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New York (AFP) - US crime series "True Detective" will return for a fifth season after the recently wrapped up edition -- following two women officers in frigid Alaska -- proved a hit with viewers, broadcaster HBO announced Thursday. The series renewal comes despite an online spat with creator Nic Pizzolatto, who took to social media to snipe at his brainchild's new incarnation, reposting criticisms of Sunday's season four finale. Remarking on Pizzolatto's criticisms, Kali Reis, a co-star of the latest season, said "that's a damn shame" on X, formerly Twitter. The fifth season will see Issa Lo...
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Washington (AFP) - Influential media provocateur and white outrage generator Tucker Carlson has spent years depicting America as a declining nation under assault by Democrats, Black Lives Matter advocates, 'woke' protesters, and communism. His hit TV show bombarded viewers with grievance politics and repeatedly depicted white conservatives as being in a fight for their very survival -- that is until Fox News pulled the plug on his nightly broadcasts last April. But Carlson, long close to former president Donald Trump, launched his own show on social media platform X, the former Twitter. Now i...
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New York (AFP) - Acclaimed rapper Snoop Dogg will be a special reporter for US broadcaster NBC at the Paris Olympics this year, the network has announced, reprising his star turn at the Tokyo Games that delighted viewers. "I grew up watching the Olympics and am thrilled to see the incredible athletes bring their A-game to Paris," he said in a statement issued late Sunday. "It's a celebration of skill, dedication, and the pursuit of greatness... We're going to have some amazing competitions and, of course, I will be bringing that Snoop style to the mix. It's going to be the most epic Olympics e...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - "Friends" stars Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow paid their own personal tributes to the late Matthew Perry on Wednesday, mourning their beloved but troubled co-star after his shock death last month. Perry, who played Chandler Bing on the hit TV sitcom from 1994-2004, died at the age of 54, having struggled for decades with addiction and related serious health issues. "Oh boy this one has cut deep," said Aniston, who played Rachel on the show about six close-knit friends navigating adult life in New York. "He was such a part of our DNA. We were always the 6...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Danny Masterson, a prominent Scientologist who was jailed this week for raping two women, was a "role model" to fellow actor Ashton Kutcher, the star told a judge according to a letter that emerged Friday. Masterson was sentenced to at least 30 years' prison for drugging and sexually assaulting his victims at his swanky Los Angeles home two decades earlier. In a submission to the sentencing judge, Kutcher -- who starred alongside Masterson in retro sitcom "That '70s Show" -- said the older actor had been "nothing but a positive influence" on him. "I met Danny Masterson whe...
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New York (AFP) - Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC's flagship "Tonight Show," has apologized to staff after employees accused him of creating a "toxic workplace," according to a report in Rolling Stone magazine. The music and culture magazine said Fallon, a comedian and one of the stars of US late-night TV, had been accused by two current employees and 14 former "Tonight Show" workers of "erratic behavior" with some saying the show had been "a toxic workplace for years." One unnamed person interviewed by Rolling Stone said Fallon, 48, would "snap at crew members, express irritation over the smallest o...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Actor Danny Masterson, a star of the sitcom "That '70s Show," was sentenced Thursday to at least 30 years in prison for raping two women at his home two decades ago. The US actor was convicted in May of drugging and then raping fellow members of the Church of Scientology between 2001 and 2003 at his house in the swanky Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles. Imposing a sentence of 15 years-to-life on each rape conviction, to run consecutively, Judge Charlaine Olmedo said she knew Masterson continued to protest his innocence. "Mr. Masterson, you are not the victim here," she to...
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New York (AFP) - CNN announced Wednesday that British media veteran Mark Thompson would assume the role of its next CEO, as the news outlet struggles to reverse a ratings decline. Thompson -- the former director-general of the BBC as well as the former president and CEO of The New York Times Company -- will begin the position on October 9, CNN parent company Warner Bros. Discovery said in a statement. He takes over after the embattled former head Chris Licht stepped down in June, having faced controversy for editorial decisions including a town hall meeting with former president Donald Trump t...
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New York (AFP) - Hollywood A-listers including Emmy winner Bryan Cranston and a group of Oscar winners on Tuesday led a large rally of striking actors and writers in New York's Times Square, as the stalemate with studios and streamers dragged on. Academy Award winners Brendan Fraser, Jessica Chastain and F. Murray Abraham were among the stars joining the mass of demonstrators. Movie and television production has effectively shut down in the United States since thousands of members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) guild walked off the job on July 14, joining writers who have been on strik...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - The union representing 160,000 actors and performers on Friday agreed to extend contract negotiations with Hollywood studios, staving off a potentially crippling strike until at least July 12. The Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) has been locked in lengthy negotiations with the likes of Netflix and Disney, but as a midnight deadline loomed, both sides announced they would continue to negotiate. The current contract has been extended until July 12 at midnight Los Angeles time, SAG-AFTRA said in a statement, adding that a media blackout on the negotiations would remain in effe...
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