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“A filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced an Oscar-winning movie in the mid-1980s pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexual abuse of a child,” the AP reports. “Sterling Van Wagenen, 71, entered the plea as part of an agreement…
Press release from Smithsonian Channel, April 30, 2019: Half a century after humanity’s historic first step on the Moon, Smithsonian Channel will launch a six-week celebration of this historic accomplishment. Six-part series APOLLO’S MOON SHOT explores the Moon program through…
Press release from ABC, April 29, 2019: Today, American adults spend the equivalent of 49 days a year on their phone and tablets. For six months, Sawyer and her team traveled across the country talking to families, teachers, doctors and…
Press release from Netflix, April 30, 2019: Priya Swaminathan and Tonia Davis, co-heads of Higher Ground Productions, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company in partnership with Netflix, today announced the company’s initial slate of upcoming projects. The content…
Oscar-nominated film director and producer John Singleton died today after being in a coma following a stroke. TMZ quotes a Singleton family rep saying the filmmaker died “peacefully, surrounded by his family and friends.” He was 51. Singleton reportedly suffered…
A new show in the works at Fox will be an aftershow with a twist: It’s built around a sci-fi thriller that doesn’t exist. Deadline reports that the network greenlighted “What Just Happened??!,” to be hosted by Fred Savage. The…
A regular on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” who has been one of the show’s most popular players may be nearing the end of her run on the show. Variety reports that Kate McKinnon is closing in on the end of…
Talk show legend Larry King has been hospitalized after suffering what was initially reported as a heart attack, although there’s some controversy over exactly what happened. TMZ reported that King, 85, suffered a heart attack last Thursday after going into…
“A+E Networks is warning viewers of a possible blackout of A&E Network, Lifetime, History and other channels across DirecTV platforms as the sides go down to the wire on carriage renewal negotiations,” Variety reports. The report notes that the two…
An all-star music festival that had been planned to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the original Woodstock Festival has been canceled, Rolling Stone reports. “Although the all-star lineup — featuring Jay-Z, Miley Cyrus, Dead & Company, the Raconteurs and…