Author: Lynn Elber
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Something for everyone – even Jon Hamm? – at Emmy Awards
LOS ANGELES – If we look to television for more than entertainment – and let’s face it, we do – then Sunday’s Emmy Awards ceremony will have something for everyone. The masterful storytelling of television’s second golden age will be center stage, with leading contenders including “Game of Thrones,” “Orange is the New Black” and…
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‘Shark Week’ returns for 28th year with first Cuban visit
LOS ANGELES – Sharks are serious business this summer, with “Sharknado”-style flippancy a barely heard echo following grisly attacks on beachgoers off the Florida, California and North and South Carolina coasts. Seriousness also marks the tone of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week which, after veering off course with programs that lopsidedly favored thrills over information, aims…
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Leonard Nimoy, famous as Mr. Spock on ‘Star Trek,’ dies
LOS ANGELES — Leonard Nimoy, the actor known and loved by generations of “Star Trek” fans as the pointy-eared, purely logical science officer Mr. Spock, has died. Nimoy died Friday of end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at his Los Angeles home, said his son, Adam Nimoy. He was 83. Although Nimoy followed his 1966-69 “Star…
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‘Brady Brunch’ actress Ann B. Davis dies in Texas
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Emmy-winning actress Ann B. Davis, who became the country’s favorite and most famous housekeeper as the devoted Alice Nelson of “The Brady Bunch,” died Sunday at a San Antonio hospital. She was 88. Bexar County, Texas, medical examiner’s investigator Sara Horne said Davis died Sunday morning at University Hospital. Horne said no cause of death…
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Shirley Jones offers naked truth in new book
Shirley Jones opens the door to her house and appears every inch the ladylike Marian the librarian or sweet farm girl Laurey or cheerfully steady Mrs. Partridge, offering a warm smile and handshake. Her elegant, modestly high-necked jacket is black, her makeup is discreet and her silver hair tidy. Jones’ living room has the sort…
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Online series ‘House of Cards’ makes Emmy history
Netflix’s “House of Cards” made Emmy history Thursday with a top drama series nomination, the first time that television’s leading awards have recognized a program delivered online as equal in quality to the best that TV has to offer. The nomination, one of nine nods earned by the political thriller, is a marker in the…
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McDonald’s asks, TV with that? New channel on menu
LOS ANGELES — The question of the moment at 700 pioneering McDonald’s restaurants: You want TV with those fries? Not just any television, but the custom-made M Channel, formulated and tested with the same attention to detail that made Big Macs and Chicken McNuggets cultural icons. The channel’s aim is to offer exclusive content to…
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Mariah Carey becomes ‘American Idol’s’ newest judge
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Fox says Mariah Carey is joining “American Idol” as a new judge. Fox entertainment chief Kevin Reilly announced her signing to a meeting of the Television Critics Association on Monday, and then…
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Mariah Carey becomes ‘American Idol’s’ newest judge
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Fox says Mariah Carey is joining “American Idol” as a new judge. Fox entertainment chief Kevin Reilly announced her signing to a meeting of the Television Critics Association on Monday, and…
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‘Mad Men,’ ‘American Horror Story’ lead Emmy nods
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Mad Men,” a piercingly bleak portrait of a 1960s American anti-hero, earned a leading 17 Emmy nominations Thursday and the chance to set a new record as the most-honored drama in television history. “Mad Men,” which has won four best drama series trophies and is tied with “Hill Street Blues,” ”L.A.…