Abbott Elementary

Bradley Cooper did not take home an Oscar on Sunday for Maestro, but the loss was followed up with a winning cameo in the opening scene of the new episode of Abbot Elementary. Cooper appeared as himself during the episode, popping up as a student’s show-and-tell project. “Whenever I’m in Philly, you know the deli across the street? That’s my first stop,” Cooper, who is from the Philadelphia area in real life, says. “My dad used to always take me there. They have the best hoagies in the city.” And while…

Quinta Brunson's hit sitcom will return on Feb. 7 Abbott Elementary will be back soon, but some of the beloved characters are trying on new personalities for the school year. The hit sitcom returns to ABC with a one-hour block of episodes on Feb. 7. In the new trailer, typically inept principal Ava Coleman (Janelle James) has returned for the new year with a whole new perspective on her job. She attended a course at Harvard over the summer having “learned what it truly takes to do the job of a…

The Bear cooked up a win at the Emmy Awards on Monday night, taking home the award for Outstanding Comedy Series. Matty Matheson started to make an acceptance speech but didn’t get very far before co-star Ebon Moss-Bachrach walked over and kissed him on the mouth as the crowd burst into cheers. “I just want to thank restaurants as a whole hospitality as a whole,” Matheson said before the smooch. “I just love restaurants so much: the good, the bad, the rough. We’re all broken inside, and every single day,…

Taraji P. Henson is no stranger to hustle. Throughout college, she spent most post-class evenings singing, dancing, and waiting tables on a D.C. cruise ship and her early mornings as a receptionist at The Pentagon to help cover her Howard University tuition. Henson still wears many hats as the owner of the haircare line TPH by Taraji, the founder of the mental wellness nonprofit Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation, and most recently as the brazen Shug Avery in the blockbuster musical The Color Purple.  “I just had my…

For Quinta Brunson, the end of the months-long SAG-AFTRA strike doesn’t mean a return to the familiar. Instead, it’s a chance for the Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and actress to join her same set with a brand-new view on life, hard work, and stability.  The creator of ABC’s hit sitcom Abbott Elementary, Brunson has experienced a meteoric rise in Hollywood that many Tinseltown hopefuls could only dream of. After a number of viral video series including The Girl Who Has Never Been on a Nice Date landed her a…

Hooray, showbiz is back! Now what? Wednesday night, SAG-AFTRA reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP, bringing to an end to six months of Hollywood strikes, involving the writers guild and then the actors. The writers have been back at work for a month, and SAG leadership has told its members they can resume working even while everyone waits for the new agreement to be ratified. Things have gotten pretty lean over the last few months of television, as some networks and streamers have largely run out of…