$4 a minute for fetishes: How the 1-900 phone-sex industry changed America

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeIn time for International Day of Persons with Disabilities, this Friday, Dec. 3, ABC Owned Television Stations has produced “Our America: Accomplices – The Story of Ady Barkan,” which is set to premiere the same day on Hulu.The half-hour special follows the story of Ady Barkan, a lawyer and activist who has become a vocal advocate for exposing the inequities in the American healthcare system since being diagnosed with ALS in 2016.

Emiliano De Pablos Ibero-America’s toon kids content sector has launched a call at Ventana Sur for more bridge building arenas and channels aimed at boosting co-productions, especially ambitious projects that require a greater number of partners.Ibermedia, the multi-million dollar Ibero-American audiovisual fund, is seen by representative TV networks and indie producers as an opportunity to create juts such a platform, facilitating children’s animation industry alliances.Co-production was one

NEW YORK -- Good Morning America co-host Michael Strahan is going to space next month.Strahan, who turned 50 on Sunday, will join Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of astronaut Alan Shepard, on the Dec.

"All Too Well," a song from Taylor Swift's latest project Red (Taylor's Version) has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

EXCLUSIVE: The general wisdom is that the United States mainland was not attacked during World War II.

The late African American civil rights activist, author and legal scholar Pauli Murray spent a lifetime taking on the system—fighting inequality, institutionalized racism and gender bias.

The manager of Dundee's "secret speakeasy" bar has won a top industry awards at a huge ceremony in Glasgow last night.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Kanal D Drama, the first independent streaming service dedicated exclusively to Turkish dramas in Spanish, will board the Roku platform for key Latin American markets in the next few days.The service is already available on Amazon Fire and will soon be also available on the Samsung Smart TV platform in the region.The streaming service launched in Latin America, the U.S.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterIndustrial Media has entered into an overall deal with House of NonFiction, Alex Stapleton’s new unscripted production company.Stapleton is an Emmy-winning filmmaker who is currently directing two projects for HBO. She recently completed the docu-series “Pride” for FX, which chronicles the American LGBTQ+ civil rights movement.

A.D. Amorosi If the team of Ghanaian-American playwright Jocelyn Bioh (“School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play”) and Kenyan-born director Saheem Ali brings nothing else to the stages of New York City, they are, most certainly, providers of both laugh-lines, and real and powerful exaltation.

Sex Pistols‘ John Lydon was unmasked as a contestant on the US version of The Masked Singer last night (November 10).In the latest episode of the show, which sees singers perform in costume while hiding their identity, Lydon was revealed to be The Jester.During the show, he had covered Alice Cooper’s ‘School’s Out’ and more, while last night’s episode saw him share a version of American folk song ‘Man of Constant Sorrow’.After the judges guessed that the person behind the mask of The Jester was

Presidents Of The United States Of America have responded to Larry David poking fun at them on Curb Your Enthusiasm.The US grunge band acknowledge the episode from a couple of weeks ago, in which actor Dylan O’Brien threw a rock concert which David attended.O’Brien performed a cover of Presidents OF The United States Of America’s ’90s track ‘Peaches’, after which David spoke to the actor backstage and asked: “What would prompt a person to sing such an idiotic song?”The actor then replied in the

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentImagine if “Pawn Stars,” “American Pickers” and “Storage Wars” created a mashup spinoff, but with a higher purpose.That’s what viewers will find when they tune into “Operation Hidden Treasures,” Discovery Channel’s new reality series that puts the spotlight on America’s veterans, as so few TV shows do.The half-hour unscripted series follows members of the world’s biggest military veterans’ enterprise, JDog Junk Removal and Hauling, as they turn someone’s

Gentefied’s first season ended with many cliffhangers, including the deportation of the show’s patriarch Casimiro “Pop” Morales. Fans begged for a second season and thankfully, we will get to see what comes next.

Squid have shared a cover of Bill Callahan’s 2011 track ‘America!’ – you can listen to it below.Originally taken from Callahan’s acclaimed ‘Apocalypse’ album, the Brighton-formed art-rockers covered the track to celebrate their forthcoming sold out US tour.“Earlier in the year we went to Otterhead Studios in the midlands to do some recording as we emerged from lockdown 2.0,” Squid said in a press release.