HBO Max Competition Series 'Haute Dog' Wraps Production Amid COVID-19 (Exclusive)

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterRainn Wilson will keynote the first installment of Variety’s three-part “Sustainability in Hollywood” series presented by Toyota Mirai.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerJoseph James DeAngelo, known as the “Golden State Killer” who terrorized California during a two-decade, six county rape, murder and robbery spree, was sentenced Friday to 11 consecutive terms of life without parole.The subject of an HBO documentary series, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, which was based on writer Michelle McNamara’s best-seller of the same name, DeAngelo was a former police officer who was known by several nicknames, including The Original Night

Dax Shepard is opening up about a seriously scary motorcycle accident that left him with multiple injuries, but thankfully, he’s still alive to tell the story!

Actor Dax Shepard is severely injured after his recent motorcycle accident. The 45-year-old actor revealed during his Armchair Expert podcast that he “needs surgery” after injuring himself while driving around a racetrack in California.

Dax Shepard is pretty banged up after a motorcycle accident.

Dax Shepard is nursing multiple broken bones after crashing his motorcycle on California’s Sonoma Raceway.The motor-mad star and Top Gear co-host was getting his adrenaline fix in during a recent day out at the racetrack, but he was left with more than a bruised ego after mistiming a maneuver, which resulted in a collision with a car.“I was passing six guys on Sonoma Raceway on a motorcycle and I was braking very, very hard, hard enough that the back wheel was off the ground for a good 100

A protest was held Aug. 11 at the state capitol. (Photo courtesy of the PBFC)

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorCalifornia’s Director of Public Health resigned on Sunday. No reason was given.

Metallica have announced that they’ll play their first show of 2020 as part of the ‘Encore Drive-In Nights’ series.The band will shoot a special show at a secret location near their northern California headquarters, which will subsequently be shown on August 29 at hundreds of drive-in and outdoor theatres across the United States and Canada.The venture will mark their first show since the ‘S&M2’ concerts that opened at Chase Center in San Francisco in September 2019.

Peter White Television EditorABC’s Ultimate Surfer is riding the wave of a return to production.The competition series, which is produced by Pilgrim Media Group, is now underway at Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch in Kings County, California.Nicholas Caprio, Chief Content Officer at Pilgrim Media Group, speaking alongside ABC alternative chief Rob Mills on a HRTS virtual panel session about returning to production outlined how the show got back in the water.Ultimate Surfer features top up-and-coming

Dave McNary Film ReporterAs Hollywood makes slow but steady progress on its reopening, California Film commissioner Colleen Bell is expressing guarded optimism about production resuming — but without any exact date yet.“I think it would be imprudent to say that we know when things will get back to normal, but I can say with confidence that there’s good reason to be optimistic,” Bell said.All series shooting in California were shut down in March due to the pandemic, including HBO’s Bill Hader