NBC still working out the kinks as NBA returns to its airwaves after 23 years

NBC still working out the kinks as NBA returns to its airwaves after 23 years

The NBA on NBC’s return after two decades away featured a real mic drop.  The opening minutes of the network’s coverage on Tuesday night included a mad dash to replace a microphone that had been hindered by audio issues. It prompted host Maria Taylor and analysts Carmelo Anthony, Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady to play … Read more

First look at Michael Jordan’s on-air NBA role revealed after NBC stunner

First look at Michael Jordan’s on-air NBA role revealed after NBC stunner

More details have emerged about Michael Jordan’s buzzy broadcasting role on NBC as the network welcomes the NBA back to its airwaves this week for the first time in over two decades. Ahead of Tuesday’s season-opening doubleheader, NBC Sports announced that halftime coverage of the Thunder-Rockets clash — which gets underway at 7:30 p.m. — … Read more

Eric Dane to guest star as ALS patient on ‘Brilliant Minds’ after shocking diagnosis

Eric Dane to guest star as ALS patient on ‘Brilliant Minds’ after shocking diagnosis

Eric Dane is exploring his journey with ALS in a new TV role. The “Euphoria” star, who announced his diagnosis with the neurodegenerative disease earlier this year, is set to guest star as a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the NBC medical drama “Brilliant Minds” next month. Dane, 52, will appear in the ninth … Read more

Sabrina Carpenter drops the F-bomb — twice — during live ‘SNL’ performance

Sabrina Carpenter drops the F-bomb — twice — during live ‘SNL’ performance

Potty mouth. Sabrina Carpenter dropped the F-bomb two times during her live performance on “Saturday Night Live” last night. The 26-year-old pop star, who was both the host and musical guest of the episode, performed “Nobody’s Son” from her new album “Man’s Best Friend” and didn’t censor herself when she sang the lyrics “he sure … Read more

Apple TV, Peacock streaming bundle to launch next week — here’s how much it will cost

Apple TV, Peacock streaming bundle to launch next week  — here’s how much it will cost

Apple and Comcast’s NBCUniversal will launch a bundle of Apple TV and Peacock Premium streaming services next week, the companies said on Thursday, combining award-winning originals such as “Ted Lasso” and “The Traitors” for $14.99 a month. The bundle, which launches on Monday, offers US customers more than 30% savings and the option to combine Apple TV with Peacock … Read more

Jodie Foster reveals disastrous accident that occurred right before she hosted ‘SNL’ at age 14

Jodie Foster reveals disastrous accident that occurred right before she hosted ‘SNL’ at age 14

It doesn’t take a true detective to know this was a sticky situation. Jodie Foster is reflecting on hosting “Saturday Night Live” right after her 14th birthday in November of 1976 during the show’s sophomore season. “My bad memory of that is that right before I went on, like maybe a half an hour before I … Read more

Why Mariska Hargitay ‘almost got fired’ from ‘Law & Order: SVU’

Why Mariska Hargitay ‘almost got fired’ from ‘Law & Order: SVU’

The verdict came in — and this hair style was a no go. After more than 25 years of portraying the iconic Olivia Benson on “Law & Order: SVU,” Mariska Hargitay revealed that she was nearly axed from the series in Season 3. The actress, 61, came to work with a pixie cut that the producers … Read more

Rick Hoffman addresses the cancellation of ‘Suits LA’ — and Louis Litt spinoff rumors

Rick Hoffman addresses the cancellation of ‘Suits LA’ — and Louis Litt spinoff rumors

Is Rick Hoffman ready for another Litt law firm? The actor, 55, starred as the iconic Louis Litt in the USA legal drama “Suits” for nine seasons before the show ended in 2019. Six years later, the verdict was in, and fans wanted more. NBC decided to debut its spinoff, “Suits LA.” Rick Hoffman in … Read more

‘SNL’ unveils first look at Season 51 after major cast shakeup

‘SNL’ unveils first look at Season 51 after major cast shakeup

“Saturday Night Live” Season 51 is going to have a star-studded start. The NBC series announced Thursday that Bad Bunny, Amy Poehler and Sabrina Carpenter will host the first three episodes of the new season. Bad Bunny, 31, will emcee the Season 51 premiere on Oct. 4, while Doja Cat will be the musical guest. … Read more

Lorne Michaels reveals key to keeping ‘SNL’ ‘fresh’ amid major cast shakeups: ‘It’s essential’

Lorne Michaels reveals key to keeping ‘SNL’ ‘fresh’ amid major cast shakeups: ‘It’s essential’

Lorne Michaels has revealed that new blood is key to keeping “Saturday Night Live!” as “fresh” as possible. The NBC honcho, 80, shared some rare insight into the major cast shakeups taking place behind the scenes of the late-night sketch comedy show after a slew of well-known names announced they would not be returning. Speaking … Read more

Exclusive | What’s really going on at ‘SNL’ — and how Lorne Michaels got Emmy nominee Bowen Yang to stay

Exclusive | What’s really going on at ‘SNL’ — and how Lorne Michaels got Emmy nominee Bowen Yang to stay

Bowen Yang is “Saturday Night Live”‘s biggest breakout star in years. But after six seasons on the NBC show — playing everything from the Titanic’s iceberg to baby hippo Moo Deng — and a successful movie career, Yang was ready to leave, multiple sources told The Post. By the time the curtain came down on the … Read more

Rainn Wilson slams ‘The Office’ over ‘horrific’ jokes: ‘Racist and insensitive’

Rainn Wilson slams ‘The Office’ over ‘horrific’ jokes: ‘Racist and insensitive’

He’s still not over it.  “The Office” star Rainn Wilson admits that the NBC comedy took it too far sometimes — and would need to be a “very, very different” show if it returned in 2025. “Listen you know, the Benihana Christmas episode where Michael and Andy draw with a sharpie on one of the Asian … Read more

Chloe Fineman still hasn’t ‘fully processed’ the ‘heartbreak’ of ‘SNL’ shakeups

Chloe Fineman still hasn’t ‘fully processed’ the ‘heartbreak’ of ‘SNL’ shakeups

Chloe Fineman addressed the “sadness” of the recent shakeups on “Saturday Night Live.” Ahead of the Season 51 premiere on Oct. 4, a slew of cast members have departed the NBC series. Fineman, 37, called the news “pretty wild” while speaking to EXTRA TV on Thursday. Chloe Fineman attends the Michael Kors Collection Spring/Summer 2026 Runway Show … Read more

‘SNL’s’ Please Don’t Destroy comedy group reveals fate in wake of show axings

‘SNL’s’ Please Don’t Destroy comedy group reveals fate in wake of show axings

They won’t destroy them.  Please Don’t Destroy, the comedy trio that includes John Higgins, Ben Marshall, and Martin Herlihy, will not break up in the wake of shakeups at “Saturday Night Live.” Following “SNL’s” brutal bloodbath after Season 50 – which included several big exits – the longtime NBC sketch comedy show announced that Marshall would … Read more

Scarlett Johansson reveals if husband Colin Jost is returning to ‘SNL’ for Season 51

Scarlett Johansson reveals if husband Colin Jost is returning to ‘SNL’ for Season 51

Colin Jost is coming back to Studio 8H. Scarlett Johansson confirmed that her husband is returning to “Saturday Night Live” for Season 51 following the dramatic cast shakeup. “He’s going back to work,” the actress, 40, told Entertainment Weekly Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival while promoting her directorial debut, “Eleanor the Great.” Colin … Read more

‘The Office’ spinoff ‘The Paper’ is out for delivery — and it’s surprising: review

‘The Office’ spinoff ‘The Paper’ is out for delivery — and it’s surprising: review

Hot off the presses. The headline news about “The Office” spinoff “The Paper” is that it’s not bad. It’s not reinventing the wheel, but it’s surprisingly entertaining and amusing. Premiering on Peacock on Sept. 4, “The Paper” is a mockumentary in the same style as “The Office,” set in the same world. The former show (which … Read more

How fired ‘Saturday Night Live!’ star Michael Longfellow discovered he was booted from sketch show

How fired ‘Saturday Night Live!’ star Michael Longfellow discovered he was booted from sketch show

Brace for turbulence. Fired “Saturday Night Live!” comedian Michael Longfellow, 31, discovered he was kicked off the long-running sketch show while he was at an airport in Utah. The jokester revealed he was waiting to board a flight when his agent called and shared that he wouldn’t return for Season 51 of the iconic show, … Read more

Exclusive | ‘The Office’ star Oscar Nunez reveals which former co-star was clamoring to find out about spinoff ‘The Paper’

Exclusive | ‘The Office’ star Oscar Nunez reveals which former co-star was clamoring to find out about spinoff ‘The Paper’

Oscar has a new job.  “The Office” star Oscar Núñez is the only original cast member who is on the spinoff show, “The Paper.”  “I was told it was only me because Greg Daniels said something to me like, ‘You kind of look the same from before.’ So all the plastic surgery worked out,” he … Read more

Exclusive | ‘The Office’ creator Greg Daniels refuses to listen to ‘naysayers’ about spinoff ‘The Paper’

Exclusive | ‘The Office’ creator Greg Daniels refuses to listen to ‘naysayers’ about spinoff ‘The Paper’

They’re not at Dunder Mifflin anymore.  “The Office” creator Greg Daniels, who also co-created the new spinoff show “The Paper,” wasn’t initially planning to revisit that world.    “I didn’t want to do anything that would somehow retroactively change what we had done on that show,” Daniels exclusively told The Post.  “We had a very intentional … Read more