Dan Levy takes us on a tour of ‘SNL’’s COVID safety protocols in host monologue

California’s Covid-19 death toll officially surpassed 50,000 on Thursday, according to the state’s virus tracking board. Thursday’s total of 50,991 was a big jump up from Wednesday’s due to a massive backlog deaths in Los Angeles County were tallied. Thursday’s tally becomes the state’s highest daily death toll of the pandemic.

EXCLUSIVE: Moby, the punk rocker turned electronic music pioneer, is the latest musician to get the documentary treatment.

Paris Accord on his first day in office, but the symbolic change finally kicked in on Friday.The new president’s climate agenda was a key difference with Trump and sets the US up for an appearance at Cop26 Climate Change Summit in Scotland in November.The States had been out of the agreement for just over 100 days and the eyes of the world will now be on what the country does to show leadership.After Biden’s victory over Trump, his climate envoy John Kerry claimed on Twitter: “Friends, today we

BTS have topped Twitter’s list of most popular artists for the fourth year in a row.The new survey revealed that group were the number one most tweeted-about musicians in the US, beating out the likes of Kanye West, Beyoncé and Drake for the most mentions on the social media platform in 2020.Four of the Top 10 musicians on the list were K-pop groups, edging out the likes of Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber and Billie Eilish.It’s no surprise that BTS also dominated the more specific K-pop lists on

Trump’s Treasury secretary has been savaged by critics ahead of its release.‘You, Me, Madness’, which was written by Edinburgh-born Louise Linton, and features her in the lead role, has been branded “beyond a vanity project” by scathing reviewers.Several critics have slammed the “one note” flick, with one viewer dubbing it, “the first legitimately horrendous movie of 2021”.However, 40-year-old Linton, who is married to the former United States Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, is no

Too cute! Carrie Underwood’s 5-year-old son, Isaiah, is learning a new skill.

EXCLUSIVE: While 2020 was most everyone’s worst year, you’d be hard pressed to find a filmmaker who got more done than Spike Lee.

By now, many in the US have seen the new FX-Hulu documentary Framing Britney Spears, which explores the iconic pop singer’s meteoric rise in the late 1990s and subsequent deterioration at the hands of the brutal 2000s media machine.

EXCLUSIVE: Grindstone Entertainment has acquired North American rights to animated fantasy movie Mosley, whose voice cast includes Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess), John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Temuera Morrison (Star Wars) and Rhys Darby (Jumanji).

Phoebe Bridgers will serve as the musical guest on tonight’s (February 6) episode of Saturday Night Live, but she won’t be writing a song for guest host Dan Levy.The Schitt’s Creek actor and creator and the singer-songwriter are both making their debut appearances on the long-running US comedy show.In a video promo for the episode, Levy and Bridgers appeared alongside SNL cast member Aidy Bryant.

Canadian singer The Weeknd recently explained his bizarre look at AMAs 2020 where he was spotted wearing bandages on his face. If you missed it, the 30-year-old singer showed up at the American Music Awards in white bandages covering his face, and fans could even see bruising and scarring around his eyes when wearing the bandages.

Well before the general public went crazy for the fictional African nation of Wakanda, there was another fictional African nation that was most popular—Zamunda. But in the original “Coming to America,” there wasn’t a whole lot of time spent in Zamunda, as the film primarily took place in Queens.

EXCLUSIVE: Five years ago, filmmaker J.D. Dillard launched his debut movie, the low-budget sci-fi-thriller Sleight, at the Sundance Film Festival. Five years before that, he had been working on the reception desk at Bad Robot.

In a seven-figure deal, Neon has acquired the North American rights to Sundance title Flee, an animated doc fromJonasPoher Rasmussen that counts Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as executive producers.

Editors note: Earlier this week, IATSE president Matthew Loeb informed President Joe Biden that the union’s members “stand ready to help build vaccination sites across the country, or to convert existing entertainment venues and convention centers into vaccination sites in order to get shots into the arms of Americans as rapidly as possible.” The Broadway League also promised support for the effort, joining other owners and operators of live venues in offering locations and staff to assist in

Larry King has died at the age of 87 weeks after he tested positive for the coronavirus.  A statement announcing the news was tweeted from his account on Saturday.

The iconic American radio and TV presenter Larry King has passed away.