‘Wild Beauty’ Documentary Exposes the Mistreatment of Wild Horses in the West
Majestic scenes of wild horses roaming free on the range loom large in the American imagination. Yet what many people do not realize is that the federal government regularly rounds up these beautiful animals because it says they are overpopulated on literally nearly 30 million acres of land in the West. Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West, a new feature-length documentary, chronicles the plight of these wild horses across remote,...
‘The Morning Show’ & ‘Succession’ Top Critics Choice Awards TV Nominations
The crew of Apple TV+’s The Morning Show beat out the media moguls of HBO’s Succession to top the television nominations for the 29th annual Critics Choice Awards. The Morning Show received six noms while Succession scored five. Coming in with four nominations apiece are Abbott Elementary (ABC), The Bear (FX), Beef (Netflix), Lessons In Chemistry (Apple...
Billion Dollar Deal Settles SAG-AFTRA Strike; Actors Head Back to Work
SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher on the picket lines of the just-ended strike Thousands of actors – at least those who currently have a job – are headed back to work after the resolution of the highly disruptive SAG-AFTRA strike that was called in early July, two months after the Writers Guild of America also went on strike and effectively decimating most new production in the entertainment industry. The first stop for many will be...
Late Night is Back and on Track with Trump Jokes
Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver return after WGA strike settlement After five long WGA-stricken months, all of the late-night hosts are back on the air and wasting no time in doing what they do best, skewering the latest news events, each with their own humorous spin. But first, deep gratitude over the tentative settlement with the AMPTP that allowed the shows go back on the air. Late night was...
WGA Members Put Down Picket Signs, Pick Up Pens: Strike Over
Finally, after 148 days which wreaked economic devastation, it’s over. After reaching a tentative agreement with the AMPTP Sunday night, the Writers Guild of America told its members they could go back to work today although the new three-year deal has not been officially ratified by the membership. Over the weekend, the union’s negotiating team met with studio heads of NBC Universal, Disney, Netflix and Warner Bros. (Donna Langley,...