The week in entertainment news: Matthew Perry tributes, and Young Sheldon grows up

Lisa Kudrow rounds out the Friends cast with her own Matthew Perry tribute

Over the past few days, the main cast of Friends have all posted individual tributes to late actor Matthew Perry, which have ranged from hilarious to heartbreaking and everything in between. These heartfelt messages come after a short silence while the cast “[took] a moment to grieve and process this unfathomable loss,” as they wrote in a statement immediately following the announcement. Read More

That’ll be enough aging from Young Sheldon

One doesn’t have to look far to find ageism on television, and every day, those barriers get taller and taller until Young Sheldon doesn’t have a place on television anymore. To that end, Chuck Lorre’s Young Sheldon is coming to an end at the ripe old age of seven. Yes, after seven seasons of correcting people’s Lord Of The Rings knowledge, Young Sheldon will conclude his quest of becoming “old Sheldon” with an hour-long series finale on May 16. Read More

Warner Bros.’s Coyote Vs. Acme fiasco attracts congressional attention

It’s not an uncommon sight in any Road Runner cartoon for Wile E. Coyote to become the victim of his own schemes. His flagrant self-owning behavior often sees the relentlessly beleaguered desert predator a casualty of a bomb he set, a tunnel he painted, or a cliff he sawed. Ironically, that’s the kind of situation Mr. Coyote’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, finds itself in. Read More

Netflix cancels Shadow And Bone, four other shows

This summer’s SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes might be officially over, but that doesn’t mean the spree of studios killing off series in connection to them has fully abated. Hence news from Deadline tonight, which reports that Netflix has axed five different shows in one fell swoop. Read More

David Zaslav says okay, fine, the writers are “right about almost everything”

If you were a wealthy Hollywood executive who had inadvertently become the face of studio greed, you might want to resist commenting on the relative salaries of the laborers with whom you were recently locked in a long-term battle. Yet Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav can’t help himself. “They are right about almost everything,” he says of the writers strike in a recent The New York Times profile. He’s doing well so far, but then: “So what if we overpay? I’ve never regretted overpaying for great talent or a great asset.” Read More