Ren, Stimpy to make TV comeback in new Comedy Central show

NEW YORK -- Grammy-nominated singer and “Fast & Furious” actor Tyrese grew up around police brutality, gang violence, murders and psychological trauma in the Watts neighborhood of Southern Los Angeles.

Peter White Television EditorThe Daily Show is continuing to poke fun at President Trump – this time in print across three of the country’s biggest newspapers.The Comedy Central nightly talk-show has taken out a faux lawyer advert in The New York Times, Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times.The advert comes as The Daily Show with Trevor Noah bagged six Emmy nominations including Outstanding Variety Talk Series as it hopes to displace Last Week Tonight with John Oliver from the top talk

Meghan Markle was looking summery and stylish while volunteering in Los Angeles with Prince Harry. The Duchess of Sussex helped distribute essential supplies and backpacks to local families on Wednesday with non-profit organization Baby2Baby at the Dr.

Rebecca Davis editorUniversal Music Group (UMG) has appointed Cindy Gu as head of Astralwerks Asia, the company’s label division focused on electronic and dance music in the region.The label also announced Tuesday its first Asian artist signing: the Indonesian EDM group Weird Genius.

LOS ANGELES -- The annual Lucille Ball Comedy Festival is going virtual with help from Tiffany Haddish, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Margaret Cho, “Weird Al” Yankovic and more than two-dozen others working in the realm of humor. The festival, presented by the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, will stream conversations with the artists over three weekends, starting Friday and running through Aug.

After surprising fans with an announcement on Twitter, Nickelback dropped a new cover track on Friday.

Steve-O is getting creative to promote his new comedy special. The 46-year old actor-comedian revealed on Instagram on Thursday that he has been taped to a billboard in Los Angeles advertising the special "Gnarly," which is currently available to stream on his website.

The Tax Collector has received its first set of reviews, and sadly it's not looking too good.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Konwiser Brothers Media has landed the rights to the documentary The World’s Most Dangerous Radio Station, which tells the story of the first Hip-Hop radio station, 1580 KDAY, and its founder and legendary Music Director/Assistant Program Director, Greg Mack.The doc recounts the dawn of Hip Hop when an obscure Los Angeles AM radio station and its maverick programmer was instrumental in the early careers of Jay Z, Dr.

Peter White Television EditorHBO’s quarantine-produced comedy feature Coastal Elites, starring Bette Midler, is to launch on September 12 – six months after COVID-19 started to ravage the U.S.The show centers around five characters from New York and Los Angeles coping with politics and the pandemic.Midler plays Miriam Nessler, a long-time teacher in the New York City public school system, who loves her students, the New York Times and the theater, who finds herself in police custody.Speaking as

It seems like we can stop the candlelight vigils for Christopher Nolan‘s “Tenet.” The endless speculation of when and if the movie was going to be released in theaters this year seemingly got shut down with Warner Bros. announcing a September 2 U.S.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterCanadian music producer Henry Walter, known as Cirkut, has new management.The Los Angeles-based hitmaker has tapped WMG heavyweight Mike Caren and Luke Mitzman of 100 Management to rep him going forward in all areas.

“Tamar Braxton: Get Ya Life!,” which was scheduled to premiere on July 30, has been rescheduled to debut on Sept. 10.Braxton was hospitalized on July 16 after being found unconscious at a Los Angeles residence.“Tamar Braxton has been an incredibly important member of the WE tv family for more than a decade, and our first concern is for her recovery and well-being.

Also Read: 'Friends' Is HBO Max's Most-Viewed Show Since LaunchBorrell is a journalist based in Los Angeles whose writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, National Geographic, The New York Times, and Outside. Borrell’s narrative non-fiction book proposal for “The First Shot” was sold at auction to publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.CAA represented the television sale of Borrell’s “The First Shot” on behalf of the Waxman Agency.