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Four weeks into its 34th season, Dancing With the Stars is on a ratings roll. The ABC show has grown its first-night audience every week since the season premiere on Sept. 16, hitting a high of 5.88 million viewers for Tuesday’s Disney-themed night. That was up a tick from 5.83 million same-day viewers a week…
[This story contains major spoilers from the season 22 premiere of Grey’s Anatomy, “Only the Strong Survive.”] Natalie Morales has just joined a very exclusive club: the dead Grey’s Anatomy doctors club. Throughout the two-decade run of the venerable ABC medical drama, creator Shonda Rhimes and her showrunning successors have become infamous for killing off…
Directors representing a high profile crop of submissions for this year’s best international feature Oscar race will be sharing the stage in the Windy City this weekend. The 61st Chicago International Film Festival confirmed the details today for its International Contenders Panel: World Cinema Now!, a discussion featuring auteurs representing their country’s official submissions for…
Writer-director Mac Nixon knows that you have sheep and lush green landscapes in mind when thinking about Wales. That’s why he plays with these tropes in his 20-minute black-and-white short Flock, which world premieres at the 69th editionof theBFILondon Film Festival (LFF) with other shorts grouped together under the theme “Pulling the Rug Out.” The…
John Lodge, the longtime singer, songwriter and bass guitarist for The Moody Blues, has died. He was 82. “John Lodge, our darling husband, father, grandfather, father-in-law and brother, has been suddenly and unexpectedly taken from us,” his family Friday said in a statement on Facebook. No cause of death was shared, but they noted that…
Howard Stern continues to speak with SiriusXM about renewing his contract. In an interview with Andy Cohen, another member of the SiriusXM stable, Stern reflected on his love of the satellite radio company, which he notes he helped build subscribership for, and said he’s still in negotiations over what may happen next with his own…
Alexander Bafer is best known as the founder and former CEO of FuboTV, the U.S.-based video streaming service offering a premium, over-the-top bundle of sports TV channels. Then in April 2020, after the COVID-19 crisis left TV viewers hunkered down in their homes, Bafer completed the merger of FuboTV with Facebank Group, a developer of…
Jon M. Chu delighted London Film Festival attendees on Friday with a sneak peek at the upcoming Wicked: For Good, and also teased what lies ahead in his next musical-to-screen adaptation. The filmmaker pleaded with audience members at BFI Southbank not to record or photograph the short clip before the long-awaited follow-up to Wicked hits…
The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) in Estonia unveiled its competition and first feature competition lineups and the international jury for its 2025 official selection on Friday. The main competition for the 29th edition of the festival includes17 feature films, with16 world premieresandone international premiere. “This year’s selection follows an impressive number of submissions:…
[This story contains spoilers from the season 22 premiere of Grey’s Anatomy, “Only the Strong Survive.”] Grey’s Anatomy ended its 21st season with one of its biggest hospital explosions in recent memory when the operating floor of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital went up in flames after a highly flammable acetylene tankwas brought into the hospital….
