The uncertainties swirling around baseball, from the Houston Astros’ widening cheating scandal to significant potential changes to the playoff format, are likely to affect the sport’s TV value in the months ahead as two significant rights deals are set to be negotiated before they expire in 2021.
An executive and director who worked with Hubei Film Studios in Wuhan, China, has died after contracting coronavirus, along with three other members of his immediate family. Chang Kai, 55, succumbed to pneumonia caused by the coronavirus on February 14, Hubei said on social media. His father and mother reportedly died…
Tiffany Boone, the actress who left Showtime’s The Chi in November 2018 after alleging that she was harassed by co-star Jason Mitchell, is speaking out about her reasons for leaving, saying in an Instagram post that “not everyone was interested in creating a work environment that was conducive to each person feeling…
Turner Sports said its coverage of Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game, simulcast live on TNT and TBS from Chicago’s United Center, drew an average of 7.3 million viewers, an 8% increase over last year’s game. That made it the night’s most-watched program on all of cable TV.
The annual midseason showcase, capping a full…
Ann Basart, who appeared in dozens of films as a child billed as Ann E. Todd in the 1930s and ’40s and was a regular on 1950s sitcom The Stu Erwin Show, has died. She was 88. Basart died February 7 in Northern California; she had struggled with dementia for seven years, but no formal cause of death was given.
Born Ann…
Love Island has returned and paid an emotional tribute to Caroline Flack, the UK reality show’s former presenter who died on Saturday. In Love Island‘s first episode since Flack took her own life, narrator Iain Stirling opened the show with some words about his former colleague set to scenes of rolling seas and rugged…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took some time off from being ribbed at the Oscars and purchasing pricey real estate to do something really big — announcing a massive private venture in the form of a $10 billion fund to fight climate change.
The mogul, the world’s richest human, announced Monday the launch of the Bezos…
Netflix has released the official trailer for I Am Not Okay With This, its upcoming YA series based on Charles Forsman’s graphic novel that hits the streaming service on February 26. The series has strong lineage: it comes from 21 Laps Entertainment, which is behind Netflix’s signature Stranger Things, and is…
Apple TV+ has released the first trailer for its Amazing Stories, the five-episode reboot/reimagining of Steven Spielberg’s 1980s anthology series that is now on target to hit the Apple streamer March 6.
Developed by Universal TV and Amblin Television, Amazing Stories was one of the first original series projects…
American Idol returned for its third season on ABC on Sunday, with the venerable music competition show scoring a night-leading 1.5 Live+Same Day rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 8.05 million total viewers. It led a night of primetime that otherwise took a breath after a stretch that included the Grammys…
Tomorrowland Winter, one of the largest dance music festivals in the world, is to be livestreamed via Insight TV.
It marks the first time that the winter edition of the festival, which takes place in France’s Alpe de’Huez Grand Domain Ski Resort and features artists including Afrojack and Charlotte De Witte, is being…
