Streaming series shows collision of music, history in 1971

NEW YORK -- Linda Martell, one of the pioneers for Black acts in country music and the first Black woman to perform solo at the Grand Ole Opry, will be honored at the 2021 CMT Music Awards.The 86-year-old will receive the CMT Equal Play Award at Wednesday night's show.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentProducer of HBO Max hit “Veneno,” Spain’s Buendía Estudios, a joint venture of Atresmedia and Movistar Plus, is now developing a series on Federico García Lorca, Spain’s greatest and best known modern poet, executed by dictator Francisco Franco supporters in 1936 for his left-wing views and homosexuality.Currently in development, “Lorca in New York,” a six hour miniseries, is based on an original idea by Granada writer-producer Eduardo Galdo.

Chris Willman Music Writer+ Nick Petropoulos, who joined Arista Records early last year after an 11-year run at Glassnote Records, has been upped by Arista to oversee the label’s promotion department.

One of the best rap albums of the year so far is Mach-Hommy's Pray For Haiti. The New York City rapper reunited with Griselda rapper Westside Gunn, who served as the project's executive producer, and delivered song after song of punishing lyricism and deep emotion rooted in his cultural pride.

EXCLUSIVE: The story of former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher is in the works for the small screen. Will Staples (Without Remorse, The Right Stuff) has teamed with Working Title and The New York Times to develop a limited series about Gallagher, who was acquitted of murder in a high-profile war crimes trial two years ago.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the series finale of “Pose.”In the end, the series finale of “Pose” left it all on the ballroom floor.Staying true to its aspirational and uplifting storytelling nature while still never shying away from the reality of being LGBTQIA+ and living with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and ’90s New York, the supersized series finale of FX’s ballroom culture drama balanced moments of pure joy with true

Kit Harington is spending time in the Big Apple to be with his family!

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EXCLUSIVE: Lyne Renée (Motherland: Fort Salem) is set for a recurring role in HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reboot. The 10-episode series comes from Joshua Safran, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire, Alloy Entertainment, Warner Bros TV and CBS Television Studios.

Amazon has set Friday, August 13 for the Season 2 premiere of Modern Love, its half-hour romantic anthology series, inspired by The New York Times column. All eight half-hour episodes will be released at once.

As filming in Hollywood has resumed and is in full swing, the paparazzi recently spotted Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto shooting for their upcoming series in New York. The actors were snapped walking the streets in the Astoria area of Queens, New York, according to Just Jared.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorWarnerMedia’s HBO Max was hit with scattered technical issues on Tuesday, with users reporting problems with streaming video.According to DownDetector, problems with HBO Max began to spike at 4:45 p.m.

NEW YORK -- The Nielsen company's latest rankings of popular television and streaming shows have one thing in common — “NCIS” at the top.The CBS drama starring Mark Harmon as a Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agent has been on the air since 2003 and defines unhip.

HBO has unveiled the first look at the upcoming TV series adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife!

Crytek has teased a remaster of Crysis 2 in a series of tweets that about the game.A tweet from the official Crysis Twitter account featured the quote: “They used to call me Prophet,” which is a line spoken by Major Laurence “Prophet” Barnesa – one of the primary characters in Crysis 2.They used to call me Prophet.— Crysis (@Crysis) May 20, 2021A follow up tweet showed an image of player character “Alcatraz” in his nano-suit facing off against an alien war suit, in the middle of New York’s Time

Jordan Moreau The sentencing for “Smallville” actor Allison Mack, who was indicted in 2018 on sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit forced labor charges for her involvement in Keith Raniere’s NXIVM cult, has been scheduled for late June.The hearing will take place on Wednesday, June 30, at 11 a.m., ordered by New York judge Nicholas G. Garaufis on Friday.Mack was arrested by the FBI in April 2018 on charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy.

NEW YORK -- AT&T said Monday it will combine its massive WarnerMedia media assets, which includes HBO and CNN, with Discovery Inc. to create a new media heavyweight in a $43 billion deal.The deal, which isn't slated to close until next year, will create new publicly traded company that will enter a streaming arena that has been flooded in the past two years with new players including those owned by AT&T and Discovery, which operate HBO Max and Discovery+, respectively.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe “Hella Mega Tour” featuring Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer has unveiled new dates, beginning in July and stretching into September.