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EXCLUSIVE:BBC One has set the premiere date for Dancing Ledge Productions’ anticipated three-part miniseries, The Salisbury Poisonings. A dramatization of the 2018 Novichok poisonings that rocked the eponymous city and made global headlines, it will air from June 14-16 at 9PM locally. Rafe Spall, Anne-Marie Duff and…
UPDATED with state of emergency declaration: As protests and looting spread across Los Angeles Saturday evening, Mayor Eric Garcetti asked California Gov. Gavin Newsom to send in the National Guard to help restore order amid unrest over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Newsom responded later in the…
As anger over the death of George Floyd spreads into violence, fires and curfews across America tonight, Joe Biden asked "a nation furious at injustice" for calmer minds and hearts to prevail.
"Protesting such brutality is right and necessary," the Democrats' presumptive nominee said in a statement late Saturday as…
UPDATE, 10:15 PM: As Los Angeles and other American cities go into curfew and fires burn tonight over protests over the death of George Floyd at the hands of now arrested ex-Minneapolis cop, Hulu, Amazon’s Prime Video and Starz have added their voice to Netflix in support of Black Lives Matter.
In an Instagram post…
Winners were announced Saturday for the 40th College Television Awards, which recognize excellence in student-produced programs from colleges and universities nationwide. The Television Academy Foundation’s ceremony took place as a global livestream for the first time because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Top honors…
After violent clashes and looting across the Los Angeles region, curfews were ordered from 8 p.m. Saturday to 5:30 a.m. Sunday for the entire city of L.A., as well as neighboring West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Pasadena, Santa Monica and Culver City.
Shortly after the curfew started in L.A., Mayor Eric Garcetti announce…
Actor Kendrick Sampson of the HBO series Insecure was struck by rubber bullets Saturday as Los Angeles police officers tried to disperse a crowd protesting George Floyd's death in Minneapolis.
Sampson posted several videos on his Instagram page of a large demonstration at Pan Pacific Park near the city’s Fairfax…
EXCLUSIVE:Jason Kilar, newly minted CEO of WarnerMedia, sent a company-wide memo Saturday to communicate his feelings about the George Floyd shooting and protests and indicate how the company should respond.
The senseless death of Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, punctuated by a gruesome…
NASA and SpaceX on Saturday successfully launched the Elon Musk-led company’s Falcon 9 rocket carrying two NASA astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft in a picture-perfect liftoff this afternoon from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL.
The launch was postponed Wednesday due to weather concerns but…
UPDATED 4 PM with SAG-AFTRA Statement: A reporter for an NBC affiliate station in Louisville, KY was fired upon by police Friday night during a live broadcast covering street protests in that city.
Kaitlin Rust, a journalist at WAVE 3, was live on the air when a man wearing a mask and vest that said “police” began…
Disney+ has a massive hit on its hands with The Mandalorian, and one of the reasons for that is the character known as The Child, aka Baby Yoda, as nearly everyone calls him.
The doll-like Baby Yoda is a member of the same alien species as Yoda from the Star Wars franchise, and he’s on the run in the series. He’s also…
