Coronavirus Drama ‘The Second Wave’ Adds Phillipa Soo, Will Swenson, Leslie Uggams to Cast (TV News Roundup)

I recently wrote "The Queen of Tuesday," a book largely about Lucille Ball, and my research uncovered something most fans would be scandalized by. Lucille Ball, the national icon most associated with wholesome 1950s America, got caught up in radical politics.

NHS bosses in Salford say they are 'optimistic' that the second peak of the coronavirus crisis has passed, but warn the flu season is yet to 'kick in'.The second wave of the pandemic saw a similar number of people in hospital beds as the first wave but fewer patients with Covid-19 were in critical care.This is probably because hospitals know more about the virus now – which drugs to use and how to manage Covid patients – according to Steve Dixon, chief accountable officer of Salford's clinical

Universal's The Croods: A New Age was the decisive winner of a competitive three-way race at China's box office over the weekend, topping both holdover local hit Caught in Time and the latest release from venerated Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou. Croods 2 opened in China to a healthy $19.2 million, which was $5 million more than its five-day holiday start in North America.

As the second coronavirus wave closes down Canadian movie theaters, again, Hollywood production hubs in Vancouver and Toronto have returned to pre-pandemic levels of activity. Cinemas in Manitoba and British Columbia have shuttered, while multiplexes in and around Toronto and Montreal, the country's main theater-going markets, have also been ordered to close down by health authorities as the number COVID-19 cases surges on both sides of the border.

Los Angeles residents may have trudged through the Thanksgiving holiday during the Covid-19 pandemic, but Los Angeles Public Health director Dr. Barbara Ferrer said Saturday that the county’s far from in the clear.

Dave McNary Film ReporterHanWay Films has closed multiple international sales for Phillip Noyce’s “Peggy Jo,” with Lily James attached to star as Peggy Jo Tallas, who robbed Texas banks in the early 1990s while posing as a man.A deal with Universal Pictures Content Group includes Benelux, German speaking Europe, Italy, Portugal, Scandinavia, and the UK.

link.Although the second wave is a bigger challenge for staff at Hairmyres due to bigger numbers, James is confident his staff can counter that because of the lessons they learned from the first wave, as well as their ability to adapt under pressure.

ChronicleLive.Sutcliffe, who murdered at least 13 women across the north of England in the late 1970s, had several underlying health conditions and was 'almost blind'.Assistant senior coroner for County Durham and Darlington, Crispin Oliver, made a tribute to all of Sutcliffe's victims, passing on his 'solidarity and support', before starting the inquest.His coroner officer confirmed Sutcliffe's date of birth as June 2 1946 and said he was born in North Yorkshire.He was a prisoner at HMP

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticBy the time Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks in HBO’s adaptation of “Between the World and Me,” his words have already been voiced by a starry cadre of Black talent. Coates’ recollections, heartbreaks and historical conclusions become monologues performed to the camera by actors like Angela Bassett, Mahershala Ali and Oprah Winfrey herself taking on his prose like a solemn mantle.

coronavirus patients have died in the second wave of the pandemic in Greater Manchester, the MEN can reveal.

Peter White Television EditorRobert and Michelle King’s upcoming Coronavirus drama series for Spectrum Originals is getting its second wave of casting.Broadway stars Will Swenson, Phillipa Soo and Leslie Uggams have joined The Second Wave, which stars The Good Fight’s Audra McDonald, Orange Is the New Black’s Taylor Schilling and The Comey Rule’s Steven Pasquale.Swenson, who has starred in Priscilla: Queen of the Desert and Hair as well as Netflix’s The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, joins as a