Gangland hitman who killed Kenny Reilly survived murder attempt while awaiting trial

This is terribly sad.

HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” wants to be the “Boogie Nights” of basketball, and more often than not achieves the excitement of that pitch. It tells you the history you didn’t know you wanted to know about how the Los Angeles Lakers became such a dominant team, without demanding you know the sport.

Liza Foreman Hip hop is a popular pastime in Paris and its suburbs, having now made its way into many of the city’s high schools. At The Turgot high school in central Paris, hip hop is now part of the curriculum, as the Berlinale documentary “Rookies” (“Allons Enfants”), by Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai, shows.This compelling film follows some of the school’s most talented hip hop aficionados train and battle under the watchful eye of a demanding coach. It served as the opening film this year for the Generation section at the Berlin festival, a sidebar dedicated to new films exploring the lives of teens and children.

In the third episode of the new season of “Killing Eve,” Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer) attend an impromptu “therapy” session. Eve asks if Villanelle has ever heard the fable about the scorpion and the frog, and explains that “they both die because the scorpion can’t change its nature.” The fable has become an eye-roll-inducing pop culture cliché at this point, but Villanelle’s replies make the scene work.

HBO‘s new LA Lakers drama.The actor is set to portray former Lakers owner Jerry Buss in the forthcoming basketball drama Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty, which is due out next month.Reilly was the third choice for the role in the Adam McKay drama after Will Ferrell and Michael Shannon dropped out.“I’d been sitting at my kitchen table, thinking, ‘Man, I’m dead in the water, all this work, 80 movies, and I got nothing going on,’ when I got the text from Adam,” Reilly told The Hollywood Reporter.He landed the part after Ferrell fell out with his longstanding collaborator McKay over the role.“It ended not well,” McKay said in a recent interview with Vanity Fair after Ferrell, a die hard fan of the team, had his heart set on playing Buss.McKay thought that Ferrell’s Step Brothers co-star Reilly would be better suited for the role.“Ferrell just doesn’t look like Jerry Buss, and he’s not that vibe of a Jerry Buss,” added McKay. “And there were some people involved who were like, ‘We love Ferrell, he’s a genius, but we can’t see him doing it.’ It was a bit of a hard discussion.” To make things worse, McKay didn’t personally notify Ferrell of the choice.

Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer are getting ready to say goodbye to , BBC America's award-winning drama that's only weeks away from launching its final episodes.«We just felt like it was the time for the characters to come to their ultimate growth,» Oh told ET's Matt Cohen over Zoom on Feb. 8. «I mean, it's a tricky dynamic that was set up four years ago in the first episode — that there is a certain kind of cat and mouse to it and dramaturgically it's actually really hard to sustain.

NAACP Image Awards has officially been kicked off! As usual, this year's ceremony honoring people of color across television, music, literature and film is preceded by a week-long celebration, with five nights of virtual awards leading up to Saturday's live telecast.Hosted by returning emcee and seven-time NAACP Image Awards winner Anthony Anderson, the ceremony will include Issa Rae, Kerry Washington, LL Cool J, Morgan Freeman, Questlove, Tiffany Haddish, Zendaya and more presenting awards, while Samuel L. Jackson accepts the NAACP Chairman's Award and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project, receives the Social Justice Impact Award.The preceding non-televised nights will be hosted by actor and comedian Affion Crockett, with awards presented by Cory Hardrict, Demetrius Shipp Jr., Khleo Thomas, Lori Harvey, Wendy Raquel Robinson and more.

NBA All-Star Weekend is over and about four weeks away from March Madness starting. So, with this relative lull in between major basketball events, it’s not surprising that HBO has decided to debut its ambitious new basketball series right in between.

Universal Content Productions, a division of Unversal Studio Group, is expanding its executive leadership team, with the hire of Rebecca Franko and Kenny Tsai as SVPs, Current Programming.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterRebecca Franko and Kenny Tsai have been named senior vice presidents of current programming at Universal Studio Group’s Universal Content Productions (UCP).In these newly created roles, Franko and Tsai will manage day-to-day current series across cable and streaming platforms for the studio, per UCP. They will both work closely with development on series pick-ups, serve as a liaison between production and other studio departments, manage up-and-coming writers for the studio and build and maintain industry relationships.Franko will oversee the shows “Joe vs. Carole,” “Ted,” “Gaslit” and more.

Kenny G is here to provide the smooth tunes!

The end is near! Hollywood is gearing up for spring by buying plenty of spring and summer pieces to refresh their closets.

The story of one of basketball’s most iconic teams is getting the limited series treatment.

Gangland hitman John Kennedy survived a murder attempt while waiting to go on trial for killing Kenny Reilly.

its final chapter. The stars of BBC America's outgoing drama came together (virtually, of course) on Thursday to reflect on the transformative time making the show and to tee up the upcoming fourth and final season, which kicks off Feb.

Gangland thug John Kennedy was a hitman who called himself a “one-man band”.

A tenth teenager has been arrested and questioned by police on suspicion of the murder of 16-year-old Kennie Carter.

There’s no shortage of exciting television shows released this February, kicking things off strong with the much-anticipated miniseries “Pam & Tommy” starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. The month will see the return of Shonda Rhimes, two series finales, an off-kilter and unexpected comedy series starring Will Arnett, and science fiction miniseries, which look to be the next big shows to dominate the discourse.