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by Cynthia Littleton on January 23, 2021 at 11:43 pm

Larry King, the broadcast legend who died Saturday at the age of 87, deserves more credit than he typically gets for helping to build CNN and realize Ted Turner’s audacious vision for a 24-hour global news network. In his prime, King’s […]

by Natalie Oganesyan on January 23, 2021 at 11:23 pm

Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated TV and film composer Perry Botkin Jr., known for his themes for “The Young and the Restless,” the late ’70s sitcom “Mork & Mindy” and “The ABC Sunday Night Movie,” died […]

by Carmel Dagan on January 23, 2021 at 8:15 pm

Oscar-nominated screenwriter and producer Walter Bernstein, who survived the blacklist era by writing pseudonymous scripts for television and later wrote films including “Fail-Safe,” “The Front” and “Semi-Tough,” […]

by jazztangcay on January 23, 2021 at 6:23 pm

With a career spanning 63 years, Larry King had many memorable moments behind the mic. The veteran broadcaster, who died Saturday at the age of 87, became a household name as the host of CNN’s “Larry King Live,” which logged a […]

by marcmalkin on January 23, 2021 at 5:00 pm

The inauguration television special “Celebrating America” was only about six weeks in the making. “We did election night, and people are calling me and going, ‘Okay, what are we doing for the inaugural?,’” […]

by msravindran on January 23, 2021 at 4:54 pm

Kenneth Branagh will play U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a new Sky TV series detailing Britain’s muddled response to the COVID-19 crisis. The five-part drama will be directed and written by “The Trip” helmer Michael […]

by Ramin Setoodeh on January 23, 2021 at 4:30 pm

Grammy-nominated singer Andra Day had never starred in a movie before she channeled Billie Holiday in a new biopic directed by Lee Daniels. In “The United States Vs. Billie Holiday,” which will be released by Hulu on Feb. 26, Day plays […]

by danvariety on January 23, 2021 at 4:00 pm

Andra Day (“The United States vs. Billie Holiday”) and Leslie Odom Jr. (“One Night in Miami”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety‘s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. For more, click here. The pop and […]

by danvariety on January 23, 2021 at 3:16 pm

In its first season, “Euphoria” was a lightning bolt. The HBO series, crackling with oddity and possibility, generated noise and light in a manner that felt new, and overdue. The show told stories about the TikTok generation with all the […]