‘SNL’s Melissa Villaseñor To Host Film Independent Spirit Awards; Org To Feature Directors Close-Up Series

Alex Beresford took a swipe at Prince Harry on Friday's Good Morning Britain as the show played a clip of his interview with James Corden. Prince Harry, 36, appeared on The Late Late Show in America overnight, which saw him on an open bus tour of Los Angeles with host James, 42.The pair stopped off at the house used to film The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, even rapping the show's iconic theme tune.

California’s Covid-19 death toll officially surpassed 50,000 on Thursday, according to the state’s virus tracking board. Thursday’s total of 50,991 was a big jump up from Wednesday’s due to a massive backlog deaths in Los Angeles County were tallied. Thursday’s tally becomes the state’s highest daily death toll of the pandemic.

Kal Penn will host the 2021 Writers Guild Awards ceremony, to be held virtually March 21 from Los Angeles and New York.

OWN TV host Dr. Laura Berman is opening up about how she monitored her son's drug use prior to his apparent overdose earlier this month.

Andy Cohen is to front and executive produce a provocative new format for Peacock, in which singletons brave unfiltered feedback from their exes. The NBCUniversal streamer also confirmed that he is involved in a reboot of The Real Housewives Of Miami.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeA year after KROQ owner Entercom shocked the radio biz by yanking the station’s morning program, “Kevin in the Morning with Allie & Jensen” (the successor program to three-decade staple “Kevin & Bean”), host Kevin Ryder is prepping a return to the Los Angeles airwaves.Ryder announced this morning that he’ll be joining Doug “Sluggo” Roberts to co-host the afternoon drive shift on crosstown rival KLOS, owned by Meruelo Media, starting this Thursday.

“Saturday Night Live” star Melissa Villaseñor will host the 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards on April 22, the organization announced on Monday.She will host the first primetime version of the Spirit Awards, which this year will air on IFC on the Thursday night before the Oscars instead of the traditional Saturday afternoon event near the Santa Monica pier.“As someone who considers herself a pretty dependent person, I’m truly honored to host the Film Independent Spirit Awards,” said

EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Ushkowitz (Glee), Veronica Dunne (K.C. Undercover) and Chelsea Alden (13 Reasons Why) are set to lead actor-director Marla Sokoloff’s indie ensemble comedy Rosé All Day. Alice Hunter (Another Period), Briana Cuoco (Flight Attendant), Cameron Kelly (Masters of Sex) and Avery Norris (White Elephant) round out the cast for the project which is set to start shooting in March in Los Angeles.

The Little Things is doing big things at the box office.

Actors Jared Leto and Rami Malek sometimes find it difficult to shake off playing darker characters on screen. Both Oscar-winners star alongside two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington in the crime thriller "The Little Things" about the hunt for a serial killer in Los Angeles.

Sonny Fox, who hosted the Sunday morning children’s staple Wonderama in the 1960s, died died Sunday in Los Angeles of Covid-19-related pneumonia. He was 95.

Natalie Oganesyan editorSonny Fox, the beloved kids television host who connected with children on the New York-based Sunday morning program “Wonderama,” died Sunday in Los Angeles of coronavirus-related pneumonia, his website confirmed. He was 95.Fox hosted “Wonderama” for four hours every Sunday, and the show was celebrated for the way it engaged children, featuring everything from cartoons to games that kids could play along with at home.

So touching…

The Black List and Cassian Elwes have selected Aemilia Scott as the 2021 Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellow. She will join them at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Larry King who has died aged 87 after being hospitalised with COVID-19. King was at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for more than a week before his death was announced on Saturday.