Sinclair Broadcast Group Trims Workforce By 5% Due To Impact Of Covid-19

Set to go to trial next month, Frank Darabont and CAA’s more than seven-year legal battle with AMC over hundreds of millions in profits from The Walking Dead now looks likely to still be going on even after the zombie apocalypse series is over – maybe.

While the VCU Rams were poised to take on the Oregon Ducks tonight, in the first round of the NCAA’s men’s tournament, the game, which was to air on TNT, was ruled a no-contest due to “COVID-19 protocols.” Any March Madness dreams on the part of the Rams abruptly ended there.

Twitter finds it ironic that Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago club was reportedly forced to shut down some of its services because of a COVID-19 outbreak. Multiple staff members at Trump’s favorite getaway in Palm Beach, Florida allegedly tested positive for the coronavirus, which several anonymous people told AP News on March 19. This led the club to suspend services in its dining room and beach club, according to a staff email that the outlet also obtained.

The Motion Picture Association released its annual report on box office and home entertainment, and the bottom line is sobering but little surprise after a year of Covid closures.

Dennis Harvey Film CriticStriking a middle ground between teen fantasy “The Craft” and deadly serious political allegory “The Handmaid’s Tale” is “Witch Hunt,” writer-director Elle Callahan’s second feature. Her first, the 2019 “Head Count,” was a strikingly assured supernatural mind-bender, albeit one a little too understated for some genre fans.

After a year of hardship for couples forced to change and even cancel wedding plans, last night left RTE viewers in tears watching a handful of couples who did make it down the aisle in My Little Big Day.

Actor Jamie Dornan's father, Dr Jim Dornan passed away at the age of 73 due to COVID 19.  The renowned obstetrician and gynaecologist had previously been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. The news of his passing has come as a shock to those in the medical fraternity.

direct to your inboxAn 80-year-old Scout group faces closure after failing to raise enough money to buy the land on which its hut stands.The 9th Sale Scouts needed to find £150,000 by July 31 this year after St Anne's Church announced it was selling off the land to help fund repairs.But after the group's fundraising efforts were badly hampered by the Covid pandemic leaders have now admitted 'time is running out'.

Sarah Harding is warning others to seek treatment after she delayed going to the doctor about her cancer because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Girls Aloud singer is battling advanced breast cancer and has reportedly told pals she "held back" from talking to doctors about her pain due to COVID-19.

On the evening of March 12, 2020, Grey’s Anatomy executive producers Krista Vernoff, Debbie Allen and James Williams sent out note to the series’ cast and crew, informing them that “Out of an abundance of caution, production is postponed effective immediately.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAMC Entertainment reported a net loss of $4.6 billion in 2020, a shocking illustration of the toll that the coronavirus pandemic took on the world’s largest theater chain and the exhibition sector.

Get out your tissue boxes, Real World fans! There’s a LOT of nostalgia headed your way.

Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the largest local TV station owners in the country, is laying off approximately 5 percent of its workforce, citing the economic impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic. "The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be felt across all sectors of the economy, something that can have a profound impact on a company as diversified as ours," a spokesperson for the company tells The Hollywood Reporter in a statement.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterSinclair Broadcast Group is shrinking its workforce by 5%, letting go of several hundred employees as a result of the “profound impact” of the pandemic, said the company in a statement.

direct to your inboxA prison is said to be close to 'boiling point' after two inmates died of Covid within the space of a fortnight while four others have been hospitalised with the virus. Staff at HMP Risley in Warrington say they fear for their safety at work, the Liverpool Echo reports.