Новости за 12.06.2021

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details from the entire first season of HBO Max’s Hacks. On Saturday, the creators and stars of HBO Max’s hit comedy Hacks appeared virtually at the ATX TV Festival to unpack Season 1 and tease Season 2. Given the fact that the conversation was pre-recorded prior to news that the […]

A massive global television audience watched in horror today as Christian Eriksen, Denmark’s best player, collapsed on the field just before halftime of his game against Finland. Eriksen collapsed as he went to take a throw-in, according to reports. He was walking towards the sideline and when the ball was thrown in his direction, it […]

Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown and ABC’s newsmag 20/20 tied for the demo wars crown on Friday night, both coming in with an 0.4 in the early results. ABC’s 20/20 aired a special on Houston-born Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old who was murdered by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood in 2020. It was a strong […]

Michele Gillen, an investigative reporter whose broadcast career took her from Maine to Miami to Los Angeles, has died from natural causes. She was 66 and her longtime friend and producer Marcia Izaguirre confirmed the death in a Facebook post Friday. “For all those who knew her, she was a relentless warrior who fought indefatigably […]

UPDATE: Digital Underground founding member Shock G, best known as his alter ego, MC Humpty Hump, died from an accidental overdose, medical examiners said today. The initial case summary released by the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner’s office in Florida said Shock G (real name: Gregory Jacobs) died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl, ethanol and […]

Bill Maher is taking on people who plan to still wear masks and socially distance in California after June 15. The host of HBO’s Real Time, who was forced to cancel a couple of shows after testing positive for Covid last month, said, “California, we’re back baby, June 15, maybe we can stop this silly […]

While the leaders of the world’s seven largest so-called “advanced economies” convened in the U.K. to discuss substantive issues like the pandemic, health care, climate change and corporate taxes, social media trolls were more interested in the odd “family photograph” the leaders took on a Cornish beach Friday morning. The stiff, socially distanced portrait sparked […]

Back to live format in their usual spring berth, The 2021 CMT Music Awards drew 828,000 Live+Same Day total viewers on CMT. That was  up +10% vs. the 2020 CMT Music Awards, which were delayed until October because of the coronavirus pandemic, with much of the event pre-taped. Across the six-ViacomCBS network simulcast (CMT, Logo, […]

Nearly six years after Degrassi: The Next Generation wrapped in 2015, co-creator Linda Schuyler and stars Stefan Brogren, Aislinn Paul, Shane Kippel, Luke Bilyk, Munro Chambers, Lauren Collins and more reunited to celebrate the series’ lasting impact. The Degrassi: The Next Generation reunion kicked off this year’s ATX Television Festival on Friday. For many of […]

Arch villain Peter August, played by actor Wes Ramsey, is officially gone from his long-running role on General Hospital. Soap Opera Digest reports that Ramsey’s last appearance was on June 3, 2021 when his character was killed. Ramsey first appeared on General Hospital in 2017, and has since been in more than 330 episodes. His […]

NBC News released some excerpts from Keir Simmons’ sitdown with Vladimir Putin, including one in which Simmons asks the Russian president, “Are you a killer.” Putin laughed and answered the question, and didn’t exactly say, “No,” while giving some blame to Hollywood. The context: Simmons, the network’s senior international correspondent, asked Putin, “The late John […]

After four weeks of bargaining, IATSE’s negotiations with management’s AMPTP for a new film and TV contract have broken off with no deal and “very little progress” toward reaching one, union officials said on Friday. The talks got underway May 17 and aren’t scheduled to resume until July 6. The contract, which covers the union’s […]

As of Tuesday, fully vaccinated Disney World visitors will not be required to wear face coverings in most areas of the park. according to its website. However, masks will still be required for Disney transportation, including buses, monorails and the Disney Skyliner aerial gondolas. The move follows last month’s decree that lifted outdoor requirements. No […]

It’s been over a decade since Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis appeared onscreen as their Sex and the City characters, but they looked right at home together in a photo Parker posted to her Instagram account late Friday. Captioned “Together again,” the photo of the three with the Empire State Building in […]

HGTV’s biggest renovation project to date is apparently a big hit, delivering strong ratings across several key demos, the network said Friday. Home Town Takeover spotlighted the efforts of Ben and Erin Napier to renovate the downtrodden city of Wetumpka, Alabama. The season wrapped on Sunday, June 6, and averaged an .89 live plus three-day rating […]

EXCLUSIVE: A month ago, Clarice was poised to move from CBS to Paramount+ with the promise of a long run for a premium version of the Silence of the Lambs sequel. Now, prospects for the series appear bleak as negotiations between the ViacomCBS streamer and co-producer MGM have reached a stalemate, I have learned. Additionally, […]