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ABC/Ida Mae Astute(NEW YORK) -- On Tuesday, after that day's funeral of George Floyd, Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker took to social media to show her support for the Black Lives Matter movement. In a post of yellow text on a black background, SJP noted on Instagram, "Today Mr. Floyd is laid to rest." She added, "However this historic march toward justice and equality, this unstoppable movement in his name and countless others' is […]

© 2019/Fox Media LLC(LOS ANGELES) -- Long-running animated favorite The Simpsons, Netflix's Stranger Things, and the Emmy Award-winning real-life drama When They See Us are among the winners of this year's Peabody Awards.  Each year, the awards salute, "the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media during 2019."  Cicely Tyson was honored with a Career Achievement Award, an "honor...reserved for individuals whose work and commitment to broadcasting and digital media have left an indelible […]

Mathew Imaging/FilmMagic(LOS ANGELES) -- It’s been a rough month for Days of Our Lives star Judi Evans, who contracted COVID-19 while in the hospital recovering from a serious horseback riding accident. Howie Tiger Simon, a rep for the 55-year-old actress gave an update on her condition in a Facebook post on Monday, reporting she experienced “mild” coronavirus symptoms -- like fever, body aches and a cough -- but ”nearly had both legs amputated on two different […]

Photo: Linda Kallerus/Copyright © 2020 CTMG, Inc. All rights reserved.(LOS ANGELES) -- While COVID-19 caused movie theaters across the world to close their doors and Hollywood to come to a screeching halt, Selena Gomez will be ushering the summer blockbuster movie season next month with The Broken Hearts Gallery. Variety reports that Gomez served as executive producer of the romantic comedy, which is slated to hit theaters  July 10.  That date puts it a full […]

iStock/Evgen_Prozhyrko(LOS ANGELES) -- The Paramount Network announced on Tuesday that it has canceled its long-running reality series Cops after 32 seasons. The move comes in the wake of nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd while in police custody. "Cops is not on the Paramount Network and we don’t have any current or future plans for it to return," a network spokesperson said in a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. The show's 33rd season, […]

Photo by Metro-Goldwin-Mayer Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- In response to a petition made by 12 Years A Slave screenwriter John Ridley, HBO Max has removed Gone With the Wind from its streaming catalogue. The classic 1939 film has long-been criticized for its somewhat romantic reimagination of the antebellum South.  However, Ridley's June 8 op-ed to the Los Angeles Times reinvigorated calls for the film to be removed. "It is a film that, when it is not ignoring the […]

Lars Niki/E! Entertainment/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- It's taken two decades, but Queer Eye's fashion expert Tan France is officially a U.S. citizen. France, who was born and raised in England, announced the news on Instagram, posting photos of himself taking the oath of citizenship. He wrote, "A few minutes ago, I officially became an U.S citizen!! For me, this is monumental. It’s something I’ve been working […]

Sergei Bachlakov/The CW(LOS ANGELES) -- Hartley Sawyer has been fired from CW’s The Flash over a series of racist and misogynistic tweets he posted prior to joining the show, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The tweets, mainly written between 2012 and 2014, make references to sexual assault and contain racist as well as homophobic language. While Sawyer's Twitter account has since been deleted, screenshots of the old posts have circulated online […]

MTV(LOS ANGELES) -- Bad news for those looking forward to the MTV Movie & TV Awards, chances of the award show taking place this year are now slim to none due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The show -- formerly known as the MTV Movie Awards -- was originally set to air later this month. Variety reports that, shortly after announcements came that the date would be pushed back to August 30 at […]