Latest in Media

If you were ready for some football at Thursday’s National Football League draft, you had to wade through a lot to get it. Before the picks began, there was Heart’s Ann Wilson hoarsely screaming the National Anthem, then two songs from rockers Kings of Leon. There was a lot of discussion, speculation, and shots of…

World premieres from Disney+, AMC, Startz, Peacock, A&E, OWN, FX and National Geographic are among the highlights of the 2021 Tribeca Festival’s 20th anniversary celebration, announced today. The events will take place in New York City June 9-20 and claim to be the first major film festival to host in-person events…

White House correspondents often describe Joe Biden's first 100 days through the lens of policy — Covid-19 relief, immigration, voting rights, racial justice. That in and of itself is a change from the comparable period of Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump, whose tenure was marked by endless palace intrigue, frequent…

Before LeBron James chose to join the Miami Heat and form a super team in the Sunshine State, he was the National Basketball Assn.’s hottest free agent ever. As such, teams were pulling out all the stops to lure his talents. That included the New York Knicks, who recruited James Gandolfini and Edie Falco to reprise…

A group of 467 alleged former Jeopardy! participants issued an open letter on Medium Wednesday, demanding an apology from the show producers for not catching a "Jeopardy!" winner allegedly flashing a white power hand gesture. "A recent contestant has caused concern among 'Jeopardy!' viewers for two separate…

Verizon is exploring a sale of Yahoo and AOL that would end a rocky era for the telco as a media owner after a spate of disappointing acquisitions. A sale could bring $4 billion to $5 billion and giant investment group Apollo Global Management is said to involved, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Reps…

Padma Lakshmi, the Queer Eye hosts, Stephen Colbert and Demi Lovato are just of the few of the top tiers names joining Deadline's Contenders Television Documentary + Unscripted event on May 1. The day-long livestreamed celebration starts at 8 a.m. PT on Saturday, as the Oscars are in the rearview mirror and awards…

Documentary writer-producer David Beriain, a Spanish cameraman and a third man who were abducted Monday while working on a documentary about poaching in Burkina Faso have been killed, according to authorities in Spain. Beriain, 44, and Roberto Fraile, 47, were embedded with a patrol of more than three dozen Burkinabe…

Apple announced today that it plans to expand its Culver City team to more than 3,000 employees as part of the multinational technology company’s plan to invest $430 billion and add 20,000 new jobs across the United States over the next five years. “At this moment of recovery and rebuilding, Apple is doubling down on…

Tom Llamas has been named senior national correspondent for NBC News and will anchor a primetime newscast for NBC News Now, the network’s streaming service. Llamas’ move to NBC News from ABC News had been expected. He signed off as the weekend anchor of ABC News’s World News Tonight in January, amid reports that he…

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said Sunday that President Joe Biden has got to “stop criticizing America for historic wrongs.” Speaking to Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Graham insisted that systemic racisim “doesn’t exist” in the US. He cited the elections of former President Barack Obama and current VP Kamala…

Democratic Congresswoman Val Demings, the former chief of the Orlando, Florida Police Department, said Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation that the Ohio officer who fatally shot Mi’Khia Bryant acted as "he was trained to do." However, Demings later supported the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which has a clause…