Posts by Nathan Pine
Five Standout Claims In ABC’s First Amendment Lawsuit Against The FCC
ABC has been pushing back on FCC for several months now, but on Tuesday, it filed a First Amendment lawsuit, claiming that the agency’s regulatory actions and investigations were part of a Trump administration effort to punish it for its speech. The lawsuit goes through a narrative of Donald Trump‘s attacks on the network, including…
Read MoreScreen Australia Report Points To Fight For Attention Facing Producers
Australia‘s content makers have a fight on their hands to keep the attention of the country’s viewers, new research has shown. A Screen Australia report, Screen Currency 2026, found that while 85% of Australians say access to local content is important, and 75% want more, 60% spend less than 30% of their viewing time on…
Read MoreGold holds losses as bond sell-off, Hormuz limbo weigh on outlook
This snapped a two-day rise as a bond rout lifted yields and the US dollar – twin headwinds for the precious metal Published Wed, Aug 19, 2026 · 08:55 AM [SINGPAORE] Gold steadied on Wednesday (Aug 19) after a bond rout and deadlock in the Strait of Hormuz snapped a nascent uptrend. Bullion was trading…
Read MoreHulu Pilot ‘Chicks’ Casts 3 Lead Roles; Max Winkler To Direct & EP
EXCLUSIVE: Jason Schmidt (Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies), Julia Lester (The Four Seasons), and Piper Runge have joined the main cast of the Hulu pilot Chicks, starring Ellen Pompeo and Jodie Whittaker. Additionally, Max Winkler joins the series as director and executive producer of the pilot. Winkler has directed and executive produced a slew of TV…
Read MoreEverything We Know About Marvel’s Upcoming ‘X-Men’ Movie So Far
Since Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox in 2019, the clamor for a new X-Men movie has been loud, and Marvel inches closer every day to delivery on their latest installment in a growing universe. With several actors and actresses reprising their X-Men roles in Avengers: Doomsday out in December, ties to their characters in…
Read MoreUOB prices US$1.4 billion floating rate covered bonds due 2030
[SINGAPORE] UOB on Wednesday (Aug 19) said that it has priced £1 billion (US$1.4 billion) floating rate covered bonds due February 2030. The issue date of the covered bonds is expected to be Aug 25. An application will be made to the Singapore Exchange for the listing and quotation. The covered bonds will bear interest…
Read MoreEverything We Know About ‘Only Murders In The Building’ Season 6 So Far
Another Arconia murder mystery has come and gone, but another dead body was found on the premises, though it could be argued that the murder was not in the building. The newest case will take the crew overseas, which Deadline first reported. Fresh on the heels of Season 5’s finale, the series was renewed for…
Read More‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ Sally Field On Octopuses & Anger
Until recently, an octopus was not the most obvious choice to co-star with Sally Field. Looking at her career thus far, one might immediately think of her alongside Julia Roberts and Shirley MacLaine in Steel Magnolias, or those Oscar-winning turns opposite Beau Bridges in Norma Rae and with John Malkovich, Danny Glover and Ed Harris…
Read MoreEverybody Loves Raymond’s Patricia Heaton Reveals Moment She Felt “Mortified” Enough to Quit Drinking
In October 2018, the American Pie star announced he was one year sober in a celebratory and encouraging Instagram post. “I first tried to get sober over 5 years ago, when the weight of my obsession with booze and drugs became too heavy for me to handle,” he wrote at the time. “Turns out this s–t…
Read MoreChris Evans Reveals Most “Unexpected” Part of Being Dad to Baby Girl With Wife Alba Baptista
Chris Evans Reveals Most “Unexpected” Part of Being Dad to Baby Girl With Wife Alba Baptista Chris Evans isn’t invincible anymore. Nearly one year after he and his wife Alba Baptista welcomed their daughter Alma Grace, the Marvel star reflected on the “unexpected” part of being dad to his baby girl. “It sounds a little…
Read MoreUS securities regulator proposes long-awaited crypto rules
The proposal would allow a one-time exemption for crypto companies to issue up to US$5 million in crypto tokens during a four-year period Published Wed, Aug 19, 2026 · 07:06 AM [WASHINGTON] The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday (Aug 18) proposed a new regulatory framework for crypto assets, the first major step under US President Donald Trump’s administration to…
Read MoreLeslie Grossman Joins ‘Power: Origins,’ Reprising The Role Of Flossie
EXCLUSIVE: If Queen Flossie left you wanting more on Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Leslie Grossman will be back to reprise the role in the new prequel Power: Origins. Grossman will recur in the new prequel series, which picks up after the events of the Raising Kanan series finale. When we last saw Florence “Flossie”…
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