Theater union OKs 2 plans to return to post-virus live shows

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerIn a much-loved Saturday Night Live skit, Garrett Morris’s take on veteran infielder Chico Escuela once noted that “Baseball been berry, berry good to me.”Fox Sports is saying much the same today, as the return of Major League Baseball has proved to be a ratings bonanza.

Elon Musk reached out to Kanye West during the rapper’s Twitter rant about his wife, Kim Kardashian, and his mother-in-law, Kris Jenner.The SpaceX CEO, 49, revealed in an interview with The New York Times on Saturday, July 25, that he spoke with West, 43, following his Twitter spree earlier this week.“When he was about a third of the way through the tweet rampage, just to see if he was doing OK, I sent him a text saying, ‘You know, just checking on you, a lot of people are worried, just

Will Thorne Staff WriterMajor League Baseball returned to our screens on Thursday night, and boy did fans miss it.ESPN’s coverage of the game between the New York Yankees and the defending World Series Champion Washington Nationals struck a huge home run, drawing the network’s largest ever audience for an opening night game.According to Nielsen fast nationals, an average audience of 4 million viewers tuned in for the rain shortened affair, which saw the Yankees emerge victorious by a score of

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe heavens opened up on Major League Baseball’s opening day in more ways than one last night.With Biblical rain coming down on National Park on Thursday, the long awaited and coronavirus delayed face-off between the New York Yankees and Washington Nationals was cut short.

and as well as leading the short-lived Syfy series, Christopher Meloni is making a welcome return to the world that made him a TV favorite: . This fall, the actor is slated to reprise his role, Elliot Stabler, in a new spinoff, titled.

Also Read: Wendy Williams to Take Hiatus From Talk Show for Health ReasonsIn previous updates, Williams said her health was in good condition and she was waiting for approval from New York State to return to the studio to film her show. “Now, we [typically] have 200 people in our audience — we will never have that again,” she said in a video last month.

from being produced from cast members’ homes to being made the old-fashioned way — “from New York.”Michaels and his team are making plans to bring the show back to NBC’s Manhattan studios for the venerable late-night program’s 46th season, according to two people familiar with the matter —  the latest of TV’s wee-hours programs to try and navigate a new normal in the midst of a pandemic that makes the process of putting on a TV show anything but.NBC declined to comment on its plans for the next

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorIf NBC and Lorne Michaels have their way, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” this fall could move from being produced from cast members’ homes to being made the old-fashioned way – “from New York.”Michaels and his team are making plans to bring the show back to NBC’s Manhattan studios for the venerable late-night program’s 46th season, according to two people familiar with the matter – the latest of TV’s wee-hours programs to try and navigate a new normal in the midst

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe Twitter hackers behind the unprecedented coordinated July 15 attack on high-profile accounts of multiple celebrities, politicians, tech titans and Silicon Valley companies went after about 130 separate accounts, the company said late Thursday.

Beyond Cinema has announced it’ll bring its Floating Cinema production to a swath of cities in the US and Australia. The experience will be in New York for one week, from Sept.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorSirius XM Holdings has named Jonelle Procope, CEO of New York’s nonprofit Apollo Theater Foundation, as a new independent member of its Board of Directors.The foundation operates the iconic Apollo Theater and offers educational summer internship programs and school seminars.

Jimmy Fallon returned to his Rockefeller Center studio on Monday, months after shooting The Tonight Show from his home. He is the first late-night host to return to the studio amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJimmy Fallon moved to take NBC’s “Tonight Show” from “at home” to “at large” by bringing the venerable program back to NBC’s New York studios after weeks of broadcasting the show from his house.“Normalcy, any type of normalcy feels great,” Fallon told viewers during Monday’s “Tonight” broadcast, dressed in casual clothes, with cameramen wearing facial masks and members of the show’s in-house Roots band scattered around the studio for proper social distancing.

Jimmy Fallon is back in the studio! After months of hosting from home, Fallon returned to 30 Rockefeller Center to tape his show on a real soundstage, and was joined by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in his exciting return.For his big first show back in studio, Fallon welcomed Cuomo and Charlize Theron as his guests — who still joined him remotely via video chat.

The Chicks are looking back at their uncomfortable return to the Country Music Awards in 2016.

Broadway fans are petitioning to rename a New York City theater after late actor Nick Cordero, who died this week due to complications from the coronavirus. The petition seeks to change the name of the city’s Longacre Theatre to The Nick Cordero Theatre in honor of the beloved Broadway actor.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAnother one of Donald Trump’s tweets has run afoul of copyright laws.On Wednesday, Twitter pulled down a photo Trump posted of himself included in a June 30 tweet, after the New York Times Co.

Brit immersive theater pioneers Punchdrunk, behind the hit New York production Sleep No More, have teamed teamed with U.S.-based augmented reality company Niantic, which developed Nintendo's 2016 smash Pokemon Go. Under the partnership, the two are developing multiple projects they say will "reinvent storytelling for a 21st century audience and further expand the horizon of interactive entertainment," combining both real-world augmented reality and live theatrical performance.