Stephen Battaglio – Page 9

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

50 years before Sunday’s ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘The Fugitive’ set a precedent for big series finales

June 2, 2018 at 6:54 p.m.

Fifty years ago, "The Fugitive" stopped running. The end of the pursuit also gave TV its first lesson in figuring out how to say goodbye. The ABC series starring David...

A security guard looks out of the News Corp. headquarters in Midtown Manhattan in April.

Former Fox News executive files $48-million lawsuit over sexual assault scandal

August 22, 2019 at 12:15 a.m.

A former Fox News executive fired after he was accused of sexually assaulting a female on-air commentator is suing parent company 21st Century Fox for going public with the matter....

Alfonso Ribeiro, an actor and "Dancing with the Stars" Season 19 champion, is the host of ABC's "America's Funniest Home Videos."

Even in the age of YouTube, ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’ is still an ABC hit

December 17, 2018 at 4:56 p.m.

After Megyn Kelly's NBC News interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones generated a week of publicity-drawing controversy, radio host Howard Stern poked fun at the program's modest ratings. "She got...

Fox lawyers are reviewing sexual harassment allegations against business news host Charles Payne, left.

Fox suspends business news host Charles Payne amid sexual harassment allegations

August 22, 2019 at 12:02 a.m.

Fox Business Network host Charles Payne has been suspended while 21st Century Fox investigates sexual harassment allegations made against him, the company confirmed Wednesday night. Payne's suspension was announced by...

AMC tests an ad-free channel on Comcast for viewers who hate commercials

June 3, 2018 at 11:34 a.m.

Advertising-supported TV is taking another step to becoming "The Walking Dead." AMC Networks Inc., the cable programming company that is home to the zombie apocalypse drama, on Thursday became the...

Megyn Kelly on the set of her NBC News prime-time magazine "Sunday Night."

Megyn Kelly and NBC News take the gloves off in Alex Jones interview — and now he’s angry

August 21, 2019 at 11:48 p.m.

Megyn Kelly presented a highly critical 19-minute piece on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on her NBC newsmagazine "Sunday Night" after a week of harsh criticism over the decision to present...

A grown-up Christopher Robin returns to the Hundred Acre Wood and his best friend Winnie the Pooh.
<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/sc-mov-christopher-robin-rev-0802-story.html" target="_blank">Read the review.</a>

Sandy Hook families threaten legal action against NBC over Alex Jones-Megyn Kelly interview

December 17, 2018 at 5:00 p.m.

Several of the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have threatened legal action against NBC if it airs Megyn Kelly's interview with conspiracy theorist Alex...

Cast members of the ABC hit sitcom "Roseanne" which will be back with its original cast in the 2017-18 TV season.

Why ‘Roseanne’ and ‘Will & Grace’ are returning: TV networks playing it safe in a risky market

March 28, 2019 at 11:02 a.m.

Network television wants to be America's security blanket. That was the underlying message in this week's advertiser upfront sales presentations during which TV networks are vying for more than $18...

The CW's "Supergirl" was among the series promoted at the upfront marketplace in New York last year.

How the big TV networks are adapting to ad-skipping viewers … and Google, Snapchat and Facebook

April 7, 2019 at 1:15 a.m.

It's the television industry's biggest week of the year. Thousands of advertisers on Monday will descend on New York City's most prestigious venues — Radio City Music Hall, Lincoln Center...

Fox News co-president Bill Shine, right, leaves a New York restaurant with Rupert Murdoch, second from right, on April 24, 2017.

Fox News co-president Bill Shine resigns amid criticism of his handling of sexual harassment claims

August 21, 2019 at 11:11 p.m.

Bill Shine, the embattled co-president of Fox News who faced mounting criticism over his handling of sexual harassment claims against former chief executive Roger Ailes and recently fired host Bill...

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