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Rob Kardashian’s meltdown, ‘Bachelor’ controversy: Ugly truths of reality TV

Nearly two decades after the reality TV craze took a firm grasp on our culture, viewers are really good at pretending the stars of these shows are only characters. Sure, we watch ...

DATE: Jul 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

‘True Blood’ actor Nelsan Ellis dead at 39

NEW YORK – Actor Nelsan Ellis, best known for playing the character of Lafayette Reynolds on “True Blood,” has died at age 39. Ellis’ manager Emily Gerson Saines confirmed the act...

DATE: Jul 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movie looks at the scariest summertime predator

Most likely, a great white isn’t going to kill you. Neither is a serial killer, terrorist, grizzly bear or a lot of other nightmare-inducing predators. What should be keeping you ...

DATE: Jul 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘X-Files’ writers all men – how does this still happen?

The truth is out there, and it’s a bit imbalanced. As “X-Files” fans gear up for the show’s 11th season, which follows a reboot of the 1990s series in 2016, IndieWire reports that...

DATE: Jun 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Rob Lowe says he feared death during bigfoot-like encounter

Rob Lowe says he thought he was going to be killed during an encounter with a bigfoot creature while filming his new A&E docuseries. Lowe tells Entertainment Weekly the encounter ...

DATE: Jun 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

NBC says ‘Downton Abbey’ movie production to start in 2018

SINGAPORE – A “Downton Abbey” movie is in the works, with production likely to begin in 2018, an NBCUniversal executive said. Michael Edelstein, president at NBCUniversal Internat...

DATE: Jun 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

ABC revives ‘The Gong Show,’ but does it still work?

Does “The Gong Show” belong in 2017? ABC, which has a lazy habit of exhuming old game shows, brings “The Gong Show” back essentially unaltered – it’s a dank and shticky amateur ta...

DATE: Jun 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

This ’80s female wrestling league was dangerous, sexist

LOS ANGELES – The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling have endured kicks to the head, knees to the groin, body-slams, insults, rivalries, ridicule and spangly neon unitards. On Friday, they face wh...

DATE: Jun 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

CBS renews full daytime lineup; 3 more years for ‘Restless’

LOS ANGELES – The drama will keep churning on daytime TV’s “The Young and the Restless” through at least 2020. CBS said it has renewed the soap opera for three more seasons. “The ...

DATE: Jun 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Stephen Furst, Flounder in ‘Animal House,’ dies at 63

LOS ANGELES – Stephen Furst, who played naive fraternity pledge Flounder in the hit movie “Animal House,” has died of complications from diabetes, his family said Saturday. Furst was 63. ...

DATE: Jun 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Worried about your favorite TV show?

The recent cancellations of series such as WGN’s “Underground,” Netflix’s “Sense8” and “The Get Down,” as well as network series including “American Crime” led me to ponder last week whether...

DATE: Jun 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Reza Aslan becomes second CNN personality dumped after attacking Trump

For the second time in just over a week, a CNN personality has been cast off the network after a vulgar attack on President Donald Trump. At the end of May, Kathy Griffin’s contra...

DATE: Jun 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment