Dispatches From The Picket Lines: Writers Come Out In Numbers In LA As Strike’s End Seems To Be In Sight

This is Day 92 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

The 2023 BET Hip Hop Awards were broadcast on TV last night after being held in Atlanta on October 3. The show featured a number of impressive performances, including a tribute to a local Atlanta favorite, Jermaine Dupri’s So So Def Recordings.

With the Rugby World Cup now well and truly in full swing, Scotland fans will no doubt be on the edge of their seats as the Scottish national team takes to the pitch on Saturday to take on Ireland. The team, which is headed up by coach Gregor Townsend sadly suffered an early blow at the start of the competition when they lost their Pool B opener in Marseille to South Africa, but despite the initial setback, the Scots came back stronger to beat both Tonga and Romania.

This is Day 86 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. 

EXCLUSIVE: Talpa Studios entertainment format The Floor is in production in Ukraine, as a response to the devastating war that continues to cripple the Eastern European country.

MrBeast, aka Jimmy Donaldson, is arguable the most popular person on the internet!

This is Day 83 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. 

Jimmy Kimmel returned to the air for a new episode of his late-night show Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday (October 2) after a months-long break due to the writers strike.

Jimmy Kimmel is back with a little help from Arnold Schwarzenegger.

This is Day 82 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. 

Hilary Duff received an unforgettable birthday card from her daughter.

It was everything everywhere all at once Thursday in New York City: Striking actors getting ready for contract talks were joined by writers who have just wrapped up theirs at a rally in Manhattan that also highlighted Asian American Pacific Islander culture in film and television. 

This is Day 76 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic For a while there, unbeknown to all but a few, there was a danger that hit country-pop duo Dan + Shay might go separate ways. But replacing the “+” in their moniker for a minus sign iwouldn’t have had much of a ring to it for either of them, so it’s to everyone’s benefit that they got to the root of what threatened to put a damper on their personal chemistry and found their duo mojo again in approaching the making of “Bigger Houses,” their fifth full-length album for Warner Nashville.

This is Day 76 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. 

2024 Presidential election cycle is already in full swing.On August 23, the first of three Republican Party debates took place, and we’re already just two weeks away from the second one. In case you didn’t tune in, here’s what you missed: Eight of 14 candidates appeared on the debate stage: former Vice President Mike Pence, former U.N.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The Writers Guild of America resumed bargaining with the major studios on Wednesday, as the 142-day writers strike closed in on a record duration. In a break from previous sessions, several top CEOs joined in the talks on Wednesday in Sherman Oaks. They were Bob Iger of Disney, Ted Sarandos of Netflix, Donna Langley of NBCUniversal and David Zaslav of Warner Bros.

SF9, has opened up about the departure of member Rowoon.Yesterday (September 18), FNC Entertainment announced that SF9’s Rowoon would be stepping back from the boyband. In its statement, the K-pop agency said the singer would “remain as the ninth member of SF9”, although South Korean news outlets such as The Korea Herald and Korea JoongAng Daily reported that Rowoon had left the group.SF9’s leader Youngbin has since addressed the news, in a letter posted on the boyband’s official fancafe website, as seen by The Qoo.

As Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher reverse their decisions to return to their talk shows, Sherri Shepherd is gearing up for her return.

As word spread of contract talks resuming between the striking Writers Guild and the AMPTP, striking SAG-AFTRA members continued with their pickets on Friday morning outside film and television studio addresses in New York City.