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Actors’ Equity said today that while the Department of Labor’s latest jobs report is encouraging, it should not delay passage of legislation pending in Congress that would help record levels of unemployed arts and entertainment workers. The DOL’s new jobs report found that 2.5 million Americans went back to work last month, but noted that […]

ABC’s season finale of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was Thursday’s highest-rated and most-watched show in primetime, drawing a 0.9 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 6.56 million viewers. It led the network’s game-show block that gave ABC the overall victory for the night in both metrics. Millionaire, which was even in the […]

TBS has ordered seven episodes of Tournament of Laughs, a virtual comedy competition series hosted by Saturday Night Live alum Jason Sudeikis. It’s set for premiere Sunday, June 21. Tournament of Laughs will feature 32 comedians facing off in a single-elimination bracket-style tournament, with each episode featuring multiple match-ups. Every week the comics will create, […]

Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit and husband of Serena Williams, has resigned from the company’s board and is recommending his spot be taken by a black candidate. In addition, Ohanian wrote in a blog post that he would use future gains on his Reddit shares “to serve the black community, chiefly to curb racial hate.” […]

President Donald Trump made a last-minute appearance before the press in the Rose Garden to tout the latest unemployment figures, but viewers saw a difference from previous events: Reporters were placed closer together. CNN’s Jim Acosta noted that chairs for the press originally were distanced apart as they have been for previous Rose Garden events […]

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said organized violence and looting among otherwise peaceful protests that’s not always visible to crowds or in videos justifies tough policing but he’s committed to quick probes and punishment for officers who cross the line. The Democratic mayor spoke in a weekly public radio Q&A as critics continued […]

The ATX Television Festival has removed several panels from its ATX TV…from the Couch virtual fest line-up that gets underway today. Previously announced panels for Scrubs, Justified, Cougar Town, One Day at a Time, Channel Changers and Torchlighters have been canceled, according to a tweet on the fest’s official Twitter account. Panels for One Chicago […]

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the White House wrongly suspended the hard pass of Playboy’s correspondent Brian Karem after a raucous incident in July in which he got into an argument with Donald Trump’s former aide Sebastian Gorka following a Rose Garden ceremony. A three judge panel of the D.C. circuit ruled unanimously to […]

We’re Here can now say “We’re back.” On the heels of Thursday night’s Season 1 finale, HBO has renewed the hit unscripted drag show for a second season. “We’re Here resonates in ways we had hoped for but couldn’t really have anticipated,” said Nina Rosenstein, EVP of HBO Programming. “The stories of our small-town drag […]

When we first see Terry Donahue on screen in the documentary A Secret Love, the octogenarian is wearing a green t-shirt emblazoned with the words, “There’s No Crying in Baseball.” Movie fans know that cherished line of dialogue from A League of Their Own, the 1992 film based on the true story of the first […]

UPDATED, 9 AM: YouTube has moved the date of its global virtual commencement ceremony Dear Class of 2020 to June 7 from its previous date of June 6 in honor of George Floyd’s memorial service, which will be held Saturday in Raeford, NC. More speakers and celebrities also have been to the multi-hour special, joining […]

Riverdale creator and executive producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has issued an apology to star Vanessa Morgan, following her recent social media post voicing her frustration “of how black people are portrayed in Media” and calling out the popular CW show for its lack of diversity. “We hear Vanessa. We love Vanessa. She’s right,” Aguirre-Sacasa said in […]

UPDATED, 5:15 PM: While the NHL and its players continue to negotiate a deal to resume the paused 2019-20 season, the league has unveiled plans to transition to Phase 2 of its plan to resume. Starting on Monday, its 31 teams will be allowed to reopen training facilities in their home city to allow players […]

Pay for television writers is not keeping up with industry profits, the WGA told its members Thursday in the guild’s latest update on its proposals for a new film and TV contract. The talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers got underway May 18 after the guild’s current contract, which had been […]

The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, the Harry Potter films, Star Wars, Avengers: Endgame – Abbey Road Studios has been a part of them all, staying at the center of the world’s culture since it first opened on Nov. 12, 1931 as one of the first buildings devoted to sound […]

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was booed and heckled by an irate crowd at a memorial for George Floyd in Brooklyn Thursday after declining to call out police violence in the city the night before. An event organizer, Rev. Kevin McCall, introduced the increasingly unpopular pol, asking the crowd for “respect” as people […]

Steve Priest, the bass player who co-founded the UK group Sweet that had hits including “Ballroom Blitz,” “Fox on the Run” and “Love Is Like Oxygen,” died today, his bandmates said without providing details. He was 72. Priest had been living in the Los Angeles area for several years, and his band played often at […]

UPDATED with more details: Crescent Drive Media, an investment company run by Paradigm boss Sam Gores’ billionaire brother Tom Gores, has taken an “ownership interest” in the agency, shoring up finances at the company hard hit by the coronavirus crisis. No terms of the deal were disclosed Thursday, but the new ownership block that now […]

The creative team and producers of Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play have donated $10,000 to the National Bailout Fund in support of Black Lives Matter, and have challenged others in the theater community to do likewise. “Our stages are dark but the resources we have can be utilized on the world’s stage now,” reads part […]

It seems like a distant memory — taking refuge in the welcoming comfort of a movie theater. And now it may become even more distant. Key players at the studios are worried that summer openings may simply not happen; further, that scores of movie theaters may not survive the year. Equally alarming: Ticket buyers are […]

UPDATED with closing stock price. Three Wall Street analysts offered positive sentiments Thursday about the prospects for Cinemark, the No. 3 U.S. exhibitor, after it outlined plans to reopen movie theaters in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Executives’ comments during a conference call with analysts Wednesday included an upbeat outlook for Warner Bros.’ Tenet, […]

Helter Skelter: An American Myth, a six-part docuseries about Charles Manson exec produced by Greg Berlanti, has been pushed back by Epix. The series was previously planned to debut on June 14 and the MGM-owned network has not yet set a replacement date. Deadline understands the network didn’t feel it was an appropriate time to […]

Despite a detailed complaint from Gabrielle Union over alleged misconduct on and off the set of America’s Got Talent, a parsing NBC said Thursday that NBC Entertainment chairman Paul Telegdy never directly threatened the former judge on the Simon Cowell-created series. “The allegation that anyone involved in this process threatened Ms. Union is categorically untrue,” […]

Netflix has canceled competition series Next In Fashion after one season, Deadline has confirmed. Hosted by Queer Eye fashion guru Tan France and style icon Alexa Chung, Next in Fashion featured eighteen designers who faced off in different challenges centering on a different trend or design style that has influenced the way the entire world […]