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‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’ Auction Raises More Than $1.5 Million for Public Broadcasting, Including New Record for a Bob Ross Painting

There are no mistakes: Late artist Bob Ross‘ happy trees are about to once again help out public broadcasting. On last week’s 2025 finale of “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver,”...

Disney’s Dana Walden Receives Founders Award, Touts ‘Creative Risk Taking’ as International Emmys Reveal Full 2025 Winners’ List

The 2025 International Emmy Awards winners were announced Monday at a gala event in New York. For the 53rd annual edition, winners came from 64 contenders across 16 categories representing a...

Ray Romano and Phil Rosenthal on What Took So Long for an ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ Reunion and Why There Will Never Be a Reboot

During the waning days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ray Romano was flipping through Peacock when he stumbled across his old show “Everybody Loves Raymond.” And whaddyuh know, it was pretty good!...

Remembering Robert Pietranton: A PR Legend With a Taste for Springsteen, Scorsese, Soccer and Steelers

Former Variety staffer Stu Levine, now a PR executive at NBCUniversal, was a close friend of publicity and communications exec Robert Pietranton, the Warner Bros. TV Group senior VP who died...

Children’s & Family Emmy Nominees: Ms. Rachel, June Squibb and a Lisa Kudrow/David Schwimmer ‘Friends’ Face-off

Popular children’s TV host Ms. Rachel just landed her first two Emmy nominations — as did 96-year-old actress June Squibb. There were among the nods announced Tuesday for the 4th annual...

John Oliver Launches ‘Last Week Tonight’ Auction, Including an Original Bob Ross Painting, to Support Public Broadcasting

John Oliver tackled the Trump Administration’s defunding of public media for his final “Last Week Tonight” episode of 2025, detailing how the decision to eliminate $1.1 billion from the Corporation for...

Jimmy Kimmel Breaks Down in Tears Honoring Late Bandleader Cleto Escobedo III: ‘We Are Devastated by This’

Jimmy Kimmel opened Tuesday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” with a heartfelt tribute to his childhood friend and late-night bandleader Cleto Escobedo III, who died Tuesday at 59. “We’ve been on...

Steve Buscemi, Hamish Linklater, Jeff Hiller Set to Guest on ‘Elsbeth’ Season 3 (EXCLUSIVE)

CBS’ “Elsbeth” is lining up more guest stars as Season 3 gets underway, including Steve Buscemi (currently seen in “Wednesday”), Hamish Linklater (“Gen V”) and recent Emmy winner Jeff Hiller (“Somebody...

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