Corus Entertainment Undergoes Round of Layoffs

August 11, 2020Harris said she was “honoured” to join Biden on the ticket, saying that she’ll “do what it takes to make him our Commander-in-Chief”..@JoeBiden can unify the American people because he's spent his life fighting for us.

Starsky and Hutch and Uncle Woodrow 'Woody' Anderson in Sanford and Son, has passed away. According to US news site TMZ, Raymond's family revealed the star had been in a long-term California facility and was found unresponsive on July 10.  Loved ones told the publication that Raymond — who had resided in the health care facility since 2016 — died after suffering result of respiratory issues, however, they weren't coronavirus-related.

Bindi Irwin is pregnant with her first child.The 22-year-old star of Crikey! It’s The Irwins - whose zookeeper and conservationist dad died from a stingray injury to the heart in 2006 - married American wakeboarding champion Chandler Powell in a private ceremony at Australia Zoo in April.Bindi shared a picture of herself and Powell holding a tiny Australia Zoo uniform on Instagram, captioned: “Baby Wildlife Warrior due 2021.”View this post on InstagramThe reality TV star added: “Chandler and I

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVRarely has a high-level TV-exec job opening been announced quite so loudly.When NBCUniversal pulled the trigger on a massive reorganization of its television business last week, the company made clear that one key position in the new structure had yet to be filled — a new head of entertainment programming who would oversee creative decisions for NBC, cable channels including USA and Bravo, and fledgling streaming service Peacock.

Sometimes the biggest catastrophes leave no mark. The 1918 pandemic killed about 675,000 Americans, but left hardly a ripple in the cultural consciousness.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: iHeartRadio, FlynnPictureCo., Psychopia Pictures and UpperRoom Productions have defied the pandemic to complete production on There Be Monsters, a 10-part narrative sci-fi thriller podcast. Starring are Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker‘s John Boyega and American Crime: The Assassination of Gianni Versace‘s Darren Criss.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Tylor Norwood’s (The United States of Detroit, Paper Tigers) documentary Robin’s Wish has landed at Vertical Entertainment. The company has acquired the North American distribution rights to the feature that chronicles the late Robin Williams’ final days and, for the first time, focus on his fight against a deadly neurodegenerative disorder known as Lewy Body Dementia.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to The 24th, the period drama based on true events from Oscar-winning BlacKkKlansman co-writer Kevin Willmott.

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

Peter White Television EditorThe Masked Singer has crashed the Emmy reality race, the first Fox show in this category since So You Think You Can Dance in 2015.The mystery singing competition will go up against last year’s winner RuPaul’s Drag Race, Nailed It!, which broke through last year, Top Chef and The Voice.The category was down to five nominations rather than six as a result of the Emmy rule changes, a move that also hit categories such as sketch and late-night.American Ninja Warrior

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Minneapolis-based production company, Winterstate Entertainment is quickly prepping a feature project about Minneapolis civil rights leader and the state’s first female African American attorney, Lena O.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to John Leguizamo’s feature directorial debut Critical Thinking, which he also stars in and produced.Written by Dito Montiel, Critical Thinking tells the 1998 true story of five LatinX and Black teenagers from Miami Jackson Senior High School, located in one of the toughest neighborhoods in Miami, who fight their way into the National Chess Championship under the guidance

George Floyd. As Cedric the Entertainer told ET's Kevin Frazier, the show already points out differences between the experiences of white and Black Americans, so they're excited to dive deeper into that aspect when season three starts filming. «We're actually pretty excited about that,» Cedric explained.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticEXCLUSIVE: “We had no idea, of course, that we would soon be on the brink of an historic moment in race relations this country.  So this racial equity fund is now suddenly more enormous in its significance than we imagined.