Burns outlines 8 projects; PBS launches documentary service

Taylor Swift is slamming President Donald Trump over his handling of funding for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

R Kelly’s manager Donnell Russell has been charged with threatening to open fire on a premiere screening of the ‘Surviving R Kelly’ documentary in New York in 2018. The threat caused the event to be cancelled at the last minute.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsTaylor Swift has once again spoken out against President Donald Trump on Twitter.The Folklore singer joined a number of Hollywood stars and pop-culture figures who have called out the president on his decisions to roll back funding for the United States Postal Service.“He is WELL AWARE that we do not want him as our president.

Taylor Swift has called out Donald Trump for his alleged attempts to tamper with the US Postal Service, accusing him of trying to “blatantly cheat” the upcoming US election.It comes after the President this week suggested that he was unwilling to make a deal with Democrats on a coronavirus stimulus bill including USPS funding because it would prevent universal mail-in voting during the election.“Trump’s calculated dismantling of USPS proves one thing clearly: He is WELL AWARE that we do not want

2020 election. Among those frustrated is Taylor Swift, who took to Twitter on Saturday to slam President Donald Trump's recent handling of the U.S.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn “Apocalypse ’45,” we see images of World War II — the last six months of it, when our forces were engaged in a grisly death-throes battle with the Japanese in the Pacific — that are more colorful, raw, and deeply naturalistic than the images we’re used to seeing. And that footage hits us with the shock of the new.American soldiers blast their flamethrowers into caves, the oily fire whipping around like something out of a dragon’s mouth.

The manager of R. Kelly was charged Friday for allegedly making a threatening phone call to aManhattan theater that was screening adocuseries about the sex abuse allegations against the musician.

NEW YORK -- “MacGruber,” a parody skit on “Saturday Night Live” that became a movie, is coming back to the small screen. The NBCUniversal streaming platform Peacock said Monday that Will Forte will once again play the mullet-haired hero for a new half-hour series.

Donald Trump was abruptly escorted by a US Secret Service agent out of the White House briefing room as he was beginning a coronavirus update, then returned minutes later, saying there had been a "shooting" outside that was "under control"."There was an actual shooting and somebody's been taken to the hospital," the president said.He added that the shots were fired by law enforcement officers and he believed the person who was shot was armed.

and YouTube, so there’s no excuse for not watching them.Here's a list of documentaries that can educate you on how we got here, and help you take your allyship a step further: The 13th amendment officially ended slavery in the United States back in 1865, and Netflix’s 13th, named after that amendment, delves into why slavery never really ended and was basically just replaced with mass incarceration.

CBS All Access rebrand in the United States, though both are expected to begin in 2021.CBS All Access originals, including “Guilty Party” and “The Harper House,” will also premiere exclusively on the new streaming service, ViacomCBS said.

Also Read: Pete Hamill, Legendary New York Journalist, Dies at 85One factor inhibiting Quibi’s growth is that it’s one of several streaming on-demand services users pay for — Kantar’s data found that the average Quibi subscriber also subscribes to about 5 other SVOD platforms.

LOS ANGELES -- A new documentary about the life and work of “Little House on the Prairie” author Laura Ingalls Wilder puts her novels’ scattered racist references in historical context, the film’s producers said. Wilder’s work reflects the perspective of her family and attitudes in the late 1800s Midwest, the setting for the coming-of-age novels based on her childhood, said Mary McDonagh Murphy, director and producer of PBS’ “American Masters” biography.

NEW YORK -- The coronavirus pandemic took a toll on Comcast in the second quarter as movie theaters closed, theme parks shut down and advertisers cut back. The company reported Thursday that its NBCUniversal TV, film and theme park divisions, as well as its Sky unit in Europe, all suffered steep drops in revenue in the April-June quarter.

Peter White Television EditorPopstar Alicia Keys is to exec produce a feature-length documentary about six iconic African American female entertainers for PBS.American Masters: How It Feels To Be Free will tell the story of Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier and how they challenged an entertainment industry deeply complicit in perpetuating racist stereotypes, and transformed themselves and their audiences in the process.The doc, which will air in

After gaining international acclaim with his Cannes prize-winning family drama “Harmonium,” Japanese director Kōji Fukada returned with “A Girl Missing,” reuniting with actress Mariko Tsutsui for a slow-burning mystery thriller which premiered at Locarno Film Festival last year before going on to play at the Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival. And now, the film’s (virtual) release approaches this Friday July 31st.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe almost first female POTUS is in the game, but the playoff in the Emmy docuseries looks to be a battle between Joe Exotic and Michael Jordan.Facing Hulu’s Hillary, PBS’ venerable American Masters and HBO’s McMillion$, the very well watched Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness and The Last Dance snagged six and three nominations respectively from the TV Academy this morning.With directing, picture editing, sound editing, music composition, sound