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Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorLiberty Media CEO and SiriusXM chairman Greg Maffei said the satellite broadcaster’s star host Howard Stern, whose contract ends this year, is likely to re-up and apologized that a recently announced top management reshuffle was handled too abruptly.“I think we were surprised by the market reaction and maybe in hindsight we should have been smarter,” Maffei said on a conference call today.

The Playlist Podcast is back! Beginning with this Halloween episode, our very own Managing Editor, Charles Barfield, leads the way with new co-hosts, Mike DeAngelo and Brian Farvour, to bring back that lovin’ feeling to your earholes.

Aaron Sorkin, together with cast members from The West Wing, the Broadway company of To Kill a Mockingbird and Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher, are coming together next week to host the Broadway for Biden election phone banking event. From The West Wing, participating stars include Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff, Janel Moloney and Dule Hill, while writers Eli Attie, Deborah Cahn and Josh Singer will also be involved.

Kanye West did his thing for almost three hours exactly — uninterrupted, unchanged, and uncensored.

Audio entertainment giant SiriusXM, the home of Howard Stern, on Thursday said it added 169,000 self-pay subscribers in its satellite radio and 105,000 in its Pandora unit during the third quarter. The company, controlled by John Malone's Liberty Media, saidthat at SiriusXM total net subscriber additions were 186,000, resulting in 34.4 million total users at the end of September.

Dave McNary Film ReporterSan Francisco Film has selected filmmakers Aaron Sorkin and Chloe Zhao for honors at its annual San Francisco Film Awards ceremonies, due to be livestreamed on Dec. 9.Sorkin, whose “Trial of the Chicago 7” is streaming on Netflix, will receive the Kanbar award for storytelling.

If you have Netflix, you’re well aware that Aaron Sorkin’s latest feature, “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” is now available to stream globally on the platform. The new drama tells the true story of a group of people in the late-‘60s that were accused of conspiracy after protesting the Democratic National Convention.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticA column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 begins streaming today on Netflix after a brief run in theaters that are open around the country, not L.A. or NY obviously, and receptive to playing it.

drug laws.In the week the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed record high levels of drug deaths in England and Wales, Pat has called for drugs to be decriminalised, regulated and controlled, so more people like her son don't lose their lives.She also wants safe consumption rooms installed in town centres in the hope that the risk of death for people with drug addictions can be lessened."We have a higher rate of drug deaths in this country, about twice as much as the European average,"

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“I don’t see how we could have made the film now had we not shot in Chicago,” writer and director Aaron Sorkin says of his new film “Trial of the Chicago 7,” now streaming on Netflix.Five decades after it took place, Aaron Sorkin tells the story of the seven defendants who were charged by the federal government with conspiracy after protests broke out at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThere is a very good mix of theatrical, digital, VOD and hybrid releases this weekend starting with The Kid Detective from Stage 6 Films starring Adam Brody and Sophie Nélisse.Written and directed by Evan Morgan, the movie is about exactly what the title suggests: a kid detective. Brody plays a once-celebrated kid detective who is now 31 and isn’t exactly bathing in fame.

Also Read: 'The Trial of the Chicago 7' Film Review: Aaron Sorkin's Vital Drama Delivers Both Talk and ActionSorkin wrote and directed the film.See below for five facts about the making of the film.Sorkin combed through 21,000 pages of court documents — after all, the trial went on for almost five months. But what he couldn’t find in those documents were certain personality traits and relationship characteristics about individual people.

Aaron Sorkin is known for certain trademarks: the walk-and-talk, the breathless dialogue, crescendos of feeling. You know the drill: Martin Sheen quotes the bible, an orchestra swells and then we cry.But the writer hasn’t given us that ultra-satisfying, sweeping Sorkin package much since “The West Wing” ended.

The Trial of the Chicago 7 has just been released – check it out exclusively below.The song, written by Daniel Pemberton, scores the new Netflix drama about the real-life trial against a group of anti-Vietnam War protesters inciting violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.Pemberton told NME that the score was entirely composed remotely, his only interaction with the Chicago 7 team being a one-hour meeting with Sorkin in Los Angeles months ago.“He had already mapped the

cast have reunited for a special theatrical stage presentation of the season 3 episode, “Hartsfield’s Landing,” which will benefit When We All Vote, the non-profit organization launched by Michelle Obama, Lin-Manuel Miranda and others with the goal of increasing participation in elections. “Listen, all we care about is [that] we’re trying to drive fans of to the polls.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIt is fitting in many ways that Movistar Plus’ “Riot Police” (“Antidisturbios”) saw its world premiere in a theater at one of Europe’s biggest film festivals: September’s San Sebastian in Spain.Feted by the domestic press — “the best Spanish series of the year,” trumpeted newspaper El Mundo — the Movistar Plus original series has closed sales to France and Latin America with “partners of the highest caliber,” “Riot Police” producer Domingo Corral,

When you watch the trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming drama, “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” it’s clear that the film takes place in the ‘60s, with its era-appropriate costumes and politics. The film is obviously about the real trial of a group of people that were accused of conspiracy after protests surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Duchess Meghan expressed her gratitude for having "blue skies and fresh air and green space" at their home, and also revealed that son "Archie loves birds," which is pretty adorable.Prince Harry discussed their new home and explained, "We’ve felt incredibly grateful and fortunate to be able to have outdoor space where our son can walk his first steps." He continued, "It reminds me of how many people are just stacked on top of each other and have been for months after months after months and what

Atresplayer Premium, the OTT platform run by Spanish media conglom Atresmedia, is prepping TV series “La Ruta,” teaming with Caballo Films, the production outfit whose partners include filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen, the co-creator of Movistar Plus’ hit “Riot Police.”“La Ruta” – a working title – is set on the La Ruta del Bakalao, a legendary zone of nightclubs lining some 19 miles of a CV-500 secondary road between the Spanish coastal city of Valencia and its beaches to its south.