Patrick Stewart is saying farewell to his “Star Trek: Picard” character, Jean-Luc Picard, almost four decades after he took on the role in 1987 for “Star Trek: The Next Generation”.
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combine UFC with WWE to form a new $21.4 billion live sports and entertainment company that will trade under the ticker symbol “TKO.” Expected to close by the end of the year, the deal will see Endeavor shareholders holding a 51% interest and WWE shareholders 49% of the new company.Traders’ response to the announcement was “too bearish,” Citi analyst Jason Bazinet said in a note to clients, according to TheFly.com.Bazinet wrote that some investors were likely looking for an all-cash offer rather than the all-stock deal the companies plan, but said that the stock sank too far. The remaining Endeavor company “may be the most mispriced,” the analyst wrote.
He kept a “Buy” rating on both Endeavor and WWE shares.Benchmark analysts also pointed to the structure of the deal as a concern for investors, noting “the all-stock and somewhat complex transaction was disappointing versus a cash deal consideration.”Bank of America analyst Jessica Reif Ehrlich wrote that investors don’t appreciate the revenue opportunity from the combination of UFC and WWE, predicting that the companies could see more than $200 million in revenue synergies in the first 24 months, according to TheFly. That bankroll would be in addition to potential domestic rights benefits that could be extracted through new UFC/WWE packages, and also does not count as much as $250 million to $400 million in savings from overlapping costs within the two companies.Ehrlich said the deal brings “knockout growth potential” for Endeavor Group and she kept a “Buy” rating on the stock.
Analysts at Roth MKM said the combination will create a “more attractive content driven growth story,” with double-digit top line growth potential. The research note also pointed to TV rights
.Patrick Stewart is saying farewell to his “Star Trek: Picard” character, Jean-Luc Picard, almost four decades after he took on the role in 1987 for “Star Trek: The Next Generation”.
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revealed on Instagram this week that she has an entirely separate house for her basket collection — and it has many social media users wishing that they could move in.The lifestyle mogul posed for a photo in front of the small house, which almost resembled something of a chic storage shed, surrounded by all of her baskets in varying shapes, sizes and colors.In her hands, she held one that looked like a traditional picnic basket with dark wood and, in the other, she clutched a lighter, rounder, wicker-styled basket.“My little basket house needed a new roof,” she wrote in the caption of the Instagram photo. “Replaced the rotted cedar shingles with a brand new painted metal roof that will outlive most others.”She also explained that the baskets had to be removed in order for the painters to get inside.
their nostalgic joint tour across the U.S. and Canada, the alums stopped by for a round of ET's «Spilling the E-Tea,» reminiscing about their time on the show's second season ahead of the 20th anniversary of their appearance. The duo announced their current tour in December, with the journey taking them through stops in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta and more.
Patrick Stewart can still remember the feedback he got in 1987 when he was offered the chance to first play Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Saturday Night Live is back for another evening of entertainment tonight (April 15), and it’s shaping up to be a big show.
A special 50th anniversary event celebrating the release of cult folk horror movie The Wicker Man will be held in Newton Stewart at the end of the month.
As the latest series of Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway came to an end on Saturday evening, viewers were more than a little distracted by presenter Stephen Mulhern ’s appearance during one segment of the show. Geordie show hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly swapped their usual UK studio for the balmy warmth of Florida, as they broadcast live from Universal Studios, Orlando - and had even brought along co-stars Stephen, Fleur East and Jordan North for the final show.
She’s got a new attitude! Martha Stewart debuted a fresh cut — and it has her feeling as confident as ever.
to Instagram on Wednesday to post a few close-up shots of herself all glammed up with a fresh blowout and sporting a neutral lip.In the first slide, she was seen pursing her lips into a kissy face and “smizing” into the camera, showing off her smoldering look while holding her iPhone for the selfie. The second pic featured her in the salon chair as her famous hairstylist, John Barrett, fluffed up her hair after styling and cutting it.
BreAnna Bell Showtime has announced its forthcoming spy drama, “Ghosts of Beirut,” will make its debut on Friday, May 19, on Showtime’s streaming site and will air on linear on May 21 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The four-part limited series tells the origin story of 21-year old Mughniyeh (who is also referred to as “The Ghost”), an elusive Lebanese terrorist who evaded capture from the CIA and Mossad for two decades. He was responsible for more American deaths than any other individual prior to 9/11. “Told from the American, Israeli and Lebanese perspectives, the series traces Mughniyeh’s origins from the Shiite slums of South Beirut to his masterminding of the concept of suicide bombers, a deadly tactic that led to his swift rise as the world’s most dangerous terrorist. Based on extensive research of still-classified events, the drama spans decades and weaves in first-hand, real-life interviews with prominent officials from the CIA and Mossad, connecting the turmoil of 1980s Beirut with the spy games of the modern Middle East,” reads Showtime’s official description.
EXCLUSIVE: Showtime has set Ghosts Of Beirut, a four-part spy drama based on the real-life espionage story of the manhunt for Imad Mughniyeh, the elusive Lebanese terrorist who outwitted his adversaries in the CIA and Mossad for over two decades. The limited series, from Fauda creators Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz, features an international cast led by Dina Shihabi (Jack Ryan), Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend’s Wedding), Garret Dillahunt (12 Years a Slave), Iddo Goldberg (Snowpiercer), Hisham Suleiman (Fauda), Amir Khoury (Image of Victory) and Rafi Gavron (A Star is Born).
Saturday Night Takeaway star Stephen Mulhern has been celebrating his birthday with showbiz pals Ant and Dec in Florida.The TV star is currently across the Atlantic at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, filming Saturday Night Takeaway's highly-anticipated finale. During his trip abroad, he celebrated his 46th birthday on Tuesday, shocking fans with his age as they believed he was much younger than that. Writing on Twitter on Tuesday night, Stephen said: "Thanks so much for your birthday messages everyone! "I’m running around a theme park and wearing my gold jacket to celebrate! Sending lots of love x." Friends and fans soon commented on the tweet, wishing the presenter a happy birthday.
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She’s out. Kaya Stewart quit American Idol abruptly on Monday, April 3.
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway casting director Benton Whitley announced today the creation of Whitley Theatrical, a New York City-based casting and producing office for theater, film, and television.
another shocking early exit from the competition, Monday night's episode of was filled with tears and heightened emotions from contestants and judges alike.Two breakout performers from the ABC music competition show — Kaya Stewart, the daughter of Eurythmics singer Dave Stewart, and Fire, a single mom and stripper fighting to earn her second chance — were paired up to perform a duet. And though the duo appeared to hit it off right away, things went south when Kaya got sick and wasn't able to learn the arrangement and music in time for their performance.Kaya and Fire took to the stage together and Kaya announced, «I realized I wasn't able to give 100 percent, so I've decided to not perform,» much to the judges' shock.She confirmed that her decision not to perform meant she was exiting the competition.«I have to leave, I'm sorry.
Vince McMahon called Monday “a great day” as his iconic company announced plans to sell a controlling stake to Endeavor in a merger with mixed martial arts firm UFC. “Things have to evolve. A family business has to evolve, for all the right reasons. And this is the right business decision, and it’s the right family decision,” McMahon said in an interview today on CNBC.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus spent the last few years of interviews generally demurring on when their group, Boygenius, would ever be collectively super again. There’s been a little bit of a Boygenius time-out, of course, since the trio’s fairly spontaneous debut EP came out in 2018 and the release of their first full album as a collective, “The Record,” on March 31. But it hasn’t been for a lack of thought and effort going on behind the scenes, as the waiting world has now learned. As Bridgers says in an interview with Variety, “We realized the other day that we’ve been making this record for longer than we haven’t been, as friends,” since she dates its origin point to the week after she issued her “Punisher” album in 2020.
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway casting director Duncan Stewart, whose big-name clients include the Tony-winning Hadestown, the new Life of Pi and the acclaimed The Great Comet of 1812, is dissolving his Stewart/Whitley agency after 14 years to head up the new casting arm of global live event company RWS Entertainment Group.