YouTuber Adam Mockler Launches Political Debate Show

YouTuber Adam Mockler Launches Political Debate Show

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Mockler, the Gen-Z political commentator who flustered CNN contributor Scott Jennings in a moment that went wildly viral, is getting further into the political debate arena. The creator, who has over 2M subscribers on YouTube, is launching The Adam Mockler Debate Show, a long-form debate series. The series will feature “honest conversation between…

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Chiara Atik Signs With CAA (EXCLUSIVE)

Chiara Atik Signs With CAA (EXCLUSIVE)

EXCLUSIVE: Chiara Atik has inked with CAA. A playwright and screenwriter, Atik’s most recent script The Helga Pictures, based on the true story of painter Andrew Wyeth and a scandal that rocked the art world, will be produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov at Smokehouse Pictures. Atik is also the writer of Fairy Godmother, a contemporary romantic…

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Latin Immigrants’ Representation On TV Continues To Face Sharp Decline, New Study Reveals

Latin Immigrants’ Representation On TV Continues To Face Sharp Decline, New Study Reveals

Latin immigrant representation on television continues on a downward spiral, a new study revealed. Define America, in partnership with the University of Southern California’s Norman Lear Center, just posted its fourth comprehensive study tracking immigrant representation on TV, and the results are not positive. Despite immigrants from Latin America making up 45% of the actual…

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Geena Davis Game For Doing Sequel To ‘The Long Kiss Goodnight’

Geena Davis Game For Doing Sequel To ‘The Long Kiss Goodnight’

Samuel L. Jackson has long said his favorite movie he’s starred in is the 1996 action-thriller The Long Kiss Goodnight. Turns out his co-star Geena Davis feels likewise. “It’s my favorite too,” Davis tells Deadline. “I’m supposed to say Thelma & Louise because that movie is irreplaceable, but I have to say, I had so…

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BBC to cut 550 jobs in cost-saving drive

BBC to cut 550 jobs in cost-saving drive

Published Wed, Jun 17, 2026 · 10:15 PM [LONDON] The BBC, Britain’s public service broadcaster, will cut 550 jobs and close some programmes as part of cost-saving plans under its new director-general, the Telegraph reported on Wednesday (Jun 17), adding that channels and radio networks were also under review. The report said that staff would…

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Walter Parazaider Dead: Founding Member Of Rock Band Chicago Was 81

Walter Parazaider Dead: Founding Member Of Rock Band Chicago Was 81

Walter Parazaider, a founding member of the jazz-rock band Chicago whose saxophone provided the punch of “Just You ‘n’ Me” while his flute solo on “Colour My World” lent that song its romantic poignance, died of complications from Alzheimers disease died this morning, June 17, while in hospice care. He was 81. His death was…

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Uma Thurman’s Dad Robert Thurman Dead at 84

Uma Thurman’s Dad Robert Thurman Dead at 84

The Thurman family is mourning a loss. Uma Thurman‘s dad Robert Thurman—one of the most prominent Tibetan Buddhist experts in the United States—died June 16 at age 84, his nonprofit Tibet House US confirmed. “We are deeply saddened to announce that Robert A.F. Thurman,” the organization wrote in a June 16 statement on Instagram, “prominent…

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BBC News Cancels Shows Like ‘The World Tonight’ Amid “Grim” Cuts

BBC News Cancels Shows Like ‘The World Tonight’ Amid “Grim” Cuts

BBC News has announced a detailed package of content cuts after director-general Matt Brittin warned earlier on Wednesday that savings measures would involve “tough choices.” In an email to the newsroom, acting BBC News CEO Jonathan Munro told journalists that shows including Radio 4’s The World Tonight, a 56-year-old institution, are going to be canceled.…

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Matthew Celestial & Brittany Bell Launch Advisory Firm Rhetor Network

Matthew Celestial & Brittany Bell Launch Advisory Firm Rhetor Network

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian industry veterans veterans Matthew Celestial and Brittany Bell have joined forces for a Toronto-based advisory, Rhetor Network. The company will advise organizations in the entertainment, technology, consumer products, media and corporate sectors, offering a diet of strategic communications, reputation management, audience development, business strategy, commercialization and operational execution. Specifically, the business will be…

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