Heardle to shut down, less than a year after Spotify purchased it

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor As the Writers Guild of America goes on strike, late-night television has been put on pause, including NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” which is on an indefinite hiatus. Multiple sources confirm to Variety that, in the unlikely event the strike is resolved in the coming weeks, “Succession” star Kieran Culkin is scheduled to take the stage at Studio 8H on May 13, with musical guest Labrinth, while “The White Lotus” star Jennifer Coolidge is set to close out “SNL’s” 48th season with Foo Fighters. This would have been Culkin’s second time hosting following his season 47 appearance. After being brilliantly imitated by “SNL” cast member Chloe Fineman, Coolidge would have made her long-awaited debut on the show.

Earlier this week, the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) announced that Hollywood writers would go on strike.

EXCLUSIVE: Unstable, the Netflix comedy series starring Rob Lowe and his son John Owen Lowe, is the latest show to have production hit by the writers strike.

Married at First Sight star Davina Rankin has confirmed that she and her husband, Jaxon Manuel, have split after less than a year of marriage. Davina rose to prominence when she appeared as on MAFS Australia in 2018. During her time on the show, she became notorious for cheating on her 'husband' Ryan Gallagher with Dean Wella, a right-wing YouTuber, but she later blamed her actions on bad editing.

Jonathan Groff and Zachary Quinto are clearly friendly exes!

Late-night shows will be shut down after the Writers Guild of America (WGA) announced they will strike.

Nightly talk shows including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, are set to go dark starting on Tuesday after writers agreed to strike.

Angelina Pivarnick said yes… Again!

Hit Thai BBQ restaurant Neon Tiger is to close, owners have confirmed. In a post to social media, headlined ‘Thank you Manchester’, the restaurant said that it will be shutting up shop on Sunday.

Bolton Council has agreed to accept more than £542,000 less than agreed with a developer for the former Moor Lane bus station site after the project to build 208 new homes was placed under threat. In 2021, developers Step Places along with housing association Bolton at Home, were given permission to redevelop the 4.4-acre Moor Lane site, behind the iconic Le Mans Crescent.

Bam Margera‘s friends have been very worried about him — and earlier this month, they tried to get him help.

Another bundle of joy! Sam Hunt and Hannah Lee Fowler are expecting baby No. 2 less than one year after their reconciliation.

Pep Guardiola said he had no excitement for a potential Treble as he refused to discuss the prospect of Manchester City winning everything.

Thania Garcia Mandolin, a live-stream concert platform that thrived after COVID-19 put a pause on in-person experiences, quietly closed its doors on Monday amid the resurgence of live touring and concerts. Mandolin launched on June 1, 2020, months into the pandemic, and less than a year later was named the best streaming platform at the 2021 Pollstar Awards (they were nominated with other platforms including Veeps, LiveXLive and Nugs.net). Around this same time last year, Mandolin was testing different ways to keep the concert streaming boom going by launching a variety of initiatives aimed at maximizing the in-person concert experience with a wide range of digital services. Among them were ticket sales to meet-and-greet or after-party add-ons to shows, ordering food and merch online without waiting in line, and replays of shows that were filmed live. The mobile app experience was employed for numerous live concerts including the 2021 Telluride Bluegrass Festival and Lil Wayne’s Uproar Hip-Hop Festival.

BuzzFeed News, which earned as reputation as a scrappy news-breaking digital rival to legacy media brands, is shutting down.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Less than a year after Spotify acquired Heardle, the audio streamer is mothballing the music game. “Heardle is going away on May 5th,” a message on the service’s website says. “Thanks for playing Heardle, but unfortunately we have to say goodbye.” In the note to Heardle users, Spotify said that if they have statistics they would like to save, “make sure you go to your stats and take a screenshot by May 4th.” When Spotify announced its deal to buy Heardle in July 2022, the company touted it as “a tool for musical discovery,” saying that playing the game “might just help you to rediscover old tracks you may have thought you’d forgotten, discover amazing new artists, or finally put a title to that wordless melody you’ve had caught in your head forever.”

The start of something new! Sister Wives star Christine Brown and her boyfriend, David Woolley, are engaged after less than a year of dating.

TV host Maya Jama shut down speculation she's romantically linked to Leonardo DiCaprio Monday. The "Love Island" host took to Twitter to clarify that she is not seeing DiCaprio after the two were spotted at the same BRITS Awards after-party. "I’ve been minding my business on holiday & said I wouldn’t respond/pay attention to any of the silly stories anymore but you need to stop now, that is literally my star sign," Maya Jama wrote.