ABC Orders Crime Procedural Pilot from Sam Esmail

Bay Area Reporter.Last year, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance to lift the ban on traditional bathhouses, allowing them to have private rooms while imposing additional regulations to better protect public health and promote the safety of patrons.Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who represents the Castro neighborhood and proposed the repeal of the ban, told Metro Weekly in an interview last year that the regulations needed to be updated to reflect changes in how HIV is

Could you soon be dropping your child off at Jerry Garcia High School? It could happen if you live in San Francisco, where the school board recently voted to remove 44 school names honoring "problematic" historical figures like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere because of their links to slavery, oppression or racism. Even Dianne Feinstein Elementary, named for the current Democratic U.S.

ABC is moving forward with its’ Wonder Years reboot.

Queens, a drama about a 90s hip hop group from Zahir McGhee, and Epic, from the team behind Once Upon A Time, are the latest projects to be handed pilot orders by ABC.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterABC has ordered two drama series to pilot in some of its first pilot pickups of the 2021 pilot season.The broadcaster has given out pilot orders to the one-hour shows “Queens” and “Epic.” Both will be produced by ABC Signature. They join the previously announced ABC drama pilot “Acts of Crime,” which hails from Sam Esmail.“Queens” is written and executive produced by Zahir McGhee and executive produced by Sabrina Wind.

Zack Ruskin Will the students at Jerry Garcia High get in trouble for smoking weed?For now, the question remains a hypothetical, but following a controversial vote by the San Francisco School Board on the evening of Jan.

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Stahl-David (Narcos, The Deuce) is set as a lead opposite Sophia Bush, Jason Isaacs and Skye P. Marshall in Good Sam, CBS’ family medical drama pilot from Katie Wech, Jennie Snyder Urman and her Sutton St. Productions, and CBS Studios.

California lifted regional stay-at-home orders across the state Monday in response to improving coronavirus conditions, returning the state to a system of county-by-county restrictions, state health officials announced. The order had been in place in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California, covering the majority of the state's counties.

, has a lot of people talking—and not all of it is good. The four-episode series centers on Richard Ramirez, the serial killer who terrorized Los Angeles and San Francisco in the 1980s. Ramirez didn't have a certain “type” of target; he murdered young people, old people, women, men, and across races.

The San Francisco International Film Festival, known as SFFILM, has named Jessie Fairbanks as its new director of programming. Fairbanks will oversee film and offscreen programming for both the SFFILM festival and the organization’s year-round offerings.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorThe San Francisco International Film Festival has announced that Jessie Fairbanks will join the organization, leading the festival, year-round offerings and off-screen programming.Fairbanks, who has worked with DOC NYC and Tribeca Film Festival, joins SFFILM on Jan. 25.The 2021 festival is scheduled for April 9-18.

Stars of ABC’s classic daytime dramas All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital will reunite next month to present a streaming concert of their past musical performances benefitting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

ABC is moving forward with Sam Esmail’s procedural Acts of Crime, handing the project a pilot pick-up.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticRichard Ramirez’s spree of terror through the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Areas in 1984 and 1985 made for a psyche-shredding media fixation: The so-called “Night Stalker’s” rapaciousness — targeting people seemingly at random and with an appetite for violence that set him apart even among the history of psychopaths — provided insatiable fodder for television reports, a side effect that both burnished Ramirez’s legend and increased the effects of his reign

Gorillas are the latest animal species to have tested positive for COVID-19 coronavirus.

Members of the gorilla troop at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park have tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19, the zoo confirmed Monday, adding that it is believed the animals contracted the virus from an asymptotic staff member. It is said to be the first known instance of such transmission.

San Diego police declared an unlawful assembly as Trump supporters and counter-protesters faced off Saturday, according to reports. The protest also prompted police to warn residents to stay away from the Pacific Beach intersection "due to acts of violence." Local affiliate FOX 5 San Diego tweeted a number of pictures and videos of the event, showing the two groups, and police trying to keep the situation from escalating.