NBCUniversal has renewed Access Hollywood and its companion daily talk show Access Daily with Mario & Kit through 2026 in syndication. The studio has sold the entertainment news show to NBCUniversal Local's NBC Owned Television Stations, along with leading station groups across the country, for…

Jim Carrey says he’s “fairly serious” about retiring from acting, explaining in a new Access Hollywood interview that he’s “done enough.” Carrey was on the show to promote Sonic the Hedgehog 2 when he was asked to respond to recent comments made by Dolly Parton in which the country superstar said she’d like…

Clay Smith, who spent many years as a senior producer at Access Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight, died Friday night in Palm Springs, Calif. after a long battle with cancer, according to a friend. He was 69. "Clay really invented music coverage for TV entertainment news shows,” said Deadline critic and…

Eight months after joining Access Hollywood as a correspondent, Sibley Scoles has been promoted to weekend co-host. The nationally syndicated celeb-news program announced Monday that Scoles will join Scott Evans as co-anchor of Access Hollywood Weekend. "Since joining 'Access' full time in February, Sibley had…

Emmy-nominated entertainment news program Access Hollywood is extending its brand, adding new half-hour series All Access to its roster. Hosted by Mario Lopez, Kit Hoover, Scott Evans and correspondent Sibley Scoles, All Access will premiere at 7:30 pm, Monday, September 9 on six NBC-owned stations: New York…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s official. Entertainment veteran Mario Lopez (Extra) is the new host of NBCUniversal’s Access Hollywood. Beginning September 9, Lopez will join Kit Hoover and Scott Evans as host of both Access Hollywood and its daytime counterpart, Access Daily (formerly Access Live). Additionally, Lopez has…

Billy Bush will return to TV nearly three years after getting canned from NBC News’ Today when a 2005 sexually graphic hot-mic Access Hollywood conversation with Donald Trump surfaced (the candidate was sexually graphic, the TV host mostly giggled). Bush will join the new Extra Extra program on Fox stations when…

Billy Bush may be en route to his TV comeback, two years after getting the hook from the third hour of NBC News’ Today. Bush has had conversations with executives surrounding Extra about joining the syndicated entertainment newsmag, sources said, as the program prepares to make a major station move. Two weeks ago…

Dry throat caused President Donald Trump to slur his words during Wednesday’s speech announcing he will move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders insisted at Thursday’s press briefing. Sanders was walking off the podium after declaring a wrap on the briefing…

UPDATED with video: “How do you feel about NBC firing you especially in light of Matt Lauer being fired for allegations of actual sexual impropriety,” Stephen Colbert asked Billy Bush on Late Show. While Lauer was fired last week over an allegation of sexual misconduct and the belief there were more credible…

UPDATED with video: Billy Bush took his Career Resuscitation Tour to Stephen Colbert’s Late Show Monday night, hours after New York Times published his op-ed piece insisting it is Donald Trump’s voice in the infamous 2005 Access Hollywood bus-ride tape, boasting about being so famous he can grab women “by the…

Uma Thurman, who shot to megastardom in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 Pulp Fiction for Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax, isn’t talking about the recent flood of sexual harassment allegations — yet. In a recent interview with Access Hollywood that’s suddenly gone viral, Thurman is interviewed outside Broadway’s Hudson…