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Network chairman Andy Lack discloses that Larry Edgeworth, who worked as an audio technician, had ‘suffered from other health issues that led him to succumb to the illness.’
Mar 21, 2020
AceShowbiz – An NBC staff member who contracted coronavirus has died.
Network chiefs confirmed the sad news on Friday, March 20, in a memo to staff, with Chairman Andy Lack reporting that “longtime member of our NBC News family” Larry Edgeworth died after testing positive for COVID-19.
Lack said that Edgeworth, who worked as an audio technician for the network, had “suffered from other health issues that led him to succumb to the illness.”
“Many of you were fortunate enough to work with Larry over the years, so you know that he was the guy you wanted by your side no matter where you were,” he added, reported the New York Post’s gossip column Page Six. “Stacy Brady says he was known as the ‘gentle giant who would give you the shirt off his back.’ ”
The network has been operating with a reduced number of staff as the coronavirus pandemic continues, with the World Health Organisation (WHO) urging people to practice social distancing and stay home in a bid to prevent the spread of the virus.
The outbreak of COVID-19 has seen more than 255,800 cases of the virus registered, resulting in a death toll of over 10,400, since it began in December (2019).

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The unnamed crew member, who was on set on March 12 for a table read, is believed to be in a stable condition while being hospitalized in New York City with COVID-19.
Mar 21, 2020
AceShowbiz – 50 Cent’s “Power Book II: Ghost” drama has been hit hard by the coronavirus following news a crew member has reportedly been hospitalized in New York City with COVID-19.
Production on the show and “Power Book III: Raising Kanan” was suspended last week (ends March 13) amid the pandemic fears, and now Deadline sources claim one of the staffers has been quarantined.
The man, who is believed to be in a stable condition, was on set on March 12 for a table read.
Executives at Starz – the cable channel on which the shows appear – have released an email today to everyone who was in contact with the unnamed crew member, urging them to take precautions recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Maggie Griffin, who was a beloved co-star of her daughter Kathy Griffin’s Emmy-winning reality show, “My Life on the D-List,” died on Tuesday. She was 99.Kathy Griffin announced the death on Twitter and Instagram, giving no other details. In 2019 she said that her mother had dementia.On “My Life on the D-List,” which aired on Bravo from 2005 to 2010, Maggie Griffin was a churchgoing, wine-loving, elfin woman who adored the conservative Fox News commentator Sean Hannity. Her daughter, on the other hand, is a brash, liberal comedian given to profanity.The show, self-aware and sometimes self-deprecating, was built around Kathy’s attempts to build fame. Maggie was sometimes the butt of her daughter’s jokes, both on the show and in Kathy’s standup comedy, sent up as a gruff, muumuu-wearing throwback.She was also thrust into situations on camera that might have made her uncomfortable. In one episode, as the two were exploring East Hollywood, Kathy casually handed a print shop employee a partly naked publicity photo of herself to hang on his wall alongside those of other celebrities.“Oh, my God!” Maggie exclaimed upon seeing the picture.There were times when being a part of her daughter’s act irked her.“As you all may know, she loves saying things on television she knows I don’t want to talk about,” Ms. Griffin wrote in “Tip It! The World According to Maggie” (2010), a memoir named after a technique for getting the last drops out of a box of wine. “Certain things she does to provoke me, I could kill her for. And all that foul language!” But, she added: “I do the best I can. I go along with it.”Ms. Griffin also appeared with her daughter on her late-night talk show, “Kathy,” which aired for two seasons on Bravo. They were interviewed together by Anderson Cooper, Ms. Griffin’s longtime partner for New Year’s Eve broadcasts on CNN, and were guests on shows like “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”Kathy Griffin often joked that she felt her mother’s fame was overshadowing hers, but after her mother died she thanked the legion of fans that Maggie had attracted.“I’m so grateful you guys got to be part of her life,” she wrote on Twitter. “You knew her. You loved her. She knew it.”Margaret Mary Corbally was born on June 10, 1920, in Chicago, the youngest of 16 children of Agnes and Michael Corbally, Irish immigrants who ran a grocery store. She went to Catholic school in Chicago and married John Griffin in 1942, then worked part time as a hospital administrator while caring for their children.Mr. Griffin died in 2007. In addition to her daughter, she is survived by a son, John; a sister, Irene Bidinger; and two grandchildren.Ms. Griffin wrote in her memoir that she thought audiences appreciated her because “I’m a regular mom.”“I’m not a mother who pampers Kathy and caters to her,” she continued. “I love my daughter, and I’m immensely supportive of her, but, hey, I tell her off.” More

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Evelyn previously sparked speculations that season 8 might be her last when she answered to a fan’s inquiry during a QnA session on her Instagram account in February.
Mar 20, 2020
AceShowbiz – Evelyn Lozada is back! A new report suggests that the VH1 personality is returning for season 9 of the network’s reality show “Basketball Wives” though she previously hinted at her departure.
According to The Jasmine Brand, the ex-wife of Chad Ochocinco is not only tapped to appear in the upcoming season, she has already started filming her episodes.
Evelyn previously sparked speculations that season 8 might be her last. During a Q&A session on her Instagram account in February, the TV star talked about whether or not she would be returning for upcoming 9th season of “Basketball Wives”. Judging from her answer, however, fans seemingly wouldn’t be able to see her on the show. “Most likely no,” she replied.
At that time, fans rejoiced knowing that she wouldn’t return. “She doesn’t have an interesting storyline.. honestly. The drama gets old,” one commenter wrote. Someone else thought that Ogom “OG” Chijindu, with whom she’s beefing on the show, made her leave the show. “Oh now she don’t wanna be on basketball wives! OG ran her away lmao.”
“The crying outweighed the laughter but you reached out to the person that made you so miserable to get back at OG… make it make sense,” another person said.
In the second part of season 8 reunion of “Basketball Wives”, Evelyn was arguing with OG, who decided to go back to the filming site after refusing to film separately from the other ladies. The episode saw the former Legends Football League cornerback confronting Evelyn Lozada for using N-word when she’s not black.
“I’ve witnessed Evelyn using N-word. I just think it’s disrespectful, you know. Being African, being black, it’s not a game. You don’t get to use these type of words to try to fit in,” she said while sitting in a different room. “I think it’s a blatant slap in the face when someone who’s not black says it.”
“She’s not Afro-Latina. She never claimed it,” she added. “Evelyn has been on the show for eight years and never talked about Puerto Rico until last year when I was talking about Nigeria and I found it very interesting that she went on this Puerto Rican parade and wanted to find her ancestors.”
Evelyn later explained, “I grew up in New York City and I was born in Brooklyn, raised in the Bronx where you rub elbows with all races. So, whether you’re black, Dominican, whatever, we’re the same.” She also said that “25% of my bloodline comes from Africa.” The answer didn’t change OG’s mind though, as she insisted that Evelyn is not black.

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‘We are working on some interesting alternative ideas for how to best recognize the honorees later this year,’ announces executive director Brent Stanton in a released statement.
Mar 20, 2020
AceShowbiz – America’s 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony has been axed over coronavirus fears.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences event was set for June in Pasadena, California.
“Given our concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, we have decided that we will not be staging the 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Pasadena this coming June,” NATAS chairman Terry O’Reilly said on Thursday, March 19. “As there are so many unknowns right now with the flow of information changing on a daily, almost hourly, basis, it would simply be irresponsible to move forward with our annual celebration of excellence in daytime television at this time.”
However, judging continues and nominees for the top honours will be announced later this spring.
“We are working on some interesting alternative ideas for how to best recognize the honorees later this year and will share more details in the weeks ahead,” Daytime Emmy Awards executive director Brent Stanton said in a statement.

NATAS officials have already postponed their annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards and their Sports Emmy Awards due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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What’s StreamingTHE BANKER (2020) Stream on Apple TV Plus. Anthony Mackie and Samuel L. Jackson play men who join forces to subvert discriminatory housing practices in this historical drama. Set primarily before the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the film begins by introducing Bernard S. Garrett (Mackie), an African-American entrepreneur who moves to Los Angeles along with his wife, Eunice (Nia Long). There, Bernard meets Joe Morris (Jackson), a club owner with whom he teams up on an admirable scheme: Buying homes in white areas and renting them out to members of the city’s black middle class. They do that with the help of a somewhat guileless white colleague (played by Nicholas Hoult). The characters are based on real people. “It’s hard not to root for them even if they’re obvious and underdeveloped, burdened with dialogue that too often sounds programmatic rather than embodied,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The New York Times. The film, Dargis wrote, “uses laughs, white racism and black righteousness to soft-sell a tale of inequality, heroic capitalism and eye-drooping mathematics.”THE LETTER FOR THE KING Stream on Netflix. In a dramatically lit, expensive-looking high-fantasy world, a short, easily underestimated hero is tasked with transporting a small object across a vast distance. That’s the perhaps not entirely unfamiliar premise of this new series, an adaptation of a popular European children’s book by the Dutch writer Tonke Dragt. The story follows Tiuri (Amir Wilson), a young would-be knight sent on a perilous letter-delivery quest.BLOW THE MAN DOWN (2020) Stream on Amazon. Sex, death and seafood all figure prominently in this eerie drama written and directed by Danielle Krudy and Bridget Savage Cole. Set in a fictional Maine fishing village called Easter Cove, “Blow the Man Down” revolves around two young locals, Mary Beth (Morgan Saylor) and Priscilla (Sophie Lowe), who try to cover up a killing — and wind up in the middle of a larger mystery. “While the sisterhood in Easter Cove is indeed powerful,” Helen T. Verongos wrote in her review for The Times, “the secrets that bind its members prove to be fairly simple, and the result is intriguing enough to make you wonder what these writer-directors might accomplish if they applied their vision to a more expansive canvas.”What’s on TVGREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). On offer in the latest installment of PBS’s Metropolitan Opera series: The star soprano Christine Goerke leading Puccini’s “Turandot,” in a recent revival of a popular production by Franco Zeffirelli. This production gives lavish spectacle to the simple story at the opera’s center: A prince tries to win over an uninterested princess. From the conductor’s podium, the Metropolitan Opera’s music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, brings out “textured, tart and lushly beautiful playing,” Anthony Tommasini wrote in a review of the revival for The Times. Goerke, he wrote, sings her role “with steely sound and chilling intensity.” More