Tag Archives: Entertainment

LONDON - The coronavirus pandemic has forced television hospital shows to confront a key question - could the biggest medical crisis in recent decades be ignored in favour of escapism for viewers? Med...

LAS VEGAS - Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire mogul, Republican mega-donor and power broker who built a casino empire spanning from Las Vegas to China and became a singular force in domestic and intern...

NEW YORK - Streaming from an empty banquet hall and with acceptance speeches made from living rooms, the 30th Gotham Awards gave a very strange Oscar season a virtual start Monday in a largely digital...

LONDON - The maker of Dr. Martens boots, the chunky-soled footwear once championed by rebellious young people but now favoured by celebrities like Rihanna, plans to sell shares to the public as the ex...

NEW YORK - One of the defining images of the Capitol Hill siege was of a man dangling from the balcony of the Senate chamber. Clad in black and with a helmet over his head, he might have been hard to ...

NEW YORK - The rehabilitation of Michael Cohen has reached a surreal new stage: Quizzing the actor Ben Stiller about his approach to impersonating him on "Saturday Night Live." Since September, Presid...

LOS ANGELES - "Nomadland" won four awards at this year's National Society of Film Critics awards, including best picture, best cinematography, best director and best actress. Chloe Zhao's film won the...

OTTAWA - Oversight and transparency took centre stage on Day 1 of a nearly three-week review of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s broadcasting licences, as the rush to furnish digital content butts up...

More than two months after Alex Trebek's death, fans of "Jeopardy!" finally got the chance to say goodbye. A video tribute to the host closed Friday's episode of the quiz show, the final one that Treb...

Michael Apted, the acclaimed British director of the "Up" documentaries series and films as diverse as the Loretta Lynn biopic "Coal Miner's Daughter" and the James Bond film "The World Is Not Enough,...