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The HBO venture, which teams up director Jay Roach and writer Paul Rudnick, will focus on how the characters’ lives in New York and Los Angeles have been altered by the coronavirus pandemic.
Jun 18, 2020
AceShowbiz – Bette Midler and Issa Rae are set to star in a new virtual comedy special set during the coronavirus pandemic.
The star-studded cast, also including Dan Levy and Sarah Paulson, will team with director Jay Roach and writer Paul Rudnick for the HBO venture, titled “Coastal Elites”. The event will center on characters from New York and Los Angeles and focus on how their lives have been altered by the pandemic.
“Paul Rudnick and Jay Roach bring their razor-sharp perspective and wit to HBO,” said HBO Programming president Casey Bloys. “We are thrilled to partner with them in telling this story, which is uniquely resonant for these times.”
The venture, which will premiere in September, joins other coronavirus-themed scripted shows that are being developed during the lockdown, including the filmed-from-home mystery “The Agoraphobics Detective Society”, starring Brian Cox.

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Inspired by Beth Macy’s 2018 novel of the same name, this Hulu series will explore the opioid epidemic in the country through the stories of young addicts, drug dealers and medical professionals.
Jun 18, 2020
AceShowbiz – Michael Keaton is set to take on his first starring role on a TV series for the small screen adaptation of the bestseller “Dopesick”.
Inspired by Beth Macy’s 2018 novel of the same name, the Hulu show explores the U.S. opioid epidemic through the stories of young addicts, drug dealers and medical professionals.
Keaton, who portrays a doctor at the center of a pharmaceutical scandal, will also serve as executive producer, while Barry Levinson will direct “Empire” screenwriter Danny Strong’s script.
“I’m so thrilled to tell this story with a company as bold and as daring as Hulu,” said Strong in a statement. “The opioid crisis is one of the most important stories of our time and I’m honored to not only pay tribute to its victims but to shine a light on the heroes that fought back. Laws were broken and many lies were told. The system failed us and ‘Dopesick’ is going to show everyone how it all happened.”

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In a new episode of WE tv’s ‘Mama June: Family Crisis’, the Shannon matriarch comes clean about her history of drug use during a tearful reunion with her daughter Lauryn ‘Pumpkin’ Shannon.
Jun 18, 2020
AceShowbiz – Mama June a.k.a. June Shannon is one step closer to getting her life back on track after she went through a downward spiral in the past year. In the latest episode of “Mama June: Family Crisis”, the reality TV star came clean about her past and present drug use that has left her financially broke during a tearful reunion with her daughter Lauryn “Pumpkin” Shannon.
The 40-year-old matriarch revealed she and her boyfriend Geno Doak would spend $2,500 a day on various kinds of drugs, which included Fioricet, a prescription pain medicine used to treat the symptoms of tension headache, and Xanax, a benzodiazepine medication used to treat anxiety and panic disorders. “The only reason I sold the house, we was dead f***ing broke,” she said on the show.
“Because you know at that point we was doing quite a bit,” June admitted her problem that left her broke. “I mean, it was a couple ounces a day.” She added of her methamphetamine usage, “Our habit was $2,500 a day, if not more.”
On how she started doing drugs, June said that she “got high because I wanted to.” She went on telling her daughter Pumpkin, “It wasn’t something that just started, and oh my God, I started using drugs, you found out that I got busted. It wasn’t. I got high because I wanted to. It’s not the first time I’ve ever done drugs, and you know that.”
Despite June’s claim that it wasn’t the first time for her to use drugs, it apparently still came as a shock for Pumpkin, who said, “It’s been the first time since we’ve been older that you’ve ever been strung out.” Sharing her frustration, the 20-year-old continued, “The thing is like, you can’t get clean and then Geno not get f***ing clean.”
Pumpkin clearly still objects to June’s relationship with Geno, confessing, “I’m at the point of like I’m kind of done with him. I don’t like the way that he has treated you.” She added, “I don’t even understand quite honestly why you are still with him. He has done you dirty, like he came into the house and then it was like he was pushing me out.”
June tried to convince her daughter that they have changed for the better. “I promise you, for the last couple months we have been, I would say, 90 percent good,” she argued. “If this was four or five months ago, I would have been high as f**k when I came up in here.”
June’s relationship with her daughters has been strained since she was arrested in March 2019 on possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia charges after she allegedly had crack cocaine and a crack pipe on her. Geno was also arrested and charged with third-degree domestic violence, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Due to June’s drug use, her younger daughter Alana Thompson a.k.a. Honey Boo Boo has been living with her sister Pumpkin. The mom of four, however, recently checked into rehab after testing positive for cocaine as the cumulative result of her cold medication abuse.

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The 12-year-old actor recalls sobbing on set when he listened to a co-star acting out a racist character and recounts being accused of stealing tip money.
Jun 18, 2020
AceShowbiz – Young “This Is Us” star Lonnie Chavis struggled to hold back tears as he listened to a racist grandmother on the hit show, because it brought back awful memories from his real life.
The 12 year old, who plays Randall Pearce in the TV drama, recalls the show’s director and writers trying to calm him down as he became emotional during the scene, admitting he had no way of explaining what was going on in his mind.
“I started crying listening to an actor portray a racist grandmother toward my character,” he writes in a new essay for People magazine. “The director and writers told me that they didn’t need me to cry for the scene. However, it was hard for me not to cry as I witnessed what I had just learned was my reality. I wasn’t acting, I was crying for me.
“Can you imagine having to explain to a room full of white people why I couldn’t hold back my real tears while experiencing the pain of racism…?”
Lonnie also reveals he was racially profiled at a restaurant in San Diego, California, while visiting one of his young black co-stars.
“Her black cousins and I were accused by a young white girl working the cash register of trying to steal the few tips in her tip cup,” he adds. “It was a huge ordeal that almost led to police being called on us while we were with our parents.”
A white fan of the show came to the family’s rescue and explained Lonnie was “a professional actor on two television series currently airing” and added he “doubted I would need to steal her few dollars.”
“My mother never played the ‘he’s an actor’ card,” Chavis explains. “She definitely knew and argued that we were being targeted merely because we were a group of young black children. Can you imagine someone thinking you are a thief just because of the colour of your skin? I can.”
The young star also opens up about the drama that went down on his 10th birthday in 2018 when his father was detained by police for a traffic ticket.
“After coming home late with my family from my birthday party, a Long Beach police officer twisted my dad’s arm behind his back and pulled him from our doorstep with the door opened…,” Lonnie recounts in the essay. “My mother ran to my room and told me with fear in her eyes to go into my little brother’s room and stay away from the windows. She put my new baby brother in my arms and told me that no matter what I hear from our front yard to not come to the door.”
“I held my baby brother and cried as I could hear my mother yelling outside of our home. I thought my parents were for sure going to die going up against the police. By the grace of God, they are both still with me, and that racially motivated harassment against my father was dismissed. Can you imagine holding on to your three little brothers while thinking that you are all going to be orphans? I can.”
The actor concludes the essay by writing, “Change has got to happen for unarmed Black citizens to not live in fear of being murdered. Can you imagine being me in 2020 and wondering what the future holds?”

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The actor Danny Masterson, known for his roles in the sitcoms “That ’70s Show” and “The Ranch,” has been charged with raping three women in the early 2000s, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office said on Wednesday.Masterson, 44, is accused of raping a 23-year-old woman whom he had invited to his home in Hollywood Hills some time between October and December of 2003, the district attorney’s office said in a news release. He is also accused of raping a 28-year-old woman that same year as well as a 23-year-old woman in 2001. All of the allegations of rape occurred in the actor’s home, the news release said.Masterson was charged with three counts of rape by force or fear, and faces a maximum sentence of 45 years to life in prison if convicted.The actor played Steven Hyde in “That ’70s Show” between 1998 and 2006 and starred in the Netflix comedy “The Ranch” before he was fired in 2017.In a statement, Masterson’s lawyer, Tom Mesereau, said that the actor is innocent and that Masterson and his wife are in “complete shock” that the “nearly 20-year-old allegations” have resulted in charges.“The people who know Mr. Masterson know his character and know the allegations to be false,” the statement said.The district attorney’s office said that it had declined to file separate sexual assault charges against Masterson in two other cases because, in one instance, there was insufficient evidence and, in another, because of the statute of limitations.Masterson was arrested on Wednesday morning and was later released on statutory bail, his lawyer said. His bail was set at $3.3 million, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Masterson’s arraignment is scheduled for Sept. 18.In 2017, after Netflix fired Masterson from “The Ranch” amid allegations that he had raped four women, the actor responded that “law enforcement investigated these claims more than 15 years ago and determined them to be without merit.” It is unclear whether those four allegations overlap with the ones that resulted in charges, but they all stemmed from the early 2000s.Tony Ortega, a former editor of The Village Voice, reported in 2017 that at least three of the women claimed they were pressured to keep quiet by the Church of Scientology, to which they and Mr. Masterson belonged. The Church of Scientology denied that it had pressured victims. More

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The former ‘Breaking Bad’ actor insists his comedy is ‘always about the human element, never about making a political point’ in response to controversy surrounding blackface sketch.
Jun 18, 2020
AceShowbiz – Bob Odenkirk and David Cross took to Twitter to respond on Tuesday night, June 16, 2020 after Netflix pulled an episode of their show “W/ Bob & David” over a blackface sketch.
The streaming giant opted to remove the episode, which showed Cross in blackface during an interaction between a police officer and someone at a DUI checkpoint, from their service due to the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement and protests taking place around the world.
Following their decision, both stars had their say on their social media pages, with Cross writing, “Hey all, Netflix is going to pull this sketch from With Bob & David because the ridiculous, foolish character I play puts on ‘black face’ at one point. The point of this was to underscore the absurdity… well, here’s your last chance to figure it out.”
And Bob added on his Twitter page, “We considered every choice we made doing our show, and always aimed to make you laugh and think, and never make an obvious or easy point… that very much includes this sketch. Our comedy is always about the human element, never about making a political point.”
The show is the latest to be removed from streaming services amid the ongoing conversations about racial injustice – with Matt Lucas and David Walliams issuing a public apology over the blackface sketches in their show “Little Britain”, which was also pulled from BBC iPlayer and Netflix.

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The former ‘America’s Next Top Model’ winner also notes that despite her decision, she is not on a bad term with her Bravo reality TV show co-stars, saying, ‘I love every single one of those black women.’
Jun 17, 2020
AceShowbiz – One housewife will be visibly absent when “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” returns for a new season. On Tuesday, June 16, Eva Marcille announced that she wouldn’t be returning to upcoming season 13 of the Bravo reality TV show.
Eva, who joined “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” for two seasons, broke the news on “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show”. “I have a six-year-old daughter and two young boys still in diapers. They’re 24-hours a day, and there’s a lot of work to be done,” she shared on the radio show. “So I decided to spend my time and energy focusing on my kids and my community, and not so much reality show business.”
The former “America’s Next Top Model” winner then noted that despite her decision, she wasn’t on a bad term with the other ladies on the show. “I want to be very clear, even though we fought on the show, I love every single one of those black women. They are queens all in their own right. They are stars. And I wish them the most successful season and transformational season 13 that ‘The Real Housewives of Atlanta’ has ever seen,” she said.
Later, she provided more details in an official statement which read, “I appreciate the bond of friendship that I have made with several of my cast mates and the strong personal relationships I have with numerous executives and producers at the Bravo and Truly Entertainment companies.”
Eva went on saying, “I am thankful for the opportunity I was provided, however, after speaking with my family and representatives, I believe that what I hope to accomplish for the culture and community will be better served by focusing on other opportunities.”
Eva joins Tinsley Mortimer as another Housewife that departed from the franchise. Tinsley previously announced her exit from “The Real Housewives of New York City”. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all my fans and friends who supported me and are happy for my fairy tale ending,” Tinsley explained.
“Without #RHONY, I would never have met my prince charming, Scott,” she added. “Being a Housewife was such a fun experience, and I thank @bravoandy and all the wonderful people at Shed Media and @bravotv. Swipe for a trip down memory lane. I love you all so much!!”

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Calling now ‘a time to uplift black artists’, ‘The Chi’ creator will be fronting the hour-long special along with other Chicago, Illinois-based artists to raise funds for the Equal Justice Initiative.
Jun 17, 2020
AceShowbiz – “The Chi” creator Lena Waithe is teaming with Common and other Chicago, Illinois-based artists for a virtual concert to raise funds for the Equal Justice Initiative.
Waithe, whose series is set in the city, and Common, both of whom are also Chicago natives, will front the hour-long special, “The Chi With Love”. Common will also serve as an executive producer of the event.
“The Chi has always been a show about celebrating black life and black love even in the midst of tragedy,” said Waithe in a statement. “Now is a time for us to uplift black artists. This virtual concert not only celebrates black music, but it celebrates the beautiful black people of Chicago. This is from us, with love.”
Bosses at Showtime, the U.S. network that produces “The Chi”, have announced a $500,000 (£400,000) donation to the Equal Justice Initiative, an organisation working to end mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States’ legal system.

“The Chi With Love” will air on June 21 at 7pm ET at https://www.youtube.com/thechionshowtime, ahead of the season three premiere of “The Chi” at 9pm ET on Showtime.

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