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A Los Angeles federal judge has rejected Charter Communications’ effort to dismiss a $10 billion racial discrimination lawsuit filed against the cable giant by Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios. Judge George Wu of California’s Central District issued a ruling Friday denying Charter’s motion to dismiss. Allen first filed suit against Charter in 2016, asserting that the

Cliff Robinson, a former NBA All-Star and contestant on the reality show “Survivor,” has died, his alma mater the University of Connecticut announced. He was 53. “The UConn Basketball family mourns the loss of a legendary player and person, Clifford Robinson,” the university’s men’s basketball twitter account wrote. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Cliff’s

Each year the list of Emmy nominees is rightfully analyzed and scrutinized for diversity. The list of LGBTQ Emmy nominees is then further examined for its own racial and gender diversity, but that analysis consistently has overlooked the geographic diversity of LGBTQ people. Though GLAAD’s latest TV report found the largest number of LGBTQ characters

When the Milwaukee Bucks refused to take the court for their playoff match-up against the Orlando Magic Wednesday night, they prompted wildcat strikes that swept the U.S. sports landscape and forced the postponement of games across across the NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL and MLS. They also turned what was supposed to be a routine telecast

AT&T and Dish Network shares rose in after-hours trading Friday following a report that AT&T is again talking to prospective buyers for DirecTV. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that AT&T has resumed conversations with private equity firms that have expressed interest in the satellite TV provider that has struggled with a steady and increasing

In today’s TV news roundup, HBO has released a teaser for the second season of “His Dark Materials,” and Variety obtained an exclusive first look of ID’s “The 93 Victims of Samuel Little.” DATES Quibi announced the premiere dates for its entire fall lineup, which is as follows: “Singled Out” Season 2 (Sept. 7), a social

Dylan Gage and Gus Birney have been cast in the upcoming Starz horror comedy pilot “Shining Vale,” Variety has learned. The pair joins previously announced cast members Courtney Cox and Greg Kinnear. “Shining Vale” is a half-hour series about a dysfunctional family that moves from the city to a small town into a house in which terrible

Jeff Michael, a veteran local news anchor in Los Angeles, filed a lawsuit on Friday alleging that KCBS-TV breached his agreement and discriminated against him based on his heart and stress issues. Michael was let go in May, along with anchors Sandra Mitchell and Sharon Tay and meteorologist Garth Kemp, as part of a broader

There has been a change at the top of CBS’ “FBI” spinoff. The network has tapped “Friday Night Lights” alumnus David Hudgins as the showrunner for the upcoming second season of “FBI: Most Wanted,” Variety has confirmed. Hudgins has also signed an overall deal with the show’s producer Universal Television. He takes over from René Balcer who

An animated “X-Files” comedy series spinoff is in the works at Fox, Variety has confirmed. The project is currently titled “The X-Files: Albuquerque.” It has received a script and presentation commitment at the broadcaster. The show would revolve around an office full of misfit agents who investigate X-Files cases too wacky, ridiculous or downright dopey

The CW is developing a drama series that hails from Damon Wayans Jr.’s Two Shakes Entertainment, Variety has learned exclusively. The project is titled “The Pretenders.” In the show, a seemingly normal suburban family is hiding a big secret: they’re actually individual assets in the Witness Protection Program, placed together to provide safe cover for three of

Late-night talk show host James Corden said he owes his career to theater, and the ongoing pandemic has him losing sleep over its fate. “It’s genuinely keeping me up at night,” Corden said in a podcast interview on “The Big Ticket with Marc Malkin.” “I worry about the theater. I worry about the bounce-back that I

ABC has given a series order to the limited anthology series “Women of the Movement,” which will tell the story of key female figures in the Civil Rights Movement. The show was first announced as being in development in August 2019. The first six-episode season is slated to debut in 2021. It will focus on

The family of “ER” actor Vanessa Marquez filed a federal suit Thursday alleging the officer-involved shooting of Marquez involved a civil rights violation. The actor was killed in her home in 2018. Officers were called to the scene by paramedics and Marquez was having seizures when they arrived. Approximately 90 minutes into the situation, she

Stampede Ventures and independent studio Wiip will adapt Bonnie Pipkin’s debut novel, “Aftercare Instructions.” The project is described as a half-hour “coming-of-age dramedy.” Stampede Ventures and Wiip have tapped Marguerite MacIntyre as showrunner, writer and executive producer, and Alex Kalymnios is set to executive produce and direct the pilot. Greg Silverman and Paul Shapiro will

“Yellowstone” is proving to be a major outlier in a quiet summer for TV ratings. The season 3 finale, which was already one of the most-viewed cable telecasts of the year in its live showing, grew its audience substantially in Live+3. A total of 7.6 million viewers tuned in to the finale after three days

There’s something elemental about the desire to look to the stars, to imagine oneself as well as, perhaps, all humanity, finding a future beyond the planet we once called home. This innate desire to explore and discover is, indeed, so deeply encoded that it presents a trap for artists — it can too easily be

Jameela Jamil, the British star of award-winning series “The Good Place,” has called out the patriarchal underpinnings of U.S. and U.K. media, saying she remains “unafraid” to tackle it head on. Jamil was delivering the Alternative MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival on Thursday, in conversation with journalist and documentary maker Afua Hirsch. Jamil,

Two months after Jenny Slate announced she would no longer voice the character of Missy on “Big Mouth,” the Netflix animated puberty comedy has found her replacement: writer, producer, comedian and actor Ayo Edebiri. “I was definitely a very uncomfortable child, so I think the show speaks to that and a lot of those feelings,

Sky drama “Temple,” whose first season will soon debut stateside on Spectrum, was about to roll cameras in London on its second season when the pandemic struck. Liza Marshall, head of production company Hera Pictures, describes the measures taken in the last six months to get back on track.  We were five weeks away from

Creating a post-apocalyptic story that feels genuinely new has become a near-impossible task. Even if the real world didn’t feel like it was blurring the line between fact and fiction every day, the “what happens to the world when the world’s already ended?” scenario has been done to death and back. At some point, the

TLC’s Howard Lee has said that more spin-offs are in the works for ratings juggernaut “90 Day Fiancé.” The show, produced by Sharp Entertainment, began airing in 2014 and has spawned nine spin-offs, including “Before the 90 Days,” “The Other Way,” “What Now?,” “Pillow Talk,” “The Family Chantel,” the COVID-19 themed “Self-Quarantined,” “Happily Ever After,”

Yagira Yuya, the Japanese actor who won the acting prize in Cannes for his role in Koreeda Hirokazu’s “Nobody Knows,” heads the cast of “Gift of Fire,” which stands as the first internationally co-produced film made in 8K. In the fact-based drama, Yagira plays a nuclear scientist who struggles with his conscience while working Japan’s

Throughout the weeklong broadcast of the Republican National Convention, speakers argued that Donald Trump was not in fact the person we’d seen for nearly four years as our president and for longer as a presence on social media and in the national psyche — that he was gentle, loving, kind, generous. The challenge Trump faced

When it came time to film the “Lowkey Happy,” the eighth episode in season 4 of HBO’s hit show “Insecure,” director Ava Berkofsky and cinematographer Kira Kelly knew that creating the right ambience for Issa (Issa Rae) and Lawrence’s (Jay Ellis) reunion date would be essential. In the latest episode of Artisans presented by HBO,

In today’s TV news roundup, “The Bachelorette’s” Rachel Lindsay has been named “” correspondent for Season 27, and Netflix set”The Queen’s Gambit’s” premiere date. DATES “That Animal Rescue Show,” from filmmakers Richard Linklater and Bill Guttentag, will premiere on CBS All Access on Oct. 29. The 10-episode docuseries follows unique animal rescue communities in and

John Harlan Kim has been upped to series regular on the upcoming fourth season of “9-1-1-” at Fox, Variety has learned exclusively. Kim recurred last season as Albert Kim, the younger half-brother of firefighter Howie “Chimney” Kim (Kenneth Choi). The brothers had never met until Albert surprised Chimey by showing up on his doorstep from Korea.

Simon Kinberg and David Weil’s Apple series “Invasion” has set its main cast. Apple TV Plus has cast “Jurassic World: Dominion” and “Peaky Blinders” star Sam Neill, “Wynnona Earp” alum Shamier Anderson and three others to star in the alien drama. “Invasion” follows an alien invasion through multiple perspectives around the world. The series, which is

Night 3 of the Republican National Convention delivered the smallest viewership tally to date, dropping 13% from the previous night. Wednesday night’s proceedings drew around 15.8 million total viewers across all the broadcast and cable news networks, roughly a 2 million viewer dip on Tuesday night. For comparison, the third night of the Democratic National

“Nailed It” host and Emmy nominee Nicole Byer has been tapped to host the five-night presentation of the 2020 Creative Arts Emmy Awards, the Television Academy announced Thursday. Additionally, the organization announced some presenters for the virtual event: Monica Aldama (“Cheer”), Jeff Bridges (“The Old Man”), Rose Byrne (“Mrs. America”), Bobby Cannavale (“Homecoming”), guest drama