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Elon Musk names Linda Yaccarino as new Twitter CEO

Deutsche Welle
Posted at May 13 09:50 AM

Elon Musk had earlier vowed to step down as Twitter's chief executive. Linda Yaccarino previously worked as the advertising chief at US media giant NBCUniversal. Read more »

Golden Globes slump to new ratings low on return from scandal

Agence France Presse
Posted at Jan 12 10:06 AM

Golden Globes television ratings slumped to a new low of just 6.3 million viewers, even as the troubled award show tried to bounce back from its recent scandals, broadcaster NBC's preliminary figures showed Wednesday. Read more »

Spielberg, 'Top Gun' and 'Avatar' face off as Golden Globes eye comeback

Andrew Marszal, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 11 03:07 AM

Unlike the Oscars, the pinnacle of awards season on March 12, the Globes movie prizes are split between two categories: "drama" and "comedy or musical." Read more »

George Lopez tackles family estrangement, forgiveness in new sitcom

Yong Chavez | TFC News Hollywood
Posted at Nov 05 09:05 AM

The veteran comedian and sitcom star returns to network television, this time co-starring with his own daughter Mayan Lopez. Read more »

Raymond Lee on what starring in 'Quantum Leap' means to him

Yong Chavez | TFC News Hollywood
Posted at Sep 24 06:35 PM

A new generation of talents are now at the helm of the action-adventure show and ready to tell more time-traveling stories. Read more »

Golden Globes to bring scandal-hit awards back to TV: organizers

Agence France Presse
Updated as of Sep 21 01:20 PM

The scandal-hit Golden Globes, one of Hollywood's most important awards events, are to return to television next year, organizers said Tuesday, after being dumped by broadcasters and shunned by industry figures over ethics lapses. Read more »

Heard 'absolutely not' able to pay Depp $10.4-M in damages: lawyer

Agence France Presse
Posted at Jun 02 11:12 PM

Actress Amber Heard is unable to pay her ex-husband Johnny Depp more than $10 million in damages, her lawyer said Thursday. Read more »

ABS-CBN News is on world's top 10 web publishers on FB

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 07 03:02 PM

News.abs-cbn.com is 10th worldwide in terms of the volume of interactions with the website's content for March 2022. Read more »

Nicole Scherzinger on how creating her own show led to starring in 'Annie Live!'

Yong Chavez | TFC News Hollywood
Posted at Nov 30 05:02 PM

Fil-Am singer-actress Nicole Scherzinger shares how creating her own show led to her starring in NBC’s upcoming holiday musical event. Read more »

Tokyo Olympics opening draws 16.7 mln U.S. TV viewers, a 33-year low

Helen Coster, Reuters
Posted at Jul 25 09:39 AM

NBC's broadcast of the Tokyo Olympic Games opening ceremony drew 16.7 million viewers, the smallest U.S. television audience for the event in the past 33 years, according to preliminary data from Comcast-owned NBCUniversal on Saturday. Read more »

NBC drops 2022 Golden Globes; Tom Cruise returns trophies

Lisa Richwine, Jill Serjeant, Reuters
Posted at May 11 06:55 AM

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - US television network NBC on Monday dropped its broadcast of the Golden Globes ceremony in 2022 after a Hollywood backlash over the ethics of the group that hands out the annual awards for film and television and its lack of diversity. Read more »

How Nico Santos gave Filipino immigrants a voice in NBC series 'Superstore'

Yong Chavez, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau
Posted at Mar 24 12:37 PM

When Nico Santos was cast in the NBC sitcom “Superstore” in 2015, he had the honor of giving his character Mateo Liwanag his recognizably Filipino last name.   Read more »

Interrupting broadcast, fact-checking Trump: Can local networks do it, too?

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 07 03:09 AM

US networks could have carried the entire Trump news conference, but instead interrupted the live broadcast to call out Trump making baseless allegations.   Read more »

PH press can learn from US media cutting away Trump's claims of election fraud, says expert

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 06 11:49 PM

Major US television networks felt the need to cut away from President Donald Trump's briefing to call him out over his unsubstantiated claims. Read more »