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A Showtime series that has become one of the pay-cable network’s signature shows was picked up for a seventh season. Variety reports that the channel renewed “Shameless,” with the news coming two days after the show’s sixth-season premiere. Showtime CEO…
One of the stars of the long-running NBC hit “Friends” has a new project lined up at Fox. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that Courteney Cox is developing a comedy star vehicle. Cox, who played Monica on “Friends” and…
The Directors Guild of America has announced its nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2015. The guild also announced a new category, Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director. The nominees…
USA Network’s award-winning, cyber-centric “Mr. Robot” doesn’t simply create thrills with its realistic scenes of hacking and computer attacks, according to a report in Business Insider. The report quotes “Mr. Robot” writer Kor Adana saying at CES: “If it ups…
An actor who was a child star for Disney both on TV and in feature films has died. E! News reports that Michael Galeota was pronounced dead Sunday at his home in Glendale, Calif. Galeota appeared in the Disney Channel…
News Corp. Executive Chairman and 21st Century Fox Executive Co-Chairman Rupert Murdoch, 84, is engaged to marry Jerry Hall, the former partner of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger. The New York Times reports that the couple became engaged over the weekend,…
The new Apple News app, which launched back in September, appears to be off to a pretty good start, but The Wall Street Journal says there’s one big problem: “Neither media companies nor Apple know how many people are reading.”…
A Chinese company has purchased Legendary Pictures, known for blockbusters such as “Godzilla,” “Inception” and “Jurassic World.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, the real estate and investment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group bought Legendary for $3.5 billion. “The acquisition of Legendary…
A former Disney executive who became an advertising professor at Chapman University died Dec. 28. Cory O’Connor, 59, died at his home in Newport Beach, Calif., after a short illness. At The Walt Disney Co., O’Connor was a key member…
News that broke this week prompted GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump to send out word via Twitter that “the circus will never be the same.” The tweet came in response to the announcement that the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey…