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☆ Writers, Seeking Pay Change for the Streaming Era, Prepare to Strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Brooks Barnes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When the most recent Hollywood strike took place — 16 years ago — the internet had not yet transformed the television and movie businesses. The superhero boom had begun for movie studios, and DVDs generated $16 billion in annual sales. Movie studios, stung by poor ticket sales for dramas and comedies, have retreated almost entirely to franchise spectacles. It’s a streaming world now. The formulas that studios use to pay television and movie creators, setting the stage for another strike.

☆ Liverpool boss Klopp wary of Spurs threat
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

On Sunday, Liverpool host European qualifying rivals Spurs, who are without a win in their last three games and were humbled by third-placed Newcastle last Sunday, conceding five goals in the opening 21 minutes. I had something else to do, wanted to watch the game a bit later, when I came back it was 5-0," Klopp told reporters. "I honestly thought something was wrong with the television screen, something like a joke or something like that. Spurs are fifth in the league standings with 54 points but seventh-placed Liverpool can overtake them with a win at Anfield. The odds will be heavily stacked against Spurs, who have won just once in their last 20 league games against Liverpool, but Klopp said he was wary of the wealth of talent within the Spurs squad.

☆ I said cat, not cut; Leclerc clarifies radio confusion
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Asked whether there had been any recurrence of what had sounded like an engine cutout, Leclerc told reporters: "Absolutely not. "There was a cat in the middle of the road and the safety car had to stop, but I think I was probably the only one who saw that. "In the exit of Turn One there was a cat and the safety car braked." Mexican Sergio Perez, the winner for Red Bull who was following Leclerc at the time, said he had not been aware of the cat. Viewers of the Canadian Grand Prix are also used to seeing groundhogs making a dash for safety at Montreal's island Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

☆ Fact Check-Video of woman asking Donald Trump to ‘save us’ predates Tucker Carlson leaving Fox News
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A video that shows a woman crying and asking former U.S. President Donald Trump to “save us” dates back to at least January 2021 and is unrelated to Tucker Carlson leaving Fox News. Posts online, however, are sharing it after the anchor parted ways with the television channel. Reuters reported on April 24, 2023 that Fox News and Carlson parted ways just days after Fox Corp settled a defamation lawsuit in which Carlson was central (here). Dominion Voting Systems said his show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight”, aired debunked election-fraud claims involving the electronic voting company while questioning these rumors in private messages. The video dates back to at least January 2021 and is unrelated to Tucker Carlson leaving Fox News.

“It was just so original,” she told Reuters, and her co-lead, “Umbrella Academy” actor Ritu Arya, could not agree more. When Lena drops out of art school and quickly gets engaged, Ria and her friends plan a bride-heist of epic proportions. Director Nida Manzoor's first feature film scored a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. Critics have praised the quirky martial arts film for its inspiring and unconventional representation of compelling women and girls. “Strong women come from strong women,” Kansara said.

☆ Fox's not allowing Tucker Carlson to say goodbye to viewers is the equivalent of 'execution' says fired CNN anchor
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Tucker Carlson's abrupt ousting from Fox News is more like an "execution," according to a fired CNN anchor. "Not being given a chance to sign off is the television equivalent of an execution," Brian Stelter said in Vanity Fair. Yet Carlson, Fox News' top-rated host, never got the chance to say goodbye to his audience, thanks to his sudden ousting on Monday by the conservative media powerhouse. Advertisements featuring Fox News personalities, including Tucker Carlson, adorn the front of the News Corporation building, March 13, 2019. "The takeaway, at least for some TV insiders, is that Carlson was shoved— hard—by Fox management," Stelter wrote in Vanity Fair.

☆ Leaked memo reveals Disney's new finance structure as more layoffs loom, with a reported 15% of entertainment staffers to be cut
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Claire Atkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Disney's chief financial officer, Christine McCarthy, named a new finance team pulling together staff from both Disney Entertainment and ESPN. McCarthy shared the details with staff this week, naming Bryan Castellani as the new chief financial officer of Disney Entertainment and ESPN. Under Castellani, Lukas Wickart will continue to oversee finance for direct-to-consumer streaming business Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu, and Star. Karen Sack will oversee finance for our entertainment television businesses, including TV studios and ABC News finance, marketing, and networks planning. Jeff Grenn will oversee segment consolidation for Disney Entertainment, and finance in support of Aaron LaBerge's technology organization across Disney Entertainment and ESPN.

☆ Rachel Weisz and the Glorious Horrors of Pregnancy
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Alexandra Kleeman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

“Why are you wearing my vagina like it’s a [expletive] glove?” shouts one patient at the doctors working busily out of view. In the television world, babies are a convenient way to reinvigorate stale interpersonal dynamics, or a point of narrative pressure that forces characters to make dramatic choices. We’re used to a certain sleight of hand, carefully placed cuts and scenes where fresh-looking mothers in hospital gowns hold clean, swaddled infants in their arms. Real birthing is something more radical: Pregnancy involves a terraforming of the body that might appear terrifying if you were to see it at time-lapse speed. Thinking about all this puts birth in a different generic register depending on how it is framed and depicted.

☆ ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: Dutch Treat
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Christopher Orr | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Ted, on the other hand, is understandably conflicted. Ted, having had his fill of foreignness, heads to the Yankee Doodle Burger Barn restaurant, which advertises American food in American portions. (For those who didn’t make the connection, the barbecue sauce the waitress brings him is from Arthur Bryant’s, Ted’s favorite joint in Kansas City.) Coincidentally, an old Jordan-era Bulls game is on the television, featuring the triangle offense implemented by the coach Phil Jackson. The first is the revelation that Beard’s drugs were duds: Ted wasn’t high at all!

☆ Mischa Barton joins 'Neighbours' reboot
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Reece will be an American that is new to the area and “not quite who she appears to be,” according to the show’s producers. The long-running drama series began almost four decades ago in 1985 and ended in July. The new season, which began production in Melbourne on Monday and is set to premiere in the autumn, will inaugurate the revitalized series’ new phase. “I’m excited to be part of this iconic show’s next chapter, and I am really looking forward to being back in Australia – a place I know and love,” said Barton in the release. Guests Ian Smith (as Harold Bishop), April Rose Pengilly (as Chloe Brennan) and Melissa Bell (as Lucy Robinson), will also reprise their roles.

Tel Aviv, April 18 (Reuters) - Esther Paran navigated her way in a wheelchair through the throngs of Israelis marching through Tel Aviv in protest at government plans to overhaul the country's judicial system. Paran, 79, is one of roughly 147,000 Holocaust survivors still alive in Israel. They came to Israel in 1957 after a deadly uprising in Hungary that failed to end Soviet rule. [1/4] Esther Paran, 79, a Holocaust survivor from Hungary holds up a picture from her childhood, from her living room in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 13, 2023. Paran discussed her worries about Israel more stoically and with a sense of optimism that protesters' concerns will be heard.

☆ Pope Francis calls 'insinuations' against John Paul II unfounded
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Philip Pullella | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File PhotoVATICAN CITY, April 16 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday rejected as offensive and unfounded what he called insinuations by the brother of a Vatican schoolgirl who went missing 40 years ago about one of his predecessors as pontiff, Saint John Paul II. The voice of the alleged gangster says that more than 40 year ago, girls were brought into the Vatican to be molested and that Pope John Paul knew about it. Sgro told Reuters on Sunday that John Paul did not come up in her conversation with Diddi, adding in a text message: "I have never questioned the sanctity of John Paul II". Orlandi told Reuters on Sunday by telephone that it was "correct that Francis defended John Paul II". (This story has been refiled to make clear John Paul II was not Pope Francis' immediate predecessor, in paragraph 1)Reporting by Philip Pullella; editing by Philippa FletcherOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ 'Stranger Things' animated series coming to Netflix
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

REUTERS/Mario AnzuoniLOS ANGELES, April 10 (Reuters) - An animated series set in the sci-fi world of "Stranger Things" is in development at Netflix (NFLX.O), part of the streaming service's efforts to expand the hit series into a wide-ranging franchise. Netflix announced the series in a statement released on Monday but gave no title or release date and few details. "We’ve always dreamed of an animated 'Stranger Things' in the vein of the Saturday morning cartoons that we grew up loving," the Duffer brothers, creators of the original "Stranger Things" series, said in the statement. "Stranger Things" debuted on Netflix in 2016 and became the company's most-watched English language series. Netflix had previously announced that a "Stranger Things" spinoff show was in the works and a play that will debut at London's West End in November.

☆ CNN's Van Jones presses a GOP state lawmaker on the Tennessee House voting to expel 2 Black Democratic legislators over their push for gun restrictions: 'Why are you being so unreasonable?'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Van Jones last week pressed a Tennessee Republican over his caucus voting to oust two Democratic lawmakers. "You have not done this to anybody except for two people in 200 years," Jones told state Rep. Jeremy Faison. The GOP-led state House took the action after then-Reps. Jones and Pearson led a gun reform protest from the floor. Faison said he felt as though House Republicans followed the proper protocol. State Rep. Gloria Johnson, a white lawmaker who also joined the gun reform protest, was not expelled by House Republicans and remarked last week that "it's pretty clear" why she was spared.

☆ Trump’s Legal Odd Couple Marries Swagger and Strategy
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Corinne Ramey | James Fanelli | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Donald Trump has said that he can’t get a fair trial in Manhattan and accused the presiding judge of being biased against him. The two defense lawyers representing Donald Trump in the first-ever prosecution of a former president are an unlikely pair—divergent personalities who bring a mix of swagger and subtlety to a case with steep legal and political implications. Joe Tacopina wears expensive suits, speaks fluent Italian and is equally comfortable defending high-profile clients in front of a jury or on the television-news circuit. Susan Necheles prefers to operate under the radar, a meticulously prepared advocate who isn’t afraid to rein in a client or tear up a plea agreement at the last minute if a defendant she represents is unhappy.

☆ Panic over the rise of AI is hitting a fever pitch
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Matt Turner | Dave Smith | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

On the agenda today:But first: The panic over the AI boom hit a new peak this week. A prominent AI researcher went further, saying six months wasn't long enough, and "we need to shut it all down." But those fears also make sense against the backdrop of a shaky economy and a distrust of Big Tech. Goldman Sachs has forecast that AI systems could impact 300 million full-time jobs. AI has been described as the next transformational technology, on a par with the creation of the internet or the television.

☆ A woman is selling her childhood home where she has lived for 102 years — her family bought it for about $250 at the time
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A 104-year-old woman is selling the home she has lived in for the past century. Nancy 'Joan' Gifford moved into the house in Somerset, southwest England, when she was two. When her family bought the property in 1921, it cost about $250. According to the Bank of England's inflation calculator, 200 pounds in 1921 would be worth about 7,800 pounds (or $9,600) today. "That house must hold so many lovely memories for Mrs. Gifford and her family, but now, after more than a century, it's time for another family to make some memories."

☆ Parenting expert shares her No. 1 rule for raising successful kids—78% of Americans aren't doing it
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

If you want to raise successful children, start showing optimism on a regular basis. "Our beliefs and attitudes spill over to our kids," educational psychologist and parenting expert Michele Borba tells CNBC Make It. "If pessimism always builds and it becomes personal, permanent, or pervasive, it robs our kids of hope." "I think it's one of the reasons why we're seeing such a huge mental health crisis in our children," Borba says. "It's not just the eavesdropping on what we say," Borba says, noting that older kids especially can pick up on physical cues that you're stressed or worried.

☆ YES Launches Streaming Platform Offering Access to Yankees, Nets Games Without Pay-TV Subscription
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Joe Flint | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A New York Yankees spring-training game in Tampa, Fla., this month. The television home of the New York Yankees is launching a streaming service that will allow fans in the region to watch games without needing a cable or satellite subscription, the latest sign of the continued erosion of the traditional pay-TV bundle. The YES Network, which also airs games of the National Basketball Association’s Brooklyn Nets and the WNBA’s New York Liberty, on Wednesday said its new streaming option would cost $24.99 a month or $239.99 annually.

☆ Dusty painting hidden behind door turns out to be Brueghel 'masterpiece'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Yiming Woo | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] A man looks at the painting "Le paiement de la dime" (The Payment of the Yearly Dues) by the artist Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-1636) before its auction at Drouot auction house in Paris, France, March 27, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo FuentesPARIS, March 27 (Reuters) - A rediscovered painting of Flemish 17th-century painter Pieter Brueghel the Younger, for years hidden in a family house, will be presented for auction in Paris on Tuesday and is expected to fetch 600,000 ($647,340.00) to 800,000 euros. "I found this painting [in the house], behind a door in the television room," de Lussac told Reuters, calling it one of the biggest surprises in his career. Brueghel the Younger, whose father Brueghel the Elder died when he was only five, didn't use one of his father's compositions for this painting as he usually did but did revisit the popular theme of the village lawyer. ($1 = 0.9269 euros)Reporting by Yiming Woo, writing by Charlotte Van Campenhout, editing by Christina FincherOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Dramas 'This is Going to Hurt', 'The Responder' lead BAFTA TV nominations
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Cast members attend a premiere for season 2 of the television series The White Lotus in Los Angeles, California, U.S. October 20, 2022. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File PhotoLONDON, March 22 (Reuters) - Medical comedy-drama "This is Going to Hurt" and police series "The Responder" led nominations for Britain's BAFTA Television Awards on Wednesday, receiving six nods each, while live coverage of Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee and her state funeral were also recognised. Liverpool-set police drama "The Responder" saw cast members Martin Freeman, Josh Finan, Adelayo Adedayo nominated in the leading actor, supporting actor and supporting actress categories respectively. Gary Oldman ("Slow Horses"), Chaske Spencer ("The English"), Cillian Murphy ("Peaky Blinders") and Taron Egerton ("Black Bird") complete the leading actor category. The BAFTA TV Craft awards take place on April 23, followed by the BAFTA TV Awards on May 14.

☆ AI Tech Like ChaptGPT, Bing, Bard Is a Bigger Threat Than Social Media
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Nowadays, the promise of social media as a unifying force for good has all but collapsed, and Zuckerberg is slashing thousands of jobs after his company's rocky pivot to the metaverse. Much like social media in 2012, the AI industry is standing on the precipice of immense change. And as Altman and his cohort charge ahead, AI could fundamentally reshape our economy and lives even more than social media. If social media helped expose the worst impulses of humanity on a mass scale, generative AI could be a turbocharger that accelerates the spread of our faults. Social media amplified society's issues, as Wooldridge puts it.

☆ Champagne carpet and crisis team ready for Oscars celebration on Sunday
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-12 | by ( Lisa Richwine | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

In case of an unexpected twist, a crisis response team will be on hand at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Several of 2022's biggest hits at the multiplex landed in the best picture race, from "Top Gun" and "Everything Everywhere" to "Elvis" and "Avatar: The Way of Water." To change up the look, organizers swapped out the traditional red carpet for the first time since 1961, opting instead for a champagne color. "Everything Everywhere All at Once," an offbeat story about a Chinese-American laundromat owner struggling to finish her taxes, comes in as the favorite to win best picture. The dimension-hopping kung fu adventure has swept the major Hollywood awards in the weeks leading up to the Oscars.

☆ U.S. House speaker declines Zelenskiy invitation to visit Ukraine -CNN
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON, March 8 (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he has no plans to visit Ukraine after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy extended an invitation, CNN reported on Wednesday. In an interview with CNN set to air on Wednesday, Zelenskiy asked McCarthy, a Republican, to see the situation in Ukraine firsthand. The United States has extended nearly $32 billion in aid to Ukraine since Russian troops invaded on Feb. 24, 2022, but some far-right Republicans have balked at sending more. Asked about Zelenskiy's invitation, McCarthy told CNN he did not need to travel to the country and would get information in other ways. The invitation came as the United States wrestled with a budget deficit and the prospect of possibly hitting its debt limit in coming months.

☆ Southwest Airlines plane makes emergency landing in Havana after cabin fills with smoke
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

HAVANA, March 5 (Reuters) - A Southwest Airlines plane bound for Fort Lauderdale from Havana was forced to return to Cuba's Jose Marti Airport Sunday after an engine reportedly caught fire following a bird strike, according to passenger cell phone video and media reports. NBC 6 News in Florida reported a Southwest Airlines spokesperson had confirmed the incident. Cell phone footage showed smoke filling the cabin as panicked parents appeared to explain to their children how to fit oxygen masks. Emergency lighting inside the plane was lit and footage showed customers evacuating the jet via emergency slides on the runway at Cuba's largest airport as firemen and trucks looked on. The news report said there had been no serious injuries and that all passengers were safely on the ground in Havana.

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