David Giler, Writer-Producer on ‘Alien’ Franchise, Dies at 77

“Big Little Lies” was originally intended to be a one-and-done limited series, but returned for a second season thanks to the incredible popularity of the first.

direct to your inboxActor Alan Igbon has died at the age of 68, his niece has confirmed. The Coronation Street and Brookside star 'passed away peacefully' in early December 2020, reports the Mirror.His niece, Lee-Ann Igbon, wrote on Facebook: "Early December 2020 my mums brother Alan Igbon my uncle passed away peaceful."He is well known for being an actor in Boys from the black stuff, Scum, GBH, Coronation st, Brookside and many more.

It seems time flies when you’re in love, or so it seems for Irish actor Allen Leech and his wife Jessica Blair Herman.

David Romano, a tenor who appeared in the original Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera and served as a vocal coach to the likes of Josh Groban and Sarah Brightman, has died. He was 69.

Just two weeks after his brother Derek passed away, Lord Alan Sugar has revealed that his eldest sister Shirley has also died.The business tycoon, who had a Twitter row with Piers Morgan earlier this year, took to Instagram to announce the heartbreaking news of his sister's death. Alongside a picture of her, the 73 year old wrote on Instagram: "My sister Shirley died today at the age of 88 to join my brother Derek who passed 2 weeks ago.

Lord Alan Sugar announced the devastating news that just two weeks after he lost his brother to COVID-19, his sister has also passed away from the virus.

Rebecca Davis editorLin Qi, the billionaire CEO of Chinese video-game publisher Yoozoo set to executive produce the upcoming Netflix sci-fi series “The Three-Body Problem,” died at 39 on Christmas Day Friday amidst an investigation into whether he was murdered by poison.Lin was an executive producer alongside “Game of Thrones” creators David Benioff and D.B.

Hollywood screenwriter and producer David Giler, best known for theAlien movie franchise, has died. He was 77.

Alien franchise, has died aged 77.Reports say Giler passed away at his home in Bangkok, Thailand on Saturday (December 19) of cancer. The news of his death was announced by his longtime friend and Alien co-producer Walter Hill.“If you knew David, you knew he was special,” Hill said in a statement.

David Giler, a writer, producer or both on some of the most high-profile films of the 1970s and ’80s, from the controversial Myra Breckinridge to the immensely popular Alien franchise, died of cancer Dec. 19 at his home in Bangkok. He was 77.

The Telescopes, has died.Fitzgerald was one of the founding members of the band, who formed in Burton-upon-Trent in 1986, alongside frontman Stephen Lawrie, guitarist/singer Jo Doran, bassist Robert Brookes and drummer Dominic Dillon.A post on the official Telescopes Facebook page last night (December 16) paid tribute to Fitzgerald, calling him “the first noise guitarist with The Telescopes and a main protagonist of its cause from the very beginning”.The band went on to thank the late guitarist

ABC has put in development The Three Joaquins, a Latinx family drama from writers Jordan Heimer and Manny Figueroa (Stumptown, Step Up), Ruben Fleischer and David Bernad’s The District, and ABC Signature.

Mark David Actor David Berman, who portrayed Asst. Medical Examiner David “Super Dave” Phillips in nearly 300 episodes of the heavily syndicated and still quite popular crime series “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” has put his home in the foothills between L.A.’s historic Beachwood and Bronson Canyons up for sale at hare’s breath below $2.2 million.

LOS ANGELES -- Actor David L. Lander, who played the character of Squiggy on the popular ABC comedy “Laverne & Shirley,” has died after a decades-long battle with multiple sclerosis, his wife said.

Gimme Shelter, directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwein, is widely considered one of the greatest music documentaries of all time.

Ron Gilbert, an Emmy-nominated producer and partner with David Susskind in the powerhouse independent production company Talent Associates, died Friday of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles, a family spokesman said. He was 87.