Новости за 08.10.2019

Michael Bloom, SVP Unscripted Series and Specials for TNT and TBS, is exiting the networks after more than three years. He is launching a Los Angeles-based production company, Bongo Pictures, which has a first-look deal with WarnerMedia Entertainment. There is no word yet on his replacement. Bloom, a 20-year industry veteran, oversaw the creative development […]

Matt Lauer is making a comeback of sorts — on his daughter’s TikTok page.

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Brodie Van Wagenen’s first off-season as the Mets’ GM proved eventful (to say the least) and provided no shortage of head-scratchers as his roster moves appeared to many as being questionable in terms of asset valuation and strangely redundant. While injuries prevented the overlap in certain positions from resulting in what could have been a […]

WWE Studios and Thinkfactory Media are tag-teaming on Big Show vs. The World: A Giant Abroad (working title), a new adventure docuseries led by one of the pro wrestling outfit’s biggest stars. Through his extensive world travels with WWE, Big Show has collected a lifetime of unusual stories filled with unexplained natural occurrences, local enigmas and […]

On Monday morning, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski announced — somewhat unexpectedly — that Kyle Lowry and the Toronto Raptors have agreed to a 1-year, $31 million contract extension that will keep the 5-time All-Star in Toronto through the 2020-21 season.  The extension makes some sense, given that the Raptors want to remain competitive while also rewarding […]

WRITERS ALWAYS HAVE to make difficult choices about what to leave in and what to cut from their work. The choices become especially acute when a writer is telling her own story. “What an odd thing a diary is,” a character in Simone de Beauvoir’s novel The Woman Destroyed (La Femme rompue, 1967) says, “the […]

The Atari VCS is a retro-inspired game console that’s basically a small PC with an AMD Ryzen Embedded processor and Radeon Vega graphics. It’s expected to run a custom Linux-based operating system with support for classic games and some modern titles. First unveiled as a concept more than two years ago, the latest word from […]

Disneyland wasn’t exactly the happiest place on earth for Kim Gordon.

Once again it is the satirists who are best equipped to cut through the nonsense of the Trump era

Humans contract the Guinea worm parasite by ingesting water containing fleas infected with guinea worm larvae. The devastating and nightmarish symptoms don't show up until around a year later:

OpenAP's future was looking bleak in April when WarnerMedia, which had created the audience targeting platform two years ago with Viacom and Fox, pulled out of the consortium. But instead of falling apart, the platform has grown--adding David Levy as its first CEO in May--and continued to evolve, rolling out the OpenAP Market, which is...

Timothy Berty, of Pittsburgh, was setting up the firehouse where he volunteers in preparation for the 220-guest wedding reception when he found himself falling asleep on the floor and tables.

The Swiss government shares info on 3.1 million foreign Swiss bank accounts with 75 partner states. Handelszeitung, a German-language Swiss weekly newspaper, reported Monday that the financial surveillance comprises some 7,500 financial institutions in the country, including banks, trusts and insurance companies. The Swiss Federal Tax Authority (FTA) provided data on 3.1 million foreign bank […]

Despite hitting our VSiN Play of the Day last Friday with our parlay on the Chicago Blackhawks-Philadelphia Flyers 1st Period Over 1.5 and the Vegas Golden Knights-San Jose Sharks Over 1.5, these wagers haven’t been as profitable overall this first week of the NHL season as they were last winter and spring. However, we’ll go...

Literary events in and around Philly this week!

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House Democrats said Tuesday they will issue a subpoena to U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland to testify in Congress and turn over documents related to the impeachment inquiry involving Ukraine.

Cameron Maybin said a few things he didn’t actually mean to put out there.

THE EMERGENCE of Arsenal’s youngsters has effectively ended Mesut Ozil’s career at the club, according to legendary Gunner Ray Parlour. The £350k-a-week German World Cup winner has been axed out of Unai Emery’s last three matchday squads with the Gunners boss admitting other players “deserve it more”. Arsenal are keen to offload the winger, 30, […]

The online community credited in part for Trump's 2016 win is facing a ban over content ahead of 2020.

WWE Superstar The Big Show — real name Paul Wight — is getting his own travel reality TV series courtesy of ITV America’s Thinkfactory Media and WWE Studios.