Universal Studio Group Acquisitions Exec Neil Krishnan Joins British Podcast Studio Novel To Oversee TV & Film Push

While the concept of the TV talent show may be obsolescent, with the glory days of The X Factor but a distant memory, our appetite for new music has arguably never been stronger.

Car Seat Headrest has announced that he’s cancelled his upcoming US tour and performances at the When We Were Young festival due to health issues.The band, fronted by Will Toledo, were set to begin a tour tomorrow (October 20) in Pioneertown, California which was set to run for the next week and incorporate three sets at Las Vegas’ When We Were Young.Taking to Twitter, Toledo revealed that ongoing health issues have forced the cancellation of the tour. He wrote: “After another month of struggling to regain my health, I am currently forced to face the fact that my body lacks the basic levels of functionality necessary to leave the house most days, let alone embark on a tour.“As a result, we are unfortunately forced to pull out of the When We Were Young festival dates, and cancel our upcoming California tour.

For the second week in a row, Luckiest Girl Alive topped the Netflix Top 10 Film Chart globally. The mystery thriller film starring Mila Kunis was the most-watched movie with 57,010,000 hours viewed for the week starting October 10 and ending on October 16.

NBCUniversal has launched an initiative designed to turn TikTokers into its next generation of television creators.

Nolan Neal’s cause of death has been revealed. The “America’s Got Talent” and Voice alum died in July of “acute combined drug toxicity,” after he ingested morphine, methamphetamine, fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl, a spokesperson at the Davidson County Medical Examiner’s told Page Six on Thursday.

Netflix’ offer for a parcel of land at Fort Monmouth in NJ, where it wants to build a state-of-the-art production studio, was chosen as the top bid – a key step although not yet a final one.

The battle for control over Anne Heche‘s estate gained some focus on Tuesday when the judge ruled at her estate hearing that her eldest son, Homer Heche Laffoon, can oversee the estate for now.

Anne Heche's estate gained some focus on Tuesday when the judge ruled at her estate hearing that her eldest son, Homer Heche Laffoon, can oversee the estate for now.The ruling comes less than a week after Homer filed legal documents, obtained by ET, claiming the  star had only $400,000 to her name at the time of her death. Those same docs state that Heche lived in an apartment and that she did not own any property.The documents also state that Heche was working on a book titled, which «is still on track to be released in early 2023.» Back in September, the book's publisher and distributor — Viva Editions and Simon & Schuster — announced the 140-page memoir will be released Jan.

Manori Ravindran International Editor New York’s South Asian International Film Festival has appointed Chayan Sarkar as its new president. A filmmaker, entrepreneur and festival director, Sarkar is also the founder of the Indian International Film Festival of Queensland in Australia. He takes over from SAIFF founder Shilen Amin, who will step down as president, but will remain a member of the festival’s board of directors. Sarkar joins SAIFF as the festival enters its 19th year as a leading film festival in the U.S. for new cinema from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, and within the Indian diaspora. In recent years, SAIFF has become increasingly influential as a platform for South Asian cinema, both in the U.S. and internationally. Fourteen of India’s submissions for the international feature film Oscar have had their North American premieres at the festival.

a report from Puck.Murray, 72, had become “particularly friendly” with a much younger woman on the production staff — not actress Kate Palmer, as some speculated — and believed she was flirting with him, the report said. At one point, when they were near a bed that was used on the set, Murray started kissing her body and straddling her, Puck revealed.

On Saturday during the BFI London Film Festival, Deadline hosted an industry party at The Twenty Two.

A memorial was held Wednesday night for slain Purdue University student Varun Manish Chheda.  Fox 59 reported that hundreds attended a candlelight vigil in the 20-year-old's honor near the Unfinished Block P statue on campus.  Pictures posted to social media showed cards and flowers at the base of the statue, which The Purdue Arboretum notes is in honor of students who have died while attending the university as well as symbolizes that all students, alumni, community members and friends of Purdue University are a work in progress and will never be completely finished growing and learning.  The Indianapolis native was killed in an incident inside his McCutcheon Hall dorm room.  General view of Purdue Boilermakers campus before the game against the Bowling Green Falcons at Ross-Ade Stadium on Sept. 26, 2015 in West Lafayette, Indiana.  ((Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images)) Ji Min Sha, the 22-year-old suspect accused of killing Chheda, was taken into custody and preliminarily charged with murder on Wednesday after university officials said he made a 911 call at 12:44 a.m.

Alec Baldwin has reached a settlement with Halyna Hutchins family after she was killed on the set of Rust in a terrifying incident in 2021, writes The Mirror.

EXCLUSIVE: Skybound Entertainment, the company founded by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, is staffing up.

Daniel Johnston‘s 1983 album ‘Hi, How Are You?’ will feature conversations around mental health with musicians performing at Austin City Limits Music Festival.The series is being presented by the Hi, How Are You Project, a non-profit organisation established with the support of Johnston’s family in 2018 to create “thoughtful media, events and peer-to-peer training programs that encourage open and ongoing dialogue on mental well-being”.The podcast is hosted by students from the University of Texas in Austin, with additional commentary provided by clinical advisors from the American Psychological Association, the Texas Psychological Association and Dr. Sonia Krishna from the Hi, How Are You Project.New episodes will air Tuesdays and Thursdays through mid-October, and guests will include indie-pop band Mother Mother, Dayglow, rapper Toosii, singer-songwriter Charley Crockett, and more.The first two episodes of the podcast have been released on Spotify.