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“‘Roseanne’ is returning, but without its namesake,” reports Daniel Holloway for Variety. The story continues, “ABC has given a series order to ‘The Conners,’ [working title] a spinoff starring original cast members John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert, Lecy Goranson…
A commentator on the Fox News Channel who was also a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post has died. NPR reports that Charles Krauthammer died of cancer. He was 68. “A Harvard-trained psychiatrist, Krauthammer turned an unsparing eye on…
A class-action lawsuit against Disney has been expanded to include as defendants comScore and Twitter’s MoPub, among others, MediaPost reports, noting that the companies are being sued by a group of parents alleging privacy violations involving children. “The class-action complaint,…
The TV series that is often cited as the starting point for the reality television landscape of the past two decades is in development as part of a slate at MTV Studios, a new unit announced today. The update on…
Burger King issued an apology after the company ran an ad in connection with the World Cup that was widely perceived as offensive. USA Today reports that the company “has apologized for an extraordinarily insensitive advertisement that promised Russian women…
Former Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant recently won an Oscar for his animated short “Dear Basketball,” but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has barred him from being admitted as a member of the Academy, Variety reports….
A western lowland gorilla who loved cats and became famous as a pioneer of interspecies communication has died. Koko died in her sleep Tuesday morning at the Gorilla Foundation’s preserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California, the foundation reported….
Legendary singer-songwriter Paul Simon has booked what will be the final concert on his Farewell Tour, which will take place Saturday, Sept. 22, at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens — the New York borough where Simon spent his formative…
“A 22-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged with murder days after the killing of rising rap star XXXTentacion, who was fatally shot in his luxury BMW electric car as he left an upscale motorcycle dealership in Florida,” the AP…
Within hours after AMC Theatres unveiled its new $19.95-a-month AMC Stubs A-List movie subscription plan, the people behind MoviePass — the $9.95-a-month ticket plan that apparently inspired AMC to get into the subscription business — took to social media to…