UPDATED, 11:25 AM: Rick Astley has settled his right-of-publicity suit against “Betty (Get Money)” rapper Yung Gravy over a song that the British singer claimed borrowed heavily from his signature 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
UPDATED, 11:25 AM: Rick Astley has settled his right-of-publicity suit against “Betty (Get Money)” rapper Yung Gravy over a song that the British singer claimed borrowed heavily from his signature 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
Actor and comedian Mike Batayeh, best known for his role as laundromat manager Dennis Markowski on Breaking Bad, has died. He was 52.
A jury found today that Ed Sheeran did not wrongfully copy Marvin Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On” with his 2014 hit “Thinking Out Loud.”
Alec Baldwin today thanked two rather disparate people in responding to New Mexico dropping criminal charges today against him in the on-set shooting death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Twitter on Thursday abruptly suspended the accounts of several journalists including from the Washington Post, CNN and the New York Times as well as media pundit Keith Olbermann. All have covered Elon Musk in the past.
Michelle Branch, who scored a Grammy for singing on the 2002 Santana single “The Game of Love” and had other hits during the era, was arrested Thursday in Nashville and charged with domestic assault for slapping her estranged husband, Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney.
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The ninth annual Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Awards are being applied Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton, and Deadline is updating the winners list live.
Erik Pedersen, Nellie Andreeva The remaining five episodes of HBO’ freshman drama Industry will be released on WarnerMedia sibling HBO Max this Friday, Nov. 27, making the entire season available to binge over the holiday weekend.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorToday we learned why Bad Bunny missed Sunday night’s planned performance at the American Music Awards. The reggaeton star’s rep said today that he has tested positive for Covid-19.The Puerto Rican rapper, whose real name is Benito Martínez Ocasio, had been scheduled to perform “Dákiti” — the international hit single he recorded with Jhay Cortez — during the trophy show but canceled without offering an explanation.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorHerbert F. “Herb” Solow, who as an executive at Desilu Productions took Gene Roddenberry’s original pitch for Star Trek and also held exec posts at several showbiz companies, has died.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has plenty of TV time during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially when he made daily briefings on his state’s handling of the disease when New York City was the global hotspot.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorThe Independent Film & Television Alliance, which produces the annual American Film Market, has elected eight new members to its board. The new directors include executives from such companies as Lionsgate, Myriad Pictures and XYZ Films.The latest additions to IFTA’s board are J.D.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorTenemos los ganadores in Spanish-language programming for this year’s Daytime, Sports and News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorHarvey Weinstein is being “closely monitored” with a fever in prison, his reps said today.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorHulu is staying Woke. The streamer today handed an eight-episode Season 2 renewal to the hybrid live-action/animated original comedy series inspired by the life of award-winning artist Keith Knight.Woke takes an absurdist look at identity and culture through the lens of Keef (Lamorne Morris), a Black cartoonist who’s finally on the verge of mainstream success when an unexpected incident changes everything.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorThe state mandate against California theme parks reopening remains in place, but one popular site has some plans for the holidays.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: SpaceX and NASA are reteaming to make some more history together this weekend. Elon Musk’s SoCal-based company and the U.S.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorTommy Heinsohn, who won 10 NBA titles with the Boston Celtics as a player or coach and went on to a decades-long career as an announcer, died Tuesday in Boston, the club announced. He was 86.“This is a devastating loss,” the Celtics ownership said in a statement.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorABC has set early-2021 premiere dates for new seasons of its reality hits The Bachelor and American Idol, along with the return of To Tell the Truth and the debuts of three new game shows: Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, The Chase and The Hustler. Matt James is the new Bachelor in Season 25 of the franchise-launching juggernaut, which returns on Monday, January 4.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorWith Georgia on our minds, who better to break down the blue break for the Peach State than Stacey Abrams? The woman who made her GOP opponent really nervous during the 2018 gubernatorial there was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight to discuss how the Democrats won Georgia, the state’s two crucial U.S.
Erik Pedersen, Tom Tapp Politicians from across America offered congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory Saturday.The Democratic establishment was well represented. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were among the first.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorFormer President Barack Obama has weighed in on the election of his former VP Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States and Kamala Harris making history as the first woman and person of color to be vice president. Congratulations to my friends, @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris — our next President and Vice President of the United States.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorThe woman who ran second to Donald Trump for the presidency in 2016 is reacting to the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the next president and vice president of the United States. “The voters have spoken,” Hillary Clinton tweeted this morning.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorNithya Raman, the former executive director Time’s Up Entertainment, has been elected to the Los Angeles City Council. Her opponent for the District 4 seat, incumbent David Ryu, conceded the race today.As of late Friday, Raman had 52.4% of the vote, beating Ryu by about 6,000 votes.
Patrick Hipes, Erik Pedersen This is it, America – Election Day 2020. With President Donald Trump, his Democratic challenger Joe Biden and so many others declaring this “the most important election of our lifetimes,” it’s time for the final votes to be cast and tallied.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorLocal health officials on Thursday reported 24 new deaths from COVID-19 in Los Angeles County over the past 24 hours and 1,233 new cases.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorCBS All Access has handed off a series order to Texas 6, a docuseries about a high school six-man football team’s quest for a third state championship. All eight episodes will be available to stream on Thanksgiving Day, November 26.The series from Jared Christopher (Titletown, TX) follows the Strawn High School Greyhounds and their coach, Dewaine Lee, as they pursue a Texas threepeat in the sport.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorIt was the kind of story Hollywood might dream up — but not only was it real, it had some ties to the industry. Starz has set Sunday for the premiere of Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult, a four-part documentary series that takes a first-person look at the sex cult that was broken open in April 2018.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorLocal health officials on Monday reported only two deaths from COVID-19 in Los Angeles County over the past 24 hours and 881 new cases. They also said nearly 700 people remain hospitalized with the disease throughout the county.Authorities reminded that the low number of new deaths and new cases reported today reflect a reporting lag from over the weekend.Public Health now has identified 282,982 positive cases of COVID-19 to date across all areas of L.A.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Brandon Leake, the spoken-word poet who won the 2020 edition of America’s Got Talent, has signed with UTA for all areas.Leake was crowned AGT Season 15 champion last month after becoming the first spoken-word poet to be on the talent-competition series. He also was the first poet to advance to the finals.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorThe semi-essential workers on Superstore return from their summer — and early-fall — hiatus for Season 6 on October 29, and NBC has released a promo (watch it below).After Season 5 was cut short because of the pandemic, the new episodes certainly will address the dominant topic of 2020, as we see the Cloud 9 staff deal with coronavirus protocols and an errant sneeze near the pharmacy.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorJohnny Nash, the angel-voiced reggae-pop singer-songwriter who had U.S. hits with “I Can See Clearly Now,” “Stir It Up” and “Hold Me Tight,” died Tuesday at his home in Houston.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorThe NHL and its players have agreed on a tentative start date for what would have been its 2020-21 season.
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorEddie Van Halen, the self-taught guitarist for Van Halen who influenced a generation of players with his legendary licks, died today of cancer. He was 65 and had been having health problems for a number of years..
Erik Pedersen Managing EditorPaula Pell (A.P. Bio, SNL) has joined the band in Girls5eva, Tina Fey, Robert Carlock and Meredith Scardino’s original series for NBCU’s Peacock.
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