By Nellie Andreeva
07.05.2020 - 20:51 / variety.com
Normally, around 1,600 people work out of the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street in New York. But these aren’t normal times. Just about a dozen key staffers are still coming into the office, keeping the lights on as most everyone else works from home.
“Things have definitely changed,” says Glenn Oakley, CBS executive VP of global media technology operations. “We have reduced staff, down to skeleton crews virtually everywhere. We have definitely removed people going in to essential
By Nellie Andreeva
Bill Small, the former Washington bureau chief for CBS News and president of NBC News, died Sunday in a New York hospital after a brief illness unrelated to the coronavirus, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced. He was 93.
season 4 star Stephanie didn't get the happy ending she was expecting in Australia with her online girlfriend, Erika, but her return to the United States isn't a happy occasion either.
A technical glitch in CBS’ Washington control room on Tuesday wiped out the broadcast of CBS Evening News on the East Coast and in the Midwest. The Norah O’Donnell-anchored newscast, which originates from Washington, is usually transmitted through a New York control room, but that facility has been shut for weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic.
No mosh pits here.
By Charlie Amter
is back — and much sooner than expected. Ryan Murphy’s satirical original series about an ambitious young politician Payton Hobart (Ben Platt) determined to work his way up to President of the United States returns with season two in June.
By Anthony D'Alessandro
RAWR! Andy Cohen was quite the daring wild man back in the day. The Watch What Happens Live host shared an incredible clothes-free throwback pic to his Instagram pic on May 14.
Robert De Niro has compared the coronavirus pandemic to a science-fiction movie.
By Dade Hayes
300 Entertainment has named Leesa Brunson-Boland head of A&R operations, the indie label announced Wednesday (May 6).Brunson-Boland moves over from an 18-year stint at Def Jam, where she most recently served as senior vp A&R operations. In her new role, she will be based in New York and report to 300 Entertainment CEO and co-founder Kevin Liles -- who served as Def Jam president during several of the years Brunson-Boland worked there.