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  • Tuesday, Mar. 27, 2018
Heineken pulls light beer commercial after racism complaints
In this Dec. 9, 2008, file photo, visitors watch Heineken commercials on large screens at the Heineken Experience, Amsterdam. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
WHITE PLAINS, NY (AP) -- 

Heineken has removed a commercial for its light beer after some complaints that it was racist.

The ad featured a bartender sliding a bottle of Heineken light. The bottle passes several black people before it arrives to a lighter-skinned woman. The tag line: Sometimes lighter is better.

Hip-hop star Chance the Rapper on Sunday tweeted the commercial was "terribly racist." He said he thought some companies were purposely "putting out noticeably racist ads so they can get more views."

In a statement, Heineken says while the ad was referencing Heineken Light, "we missed the mark."

Heineken drew praise last year for its "Open Your World" commercials, which featured people of different backgrounds discussing their viewpoints.

  • Tuesday, Mar. 27, 2018
Reports: Facebook's Zuckerberg to testify before Congress
In this May 25, 2017, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the commencement address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Published reports say Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is planning to testify before Congress about how his company collects and uses people's data.

Citing unnamed sources, CNN said in a report Tuesday that Zuckerberg has "come to terms" with the fact that he'll have to testify in a matter of weeks. A Facebook representative said the company has received invitations to appear before congress and is talking to legislators but would not confirm Zuckerberg's attendance.

Zuckerberg said last week in a CNN interview that he'd be "happy to" testify if he is the right person to do it. The company is facing unprecedented scrutiny following reports that a data mining firm used ill-gotten data from tens of millions of its users to try to influence elections.

A spokeswoman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee said Tuesday that reports of Zuckerberg's confirmed attendance are "incorrect." But she added that the committee is "continuing to More

  • Tuesday, Mar. 27, 2018
Greg MacGillivray to receive New York Festivals Lifetime Achievement Award
Greg MacGillivray
NEW YORK -- 

New York Festivals Television & Film Awards will honor Greg MacGillivray, chairman/director of MacGillivray Freeman Films, with the 8th annual New York Festivals® Lifetime Achievement Award.

MacGillivray’s award-winning creative career will be honored at the New York Festivals Television & Film Awards gala on Tuesday, April 10, at the annual NAB Show in Las Vegas. New York Festivals is now in its 61st year of honoring the World’s Best TV & Films. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes prominent industry leaders whose accomplishments have advanced their field and made a lasting impression on the industry.

“My filmmaking for the giant-screen IMAX Theatre format is different from conventional filmmaking,” said MacGillivray.  “We put audience members in the film. They are immersed in the scene on the giant IMAX Theatre screen.  From the time I worked with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining through the time spent making 40 films for More

  • Monday, Mar. 26, 2018
Starz commits to "Now Apocalypse" comedy series from Gregg Araki, Steven Soderbergh
A Feb. 12, 2013 file photo of director Steven Soderbergh at a press conference in Berlin. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- 

The Starz network, a Lionsgate company (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B), has greenlit the half-hour comedy series Now Apocalypse created and executive-produced by Gregg Araki (Kaboom, Mysterious Skin).  Araki will co-write and direct all 10 half-hour episodes of the sexy, vibrant and fast-moving series that has a flipside of mythic, dreamlike creepiness.

This surreal, coming-of-age comedy series follows Ulysses and his friends Carly, Ford and Severine, who are on various quests pursing love, sex and fame. Now Apocalypse explores identity, sexuality and artistry, while navigating the strange and oftentimes bewildering city of Los Angeles.  Between sexual and romantic dating app adventures, Ulysses grows increasingly troubled as foreboding premonitory dreams make him wonder--is some kind of dark and monstrous conspiracy going on, or is he just smoking too much weed? 

“Gregg brings an incredibly unique and adventurous story to More

  • Monday, Mar. 26, 2018
Netflix greenlights 2nd seasons of unscripted original series, including "Dope," "Queer Eye," "Nailed It!"
The Fab Five of "Queer Eye" (photo courtesy of Netflix)
LOS ANGELES -- 

Netflix has announced second seasons for several unscripted original series: Dope, Drug Lords, Nailed It!, Queer Eye and The Toys That Made Us.

“These series are indicative of what we’re trying to accomplish for Netflix unscripted: working with world-class producers to create the best unscripted shows on television,” said Bela Bajaria, VP of content for Netflix. “These series elevate the genre with innovative takes on familiar formats. They deliver immersive and nuanced stories. They elicit so many emotions from viewers, from tears of laughter to tears of joy--and that’s just Queer Eye.” 

Netflix ordered second seasons of the following unscripted originals: 

Dope
A docu-series filmed from the perspective of dealers, users and the police, this vivid series features a bracing look at the war on drugs. Season two starts April 20, 2018. Dope is produced by Wall to Wall More

  • Saturday, Mar. 24, 2018
NYC firefighter killed on movie set promoted posthumously
This photo provided by New York Fire Department shows FDNY Firefighter Michael R. Davidson of Engine Company 69. Davidson was killed after a massive fire broke out at a building in the Harlem section of New York, Thursday, March 22, 2108, where a movie directed by Edward Norton was being shot. Davidson, a 15-year department veteran is survived by a wife and four children. (New York Fire Department via AP)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

A firefighter who was killed battling a fire on a New York City movie set has been posthumously promoted to lieutenant.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro announced firefighter Michael Davidson's promotion on Saturday.

Davidson died early Friday after suffering severe smoke inhalation in the burning basement of a Harlem building where the movie "Motherless Brooklyn" was being filmed.

The film adaptation of the Jonathan Lethem novel of the same name stars Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Willem Dafoe and Alec Baldwin.

Davidson was a 15-year Fire Department veteran with a wife and four young children.

Nigro called Davidson "a natural-born leader" and said his promotion to lieutenant was well-deserved.

Davidson had passed the test for lieutenant in 2015 and was on the list for promotion.

  • Saturday, Mar. 24, 2018
Stars affected by violence join students' gun-reform rallies
Ariana Grande performs "Be Alright" during the "March for Our Lives" rally in support of gun control, Saturday, March 24, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
By Lynn Elber, Television Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Paul McCartney, Common, Miley Cyrus, Amy Schumer and other stars played supporting roles at nationwide gun-reform rallies dominated by teenage survivors' emotional speeches.

Still, the protests were deeply personal for some of the celebrities involved.

Jennifer Hudson, who performed "The Times They Are A Changin'" to cap Saturday's March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., alluded to the shooting deaths of her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in 2008.

"We've all lost somebody. ... We've all got a purpose. And we want what? We want change," she said, encouraging the vast crowd to join her in song.

McCartney said his decision to take part in the New York City rally was prompted by the 1980 Manhattan shooting death of John Lennon, his former Beatles bandmate.

"One of my best friends was killed in gun violence, right 'round here, so it's important to me," he told CNN.

Asked what he hoped could be More

  • Friday, Mar. 23, 2018
Weather Channel sold to Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios
In this May 8, 2009, file photo, Byron Allen arrives for an event in Los Angeles. Allen's Entertainment Studios, Inc., one of the largest independent producers and distributors of film and television, on Thursday, March 22, 2018, announced its acquisition of the Weather Group, parent company of The Weather Channel television network and LOCAL NOW streaming service. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File)
By Lynn Elber, Television Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

The Weather Channel is under new ownership.

Entertainment Studios Inc., an independent movie and TV producer and distributor, said Thursday it's acquired the channel's parent company, Weather Group.

Byron Allen, founder and owner of Entertainment Studios, bought the Weather Group from the Blackstone Group, Bain Capital and Comcast-NBCUniversal, Entertainment Studios said.

"The Weather Channel is a phenomenal asset," Allen said in an interview. "It is the No. 1 weather news network in America. It's a network that's very important, that provides us information to protect our families and our lives."

The purchase price for the channel and Local Now, a news streaming service, reportedly was $300 million.  Entertainment Studios declined to confirm the figure.

Bain, Blackstone and Comcast-NBCUniversal bought the Weather Channel Cos. from Landmark Communications in 2008 for a reported $3.5 billion. The new owners sold digital More

  • Thursday, Mar. 22, 2018
US, AT&T fire opening salvos as govt seeks to block merger
In this Oct. 24, 2016, file photo, the AT&T logo is positioned above one of its retail stores in New York. Opening arguments in the federal government’s case to block AT&T’s efforts to gobble up Time Warner have been postponed until Thursday, March 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
By Marcy Gordon, Business Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- 

The government and AT&T exchanged opening salvos in a federal trial Thursday as the U.S. seeks to block the telephone giant from absorbing Time Warner, in a case that could shape how consumers get — and how much they pay for — streaming TV and movies.

The Trump Justice Department has sued to block the $85 billion deal, saying it would hurt competition and consumers would have to pay more to watch their favorite shows, whether on a TV screen, smartphone or tablet.

The combination of the wireless, broadband and satellite giant with Time Warner — home to the CNN, HBO and TBS networks as well as coveted sports programming — would harm competition and dampen innovation, Craig Conrath, the lead Justice Department attorney in the case, insisted in opening arguments.

"The evidence will show that this merger would hurt ... pay-TV consumers," Conrath said, noting they number some 90 million households in the U.S.

"Time Warner is a More

  • Thursday, Mar. 22, 2018
Film examines Dolores Huerta from jazz to "Si, Se Puede"
In this Jan. 16, 2018, file photo, Dolores Huerta participates in the "Dolores" panel during the PBS Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
By Russell Contreras
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- 

Dolores Huerta formed the first farmworkers union with Cesar Chavez, stood next to Sen. Robert Kennedy minutes before he was assassinated, inspired Barack Obama's 2008 "Yes We Can" presidential campaign slogan with her "Si, Se Puede" rallying cry and has continued her social activism as she approaches her 90th birthday.

Yet she remains unknown to most Americans.

Among Mexican-Americans, however, she's a civil-rights icon. She draws excitement at rallies for ethnic studies in Arizona, gatherings for women's rights in Albuquerque and even for a cameo appearance at this year's Academy Awards.

Now the social activist is the subject of "Dolores," a new PBS documentary from Independent Lens. "Dolores" is scheduled to air on most PBS stations on Tuesday.

As expected, the documentary covers Huerta's life as a United Farm Workers leader in California during the late 1960s. It examines her role in fighting against the use of toxic More

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