Jamie Kellner Dies: TV Executive Who Helped Launch Fox & The WB Was 77

Bud S. Smith, an Oscar-nominated film editor, died last Sunday at his home in Studio City, California, from respiratory failure after a prolonged illness. He was 88.

Sophia Bush has been celebrating her first Pride Month as a publicly out woman, and now she’s opening up about the conversation that helped her realize her sexuality.

Candidates all across the country will soon be competing in the general election to win one of 365 seats in Parliament.

A callous finance worker who claimed her dying boss had given her permission to take £75,000 of company cash has dodged jail.

Playing Anastasia Steel in Fifty Shades of Grey elevated Dakota Johnson‘s star power to the next level, and she faced stiff competition to land the role.

William Earl Eric Illowsky, a cable TV veteran who helped launch the original Sci Fi Channel in the early 1990s, died June 15 at in Peekskill, New York after a battle with glioblastoma brain cancer. Illowsky started his career at Disney Channel in 1985 and later moved to Cox Cable. He worked in cable throughout the 1980s and ’90s.

We could have gone back to County General!

Shania Twain famously celebrated Brad Pitt in song back in 1998 with her song That Don’t Impress Me Much, a song that has proved enduringly popular, with an impressive 196million streams on Spotify.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Jamie Kellner, who made his name as the only exec ever to create two broadcast networks — Fox and The WB (both of which also achieved profitability under his watch), died Friday at his home in Montecito, Calif. He was 77.

Robert Winnett will not be joining The Washington Post as editor this fall, amid the fallout following a staff revolt over CEO Will Lewis‘ abrupt change in newsroom leadership and reports that have raised ethical concerns over his and Winnett’s previous journalism practices in the UK.

Donald Sutherland, who died Thursday at age 88, included one of the most controversial sex sequences in Hollywood history. The nookie was so realistically shot, many audience members at the time believed it was genuine. Some still do.“We did a good job, it’s very real,” cinematographer Anthony B.

Donald Sutherland, the beloved actor who starred in scores of films from The Dirty Dozen, MASH and Klute to Animal House and Ordinary People to Pride & Prejudice and The Hunger Games franchise and won an Emmy for Citizen X, died Thursday in Miami after a long illness. He was 88.

Putting up a Broadway show is hard enough. But try lifting a 111-year-old, 7,000-ton Broadway theater 30 feet in the air.

Jamie Dornan delighted staff at a Scots hotel as he stayed there whilst filming his new Netflix drama.

Willie Mays, “The Say Hey Kid,” who was among the greatest baseball players of all time, won two MVPs, was a 24-time All-Star and made one of the greatest catches in the game’s history, died Tuesday afternoon at 93, the San Francisco Giants announced.

Two Wigan Athletic supporters who tried to sneak flares into a football stadium have been banned from attending matches.

If you have a lot of free time (and perhaps a degree in copyright law), then you should really try to unravel the mess that is the “Friday the 13th” rights. Without getting stuck in the weeds, it appears various people own various parts of the franchise.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Longtime AMC PR head Marnie Black, whose tenure included overseeing consumer media relations, brand messaging, special events, talent relations and awards campaigns on hit series including “Mad Men,” “Breaking Bad,” “Better Call Saul” and “The Walking Dead” universe, is departing the company after 13 years. Black will exit at the end of the month to explore the next chapter of her career.

Jamie Campbell Bower is teasing Stranger Things season five, and revealing some new info, too.

The Grand Jury Prize for International Competition at Sheffield DocFest has gone to At the Door of the House, Who Will Come Knocking, the feature directorial debut of Maja Novaković, a filmmaker from Bosnia-Herzegovina.