NBC/Andrew Lipovsky(NEW YORK) -- On the heels of his two Emmy nominations last week, Alec Baldwin has been tapped to play Col. Nathan Jessep in NBC’s live adaptation of Aaron Sorkin’s 1989 Broadway hit-turned Oscar winning movie A Few Good Men. “Alec is one of our greatest actors. Having him play this role — live onstage for a television audience — is a dream come true,” says Sorkin. “This will be a brand new […]
Greg Williams(LOS ANGELES) -- Fresh off his Game of Thrones cameo this Sunday, Ed Sheeran is guest-starring on another beloved TV show. Entertainment Weekly reports the singer will be getting animated on an upcoming episode of The Simpsons. Ed will be playing a character named Brendan in the musical-themed episode, “Haw-Haw Land.” He’s a musician similar to Ryan Gosling’s character in La La Land, and Lisa develops a little crush […]
ABC/Rodrigo Varela(LOS ANGELES) -- It's down to the final four on The Bachelorette, and this week was even more special because Rachel Lindsay got to head home with each guy -- Bryan, Peter, Eric, and Dean -- and get judged by their family and friends. Eric Our leading lady heads to Baltimore first to visit Eric. And Lindsay discovered exactly why he's never brought a home girl before -- apparently it's because Eric […]
HBO/Helen Sloan(NEW YORK) --Game of Thrones' highly anticipated seventh season premiere was the biggest in HBO history for any of its series. The fantasy drama -- starring Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harrington, Sophie Turner Maisie Williams and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau -- attracted more 16.1 million viewers across all of its platforms -- including repeats, streaming and DVR, representing a 50 percent increase from last season’s opener. The season-seven premiere also nabbed the highest number of concurrent viewers […]
iStock/Thinkstock(MINNEAPOLIS) -- Minnesota state officials released on Tuesday night the identities of two Minneapolis Police Department officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 40-year-old Australian woman who called 911 on Saturday.Matthew Harrity, who has been with the Minneapolis Police Department for one year, and Mohamed Noor, who has been with the department for 21 months, were the responding officers to the scene after Justine Maia Ruszczyk called 911 to […]
Brandon West(PHOENIX) -- An eyewitness who captured video of the powerful flash flood that killed nine people this weekend in Arizona questioned during the ordeal whether he would even survive to talk about it."You make the wrong step and you get sucked under. You just pray you make the right decision," Brandon West of Chandler, Arizona, told ABC Phoenix affiliate KNXV-TV.West, 36, a friend and his dog named Lucky were […]
ABCNews.com(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) -- A North Carolina state trooper has been placed on administrative duty after he was captured on video appearing to race down a highway into oncoming traffic on Sunday night.Sergeant Michael Baker of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety told ABC News in an email that "Trooper T.J. Williamson was placed on administrative duty pending an internal investigation by the State Highway Patrol" on Monday.ABC affiliate WSOC-TV […]
ABCNews.com(DALLAS) -- A bolt of lightning has left Anthony Rubalcava familiar with three words that rhyme: struck, truck and luck.The Texas man was sitting in his Ford F-250 Lariat on Saturday when lightning hit the vehicle’s antenna and caused a small fire, scorching the passenger side.“I guess in a way I feel blessed that it didn’t hit my side because I might not be standing here right now,” Rubalcava told […]
Lisa DeJong/The Plain Dealer via Barcroft(WILLARD, Ohio) -- An Ohio father of four bid an emotional farewell to his family Tuesday morning before returning to Mexico.Jesus Lara Lopez, who formerly worked at Pepperidge Farm in Willard, Ohio, was seen off by family and about a dozen supporters at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Tuesday morning, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.Photographs taken at the airport before his flight show Lopez embracing […]
