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ESPN’s Malika Andrews is joining “WNBA Countdown” as a co-host on the studio show’s new Los Angeles-based program.

Andrews’ appointment comes as ABC and ESPN are creating two broadcast desks for the pregame show: the current version of “WNBA Countdown,” hosted out of Bristol, and another setup in L.A.

On ABC, the Bristol-based “WNBA Countdown” will feature the returning lineup of SportsCenter anchor and women’s basketball host Elle Duncan, analysts Chiney Ogwumike and Andraya Carter.

Meanwhile, ESPN’s “WNBA Countdown” will be hosted out of Los Angeles by Andrews and analysts Monica McNutt, Carolyn Peck, Owgumike and Carter.

Introduced during the 2022 WNBA postseason, “WNBA Countdown” now serves as a pregame show throughout the regular season, playoffs and finals.

Currently serving as the host of ESPN’s weekday NBA studio show, “NBA Today,” and all editions of “NBA Countdown,” Andrews will make her “WNBA Countdown” debut Sunday...

Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at his home in Connecticut, his consulting firm said in a statement. The notorious war criminal was 100.

Measuring purely by confirmed kills, the worst mass murderer ever executed by the United States was the white-supremacist terrorist Timothy McVeigh. On April 19, 1995, McVeigh detonated a massive bomb at the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children. The government killed McVeigh by lethal injection in June 2001. Whatever hesitation a state execution provokes, even over a man such as McVeigh — necessary questions about the legitimacy of...

The best reviewed (thus far) documentary of 2021, Summer of Soul tells the story of a 1969 Harlem music festival – one that got zero attention in the media. Its Black promoters, having drawn 300,000 exhilarated spectators to the event, were angry about the blatant snub before realizing they may have been lucky: Another festival, Woodstock, was about to open its doors 100 miles away, and its white promoters were destined to suffer the most savage coverage ever accorded any event of its kind.

The two festivals were, in fact, a historic study in contrasts. While Soul was happy in Harlem, Woodstock was hammered by the New York Times as “the nightmare in the Catskills.” The mayor of New York City personally pledged support and friendship to his Black festgoers, while the governor of New York State dispatched National Guard troops to cope with “hippie hell” in Woodstock.

The buoyant performers didn’t seem to notice these intrigues.

Exclusive: While the nearly 50-year-old drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechnie that dashed Sen. Ted Kennedy’s White House aspirations would seem like strong subject matter for the cable talk shows that chew endlessly on political scandal, Chappaquiddick has proved to be a tricky sell for the filmmakers, who say they are being ignored by left-leaning shows while Fox News clamors. Jason Clarke plays Ted Kennedy in the John Curran-directed drama that Taylor Allen & Andrew Logan scripted from sworn testimony. The film is unsparing in its depiction of the tragic drowning of Kopechnie, Kennedy’s inexplicable decision to not report it for nine hours and the ensuring damage-control campaign waged by the same Kennedy family confidants who helped JFK after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Here, Clarke explains the complexities in portraying an iconic politician in his worst moment, the difficulty in getting attention for an historically shameful event...

Sam Rockwell, Toby Jones and Matthew Macfadyen are coming on board Frost/Nixon, Working Title Films and Universal Pictures' adaptation of the hit Peter Morgan play. Ron Howard is directing, while Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing with Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer.

The play is based on a series of televised interviews that President Nixon granted David Frost in 1977 and that ended with a tacit admission of guilt regarding his role in the Watergate scandal. Frank Langella and Michael Sheen are reprising their Broadway roles as Nixon and Frost, respectively.

Rockwell is playing award-winning journalist James Reston Jr., the head researcher who helps Frost prep for the interviews.

Jones will portray legendary Hollywood dealmaker Swifty Lazar, who negotiates the deal with Frost on behalf of Nixon.

Macfadyen plays John Burt, a journalist for a weekly British television show.

Shooting will begin in late summer.

Rockwell next will appear in the Warner Independent Pictures drama Snow Angels, opposite Kate Beckinsale, and Joshua, a thriller being released by Fox Searchlight.