California has extended regional stay-at-home orders for Southern California for at least three weeks, it was announced Tuesday during a livestream COVID-19 update from the state’s Health and Human Services Secretary, Dr. Mark Ghaly. “Many of you are tired,” Ghaly acknowledged, but said “Do as much as you can. Celebrate virtually.” The extended stay-at-home order
William Link, a writer and producer known for co-creating “Columbo” and “Murder, She Wrote,” died of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles on Sunday, his niece confirmed to Variety. He was 87. Over the course of Link’s decades-long television career, he became known for working alongside screenwriter and producer Richard Levinson. The duo collaborated on
In a new end-of-the-year TV carriage fight, Verizon on Tuesday began notifying Fios TV customers that Hearst Television stations may go dark on Fios as of Jan. 1 — with the telco claiming Hearst is demanding fee hikes of more than 45% to carry its local channels. Verizon’s current agreement with Hearst TV expires Dec.
[cozy package tagline] A lifetime ago, otherwise known as October of last year, my best friend and I decided to treat ourselves with a night out at Olmsted, a Brooklyn restaurant that’d been on our bucket list for months. It was a bit on the expensive side for a casual Thursday meal, so we decided
Taylor Swift may not be guaranteed to hold on at the top of the album chart for evermore, but her latest album did manage to at least land a second week at No. 1, holding off a strong debut from Paul McCartney and an Eminem deluxe reissue in the week leading up to Christmas. Swift’s
Multi-hyphenate Jenna Andrews has held just about every role in the music industry — including major label artist, A&R executive, publisher and songwriter — and now she’s adding digital series host to her resume. With “The Green Room,” Andrews is giving fans a “look inside” the songwriting process. “When you go into a writing session,
Scott Mantz walks us through some key moments in film form this century, from X-Men to Iron Man, to the Oscars showdown of La La Land and Moonlight, and why horror is so popular right now. Plus Khail Anonymous tells us what’s new to watch this week! ► Buy or Rent on FandangoNOW: https://www.fandangonow.com/list/most-popular-movies-of-the-centuryso-far?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc See
Rank PROGRAM (NETWORK) VIEWERS (000) DATE AIRED 1. SUPER BOWL LIV: Chiefs vs. 49ers (Fox) 102,031 2/2/2020 2. NFC CHAMPIONSHIP: 49ers vs. Packers (Fox) 43,625 1/19/2020 3. NFL PLAYOFFS: Packers vs. Seahwaks (Fox) 38,023 1/12/2020 4. AFC WILDCARD PLAYOFF: Titans vs. Patriots (CBS) 31,828 1/4/2020 5. AFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFF: Titans vs. Ravens (CBS) 29,828 1/11/2020 6. THE
2021 may be a few days away, but Aly & AJ just brought back the 2000s. The sister duo released a new version of their 2007 hit track “Potential Breakup Song” on Tuesday, spicing it up with new explicit lyrics. The originally clean song has undergone a revision, bringing the curse counter to two “fucks”
Lil Pump, the rapper recently most famous for hitching his hip-hop wagon to the Trump train, has been banned from JetBlue Airlines after reportedly refusing to keep a mask on during a Sunday flight. A representative for JetBlue confirmed to USA Today that a passenger assumed to be the MAGA-boosting rapper “became verbally abusive with
Looking back over the beloved stars we lost in the past year is always emotional, and this year has been especially devastating, given how many members of the entertainment community died due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic hit the music community especially hard, but television and film performers, as well as stage actors and
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the full season of “A Teacher,” streaming now on FX on Hulu. The finale of FX on Hulu’s provocative limited series “A Teacher” begins 10 years after the penultimate episode, in which it became clear that both Eric (Nick Robinson) and Claire (Kate Mara) were
Marcus D’Amico, the actor who played the character of Mouse in the original “Tales of the City” miniseries, has died. He was 55. D’Amico died Dec. 16 of pneumonia at his home in Oxfordshire, England, his sister, Melissa D’Amico, told Queerty. D’Amico was known for his role as the genial Michael “Mouse” Tolliver from the
Season 13 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” will kick off with a virtual brunch designed to celebrate the new season and the new Queens. The event will take place on Jan. 1, 2021, to coincide with the season premiere. Season 11 contestant Honey Davenport will DJ and Bianca Del Rio will make a guest appearance in
Spotify has joined the ranks of streaming services like SoundCloud and YouTube as a hub for bootlegs of popular songs. With obscured titles like “Jocelyn Flores but you’re in the bathroom at a party” by eraylandin, a new take on XXXTentacion’s popular “Jocelyn Flores,” and “Dead To Me – Kali Uchis (slowed + bass boosted)” by user
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are bidding adieu to 2020 with their first podcast for Spotify — along with a host of celebrity guests and a few (very) brief words from their young son, Archie. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Tuesday released a standalone holiday special, produced by Archewell Audio and Spotify’s Gimlet,
Certain films aren’t made for elevator pitches. “Arthouse ‘Gilmore Girls’ meets ‘The Fault in Our Stars’” would be one way to describe the array of familiar elements in “Asia,” while erasing any hint of the rare delicacy and emotional acuity with which Israeli writer-director Ruthy Pribar assembles them. In her unassumingly lovely debut feature, Pribar
Reg LancasterGetty Images Visionary French fashion designer Pierre Cardin died on Tuesday at age 98, the French Academy of Fine Arts confirmed on Twitter. “The Perpetual Secretary, Laurent Petitgirard, and the members of the Academy of Fine Arts are deeply saddened to announce the death of their colleague Pierre Cardin. He had been elected on
Cameras are set to roll in February on the long delayed Arabic adaptation of hit Italian concept movie “Perfect Strangers” with a high-caliber ensemble cast now in place comprising star Lebanese director/actor Nadine Labaki (“Capernaum”). After being postponed due to both COVID-19 and political turmoil in Lebanon, the latest in a slew of remakes of
Pierre Cardin, the French designer and branding pioneer whose career spanned more than 60 years, has died. He was 98. Cardin died at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-seine, near Paris. His family announced his death on Tuesday. The son of Italian immigrants, Cardin saw his career take off in the late 1950s. He became widely
Forget the Oscars. One of the sites where the battle for on-screen representation matters most may be in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh — the world’s largest refugee camp. Two new inhabitants are set to take up residence there in the new year: six-year-old Rohingya Muslim twins Noor and Aziz. The difference between them and the one
[Warning: The following story contains SPOILERS for the season finale of “The Mandalorian.”] On Dec. 17, a popular Star Wars YouTuber joined roughly 30,000 fans as he livestreamed his reaction to the Season 2 finale of “The Mandalorian.” The YouTuber — who most often goes by the name of his account, Star Wars Theory, and
As this unprecedented year finally reaches its close and we look for the silver linings in nine months of lockdown, we think of time with family, time to recharge, time to think… and for some of us, quality time with another family member: music. Sure, there’s been no shortage of great television shows to binge-watch
Box office in Spain crashed 72% in 2020 to a total €169.7 million ($207 million), with COVID-19 wiping over half a billion dollars from box office sales this year, Comscore announced Tuesday. By way of comparison, 2019 total box office in Spain stood at €605 million ($738 million). Spanish cinema admissions similarly plunged from 105
For decades, local fiction dominated free-to-air primetime over much of Europe. Many big U.S. water cooler titles like “The Sopranos” and “The Wire” made the running on pay TV. That old order is now more challenged than ever as Movistar Plus, Spain’s leading pay TV operator, underscored on Tuesday, announcing the top 5 series across
As 2020 comes to a close, Italy’s TV industry is mourning the recent death of Sara Melodia, who was head of drama at Italy’s prominent TV production company Lux Vide, the outfit behind “Medici,” “Devils” and the upcoming high-end “Leonardo” series. Melodia, who died of cancer on Dec. 2 at 46, had been instrumental to
A North Carolina English teacher and author has filed a lawsuit against Netflix and the creators of their hit show “Outer Banks,” claiming copyright infringement. The official complaint was filed on Dec. 21 by Kevin Wooten, who is the author of the 2016 novel “Pennywise: The Hunt for Blackbeard’s Treasure.” Wooten claims that Netflix and
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the second season finale of “His Dark Materials.” Fans of Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy, Lin-Manuel Miranda included, have known all along that Lee Scoresby was sailing his balloon towards certain death. But that didn’t make his and Hester’s (Cristela Alonzo) demise any less
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is urging film productions in the area to “strongly consider” pausing their operations for a few weeks amid a continued surge in COVID-19 cases. Per FilmLA, in an email sent to the county’s film industry contacts on Dec. 24, the LADPH wrote: “Although music, TV and film
Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is the nation’s top song for the fourth week in a row, as it again tops the Rolling Stone songs chart. Nothing unexpected about that; what is unusual is how far down the chart you have to go to find a song that isn’t seasonal. To