Sheila Hancock still 'feels the presence' of late husband John Thaw

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe Netflix action-comedy series “Obliterated” from the creators of “Cobra Kai” has found its first two cast members, Variety has learned.Nick Zano and Shelley Henig are set to star in the series, which was picked up at Netflix in May after having originally been ordered to series at TBS.The show tells the story of an elite special forces team who thwarts a deadly threat to Las Vegas. After their celebratory party, filled with booze, drugs and sex, the team discovers that a bomb they deactivated was a fake.

Nick Zano (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) and Shelley Hennig (Teen Wolf) are set as the leads of Obliterated, Netflix’s hourlong action comedy series from Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald as well as Sony Pictures Television.

Susan Lucci is remembering her beloved husband Helmut Huber. On Friday, the "All My Children" star gave a touching speech about the 84-year-old, who passed away in March, while introducing the in memoriam segment at the 49th Daytime Emmy Awards in California. "I am so happy to be here with you tonight celebrating the people that we love and lost this year," the 75-year-old told the audience at the Pasadena Convention Center.

EXCLUSIVE: Alice Eve (Belgravia), Shelley Hennig (Unfriended) and Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory) have signed on to star in Jon Keeyes’ thriller The Last Girl for Yale Entertainment, which will head into production in Ireland this summer.

Vivienne Chow A Taiwanese filmmaker has made his short film inspired by Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests available online for free after it failed to get approval from the city’s censorship authorities.Wu Zi-en, director of “Islander,” has uploaded the full 25-minute film noir to online platform Vimeo last week, after it became the third film in a month to have been censored by Hong Kong authorities.The city last year changed censorship regulations to effectively ban any film that is politically sensitive or poses a threat to national security.“Islander” follows a man and his grandson’s journey to visit the son, who has been placed behind bars as a political prisoner in Taipei. The film was selected as part of the Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival in Hong Kong, but its public screening was canceled because the film did not receive the approval in time. Fresh Wave organizers did not respond to Variety‘s request for comment.

Susan Lucci is remembering her husband.

Susan Lucci honored her late husband Helmut Huber while appearing at the 2022 Daytime Emmy Awards.

Susan Lucci, one of the most celebrated actors in daytime television history, returned to the Daytime Emmy Awards stage tonight to introduce the In Memoriam segment, which featured Michael Bolton performing his 1982 hit “How Am I Supposed to Live Without You.”

NeNe Leakes is remembering her late-husband, Gregg Leakes, this Father's Day. Taking to Instagram to share a portrait-style photo of Gregg, the star wrote, «Happy Heavenly Father’s Day To THE BEST. We Love you and Miss You Soooo Much! Father’s Day will NEVER be the same.»A post shared by Nene Leakes (@neneleakes)Gregg died in September 2021 following a battle with colon cancer. He was 66 years old.

Vivienne Chow To Hong Kong documentary filmmaker Ngan Chi-sing, seeking asylum in the U.K. is going to be one of his priorities in the coming year. That’s because he has made a film about the 2019 protests that he fears would endanger his security, should he ever return to his home city.“Hong Kong cannot tolerate documentary films like mine anymore,” Ngan, the director of “Love in the Time of Revolution,” which premieres this week at the inaugural edition of the Melbourne Hong Kong Film Festival running from June 12-19 in Australia, told Variety.

Kelly Rizzo honored her late husband, Bob Saget, on a special night! On Sunday, the travel blogger attended the Fourth Annual Critics Choice Real TV Awards and accepted the Impact Award, which was posthumously awarded to the comedian and presented to his wife by his friend,John Stamos.  Rizzo took the stage in a rare appearance and praised her husband’s work during a tearful speech. «It's so wonderful to see how incredibly loved he still is by everybody, and I know that Bob would be so honored and so thrilled and so grateful to receive this award right now,» the 43-year-old said of her late husband.

Katie Couric has remembered her first husband, John Paul Monahan, on what would have been their 33rd wedding anniversary. The star took to Instagram with a sweet throwback from their first dance on their big day. MORE: Inside Katie Couric's huge $6.3million Hamptons home she designed with sister ClaraJohn was just 42 when he passed away from colorectal cancer in 1998 and he still has a firm place in Katie's heart. WATCH: Katie Couric shares photos from daughter's idyllic Italian honeymoon She paid tribute to him with a message in which she also thanked her current husband, John Molner, for his support. "June 10, 1989," she wrote. "It would have been 33 years today.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefFactwire, an independent news agency and publication in Hong Kong, said Friday that it will cease operations with immediate effect.It is the fourth closure in the last year of a significant news organization that is not aligned with the city establishment’s pro-Beijing camp.The injection by Beijing in July 2020 of a National Security Law, and a powerful security apparatus in the city, is seen by media organizations to have significantly reduced the freedoms of the press. The government disputes this analysis, but says that reporting must remain lawful.Factwire, which specialized in investigative reporting, was established in 2015 using HK$4.7 million of funds that were crowd-sourced from 3,300 supporters in three months. It did not pinpoint the reasons for its closure, nor analyze the timing of it.

Veteran British actor Timothy Spall (Mr Turner) is to lead The Sixth Commandment, Sarah Phelps’ BBC factual drama about the deaths of Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin in the village of Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire, and the extraordinary events that unfolded over the following years.