Strictly Come Dancing fans said they were 'screaming' as they thought Angela Scanlon had been replaced by another star. The Irish presenter was back in the ballroom on Saturday night (October 7) for the annual Movie Week extravaganza.
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EXCLUSIVE: As the WGA and studios and streamers prepare to restart negotiations later this week, hundreds of united showrunners are on the verge of making a big donation to help out those hit hard by the on-going strikes
Launching off an initial $200,000 over a week ago from a group of veteran showrunners, around 250 showrunners have contributed over $260,000 as of this afternoon. Hiking the total up to near $500,000, the money from mainly Anonymous donors will go to the Entertainment Community Fund (Check out the showrunner donation link here).
Of the 250 who have contributed online the past week, The Walking Dead’s Angela Kang, I’m A Virgo’s Boots Riley, Rutherford Falls co-creator Sierra Teller Ornelas, Hunters’ Natalie Chaidez, Arrow’s Marc Guggenheim, and Matrix co-creator Lilly Wachowski are among the donors who made their names public. Cutting to the heart of the sentiment out on the picket lines, Wachowski added: “Let’s beat these f-ing mf-ers!”
“Any group of showrunners will be filled with as many opinions as there are showrunners, but two things unify us all: our insistence on a fair deal for writers and our immense gratitude for the hardship currently borne by the artists who work tirelessly in collaboration with us,” one of the initiators of the September 10-launched effort told Deadline today. “As talks resume this week, showing our collective support for our tremendously talented crews, not just emotionally, but financially, was incredibly important to us.”
Putting skin and cash in the game from the week the WGA went out on the picket lines in early May, the ECF has handed out over $6 million in financial aid to approximately 3,000 film and TV workers over the months. With many feeling the tight squeeze
Strictly Come Dancing fans said they were 'screaming' as they thought Angela Scanlon had been replaced by another star. The Irish presenter was back in the ballroom on Saturday night (October 7) for the annual Movie Week extravaganza.
Angela Bassett, Paris Hilton and Fan Bingbing were among the stars walking the catwalk during the Mugler Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 fashion show on Monday (October 2) in Paris.
EXCLUSIVE: As the striking actors guild sits down today with the studio bosses for the first new talks in over 80 days, the writers are one step closer to officially ending their nearly 150-day labor dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
Strictly Come Dancing's Angela Rippon stunned the audience tonight when she effortlessly kicked her leg into a stand split at the age of 78 during her first ever performance on the BBC show.
Carlos Gu has suffered a facial injury ahead of the second Strictly Come Dancing live show, with his dance partner Angela Scanlon revealing she accidentally head butted him in rehearsals. Strictly pro Carlos, 29, is competing on this year's series of the BBC One show with TV presenter Angela, 39, and the duo have been keeping their fans updated on social media with their dancing journey and have shared several behind the scenes clips and photos.
Strictly Come Dancing star Angela Rippon has been left 'shattered' after the demands of the show rehearsals.
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer The strike is over, but the fight is not yet won. On Wednesday, as the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike formally ended after 148 days, Variety spoke with newly elected WGA East president Lisa Takeuchi Cullen and WGA East executive director Lowell Peterson about the end of the work stoppage at the East coast guild’s membership meeting to discuss their tentative three-year MBA agreement with the Hollywood studios.
Squid Game.In a new interview with The Korea Times, Kang Ha-neul revealed that people often ask him how he feel about “appearing on such a big series” such as Squid Game. However, the actors says he would tell them that he “feel[s] the same” as usual.“Honestly, I always have the same feelings toward my work and joining Squid Game season two has not put more pressure on me,” he added.
Anne Hathaway goes classic in an all-black ensemble for the opening night gala of Metropolitan Opera’s “Dead Man Walking” held at Lincoln Center on Tuesday night (September 26) in New York City.
Strictly Come Dancing contestant Angela Scanlon has said she ‘loved every second’ of her first dance following the first live show on Saturday night. The presenter, 39, joined 14 other celebrities who made their debuts on the dance floor with their professional partners on the BBC show.
Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance are honoring their close friends Magic Johnson and his wife Cookie.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The Writers Guild of America resumed bargaining with the major studios on Wednesday, as the 142-day writers strike closed in on a record duration. In a break from previous sessions, several top CEOs joined in the talks on Wednesday in Sherman Oaks. They were Bob Iger of Disney, Ted Sarandos of Netflix, Donna Langley of NBCUniversal and David Zaslav of Warner Bros.
A showrunners picket at Fox that started as a way to show solidarity during the strike ended up raising close to $45,000 for crew members who have been adversely affected by the work stoppage.
Angela Scanlon is set to compete in this year's Strictly Come Dancing alongside the likes of Bobby Brazier and Zara McDermott.The Your Garden Made Perfect and The One Show presenter, 39, is a familiar face on our screens after starting her successful career as a stylist and a journalist, before moving into television. But when she's not on our screens, the Irish presenter can be found at home with her beautiful family. Here we take a look at Angela's family life as she takes to the Strictly dancefloor...
Blac Chyna is reflecting on the one-year anniversary of her sobriety. The 35-year-old former reality TV star took to Instagram on Thursday to mark the milestone by sh
Angelique Jackson “Abbott Elementary” creator/star Quinta Brunson and fellow exec producers Justin Halpern, Patrick Schumacker and Randall Einhorn, as well as producer Scott Sites, have launched a strike fund to help support the Emmy-winning comedy show’s crew. The producers and some of the cast of “Abbott” created the fund to supplement the Entertainment Community Fund, which has been working to provide financial assistance for industry workers amid the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. While Brunson and the producers have individually donated to the ECF, they also wanted to find a way to specifically aid their show’s 152-person crew, so they pooled their resources as an additional safeguard.
Blac Chyna is embracing her truth, and her fans are loving it.
The Herb Alpert Foundation has donated $250,000 to the Entertainment Community Fund to aid idled film and TV industry workers during the ongoing Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA strikes. A matching donation by an anonymous donor brings the total gift to $500,000.
When Angela Scanlon was making her New Year’s resolutions, she decided 2023 would be the year of “yes” and wrote “surprise me” in her diary. So when she was asked to sign up to the 21st series of Strictly Come Dancing she decided to go for it. “I went into this year with the mentality of whatever is chucked at me, I’ll say yes,” she says.
TikTok is blocking access to information about the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strikes, as writers have continued to strike for fair wages and better working conditions since early May.