‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Won’t Return To Broadway: Aaron Sorkin Blames Scott Rudin – Report

A popular standup TV franchise is making a comeback. Scott Koondel’s Sox Entertainment has acquired global rights to Caroline’s Comedy Hour, which ran on A&E Network from 1989-96. Koondel, former CBS Chief Content and Licensing Officer, plans to produce new installments, which he will shop alongside 100 library episodes from the show’s original run as a lower-cost comedy programming alternative for cable networks and streamers.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor“Caroline’s Comedy Hour” is set to return to TV with fresh episodes under a licensing deal that comedy maven Caroline Hirsch has set with Scott Koondel’s Sox Entertainment.Sox has licensed 100 episodes of the standup comedy showcase series that ran on A&E Network in the early 1990s. Those will be collected with new installments that Hirsch and Sox Entertainment will produce.

Zack Sharf Jamie Foxx recently told CinemaBlend that his unreleased directorial effort “All-Star Weekend” remains shelved due to the current state of comedy. The Oscar winner shot the comedy in 2016 with a cast that includes Jeremy Piven, Robert Downey Jr., Benicio del Toro, Gerard Butler and Eva Longoria.“All-Star Weekend” stars Foxx and Piven as two best friends who win tickets to the annual NBA event. Their characters take a road trip to Los Angeles to attend the All-Star Game, but their journey is upended by a handful of wacky characters.

alums Peter Weber and Kelley Flanagan are sparking reconciliation rumors.Since it's been a while, let's recap: During season of The Bachelor, was cut during week six. Weber ended up proposing to at the end of his season, then called off the engagement and dated runner-up for a minute. It wasn't until the 2020 Super Bowl that Weber and Flanagan reconnected and .

In one of the few showbusiness divorces to be of real interest to readers of the world’s business pages and no doubt even more to his children, Rupert Murdoch has finalised the financial details of his split from Jerry Hall.

Joan Scott, the founder and president of the talent and literary agency Writers and Artists, died of natural causes on Thursday, August 4 at her home in New York City. She was 98.

Safe to say Bachelor Nation didn’t see this one coming! More than one year after their messy split, Peter Weber and Kelley Flanagan spent some time together in Chicago.

Teamwork makes the dream work. Lake Bell spoke exclusively to Us Weekly about parenting amid her divorce — revealing her best tip.

Instagram, she wrote, “Trust me I will be back!”The former daytime TV host teased the upcoming release with a brief clip depicting the show’s hot-pink logo and a video of her saying, “Co-hosts, I’m famous and I’ll be back — trust me.” She reiterated the message in her caption, which included hashtags “#wendyexperiencepodcast #welcome #back #stay #positive#cohost #nyc.”Williams has notably been absent from her eponymous talk show since last year. Initially, a breakthrough COVID diagnosis delayed the series’ return from September to October.

A source is speaking out about Kim Kardashian‘s reaction to Kanye West posting that fake New York Times headline, “Skete Davidson Dead at Age 28.”

Pete Davidson has reportedly sought out trauma therapy as a result of online bullying by Kanye West.According to a source at People, the comedian has been “triggered” by the incessant “attention and negativity” he has received from West since he started dating the rapper’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian.The site also claims Davidson has “been absent from social media” as a result of frequent attacks by West.NME has reached out to West’s representatives for comment.On Monday (August 8), West took to Instagram to celebrate the recent split of Davidson and Kardashian, posting a fake New York Times front page that read: “Skete Davidson Dead at Age 28.”Both Davidson and Kardashian’s teams contacted Instagram about the post, which has since been removed.Previously, West was seen burying a claymation Davidson alive in the music video for ‘Eazy’, which was released back in March.

Ted Johnson Senior EditorBertram “Bert” Fields, the larger-than-life entertainment lawyer whose roster of star clients and studios spoke to a penchant for doling out legal threats with a rhetorical flourish, along with a capacity for winning lucrative settlements, has died at his Malibu home, his rep confirmed to Variety. He was 93.Fields thrived on the notion that he never lost a trial, and even if the Perry Mason-like reputation wasn’t exactly true, he was a relentless litigator who defined some of the industry’s most heralded cases of the 1980s and ’90s, with clients that included Warren Beatty, Tom Cruise, the Beatles, Edward G.

Kanye West is having the last laugh.

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Wilson Chapman editorBart Walker, former talent agent and partner for ICM Partners, has joined the Gersh Agency as a senior partner, Variety has confirmed. He will be based in the company’s New York office.Walker’s move comes shortly after fellow Hollywood talent agency CAA’s acquisition of ICM this June.

The New York Times reported. In emails obtained by the Times, Sorkin and Bartlett claimed Rudin was responsible for the shutdown. The producer had not been involved with the show since last April, after allegations of physical abuse and bullying surfaced.

Wilson Chapman editor“To Kill A Mockingbird,” Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s beloved coming-of-age novel, will not return to Broadway as previously announced, The New York Times reported.A spokesperson for the production declined to comment on the cancellation to Variety.The stage play, which opened on Broadway in 2018, played its final performance at the Shubert Theatre on Jan. 16.

The acclaimed play To Kill a Mockingbird will no longer be returning to Broadway and the show’s playwright Aaron Sorkin is placing blame on disgraced producer Scott Rudin.