awards
So Much for the Emmy Awards: They’ll Be Virtual, Governor’s Ball Cancelled, Academy Donates $1 Mil to Actor’s Fund
There will be no big parties for the Emmy Awards this September.
The Television Academy announced this morning that the Creative Arts Emmys -- which...
Television
Soap Opera: Without New Episodes During Pandemic Ratings are So Bad ABC Doesn’t Release Them Anymore for “General Hospital” Reruns
The pandemic is killing the remaining four soap operas.
Things are so bad for the soaps, three of which are showing greatest hits from the...
Politics
TV Police Shows Under Fire: Dan Abrams’ “Live PD” Cancelled As Storm Brews Over Show Filming 2019 Black Man’s Arrest-Death
Dan Abrams' hit show on A&E, "Live PD," has been cancelled. Abrams wrote on Twitter: "Shocked & beyond disappointed about this. To the loyal...
Movies
Life Imitates Art for Actor Frank Grillo, Now in Showtime’s Wall Street Hit, “Billions”: In 1999 He Pleaded Guilty to Securities Fraud
EXCLUSIVE Actor Frank Grill0's run on "Billions" -- the great Showtime drama about greed and power on Wall Street -- is even more life...
Television
“Grease” Was Not the Word: CBS Sunday Night Sing-a-long Replacement for Tony Awards Beaten by…Celebrity Family Feud
"Grease" was not the word Sunday night.
CBS's answer to not having the Tony Awards was a sing-a-long to the movie "Grease," based on a...
Books
RIP Oscar Nominee Bruce Jay Friedman, 90, One of Our Great Writers, Brought Nudity to PBS in 1973 with “Steambath”
Bruce Jay Friedman passed away today. He was 90 years old, and one of our greatest writers. There are many tributes to Bruce, particularly...
Celebrity
Great News! “Law & Order” Star Tamara Tunie, Actress, Producer, Named Carnegie Mellon University Trustee
Well, on a bad, bad day here's some really nice news.
The wonderful Tamara Tunie, star of "Law & Order" and "As the World Turns,"...
Celebrity
The Emmys Are More or Less Over: HBO Donates the Money it Spends on Lavish Annual Party to LA COVID Charity
The Emmy Awards will be presented, but not in the usual way. For one thing, there will be no lavish glamorous HBO after party...