Deadline’s Strike Talk Podcast Week 21: Reasons For Optimism Over Imminent WGA Deal & Renaissance Of Unions

TMZ, the musician passed away on Oct. 11 in Illinois.His cause of death has yet to be determined, although a source told the outlet that he possibly suffered a heart attack.Rudolph and his brothers Ronald, 82, and O’Kelly formed their R&B group in the late 1950s and enjoyed massive success with tunes such as “Twist & Shout,” “This Old Heart of Mine” and “It’s Your Thing.”By 1971, the group grew to include their younger brothers Ernie and Marvin, as well as Rudolph’s brother-in-law Chris Jasper.Rudolph departed the band in 1989 to become a pastor.

WARNING: This story contains spoilers from this week’s episode of “Survivor.”This idol’s on fire!“Survivor 45” host Jeff Probst revealed that he was taken aback Wednesday when one contestant set the wax-encased immunity idol on fire in order to save herself from elimination during Tribal Council. Appearing on the show’s podcast “On Fire,” Probst, 61, said that Sabiyah Broderick of the Lulu tribe found the idol while participating in last week’s episode, but because the tribe had lost every immunity challenge to date, they did not have enough flint to start a fire and secure the totem.

paid partnership with Bud Light — appears in a feathery white shoulderless gown and braided hair crown on the pink cover of the magazine’s awards issue.The TikToker also took to the stage Wednesday to accept her award at the mag’s ceremony, wearing two outfits on the night, including a wispy bejeweled ball grown and a near-see-through black dress.“Some see me as woman of the year — some see me as a woman of a year and some change,” she quipped, noting that she “only publicly come out online 560 days ago.”“And some people don’t see me as a woman at all,” she said of her haters.“No matter how hard I try, or what I wear, or what I say, or what surgeries I get, I will never reach an acceptable version of womanhood by those hateful people’s standards,” she said.“But as long as the queer community sees me for my truth, I’m going to be OK.”The content creator also briefly mentioned her explosive Bud Light campaign, which sparked a huge boycott of the beer company that lost tens of millions in the fallout.Mulvaney said London became her “safe space” while traveling to avoid the scandal back home, saying that she “didn’t feel that baggage that she was carrying back in the US.” “I didn’t feel like the trans beer girl,” said the TikToker, who became popular due to her Days of Girlhood series. “I didn’t walk into rooms and wonder: ‘Oh, does that person hate me?’ I was just another gal walking around in a Burberry trench coat on her way to a West End musical.” Mulvaney said that the previous year “feels like a “Black Mirror” episode, referring to the surreal Netflix show — something shared by critics aghast at the new honor.“Unbelievable.

temporary agreement regarding child custody, according to court documents obtained by The Post. They determined earlier this week that they will split custody of their daughters Willa, 3, and Delphine, 1.The children will spend roughly 20-day periods at a time bouncing between the US with Jonas and the UK with Turner. The temporary agreement goes through Jan.

“Spamalot” on Broadway isn’t the only major Monty Python show you won’t want to miss this year.Original cast member and “Fawlty Towers” star John Cleese has lined up 24 gigs all over the “so called United States” these next few months.The tour, which Cleese dubbed ‘An Evening with the late John Cleese,’ stops into Schenectady, NY’s Proctors Theatre on Oct. 19, Englewood, NJ’s Bergen Performing Arts Center on Oct.

Kevin Nealon is on tour and that’s news to us.The former “Saturday Night Live” Weekend Update anchor has 17 gigs lined up from October through April 2024.That includes not one, not two, not three, not four but five (!) stand-up comedy shows at Rochester, NY’s Comedy at the Carlson from Nov. 9-11.And if you’re wondering if the 69-year-old comic and “Weeds” star still has chops, this Instagram clip where he riffs on “what one can do in Springfield, MO” proves that, yeah, he does.Want to go to a show?As of now, tickets are available for all upcoming headlining spots on Nealon’s 2023-24 calendar.Some are quite cheap too.At the time of publication, we spotted seats going for as low as $22 before fees on Vivid Seats.To be fair, that price is a bit of an outlier.

rush of embarrassment.Troye Sivan revealed Wednesday that he once asked Harry Styles to join him in the men’s bathroom shortly after the “Watermelon Sugar” singer won his Grammy Award for Album of the Year. “We meet for the first time. I feel like I know him because he’s Harry Styles or whatever,” said Sivan, 28, while appearing on the British radio show “KISS Breakfast.““I’m like super, super chill, and he walks up to a conversation that I was already kind of, like, having, and I just said to the other people, ‘I’m just going to go and make a wee,'” continued the singer.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “The Walking Dead” spinoff centered on Rick and Michonne revealed a host of new information at New York Comic Con on Thursday The show, officially titled “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live,” will debut in February 2024 according to a new teaser trailer that can be seen below. New first look photos have also been released, which can likewise be seen below. Finally, multiple cast members have been confirmed.

If only they’d been honest from the get-go, she never would’ve had to deal with this! Just sayin’…

Jodie Turner-Smith walked away from her marriage to Joshua Jackson because she didn’t want to “settle”! Ooh, that’s a real punch in the gut…

Jeff Dye was arrested over the weekend!

The reunion for Teen Mom: The Next Chapter got super heavy. As you may know, much of Season 2 of the

Cardi B is being showered with love on her 31st birthday, and it’s a fitting celebration for a queen. The Grammy-winning rapper, known for her larger-than-life personality and chart-topping hits, shared the extravagant and romantic surprises her husband, Offset, arranged for her special day.

Emily Longeretta SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “No Man Left Behind,” the Oct. 11 episode of “Survivor,” now streaming on Paramount+. “That’s such a great name. That’s so ironic!” That’s how my Thursday morning conversation with Sabiyah Broderick, the latest “Survivor” castaway to be voted off the island, began.

SAG-AFTRA headquarters Thursday, continuing to negotiate a new contract with the heads of four major studios. But on Wednesday evening, he got a call from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers informing him that the talks were off. “I was taken completely by surprise,” said Crabtree-Ireland, the chief negotiator for the actors union.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Sarah Silverman and Leslie Jones will each get another crack at guest-hosting Comedy Central‘s “Daily Show” as the network continues a protracted search for a replacement for Trevor Noah behind the desk of the venerable late-night mainstay. Executives at the network intend to put the program back into production starting Monday, October 16, and will continue to rely on guests as they have since Noah departed late last year. Like other late-night shows, “Daily” has been dark for weeks, owing to the Hollywood writers’ strike.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director With “Moonlighting” now available on streaming for the first time thanks to Hulu, series creator Glenn Gordon Caron spoke to the New York Post and confirmed he was able to tell series star Bruce Willis about the show’s streaming resurgence amid the actor’s ongoing frontotemporal dementia (FTP) diagnosis. “Moonlighting,” the Emmy-nominated ABC dramedy that ran for five seasons and 67 episodes in the late 1980s, served as Willis’ acting breakthrough.

While walking the picket line Thursday outside of Netflix, SAG-AFTRA‘s Duncan Crabtree-Ireland expressed his frustration over the suspension in talks the studios called last night.

Based on a True Story is returning for another go-round. Peacock has renewed the dark comedic thriller series starring Kaley Cuoco and Chris Messina for a second season.

“Politics is poisonous – even in making movies.”

“Here’s the funny thing, I was talking to a director a few months ago, and I mentioned that I was I’ve been reading and thinking about King Lear, says Sir Patrick Stewart of his possible future career plans “And he said, Yes, yes, of course. But, you know, Patrick, you’re a little too old. Okay. Well, that was something of a shock.”

Fox continues to cook up competition amongst pint-sized chefs.

A letter signed by more than 700 members of the Hollywood community is calling for the release of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas as part of their attacks on Israel.

The Daily Show is back with another group of guest hosts, some more familiar to the show than others.

For the last two days, Whoopi Goldberg has been absent from her moderator seat on The View, with co-host Joy Behar repeatedly teasing a revelation on Monday, Oct. 16, of just where in the world Goldberg is, and what’s she doing there?

EastEnders viewers have been left fuming as they dub Sharon's recent storyline 'pointless' as she considers moving away from Albert Square. Recent episodes have seen Sharon consider moving to Abu Dhabi after receiving a job offer, however viewers have been quick to point out that she has been seen on the Square in the Christmas flash-forwards.

Emmerdale viewers are convinced they've spotted a twist in the Lydia Dingle (played by Karen Blick) and Craig (Ben Addis) rape storyline as Super Soap week continues its dramatic scenes. While Sam Dingle (James Hooton) and Mandy Dingle (Lisa Riley) are firmly on Lydia's side and told her they believe that Craig assaulted her, and are heartbroken over her plight, Samson is yet to hear the truth. Fans already know that the evil Craig has been working hard to get teenager Samson on his side, making friends with him and giving him advice during work experience at the tech company he runs.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large A lot can happen in 146 days. When the Writers Guild strike started in May, Drew Barrymore was one of its early folk heroes, when she stepped down as host of the MTV Movie & TV Awards in solidarity. But four months later, Barrymore became one of the strike’s most reviled public figures when she tried to rationalize the decision to bring back her daytime talk show in the midst of a work stoppage.

In the 22nd week of his Deadline podcast Strike Talk, Billy Ray sits with WGA Negotiating Committee co-chairs David Goodman and Chris Keyser to learn what happened inside the room during the negotiations and what gains were made in the deal struck Sunday with the AMPTP.

EXCLUSIVE: (Updated with SAG-AFTRA statement) As the WGA leadership and members move forward on the scribes’ tentative agreement with the studios and streamers, the 160,000-strong actors union could be sitting down with the AMPTP within days.

Larry Wilmore says “finally.” Greg Grunberg says “Mazel tov! Writers Strike Deal!!!”

The ongoing talks between the WGA and the AMPTP continued to look promising through the weekend, but the writers couldn’t help but have fun with the studios’ claim that they made their “best and final offer.”

EXCLUSIVE: The roller coaster ride of the Writers Guild and the Hollywood studios trying to seal a deal to end the writers’ nearly 5-month-long strike isn’t over yet.

The Writers Guild brass and studios CEOs were working tonight to close a deal to end the scribes’ strike , but it seems they aren’t quite there yet.

EXCLUSIVE: A second day of direct negotiations between the Writers Guild and studio CEOs has concluded this evening.

EXCLUSIVE: The Writers Guild and studios and streamers are set to meet again tomorrow for further talks on a new contract for scribes.