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Press release from Showtime, July 9, 2018: Today, SHOWTIME announced a brand new satirical half-hour series from comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Famous for creating a roster of iconic moments and incendiary characters, Baron Cohen returns to series television for the…
A legendary comic book creator who co-created the Marvel characters Spider-Man and Doctor Strange has died. Comicbook.com reports that Steve Ditko was found dead in his Manhattan studio June 29. Ditko, who was 90, is believed to have died two…
In a shakeup among the world’s richest people, there’s a new No. 3 with the co-founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, overtaking Warren Buffett, Bloomberg reports. “Zuckerberg, who trails only Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates,…
Conde Nast just rolled out the first of the magazine-based over-the-top streaming TV channels it has been promising, with the debut of Wired. MediaPost reports that the science and tech channel arrived July 1 on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV…
A warning has gone out about online video games after a young girl’s avatar was reportedly “violently gang-raped on a playground” while the girl was playing the game Roblox. The girl’s mother, Amber Petersen, penned a detailed Facebook post about…
The CBS reality show “Big Brother” is mired in yet another controversy after cast member Kaitlyn Herman said the n-word during the show’s live feed. Herman’s misstep Thursday follows a controversy three days earlier involving an ice cream scooper. Us…
After the suicide of celebrity chef and global explorer Anthony Bourdain a month ago, a surprising revelation turned up in his will, which is valued at only $1.2 million — far less than the $16 million at which the CNN…
Three young adventurers who chronicled their travels on a popular YouTube channel were killed this week in a waterfall accident in Canada. Ryker Gamble, Alexey Lyakh and Megan Scraper of Vancouver, who were regulars on the channel High on Life,…
One of the stars of the acclaimed FX drama series “The Americans” is headed to “a galaxy far, far away,” Variety reports. The publication says Keri Russell “is in early talks to join J.J. Abrams’ ‘Star Wars: Episode IX,’ which…
Singer Chris Brown, who has made headlines in the past for his run-ins with the law, is in trouble again. The New York Post’s Page Six reports that Brown was arrested Thursday night in West Palm Beach, Fla., for allegedly…