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Ms. Pat is in session! Patricia Williams, Aka Ms. Pat has been making audiences laugh for years with her multi-cam sitcom “The Ms. Pat Show,” but she’s taking a break from fictional problems to help real people settle their biggest disputes in “Ms. Pat Settles It,” which debuts a second season on BET on Wednesday, July 31 at 10 p.m. Et. Ms. Pat dons a gavel and robes for the show to judge real court cases, and as always her word is law! See the new season of “Ms. Pat Settles It” with a 7-Day Free Trial of Philo.

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Donielle Hansey Jr., Simone Joy Jones, Ayaamii Sledge, Carter Young in Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead Image: BET+ As you may have surmised from the title, Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead is a remake of the popular 1991 film of the same name. The original starred Christina Applegate,...

Donielle Hansey Jr., Simone Joy Jones, Ayaamii Sledge, Carter Young in Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s DeadImage: BET+

As you may have surmised from the title, Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead is a remake of the popular 1991 film of the same name. The original starred Christina Applegate,...

Nicole Richie has been a “diehard fan” of the 1991 cult comedy “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” for as long as she can remember.

“I’ve been quoting this movie my whole life,” she says.

And now, life has come full circle because the former “Simple Life” reality television icon stars in director Wade Allain-Marcus’ “Don’t Tell Mom” remake as fashion company boss Rose.

The new film stars Simone Joy Jones as Tanya, a 17-year-old whose summer plans are upended when her mom (“Ms. Pat” star Patricia Williams) checks herself into a health retreat. Things completely unravel when the babysitter, played by Oscar nominee June Squibb, hired to take care of Tanya and her siblings suddenly dies.

“When I heard it was going to be a remake, I was like, ‘What does this mean?’” she says. “So I jumped on a Zoom with Wade and he was like, ‘This...

Many of the hottest TV stars walked the Emmy Awards red carpet on Monday in downtown Los Angeles. Gold Derby senior editor Denton Davidson and associate editor Latasha Ford enjoyed an exclusive spot on the cool afternoon, interviewing many of the celebrities who were nominated, presenting or part of their television show’s ensembles for Emmys 2023. The Fox ceremony was hosted by Anthony Anderson.

Watch each short video below by clicking that person’s name:

Brian Cox, Best Actor in a Drama Series nominee for “Succession”

Young Mazino, Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series nominee for “Beef”

Joseph Lee, Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series nominee for “Beef”

Rhea Seehorn, Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series nominee for “Better Call Saul”

Janelle James, Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series nominee for “Abbott Elementary”

Henry Winkler, Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nominee for “Barry”

Dominique Fishback,...

Ryan Seacrest rings in his 19th new year as the host of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve in 2024.

The executive producer will co-host the 52nd annual New Year’s Eve special with Rita Ora from Times Square in New York, while TV personality Jeannie Mai will lead the festivities from Hollywood.

Related: Where to Stream the Best New Year’s Eve 2024 Specials Online

Dick Clark Productions is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between Penske Media Corporation and Eldridge that also owns The Hollywood Reporter. Below, keep reading to find out when and where to watch Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2024, including for free without cable.

Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2024: When and Where to Watch

Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2024 with Ryan Seacrest airs live on ABC and streams on Hulu + Live TV on Dec.

Prefer to ring in 2024 from home? You can still bid adieu to 2023 and tune into live countdowns in New York’s Times Square, California’s Disneyland and beyond. And whether you’re into pop, country or comedy, there’s a show for everyone. Keep reading for the best 2024 New Year’s Eve specials to watch online, from the annual Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve hosted by Ryan Seacrest to CNN’s countdown with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen.

How to Watch 2024 New Year’s Eve Specials Online

If you watch the best 2024 New Year’s Eve specials on your TV, smartphone or tablet, you’ll need a subscription to cable or streaming video-on-demand (SVOD) service to livestream the events. Most smart TVs already support SVOD apps, but if yours doesn’t, you’ll need to connect it to a streaming stick or device such as the Amazon Fire Stick,...

LL Cool J and Cardi B join ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest’ (Photo Courtesy of ABC)

Grammy winners LL Cool J and Cardi B have joined the lineup of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2024 performers. LL Cool J featuring DJ Z-Trip is confirmed to perform a medley of hits in the minutes leading up to midnight. Cardi B will help send off 2023 from the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.

ABC also announced Gabriel ‘Fluffy’ Iglesias, Matt Friend, Ms. Pat, and Sebastian Maniscalco will contribute comedy segments during this year’s broadcast. Plus, Airrack will spend the final hours of 2023 attempting to set a new Guinness World Record.

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Leading stand-up comedian Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias, with almost 1 billion views on YouTube and over 25 million fans on social media, will rank his least favorite fashion trends of 2023. Comedian and impressionist Matt...

Mama said knock 2023 out.

Grammy winner, 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and NCIS-verse vet LL Cool J has joined the slate of performers for this Sunday night’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest, airing on ABC.

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LL Cool J featuring DJ Z-Trip is set to perform a medley of hits just before the clock strikes midnight, as the...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:

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Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan, ‘Go Forward’.. photo: Philippe Antonello / ©Amazon /Courtesy Everett Collection

Weekly Commentary: Quinta Brunson is the front-runner to win her first acting Emmy for her charming turn as Janine Teagues, the optimistic 2nd-grade teacher from ABC’s hit mockumentary.

For Black women, our hair isn’t just hair; it is an integral part of our culture and identity. Depending on who you talk to, it can be a symbol of pride (as seen with the Black Is Beautiful movement), a source of pain and self-hatred, or a combination of both.

The Ms. Pat Show unpacks these complicated feelings around Black hair in the episode “Don’t Touch My Hair,” which is currently streaming with the rest of Season 2 on BET+. In Episode 3, Terry makes a careless remark about Ms. Pat’s kinky hair, and that dredges up some painful childhood memories.

From the moment Nurse Jennifer Worth narrated the words “everyone needs a place that keeps us secure and safe from harm” at the top of Sunday night’s Call the Midwife, the tone was set. All fans of the PBS drama had to do was wait and see who needed refuge and why.

The answers soon arrived with the introduction of two new patients: Patricia Williams, an expectant mother with weight issues, and Louise Wrigley, who claimed to be pregnant even though she wasn’t. Nurse Lucille and Shelagh Turner tended to Patricia, while Dr. Turner and later Sister Hilda focused on Louise.

Comedian, author and actor Patricia Williams aka Ms. Pat has booked her first hourlong stand-up comedy special at Netflix, Variety has learned exclusively.

The special, which is still to be titled, will be shot at the Atlanta Comedy Theater on Sept. 25. While this is Ms. Pat’s first hourlong special, she previously appeared in the second season of the streamer’s “The Degenerates” stand-up series, delivering a half-hour set.

Ms. Pat’s unique voice comes from always being honest and personal to her own life, rather than reaching for a hot topic or headline of the moment. That’s why she says you shouldn’t expect Covid jokes in her new special. But you also shouldn’t expect to hear about the same people or pockets of her life she included in “The Degenerates”; her 2017 memoir, “Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat”; or her BET Plus sitcom, “The Ms. Pat Show.

Emmy and NAACP Award-winner Debbi Morgan is set for a major recurring role opposite Yaya DaCosta, Morris Chestnut and Joe Morgan in Fox drama series Our Kind of People, from writer/executive producer Karin Gist and executive producer Lee Daniels.

Written by Gist inspired by Lawrence Otis Graham’s provocative, critically praised book Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class, the series takes place in the aspirational world of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, a historical stronghold where the rich and powerful Black elite have come to play for more than 50 years. Our Kind of People follows strong-willed single mom Angela Vaughn (DaCosta) as she sets out to reclaim her family’s name and make an impact with her revolutionary haircare line that highlights the innate, natural beauty of Black women. But she soon discovers a dark secret about her...

“All My Children’s” Angie Baxter-Hubbard, aka NAACP Award winner Debbi Morgan, has been cast in Lee Daniels and Karin Gist’s series “Our Kind of People,” a drama headed to Fox on Tuesday nights this fall. The “Power” and “Ghost” regular joins previously announced cast members Lance Gross (“Sleepy Hollow”), Yaya DaCosta (“Chicago Med”), Morris Chestnut (“The Resident”), Joe Morton (“Scandal”) LeToya Luckett and newcomer Alana Bright. The series is inspired by Lawrence Otis Graham’s book “Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class.” It is a co-production of Fox Entertainment and 20th Television.

Per the logline, “Our Kind of People” takes place in the aspirational world of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, a historical stronghold where the rich and powerful Black elite have come to play for over 50 years. The series follows protagonist Angela Vaughn (DaCosta), a strong-willed, single mom who sets out to...

Giant publisher Condé Nast today named Dawn Davis editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit, several months after previous editor Adam Rapaport resigned amid a blackface scandal and complaints of racially insensitive behavior at the publication.

Davis, who starts Nov. 2, was most recently vice president and publisher of 37 Ink, an imprint of Simon & Schuster that she founded. Conde Nast praised the 25-year industry vet as “an award-winning publisher and storytelling advocate who, for over two decades, has championed and elevated underrepresented voices.” In her new role, she will oversee the editorial vision of Bon Appétit and Condé Nast other food brands Epicurious, Healthyish and Basically across digital, video, Ott, social and print.

“A proven trailblazer in publishing and known for her innovative approach, Dawn’s ability to find emerging voices and give them the platforms to transform our society is unparalleled,” said Roger Lynch, CEO of Condé Nast.

Rapoport resigned June 8 after...

Exclusive: Hulu is making a foray into multi-camera comedy with The Ms. Pat Show, a pilot headlined by comedian Ms. Pat. J. Bernard Calloway (City On A Hill) is set as the male lead opposite her in the pilot from the Empire duo of co-creator/executive Lee Daniels and executive producer Brian Grazer, Imagine Television and Fox 21 Studios, a division of Disney TV Studios.

The project, which had been set up at Fox with a different writer during the 2016-17 season, where it had a put pilot commitment, had quietly found a new home at Hulu where it was recently greenlighted to pilot. Debbie Allen is directing from a script by Jordan E. Cooper, who was a writer on Daniels’ Fox drama Star.

The Ms. Pat Show, from Imagine TV, Lee Daniels Entertainment and Fox 21 TV Studios, is based on Ms. Pat’s stand-up comedy and memoir. It tells the...

Everybody Hates Chris co-creator Ali LeRoi is returning to the studio behind the praised Upn/the CW comedy, signing a two-year overall deal with CBS Television Studios. Veteran comedy showrunner LeRoi is currently developing a single-camera comedy starring stand-up comedian Ms. Pat at Fox and 20th Century Fox TV, with Lee Daniels and Brian Grazer executive producing via their Lee Daniels Entertainment and Imagine Entertainment banners, respectively. (The project, which is…...

Fox has given a put-pilot commitment to the Ms. Pat TV show comedy, starring comedienne Ms. Pat (Patricia Williams), who will co-executive produce. Deadline reports Empire's Lee Daniels and Brian Grazer are executive producing, with writer Alyson Fouse, Pam Williams, and Effie Brown.Ms. Pat hails from Imagine TV, Lee Daniels Entertainment, and 20th Century. It is based on the comic's stand-up as well as her forthcoming memoir, which Deadline says, "...tells the story of a most unlikely suburban mom. Her hustle and entrepreneurial spirit were forged on the mean streets of Atlanta, but she now finds herself in conservative middle America alongside her loving husband and two distinct sets of kids raised under very different circumstances."Read More…...

Exclusive: Fox has given a put pilot commitment to a single-camera half-hour comedy series starring standup comedian Ms. Pat, which is executive produced by the Empire duo of co-creator/executive producer Lee Daniels and executive producer Brian Grazer. Written by Alyson Fouse (Born Again Virgin), the project, from Imagine TV, Lee Daniels Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV, is based on Ms. Pat's stand-up comedy and upcoming memoir, which tells the story of a most…...