Miss Teen USA 2023 runner-up Stephanie Skinner has declined the title following the resignation of the previous winner, UmaSofia Srivastava. She already committed to a research opportunity in Thailand for the summer.
A third Downton Abbey movie is currently in the works, with Dominic West and Paul Giamatti returning. New additions to the cast include Joely Richardson, Alessandro Nivola, Simon Russell Beale & Arty Froushan.
Family Guy is being moved to Wednesday nights with a midseason debut set for 2025, after nearly 20 years on Fox’s Sunday night. This is the first time since the show’s revival 19 years ago that it won’t be on the fall schedule.
Kate Gosselin celebrated her sextuplets’ 20th birthday by sharing a rare photo of four of her kids: Alexis, Aaden, Joel, and Leah. The sextuplets, shared with her ex-husband Jon Gosselin, celebrated their birthday on Friday.
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has fled to Europe after being sentenced to 8 years in prison for his new film, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig. Authorities pressured him to withdraw the film from the Cannes Film Festival.
Denis Leary will star in the Fox single-camera sitcom Going Dutch, in which he’ll play an “arrogant loudmouth” US Army Colonel who’s reassigned to the Netherlands to command the least important army base in the world.
Carrie-Anne Moss will join Arnold Schwarzenegger in season 2 of the Netflix action comedy series FUBAR. She will play a former East German spy. The returning cast includes Monica Barbaro, Fortune Feimster and others.
The Barbarella film, led by Sydney Sweeney, is in development with Edgar Wright in talks to direct. It’s an adaptation of the 1968 French comics and the original starred Jane Fonda. It gained a cult following, but made no money.
King Charles III revealed that he experienced a loss of taste while undergoing cancer treatment. The disclosure came during a conversation with a cancer survivor. He didn’t provide details about the duration of the loss of taste.
The MTV Movie & TV Awards will be “paused” this year and return in 2025. The show faced setbacks in 2020 due to COVID-19 and in 2023 due to a Writers Guild of America strike, and has lost momentum in recent years.
