Month: July 2021

CBS Evening News executive producer Jay Shaylor is exiting amid reorganization of the show's management, sources tell Axios. Why it matters: It's the second major leadership shakeup at the show in the last few years. The program has struggled for years to compete for ratings with evening news at ABC and NBC. Details: The departure was announced abruptly Friday morning on a team call that, Shaylor, formerly an executive producer at CNN. He had been in his role with CBS since late 2019. Sources tell Axios it's part of a wider management shakeup at CBS Evening News. Last week, the network named Alturo Rhymes and Elizabeth Turner co-senior broadcast producers. The big picture: CBS Evening News has been through lots of changes in the past few years. Norah O'Donnell took over as anchor of the...

A South African man suffered horrific injuries after being viciously attacked by a shark while surfing along the country's coastline this week ... and the photos of his wounds are gruesome. It happened on Wednesday in Jeffreys Bay ... when 40-year-old Jason Lammers had a terrifying encounter in the water with a shark. Lammers' surfing buddy, Mark Krieger, tells TMZ Sports the scene was very scary ... saying when he pulled up to the surf spot, Lammers was out of the water and bleeding profusely in a nearby parking lot after being bit. According to the National Sea & Rescue Institute, Lammers suffered wounds to his right leg and torso -- and in photos that Krieger took of the injuries, you can see it all looked pretty dire. The pictures show Lammers had d...

SYFY's Child's Play TV series Chucky has released a new teaser for its upcoming trailer, giving fans the first official look at completed footage from the show. Chucky is a continuation of the Child's Play film series, which kept the franchise alive for years (mostly as home video releases) before Sony rebooted the Child's Play movies in 2019. Now, Child's Play creator Don Mancini has taken his version of the franchise to TV, and fans are thrilled that Chucky will be keeping the original kitsch and charm of the series, with longtime veterans like Brad Dourif (Chucky) and Jennifer Tilly (Tiffany) all returning for the TV adaptation. The official synopsis for the Chucky TV series reads, "After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into...

Ottavia Bourdain and Anthony BourdainPhoto: Jamie McCarthy (Getty Images) Roadrunner, Morgan Neville’s documentary about Anthony Bourdain, features narration by the chef and No Reservations host. While most of that audio was recorded by the actual Bourdain, Neville took on the ethically questionable approach of using stitched-together clips, taken from TV, radio, podcasts, and audiobooks, to create an AI model of Bouradain’s voice to recite emails and text. “If you watch the film, other than [Bourdain reciting an email he sent to his friend David Choe], you probably don’t know what the other lines are that were spoken by the AI and you’re not going to know,” said Neville to The New Yorker’s Helen Rosner in an interview published on Thursday. “We can have a documentary-ethics panel abou...

Jennifer Lopez is house shopping in the tony Los Angeles neighborhood Holmby Hills with what could be up to a $65 million budget — and Ben Affleck is along for the ride. The pair were seen on Thursday leaving a tour of a gated 31,500-square-foot mega mansion, one of at least three potential homes they scouted for Lopez, TMZ reported. Fans hoped the pair were looking for a new love nest, but Affleck, 48, is just being a “good boyfriend” while Lopez, 51, looks for a new home, according to the outlet. The Fendi Casa-furnished eight-bedroom, 12-bathroom home they were confirmed to have visited is extremely unusual, offering a full medical suite with dental offices and an operating room. Jennifer Lopez toured this $65 million mansion with Ben Affleck....

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