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NEWS:
TELEVISION - From Deadline: ABC has announced the premiere dates for its Fall 2025 television season. That includes a 8PM Eastern arrival for the flagship "9-1-1," and a 9 PM Eastern debut for its latest spinoff, "9-1-1 Nashville."
TELEVISION - From Variety: Talk show host Stephen Colbert announced that CBS is cancelling "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," with the last episode scheduled for May 2026. He also announced that CBS is ending "The Late Show" and won't replace it. Colbert has been hosting the show since 2015.
NETFLIX/ANIMATION - From Deadline: Netflix has produced a red-band trailer for "Fixed," the R-rated animated comedy film from director Genndy Tartakovsy ("Hotel Transylvania"). The film is about a randy dog named "Bull," who is about to get neutered.
EMMYS - From Deadline: The nominations of the 2025 / 77th Primetime Emmy Awards have been announced. The winners in 25 categories will be announced September 14, 2025, airing live on CBS and Paramount+. The corresponding Creative Arts Emmy winners will be announced during a two-night ceremony of September 6th and 7th, 2025. Apple TV+'s "Severance" led with 27 nominations.
From Variety: Days after celebrating his 83rd birthday, Harrison Ford, earns his first Primetime Emmy nomination, which is in the category "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series." He is the second oldest nominee in that category after the late Adam Arkin earned a nomination in 2020 at the age of 86.
TELEVISION - From Variety: HBO has provided a first-look of Nick Frost as "Rubeus Hagrid" in its upcoming "Harry Potter" television series.
MOVIES - From Deadline: Blumhouse has laid off six staffers across film, television, and casting in the wake of the box office disappointment of its most recent film, "M3GAN 2.0."
BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 7/11 to 7/13/2025 weekend box office is Warner Bros. Picture/DC Studios' Superman with an estimated take of 122 million dollars.
From Deadline: Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav celebrates a box office win with Superman saying that his is just the beginning for the "DC Universe."
STREAMING/ANIMATION - From Deadline: "South Park" and Paramount+ are involved in negotiations involving the rights to stream the series. That has led to the long-running animated series being removed from the international version of Paramount+.
OBITS:
From Deadline: American songwriter, Alan Bergman, had died at the age of 99, Thursday, July 18, 2025. Bergman was best known for his collaboration with his late wife, Marilyn Keith Bergman (1928-2022). The couple won three Oscars for the film music, including twice for "Best Original Song." The won two Grammy Awards, including "Song of the Year" (for "The Way We Were" with songwriter Marvin Hamlisch). The couple also wrote the theme songs for the television series, "The Sandy Duncan Show," and two former CBS sitcoms, "Maude" (1972-78), and its spinoff, "Good Times" (1974-79).
From Deadline: British television actress, Judy Loe, has died at the age of 78, Tuesday, July 15, 2025. Loe was a regular in such British TV series as "Ace of Wands," "Edward the Seventh," and "General Hospital" (not related to the American soap opera), to name a few. She was a guest in such series "Man at the Top," "Ripping Yarns," and "Inspector Morse," to name a few. Loe was also the mother of actress, Kate Beckinsale, best known for her role in the "Underworld" film franchise.