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Jackie Strause

Managing Editor, East Coast

Jackie Strause manages the breaking news team out of the New York bureau, covering 24/7 entertainment news and industry reporting. In addition to editing, she also writes TV feature stories and interviews with stars and showrunners. She came to THR.com in 2015 and is among the 2022 LA Press Club awards winners for THR's TV coverage on The Live Feed; as well as a 2023 nominee. Jackie previously worked on the digital teams at Yahoo and The New York Post. She graduated from the University of Maryland, with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism.

‘The Jinx — Part Two’ Revisits Bombshell Robert Durst Hot Mic Confession

Robert Durst is back as an HBO subject with the follow-up to the bombshell 2015 docuseries The Jinx. The Jinx — Part Two, which is coming April 21 and nearly a decade after the first installment, is a six-episode continuation of Andrew Jarecki’s Emmy-winning docuseries, The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, that […]

‘The Bachelorette’ Has Named Its First Asian American Lead With Jenn Tran for Season 21

The Bachelorette made some franchise history on Monday. The long-running hit ABC reality dating series announced its first Asian American lead. After 20 seasons, The Bachelorette‘s Jenn Tran will make franchise history in that role. Tran, who was eliminated before hometown week on Joey Graziadei’s now-concluded 28th season of The Bachelor, was announced as the […]

‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Filming Delayed, Cast Can “Pursue Other Opportunities”

Filming for Euphoria season three has been put on hold. The Sam Levinson drama was expected to start production soon on its long-awaited new season. But that plan has changed to give Levinson more time to work on the dark teen drama’s scripts. In addition, the show’s cast — which includes Dune: Part Two star […]

‘The Regime’ Is a Warning About Reelecting Trump (and It’s Also Supposed to Make You Laugh)

[This story contains spoilers from the first four episodes of The Regime.] Across four episodes of HBO’s The Regime, Kate Winslet has morphed into an evolving tyrant. Her Chancellor Elena Vernham, the populist leader of a fictional, unnamed country identified as being located in Middle Europe, was introduced to viewers as a vulnerable, paranoid and […]

‘American Horror Story: Delicate Part 2’ Trailer Unmasks Kim Kardashian Character

After a six-month break, American Horror Story is clawing its way back. The 12th season in FX’s hit horror anthology from Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk was split into two parts, an effect of the 2023 dual Hollywood strikes. The first five episodes of AHS: Delicate concluded in October 2023, and now the final four […]

‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Boss Reacts to Vandalized Billboard and Shares Secret About That End-Credits Text Chain

[This story contains spoilers from Season 12, Episode 7 of Curb Your Enthusiasm, “The Dream Scheme.”] Life imitated art this week in the world of Curb Your Enthusiasm when a real-life Hollywood billboard ended up vandalized, just like the plot of last week’s episode. As viewers will recall, the sixth episode in the final season […]

‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Boss on the Late Richard Lewis: “He Was Funny Every Minute He Was on Set”

Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s Jeff Schaffer knows that Richard Lewis will be remembered for being funny. But he wants fans of the comedian and actor, who died last month at age 76, to also know one thing. “The thing about Richard is that everyone knows how funny he was,” the executive producer told The Hollywood Reporter. […]

‘The Valley’ Trailer Zeroes In on Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright Tension

Taking a page out of the Vanderpump Rules producer handbook, cameras on The Valley began rolling again after Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright shared publicly that the married couple was taking time apart. Production had wrapped on the VPR spinoff series last year, but The Hollywood Reporter reported that the cameras fired back up to […]

How ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Got Lori Loughlin to Parody Herself With Larry David

[This story contains spoilers from the sixth episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm season 12.] Curb Your Enthusiasm is known for inviting guest actors onto the HBO improv comedy series to play versions of themselves and go toe-to-toe with Larry David’s onscreen persona. The latest actress to do so was Lori Loughlin, who came on the […]

Classic Movie and TV Presidents Give Biden Advice for His State of the Union Address

After playing two-term fictional POTUS Fitzgerald “Fitz” Grant III on the hit ABC series Scandal, Tony Goldwyn told President Biden that he has one tip to share ahead of Thursday’s 2024 State of the Unionaddress. “There was one piece of advice that meant a lot to me when I was president,” said Goldwyn of his […]

Why Kate Winslet Keeps Returning to TV, This Time as a Narcissistic Dictator

Kate Winslet is back on TV and this time, she’s playing a character she’s truly never played before. The opening scene of HBO’s The Regime sets the scene. The geopolitical satire opens somewhere in middle Europe. The music is ominous, then quirky, when a soldier (played by Matthias Schoenaerts) is brought to the grand palace […]

Richard Lewis Delighted in Sparring With Larry David on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’

The final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm reunited Larry David with one of his closest co-stars when the late Richard Lewis returned to the HBO comedy after taking a hiatus over his health. On the Feb. 18 episode of season 12, titled “Vertical Drop, Horizontal Tug,” the lifelong friends were seen riding a golf cart, […]