Where in the world is Conan Without Borders going next? Conan O’Brien is taking his roadshow to Ghana for his eleventh primetime special in four years. The show taped last night for airing September 17 on TBS. Watch O’Brien announce the trip — joined by Veep‘s Sam Richardson, who is “half-Ghanian — in the video…

Facebook has revealed details of Libra, its cryptocurrency answer to Bitcoin, which the tech giant says is aimed at the estimated 1.7 billion people around the world who are “unbanked.” “Libra is a global, digitally native, reserve-backed cryptocurrency built on the foundation of blockchain technology,” the company…

The Toronto Film Festival has promoted Geoff Macnaughton to director of industry. Macnaughton will oversee the organization's industry programming and talent development initiatives, as well as industry-related sales and services. He will continue to act as lead programmer of Primetime, the festival’s strand…

The Masked Singer panelist Ken Jeong and The Good Place actress D’Arcy Carden will read the list of nominations for the 71st Emmys Awards next month. The pair will be joined by Television Academy Chairman and CEO Frank Scherma to announce the noms starting at 8:30 a.m. PT Tuesday, July 16, from the Wolf Theatre at the…

Jenni Rivera, the famed Mexican-American singer-songwriter, TV star, and activist who died tragically in a plane accident in 2012, will be immortalized in film form. Mucho Mas Media and De Line Pictures have acquired the life rights of Rivera from Jenni Rivera Enterprises with plans to develop a film that will focus…

The life and career of British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is to be explored in a new documentary for UK’s Channel 4. The British broadcaster has ordered hour-long doc 20 Years of The Naked Chef: Jamie Bares All, which will look at how things have changed for the chef since his rise. This comes weeks after it was…

Frank Bennack, the executive vice chairman and former CEO of Hearst Corp., is channeling his decades of experience into a memoir to be published this fall by Simon & Schuster. The CBS-owned publishing house has acquired world rights and audio rights to Leave Something on the Table: And Other Surprising Lessons for Succ…

Principal photography is under way in UK on comedy feature Blithe Spirit, starring Dan Stevens (Beauty And The Beast), Isla Fisher (The Beach Bum), Julian Rhind-Tut (Rush), Emilia Fox (Silent Witness), Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake), James Fleet (Outlander) and Judi Dench (Skyfall). As we revealed yesterday, Leslie Mann…

The Hero Nation Index is a Monday round-up of news from the genre sector (sci-fi, fantasy, superheroes, horror, and animation). Since the very first Star Trek mission aired on NBC in September 1966 the far-future brand has been defined as much by its “family” dynamic and crew ensembles as by its sci-fi concepts and…

Bernie McGee, star of the TLC reality series Seeking Sister Wife, has died from heat stroke and a heart attack. He was age 41. "Our hearts go out to the McGee family following the loss of husband and father Bernie McGee," TLC wrote in an online tribute Monday. "Our thoughts are with them during this difficult…