George Clooney will make his Broadway acting debut next year in a familiar project for the Hollywood star: ‘Good Night, and Good Luck.’
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‘Judge Judy’ Sheindlin sues for defamation over National Enquirer, InTouch Weekly stories
She says they published false stories about her speaking out on the Menendez brothers murder case.
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Cumberland woman gets coveted platinum ticket in ‘American Idol’ audition
The judges, shocked by an emotional performance of ‘Ain’t No Way’ by Aretha Franklin, gave Julia Gagnon a coveted platinum ticket, handed out to only 3 competitors during auditions each season.
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They are TV’s ghosts – networks that somehow survive with little reason to watch them anymore
Few cable and satellite networks are a force anymore, the byproduct of sudden changes in how people entertain themselves.
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FX reaches back over 400 years for its next ambitious series, adapting the hit novel ‘Shogun’
Almost 50 years after the novel ‘Shogun’ became a massive hit, the James Clavell fictional saga makes its way to FX.
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Marty Engstrom, Maine’s reluctant celebrity TV weatherman, dies at 86
Known as ‘Marty on the Mountain,’ he was trained as a broadcast engineer but gave weather reports from the top of Mount Washington for WMTW for 38 years.
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Comedian Tom Smothers, one-half of the Smothers Brothers, dies at 86
The brothers constantly battled with CBS’s censors and occasionally outraged viewers as well with its daring sketches and irreverent jokes.
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Maine filmmakers explore 1970s disco backlash
Lisa Quijano Wolfinger and Rushmore DeNooyer, of Lone Wolf Media in South Portland, made the new documentary “The War on Disco,” airing Monday on PBS.
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‘Viewer beware:’ Auburn native Conor Welch is an executive producer of new ‘Goosebumps’ TV series
Welch was an avid reader of the tween book series as a kid, and 30 years later, he helped craft a fresh take on the popular franchise.
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‘Frasier’ returns to TV, but you don’t need to be a superfan of the original to laugh at its jokes
After two decades, Dr. Frasier Crane returns in a new sitcom, “Frasier,” set to debut Thursday on Paramount+.