Dan Clarendon

When you produce more than 800 episodes of television, as Shonda Rhimes has through her production company, Shondaland, you’re gonna have some cast shakeups along the way. From the turbulent early years of Grey’s Anatomy to the latest casualty of Station 19, we’re recapping more than a dozen Shondaland cast exits...

Tennis star Peng Shuai—a Chinese athlete with a reported net worth of $1.5 million—reappeared in photos and video footage over the weekend following nearly three weeks out of public view. However, sports officials are still concerned for the 35-year-old athlete. “It was good to see Peng Shuai in recent videos, but they don’t alleviate or address the WTA’s concern about her well-being and ability to communicate without censorship or coercion,” a Women’s Tennis Association spokesperson said.

Certain website names notwithstanding, the word “queer” is polarizing. For some LGBTQ+ individuals, it’s a reclaimed badge of honor, a political statement, a declaration of attraction without binaries. For others, it’s still a homophobic slur, a weaponized word that can reopen years-old wounds. When one Reddit user asked others what “queer” means to them, he clarified he wasn’t referring to the derogatory sense of the term. But some commenters can’t see the word any other way.

Fifteen years after Adrienne Shelly’s life was cut short, the actress and filmmaker is getting another moment in the spotlight, thanks to an HBO documentary directed by her husband, Andy Ostroy. The 100-minute film Adrienne (premiering December 1) focuses on Shelly’s life, death, and legacy as a Hollywood star who was just hitting her stride.

A combined lawsuit from Rohingya refugees in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world could make Facebook pay billions after hate speech proliferated on the platform and incited violence in Myanmar. According to the Associated Press, Rohingya refugees are suing Meta, Facebook’s parent company, for more than $150 billion, with lawyers filing a class-action suit in California on Dec. 6. Lawyers in the U.K, meanwhile, say they intend to file similar legal action.

Tesla CEO and newly-minted TIME Person of the Year Elon Musk does have to pay taxes—sometimes, at least. As ProPublica reported in June, Elon Musk's federal-income-tax payments amounted to $68,000 in 2015, $65,000 in 2017… and $0 in 2018.

If the surname Rambaldi, the number 47, and the acronym SD-6 mean nothing to you, you have some catching up to do! The ABC series Alias just marked its 20th anniversary this fall, so it’s an opportune time to start the spy drama for the first time or watch the show all over again.

The new miniseries Dopesick—which premieres on Hulu on Oct. 13—isn’t a true story in the strictest sense. But it is based on a very real public health crisis: the opioid epidemic plaguing the U.S. The show tracks the creation, promotion, and misuse of OxyContin, an opioid medication from Purdue Pharma.

All you Seattleites out there, count your blessings that you don’t live in Shondaland. Over 17 Grey’s Anatomy seasons so far, dozens of disasters have befallen the Emerald City…

Fans’ love for Hogwarts’ witches and wizards need not snuffed by the ramblings of a 50-something cisgender white lady. They have used Vanishing Spells on the woman whose words hurt trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people around the world. Call it the Fandom That Lived.

A: This legendary TV series is back to square one in its search for a host. Q: What is Jeopardy!? Yes, the syndicated game show is once again in the market for a new emcee now that Mike Richards’ past podcast comments have come back to haunt him.

This Internet was abuzz this week that the news that Kristen Stewart’s character in the new big-screen reboot of Charlie’s Angels is “definitely gay.” How will viewers know that secret agent Sabina prefers the company of women? Apparently, there’s a “little moment” in the film. Elizabeth Banks, writer, director, and star of the film, tells PrideSource: So much of the time, “little moments” of LGBTQ visibility are all fans get. Think of Josh Gad’s “exclusively gay” LeFou sharing a two-second da

On March 13, the American College of Surgeons recommended hospitals across the country minimize, postpone, or cancel all scheduled elective surgeries because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As many hospitals took that advice and shed certain procedures from the books, many transgender people were left with devastating setbacks as gender-affirming surgeries were canceled or indefinitely postponed as the question of which procedures are “elective” looms.

After declaring the violence epidemic against transgender people a “myth,” journalist and self-described “gay conservative” Chad Felix Greene is now attacking the idea of the use of “they” as a singular pronoun and criticizing the APA for endorsing the usage.

Color photography was developed, so to speak, with a definite bias toward lighter skin — a reality cinematographer Ava Berkofsky sought to overcome when she was hired to light season 2 of the HBO comedy Insecure.