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With Mother’s Day on Sunday, a new survey has revealed Americans’ favorite famous mom is none other than Lois Griffin from Family Guy.

Since moms’ special day coincides with National Brioche Day — don’t you dare forget — brioche brand St Pierre commissioned a survey of 2,000 Americans as to which matriarchs, both real and fictional, were their faves.

The acerbic Lois topped the list, besting Michelle Obama (#2), Serena Williams (#3), Beyoncé (#4) and Jennifer Lopez (#5).

Others who made the Top 20 were Rihanna (#6); Florence Henderson‘s Carol Brady from The Brady Bunch (#10); Katy Perry (#12); Katey Sagal‘s Peggy Bundy from Married With Children; and Linda Hamilton‘s Sarah Connor from the Terminator movies (#19).

Here’s the Top 20:

1. Lois Griffin (Family Guy)
2. Michelle Obama
3. Serena Williams
4. Beyoncé
5. Jennifer Lopez
6. Rihanna
7. Drew Barrymore
8. Goldie Hawn
9. Kate Middleton
10. Carol Brady (The Brady Bunch)
11. Morticia Addams (The Addams Family)
12. Katy Perry
13. Kate Hudson
14. Angelina Jolie
15. Peggy Bundy (Married with Children)
16. Madonna
17. Meghan Markle
18. Joyce Byers (Stranger Things)
19. Sarah Connor (The Terminator)
20. Cameron Diaz

Survey questions, methodology and results have not been verified or endorsed by ABC News or The Walt Disney Company.

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Robert De Niro hasn’t officially revealed the name or gender of his newborn, but the Daily Mail spotted his girlfriend Tiffany Chen out and about with a lavender onesie-wearing newborn covered in a blanket.

In the photos, the new mom is cradling the crying baby to her chest, while a male assistant flanks the pair, pushing a stroller.

Over the weekend, De Niro, 79, surprised fans — and a journalist from ET Canada — when he corrected her on a routine question about him being a “father of six.” The Oscar winner, who was promoting his upcoming comedy About My Father, interjected, “Seven, actually. I just had a baby.”

Days later, he told Page Six at the red carpet premiere for the film that the baby wasn’t a surprise to him. “No,” he answered, adding, “How you could not plan that kind of thing?”

The Raging Bull and Godfather star’s other children, with three former partners, range in age from 51 to 11.

At the same event, his co-star and onscreen son in the movie, Sebastian Maniscalco, insisted he found out about the “great” baby news that day in the press, “like everybody else did.”

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Digman! — the adult comedy series co-created by Saturday Night Live vet Andy Samberg, has been renewed at Comedy Central, according to Deadline. “Set in a world where archaeologists are massive celebrities and the coolest people on the planet,” Digman! features the voice of Samberg as Rip Digman. Mitra Jouhari, Tim Robinson, Dale Soules, Guz Khan, Melissa Fumero and Tim Meadows round out the main voice cast. The season 1 finale of Digman! premiered Wednesday, May 10 on Comedy Central…

Animal Control has been picked up for a second season at Fox, according to Variety. The show’s premiere was the network’s most streamed scripted debut ever, drawing an estimated 4.5 million viewers across all platforms in its first three days of availability, per Fox. The Joel McHale-led series, about a group of animal control workers, also stars Michael Rowland, Vella Lovell, Ravi Patel, Grace Palmer, Alvina August, Kelli Ogmundson, and Gerry Dee…

Tracker, the new CBS drama starring Justin Hartley, will debut after the network’s telecast of Super Bowl LVIII on February 11, the network announced on Wednesday. Hartley’s first post-This Is Us series regular TV role, formerly titled The Never Game, features Hartley as, “a lone-wolf survivalist Colter Shaw, who roams the country as a ‘reward seeker,’ using his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all manner of mysteries, while contending with his own fractured family,” per CBS…

Jacklyn Zeman, longtime General Hospital star has died at 70, according to a “heartbroken” tweet from the show’s producer and director. Frank Valentini noted, “Just like her character, the legendary Bobbie Spencer, she was a bright light and true professional that brought so much positive energy with her to work.” Valentini concluded by saying, “Jackie will be greatly missed, but her positive spirit will always live on with our cast and crew. We send our heartfelt sympathy to her loved ones, friends, and family, especially her daughters Cassidy and Lacey.”…

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The FBI and artificial intelligence (AI) are at the center of the new FX on Hulu drama series Class of ’09, which debuted Wednesday. It follows a class of FBI agents at several different decades in their lives and careers — an idea creator Tom Rob Smith tells ABC Audio he came up with after listening to a true crime podcast that featured interviews with FBI agents.

“I came out of those podcasts realizing that the agents themselves were really interesting people and the way they spoke about their work was really interesting,” he explains. “They were much more varied and quirky than I think I’d expected. And so I thought, I want to do a show about them rather than necessarily the crime. And that was the spark.”

Adds Kate Mara, one of the stars, “The show follows a group of FBI agents before they become agents, and then ten years later sort of seeing where they are in their lives then as agents, and then another ten or more years later seeing where they are then sort of in the future, when AI has taken over a lot of the law enforcement and all those things.”

The 40-yer-old actress plays one of the FBI agents, and says she came out of the show a little more suspicious than before.

“Even just noticing, you know, when you’re driving, noticing what cars are behind you. All of these things that just make you more aware. Not going for a jog with like both headphones in, that would be really, most of our advisors would say that’s a really, really stupid idea,” she shares.

Class of ’09 also stars Brian Tyree Henry, Sepideh Moafi, Brian J. Smith, Jon Jon Briones, Brooke Smith, Jake McDorman and Rosalind Eleazar.

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CBS dropped the first trailer to Matlock, the reboot with Oscar and Emmy winner Kathy Bates in the title role. “I’m Madaline Matlock, a lawyer. Yes, Matlock like the old TV show,” she drawls.

Her expertise is met with skepticism, to say the least. “I need to be trained by senior partners, not senior citizens,” huffs a young attorney played by Leah Lewis.

“There’s this funny thing happens when women age,” Bates says in voice-over. “We become damn near invisible. It’s useful, because nobody sees us coming.” To that end, she’s seen feigning being flustered, and it gets her swiped into a secure building by a helpful employee.

The network teases Bates plays “a brilliant septuagenarian who achieved success in her younger years and decides to rejoin the workforce at a prestigious law firm, where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases.”

The show also stars Skye P. Marshall playing a high-ranking associate, and Jason Ritter playing the son of the head of the firm.

She Hulk: Attorney at Law executive producer and director Kat Coiro directed and produced the pilot episode of the reboot.

The original series starred the late Andy Griffith and ran for nine seasons from 1986 to 1992, six on NBC and a final three on ABC.

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On Wednesday, The CW Network announced its plans to say goodbye to two of its most popular programs.

Both Nancy Drew and Riverdale‘s final seasons will kick off the evening of Wednesday, May 31, and the shows will wrap up on Wednesday, August 23, according to the network.

Nancy Drew, a modern-day adaptation of the bestselling teen gumshoe books, stars Kennedy McMann in the title role. It will wind up when its upcoming fourth season ends.

Riverdale, spun from the classic Archie comics and starring Lili Reinhart, Cole Sprouse, KJ Apa and Camila Mendes, will be closing the books after its seventh season.

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Johnny Depp is getting behind the camera for the first time since 1997’s The Brave, and The Wrap says he’ll be directing his Donny Brasco co-star Al Pacino.

The Oscar-winning Godfather actor will reportedly play art collector Maurice Gangnat in Modi, a World War I-era film centering on the life of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Riccardo Scamarcio, who played the heavy in John Wick: Chapter 2, will portray the titular artist.

Producer Barry Navidi has also worked with Pacino before, including his Oscar-nominated turn as Shylock in a filmed adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice in 2004. Navidi says of the passion project, “Our incredible cast, coupled with the vision, wit and sensitivity I know Johnny will bring behind the camera, will make this a dream come true.”

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(NOTE LANGUAGE) Like the heroes he’s played on screen, Arnold Schwarzenegger is unflinching when looking back at his life in the new trailer of the Netflix documentary Arnold.

As most know, Schwarzenegger grew up poor in Graz, Austria, a child of an officer serving on the wrong side of World War II. Through sheer determination — and, to be fair, a whole lot of sweat equity — he took the bodybuilding world by storm before conquering Hollywood.

Looking for a new challenge, he ran an upstart campaign and — nearly just as far-fetched as fame — was elected as a Republican in deep blue California. “I want to do the things that everyone calls impossible,” he says.

While the trailer is essentially a highlight reel of his life, it doesn’t shy away from the controversies, too, like his admission that he’d fathered a son with one of his household staffers, leading to his divorce from Maria Shriver. “People remember my success, but they will also remember my failures,” he admits.

He adds, “It was very tough on my marriage, on my relationship with the kids. I have caused enough pain for my family. I’m gonna have to live with it for the rest of my life.”

Ending on a hopeful note, Schwarzenegger encourages the audience to follow their impossible dreams: “No matter what it takes, work your a** off. Do it. Do it now!”

The three-part doc drops on June 7.

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On Wednesday, Marvel Studios dropped a behind-the-scenes featurette for its forthcoming series Secret Invasion, coming to Disney+ on June 21.

The sneak peek has the series’ star-studded cast — returning Marvel Cinematic Universe players Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, Cobie Smulders and Ben Mendelsohn, as well as franchise newcomers Emilia Clarke and Olivia Colman — talking about the show.

Secret Invasion centers on the shape-shifting aliens known as the Skrulls, who have been impersonating people and generally causing havoc.

A colleague tells Martin Freeman‘s former CIA agent Everett Ross, “Five global terror threats within the past year. Each one claimed by a different group.

Ross replies, “It’s business as usual.”

“That’s precisely what they want you to think!” the man replies.

Smulders, who reprises as Maria Hill, explains, “Nick Fury has been off-planet, and Maria Hill has been trying to … maintain order. But this current threat is getting out of control.”

“Fury, we have to be very careful,” Mendelsohn’s alien ally Talos warns him.

Jackson explains of the show, “Nick comes back having lost whatever power he had before. So we try to solve things without things being too superhuman.”

Academy Award and Emmy winner Colman expresses, “After every Marvel film released, I’d phone my agent and say, ‘Please can I be in a Marvel thing?!’ I never imagined it would happen.”

“What makes you think you can get him to speak?” a henchman asks her character about a tied-up suspect.

Her Special Agent Sonya Falsworth answers cheerily, “Oh, I can be quite persuasive.”

The trailer ends with Jackson saying defiantly, “I’m Nick Fury. Even when I’m out, I’m in!”

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Searchlight Pictures has debuted the trailer to director Eva Longoria‘s Flamin’ Hot, movie that tells the tale of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay custodian who claims to have invented the Flamin’ Hot Cheetos recipe “that disrupted the food industry and became a global pop culture phenomenon.” 

While in 2021 Frito Lay officially disputed the snack’s origins, the trailer shows Jesse Garcia as the Mexican-American Montañez, who says at the open, “We all write our own stories … This is mine.” 

“I have a PhD,” he eagerly tells a manager (Matt Walsh). “I’m poor, hungry and determined, sir.” 

Inspired by the chili powder Mexicans add to corn, he sought to make a spicy version of the popular snack. He is shown pitching his idea to company executives as a way to appeal to the Latino market, and the rest is history. 

The film debuts on Hulu and Disney+ June 9.

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