Freddy Cole (1931 – 2020), Grammy-nominated jazz singer and pianist

The Smith siblings are enjoying a night out in Malibu!

After tackling innovative animation with Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater is returning to the medium. Linklater wrote and is directing animated featureApollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure, which has just been picked up by Netflix.

Joanna Cole was a children’s author best known for her “The Magic School Bus” series.Cole published the first book in her Magic School Bus series, “At the Waterworks,” in 1986. Her words, along with illustrator Bruce Degen’s pictures, brought science to children in a fun and appealing way.

he became one of the first famous people to test positive for coronavirus.The Hollywood actor and his wife Rita Wilson spent three days in an Australian hospital after being diagnosed with the virus in March.Speaking to the Australian publication Stellar, Tom said that “no-one is safe” from the illness.When asked about being one of the early celebrities to test positive for the virus, he said: “I was the canary in the coalmine for some of this, for sure.“But now we are once again at the place

It’s been a few years since “The Osbournes” left the air, but a new series will feature a near-reunion of the reality-show clan.

Watchmen, which explores the legacy of white supremacy and systemic racism in America, and Netflix's harrowing limited series Unbelievable, which is based on a true story about a serial rapist and the two detectives who brought him to justice, lead all series with four nominations each.

Also Read: Inside the TCA Awards: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Is the Best, Michelle Williams Shouts Out 'Full House'Winners will be announced later this summer, though the critics’ group will forgo the traditional awards ceremony this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.“This was an incredible year for television, offering a variety of groundbreaking new series with fresh perspectives and renewed vigor for some veteran favorites,” said Sarah Rodman, TCA President and executive editor at Entertainment

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterSony/ATV Music Publishing announced the signing of Bobby Sessions to a global co-publishing deal.

Queen drummer Roger Taylor has said the band would still be making new music today if Freddie Mercury was still alive. 

Unruly.The show will be split into six parts, and has been described by Variety as “an unapologetically Black, no-holds-barred telling of Johnson’s life.The statement added: “The first ever Black heavyweight boxing champion, the show would follow Johnson’s rise to greatness and the costs he paid for his skin color and defiance.”The series will be based based on the PBS documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, and will see Dominique Morisseau serve as writer and

Two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali has signed on to play boxing legend Jack Johnson in a new HBO series.Unruly will be based on the documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, directed by Ken Burns.Ali previously played Johnson, the world’s first black heavyweight boxing champion, in a stage production of The Great White Hope in 2000.Jackson once took part in a boxing match, dubbed “the fight of the century”, in 1910 against James J. Jeffries and ruled the boxing

Also Read: 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' to Return for Season 11 on HBOTony winner Dominique Morisseau will write and executive produce the series.

When you think of boxing, there are a number of fighters that come to mind. Names like Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, and, of course, Muhammad Ali are all near the top of the list of most popular fighters of all time.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVHBO is developing Unruly, a six-part limited series about legendary boxer Jack Johnson to be played by two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali. The project hails from Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman’s Playtone and will be written by Dominique Morisseau based the PBS documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, produced and directed by Ken Burns, and its companion book by Geoffrey C.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterMahershala Ali is attached to play boxer Jack Johnson in a limited series currently in the works at HBO, Variety has learned.The six-part series is titled “Unruly.” It is described as an unapologetically Black, no-holds-barred telling of Johnson’s life.

Anna Marie de la Fuente In a landmark deal, Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has inked a multi-project development deal with acclaimed Chilean writer and author Jose Ignacio ‘Chascas’ Valenzuela, a prominent voice in the LGBTQ community.The three-project deal kicks off with “El Filo de Tu Piel,” a gay-themed romance based on Valenzuela’s eponymous novel.“A prolific screenwriter, Chascas’ impeccable storytelling talent is essential to bringing such important LGBTQ representation to the small