U.K. High End TV Negotiations Between Producer and Crew Unions Reach Stalemate

CNN, former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters offered a defence for his labelling of US President Joe Biden as a war criminal.Waters is currently on tour across North America with his latest stage show, ‘This Is Not A Drill’, having played 15 dates in the region since early July. For the show, Waters’ stage is lined with giant screens, which at one point, display a slideshow of people that Waters has branded as “war criminals”.Biden is shown among the cohort – right after his predecessor, Donald Trump – with a label asserting to concertgoers that the current US President is “just getting started”.Speaking with CNN’s Michael Smerconish (who notes that he’s a fan of Waters’ music, but disagrees with him on some of his political viewpoints), Waters was asked why he considers Biden to be a fit for the inflammatory slideshow.“Well, he’s fuelling the fire in the Ukraine, for a start – that is a huge crime,” the artist answered, rhetorically posing to Smerconish: “Why won’t the United States of America encourage [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy, the [Ukrainian] president, to negotiate, obviating the need for this horrific, horrendous war that’s killing… We don’t know how many Russians.”Smerconish responds by telling Waters that he’s “got it reversed”, and that the artist is erroneously “blaming the party that got invaded”.

John Leguizamo is taking Hollywood to task for its latest casting choice.

Justin Bieber offered up his help after U. S. basketball star Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison in Russia on Thursday.

Out lesbian US basketball player Brittney Griner was convicted by a Russian court on charges of drug possession and smuggling and sentenced to nine years in prison on Thursday. US President Joe Biden denounced the verdict and sentence as “unacceptable” and called on Russia to release the athlete immediately so that she could be with her “her wife, loved ones, friends, and teammates”. President Biden added that he would work to bring both Griner and Paul Whelan, another American imprisoned in Russia under an espionage charge, home.  Brittney Griner with wife Cherelle.

Hoping for a solution. After Brittney Griner was convicted of drug smuggling in Russia, plenty of WNBA players and other celebrities weighed in to express their support for the athlete.

Brittney Griner, the two-time U.S. Olympic gold medal basketball player and WNBA star, was found guilty Thursday in Russia of drug smuggling and possession and sentenced to nine years in jail. The news comes six months after Griner was arrested at a Moscow airport while entering the country with cannabis oil in her luggage.

Ryan Reynolds has been everything from a superhero in "Green Lantern" to a background video game character in "Free Guy." Reynolds has gained over 100 acting credits in a variety of movies. His first role was on a TV show called "Fifteen" from 1991 to 1993 where he played Billy Simpson and he soon went on to small roles in "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story" and "In Cold Blood."  Through the early 2000s, Reynolds was in movies like "We All Fall Down," "The Amityville Horror," "Just Friends," "Smokin’ Aces" and "Definitely, Maybe." Reynolds has also been in "The Proposal," "Green Lantern," "The Change-Up" and "Woman in Gold." Reynolds first played one of his most-famous roles, Deadpool, in the 2009 movie "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" with Hugh Jackman.The character later got its own movie and Reynolds starred in "Deadpool" in 2016 and then reprised his role once again in 2018 with "Deadpool 2." Ryan Reynolds has been in many movies like "The Hitman's Bodyguard," "Red Notice" and "Free Guy."  (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) In 2017, Reynolds was in the action comedy movie, "The Hitman's Bodyguard" and then was in "Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard" in 2021.

Joe Biden announced a successful counterterrorism operation on Monday night, revealing that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in an unmanned drone strike at a safe house in Kabul. And on Tuesday morning, the hosts of “The View” argued that the operation definitely helps Biden’s image in the strength department.“We make it clear again tonight that no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the United States will find you and take you out,” Biden said during his remarks from the White House. And those were strong — but welcome — words for the women of “The View.”“Oh, he’s like Liam Neeson, right?” Joy Behar joked.

Scots band The Ronains received a death threat from Russia after their new single artwork for Lunatics featured an image of Vladimir Putin.

K.J. Yossman Negotiations between producers and crew over U.K. TV drama negotiations have collapsed.U.K.

A bid for government cash to bring into use the former Bolton Debenham’s store and open a ‘high end’ hotel and conference centre next to the town hall has been submitted. Bolton has submitted two bids to the government’s Levelling Up Fund, seeking a total of £40m to transform the town centre and improve the borough’s transport links in the area close to the Middlebrook retail park.

a CNN report of a U.S. offer to exchange American citizens detained in Russia, WNBA star Brittney Griner and former U.S.

LOS ANGELES – Ashlee Simpson recently updated fans on her life, including what it’s like for her kids to get older, and how supportive she is of her husband’s new endeavor into the restaurant world. The couple recently got together on the red carpet to celebrate the opening of The Hideaway, a new Mexican restaurant in Beverly Hills that Evans invested in and is a partner in.

Naman Ramachandran “Wedding Season,” the first U.K. original series from streamer Disney+, will premiere on Disney+ Day on Sept 8. The romantic comedy-action thriller will stream on Disney+ globally, Star+ in Latin America and Hulu in the U.S.The streamer also revealed several first look images.The series tells the story of Katie and Stefan who fall for each other at a wedding and begin an affair, despite the former already having a fiancé.

Ciara is making everyone jump with her new tune. The singer and dancer recruited a group of celebrity friends to participate in a video for her latest single, “Jump.” In a video montage posted on social media, fans can enjoy A-listers such as Natalia and Vanessa Bryant, J Balvin, Kim Kardashian, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, La La Anthony, and Latto testing their lip-sync skills.

Love Island’s Hugo Hammond of “screaming in her face” after she rejected him on a night out, just a few weeks after fellow Islander Sharon Gaffka revealed she’d “cut off” the former PE teacher for “inappropriate” behaviour.Lottie, who rose to fame on series 15 of the BBC show in 2019, took to TikTok to duet a video from another user who claimed Hugo had called her “ugly” on a night out.In the clip, Lottie explained how she’d been invited on a night out with Hugo and his friends and had been getting along with him until he tried to kiss her and she declined his romantic advances.She began, “I’ve been asked to do this literally 80 times so story time, let’s go. Sorry it took me ages to actually get round to doing it.

POLITICO Monday.“We’re in a pattern now.