He starred alongside John Candy and Catherine O’Hara in SCTV, about a fictional TV station known as Second City Television that was stacked with buffoons in front of and behind the cameras. Flaherty’s characters included network boss Guy Caballero and the vampiric TV host Count Floyd. He won Emmys in 1982 and 1983 for his writing on SCTV and continued to work in TV and film for decades.
Wednesday executive producer and former MGM President of Motion Picture Group Jonathan Glickman has been officially named CEO of Miramax, taking over for Bill Block who exited. Glickman starts effective immediately and he’ll be responsible for building out the studio and exploiting its 700 title library which includes such Oscar lauded movies as Chicago, No Country for Old Men, The English Patient, and Shakespeare in Love as well as Pulp Fiction, Halloween, Scary Movie and Gangs of New York.
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WBRC Birmingham, Ala. meteorologist-reporter Fred Hunter is stepping away from the studio after 27 years of forecasting and delivering Absolutely Alabama to viewers throughout the state. Hunter has been with […]
Huffman will guest star in Paramount+’s Criminal Minds spinoff Evolution, playing the brilliant ex-wife of original series star Mandy Patinkin.
Gray Television CBS affiliate KCTV Kansas City is adding to its growing weather team, welcoming Melissa Meeder to the First Warn 5 Weather team. She will join First Warn 5 […]
Sinclair Broadcast Group today announced that Matthew Galka will join the company’s Washington, D.C., Bureau as a national correspondent. Galka will provide reporting for The National Desk, Sinclair’s nationally syndicated […]
KTAZ Phoenix and KHRR Tucson, Ariz., part of NBCUniversal Local’s Telemundo Station Group, today appointed Gilberto Dorrego lead anchor for Noticiero Telemundo Arizona, debuting today at 5 p.m., and named José Ángel Galavis senior multimedia journalist and Javier López Álvarez multimedia […]
Dana Walden is in the running to be Bob Iger’s successor as Disney CEO, according to people familiar with the matter. If she is chosen, Walden would be the first female CEO of Disney in its 100-year history.
Cesar Conde, a leader with an MBA but a limited journalism background, is facing the toughest scrutiny of his career.
Harry Smith is signing off from NBC News after 12 years. The beloved correspondent received an emotional sendoff during Friday’s Today show, where his colleagues got choked up sharing kind words about their time together.
Gossett broke through on the small screen as Fiddler in ABC’s groundbreaking 1977 miniseries Roots, which depicted the atrocities of slavery on TV. The sprawling cast included Ben Vereen, LeVar Burton and John Amos. Gossett’s performance won him an Emmy. He was 87.
Guinness World Records saluted Alhart last year for the “longest career as a television news broadcaster.”
In a notorious high-security prison, Evan Gershkovich of The Wall Street Journal stays connected with supporters through letters as they keep up the pressure for his release.
The former executive has earned nearly $1.2 billion through TKO Group stock sales to date. TKO Group was formed last year through the Endeavor-led merger of UFC and WWE. Endeavor maintains a majority interest in TKO.
Cohen’s hedge fund Point72 revealed the approximately 5% stake in Fox this week with a market value of about $350 million as of writing.
