Disney/Ramona Rosales Joan Vassos will search for love on the debut season of The Golden Bachelorette. Vassos, a 61-year-old widowed grandmother from Maryland, was announced as the franchise’s first Golden Bachelorette during the Disney Upfront 2024 presentation on Tuesday. The Golden Bachelorette, which was announced in February, will air Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET this fall on ABC. Gerry Turner …

STOCK/ Serge MELESAN / 500px / Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A pod of killer whales attacked and sunk a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar, between Spain and Morocco, officials confirmed to ABC News. Two people were on board the vessel when the incident occurred Sunday at 9 a.m. local time, according to Spain’s maritime authority. The nearly 50-foot …

Andrew Kravchenko/Bloomberg via Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Tuesday, promised the U.S. will quickly deliver badly needed arms, touting Washington and the West’s alliances with Kyiv. Blinken is the first senior U.S. official to visit since Congress, after months of dispute, in April passed and President Joe Biden …

HBO/Tina Rowden HBO has released photos of two-time Oscar winner Jessica Lange in the title role of its upcoming original film The Great Lillian Hall.  In the film, Lange plays another legendary actress — from the silent era. The network teases, “As beloved Broadway star Lillian Hall pours her heart, soul, and time into preparing for her next big role, …

Hulu ABC News Studios and independent film studio NEON announced on Monday that Andrew McCarthy‘s anticipated documentary Brats will debut on Thursday, June 13, on Hulu. The streaming premiere will come after the movie makes its debut earlier that month as part of the Tribeca Festival in New York City. According to its producers, Brats “looks at the iconic films …

Mark Peterson-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump’s entourage continued to grow when more high-profile politicians attended his New York hush money criminal trial on Tuesday — including House Speaker Mike Johnson. Johnson, the highest-ranking Republican in Congress, was in criminal court with Trump on Tuesday morning. After commuting with Trump in his motorcade from Trump Tower, the …

Cross, the new series starring Aldis Hodge as bestselling author James Patterson‘s brilliant detective Alex Cross, has yet to debut, but season 2 is already in the works. The first season drops later in 2024. “Bringing one of James Patterson’s most iconic literary characters to life for our global Prime Video customers was a dream come true, and we can’t …

Getty Images On Tuesday, May 14, ABC revealed its fall 2024 schedule, revealing some new faces to its regular prime-time lineup. Following Dancing with the Stars on Tuesday nights will be the new drama High Potential, from Oscar-nominated writer and Daredevil veteran Drew Goddard. It stars Always Sunny‘s Kaitlin Olson as Morgan, “a single mom with an exceptional mind whose …

Kristy Sparow/Getty Images On a recent episode of Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett‘s Smartless podcast, Emmy winner Sarah Paulson called out an actress who once gave her six pages of notes on a play performance. In 2013, Paulson was starring in an off-Broadway revival of the Lanford Wilson play Talley’s Folly. The actress who originated Paulson’s role of …

ABC/Randy Holmes Prime Video had its inaugural upfront presentation on Tuesday, and the streamer had a lot to announce. Here are some of the major headlines: NoirLifelong comic fan and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse voice cast member Nicolas Cage is taking his fan-favorite, monochromatic character from that Oscar-winning film into real life. Noir will have him playing “an aging and down on his luck private investigator …