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The extradition of convicted Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein to California to face charges of sex abuse has been delayed again over paperwork. On Friday, Erie County Judge Kenneth Case said California prosecutors could arrange Weinstein's transfer to Los Angeles within one month, barring another challenge from his lawyers.

TikTok has a new CEO. The red-hot mobile video app has named Shouzi Chew, the CFO of parent company ByteDance, as its new CEO.Chew will also continue to serve as CFO of the parent company.

ITV has announced that it will not broadcast the final episode of its miniseries Viewpointin the U.K. following a series of allegations against its lead star, the British actor, writer and producer Noel Clarke.

Time is the Big Bad on FX's Pose, the indefatigable antagonist that never fails to make its leaden presence — or its villainous indifference — known to the series' trans and/or queer characters of color. The Manhattan, New York–set drama debuted in 2018 by handing an HIV-positive diagnosis to its protagonist, Blanca (Mj Rodriguez), who was hardly the first among her late-'80s ball-culture milieu to be given an impending death sentence by a doctor.

After 13 months of being shuttered due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, Disneyland will reopen Friday. And fans are ready as a slew of guests showed up at the world-famous theme park hours before gates officially opened.

Cable operator Charter Communications, in which John Malone's Liberty Broadband owns a big stake, lost 138,000 pay TV subscribers in the first quarter. Just like in the fourth quarter of 2020, Charter's broadband user gains remained a key growth engine amid the coronavirus pandemic, but subscriber growth slowed over the comparable period of 2020.

The dispute between Roku and YouTube has escalated. On Friday morning, Roku said that the YouTube TV app has been removed from its platform, as the contract between the companies has expired.

Michaela Coel has penned a statement on Twitter following the allegations of sexual harassment against Brit actor, writer and producer Noel Clarke, best known for his Kidulthood trilogy of films and recently the recipient of BAFTA's outstanding British contribution to cinema award. On Thursday, an exposé in The Guardian revealed how 20 women had come forward with allegations ofgroping, harassment and bullying by Clarke, who has since had his BAFTA membership and award revoked.

Comcast-owned pay TV giant Sky has paused its work with Noel Clarke on Season 4 of British police drama Bulletproof and any other projects. The news came Friday after BAFTAsuspended theDoctor Whoactor from its membership in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations by 20 women reported inThe Guardianon Thursday.

The British Academy has issued a lengthy response after coming under fire for honoring Noel Clarke with its outstanding British contribution to cinema award despite reportedly knowing of allegations of sexual misconduct against the actor, producer and writer.

Johnny Crawford, the original Mouseketeer who starred as the young son of the Civil War veteran portrayed by Chuck Connors on the 1958-63 ABC series The Rifleman, died Thursday, it was announced. He was 75.

Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has unveiled a new Creative Diversity Fund to be operated across its international production group, starting with its U.K.-based entities, which include recently acquired Sex Education producer Eleven Films and The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures. Sony says the aim of the program —part of Sony's Sony Pictures Action initiative — is to help build a community of diverse creative talent within the international television industry.

Hollywood's major studios and guilds are extending their return-to-work agreement another three months. The current contract was scheduled to expire April 30, but the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and the industry's top guilds — includingSAG-AFTRA, IATSE, the DGA, the Teamsters and the Basic Crafts — have agreed to keep the current protocols in place for another few months.

Anne Douglas, a film publicist who first met Kirk Douglas on the Paris set ofAct of Lovein 1953 and married him a year later, died Thursday. She was 102.

Three young Dubliners find their post-graduation confusion worsened by a nearby tragedy in Here Are the Young Men, an adaptation of Rob Doyle's debut novel directed by model-turned-actor Eoin Macken. Benefitting from a relatively high-profile cast (especially Queen's Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy, though she's not the focus here), the picture has enough polish to draw a small audience.

Multiple arrests have been made in the case of Lady Gaga's French bulldogs, which were stolen in a violent February altercation where her assistant was shot, according to Los Angeles police. Five suspects were taken into custody: James Jackson, 18; Jaylin White, 19; Lafayette Whaley, 27;Harold White, 40; andJennifer McBride, 50, according to police.

STXfilms has promoted Keri Moore to president of marketing after she oversaw creative advertising for STX releasesHustlers,The Upside,The Gentlemen,The Gift and more recently Greenland. Moore has served as executive vp since the studio launched in 2017.

British actress Emma Laird, who just booked a starring role opposite Jeremy Renner in Mayor of Kingstown, has signed with APA for representation in all areas. The signing is major one for Laird, who has no feature or series experience, and for the agency, which beat out four other agencies for the opportunity to sign the actress.

Joe Rogan on Thursday addressed comments he previously made on his popular Spotify podcast in which he said young, healthy people should skip the COVID-19 vaccination. The remarks came under fire, even being addressed byAnthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease doctor.

Amazon is finally shedding some light on how many of the company's users watch Amazon Prime Video programming.

Twitter on Thursday unveiled a first-quarter earnings report that offered a window on user growth for the social media platform during the coronavirus pandemic. The social media platform said its number of logged-in users, known as monetizable daily active users, stood at 199 million for the quarter, which was up 7 million users compared to the fourth quarter that ended with 192 million DAUs, and 189 million daily users at the end of the third quarter.

BAFTA has suspended actor Doctor Who actor Noel Clarke from its membership in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations by 20 women reported in The Guardian newspaper on Thursday. "In light of the allegations of serious misconduct regarding Noel Clarke in The Guardian this evening, BAFTA has taken the decision to suspend his membership and the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award immediately and until further notice," BAFTA said in a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.

CODA writer-director Sian Heder is reteaming with Patrick Wachsberger's Picture Perfect Federation for a movie adaptation of Sarah Lotz's upcoming novel Impossible. Heder will write and direct the project, with Picture Perfect Federation producing alongside Black Label Media and Marsh Entertainment.

Jennifer Lopez is famous for her glow, and somehow her complexion seems to only get more flawless with time. While her genes play a big part, she also has skincare secrets which she's channeled into her luxurious line JLo Beauty, which she launched earlier this year.

SoEndeavor is a public company. Now what? The owner of WME, IMG and UFC raised more than half a billion dollars in an IPO this week, two years after it first embarked on a path to the public markets.

Katy Perry presented her new line of Katy Perry Shoes in an Amazon Live video on Wednesday — like QVC but for the streaming age.

After all the accusations, conspiracy theories and general misinformation regarding the origins of the coronavirus in China, the sensitive, humanistic Wuhan Wuhan does a fine job depoliticizing the topic. It shows how the Chinese response to the virus outbreak was very similar to those in hospitals around the world, though its interest for viewers, perhaps, lies in ferreting out some of the minor differences.

One of Hollywood’s most prolific and powerful film and television writer-director-producers, J.J. Abrams, has floated his plush yet comfortable Pacific Palisades, California, home on the market with a by-any-standard prodigious price tag pushing up on $22 million.

The 2021 Tribeca Festival will host the world premieres of a number of upcoming TV series, including Peacock's Dr. Death, Starz's Blindspotting and the second season of OWN's David Makes Man.

As more and more superstar acts are born inside laptop-lit bedrooms, Dave Grohl remains the face of that old-fangled tradition of picking up an instrument, practicing it till your fingers bleed, then heading out on the open road in a beat-up van to share your songs with the world. The former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters frontman, 52, has captured that experience in What Drives Us, his new doc featuring Ringo Starr, St.