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☆ ‘How to Die Alone’ is the latest in a string of new Black-led shows. But has the TV landscape actually changed?
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-28 | by ( Leah Asmelash | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

She’s a plus-size Black woman who is trying her best, searching for love and fulfillment. “How to Die Alone” is new, but it’s part of a recent batch of Black-led drama-comedies popping up across the small screen. Vanessa Clifton/NetflixThis moment is spurred by the previous success of other Black creators and Black-led shows. For Black-led shows on broadcast television, they still must seemingly place its Black characters in the context of White characters, Durham said. Black-led shows are no different, and some might argue they’re more likely to be let go.

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☆ ‘The Secret Is Out’: Joan Vassos Is the First ‘Golden Bachelorette’
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Callie Holtermann | More About Callie Holtermann | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It has only been a month since the storybook ending of “The Golden Bachelor,” ABC’s buzzy spinoff of “The Bachelor,” featuring cast members 60 and up, got a divorce-announcement epilogue. But ABC is giving the dating franchise another chance at love. Joan Vassos will be the first “Golden Bachelorette” in a new season of the reality dating show this fall. Ms. Vassos, a 61-year-old school administrator from Rockland, Md., was a contestant on the inaugural season of “The Golden Bachelor” last year. She chose to leave the show during its third week because her daughter was experiencing health problems soon after giving birth.

Persons: ”, Joan Vassos, Ryan Seacrest, Vassos, Gerry Turner, Ms, Turner Organizations: ABC Locations: Rockland, Md

☆ ‘The Golden Bachelor’ Hands Out His Final Rose
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Callie Holtermann | More About Callie Holtermann | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The debut season of “The Golden Bachelor,” ABC’s dating show featuring contestants 60 and older, concluded on Thursday night with its lead, Gerry Turner, a 72-year-old retiree and pickleball enthusiast from Indiana, proposing to Theresa Nist, 70, a financial services professional from Shrewsbury, N.J.“I know how sometimes it feels like the whole world thinks that love is only for the young,” Ms. Nist said moments before accepting his proposal. “And quite honestly, at the age of 70, I was beginning to feel that myself.”Meeting Mr. Turner changed that, she said. “I feel that for us, life isn’t over. The best is yet to come.”Mr. Turner and Ms. Nist announced during the finale that they planned to marry on Jan. 4 in a televised ceremony. “At our age, we don’t have a lot of time to waste,” he said.

Persons: ”, Gerry Turner, Theresa Nist, Turner, “, Mr Organizations: Nist Locations: Indiana, Shrewsbury, N.J

NEW YORK (AP) — TV's late-high hosts planned to return to their evening sketches and monologues by next week, reinstating the flow of topical humor silenced for five months by the newly-ended Hollywood’s writers strike. “Last Week Tonight” with John Oliver was slated to return to the air Sunday. Scripted shows will take longer to return, with actors still on strike and no negotiations yet on the horizon. On artificial intelligence, the writers got the regulation and control of the emerging technology they had sought. ___For more on the writers and actors strikes, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/hollywood-strikes/

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But when will your favorite shows return? Late-night talk shows were the first to be affected when the strike began, and they may be among the first to return to air now. The actors strike limits promotional appearances that are the lifeblood of late-night shows. “Real Time with Bill Maher.” The host plotted a return without writers but ended up postponing once last week’s negotiations were set. Director Quentin Tarantino's 10th film, “The Movie Critic,” is among the scripts that are written whose makers are awaiting actors' return to sets.

Persons: ”, Quentin Tarantino, JIMMY KIMMEL, Jimmy Fallon, ” ABC’s, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert ”, Drew Barrymore, Bill Maher, ” “ Severance, “ Abbott, Quentin Tarantino's, BARRYMORE, Jennifer Hudson, Barrymore Organizations: ANGELES, Hollywood, CBS, Apple, ABC, Writers Guild of America

☆ ABC adds 10 more ‘Monday Night Football’ games to help plug the hole left by Hollywood strikes
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —“Monday Night Football” is back on ABC because of the ongoing strikes disrupting Hollywood. Eight “Monday Night Football” games were already going to air on ABC this season, but Monday’s change increases the number to 18. Here are the games ABC just added to its schedule, which will also be aired on ESPN and ESPN Deportes. Television networks have been forced to get creative amid the ongoing dual writers’ and actors’ strikes, which has paused production on scripted shows. NBC, meanwhile, planned ahead and stockpiled already-filmed scripted shows to show this fall.

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