Netflix must face ex-prosecutor’s defamation lawsuit over Central Park Five Series

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“American Vandal” creators Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault have landed a series order at Paramount Plus for an eSports mockumentary series called “Players,” Variety has learned.“Players” follows a fictional pro “League of Legends” team as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterLaKeith Stanfield will star in an adaptation of the Victor LaValle novel “The Changeling,” which has been ordered to series at Apple, Variety has learned.The series is described as a fairytale for grown-ups. It is further described as a horror story, a parenthood fable, and a perilous odyssey through a New York City you didn’t know existed.Kelly Marcel will write the adaptation in addition to serving as executive producer and showrunner on the series.

After a two-hour-plus delay due to thunderstorms on Saturday night, music mega-producer Clive Davis’ star-studded “We Love NYC Homecoming Concert” in Central Park was canceled.A rainstorm that came as Hurricane Henri moved up the East Coast cut short a concert that was expected to last about five hours — just as Barry Manilow was on stage singing “Can’t Smile Without You.”The roughly 22,000 attendees were asked to exit Central Park and seek shelter — but the storms continued before organizers

coronavirus was cut short because of severe weather as Hurricane Henri approached.Officials asked concert-goers to leave the park during Barry Manilow’s set amid the threat of lightning. New York City police on Saturday night told concertgoers via Twitter to “calmly move to the nearest exits and proceed to areas outside of the park.

We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert on the Great Lawn of Central Park on Saturday night.Midway into the concert — as Barry Manilow belted out “I Can’t Smile Without You” — the heavens opened up and pre-Henri arrived several hours earlier than expected, with the rain and lightning threat putting an end to what was turning into an epic event.It was as if Mother Nature was saying it was “too soon” to be celebrating overcoming COVID with cases rising due to the Delta variant.

New York’s months-in-planning post-Covid-shutdown “Homecoming” concert in Central Park, airing live on CNN, was abruptly halted mid-show this evening – mid-song, in fact – after lightning and rain broke out in the area.

coronavirus.Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Jennifer Hudson, Carlos Santana, LL Cool J and Andrea Bocelli are among the performers at what is being billed as the “Homecoming Concert."Saturday's event comes after a series of hip-hop concerts in the last week at outdoor venues around the city.Despite the joyful intention, the concert is taking place when there are worries about the contagious delta variant of COVID-19.New York City over the past week has averaged just under 2,000 new cases of

Lorde‘s new album Solar Power is out now and she took over Central Park on release day to perform the music!

50 Cent has called for the dismissal of a billion dollar lawsuit filed by a man who claims that ‘Power’ – the TV series which the rapper co-produced and appeared in – ripped off his actual life story.The plaintiff is Cory ‘Ghost’ Holland, who claims that he is the inspiration for the main character in ‘Power’, that being a drug lord known as Ghost who is trying to give up his criminal activities and run a legit business instead.The fictional Ghost’s life story is close enough to Holland’s actual

statement Thursday:“New Jeopardy! host Mike Richards’ disparaging remarks about Jews, women & Asians are no laughing matter. Stereotyping is an entry point to hate and his apology lacks acknowledgment of its harm.

A judge has granted Johnny Depp permission to move forward with his lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard.

Amazon Studios announced Friday it would film the second season of its original series, inspired by the books of J.R.R. Tolkien, to Britain.“The shift from New Zealand to the U.K.

Chris Willman Music WriterGlobal Citizen has unveiled lineups for three of the international settings for its 24-hour “Global Citizen Live” broadcast for Sept. 25.

New York City is getting another shot in the arm this summer with Free Shakespeare in the Park’s happy Merry Wives, playwright Jocelyn Bioh’s embraceable adaptation of the Bard’s The Merry Wives of Windsor starring Watchmen‘s Jacob Ming-Trent as that great, rotund creation Falstaff.

Global Citizen Live is a wonderful progression from our partnership during the Vax Live campaign, event, and primetime broadcast,” Katie Hill, senior vice president of Global Citizen, said in a press release.

police face charges over the death of Sheku Bayoh. The Sunday Mail can reveal Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain signed off a Victim’s Right to Review (VRR) on behalf of the tragic dad’s family after her predecessor James Wolffe failed to act.

HBO has added Minka Kelly, Dominic Fike and Demetrius ‘Lil Meech’ Flenory Jr. to the Season 2 cast of Euphoria, starring Zendaya and Hunter Schafer.

Amy Cooper — perhaps one of the most infamous “Karens” of them all — is sharing her side of the story months after she was pegged the “Central Park Karen.”