HBO Paid James Gandolfini To Not Take A Role In A Hit NBC Comedy Show

Cristiano Ronaldo netted his first goal of 2022 on Wednesday as Manchester United snapped out of a three-game winless run with an important 2-0 victory over Brighton.

Storm Dudley has been battering the country causing widespread disruption - and soon it will be Storm Eunice's turn to continue the chaos.

Ben Croll Fueled in no small part by international streamers looking to entrench their market share, production days skyrocketed across the European continent in 2021. But if the last year marked a gold rush for both service providers and content hungry viewers, independent producers have been feeling the squeeze.“It’s not a golden age when it comes to IP retention,” said Katharina Hiersemenzel, senior VP public policy of German mini-major Constantin Film.

Bae Suzy has officially dropped her new single ‘Satellite’, alongside its music video.The visual focuses on a woman, played by PROWDMON dance crew leader Monika from Mnet’s hit dance reality series Street Woman Fighter, as she run through the hallways of a decrepit, abandoned building. Bae does not appear in the video.‘Satellite’ was released today (February 17) at 6pm KST, alongside the video treatment.

DaBaby over an alleged unprovoked physical attack on him at a bowling alley in Los Angeles.Brandon Bills, whose real name is Brandon Curiel, is the brother of Danielle Leigh Curiel, whom DaBaby formerly dated and shares a daughter with.Bills claims that DaBaby (real name Jonathan Lyndale Kirk) is legally liable for physically assaulting him “suddenly and without warning” as he walked past the rapper on February 9 at Corbin Bowl.He also claimed that the incident caused him to endure “severe injury and pain” and left him “psychologically damaged”.DaBaby has publicly claimed that he acted in self-defence. He has yet to comment publicly on the lawsuit.The brawl, which was captured in a viral video shared by TMZ, shows Bills and DaBaby grappling and spilling onto bowling lanes before other people appear to attack Bills.Bills’ lawsuit, filed by lawyers Farid Yaghoubtil and Anthony Werbin, also names Corbin Bowl as a defendant.

Lil Wayne has shared details of his first live performance in the UK for 14 years.The rapper is set to return in the summer for an exclusive slot at Strawberries & Creem Festival, which takes place at Childerley Orchard in Cambridge from June 17-19.Strawberries & Creem has also confirmed today (February 17) that Ella Mai, Mabel and Tems will all headline the main stage across the three days of the festival.Tion Wayne, Ghetts, Rema, Ms Banks, David Rodigan, Enny, Sub Focus, High Contrast, Katy B, Wilkinson and Lisa Maffia are also on the line-up.“This year, as we scale up to a full three days, we wanted to ensure our musical offering matched that level of ambition – as well as reflecting our incredibly diverse crowd,” Strawberries & Creem co-founder Preye Crooks said in a statement about this year’s festival, the line-up poster for which you can see below.“We have gone further than ever before to bring exceptional artists together, showing Strawberries & Creem to be a major player on the weekend festival scene. As a team, we also wanted to shine a light on some amazing genres and artists that aren’t always celebrated in full at other festivals.“We hope we have curated a truly representative and exciting line-up, one that offers an unrivalled experience to our festival goers – covering everything from D&B and dance music, to reggae and R&B.”Tickets for Strawberries & Creem 2022 will initially be available in a pre-sale from 10am on Monday (February 21), which requires a sign-up on the festival’s website.

A murderer who was sentenced to life in prison after strangling his fiancée to death with his bare hands has died in prison.

OUTSPOKEN comic Ricky Gervais is inviting trouble in a new stand-up routine — by claiming he can’t name one funny woman. The Office creator, 60, pokes fun at sitcom star Miranda Hart during his Super Nature show and says the only “females” that make him laugh are Dame Edna Everage and Eddie Izzard.

If you’re a fan of “The Office,” you know that after Steve Carell left the series, the show found it difficult to replace him, often relying on guest stars to help carry the load. Well, eventually, the show landed on James Spader to guest star in a string of episodes, but before that, according to the hosts of the Talking Sopranos podcast, James Gandolfini was in line to appear.

It was the easiest $3 million James Gandolfini ever made.

The final two seasons of “The Office” almost looked a little more like “The Sopranos”.

Talking Sopranos” — a podcast hosted by “The Sopranos” co-stars Michael Imperioli, 55, and Steve Schirripa, 63 — it was revealed that Gandolfini had been offered a role to replace the character Michael Scott as branch manager of Dunder Mifflin on “The Office,” following Steve Carell’s departure from the NBC show in 2011.

The Office.The late actor’s Sopranos co-stars Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa revealed the news during the latest episode of their podcast Talking Sopranos, while joined by Ricky Gervais.Gervais, who created the UK version of The Office on which the US version starring Carell is based, spoke about his admiration for Carell before Imperioli shared the trivia.“You know, they talked about having Gandolfini at one point replace him [Steve Carell], did you know that?” he said.Schirripa added: “I think before James Spader and after [Steve] Carell, they offered Jim, I want to say $4 million dollars to play him for the season and HBO paid him $3 million not to do it.”Gervais shared his approval with HBO’s call, saying: “Well that’s a good

Golden Globes five times over the past decade. Now, a new poll has suggested that he might have been the new master of the Emmy Awards, but the comedian himself had something to say about it.

Zac Efron is showing just how far he’ll go to spend some quality time with his grandfather. 

Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark.The upcoming spin-off movie will follow the younger years of the iconic mob boss from the HBO series, with the epic trailer debuting last month.Michael’s stepmother Deborah Lin has now admitted that his father “would be very proud” of the work he has done.“It was almost surreal to see Michael in the trailer,” she told The New York Post. “I know it took a lot of courage for him to take this role.

Michael Gandolfini is taking on his father’s iconic role of Tony Soprano in an upcoming prequel. The 22-year-old actor will play a younger version of the HBO crime boss in "The Many Saints of Newark," a feature film that is going to be distributed on the cable network’s HBO Max streaming service in October.  The highly anticipated movie comes roughly 14 years after "The Sopranos" series finale, which featured six-time Emmy winner James Gandolfini in the leading role, according to Page Six.

James Gandolfini's widow Deborah Lin revealed it was "surreal" to see his son Michael playing a young Tony Soprano in The Many Saints of Newark.

Ricky created the fly-on-the-wall mockumentary with writing partner Stephen Merchant but says: “I didn’t have huge ambitions, it was never, ‘This is going to be a massive hit.’ Ratings were rotten too.”Series one had the lowest audience of any new BBC Two show in 2001, but when it was shown again a couple of months late it doubled its figures to 2.5million.The exploits of David Brent and his long-suffering staff quickly wormed their way into the national consciousness and The Office become a cult hit.It went on to be named the best TV show of the past 20 years at the Broadcast Awards in 2015, scooped two Golden Globes and won a host of Baftas and Royal Television Society Awards.

Ricky Gervais is addressing his recent comment on how cancel culture could have affected his show "The Office." The 60-year-old comic made headlines recently when he discussed his show, which started as a British series and then was adapted into an American version starring Steve Carell. When speaking to the BBC, Gervais said the show would be "canceled" if attempted today.

The Office star and co-creator Ricky Gervais has said that the show would fall victim to ‘cancel culture’ if it aired today.In an interview with the BBC on the show’s 20th anniversary, Gervais said: “I mean now it would be cancelled.”He added: “I’m looking forward to when they pick out one thing and try to cancel it. Someone said they might try to cancel it one day, and I say, ‘Good let them cancel it.