Margaret Atwood's novel The Testaments, her long-awaited follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale, shared the illustrious Booker Prize for Fiction at a ceremony in London last night (October 15). The award, one of the most vaulted in the literary space, was split with Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other. Evaristo became…

The latest debate among the Democratic candidates for president is set for Tuesday at Otterbein University in the Columbus suburb of Westerville, OH. Hosted by CNN and The New York Times, the action begins at 8 p.m. ET/5 PT. CNN will air the faceoff live on its main channel along with CNN en Español and CNN…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is preparing to take part in its first keynote session at the Frankfurt book fair tomorrow, as its aggressive book-buying spree continues. Kelly Luegenbiehl, vice president of international originals at Netflix, will speak at Frankfurter Buchmesse, the world’s biggest book market, and spell out the…

Station 19 writer and co-exec producer Ilene Rosenzweig is developing a series based on Mary Higgins Clark's U.S. crime novel I'll Be Seeing You. The writer, who also worked on Girlfriend's Guide To Divorce, has teamed up with Reel One Entertainment, Element 8 Entertainment and Paris-based La Sabotière to develop an…

The Hero Nation Index is a weekly column on sci fi, horror, fantasy, and superhero fare in Hollywood. EXCLUSIVE: A new venture called Paper Movies will launch in December by publishing two graphic novels, the espionage thriller His Name is…Savage! and the sci-fi horror tale ha.i.ley, and you can see the covers for…

Jimmy Kimmel Live! is packing its bags in a couple of weeks. ABC’s late-night talker will head east to Brooklyn for a week of shows starting October 21. The starry lineup of guests will include Eddie Murphy, Bruce Springsteen, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Alicia Keys, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kelly Ripa, Ellie Kemper and John…

Abominable has been frozen out of theaters in Vietnam. The animated adventure from DreamWorks Animation and Shanghai-based Pearl Studios ran afoul of the Vietnamese government because of a map in the film illustrating China’s claims to a vast portion of the South China Sea, the BBC reported Monday. The scene that…

SAG-AFTRA's national board is weighing action on a convention resolution that condemned "recent threats of violence and use of violent imagery" during the union's latest elections. Approved over the weekend, the resolution urged the board to "take whatever action it deems appropriate to address what has occurred and…

Trevor Noah says the situation in the Middle East is spiraling out of control, and President Trump’s foreign policy is partly to blame. “While all this impeachment stuff is tearing America apart, Trump is causing just as much mayhem overseas,” Noah said Monday night on The Daily Show. The Comedy Central star blasted…

LeBron James has slammed NBA team owners for treating players with a "slave mentality" and weathered Fox New host Laura Ingraham's bellow that the L.A. Laker and other pro athletes should "shut up and dribble" when it comes to social and political topics. Not so much for Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey it seems. Turns…