Новости за 26.12.2020

The New Orleans Saints and the Minnesota Vikings game on Christmas Day proved a strong lure for sports fans isolated from their typical family gatherings by the pandemic. The game drew a 10.1 demographics score and provided an NFL record performance, as Saints running back Alvin Kamara scored six touchdowns. Kamara, wearing a red shoe […]

Ty Jordan, the Pac-12 Offensive Freshman of the Year from the University of Utah, has died at age 19. He suffered a gunshot wound while visiting his home in Texas, the school said. The Denton, Texas Police Department said officers responded to a shooting call at 10:38 PM ET on Friday. Upon arrival, officers discovered […]

There will be no massive crowds, but plenty of music will still be on tap for New Year’s Eve in Times Square. Using a combination of television and streaming, the show will go on despite the pandemic restrictions against huge gatherings. Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment, the co-organizers of Times Square New Year’s Eve, today […]

Santa had a brand new bag for Friday Christmas night network ratings, and it was a mixed offering, not unlike the gifts around the Christmas tree. The National Basketball Association’s day-long celebration of sports led the demos, scoring a 1.1 and 3.74 million total audience for its hours-long programming for ABC and ESPN. That’s the […]

Dave McNary, the veteran film reporter who covered the industry for more then two decades at Variety and was a friend to many of us at Deadline, has died at 69. His wife, Sharon McNary, veteran journalist and KPCC-FM infrastructure correspondent, confirmed the news on Saturday morning. McNary suffered a stroke on December 19 and […]

Warner Bros. isn’t reporting any official box office results for Wonder Woman 1984 on its opening Christmas Day — which various sources tell us was record-worthy for the pandemic stateside, disastrous by normal marketplace conditions — but various HBO Max users are taking to social media, in particular the @HBOMaxHelp Twitter handle, to voice their grievances over […]

Michael Alig, the flamboyantly costumed “King of the Club Kids” in late 1980s and early ’90s Manhattan whose involvement in the sordid murder and dismemberment of his drug dealer was chronicled in the 2003 feature film Party Monster, died early this morning of a suspected heroin overdose. He was 54. Alig was found unconscious at […]