Ronna McDaniel out at NBC News following backlash NBC has dropped Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor, NBCU News Group Chair Cesar Conde confirmed in a memo to staff following backlash from some of the network's journalists. 03/26/2024 - 2:15 pm | View Link
Ronna McDaniel outrage renews scrutiny of politics-to-pundit pipeline The furious response to NBC's hiring of former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel has triggered broader criticism of cable news' lucrative — and often controversial — alliance with former government and party ... 03/25/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
NBC renews 'Chicago,' 'Law & Order' shows NBC has announced it renewed several shows for the 2024-25 television season. Expected to return with fresh episodes are Brian Tee's Chicago Med, Taylor Kinney's Chicago Fire, Jason Beghe's Chicago P. 03/22/2024 - 1:07 am | View Link
As NBC Renews One Chicago And Law And Order: SVU, Here's How They Rank In The Ratings There are still a couple of months left in the spring portion of the 2024 TV schedule, but NBC has some early good news for fans of the network's biggest programs. All three One Chicago shows and ... 03/21/2024 - 11:32 am | View Link
NBC Renews ‘Chicago’ Shows, Two ‘Law & Order’ Series Chicago Med, in season nine, is averaging 10.5 million viewers (L+35) this season, NBC said. Chicago Fire, in season 12, is averaging 12.6 million viewers and Chicago P.D., in season 11, is averaging ... 03/21/2024 - 8:38 am | View Link
Among the many misperceptions about the Holocaust that well-meaning Hollywood creators have unwittingly perpetuated, the most damaging has been the idea that Jews were passive victims, complacently herded into airless train cars to be exterminated at death camps. Bloody revenge fantasies like Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds aside, realistic accounts of Jewish self-defense in the face of Nazi annihilation have been few and far between.
On March 16, 1983, the Country Music Association (CMA) celebrated its 25th anniversary, and I was invited. Buddy Killen, the song publisher who pitched “Heartbreak Hotel” to Elvis Presley, thought “the Black girl from Harvard” might just be the second coming of that hit’s songwriter, Mae Boren Axton. He put me on the guest list and paid for the tickets.
It was a complicated night.
ASIAN CINEMA CELEBRATION Veteran Chinese director Zhang Yimou will be presented with a lifetime achievement award at the upcoming edition of the Festival of Far East Film in Italy’s Udine (April 24 – May 2). The lineup will include three films by Zhang: his 2023 political thriller “Under the Light” in its competition section; as […]
The Busan International Film Festival has postponed the appointment of a permanent festival director. A new leader may be appointed after this year’s edition in October. Pak Dosin, a former senior programmer, has been appointed as co-deputy director in a dual-leadership structure, alongside co-deputy director Kang Seung-ah. That means that this year’s festival will be […]
Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival is set to celebrate the centennial of Columbia Pictures with a retrospective featuring classic titles spawned by the Hollywood studio between the dawn of sound and the late 1950s. The Locarno retro, titled “The Lady With the Torch –– The Centenary of Columbia Pictures,” is being curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht, co-director […]
Just 48 hours after a show in San Diego and less than 24 hours before he is set to perform at San Francisco’s Chase Center, Bruce Springsteen logged some serious (private) air miles for a surprise performance at country superstar Zach Bryan’s concert at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Wednesday night.