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  • South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun of Oscar-winning film 'Parasite' is found dead

    South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun of Oscar-winning film 'Parasite' is found dead

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    SEOUL, South Korea — Lee Sun-kyun, a popular South Korean actor best known for his role in the Oscar-winning movie “Parasite,” was found dead in a car in Seoul on Wednesday, authorities said, after weeks of an intense police investigation into his alleged drug use.

    Police and emergency officers initially found Lee in what they believed was an unconscious state in the car parked on a street in northern Seoul. Emergency officers later confirmed he was dead, according to Seoul’s Seongbuk police station.

    Police had been searching for Lee, 48, after receiving a report that he was missing, Seongbuk police said.

    They refused to provide further details including whether they had determined Lee killed himself. But South Korean media outlets including Yonhap news agency said that Lee’s family earlier Wednesday reported to police that he left home after leaving a message similar to a suicide note.

    Lee’s body was later transported to a nearby Seoul hospital, according to Seongbuk police.

    Lee appeared in “Parasite,” which won Oscars for best picture and three other categories in 2020. The class satire was the first non-English-language film to win best picture in the then-92-year history of the Academy Awards, and was the first South Korean movie to win an Oscar. In the film, Lee played the head of a wealthy family.

    The film’s cast, including Lee, also won a Screen Actors Guild award for the best motion picture ensemble cast in 2020. He was nominated for best actor at the International Emmy Awards for his performance in the sci-fi thriller “Dr. Brain” last year, as well.

    Even before “Parasite,” Lee had been a popular actor in South Korea for a long time. He rose to stardom for his role in a hit TV drama series, “Coffee Prince (2007),” and gained mainstream popularity with the medical drama “Behind The White Tower (2007),” “Pasta (2010)” and “My Mister (2018).”

    Lee had undergone police probes into allegations that he used illegal drugs at the residence of a bar hostess. Lee filed a suit against two people including the hostess, alleging they blackmailed him. The investigation prompted extensive tabloid coverage. Lee insisted he was tricked into taking the drugs and that he did not know what he was taking, according to Yonhap.

    South Korea has long had the highest suicide rate among developed countries. It has also experienced a string of celebrity suicides involving K-pop stars, prominent politicians and business executives. Experts say malicious and abusive online comments and severe cyberbullying were blamed for many of the celebrity suicides.

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    Associated Press writers Jiwon Song and Juwon Park contributed to this report.

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  • TV actor Kamar de los Reyes of 'One Life to Live' and 'Call of Duty' dies at 56

    TV actor Kamar de los Reyes of 'One Life to Live' and 'Call of Duty' dies at 56

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    Kamar de los Reyes, a television, movie and voice actor best known for playing a gang member-turned-cop in the soap “One Life to Live” and a villain in the video game “Call of Duty: Black Ops II,” has died in Los Angeles at 56, the family announced.

    De los Reyes died Sunday following a brief battle with cancer, according to a statement from Lisa Goldberg, a publicist for de los Reyes’ wife, Sherri Saum.

    In “One Life to Live,” de los Reyes starred as Antonio Vega, a former gang member who became a lawyer and then a cop, alongside Saum. In the popular video game “Call of Duty: Black Ops II,” he played the villain Raul Menendez. He also had roles in Fox’s “Sleepy Hollow,” ABC’s “The Rookie” and CW’s “All American.”

    The family statement said that at the time of his death, de los Reyes was filming “All American” — and had recently shot roles in Marvel’s upcoming “Daredevil” series and Hulu’s yet to be released “Washington Black,” starring Sterling K. Brown.

    De los Reyes was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Las Vegas. According to a biography provided by the family, he caught the bug for acting when he arrived in Los Angeles in the late ’80s. Early roles include playing Pedro Quinn in the 1994 off-Broadway play, “Blade to the Heat,” and Ferdinand in director George C. Wolfe’s production of “The Tempest” for Shakespeare in the Park.

    On the big screen, de los Reyes appeared in Oliver Stone’s “Nixon,” playing Watergate burglar Eugenio Martinez, as a secret service agent in “Salt,” with Angelina Jolie, and in “The Cell” with Jennifer Lopez.

    “De los Reyes lived in Los Angeles, however, his heart never left Puerto Rico,” the family statement said, adding that the actor had been active in the recovery efforts after Hurricane Maria in 2017.

    The actor is survived by wife Saum and three sons, Caylen, 26, and twins Michael and John, age 9.

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  • What to stream this week: 'America’s Got Talent: Fantasy League,' Barbenheimer and 'Night Court'

    What to stream this week: 'America’s Got Talent: Fantasy League,' Barbenheimer and 'Night Court'

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    The return of “Night Court” and new music from the K-pop act TVXQ are some of the new television, movies and music headed to a device near you.

    Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists are a true crime story on Max, a new version of “America’s Got Talent” and a streaming guide to the year’s best films.

    — As the year winds down, most of the movie action is in cinemas. But if you’re not heading out to see “The Color Purple,” “Poor Things” or “Ferrari,” there’s no better time to catch up on some of the year’s best movies. Many of the films that made the top 10 lists of myself and AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr are available in various places to stream.

    If you haven’t caught up to “Barbie” or “Oppenheimer” yet, you can digitally rent Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic, while Greta Gerwig’s pink-hued phenomenon is streaming on Max. Alexander Payne’s masterfully melancholic “The Holdovers,” starring Paul Giamatti, can be digitally rented also, as can Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla Presley drama “Priscilla.”

    On Netflix, there’s Todd Haynes’ appealingly arch “May December” and the dazzling animated sequel “Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse.” On Prime Video, you can catch up to a pair of standouts from earlier in the year: A.V. Rockwell’s sprawling New York tale “A Thousand and One” and Wes Anderson’s elaborately layered “Asteroid City.” And if you’re looking for something further afield, seek out “The Eight Mountains,” a majestic epic of friendship, streaming on the Criterion Channel.

    — AP Film Writer Jake Coyle

    — Twenty years ago, SM Entertainment boy band TVXQ helped usher in K-pop’s second generation. (To put that into context: K-pop is currently in its fifth generation, and BTS arrived in the third.) By the end of first generation, lead by bubble gum pop like H.O.T.’s “Candy,” TVXQ emerged with a new kind of charisma, producing soulful harmonies with global resonance and performances alongside Britney Spears. Two decades later, the group is now a duo — made up of original members U-Know Yunho and Max Changmin — preparing to release their ninth studio album, “20&2,” on Tuesday, five years since their last full-length, 2018’s “New Chapter #2: The Truth of Love.” Across 10-tracks, the veteran act offers listeners a modern take on their familiar melodic talents. Begin with the rocking, tense falsetto pop of lead-single “Dark.”

    — AP Music Writer Maria Sherman

    — 2024 kicks off in a big way with “America’s Got Talent: Fantasy League” hosted by Terry Crews. In this competition, Mel B returns to judge alongside Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel and Heidi Klum, where they each selects from a talent pool of past winners, finalists, fan favorites and other standout contestants from the global “Got Talent” franchise to form their own team of 10 acts. The judges will then guide their acts through the competition where the audience determines who advances to the semi-finals and finals. The extravaganza begins Tuesday, Jan. 1 on NBC and streams on Peacock.

    — True crime fans were hooked by Max’s “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace,” about an Indiana couple who in 2010 adopted a 6-year-old girl with dwarfism from Ukraine named Natalia Grace. Within two years they began to question Natalia’s identity and believed she was in her early 20s, a fraud and dangerous. While that docuseries focused on the adopted parents’ story, Grace shares her version in “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalie Speaks.” The six-part series airs over three consecutive nights beginning Tuesday, Jan. 1 on ID.

    — The acclaimed Hulu series “Only Murders in the Building” comes to broadcast television in early 2024. The comedy whodunit stars Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez as neighbors in a posh New York apartment building who start their own true crime podcast after another resident is murdered. The first three episodes of season one begin airing on ABC on Tuesday, Jan. 2.

    — NBC’s revival of the legal comedy “Night Court” premieres its second season on Tuesday, Jan. 2. The show stars Melissa Rauch as Judge Abby Stone, daughter of the late Harry Stone, who has assumed her father’s position as magistrate presiding over a night court in New York. The comedy also streams on Peacock. The show also stars original cast member John Larroquette.

    — Alicia Rancilio

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    Catch up on AP’s entertainment coverage here: https://apnews.com/entertainment.

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  • Oscars shortlists revealed: Here are the films one step closer to a nomination

    Oscars shortlists revealed: Here are the films one step closer to a nomination

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    The “Barbie” power ballad “I’m Just Ken” and AP and Frontline’s documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” just got one step closer to an Oscar nomination. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday shortlists in 10 categories, including best original song, documentary feature, international feature, original score, and crafts like hair and makeup, visual effects and sound.

    Mstyslav Chernov’s “20 Days in Mariupol” was shortlisted in both the documentary and international feature categories, representing Ukraine in the latter.

    As expected, Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” and Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” were prominently represented among the finalists in many categories, including score and sound, as was Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest.” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” also advanced in makeup, visual effects and score and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” in visual effects, song and score.

    Among the 15 international features advancing are “The Zone of Interest” (United Kingdom), Trần Anh Hùng’s “The Taste of Things” (France), Lila Avilés’ “Tótem” (Mexico) and Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves” (Finland). Justine Triet’s acclaimed “Anatomy of a Fall” was not selected to represent France and thus was not eligible in the category.

    Original song contenders competing against “I’m Just Ken” include two other songs from “Barbie”: Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” and Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” Only two songs from a single movie can advance to the nomination stage, however. Both “Flora and Son” and “The Color Purple” had two songs advance.

    Other contenders include Sharon Van Etten for “Quiet Eyes” from “Past Lives,” Olivia Rodrigo for “Can’t Catch Me Now,” from “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” Jon Batiste for “It Never Went Away” from “American Symphony,” Lenny Kravitz for his “Rustin” song “Road to Freedom” and Jarvis Cocker’s “Dear Alien (Who Art In Heaven)” from “Asteroid City.”

    Diane Warren will also get another shot at a nomination for “The Fire Inside” from “Flamin’ Hot.” But several expected finalists were left off, including Justin Timberlake for “Trolls Band Together” and Jack Black for his “Super Mario Bros. Movie” ballad “Peaches.” “Wonka” was also missing from the list.

    The 15 original score finalists included a number of familiar players, including John Williams (“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”), Ludwig Göransson (“Oppenheimer”), Mica Levi (“The Zone of Interest”) and the late Robbie Robertson for “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Joe Hisaishi could also be headed for his first Oscar nomination for “The Boy and the Heron.”

    Composer Kris Bowers advanced for “The Color Purple,” but not for “Origin,” which also missed out in the song category. “Past Lives,” by Christopher Bear and Daniel Rossen, was another surprise exclusion from the score finalists.

    Documentary nominees in addition to “20 Days in Mariupol” include “American Symphony,” about Batiste, “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie,” “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project,” “The Eternal Memory,” “A Still Small Voice” and “Four Daughters.” Some were surprised at the omission of “Kokomo City,” about the lives of Black trans sex workers, and “Little Richard: I Am Everything.”

    “Barbie” missed the cut for makeup and hairstyling, which included nominations for “Beau is Afraid,” “Poor Things,” “Maestro,” “Oppenheimer,” “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Napoleon.”

    Though “Oppenheimer” fared well in most categories, it was not among the finalists in the visual effects category. The film’s surprising omission from the list of the original 20 finalists was previously reported. The visual effects contenders are often comprised of superhero and franchise films that aren’t otherwise considered big awards players — this year that includes Zack Snyder’s poorly reviewed “Rebel Moon-Part One: A Child of Fire,” “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” and “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.”

    Live action, animated and documentary shorts finalists were also announced. The live action category is a little starrier than usual, with both Pedro Almodóvar’s Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal western “Strange Way of Life” and Wes Anderson’s “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” with Benedict Cumberbatch and Ben Kingsley, among the contenders.

    For the most part, shortlists are determined by members in their respective categories, though the specifics vary from branch to branch: Some have committees, some have minimum viewing requirements.

    Final nominations in all categories will be announced on Jan. 23. The 96th Oscars, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, will be held on March 10, broadcasting live on ABC from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The show will begin one hour earlier than usual, at 7 p.m. ET.

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  • How Celebrity Surgeon Scammer Paolo Macchiarini Fooled So Many for So Long

    How Celebrity Surgeon Scammer Paolo Macchiarini Fooled So Many for So Long

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    Seven years ago, world-renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini was the subject of an ongoing Vanity Fair investigation. He had seduced award-winning NBC producer Benita Alexander while she was making a special about him, proposed, and promised her a wedding officiated by Pope Francis and attended by political A-listers. It was only after her designer wedding gown was made that Alexander learned Macchiarini was still married to his wife, and seemingly had no association with the famous names on their guest list.

    Vanity Fair contributor Adam Ciralsky was in the midst of reporting the story for this magazine in the fall of 2015 when he turned to Dr. Ronald Schouten, a Harvard psychiatry professor. Ciralsky sought expert insight into the kind of fabulist who would invent and engage in such an audacious lie.

    “I laid out the story to him, and he said, ‘Anybody who does this in their private life engages in the same conduct in their professional life,” recalls Ciralsky, in a phone call with Vanity Fair. “I think you ought to take a hard look at his CVs.”

    That was the turning point in the story for Ciralsky, a former CIA lawyer who soon learned that Macchiarini was more dangerous as a surgeon than a suitor. He found that Macchiarini had grossly embellished his résumé, claiming medical degrees and experience he didn’t have, and was performing what he claimed were groundbreaking (but were actually untested) thoracic surgeries on patients. 

    As Ciralsky puts it, “He was operating all over the world, spinning yarns about being part of a VIP surgical ring that operated on heads of state, claiming to have been the doctor for at least one, if not two, popes, and wrote papers about a technique that was not only unproven, but had been totally untested on animals.” Referring to his untested thoracic surgery, Ciralsky says, “This is a man who engaged in human experimentation.”

    After the Vanity Fair piece was published, Macchiarini was fired from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, home of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and, incredulously, the surgeon’s employer at the time. Two higher-ups at the institute, who were involved in keeping Macchiarini employed, resigned. Within a few years, Sweden reopened an investigation into Macchiarini’s surgeries, which led to a conviction for gross assault against three of his patients. Macchiarini currently awaits a prison sentence of more than two years.

    Nearly a decade later, the story of an apparent psychopath with a scalpel is inspiring multiple pop-culture adaptations. On Thursday, Peacock premieres two projects about Macchiarini: the second season of the scripted anthology series Dr. Death, starring Edgar Ramirez as the surgeon and Mandy Moore as Alexander; and the documentary Dr. Death: Cutthroat Conman. (Ciralsky is an executive producer on both.) Last month, Netflix gave the story its own go in Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife, a project in which Alexander participated. (Previously, Alexander executive produced the TV special He Lied About Everything.) Macchiarini’s crimes have even inspired a Swedish opera.

    Edgar Ramirez as Macchiarini and Mandy Moore as Alexander in Peacock’s second season of Dr. Death

    Courtesy of Peacock.

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  • Unfortunately, I Watched My Life With The Walter Boys

    Unfortunately, I Watched My Life With The Walter Boys

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    Let me just start by saying that I actually hate romance, and I don’t discriminate. I hate romance film, books, and television shows: the tacky plot, the cringe writing, the insufferable characters. But, to be transparent, I watch every single teeny-bopper love triangle show on the market.

    I loved to hate The Summer I Turned Pretty, the adaptation of Jenny Han’s novel starring Lola Tung, Gavin Casalegno, and Christopher Briney in which Belly (Tung) falls in love with not one, but two brothers. It took over the world, having 30 year old women debating the question: Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah?

    The “stuck between two brothers” trope is ever-popular and goes hand-in-hand with the classic Love Triangle. Think The Vampire Diaries, where Elena can’t decide who’s really right for her: Stefan or Damon. Or Twilight’s ever-present battle of Team Edward vs. Team Jacob. So when I hear that Netflix has released their dupe of The Summer I Turned Pretty, I figured it would be the same, deliciously terrible media that we all love to consume…

    Except it’s inherently terrible. Originally a Wattpad novel by Ali Novak, My Life With The Walter Boysfollows recent orphan Jackie Howard (Nikki Rodriguez) as she’s forced to move from Manhattan to Silver Falls, Colorado to live with her mom’s best friend (and her plethora of 10 sons) on a ranch.

    Immediately, she’s torn between two boys: Cole, ex-football player who had a full ride to Alabama before he was injured (more on this later), and book nerd Alex, who is shy, soft-spoken, and making a play at Jackie’s heart. It has all the makings of the worst Hallmark film you’ve seen: overworked Manhattan socialite gets lost in small town with lumberjack that teaches her the meaning of Christmas. Except the men of the show are laughable at best.

    Starting with Cole (Noah LaLonde), who absolutely cannot let anyone enjoy a football game without having a tantrum that he can’t play. Seriously, the guy had a breakdown when he learned someone else was wearing his number. So obviously, the clear lack of therapy and emotional comprehension is already a red flag…and to make matters worse he’s still in high school, so he just doesn’t want to play football if you ask me.

    Jackie and Cole

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    And then there’s Alex (Ashby Gentry). Hopeless, hopeless Alex. The Jeremiah of the brotherly duo. Poor Alex likes to read in his free time and is clearly the safer option for recently traumatized Jackie Howard. I have minimal problems with Alex in the same way I hate every character in this show, but his behavior offends me the least.

    The show begs the question: what would happen if you combine The Vampire Diaries, The Fosters, The Summer I Turned Pretty…and gave it no plot with bad writing? And don’t you dare blame it on the Wattpad of it all…how could you when it gave us cinematic masterpieces like After?!

    What is normally tolerable about these shows is that they are so simple, and the dialogue is so outrageous, that you physically can’t stop watching these characters ruin their lives. However, all I could think about while watching My Life With The Walter Boysis that every single character needs the heaviest of in-patient therapy.

    Nevertheless, like all incessant annoyances in my life, My Life With The Walter Boys has been renewed for second season. And I guess I’ll have to watch.

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  • Georgia taxpayers lose $160,000 for every job created by film tax credits

    Georgia taxpayers lose $160,000 for every job created by film tax credits

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    For nearly two decades, Georgia has lured big-time Hollywood movie studios with the promise of lucrative tax breaks for filming in the state.

    And here’s a predictable plot twist: Handing out welfare to wildly successful movies—like Avengers: Endgame, which earned more than $2 billion at the box office but nevertheless also qualified for tax credits because it was filmed in Georgia—hasn’t been a good deal for taxpayers.

    A new audit of Georgia’s Film Tax Credit program found that the state “loses money” on the program. A lot of money, actually: about $160,000 for every job the program creates. Georgia is now spending about $1.3 billion annually on the program, but it generates a return on investment of just 19 cents per dollar, the auditors conclude.

    “This program should be halted immediately,” J.C. Bradbury, an economics professor at Georgia’s Kennesaw State University and a longtime critic of government subsidy schemes, posted on X (formerly Twitter). In a 2020 paper, Bradbury estimated that the state’s film tax credit program cost about $110,000 per full-time job created and that every Georgia household was on the hook for about $230 in additional taxes every year because of the program’s existence.

    In addition to highlighting the tax credit program’s costs, the new audit also suggests that the film industry has inflated the supposed benefits of the program. Georgia’s film tax credit is responsible for creating about 34,000 jobs annually in the state, according to the new audit, but that’s well short of the 59,700 annual job-creation figure that a recent industry-funded study claimed, reported Variety.

    Created in 2005, Georgia’s subsidies for movie and TV production are the biggest such pot of cash available anywhere in the country. Production companies that spend at least $500,000 in the state during a single year are eligible for tax credits equal to 20 percent of their in-state expenditures. There is no cap on qualifying expenditures for production companies, and there is no aggregate cap for annual or lifetime tax credits, according to the audit report.

    There’s no doubt that Georgia’s program has influenced where movie and TV production takes place. The new audit concludes that the program has induced “substantial economic activity in Georgia,” but that’s simply evidence of the fact that lighting a lot of money on fire will eventually produce some heat. The underlying numbers suggest that Georgia’s subsidies are doing a poor job of generating economic growth or creating jobs.

    It’s been the same story pretty much everywhere else, though many states have gotten wise to the film tax credit scheme. In 2009, 44 states subsidized movie and TV production with some combination of rebates, tax credits, and grants. Today, just 22 states and Washington, D.C., offer those programs.

    Even though Georgia’s program has a long history of bipartisan support, changes could be coming. As Reason‘s Joe Lancaster reported earlier this year, Lieutenant Gov. Burt Jones and Georgia Speaker of the House Jon Burns (R–Newington) have pledged to undertake a thorough review of the state’s tax credit programs, including the film tax credit, with an eye toward “ensuring a significant return on investment for Georgia’s taxpayers.”

    With this new audit in hand, Jones and Burns should do their best Thanos impressions and turn Georgia’s deeply flawed movie welfare program to dust.

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  • What to stream this week: Bradley Cooper conducts, Lidia Bastianich cooks and Percy Jackson quests

    What to stream this week: Bradley Cooper conducts, Lidia Bastianich cooks and Percy Jackson quests

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    A new Percy Jackson series and a PBS special hosted by cookbook author and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich are some of the new television, movies and music headed to a device near you.

    Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists are a heartwarming CBS holiday special about adoption, a thriller starring John David Washington about artificial intelligence and the return of Marvel’s mind-bending “What If…” series.

    — “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper’s follow-up to “A Star Is Born” takes a loving look at the life of Leonard Bernstein and wife Felicia Montealegre. Cooper co-writes, directs and stars opposite Carey Mulligan in a portrait of the public and private side of the legendary composer and conductor. AP Film Writer Jake Coyle called it a “high wire act of a biopic” in his review, favoring the experimental black-and-white beginning over the later years, which focuses more on the increasingly complex family dynamics. The first hour, he wrote, is “like a dream of 1950s New York modernism.” The film, streaming on Netflix on Wednesday, is expected to be a big contender through awards season, especially for Mulligan’s lived-in, decades-spanning portrayal of an artist living in the shadow of a genius and a wife grappling with the compromises she’s made to support him.

    — Artificial intelligence is at the heart of “The Creator,” Gareth Edwards’ visually dazzling sci-fi epic which begins streaming on Hulu on Wednesday. John David Washington plays a retired special forces operative enlisted to help find the creator of advanced AIs after a nuclear bomb destroys downtown Los Angeles. In my review, I wrote that “even if it is a somewhat convoluted and silly mishmash of familiar tropes and sci-fi cliches, it still evokes the feeling of something fresh, something novel, something exciting to experience and behold — which is so much more than you can say about the vast majority of big budget movies these days.”

    — If “The Creator” didn’t have enough “Star Wars” vibes for you, Netflix has another ode to that ever-influential film from Zack Snyder with his long-in-the-works “Rebel Moon – Part 1: A Child of Fire.” Sofia Boutella leads a starry cast (including Djimon Hounsou, Charlie Hunnam and the voice of Anthony Hopkins) in this space opera about a small colony that must rise up against a tyrannical threat to the galaxy. It begins streaming on Friday, Dec. 22 and the second part will follow in April.

    — AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr

    — Prepare the tissues. On Friday, Dec. 22, CBS will air its annual “A Home for the Holidays” musical special, drawing attention to families and life-affirming stories of adoption through the foster care system. Now in its 25th year, the special — presented in partnership with the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and the Children’s Action Network — boasts of a tear-jerking lineup: Lauren Daigle, Gavin DeGraw, David Foster and Katharine McPhee, Pentatonix and CeCe Winans will take on holiday classics. McPhee will also host the event, airing live on CBS and on demand for Paramount+ and Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers.

    — AP Music Writer Maria Sherman

    — PBS is celebrating its 25-year partnership with James Beard-winning chef, cookbook author and restaurateur, Lidia Bastianich, with “25 Years with Lidia: A Culinary Jubilee.” Premiering Monday on PBS (check local listings), Lidia is joined by family and friends to reflect on her more than two decades in public television, and some of the dishes she’s made along the way. The special will also stream on PBS.org and the PBS app.

    — The animated anthology series “What If…?” is a mind-blowing, meta experience for Marvel fans where MCU characters are placed in different timelines and situations to play out an alternate story. Jeffrey Wright narrates as The Watcher, observing from afar. The first season’s storylines explored possibilities including “What If… T’Challa Became a Star-Lord?” and “What If… Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?” Season two’s premiere, debuting Dec. 22 on Disney+, asks “What If… Nebula Joined the Nova Corps?”

    — Alicia Rancilio

    — Percy Jackson finds out that Greek myths aren’t just a history lesson in a new Disney+ series, based on the bestselling books by Rick Riordan. Walker Scobell (“The Adam Project”) takes the lead as the 12-year-old who goes from dealing with school bullies to battling monsters, while finding out his paternity means he’s a demigod with special abilities. Jackson sets out on a quest to clear his name. The first two episodes of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” drop Wednesday on Disney+.

    — Hilary Fox

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  • What to stream this week: Bradley Cooper conducts, Lidia Bastianich cooks and Percy Jackson quests

    What to stream this week: Bradley Cooper conducts, Lidia Bastianich cooks and Percy Jackson quests

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    A new Percy Jackson series and a PBS special hosted by cookbook author and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich are some of the new television, movies and music headed to a device near you.

    Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists are a heartwarming CBS holiday special about adoption, a thriller starring John David Washington about artificial intelligence and the return of Marvel’s mind-bending “What If…” series.

    — “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper’s follow-up to “A Star Is Born” takes a loving look at the life of Leonard Bernstein and wife Felicia Montealegre. Cooper co-writes, directs and stars opposite Carey Mulligan in a portrait of the public and private side of the legendary composer and conductor. AP Film Writer Jake Coyle called it a “high wire act of a biopic” in his review, favoring the experimental black-and-white beginning over the later years, which focuses more on the increasingly complex family dynamics. The first hour, he wrote, is “like a dream of 1950s New York modernism.” The film, streaming on Netflix on Wednesday, is expected to be a big contender through awards season, especially for Mulligan’s lived-in, decades-spanning portrayal of an artist living in the shadow of a genius and a wife grappling with the compromises she’s made to support him.

    — Artificial intelligence is at the heart of “The Creator,” Gareth Edwards’ visually dazzling sci-fi epic which begins streaming on Hulu on Wednesday. John David Washington plays a retired special forces operative enlisted to help find the creator of advanced AIs after a nuclear bomb destroys downtown Los Angeles. In my review, I wrote that “even if it is a somewhat convoluted and silly mishmash of familiar tropes and sci-fi cliches, it still evokes the feeling of something fresh, something novel, something exciting to experience and behold — which is so much more than you can say about the vast majority of big budget movies these days.”

    — If “The Creator” didn’t have enough “Star Wars” vibes for you, Netflix has another ode to that ever-influential film from Zack Snyder with his long-in-the-works “Rebel Moon – Part 1: A Child of Fire.” Sofia Boutella leads a starry cast (including Djimon Hounsou, Charlie Hunnam and the voice of Anthony Hopkins) in this space opera about a small colony that must rise up against a tyrannical threat to the galaxy. It begins streaming on Friday, Dec. 22 and the second part will follow in April.

    — AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr

    — Prepare the tissues. On Friday, Dec. 22, CBS will air its annual “A Home for the Holidays” musical special, drawing attention to families and life-affirming stories of adoption through the foster care system. Now in its 25th year, the special — presented in partnership with the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and the Children’s Action Network — boasts of a tear-jerking lineup: Lauren Daigle, Gavin DeGraw, David Foster and Katharine McPhee, Pentatonix and CeCe Winans will take on holiday classics. McPhee will also host the event, airing live on CBS and on demand for Paramount+ and Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers.

    — AP Music Writer Maria Sherman

    — PBS is celebrating its 25-year partnership with James Beard-winning chef, cookbook author and restaurateur, Lidia Bastianich, with “25 Years with Lidia: A Culinary Jubilee.” Premiering Monday on PBS (check local listings), Lidia is joined by family and friends to reflect on her more than two decades in public television, and some of the dishes she’s made along the way. The special will also stream on PBS.org and the PBS app.

    — The animated anthology series “What If…?” is a mind-blowing, meta experience for Marvel fans where MCU characters are placed in different timelines and situations to play out an alternate story. Jeffrey Wright narrates as The Watcher, observing from afar. The first season’s storylines explored possibilities including “What If… T’Challa Became a Star-Lord?” and “What If… Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?” Season two’s premiere, debuting Dec. 22 on Disney+, asks “What If… Nebula Joined the Nova Corps?”

    — Alicia Rancilio

    — Percy Jackson finds out that Greek myths aren’t just a history lesson in a new Disney+ series, based on the bestselling books by Rick Riordan. Walker Scobell (“The Adam Project”) takes the lead as the 12-year-old who goes from dealing with school bullies to battling monsters, while finding out his paternity means he’s a demigod with special abilities. Jackson sets out on a quest to clear his name. The first two episodes of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” drop Wednesday on Disney+.

    — Hilary Fox

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  • LeBron James-produced special wins Daytime Emmy award

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    LOS ANGELES — A show produced by Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James has won a Daytime Emmy.

    “Recipe for Change: Standing Up to Antisemitism” won for outstanding daytime special at the Creative Arts and Lifestyle ceremony Saturday in Los Angeles.

    The YouTube Originals special was executive produced by James and his business partner Maverick Carter as well as three others. It was hosted by Ilana Glazer, Moshe Kasher and Idina Menzel.

    James has previously won three Sports Emmy awards, including one this year for “The Redeem Team” about the 2008 U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team.

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  • Maury Povich receives lifetime achievement award from wife Connie Chung at Daytime Emmys

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    LOS ANGELES — Maury Povich received the Daytime Emmys Lifetime Achievement Honor on Saturday from his wife, journalist Connie Chung.

    The 84-year-old talk show host, who retired last year, was honored during the creative arts ceremony at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

    “I know that you think he’s been determining the paternity of every child in America all his life,” Chung said in her introduction. “But no, in his 67 freaking years in television, he’s been a news reporter and a news anchor and old fashion talk show host interviewing world leaders, politicians, members of Congress, authors, movie stars and even Julia Child.”

    Among those paying tribute in videos were Whoopi Goldberg, Kelly Clarkson, Lewis Black, Karamo Brown and sports broadcasters Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser.

    Povich took the stage to chants of “Maury, Maury, Maury!” He ended his tabloid-style show last year, which began in 1991. He hosted “A Current Affair” from 1986-90 for then-Fox Television owner Rupert Murdoch.

    Povich recalled when “A Current Affair” was nominated for awards during its run.

    “Rupert Murdoch used to tell me all that time, ‘Don’t particularly think about that, Maury, we’re more interested in winning viewers than awards,’” Povich said.

    Raising his Emmy award in the air, Povich said, “Rupert, the hell with that.”

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  • Mayim Bialik says she's out as a host of TV quiz show 'Jeopardy!'

    Mayim Bialik says she's out as a host of TV quiz show 'Jeopardy!'

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    LOS ANGELES — Mayim Bialik won’t be giving answers as a host of “Jeopardy!” anymore.

    “The Big Bang Theory” actor posted news of her departure on Instagram on Friday.

    “Sony has informed me that I will no longer be hosting the syndicated version of Jeopardy!” Bialik wrote. “I am incredibly honored to have been nominated for a primetime Emmy for hosting this year and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to have been a part of the Jeopardy! family.”

    Former show champion Ken Jennings has been hosting season 40 of the syndicated show by himself.

    Sony Pictures Television in a statement noted Bialik was the one who announced her departure.

    “We made the decision to have one host for the syndicated show next season to maintain continuity for our viewers, and Ken Jennings will be the sole host for syndicated Jeopardy!” Sony said. “We are truly grateful for all of Mayim’s contributions to Jeopardy!, and we hope to continue to work with her on primetime specials.”

    Bialik and Jennings had split hosting duties on “Jeopardy!,” but Bialik was the solo host for season 1 of “Celebrity Jeopardy!” In May, Bialik declared her support for the Hollywood writers’ strike and declined to appear on the game show.

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  • 'General Hospital' wins 3 acting honors at 50th annual Daytime Emmys

    'General Hospital' wins 3 acting honors at 50th annual Daytime Emmys

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    LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — “General Hospital” won three trophies for acting at the Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday night.

    The late Sonya Eddy won for her 16-year role as no-nonsense head nurse Epiphany Johnson on the venerable ABC show. She died last December at age 55 from an infection after surgery.

    Robert Gossett, who plays Marshall Ashford, claimed the supporting actor trophy. He also won last year in the guest performer category for the same role.

    Eden McCoy won for outstanding younger performer as Josslyn Jacks on “General Hospital.” The 20-year-old actor debuted on the show in 2015. Her mother, Natasha McCoy, died of cancer in November.

    “This is for and because of my mother,” she said. “It’s not lost on me what an absolute privilege it is to be able to do something, not only I like to do but love to do for a living, and I love what I do. It’s really easy to be grateful on nights like this, but I am grateful every day.”

    “The Young and the Restless” was honored for outstanding writing team.

    Kelly Clarkson earned her third consecutive trophy for daytime talk series. The singer, who didn’t attend, moved her syndicated show from Los Angeles to New York this year.

    “It’s a pleasure to work with her. She makes it fun, she’s a joy every day and that makes it a little easier,” executive producer Alex Duda said. “She wanted me to thank all of our viewers for sticking with us on this migration as we moved.”

    “Entertainment Tonight” won its eighth trophy as outstanding entertainment news series. Kevin Frazier and Nichelle Turner, who hosted Friday night, came out of the audience to accept.

    The 50th annual ceremony honoring talk shows and soap operas is the first major awards show to return since the Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes ended. It was pushed back from its scheduled June date.

    To celebrate the awards’ golden anniversary, the previous winner of a category was paired with a long-ago winner as presenters. Attendees sat at tables spread out in a ballroom at the Westin Bonaventure hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

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    'General Hospital' actors win supporting honors at 50th annual Daytime Emmys

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    LOS ANGELES — Two “General Hospital” actors have won supporting honors at the Daytime Emmy Awards.

    The late Sonya Eddy won Friday night for her role as no-nonsense head nurse Epiphany Johnson on the venerable ABC show. She died last December at age 55 from an infection after surgery.

    Robert Gossett, who plays Marshall Ashford, claimed the supporting actor trophy. He also won last year in the guest performer category for the same role.

    The 50th annual ceremony honoring talk shows and soap operas is the first major awards show to return since the Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes ended. It was pushed back from its scheduled June date.

    To celebrate the awards’ golden anniversary, the previous winner of a category was paired with a long-ago winner as presenters. Attendees sat at tables spread out in a ballroom at the Westin Bonaventure hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

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  • Israeli strike on school kills Al Jazeera cameraman in southern Gaza, network says

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    CAIRO — An Israeli strike killed a Palestinian cameraman for the TV network Al Jazeera and wounded its chief Gaza correspondent Friday as they reported at a school in the south of the besieged territory, the network said.

    Cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa and correspondent Wael Dahdouh had gone to the school in the southern city of Khan Younis after it was hit by a strike earlier in the day. While they were there, an Israeli drone hit the school with a second strike, the network said.

    Dahdouh was heavily wounded in his arm and shoulder, while Abu Daqqa fell bleeding to the ground. Speaking from a hospital bed, Dahdouh told Al Jazeera he was able to flee, bleeding, from the school and found several ambulance workers. He asked them to look for Abu Daqqa, but they said it was too risky and promised another ambulance would come for him, Dahdouh said.

    “He was screaming, he was calling for help,” said Dahdouh, his right arm heavily bandaged.

    Later that evening, Al Jazeera reported that an ambulance tried to reach the school to evacuate Abu Daqqa, but it had to turn back because roads were blocked by the rubble of destroyed houses.

    Abu Daqqa continued to bleed for several more hours, until a civil defense crew found him dead, the network said in a statement.

    Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour told a General Assembly meeting on the war that Israel “targets those who could document (their) crimes and inform the world, the journalists.”

    “We mourn one of those journalists, Samer Abu Daqqa, wounded in an Israeli drone strike and left to bleed to death for 6 hours while ambulances were prevented from reaching him,” Mansour said.

    According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Abu Daqqa is the 64th journalist to be killed since the conflict erupted between Hamas and Israel: 57 Palestinians, four Israelis and three Lebanese journalists.

    The 45-year-old Abu Daqqa, a Khan Younis native, joined Al Jazeera in June 2004, working as both a cameraman and an editor. He leaves behind three sons and a daughter.

    The Israeli army did not immediately respond to an Associated Press request for comment about Abu Daqqa’s death.

    Qatari-owned Al Jazeera said in a statement that it holds Israel “accountable for systematically targeting and killing Al Jazeera journalists and their families.”

    In late October, Dahdouh’s wife, son, daughter and grandchild were killed in a strike on the home where they were sheltering in central Gaza. The network at the time accused Israel of intentionally targeting his family.

    Earlier this month, a strike killed the father, mother and 20 other family members of another Al Jazeera correspondent, Momen Al Sharafi.

    Dahdouh is well known as the face of Palestinians during many wars. He is revered in his native Gaza for telling stories of suffering and hardship to the outside world.

    Israel’s air and ground assault over the past 10 weeks has killed more than 18,700 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza. The war broke out following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel in which militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took some 240 hostage.

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  • ‘Manhunt’: First Look at the Long-Awaited Show About Hunting Lincoln’s Killer

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    In our own age of extreme division and distrust, Beletsky believes this story of an effort to violently unseat the president, and attack members of his war cabinet on the same night, still resonates because it speaks to “the shattering of norms in how we deal with disputes—and just our sense of safety.”

    “I think the show has a lot about it that’s very relevant,” she says. “This was a domestic attack that was so unusual. Lincoln used to have the door to the White House unlocked for the duration of the war. So murder of this kind was just not done.”

    Although Lincoln’s death is the starting point for the series, the 16th US president still features prominently throughout its episodes, mostly in flashback, as a means of underscoring the stakes, the motivations of the pursuers, and the depth of the loss. 

    Tobias Menzies, best known for Game of Thrones and Outlander as well as for playing middle-aged Prince Philip on The Crown, stars as Stanton, a leader who had a tendency to micromanage rather than delegate, taking on the full weight of problems that may have benefited from being shared. Beletsky says Menzies delivered that gravity. “He brings a high level of intelligence to a role,” she says. “[Stanton] was one of the top trial lawyers in the country, and Tobias does it so convincingly that you believe this man has been in the Supreme Court, that he has been sitting with Lincoln.”

    Lincoln himself is portrayed by Hamish Linklater, best known for The Newsroom and Legion and playing the mysteriously charismatic priest from Midnight Mass. “There are only so many actors who are as bright as Hamish and as tall as Hamish,” Beletsky says. “It takes a very brave actor to take on a role like this where everyone thinks they know who this person is. And Hamish was just so open and curious and just everything you want in an actor. I will say his performance is one of the things I’m most proud of.”

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  • Andre Braugher, Emmy-winning actor who starred in 'Homicide' and 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' dies at 61

    Andre Braugher, Emmy-winning actor who starred in 'Homicide' and 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' dies at 61

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    LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andre Braugher, the Emmy-winning actor who would master gritty drama for seven seasons on “Homicide: Life on The Street” and modern comedy for eight on “Brooklyn 99,” died Monday at 61.

    Braugher died after a brief illness, his publicist Jennifer Allen told The Associated Press. No further details were given.

    The Chicago-born actor would establish himself in the role of Det. Frank Pembleton, the lead role on “Homicide: Life on the Street,” a dark police drama based on a book by David Simon, who would go on to create “The Wire.” The show, which focused on the homicide unit of the Baltimore Police Department, ran for seven seasons on NBC, and would win critical acclaim with Braugher as its dramatic center and breakout star.

    He would win his first career Emmy for the role, taking the trophy for lead actor in a drama series in 1998.

    He feared he would be typecast after spending most of the 1990s as the brooding detective.

    “If I do it too long then I’ll stop really searching and probing inside my own work,″ he told the AP in 1998. ”That’s just a great danger. I think I’m going to escape that trap, and get an opportunity to do some work that will be more challenging for me.”

    That would not prove to be a problem. He would go on to play a very different kind of cop on a very different kind of show, shifting to comedy as Capt. Ray Holt on the Andy Samberg-starring “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” It would run for eight seasons from 2013 to 2021 on Fox and NBC.

    Though he’d dipped his toe into comedy in the TNT dramedy “Men of a Certain Age,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” still represented a major shift for Braugher, who was known for acting in dark and heavy dramas.

    “I just felt as though it was an opportunity to do something strikingly different from the rest of my career,” Braugher told the AP in 2019. “I like it because it just simply opens up my mind and forces me to think in a different way. So I think I’ve become much more sort of supple as an actor, and more open to the incredible number of possibilities of how to play a scene.”

    He would be nominated for four Emmys during the run.

    Braugher’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” co-star Terry Crews was among those paying tribute to him Monday night.

    “Can’t believe you’re gone so soon,” Crews said on Instagram. I’m honored to have known you, laughed with you, worked with you and shared 8 glorious years watching your irreplaceable talent. This hurts.” He added, “You showed me what a life well-lived looked like.”

    Braugher most recently starred in “She Said,” the 2022 film about the New York Times journalists who broke the story of Harvey Weinstein’s years of sexually abusing women. Braugher played Times editor Dean Baquet.

    Born and raised in Chicago, Braugher graduated from Stanford and got a master of fine arts degree from Juilliard.

    He had his breakthrough role in 1989’s “Glory,” starring alongside Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington, who won an Oscar for the film about an all-Black Army regiment during the the Civil War.

    Braugher played the bookish, frightened union corporal Thomas Searles in the film.

    “I conceived that character as heroic, but I got a lot of scripts after that where I’m constantly crying,” he told the AP in 1993.

    Despite the part, he told the AP in 2019 that before “Homicide” he struggled to find work in a Hollywood where roles for African American actors were “few and far between, Period.”

    Braugher won his second Emmy for lead actor in a miniseries or movie for the 2006 limited series “Thief” on FX. Braugher would be nominated for 11 Emmys overall.

    His other film credits included “Primal Fear” and “Get on the Bus,” and his other TV credits included “Hack,” “Gideon’s Crossing” and “The Good Fight.”

    He also acted frequently on the stage, often doing Shakespeare. He won an Obie Award for playing the title role in “Henry V” at the New York Shakespeare Festival, where he also appeared in “Measure for Measure,” “Twelfth Night” and “As You Like It.”

    Braugher was married for more than 30 years to his “Homicide” co-star Ami Brabson. He is also survived by sons Michael, Isaiah and John Wesley, his brother Charles Jennings and his mother Sally Braugher.

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  • Former Fox host Tucker Carlson is launching his own streaming network with interviews and commentary

    Former Fox host Tucker Carlson is launching his own streaming network with interviews and commentary

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    NEW YORK — Ousted Fox News host Tucker Carlson is starting his own streaming service, promising to “tell the unadorned truth” to fans for $72 a year, he announced Monday.

    Commentary, interviews, Carlson-flavored news reports and documentaries, even an advice show will be offered on the Tucker Carlson Network, which is essentially staffed by the people who used to work for him at Fox.

    The new venture comes more than seven months after Fox abruptly fired Carlson, its most popular host. Fox never publicly explained the firing, and Carlson said on Monday that “it really is one of those mysteries that I’ll probably never get to the bottom of.”

    “I want to wake up and say to myself, ‘You can say whatever you want,’” Carlson said, announcing his streaming service on The Megyn Kelly Show, a podcast and radio show hosted by fellow Fox News refugee Kelly, who has remade her career as an independent commentator.

    “I’m going to do it without interference, period,” Carlson said. “I’m going to tell the unadorned truth — I hope gently and in the least offensive way as I possibly can. But I’m going to tell the truth until the day I die.”

    Before being bounced, less than a week after Fox agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787 million to settle a lawsuit over coverage of the 2020 election, Carlson hosted what The New York Times said may be the most racist show in cable TV history, but by some measures the most successful.

    He averaged 3.2 million viewers a night for the first three months of 2023, according to the Nielsen company. Fox’s ratings plunged immediately following his exit. Replacement Jesse Watters built the audience to 2.6 million in November in Carlson’s old time slot, and Fox said Watters has gained advertisers who didn’t want their commercials with Carlson.

    Now Carlson enters the world of subscription services with a variety of products on his own network.

    “The Tucker Carlson Encounter” will be a long-form conversation show, with singer Kid Rock and golfer John Daly among the first guests. “The Tucker Carlson Interview” will be a more formal question-and-answer session, like one he conducted recently with former President Donald Trump.

    Both of those programs will be offered free on his website, at least at first, while material of his observations on “After The Tucker Carlson Interview” will be behind a paywall.

    “Tucker Carlson Uncensored” will be similar to the opening monologue he aired on his Fox show, while “Tucker Carlson Films” will produce documentaries like he made for the Fox Nation online service — including a controversial one that cast doubt on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.

    The show “Ask Tucker Carlson” will feature the host answering questions from subscribers and giving advice.

    Carlson told Kelly that while he’s “psyched to vote for Trump” in the 2024 election, he didn’t see himself as a potential vice presidential candidate, as some published reports have speculated.

    “It’s just so unimaginable,” he said. “I haven’t led a life that prepares people for politics.”

    But despite Kelly’s prodding, Carlson didn’t rule the idea out.

    Carlson had partnered with X, formerly known as Twitter, for content after leaving Fox. He’ll still post material there, branded under his network, but said he determined X didn’t have the capacity to help him build out the service he needed.

    Fox had no immediate comment on Carlson’s venture, or whether it would violate a contract with the host that reportedly ran through next year’s election.

    Neil Patel, Carlson’s former college roommate who launched The Daily Caller website with him in 2010, will be CEO of the new network, running business operations. Justin Wells, Carlson’s former executive producer who was fired from Fox with him in April, will oversee content.

    “I feel happy,” Carlson told Kelly. “I feel liberated.”

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  • Golden Globes announce 2024 nominations. See the full list of nominees.

    Golden Globes announce 2024 nominations. See the full list of nominees.

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    The nominees for the 81st annual Golden Globe Awards were unveiled Monday morning, marking the official kickoff to Hollywood’s 2024 awards season. “Barbenheimer” dominated the list, as expected, with nine nods for “Barbie” and eight for “Oppenheimer.” The final season of “Succession” also led with nine nominations.

    The nominations in 27 categories honoring the best in film and television were announced by Cedric “The Entertainer” and Wilmer Valderrama and CBSNews.com livestreamed the presentation. Nominations in 10 of the categories were also broadcast live on “CBS Mornings.”

    The 2024 Golden Globe Awards ceremony takes place Sunday, Jan. 7, from 8-11 p.m. ET, and will be broadcast live on CBS as part of a new deal between the Golden Globes and the network. The ceremony will also be available to stream on Paramount+ and the CBS app. Paramount Global is the parent company of CBS.

    The Golden Globes come to CBS after its longstanding relationship with NBC ended, and as the award show works to rebuild its credibility under new leadership following a widely publicized scandal and boycotts over allegations of racism and ethical lapses within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which organized the Globes and voted for years to determine its nominees and winners.

    The HFPA was disbanded and the Golden Globes were sold. Dick Clark Productions is now the owner and producer of the Golden Globe Awards. The nominees and winners are chosen by a voting body of 300 members from 75 countries.

    In another change this year, the upcoming Golden Globes will mark the debut of two new categories: cinematic and box office achievement in motion pictures and best stand-up comedian on television. 

    The current eligibility period for consideration runs from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, meaning films and series released within that timeframe qualify.

    Here is the full list of this year’s Golden Globes nominees:

    Best Motion Picture — Drama

    • “Oppenheimer”
    • “Killers of the Flower Moon” 
    • “Maestro”
    • “Past Lives”
    • “The Zone of Interest”
    • “Anatomy of a Fall”

    Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy

    • “Barbie”
    • “Poor Things” 
    • “American Fiction”
    • “The Holdovers”
    • “May December” 
    • “Air”

    Best Motion Picture — Animated

    • “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
    • “The Boy and the Heron”
    • “Elemental”
    • “The Super Mario Bros. Movie”
    • “Wish”
    • “Suzume”

    Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

    • “Barbie”
    • “Oppenheimer”
    • “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
    • “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3”
    • “The Super Mario Bros. Movie”
    • “John Wick: Chapter 4”
    • “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1” 
    • “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” 

    Best Motion Picture — Non-English Language

    • “Anatomy of a Fall” (France)
    • “The Zone of Interest” (United Kingdom)  
    • “Society of the Snow” (Spain) 
    • “Fallen Leaves” (Finland)
    • “Past Lives” (United States)
    • “Io capitano” (Italy)

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama

    • Bradley Cooper, “Maestro”
    • Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer”
    • Leonardo DiCaprio, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
    • Colman Domingo, “Rustin”
    • Andrew Scott, “All of Us Strangers”
    • Barry Keoghan, “Saltburn”

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama

    • Lily Gladstone, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
    • Carey Mulligan, “Maestro”
    • Sandra Hüller, “Anatomy of a Fall”
    • Annette Bening, “Nyad”
    • Greta Lee, “Past Lives”
    • Cailee Spaeny, “Priscilla”

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy

    • Emma Stone, “Poor Things”
    • Margot Robbie, “Barbie”
    • Natalie Portman, “May December”
    • Fantasia Barrino, “The Color Purple” 
    • Alma Pöysti, “Fallen Leaves”
    • Jennifer Lawrence, “No Hard Feelings”

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy

    • Jeffrey Wright, “American Fiction”
    • Paul Giamatti, “The Holdovers”
    • Matt Damon, “Air”
    • Joaquin Phoenix, “Beau is Afraid”
    • Timothée Chalamet, “Wonka”
    • Nicolas Cage, “Dream Scenario”

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture

    • Emily Blunt, “Oppenheimer”
    • Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”
    • Danielle Brooks, “The Color Purple”
    • Julianne Moore, “May December”
    • Jodie Foster, “Nyad”
    • Rosamund Pike, “Saltburn”

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture

    • Ryan Gosling, “Barbie”
    • Robert DeNiro, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
    • Robert Downey Jr., “Oppenheimer”
    • Charles Melton, “May December”
    • William Dafoe, “Poor Things” 
    • Mark Ruffalo, “Poor Things”

    Best Director — Motion Picture

    • Martin Scorsese, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
    • Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”
    • Greta Gerwig, “Barbie” 
    • Yorgos Lanthimos, “Poor Things”
    • Bradley Cooper, “Maestro”
    • Celine Song, “Past Lives”

    Best Screenplay — Motion Picture

    • Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, “Barbie”
    • Tony McNamara, “Poor Things”
    • Celine Song, “Past Lives”
    • Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”
    • Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
    • Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, “Anatomy of a Fall”

    Best Original Score — Motion Picture

    • Ludwig Göransson, “Oppenheimer”
    • Robbie Robertson, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
    • Mica Levi, “The Zone of Interest”
    • Daniel Pemberton, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” 
    • Jerskin Fendrix, “Poor Things”
    • Joe Hisaishi, “The Boy and the Heron”

    Best Original Song — Motion Picture

    • “What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell (from “Barbie”) 
    • “Dance the Night” by Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt (from “Barbie”) 
    • “Addicted to Romance” by Bruce Springsteen (from “She Came to Me”)
    • “Road to Freedom” by Lenny Kravitz (from “Rustin”) 
    • “Peaches” by Jack Black, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond and John Spiker (from “The Super Mario Bros. Movie”) 
    • “I’m Just Ken” by Andrew Wyatt and Mark Ronson (from “Barbie”)

    Best Television Series – Drama

    • “Succession”
    • “The Last of Us”
    • “The Crown”
    • “The Morning Show”
    • “The Diplomat”
    • “1923”

    Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy

    • “The Bear”
    • “Ted Lasso”
    • “Abbott Elementary”
    • “Jury Duty”
    • “Only Murders in the Building”
    • “Barry”

    Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

    • “Beef”
    • “Lessons in Chemistry”
    • “Daisy Jones & the Six”
    • “All the Light We Cannot See” 
    • “Fellow Travelers”
    • “Fargo”

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama

    • Sarah Snook, “Succession”
    • Bella Ramsey, “The Last of Us”
    • Helen Mirren, “1923”
    •  Keri Russell, “The Diplomat”
    • Emma Stone, “The Curse”
    • Imelda Staunton, “The Crown”

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama

    • Brian Cox, “Succession”
    • Pedro Pascal, “The Last of Us”
    • Kieran Culkin, “Succession”
    • Jeremy Strong, “Succession”
    • Gary Oldman, “Slow Horses”
    • Dominic West, “The Crown”

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

    • Ayo Edebiri, “The Bear”
    • Natasha Lyonne, “Poker Face”
    • Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary” 
    • Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
    • Selena Gomez, “Only Murders in the Building”
    • Elle Fanning, “The Great”

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

    • Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”
    • Jason Sudeikis, “Ted Lasso”
    • Bill Hader, “Barry”
    • Jason Segel, “Shrinking”
    • Steve Martin, “Only Murders in the Building”
    • Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building”

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

    • Brie Larson, “Lessons in Chemistry”
    • Ali Wong, “Beef”
    • Riley Keough, “Daisy Jones & the Six” 
    • Elizabeth Olsen, “Love and Death”
    • Juno Temple, “Fargo”
    • Rachel Weisz, “Dead Ringers”

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

    • Steven Yeun, “Beef”
    • Matt Bomer, “Fellow Travelers”
    • Sam Claflin, “Daisy Jones & the Six”
    • David Oyelowo, “Lawmen: Bass Reeves”
    • Jon Hamm, “Fargo”
    • Woody Harrelson, “White House Plumbers”

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Television Series

    • Matthew Macfadyen, “Succession” 
    • James Marsden, “Jury Duty”
    • Ebon Moss-Bachrach, “The Bear”
    • Billy Crudup, “The Morning Show” 
    • Alexander Skarsgård, “Succession”
    • Alan Ruck, “Succession”

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Television Series

    • Meryl Streep, “Only Murders in the Building”
    • Hannah Waddingham, “Ted Lasso”
    • Elizabeth Debicki, “The Crown” 
    • Christina Ricci, “Yellowjackets” 
    • Abby Elliott, “The Bear”
    • J. Smith-Cameron, “Succession”

    Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television

    • “Amy Schumer: Emergency Contact”
    • “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage”
    • “Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer”
    • “Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love”
    • “Trevor Noah: Where Was I”

    Emily Mae Czachor

    Emily Mae Czachor is a reporter and news editor at CBSNews.com. She covers breaking news, often focusing on crime and extreme weather. Emily Mae has previously written for outlets including the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed and Newsweek.

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  • The Golden Globe nominations are being announce. Here's everything you need to know

    The Golden Globe nominations are being announce. Here's everything you need to know

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    After scandal and several troubled years, the Golden Globes are ready for a comeback.

    The revamped group, now a for-profit endeavor with a larger and more diverse voting body, is announcing nominations Monday for its January awards show.

    Early nominees include:

    Best actor in a television drama: Brian Cox, “Succession”; Kieran Culkin, “Succession”; Gary Oldman, “Slow Horses”; Pedro Pascal, “The Last of Us”; Jeremy Strong, “Succession”; DOminic West, “The Crown.”

    Female actor in a television comedy: Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”; Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary”; Ayo Edebiri, “The Bear”; Elle Fanning, “The Great”; Selena Gomez, “Only Murders in the Building”; Natasha Lyonne, “Poker Face.”

    Male actor in a television comedy: Bill Hader, “Barry”; Steve Martin, “Only Murders in the Building”; Jason Segel, “Shrinking”; Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building”; Jason Sudeikis, “Ted Lasso”; Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear.”

    Cedric the Entertainer and Wilmer Valderrama are announcing the nominees on www.CBSNews.com/GoldenGlobes. At 8:30 a.m., an additional 10 categories will be announced on “CBS Mornings.”

    In addition to nominations for films, shows and actors, segmented between comedy/musical and drama, the 2024 show will have two new categories: cinematic and box office achievement and best stand-up comedian on television.

    Analysts expect films like “Barbie,” “Oppenheimer,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro,” “Poor Things” and “The Color Purple” will be among the top nominees.

    The 81st Golden Globe Awards will be the first major broadcast of awards season, with a new home on CBS. And while to audiences it might look similar on the surface, it’s been tumultuous few years behind the scenes following a bombshell report in the Los Angeles Times. The 2021 report found that there were no Black members in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which votes on the awards.

    Stars and studios boycotted the Globes and NBC refused to air it in 2022 as a result. After the group added journalists of color to its ranks and instituted other reforms to address ethical concerns, the show came back in January 2023 in a one-year probationary agreement with NBC. The network did not opt to renew.

    In June, billionaire Todd Boehly was granted approval to dissolve the HFPA and reinvent the Golden Globes as a for-profit organization. Its assets were acquired by Boehly’s Eldridge Industries, along with Dick Clark Productions, a group that is owned by Penske Media whose assets also include Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone and Billboard. In mid-November, CBS announced that it would air the ceremony on the network on Jan. 7. It will also stream on Paramount+.

    The Golden Globe Awards had long been one of the highest-profile awards season broadcasts, second only to the Oscars.

    The show was touted as a boozy, A-list party, whose hosts often took a more irreverent tone than their academy counterparts. It also only honored the flashiest filmmaking categories — picture, director, actors among them — meaning no long speeches from visual effects supervisors or directors of shorts no one has heard of.

    But the voting body was a small group of around 87 members who wielded incredible influence in the industry and often accepted lavish gifts and travel from studios and awards publicists eager to court favor and win votes.

    Some years, the HFPA were pilloried for nominating poorly reviewed films with big name talent with hopes of getting them to the show, the most infamous being “The Tourist,” with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. In the past decade, they’ve more often overlapped with the Oscars. The show also recognizes television.

    Before the expose and public relations crisis though, no one in the industry took much umbrage with who was voting on the awards. The show had become an important part of the Hollywood awards ecosystem, a platform for Oscar hopefuls and was, until recently, a reliable ratings draw. As of 2019, it was still pulling in nearly 19 million viewers to the broadcast. This year, NBC’s Tuesday night broadcast got its smallest audience ever for a traditional broadcast, with 6.3 million viewers.

    The group nominating and voting for the awards is now made up of a more diverse group of over 300 people from around the world.

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