US venues feel “stressed and demoralised” as essential government funding fails to be released

Love Productions USA (The Great American Baking Show) is set to produce Rhino Reboot, a series following the rebuilding of perennial underdog soccer team, The Rochester Rhinos, after sealing a deal with newly announced co-owners Jamie Vardy and David and Wendy Dworkin.

coronavirus pandemic-enforced shutdown of live music.The Small Business Administration (SBA) finally began rolling out funds from its Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) program earlier this month, nearly six months on from the Save Our Stages Act passing into law.As Billboard reports, 677 grants from the SVOG have now been awarded to independent venue operators and promoters in the US who have suffered a substantial drop in income due to the pandemic.

Ethan Shanfeld In 2018, Bill Murray joined famous cellist, Jan Vogler, on stage at the historic Acropolis in Athens, Greece, for a night of timeless poetry and music.

Last year, “Ted Lasso” was simply an under-the-radar comedy about a character invented for a TV commercial. But after turning into a surprise hit with critics and audiences alike, it returns to the pitch for a second season as one of Apple TV+’s headliners.

A year ago, it really did feel like the world was falling apart and maybe an asteroid hitting Earth would have been a good thing. The world was in the midst of a global pandemic and the US was experiencing the most toxic Presidential campaign in the history of the country.

EXCLUSIVE: Virgil Films has acquired the North American rights to Far Out West: Inside California’s Kerista Commune, a documentary about a decades-long experiment in communal living.

As we head toward the first day of summer, the CW has set its plans for the fall. The network today revealed premiere dates for a couple of reimagined new series and a dozen returning ones including Riverdale, The Flash, All American, Walker and Nancy Drew. 

Gigi Hadid is opening up about how she and Zayn Malik plan to raise their baby girl, Khai.In a new interview with the 26-year-old model gets candid about their different heritages, and how they'll teach Khai to «be a bridge for her different ethnicities.» Gigi is the daughter of Yolanda Hadid (Dutch-American) and Mohamed Hadid (Palestinian), while Zayn's father, Yaser Malik, is British Pakistani.

NEW YORK -- Like her Nina character in “In The Heights,” Leslie Grace says she's struggled to fit in as an Afro-Latino woman and artist.“All the time,” the 26-year-old singer said in an interview with The Associated Press. "In so many parts of my life I’ve felt that — not being Latina enough, not being American enough, being first-generation the same way that Nina is.

Metallica have filed an insurance lawsuit against Lloyd’s Of London over losses suffered as a result of postponing its South American tour due to coronavirus.The band were due to embark on a six-date tour of South America with support from Greta Van Fleet in April 2020, with the shows planned before the global pandemic shut down the live music industry.Metallica rescheduled the shows for December 2020, but with the pandemic showing no signs of slowing down, those dates were also postponed.

A $16.1 billion federal program set up to provide emergency relief to distressed movie theaters and live venues has started distributing funds, but venue operators say the process has been slow and a key deadline has been missed.

Glassjaw have announced plans to perform their first albums in full on an extensive US tour next year.The band will mark 20 years of their 2002 album ‘Worship And Tribute’, and also take in planned anniversary celebrations for 2000’s ‘Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence’ that were curtailed by the coronavirus pandemic.“It felt fitting to celebrate both simultaneously as the world begins to open back up,” a press release reads.

Tom Hanks wants all Americans to be educated on the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.

Summer is just about here – and it’s going to be a big one on FX. The network has just announced the premiere dates for its most anticipated titles of the year, ranging from the return of Taika Waititi’s mockumentary series “What We Do in the Shadows” and the next chapter in Ryan Murphy’s anthology series, “Impeachment: American Crime Story”.

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