Scarlett Johansson And Colin Jost Are 'Jost Married' After Intimate Wedding

The couple, who got engaged in May 2019, tied the knot after three years of dating.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/scarlett-johansson-colin-jost-married_n_5f9b15dcc5b689d246f87e77?source=Snapzu

MLB To Investigate Justin Turner For Intentionally Exposing Team To Coronavirus

The Dodgers third baseman returned to the field and removed his mask to celebrate the team's World Series win — after testing positive during the game.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/justin-turner-mlb-dodgers-world-series-covid_n_5f99c480c5b6c265d8eff507?source=Snapzu

‘Two Weeks To Live’: Maisie Williams’ Dark British Comedy Heads To HBO Max

HBO Max has acquired British dark comedy Two Weeks To Live, starring Game of Thrones alumna Maisie Williams and Fleabag’s Sian Clifford, which is currently airing on Sky in the UK. The Max Or…
Read more: https://deadline.com/2020/10/two-weeks-to-live-maisie-williams-dark-british-comedy-heads-to-hbo-max-1234604833/?source=Snapzu

Forgot what happened in The Mandalorian’s first season? Disney has you covered

Disney has made a short video to remind us what happened during The Mandalorian’s first season.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/28/21538716/mandalorian-season-1-recap-video-disney-plus-baby-yoda-moff-gideon-premiere-date?source=Snapzu

Rafael Nadal swaps tennis rackets for golf clubs and finishes sixth in professional event

If you thought world No. 2 tennis star Rafael Nadal would be taking it easy after winning his record-tying 20th grand slam, think again.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/26/golf/rafael-nadal-balearic-golf-championship-spt-intl/index.html?source=Snapzu

Here are all the anime shows coming to Netflix in 2021

Netflix has presented its lineup of anime shows that will be available on its platform in 2021.
Read more: https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/lifestyle/hobbiesandactivities/761570/here-are-all-the-anime-shows-coming-to-netflix-in-2021/story/?just_in?source=Snapzu

Arizona Coyotes top draft pick was convicted for bullying Black teen with disabilities

The top draft pick for the Arizona Coyotes, whose CEO is in an NHL group to stop racism, was convicted of bullying a Black kid four years ago.
Read more: https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/nhl/coyotes/2020/10/26/arizona-coyotes-top-draft-pick-bullied-black-disabled-kid-4-years-ago/3735555001/?source=Snapzu

TV Ratings: ‘The Undoing’ Premiere Matches ‘Lovecraft Country’

Fresh off the stunning finale of “Lovecraft Country,” HBO’s newest occupant of the Sunday night time slot fared just as well in the ratings.
Read more: https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/the-undoing-premiere-tv-ratings-1234815932/?source=Snapzu

Jon Stewart will return to TV with an Apple TV Plus series

Hourlong episodes focused on issues part of the "national conversation."
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/27/21537071/jon-stewart-apple-tv-plus-show-announced?source=Snapzu

German Regulators Are Trying to Block Porn Sites to Thwart Horny Teens

Porn won the porn war in the UK, but now the industry is fighting on a different front in Germany, where authorities are trying to force internet service providers to block major sites that don’t implement age verification systems.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/germany-regulators-are-trying-to-block-porn-sites-to-th-1845486399?source=Snapzu

Joni Mitchell: 'I'm a fool for love. I make the same mistake over and over'

As she releases a box set of her earliest recordings, in a rare interview Mitchell talks about life before fame, the correct way to sing her songs – and her long struggle to walk and talk again after an aneurysm
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/27/joni-mitchell-interview-archives-early-years-cameron-crowe?source=Snapzu

‘Assassin’s Creed’ Live-Action Netflix Series in Development

An “Assassin’s Creed” live-action series is currently in development at Netflix, Variety has learned. The series is part of a deal between Netflix and video game company Ubisoft to develop content based on the best-selling video game franchise. The deal will include live-action, animated, and anime series. The search is currently on for a showrunner for the first series, with Ubisoft Film & Television’s Jason Altman and Danielle Kreinik set to serve as executive producers.
Read more: https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/assassins-creed-netflix-series-1234816203/?source=Snapzu

Michael Keaton Rumored For Batman Beyond HBO Max Series

The internet went into meltdown earlier this year when it was announced that Michael Keaton would be returning to play Batman in The Flash, which will arrive 30 years after he last donned the cape and cowl. If that wasn’t exciting enough, the 69 year-old was also reported to have signed a lengthy contract with the studio, and given his age, that surely only meant one thing.
Read more: https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/michael-keaton-rumored-star-batman-hbo-max-series/?source=Snapzu

52 Incredible Picture Book Biographies of Black People Creating and Leading

Incredible picture book biographies of Black people creating, leading, and living inspiring, powerful lives.
Read more: https://bookriot.com/picture-book-biographies-of-black-people/?source=Snapzu

Animaniacs - Trailer (2020)

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Anthony Mackie says shooting The Falcon and The Winter Soldier under COVID measures is kinda 'awful'

The coronavirus has had an intense impact on the entertainment industry, delaying productions, pushing nearly all theatrical release dates away from 2020, and infecting cast and crew that dare to go back to shooting too early. There's also a downside nobody talks about: shooting under COVID-19 precautions just isn't any fun at all.
Read more: https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/Falcon-winter-solider-coronavirus-production-awful-anthony-mackie?source=Snapzu

Trump Is the Butt of 97% of Late-Night TV Hosts' Presidential Candidate Jokes, Study Says

That's up 19% from the 2016 election
Read more: https://www.thewrap.com/trump-jokes-late-night-tv-97-percent-biden-jokes-study-george-mason/?source=Snapzu

The technology that’s replacing the green screen

The green screen might be doomed. And that’s a good thing.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/21529002/green-screen-mandalorian?source=Snapzu

You can now read the only surviving full draft of a Jane Austen novel, in her very own handwriting.

I can hardly remember what was happening in January of this year, much less what I was doing when I was an 18-year-old. We do have a good sense of what Jane Austen was up to, though.
Read more: https://lithub.com/you-can-now-read-the-only-surviving-full-draft-of-a-jane-austen-novel-in-her-very-own-handwriting/?source=Snapzu

At this bookstore in Taiwan, visitors shop in the dark

Remember when you used to sneak a flashlight under the covers so you could read a book after bedtime? A bookshop in Taiwan promises you a similar experience. Wuguan Books is located in Kaohsiung's Pier-2 Art Center, a warehouse-turned-creative hub in Taiwan's second-largest city. And it is just as much an art exhibit as it is a bookshop.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/taiwan-wuguan-books-dark-bookstore/index.html?source=Snapzu

Movie night at the White House: a century of screenings, decoded

What the leader of the free world watches for fun, from “Birth of a Nation” to “Finding Dory”
Read more: https://www.economist.com/1843/2020/10/20/movie-night-at-the-white-house-a-century-of-screenings-decoded?source=Snapzu

Sacha Baron Cohen survived ‘cancel culture’ by evolving instead of moaning

While his peers fret about being unable to tell jokes anymore, Sacha Baron Cohen has carefully avoided so-called ‘cancellation’ despite a dubious track record with race and stereotyping, writes Adam White
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/sacha-baron-cohen-cancel-culture-comedy-borat-sequel-bruno-ali-g-b1183524.html?source=Snapzu

'Smokey and the Bandit' TV Series in the Works From Seth MacFarlane, Danny McBride | Hollywood Reporter

More than 40 years since the Burt Reynolds feature film launched a franchise, Universal Content Productions is reviving the property for television with a new series in development from some of the biggest names in comedy. A network is not yet attached.
Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/smokey-and-the-bandit-tv-series-in-the-works-from-seth-macfarlane-danny-mcbride?source=Snapzu

‘Borat 2’ Exposes the Insidious Racism of Trump’s America

Sacha Baron Cohen’s wild sequel sees his titular Kazakhstani journalist tour America once more, embedding with QAnon nuts, pro-lifers, and members of Trump’s inner circle.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/borat-2-sees-sacha-baron-cohen-expose-the-insidious-racism-of-trumps-america?ref=home?source=Snapzu

Why you won't see the Charlie Brown TV specials in the usual places this year

For the first time ever, the beloved Charlie Brown holiday specials will not air on network TV this year. Here's where you'll find them instead.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-10-21/charlie-brown-holiday-specials-appletv?source=Snapzu

Quibi officially announces it's shutting down

Quibi struggled to meet its subscriber goals, and only had about 500,000 as of a few weeks ago.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/21/quibi-to-shut-down-after-just-6-months.html?source=Snapzu

‘The Old Guard’ Viewed By 78 Million Households in First Four Weeks, Says Netflix

Netflix, in its third quarter earnings report Tuesday, touted “The Old Guard” as its most popular title of the summer quarter.
Read more: https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/old-guard-78-million-households-in-first-four-weeks-netflix-1234811294/?source=Snapzu

Netflix Will Test Giving Away the Service Free for 48 Hours

Netflix is planning a new promotion: letting everyone in a given country access the service for free for a weekend.
Read more: https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/netflix-will-test-giving-away-the-service-free-for-48-hours-1234811408/?source=Snapzu

A Surreal New Bookstore Has Just Opened in China

Up top, there are mirrored ceilings—while gleaming black tile floors reflect the bookcases for a serious M.C. Escher effect
Read more: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/surreal-new-bookstore-opened-china?source=Snapzu

Filippo Buonanni's Harmonic Cabinet (1722)

Engravings from an ambitious and beautiful attempt to catalogue, for the first time, the musical instruments of the world.
Read more: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/filippo-buonanni-harmonic-cabinet?source=Snapzu

Colonial crimes

For more than a century, people were taken from their homelands and exhibited in human zoos. They were displayed alongside animals. This little known and deeply disturbing part of colonial history played an important part in the development of modern racism.
Read more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WFTSM8JppE?source=Snapzu

The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time

With a panel of leading fantasy authors, TIME presents the 100 most engaging, inventive and influential works of fantasy fiction
Read more: https://time.com/collection/100-best-fantasy-books?source=Snapzu

Netflix Cancels ‘Away’ After One Season

Netflix is not renewing science fiction drama series “Away” for a second season, Variety has confirmed. The cancellation comes just six weeks after the show’s first season was released on Sept. 4. “Away” stars Hilary Swank as astronaut Emma Green, who leads the first crewed expedition to Mars aboard the spaceship “Atlas,” called the Mars Joint Initiative. Green leads an international crew with members from China, Russia, India and the U.K who are all experts in the field.
Read more: https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/netflix-cancels-away-1234810392/?source=Snapzu

Yes, Books Were Bound in Human Skin. An Intrepid Librarian Finds the Proof.

“Dark Archives,” by Megan Rosenbloom, a librarian at U.C.L.A., traces the history of the controversial practice and considers what we should do with such books today.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/books/review/dark-archives-megan-rosenbloom.html?source=Snapzu

Disney should worry about this new report on streaming TV viewership trends

The Walt Disney Company has made no secret of the fact that it’s betting its future on streaming TV. Hell, it just doubled down on it with a major reorganization of its business. But after a pandemic-induced bump in streaming-TV viewing peaked earlier this year, some of the arrows for Disney’s flagship streaming service are now pointing in the wrong direction, according to a new report from analyst firm MoffettNathanson.
Read more: https://www.fastcompany.com/90564310/disney-should-worry-about-this-new-report-on-streaming-tv-viewership-trends?source=Snapzu

What book has the most disappointing ending? Readers have many opinions.

As in life, saying goodbye is not easy for storytellers. Parting can be such sweet sorrow or such putrid disappointment.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/worst-book-endings/2020/10/17/e9d8635a-0ee3-11eb-b1e8-16b59b92b36d_story.html?source=Snapzu

Jeff Bridges Reveals Cancer Diagnosis, Says He’s Starting Treatment

The Oscar-winning actor revealed his lymphoma diagnosis on Twitter Monday evening.
Read more: https://www.indiewire.com/2020/10/jeff-bridges-reveals-cancer-diagnosis-on-twitter-1234593883/?source=Snapzu

'Clouds' by teen who died of cancer hits No. 1 on iTunes

Seven years after his death to cancer at age 18, a Minnesota singer-songwriter has returned to the top of the iTunes chart with his inspirational tune “Clouds.” The Star Tribune reports that “Clouds” by Zach Sobiech took over iTunes’ No. 1 slot from Justin Bieber on Sunday, two days after the Hollywood movie of the same name based on Sobiech’s life premiered on Disney+.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/justin-bieber-minnesota-cancer-stillwater-85ec91fefe61845610bc5c3cf8d0e944?source=Snapzu

Sacha Baron Cohen: This Time He’s Serious

Reviving his Borat character and playing the political activist Abbie Hoffman, the actor feels he “had to ring the alarm bell and say that democracy is in peril this year.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/style/sacha-baron-cohen-maureen-dowd-interview.html?source=Snapzu

Boy Meets World’s Slasher Episode Was Scarier Than it Had Any Right To Be

The writer and director of the Boy Meets World episode that thrilled and delighted a generation of pre-teens look back on their work for the Halloween season.
Read more: https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/boy-meets-world-slasher-episode/?source=Snapzu

Peter Frampton: 'I was kept high. If I needed cocaine, he made sure I had it'

Peter Frampton recalls with stinging clarity the moment in 1976 when he realized his career was about to take a perilous turn. “I realized that instead of the front row being a mixture of 50-50, male and female, in the audience, it was all females at the front and the guys are pissed off at the back,” he said. “The guys would jeer at me.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/16/peter-frampton-interview-memoir?source=Snapzu

Showtime is bringing back 'Dexter'

Some killer news for fans of "Dexter": Showtime is taking a stab at bringing back the serial killer drama.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/entertainment/dexter-showtime-return/index.html?source=Snapzu

Google Play Music is no longer available on Smart Speakers

Google Play Music is no longer available on smart speakers such as Google Nest Home, as the long, slow shutdown of the service continues.
Read more: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-play-music-removed-smart-speakers/?source=Snapzu

Star Trek’s Deep Space Nine May Get A New Series

Could Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actually be returning? A new scoop says that CBS is considering a revival of the fan favorite show.
Read more: https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/star-treks-deep-space-nine-may-get-a-new-series.html?source=Snapzu

Fictional starships size comparison

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Has Covid Leveled Peak TV?

Last week on the TV’s Top 5 podcast, Star Trek producer Alex Kurtzman dropped some numbers that made hosts Lesley Goldberg and Dan Fienberg, two jaded, longtime television writers, stop in their tracks. As talk turned to the strange new world of Covid-19, Goldberg asked how much Kurtzman’s budget had increased on the small-screen Trek franchise as a result of precautionary measures. Kurtzman’s estimate: PPE alone has added between $300,000 and $500,000 in costs to each episode.
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/covid-precaution-protocol-budget-netflix-cancel-peak-tv-1075454/?source=Snapzu

Eddie Murphy’s ‘Coming 2 America’ Moves From Paramount to Amazon Studios

“Coming 2 America” is making one more connection before it arrives to American audiences. The long-anticipated sequel to the Eddie Murphy classic is in the process of being sold by dist…
Read more: https://variety.com/2020/film/news/eddie-murphys-coming-2-america-moves-from-paramount-to-amazon-studios-1234799523/?source=Snapzu

'Selfie' was a terrific show hiding behind a terrible title

The only thing someone could fix about a great one-season show like 2014's "Selfie" is the terrible title that doomed it in the first place.
Read more: https://mashable.com/article/fix-it-selfie-title?source=Snapzu

Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search

Google Search helps you find the melody that’s stuck in your head with machine learning technology.
Read more: https://blog.google/products/search/hum-to-search?source=Snapzu

'Totally Under Control': New, Secretly-Filmed Documentary Details Trump's Colossal Covid-19 Failures

Several public health experts who have spent this year watching as President Donald Trump has ignored, refuted, and openly mocked their guidance on the coronavirus pandemic are among those interviewed in a new documentary titled "Totally Under Control"—coming forward to give an insider's account of how the Trump administration's severe mismanagement of the crisis led to more than 216,000 deaths in the United States so far.
Read more: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/14/totally-under-control-new-secretly-filmed-documentary-details-trumps-colossal-covid?source=Snapzu