Новости за 12.11.2020

This year’s County Music Association Awards at times resembled a classic tune from the genre. There were troubles, people leaving, and much fightin’ and feudin’ going on. Still, the 54th edition of the awards went on as scheduled, emanating from the Music City Center in Nashville with co-hosts Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker. Eric Church […]

It looked like Trevor Noah and the Daily Social Distancing Show had an exclusive. An anonymous poll worker had come forward to talk about what they saw while processing ballots. The worker, shown in silhouette, told Noah that “We have never met,” although strangely greeted him with the too-familiar, “Hey, African.” The anonymous worker quickly […]

Food Network Good Eats and Iron Chef America host Alton Brown apologized today for a series of joking Twitter references to concentration camps and the Holocaust. The 58-year-old Brown at first defended his remarks, then admitted they were in “poor taste.” In his tweetstorm that sparked an uproar, Brown asked, “So, when they move us […]

YouTube fans had to find a new pastime for two hours today, as the site experienced an apparent technical issue that prevented videos from loading.  Users began reporting problems just before 7 PM ET, per the DownDetector site, which monitors internet outages. YouTube’s website was accessible throughout the probem, but clicking on a video resulted in […]

EXCLUSIVE: NBC’s Chicago Fire has paused filming its ninth season for two weeks due to multiple positive COVID-19 tests, I have learned. I hear the Chicago-based firefighter drama shut down production on Sunday, Nov. 8. Several individuals on the Chicago Fire production team, believed to be in Zone 1, produced positive results when tested as part […]

EXCLUSIVE: While there has been question about big movies holding their theatrical release dates around the holidays in this COVID-19 moment, Universal’s News of the World is solidifying a plan to release theatrically in the U.S., while getting its international release through Netflix. Deadline hears that the Paul Greengrass-directed period drama that stars Tom Hanks […]

Actor Hugh Grant is the latest celebrity to confess to contracting the coronavirus. Speaking remotely Tuesday night during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the 60-year-old Grant said he caught COVID-19 earlier this year. He and his wife, Anna Eberstein, caught the virus in February, Grant said. But a recent antibodies test […]

EXCLUSIVE: Three series produced at CBS Studio Center in Studio City have suspended production after production team members tested positive for COVID-19, I have learned. Additionally, production on a pilot, which was about to start filming, was delayed, also due to positive tests. None would comment but I hear the impacted series are CBS’ All […]

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Ron Klain, who has extensive experience as a White House adviser in previous administrations, as his chief of staff. “Ron has been invaluable to me over the many years that we have worked together, including as we rescued the American economy from one of the worst downturns in our history […]

JP Richards will leave his post as Co-President of Worldwide Marketing at Warner Bros, another casualty of the restructure of WarnerMedia. Richards is a six year veteran at the studio. He began there as EVP of WW Digital Marketing, and then was elevated to EVP of WW Marketing and Chief Digital Strategist. He came to […]

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on Wednesday reported 2,152 new cases of COVID-19 and 22 new deaths. The latest report comes as California Gov. Gavin Newsom warned on Tuesday that a number of California’s counties will revert back to more restrictive tiers in his color-coded plan blueprint. With 903 people currently hospitalized […]

The Big Ten’s Maryland-Ohio State matchup this weekend has been canceled, joining a slate of SEC games already on the sidelines because of COVID-19 positive tests. Maryland-Ohio State was nixed after the Terrapins paused team activities Wednesday while announcing that eight players had tested positive. The game will not be made up, which could have […]