Hollywood Flashback: Michael Learned Won Her First 'Waltons' Emmy in '73

Two decades before Jeffrey Katzenberg started Quibi, the video platform that has been struggling to find a sizable audience since its April 6 debut — but which was nominated for 10 shortform Emmys — the mogul tried a similar format with Pop.com.

“Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure is neither excellent nor adventurous,” began The Hollywood Reporter’s pan of a film being “dumped into theaters nationwide” on Feb. 17, 1989.

Former child star Macaulay Culkin joked his job was to “make people feel old” as he celebrated his 40th birthday.

David Robb Labor EditorSAG-AFTRA Health Plan CEO Michael Estrada on Tuesday described the “perfect storm” of soaring health care costs, employer contributions to the plan that have failed to keep up with those costs, and the devastating impact of the coronavirus shutdown on those contributions that made a complete overhaul necessary to keep the plan from going broke by 2024.Changes to the plan, which include increased eligibility thresholds for many, and higher premiums for all, will go into

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterWME partner Phillip Sun and Macro founder and CEO Charles D. King are launching M88, a full-service representation firm that aims to amplify “the voices of artists and creators from the global new majority.”Sun will depart the agency to lead the new joint venture as president and managing partner, and King’s recently launched Macro Management will merge its operations with the company.

Jordan Moreau “The Batman” is finally out of the shadows.The first trailer for Robert Pattinson’s take on Batman released on Saturday during the DC FanDome, giving fans their first looks at the Caped Crusader, Catwoman, the Riddler, Commissioner Gordon and director Matt Reeves’ Gotham City.

It seems a shame that Northern Exposure — a '90s dramedy about a neurotic Jewish doctor from New York forced to pay back his student loans by working in a tiny Alaska town — is not available on any streaming platform. (Licensing fees for its rock-and-jazz-heavy soundtrack have been cited as the reason.) The feel-good show came from Joshua Brand and John Falsey, creators of ABC’s thirtysomething, and CBS ordered eight episodes out of the gate, premiering the series in summer 1990.

The drive-in movie theater, which is enjoying a resurgence amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, did not originate in Los Angeles. That honor goes to Camden, New Jersey, where the world’s first opened June 6, 1933 — the patented brainchild of Richard Hollingshead, son of an auto parts dealer.

"We'd get to the point where they read the award and it always went the same way," recalls Friends co-creator David Crane of the Emmy Awards during the blockbuster NBC sitcom's first seven seasons. "They'd go, 'And the winner is Frr…' — and time slowed down — and then it always finished with '...asier!' And we would all start to stand and then settle back in our seats." So, when Friends was nominated again in 2002, no one expected much.

Livingston have announced the signing of former Rangers and Hearts midfielder Jason Holt.The 27-year-old has penned a two-year deal at the Tony Macaroni Arena having been training with the club for a number of weeks.Holt started his career at Hearts before signing for Rangers under Mark Warburton in 2015.He went on to make over 100 appearances for the Glasgow side but had spent the previous two seasons out on loan at Fleetwood Town and then St Johnstone, featuring the the Saints side that

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineAn esteemed up-and-coming actor known for turns in films including Patti Cake$, Unicorn Store and The Front Runner, Mamoudou Athie recently earned his first Emmy nomination for short-form series Oh Jerome, No, though he could never have anticipated this result.A recurring segment within Cake—a short-form comedy anthology, which premiered on FXX last fall—the series centers on Jerome, an overly sensitive young man living out a series of bizarre scenarios in

Like its title character, Babe, released a quarter-century ago, is the story of an underestimated little thing that went on to stupendous achievements. It began as the 1983 Dick King-Smith children's book The Sheep-Pig, about an orphaned piglet who demonstrates a knack for herding sheep.

While his latest limited series, HBO's The Plot Against America, earned a single Emmy nomination for cinematography on July 28, two decades ago, David Simon's first HBO project, 2000's The Corner, earned four noms and won three Emmys — for outstanding miniseries; outstanding directing for a miniseries, movie or a special (for Charles S. Dutton); and outstanding writing for a miniseries or a movie (for Simon and David Mills).

It's remarkable that an actress who starred in Gone With the Wind, won two Oscars and lived to 104 made her biggest impact on Hollywood by winning a lawsuit. Olivia de Havilland — who died July 26 in Paris — was 20 when on May 5, 1936, she signed a seven-year contract with Warner Bros.

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Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: The hot movie package du jour is Scandalous! This is a drama that has Jeremy Pope — freshly minted Emmy nominee for the Netflix series Hollywood — to play Sammy Davis Jr and Janet Mock (Hollywood and Pose) to direct a drama about the interracial love affair between the entertainer and actress Kim Novak, who at the time was the top box office draw in Hollywood.Pic will be produced by Jonathan Glickman, who is producing the upcoming Aretha

E! reports,recognized in the "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series" category for her role in Euphoria. We Zendaya fans have every confidence that she'll win that EGOT in the near future, so let's hope this is the first step! Zendaya posted an emotional note on Instagram to mark the occasion.

awards season feeling like a thing of the past - exaggerated by the Coronavirus lockdown, which makes it seem like a live event hasn't taken place in a decade - the Emmy nominations for 2020 have been announced.Saturday Night Live's Leslie Jones hosted the nominations reveal on Tuesday, with the help of Laverne Cox, Josh Gaad and Tatiana Maslany.