Gilbert Gottfried showed support for Chris Rock in his final days. Gottfried, one of the most recognizable voices in show business, died after a long illness on Tuesday. He was 67.
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EXCLUSIVE: Rich Sommer (The Dropout), Lauren Lindsay Donzis (Punky Brewster), Jayma Mays (United States of Al), Bentley Green (Snowfall), Angel Laketa Moore (Atypical) and Bailey Gavulic (Fear The Walking Dead) are set as series regulars in CBS comedy pilot Rust Belt News. Additionally, Jeff Blitz (American Auto) has been tapped to direct and executive produce the single-camera comedy pilot from The Simpsons writer and The Mindy Project exec producer Matt Warburton.
Written by Warburton, the project is set in a small Ohio town where the local newspaper goes out of business, leaving the ambitious, angsty reporters of the high school newspaper as the only people left to report on scandals, dig up corruption, and generally polish the rust off this rust-belt community.
Sommer will play Caleb, a jaded former journalist whose love of writing is reignited when he is recruited by Mack to help start an underground newspaper.
Donzis will portray Mack, an ambitious high school journalist who dreams of leaving small town Ohio to be a big-time reporter in New York. But when her school mysteriously burns down, Mack decides to start a new, underground newspaper, with help from her school friends and a jaded ex-newspaper reporter.
Mays is Rachel, a Mennonite mom, loving farm wife, city councilwoman and aspiring mayor, with a side job as Butterchurn Bae, the successful Instagram influencer.
Green will play Lucas, an artistic genius and high school Sophomore, who’s forced to move from Manhattan to semi-rural Ohio when his mom decides to move home and run for mayor.
Moore will portray Wendy. After circumstances force her to move with her rebellious teenage son from Manhattan back to Ohio, Wendy becomes the unlikely first black mayor of a rust
Gilbert Gottfried showed support for Chris Rock in his final days. Gottfried, one of the most recognizable voices in show business, died after a long illness on Tuesday. He was 67.
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC and Paramount+ have set cast for new drama, The Gold, which quietly began filming this month in London, we can reveal.
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You’re a top earner, baby!
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EXCLUSIVE: Ravi Patel (Wonder Woman 1984), Eric Edelstein (Creepshow) and Johnny Jay Lee (NCIS: Los Angeles) are set as series regulars in CBS comedy pilot Rust Belt News, from The Simpsons writer and The Mindy Project exec producer Matt Warburton. They join previously announced cast members Rich Sommer, Lauren Lindsey Donzis, Jayma Mays, Bailey Gavulic, Bentley Green and Angel Laketa Moore.
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Will Smith startled the celebrity world after going on stage and attacking comedian Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife. Smith, who later won best actor for his role in King Richard, stormed the Oscars stage after Rock had poked fun at his wife's hair.
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Geena Davis is dropping out.
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