JD Knapp is the morning news editor at TheWrap, with a personal preference for horror movies, bubblegum pop, reality TV, sitcoms, and animation. After growing up in Connecticut and graduating from Emerson College in Boston with a degree in Broadcast Journalism, he has gone on to work for national outlets such as People, E! News, The Messenger, and Variety. Outside of work, you can find him hiking Runyon Canyon, playing video games, or winning dodgeball.
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Tatiana Maslany Credits Real-World Paranoia for Making ‘Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed’ Work
“Who’s telling the truth and who isn’t? That, I think, is a big question mark that a lot of us are contending with,” the actress tells TheWrap after her Season 2 renewal
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Trump Must Sit for $10 Billion BBC Defamation Deposition by Early December, Judge Rules
The Dec. 11 deadline comes after the president canceled his planned Oct. 16 date due to a “matter of national importance,” though he was actually campaigning in Georgia
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J.J. Watt Nabs Permanent ‘NFL On CBS’ Lead Analyst Spot After Tony Romo’s Exit
The multi-year agreement will see the former football player continue working with Jim Nantz and Tracy Wolfson
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‘Heated Rivalry’ Is Heading to Theaters Ahead of Season 2
Regal will be screening all of Season 1, broken into three pairs of episodes, across more than 650 theaters in November
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Christina Applegate Says She Was Misdiagnosed With MS: ‘Back at Square One’
“I had a reason as to why my day sucked every day, and now I don’t have a reason and it’s very unnerving and very confusing,” the actress tells “MeSsy” podcast co-host Jamie-Lynn Sigler
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Amita Rao and Owen Thiele to Host 2026 UNO Championship Series Tournament for Mattel
Fans can follow along on Twitch as the “Adults” co-stars provide color commentary live from Los Angeles on Nov. 11
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Kyla Scanlon to Host ‘Best of Luck’ Career Advice Podcast for Vox | Exclusive
“So much of the advice we are given about building a career still comes from an economy that doesn’t really exist anymore,” she explains ahead of her Oct. 27 premiere
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Trump Accuses Fox News of ‘Trying Too Hard to Be Politically Correct’ in Truth Social Tirade
“Fox spends more time defending Dumocrats, and putting on their views versus their Republican opponent, than at any time in the History of Fox News,” the president writes
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Sacha Baron Cohen Defends His Characters Borat and Ali G as a Way to Expose ‘Hate and Bigotry’
“There’s a huge amount of stuff you don’t see, which is us behind the scenes looking at who we’ll interview going: ‘Not them, not them,’” the comedian tells “60 Minutes”
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‘Smallville’ at 25: How the Superman Prequel Set the Stage for Today’s Comic Book Adaptations
“That’s something that we would never, ever be allowed to do today,” series co-creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar tell TheWrap
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Kate Berlant Always Dreamt of Saying ‘Thank You to Everyone at HBO’ — and Now She Can With ‘Parmesan’
Nathan Fielder, Ayo Edebiri, Hannah Einbinder, Meg Stalter, Chappell Roan, Molly Shannon, John Early and more come out to celebrate her stand-up special premiere
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Drew Barrymore to Host ‘Pillsbury Bake-Off Classic’ Special for CBS
The baking competition judged by Christina Tosi and Dook Chase will also stream on Paramount+ on Nov. 23 ahead of Thanksgiving
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Mark Ruffalo Calls Newsom Out for Putting Billionaires Above the Working Class ‘Once Again’
“Just like the Paramount merger, Gavin Newsom does what he always does,” the “Being Heumann” actor says of the California governor’s latest ballot measure endorsement
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Discovery+ Raises Prices One Week After Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Closes
The Skydance streaming service will now cost $1 more for the ad-supported plan, and an extra $2 per month for ad-free
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Disney Readies $20 Million Bid for Character.ai Assets After Chatbot Company Files for Bankruptcy
The entertainment giant previously sent the AI platform a cease-and-desist letter over unauthorized character use and then hired its former CEO Karandeep Anand last month
