L.A. Board Of Supervisors Backs Striking Actors, Urges Studios To Return To Talks

Victor Kiriakis (John Aniston), per Soap Opera Digest. Theresa first came to Salem in 2013, and fans couldn’t get enough. Theresa quickly became a huge favorite among viewers with her devious plots and her romance with Brady Black (Eric Martsolf).Lilley played the role of Theresa for three years before exiting the soap opera in 2016.

EXCLUSIVE: Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group has acquired world rights to Swen Studios’ family comedy F Plus (aka F+) starring UFC champion Randy Couture, Tommy Davidson (In Living Color) and Jennifer Esposito (Crash).

Sarah Hyland is reflecting on her romance with Wells Adams.

Drake usually loves it when fans throw their bras on stage, but he didn’t want any lingerie being chucked at him during Saturday’s gig.

Olivia Rodrigo officially exited her role as Nini on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series in season 3 — and there weren’t any plans to bring her back for the final episodes.

Leslie David Baker — the actor best known for playing Stanley Hudson on The Office — is returning donations to fans who supported his proposed Stanley spinoff series.

The Office star Leslie Baker has announced that he is returning over $100,000 (£78,276) of donations fans sent to his Kickstarter campaign for a proposed Stanley Hudson spin-off.Baker went viral for launching the campaign back in 2020, but has been unable to get the project, titled Uncle Stan, off the ground. The show was set to centre around Stanley as he came out of retirement in Florida and travelled to Los Angeles to help his nephew save his motorcycle/flower business.The actor launched the campaign with a crowdfunding goal of $300,000 (£234,747).

Tori Kelly received quite the welcome home gift! When the 30-year-old singer was released from the hospital after suffering blood clots, Kelly was welcomed home by flowers sent by Beyoncé.Kelly took to Instagram on Tuesday to share pics from her happy homecoming, one of which was a screenshot of a text from an unnamed sender.«Hi! Hope you're feeling good! Beyoncé sent flowers to the house. No one was home so they left them under this tree,» the text read, which Kelly responded to by writing, «Ummmmm Beyoncé?»The next pic in the slideshow featured Kelly hugging a gorgeous bouquet, presumably the one sent by the «Formation» singer.In her post, Kelly also included a video of her being lovingly greeted by her dogs, a pic of a card with the pups' pawprints on them, a photo of the many flowers she received in the wake of her health scare, and shots of her watching TV, playing video games and enjoying treats at home.«home sweet home,» she captioned her post.A post shared by tori kelly (@torikelly)broke the news of Kelly's hospitalization on July 24.

Thania Garcia Premier Music Group has recruited the music supervision services of George Drakoulias, the music supervisor behind the blockbuster “Barbie” soundtrack and score. The project featured original material from Mark Ronson, Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, Karol G, Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj, among numerous others. Drakoulias joins the firm’s leadership team as a partner and creative director, with plans to open Premier’s new offices in Los Angeles later this summer.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is urging the U.S. Postal Service honor Leonard Nimoy with a commemorative stamp.

WGA West President Meredith Stiehm, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and SAG-AFTRA national board members Frances Fisher and Shari Belafonte joined hundreds of striking writers and actors on the picket line today outside the main gate of Fox Studios in Century City.

EXCLUSIVE: Jean-Michel Basquiat is set to be the subject of a new feature documentary, King Pleasure, from Val and Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? producer Boardwalk Pictures and Quinn Wilson, former creative director for Lizzo.

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler will join striking actors and writers on the picket line Thursday morning at Fox Studios in Los Angeles. On Tuesday, she joined picketers outside Netflix offices in New York City. “When we fight together, we win together. And we won’t stop fighting until workers have a fair contract!” she tweeted the other day.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music + The Beatport Group is opening applications for grants to its second annual Diversity + Parity Fund. The investment initiative is designed to support organizations that focus on underrepresented groups and promote diversity within the music industry.

It’s Day 11 of the SAG-AFTRA strike and Day 84 of the WGA strike.

KVEA and KCET each won eight trophies at the 75th Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards to lead the field just like they did at the nomination stage. Telemundo’s KVEA swept all three regularly scheduled news cast categories, morning, daytime and evening. CBS/KCAL9 followed with 4 wins, with ABC7 and Spectrum SportsNet LA tied at 3 and KMEX, Spectrum News 1 and Spectrum SportsNet at 2. The honored telecasts included two tributes to local icon Vin Scully who died last summer.

The Warner Bros. lot may be turning into an unintended flashpoint for everything that’s troubling Los Angeles these days — the overwhelming homeless situation and the first actors and writers strike since 1960 — but you’d be hard pressed to find signs of woe on the lot’s popular studio tour.

As the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the American Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) fight for better wages and contracts, they’re also requesting better picketing conditions.

MUBI. “There’s no untangling the film from what it is,” Sachs told The Los Angeles Times. “It is a film that is very open about the place of sexual experience in our lives.

Did Universal accidentally admit to breaking the law just to spite striking union workers?!