Entertainment

Rugby star Ilona Maher is a two-time Olympian, a “Dancing With the Stars” alum, a social media favorite and now a Barbie doll. Mattel announced Monday that it had assembled …

Wordle, the addictive digital puzzle game offered daily by the New York Times, could soon be coming to television. NBC has ordered a pilot based on Wordle, according to people …

One of David Anthony Burke’s first songs was called “Romantic Homicide.” The teenager was just starting to use a phone app called BandLab to write music for the gaming videos …

Taylor Swift is “shockingly” offended by the idea that “The Life of a Showgirl” could be — given her recent engagement to Travis Kelce — her final album. “It is …

The “Reading Rainbow” is officially back, with internet-famous librarian Mychal Threets at the helm. Following the reboot’s premiere last Saturday, the new host responded to the audience’s wishes for a …

Paramount has acquired the Free Press, a four-year-old digital news platform, and will make its controversial co-founder Bari Weiss editor in chief of CBS News, the company announced Monday. The …

Over the last decade or so, publishers of American genre fiction have borrowed a page from Hollywood’s playbook by essentially packaging novels like films, grafting together collaborators from two different …

Kimberly Hébert Gregory, who was best known as the brash principal in HBO’s “Vice Principals,” has died. She was 52. A cause of death was not immediately reported. Gregory’s former …

In a pop era where personal messiness is the oxygen of fame, Dua Lipa is the rare unfazed professional. Just as Taylor Swift and Charli XCX’s (extremely asymmetrical) feud spilled …

Only Taylor Swift could compel hundreds of Angelenos to spend their Saturday morning at a listening party film screening for an album they’ve already heard. “The Official Release Party of …