In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix reveals a first look at Season 2 of “The Umbrella Academy,” and Showtime will host a virtual concert on June 21 benefitting the Equal Justice Initiative.
Casting
Nickelodeon has signed an overall deal with 13-year-old social media influencer and hip-hop artist Alaya “That Girl Lay Lay” High. Nickelodeon and High will work together to develop programming across multiple platforms, create music initiatives and build a consumer products business spanning across fashion, accessories and publishing. High has been rapping, singing, writing and producing since the age of five and has already impressed the likes of Nick Cannon and Le’Veon Bell. She became the youngest female rapper to sign a recording contract with Fresh Rebel Muzik/Empire at age 11 and released her debut album “Tha Cheat Code” in September 2018.
Dates
Amazon Prime Video announced that Jim Gaffigan‘s newest stand-up comedy special, “Jim Gaffigan: The Pale Tourist,...
Casting
Nickelodeon has signed an overall deal with 13-year-old social media influencer and hip-hop artist Alaya “That Girl Lay Lay” High. Nickelodeon and High will work together to develop programming across multiple platforms, create music initiatives and build a consumer products business spanning across fashion, accessories and publishing. High has been rapping, singing, writing and producing since the age of five and has already impressed the likes of Nick Cannon and Le’Veon Bell. She became the youngest female rapper to sign a recording contract with Fresh Rebel Muzik/Empire at age 11 and released her debut album “Tha Cheat Code” in September 2018.
Dates
Amazon Prime Video announced that Jim Gaffigan‘s newest stand-up comedy special, “Jim Gaffigan: The Pale Tourist,...
- 6/16/2020
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
On the 56th Birth Anniversary of the late National Award-winning Bengali filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan will unveil the poster of "Season's Greetings: A Tribute To Rituparno Ghosh", a film by Ram Kamal Mukherjee starring Celina Jaitly and Lillette Dubey.
The poster will be unveiled on Ghosh's birth anniversary, August 31, by Big B on his social media platform.
Also Read:?Amitabh Bachchan celebrates 'second birthday'
"31st August marks the 56th birth anniversary of Rituparno Ghosh, one of Bengal's most prolific filmmakers. I have had the great pleasure and honour working with him in 'The Last Lear'. It is a film in the English language, which was slightly different from what Rituparno has been making. Abhishek worked with him in 'Antar Mahal', Jaya in 'Sunglass' and Aishwariya worked with him in two films 'Chokher Bali' and 'Raincoat'. His thought process was so clear and so vivid in...
The poster will be unveiled on Ghosh's birth anniversary, August 31, by Big B on his social media platform.
Also Read:?Amitabh Bachchan celebrates 'second birthday'
"31st August marks the 56th birth anniversary of Rituparno Ghosh, one of Bengal's most prolific filmmakers. I have had the great pleasure and honour working with him in 'The Last Lear'. It is a film in the English language, which was slightly different from what Rituparno has been making. Abhishek worked with him in 'Antar Mahal', Jaya in 'Sunglass' and Aishwariya worked with him in two films 'Chokher Bali' and 'Raincoat'. His thought process was so clear and so vivid in...
- 8/29/2019
- GlamSham
Last Week’S Review: ‘Mr. Robot’ Gives Us A Literal Garbage Fire
In Elliot’s Head, Two’s A Crowd
Having revealed that Elliot has been in prison, with his release imminent, you might think that this week’s installment would drop him back into the world and start moving all of the various storylines towards a convergence, or at least the start of a new phase. But Elliot and Mr. Robot are nowhere to be seen, nor are Tyrell or Joanna Wellick; instead we get an fsociety-centric episode.
Some Kind Of A Revolutionary
With the stars of the show taking a break, we get more time with Mobley (Azhar Khan) and Trenton (Sunita Mani). In a flashback to the beginning of the series we see their hacker version of a meet-cute, which involves her pwning him while waiting to meet Elliot. Instead, it’s Darlene who arrives, and reads...
In Elliot’s Head, Two’s A Crowd
Having revealed that Elliot has been in prison, with his release imminent, you might think that this week’s installment would drop him back into the world and start moving all of the various storylines towards a convergence, or at least the start of a new phase. But Elliot and Mr. Robot are nowhere to be seen, nor are Tyrell or Joanna Wellick; instead we get an fsociety-centric episode.
Some Kind Of A Revolutionary
With the stars of the show taking a break, we get more time with Mobley (Azhar Khan) and Trenton (Sunita Mani). In a flashback to the beginning of the series we see their hacker version of a meet-cute, which involves her pwning him while waiting to meet Elliot. Instead, it’s Darlene who arrives, and reads...
- 8/25/2016
- by Jay Bushman
- Indiewire
'Mr. Robot' with Rami Malek. USA cable network postpones 'Mr. Robot' season finale following deadly Virginia shootings on live TV The day after a gun-toting 14-year-old male held hostage 29 students and a teacher at West Virginia's Philip Barbour high school, on Aug. 26, '15, journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward of the Roanoke, Virginia, Wdbj-tv station were shot dead on live television. The murderer – who shot himself after being pursued by police – was identified as former Wbdj journalist Bryce Williams (aka Vester L. Flanagan II). As a result of the double murder on live TV – which, although the circumstances were different, brings to mind Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky's Network – the USA cable network has decided to postpone the showing of this season's final episode of the series Mr. Robot. According to a statement issued by USA, a similar incident takes place in the show. The statement reads in part:...
- 8/26/2015
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
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