Entertainment Buzz with CIA, Zachary Ty Bryan, and Kirsten Dunst

Mar 24, 2026 | 6:28 AM

Home Improvement actor Zachery Ty Bryan received a 19-month prison sentence after admitting to probation violations last year in Oregon. Bryan appeared virtually while serving 16 months in California jail for a separate February conviction. He also faces extradition to Oklahoma for another October 2024 DUI case that could bring up to five years in prison. Story URL


The Bold & The Beautiful celebrated its 39th anniversary with the debut of BBTV, a new streaming platform featuring all 37 seasons and more than 9,000 episodes. The service marks the first time the CBS soap’s full library is available in one place. The app also offers cast auditions, interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and the 2016 doc Becoming Bold & Beautiful. Story URL


Paramount+ confirmed that Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will end after its second season. Production has already wrapped. The series had been renewed early, before its first season premiered in January, but it did not appear on Nielsen’s weekly top 10 streaming list. Other Star Trek projects, including new seasons of Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Scouts, continue. Story URL


CBS has ordered a second season of CIA, the latest procedural from Law & Order creator Dick Wolf. The series debuted back on February 23rd and drew 8.4 million multi-platform viewers in its first week. A spinoff of FBI, the show stars Nick Gehlfuss and Tom Ellis as they work within a joint CIA/FBI task force handling covert operations in New York. Story URL


Kirsten Dunst will join Sydney Sweeney in The Housemaid’s Secret, the sequel to the 2025 hit The Housemaid, which earned nearly $400 million worldwide. Based on Freida McFadden’s bestselling novel, the story follows Sweeney’s character, Millie, who returns to work for a woman she never sees and uncovers darker secrets behind a locked door. Story URL


Valerie Perrine, the Las Vegas showgirl turned actress who earned an Oscar nomination for Lenny and starred in two Superman films, died on Monday at her Beverly Hills home. She was 82. Her death was announced by friend Stacey Souther, who said Perrine had faced Parkinson’s disease since 2015 “with incredible courage and compassion.” Story URL


Barry Manilow will release What A Time, his first new album in nearly 15 years, on June 5. The 13-track LP marks his 33rd studio album and first almost all-original release since 2011’s 15 Minutes. Manilow recently postponed his farewell tour after lung surgery to remove a cancerous spot, now rescheduled to begin April 13th in Belmont Park, New York. (Story URL)