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President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 17 recipients at the White House on Wednesday, including gymnast Simone Biles, former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and soccer champion Megan Rapinoe, as well as posthumous honors to Steve Jobs. Another recipient, Denzel Washington, was to attend, but tested positive for Covid, according to a White House official and the actor’s publicist.

Washington will receive the award at a later date, Biden said. At the ceremony, the president said that Washington “couldn’t be here but wanted to be.” The White House has testing guidelines in place for those who will be in close contact to the president.

The nation’s highest civilian honors typically are given annually to a group that includes politicians, activists, artists and scientists.

Others who received the honor included Sister Simone Campbell, college president Julieta Garcia, civil rights attorney Fred Gray, Father Alexander Karloutsos, religious freedom...

After recording in a sound booth today for six hours on a “secret project,” actress Rosamund Pike was excited to learn that she’d notched her third Golden Globe nomination, for her turn in the darkly comedic Netflix thriller, I Care a Lot.

“It was unbelievable. Because I’d been so head-down in this project, I was blindsided by it, to be honest,” Pike tells Deadline, “which made it all the more magical, really. “

In the film from writer/director J Blakeson, the actress plays Marla, a con artist who steals from the elderly, by tricking judges into naming her their legal guardian—only to have her scheme disrupted, when she trifles with the wrong individual.

Pike says the character of Marla was immediately compelling, given her “grit and her balls, and her sort of self-proclaimed lioness status.”

“It was her appetite, her shamelessness, her ambition, her ruthlessness, all these traits that historically,...

State of the Union has been renewed in the UK and on SundanceTV and viewers will see new faces in season two. The short-form series consists of 10 episodes that are each only 10 minutes long. Rosamund Pike and Chris O'Dowd (above) starred in the first season of the British drama, but viewers will see Brendan Gleeson, Patricia Clarkson and Esco Jouléy lead the second season cast. Production on the upcoming season began earlier this month.

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Two-time Golden Globe Award nominee Rosamund Pike is back in contention this year for two more nominations. She contends in the Best Film Drama Actress category for the previously-released biopic “Radioactive,” in which she portrays double Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie, as well as in Best Film Comedy/Musical Actress as the antihero protagonist of the upcoming Netflix release “I Care a Lot.”

In her exclusive interview with Gold Derby about the latter film (watch the video above), she terms the life-or-death thriller “a dark comedy,” noting that adopting an “ironic and satirical” tone for this film was its “best bet at getting an audience and getting awareness for this subject matter” of elder abuse. An Oscar nominee for 2014’s “Gone Girl,” Pike stars in “I Care a Lot” as the fictional Marla Grayson, whom Netflix describes as “a professional, court-appointed guardian for dozens of elderly wards whose assets she...

Netflix continues to be a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the awards front.

GLAAD unveiled its nominations for 2021, and the streamer came out on top with 26 total nominations.

HBO Max garnered nine nominations, followed by HBO, Amazon and Hulu (which nabbed four each). Among broadcast networks, only ABC and NBC earned nods, with two each.

Harley Quinn, The Umbrella Academy, and Saved by the Bell were among this year’s first-time contenders.

Outstanding Comedy Series

Big Mouth (Netflix)

Dead to Me (Netflix)

Everything’s Gonna Be Okay (Freeform)

Harley Quinn (HBO Max)

Love, Victor (Hulu)

Saved by the Bell (Peacock)

Schitt’s Creek (Pop TV)

Sex Education (Netflix)

Superstore (NBC)

Twenties (BET)

Outstanding Drama Series

9-1-1: Lone Star (Fox)

Killing Eve (BBC America)

P-Valley (Starz)

Ratched (Netflix)

Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access)

Supergirl (The CW)

The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)

Vida (Starz)

The Wilds (Amazon Prime...

Nominees have been announced for this year’s GLAAD Media Awards, which acknowledge the fairness, accuracy, inclusiveness, boldness, originality, impact and overall quality of LGBTQ representations in the media.

Josie Totah (of Peacock’s Saved by the Bell), D.J. “Shangela” Pierce (HBO’s We’re Here), and Jonathan Bennett (Hallmark Channel’s The Christmas House) announced the nominees on GLAAD’s TikTok page. This year’s award ceremony will be held (virtually) in April.

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“State of the Union,” the Emmy-winning short-form comedy series created by Nick Hornby, will return for Season 2 later in the year.

SundanceTV, which premiered the first season of the show in May 2019, announced that Hornby and director Stephen Frears will reunite for the show’s upcoming sophomore season. Brendan Gleeson (“In Bruges”), Patricia Clarkson (“Sharp Objects”) and Esco Jouléy (“High Maintenance”) will star in Season 2, which will consist of 10, 10-minute episodes (just like Season 1). A specific release date for Season 2 was not provided.

Per SundanceTV, the Season 2 synopsis reads:

“State of the Union” cleverly explores relationships and the human experience. In this season, liberal campaigning Ellen (Clarkson) drags her traditional, self-made husband Scott (Gleeson) out of his comfort zone and into a hipster Connecticut coffee shop, where they have 10 minutes before their marriage counseling session to drink a coffee, gather their thoughts, and argue about everything from Quakerism to pronouns.

Fox is singing a happy tune, renewing the music guessing game show I Can See Your Voice for Season 2, to air in 2021, the network announced on Wednesday. Ken Jeong will return as host and executive producer, while Cheryl Hines and Adrienne Bailon-Houghton will be back as permanent celebrity detectives.

The program features a rotating panel of celeb guests “to help one contestant tell the difference between good and bad singers, without ever hearing them sing a note. With $100,000 on the line, the contestant will attempt to weed out the bad ‘Secret Voices’ from the good, based on a mystifying lip sync challenge,...

“State of the Union” has been renewed for Season 2 at SundanceTV.

The second season of the short form series will star Brendan Gleeson, Patricia Clarkson, and Esco Jouléy. In the season, liberal campaigning Ellen (Clarkson) drags her traditional, self-made husband Scott (Gleeson) out of his comfort zone and into a hipster Connecticut coffee shop, where they have ten minutes before their marriage counseling session to drink a coffee, gather their thoughts and argue about everything from Quakerism to pronouns. Amongst the bickering they also discuss betrayals from their past, how they’re changing as people, and what the future of their relationship might look like in a changing world.

“The first season of ‘State of the Union’ was a triumph of storytelling form, captivating audiences – 10 minutes at a time – by smartly and authentically exploring our fundamental humanity and curiosity around what makes people think, feel, love and interact,” said Dan McDermott,...

Prepare for more unhappy couples after SundanceTV renewed its short-form series State of the Union for a second season.

Brendan Gleeson, Patricia Clarkson and Esco Jouléy are set to star in the second season of the anthology show, which originally starred Chris O’Dowd and Rosamund Pike.

Writer Nick Hornby and director Stephen Frears return for the second installment of ten ten-minute episodes with the series set to air on SundanceTV and AMC Networks’ streaming service Sundance Now later this year after production started this month.

In season two, liberal campaigning Ellen, played by Sharp Objects star Clarkson, drags her traditional, self-made husband Scott, played by The Comey Rule’s Gleeson, out of his comfort zone and into a hipster Connecticut coffee shop, where they have ten minutes before their marriage counseling session to drink a coffee, gather their thoughts and argue about everything from Quakerism to pronouns. Amongst the bickering...

The State of the Union at SundanceTV is strong.

The cabler has renewed its Emmy-winning short form series for a second season. Like the first, it will consist of ten 10-minute episodes, written by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, An Education) and directed by Stephen Frears (A Very English Scandal, The Queen).

Brendan Gleeson and Patricia Clarkson will star as the couple who meet up before a marriage counseling session. Esco Jouléy (Starz’s Blindspotting) also stars.

“The first season of State of the Union was a triumph of storytelling form, captivating audiences — 10 minutes at a time — by smartly ...

The State of the Union at SundanceTV is strong.

The cabler has renewed its Emmy-winning short form series for a second season. Like the first, it will consist of ten 10-minute episodes, written by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, An Education) and directed by Stephen Frears (A Very English Scandal, The Queen).

Brendan Gleeson and Patricia Clarkson will star as the couple who meet up before a marriage counseling session. Esco Jouléy (Starz’s Blindspotting) also stars.

“The first season of State of the Union was a triumph of storytelling form, captivating audiences — 10 minutes at a time — by smartly ...

Exclusive: Netflix is to adapt YA graphic novel Heartstopper as an eight-part series with Doctor Who and Sherlock helmer Euros Lyn attached to direct.

This comes 18 months after See-Saw Films, the company behind Top of the Lake and State of the Union, optioned the rights to Alice Oseman’s comic.

The half-hour series will be written by Oseman, who previously published YA novels including Solitaire, Radio Silence and I Was Born For This!

Heartstopper tells the story of Nick and Charlie, two British teens at an all-boys grammar school. Charlie, a high-strung, openly gay overthinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, one day are made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn’t think he has a chance. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realized. Heartstopper is about love,...

Jake Tapper, the Washington-based correspondent for CNN, will likely get a new spotlight at the network after it said it would expand his weekday program to two hours and make him the lead anchor for all Washington events. The move is part of a broader shakeup of the cable-news outlet’s Washington coverage, which has taken over more of its schedule in the last few months of the Trump administration.

As part of the changes, Abby Phillip will take over as anchor of the weekend broadcast of “Inside Politics,” while Dana Bash will co-anchor the Sunday talk program “State of the Union” with Tapper. Tapper and Bash will each anchor two Sundays a month, beginning January 24th.

CNN placed other prominent Washington operatives in new slots. Jim Acosta, whose profile has grown as CNN’s chief White House correspondent, will take on weekend anchoring duties of a program that will...

CNN is making significant changes to its Washington D.C. lineup ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration.

For starters, The Lead with Jake Tapper will expand to two hours airing from 4-6 p.m. with The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer being cut down to one hour, from 6-7 p.m. Blitzer “will also have a principal anchor role for all major breaking news and continue to host CNN special reports,” CNN says, while Tapper will be the lead anchor for all Washington events.

CNN has also named Dana Bash co-anchor of its Sunday public affairs show State of the Union. Bash ...

CNN is making significant changes to its Washington D.C. lineup ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration.

For starters, The Lead with Jake Tapper will expand to two hours airing from 4-6 p.m. with The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer being cut down to one hour, from 6-7 p.m. Blitzer “will also have a principal anchor role for all major breaking news and continue to host CNN special reports,” CNN says, while Tapper will be the lead anchor for all Washington events.

CNN has also named Dana Bash co-anchor of its Sunday public affairs show State of the Union. Bash ...

Update, 10:44 Am Pt: The White House said that the Presidential Medal of Freedom was awarded to Devin Nunes in a ceremony on Monday morning. No pool reporters were present for the event.

Previously: Donald Trump will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to one of his staunchest supporters on Capitol Hill: Devin Nunes, who represents a Central California district.

The award is the highest civilian honor, and is presented to “individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”

The White House said in a statement, “Congressman Nunes pursued the Russia Hoax at great personal risk and never stopped standing up for the truth. He had the fortitude to take on the media, the FBI, the Intelligence Community, the Democrat Party, foreign spies, and the full power of the Deep State.

As the Trump Era draws to a close in Washington, Jake Tapper reflected on covering the past four years in a discussion with CNN compatriot Brian Stelter on “Reliable Sources.” The two talked about how during the Trump era their decisions on who in the White House to interview changed, particularly as it became clear that the administration would not provide much factual information.

Tapper said that at the start of Trump’s presidency, he regularly interviewed senior adviser Kellyanne Conway, but felt that the news value of such interviews diminished as he came to see her as a “filibusterer and a subject changer” who tried to dodge his questions. By the time the 2020 election began, he decided that there were some figures in Trumpworld that he simply didn’t want to have as guests on his CNN show “State of the Union.”

“There are some people that are so mendacious,...

This might be stating the obvious, but Vin Diesel loves a franchise. The action star has the ninth installment in the Fast and Furious series in the can and awaiting release, he’ll make his seventh appearance as Groot when Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 arrives in 2023, a Bloodshot sequel was recently announced and he’s also part of James Cameron’s Avatar sequels, and that’s without even mentioning that he’s still developing a fourth Riddick and a second Last Witch Hunter.

xXx: Return of Xander Cage, meanwhile, marked his first time putting on the tattoos and comically oversized fur coat in fifteen years, and it was comfortably the best entry yet. The first movie is so painfully early 2000s that it hurts, while sequel State of the Union swapped out Diesel for Ice Cube and bombed hard.

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As Covid-19 spreads throughout the United States at an alarming rate — a million cases in the last six days — Dr. Anthony Fauci delivered some dark news on CNN’s State of the Union.

Fauci said that a recent University of Washington model projection that estimated the country could see another 200,000 deaths by March 1st might be accurate if Americans don’t change their behavior between now and then.

“The models, as I have said so often, are as good as the assumptions you put into the model. And we have got to change those assumptions,...

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that precautions implemented during the pandemic aren’t going away after a vaccine is distributed.

“I would recommend to people to not to abandon all public health measures just because you’ve been vaccinated,” Fauci told CNN anchor Jake Tapper on the Sunday show State of the Union.

Fauci insisted that masks and social distancing were here to stay.

“Because even though for the general population it might be 90 to 95 percent effective, you don’t necessarily know for you how effective it is.”

Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he would be among those who stay masked.

“I can feel more relaxed in essentially not having the stringency that we have right now. But I think abandoning it completely would not be a good idea,” Fauci said.

During an awkward and cringe-worthy segment on Sunday’s episode of CNN’s “State of the Union,” Jake Tapper abruptly cut off the President’s campaign advisor and daughter-in-law Lara Trump after putting her in the hot seat for past criticisms she made about former Vice President Joe Biden’s public speaking skills.

Noting that Biden has worked to overcome a stutter, Tapper first ran a clip of one of his young supporters, a boy named Brayden Harrington, speaking at the Democratic National Convention about looking up to Biden as inspiration for overcoming his own stutter.

After the touching video, Tapper hit Trump with a clip of herself making fun of Biden’s speaking manner.

“Every time he comes on stage and they turn to him, I’m like Joe, can you get it out? Let’s get the words out, Joe. You kind of feel bad for him,” she said.

Apparently, Vin Diesel will not stop until everything he touches becomes a franchise. His career might be littered with several major box office bombs like Babylon A.D. and Bloodshot, but you have to at least admire the actor’s persistence for sticking with both the Fast and Furious and Riddick series for two decades.

Diesel’s third major franchise, though, not including his voice-only role as the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Groot, has a patchy track record to say the least. xXx is a time capsule of what people were into at the turn of the millennium, and the somewhat zeitgeisty flick did decent business after raking in $277 million at the box office, reinforcing the leading man’s credentials as Hollywood’s latest action hero.

Similar to how he opted out of 2 Fast 2 Furious, the noted vest enthusiast unfortunately didn’t return for sequel State of the Union,...

On Aug. 11, 1943, Variety carried a story beginning “Angela Lansbury, 17-year-old English girl, is the colony’s latest Cinderella.” The story said she had gone from an unknown to movie star in only four days.

Since then, Lansbury has forged a career that defies all logic. She received supporting-actress Oscar nominations twice in her first two years of work. At age 41, she became a musical-comedy star with “Mame.” She became a TV star with “Murder, She Wrote” at age 59, an age when most actresses can’t find work. In the show’s 12-year run, she was one of the TV industry’s most powerful women. Maybe her biggest accomplishment: Though powerful women were sometimes maligned, it was thought you needed to be heartless to survive in showbiz, Lansbury has created a 77-year career and nobody has a bad word to say about her.

Lansbury, who turns 95 Friday, is best known for...

For their 15th album, Public Enemy are back on Def Jam, the powerhouse label they helped build with their golden-age hip-hop classics. It’s a well-timed return to the center of the industry. The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement has seen a reawakening of the protest radicalism that Pe originally brought to rap, from Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” to Lil Baby’s “The Bigger Picture” to DaBaby’s BLM remix of “Rockstar.” So when they ask, “Is rap still the black CNN?” — embodying the voice of the music...

AMC Networks has promoted longtime development executives Carrie Gillogly and Emma Miller to co-heads of AMC scripted series. The new positions expand the responsibilities for Gillogly, who also serves as SVP of scripted programming, and Miller, SVP of scripted development. Based in Los Angeles, the two report to Dan McDermott, president of original programming for AMC Networks Entertainment Group and co-president of AMC Studios.

“Carrie and Emma have made tremendous contributions to AMC programming and have been central to many of our acclaimed shows,” said McDermott “They are each exceptional creative talents and we look forward to their continued success in bringing powerful storytellers to our networks and developing fresh, impactful programs that resonate with audiences around the world.”

Since joining the company in 2012, Gillogly has overseen such AMC series as Into The Badlands, The Terror, The Son, and the recent Dispatches From Elsewhere from Jason Segel. She also currently...

“Most Dangerous Game” is the only nominee this year for Best Short Form Comedy or Drama Series that is not an extension of an existing series. The 15-episode action thriller contends at the 2020 Emmys against three companion pieces to full-length series and “Reno 911!,” which has been revived in short form after a past life at full length.

Online tie-ins to “Better Call Saul” and “The Late Late Show” respectively won in 2017 and 2018. The former was on track last year to win again for its non-narrative “Employee Training” instructional advertisements, only to be disqualified for being too short — even for Short Form — and replaced by “State of the Union.” That original 10-episode miniseries, which had aired on SundanceTV, went on to sweep the field. It won Best Short Form Actor for Chris O’Dowd, Best Short Form Actress for Rosamund Pike and Best Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for director Stephen Frears,...

MSNBC is getting closer to making some important weekend plans.

The NBCUniversal-owned cable-news outlet is expected sometime this fall to decide on a successor for Joy Reid’s mid-morning weekend slot, according to two people familiar with the matter. Figuring out who might be among the contenders hasn’t been difficult. Some of the leading candidates have been filling in for Reid ever since she took over MSNBC’s weekday 7 p.m. hour earlier this summer.

Zerlina Maxwell, Jonathan Capehart and Tiffany Cross are among the people being considered for permanent duties in the two-hour weekend time period Reid anchored for four years. Executives are said to be interested in someone who brings with them a sizable following that they could harness for digital projects like podcasts, and other content initiatives. Other candidates may be in the mix and there’s no guarantee at present that any member of...

With the debut of Quibi, the short form categories at the Emmys may never be the same. The launch of the mobile streaming service hasn’t exactly been smooth: There were early questions about its business plan and whether consumers would want to pay for such content when free platforms including YouTube exist, subscriptions have already been far below expectations and many of those free trial deals are now expiring.

But with Quibi’s sheer volume of content, its submissions for the 72nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be vast across three short form genre categories, as well as in the short form actor and actress categories. It’s also making a play for the character voice-over performance and original music and lyrics fields.

Quibi brings big budgets and star power to the short form comedy or drama category, including the comedy “Dummy,” starring Anna Kendrick as a woman who...

Quibi is not just another streaming service offering a stable of original programming. It sets itself apart from all of the competition because it features mobile content designed to be consumed in “quick bites.” Developed by former studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg and executive Meg Whitman, the streamer has attracted a bounty of A-list talent to its high-quality series and specials across a number of genres including dramas, comedies, reality and variety.

See Quibi’s ‘Dishmantled’ is a must-see for everyone who loves Tituss Burgess, cooking shows and blowing ‘some s*** up’

Given the impressive talent quotient and slick production values featured on its platform, expect to see a bunch of its series and specials up for Emmy nominations this year in the relatively new expanded short form categories. One drama that might attract the most attention come Emmy time is “Most Dangerous Game,” starring Liam Hemsworth as a down-on-his-luck real...

The Best Short Form Comedy/Drama Series slate has mostly been wiped clean for domination by Quibi, a new streaming service comprised entirely of short-form content. Netflix made a play last year with three entries, but they are sitting out this time. Also clearing the stage are two past nominees that were expressly produced to get Emmys for their headliners, as neither “An Emmy for Megan” nor “This Eddie Murphy Role is Mine, Not Yours” returned for a third season. Sundance swept last year with the critically-acclaimed “State of the Union,” but that network does not have a player this year.

See our rundown on 15 of Quibi’s new short form series.

So Quibi is filling that void with ten new shows, six of which are strong contenders. The app’s flagship is an adaptation of “Most Dangerous Game,” which is additionally being campaigned by CBS Television Studios under Viacom.

President Donald Trump on Sunday retweeted — and then deleted — a two-minute video that featured a Florida Trump supporter yelling, “White power!” while driving a golf cart by anti-Trump protesters.

“Thank you to the great people of The Villages,” Trump wrote in his tweet, referring to a popular retirement community outside of Orlando, Florida. “The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe is shot. See you soon!!”

In the first seconds of the video, anti-Trump protesters can be heard yelling “racist” as a caravan of Trump protesters drive past in golf carts. In response, one man driving a golf cart that has signs reading “Trump 2020” and “America First” shouts back, “White power!” several times while pumping his fist in the air.

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“President Trump is a big fan of The Villages.

On Sunday morning, the president of the United States once again showed his racist leanings by retweeting a video of one of his supporters chanting “white power.”

“Thank you to the great people of The Villages. The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe is shot. See you soon!!” Trump wrote in a quote tweet of the video.

The video showed pro and anti-Trump protesters from a community in Florida screaming obscenities at each other. Less than 10 seconds into the video, a man in a...

Jake Tapper talks to CNN viewers all week, but Sunday is when he knows he can have a longer conversation.

In July of 2016, David Brown, the police chief of Dallas, came to Tapper’s weekend program, “State of the Union” for an exchange about five police officers killed during an act of domestic terrorism. Their interview took place over three segments and nearly 40 minutes.

“One of the gifts of the Sunday show is that you can really talk for an extensive period of time with somebody and do a very long interview,” says Tapper, who engaged in his own sizable discussion with Variety earlier this week. “You don’t have to do 30 guests for three minutes each. You can do one, and I think that the best shows we’ve done are when we really give somebody the time.”

Tapper has been at the helm of “State of the Union” for five years,...

AMC Networks, the company behind The Walking Dead and Killing Eve said CEO Josh Sapan’s compensation totaled $20.2 million in 2019.

The figure was down a hair (2%) from the year before. It included a $2 million base salary, a $13.8 million stock award and $4.37 million in non-equity incentive plan compensation.

Chief operating officer Ed Carroll earned $8.4 million, down 3.4%, with a base salary of $1.7 million, a stock grant for $3.5 million and non-equity incentive compensation of 3.3 milion.

In its annual proxy filed with the SEC, the company noted the strenght of Season 10 of The Walking Dead (despite a ratings dip for the latest Season 10) and content like Killing Eve on BBC America and State of The Union on Sundance TV, and suscrption services Acorn TV, Shudder, Sundance Now and Umc (Urban Movie Channel) passing two million paid subs. Like other media companies however, AMC Networks has been hit by an advertising pullback as the Covid-...

Prince Harry has recorded a special introduction to a 75th anniversary episode of children’s series “Thomas the Tank Engine” that will launch on Netflix in the U.S. on May 1 and on ViacomCBS-owned Channel 5′s “Milkshake” strand in the U.K. the following day.

Prince Harry introduces an episode called “Thomas and Friends: The Royal Engine,” which has a storyline that includes Harry’s father and grandmother, Prince Charles and Queen Elizabeth II, as animated characters.

Set when the Prince of Wales was a boy, the story sees the friendly engine taking Sir Topham Hatt, the controller of the railway, to Buckingham Palace to receive an honor.

Rosamund Pike also guest stars as a new locomotive character, the Duchess of Loughborough, for the special 22-minute episode.

In his introduction — which was recorded in January before his move overseas — Prince Harry is seen sitting in an armchair, reading from...

The White House is stamping out termination rumors after President Donald Trump retweeted a call from a former Congressional candidate to fire top infectious disease specialist and White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci Sunday, fueling speculation about his future.

“This media chatter is ridiculous – President Trump is not firing Dr. Fauci,” tweeted White House principal deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley Monday.

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Sunday’s retweet was of DeAnna Lorraine, a former Congressional candidate. She wrote, “Fauci is now saying that had Trump listened to the medical experts earlier he could’ve saved more lives. Fauci was telling people on February 29th that there was nothing to worry about and it posed no threat to the Us public at large. Time to #FireFauci…”

Trump retweeted that, adding, “Sorry Fake News, it’s all on tape.

The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said hundreds of thousands of Americans will likely die of coronavirus.

The doctor made the ominous prediction during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday.

After host Jake Tapper asked how many Covid-19 cases the U.S. will see, Fauci spoke of models and the reliability of worse and best-case scenarios they provide.

Fauci predicted that the country will see between 100,000 and 200,000 deaths, adding, “We’re going to have millions of cases.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci says...

The United States could experience more than 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s expert on infectious diseases. Fauci made his prediction in an interview with CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning.

“I would say between 100,000 and 200,000 cases,” then corrected himself to indicate he meant deaths. “We’re going to have millions of cases.” He added, “I don’t want to be held to that,” calling the pandemic i”such a moving target.”

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His fellow White House task force member Dr. Deborah Birx had equally grim news. On Meet The Press, she warned that every city could produce cases similar to New York City,...

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power will brave their very last battles when the animated series launches its fifth — and now final — season on Friday, May 15, Netflix has announced.

But worry not, fans will have closure when She-Ra & Co. power down. “I do feel very lucky because we knew from the very beginning what our episode order was, so we got to tailor the story very specifically to how long the show was gonna be,” showrunner Noelle Stevenson told EW.com. “[The series] was tailored to be 52 episodes, the length that it is, and that’s a real blessing for a storyteller...

Exclusive: AMC is breaking new ground with Pantheon, a primetime animated drama series. The network is making a big bet on the hourlong project from Turn creator/executive producer Craig Silverstein and AMC Studios, with an order for two eight-episode seasons.

This marks back-to-back two-season pickups for AMC, which in October gave its first ever two-season order to 61st Street, a close-ended drama starring Courtney B. Vance. While 61st Street is designed for a limited run, Pantheon is envisioned as an ongoing series. It extends AMC’s streak of experimentation with genre and format. The network’s three most recent new series orders, made by Sarah Barnett, president of AMC Networks Entertainment Group and AMC Studios, consist of a show alternating between single-camera realism and multi-camera comedy, a two-season close-ended drama (61st Street) and animated drama (Pantheon).

Additionally, AMC just premiered Jason Segel...

Yesterday I wrote up on the names of films and TV shows that would be leaving Netflix over the month of March. Now, the circle of life streaming services dictates that today I bring you the names of films and TV shows that will be joining the new kid on the block, Disney Plus. Some of these titles will be familiar to those who read the previous piece, too, and they at least start out easily recognizable.

March 1 – Doctor Doolittle 2, Ice Age (everybody knows what they are). March 4 – Black Panther (ex-Netters). March 5 – Bedtime Stories (getting obscurer). March 6 – The Finest Hours, Three on the Run (completely lost now).

This is where things get messy, as we’ve got a whole bunch of TV stuff that I doubt anyone is subscribing to Disney Plus for, except… maybe Star Wars: The Clone Wars? Some people are into that, for some reason. Anyway, if...

Exclusive: CAA has inked Emmy Award-winner and BAFTA and Tony Award-nominated Chris O’Dowd.

O’Dowd will star in the upcoming Theodore Melfi-directed feature drama The Starling starring Melissa McCarthy. The Irish born actor is known for such movies as the hit Universal Paul Feig-Judd Apatow comedy Bridesmaids, Aaron Sorkin’s Molly’s Game, Melfi’s St. Vincent, Rob Marshall’s Mary Poppins Returns, Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Christopher Guest’s Mascots.

On TV he has starred in the Epix series Get Shorty opposite Ray Romano, The It Crowd, Lena Dunham’s Girls, HBO’s Family Tree and Moone Boy, which O’Dowd wrote, directed, and starred in. Moone Boy won an International Emmy Award for Best Comedy, two IFTAs for Best Entertainment Programme, and the British Comedy Award for Best Sitcom. O’Dowd also won a Primetime Emmy last year for SundanceTV’s State of the Union...

Update: Sky has confirmed an eight-episode order.

Exclusive, October 30, 2019: Top of the Lake producer See-Saw Films is adapting C J Skuse’s novel Sweetpea for Sky Atlantic.

The company, which also makes SundanceTV’s short-form series State of the Union, is developing the comedy drama, which is described as American Psycho-meets-Fleabag, written by Pure writer Kirstie Swain. The hope is that it will turn into an eight-part order.

The book, which was published in 2017, chronicles a year in the life of an ambitious but bored young woman living and working in a small British town. By day her job as an editorial assistant is demeaning and unsatisfying, but outside of work she turns to altogether darker, grislier pursuits. Because the girl everyone overlooks might just be able to get away with murder.

Swain, who was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit earlier today, will write and exec produce. Swain,...

Generosity is a central part of Donald Trump’s populist mythos. In exchange for loyalty, his pitch goes, he can grant you wonderful things: Your job at the coal mine back! Lower prices for your prescriptions! A loved one in the military may come home from their overseas deployment! Or one in prison may receive an early release!

These gifts are party favors: They serve mostly to increase the status of the person giving them and trick their recipients into thinking everyone is having a good time. It’s a...

Hey, "New Amsterdam" fans. We unfortunately have some very bad news for you guys tonight. We've been made aware that NBC will not be airing the next,new episode 13 of New Amsterdam's current season 2 tonight, February 4, 2020. On the bright side, we can officially tell you that this delay will only be for this week. The new episode 13 is scheduled to air next Tuesday night, February 11, 2020 in its usual 9 pm central standard time slot on NBC of course. So, don't forget that very important date and time. Write it down on something. Do whatever you need to do. What is NBC airing instead of New Amsterdam tonight? That's a very good question. According to the TV Guide listings, NBC along with other major networks ABC and CBS cleared out most of their Tuesday night primetime line up to devote 2 hours to the "State Of The Union" special. It's airing from 8 pm to 10 pm central standard time.

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One of the most memorable and star-studded creature features of the ’90s, Anaconda is being reimagined at Columbia Pictures.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Evan Daugherty (writer of Killing Season and co-writer of 2014's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and 2012's Snow White and the Huntsman) has been hired to write a screenplay for an "an all-new and all-modern take" on Anaconda.

While plot details have yet to be unveiled, THR reveals that the studio is "hoping to take a Meg-style approach" to the reimagining. According to Box Office Mojo, the 2018 colossal shark movie brought in more than $530 million worldwide on an estimated $130 million production budget. A producer and director have not been announced for the new Anaconda film at this time.

Released in 1997, Anaconda followed a film crew and a guide with a hidden agenda deep into the Amazon jungle, where they found themselves prey to a massive snake of prehistoric proportions.

Marriage Story actress Laura Dern is cleaning up this awards season with a Golden Globe, a SAG Award and many are putting their money on her to win the Oscar come February 9. Now, the Little Women star is heading to Quibi for the forthcoming series Just One Drink.

The mobile streaming platform, which launches April 6, is partnering with Jaywalker Pictures to develop the new project which will be a series of one-act vignettes between a bartender and the customers she serves, all of whom are in various states of emotional disrepair.

The series will be written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter and award-winning author Nick Hornby who will also serve as executive producer with Dern as well as Jayme Lemons for Jaywalker Picture and Elisa Ellis for Platform One Media.

Dern’s new project comes after the announcement of Quibi’s nature docuseries Fierce Queens which will...

Two of AMC Networks’ most offbeat hits are musical comedy Sherman’s Showcase and short-form series State of the Union.

The group is now looking at the future of both shows. State of the Union aired on SundanceTV and Sherman’s Showcase airs on IFC.

The good news for the latter is that the company is set to give it a bigger slot on AMC when it comes back for an hour-long Black History Month Spectacular special this summer. The special was announced at AMC Network’s presentation at the TCA winter press tour but Deadline understands that it will air on both AMC and IFC.

Sarah Barnett, president of AMC Networks Entertainment Group and AMC Studios told Deadline that it will consider a second season of the show, which was created by and starrs former Late Night with Jimmy Fallon writers Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin, after the special airs.