The commercial industry never stopped once the coronavirus pandemic hit and TV and film production shut down. As people hunkered down under stay-at-home orders amid skyrocketing numbers of infections and death, commercial endorsement agents were flooded with requests as major brands had to pivot quickly and change their messaging with ads appropriate for the health
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The Good Fight is losing another series regular. Cush Jumbo, who has been with the CBS All Access series since its debut, is exiting ahead of its fifth season. TV Line first reported the news. Unfortunately, there may not be any on-screen resolution for Luca Quinn because of the COVID-19 crisis, which brought The Good
As a bestselling author, a leading advocate in the transgender community, a much honored person not only in the LGBTQ world but also for people of color, and now as a trailblazer in movies and television, Janet Mock is making history. As writer, producer and director on the FX series Pose, she became the first
UPDATE 4:44AM PST: CNN reporter Omar Jimenez and his crew have now been released from policy custody after their arrest live on air this morning mid-broadcast from the Minneapolis protests. As per below, state Governor Tim Walz intervened directly in the incident after calling CNN president Jeff Zucker to apologize. After being released, Jimenez immediately
Richard Herd — who played George Costanza’s Yankees boss on “Seinfeld” — has died. The veteran actor — who’s possibly best remembered as Mr. Wilhelm on the hit sitcom — passed away Tuesday at his home in L.A. due to complications from cancer. Herd only appeared on 11 episodes of “Seinfeld,” but his time was
Sheryl Crow, Rufus Wainwright, Jimmy Buffett, Joe Walsh and David Crosby performed for Joe Biden at a virtual fundraiser on Thursday, but the presumptive Democratic nominee turned his focus to the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis. “We can’t ignore that we are in a country with an open wound right now,” Biden said, according to
The first thing you need to know about Netflix’s new show Turn Up Charlie, starring Idris Elba as a washed-up DJ working as his childhood best friend’s nanny, is that it’s corny. The second thing you need to know is that it ends in a drastically different place than it begins. Co-created by Elba and
Tony Award-winning actor Laura Benanti has spent much of her quarantine launching an online movement where she offered to be an audience for those whose musicals were cancelled. The project, #SunshineSongs, is now the inspiration for a special for nascent streaming service HBO Max. The WarnerMedia-owned service has greenlit Homeschool Musical: Class Of 2020, a
Looking for something new to watch on Netflix? We’re here to help! Here is a list of all the best new shows and movies released on Netflix the week of May 29-June 4. I’m gonna keep it 💯 with you, this is the worst week for new releases on Netflix I can recall seeing since
It’s been more than a week since Ruby Rose and the producers of Batwoman jointly announced that she will not be returning to the CW’s DC drama for its upcoming second season. On Wednesday afternoon, Rose for the first time addressed her shocking departure on social media with an Instagram post next to a fan
It always comes back to HYDRA, doesn’t it? The promos for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 7 teased the terrorist organization, but their incorporation into the story was shocking. But the real enemy seems to be the Chronicoms, who proved on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 7 Episode 1 that they will stop at nothing to erase
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. seventh and final season premiere. EXCLUSIVE: “I want to say that because this was our last season and because there was an underlying nostalgia, we really went for it with stories,” says Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. executive producer and co-showrunner Jeffrey Bell of
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Television has acquired the rights to The Forbidden Game trilogy of horror YA novels by LJ Smith for Greg Berlanti’s studio-based Berlanti Productions to adapt as TV series. Smith is the author of The Vampire Diaries novels, which were turned by WBTV into a hit TV series that aired for eight seasons
Exclusive Dimitri Diatchenko — best known for his famous role in “Chernobyl Diaries” — died from an accidental fentanyl and valium overdose. According to the Office of the Medical Examiner in Daytona Beach, Florida … Dimitri’s official cause of death is listed as a combination of fentanyl and diazepam toxicity. He also suffered from cardiomegaly
NBC, Fremantle and Syco on Wednesday morning issued a statement about the results from the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the firing of former judge Gabrielle Union. “Through the investigation process, it has been revealed that no one associated with the show made any insensitive or derogatory remarks about Ms. Union’s appearance, and that neither
Looking for something new to watch on Netflix? Here is a list of all the best new shows and movies released on Netflix the week of March 15-22. If you complain about not having anything to watch on Netflix this week, then maybe you should go to Hulu instead, you prickly pear. This week, Netflix
On the same day that President Trump ripped into Twitter for tagging his post with a “fact check” link, calling it a violation of his freedom of speech, comedian Kathy Griffin also decided to test her protections under the First Amendment. CNN’s Jake Tapper tweeted a quote from Trump at a White House diabetes event
Depending on your risk tolerance or where you live, a summer full of social distancing and self-isolation is still looking like a very real possibility, meaning many Americans will continue to be feeling frayed nerves and high anxiety as the temperatures soar. Now is still very much the perfect time to discover a new show, but
Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) Tuesday formally introduced the Pandemic Risk Insurance Act (PRIA), the first legislation out of the gate to to tackle insurance and a bill that may be the best hope for launching new film and television production. On a press call, Malone said her office “has been talking to a lot
The long wait for the Gossip Girl reboot just got longer. The HBO Max update of the 2007-12 CW drama has been pushed to 2021, according to Vulture. The popular teen drama series – which originally starred Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Ed Westwick, Penn Badgley, Chase Crawford, and Taylor Momsen, among others – was set
EXCLUSIVE: News aggregator Haystack TV has launched an on-screen ticker on its Roku app, adapting a staple feature of live, linear news networks to the streaming era. The “Newsline” crawl emulates the ticker scrolling across the bottom of the screen of 24/7 cable news networks. But because the programming is being delivered via the internet,
After weeks of singing the praises of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a preventative measure against the coronavirus, and saying last week that was taking the drug himself, President Donald Trump revealed in an interview on Sinclair Broadcasting on Sunday that he had “Finished, just finished,” his course of the unproven treatment. “And by the
Exclusive The snitch is back!!! That’s probably how the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” cast will react after learning Yovanna Momplaisir‘s returning next season as an official cast member, so get ready for more of her drama involving NeNe Leakes. Sources close to the production tell TMZ … producers invited Yovanna to sign on for season
The majority of the Sunday before Memorial Day was filled with reruns across networks, with the exception of NBC and Fox, the later of which won the night in the adults 18-49 demographic with its second primetime NASCAR race in two weekends. At NBC, there was a double helping of Little Big Shots, which included
ABC’s World News Tonight With David Muir came out on top in all major categories (adults 25-54 and adults 18-49), becoming the No. 1 newscast in America when it came to total viewers during the 2019-20 broadcast season. This is the first time in 24 years that World News Tonight has taken that trophy. According to current data
There’s nothing like the end of the word to make you want to watch… well, the end of the world. If you’re looking for the best post-apocalyptic TV shows and movies to make our current semi-apocalyptic conditions seem not so bad, look no further. Whether it’s a nuclear bomb, a zombie outbreak, a deadly virus
Warning: The following interview contains spoilers from tonight’s season finale of Run, “Trick”, on HBO In just seven episodes, HBO’s first season of Run has reached the end of the line with Billy and Ruby (Domhnall Gleeson and Merritt Wever) finally arriving at Los Angeles’ Union Station. That was always part of their plan: The
Brady blackmailed Victor into firing Xander, Sarah got black-out drunk and plotted revenge, Gabi got played, and Orpheus abducted David and John this week in Salem. Our TV Fanatics Jack Ori and Christine Orlando are joined by UhSir from MyHourglass a Days of Our Lives fan forum to debate if Victor should have fired Xander,
Sonjia Warren Brandon, who founded and ran the Commercials Unlimited talent agency and handled advertising bookings for hundreds of film and TV stars for decades, has died. Her death on May 8 in LA was from natural causes. The information was confirmed by Brandon’s daughter, Treva Brandon Scharf, who said her mother declined to reveal
Exclusive Did you know … The Rock‘s signature move — THE PEOPLE’S ELBOW — was created as a joke to make Undertaker laugh? It’s true … according to Triple H who’s giving us the hilarious origin story for one of the most iconic finishing moves in pro wrestling history. Triple H says guys like The