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The 2025 Peabody Awards will take place June 1 at the Beverly Wilshire in a return to Los Angeles for a second year, organizers said Wednesday. Nominations for the awards, in their 85th year, will be announced in April, with winners to be revealed in May.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Reality TV supercouple Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt suffered a deep loss in the past week, as the home they shared was destroyed in the Pacific Palisades wildfire. And their response was something that only they might have dreamed up.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Once again, the Golden Globes opened televised awards season in the run-up to a Donald Trump presidency. But this time, things looked a little different. At the 2017 ceremony, for instance, Meryl Streep used her Cecil B.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Nikki Glaser is ready to take on the biggest night of her career. After a breakout 2024 — one that saw her earning awards attention for her HBO comedy special “Someday You’ll Die” and dominating the discourse for her excoriating performance on Netflix’s “The Roast of Tom Brady” — the stand-up has been tapped to host the 2025 Golden Globes. Glaser had been in the comedy trenches before May’s Brady roast, in which she took the football legend to task for his failed relationships and for delaying his retirement, all with a smirkingly abashed delivery.

Variety Staff Follow Us on Twitter Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” Season 21 is officially the most successful social rollout in franchise history. The beloved video series, which pairs actors in conversation with each other and launches twice a year during Oscars and Emmys season, amassed over 197 million video views across social media platforms — a whopping 36 percent increase over “Actors on Actors” Season 19, which previously held the record.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic “You can always spot a Eureka Day kid, because at soccer games, they’re the ones who cheer when the other team scores.” So says Carina (Amber Gray), the parent of a new enrollee at Berkeley’s Eureka Day school, explaining what had been her thinking in placing her son there. To this point, like-minded members of the audience at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic “Cult of Love” begins with a tableau so close to perfect that one can see it shattering even before it happens. The Dahl family have come together to celebrate Christmas, with three of the family’s four grown children and their spouses gathered on the evening of the 24th, playing instruments and singing a liturgical carol, hitting every harmony just right.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande have been holding space for the concept of “holding space.” While being interviewed alongside their “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu for a forthcoming Variety feature, the actors reflected on their experience of being part of the funniest and most inscrutable meme to come out of awards season so far. Last month, journalist Tracy Gilchrist, interviewing Erivo and Grande for Out magazine at a “Wicked” junket, remarked that “people are taking the lyrics of ‘Defying Gravity’ and really holding space with that and feeling power in that,” which prompted Erivo to have an emotional response and Grande, in turn, to clasp one of Erivo’s fingers.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Josh Brolin’s new memoir, “From Under the Truck,” isn’t a typical celebrity autobiography. For one thing, it’s told in non-linear fashion, skittering between reflections in recent years to his childhood to various points in his long and eventful career, from his breakthrough in “The Goonies” to adult milestones like “No Country for Old Men” and “Milk.” What’s more, the book is strikingly candid about Brolin’s missteps and his high points, including discussion of what has been a decades-long struggle with substance abuse and charmingly rendered gossip about his fellow celebrities.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “VII,” the finale of “Disclaimer,” now streaming on Apple TV+. The final beats of “Disclaimer” utterly upend what had come before. Up to this point, we’re given to believe that Stephen (Kevin Kline) is on a misguided but fundamentally fact-based mission to avenge the death of his son, Jonathan; his belief is that Catherine (Cate Blanchett), whom he is stalking, had allowed his son to drown after the pair had a romantic liaison on vacation in Italy years before.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic The tricky things about defining moments is that they’re only clear in retrospect. Partisans of Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s election might, before the outcome became suddenly and crushingly clear on Tuesday night, have thought the campaign was defined by her romp over former President Trump in their one debate together, or by her team’s relatively agile response to the late-in-the-race “floating island of garbage” gaffe, or by the vague “joyful” energy of the album “Brat.” But perhaps the key moment — both in and of itself and for what it revealed about where the candidate was willing to go, and where she was not — happened in an October appearance on “The View.” Co-host Sunny Hostin asked Harris whether she would have done anything differently from President Joe Biden over the past four years; Harris responded “There is not a thing that comes to mind,” before saying that she had been a part of most major decisions the administration had made.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic The landscape around presidential endorsements looks a great deal different this year — and may for many cycles to come. After the Los Angeles Times’ owner, Dr.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic As she sings the final verse of “As If We Never Said Goodbye,” one of two showstopping numbers that bolster the musical “Sunset Boulevard,” Nicole Scherzinger turns her face skyward. Her architectural cheekbones reflect the glare of the spotlight, and her eyes disappear as she contorts her features into a mask of perverse pleasure. She — both the actress and the character she plays, the has-been screen legend Norma Desmond — seems, for a moment, to be inhaling not oxygen but motes of light.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Omarosa Manigault Newman remains in the political arena. The White House official — the director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison under Donald Trump for a time in 2017 as well as a staffer in the Clinton administration — rose to prominence as one of Trump’s favorite contestants on “The Apprentice.” After her time on the reality show’s 2004 first season, she returned for two different installments of “The Celebrity Apprentice.” But in her 2018 memoir “Unhinged,” Manigault-Newman went after Trump with both barrels (she allegedly made a secret recording of chief of staff Jon Kelly firing her from the White House), describing the then-President as a racist and cognitively impaired. A lengthy lawsuit, in which the Trump presidential campaign alleged Manigault Newman had violated an NDA, was arbitrated in Manigault Newman’s favor in 2022.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic “One of the best ways to communicate with people,” Vice President Kamala Harris said in her appearance on the podcast “Call Her Daddy,” “is to be real.” She was responding to a direct — and fair — question from podcast host Alex Cooper: Why had Harris, having done only two extensive interviews so far in her brief and intense run for the Presidency, decided to appear on this show? “Call Her Daddy” was the first of a brief and intense burst of media interviews Harris had done this week, which also included “60 Minutes,” “The View,” “The Howard Stern Show,” and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” And throughout, Harris sought to rapidly fix what has been a career-long challenge — defining what has been a hazy image. Harris’ first two major interviews as a candidate — one conducted jointly with her running mate, Minnesota Gov.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Playing the character of “DHH,” the actor Daniel Dae Kim begins “Yellow Face,” the new production of David Henry Hwang’s play, standing within a box, from which he promptly strides out. It’s a crisp and clear visual metaphor in a production hardly short on them (the two onstage boxes rotate to conjure the various locations DHH recollects over the course of the play).

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic “For Your Approval,” the new comedy special starring Ellen DeGeneres, begins with a kind of run-through of DeGeneres’ long career. We open with a shot of DeGeneres in her dressing room, smiling wistfully as she looks into the mirror and sees, overlaying herself, a projected memory of her first appearance on Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show”; she smiles slightly at the recollection, then gets up to walk down the hallway toward the stage, seeing in monitors, as she walks past, clips from her 1990s sitcom, including her character’s (and her own) coming out as a lesbian.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Sebastian Stan is tired of people dismissing Marvel movies. The actor is having the run of his career this fall, with two new films exploring different sides of his talent. “The Apprentice” (in which he plays a young and ambitious real-estate developer named Donald Trump) and “A Different Man” (in which he plays a New Yorker who suffers from the tumor disorder neurofibromatosis) arrive ahead of next year’s “Thunderbolts,” the Marvel tentpole in which Stan will reprise his role as Bucky Barnes.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic There’s something loose, rebellious, and even wild hiding within the trappings of “The Roommate,” a new Broadway production of a play written by Jen Silverman. One just has to wait for it to reveal itself. “The Roommate” has had a long life, beginning with its first performance in 2015.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Taylor Swift’s fans and detractors would likely agree on one thing about her: There is little-to-nothing that the world’s most famous performer does without intention and forethought. This extends to her forays into political activity.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic “All of You,” a sales title premiering in Toronto Sept. 7, features a test many viewers might shy away from taking. In the story, set in the near-future, science has devised a method to determine one’s true soulmate — if one is willing to take the test.