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Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorJust hours after it was announced that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will gather on Wednesday to discuss further possible COVID-19 restrictions including a broad shutdown, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti took to the mic.“This pandemic at this moment is threatening to spiral out of control,” said the mayor.He said the number of hospitalizations related to the virus was up 50% in the past week.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticSandy Dvore, the Emmy-winning graphic artist whose whose opening credit designs for such programs as The Young and the Restless, The Partridge Family and The Waltons are among TV’s most recognizable images, died Nov. 20 after a recent diagnosis of bone cancer.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorUniversal’s domestic release of Simon King’s directorial The 355 is jumping from its MLK 2021 weekend release to MLK weekend Jan. 14, 2022.While Universal has committed a number of fresh wide releases during the pandemic to exhibition during Q4, i.e.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVLikely boosted by word of mouth following that shocking ending, the premiere of ABC’s new drama series Big Sky grew by +3.03 million total viewers and by +0.5 rating points among adults 18-49 from Live+Same Day to Live+3 Day to amass 7.2 million viewers and a 1.2 in 18-49 after three days of playback.These are the largest playback increases for a new series debut in total viewers since September 2019 and with adults 18-49 since February 2020 — since ABC’s Stumptown on 9/25/19 and Fox’s Lego Masters on 2/5/20, respectively.In 18-49, Big Sky‘s 1.2 L+3 rating makes it the highest-rated scripted series debut on any network since January among adults 18-49—since Fox’s 9-1-1: Lone Star on 1/19/20.

Peter White Television EditorThe Queen’s Gambit has been watched by 62M households – making it Netflix’s biggest scripted limited series to date.The series, which stars Anya Taylor-Joy as rising chess star Beth Harmon, launched on October 23, and is based on Walter Tevis’ novel.Co-written by Scott Frank, who also directs, and Allan Scott (Don’t Look Now), The Queen’s Gambit chronicles the life of an orphan chess prodigy.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsWhile the family agreed they’d all love to bring to the series to a close with a movie, star Alison Brie says fans shouldn’t get their hopes up too high.The actress spoke with The Playlist for an upcoming The Fourth Wall podcast where she discusses the Netflix cancellation and more. Netflix cancelled the wrestling drama in October, leaving fans and the actors stunned.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerKISS is kissing off a dismal 2020 for the concert industry with a live New Year’s Eve show at the Atlantis resort in Dubai.Like most acts, the band has been idle for most of the year, as the pandemic shut down all but a handful of shows in the live music industry. KISS was in the midst of yet-another farewell tour that it started in 2019 when the plug was pulled.Landmarks Live Presents will produce the show live from The Royal Beach at Atlantis Dubai, and claims it will attempt to set the world’s record for largest pyro.Stanley and Simmons jointly commented on the show with the usual hyperbole.

David Robb Labor EditorThe WGA West has placed producers Randall Emmett and George Furla and two of the companies they founded on the guild’s Strike/Unfair List “for their failure to comply with an arbitration award” of more than $477,000. The guild says the move comes after their failure to adequately compensate four writers for the work they did on the TV series Pump.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorOne day after Los Angeles saw its highest number of daily COVID-19 cases ever, county health officials warned of another related rising number: deaths.“Our daily counts for the past few days have been higher than a usual week,” said L.A. County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer.

Ted Johnson Rachel Maddow returned to her show on MSNBC on Thursday with a lengthy explanation for why she has been away and in quarantine for an extended period: Her longtime partner Susan Mikula has been seriously ill with COVID-19.In a segment, she went into great personal detail about how much she is in love with Mikula, “the center of my universe,” and how frightening it was when she got sick.

Ted Johnson Vice President Mike Pence declined to take questions after a one-hour plus coronavirus task force briefing, the first in months, as reporters screamed queries at him as he left the lectern.Jon Karl, ABC News’ chief White House correspondent, stood up in the front row as Pence left and said, “What is going on?” Another person was heard shouting, “You are all undermining the democratic election.”“Mr. @VP — it’s not a press briefing if you do not take questions.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Alondra Delgado (Mayans M.C.) is set for a recurring role on the third season of the CW’s All American. Season 2 found Spencer James (Daniel Ezra), now a football state champion, with a tough decision to make.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorLos Angeles recorded its highest number of daily new COVID-19 infections ever on Thursday at 5031, according to L.A. County Health Officer Dr.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerSinger Bobby Brown’s son, Bobby Brown Jr., has died at 28. He passed at his Los Angeles home, but details on the cause of death have not been released.The younger Brown was one of seven Brown children.

Dino-Ray Ramos editorSPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion that premieres Wednesday on HBO Max.On September 10, 1990, we were introduced to a young man from West Philadelphia where he was born and raised. He spent most of his days on the playground where he would be chillin’ out and relaxin’.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorPeanuts specials A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Christmas, which left their longtime home at ABC for Apple, will return to traditional TV for some special airings this holiday season. In addition to streaming on their new home Apple TV+, the specials will air ad free on PBS and PBS Kids on Sunday, Nov.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Allen Hughes has resumed work on Outlaw: The Saga Of Afeni and Tupac Shakur, the five-part FX documentary series about the volatile life and legacy of the late hip hip icon/poet, and the Black Panther member mother who raised him with the values that infused his socially conscious music. The pandemic brought the progress of the docu to a screeching halt — Hughes did many pre-interviews and some on-camera interviews in the interim, but felt that Zoom interviews don’t hold a candle to what you get when you are in the face of an interview subject, even if you are six feet apart.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterIt was a busy Tuesday night at CBS, which saw a trio of coronavirus-delayed season premieres kicking off with the Season 18 debut of NCIS, which delivered 0.9 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 10.06 million viewers. The popular procedural topped the night in viewership but was down from its Season 17 average, marking a series low in the demo per Nielsen’s Live+Same Day early numbers.The third season debut of FBI (0.8, 8.05M) and the Season 2 kickoff of FBI Most Wanted (0.6, 5.30M) followed, but both series took a hit from last season’s averages and hit audience lows.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorJohn Stephens will retire as CFO of AT&T next March, ending a 28-year run at the company, and will hand the reins to WarnerMedia CFO Pascal Desroches.The change is slated to take effect on April 1. It comes as AT&T continues to work to lower its debt load and steer WarnerMedia through a major restructuring effort.

Peter White Television EditorConan O’Brien is getting out of the nightly game and has swapped his daily show for a weekly variety series on HBO Max.The move means that O’Brien will no longer front a late-night talk show for the first time in 28 years.Conan, which has aired on TBS since 2010, will conclude at the end of its tenth season in June 2021. He has fronted over 1,400 episodes of the show, which launched after the comedian’s acrimonious departure from The Tonight Show.“In 1993 Johnny Carson gave me the best advice of my career: ‘As soon as possible, get to a streaming platform.’ I’m thrilled that I get to continue doing whatever the hell it is I do on HBO Max, and I look forward to a free subscription,” joked O’Brien.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticToday show cohost and weatherman Al Roker plans to be back on the NBC morning show next Monday, he told viewers today while also sharing news that his prognosis after last week’s prostate surgery is “excellent.”The 66-year-old Roker underwent the five-hour surgery Nov. 9 to remove his prostate and surrounding tissue and lymph nodes at New York City’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.Providing an update on his health in an appearance on this morning on Today – watch it below – Roker said, “It was this great relief.