, Mills says she was the best of five of Colton's bachelorettes who were in contention. "And they were all great," he says, "but there was something about Hannah B. Part of it was that she thought she was the dark horse, so she came in and had nothing to lose, saying, 'I don’t know, I’m just going to be myself.' There was just something different that we hadn’t seen in a Bachelorette before. Very kind of charming and goofy." ALSO: Mills says "I don’t think there was any really conversation" with Khloe Kardashian about becoming The Bachelorette, despite creator Mike Fleiss' tweets.

Below Deck Sailing Vessel (working title) will be unlike Below Deck and Below Deck Mediterranean with its focus on luxury sailing yachts. According to Deadline those "sailboats have a sleeker design than their motor yacht counterparts, and this makes their galleys smaller, their stew stations almost non-existent and the crew’s living quarters more cramped and in much closer proximity to the guest quarters."

The former Desperate Housewives star's Intagram, Twitter and Facebook pages have all been taken down after some of her old tweets came back to haunt her after her indictment Tuesday.

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• Felicity Huffman plays a prosecutor on Ava DuVernay’s upcoming Central Park Five Netflix series When They See Us
• Huffman receives sympathy from Joely Fisher, who played her Desperate boss

The hit Channel 4 reality show will see its 12th season after a two-season renewal.

Netflix made the unusual decision to announce the beloved comedy's cancelation via a Twitter thread that tried to frame the streaming service as a "good, conscientious, thoughtful content creator," says Kathryn VanArendonk. "Instead of owning the cold corporate logic of this cancellation, the tweets attempt to remind everyone how much Netflix cares, how much it understands the way fans feel. They’re an attempt to soften the blow, to make the company look better even while it twists the knife." VanArendonk adds: "One Day at a Time’s cancellation felt like a betrayal because, according to Netflix’s own best efforts at public engagement, the show wasn’t being cancelled by a giant faceless media company. One Day at a Time was cancelled by Your Online Friend @Netflix. As one decision about one show among an overwhelming slate of programming, it could have been a sad day for fans and nothing more. Instead, thanks to Netflix’s extensive social media efforts, it felt insulting, tin-eared, and greedy. It felt personal."

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• "Netflix is trying to throw away its cake and get credit for having baked it," says James Poniewozik. "TV outlets cancel shows all the time. But more often than not, they let the news come out quietly. In this case, Netflix, maybe anticipating a backlash, wanted to present itself as the disappointed fan as much as the practical-minded enterprise. So it frames the cancellation as less Netflix’s decision than something that just happened to it. “Simply not enough people watched.” You could write a book about all the complications packed into that 'not enough.'"
• This was Netflix at its most frustrating: "In trying to couch this cancellation in saccharine rhetoric about how important One Day at a Time truly is, Netflix comes off more condescending and disingenuous than anything else," says Caroline Framke. "No matter what its Twitter accounts would have us believe, Netflix can’t 'yas, werk diversity!' its way out of being a corporation that puts numbers (whatever they are) first."
• Why One Day at a Time mattered: "It painted a nuanced, rich portrait of a hard-working family of immigrants and second-generation immigrants at precisely the moment that portrait needed to be seen," says Jen Chaney. "The first season of the sitcom debuted on January 6, 2017, two weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration and three weeks before Trump signed a travel ban that barred immigrants from certain countries from entering the U.S. The Alvarez family on the show didn’t hail from any of the countries affected by that ban. Their roots were in Cuba, as Moreno’s Lydia, the grandmother who shared the family’s modest Echo Park apartment, mentioned practically every cinco minutos. But the Alvarezes represented the Latinx community that Trump had spent an election cycle frequently degrading and dehumanizing, and ODAAT made it clear that community is not some threatening monolith to vilify. They are people with beliefs and concerns that mirror those of any other Americans. This should go without saying. But at the beginning of 2017 and for the years that have followed, it really, really needed to be said."
• One Day at a Time's biggest flaw was, perhaps, that it wasn't owned by Netflix
• Netflix is disrupting the traditional TV model by making it even harder to understand why beloved shows get canceled
• Lin-Manuel Miranda is serious about trying to save ODAAT: "Yknow, that Latinx audience is SO vast and SO underserved"
• Rita Moreno mourns ODAAT cancelation with Miranda

Last Call with Carson Daly will give way to A Little Late with Lilly Singh in September, NBC announced this evening. NBC says A Little Late will feature Singh conducting interviews in-studio, participating in comedy sketches and other "signature elements." The 30-year-old Singh was formally introduced on Thursday's Tonight Show. “An Indian-Canadian woman with her own late night show? Now that is a dream come true,” Singh said in a statement. “I’m thrilled to bring it to life on NBC, and I hope my parents consider this to be as exciting as a grandchild.” ALSO: Watch Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers welcome Singh to NBC late-night with a champagne toast.

Loughlin's role in the alleged college bribery scam contrasted with her wholesome roles on Full House, Fuller House and on Hallmark Channel. It took two days for Hallmark Channel to drop Loughlin, who had become the face of the cable channel with roles on When Calls the Heart, the Garage Sale Mysteries movies and "Countdown to Christmas" films. "For fans of Full House, Loughlin’s indictment was an especially shocking reveal, as it was another example of a celebrity’s real life apparently being very different from their TV character and public persona," says Emily Yahr. "While we all know, in theory, that we actually have no clue how our favorite actors live, sometimes what we see on-screen has a deeper effect on our psyche than we realize." There was similar, but lesser shock over Felicity Huffman's involvement because of her Desperate Housewives role. The Los Angeles Times' Mary McNamara wrote a piece titled, “We’re used to celebrity scandals, but oh my God, Felicity Huffman?” As Yahr notes: "While the thinkpieces and memes continue, the apparent downfall of Loughlin and Huffman is a stark reminder of the cliche-but-true-lesson: Now matter how rich, famous or successful a person seems, we never really know what may be going on behind closed doors."

ALSO:

• Report: Lori Loughlin "not expected back" for Fuller House's final season
• Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman should've learned from Billions inspiration Steven A. Cohen
• Check out courtroom sketches of Loughlin and Huffman

Former The Terror executive producer Soo Hugh is adapting Lee's book about the hopes and dreams of four generations of a Korean immigrant family. "Epic in scope, intimate in tone, the story begins with a forbidden love and crescendos into a sweeping saga that journeys between Korea, Japan and America to tell the unforgettable story of war and peace, love and loss, triumph and reckoning," according to Deadline's description. "The series will be told in three languages – Korean, Japanese and English."

The Christine Baranski-led CBS All Access series "has moved its own stylistic goalposts far beyond its progenitor series, pushing The Good Wife‘s snappy-smart dramatics toward the visceral and the surreal," says Darren Franich. He adds that in Season 3, co-creators Michelle and Robert King "aren’t just chasing topicality. They’re telling deep stories about rich characters struggling to make sense of this incoherent moment. Every action has inadvertent, apocalyptic consequences. Lucca takes her baby for a stroll and sings a few bars of 'Baby Shark' within earshot of a loudmouthed white lady, and somehow that incident begins an uncivil war among the law firm’s employees. Diane seeks a new output for her liberal rage — and winds up conjuring an uncontrollable political movement."

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• The Good Fight’s existence poses the TV version of a Zen koan: "If someone comments on the Trump administration in a forest and no one can hear it, did they make a sound?" says Alison Herman. "If a satire limits its audience by default, can it truly have an impact? Last but not least: If a group of people make an excellent TV show and no one can watch it, does it really exist?"
• The Good Fight is better than The Good Wife ever was -- it would receive more Emmy recognition if it were on CBS
• Michael Sheen's addition is a genius move: His Roland Blum is "a feral loose-cannon sculpted in the mold of master manipulator and all-around amoral scumbag Roy Cohn"
• The Good Fight is too invested in strange complexities to fall easily into becoming any one thing
• Christine Baranski likes that The Good Fight reflects that "we are living in a truly strange, mind-bending age" in the Trump era
• Baranski: "The first words of the season are 'I’m happy,' those two words. In bed, with this delicious man"
• Co-creators Michelle and Robert King preview how "good liberals" go bad this season

"I think there were some very good moments," he tells EW of the pilot that was considered so terrible it has never seen the light of day. "It was experimental in some ways. I think they were trying to portray what could be achieved: the kind of wonder and awe, the vast scale and complexity, all these war-faring tribes, the magic, the beauty, and the treachery. I think trying to get that into a pilot may have been difficult, and perhaps the story was lost a little. But nevertheless, it gave you a sense of what it could be. We were just going along with what was down there [on the page], but though they didn’t use the pilot in its entirety, they used certain moments, and I think the pilot served its purpose. As I said, it shows you what could be done and certainly what was done thereafter. It was developed, it got bigger and bigger and bigger and more exciting and breathtaking. It was just an idea, I think. It’s impossible to get an idea of the whole season of Game of Thrones into a pilot. We were very pleased with what we’ve done, and we really enjoyed being on it, and we knew there was something special in that early stage."

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• Stevie Nicks dedicates "Landslide" performance to Kit Harington: "They really should have cast me as his mother"
• Pedro Pascal recalls how Game of Thrones crushed Oberyn Martell's skull without CGI

There's a 20-year age gap between Ellen Pompeo and Giacomo Gianniotti, but their on-screen age difference is never brought up. "Meredith isn’t worried that she is 20 years older than DeLuca," says Amy Amatangelo. "She’s not concerned that he will want kids and she’s not going to have any more kids. There are no cheap jokes about how he understands Instagram or dating apps or whatever and she does not. They are just two adults navigating a romance while Gianniotti speaks the sexiest Italian ever. (If ever there were a McDreamy 2.0, it’s DeLuca). What’s even more remarkable is that Pompeo, who turns 50 in November, remains not just at the epicenter of the drama at Grey Sloan Memorial, but she’s also still the romantic lead of the series. The love triangle between Meredith, DeLuca and Carmack’s Link has dominated the season. Women over 40 are sexually desirable! Somebody tell The Bachelor."

Pinkett Smith's talk show has become Facebook Watch's most popular original series since premiering last year. Her recent Jordyn Woods exclusive interview earned 7.5 million views within 24 hours.

Chad Hurley and Steven Chen, who co-founded YouTube in 2005 and sold it to Google in 2006, "were once so reviled in traditional-media circles that their company elicited a billion-dollar lawsuit by Viacom," says Dade Hayes. "Today, they were named as recipients of Emmy Awards for Lifetime Achievement." Hurley and Chen will be honored at the 70th annual Technology & Engineering Emmys in Las Vegas.

The coming-of-age comedic drama follows three 20-something roommates on the autism spectrum. Katims, who has a son with Asperger's syndrome, will write and executive produce the potential series.

Buzzfeed has an excerpt of Ramin Setoodeh's upcoming book, Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of The View, which also focuses on Rosie O'Donnell's hit daytime talk show. "Before Jimmy Fallon, Ellen DeGeneres, James Corden, or Andy Cohen adopted the persona of the talk show host as the superfan, there was Rosie, whose daytime show aired from 1996 to 2002," writes Setoodeh. "For six seasons, Rosie took on the title of the world’s utmost expert on movies, TV shows, musicals, and crafts, without uttering a cross word. She averaged 5 million viewers on her best days, nipping at Oprah’s heels and clobbering her at the Daytime Emmys. On TV, Rosie offered a ray of sunshine; it was not for nothing that Newsweek dubbed her the Queen of Nice. Rosie was so popular, she stepped in as host of the Grammys and the Tonys, making her Hollywood’s emcee of choice after Billy Crystal."

The president was quoting from Fox & Friends this morning when he tweeted that three late-night "hosts" are "fighting over table scraps. Carson did a great job, it wasn’t political." Kimmel joked in response: “First of all, I don’t know why he would call Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers weak and untalented," Kimmel joked. "Those guys are friends of mine – and I think that’s very rude." Kimmel added that "fighting over table scraps" isn't a great metaphor, advising Trump a better one would be “more like a Hometown Buffet in hell: It’s all the crab legs you can eat, but you’re never allowed to stop eating them, they just keep coming.” ALSO: A clip of Johnny Carson roasting Trump resurfaces in response to the president's tweet.

Al Jean reveals that Moleman -- a feeble and nearsighted old man who has appeared as a background character for nearly 30 years -- was nearly axed for looking so unusual. “It really stood out as being kind of not a Simpsons regular design, almost like a mole, though in human form,” says Jean.

The Tonight Show host, who is two years younger than Democratic presidential candidate and former congressman from Texas, spoofed O'Rourke's campaign announcement video by calling attention to his hand gestures -- which even President Trump noticed.

Recurring characters and conceptual jokes are usually the scourge of sketch television shows, says Matthew Dessem. "Pure comedy," he adds, "has been more or less abandoned by late night for the duration of the current emergency—which is fine, and probably necessary!—so it’d be refreshing to see a show still interested in humor for its own sake even if it was terrible. But doing recurring segments without making them boring is an unprecedented breakthrough in television comedy."

Dr. Christopher John Salgado, a specialist in gender confirmation surgery who appeared on Jazz Jennings' TLC reality show, "shared on Valentine’s Day a picture of a penis he removed from a patient that had been reshaped into the form of a heart," according to Page Six. "He is accused of captioning the photo, 'There are many ways to show your LOVE.'"

Raman, an orthodontist, competed on the 25th season of the CBS reality show in 2014 with his wife Misti. The couple, billed as "Married Dentists," ended up in second place. No cause of death was released.

The Netflix animated comedy, premiering May 3, stars Haddish as Tuca, a cocky, care-free toucan, and Wong voices Bertie, an anxious, daydreaming songbird.

Hallmark has cut all ties with Loughlin one day after her arrest for allegedly paying $500,000 to get her daughters admitted to USC. “We are saddened by the recent news surrounding the college admissions allegations,” Hallmark Channel owner Crown Media said in a statement. “We are no longer working with Lori Loughlin and have stopped development of all productions that air on the Crown Media Family Network channels involving Lori Loughlin including Garage Sale Mysteries, an independent third party production." Loughlin was actually working on a Hallmark project in Vancouver when she was indicted on Tuesday, forcing her to have to fly in to Los Angeles for her formal arrest and arraignment. A federal judge yesterday allowed Loughlin to resume filming her Hallmark projects in Canada. Since 2013, Loughlin has been the face of Hallmark Channel and its best-loved actor with her Garage Sale Mysteries movies, When Calls the Heart TV series and her roles in Hallmark's "Countdown to Christmas" movies. As Jezebel put it yesterday, "Loughlin has managed to corner every environment of Hallmark’s ecosystem." TVLine points out that Hallmark Channel fans have been calling for Loughlin's firing, saying that she no longer fits the cable channel's wholesome image following her indictment. ALSO: Hallmark Channel has pulled Sunday's When Calls the Heart episode and is "evaluating all creative options" related to the series.

NBC confirmed to The Huffington Post it hired Ed Sussman, whose specialty is being a "paid Wikipedia editor" named. The Huffington Post's Ashley Feinberg reports that NBC "apparently decided to put Sussman’s service to use in the aftermath of The New Yorker’s bombshell Harvey Weinstein report and, later, the allegations of sexual misconduct against Matt Lauer. Several NBC employees, including Meet the Press host Chuck Todd and NBC Chairman Andy Lack, benefited from Sussman’s intervention, too. In one proposed edit, Sussman attempted to argue that on NBC News’ Wikipedia page, the mention of criticism directed at NBC over its handling of Matt Lauer constituted a violation of Wikipedia’s rules, since 'it does not summarize the opposing point of view.'”

It's been 35 years since Douglas and Turner co-starred in the hit film Romancing the Stone. Turner has signed on for Season 2 to play Ruth Bederman, the ex-wife of Douglas' Sandy Kominsky and father of their daughter.

The "#SaveODAAT" hashtag has been the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter worldwide since Netflix announced this morning it was canceling the beloved comedy after three seasons. Amid the outpouring of support, One Day at a Time creator Norman Lear has released a statement, saying: "At my age, I can testify that you are never too old to have your heart broken."

ALSO:

• Rita Moreno tweets: "I am grieving for the terrible loss of my beloved character, Lydia..."
• One Day at a Time fans aren't buying Netflix "bullsh*t" excuses: How can Netflix say "not enough people watched" when it doesn't release viewing figures?

“Even Watson, the IBM computer, sent me a get-well card,” the Jeopardy! host said in a brief video message posted to the show's Twitter, one week after revealing he was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. “Now obviously I won’t be able to respond to all of you individually, but I did want you to know that I do read everything I receive, and I am thankful for the kind words, the prayers, and the advice you have offered. And I am extremely touched by the warmth you have expressed in your comments to me.”

The celebrity stylist and former star of Bravo's The Rachel Zoe Project will star in a fashion competition series for MGM Television that aims to see undiscovered designers “work together to create original designs, bringing completely new and unique looks to the runway.”

The Chicago PD alum will join Gabriel Bateman and Adrian Grenier in the potential series revolving around artificial intelligence.

Kenan Thompson, Chrissy Teigen and comedy star Jeff Foxworthy will serve as judges on comedy competition Bring the Funny, premiering July 9. Songwriting competition Songland debuts after America's Got Talent on May 28.

Justified alum Erica Tazel and child star Kendall Clark are among the new additions, while Walter Perez has been promoted to series regular. Once again, the OWN series will have an all-female directors lineup.

Dead Ahead creator Melvin Smith had sued claiming that big portions of Season 2 of The Walking Dead spinoff were lifted from his comic book seires.

Dawson admitted reports that she and the Democratic presidential candidate are an item were true, in a brief interview with TMZ.

Katic reprises her role as former FBI agent Emily Byrne when Season 2 premieres on Amazon on June 14.

The streaming service has decided not to renew the beloved and critically acclaimed Cuban-American reboot of the classic Norman Lear comedy for a fourth season. According to The Hollywood Reporter's Lesley Goldberg, producer Sony Pictures Television "plans to shop the series, which could be problematic as Netflix will continue to own and house the first three seasons and a library deal would help make finding a new home an easier task." In a rare statement following a cancelation, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said: "It’s been a great honor to work with the legendary Norman Lear on One Day at a Time. I’ve personally spoken with Norman, and co-creators Gloria Calderón Kellett and Mike Royce, to express my gratitude to them, all the writers, the dedicated crew and the cast including the brilliant Justina Machado and dazzling Rita Moreno for creating a series with such humor, heart and humanity. This was a very difficult decision and we’re thankful to all the fans who’ve supported the series, our partners at Sony, and all the critics who embraced it. While it’s disappointing that more viewers didn’t discover One Day at a Time, I believe the series will stand the test of time." The official Netflix account also released a series of tweets announcing the cancelation, saying: "The choice did not come easily — we spent several weeks trying to find a way to make another season work but in the end simply not enough people watched to justify another season."

ALSO:

• Co-creators addressed Gloria Calderón Kellett addressed the cancelation in a joint statement: "While our hearts are heavy, they are also bursting with appreciation for this amazing experience. And for all of you. All of you who told us how much One Day at a Time means to you. We've worked on many shows, but never have we experienced the outpouring of love, connection, and support we have with ODAAT."
• Kellett tweeted that this is "this is where the REAL test occurs": "You got to LA, You did the work, You worked hard for a long time, You finally got a show, It was a critical darling and it STILL got canceled... Here we are. I can’t believe it but it happened. The show I love just got canceled. This happens. This is part of the gig. This is where the REAL test occurs. Where your resilience is tested. Luckily, you’ve had years of hustle. Years of fighting. So, you got this. Be Heartbroken..."
• One Day at a Time cast and crew members react to cancelation: "I’m so grateful to have played Penelope Alvarez," tweeted Justina Machado. "I don’t even know how to begin to express my gratitude to everyone. Truly, I am so honored that we got to tell our stories .Yes it was a Latinx family but it was a universal story about family and love. An American Familia."
• Lin-Manuel Miranda leads fans mourning cancelation, asks NBC to save ODAAT like it did with Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• Even Merriam-Webster mourned One Day at a Time's cancelation

The Empire star pleaded not guilty in a Chicago courtroom to 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct for allegedly staging a hate crime attack. Smollett was greeted by a handful of supporters holding signs reading “I Stand With Jussie” and “I Believe Jussie Smollett," according to CBS Chicago. After Smollett pleaded not guilty, Cook County Judge Steven Watkins granted him permission to travel to New York and California to consult with his attorney as long as he provided 48 hours' notice. Smollett's not guilty plea came the morning after Empire returned for its first episode since Smollett's alleged hate crime attack. The Wrap reports Empire's ratings were down 35% in the demo from last year's midseason premiere, while Variety said viewership fell a little over 10% from the last episode on Dec. 5.

Goldberg has been absent from the ABC daytime talk show since Feb. 5 while battling pneumonia in both lungs that became septic. “This is my first foray out,” Goldberg said during this morning's surprise visit. “I’m not there yet, I know that. The only way it’s going to get better is if I began, so this is my beginning.” Goldberg added that she plans to return over the “next week and a half.”

The Think Tank for Inclusion and Equity surveyed TV writers who are female, non-binary, LGBTQ, people of color and/or people with disabilities. "The report reveals that many of these hires fall into 'checking the box' for diversity hire but do not provide ample opportunities for these writers to advance their careers," according to Variety. About 58% of respondents report experiencing microaggressions after pitching non-stereotypical content. The study found that 61% reported working with showrunners who were resistant to diversifying storylines.

The president's lawyers argued that he didn't have to face former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos' lawsuit while in office. But an appeals court ruled that his argument conflicts with the the fundamental principle that the United States has a "government of laws and not of men." Zervos is suing after Trump branded her a liar after she accused him of sexual misconduct.

The Midnight, Texas alum is returning to NBC, co-starring with Russell Hornsby and Michael Imperioli on the drama pilot based on Jeffery Deaver’s bestselling The Bone Collector book series.

The husband of Teresa Giudice finished serving a 41-month federal prison sentence for tax fraud this morning and was released to ICE custody. Because he's not a U.S. citizen, Giudice is facing deportation back to Italy.

David Chase's The Many Saints of Newark will simply be called Newark when it's released in theaters on Sept. 25, 2020.

Couric discovered the 1991 clip while doing research for her memoir and shared it with her newsletter fans. “I was about to go on maternity leave and let’s just say, Bryant Gumbel didn’t quite get it,” wrote Couric, according to Mediaite. “It’s pretty shocking to watch it now, 28 years later!”

Starting April 1, the ad-supported free-streaming TV service Tubi will offer the first season of The Bachelor starring Alex Michel from 2002, the first season of The Bachelorette starring Trista Rehn from 2003 and The Bachelorette: Trista & Ryan’s Wedding, also from 2003, featuring the wedding of Trista and Ryan Sutter. Tubi has also acquired the rights to Season 5 of Bachelor in Paradise.

Madeline Peltz, who works the night shift for the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters for America, is tasked with watching and analyzing a lot of Tucker Carlson's Fox News show. "After many Carlson-watching hours, the 24-year-old researcher developed a working theory, which she outlined on the nonprofit’s website: that Carlson is using his platform on Fox News to introduce white-nationalist ideas to the mainstream, making him a uniquely prominent 'mouthpiece for white supremacy,'" reports Eli Rosenberg. "Peltz dug into his recent past and discovered a trove of appearances he made on shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge’s radio show between 2006 and 2011. She found a series of misogynistic, racist and homophobic remarks Carlson made, the audio of which Media Matters published this week."

Williams, who's been a guest on Stern's show a couple times, reacted on her talk show to the shock jock's Howard Stern Comes Again book announcement by saying: “Howard is so Hollywood right now. And Howard, I love you. but since you’ve gone Hollywood, everything you say is so predictable. Every story is gonna be about, you know ‘Oh, I love this one and then we went on their yacht.' He’s a Hollywood insider now, which sucks because you started like me, being of the people,” she continued. “But at some point, you sat behind that microphone for too long.” Stern fired back on his show Wednesday, calling Williams a "jealous bitch. You are nobody to me. You’ll never be me, Wendy. You’ll never be me. You can pretend to be me, you can pretend to be like me but you’re not. You don’t have my wit and you don’t have my talent. You couldn’t have that career. You’re a fly.”

The streaming service has dropped a trailer for the eight-part documentary series on British toddler Madeleine McCann, whose disappearance at age 3 in 2007 has generated headlines and fascination for years in Britain. According to Variety, The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann is "controversial and anticipated in equal measure, with the girl’s family suggesting it could hinder the long-running police investigation and a tabloid saying there could be explosive new revelations."

Pauly “DJ Pauly D” Delvecchio and Vinny Guadagnino are wearing sleeveless tuxedos and handing out roses in promoting their new dating competition. A Double Shot at Love is a revival of an MTV dating series from the 2000s.