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Comcast to spin off cable networks, once star performers for the entertainment giant
By Matt Ott, The Associated Press on November 20th, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) – Comcast will spin off many of NBCUniversal’s cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC and MSNBC, into a separate public company. The shift, which comes as more and more people opt for streaming services over traditional cable, was telegraphed by the company when it released its most recent earnings last month. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Liam Payne’s One Direction bandmates among the mourners at singer’s funeral
By The Associated Press on November 20th, 2024
LONDON (AP) – The former members of One Direction reunited Tuesday for the funeral of bandmate Liam Payne. Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson joined friends and family to at the service for 31-year-old Payne, who died after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires last month. A horse-drawn carriage carried ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Viola Davis to receive Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille Award
By Jonathan Landrum Jr., The Associated Press on November 20th, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Viola Davis became one of Hollywood’s most revered actors through an array of powerful roles, from ” Fences “ to ” The Woman King,” and now her decorated career has earned her one of the Golden Globes’ highest honors. Davis will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 82nd annual ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Comcast to spin off cable networks, once star performers at the entertainment giant
By Associated Press, The Associated Press on November 20th, 2024
Comcast will spin off many of NBCUniversal’s cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC and MSNBC, into a separate public company. The shift, which comes as more and more people opt for streaming services over traditional cable, was telegraphed by the company when it released its most recent earnings last month. Mark Lazarus, current chairman ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Famous Fredericton beaver sculpture finds new home in downtown art gallery
By Hina Alam, The Canadian Press on November 20th, 2024
FREDERICTON – When people pass by the white-pillared Beaverbrook Art Gallery starting this weekend, they will be greeted by one of Fredericton’s most famous sculptures. Called “The Beavers,” the artwork is a 1,400-kilogram grey limestone carving of a mother and baby beaver, both hunched over logs. Sitting in the entranceway of the museum, the sculpture ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mother of cinematographer killed on set of Alec Baldwin film ‘Rust’ boycotts its world premiere
By Vanessa Gera, The Associated Press on November 20th, 2024
TORUN, Poland (AP) – The mother of late cinematographer Halyna Hutchins is boycotting the world premiere of “Rust” at a film festival in Poland on Wednesday, saying she views it as an attempt by Alec Baldwin to “unjustly profit” from her daughter’s death. The Western is premiering at the International Film Festival of the Art ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Morgan Wallen and Post Malone headline a very collaborative Country Music Association Awards
By Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press on November 19th, 2024
Post Malone and Morgan Wallen’s collaboration “I Had Some Help” could make both men big winners at Wednesday’s night’s Country Music Association Awards. The huge hit from the rapper-singer and one of country’s biggest stars helped make Wallen the night’s top nominee and puts a spotlight on the crossover moment country is having – despite ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trump’s casting call as he builds out his administration: TV experience preferred
By Colleen Long, The Associated Press on November 19th, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) – There’s a common trait that President-elect Donald Trump is clearly prizing as he selects those to serve in his new administration: experience on television. Trump loves that “central casting” look, as he likes to call it. Some, like his choices for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, are TV ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sheung-King wins Writers’ Trust fiction prize for ‘Batshit Seven’
By Cassandra Szklarski, The Canadian Press on November 19th, 2024
TORONTO – Richmond, B.C. author Sheung-King has won the $60,000 Writers’ Trust fiction prize for “Batshit Seven,” a novel about a detached millennial living through the Hong Kong protests. The jury praised the work as “darkly hilarious, and stunningly original.” Sheung-King is the pen name for Aaron Tang, who accepted the award at the Writers ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Sheung-King wins Writers’ Trust fiction prize for ‘Batshit Seven’
By Cassandra Szklarski, The Canadian Press on November 19th, 2024
TORONTO – Richmond, B.C. author Sheung-King has won the $60,000 Writers’ Trust fiction prize for “Batshit Seven,” about a detached millennial living through the Hong Kong protests. Another big winner is Toronto writer Martha Baillie, who takes home the $75,000 non-fiction prize for her family memoir “There Is No Blue.&#... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan adds Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize to his trophy shelf
By Jill Lawless, The Associated Press on November 19th, 2024
LONDON (AP) – Australian writer Richard Flanagan completed an unprecedented literary double on Tuesday, winning Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize a decade after being awarded the Booker Prize for fiction. Flanagan was awarded the 50,000 pound ($63,000) Baillie Gifford Prize for his genre-bending memoir “Question 7,” which combines autobiography, family history and the story of ... Read More »
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