Ken Jennings Crosses Picket Line To Host ‘Jeopardy!’ As Mayim Bialik Stands With WGA Strikers

Naman Ramachandran India’s Rajshri Deshpande, star of Rotterdam winner “Sexy Durga” and hit Netflix series “Trial by Fire,” headlines “Privacy,” the first teaser for which has been unveiled. The film will have its world premiere at Korea’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan). “Privacy” is a voyeuristic social thriller set in and around the slums of Mumbai. It follows Roopali (Deshpande), who works at the Mumbai surveillance command and control center as an operator. While being ambitious, she constantly fights her own guilt and resists her dark past. Things start to get complicated when Roopali ignores protocol and begins to investigate a robbery and murder that takes place on her watch. The film takes the neo-noir approach to explore themes of mental health, voyeurism and access to information.

A thug who punched his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach and hit his own baby has walked free from court with an order to work on his drinking problem. Mark Bond drunkenly attacked his expectant partner before assaulting her again shortly after she gave birth.

Page-turning pupils at a Lanarkshire school designed their own colourful characters for a book that was launched in a Glasgow store.

Youth, a K-drama series set in the BTS Universe, has been released.South Korean production company Chorokbaem Media has released the first trailer for its upcoming K-drama series Youth, which was produced in collaboration with BTS’ label HYBE Corporation.The series is set in the BTS Universe, which was first introduced in the boyband’s music videos for their 2015 ‘The Most Beautiful Moment in Life’ albums, and further developed in several later music videos and the 2016 Naver webtoon series Save Me.Youth revolves around a group of seven friends tied together by fate, each with their own secrets and struggles. The characters’ personalities are loosely based upon the members of BTS and their friendship, though their backgrounds and the plot of the series are fictional.The new trailer showcases the friendship between the seven, who live in a cramped apartment, but are content together.

It’s Wednesday, and your daily forecast can help you embrace the day with a spring in your step - so, what lies in store for you? There are 12 zodiac signs - Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces - and the horoscopes for each can give you the lowdown on what your future holds, be it in work, your love life, your friends and family or more. These daily forecasts have been compiled by astrologer Russell Grant, who has been reading star signs for over 50 years. From Aries through to Pisces, here's what today could bring for your horoscope - and what you can do to be prepared.

A Lanarkshire joiner has been jailed for 16 months for sexual and physical assaults on a woman.

SEVENTEEN are set to re-release several of their older out-of-print albums later this month.SEVENTEEN’s agency Pledis Entertainment, a subsidiary of entertainment giant HYBE, has announced that eight of the boyband’s older albums, originally released from 2015 to 2018 are set to be re-released later this month.The albums are: 2015’s ’17 Carat’ and ‘Boys Be’, 2016’s ‘First ‘Love & Letter”, ‘Love & Letter Repackaged Album’ and ‘Going Seventeen’, 2017’s ‘Al1’ and ‘Teen, Age’, and 2018’s ‘Director’s Cut’. The re-releases also includes the various versions of each album, and also look to include the original photobooks, photocards and more.Pre-orders for the upcoming re-releases will begin today (June 7) at 5pm KST via the Weverse app.

The King arrived in Romania last week for a private visit and a break from official engagements almost a month after his Coronation took place.The monarch is regular visitor to the country and is incredibly popular with the locals. As well as enjoying a strong relationship, he has a number of unique properties in the country’s Transylvanian region. His Majesty on holiday alone as Queen Camilla is thought to be enjoying some downtime at her home in Wiltshire.

Ben Affleck is getting ready for a meeting.

Midwest Concert Collection on YouTube). Swift was trying to introduce her new piano player, Karina DePiano, when the pesky insect somehow made its way into the pop star’s mouth. “I swallowed a bug,” she confessed as she turned back to the crowd after a long pause. “I’m so sorry.

Rumer Willis is opening up about her own unique experience with giving birth to her baby girl, Louetta Isley Thomas Willis.The 34-year-old actress recently sat down for a lengthy interview with the podcast, and recalled her journey giving birth at home with help from her doula back on April 18.Surrounded by her boyfriend, Derek Thomas, her mom, Demi Moore, and her sisters — Tallulah and Scout Willis — Rumer explained that everything was going according to the birthing plan, but labor came on hard and fast, and she «dilated from two to eight inches in about an hour.»This meant she quickly had to move into a bathtub to begin pushing, but her doula realized that her water was still intact.«She was checking me and felt my water bag bulging, but still not popping, which was wild,» Rumer recalled. «So, I was like, 'Well, should we break it?' She goes, 'Well, can.' I'm like, 'What?!' I was like, 'Are you serious?'»Serious indeed, Rumer decided to take matters into her own hands. «I reached my finger up there, and I'm feeling and it was crazy,» she shared.

Morgan Wallen is sharing an update with his fans.

Kaley Cuoco is addressing the possibility of having more kids.

Tim Chan If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. The Kardashians have never been afraid to throw shade (or throw punches) at each other, but Kim Kardashian is taking her shirt-talking to a whole new level with a fashionable dig at sister Kendall Jenner. Kardashian has been seen sporting a “Kendall’s Starting Five” T-shirt, which pokes fun at Jenner and her NBA exes. Kardashian was pictured in the fan-made shirt in a trailer for season three of The Kardashians’ reality show, and recently wore it in a TikTok video with daughter North West. Now, fans can get their hands on the viral T-shirt themselves. The “Kendall Starting Five” shirt is currently available on a number of sites online, including Teepublic. The T-shirt features an image of Jenner surrounded by her five basketball player ex-boyfriends: Blake Griffin, Ben Simmons, Jordan Clarkson, Kyle Kuzma and most recently, Devin Booker.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor The Directors Guild of America’s national board of directors has unanimously approved the tentative agreement reached by the guild’s negotiating committee late Saturday, a deal that aims to set parameters around the use of artificial intelligence and boost streaming residual rates. With the board’s approval, the contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will be sent to a ratification vote by DGA membership. The guild expects to send materials to its members this week. “We set out to negotiate a contract that would build for the future. This is a significant deal with gains for every Director, Assistant Director, Unit Production Manager, Associate Director and Stage Manager,” said DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter. “Our industry is rapidly changing and expanding, and this agreement is what we need to adapt to those changes, break new ground and protect the DGA’s 19,000 directors and directorial team members today, and in the years to come. Along with the rest of the DGA National Board, I am proud to enthusiastically recommend this tentative agreement to our members for ratification. Together, we will secure the future we deserve.”

A former rail boss has spoken out against scrapping plans to build two new platforms at Manchester Piccadilly. The plans for platforms 15 and 16 date back more than a decade and have been waiting to be signed off since 2015.

A cause cannot be found for the tragic death of a baby girl at just 16-days-old, an inquest has heard.

A Greater Manchester Police PCSO is accused of exchanging confidential information for a sexual favour from a woman he met on the beat, a court has heard.

If you grew up in Greater Manchester, there's a good chance you will have memories of being packed off to Center Parcs for a family holiday.

In 2000, Shaggy released “It Wasn’t Me,” the Jamaican artist’s biggest to date. The song, which depicted a conversation between Shaggy and RikRok about the latter cheating on his girlfriend, reached number one on charts all across the globe.

BabyTron's new surprise album is supposed to feel personal. The Detroit rapper rose to prominence giving detailed instructions for various internet scams from behind a cartoon illustration of himself.

on the tweet, as of this writing the first episode of “Tucker on Twitter” has been viewed at least 29 million times. Which is indeed a far larger number of people than the roughly 3 million, on average, who tuned in nightly when Carlson was still employed by Fox. But not so fast: Twitter’s measurements of actual engagement — retweets and quote tweets, likes, replies and bookmarks, tell much different, and far less impressive story.

a statement on his website released Tuesday. He was 73.“George quietly and painlessly left this world while asleep,” the statement read. Winston had been dealing with Myelodysplastic Syndrome, a cancer for which he had a bone marrow transplant a decade ago that prolonged his life.

Morgan Wallen is ready to return to the stage after a medically advised hiatus from performing.The «Thought You Should Know» singer took to his Instagram stories on Tuesday to share some good news about his health.Posting a photo of himself sitting on the back of his boat, in front of a collection of fishing poles, the country crooner wrote, «Also, the doc cleared me to talk and since… we back.»The country star announced on May 9 that he would have to reschedule six weeks worth of shows after reinjuring his vocal cords during three recent shows. Wallen took to his Instagram account to share the devastating news.«I got some bad news from my doctors at the Vanderbilt Voice Center yesterday,» he said in a video.

Figures from rival networks have also jumped in to share their words of support, with Kochie himself revealing he "adored" the “wonderful, classy, respectful one from Karl Stefanovic".

White, 66, competed against “Jeopardy!” hosts Jennings, 48, and Bialik, 47, on Wednesday’s episode of “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune.”White earned a total of $2,000, which was later bumped to the show’s $30,000 minimum, raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.She guessed letters that had already been called, exclaiming, “That’s been called?!”“What?! Oh my gosh! I’m terrible at this game!” she said.But the hosts of “Jeopardy!” were a good match for their rival game show, with Bialik winning the first round and Jennings taking the second.Neither of them solved the bonus round, but they each won over $60,000 dollars for their charities.

pronouncing the name correctly. The flub caused a commotion on Twitter from fans who slammed the show for ruling against each player’s answer. “If you’re not going to accept anyone’s attempt to pronounce Solzhenitsyn, don’t write a clue about him,” one said.“Solzhenitsyn.

Mayim Bialik is ending her hosting run a bit early for the current season of Jeopardy!.

ongoing Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, according to Deadline.Ken Jennings is set to take on hosting duties in her place, according to the outlet, and they will finish out filming for the season at the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, California, wrapping on Friday, May 19.The show is produced by Sony Pictures Television. The Post reached out to Bialik and Sony for further comment.On May 2, the WGA announced that members were going on strike in an effort to petition for higher wages, a better pay structure to include streaming services, and regulation around article intelligence.The WGA is made up of an alliance of two labor unions that represent more than 11,000 writers in the entertainment industry, according to “Today.”As a result, popular shows like “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” have shut down production.

“Jeopardy!” has officially become the first game show to be affected by the WGA strike, and it’s all thanks to host Mayim Bialik. TheWrap has learned that the actor has stepped away from the iconic series during its last week of filming so that she can stand in solidarity with the WGA strike.Ken Jennings — the well-known “Jeopardy!” contestant turned host — will be taking over Bialik’s hosting duties. The final episodes of Season 39 will be filmed between Tuesday, May 16 and Friday, May 19.

EXCLUSIVE: Jeopardy! has become one of the first game shows to be impacted by the writers strike.

The next generation of "Wheel of Fortune" kids momentarily took over for the beloved game show Wednesday night. On the "Wheel of Fortune" social media page, Pat Sajak’s daughter Maggie interviewed Vanna White’s son Nikko in a segment titled, "The Spin with Maggie Sajak." The two reminisced on old memories of growing up together while being in the spotlight as the "Wheel of Fortune" hosts’ children. "We have known each other my whole life," Maggie began.  "It’s been a long time," Nikko responded.  Maggie reflected on funny moments the two had together, as she admitted her mother "dug" a memorable video of Nikko.

Final Jeopardy!” segment, Holzhauer was in the lead and the clue read: “Opened in 1909 & less famous than an older neighbor, it connects Brooklyn & Chinatown.”Once the first two contestants scribed their responses, Jennings stated that Holzhauer had already begun to write down his answer while the former was still reading the hint.“What bridge did he think of?” Jennings wondered.Holzhauer didn’t write down his reply to the question, however, he did pen the statement: “Stop ducking a rematch, Ken.”The trivia show emcee couldn’t help but burst into laughter and shot back: “You know how much work I had to go to to get all the way over here at this lectern and avoid having to play you again, James?”Holzhauer then referenced the “ducking” bit of his remark, noting: “This is autocorrected, by the way.”Holzhauer and the Washington native are both big champs of the long-running game show, having gone head-to-head in the ABC series’ “Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time” tournament back in January 2020. Jennings had emerged victorious by winning three games, with Holzhauer scoring one match.

"Wheel of Fortune" host Pat Sajak is the proud father of his daughter Maggie Sajak. During an emotional moment, the longtime television host introduced Maggie, on the beloved game show as she prepares to temporarily step into Vanna White’s co-hosting shoes. "Please welcome my daughter Maggie Sajak," Pat said, holding back tears.  "I think I’m going to cry," Pat candidly announced.  "Me, too!" his daughter responded.

Keeping it in the family! Pat Sajak’s daughter, Maggie Sajak, is gearing up to make her Wheel of Fortune hosting debut.

"Wheel of Fortune" host Pat Sajak's daughter is getting ready to temporarily step into Vanna White's co-hosting shoes. On Monday, Maggie Sajak took to her Instagram story to share that she is filling in for White on Wednesday's episode of "Celebrity Wheel of Fortune." "Warming up for Wednesday," Maggie captioned a boomerang of herself walking in front of the famous game show board.