Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Finalist ‘The Minutes’ Sets Post-COVID 2022 Broadway Reopening, Plans Venue Switch

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefGanesh Rajaram is an old hand at the game of licensing TV shows in the Asia region. Executive VP of sales at FremantleMedia, he breaks down what content is working, and where it is working, and sheds some light from a seller’s perspective on the impact of the coronavirus.Variety: It’s ATF this week. What is the new product you’ve got out there? Rajaram: What we’re excited about ATF would be our doing the seventh season of “China’s Got Talent” which we announced

Brad Parscale, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, gave his first post-election interview to Fox News’ Martha MacCallum, and he offered some criticism of the president for not expressing empathy on COVID-19.

Rosie Perez remembers her Covid-19 diagnosis in the early days of the pandemic as so “terrifying” she pleaded with her manager, “Don’t let me die in Bangkok.”

Bob Dylan, Tracy Chapman and Mazzy Star.The latest release comes after the three-piece — consisting of Interpol‘s Paul Banks, producer Josh Kaufman and The Walkmen‘s Matt Barrick — released their self-titled debut album on June 5.The new EP is set for release on December 9 and will see the band putting their own spin on Arthur Russell favourite ‘Nobody Wants A Lonely Heart’, as well as Bob Dylan’s ‘Girl From The North Country’ and Mazzy Star’s ‘Fade Into You’.Tracy Chapman’s ‘For You’,

Mark Ruffalo is amongst the many celebrities and fans, who took to social media to pay a heartbreaking tribute to Chadwick Boseman, who would have been 44 on November 29, 2020. The Black Panther star sadly passed away in August this year after a four year battle with colon cancer, as revealed by his family in a statement on Twitter."Thinking of your passion, love, and your light today, @ChadwickBoseman.

Tracy Morgan is giving back to his community. The "30 Rock" star handed out 1,200 turkeys for Thanksgiving at the Mott Haven Community Center in the Bronx on Tuesday.

Michael J. Fox appears on the latest edition of “Sunday Today”, and opens up to Willie Geist about the emotional moment when he told wife Tracy Pollan that he’d been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

Strictly Come Dancing star Max George has opened up on plans to become a father someday as he gushed over his romance with Stacey Giggs. Former The Wanted star Max, 32, said he “never felt so strongly about anyone” than he does about his 38 year old girlfriend Stacey, who was married to Ryan Giggs until 2017.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterViacomCBS is looking ahead to a post-coronavirus world, one in which approximately 70% of its more-than-20,000 employees will work at least partly from home, according to an internal memo from CEO Bob Bakish that Variety has obtained exclusively.The move toward a hybrid work model allows staffers more flexibility, but it also has financial advantages.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVABC has firmed up its midseason schedule, setting up early 2021 premiere dates for its scripted series.

Mystery Jets and Graham Coxon have been announced on the line-up for a socially distanced benefit gig at London’s Jazz Cafe next month.All three acts will play at ‘Live For Beirut 2.0’ on December 11, which is set to raise money for the victims of the huge warehouse explosion which rocked the Lebanese capital in August, claiming the lives of over 200 people.Other acts on next month’s bill include the likes of Nadine Shah and Django Django, who will both play DJ sets, and performances from Rose

Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino has signed a two-book deal with Harper, to include his first novel and personal writings on 1970s-era film. Harper, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, will release Tarantino’s first work of fiction, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, in summer 2021.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmQuentin Tarantino has signed a two book deal with Harper, the HarperCollins imprint. First up is Tarantino’s first work of fiction, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, a novel to be published next summer that breathes new life into the characters and the premise of a film that got 10 Oscar nominations and won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Brad Pitt.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday city schools could close temporarily for in-person classes as early as Monday as coronavirus infections rise.“We should get ready,” de Blasio said in his weekly Friday appearance on The Brian Lehrer Show on New York public radio’s WNYC, saying parents should “have a plan for the rest of the month of November.”“I think that’s the safe way to think about it.