SAG-AFTRA Executive Committee Ratifies Corporate/Educational and Non-Broadcast Contract

Gary Neville Takes ‘The Overlap On Tour’ For Sky Max

A strong majority of SAG-AFTRA members responding to a guild survey say they approve of Hollywood’s Covid-19 vaccination mandate. Over two-thirds (67.1%) of members surveyed said that they “approve of employers requiring Covid-19 vaccination as a condition of access to the set,” with 26.1% saying they disapprove, and 6.8% expressing no opinion.

Taking their time! Katharine McPhee and David Foster aren’t in a hurry to give son Rennie a sibling just yet.

News Corp. and Fox Corp., both controlled by Rupert Murdoch, have abandoned a potential merger after a special committee determined that “a combination is not optimal for shareholders.”

A sore subject. Tom Brady appeared to get frustrated when discussing his future in the NFL after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost to the Dallas Cowboys.

A mourning mother. Priscilla Presley is thanking fans for their support following the death of her daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, at age 54.

The on-air talent at Telemundo’s Spanish-language TV station KVEA 52 in Los Angeles have voted overwhelmingly to unionize with SAG-AFTRA, which called the vote “another major organizing victory in Spanish-language media.”

SAG-AFTRA on Thursday came to the defense of Alec Baldwin, who is facing involuntary manslaughter charges in connection with the accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust. The guild said that the charges against him are “wrong and uninformed,” and that it is the responsibility of producers, not performers, to ensure safety on the set.

A Louisiana high school teacher has been forced to resign after she sent a racist text to her coworker!

Chairman and CEO Frank Scherma of the Television Academy has named his six new appointees to the Executive Committee for 2023. 

A different reaction. Queen Elizabeth II likely wouldn’t have ignored Prince Harry‘s memoir, Spare, royal expert Christopher Andersen said.

The rise and fall of former Spanish King Juan Carlos I will be told in a Sky docu-series later this year that will be teased at Berlin.

Missing her friend. Sarah Ferguson is one of the latest celebrities to mourn the loss of Lisa Marie Presley following her death at age 54.

SAG-AFTRA has told its members that they can’t work on hitman thriller Fast Charlie because the film’s producers are “in default of the SAG-AFTRA agreement for independent producers of theatrical motion pictures.” Directed by Phillip Noyce, the film stars Pierce Brosnan and James Caan in his final film role. Caan died in July.

His final rose! Nick Viall and his girlfriend, Natalie Joy, are officially engaged after more than two years of dating.

For the second year in a row, the Screen Actors Guild announced the prestigious SAG Awards nominations on…Instagram. This time around, Ashley Park and Haley Lu Richardson had the pleasure of revealing the nominees for the 29th edition of the awards.

Nowadays, it appears the world of awards shows is in flux. The Golden Globes happened this year after controversy forced them away in 2022.

The SAGs have finally found a small screen home: the annual awards fete will stream live on Netflix beginning in 2024, as part of a new, multi-year partnership. 

EXCLUSIVE: In a very competitive situation, with five streamers/networks bidding, Netflix has nabbed a series adaptation of Adam Silvera’s No. 1 New York Times bestselling YA novel They Both Die at the End, I have learned. The project, which hails from Bridgerton creator Chris Van Dusen, Yellowjackets executive producer Drew Comins and studio eOne as well as music superstar Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known professionally as Bad Bunny, has received a significant, script-to-series commitment, I hear. It marks Van Dusen’s return to Netflix where he created and served as executive producer/showrunner on the first two seasons of Shondaland’s hit period drama Bridgerton, each of them ranking as Netflix’s most popular English-language TV series at the time of their launch.