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Please Don’t Destroy the SNL cast. Martin Herlihy has decided to exit Saturday Night Live after five seasons, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Hollywood Reporter. Herlihy, who primarily served as a writer on the show, is one-third of comedy group Please Don’t Destroy and the son of SNL legend Tim Herlihy. Martin Herlihy follows fellow Please Don’t Destroy nepo-comic John Higgins, the son of Steve Higgins, out the Studio 8H door — albeit one year (and one week) later. Steve Higgins has been an SNL producer since the mid-1990s; he’s also Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show announcer.…
Success was hardly guaranteed for Tip Toe. The new drama from the prolific, BAFTA-winning scribe Russell T Davies (Queer as Folk, Doctor Who) ranks among the most visceral, discomfiting and uncompromising watches you’ll see on TV this year. The first episode opens with the literal hanging of an affable gay man named Leo (Alan Cumming) outside of his flat in Manchester. Over the five hours that follow, the series tracks what led to the tragedy — specifically, his complicated relationship with his resentful, bigoted next-door neighbor, Clive (David Morrissey). The strength of the show is that it operates on levels…
Hollywood’s obsession with Silicon Valley is about to reach a fever pitch with four major films set to take on controversial tech moguls. What’s more: All the movies have key dates in October, resulting in a rather extraordinary thematic pileup as one California industry takes on another. And oddly enough: Earlier this week, three of the projects released their first teaser trailers (below) within 48 hours of each other. In Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, Jeremy Strong plays Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a sequel (or “companion piece,” as Sony insists on calling it) to The Social Network. The project…
Peter Levin is not only a founder and managing director of Santa Monica-headquartered venture capital firm Griffin Gaming Partners, which is known for investments focused on the global gaming space and related fields, such as sports. He is also, among other things, co-founder and chairman of the board of formerBellatorboss and Strikeforce founder Scott Coker’s new global MMA league. And he has long been a passionate collector of trading cards. In fact, the former CEO and co-founder of genre and pop culture media company Nerdist Industries, which sold to Legendary in 2012, owns what he says are 500,000-plus trading cards.…
Nick Offerman is slamming Ben Shapiro for his “rampant homophobia” after the Daily Wire co-founder and political commenter criticized the actor’s gay role in The Last of Us. During a recent appearance on the Talk Easy With Sam Fragoso podcast, host Sam Fragoso showed Offerman a clip of Shapiro attempting to recap his character’s storyline in HBO’s apocalyptic drama and calling him a “gay Ron Swanson,” referencing Offerman’s iconic Parks and Recreation character. “So the entire plot of the episode is that Nick Offerman, but he actually plays Ron Swanson, but Ron Swanson who likes to nail dudes. So Ron…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. It’s getting easier and easier to experience first-of-its-kind technology in real life thanks to a large-scale partnership between Meta and Best Buy. In June 2026, the duo opened the doors to their first Meta Lab @ Best Buy location, offering immersive demos, hands-on testing and personalized fittings of the lineup of AI glasses and VR headsets from Meta. And by the end of 2026, the Meta Lab @ Best Buy location count is set to be 50…
The TV viewing options for science fiction fans in the fall of 1966 were limited, but not nonexistent. Lost in Space was starting its second season on CBS, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was heading into its third on ABC. The producer of both of those, Irwin Allen, also had The Time Tunnel debuting on ABC. None of those shows would last beyond 1968. Nor did any of them give rise to an enduring, beloved TV and movie franchise like the other new sci-fi series that fall, Star Trek. Gene Roddenberry’s series debuted 60 years ago, airing…
Paramount is continuing to press a dozen states led by California and the Writers Guild of America to bear the costs of the hold up caused by their lawsuits challenging the $111 billion megamerger. The studio has asked for a $1.88 billion bond to cover losses if it wins the cases. In July, U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín temporarily halted the deal and scheduled a trial for March, months past its target closing date of late September. There will be major financial repercussions for the delay. Under the agreement, Warners shareholders are owed roughly $650 million per quarter or $6.9…
The former managing editor of 60 Minutes broke his silence on his 2026 exit from the program, where he said editorial independence had become a “casualty of corporate priorities and ideological intrusion,” in a social media post reported on by The Guardian on Tuesday. Guy Campanile, who says he was a 34-year veteran of CBS News, was subject to a round of firings in May as new leader Bari Weiss overhauled 60 Minutes. In his words, the axing came as he and several colleagues “refused to be accomplices in the destruction of the most prestigious news program on American television.”…
What’s happened to Canadian film and TV during the past year was so pivotal, you could put it on a bumper sticker. Donald Trump threatening Canada with economic tariffs and 51st-state taunts unleashed a groundswell of Canadian patriotism. Borrowing from hockey, an “Elbows up!” movement followed, as audiences countrywide embraced homegrown movies and TV shows. Producers behind breakout hits like Heated Rivalry and Backrooms became rare Canadian talents that Hollywood covets, while Canadian financiers found new ways to make local media content for world markets — without relying on Hollywood. Whether it’s Mike Myers mouthing the words “Elbows up!” on…