Although Jesse Metcalfe made his TV heartthrob debut on ABC‘s Desperate Housewives in 2004, he missed a chance to break out that year on HBO. The actor recently recounted passing up on “auditioning for Adrian Grenier‘s role” as movie star Vincent Chase in the hit 6x Emmy-winning Doug Ellin…

Dusty Kay, a writer and Emmy-nominated producer whose credits include Entourage, Roseanne and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, died April 10 in Summerlin, Nevada, following a brief illness. He was 69. His death was announced today by his friend and collaborator Bill Nuss. A cause of…

Watchmen star Malin Åkerman is to host this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Åkerman will lead proceedings in Malmö, Sweden on May 11 along with the semi finals in the week leading up to the big event. She will host alongside Swedish presenter Petra Mede, who is taking the reins of the…

Sky has been rapped by Ofcom for the second time in the space of a year over swearing in one of its repeat shows, this time Entourage. Ofcom said a pre-watershed repeat of Entourage on the Sky Comedy channel in August failed to provide a mandatory pin code to protect under-18s, and the word…

The race by the AMPTP and the WGA to get a deal done by sundown had plenty of folks thinking back to a very memorable episode of Entourage — Doug Ellin, included. The creator of the HBO comedy was reminded Sunday on X about how the weekend negotiations between the AMPTP and the WGA sounded “like…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s Kaos has its Medusa. Entourage star Debi Mazar will play the coveted role in the upcoming mythological series from End of the F***ing World creator Charlie Covell, joining an ensemble cast including Jeff Goldblum, Janet McTeer and David Thewlis. Goldblum will play Zeus, Deadline recently revea…

EXCLUSIVE: PodcastOne, a leading podcast platform and a subsidiary of LiveOne, has entered into a multi-year agreement with Kevin Connolly's boutique media network ActionPark Media. The deal gives PodcastOne exclusive distribution and advertising sales rights for APM's current slate of podcast and vodcast…

Between 2004 and 2011, HBO’s Entourage earned big ratings and numerous awards, including six Emmys and a Golden Globe. But in the wake of #MeToo, the comedy about the Hollywood boys club is being viewed in a different light. On Tuesday, the show’s creator, Doug Ellin, spoke with Yahoo Entertainment and bemoaned…

Anastasia Taneie, a woman who worked as an extra on Entourage, has made fresh allegations of unwanted sexual advances by Emmy winner Jeremy Piven. Taneie told BuzzFeed News that in 2009, Piven forcibly pushed her up against a wall in a dark hallway, grabbing her breasts and genitals, during a break from filming…

EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED: As claims against Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey remain fresh, Jeremy Piven, star of the new CBS drama series Wisdom of the Crowd, today found himself in the spotlight of sexual harassment allegations. On Monday, reality TV personality/actress Ariane Bellamar made specific accusations on…

11th UPDATE, Monday, 3:36 PM: Jurassic World took the world’s stage for a global bow of $524.4M and 40% of that came from North American audiences. The Colin Treverrow-helmed family film accounted for 70% of the weekend’s gross among titles from the majors and lifted the box office up overall year-to-date from…

Monday, FINAL UPDATE, 2:38 PM: All pictures (but Disney’s) were down from their Sunday studio estimates this weekend but the real news is this is the third soft box office weekend in a row. The box office is off 18.9% from 2014 when The Fault in Our Stars opened to $48M and Maleficent had $34.2M in its coffers…