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“As the Ebola virus continues to dominate the headlines, producer Lynda Obst and director-producer Ridley Scott are bringing the deadly pathogen to the small screen with a limited series for Fox TV Studios based on Richard Preston’s 1994 nonfiction best-seller…
In an interview this morning, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, on NBC’s “Today” show, “Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurse Briana Aguirre, who cared for her friend and co-worker Nina Pham after she tested positive for the Ebola virus, says she can…
“[Bill] Murray revealed exclusively to Variety that he intends to star in a Christmas special for TV that will be directed by his ‘Lost in Translation’ collaborator Sofia Coppola, where he’ll be performing classic carols,” the venerable trade paper reports….
A few days before Lacey Rose of The Hollywood Reporter sat down with Shonda Rhimes for a feature story, the “Angry Black Woman” article broke in The New York Times. So Lacey asked Rhimes about it. Writes Lacey in THR,…
It’s a “combination of live lottery and TV game that has never been tried before,” writes our good friend Paige Albiniak at B&C. The story reports: “The new weekly syndicated game show ‘Monopoly Millionaire’s Club,’ hosted by ‘Mike & Molly’s’ Billy Gardell, will…
CBS has canceled its second show within a week. As previously reported, “Reckless” was canceled last week. CBS has also canceled “Unforgettable,” again. Writes Lesley Goldberg in The Hollywood Reporter: “This marks the second time the procedural from Sony Pictures…
A teenager has become the youngest person — by far — to win a Nobel Prize, reports Reuters. The story says that the 17-year-old “Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for…
The NFL got a lot of attention in August when it came out that the league was asking three musical acts in particular — Coldplay, Katy Perry and Rihanna — if they would kick back money in exchange for playing…
It was good news for the cast and crew of a freshman sitcom and a freshman drama series on ABC. According to an ABC network press release, “ABC has picked up the new hit comedy ‘black-ish’ and the new hit…
She was a popular cast member on “Saturday Night Live” from 1986 to 1991, and later went on to be nominated for an Emmy for a guest appearance in a prime-time sitcom. Jan Hooks died today, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014,…