Music icon Elton John already had an award named after him. Now it has become a bigger awards program: The Elton John Impact Awards, which are being presented to influential members of the L…
YouTube once funded creator-driven original content — but the streaming giant wound that down several years ago and instead embarked on a strategy to promote shows YouTubers are already pr…
Fresh-in-the-saddle Disney boss Josh D’Amaro is pushing forward on an initiative already underway to make Disney+ the primary touchpoint for Mouse House customers and fans worldwide. “Di…
Disney’s first earnings with Josh D’Amaro as CEO are out — and he has generally good news to report in his Wall Street debut. The Mouse House pulled in revenue of $25.17 billion, up 7%…
Robert Smigel is launching a podcast in which he and his comedian friends — including David Letterman, Bob Odenkirk, Ellie Kemper and Jim Gaffigan — try to help zhuzh up the hilarity of …
The FCC is reportedly gearing up to launch a formal review of the broadcast licenses granted to Disney’s eight owned ABC stations — coming after a MAGA uproar over Jimmy Kimmel’s joke …
Kate McKinnon’s gloriously unhinged Queen Mortuana from audio series “Heads Will Roll” and her raven sidekick JoJo, voiced by McKinnon’s sister Emily Lynne, are back for more medieva…
Matt Buechele’s new podcast “That Sounds Like a Lot” might have music. It might veer into absurdity. But he promises it will always deliver laughs. Buechele’s weekly video podcast, p…
Julia Louis-Dreyfus' popular podcast "Wiser Than Me" is returning with new batch of episodes featuring the Emmy-winning actress' interviews with older women. "Wiser Than Me," a production of…
Kelly Marie Tran and Rob Benedict lend their voices to "Saigon," a new scripted drama podcast for iHeartMedia's iHeartPodcasts billed as "an epic story of love, war and power set against the…
Kerry Washington's Simpson Street will premiere "Between Me and You," a new scripted audio drama starring Jurnee Smollett, Jack Falahee and Stephanie Hsu, on April 16, exclusively from Audib…
YouTube is coming back to TV upfronts week with Trevor Noah serving as emcee of its 2026 Brandcast presentation for advertisers, along with a big group of YouTube creators including Dude Per…
The "Trump Kennedy Center" earlier this month followed through on its threat to sue acclaimed jazz musician Chuck Redd, after he backed out of a Christmas Eve 2025 concert over the Washingto…
Maya Hawke and KJ Apa meet cute in the Hamptons in Audible original romantic comedy "The Summer Oath" " a modern twist on Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost." Starring Hawke ("Stranger Thin…
Jean-Luc Picard is doing The Bard. Sir Patrick Stewart is lending his iconic voice to an audiobook in which he reads William Shakespeare's sonnets " all 154 of them " and "shares reflections…
CBS said it did not force "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" to pull an interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico from its TV broadcast Monday, contrary to the way the late-night host…
Stephen Colbert said CBS's legal department spiked his interview with a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate because of the FCC chairman's recent warning that the agency would pursue enf…
Wyatt Cenac will be grabbing the mic to host the 6th annual Awards for Excellence in Audio " aka the Ambies " in Brooklyn later this month. The Ambies will be presented on Monday, Feb. 23, a…
President Donald Trump, after affixing his name to Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center and prompting multiple artists to cancel engagements at the famed arts center, said he has decided that t…
Ariana Grande got a digital enhancement on the latest cover of Vogue Japan. The "Wicked" star and pop singer is the cover subject of the magazine's latest issue. But fans quickly spotted a p…
Kevin Couch, a veteran live entertainment exec and musician, was announced as the head of artistic programming at the newly rechristened Trump Kennedy Center on Jan. 16. Less than two weeks …
Several well-known music artists have turned to ElevenLabs' AI as a virtual muse " and record producer. ElevenLabs on Wednesday launched "The Eleven Album," which the artificial-intelligence…
Listen up: iHeartMedia announced nominations for the 2026 iHeartPodcast Awards in partnership with South by Southwest, to be hosted by comedian and podcaster Ego Nwodim. For the second strai…
Amy Poehler won the inaugural Golden Globes podcast award for her talk show "Good Hang," which features her freestyle riffs with fellow comedians, friends and celebs. "I know that I am new t…
A sing-along " but make it super short. In a new wrinkle in the microdrama trend, Hannah Stocking, a hugely popular digital creator and comedian with more than 72 million followers, is starr…